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of the Defiant as they journey through the Third Horizon at the Mercy of the
Icons, trying to understand just what's happening to the mystics in this Coriolist campaign.
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said, I will turn things over to Dot to take us into space,
where I'm sure we'll be fine. Sorry, I'm so inappropriate. Hi,
welcome to the show where Dot has no class and takes these people into space.
Dot. That sentence alludes to the fact that you do have class offstream,
and we know that's also not true. That's also not true. Yeah,
well then I'm just lying to everybody past. Dot is here for all
of you to let you know that I'll change my ways next week, which
is actually tomorrow, mine blonde. Okay, so last time these folks went
to space, which is big by merch, right, there's merch. There
was feature Mike's got a future like Michael put a link or something. I
will Yeah, race Big, Chace Big. It's so big in fact that
it's actually kind of small. Sometimes so small when you get aboard a space
station like Coriolis, where things are volatile, the system is in a bit
of disarray, and in the last year there has been a small internal civil
war over a particular system in the third Horizon that had some strange things go
down. Now, our crew just happened to be I can't say accidental,
because y'all chose to go to tallin our crew convenient we were there. Yeah.
Yeah, they were said to try to figure out what went down because
two vessels were lost. One was found off trajectory and being pulled into the
nearest sun and unfortunately was lost, but not before they recovered a disc.
Well, aren't they a lucky crew because a year later, the other half
of a massive battle vessel has been spit out the other side of Tawan into
Yuharu. Right, that's correct, that's a system I'm looking for. Pretty
sure she harbor yeah, into Uhru, And the consortium has good information on
this front that maybe the same disc with the information of what actually happened that
day over a year ago or a cycle ago, I should say, might
be intact. Problem is their little silvil war has left the correct side of
the Juharu Portal under somebody other than the Consortium's control. The Order of the
Pariah main manages that set of portals. After an unplanned attack by them,
While Malik was lost on a planet, y'all were out gathering asteroids, living
your best lives, and Sewell was a prisoner. When all this was going
down, there was, you know, just a small civil war in the
background, and the Order has taken the Juharu Portal side that all of you
need to skirt in on. It's going to be a long trip, but
it's being funded. All you have to do is go to the dark side
of this moon that circles one of the planets in the Uharu system, dive
deep, deep under very cold water, and try to retrieve the blue disc
that might be still intact. So no big deal, except last time one
of our crew decided to stay behind a new mission. He has found a
strange turn of events has left him seool paying his dues a different way,
not in a prison slaving away, fighting for his life, but trying to
build a different kind of underworld, teaching kids how to fight a true rebellion,
which who knows that the Horizon may need. Before all this is over
with, but in replace of Seoul, all of you have been given a
team of three by the judge, who has of course assigned this to you.
Two women and a man. There is Nadia Sais, who is our
special brand agent. She seems to be most in control here. A rather
stern faced woman I would not say angry by any sense of me, no
furrowed brow, but purposeful, and she seems to carry very little empathy around
the edges of her mouth. Her hair is dark and she wears it down,
and she wears a very what you can imagine is basically a commando suit,
right, multiple layers of padding leather. There's definitely some armor there on
her shoulders and legs, and she suited along with a very large weapon.
Hung at her side. With her are two additional legionnaires. These are I
would not say mercenaries, but they are for hires. They're what Soul would
be had they never worked for the syndicate, or how he had, had
he never worked for the syndicate. So the two of them their names,
oh yes, Dala and Farouk. They're supposed to assure that you get there
and back. The cry last time was you're a bit unsuited, am I
right? For combat? So they've given you a small team. Yah yah.
The last time that they gave us a team, we got kind of
boned. Wait what team do they give you? When do they give us
a team? We kind of had to trust the judicator and we got boned.
I mean you got space bone, we got spone. Excuse me,
the judge didn't assign us the judicator. It was my dad who did that.
So you know, I found out that one uh sorry, secret messages
in chat. This is what happens when I don't have two chats to watch.
I can just respond to the one chat. Oh my. So we'll
pick up on board the Defiant not docked at Coriolis, but it's instead waiting
their turn in line. It is almost time, uh to make the first
jump. Now, our crew. I'm gonna do this this nerdy teacher thing
with the book because it's right here and I think that's easier. And I
promised Mike I wouldn't do maps than I lie. Okay, so you've got
over here's Kula. This will dot right here and see last last season they
went down here to Hamura and then they were like, oh, we can
turn, ready to go back to Cou but just kidding, we're gonna jump
to Tawan. And then they jumped all the way back. And they've been
all up and around here save in Seul rescuing Maleaku over here somewhere right right
right, Okay, now they're back. Problem is, this isn't the door
they need to come in. This is the door they need to come in.
So they have to go long way around the bottom loop of the third
Horizon to get there. It's going to be a very long trip. And
then when you get to Uharus, when you get to Uhrrus system, it
is now under order of the Pariah Blockade. They are everywhere, but you'll
probably have an hour or two before you have to hit Cryoproper. And sitting
in the kind of general mess area are the two legionnaires and this special Branch
agent. Is there a tense quality to the air? What is everybody do?
Yeah? I'd say Tal's probably trying to go over everything she knows about
the order of the para, perhaps what kind of ships they would have.
Maybe if we could get any sort of data on what quarter glimps they have
scheduled coming up for the time frame we expect to be going through. See
if we can fight out anything that they're waiting on. Any I don't know,
what can you Mike? Yeah? What can you dig up? Where
are we on the ship? Before I answer this question? Oh you're muted?
You did? Yeah? Yeah, I hit the space park okay.
So uh, the Legionnaire, the two Legionnaires and the Special Branch agent are
in the mess hall. So they're in like the core section of the ship,
which is the open kind of section that feeds to all of the bunks,
all the individual bunk rooms. You can be wherever you like. Yeah,
there you go. H Tal's probably going to be in the cockpit,
okay, perfect believe of making sure everything's yeah. Yeah, So he looks
at you and says, yeah, I run. Are we being babysit the
entire time or what's the They're here to make sure that we come back if
we run into any trouble where we need people who are specialized with weapons.
They're here to back up. Uh huh. Okay, man, And the
whole time he's like typing and searching for this data because, like the man,
the reason we come back from most places is less than legal. Yes,
they didn't really give us room to say no, huh are we so?
So? Do we operate on our best behavior or our normal behavior?
Let's try to go on our best but let's go on our normal behavior disguises
our best behavior. Malik, all right, click click cl click, and
he is he is searching for information dot. Well, you have a voice
modulater on that was terrified Sally. Sally got a downgrade. Yeah, I'm
gonna work on that voice modulator for Sally. Uh, batteries are dying of
her own. Now, I don't know what you want. So, just
so everyone watching knows, we are equally professional offstream when we don't have a
live show to worry about, we still have no idea what we're doing so
perfect? What is professionalism? Yeah? Is this? I don't know?
Okay, I'll take professionalism for two hundred would would access to man, So
I assume access to the the Coriolis Data Database library would not aid me here
because of the order of the PRIE is a bunch of assholes. So I'm
sure it would be a lot of their good Samaritan work and their hospitals and
they're helping the needy. Yeah, so Malik's gonna do things and look for
other resources to find information on them. Okay, but you're still wanting information
on the order on the order of the prior. Yeah, so I'm going
to take a data general. Yes, you will gain no bonuses to this,
because not even from my computer. All right, yours gives a plus
one plus three? All right, Yeah, if it's your computer, I
can't. I can't just shoot about that. Okay, Yeah, it's so
my computer. So let me let me change the wording here. My computer
would help me with the hacking, not a cultur role. So I'd be
able to find information, but the interpretation would be a cultural role, correct,
I would? I would? Oh, Okay, then let's see if
you can just get information up on the order that's not the pretty shiny front
facing critical Alissan. How does that work? God damn it? Did I
break it? How did I find? What do I find? Do I
know? How many war cards do I uncover? All right, all right,
here's what give me? Give me a culture role. He's found some
ship. Hold on, wait, wait a second, let's do Can we
do two cultural roles? Because I also have culture. I don't believe that
I do have one point in culture. I don't believe it I have one
point. He was in my shape before we had KP. Mike was the
volunteer for leveling up and spending one point in culture last season at the very
end, Well, let the both of you roll for culture. Yeah,
you will do. Wait, hold on, because I have to argue.
Do we get a plus one bonus for my amazing accident? I think I'm
just asking you, k KP can take the one of you can take the
bonus from your criticals. KP, you can take the bonus. Okay,
I'm just gonna get a little bit of success anyway. Oh god, that's
okay. I still succeeded. As long as one half of us wins,
that's fine. We all win with the modifier. Gotta be tricky, Okay.
Well, can I say one thing though, considering Alia's history with this
order is there? I mean, just based on her own personal experience and
what she's seen, would she be able to at least use that to kind
of at least give an idea of who they're dealing with. Yeah, because
basically this is not a failure of not knowing things about the Order. This
is a This would be like a failure against looking through the data but finding
viable information in the data that Malik has dug. Now, Malik got a
single success. So I will tell you a few things, some of which
would be kind of general knowledge, but then will i'll i'll paining you when
we get to the stuff that's not general knowledge. Okay, all right,
You would generally know that the Order is almost next in line for control of
the third horizon, right, you all very much know that they were being
or you're pretty sure they were being framed for what went down in Tawin.
The Order is being framed for what went down in Tawin. So it's not
your knowledge of the Order that seems of interest to you, because all in
all, they are kind of seletish, but they do help people. And
if your knowledge tells you that everything that's gone going down and what happened or
whoever came from the first Horizon has nothing to do with the Order, then
it's got to be something else. But Malik, your single success pings something
else of interest, like a side file, a footnote, an appendix reference
of a top secret file which, thanks to your critical success, you're able
to open and you're unnatural curiosity. You open it up and inside you find
something that you've not actually seen before, neither have you alia. It's information
on a secret cult or a cult they believe existed at one point during the
Portal Wars called the Nazarenes Sacrifice. Most of those records of them are long
forgotten and there's no like newspapers or clippings of the time because we were at
like all out war. But it is believed that it was a secret society
or a secret cult that kind of has eyes and ears everywhere, most importantly
within the Zenithian factions. The Nazarinees Sacrifice kind of went dead or quiet after
the Portal Wars, Malik, if you were going to start and all out
war and hide behind somebody else, makes a lot of sense for a secret
cult to do the same thing. That more than likely the Nazarine Sacrifice has
something to do with what's going on and whatever they're trying to bring back from
the first Horizon exactly. You don't know how, But if the Nazarene sacrifice
based on these records has been like awakened or brought back or the cult is
building a following. We're already screwed because people are everywhere. That's probably how
they got secret people into the Consortium security. It's probably how and why they
were on Koola, which is the largest Anthian city in the third Horizon.
There's it's almost like these these dominoes start tumbling as maybe you're piecing it together.
But this single file, this this kind of top secret file on what's
left of rumors of a cult causing that called the Nazarene sacrifice. Okay,
we also passed through Zellos to get to where Sul was. I forget what
system that was. You came back that way? Okay, I know that
we sort of fast forward to through that. Do we as characters know,
at least like somewhat rumor wise, why that's a dangerous route and why going
through Zallos is fucked up? Yes? I would imagine that your characters do,
Mike, would you like to fill the audience and sure, yeah,
Zallos is in a civil war and they've locked down access to their jump gates,
so you basically are allowed to go in the jump gig and then out
the next one, and that's it. There's one place you can stop and
you're not allowed to go anywhere on that place. You can stop there to
get refuel and that's it. And they have real, real, real big
ships, like all of their ships are destroy your class ships that will just
shoot you out of space if you don't do what they say. So it's
dust ass. So basically all the truck of routes just go around because they're
like, that's just too much work. And Drum, y'all went the long
way. That's why I was like, y'all want to go the long way
or the dangerous way, And the first time was or the short path,
and so y'all went, you know, the long the one way going one
way coming basically, but you would have seen that like Zallo's actually tow would
have been the only one because all the rest of you would been sleeping tow.
You would have been woken up to refuel. You would have seen justtroyals
freaking everywhere. You would have been very much cued from point A to point
B out exit door with very little contact and communication in between, which may
and what te wanted. But if this conversation is being had that might like
spring, like your light bulb might go off as well a little bit in
regards to that. It's one of those systems that decided, hey, we're
having a civil war with ourselves, and the rest of the horizon went,
okay, that's fine, you guys, we'll be over here not engaging in
that because they're terrifying. They're terrifying monster people with big guns. So yeah,
he'll pull up a bunch of information as he's talking to tal and the
whole time, since we're basically in Q here, he's like typing, type
of typing. You see him swipe a hand type type swipe a hand And
every time he swipes his hand, he's sending a data file to TEL and
the majority of them are like a sheet of paper with like blacked out lines
except for like, you know, proper nouns and like articles like and the
so everything is is redacted in like ninety percent of the files he's sending.
Then you'll see like the ones that are like the fluff pieces like oh,
the good Samaritans of so and so order, the Brion coriolis fed a thousand
people in the you know, the events of the Kua thing, and he'll
he'll send that over to you. And then finally the the cult situation,
he doesn't actually send that one. He just sort of says, this one's
uh new, this one's new. This is the only file I was able
to get cleaned up. There used to be some kind of cult, I
think, or organization or or something. I'm not really sure I understand what
the hell's happening with this, but they have something to do with the Portal
Wars I think is kind of what this looks like. And if what the
I guess the icons said about like the Ghost of Zine, if that's if
what they said is accurate about the first horizon really breaking through, then if
if they were there for the Portal Wars, kind of makes sense for them
to be back, Hey, Dot with the information that that was uncovered,
does Alia have I know, I failed the culture a lot. I was
just curious, like, is that any background knowledge anything at all that her
or her mentor had picked up during this their time, because considering roll,
you can roll another culture check. If you're like, you don't get any
bonuses to this one, I would say, but I'm gonna have to read
y'all. I have the entire module in hardback. Amazing, I know.
Okay, so now I can do this without having to go on my PD
have it get a weird? Okay? Oh so you want me to do
a culture check without any bonuses? Right? Correct a moondo? Okay?
One success? One success? All right, let me see what you know,
because this actually may have to take us back to the first moment.
And while you're looking that up Alia takes this moment, you have to see
that she's actually now in her face mask and she hasn't taken it ever since
the crew members, the new crew members came on board. Uh, and
so unfortunately, my stupid steam deck is not doing its job. So you'll
just pretend that her voice is modulated and she literally turns the crew and go
captain. Would it be all right before we make this jump if I have
a moment to talk with the crew with everybody here, not not not the
new people, but with all of us here. Yeah? Sure, I
on one screen. I want to keep an eye on the areas outside of
where the people are towels tells, got an eye on that screen just so
that we know when they're coming up towards the bridge. I also have a
note mm hmm in my Put Some Things Together for you. I have well,
I have a note in my book, uh saying Nazarene sacrifice and underground
ancient cult trying to pin things on the order of the Pria. I'm pretty
sure that that was revealed to Tal by her sister. Oh that's right.
So yeah, that's what the rebellion's trying to fight. They're trying to fight.
They're trying to fight the order of the Nazarene. Yes, so Tal
does have this information, that's right. The moment they sailed this, your
sister may not have might have said it once to you, and then now
they're saying it again and they're talking about a file. Now, Tao,
I would say that that would pay for you. Yeah. Now you're like,
oh, I know what she's up to. Now that's probably when the
light bulb really goes off about what your sister's up to. She's the princess
Leiah to the rebellion. Yeah, I'd say I'd say that, Uh say
that makes cowl Luke howl is Luke, I mean holtic abilities cow is is
Luke uh and Han put together, it's true and Soul's Chewbacca. They stand
behind you have that guift stop up. Yeah, it's amazing, But wait
then that would make as the as the the supposed to be cultural person that
would make Alia would be C three P o uh and and the and as
the hacker would make Malik R two D two. Aren't you open this door
for me? The question then is does that make just makes a mere Lando
man or does that make I'm sorry, does that make to mir Lando cow?
Or does that make to mir No, Tamir would be Chewy, and
Soul would be Lando. Oh, you're right, would totally Land would be
yeah, would be would be Chewy coordinated. Yeah, the Chewy the Chewy
to to tells Hanah it's perfect. Well, now that we sorted that out
exactly, ship mates, just imagine the floorboards ripped up and then Tamir is
down. There's like, what you doing? Leave him alone? Leave them
alone. His voice modulator is not working again. Someone please do art of
the whole crew as I don't like to. May I be it for Palpatine?
Please you can't. I'm not. You're actually just the embodiment of like
of Seth of the Dark Side. It's literally just a massive blackness is six
foot seven. So I found out what we're all looking for. So,
first off, I want to note this goes back to the literal first pages
of Modern One. Y'all are finally putting the like slotting puzzle pieces in.
So as the calms are open and all of you are discussing this, Alia,
you take a little just in the we're all just even. I'm keeping
an eye to make sure that they're not walking up on us while we're talking.
Gotcha, Yeah, no, they seem the two legionaires don't seem to
give a they don't care. The woman is, uh, she can kind
of see all of you meeting. It's not like she's trying to listen in
she's not attentive that way, but she has noticed all of you gathering.
Does that make sense? Well, we get to her in a second.
Did she think was gonna happen? But she's just kind of watching the four
of you convene. There's a fifth crew member, but I don't know where
she's at right now. Okay, so here we go, Alia, you
spent many years in Julie's service. I'm sorry, not Julie's service, I'm
in thousand different places you spent many years in yeah, Juley's service, and
she would have told you many things. She was probably there for the Portal
Wars. She might have been young, but she would have been fresh into
the Order when this was still wrong. And the reason this matters is because
it's really the Order that won the Third Horizon. For everyone, the Order
gave the greatest sacrifice. They put their legiance ahead, and really it was
there and it was them that fought in the Fintal battles of Odicon System that
actually won the war. So they lost a lot, They lost a lot
of people, They lost a lot of information because so much was destroyed,
history, rituals, all those people dead. There was just a loss,
kind of like entering a dark age almost. So today the Order is really
I don't want to call it a shadow because that seems evil. It is
a framework of what it was. It's what they can remember old prophecies and
prayers and these kinds of things. Just to clarify, though, it's the
Order that we're hunting them, or at least up till now, what we
had understood was that the Order was the one hunting all the mystics. Right,
this is exactly what we're finding out right now is that that's probably not
the case that the Order was being used as a front for what's of who
as actually doing it, which is the Nazarene sacrifice. They wanted you to
think it was the Order, right, it's a lot easier to start an
internal war with everybody here and then sneak up on them and take over.
So to be fair, it also isn't a hard cell right like they said.
They said the Order did it and everyone that makes sense. Of course,
that is easy as it was, right. Yeah, So politically speaking,
it is very easy to blame them because the Order has always been right
on the cusp of actually and maintaining and having the most control the Consortium,
and uh, they just happen to be on this kind of teetering balance and
if any one thing gives so it might make sense. Of course, the
Order is going to finally make its move after all these years of rebuilding itself
up after the Portal Wars. But the fact of the matter is, you
remember you remember her telling you, Showley telling you about different branches and cults
and zealots that always pop up after things like this when cultures try to rebuild
themselves. Oftentimes you get the extreme versions of this. And you remember the
Nazarene Sacrifice was mentioned a cult that she said and believed it was long dead
or had passed. When the Portal Wars did. They're usually sworn to the
darker side of the dancer icon, the Beast, right, I'm sorry,
sorry, yes, yes, And maybe that goes through your head. You're
like the beast instant right, like it like things You're like, oh,
the darker side of the dancer icon is the beast, which is maybe why
it's finally manifest and the Beast is returning, okay, because the Nazarene Sacrifice
has also returned. What Shirley did not do was tell you that the operation
she was working on with Melissa was actually against the Nazarene Sacrifice. Either she
didn't feel confident enough to say that that's what she believed, or she didn't
want you to know for your own safety. But she would always tell you
the war that you're fighting and the things that you're doing are important because their
eyes and ears everywhere of your enemy, of the real people that are causing
what's going on. And you realize now what she was talking about is the
Nazarene sacrifice is kind of dark ended version of the Order a Zealod group.
Basically, yeah, congratulations, everybody. You realize that the Consortium has no
idea, that the Order is not to blame, and the Nazarene sacrifice goal
is working. They're starting civil war all over the horizon. Okay. So
yeah. Alia would then take this moment and just kind of I mean,
with her just realizing this as well. She just turns to tell and says,
do you remember how I told you I come from Ouharu and that what
was chasing me, something was chasing us, and we've been on the run.
This was it. This, This is this is what I've been running
away from all my life and trying to protect others and help others run away
as well. And I just wanted to let all of you know, just
as a open discussion, that going back there might be a little bit tougher
for me than anybody. I will be there. I will come, but
I'm I'm not sure how things will be there anymore. It's been over a
decade since I've been back home. But if I can ask for a favor,
please, can you do your best to not divulge my identity because for
your own safety and mind, I cannot guarantee that it will help anything.
I will have to probably remain in this mask pretty much the entire time.
Well, that's not going to be very hard. I'm trying not to divulge
anybody's identity. We're not there for a social visit anyways. We're here to
get this information and then leave. That's it. That's the job. We're
not going down memory lane, unfortunately. I'm not sure if that's then unfortunately,
But anyways, it looks like you're running in circles. You've been running
from it and towards it your entire life, and congratulations. You two also
will now need to be especially careful as well, considering your newfound outs.
Well, I mean, we're just you know what, here's here's the just
general rule for this ship is don't get caught. It's better for you that
way. Yeah, and if you do get caught, lie your ass off
until you get out of it. Shooting helps. But anyways, Suet left
to help Julissa and their organization, whose main goal is to fight the Nazarene
sacrifice. So turns out we're all kind of doing the same thing. Nothing's
changing. Nothing has changed. The only thing that has changed on this ship,
and the only change things that's changed with this at all is the fact
that we just have to hide the more unpleasant things from And I just kind
of nod my head toward the hallway. Do we think we can forge documents
to get through? If we can, that would probably be very helpful,
some sort of an alternate identity. Oh Malague, Uh huh? Do you
think we can forge documents to get through? Maybe a shipment that's supposed to
be scheduled or something I'm sorry to get through? Where to get through the
blockade? We are going to either to Okay, no, I need an
answer. I mean no, it's it's an order blockade, right, Yes,
yeah, they have they have everything. The order is like self sufficient.
There wouldn't be a delivery. It would be a Zelosian delivery from their
own ships. This isn't like a blockade that you can They're walling off the
the whole system. Only they go in and out. So if we're going
in, we have to sneak in. Yes, what I'm wondering is if
you can make us at least appear to be one of their ships. I
don't think so. I'll be honest with you, like I'm good, but
I'm not that good. This as nice as the ship is, he says,
with large amounts of sarcasm, It doesn't. It's not gonna pass for
a Zelosian ship. I'm gonna let to mirror roll for this one to me
or you are the jump master. You hear them talking about, like can
we papers? I don't know. I'm gonna have you roll your science.
I will take science, I think, Or is there mechanics? Is I
have science? Antick? Technology? Tech? Okay, so either one.
I'll let you pick to see if you know what your best options would be.
Okay, how about a limited success? You sure freaking do? Papers
are gonna be tough because the vessel itself is not it's not built like an
order ship. It's gonna be hard to really pass you off, especially since
you were told by the judge that it is a blockade. But they haven't
gone PlanetSide yet because they are out resources, which means that they're going to
be sourcing resources. They're gonna do it from their ways, like there's a
lot there would be. It would be tricky, it'd be very tricky to
do it that way. But you kind of you're like, okay, what
could we do? So here are four options. We have four options that
you could you could do. You could attempt to set up automated defense systems,
like automated defenses, right, so large battleships always jump on autopilot,
okay. Or have some kind of like machine gin on board that follow kind
of defensive protocols, so you could process cinsor data and respond with defensive or
offensive weapons towards the attacker. If you wanted to jump and just be like
fuck it, we're gonna run. We're gonna red like green light this and
run through the blockade. Okay, there's your defensive option. Like you're like,
okay, if we had to, here's how we would take on that
much fire. You could do something suggest that kill your baby. Automated defenses
might also be good because you're gonna have to park the ship stationary and go
planet side away. Can you does your ship have it? Does it can
land? It can land? You can go atmospheric? Okay, so that
won't be such a big deal. I lie, that won't be such a
big shadow. Jumping is something that crosses your mind. This is one of
those things. It's like drifting. It's like it's like drivers talk about it,
but not everybody can do it. But then again, you got a
towel. We've got a towel and understands the portal lake. To be fair,
it's not it's not like Tokyo drifting. It's not like far better than
that movie. Can basically pass like their ship could pass through the blockade safely.
And then what you do, it's just what it's sounds like you kind
of ride the wake of the vessel and hide inside of their signal so that
you can't be noticed. It's again, it's like that Star Wars more where
you can like where the Millennium falcon like attaches itself to the storier and it
can't be They're like, I don't know, it disappeared. Well, it's
because it's reading. It's too small against the larger vessel. You've got a
communications guy in an engineer, so that that's feeling. You might be feeling
a lot better about that. Yeah. Yeah. The next option would be
something called signal clustering. Okay, so this is for both civilian or military
blockade runners. So the blockade must cover a portal field of IMNT size and
therefore a vast number of potential entry points for arriving vessels. Their sensor operates
have huge quantities of data to like process, so basically you get lost in
the data of incoming ships. So it's like it's the data version of the
physical version of shadow jumping. So if you ping in with a GAGIN,
if you ping in with a bunch of bunch other vessels, you could potentially
just get lost enough where you ride the tech wave of being with a bunch
of other cruisers. So that's called signal clustering, okay. And then there's
poral control, so the blockading factor will also make sure to seize control of
the local portal we know that's already happened to be able to monitor entry requests,
cargo manifest Controlling the portal station is an excellent way to keep tabs on
the comings and goings of datapproaches that may give one's enemies undoe insight. A
tactic used during the Portal Wars nowaday thankfully banned by the Council is mining this
space around the portal, so you could try to hack the portal and just
take control of it. But Again, that's a lot of risk for very
little reward when you're just trying to get to one side of the system.
So you kind of have two great options and two semi not great options.
And then there's the sixth option of going or fifth option of going home.
One. We can't go home because it's gonna blow up and there's nothing we
can do about it. So how's already home? Anyways? Well, wasn't
that nice? You can go home? So I imagine, I imagine as
like maybe Tamir shares this information. You've a voice over the intercom. This,
of course would be Coriole. Listen, Coriole is to the Defiant.
You are next in line for jump. You are next in line for jump.
Please ready your stations. And now it's the time that you hear this
woman the special agent branch agent. God, that's I don't know why.
That's so fucking hard to say. I'm gonna botch it every time. So
you hear kind of put her cup down. She seems to be talking to
the two other crew members, and she just kind of says, you know,
she finishes her cup off, like tips it back and slams it down,
and she says a toast to bountiful findings. May the message er bless
us with good data. I'll let us pray that the ladies Cape has sheltered
the spear from the darkness, and may her flowers hide our mission from the
watchful eyes of the Order. The two guys or the two legionnaires just go
here, you know, kind of give her like a response back for such
a call, and she heads off towards the cryo chambers. But you notice
that the two dudes that are sitting in the booth, don't the two legionnaires.
They they're looking at something across the mess hall. From your angle of
you can't see. I go ahead and start getting up, and I flip
the intercolm to all on everywhere, all right, everyone prepare for cry asleep.
I guess flip it off, and I start walk walking towards to find
Lamara. Ah. Well, it doesn't take you long because she's standing right
there. She looks horrible. Her hair is everywhere, her braid is a
hot damn mess. She looks so she's been trying to pull her hair out
her eyes. She's been sobbing and kind of crying. She's still holding maleiks
like Shoemuk. But you can see like what make little makeup she had on
is like running and she looks worse for wear. She's not making any noise,
she's not crying. She's just standing at the other side of the kind
of kitchen space, like kind of like trying to catch your breath, staring
at the two legionnaires that have been sitting in the booth. They are staring
back at her like, Lamara, Hey, guys, shows ever go ahead,
Lamar and I start walking towards her, just kind of with my hands
out like can I can I get you or anything before we go? Who's
that? Oh uh? This is Dolla and Farouk. They're coming with us.
They were assigned to us by our patron to help protect the ship.
Oh or podcast listeners not just smacked her lips together and looked off to the
side with a puzzling gaze that quaking in our boots Shenanigans. Beda's second Lamara
is going to bring to the table. She she leans and you can smell
like she's not brushed her teeth in a while. She's definitely not showered since
she's you know, come back from the the gien world, and she says,
I don't trust them. He I lean into her and I kind of
had her on the on the shoulder gently and I say, I don't trust
them either. We're going to keep an eye on them, don't you worry.
She's like she kind of gets that look at them, like why,
like why the fuck are they here? Then you know that that kind of
look of like I don't understand, mom, kind of a thing. They
were assigned to us, the people who are paying us trust them, so
we trust them so far. She says, why I'm not sharing I'm not
sharing a cry or to with any of them. Don't worry. You don't
have to. She kind of watches this. You can see the two of
them were kind of whispering to each other. They can tell that she is
talking about them because she's, you know, very clear. Yeah. And
I just say here, let's let's get you cleaned up real quick and then
we'll get you in the cry chamber. And she she very willingly kind of
give gives way. She goes, where are we going? And she kind
of is like, yeah, talking to you. She her mind almost shifts
a little bit kind of quickly. I take her to my room. I
imagine that every every bedroom has like a small little little sink area and oh
yeah yeah, yeah yeah, nothing big, but just something so that you
can get some water. So I just take her over and kind of help
help clean her up a little bit, wash her face and refresh. Uh,
she should already have clothes on the ship. Oh yeah, you probably
grab her, grab her new outfits something, something that fits well and or
at least fits for the moment. Would just be probably her usual white like
jumpsuit, like a medic jumpsuit. Pretty standard. Sure on the cryo chamber.
Wow. Yeah, while you walk back, how she yeah, she
doesn't say a whole lot. I don't think she says a whole lot of
anything. When you get in there, you can see that faruk. Well,
basically both the legionnaires are already under the agent has put them, like
very clearly, has like beeped them in or whatever, and she's prepping her
pod just to the left of them, kind of in this circular room where
all these pods are Lamar like stops at the doorway and like, waits,
you know what, she hasn't seen this person, not really yet, Okay,
she she she squints again and stops at the doorway and she leans over
to how she goes, who is that one? I probably would have before,
before we got quite this far. I would have been kind of telling
her, like just as as I'm washing her up and everything, just talking
softly, telling her who's here, what, what the general idea is,
what we have planned, just so that she's not entirely surprised. I don't
necessarily want to like give her the deep details or anything like, yeah,
but not a good idea. So you know, these people are here.
It's it's especially Agent Nandina Dala and Fruk. They're here for protection. We're
going to we're on our way to Haru. It's it's an underwater planet.
Just Kenny trying to take her mind off of Yeah, and I think again
when she sees because she's heard, she heard you say this, but she's
not seeing this person yet. And she she sees a special agent and she
she's she still stops at the door and stops you and she she lands and
she says she's different. Yeah, keep a special eye out. Then she
goes no, no, no, and she you can see that, like
you can see the agent like beeping. These two guys under or these two
Legionaires under the glass and she turns and Lamara catches her eye just for a
second, and Lamar goes, m she's scared. She and you kind of
watch. She watches the two of you watching her as she gets into the
cryopod and like pulls it close, knowing that you'll have to finish beeping her
in tow and as it kind of as it closes, she just leans and
she says she doesn't like them very much. Lamar takes the pod farthest away
from them on the edge of the room. She begins as if she seems
affected, but not in the same way, like she's grounded. It's like
that piece of her mind has kind of come back. She's not as disoriented.
That's the way I'm looking for it. How she doesn't seem misas oriented
because she goes over to the pod and like pulls the hood deck and begins
like booping away appropriately as if it's second nature to her. That's kind of
embedded like process. But she's so she seems with it, but also not
entirely with it. Just it's kind of odd and off putting. But she's
here. Okay, I'll I'll go ahead, and I wait and for Lamara,
and I go ahead and finish Lamara's process, and then I go over
to Nandina and before I finish off her process, and you're like, hey,
is there anything you want me to know about these two? You can
roll manipulation to see if she'll tell you, because I don't have manipulation,
so you can just roll a straight empathy, cool, failure, nothing cool.
She kind of looks back at you as the kind of like the cold
mist begins to fill the pod behind this kind of blast surface, and she
hits the coms button back out to you, and she says, I'll see
you when we get there, and kind of lets it go. You can
very much tell that she dodged that question a lot like like he saw it,
noted it, ignored it, and then hit the button to like go
under. So you don't know what's going on, but you know something's going
on. Yeah, sleep well, boop yepoop, leaving just your crew.
It seems that these three agents that have all been put on board this this
small commando crew, are pretty trusting of all of you. They have yet
to like question you or your orders. They seem to be going along with
the cues. Uh, as given as everybody else kind of gathers and just
say ah, and Diana doesn't seem to trust Dolla for uk powerful any reason
why? Good luck finding out. Malik smiles and grabs one of the the
like the the consoles that's around here and sort of spins the console arm over
and immediately begins to typing on the screen. H they are unconscious and hooked
into our ship, and I'm going to run a background check on them because
we're still attached to Coriolis. So I am going to here for get ready.
You know what I'm going to say. I was about to say,
you hear somebody come on a jump in fifteen minutes, defiant, You are
prepared for jump in fifteen minutes perfect clearly click click click. Okay, would
you like a data general? I would? I need to decide what I
could tell you. Okay, okay? I oh oh, I'm so.
I hope just a limited success. It doesn't matter because the first thing when
you pull their files that you find out is both of them are considered war
veterans. They have quite a bit of service under their belt and have gone
into easier missions since about four years ago. During a mission on al goal.
Their entire squad was wiped out, and the two of them were captured
by a rebel group and pretty much tortured in hell as prisoners of war for
quite a while. Probably explained the large scars on their faces an eye or
like an around their eyes. How many years ago was that? Dot four?
After that, you can see that they were they went into the prison
system. Something went down and they were both kind of imprisoned, and they
hopped kind of skipped from low level penitentiaries like he like worked camps basically from
here and there. Does it say why both of them were caught stealing probably
food or something like that. Basically when they were released, they they escaped
from an extensive period of time as a prisoner of war and and were caught
stealing food and things like that. Mm hmm. It seems like a low
level That's what I mean. Like they were low level penitentiaries. I copic
about. So it says the record, hm hmm. Can I tell you
you have uh, you see that they kind of hopped from in prison camp
to in prison camp for a while and then were released. Their records said
they like served their due time and they were released back into society, and
since then both of them have been working kind of us for higher Because of
their sense of prison record, they can't get back into the Consortians military,
so they've been working as like for higher agents and off record agents. Uh
huh, yeah, that's all you get for one, I think so as
as tells do and the you know, prep prep the pods kind of thing.
Malik does this and then slides the screen around to face everyone and he
has a very like stone cold face on. It's like if Malik had a
serious face, this was what it looks like, probably the same face when
he yelled at everyone when we landed on Kuwah. That's them. So if
they don't make it back, that's probably fine. Yeah, well, don't
trust him. But he like slides through this report and he like runs his
finger across the line to highlight it and says, uh, we didn't take
prisoners for fun. That means they were the aggressor. It wasn't the same
they were taken. I said they were taken by a rebel group on alcohol,
which is where which is where Malik and Tamira from. Doesn't mean it
was you that took them. Well, this was four years ago. But
as far as I can tell, we didn't go out of our way to
take captives if they fell into our lap, but that would make them the
aggressor. You wouldn't know. At the time. On Algol, they were
part of a group called the Steel Skulls, which was under the command of
another war veteran, like a highly metaled war veteran, a woman named Yazma
Kaiber is what they called her. They called Kiber Yazma Paula Paulum. Sorry,
yes, Paulu and I can't ask this question without giving something away,
So I'll ask you a question. Can Tim and I both roll a culture
check and culture sure? You mean for like Algoll's history, like war knowledge.
No, would we have known because four years ago we were there.
We've only been on Coriolas for well sorry, sorry, technically four years ago
was around the time we left. So if there was a large organization called
the Steels Skill, before we do that, how about before we do that?
Yeah, why don't you everybody but Ali can make this role? Because
I'm so Ali, you don't know this information. You weren't there for this.
I'm gonna have there's not a proper memory check for this, but I
can't. I can't. Yeah, I'm gonna take a wits I'm gonna take
a WITS roll from all of you to see if you because when he flips
this around and then like swipes to show you the unit, okay, okay,
one, okay, oh just straight straight w okay. She they swipe
and you see the commanding like woman Yasma. You know exactly who that is.
That's Kasha and the entire unit she's standing with was a photo that was
taken the night all this went down, when the entire unit was killed.
There's another face that you recognize, a really young male, fresh faced Suol.
He was part of that unit along with his brother that he killed the
night they were trying to escape when it all went down. More than likely
these two guys just happened to also be there as part of the larger unit
of the Steel Skulls. I think Tom is going to like jab maleak as
like the the the reality of like the recognization, recognition, recognition of the
like lee that is Gotsha and that soon and we knew that Sul was there.
He's very very young. He can't be but maybe fifteen or sixteen.
His younger brother can't be but fourteen or fifteen. Both of them are decked
out standing at to this like other unit. You see the woman you now
know as Kasha, who then was called Kuyber. The record shows this is
where I think, Malik, this will matter to you. The record show
that every one of them died and only these two people, these two legionnaires,
survived and were taken captive and eventually like escaped rebel like control. But
everybody else was supposed to be dead. Sell these brother so Sewell actually escaped
and clearly Cautia did too. Dot refresh my memory. It's been forever and
we talked so much about this game, the events of Seule's brother's death and
what he was there to do. Do I does Malik know that it was
the same explosion. I don't think that information got put together. I don't
think because I know, but I don't think that came out in character yet.
Okay, you know what was though, it was to me was really
yeah, you were pretty livid about learning that he was possibly part of the
yeah of the of the gorilla warfare that was going on. Right there was
no like full confirmation of it, but we know he was there and we
know he was doing something and did nothing. Now, yeah, now,
how about this. I bet there's something that the two of you always remember,
which is the date of your parents. I was about to ask.
It's the exact date that is printed at the bottom of this digital photo.
This was the night they were They probably caused the bombing. Mm hmm.
And it says does it say died in like an explosion or died in or
does it say just like killing all all of them died in uh in combat
and cross combat fire and two prisoners of war were taken by the rebels,
by the out by the rebels on alcohol. Yeah, defiant. Five minutes
to launch, five minutes to launch in your pod now wept bar number one
you see ahead? Is there like this like brothers stare like this knowing?
Yeah? I think I think it's very much like there's an acknowledgement. Yeah,
I think there's very much an a knowledge, an acknowledgment between the two
of them, enough though that I think that town notices the look right,
the the the the the alis odds are about to cause trouble. Looks crosses
her arms and says boys. Now Malik turns quietly, but you see his
eyes just looking at all of the hoses and wires that connect to the other
two pods as he walks to the pod next to Lamara, And I think
to Merrill just kind of walk quietly past tal and to his pod. Does
that make Alia other than tell the last one in? Yeah, Aya just
kind of just stares at towel, kind of gives her a nod, and
then uh gets in the g's in the pod. That's something else happens.
Put my leak down first, and then it gets it's a mirror. Uh
and uh, I just nod, put him down, and then then get
to Alia and I say, before I put her down, I say,
you see that look that they gave each other. I noticed I was ready
keep an eye out on them. Thank you, m boop. And then
two minutes to launch. Two minutes to launch and you can hear it come
over again? And how you make your way up front? God? Uh,
I'm okay, I yeah, what would you like to do? I'm
really worried about the faces I just saw all over that screen. Mm hmm,
maybe you do. Maybe how this time around you make a lot of
jumps. You've piloted this vessel all over the third horizon and you've done it
with the help of Tameir's you know, really well done schematics to make that
happen. But even now, even after the blessing on this ship and your
prayer and all of the things that always get you through, there's something in
your gut. This is something's not right. And it's that face that to
me and Malik made to each other right before they got into their pod.
Sixty seconds to launch, I quickly double check the status of the other pods.
They are all set, you know, to open when you hit the
button to open, because that's how pods work. Are they all active and
engaged? They all? They are all active and engaged. Hang on,
all life support showing okay, all life support showing okay. Tal roll meum.
I don't know if this is science or just your wits as technology,
technology works, that works, that totally works. You walk around, You're
like checking rake a tech role. Do I get any bonuses because I know
my freaking ship? You get a bonus because Malik was being a sketchy bitch.
Okay, cool one success one success, it seems uh uh. I'm
gonna take a darkness point. Thanks for this mic I'm taking a darkness point.
It seems that you don't know exactly what, but Malik has tampered with
the order opening of this pod, like the scheduled the scheduling of the of
the pods opening. Is there a way for me to fix it quickly before
I have to get back in mind? I have to roll against his data.
Gin a right, give it a try. No bonus is for either
of you in this, just a flat datage again, Statiste okay, okay,
Aris okay, teal okay. Oh my lord, I don't know who
to give this to? What? What cards do we have in play?
What cards are in play? Where are my cards? Faceless ones? Uh?
Huh? The gin and the judge? Which we gotta get We gotta
we gotta get rid of the judge? Right? That was that was?
Yeah? That would be that? That was sul so that I have the
only card in play? Wait, I thought Alia had two cards in play?
You do? Because you had to draw an extra win, didn't you.
Oh you gotta you gotta give it to you, gotta give it to
Dot. What what do you have I'm stealing? Oh no, I don't
know. If I thought I'd give it so I'm pretty sure we're short cards.
I've got one, I've got a Lady of Tears. You got one
in your hand? There you go? Now, I okay, but what
is that? You gotta flip it? Dot? Did I not flip it?
I'm gonna just take the ones that are in my hand. It just
doesn't have a it doesn't have an image attached to it, which is really
true. But I do have okay, trying to see if there's anything that
I can't use the judge, so I just need to go. Just recall
that. It looks like all of you need to put cards into play.
So I'm gonna have you draw cards right now because I may want to play
one in this lovely tie we have between our captain and as an everybody needs
to trouble. Oh no, you're good your tour because you you're you're the
Lady of Tears, right. I don't know. Oh gosh, Mina is
so freaking well. I don't even know what I drew last time. We're
gonna be using that one? How do I do this? Uh? Just
drag it off? I need to are there is there the machine? Or
am I still pulling from the deckhand? Or do you're both yet I don't
have aname Dick, so just can for now. But I actually I wonder
if they've got those out. If they are, I may have to add
them on here. Okay, y'all, let's see what we've got. We've
got We've got Faceless the Traveler, and then and then Ali needs to pull
one Alia I okay, there's the Lady of Tears. So that's the one
that Alia had in play. And I have two faceless, which I'm not
sure why I have two faceless. Oh, I just pulled another one because
you said everyone needs to pull perfect. Great, so I'm gonna I'm gonna
put the gin back because the last thing we fucking need there's another. There's
so many. Get the black in my hand, just just to be double
clearer. Ali only has two cards from last time, right with the right
I'm gonna do. I'm gonna I'm gonna actually have you draw a new one
because for the reason, one of these cards is being weird. So wait,
hang on there, since there are two on the table, I don't
see two Lady of Tears on the table. No, I don't either.
Oh you know what, I bet you it's on a different playing Matt.
Yeah, I think that's what it was. I bet you it is on
a different I think it was on the ships. Yep, yep, yep,
you're totally I bet you're totally right. Yes you are. There was
a deck canden play. There were cards in play. I just lost them.
Okay, so I'm gonna take all of these. Uh, we're gonna
fix this. It's okay. We've drawn fresh. I think that's fine.
We're about to do a fresh jump and this is an ideal moment for that.
So whatever. Also, just look at the pretty art. Just look
at the pretty art. Yeah, pretty art. Okay. So all I'm
saying is the faceless is the misfortune card, so you should have misfortune and
tal should win ha ha, unless what I want to do is very misfortunate.
It is. It is. It's unfortunate all around, because oh me
am I I am gonna play the faceless card in this instance. Uh,
it's gonna go to tow Towel manages to like redo the scheduling back to match
everybody else's. But there's a different misfortune. It was a tie and not
Malite. Can't be the only one with the misfortune in this moment. Of
course, we'll find out what that misfortune is soon, the rest of that
misfortune, okay, and uh yeah in my podd tell your age is getting
close and you know it. You have to get in there before this pod
makes the jump or bad news bears when we see towel like, we'll get
across the ship as the clock starts, so I think three two wall and
the portal opens up. You see the lights that kind of float empty in
space, that look almost like stars to kind of take form, and they
rip open a massive black hole as we see it in Gulf and swallow the
defiant hole and it makes its first series of jumps I need, of course.
Yeah, I imagine Tamir would have plotted. So Tamir, you can
roll a science role. If it is a success, she gets a bonus
for the piloting chick. And I'm only going to do like one one kind
of jump for this run. It's gonna take these limited limited success perfect so
one one is enough, so you're gonna get a bonus for the ship being
blessed. You'll get a bonus from two mirrors, and then you're gonna get
I feel like you always get a third bonus it's something that's on the ship.
Oh, the navigation right, Oh right, it's the it's the I
pull up. The ships should be tamere, a blessing and a prayer.
I feel like there's something else reduced signature by one maneuverability that doesn't okay,
yeah, I guess right, so blessed ship. It's the chapel if you
pray, if you prep which tow always does, so that would be three.
There's our three. So plus three to the role towel of your pilot
to get us there. Two is great. Things are normal. First jump
is made. You go from I have a mount. You go from Kuwa
to calf, from calf to marphink Marphique uh a meido, I'll bar and
somewhere around Melick. You're like in the process, like every time you wake
up. It's exhausting. Now you make contact, you fuel up, you
wait for it the hour, all by yourself and the cockpit, this process
over and over and over. Everybody's sleeping, and maybe you check them each
and every time you check over and over and over and every single time,
just to make every single time, just to make sure every time Alik is
sleeping, and every time to mirror is is sleeping, and Alia and the
three Legionnaires, and everything seems normal. This time you go to make all
of your checks and it's, uh, who's Who's whose? Do I want
it to be? You know, No, I'm an evil bitch. It's
going to be one of the Legionnaires. I lied. You come in this
time and one of their doors is open. It's kind of like missing out
the cold mist and you don't see them at all, but you hear the
clatter of something in the mess hall. I will, I will, I
will go and check. But on my way, I'm gonna grab something like
a wrench or something that I see around, just to make sure that I'm
armed in case whoever it is, who is it is it? It would
be We're gonna say it's for Ruke. Okay, it's just just in case
for Ruke is not so nice when it's just how okay cautious. Yeah.
You kind of peek around the edge of the like the edge into the messol
and you can see them. They're they're disoriented, which tells you they definitely
just got up and uh, they're they're they kind of reach in and they
get some fresh water and they can hear them like slurping it down as if
they're they're kind of dehydrated or very thirsty. I say, oh, hey,
uh, that looks like your cryoud chamber went off when it wasn't supposed
to. Way tew hey tell make a make a an agility check. It
might just be fut dexterity for you. Well, there's deck sterity, which
is the skill which I have, and then there's the attribute of agility.
I'm sorry I got those backwards. Yeah, so if you got decks roll
of dix Okay, cool, Okay, that's super duper good for you.
I'm going to do this this way because ah because of this. Okay,
they fail. You can tell they're like disoriented, and they were like and
they take their left hand and just like you kind of startle them and they
sling a kitchen knife like a weapon across and it dinks into the wall about
three feet from your head, very very clearly, like off target, and
you can see them their eyes are kind of dilated and you can go,
don't do that. That's how you get dead. And he's like, excuse
me, you are on my ship. I will talk to you with you
throwing knives at me. He goes, it was an accident. He startled
me, because are we there yet? No, what, you woke up
early? I was just coming in to say that you woke up early.
Why I don't know. In fact, I'm gonna go work on that right
now. He goes, where are we kind of stumbles over to one of
the small portholes and like kind of like peers out to see, uh,
if there's anything to be seen, which is pretty much not true. You
can see kind of the portal station nearby. Because you're prepping again for just
another jump. Where were we y'all stopped in? Uh? Melick, which
is just before the debaryon before I'm sorry Rigal and Debarian, which are the
last two jumps you made before you horr, So you didn't You don't actually
have very much longer. Okay, there, it might have been a mouthfunction.
Oh grab the kitchen knife out of the wall and and go back over
to to put it back. I'm like, we're we're in Melick, and
uh yeah, don't throw knives on my ship. That's rule. He goes,
I'm sorry, I'm sorry. He goes, and he seems well,
he seems genuine like he goes, I'm I'm sorry, I really mean it.
You just startled me. It's a reflex all right, Well my reflexes
are better than some of my crew members, so that could have been fatal
for other people. Yeah, yeah that. He looks over though where the
whole is, and he goes, I mean, if it means anything,
I was a pretty bad shot, so it was. It actually makes it
a little Anyways, he kind of like lead at this point, it's just
the two of you, and he kind of leans over the table and he
goes, I will miss next time. I mean, not on you.
No, I don't, but just you know, like I promise I'll keep
you safe. Great, all right, Well in that case, I pull
out my dad and Pat and I start trying to figure out what the heck
happened to the He goes, what do you think happened? I was like,
right over your shoulder. Well, there was a time or issue when
when we when we started the first jump. I thought it was taken care
of, and apparently it's an intremendous issue, so I'm going to try to
fix it out issue. Well, I don't know if I want to go
back in a crowd too, but there are issues. Obviously there was an
issue because you're up and you weren't supposed to be. But I mean,
you don't have to go in the Cryo two. I wouldn't recommend it.
I mean, I'll go with the cry too. It's fine. It kind
of like looks you up and down. He goes, this is a nice
ship you got. Yeah, I intend to keep it that way. Yeah,
yeah, yeah. He kind of looks it up and down. He
goes, you've been out this far before, Yeah, unfortunately, and uh
you uh, you come to town often. He kind of like raises is
a couple of eyebrows. Oh you know, Uh, I'm sure we got
a little bit of time. You want to get you want to drinks?
I prefer not to leave my ship just in case. Don't worry, don't
worry, don't worry. I got I got some in my bag. And
he runs over to his like double bag and pulls out a bottle of just
brown alcohol, no label, clearly probably brewed in a bathtub on Coriola's for
I don't mean to uh, I don't mean to be rude. Yeah yeah,
yeah, yeah, but I'd really like to be sober while I fixed
the thing that's going to keep you alive for the next couple of weeks.
I made it this far, didn't I? And he kind of yes,
because I was sober the last time I worked on it, all right,
And he just starts kind of chugging from the bottle a little bit you here,
like pop off his lips, and he goes, all right, captain,
and he gotta slaggers back in. He goes, I guess I'll get
back inside. He goes, but you know, he goes, you know
what, I'm gonna hang on to this and he puts the lip back on
it. I'm afraid you're gonna drink it all and when I come out the
other side, it'll be nice and chilled for us. Great, he kind
of he like, he like winks, like what a clever thing for him
to think of. Yeah, he's got that, like man. He's got
that like man. butN the towel is so over this guy and is just
trying to fix his cryo chamber so she can put him back to sleep.
He goes, hey, hey, hey, you know, I got this
scar, and you can see he's got this big scar down his face.
He goes, I got I got some other scars. Oh, Nope,
that's okay, that's that's fine. Oh every scar has got a story town.
You can roll a technology check to see how quickly you can get this
guy under Man tells like maybeties yeah it sounds like oh yeah yeah, And
you do it as fast as your fingers can move. And the thing is
like and starts to like close over top of him as he's like he's like,
yeah, yeah this roy here, I got this one. It kind
of like goes because you know, it like seals off. He goes under
and he's still holding this bottle uh of alcohol in his hand, which is
now going to be very cold when it comes out the other side. And
tell there's silence on the ship for just a little bit another before you can
make another jump. I could have been really mad and played a darkness card,
but I felt like I played a card already played one card, so
I got one more darkness to go. You know what, I think that
was perfect. That was that instead of instead of Malik getting out, you
got uh you got the jar head. So all right, uh still another
three Nope? Uh you you basically start the process over again. You only
have three more jumps, and with your original pilot role. We'll say that's
enough just for the sake of time and story. Because you're tall, Tuma,
and you make all your jumps, yes, and you do you hear
your uh you hear your pod? Uh like open uh? That like sickness
at this point is you're used to it. You have very various ways I'm
sure of, like overcoming the sleep sickness because you do it so frequently.
And uh you head back, excuse me, uh down into the crying room
to let everybody out. You have officially made it to you. Haru said.
You're in the cockpit. You'd be first to see it. You can
run a quick diagnostic and Sally, I'll tell you, Captain, things do
not look good between us and the Moon. There is not only an asteroid
field and multiple planets, but a massive barricade set up by what seems to
be Order of the Prize of ships. Right now, they're claiming at least
ten war freighters. And you would know, I would I say, you
might know that a war freighter is also going to come with a legion of
smaller ships that surrounded. Agreed, Captain, the cruise pods are opening.
I will go aheadn't make sure, everybody's pods open, and nobody starts killing
each other immediately. Karl's gonna be standing there pause, dot arms crossed,
waiting for everybody to wake up, one at a time. The POD's open,
everybody kind of comes stumbling out. Each one of you kind of like
opens like down the line, ending with Malik and Lamara, who of course
were farthest from because she chose the farthest ones away from the two legionnaires.
But when Lamar's tube opens up, her eyes open and she's singing, humming,
you might say she seems lost in like trance is a bit strong of
a word, but she seems lost in the song. She just kind of
lays there, singing, kind of humming this haunting tune. Alia, guess
what's she's singing? Tell you, tell me. It seems to be a
song that you're kind of familiar with, or at least you think you are.
The Song of the Emissaries is piecemeeling its way out of her mouth in
slight hums. I wouldn't say it's like songs. She's not like blurting out.
It's just like a slight like kind of mumbling and pretendingly. It's like
when you know the song but you don't remember the lyrics too, okay,
And she simply says, it's so beautiful. It followed us the whole way
here. Oh no, she does. Uh. The legionnaires look spooked,
the both of them. He has his bottle of alcohol and he's like,
looks that please, they go ahead and freshen Upile, I'll take it of
this. Uh, let me talk to you. Seem a little disoriented.
It's been a long journey. Oh yeah, he like looks down. The
booze is cold. You want that drink? Like shouts across the Stala immediately
like seeing us how everybody's alive and not that Like she immediately like tries to
duck out and just get away. He kind of selts to find you straight
to the back to the Do you hear you do have some stealth technology?
Okay, Sally goes, Captain, should I put the ship in stealth mode?
Yes, Sally and her stealth mode. We've guys, we've got a
situation that when do we not uh let's Tao says, is over the calms
is He kind of leans over to uh Tamir, who imagines nearby because this
is just too good, and he leaves over and kind of nudges him,
you don't know you from a hill of bes and he goes, she likes
me like drinks direct from this very cold bottle. He walks off. You're
just making it easier for it. I know, I know, I know
Bruke is gonna be so mad when Tamir goes to tals room tonight. All
of this, My god, Uh what there's gonna be a few minutes where
I'm sure y'all need to gather yourselves. Uh our question, are you taking
Lamar with you or are you going to leave her on the ship. I
think Alia would definitely suggest not taking her. She's definitely going to take her
to her room and kind of just sit her down, give her some just
like some tea, and just let her relax. And she goes, I
don't know if I everything great, she says, Cryo sleep man. I
really feel good, she said, but that PSNG is stuck in my head.
Maybe I should check the scuba gear to make sure you have enough oxygen.
The last thing you lead us not enough oxygen? Are you are you
qualified to check that? I feel like I feel like it's just an oxygen
take right. I used to feed oxygen to the old people before i'd amputee
their legs A little bit different. I feel that pure oxygen is not what
we're having yet, and I still still I think, I think, I
think perhaps you should stick to the medical thing. I feel like that would
be But nobody within your wheelhouse? What sorry? What? But she kind
of looks around. It's it's a beautiful, really nice, probably the nicest
room on the ship. It's brand new, it's well stocked, and it's
empty. There's it's it's like sterile. And she's like, what, wait,
which room is this my room? No? This is her room.
This is the bed bay, the bed bay. And she's like, but
I don't want to stay here. Would you like to stay in my room
for a bit? No? I want to go? Okay, Well,
so I can go. I'm not the one to make the decision. You
would you like to talk to maybe a captain. I feel like she might
have a better understanding of the situation, and she might be broken. I
told you that, nobody, But that's not true, is it. She
kind of goes over and she like muddles with some things in a drawer,
and she like wipes a counter down kind of nonch Wantly, she snaps a
glove just to feel it snap. You are as whole as you want to
be. Okay, they treat me like I'm a grenade with the pen out.
I know what that means, because I pulled a pen one time.
You did what? No, Okay, I think that aside. Listen,
you have been through a lot, and no one is saying you're broken or
that you are something to be handled with care. We're just concerned because what
you have gone through is not normal. It's not something that anybody else has
ever been through. We just want to make sure you're safe and that you
have the time to recover. Think of it as one of your medical patients
when they just come out of a coma. Would you not give them time
to just relax, meet with their family, perhaps, spend some time in
the hospital while you run some diagnostics to make sure everything is fine, and
then give that a little bit of rest. Hey, can I have a
question? Yeah? What did you do with it? It is by the
way, it is like it's not on the ship. What did I do
with it? Is it? What did I do with it? What did
you do with it? I'm blanking again. I don't know what did Ali
you do with the did you put it in the ball? Oh? The
ball? Oh, that's what she's referring to. She right, right right,
doesn't want to tell her. Oh gosh, uh do you really want
to know? Safely stored away, fight away from me? Nothing I care,
I don't care. It is let's to say, place where no one
will have access to and no one should have access to. She looks around
kind of suspiciously. Okay, I'll stay here, Okay. Can I get
you something and make a very damn good tea? Okay, okay, I'll
be right back. Okay, and then Ali goes out. Alia goes out.
You meet everybody. Everybody's kind of trying to come to in the middle
of the mess hall. There's definitely some conversation I imagine being had. Yes,
we are in Uhurus, so this is a great question. So I
imagine there is some conversation about, like, what's the plan of attack here?
So you've arrived and the Uharu system, you horrow itself, is the
star that the portals revolve around. There are many many planets in the UHRR
system, actually quite a few. One of the larger systems. In fact,
in the third horizon, lots of moons, lots of planets. Here
is the entire Uharu system from the Uharan Star all the way down. In
fact, Juhara has two stars in it. It has a yellow star and
it has this this kind of like it looks purple here, but it's burning
out. Basically, this star is on the verge of collapse, because that's
how science works. All. It has a large asteroid belt that surrounds it.
Things to note. This little planet right here, that one I think
that's right, is the one that Ali is from. Oh no, I'm
sorry. This is the one Alia's from closer to the Juharan Star. It's
spelled r i h ruh Ry is the actual like physical planet that you're from,
from the Juharan star system. This is a brand new map. I
didn't have this before. You all have come in through the Dabarian portal on
this side of the star. Guess what, y'all? You headed to the
far side of this star over here to this tiny little moon. Yep.
Basically this is the Zooel Star and you're headed to a moon just on the
other side or that which mood is it? I can tell you which moon
it is. It's I can't read upside down. I believe that you're headed
to the far side and you're headed to no, I'm sorry, the short
side. So you're headed to Azarak, which is a series of mood That's
the map that you have on roll twenty right now. Oh, I do
have that on ROLD twenty and you have ye look at me, go and
what's up? I got this. I did my homework. It's right there
on the screen and the the the Sorry, just so I can clarify,
hear the blockade is where the blockade is going to be going into. Basically,
they're this whole area is going to have a blockade around it, this
entire area because they don't want people going in the town portal. They haven't
sent resources as far out as you're all headed, but this entire section,
probably all the way out, I would think to Alba, is going to
be just covered in ships of this entire area because they're gonna have people here
checking you in, and then they're gonna have another blockade where you can't even
enter or exit the town portal. So do they not wait? I think
I might have gotten confused somewhere the ship popped out here. The other half
of the Gazalie popped out over here. It popped out via Talent. Okay,
these orbit mike there, Yep, so great, great, So more
than likely the Talent was the Talent portal was where the Debarian one is on
this image, and it literally shot the other half of that ship out clean
across this system and it landed on this moon. Okay. Now, I
wasn't at the meeting yesterday, uh you know, or several months ago?
Correct? Correct? Is this secret knowledge? It is well known, but
right now they you were told by the judge that the Order has not looked
into it because they don't have the resources. Basically. Okay, So you
have to understand, before they took over this system, they lost a ton
of ships trying to fight for the Hammurabi system or the Hamura system. Sure
we're all a part of plus their whole civil war. They lost that battle
on the opposite side of the Talent system in Hamur which is now held by
the Consortium. So all their ships right now are tied up either in the
civil war or elsewhere. So there holding this porch, so they don't actually
have they're trying to look a lot bigger than they are right now. They're
actually really short on resources, and they have not had their resources to go
out and find this. Now that information has come in from a secret Consortium
vessel that is hiding out in the system feeding information. That's how they got
this. There's an intel ship here. You don't know who that is.
It's really not important to your mission, but an intel ship gave them information
that they have not actually looked into it, and the vessel was blown all
the way over to this set of moons. Gotcha? Okay, I think
I'm now on the sea. Does that makes sense? So basically, what
you're trying to do is sneak in past the blockade that's all up in in
this area so that you can get clean across the system. Once you're over
here, you're probably not going to be bothered. Yeah, I missed the
shot out part. Yes, it literally last I was like, why are
we going to a moon? And why don't they just have a bunch of
ships swarming over a dead ship floating in this in space floating in this guy?
So more than likely more you might be able to guess that that incident
might have actually drawn a lot of attention here. It might be why the
order was like, screw it, We'll sneak around to the back door,
and if we hold the back door, they can't get in that way,
right, And if they're holding the front door, we're gonna hold the back
door. Which is kind of what's happening here, is that they're there,
and this whole system is well known for a lot of trade and commerce and
mining and those kind of things, and so these planets like where Alia is
from, are kind of being held hostage in a way because they're not letting
goods in and out. Certain things aren't coming and going, and maybe a
lot of the people on these planets may not even know what's going on,
at least in the grander scale. So yeah, you know, okay,
So yeah, that's the that's the mission. Yeah, I man, where
it was? Okay? So where is everyone? Tell? Where is everyone?
Where are where is the crew? After waking everybody up, tal promptly
went over to back to the cockpit to start trying to essentially hide in the
shadow of other ships. The when when discussing what we can do to try
to get past this blockade, uh, the best option in Towel's head,
was definitely just to to uh millennium falcon it just try to like ride the
way behind something else. Is that the goal? That's what we're doing.
Oh key jokey, So I am. I'm going to let everybody take an
action in this. We will in tonight on whether or not you successfully sneak
through the blockade. M how do you want to help with that? I
imagine Timer's probably gonna want to make a science roll or some kind of technology
roll to keep the vessel under like at low power right to like kind of
try to go under the radar. Like once you get there, Tal's gonna
use her daft piloting skills to actually be able to ride the wake of a
much larger vessel with I don't know, killing you all. Like you know,
there's nothing like a rear ended ship in middle of space. That's one
solid way to die. What about Malik and Alia? Are there plenty of
other ships for us to grift onto? Oh? Oh yeah, okay.
You can just see them floating out. Ten freighters more than likely ten like
massive military freighters. Along with each of them have a small armada that goes
along with you, and they're going the way they're going the way we're going.
They are not going that way. They are basically orbiting their blockade is
orbiting these two portals. That's that's what's most important to them is keeping people
out of the town portal. There. It's a it's a it's a territory
claim. Right. Oh y, you got this side of the town portal.
Yeah, well we got this side of the town portal. Sure.
What a great dumbass distraction. So you know, my question is is to
ride the wake of a of a ship, the ship would have to be
going in the direction we're going. Yeah, you would need to basically,
I mean, there's a lot of ways you could do it. You could
pick one and like maybe it's going to the outskirts or maybe sure shifting so
there are there are some ships going that way. Okay cool. Yeah,
So then if you four Malik's role, once we've identified said ship, what
I would like to do is uh man, preferably not a warship. Guys,
that'd be great, would be too, to ghost their their signature.
Okay, great, So basically you're kind of combining the two best options.
So once you're on the other side and you guys kind of take off you'll
be able to gohost the ship, so I'll get Yeah, basically, if
if you if you were to do a sonar ping, you would see one
ship, and if you were to like scan for for signatures, you'd see
one ship. Yep. That's uh. That was like the suggestion that gave
Okay, perfect, So that's the signal clustering. It's kind of a backward
signal cluster. Okay. Yeah, so I want to give you so we
know we're gonna get pilotrol from how I'm gonna let you choose silence, science
or tech. Probably tech is best for this one to me, or if
that's what you're aiming to do to run us under some stealth, you're gonna
get a plus one bonus because you have stealth technology on the vessel. All
okay, so that's gonna help Mike. Yes, for every group before Okay,
do you want to do like decoy probes? Do we even have decoy
probes on that? We don't? I don't have probes. So for every
decoy pray you could have, but you don't have those. Okay, So
they're going basically what's gonna happen is I'm gonna roll against your dotage. General.
Sure, I'm actually gonna roll against all of you to try to pick
you up. All right, Alia, what a what you There is nothing
like a good prayer that puts a blessing on this ship. There you go.
There is nothing wrong that dies to Tell's roll. Actually, I would
say in this case, if you wanted to pray, I would give a
plus one to everyone on their k because it's like a ship wide like process
to get passes. Because I thought for the reason I didn't initially go with
that is because I thought the ship's already blessed, right or I could do.
But if that works, then yeah, I'd definitely be down for that.
I would say, I'm just trying to think this right. Yeah,
everybody can take a plus one for Alia. Like praying the branch agent.
She comes over and joins you in silence. She doesn't interrupt, she doesn't
touch you, but she does kneel next to you and and pray with you
in silent prayer or blessing if you would for the ship. I think that
says something about her. Yeah, oh no, we don't have Polaris anymore
as a gunner for this ship. You know what that means we're gonna have
to find a new gunner. Really, option is Alia, I mean I
mean is Alia or you want to be our gunner Alia, unless it could
be Lamara. No, we have we have have we have the colonial agent
right now? Yeah, can give now I'm talking long term. Think about
it. Think about it. Okay, everybody, let's get your role.
I don't actually need anything from Alia directs. What you're doing is just buffing
everybody else to make sure you add the plus one for the blessing that Alia
and the branch Agent are providing you two successes from Lenk. So is that
a total plus two or just a plus one for both of them? It's
just a plus one. It's just a plus one, Okay, okay,
okay zero. I'm going to give the darkness point. That was a lot
of ones. Yeah, okay, so I added, oh got this,
you got this? Still take the plus one that was a lot of die
Oh okay, okay, uh it's not the worst thing ever. The rest
of your team rolled really really well. What do I want to play?
Uh? I just sitting waiting for how that's gonna fuck us up. I'm
all literally about to die because I failed this role. That's true. That's
not true. That's super duper not true. Actually it I think it gives
me a table to but I don't think I'm gonna do that. Oh what
do I want to do for this? Okay? So tell, okay,
everything is going smooth. You all kind of creep close. You're the kind
of signal of the vessel is low, y'all are Hella lucky is what you
are? You are Hella lucky is what you are. The icons are on
your side. Who knows. Maybe it's the emissaries. Maybe it was the
song that Lamara song when all of you woke up to start this mission.
Talas you begin to get really close to ride the wake of this vessel,
you hear something another beep on the radar. A second one, another small
vessel pulls up next to you. Uh, definitely a pirate vessel, and
you hear what's his name? Okay, do the thing? Uh breaker,
This is yummy, yummy to the Defiant. There's not quite enough room here
at the back end of this ship for the both of us over Tell a
fucking course, it was uh yummy to the Defiant because if your vessels empty,
I'm gonna rate it would you like gott to open comms. I have
no idea what to say this fucker. I won't say anything, Malik.
What can you do to take them off line? So, Malik, I'm
gonna let to you get to make a choice. So let me come off
calms right. Uh, you can have a choice. You can use your
success role. You can use your success role to cover your because at the
moment is coming up where you're gonna have to hang a hard right and head
out that direction. One of the two of your vessels are either going to
be caught in this moment, or you can use your role to do what
you wanted, which is stealth. When you leave, what would you like
to do? Do you want to use your role that you made now or
when you pull away? I don't. If you're currently in good step page
and you're currently in stealth, the ship has pulled up next to you,
both of you riding the way for a much larger vessel. Sure you can't
both make it out of here. You're not both gonna be able to pull
away with you being noticed. You have rolled a successful role, how do
you want to use it? You're not gonna get to make another one in
this moment. Oh, so they're like scanning constantly. Okay, I was
okay, if we're already stealth, then we're just stealthed Uh you're stale stealth
to get the big ship. But this guy's basically the same size as you.
He's here probably to do the same thing you are, also just have
actual visual Yeah yeah, yeah that's true. Uh, I you know what
our sh are for a science vessel. We were built for speed. I'm
going to stealth now, Okay, that guy can get caught, not not
when you pull away, Yeah, this guy can get caught. So Malik's
like, no, I'm not doing this. And now it's that moment.
It's that moment where you have to pull out. Malik has chosen to stealth
you here and now, and of when you kind of pull out of the
lane and off the interstate and you hear him kind of come over calm again,
and he simply says, he says, we ain't both gonna make it
through this. Probably pull out. Then he says, I have never lost
a game of chicken. And he says three two, And you know this
is the moment, like he's counting down to the like hard right hand turn
you both need to make I'm going to roll for the legion and then I
promised we're gonna get done. Okay, they fail, hil Now you're going
to get another piloting chick because you basically are going to have to outrun this
guy. If you have you have a plus two to maneuverability, which I'm
going to give you for this. It seems like a maneuver and Ali's blessing.
No, forget that. Yeah, we do have a plus two do
uh maneuverability? Yeah I said that. Okay, sorry, yeah, sorry,
I knew that. I'm like reading the character sheep, You're like,
how do I how do I help get dress? So the one, the
one from Alia, the two from the maneuverability plus you're piloting Montel. Come
on, Tewn, You're way better than this guy this point, Doctor gi
me cut me. Okay, fine, he's also got a role. He's
basically uh one success. Oh he also got one success. Oh god damn
it. Okay, that is there something that Timir could do with the ship
to give her the adage sheer would like to do? Uh take a peek
at your ship. Y'all may have something that actually the ship that can be
used. I think I've ever looked a ship, so there's so there's nothing
on the sheet that can be used for that. However, when you do
ships combat, this is completely made up for the scenario. When you do
ship's combat, the role of the engineer is to direct power to certain aspects
of the ship to allow them to do things in theory and in sci fi
bullshit on TV. If you direct all power half of the ship to the
poosters, power to the thrusters, basically shut shut down our shields, shut
down all weapons, and just fucking blast out with the with the boosters.
Okay, and I feel like it's a maneuver, not quite the same maneuver,
but Tamir Intel have experienced getting through asteroid fields and need to work together
on moving in and out of a very dangerous area. Okay, i'd to
you you can roll a technology. Uh with the success you're basically gonna boost
arras to better than this other one. This, like all power to thruster
is kind of a thing, right, fuck quitic calisades, tor I gotcha
with three exactly. You can hear it. You can hear the two vessels
like crunching up next to one another. It's like it's like riding down the
highway at full speed. Who's gonna make it, Who's gonna get there first?
To Mirror hits the NOSS button and we tokyo drift our way all the
way. I just want, I want. I know it's not t mirror
in personality, but I want the fucking the asshole drinking guy to be on
the bridge and then fucking we're doing this whole maneuver. Great hits the NOS
and he looks over like she likes me actually, But unbeknownst to Mere because
he's down there in the reactor like rewind for games, what he doesn't know
is for Rooke upstairs goes to take a drink of this alcohol, and when
the ship kicks into high gear and launches the Defiant forward, which is gonna
cut your three day trip down into a two day trip, which is really
nice because you are gonna have to like cut across this whole expanse of space.
But it did use up some fuel reserve, which means you might get
you're gonna have to fuel before you can lead this again, which is gonna
be very interesting coming back. But that's a problem for coming back. How
you can feel the vessel. The whole thing is like shaking. It's not
technically warp speed, but it's the closest you've got to it because you've never
actually been awake for jumping to a portal, and the whole ship is kind
of rattling and shaking, and you see for Ruke dump the entire bottle.
He like loses in it, smatches and cracks, is no more alcohol.
He's drenched in it, like hangs on for dear life, and everybody kind
of does as the ship launches forward ever closer towards the dark side of this
moon. Here in Uharu and next house the lighted leaf trailing behind. It's
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