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Icons, trying to understand just what's happening to the mystics in this Coriolist campaign.
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over to DOT to kill us in space? Have I ever killed any of
you? You blew up the whole ship up and we were in pieces,
So technically, yeah, I was paled, you hurt, and you've stabbed
me and I never killed you, and the one time that you did,
you Dot death. I am a forgiving I got a loving and forgiving game,
mother, which is why I remind you we do have a corruption bar
left over for last week. We're just going to get cashed in on.
But you know, we left off with some heightened emotions last week, I
feel is the best way to put that. So I feel like we're gonna
need to to cash in on that. Draft has already dropped to Shambar.
I love gosh, I love this so much. It is going to be
an early cash and so there we plenty of time before this game is over
to just trying to start a war. Yeah, things are so as are
beautifully edited. Ten minute recap was we are on the brink of war across
the Third Horizon, specifically the Order against the Consortium, who has kind of
partnered up recently with some outside sources, and it seems that the Nazarene sacrifice.
The actual bad guys, if you would, or bad people from the
First Horizon have seated themselves for over a decade now inside of various sex throughout
the Third Horizon, most notably in this case, a very important ran master
in the Order of the Pariah who is going to be at the tables for
negotiation as the Order decides what their next step is against against the consortiums.
So, if I remember correctly, we made it back to the ship,
it was the sound of hydraulic doors closing. Ta Mir has risen from whatever
comatose state took over your body for somewhere between I don't know, three to
five days give or take, is what you think has passed or not entirely
sure, the rest of their crew has actually spent time kind of underground,
gathering information and simmering on what looks to be a rebellion. But I think
our camera is going to pick up on Taw and Tamir because I imagine as
that door closed, Tao had purpose. Yeah, So when Tal goes back
on to the defiant, she kind of gives Lamara a pat on the shoulder
and a quick quick look that is meant to kind of say thank you,
uh and continue straight to the med bay, opening the door and closing it
behind her. You are, in fact alone except for a parsley dissected pig
and tim as we are often in the seeps appropriate. Yeah, are you
okay, tull I will lee? Yes, are you okay? Where?
Where have you been? Well, it's been an eventful week. H Uh.
You know after the how do I know you're you? I don't understand
the question how muh does not compute? How do I know that you're Tamir
and not someone else? Because there was definitely more than one entity in your
head? Yes, that is, but that it is me tamyor we have
a lot to talk about, Yeah, we do. What the fuck?
Like? I knew you have software in your head of some sort, but
I I I don't know what exactly? Like how many things did you port
yourself into? Have you ever heard of protecting? When you poured? Like
there are viruses that you could catch? Say everyone protect when you protect me?
Protect? Let there be no question about it. You've got file all
up. Kids. Look to Mere's education technically ceased to exist by the time
he was like what thirteen because the Civil War okay, they're as fun as
I'm aware. There were two. One is or was Sally? I think
when I had attempted to boost the ship so we are able to pass through,
Sally sent the protocol of some sort into my brain, which is where
the technology is, and that there is more. I told you about her,
and that I could not speak of her. I made a promise.
Yeah, well, I haven't asked, because you know privacy. Trust you.
I trust you so much that I will take everything that I care about
and blind jump a portal from only your calculations alone. I trust you that
much. But you need to tell me more, because sometimes your judgment fails,
and there's no one here that knows all the things that you do,
that has all that information. I couldn't help. I couldn't connect to you.
I couldn't reach you in any way. I had no idea what was
going on, and you were gone for days full days. We didn't know
why. No one knew why. You have to tell more. I know
you're all right, I do. Sally was in my head and my my
my mind was ripping. Thanks. We have a kitten who's very aggressive right
now. Hey, he's good for now, you baby, terror right now?
YEA, No, you're just thinking, God, you're about to have
the terrible two moments. So we we're there. M h. First,
let me start with I am sorry. I don't want to keep secrets from
you, from my brother from Alia or doctor Lamara, A promise was made
though to entity named Tubit. She passed on a piece of technology from the
First Horizon and having this information is what has caused some of our problems,
but she has also helped us the AI. Her name is Aurora. Do
you remember when we were underwater and we found the First Horizon vessel? How
could I forget? That was kind of an experience. Yeah. I don't
like water me neither. How do you think I knew what I knew?
How do you think I helped us jump blindly to reportal Tamir? I sometimes
I just kind of assume you know things, because you're the smartest person I've
ever met. But also again, you've got education I couldn't even dream of.
And I trust you. Whatever it is that is helping you, it's
great, but it's got to have its limits. I know you're right,
and it does. And after what I just experienced, it reminded me of
something that Tupid and I had discussed. The one difference between her and I
in taking on this both gift and burden. I said she was alone and
I am not. And Tamir's going to take Tal's hand and let his fingers
kind of lace between hers. Would you trust me one more time? Yeah,
come into my mind, Come meet Aurora. I have such a hard
time with it. I mean I can, I can try. I know
you are the best damp pilot of all the horizon, and you are an
incredible mystic with gifts and talents. I know you can do this. Are
are you sure this isn't going to fuck you up again? Because like,
do you know if Sally is fully gone? No? I did not.
I need to speak with Milik on that. Okay, well maybe we should
check that first, because I don't know if just going in there, like
I, there was too much in your brain already. We don't need to
put another entity in there because I don't know what's going to happen. And
I didn't tell you what we've done doing. But we're about to start another
war. What do you mean start a war? I thought that he was
trying to prevent war. Well, your brother thinks that the best way to
what was it like the match or something like that that sparks the canon in
the right way. I don't know. He made this reference and I didn't
quite understand it. But again, he's smarter than me in some ways.
I unfortunately have to trust the two of you, which really really sucks because
neither of you tells me the whole story. But my brother is an idiot.
Why would you want to start a war? We came from war because
the option that the rebels here are trying to take is probably going to start
ar Also, the best thing we can do is reveal the truth on pirate
radio and try to rally people to our cause. Oh and also assassin someone
assassinate Is that the word? I think that's the word assassinate. There's rication
going on. Yeah, we're going to assassinate somebody as soothe back. Who's
going to pull that trigger? Uh? Well some well not necessarily maybe not
assassinate at least capture I think capture was the word. I don't know.
It's been Look, I will stressed out. It's been a hell of a
day, two days. God, it's been fucking a week. Okay,
you need to talk to your brother right now because he needs to do a
virus check on your head. Okay, I'll do that, But first he
pulls her close and kisses her. She's a little hesitant at first, but
kisses him back. Oh, babies must be dead. Well, well,
this is happening. I think Alia would he steals some bread, he does
a baby. Oh is that Eavy that did that? I don't know.
No, that's that's my cat. He stole some bread and he's just watching
like good job. I'm like, what is he doing in my feet?
Cat sry? So we will we will briefly kiss and then go Findlak.
Okay. I think the camera actually pans to Alia while this is happening.
I imagine towel bustles past you. Uh. Lamara is kind of left.
She lugs in the last of the supplies that were left, which are kind
of in like these two bulky cases, and she kind of sets the down
after getting to look from tow Malik is obviously long gone, nowhere to be
found, and it's you and Lamara here in kind of the main area in
the med bay or in the main area. He said, like that,
okay, holding am I helping her? Like bring stuff in. It's like
yeah, or like unloaded at this point, very much done. Yeah,
okay, that is there? Is there any more? Is that the last
of it? Nope, that's it. Okay, they really stocked us good.
She kind of opens up the cabinets and shows that, like supplies have
been restocked, things that you you may not be able to get even on
coriolists. You know. She finishes filling you know, a cabinet full of
like dry packs of something. Well, look at that. No more canned
beans for months, I know, or veggie paste. You know. I
was kind of getting a little used to that. I kind of liked the
flavor for a second there. That could also just me being hilarious, But
I don't know, Well, is there anything else I can help with?
Are we? I don't think so. They're in the med base. I
can't go back and finish my biopsy. But what are you trying to do
with those? Why? What? What? What? What are you?
Why? Why? Yes? Just kiddious, just you know, just seems
uh do you want uh roll? Okay, I'm gonna have your roll for
this. Okay. You're asking her to give up some information that could be
personal. Uh So I'm gonna have role a manipulation check see if she feels
comfortable enough to tell you the truth or if she tries to lect you.
I realized that opened. I was like, I realized I was in the
glen Brook on hollowed one. I was like, where the fuck is alliot?
What is it? What are all these days in roll twenty? Hold
up? I mean I'm going into the right one to open up. Okay?
Uh and what would you like me to roll? Manipulation check? Pure?
Okay? Oddly enough, I don't have anything there, so oh,
okay, so you've got a limited success. So you can tell she is
hesitant. Uh two to come? She simply says, uh, just basic
tests and things on new technology. Oh okay, I mean you don't have
to tell me. I was just it was just passing curiosity. I mean,
I mean that's just test. Okay, Okay, Well, I hope
it's successful, and you know, do you I mean, hopefully that's all
you need. Do you really need more pigs? It does have to be
a pig. We'll stick with pigs. Let's stick with pigs. Maybe they
have rather large organs, so it's good for testsh Okay, I give her
like a hesitant, like fat just like okay, okay, okay. She
smiles and you can tell she's definitely has not come off of the information like
the truth of the matter, but believes that you believed her cover. Okay,
well, just not that. If you need any actual help and if
there's ways we can you know, oh yeah, you know it's it's a
really dangerous and scientific, but I appreciate that the help that is, you
know, sometimes I let Malik hold the organs. You could, you could,
you could maybe do that? Well, I did say I would like
to help, So if that is right, I'd be coming in between your
quality time between you and Melik quality. Oh he doesn't hold organs anymore,
he said he doesn't like to. H Oh, well, I mean I
could convince him again if you want me to. Oh no, it's okay.
It is kind of like quality time meantime. Okay, let me do
it for me. I do I kill things for me? I mean,
I'm do I pick that up? Yeah? She kind of mutters it accidentally,
like it slips. Oh, you know, it just at I mean
I run tests for me. I immediately that's when like it changes from hey,
this is just maybe a private thing to Okay, this may be concerning,
and I turned to goes, yes, are you okay? We're all
another manipulation. That's an important question, is she? Oh? How I
am okay right now? Yes, yes, I'm fine. Okay, that
should go lay down. I you know, I've been out taking care of
Tamir. I could. I'm gonna rest sure, I understand. But you
do know that we're all very very fond of you, and we're here for
you, regardless of what it is. Oh, I know you pulled the
gin out of my body and put it in a jar. It doesn't really
you know, get more personal than that. Okay, Well, we're glad
you're here, and I'm glad I got to meet you. And it's because
of that moment. Well, that's a very wrong way. Sorry. I
didn't mean that because you've got the gin that I was able to come on
the ship and this all happened. No, no, I wish that it
happened in the first place. But I mean at least we're here altogether.
Yeah, family, Oh yeah, all of us together, all of us,
And she kind of like looks around. Okay, uh, now in
the bye go I reach in for like I go in for like a very
like warm I'm trying to give her like a very warm hug. Yeah,
she except, and she'll hug you back, and she goes, oh and
kind of I'm hugs you too, and she pats you like maybe there's something
wrong with you, you know, patch you, but like it's okay,
oh yeah, okay, And I give her like a like a nice like
it's a it's a proper like almost a not a proper bear hug, bear
hug, but it's just like a like a nice enveloping like it's like,
oh my god, like like a warm blanket style like secure side of a
sort of a hug. And then kind of like the last little squeeze and
let her go. She kind of lets out a little like eeke in the
last like she goes, okay, well i'll see you when I get up.
All right, Well we'll be here, okay, okay, all right.
She kind of looks around like okay, nobody heard that. I covered
nobody, everybody bought it, and then she kind of walks down and you
know, towards her bunk. Well technically she sleeps. Technically she sleeps in
the med bay, which is currently taken, So maybe she'll go find like
either a spear bunk or she'll go laid down in uh I guess Malik's room.
Where is Malik right now? It's a really great question. The camera
cut in his room. Oh perfect, Well, we're gonna rewind a little
bit because you bustled on the ship before everyone else with great purpose. What
is Malik up to? While there is tense but romantic conversation and strange and
unsettling conversation happening elsewhere on the ship, it's the opposite scene of all those
things. It is. It is incredibly quiet in Malik's cabin. He is
he is sat on his bed with his feet on the floor and his hands
like his elbows on his knees, and his head is just in his hands,
and you can just hear for several minutes as he is quietly processing everything
that just happened inside that strange little bunker and what the fuck that he has
just suggested. He is having a quiet, little mental breakdown as you do.
And that's it. He's just sitting there quietly. There's nothing like the
lights are off, the door closed, and he is just quietly breathing into
his hands. I believe you are muted or correct. Do you stay this
way for a while until something happens, until like either someone shows up or
an announcement is made on the ship or something pulled. Well, Lamara is
technically headed to your room. She's gonna let it go to lay down.
So, after probably ten minutes of being on the ship, it is quiet
in your room, stands the sound of just like white noise of computers and
machines. The door slides open and you hear Lumara let out like a like
a desperated sigh of relief actually, as the door closes behind her, and
she goes, oh, you're here, Yeah, it's my it's my room,
right, I'm sorry. I they're at the med bay. I was
gonna lay down, really, I was just trying to avoid Alia. He
points to the wide open space behind him, because he's sitting on the edge
of the bed. Okay, what are you doing? Uh? I guess
starting a war? Really? Yeah, I was kind of hoping that Alia
would talk me out of it, but she was on board. Alia agreed
to war. Yeah that doesn't seem Ali and tow Okay, I might believe
that, but Taal has strong values so it had to be for a good
reason. Yeah. I guess, like wars happening either way, whether we
do nothing, whether we help some people, it's going to happen. So
I suggested that it would be most effective if we just gave it the extra
push and started ourselves. So I've been thinking a lot about death. Okay,
that's okay, I promise it has a point. I've been thinking a
lot about death, thinking and meditating and testing death, and I think about,
like twins, what happens, right, where do we go? What
do we leave behind? And you know, if I was to die right
now, the only thing leaving behind our few really really bad charity time movies.
Right, Okay, So you know, Malik, if you were to
die tomorrow, do you want your name and everything you leave behind to be
associated with starting a war? You remember that dance on Coriolis, Yeah,
and the televised speech I gave. Yeah, you were very excited. Yeah,
that kind of already kicked one off. So that's that's that's why we're
considered pirates now, right. Television station dedicated to us, Yeah, and
the radio calls us rebels. I just thought that was kind of a cool
name. But I guess that makes sense. Yeah, this would technically be
the second war we've started. I guess you mean you've started well okay,
okay, uh, I didn't mean to start the first one. Okay,
but you have a choice this time, and you seem very very concerned.
Yeah. I'm not a big fan of war in general. It sucks,
you know. I don't think anybody wakes up manco and says, today,
let's start a war. No, I feel like some people do, because
that's kind of how that's kind of how they hate start. But do you
want to be those people? No, but that that it's it's going to
happen either way. That's the problem. So why not fight the war?
That's just start it kind of what we're doing. So you're fighting a war
by starting One's in school they told me, well, okay, that's actually
not true. That one time when I was in h you know, the
asylum on coriol List before you came to get me, I had this friend.
They were in the celt next to me and they said something once and
I thought it was very poignant. Okay, okay, they said, anytime
that there are only two choices, there's not nothing is ever down to two
choices in the week. That's the problem us starting the war was the third
choice. Okay, well what about a fourth or fifth choice? And you
know what, it's not an extra choice if it's the same one as before,
silly, no one else if you want to start a war. The
fact of the matter is, I'll still share a Cryo two with you.
But you know I would much rather see you know, your name go down
as Malik the guy who stops force. You know, that would be also
too much, honestly, like I could just not if I could not go
down as anything would be it's kind of too late for that. You know.
Everyone keeps reminding me. Well, the thing is, can I watch
you start the war? I guess Okay, should I get Alia? She's
much better at these kind of conversations than me. Like I said, she
agreed it made sense at the time. Okay, well you know what,
Uh, my good instinct says that maybe we should ask her again. Trust
me, she's very inquisitive. Right now, What do you mean when you
said you're testing death? I did it. That was just a slip of
this would be the time that talent Tamir opened the door or knock on the
door. The door slides open here. What do you mean you're testing death?
I was a slip of the Oh. Hi, we were looking for
Alia to because to assure that she's also on board with starting war. Well,
okay, so can we can we start with testing your brother for brain
viruses in his CPU or something? Oh, in the CPU? I thought
there's no such thing as a brain virus. I'm a doctor, I know
my name. Meningitis is a brain Alia. Are you still a okay with
war? Okay? What is what's happening right now? I don't know.
I mean if are you asking philosophically or personal taste? Obviously no, Malik
said you signed off on his plans to start war. I signed off on
saving as many people as we can. Since we know one is coming,
that is inevitable. That is the opposite definition of warm Aleik as in yeah,
I mean, if it means that we know one is coming, we
know how to prepare for it, and that way, hopefully instant people can
be made away and leave or find shelter or the leak. Why don't you
take a look at your brother's brain viruses and somewhere on it. I like,
all that's when I think all you're kind of properly notices Tamire and he
goes, oh my god, you're okay, and kind of just like gives
them a big hug and fear vitals, from what I can tell, are
absolutely normal. It's kind of like that thing happened. It's like this whole
system just booked, rebooted. Yeah, that's why I'm afraid. Oh well,
at least from what I remember, what we tried to do, he
at least was protected for what I could. So if nothing else, whatever
happens, he should be the one back. Well, the question is is
it just him and the stuff that's supposed to be there, or is there
other stuff as well? That's I don't know. I only have limited abilities
here. The hell a League, I thought you healed your mind, so
if there was other things there, they're probably gone. They're not gone.
Okay, what is it that is their? If you don't mind me asking,
I don't even know how to show except for towel, that's just the
cat I have for an experiment later, we have we have a space We
have a space cat. We finally have a cat. It's the one that
it's the one that is killing the space rats that the goddamn walls. It
was harassing pig. It was a lot. It wasn't when it came on
board. So how about those brain viruses. Let's forget about the cat and
Lamar's bloodlust. Okay, fine, super fine, she's just giving I'm not
really qualified for CPU CPRU diagnostics. I Tamir's body is perfectly fine, as
is his mond. It seems more of a combination of both technology and something
more. I mean, you could all speculate, or I could just tell
you that'd be NICELD you six days ago what it's like. No one listens
to me on the ship. He has listened Rogue AI in his head.
We had a whole discussion. That's what I'm trying. Is it gone now?
That's the question. Can some sort of test? That's what I need
your help with the leak? The rogue I was Sally. I connected to
Sally and Sally trying to trate. I need to know if Sally is gone.
I watched because what is still in my head for months? So you
know about tubit? All of your footage are the ship? Wait? Would
wait? What would Alia know? Alia knows about tu bit right? I
feel like considering who she is. No, no, no need. If
it's that's that's a hard one. I mean if African African Samana do you
think? Who do you think? Do you? Semina knows and Malik knows,
but knows as a different person. Tubit wasn't too big and you don't
really know what your sister has been up to, right, And I was
just wondering, considering, like, okay, you know what, I'm gonna
let timerror finish, let the mirror finish, and then I might let all
make a role to put some pieces together. We'll see here if enough comes
out. I mean, I know too, but yeah, well two,
it is the one who gave me this piece of technology from the First Horizon.
And did she tell you to stick it into the ship's mainframe? No?
But Aurora is who saved us. How do you think we were able
to transfer power when half of our systems were dead? There are things that
I can do, and thank you for believing me that I am capable of
doing these things. But I have help. And her name is Aurora.
She's an AI program from ah the White Butterflies. Right, She's an AI
program from the First Horizon who was used they were like run weapons systems for
what was used to run the UH functionality of the White Butterflies. So both
could travel right through UH portals and the like weapon systems of them and so
forth. It's kind of like the whole king It's like the running system for
your computer. Mm hmmm. Yeah. So so Timer kind of like release
that information and probably it's on a two technical term because he's getting away from
himself for a moment, but kind of like pulls himself back when I connected
into the port though. Sally released, Uh, we cannot trust Sally.
There's there's Sally. There's two. There's two Sally's. What do you mean
there's two Sallies. So this Sally in our ship has no idea what it
did to you. Well, I would still run a full protocol on Sally
and disconnect her from the consortium, because this Sally was going to take all
of the information that I know, including the information that is Aurora, and
submit it to the consortium I ran, and that is a part of the
ship when you were unconscious, Well, then you need to run a diagnostic
on me. That's what I've been asking for. If does anybody listen to
what I say, I am the captain. I rarely do. Yeah,
I've noticed we reach this Overn smacks Molik on the back of his head really
cracks a smile when it tal says, I noticed. So how how do
we do? How do we diagnostic it? Malik? Uh? First,
I need everyone to get out of my room. Oh except for my brother.
Yeah, well you are what the doctor says, small room, like
so many of you in here? I was like six, Yeah, it's
like, can we watch on the colmns? Can we stand outside the door?
You can stand outside the door and then he hits the button the door
close. Are you think we should watch on the combs? Are you the
coms going out? Are you an idiot? Yes? Yes? And so
are you? What the what is this that here? You're about to start
on what at a time? Let me I'm yelling at you first, then
you can yell at me later. Fine. You know what I do for
a living, and you just plug your fucking head into a ship into a
ship? Can I do to the consortium? You have a head full of
lies and secrets and you plugged it into the fucking bulletin. Essentially, does
that sound like a smart idea to you? It was either I get the
ship moving or we're going to get caught and explode it again. And I
don't think we're going to have three different designations who are going to want to
go ahead and court us for our loyalty. We would have been dead.
So you said, plug my brain into the ship is the only possible way
to boost the thing. Yes, I already performed all the calculations. Okay.
He walks over to uh to to to Beer who is tall than him,
and places like a hand on the back of his neck and like pulls
his forehead to his forehead and he says, are you you? I am
me? Are you good? I don't be okay, I am just trying
to catch up. Okay, I'm okay. The ship is fine. I
will double check. Are you gonna do that again? If necessity, maybe
you should come see me before you plug things into the ship or your brain
think there was not time in the future. In the future, if there
is more time, I will consider it first. Great And he like lets
his like the back of his neck go and then just donks him on the
forehead. Dumb, dumb. And then he and swipes the cameras back on
and opens the door. Now he's fine. I'm in a diagnostic on him.
He's all right, just him a not rogue. AI the first horizon
and that's it. Wait you open the door and tell that. Yeah,
yeah, he says that in the door because a very quick diagnostic everything.
I was just staring daggers at you very quick. What did you did you
run tests? I'm like a wizard. Have you seen? Yes? You
just literally hacked everything and everyone, probably including all of you. Do you
actually want to run computer diagnostics on him? Or are you just going with
what you got? Nope, just staring between the two of them. Do
I believe them? You can make a posed manipulation checks. I'm trying to
lie to tell all I have is empathy? Uh? Can I try?
Could I try? Yes? Uh? Yeah, if you're if you're lying,
which Malik is okay? Failed, Demir isn't saying anything. Alak is
how guilty? Does he look guilty? He's empathetic? You can choose to
basically just flat fail the role. So both Malik and taw and that you
look guilty like Malik has a solid poker face and Tamir has twice as much
like looks guilty. He makes it. I don't believe you, Well,
then run it yourself. Give me here, what man, this is a
ship computer. We already did that. You know what's in his brain?
The ship comput it was in his brain? Well, we don't know because
you didn't run a diagnostic on him. If you don't mind, could I
perhaps maybe elaborate on the nature of this current situation that we're in. And
I turned to Tamir, and this is the first time you've probably seen Alia,
or it's not the first time, but it's been a while since you've
seen Alia, the tutor, Alia, your teacher, who not Alia,
just your friend and the priestess he was You acquired a tech from the first
horizon? Do you want to know what I saw when I connected to that
ship all those days ago when we were under the water. Do I remember
did I ever tell Did I tell them properly? I don't remember if I
told them. I think you did. Yeah, I told them what I
saw. But now I'm going to tell you what I felt. I said,
I felt a level of malice, the need to come here and conquer,
to bring death and destruction. And I trust your judgment. Don't get
me wrong, But whatever are you. I mean, whatever Aurora is,
you let that into your mind, and it is, from what I understand,
something that was acquired from a place of strong malice. You then went
ahead and then connected that to our ship, whatever your intention may have been,
and let another entity into your brain, your mind, and let it
run rampant. Do you want to know what I saw? What I had
to do to protect you, and even with my skills and level of expertise
only couldn't perhaps create a wall around you so you would not be completely consumed.
There was a chance we would have lost you, Tamir, So please
and I turned to Malik, if it's not too much to ask, could
we please be sure that your brother is still your brother? And I turned
back to Tamir, and could we please be sure that you can trust us
to actually care for you and want you alive, and perhaps trust us to
keep you that way? I do, I do trust you, all of
you. I want to show you okay, and I understand if you have
any other opplications, But I think whatever promises were made, whatever issues may
have been tough for you to do so you're near death, may warrant a
bit more than a simple promise. I wish that death was something to be
feared. I've seen it, been so close to it so many times.
Yes, I'm afraid of what is inside me going into the wrong hands,
into anybody else's hands. That's why it wasn't trusted to me. Why are
you accepted and so please us give us the chance to protect you as well,
then to help you so that you can keep that promise. That was
the concern the more. Who know, MO was likely the end of dead.
Here's the thing, though, No one's going down from this ship without
the rest of us. Yeah, we're already in danger for being here.
The best we can do is know what we're doing, what we're protecting,
what we're fighting for. And I turned to Malik, and also when a
bomb is about to go off, I admit that was a very not We
should have told them, Yes, yes, tell me things, especially if
bombs are involved. If there's going to be an explosion, I would like
to not be anywhere near it. You were on comms with them, what
no point in me? You should have told them you knew what the plan
was. We need a lot of trust exercises. Then let us do one
right now. All Yeah, tal and Tamir will extend his hands. I
reach over and I for like give a very warm, firm grasp. Yeah.
What is the plan here? Everybody that dog minds? I guess yeah,
yeah, mind walking? Let walk into Tamir? Can we what would
you be? Okay? And is it possible to bring Malik along even though
he's not? Yeah, I'm wondering if we could. You will need a
success per person? Okay, okay, of what, let's let's fucking try
it. Let's do this. It will be a mystic ability check for the
mystic that holds that power. I would I mean, uh, Tall and
I both have mind walks. You one of the two of you will have
to roll it. You get a bonus for the other bonus ie for the
other two mystics involved. So like, if Taw rolls it, one for
timor one for Alia vice versa, that will be how that works, and
you need a success per person you want in the mind walk? Would I
be able to use blessing as well? Uh? What does blessing do?
Because I have that? Or it's not technically exorcism? Yeah? No,
I feel like exorcism it wouldn't apply to Uh. You all could go to
the chapel, and I'd give you a bonus for being in the chapel.
Mm hmm, I say. I mentioned that perhaps we could do this in
a more appropriate location that could help more. But does it eas and in
the right mindset? That's a good idea, And I'll be the one that
makes the role because I got an extra day. Yeah, there's like incense
burning and nice pushy pillows and those kinds of things in the chapel, as
you make yourself. So one for each of the mystics plus so two plus
the one for the chapel, that would be three. Are you bringing Malik
along? Have you told Malik what you're doing? Like? What the what
the you just kind of put your hands out. I think, like we
we go to the chapel, and then I like I tell Malik to follow
along because I think he kind of and he will tell Mmm, should I
tell you? Put your hands out? And I say, okay, let's
go to the chapel and we can talk about it on the way, Like
we have we have room between here and there. We don't have to what
is this? What are we doing? Where about Tom? Here's mind?
Why? Because you're going to meet a only if you want to. I
mean, it's a consensual thing. I guess Okay, doctor Lumara is not
there? Oh, oh, which she she was there? And then when
by the time you made it to the chapel she's not, then I guess
that this is just us leak meet the most advanced AI you have ever ever
perceived. Okay and out, Yeah, hold hands only A one. Oh,
that's a lie. You can push. Yeah, I'm gonna put.
I'm gonna I'm gonna give that your niche take it. That is so many
h come on, baby, Ah, it's still that's all right. Just
one, just a one, limited success it's a two. When you push,
you you leave all the sixes on the table and on the table.
Yes, in that case, it would be two successes. So I'm gonna
say it's gonna be the two of you that actually have this power. There's
a moment where all of you kind of connect, or you try to Malik,
maybe you even feel the tingles of like that out of body experience of
leaving yourself and entering somebody else's mind. Uh, But you and Alia never
quite make it. It's only two mirror and tw and you can tell because
their eyes remain closed and their heads are tipped back as uh, they are
embraced hand in hand. We tried sometimes the stronger bond can help, but
this was dumb. He lets me go. And also a little more belief
can help too. Yeah. Yeah, how long was Wiley holding out of
the hand after he realized as like you you did something and then there was
like a tingle and then he like opened one eye and then realized that like
he was still in a it is like this is this is dumb. And
then as soon as Talia spoke, sorry, as soon as Talia you've got
you cite you guys come bine. As soon as as soon as Alia spoke,
he just left this is dumb. And then he like turns the walk
out. I believe that he has an I said, I don't. It's
part of just meeting and actually getting into tuoced. That's fine. He just
leaves the temple. I guess inside two Mer's head, So tell you are
not in physical form, if you would, you are first person through to
mirror's kind of perspective in his head. It is his head, and as
you come to you're in a forest kind of dense tall trees as far as
the eye can see. They're spaced out, so they're not like on top
of each other. There's a lot of walking room and kind of open space
near the floor of this forest. But you stand in the middle of a
very small clearing. You have a forest in your brain sometimes, how you
know this forest? Why would you have this forest in your brain? Because
he's got you in his brain. You know. This forest was one of
the first expeditions your family set out on to do research about the wild life
here many many years ago, when they first claimed the defiant this is I've
never taken you here. Is this like something you've grafted from our mind exercises?
I am not sure. Perhaps our minds are connected in the ways that
we probably cannot comprehend, let alone understand. Do you not see the desert
in your dreams? Do you know now that I'm thinking about it? I
do every once in a while. That's weird. I've never been to Tassuit,
well, aside from that time we picked ub your brother. But anyways,
what are we doing here? How do we go? Yeah? Rora
is probably hiding. She takes the form of a little girl. She might
be playing hide and seek. Yeah, or you can come out. I
brought the friend roll of manipulation. Off in the distance, under the kind
of shadowed light of the canopy of this of this dense forest, you see
a figure. It steps out from behind a tree. It's humanoid, a
human female, thin and kind of lean, No giant shoulder pads, no
beehive curl front like bump or anything like that. And you can't quite make
out the face or any of the detailing, but you can see this figure
that you have somemoned kind of off in the distance. Ra There's no response.
This is my friend. Tell you she's here to help sure protect you
like she protects me. And Tamir kind of. Tamir kind of like lowers
himself into it, like a squatting position like he normally would to get onto
Aurora's eye level. The figure kind of tips their head the way an animal
might if you talk down to it, and it steps behind a tree,
the same tree it kind of stepped out of and disappears. And then about
twenty feet closer, it re emerges out of another tree, kind of stepping
from behind it as if it rides in the shadows in some strange way.
As it comes into this dim light, a kind of shadow, breaks through
and shines across the face to me or I'm gonna have you make a perception
check observation, observation. I'm sorry, yes, take another one one.
It's very, very difficult to make out. But the light flashes on the
eyes of this woman, this young woman. Those are Aurora's eyes, but
it doesn't look like Aurora, at least from what you can tell. And
the figure kind of stands tall and steps just a step closer, and as
it does, her form begins to kind of take shape. And you see,
this looks like nobody that you've met before, some strange amalgamation maybe of
a person. She seems normal, but she doesn't quite speak to you,
and she seems a bit hesitant to step out. I don't understand something is
not quite right. She tries to speak, as if she can't quite catch
breath to do it, and eventually she kind of whispers out, who is
Aurora? Who are you? I am, I am Ari. It is
nice to meet you, Adi, but I am looking for a Overora.
I do not know of this Aurora checking files. Aurora a code name given
to a series of important files. Yes readoubts on a war machine of some
kind, not of the third Horizon? Are these files part of you?
Yes, well, part of Tamir's data banks. I am Ari a new
running system. I have been functioning for exactly one hour and twenty seven minutes.
What happened to Aurora? Checking computer database? Roughly two hours ago?
A reset on the system caused an update. It seems as if a virus
was cleared from the system, but in doing so wrote a new code,
the one in which I emerged from. Do you report to anyone? I
do not report as a program. My diagnostics show that I am both a
database system as well as a security system. I function for the computer,
the computer that is protecting Aurora or the computer that serves the consortium computer.
In your head, hey, you built yourself a new computer program. I'm
really proud of you. Tamers not laughing. In fact, there are tears
running down his cheeks. Tears. This is a sign of sadness in humans?
Are you sad? Betty? Would you like to take access the Aurora
files? Yes? Please? One moment, there's kind of a second and
she blinks in this kind of deadpan way accessing the files, she says,
oh, I understand better. Now you had a personal connection with the program.
Yes, what was a friend? Aurora was a program, but in
a way was more. Her files show deep code, strange algorithms. It
makes the basis of my code in a certain way. I am, in
fact Aurora. Pardon, and it is a great pleasure to make your acquaintance
Aari. My name is Tamir Alisada, Tamir. Yes, main computer,
Tamir. This is Captain tal Tuma. Where I'm not actually here, Tamir,
I'm just seeing through view. Oh another program, just to hear your
voice. I have no record of a tall Tuma program. Taltuma operates on
her own system. Understood, I too operate almost on my own system.
Yes, yes you do. Is there anything that I can do for you?
Ari, I am lost in the woods. We could help you get
out? I do not, but Tal could you perhaps guy us I'm not
familiar with this forest. I don't know exactly where we're going because I don't
know. We just landed here briefly when I was like ten. It's not
a great memory. Like well, right, it is your head, Tamir.
And if Tau Tuma is a running program, you can choose anywhere you
want to go. Tell how about we go home? Oh? Okay,
I think about the defiant. Tao closes his eyes and that both of you
think about home, which is the defiant, right, Tamr. That's what
you're thinking about? Ok good, I need to make around aout too,
several places that can importantly think about the ship. And there's a brief moment
where the ground moves under your feet, but your feet itself do not move,
and you come clear of the forest bright light, and you don't see
her, but you hear Ari simply say thank you as she kind of dissipates
off, and the two of you come too, as if laying under bright
light, even though in here there's nothing but candles. Yeah, and the
two of you were there. Alia, did you stay? Yeah? Alia
is sitting there to me, I mean, Malik is not, and of
course Lamara is not either. She never came here. Well, congratulations,
it's not a virus. You had a baby kind of it's what it will
uh. Tamir's computer reset turned Aurora into a new program kind of Tamir where
guests that your best guess is that the virus, the Sally virus that was
put there, was consumed by Aurora, and that's what actually came out the
other side. Yeah. Yeah, it was like a way to rewrite the
program to be more protective. Is more protectives on it? Yeah, that's
you are. You're nailing it. I'm going to give you an actual like
some things for this. But okay, cool cool. Yeah, So Tamir
has like actual tears running down his cheeks. That was the first corruption everybody.
I'll wipe them away and say, are you okay? I will be
Oura meant a lot And I don't know what this new program is capable of.
This is new. I I don't know how to navigate it well from
a data aspect as far as new programs go. Since Aurora was used as
the basis of the code for this, then you know she does still have
like a part of Aurora, like Aurora was the basis, So Aurora's still
there. It's just like or morphed into a security droid rather than you know,
like I don't know, grew up or something. That's kind of what
it feels like. Yes, I come up and I I give I'm give
me a lot of fucking hugs today, I give, I give, I
come down, give to hug and kind of just you see Alio kind of
like slouched down to Tamir's. Wait, how tall is Tamir? Okay,
Tamir's six foot four? Oh okay, no mine, Yeah, we're smaller,
but like not that small. Yeah. You just see like uh Alia
gives him a hug and then kind of just as she comes out, like
gently cups his face and goes, I'm sorry for your loss. I can
maybe imagine, perhaps not what kind of a relation you must have had with
but she she became what she has become out of love for you, I
feel, and wanting to protect you. So what I understand is correct if
if Ara just to rebate herself for all intents and purposes, this is aa
just like a childhood friend grows up away from you when you meet them again
for the first time talking about your sister. Yeah yeah, yeah, sort
of just to give you a more accurate picture, Tale is about a foot
plus a couple inches shorter than both of you, so just it's two giants.
And then Tal sitting there like heartless. But then you see a sudden
like kind of almost like a weird like there's a moment where as she's saying
all of this about like and especially when Thal was saying how like we were
talking about like like it's basically the same but kind of rewritten. There's a
moment where all you because was like and then and it's like she's thinking,
and then she looks at you too, and because I think you I think
you're okay from what I see, what I from what this sounds, I
need to go look at something. I would be right back maybe and you
just see her walk out and then but but comes back. Give us another
quick because welcome back to me and then walks out and then I'll leave it
for now. Does tal have any and or to me or have anything left
to say? Before we cut cam over to I'll just turn to Tam and
say you want to drink? I could use a drink strict and then I'm
you know what this water is going to be about? From your mouth,
not my brother's. I'll fill you in. Thank you. Okay. The
two of you had off to find some libations. And uh, since I'm
getting words from a leak, do they find you? Are you also drinking
leak? Uh? He's not drinking, but he's in the he's in the
CANTEENA Uh, just sort of sitting there, like back to the table,
feet out, uh and just waiting for whatever the hell that was to stop.
Uh, whatever that hand holy hugfest was in the temple, and he
uh is just sitting there, uh, sort of arms behind his head,
your brother, waiting somewhat patiently. But they're there is no sign of Alia
or Lamar Alia. Where are you headed? I'm going to Lamara med Bay
mm hmm or wherever she ends up going to you. Uh. Climb down
the ladder to the correct deck and cut across, and you can see that
giant like open right window that looks in on the med Bay, and Alia
is there. Her back is to the window. She's like on the far
side of the table that sits in the middle, and she's kind of looking
down at something you can't quite see, like in her hand. And the
door seems to be open. I I don't. I try not to make
too much of a noise. I come in. You want to do it
silently? Yeah? Roll in infiltration O. She she Dougna's point. Okay,
okay, okay, come on, come on, okay, okay,
you are quiet, but the door is not. She does not turn.
She does not turned when you walk in. She doesn't even like kind of
turn to look at you. She's still back kind of on the other side
of this table from you. Do you say anything. I try to kind
of just observe for a second. Uh, uh, you should not be
here. I'm this is a sterile facility. I'm gonna be doing some work.
Oh have you started? No? She tries to kind of hide something,
maybe in her jacket so you can't quite see it, whatever was in
her hands, making observation if you want to try to, like, okay,
what it is? Okay, mm hmm, you can't quite make it
out. Her like lab coat is covering it, but it's it's like because
her back to you, but you can you can see she's holding something.
I said that you did ask if you if I could help and come and
assist. I have the time. Oh, yes, it's not those experiments.
Not those experiments. Okay, coma mm hmm. Can can we talk?
Uh please, procuation, come on, come on, come on,
manipulation. But there we go. Okay, she says, yeah, yeah,
we can talk. I just don't want to look at you. Okay.
I come up, but not like next to her, but like behind
her and kind of just gently place the hand on her shoulder. She got
it. You steel her actually like clinch a little in and she kind of
pulled he shoulder and she's like, I'm sterile. You know. There was
a long time where when I was younger and I was forcibly, I fortunately
had to run from my home where I didn't really have anybody and I didn't
know really who to turn to. I left my home with a bunch of
other other children in the same situation as and though we started the journey together,
we inevitably, one at a time, had to leave each other for
one reason already or the other. I never really had since then much of
a family. Surely, I guess could be my mother. It's why I
think of her as such. She raised me, But being always on the
run, we never could spend time together more than what was necessary. We
couldn't really connect more than what was necessary. My first real home and my
first real family since I was perhaps what I can't even remember how old I
was when I had to leave. It's you and this crew and the ship,
and I would do anything if it's in my power to help you and
protect you. And I want you to know that we're here for you.
Do you have any scars? Al Yah, more than I can count.
You know. Scars are just where the tissue healed itself instead. But even
though the wound's not there anymore, the scar always stays. It doesn't really
go away, can't kind of bound to it in a way. As a
doctor, I don't have very many scars, but I have a scar,
one big one. And she kind of like lowers her head and she says,
your your first real memories with us and me, and that horrible thing
you pulled out of me, And no matter how hard you tried, it's
like a scar. I can't get rid of it. And she turns around
and reveals the orb, the one that's swirling with a black gin inside of
it that was thought to be lost when the Defiant exploded. She holds it
very close to her body of kind of her hands bound around it, and
she says, this, this is my scar. I saved it from them.
Mhmm. Don't tell anybody, okay. I look at the orb for
a small second, but mostly then turned to Lamara and once again just cut
her face as well. And I turned to her. Was everybody has scars,
Tomara, but they don't define who you are. They're not you.
The experience is behind them. The person that comes out from it and what
they learned from this experience is who you are. You went through something that
was so traumatic and something that you are a miracle, Lamara. Do you
know that I don't really believe in miracles. I'm a well, I'm big
enough to believe it for both of us. And let me tell you you
the chances of you being here today, have you surviving? Of you being
Lumara what was her last name? I'm sorry, Ah, the more of
a Abon? Have you been? Lumara? Acbon was infinitesimal. I'm not
a scientist, I'm not a mathematician. I don't know how to calculate it.
But I can promise you in the entire history of the Third Horizon,
or at least what has been recorded, there has never been a situation where
someone who has been possessed by a gin has been able to survive. And
the reason for that, Ali, it's you. No, I mean there's
a reason that none of them have survived, or a good thing they haven't.
Okay, well, uh, that is all the time we have for
today. And she kind of goes over and wraps another like lab coat like
deep around it and puts it into like a drawer and closes it. And
you see your like boop a code and lock it. And she turns around
and she says, all right, we all have our scars, right,
just I'm fine a miracle. I'll wait until you believe that yourself. Can
you maybe perhaps talk to me about what it is? Maybe? But I
am I think we're supposed to start a war first, right, what comes
in multiple forms, and if you're already fighting one, then maybe that is
the first one we need to handle. How do you know that you're the
good guy? You don't. You do what the best you can, and
you hope that you don't hurt anyone on the process. But if you do,
you hope it's not. It's not something intentional nor permanent. But all
we can do is try our best and keep moving forward and perhaps ask help
along the way. Write help. Well, the next time I do an
experiment, I will ask for your help gladly. Okay. She goes over
to the coms and she clicks a button so it's like over the whole ship,
and she goes, are we still starting a war? Tonight the leak.
Honestly, I was really hoping to have a night off, but I
guess if we have to do it tonight, then sure I get to say
in this nobody has asked me what I thought about starting a war? Okay,
we're coming down. Okay, Lamar like flicks out of whatever, like
dark space or head was in. You see her eyes light back up again,
as if you just flick the light switch, and she turns around with
a big smile on her face, and she says, come on, I'm
to start a war. I reach out my hand and basically I hold her,
and then it's like, well, at least protect as many in this
process. You know, I've never really been part of a rebellion before.
You kind of hear her voice trail off as the two of you walk the
rest of the group. And because I promised an early release, we will
end our episode there tonight with both corruption bars used, one for our brand
new ari and uh the second for the return of the June. Great,
just what we needed. Oh man? Okay, Uh that's chest. That's
yea. Thanks everyone. Chat. You guys killed Aurora, so that's on
you. What the fuck? Chat? She didn't die? She just evolved.
Don't died. Don't try grew up your daughter, grew up my child.
Don't try to reframe it to make chat feel better about themselves and their
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