Arise millions and welcome to this Unmade Gaming production. Join the crew of the
Defiant as they journey through the Third Horizon at the Mercy of the Icons,
trying to understand just what's happening to the mystics in this Coriolist campaign Void.
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With the Tower mining platform infested with the undying spirits of the Bucor and the
Ace Pilot Towel and crackshot Seul currently dying of an unknown toxin. It fell
onto me Or to do its best to heal them, while Malie took care
of the mysterious child now on board the Defiant using all the technology at his
disposal to me quickly engage the Auto doc and began running scan after scan to
figure out just what was wrong with his companions. Unable to find a way
to slow the poison to me, Or turned his thoughts to the Icons,
and lucky for him and his crew, his prayers were answered with Talent seul
heel. They were able to hastily repair their ship and take off from the
icon forsaken platform and head for the Talent space station and hopes to plot a
course back to Coriolis Enter Dot. It helps if I meet myself miss all
of the important aspects of the recap mine, No, I didn't. I
left all of the bad parts out. You you missed a part where we
had a brotherly feud. Nope, I didn't over some drugs. Nope,
I didn't miss that part. And uh we had uh you know, there
was Goop. I remember Goop? Anybody else? And remember I hit all
of the good parts. I remember a child, but at the end I
remember they're not being a child. Mmm. Man, I must have just
watched another show then, because it sounds a little better than Bike's version.
We had a hot Springs episode where everyone get heeled and we left the place
that happened back to Coriolis. Don didn't watch it. She was sick.
Just tell her what she needs here. Well, since none of those bad
things happened, I guess it's time for bad things to happen because we need
to really balance out the wonderful little episode you had last full fu up here.
So I I remember correctly the words fuck ring out from Suel's mouth,
the sight of his drone capturing Twel dropping to the floor of the vessel,
and the once occupied cryostasis chamber is now empty and devoid of a small little
boy that topped a ride from the mining station. What do you do you
are currently, I believe inside of this space. We took one step forward,
the doors closed, and we were about to move forward the alarm went
off. I looked at it. I say my famous line, fuck,
and then I, uh look over to Malik in Tamir mhm h Yeah,
um, okay, I rewind the I rewind the video. I rewind and
I showed it to both of them. Oh, I mean, maybe it's
like the poison or whatever. We just go back to the ship. It's
pretty simple. Yeah, Timmy is already walking back towards the ship. I'm
configuring the recondroid to look around the space the cryo area to see where the
boy went, and I'm kind of like lagging behind them walking back. I'm
like, fun, yeah, yeah, yeah, you guys walking here.
The doors open as you're looking, and the drone spins inside of this already
circular chamber. There is no sign of the boy. Check all corridors,
rooms and pilot chamber. Flying roomba takes off and it begins down the hallway.
UM, it's gonna take it some time to do a full scan.
I mean, it's just a rumba. Excuse me, it isn't just a
roomba. Okay, this is my room today. So, uh, you
see the vessel. You walk back out. The door to the vessel is
closed. Obviously you would have closed it up behind you. I want to
believe tal did that, in fact, locked up behind you. Um.
As you get close, you can type in or hit the button on the
exterior ship to drop the gangway. Um, and it doesn't open. You
get a sound tom or what's up? Open the ship. I'm trying to
open the ship. I don't know what's going on. UM, you know
the code yes, I know the code and that like I'm putting it in
again. Is there an is there an issue to it? Doesn't know the
code to gether, but I know the code. The quote is just not
working. You go for a third time to go type the code in,
and as you go to put your finger on the pad, you relast there's
something interesting. Um, a black booze is seeping from underneath the uh buttons
of this of this of this pad? Uh can I like touch it with
my fingers? You're welcome to Yeah. It looks visceral. It's kind of
thick and oily. Uh, the consistency of a paste. And it's just
like it's like something from underneath is like pushing it out. Yeah. Who
I'll just kind of like look at it, you know, smell it.
See what if it's familiar? Is it so? It's not not like oil,
It's not like a grease smells of sulfur rot. I'm not sure that
this is Um. I don't have any of my tools on me, Sol,
do you have anything that I used to try this panel open? I'm
like, I handle my murcury knife. Great, is it just like a
knife? Like what is a mercury knife. It's a fancy knife, right,
Yeah, it's a fancy knife. It's it's liquid become solid. You
press pressed the button you pressed it like liquid comes out. Just don't don't
point that at yourself, okay, okay, And I'll just like go ahead
and like jam it in and try to pry the panel open um to the
like to kind of get into the wiring for the door. Is that the
goal on the mat? Yeah, the goal is to find whatever mechanical release.
Okay, you you don't stick the blade in and it begins to kind
of melt away the exterior kind of panel area, And as you do,
something interesting from the grooves and crevices of where the metal touches it is welded
and bolted together, begins to ooze more of this black substance. It seems
to be coming out of every crack and nook and cranny of the ship.
It's beginning to ooze from bolts and joints um And the more you look,
the more you begin to see it. So do the two of you?
Now? Is your ship bleeding? And ships bleed? I wonder if this
is the stuff that was in you and and tall that wasn't me what that
I mean similar, I don't I don't know. I just left it on
the ground and it wasn't there when why would you even goop on the ground?
Well, I didn't intend you. I'm sorry. What we need to
get inside right now? So shoot the door open or something? You want
me to shoot the I mean yeah, I can fix it late. I
can fix it late term. Okay, alright, alright, alright. I
pull out my gun and I'm gonna aim at the door. The door.
I'm like, are you Surelik holds his hand up. That's a kinetic round.
The ships take lasers. That's gonna bounce off and hit us. I
don't get We need to get inside. I understand, but that's not gonna
work. That's you pull the dagger from the hole and it my dagger.
Oh, I just to hand the dagger back now plops for the first time
in a gooey glow right at your feet. I'm gonna tap my personal combs
uh and try to talk to Tal like through through the comms. The ship
coms. H you say, Tale, no response, Tal, Please?
Can you wake up? Are you okay? Can you move? There's a
pregnant pause before you hear a voice one that you do not know. Tal
is sleeping. Who are you? What are you doing on our ship?
What have you done with it? What have you done with Tal? On
your ship? Is subjective if the comms is out loud, but yes,
if it's on, it's going. He's talking to somebody. It's his inner.
Who who are you talking to? I don't know if there's somebody on
the ship. So one on the ship. Your scanners from robopal indicate nobody
but Tal. I point to my low mindit and be like, there's no
no one else. I do whatever military sign is for, like no one
else. And we all look at you and have no idea what that means.
We just there's no one else. Remember best buy? I don't in
turn, damn it? Um? What are they saying? Is Tal hurt?
I don't do Let me just talk to them, okay, okay,
talk talk talk talk dog. Open the ship. Cannot do that. You
can the there's a button. If you don't know how I can guide you
through. You can open this door. I like hit it. It's a
fucking kid. I like it. I don't think you know that open the
door. I like I said that we should have killed looking I like the
ship too, but it is not yours. It belongs to tal Well.
You need to open this now. Towe is on board and I'm currently fixing
an internal problem for you. What sort of problem? Another PLoP of goop?
What is there a problem? I believe there's a very big problem.
What is the big problem? You said there was a problem. What's the
problem? What is a problem with the ship? New friend? Did we
just get another four bar? Fuck the messaging me? How to How do
I fuck with you? Right now? The voice se suit that's that's it?
Yeah, his is through your columns and says I'm going to fix it
and don't stay. I didn't know. Um. If there is a problem
with the ship, I will fix it. That is my job. The
last time you tried to fix the problem, you freed something? What did
be free? Who's fixing the ship? Sad? Sorry? Miss wait,
we freed something? What are you talking about? What are you talking about?
Little ship of travelers jumping through the stars along the way. Something catches
a ride, Something came in through the portal when we jumped, and it
does support us ship? Can you okay with coms? What does he want?
I put your put your no I don't have access to Malik, can
you plug into me? What about me? Like, guess there's a poor
time gross blue cap bug in. I imagine it looks like sitting on the
bus sharing headphone Jacks. I want to okay, I want to know where
you plug yourself into the mirror for my own play aspects, I need to
have a visual cueue. Just say okay. So twamrors comms three unit is
partially built in from the eyes, and like there's access panels where all the
tattoos are um, but there's also tattoos down his neck, in his back,
so he kind of pulls off some of his shoulder to expose and there
is a small little metal circle that is a whole and that is where an
input or output Jack. You know, but we're in exo suits, my
dude, Oh balls, yeah we are, aren't we? Yeah? Great?
Okay, so, oh my god, another donation? No, thank
you awesome die if you don't die, this is so good, Thank yous.
Riving into season two, that's three bars. Uh. The voice comes
over your calm as you argue of where to plug your portion three three men
on a space station. Wow, here, the voice we're just going to
the boys hole. You know we're just gonna go. Um uh, the
voice says, you broke my home. Now I need a dupe one.
If we broke your hope, as you say, it was unintended consequence and
we're terribly sorry. But this is not your home. It is already occupied.
It belongs to somebody else. Technically it's occupied by two me and it.
Well, I'm guarding purging your vessel, and I have a interesting thought.
Stay here, I'll be back. And you hear the engines rev up.
Believe I don't care how you getting this ship. You need to start.
Go get into the ship and shut it down. The vessel begins to
levitate and the feet pull in and it undone. I won't be mad for
you. Don't leave us. I don't want to be here with these Twodians.
I need a ride to Coriolis. My person's right button calms go silent
from The vessel pulls away and speeds off away from the space station, leaving
the three of you stranded. Thank you chat for allowing me to take their
ship from them. So um, that was a pretty one sided phone call.
What just happened? I wanted Phil soon when we jumped. Who is
the portal. There's always a risk of an anomaly. Uh, huh,
we have an anomaly, and they just took our ship and our pilot.
Oh, it's like it's the light from the back of the ship is getting
em sitting there watching it. So it was just like, um. Like
Malik looks left and right down the platform of the space station, looking for
any other ships, and then he looks back into me and he goes,
I can't fly. I like, I like, look, I'm trying to
access my drone. Oh yeah, you can see the drone as your drone
continues to kind of roam around the ship. Towel still lays on the ground.
No sign of any other bodies or figures. But the I'm sorry,
I mean they interrupted. You know that. I would say that you very
quickly begin to see from the like uh, crevices and cracks and um joining
places along the ship oozes this blackness as if the ship is uh rejecting it,
pushing it out. Um is my drone strong enough to push Tao into
a cryo chamber? No? Um? If she was maybe the size of
a cat. Damn it, Towel, why don't you look at but I
would say other than that's uh no, I'm gonna keep trying to use my
drone until just like see if there's anything else on the ship, or like
just go to the pilot. Maybe you can like nudge you go to the
Yeah, you go to them. I can't say you could locked. Okay.
As your drone goes around, UM, you see Tao, you notice
that the cryo chamber is not oozing the same substance as if it has been
isolated in some way, your drone would be able to hit the button to
lock the room. All right, that's fucking something. Do at lock the
fucking room. The door closes tight, um, and you begin circling the
ship once again. When you make it too the cockpit, you notice that,
um, the controls are like moving as if somebody was sitting there,
but there is nobody there. A diagnostics readout on the hot decks it looks
normal. UM and flight. Um. You manage to see the trajectory the
drone hovers down. You can see where it's headed. Okay, it is
headed towards the Talent Star. Okay, I'll take um screen like pictures or
whatever the trajectory and any data that I can get okay, and then I'm
gonna rush over to tam Or and be like, let's look at that point,
this is where it's going. If we find another ship here, we
can maybe maybe to go there. Can you like autopilot another ship or something?
I know where it wants to go. Oh, it said this wasn't
go. It wanted to go back to Coreolus, right. It did say
that it needed a ride to Coreolus and um it would be back for you.
Um. It said it needed to cleanse, cleanse the ship. M
and I'll relay that. Um okay, I don't know what that means,
all right, but I'm going to create the icons that it doesn't know how
to operate the portal on its own, because it still has to come back
here as far as we know. But I don't know what that is.
So that ship right now is just flying that something inside the Talent Star.
Oh the star like does it the sun fun? Yeah? In Talis inside
that ship cannot with that. We saw how close we already got to his
son. I don't know what it means by cleanse, but I really don't
like it. We need to find another ship. Fuck my life, dude,
there's got to be another ship. Yeah, yeah, where ships come?
Okay, we also saw some stations ships outside when we entered, so
it doesn't seem like we are completely lost. We need to first get the
data. Then we need to figure out oh my god, you're right,
the data. We need to get the data. We need to get what
we came here for. That we need to find the ship. What I
mean yes, I mean no, yes, that that's two different answers.
What do you mean, I don't, I know, don want to think
you you your room was recording right when we were jumping through the portal.
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah it was. Yeah, yeah, I left
the my coms on. I haven't processed through the data yet. You want
me to see if he recorded anything to see? Yes? Please? Okay,
might give us some maybe a little answer. All right, button button,
I say the words button as I'm pressing buttons. Button, button,
button, button, and then I like look for the right file and be
like, here, rewind sound that I'm not that one though, fuck those
zombies. Nope, not that one, not that one. All right,
here it is, And then I'd be like, okay, here and you're
gonna just you're gonna play through the okay, yeah, okay, no,
were you sorry that? Are you gonna play your sounds with it? Or
are you gonna play that at a separate time. I feel like I'm stupid
and I'm not, and I'm kind of panicking. I'm just gonna play the
one you did audio recording. You did video recording, right, okay,
So okay, I'll ask, all right, you play the audio when I
played the video, I'll only I'll be able to hear the autist whatever.
Who caress, you can understand it, you know what I mean? It
doesn't matter. I'm not gonna understand what any of this means listening to space
gargled snoring noise. All right, ready, there we go. Okay,
three, two, one play? You hit it at the same time.
Don't we go inside and feed it through a computer? He says, like,
as they're trying to like listen and watch, why don't we just go
inside and feed it through a computer. We're on a space station. Shut
up, just play, just play, and I'm gonna hit play. He's
right that he could process the data better. Don't fine, Fine, fine,
I could process it faster. Okay, let's let's stay close. We'll
go look for a station. Do can't you like find a terminal and maybe
find a layout of the station so we know where we're going. Man,
I know, I know that the ship just got stolen and we're kind of
abandoned on a space station. You're real bad under pressure. We're going to
the will literally throw you out of a door lock. We're going to the
portal Master. They have the best computers on the station, which is where
we were going. Anyway, Just there's nothing you can do. You can't
shoot the spaceship back to us. I guess he's right, I know,
because if you could shoot it back to us, that be insanity, Just
that would be I mean, I could try but take a deep breath,
crank the oxygen to bubble a little bit higher and get some of the pure
stuff going, and just like we can't get it back by freaking out.
All right, all right, you're right, you're right. Okay, So
what's my drones? Okay, let's uh, let's go to the port all
masters whatever his off. Let's go to the port of Master's office and see
if we can do whatever it is you just talked about it as long as
the drones, okay, is he think the drunkn flash, I don't never
mind, never mind, let's just go. We check the drone, the
live cam of the drone once more to find that the black ooze is beginning
to build up. It seeps out like pressurized like you know that foam,
that swelling foam as it's beginning to look like as it continues to reminds me
of hexis from fern Gully, not Jesus. Um, that's that that like
thinke nasty black um as it seeps from UH and it's it's just building up
everywhere, and you go the door opens once again, deja vu. You're
not sure as you walk forward ten feet and make it exactly where you started
UM, you realize pretty quickly that this is a similar layout based on like
the injury way map that's always there to greet you on a space station.
That injury way map is the layout is almost entirely similar to that of UM,
the last station you were on. They seem to be build these in
um off certain templates and blueprints. Okay, so I think it's like a
left and then like a left and then there's the door and then we can
get into the quartermaster thing. Right, Okay, great, I see what
you're gonna have. Yeah, see any alarming things maybe, like is there
anything that should be unsettling? Anything? Creepy lights on? A power is
not on, Okay, at least not in this sector. Emergency lights are
running around everything. But there is no blood, There are no bodies,
There is nothing out of place. There's no body either, right, like
no one's like walking is a complete ghost empty. Okay, So we need
to find power okay. Um, and he's going to look at you said
there was a like a like a mall map you are here kind of thing,
right, Yes, Um, where would there be the power station?
I assume that some kind of power junction somewhere. Yeah, there would be.
Um, you would have to go down to the reactor, which would
be in the lower deck. This would be an area like you didn't go
into the last one because why would have gone to the reactor? Um?
But the reactor is on the lower lower level. Okay, do we all
need to go or can you escort to mirror soul to the reactor? Um?
I mean, like, I'll stay here in this room and he points
to like where the bordomaster is, and then you bring him down there and
make sure our no space monster jumps in his face, and then he turns
the power back on. I look it, I look it to me,
or like, how complicated is a turn on the reactor? Complicated? It
usually takes two or three people just to start the initiate these sequence. All
right, well fuck it, let's do it. Then, I guess.
All right, so you're gonna you're gonna be good by yourself? Do you
have why would you want to divide us? If you? I mean,
I don't, I don't. It doesn't matter either way. If if you
get the power on, I can start working out it immediately. He is
pretty That does sound pretty efficient. Actually, you know what, um dot,
I'm gonna go to one of the nearby doors and see if the door
opens. It does look like there's some kind of emergency power that has kicked
on. Okay, I can lock myself in a room. I have a
pitt. Wait, they locked yourself in the room. Is that you're said,
no, I can I can't the room? Okay, sorry, I
thought you just lock I'm like you rude as bitch. Um Yeah, I
mean, Millie, you could just come with us, Okay, it's fully
I mean, you're acting weird you. Okay, yeah, I mean I'm
fine. Your brother is very good under pressure. I just want to say,
all right, well again, let's think here. What is the most
efficient thing to do to split? So I can use a corruption bar on
each of you, fuck exactly, let's do it. Or I can use
both corruption bars on the group and total because I got two left, okay,
damn Okay. As Soul, who is a mechanical person with a mechanical
thought process, I'm I think it'd be best if Malik does stay. So
as soon as the power gets on, we can immediately get started downloading the
data, which might take a while. By the time you get back,
he should have all the data. We can immediately look for a ship and
get out of here, because the less time we're on this creepy and quiet
thing, the better. I I have to agree with you on this,
Soul, I think it does the fastest option, much as I don't like
it. Okay, yeah, I mean, I'm pretty sure these doors lock.
I can't really tell about trying it, and I have my pistol.
What's the worst that can happen? I mean, it doesn't. Can you
do a scan? Or is that of like if any life forms with what
actually a question, my um proximity A proximity sensor is that something that can
detach and reattach or like is it like a headset? Like what is that?
It's like a little ball that you kind of like throw in the air
and it floats and like like you know in any space movie when they throw
the one thing and it scans like a grid around the area. It's like,
that's pretty bad. Okay, I'm gonna give that to you. I'm
all right, we'll use this. I'm gonna give it to my link.
It's a proximity sensor. That way, just some sort of alert or something,
and then hit this button and then you just hit it, just just
lightly throw it about two feet about in front of you, and then from
that point of entry, ol shit, do an X amount of distance and
then I get the alerts How it'll make a noise? Okay? Cool?
All right? Wait, doesn't make a noise or does it make Okay,
but like the noises auditory from that device, not to my like sensors or
anything, right, yeah, okay. Usually it's like you throw it up,
it reads, it attaches back to you and then I imagine it's like,
um, like a radar scanner. Anything that gets close to you by
by by by by by bees is a literal proximity scanner. Um, if
that makes sense. So like the farther way they get, the beat gets
more distant. Okay, all right in that case, let's let's do it.
Let's go, um, where do we go? And look at Malie.
He points to the mall map that says you are here. I don't
the reactor and he slides his hand down to the one that's labeled reactor.
All right, you can handle this to me is like memory, like you
know, twenty meters last, you know, few meters right, going to
the reactor. Yeah, and then the other group of you going to core
to chart. Are we all going to the reactor. I'm going to the
portal master. They're going to the reactor okay, okay, and you're going
to plot the portal master or like the what is your plan there? Just
so I know, uh nothing, because there's no power. Once there's power,
Once there's power. The goal is he needs to uh, we need
to find a way to plot a course, uh plan Malik. And then
also um get ready to splice their data from the drone the audio and the
UM. Now that I have that that Tamir has important side of him,
um, that I can splice the audio in the video together. Ish.
I just remember that the Portal Master on Ham had some kind of like crazy
high end computer. Yeah, it's bunch of done, but it needs power.
It needs power first, and then you're going to rejoin. Yeah okay,
Well, serendipitously, it leads you to opposite directions. Uh, the
lift down to the reactor, the manual lift down to the reactor, Um
is right. And of course, sup portal Master. Um, you're gonna
have to go through that massive open um again. It's lad out the same
that massive open kind of bizarre area where light, the cantina and everything was
to the opposite side to reach the poor master. And you split going each
direction, hoping that power is all you need. And so we'll follow the
two of you first. Fuck, I don't like how you said that.
Yeah, I don't like okay, so I would walk in front of Tamir,
but still like asking, like having him guide where we gotta go.
A lost child though he keeps looking back and just like watching Malik until he
can't see Malik anymore. And as Malik fades around the corner, all that
guides you is, uh, these kind of run lights along the bottom.
And you make it to the freight elevator, no problem. Once again,
there is not a ounce of thing out of place, sign of a person,
nothing, And you make it to the freight elevator, which is a
manual can be manually operated. You would know this. You can release like
a hatch. I would think, Uh, Samir would know this. No
problem. Yeah, in an emergent situation. Yeah, it's like a labor
It like pulls that you can crank it up and crank it down. It
takes a lot of effort, but you you can do it. It's meant
for this purpose of the reactor having issues. Um it will I need a
check from somebody to crank this because it big freight elevator. So do you
mind give me that? What is it? Force? Give me that force?
I mean you can assist if you want to give them the plus one
day? Come come hold this side, hold this okay? Okay, okay,
and what I do plus what screen? There's a plus one. I'll
talk of your character. You got you? Okay? You can so your
force and then add the plus one for the assists. Okay, so I
hit plus one positive and I'm hoping this works. Last time it didn't work,
so fuck that was four plus one plus one. Yeah, it seems
to be stuck or else you don't have enough uh force to move it,
son of a bitch? Can Can I look around? Is there um any
type of like um cord, rope, wire, anything like that. We'll
we'll, we'll physics the shit out of this. Yeah you want to see?
Yeah, so sure I will make this. I mean if it's physicist
science, so you're basically going to use your wits to create some kind Oh
my god, wait, I have an icon thing, don't I. I'm
a gearhead. I can tinker. You can totally take her the hell out
of this. I can tinker this shit out of it. Sure, I
can't click it. It won't let me if I can click to fully even
says I'm just gonna type in chat. Yeah you love tinkering gear. With
a successful technology test, you can repair an item or jury rig a one
use contraption for a specific task. Number of sixes on your role determines the
gear bonus of the item. So yeah, Timor wants to make some sort
of like, um, like a Pulley or Levy system. Okay, um,
we watch school as there's this like I'm making exactly that noise, and
every time it just like locks. It's like this, there's not enough force.
It usually takes two men to move this, not one. Thanks.
Thanks, I wouldn't think that you held, but uh, two full force
rolls to move it. I guess I should say, so, said spatation.
It's weird. Yeah, we're getting shady, speaking of shade, it's
good. We'll get we'll get to you. It takes to open that he
strength is not the word I use. What I was trying to say is
it's not that souls incapable, just might be better if there were two souls
instead of one. That's what I was saying. We're gonna let me understands
you guys. If Mike keeps talking, I'm just gonna play another darkness point
and break it all like you fucking mute yourself. Of a bitch. We
got like three more bars together that darkness points. So the day we all
die because of Mike and Ariss isn't here, So she so t it's saved.
I was right, Yes, Max, that's a good question. There
is gravity, There is gravity on the station. It's got back. We're
in backup power. So like the low level lights, gravity would be in
place are like air locks and everything would be UM and and air would be
being processed and filtered. UM. But the general power that's going to run
something like a massive computer that say opens a portal, is going to need
real power. So right makes sense. All right, let's get this science
roll to see if you oh wait, you love tinkering. With a successful
technology test, you can repair item. Okay, so let's get that tech
role. What determines the gear bonus of the item? Okay? So a
six, Um, you're like, screw it, We're never gonna we're never
going to be able to do this. UM. You watch as UM to
me or breaks out a small SETUM. Guess you probably have small tools like
tinkering tools. UM. Your gearhead, for Pete's sake, UM removes all
together the handle, the kind of crank gear handle from this piece UM,
using small bits and pieces other parts. To watch as he turns what was
a crank into a pulley and he uh uses it like basically airline cable and
runs it down um and hands you uh one end because both way it's gonna
take both of you to pull, so you can make another force. Now,
okay, with the help again A plus one all right, come on,
so come on, come on at one more dime? All right.
Yes, this time is slow, and you hear these gears begin to coo,
and the longer you pull, the easier gets. Once it's moving,
the elevator begins to rise from the bottom of the station and you watch the
doors swing open um also part of the crank system as it clicks into place,
and the elevator is uh is there? Cool? Well that was annoying.
You're sweating, but let's keep going. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
okay, and then step forward yeah cool yeah two hours later. No,
we probably used the pulley that there was, like I would think there might
have been like a it was a loading dock, right as a freight elevator.
I bet there's like a pulley system for loading like heavy things and spiting
them on the freighter. So you probably repurpose something that was already hanging there,
sweaty in your suits. You hop on this very dark elevator. There's
a single light and the central piece of the floor that lights your feet pretty
much only from your knees down, and you are able to descend doing the
crank the opposite direction all the way down until you come to a solid halt
and you've hit the bottom. The doors again are rigged open, pulled open,
and the two of you are looking at the reactor. It's not probably
as big as you thought it would be. It's a relatively small station that
sits in the middle of this room, and there's a large set of catwalks
that kind of run around it on multiple floors, three of them in fact.
All right, Tamar, well lead the way. What do we gotta
do? Just let me do it? Make for the enough comes here?
Tracking on the leak? Can you even hear us? Malik, I don't
know how deep you are in the station. If there's interference here, press
buttons? Oh, I don't see why not? Okay, how does it
seem to be anything interfering? Um? So yeah, hey, Mileague,
how you doing? Like you are currently crossing a very empty open bizarre?
Uh? Just you know, sort of chilling? Okay, you see anything
weird? We just got to the react. There no brothers working on the
reactor. It's just it's just real empty here. Okay, be careful.
Do you know you have your pistol? Yep? All right, cool,
all right, We'll just let me know if anything happens when you get to
the what, Tommy, what is it called? Portal master? Let go
to the but you know it's worth to go. Let go to the button.
Oh how did you let go of the button? You hear a strange
sound? Soul alert goes off with my gun pointed to it. An alert
goes off on your suits. Let you know that the that your drone has
picked up on movement. Oh, I will immediately look at it. The
drone, uh doesn't know fear, so I guess it hovers there and you
see something you've never seen. But the drone doesn't know fear. That's the
worst thing you said today. The drone doesn't know fear, so it's not
like it's hiding around a corner. I'm telling you right now, if my
fucking drone dies, I'm about to lose my shit. I love it.
Al has been kidnapped, and all we care about is the room bezone like,
I don't care, I care, I don't care. I care about
the town. But Saul loves this drone. You guys don't know the history
they've been through. You have never out right now anything like this. Okay.
A figure floats in the air. Okay, it's kind of in uh
you see it. It's actually in the kind of open cargo bay area,
and it's clothing these kind of cloaks and billowing pieces on it float in the
air. Its hair stands on in and flows outward. It has a set
of hoofs for feet, and what you think might be a large set of
tusk that protrude from its mouth downwards. It has these animalistic qualities to it,
this organic life, but it seems ghostly and ghastly in its nature.
Its body is thin and is you can see as it begins to reach it
seems to be it seems to be strapping cargo down in your cargo bay.
When it sees the drone, it turns and looks directly at you. It
stares through the drone into your eyes, and you will, in fact have
to make a sanity rool. So this is how this works. Um,
this is how this works. So you just described space satan to us kinda
yeah, Um, it's like it's like a ghostly, ghostly space satan,
she wouldn't make it better. Question? Was a corruption bar thing or was
this a choice thing? Because I need to know whether or not I'm quitting
my job? This uh, this um, this is a repercussion for always
wanting to know what your drone sees. This is okay whatever. I just
want everybody know. I've only used two of the bars, but I did
cash in on a card as well. The Sun card has been played,
but the Star card was played. Okay, star card was played, and
we've had two corruption bars. This spart bar fold filled. I have the
additionally used two darkness points that I've not told you about. There's so much
happening in this fucking episode. All right, I'm ready to roll. Okay,
I believe I don't know why it's not in the meme in the back.
What are they called? It's like sickness? What are they called on
the book? Gang, I gotta remember it. I don't need that's okay,
I do. I just have to wind quickly, make sure I give
you right because I want to make sure you rule discs. I've been waiting
on somebody to stare into the eye something really horrific. Oh great, it
would be me, of course, but really really really horrid. Oh buddy,
now you really you that's messed though? You really in love with my
drone? Oh? We all stand a robot though. Jesus, you guys
haven't even washed the footage yet, so don't. I mean, if you
think this is the worst we've got going on today, you actually shipping here
we go diseases and memes mania, Okay, there are many forms of mania.
So I'm going to how does this work? Okay? Oh, that's
me using a darkness point people, another darkness point down dot Okay, okay,
okay, I'm gonna have you roll a D six. Okay, roll
one, D six. I got about two. As you say, into
the eyes of this creature, you have a compulsion come over to you,
something deep in your gut. Fear, yes, like space suit shooting.
Fear comes over. You've never seen anything like this before, and the drone
follows it as it floats throughout the ship. It finishes substrapping things down,
makes direct eye contact with you, and then begins floating, and you watch
as it passes through the door into the cryo state. UM, moving forward.
Um. Every time you look into someone's eyes, you're gonna have a
compulsion of fear. What the is the worst thing to have for an assassin?
Um, So don't look anybody in the eyes or get personal. It's
too well okay, Um, I think after seeing that Saul would drop his
gun out of just fear and just kind of stare not at at the the
tablet, but kind of like past it. That makes sense, and just
kind of his skin goes paler than what it already is. It's like it
knows your secrets, soul, it seems through you. Fuck um yeah yeah,
then so would the immediately his hand would start his right hand would start
shaking, and he uses his left to kind of like slowly grip it and
trying to like hold it down, trying to like maintain his composure. But
his his eyes are just locked past the tablet. I think upon hearing the
sound of the gun drop, which is concerning or an assassin to drop their
weapon. Ye, timy is gonna spit around. Um, so are you
okay what's going on? But did you hear something? Uh? Uh um
uh uh the drone Um, we we need to we need to hurry up.
We uh we need to do this quickly. The drone saw something.
I cannot it looked, So what does it look like it is telling danger?
I mean not but I don't I don't know, I don't know.
But we we we we we we need to hurry up. We need to
hurry up. We need to hurry up. Just hurry up and get the
reactor started. Okay, His tone, his post a posture, everything from
kind of like that idiot goofy has completely just turned into stone cold fear to
the point where his you can you can kind of hear his joints as he's
moving, and it's it's very shaky. And I will slowly reach down for
my for my gun and then take it back up. As you reach for
your gun, something cold brushes your hand in the darkness. I feels like
tiny cold fingers. I will pull back and look down where I think but
your gun must have just been your mind playing tricks on you. Fuck um
fuck it. I'll just like pull my pull my dagger instead, and I'm
going to leave my gun. Do you leave your gun? Yeah? I
mean he's he's never felt fear so this since this is like it's like when
you first go on a roller coaster or something, matter how intense it is,
it's going to be the most intense, so he doesn't know how to
respond to it. And after what just happened, he's not gonna mess with
whatever that is for now. So I'm gonna pull pick up my dagger and
kind of try to nudge it towards the gun. You nudge the air and
kind of stab around a little bit. Um, there's nothing there, It's
just air, Okay. I want to look around to see if I say
anything roller perception or not a perception? What does it called roll? An
observation? Yeah, limited success. As you maybe in your heightened sense,
maybe it's just your pa anya, as you look around the space. Every
time your eyes dart um, you think you see something in the shadows.
The darkest corners of the room seem to swirl with some kind of misty presence,
But every time you look it's gone. It's like when you flip the
light on in the cockroaches scatter. I want to pick up my gun,
like just as quickly as I can get back up, and just I'm gonna
start walking backwards and put my back against the closest wall, okay, and
then I kind of keep my eyes onto me or while I try to do.
You watch his soul backs up. You hear his feet down the cat
walk, this metal catwalk, go all the way back to the wall where
the elevator is. Um, tomit's gonna go ahead and just start trying to
get that reactor going. Um. But as he's doing so, how can
I talk to Saul? So? What? What? What? I don't
you tell me? What? Are you sick it? There's something wrong with
your show? I don't. I don't know. Maybe there's something he's leaking.
I'm I feel okay. I just I just want to get off this
fucking station. So let's just yeah, yeah, we all do UM,
we run a scan and see if it will hy don't you know Tor in
the eyes? I don't. I don't. It's very evident he's avoiding eye
contact, which is really weird because he makes very uncomfortable eye contact. Very
confident. God, sure, just being nice and not trying to be nice.
You guys turn my words around on me. Gosh, what is it
with all of you? It's like they trust me or something. Oh yeah,
exactly trust you. But yeah, every time I would respond, I
would immediately like it would it would feel like I'm looking past you or below
you, and then just immediately dart away. Okay um I uh tom,
He is going to stop what he's doing and go walk close the distance between
him and Soul and just put both hands on Soul's shoulders. So what is
the wrong me? No? Tell you? Are you sick? Are you
work on the fucking reactor? I would work on the reactor, but right
now something is very wrong with you. I just you see the he's holding
the gun, but it's like shaking. His hands are shaking. Yeah,
it's shaking. There's something on that ship. I think I got to look
at it. It's fucking up with my perspective right now. I don't want
to check on it again. No fuck, no, fuck no, I'm
like no, I fuck. You can't look at the damn screen if you
If you do, you want to look, just Tamir's gonna put take like
both of his you know, obviously acts of shelled glove hands, but like
kind of hold or envelope Soul's hands on the gun and just kind of like
hold them there and hold them steady. Rolling empathy, Are you empathetic?
Do you care about me? M We'll let the dice determine that huh,
you selfish you. You put your hands, doing your best to calm so,
but something is something is definitely wrong. And so you see as Tamir
grabs your hands as steps into you, and it's very caring and nurturing way,
attempting to calm you think you see over just out of the corner of
your eye, a shadow reach out with a black hand for Tamir's shoulder,
just bemind him. I would instantly push to mirror out of the way the
opposite direction, over the hand, and then and try to just swing at
it with the with the I don't want my knife, so with my gun,
swing at it with the gun. He slams you against the wall to
me, or he swings with the butt of his gun as if to hit
something. But there's nothing there. It's just darkness. So what are you
doing. There's there's something here. I don't know what it is, but
it's fucking it's fucking with me, and it's it's it's one of those it's
like it's like a ghost or some shit, but it's it's fucking here,
and I will fucking kill it. And I start panting like okay, okay,
okay, round Okay, I need you to just please lord the weapon
because if you're fire a kinetic ground in the reactor, it is not going
to be good for any of us, like a corruption bar. No,
it doesn't, No, it doesn't. Dot. So I believe you it
is. There are things that are going on here that I cannot explain and
things that I've only heard about from stories as a little boy. What.
I believe you, But I need you to try and calm down. Let
me get this reactor started. Send let Malik know what is going on,
and that whatever is in that ship, perhaps it isn't here too. Okay,
we don't know how many of these things have come through. Okay,
okay, what is my status like at the moment? Am I able to
Am I able to calm down? Or you? I would see that you've
been talked down a little bit. Um, you would feel safer here,
like back against the wall, right, Um, I will leave that.
I will leave that up to you, just to me or talk you down.
Yeah, yeah, he would have calmed down the not fully he's still
holding his gun up even though Tamir asks up not too. But I'll use
the other hand to click on the coms Malik there, Yeah, is there?
Do you see anything? Where are you? Don? Am I at
the portal? Master is the room yet the camera through um over to where
you're at. In fact, you're making your finishing cross um A like through
this massive kind of area it is. Um. It's very very dark here
because it's just so big and tall and empty except for the light around the
edges. Um. Is there anything you would you want to do? You
just want to walk straight there? Um if if it passes by them,
like the med station, he just kind of glanced at the door and goes
and then keeps going. Yep, it looks just like it accepts. There's
a different name on the door, yet exact same place, single tier right,
just a little tier for the doctor. See, all you needed to
do is ask her out the first time. We would may not be in
this situation. Maybe you wouldn't have murderer. I didn't murder you keep saying
her. Technically, thank you from your murder attempt. Technically you finished your
cross. You come to that same glass panel door where you met that security
guy and you had to talk your way in, and there was a reporter
scenario. It all looks the same, but the power is out, and
this this kind of a glass wall with the door is all locked tight.
Um yeah, uh is it it? Does it open easily? Is there
like a some kind of like access panel to get into there. Yes,
but this seems to be locked down. Hmm is it no power? No
power? Okay, so I think so it's a tunnel. It's a hallway
that ends in a glass door panel not working. Nothing on either side of
this hallway. It goes left and right like as if it were to look
back around and like an exterior round of like offices of some kind or possibly
barracks for the whoever was here. But there's nothing, Like I said,
there's nothing out of place, Like even even if you look through the glass
to the other side where it's dark and you can eat vincy, a few
of the safety lights on, and there stacks of paper sit, untouched,
glasses unmoved, not tipped over. It's just everything is just as if it
was just left. Uh. Yeah. I'm going to go to one of
the offices, um, like the closest office and just sort of open the
door and go into that office, and I'm going to close the door and
lock it, and then I'm basically gonna sit in the person's chair and put
my feet up on the desk. I have my pistol out on the desk,
and then I start to pull my laptop boat because I have a personal
computer. Cool. You basically pride this door open. It seems that most
of this area is considered unnecessary when on low power, so you kind of
pulled the door opened. No big deal, Um, let you in.
This is in fact just a office. Uh. It looks like maybe they
did some kind of processing here of shipments, um, and things that were
like coming through, um, stacks of paper pretty normal or sex paper.
Um, A couple data chips, a few stacks of paper, and you
toss your feet up and pull your data pad out. Yeah, I'm gonna
pull clad. I have the personal like the Tier three personal computer. Great,
so like I pull this this like I don't know, probably like stream
deck sized, you know, product placement the highest thing and put on the
desk. And I think, because it's like the highest one, they're all
like voice controlled, so I would assume some kind of like scream sort of
appears yeah and then projected hud. Yeah, he responds back. Uh,
portal master is closed. I am in a nearby office. Everything is empty
here. What's what's what's going on down there in the reactor? Anyone?
Uh? Yeah, uh there there's something here, but you're talking about fucking
hello. Yeah there we go. Yeah, okay, there's there's something going
on here. I saw a figure. I saw something on the ship.
I think whatever is on the ship might be on me here. Um,
just be careful. I don't think we are fully And then I kind of
like trail off. Okay, none of that made any sense to me?
Or assume you can hear me and you're working on things. Can you guess
I'm a little busy right now? But what he says it's true? Ye
could you could you like check his pressure levels and make sure he's not just
venting oxygen and losing his mind? He I losing my mind, my league.
I saw something and it's very serious and you need to just be careful,
all right, Please be careful. There's I just are not. This
guy is like button ghosts, smere you click away. The first thing that
you realize is you get over to this computer, which doesn't have a pretty
hud screen or any of that. This is a manual keyboard. Things click
and clack, as you type away and try to press things in and take
a look at what's going on here, it seems that the station, UM,
I think that you would have some general idea, UM. A reactor
of this nature of on a space station, as always needs to be kept
by a group of engineers that understand how a reactor function. They usually take
shifts in maintaining the reactor, and especially since this is one that is issued
by and funded by the Consortium, they're going to have pretty regular check ins.
And you can see based on the log in that the whoever was changing
shifts just stopped logging in. Nobody logged in, and so the station shut
down as a precaution because nobody checked in on the reactor. And I checked
the log as to when was the last time that somebody was actively working on
the reactor two weeks ago? It seems about right, maybe a little over
two weeks now, but okay, about the same time as the butterfly.
Okay, leek. Whatever's going on with the station, it all seems to
be spawning from whatever I don't know, the first riz and possibly is trying
to do to get through UM. These these reactors, they require multiple people
to be working on them around the clock. They haven't been worked on since
about the time that the white butterfly came through. Can you get it operationally?
I am going to try my damnest. Uh. I'm not sure.
It's not quite my specialty, but I will work with what I have,
or at least um tides about some sort of power to these spaces that we
need. I mean, the only I think the only space we need power
to is the portal master's office. So it's locked. By the way,
it's locked, I can't get in, so oh we so unlock it please.
There's no power to mirror it's you don't need to. You don't need
power to unlock a door. There's always some sort of um emergency safety.
Okay, I'll try it. It was a touch pad like a computer screen,
but I'll figure it out. We'll get that. There's usually panel.
If it goes on the floor, there's probably event. You should be able
to try the event open. There should to be some sort of emergency handle
within. You would also know the reactor would have an emergency kind of reset
button. That's the easiest way. It's like it usually is like a manual
reset to me, or you can reach it. Um, and if you
would attempt, if you would like to attempt to reset the power on the
station, like just reboot the reactor. Um, yeah, let's get the
power. Yeah, I'm going to take a technology from you to me or
I mean, soul. You've been standing around kind of watching this happen.
Cool cool coo cool cool cool cool cool cool. Make an observation, so
cool cool cool cool. You know what, Mike, you can make one
too. Why great cool coo cool cool cool? Okay, cools ration h
um? Uh like space? Oh okay, great. You hear the clacking
of your brother's finger tips at the opposite end of the station. Um,
but through it you hear something else. A door down the hallway open,
like in my hallway, or I hear it through my headset in your hallway.
Oh oh hey guys, um, just real quick. The space ghosts,
what do you know about them? They're very bad and they can steal
ships. No, no, the space the space ghost that are on here.
This space Uh, it's it looks kind of like a dark figure.
All I saw it's it's it's hand And why do you see somebody opened a
door on the hallway that I'm on and then the second door. Just now,
how many doors do you have? Third door? Okay, it's an
office space. Just hide or something. Get well, we'll try to finish
yourself and come up. Go go go to him now, I let me
finish up here. Yes, as all this is going down, and you
made it a failed observation role and a filled technology role. Great, this
is so wonderful. Guess what You turned the power on. You flipped the
switch and turned the power on. So you realize as you go to run
to go help him. Off in the corner are radiation radiation suits. They
lay, like I said, off in a corner, as if they simply
dropped off of somebody's body in place. Right as the power comes on,
both of you are now exposed to extreme radiation without a radiation suit in a
reactor. Fuck do you say or do you go? Oh? We need
the go go, let's go. As the power in the room comes on,
you realize you're on the second story of the reactor room. And as
the lights come on and the darkness dissipates into cut shadow. Sorry, kat
A scared her. I scared her with my space. Uh, And the
light cuts to the corners of the room, so does whispy black smoke as
if again cockroach is shuddering when the lights come on, seeking what little bit
of shadow that they can find. Uh, milake, the power comes on?
How much tradi astion points do we take? Oh, we'll do it
that later. Okay, okay, yes, you guys are running now right.
That's the plane, so the powers on it? Is? Are there
any more? Space? Goes? I don't hear any more doors? Okay?
Cool? Um? I pick up my uh my, my data hat.
I kind of stow it in whatever spot I have in the suit,
and I have my pistol in my hand though, and I casually walk out
the door and head towards the portomaster. Cool. Cool cool? You open
the door, um, and go to exit, and you go left,
which is would take you back to the glass kind of paneling, um,
and actually turned left nonchalantly. We made so very clear. You feel something
staring at you. I don't like that that you stopped and staring to be
like a creep. Uh? Do I feel it in a specific direction?
Is it like I feel eyes on me from from behind? You? Cool?
Um? Oh man, I'm trying to think here, I feel turning
around. I feel like Malik is like he's he's the he's the knee,
right, So he's an Internet nerd, and so I think that all he
does is watch like data VIDs and he immediately goes into like this is a
horror movie and just completely like stands up straight, like more straight than Seul,
and then just walks forward in a very awkward robotic If I don't turn
around, the monster can't kill me. That's how movie can't see you.
He can't see me for sure, keeps going. The camera stares down a
very long, narrow, sterile hallway. We see Malik exit, turn left,
freeze up as the shadows in the top of this hallway in and around
begin to move. A hand creeps out this kind of ghostly black as it
forms with these gangly long fingers, and it begins to pull itself out of
the shadows, three of them in fact, down the hallway. They crawl
on all fours on the ceiling and the walls and corruption bar number Belik,
it is for sure, it's standing rigid and just walking just like thousand yards
there as he is walking and he like turns around the corner. Cool he
just to not make eye you don't make eye contact. You avoid eye contact.
You avoid eye contact. You're not scared. I'm not scared. I'm
not scared. You get to the data pad with all of the stuff,
and out of the corner of your eyes, you swear the shadows are moving.
Um, you're trying not to panic as you need a key card to
open this you bitch, ask, bitch the fuck that's okay? You like?
This is my whole fucking job. Would you like to data gin is
open very quickly? Sure? I would like to do that dot Okay.
Cool, I'm gonna make you take a negative two because you're gonna you're doing
it quickly, unplanned. That's fine. So I have a plus one and
then a minus two bumpo uh, and then a data giin Hey, what
valid? What is that? What is that? What are those? That
was a wrong button? Hold on? Sorry my bad panicked and I use
missing powers? What I have to hun? Oh? I guess I can't.
You can't use pluses and minuses, So I guess it's it's just a
minus one. That's how math works, Matt, Mike, there's two options,
you know, you know, why is it not working? All right?
I'm just gonna roll with zero and we can take off the last the
last dice number. That's fine, that's not that's what Okay, Okay,
there we go. Oh yeah, fuck yeah, critical Mike, Mike over
here. But you said you take off the last number. I found a
way to make it minus one, so I have a plus like, oh
you did, oh you did? Yeah, I see it there. Okay,
yeah, critic, mic, welcome, it's my house. You swallow
your fear like a golf ball as it hits your stomach. You reach over
the shadows moving ever closer. Um the darkness literally encroaching. Uh you punch
the panel falls for you know, exactly hit it. You. We can
try to hack this thing. All you need is the right four digit code.
How fast can your fingers move? And what dumbass, what dumbass made
it? One? Two, three, four? And the door open with
glass or the glass slides open. I am the hackiness boy in the world.
I walk in and then I close the door and lock it because shadows
can't come through glass. Clearly, Well it's you. You lock it.
And there's this long, kind of pregnant pause where like, okay, there's
nothing there, and then three figures that stand about eight foot tall, come
out like from atop the door frame and drop down, and you hear one
of their hands go against the glass. They are jet black. They look
as if a shadow and smoke have taken form together. Their mouths drip open
um and saliva plucks and drips from it, very similar to the way that
your ship was dripping earlier. Um. And you hear another hand on the
glass. Um. Their mouths are they're very skeletal, like they have no
nose or nostril. Two eyes at glow kind of yellow. Um. They
are bald in nature. Um. I can actually show you a thing.
Oh god, Oh those are not fucking round so cute. There are three
of them. They never cuts. Are you running to him? Yeah?
Right? Uh. It doesn't take you long, um, especially now that
the lights are on your feet take you. You know the layout of this
space station because you literally spent time on an eye identical space station for far
too many days. And as you as you run your feet carry you again,
you look around. Everything is It's just like everybody just dropped what they
were doing and left. There is nothing out of place, nothing strange here.
And as you run, run, run, you pass again a doctor's
office that you know all too well. This sense of deja vous streams pass
you, your gut seul, that fear begins to rise again. Something is
not right. You know it. You can feel it in your chest.
And as you round the corner, your feet carrying you, they come almost
to that squeaking halt. You see three dark figures standing on the other side
of a glass, staring at Tamir, who is on the other side one
of them, I mean, Malik, I'm sorry it Tamir and so on
the other side. They hit their hands. I immediately put my hand like
do they notice this or they have not noticed you? I would stop,
Tamir and I'd just be like, and I would point, Okay, I'm
gonna have you both roll an infiltration to not be seen. Fucking shit,
Can I even roll infiltration? Is that an advanced too? It is not.
It's a general skill. Um, it's just agility. If you don't
have them, cool cool, cool, cool, cool cool, you do
a great job stopping. Unfortunately, two mere shoes let out an e fuck
on the very clean and sterile floor of the space station. The hand that
was banging on the glass stops and drops to its side in an inhuman way
as all three of them turn at the same time to stare at the two
of you guys. I have company. Yeah shit, I see. I
was slowly like not making any fast movements because they're just staring right so far.
I will slowly reach Actually, I think I would have my gun in
my hand. I would just slowly like pull it upwards, not like towards
them, while taking step backs and kind of like telling Tamir to mimic it,
mimic my moves and kind of like slowly move back and just kind of
keep moving trying to get out of its sights. Yound around the corners at
the plan. Yeah, I just want to go back around the corner as
if you want to look for something. What you're looking for anything to use
defensively, Okay, oh sure that would be something around You don't have any
weapons on you? Do I have a standard utility knife. I don't.
I don't think i'd be smart enough to realize that you don't have anything.
I would just still just be full. I saw space Satan, so I'm
not Yeah, sure, um down this hallway. Actually, you would probably
need to round the corner and go back into the bazaar. There would be
Clinty there to use everything from like knives at the cantina to um. There
would be things in the med bay. You can also probably just a better
place for us to be. So down this hallway which they're gonna bump,
they're gonna bum rush you. Um. And that's exactly what happened. So
three of them take a pomp moment to take you all in the two of
you very slowly back up towards the corner. Malite drops a good company here,
guys, and uh, that's what you sound like. And uh.
And you see that three of them drop kind of drop their shoulders and this
kind of hunched over way, and they begin charging the both of you.
They are gangly arms and legs working together to pull them down the hallway at
an ever faster speed. And we will roll any shia L D six.
They move fast, we do not, because we are excellent. We have
I'm going to roll a D six, roll a D six, roll a
D six. No no no, no, no, no no no.
I also got a six. Oh okay, sick the rolls them off.
I get all of you first, I got six, No one got five,
and then reroll yours, reroll yours. We gotta roll off the two
sixes one D six Sorry I got another six? Oh great, So how
would I get that now? Um? We are going I'm gonna roll up
for the creatures. I don't need that right now. So they're gonna go
sixes. I know last. They're gonna go last. So it will be
Soul, ma Leak Samir. At least we get to go first, and
the these lovely things that I have right here, the dark bound. Okay,
if you guys haven't noticed, uh, the town system is lost.
Just what you don't even need to be here? Um. Okay, Soul,
you're up first action you can again. You got three reaction points.
Um, pull up your action sheet and tell me how you would like to
use your three action points. Well, if they're coming at us, I
would like to fire a aimed shot at the closest one. Okay, so
uh the first one coming through. Yeah, you can fire a name shot.
That's all of it. You will have to stop. You put your
weapon into place, um, and you stare down. What I'm guessing is
some kind of go as you like I have the I only have the vulcan
piso. Oh you only got the vulcan. Okay, perfect, Um,
you take a deep breath knowing that you need to steady your hand if you're
going to make this aimed shot, and then make it, sir? How
they do this again? I forgot? This is going to be ranged combat,
all right? Right? Okay? Uh I do any pluses or minus?
Let me double trick. I think if you have, if you're aiming,
you do get a bonus. Hang out on my ma life, that's
not helpful. I need to be arranged. A look at your gun.
Your gun also has a plus bonus to it. If you take your time
and aim carefully before's craezing the trigger, you get a plus two to the
attack role. So plus two plus two sorry one two okay, and then
here we go three you're going and then and then you're done? Yeah,
oh gun? Okay, so my gun is a plus one as well,
So that's so just a plus three altogether. On. Oh shit, okay,
okay, let's do this. Come on, come on, come on
you mother flapper. Okay, wow? Um a limited success. It does
hit. What is the damage? The damage is two? Cool? He
a new gun. You fire off the vulcan pistol. It clips one of
these in the shoulder. It opens its mouth as if it were to scream,
though no sound comes out. It only seeps out black smokiness, and
from the wound that you have caused on it, it drips and plots again,
this like black smoke as if it embers, floats out and into into
the atmosphere. It doesn't bleed or stop. That's interesting. Your turn.
That makes it Malik's turn. What is this like a full on glass door
or is this like a frosted glass situation? No, it is a like
sea through front facing glass. Okay, So I can see all this happening,
and there's three of these little shadow dudes and they have turned in their
running out Seoul and your brother dope. Um, I am going to I
assume is open door a pre action or is that an act? Is that
a fast action? Well, now that you have control over it, I
would think that's probably a fast action. You would like hit the button and
it would slide open, and then you would be able to I would easily
make that a fast action. Yeah, okay, um, because you've taken
control of it. Yeah, cool, cool, cool, Um, I
am going to Yeah, I'm going to open the door. And I'm going
to fire my weapon at the one that Seul shot. I think I guess
I can differentiate what you would see it. Yeah, sure, So yeah,
I'm going to fire my weapon at the one that Seul shot. Um,
just a regular shot. Yeah, I have a plus one bonus to
that. Uh do I get any bonuses because I'm behind them by chance?
Not to arrange? Well, how about this. They won't be able to
do any kind of dodging because they don't see it coming. Like, I'm
not going to be able to do any kind of defensive action with them.
So that's your bonus. So arranged comment attack one success, two damage,
another two damage okay, um grabbing open the door. And then I'm like
pow right through the So we had two and another two Yeah okay, all
right, Um two of them are not stopping. This one's beginning to trail
behind. Um. You see again seeping out this kind of black smokiness.
Now as it trails behind the other two, SA mirror, the mirror is
booking it. Where are you going back towards the CANTEENA yeah, you have
no issue like rounding the corner? Where do you go once you get there?
Let's go to the bark. You run, Yeah, you run and
slide behind the bar, kind of taking cover as well, which is helpful.
This is again one of those round cantina bars, open sides. It's
like an airport bar, um, and you kind of slide into the inside
of it. Alcohol bottles everywhere, substances of all kinds. Yeah, we're
gonna he's gonna go ahead and start. I don't know, Let's make some
the fucking space molotovs in a compressed area. Okay, you want to make
some? Okay, Yeah, you make some molotovs. Um hmmm. I
don't have liquid nitrogen. That was going to be the other thing. So
I'm gonna say. I'm gonna say this is a survival check. Have you
ever made a maltop before? Whom I would argue that he may not have
made one before, but they grew up with rebels and have been exposed to
Okay, he knows how to make bombs, so okay, okay, then
I will give them if you can make you can make a balltop, if
you can make a damn bomb, So I'll make it a survival survival which
I have nothing in. It's okay, you go wits, good wits.
You got good wits enough you you similar through. The first thing you do
is what has the highest alcohol content, what is going up fastest? And
you you pull a few bottles that you think are right, um, and
begin you've popped. You pop the corks and begin stuffing them. That is
what you manage to do this action. You run, you slide behind the
bar, You snatch up a cup of bottles, and you're stuffing fabric into
them natkins basically to prep them uh for this. It's their turn. So
they move extremely fast, sool they're on top of you in no time,
like almost the blink of an eye. Um. They are significantly taller than
you are. Let's see m. As they get close, you expect them
to reach out with these long, dark black fingers of death to rip you
to pieces. But instead it goes to reach for you and stops inches from
your face. It's hand as big as your head, and it's going to
do something called the night veil. Okay, okay, I need you.
I need you to roll an empathy against its mystic power. It's not really
pasty power, but that's how this works. Sympathy. Yes shit, okay
um I failed. Great, per fuck you could give her a darkness point.
I mean, I technically use the darkness point just to do this,
but I also definitely rolled three extra dyes about that, but either I would
have failed anyway. Okay, So basically, that fear rises in your gut
again, so much so it paralyzes you. Oh fuck, I made a
mistake, and your mind begins to get cloudy. The darkness literally creeps in
from the edges. You can see it in your eyes as it clouds over,
and your mind goes dark. Everything is cold and black, and you
can see your hands and things like that in front of you, but you
are unable to move or react to mirror. Soul does not come from around
the corner. Neither do the creatures, Malik. You see the three of
them surround Soul. They don't rip him to pieces, they don't try to
eat him. They just simply stare at him. One of them their hands
kind of right in his face. You can see his eyes are blacked over.
He does not move. It's your turn. Uh coo coo cool?
Um? Shit? Are they what are they doing? Are they just like
like you know, death eater not death leater? What do they call this
kind of Yeah, that's what that's kind of what it looks like is they're
like surrounding him. They're not trying, they're not harming him by like beating
him in a melee attack, but they seem to be doing something. His
eyes have kind of glossed over and they look black. I don't think I
have any way to stop this from happening. I have nothing, Um shit
balls, Okay, I am going to I'm gonna fire on these things.
I guess that's okay, No, I have no choice. UM, I
will as a freaction. It's like a shout. I'm gonna use my coms
to it's open channel, I guess, um. Yeah, And I'm just
gonna say, get in the office. They couldn't get through the doors.
Uh. And then I'm going to, Uh, I'm going to fire it
an ames shot. Uh grab that plus two? Okay, so let's say
plus three, uh, and I will roll arranged camman prepare, suck it
critical? Uh, which so you which arrange it too? And I got
a critical my crit ranges two? Oh yeah, Page ninety six. What's
yo? Talk talk to me about what? Tell help the audience understand what
all that means? Mike, why are you so damn excited? I don't
know yet. I have to find the page dot. I put it in
a roll twenty Uh did you? Um? I don't think that. I
don't think. So we might on a on a single success you shoot the
dot on a single success plus the number next to your crip range, which
for me is two, So three successes. I do a critical, which
could mean I shoot it in its head, explodes, or a leg.
It's like not my own leg, hopefully, So I am going to roll
to the sixes. So yep, so and you get the bonus effects.
Don't forget that, Mike. You get two of them for every additional D
six. Yeah. You when when you're reigned combat role of successful, your
attack hits and you inflict your weapons weapon damage on your enemy. For each
additional six after the first one, choose one of the bonus effects below.
Oh where's this? So this is on page eighty nine. So this is
something special to ranged combat, so you're also going to get. You can
choose increased damage, critical injury, suppressive fire, raise your initiatives to move
yourself up in the initiative order to be before or you can disarm them which
is an impossibility. They have no weapon, so I'm going to spend one
of the points to do a critical injury. Okay, Wonderful is a forty
one, which a forty one is last rated kidney. It is fatal stunned
for two turns a man one point of damage per force. Wait, then
one point of damage per anytime they do a force, a dexterity or melee
combat test, they take up additional one point of damage. Do they have
the creature that has got its hand? It's literally the one standing in front
of Seoul. It passes through its body. You see the round hit it
in the back where a kidney I guess on a human would be. As
it blasts free, black smoke just pours out as if you've dropped liquid dye
into water, out into the air. You watch as it drops its hands
and it kind of takes a few steps backwards. It falls to its knees
and slumps over and the black smoke around it in the body and everything into
air, leaving nothing but bones of a human behind. Cool gross Okay,
dope, yeah, I think that ends my turn. That does, and
it moves over to Tamir. Tamir, your breath, are trying to catch
your breath. This is so intense, you don't know what's happening. And
you hear get in the office. They can't get through the door. They
can't get through the door. Your brother's voice comes over the calm. It
is clear and loud, and you can hear your heartbeat into your ears.
You close your eyes for a second. And times of intensity, sometimes just
a breath is helpful. But in this breath, you're taking back time slows
inside of this space station, and you're taken back to them, to the
best times of your life. I'm Coriolis when you first start there, before
school started, when you and your brother just arrived off the horrible planet Algal,
New life, new possibility, and you find yourself down in the cellar
of Coriolis, a place you were drawn to instantly. There's nothing flashy about
it. This is where the impoverished live and work, where gravity doesn't always
work, where people starve, and the syndicate moves items people. Today,
you make your regular rounds as a young man aboard this station. Sketchy things
happen. You hear gambling off at one corner, seed bars and cantinas,
which are fronts for many other things. Pass you by, and you see
a group of people, civilians hovered around a dripping uh like water spout.
A woman seems to be kind of crying holding her son. Uh. They
keep putting uh canteens and things underneath it, and it doesn't seem to be
running or working. Um uh pamere Uh will go up. This is probably
like maybe three years ago, so he's twenty, I think, yeah,
yeah. Um. Probably in also in like very typical algal fashion. Um
so more um more like arid climate type clothes. And he will go and
head over to where these people are crying. Um. A woman looks used
to say kind of um. A different woman, a little angry and upset.
She says, it's no use, boy, there's no water here.
What do you mean that there's no weather here? Broke doesn't work? No
water? Oh okay, I'm sorry. UM. And I think simply he's
a little cautious because new people are scary, and yes, one in particular,
because she's a bit boisterous. She says, I guess I'm gonna go
walk to the next station. Uh, knowing you would know that the next
station isn't um, it's on literally the other side of the summer, or
they're gonna have to go up and wait in line. Uh uh. If
you give me a moment, um, why don't you stay here and and
um just hang on, hang on, and I think, Tamir, will
you kind of try to assess the sprig it and see where, like what
panel it may lead to, and then try to find like an entryway to
get inside. Not a problem, I mean, this is a it's a
water station, so and it's kind of howls like the actual pump itself is
how so you crack it open, no problem, it has no lock on
it anymore. You go in and you can very clearly see the problem.
The actual pump itself, one of the pieces of it is rusted into oblivion.
It was already basically being held on by chewing gum and at this point
it's not working. And therefore there is no water being pumped from the main
pump here on Coriolis to this station. You would need a replacement part,
okay, uh ma'am, if you don't mind, could you please point me
to a location I could find some scrap material. Um. The woman who's
been holding kind of the whimpering child she says. Um, I mean you
could go back upstairs. It's the best place to find parts if you got
the creds. But um, you know, sometimes there's a junk trader around
the corner. He might have something, but I doubt it. Okay,
Um, thank thank you. Um. I think first before he tries the
chunk trader, UM head over to like a like a trash receptacle area.
Uh yeah, I mean there's plenty down here. Junk lays all over the
place in the cellar. People to scarred all kinds of things here. Great,
is there anything that he could any type of metal that he could use
to fold or wrap around? Um? Rolland observation and OBSERVA shouldn't. I'm
not great to make You're you're looking around and you're trying to see if there's
like anything. You just don't see anything you think will work. Well,
you do catches the eye of a man. He's much farther down, even
past the water station where you stopped. Um, he's eyeballing you. He
quickly looks away and goes back to what he's doing. Okay, Great,
people really like to stare here. Uh dang, Um, I guess people
will have to go over to the trader. Then you walk around the corner
kind of where she pointed, and it's not hard to see it open faced.
There is a man leaning on the outside of it. He is short
and clearly makes up for his height in his boisterous voice. He tries to
stop people. Come, you know you want some junk? Oh um,
Hello, I'm actually here looking for a junk. Great, you got cribs
a bit mm hmm, Well what do you want? I need a pipe?
A pipe. It's a little four inches. He kind of looks at
He goes, what are you fixing? Aren't you a little young to be?
He kind of makes a tinkering motion with his hands, and you gotta
looks you up and down? He goes. No, he doesn't even say
anything, just look jumping down. I mean, when did you start working?
It's look I needed for school. I was sent here to just trying
to find school raps one of those academics. Yes, what are you doing
down here in the cellar? Boy? Um? At this part of an
assignment to get the familiar with coriolis. Uh huh. So it's it's like
a scave drug. Let me guess you're looking for parts to fix the water
problem, night shining Armor, big hero coming to save the day. You
know, when you put your nose where it doesn't belong on coriolis, somebody
you'll take it from you. Well, is that somebody going to be you?
No, I got your pipe, and I don't want your credits.
I want you to do something else for me. Oh, I don't really
a part or in favors. It's only delivering a package. What sort of
package that's one? He reaches behind the counter and slaps a package that's been
wrapped in brown paper, bound very tightly with some kind of um like,
oh, it's almost like a rubber band, but like squeezes around it.
It's some kind of like high tech binding. And he says, drop it
three boxes down. You know that there's kind of a mail carrier system here,
And he's like, and then he reaches again behind the counter and he
pulls out a brand spanking new pipe, and you can have the pipe?
Can they have the pipe? First? No, drop the package, get
the pipe. It'll take you five minutes just to walk down there and put
it in. And he will pick up the package and you walk it down.
Count them down. One box, two box, three box. There
it is. It's a package. It fits very easily. You slought it
in, you walk back. He smiles a big, beefy, beefy smile.
He slaps the pipe on the counter and he says, well, go
on, do gooder, go do some good. You know you could have
just done this yourself. There are people who are thirsty. Here he goes,
and I'm supposed to lead my stall. It's been a busy day.
And Timir looks around because I got I got business to attend to. Boy,
I don't get to sit around reading books all day. I think.
Timya just bites his tongue and grabs the pipe. Pleasure doing business with you,
and we'll head back to the to this forgetting your head back. It's
an easy fix. You tinker it in, no problem, slide it in,
replace the piece, attache it, make sure it's nice and kind of
clean, and everything's tight, and you turn the pressure back up and it
begins to drip and run. The woman goes water, you hear somebody say
as you exit, and it begins to fill the cantina. Here. You
can hear it clinking into the tin. As you come out. You think,
the same man from before stares at you. For those of you at
home, he looks familiar. He's the same man that Malik spoke with and
his flashback. He knows you and walks away. Time passes. You feel
good about helping the people in the cellar get their water back, and finally
the time has come that letter that you've been waiting on, your acceptance letter.
You get to go to school and guess what, You're a lucky,
lucky boy. You got a full ride scholarship paid for by a private donor.
As the camera pans out, we see a woman, dark hair,
familiar face, older. Maybe she stands in a set of collegiate robes,
signifying herself as a professor. If it didn't know any better, it might
be tells a mom, and she speaks with another older gentleman in a robe.
They stare at you as you look happily down at your letter back in
the college, the collegiate area of Coriolis. She leans over and she says,
I thought he didn't get accepted. Men says he didn't. His finger
were found all over a package with the bomb inside of it in the cellar.
They marked him as a criminal, but it seems to syndicate feels he
has qualifications that they like. Unfortunately it was his brother that signed the contract.
She dips her head and she nods, and she says, then I'll
make sure to look out for him. He was a smart kid. The
man looks. Everyone says he wasn't smart enough, and the camera pans out
as you have to catch your breath again. This time, it's not the
excitement of opening a letter that says that you get to go to school on
a free ride. It's the breath of panic as you peer up over the
bar, waiting to see the horrific site that we're gonna have to wait for
next week. Actually, you know what, let me narrate out because I
have one darkness bar that I haven't used yet, and it'll be well worth
it. It'll be well worth it. The image on Seul's wrist as he
stands there, petrified eyes glazed over black pings open. The droid picks up
something else. Alert Alert, It reads It shows this creature once again in
the cockpit. It reaches down in its ghastly form and it hits a button.
The sun is close and bright. You can see it as it lights
up and through this being on the screening, and as it does, it
air vents the entire ship. Anything that's not strapped down goes out of the
back door. Black ickiness and goo is sucked from the crevices of the ship.
It tries to stick to anything, and it can, but the darkness
can't hold on, and as it empties itself into the vacuum of space,
all we see are these black dots of darkness silhouetting the massive sun. We
watch as this ghostly creature some might even call it an gin, dives into
the console of the ship. We see recalculation happen and the steering wheel turned
hard to the left as the shuttle empties out, dumping the darkness into space.
And so that's a new trajectory back to the station in the Talent System.
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