Arise, millions, and welcome to this unmade gaming production. Joined the crew
of the Defiant as they journey through the Third Horizon at the Mercy of the
Icons, trying to understand just what's happening to the mystics in this Coriolist campaign.
Void, the show you're about to listen to, was originally a live
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Actually blame it on me. I how to work? Say that it came
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We're gonna leave Carlos immediately. There's something to do left on this space
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on it. I haven't down. We have made We filled the bar and
started to fill the bar the second time. Okay, Okay, that being
said, I will turn things over to Dot to take us back in the
world of Coriolis. Um. Last week we kicked off with a some completion
series of events as they kind of wrapped up their time on Coriolis while the
vessel was being upgraded. I can officially tell everyone, actually right now,
what those upgrades are to the vessel. Um, let me pull the five
sheet. Um so, some things that were added thanks to their new patron,
which who seems to be have a deep interest in um items of great
value, old items of great value, possibly an artificer in some way,
but we don't know exactly whether or not they are actually a mystic, but
they paid for quite a lot of things, including um. Well, thanks
to story reasons and because Taal never washed the blessing off the vessel, the
ship is now permanently blessed. Um, well, blessed as long as somebody's
still the person that blessed it still alive. But um, there you go,
um a blati to do lists anyways, perfect, Yeah, exactly,
we'll get there. We'll get there. Um. So the permanent the ship
is permanent blessed. Sorry, what was on the to do list, find
if they're alive, or kill them, because it sounded like find them,
okay, find them and rescue this long as they're still alive. You're like,
that's on the list to do, nothing to do and I was like
to them to make sure they're alive. Okay, yism right to keep that
blessing. Thanks. The vessel now has a blative armor, which the best
way I can strive. It's like a force field. The first round of
damage on the ship is absorbed and then it goes away. There's a new
ship technology that allows them to reduce their signature in terms of stealth travel and
falling off radar. The ship has also gained antimatter robots to increase maneuverability to
help tal because this is not necessarily a stealth vessel. It's a chunky monkey
in terms of its backside, and maneuverability possibly on a planet side is going
to be more difficult. What can I say, It's got a lot of
junk in our trunk. Go on joining the trunk. So, speaking of
junk in the trunk, there's also something actually in the cargo hold of this
ship now, which we'll get to. I don't want to spoil it.
But there's some new internal cargo as well. But most importantly, you gained
a new member of the crew, and he also got a trauma lab.
Her center has been upgraded, I guess you could say, But we actually
watched the ship at the top of last episode leave Coriolis. The Defiant headed
for Kua, but we got a series of flashbacks over the two weeks.
Seul braved a mission to acquire quite a vast amount of weaponry for each of
the crew members, including himself. It just so happened that their connection that
was given to them because none of them legally on a license to purchase this
weaponry, was none other than their favorite dancer, who let them know that
she too has been kind of trapped here on Coriolis and is currently seeking and
has been seeking new work. Oh my gosh, we did so many things.
There was some personal drama that played out between our crew. Tal and
Tamir had kind of a moment between them trying to figure out what it means
for Tamir to have kind of spilled the beans about Tal being a mystic.
But because of that, we also learned that there's a possibility that Tal's sister
is a mystic, for she too is missing. Let's see what else do
we do? Oh? The doctor tried to stick her nose in a couple
of places where it was not warranted. Samir wrote a paper and had a
rather existential conversation with his brother about whether or not to reveal all the information
from their trip to Talent in this paper and what should and should not be
in there. Thanks to a very good role, a critical role, Samir
was able to slow the video that was taken out of the drone as they
made the jump to Talent, and this time it not only captured the Jinn,
which kind of smeared across the screen, but a single frame showed a
terror in time and space that looked through into the First Horizon, and there
Tamir saw the vast army of the First Horizon waiting for a door large enough
to be opened. They each had varying opinions as to how that should be
handled, but Tamir was swayed by his older brother and chose to keep a
lot of that information out of the public eye. Tamir past his paper as
well as whatever trial this was for his education, but they chose not to
publish his paper. It had some confidential information, I guess you could say.
And when all was said and done, they returned to the ship to
find a doctor waiting for something to be fulfilled. Something she was she believes
a date. And that's where we're going to pick up tonight, a date.
We find ourselves in the upper echelance of Coriolis. Here is where the
whining and the dining happens, where fashion and the non necessities of survival in
space flourish, and this restaurant is nothing to blink an eye at. She
drags you here, Malik, against your will. It doesn't matter. She's
taking you on a date and you're coming with her. Are you gonna try
to stop her? You better figure out some way because she's gonna make a
scene. If you don't, exactly, you just go and she willingly drags
you. It's as if her feet carry her to a place maybe she knows,
or she treats us places she knows where she's going, and eventually you
arrive at a very classy joint upscale. You can hear the music. I
wouldn't say this is like five star dining in that regard, as much as
this is a very hip and expensive restaurant where only the like I said,
the upper crust of Coriolis would dine. People mutter polite conversation, the clinging
of silverware, and the two of you sit at a table. She smiles
from ear to ear, waiting on you to say something. Ah, man,
I I think I think Belie just like looks at her and just like
raises anne for a waiter like that. The faster this gets over, the
faster we can get on with things. She still she does. It's almost
like, um, there's an eeriness to it. She doesn't blink um,
and she just like stares at you in this kind of um uh, this
kind of endoring way. Um. And she smiles, and the waiter comes
over. Uh. He is pretty understated, and he says, how can
I help you, sir? Um? Do we have menu stuff? Did
you prepare? Sure? Yeah you were, although you were handed all of
those. You've been sitting here for probably about five minutes or so. Um.
They've bring over a round of drinks and kind of lay them out in
front of you. Now at this turn in the cycle, what's the what's
the house special? Sure, the house special? Uh, he says,
the house special, sir, h Currently it includes fresh grown eggplant pasta alongside
hyper dried tomatoes and garlic retlish. He folds the menu, puts it down
and says, I'll have a steak medium rayer, and she'll have that.
She says, I'll have that. She nods, she doesn't even kich she'll
have it. He says, very well, the steak, how would you
like it cooked? Medium rare? Of course? He writes it down and
looks at the two of you, hurt again, just like this kind of
frozen way. Anything else, Maybe some wine to set the mood, he
gesture said the awkwardness at the table. He's thinking that too, But then
he like looks at her and realizes that there's probably some kind of medication happening
in that crazy brain, and maybe maybe wine might not be I'll take a
glass with ice cube please. Okay, that's which is like the not classiest
thing ever, he goes, of course, now just the bottle is.
She reaches over when she sees you buy the full bottle and kind of touches
your hand. She sets very sweet, thank you, I'll need it her
Yeah, uh yeah, I have a We'll see if you see that we'll
do with that later. She kind of assists there aren't when she goes,
so what now, I have no idea. You literally dragged me here,
but you said you wanted to go on a date. I assumed it was
because you know, you wanted to talk to me about something. I didn't
say that. Okay, Um, well, have you ever been to Kua?
I have not. I lived it's horrible. Oh oh, Algol is
supposed to be horrible too. You know, Kua has a place called Little
Algol. It's notething like the real Algal. Is it better or worse?
Well, I've never been to Algo proper. I've only ever seen the holograms
and the picture graphs. But I'm pretty sure that Kua and Algo don't really
have anything in common in terms of landscape and flora and fauna, but at
least to my knowledge. And she just kind of begins rambling, and there
is a matter of seconds before he is completely zoned out right, and she's
just like, yeah, it's just chatting away. Um, do you choose
to do you zone out or do you listen? Because she is talking about
the planet You're going to it. I don't know how much you know about
cool. I don't think Malik has an active choice in this matter to be
something else catches your eye. Okay, great observation. No, um,
where's my character sheek? Where's my character sheet? What are we even doing
here? My question was are you going to listen to this? Lord drop?
That's gonna be like, are you looking at us? There's something else?
Malik is not a like despite his ability to talk, he's not a
super social creature, and so like, if he doesn't care about what's being
said, he can't listen to it, he can't focus. He doesn't want
to be here, so he's not focusing on what's going on. So hey,
it's true. Okay, yeah, okay, So here's a reason why
you definitely zone her out because your your vision, you're your your your observation.
You're like zoned in on her hands. You can see around the edges
of her fingers, no matter how many times she's washed them, there's just
dried blood there. You don't know where she got it from or why there's
like dried blood under her hands and her fingernails, but it's definitely very clear
that that's what that is. Does it look old and it looks old.
I mean you definitely. Maybe she washes her hands like a doctor, but
it looks it's there, it's it's just and maybe maybe you're hyper paranoid.
Maybe she really is just creeping you out. But her mouth talks in this
slow motion as your your vision zooms in on her hands, um, which
don't shake, and they never quake. Even when she picks up her glass
of wine, which has been brought, it never ripples. Um. She's
a good surgeon, a crazy one, I think, man, I don't
think he calls it out right like, he knows that she's weird, right,
She's got some weird shit going on, and he doesn't want to make
it worse, right like, And he's also pretty sure she is an uncontrolled
mystic and he doesn't want her to have a spas a tag and fucking I
donna lay someone on fire with her mind or something like that. So I
don't know how mystics work. It's all new, it's literally all You continue
to get more and more paranoid at the dinner table as you see the blood
and you're like, oh my god, she is a mystic. Did she
kill someone? I don't know. I don't really want to say anything,
because then she might kill me. She could set me on fire. Is
that what mystics due? And this is the non mystics due the train of
thought. As your mind begins to wonder, and it's actually her voice,
it kind of echoes off into the distances. You ignore her, that kind
of null and dull sound to her voice, and she goes you simply hears
a bleak, huh mille bleak, and kind of when you shake it off
and come to, you realize it's not she's going maleak, I'm sorry,
bleak, and she points. There's now a man standing next to you.
It's Tell's father. Oh thank god. He looks down at you. He's
in full uniform this time. You have not seen him in full uniform,
very well dressed man, all black. And I don't mean like like a
military grade. He's in like a high collared like black shirt, buttoned up
his um. I would say that his ranking and things are like on his
shirt, but he doesn't wear military garb. Behind him stands another figure about
ten feet off. You can't miss them. They in fact are dressed in
a full on suit helmet, bounty hunter suit. Paul Dren's The Works and
they carry a gun at their side. This is a proper judicator. H.
He looks at mister Teal's dad. Um, I don't think tal does
your name tape on your like flight suit? Does it just say Tale?
I'm Talma? But does it say Tuma? I think I ever checked in
it every I've checked in it every, don't. I don't think he's paid
attend. Yeah, I don't think I've never used my last name. He
looks up to mister Tell's dad. He probably has his name on his shirt.
That's probably true. Do you want to see um? Actually he does
not have his name on his shirt. Well, he got his first name.
I don't think I've been asked. Um, that's okay. Um does
he does he have a first name? Or have we gotten that yet?
Um? I think I did one? Hold on, I feel like he
did and I can't remember. I gotta find the doc girl. I don't
know it anyways. That's okay. You can call him mister Tuma. That
would be I'm fine. Mister Tal's dad great. And when he looks to
him and he says, did you like a seat and motions to the she
goes, but we're having a date. He looks down and he says,
I apologize for interrupting on such an occasion. Just just see the table.
I think Malika's is looking back and forth between them, not aren't you going
to introduce me? Yes, this is doctor Lamara. She's the doctor on
the ship. That's Tal's dad, the captain of the ship's I love tal
Gee though she has been so nice to me. He's so nice to meet.
She stands and like shakes his hand. He shakes it back very normally.
He has no idea that she's a crazy person. Uh, just that
she's a doctor. And he says, well, it is been a long
time since we've had a doctor aboard that vessel, and um, I'm glad
to know that there's a proper doctor aboard vessel with my daughter. She kind
of like and sits back down. I think the Lake has an uncontrolled smirk
just across his whole face when he says a proper doctor, like he doesn't
even notice it creep out that this is like the weirdest smirk he has.
He says, like a seat. He says, actually, I was wondering
if the two of you would like to join us, and he gestures to
the judicator behind him in a private room and he gestures over there's this really
beautiful kind of midnight blue glass wall that clearly have these kind of private eating
nooks that are kind of like VIP rooms that look into the main dining hall
here um, and he gestures to an empty one. There's a beautiful woman
and like a wrapped dress floor lake standing next to which kind of gestures to
the open door as if it is it is yours. He says, of
course, I hate to interrupt. If it is a problem, I can
always reschedule. Looks to Lamara and then back to uh, Captain Tuma and
she says, uh, you know we we had a previous engagement from the
last time we talked, so it's not an interruption role. I think we're
would you like to go join them at the larger table with the fancy it's
the private room, and he's like he starts to stand out planning something.
You're planning something dre She kind of agreans to get excited about this, and
like she gets up and uh, she goes, I don't do I leave
the water Should I take the watermelon? Don't do I leave it? Are
they gonna bring us to ones you did take take your water? It's fine,
okay, She like picks it up, and people begin kind of looking
at you as the four of you walk over to this private room and the
door sits closed behind you. There are floor seats here. There are these
big, beautiful floor pillows, six of them, around a circular table in
this kind of rather small space. The table hovers um and each of you
kind of take your seat. The judicator stands next to the door. Uh,
it's a couple buttons on the wall, and you see the kind of
blue pane of glass, excuse me go tinted blocking out people's ability to be
able to see you, though not your ability to be able to see that.
And he simply says, I felt. He says, I'm sorry it's
taken me so long to report back to you on the information you requested.
It has been a busy time, that's completely. I was afraid I had
missed you. You had already left. There was a whole thing with It's
not important, no, and even if you had, you could have still
used the card to messod it to me. It's fine. Were you able
to find the information I asked for? I was able to find some information,
and it seemed rather serendipitous that a specific judge reached out to me,
asking me to assist and providing more information. I'm guessing it is no secret
that the immissary is missing to everyone or to me. He says, well,
hopefully not just to you. I know it took place while you were
off station. The crew is aware. We've tried to keep it from the
general public, but the longer it waits, the more it begins to seep
into the lips and words of the people on the street. The emmissary had
quarters here upon Coriolis. Most people did not know private quarters, floor ninety
six. This is two hundred floors higher than you've ever been the where you
are now, which is the cream of the crop. I don't know how
much you know about those floors and what's up there, but there is a
probably not a lot, probably not. They had a private apartment where they
spent the majority of their time. By judicator and he kind of gestures,
the best one on my staff, this is judicated Kausha. Were they assigned
there? No, the emissary was taken and attacked in their homes. He
puts something kind of reaches in his pocket, pull something out, puts it
on the table under his hand. You can hear metal clink on it as
he slides it over to you and roves his hand. It is a key,
a door key, and he says in that same kind of fashion,
he puts his hand on it and slides it over to himself. He goes,
this is a key. This currently marked and labeled us a crime scene
judicator. Kausha will escort you there and answer any additional questions that you have
while on site. I suggest you investigate it if it is of interest to
you before you leave the station, and he leans them closer to Captain.
Two months as that your dear other daughter. That's for my daughter. She's
been missing for roughfully about a week and a half. She had stopped speaking
to her mother and I, spending most of her time in the cellar,
which was no new event. But within the last six months since the immissaries
appearance, she has been different changed. Her mother is convinced that she has
was hiding mystic powers. I believe that it is something different, different how
because I do not believe that she has mystic powers. I believe that she
is part of the team that is moving and killing the mystics. Oh,
I am not sure on this. There as much currently happening on corel as
it seems to be beyond my security measures. Even some of my own staff
are compromised. So you want to know where she is? She is probably
on Kua Great Is she there as a prisoner? I do not know.
And your wife has no idea of your She have a mindset that the mystics
cause problems for our kind, that they are harbingers of the darkness. I
caught that. I don't know that it would do my wife any good to
confirm that not one, but both of her daughters maybe mistakes or worse,
one of them, he's a mass murderer. Understood, I leave her grieving
to simply be a missing child. Understood. Is this is when with Mora
steps up. She goes, um, I feel like I'm missing some information.
Who's missing? He looks over and goes, you are, And the
doctor goes, that is definitely a mistake. So as to me here what
He kind of looks over and he goes, and how do you know such
information? She goes, I can feel it. I'm sorry what I mean,
EmPATH, I always have been feeling things, and she kind of runs
her hand down your leg. Uh, Malik, No, what about she
goes, Oh, I'm um ta Miror. He gives off that same aura,
you know, as an impath, you just kind of feel it.
I don't know. Oh well i'll tell you about howel let's see. Well,
I've always kind of been an impath. A little you know, come
out to me is the one I'm curious about. Um well, um tam
Or, did you have mystic powers before or after? Yours? Didn't kick
it until after the jump, right, I thought you were just the jump
constant. Maybe yeah, I thought you were asking engaged. No, this
is my brain. Sorry, my brain had like a yeah, we both
took mystic powers after the jump, after the jump as a level up.
Yeah. Yeah. So it's kind of weird because really, the first time
I met them, I thought, Wow, these are pretty normal and wonderful
people. And then when you came and got me and we came back,
I saw it, you know, the aura of whatever. So I guess
I guess it had to happen between the first and the second time you saved
me. Father is taking all of this in Yeah, He turns immediately to
Tala's father and says, I assume, much like your half of the conversation,
this half is also in confidence. He says, I lived my life
in confidence. Great, and I have no interest in putting my own daughter
at risk. And before any more secrets slip out of anywhere that I don't
know about already, secrets, what secrets we should we should any kind of
like motions like a we should separate kind of thing to captain Tuma. He
kind of nods, um, and he says, what you're done with the
key? He kind of slides a piece of paper over. He says,
you can drop an in an envelope with this location. It will get back
to me. Please don't take the key to the emissary's apartment. Isn't that
out of out of character? Isn't that where the key goes to? Yes,
but he means, don't take him with you. Oh, like what
you're done investigating, Please make sure that the key comes back evidence locker to
give to you. Mum. And he slides in small envelope over and he
says, in this you're also going to want um. He looks at the
Judicatorum and again gestures and says, they can give you everything else you'll need
to know. Um, I will depart, as will we. He looks
too caution says, if you don't mind accompany me back to the ship.
I need to talk to the crew before we and he like motions to the
envelope and slides the envelope off the table as well. Kasha. Um simply
nons there's like no response to you. Um, tell us father exists first,
and you watch through the kind of double paned glass wall as they exit
the restaurant. Um. A new waiter comes in, noticing the judicator moving
right on and looks at the two of you and says in a much friendlier
fake voice. Being the upper crust of the upper crust, is there anything
else I can get you? Uh? No, I think we're actually just
leaving. But you haven't had your dinner yet. It's almost ready, are
you sure? Um? And you know? Do we can? I have?
It's work, it's work, but it's very important. She looks at
where she goes, can we take it to go? Norman goes, of
course, I'll box it. Yeah, I get to go. That makes
sense, It makes sense. She comes back not but minutes later with your
very high quality fresh food in a box to go thanks to Mali. So
this date has been cut short. She takes it and she says the she
says, and your bill has been paid in total. Oh dank keeps getting
better and better. Thank you so much. It's been a wonderful environment here.
The ambiance is amazing, the wine was outstanding. I'm sure the food
will be great, wonderful. I'll pass you review along. Thank you so
much. I have to go, and he like, he like makes sure
to grab Lamara by the wrist and not by the hand. It starts to
lead her out of the h and Lamar is like, oh, oh wait,
stop pulling, and she kind of like follows more like a child than
anything behind you as you head back to the ship. Yeah, it's now
much the reverse of the scene coming in where she's dragging Mali dragging her out.
Yeah, he's he's very much headed right back to the ship. I
assume Kasha is. Yeah, the judicator. The judicator keeps a distance from
you. They don't want to be seen walking with you, but you're aware
that they are following you back now that they couldn't find you if they wanted
to. But Malik is going to before we get to before we get to
the actual ship proper. I kind of want to find not like a secluded
place, but like a place that's like not may people are walking by,
so he can have a private word with m Lamara before we get to the
ship. Sure, there's a small alleyway. Sure, and I would assume
Kasha like stands in the entryway. Yeah. There, they are basically trailing
the whole way there. So if you stop, they stop. Yeah.
He looks to Lamara and says, listen. I understand you push your gamma's
alleyway. She puckers for a kiss. He leans. He immediately leans back
and says, no, it's not. This is work related. Oh.
I understand that you're an EmPATH and you can feel mystics. I don't know
if you have seen the news in the past several months. Oh, they
didn't like the news in the hospital. They said it upset me, it
will upset you, and what I'm going to tell you probably will too.
So I need you to listen very closely. Okay, she leans in closer.
People are killing mystics, so if you can sense them, or you
think you are one, you need to keep that to yourself. Why would
I don't know, but that's our job to find out, is why people
are killing them. Oh, that's what that means. So it's like a
secret. It's a secret that if people know about it could get you killed.
She wan't. I once once is more than most people have. Usually
once is all it takes. Kind of thanks, she goes, why would
they want to be taking the mystics. I don't know, but that's what
the crew is trying to figure out. So don't tell anyone. Don't tell
anyone. Don't tell anyone about especially not about Tamir and Tale and yourself.
And if you sense anyone I'm not a mystic, okay, And if you
sense that anyone else might be, only let us know and quietly. So
let you know if I see another mystic like that one She points across the
street as somebody, a random person. Yeah, that's they are terrifyingly useful.
The crew is, okay, we know, so you can tell us,
but quietly and not in public. Quietly, I'm not in public.
It's for safety. For safety. Can I get that kiss now? No?
Okay? She probably still puckers up and like as you walk off,
she kind of stumbles, thinking that she's leading in for a kiss, and
as you continue back, she putters along behind you and she goes under her
breath. She's like, and that one that bursh my there that they are
and they are, and she tells you the whole way back everyone that she
sees under her breath, And I love the faces on the screen right now
are killing me, killing me, killing me? And you you make get
back to the ship. Now, why the dinner date. While the dinner
date is happening, there's about three days left before you were planning on leaving,
before everything was kind of going to be complete. They have installed over
the course of the day, your trauma. Lad, that's what they've been
working on. And the kind of construction crew for the vessel has exited for
the day, leaving to mirror Twell and Seoul together inside the ship without a
crazy doctor and without Malik for at least a couple of hours. You know
that they have in fact gone on a proper date. I'm gonna go to
Seoul's room at one point, knock on the door. You here, just
like him, like hold on, it's just like stuff rustling, things falling
apart, shit just dropping, oh shit, And You'm like pick something up.
Are you okay? I would be bad. I opened the door,
Hi, and he's holding a grenade. Hi. Um, he quickly puts
it away. I please don't blow up my ship. I was just I
was just doing inventory. Cool. Well, speaking of inventory, Um,
I know you already saw it, but um, because you had to get
it. But I got this for you. And I hand you a very
small package that's wrapped. Um is this a bomb? Are you trying to
get rid of me? No? Just just open it. You you've already
seen what's in it. You ordered it. It's a night sight. Oh.
He opens it up very cautiously, and he's like, I sau,
I wouldn't know what this is, right, Yeah, it's a piece for
a gun. Oh. He's like fascinated by like looking through the school but
it was like, whoa, this is awesome. Well I figured it would
fit perfectly on the rifle about one degree. What yeah, yeah, thank
you, this is great. Yeah. I figured that would be useful for
Kua. I don't should I give you? Um? You don't. He
starts like he just starts looking through stuff like it's fine, so I have
I have a and he pulls a giant axe out I have. Would you
like this? Uh nope, nope, I'm good. There's something a bit
more flexible. No, you know, the brass knuckles you got me is
perfect. Okay, uh yeah, so but I just you know, I
thought, because I want you to be able to see well in the dark,
to shoot people if we need to. You don't want anything in return?
No, it's called a present soul. People you know, give them
to each other when they would like he los a thing. It's just I
thought you might enjoy it. That reminds me, And he like runs back
into the closet and he pulls out your dad's shirt awkwardly and very ocd folded
like to the t to the to the angles. He's like, thank you
for lending me this. Oh, you're welcome. If you ever need to
borrow it again, I'll it's here for you. Yeah, of course,
thank you. I feel like you want to kill me less, and I
think that's progress. I appreciate that. Thank you. I don't think I've
ever wanted to kill anyone in my life. Really. Maybe, man,
your face is punchable, but it I wouldn't want to kill you. Punchhapball.
You mean I should wear like better? Face mask. Sure. I
mean, there's just something about the words that come out sometimes that just make
me want to punch you. It's it's fine. Huh. Malik has the
same kind of face. Oh, well, that's not good. I don't
want to be compared to Malik. Don't be like a man. Well,
if you can point out the flaws, I will do my best to observe
them. You know, those things that you don't like about him, don't
do that. There's a lot. Okay, there you go. You got
a starting point. Well, um, anyways like that, Okay, I'm
uh okay, Well, thank you. I guess you sure you don't like
want anything back for the scope I'm not familiar with. No, noah,
huh okay. How are you doing? Are you? Um? Uh okay?
He tries to like awkwardly like pat your shoulder, like he does not
comfort people. Tal kind of gives you a look like are you for real?
I picked up a book about social interactions and uh, it told me
in this page, and he's like flipping through pages. Should I lost it?
Well, in this book it said physical contact could somehow sometimes provide comfort
for those in distress. And I understand the news that you were given with
your family may put anyone in a form of distress. So if you ever
need physical contact comfort, I'm sure I can get to mirror that. One
actually gets a laugh out of town. Oh well, because I'm sure you
don't want it from a league. I don't really want I don't think anybody
wants anything from a league, So you know, soul, I think this
really helped. This helped. Thanks, all right, I'm glad. He
pulls out a small piece of paper and he writes down a little check mark
and he puts it away. Wait what is he check marking? Next to
try he kind of tries to hide it. If you want to see it,
you can try to. You can roll an observation. You wouldn't really
want to see it. Uh, what do I want to if you want
to try to hide it, It's that's almost like an infiltration because it's an
agility base like hiding it, like folding it in a way. I would
take infiltration, or you could just do a straight agility to try to hide
it from her. But if you want to see this observation, I'll just
do a regular a jilly Yeah, oh that's on it. Okay, Oh
no, no, no, yeah. You you try, you think you
almost get it, and you're like, what's on that? And it folds
almost um legal leakally split a fold in one hand as it's gone before you
know, oh you know. Just it's a self reflecting though, well,
good on you. Self reflection as always a good thing. He's just quietly
there and just there. I will I will start walking away because this is
just too awkward and Tie can't handle it anymore. So just waits until you
like out of sight and he just here, door closes shut, and so
you're left standing there with this gift, a gift that is given to you
out of complete charity. Yeah, there is no expectation of anything in return
for this. He kind of stares at it like he knows what the hardware
is. However, he carries it like a child because he's just like,
I feel like this is going to blow up? Right? Is it a
trick? Who's trying to trick me? And these things kind of run through
your head. I need you to roll uh u No, no, no,
not to drop it, not to drop it. I'm actually going to
have you, um, I want to have you do this. This is
a um he's making a Yeah, no, no, no, it's not.
Maybe you go to like set this down like very gingerly on your side
table. Um it has all of these weapons are being stored in your bunk.
Yes, yeah, they're kind of like rack. There's a few in
the crate that I'm just kind of like sorting through. But the more higher
tier ones are kind of put up on racks on top of like a little
desk that he's made. Okay, Um, he's just kind of has a
box of like miscellaneous things. Primarily there's only like four or five they're on
rack. The rest are kind of just like jumbled the round. Okay,
I need you for me to roll a strength check. Oh god, something
else, okay, strength to start there. Your knees begin to buckle.
You catch yourself as you go to set the scope down, searing pain in
your arm. Searing pain in your arm. If you grab it, he
doesn't stop, as if somebody is branding you, and maybe even you.
You slide your sleeve back or rip it off to see what it is.
Your tattoo burns an ember blue color. The bioscopes that are like underneath it,
the bionic bits that are underneath it, move and slither in your skin.
It's like somebody has flipped an on switch. Now you you successfully mitigate
the pain you felt pain before. Now I need a witch check. Oh
shit, damn okay, oh let me the success but one A headache is
the best way to describe. It begins to kind of sear in your head
and you maybe you have a seat on your bad or trying to kind of
put yourself in a more comfortable position as your mind is trying to wonder.
It's trying to, like like almost in a meditative state, leave your body.
And you manage to keep yourself here. Maybe you pinch yourself, maybe
you snack yourself a few times on the face, but your your mind is
trying to exit your body. And as you come back into yourself, your
arms still burning from pain, you kind of managed to catch your breath.
Your heart is racing, your visions a little glory, and you get that
starry eyes as if somebody has punched very hard on the face. Maybe it
was you, or maybe it was just this your mind trying to leave you.
You're unsure, but the pain begins to subside as you're left in your
bunk by yourself, catching your breath and the camera spends over to Tama.
What have you been up to, Tamir? I mean, I think Camir,
aside from fixing the bike in the meantime, roll for you again.
You got a critical good ship you did. I'm still gonna have you roll
it to more. You're gonna roll three times. I'm only having you roll
twice. Fine, um, very much. Obsessing over that freeze frame,
that's that's that's bugging him. Are you just laying there looking at it?
No? No, like that obsessive No, No, obsessive to the point
where he's going over all of the data again and trying to see if he
can figure out how to open that gate before they do, to possibly stop
it or reverse it or some sort of thing like that. He's obsessively looking
at the numbers. Okay, I would say, you have time to obsessively
look over the numbers, but problem in this amount of time, but not
necessarily fix the bike. The bike may just have to come at a different
time. But I just use obsessively look over these numbers. I'm going to
take another technology role from you, okay, because you're it's better than data
gen, isn't it for you? Oh? Yeah, I don't Yeah,
that's what I thought. I have science attech. Yeah, let's do technology
though. Okay, you scour and you run the numbers and you run the
numbers, and you're just trying to figure out what's going on here. Um,
something inspires you maybe if this is not the first, if this is
the first time that this has happened, a new vessel has come through,
was it success on the first try? Why are the wet rest of the
ship's waiting? So as your mind begins to wander, you realize that they've
not been as successful, which means that they have probably sent vessel after vessel
banging on the door literally, which means you're gonna need to go to files
before the event and Hamira if you want more information on them trying to break
through the other side, You're gonna need to go back and look for things
that like your average data person, which is like, oh, yeah,
the portals are up and running day to day activity, but there might be
something else there you would need to get problem. You would know that you
need to get special permissions and get that data transferred from Hamia that's the Hamarabe
station and Hamira to Coriolis or to your vessel proper. But you it's literally
like a light bulb goes off, and it's like, well, if this
was literally in terms of the timeline, this is their first success getting something
through. It means they could have like every scientific process tried a thousand times
before it happened. Can you read the thousand fails as more information? But
you're gonna need to go back in data. Okay um uh, let's see
dismalik download all of the data. Yeah, buddy, I love you brother.
Yep, yeah, yep. Who has the Who has the stone?
The one that was given to you by but priests Showley haul Talma has that
stone? Okayama gave it back. It's hers cool. Never know what it
does. We have a few things that I was going to work on.
Great. Then that's probably where the camera cuts as we see to me,
or actually the camera cut yet. Oh h You hear a knock on your
door as well, probably interrupting your concentration. Oh, just taking us a
little advice. The door button and it just opens, hey, um,
got a minute. Uh yeah, and he just kind of like wipes his
eyes because he's been staring at as you do that. You hear a thump
on your bed and you as you turn you see a large rectangular metal box.
This is for you. What is it? You got to open it
to hand out? Okay, and he'll go ahead and stand up and open
the box. You have a chameleon suit. Oh what? As you open
the box, let's see if you know what that is, you can try
to identify it. Um, that's probably going to be a that is a
science role to know probably what that is. Okay, Um, you've probably
only ever heard of them, You've never seen them. This is very high
military attire. If if Seul's here, you could definitely point it out.
It's this fancy suit tight fitting. Kind of reminds you of Sul's dad's suit,
except the the the material that it is woven from is very different and
it's less sticky. It's brand new. I was gonna say it has less
history, but sticky says the same thing, doesn't It does the same thing,
doesn't it? So you kind of look at it. You can even
pull it out as the light hits it is what you notice? This seems
to be some kind of stealth gear. Oh how did you acquire something like
this? There's a lot of stuff in that order from Seoul, this is
incredible. Did you get the one for everybody? Uh? No, just
one for you. I couldn't really afford one for everybody, but I figured
you are the least likely to be able to fight out of all of us
or want to fight, so hiding is your best bet. Doesn't know how
to breathe in a moment and and not um you know, I I got
something just in case and they kind of like reach under his bead like he
hiding it. M But in that order from Seoul is u it was that
shock stick like I'm ready to fight. Well, now you can hide and
fight as the last resort or you know, it's more armor so if you
get into a fight, you're a little bit more protected. Thank you,
Tom, this is incredible. I mean you do not have to do this,
let alone spend money just arming my crew for what's up next. Thank
you. I sincerely appreciate the preparedness. One of the things my dad taught
me. Always be prepared for anything that could possibly happen. Speaking of which,
have you heard from your parents at all? Doing? Okay? Any
worked about her sister? Nothing? But I was just about to try something.
What do you mean well, you know before you said that if I
concentrated, I might be able to activate the whatever a gift? Yeah,
so why not see if maybe it'll help me find her? That is incredible?
Um, how are you going to try it? Dude? Do you
know what you need to do? Is there anything you need get to help?
I don't know. Um, I don't know how any of this works.
If it does work, so you know, UM, I don't learn.
Did you want to stay with me while I tried? Or oh?
Yes, of course, to make sure that you're okay, Okay, it
looks painful when you shut the fuck up like it looks painful, or yes,
I mean it's kind of like blinking and when you open your eyes in
someone else's vision. Okay, But if I can, you know, try
to focus on her and see what she's seeing, I might be able to
figure out where she is. That'd be an amazing Um. Did you want
to do it here or in the Trumba lab or your room? What would
be safer, more comfortable? I have no idea. All Lumar's out right
now. So being in the travel I was not going to do anything anyways,
and I just kind of plopped down on your bed, and I'm like,
all right, I take the stone out of my pocket and I just
hold it in my hands, in my lap, and i'd be in her
hand. You can hear it that like ring under just under the white noise.
Okay, tell you can't um and you kind of break it out.
You just hold it in your hand, you said, yeah, going to
just like essentially feel the creases on it, the engravings, turning it over
in my head, close my eyes, and just concentrate on the thought and
the memories of Julissa. Okay, So you're looking for your sister, Yes,
all right, I'm gonna have you roll your mystic ability. Um.
I get two darkness points for activating the stone. Yeah, so you know,
I have no idea what that does. It's fine, that's fine because
that's basically what you're trying to do, is like activate the stone to to
do something, um, and to connect it, to use it to connect
with your sister. You have any modifiers on the roll? Um? I
don't believe. So I don't think it gives you any Let me just stumble
check right one I can I have all the steps for this one item in
particular and out symmestry it's symmetry stone. Okay. Oh okay, I don't
like that. Okay, do you do you have? Do you have culture?
No? Okay? Um, all right, roll your mystic ability,
oh god, okay um again it begins to glow in her hand, Samir.
You can hear this ringing. It begins to um like increase in pitch
and the vibrations coming out from it. You can begin to feel it in
your chest. Um. I'm also gonna have you roll. Um. You
can roll a culture if you like um, or your artifice or talent,
because it is an it is an item. Okay. I'd have to do
the artifice or talent then because I don't have culture. Cool. Uh so
that would just be the mystic, right, just the mystic ability, the
mystic power. One limited success, pay another one success because yours was so
a lot of ones. Yours was just a flat six with note. Okay,
um, you have you can tell it's like starting the engine of something
up and it doesn't have enough power. It's like you felt the rock like
and it's like it's it's it's alternating, or like sitting at medium energy and
you haven't urge to reach out and put your hand on top of her hand
or under her hand, or you know, to touch her hand with the
stone. I don't even think it was a conscious effort, Like his hand
is already there. Yeah, it like calls out to you and yeah,
touch. And what it does is you watches the stone finish finishes, powering
up, and light burst out of all of the drawings on the stone,
filling the room. It projects onto the walls. You can see these carvings
now on a more mass scale, symbols of the icons um kind of all
around you. And the ringing in your ear now pings in Tawel's ear.
You can hear it. The moment he touches it, and both of you
the light becomes like a lot and it wipes out your vision, and the
both of you see through a single set of eyes. There you are in
a You're being held captive at somewhere You're unsure. There are a lot of
people around you. They seem tortured and ill um Across the way you can
see there are even some dead bodies in the kind of holding facility, the
holding room across the way, or the gel cell um, and the bo
you're like inhibiting gets up and walks over to what is like a very cracked
mirror or window, and as they look out, you can see the jungles
of Kua. They are planet's side. They are vast and mass, and
the trees are bigger than your ship, one of them. They're huge.
And the reflection on the mirror you can see it now through these eyes,
it is that of priests. Shorely, she sees you, and in her
voice and in both of your minds, you hear her say, I see
you tell Tuma. I try to think at her. We're coming. I
know, but you should hurry your sister. She kind of pauses and look
guards in judicator attire that should not be on Kola walk down the hallway.
She kind of whispers into the glass again, you should hurry your sister.
She and she turns again. Your sister stands on the opposite side of the
jail cell and a judicator attire. She holds her helmet under one arm,
and she says, hey, who are you talking to? Surely turns.
They make eye contact. There's something between them. There's like a moment.
Your sister notes it, nods and walks away. She says, you should
hurry your sister. Cannot keep it up much longer. Do you say anything?
Is it an act for self preservation? Like always? She says,
Your sister has never been one for self preservation, and your sister, she
is always acting, won't be there soon, I know. Tell Tuma,
I know. And the vision kind of begins to fade. A smile crosses
the face of the woman in the reflection and on this window that overlooks the
jungles of Kua, and as a light fades, the both of you are
the lasted backwards, one onto the bed, one onto the floor of Tamir's
room. The hand, your hand, your hand towel is now the rock.
You grip it very hard, um, and it is steaming kind of
this blue essence um of energy and light. Well, that sure was something,
wasn't it. We're just gonna get up and go over to Toll and
just kind of like look her over real quick and make sure that she is
okay. We know what your sister is t She's okay. Yeah. Would
I have heard that thump? I'd say you probably heard a like of energy,
um that let out, not like a blaster or pistol or anything,
but yeah, like energy, like somebody let all out like an air blast
in a room down the hallway. That's all okay, Please continue. She's
going to be okay for a little while at most. Yes, So we
need to hurry and get to them as soon as we can. Look,
the ship upgrades are almost done. We'll leave as soon as we can.
I'm impatient too, but there's only so much we can do. We have
to get there and get in without being seen. Hence, and I waved
my hand over the open case. But the priestess, she gave us a
gift. She showed us what she is. I know I can. Were
there any like notable landmarks? I think While Tall was more talking, Tamir
was observing. They're like like rock fixture, a tree that's twisted into some
sort of way. Do you think back looking out of the window, there
are a couple signifying things about Kua. Kua is the jungle, and the
jungle is Kua. This is the saying for the planet, and this is
very true. The entire surface is covered in the thickest rainforests like jungle that
you could possibly imagine. The other defining factor about Kua is a ancient It's
called the monolith, but it's an ancient building that was taken over by the
family that left the Zenith before it was turned into Coriolis and settled on the
surface. It was left here by what is believed to be the ancients,
the same one who built the portals. The tribal people of Kua were affixiated
kind of to the base of it and were cleared out and gentrif find displaced,
I guess you could say, and the area was gentrified at the base
of the monolith. Nowadays there's an entire city at the base of the monolith,
and the monolith itself is massive enough that you can see it from space
in the orbit around Coriolis. This huge. Actually, I've got I can
show you. I've got a picture of it in a growth one day buying
there is this is the monolith, and you can see these are the tops
down here at the bottom are the tops of the tallest buildings. Can I
ping that? Yeah, those are the tops of the tallest buildings of the
city at the base of the monolith. Can you go see that? Yeah?
Okay, cool? You very clearly from wherever they were at can see
the monolith on the horizon. There are a few miles from the monolith of
like through the jungle away from the monolith on Koa. Okay, that would
be the only signifying thing the rest of it. I would say, you
would you know what, you would have recognized this that this is the cells
that they were in are repurposed gel cells don't usually have windows, and based
on the h dossier you were given, you knew that it is believed that
they are repurposing an old medical facility on the surface of Kua, and that
that aligns with the images that you saw. Okay, okay, So that's
kind of what you take away. And I'm guessing then about this time is
when Sewell comes next door, do you follow the sounds? Yeah, but
he doesn't knock. The door opens up and you see they're kind of across
the way from each other's now standing um Towel and Samir They something's up,
but everything looks normal, uh am, I interrupting, No, do you
need something? So I had a thump. I thought, you know something,
I exploded. I can't find one of my grenades, so I was
kind of hoping I would expect any thump would come from your room. So
so no explosion, No, there was not an explosion here. Okay,
are you guys Okay, what was the that? Did? I just not
just talking about some stuff? Oh? Are you packed in what I did
to go? Yes? Great, we were going to be leaving as soon
as possible. Okay, um to me? To me? Or how how
familiar are you with hypothetically hYP hypothetically speaking tiny little and nano bought possible things
You've mean just genetic nano technology. It's not not quite my field of study,
right, Okay? Have you ever have you ever uh seeing like people
embedding possible robotic maybe thingies into you know, like um, clothing, uh,
teeth replacement, tattoos, like uh, appendages, like fingers replacements,
any kind of like weird things in that category. H I don't nobody you're
asking me. I thought that this common practice with the syndicate. Right,
nice talking to you. Just walk away. As you walk away and the
door opens, there's a very loud on the back end of the ship,
as if somebody is knocking at the cargo door. I will slip the thing
back in my pocket and go towards the cargo bay. Yeah, follow two
again. Yeah, you head over to the cargo bay. The door uh
drops down they're in front of you stand two kind of men in like these
work suits. They have a very large crane that has like is holding another
large item, a large box in fact um and he says, um,
I'm making a delivery for a captain tal Tuma. Yes, he goes,
I need you to sign and he hands you a data pad. Is that
my crawler? I will sign for that? What is that? This is
a fun toy. I can't wait to drive this thing. You be Soul's
kind of confused. I'm just like he goes out, it's gonna be a
big one board in here. Yeah, it looks around and everything old.
What did you do? Look? Once we get down to where we're going,
this will not be very maneuverable. That will uh signature happens the other
guy on the pad, the crane, the hover crane like it scrapes the
top of your ship as it just fits in. The crane drops this box.
There is exactly like two foot by two foot on either side of this
thing. He kind of walks over and hits a button and the crank.
The sides fold up. These panels size fold up on the box it came
in, and it reveals what's known as a crawler. A crawler is a
in this case, it's a track based vehicle, thing like tank tracks,
meant for extreme planets, desert planets, jungle and let's see, it holds
about six people. There does seem to be a small platform on the back
of it that you might be able to strap stuff too, if you needed
to carry extra You enter an exit through a top port, just like a
tank, and you can see there are slight when around the edge of it,
so you can like see out if you choose to enter your new vehicle.
He hands over keys to the captain. Yea, they clink in your
hands, and he goes, I'm glad I'm not going where you're going,
because he goes, if you deliver a crawler, you're headed to hostile environments,
whether war or a hostile planet. And yeah, they exit, and
he hits the button on the way so that the bay comes up when you
go in to take a look. It's got a couple of things. Basically,
there's a driver's seat and five additional seats they line the edges of it,
if that makes sense. There's a very small believe men hit in here
like a men area. You can run some diagnostics. Basically, the cabin
is confensates for temperature hatch on the ceiling that'll open with hydraulics to get you
out of something. If you're buried, it will like push it up.
It doesn't go over eighty kilometers on level ground and fifty kilometers on hilly terrain.
Level three calms that you can connect to whoever's wearing all of your communits
basically, and there are you see, there are no weapons, but there
are explosive like harpoons that come out of the side that can ground it in
case you're an extreme weather so it won't blow it around and it can't be
moved, or you might be able to like attach yourself to the side of
a mountain or something like that. They are not really directional harpoons. Their
purpose is to as this says, crawlers have third level comment an explosive harpoons
to fasten the crawler into the ground during a store. So again not really
weapons, but used to again to deal with harshrain. It's much tighter in
here now is the three of you have to kind of scoot around the edges.
It thanks the question where you're gonna keep the cargo tw yeah, this
is very, very big. I know, this is incredible, right,
Oh man, I'm so excited. I've always wanted one of these. All
right, did you even come into thought this was only for military use?
You know, I've got connections, Um, I know people, You're not
going to be staying in the cargo bay. So I was just like back
and forth. It's like, besides, it's not like we have that much
stuff, so there's gonna be some boxes in the dining hall for a little
while, but everyone will be happy when we don't have to walk on Kua.
I'm kind of with team Tall on this one. Are you going to
walk and carry all of your gear for several miles terrain? There's god knows
icons nose what out there. It's I mean, I felt like the best
option. Yeah, no, I You're absolutely right. This is definitely necessary.
Like back for like, fuck, I don't feel like you really meant
that soul, But it's okay. I'm doing the best I can for everyone
here. I'm working on my social interaction and that is the best I can
do. And about this time, you're a different door on the ship from
above. Open up the one actually connects into Coriolis proper um. It seems
that maybe they're back from their date. Um I've already put a package on
Malik's bed as well. You definitely know they're back because you can hear the
quickened footsteps and lively voice of Lumira, who goes, it's it's here,
it's here, The trauma lives here, Liu, and she kind of clearly
trying to drag drag my leak around Malik. You managed to get away from
her. She is very excited about the new trauma, Abu. So that
you have a chance in your room to take a breath and take a moment
to gather yourself after tonight's events, and you can even look over the items
that were given to you and there's a gift or there's a box on your
bed. I don't even think he makes it to his room yet. Like
as soon as he is released from the clutches of Lumara, he's going to
hit the coms and over the like the loudspeaker because he doesn't have time to
forgot where anyone is. Tell we need to talk, like right now,
all right, all right, where do you want to meet me? Bridge
is fine? Private conversation, Private conversation. Yep, I'm going to be
a part of this. Yeah, no, here, why don't you come
to the cogo? You should? I meet you in your room, but
I will go to Malik's room, not going to the bridge if you want,
there's no because there's not enough space to stop her around this thing.
She shimmis passed faster than the two of You're like, wait, wait,
wait, wait, I look at me. I imagine she could crawls up
on it and like fall or something. Yeah. Soul looks directly into me
and goes like, if this wasn't here, we could have stopped her,
and walks away to could stop her from doing anything. He's just he's just
pick my shoes. So make sure that you find that grenade. Please.
He's gone, He's leaving. God. So Malik gets to his room and
I think he's too preoccupied. He pushes the box aside and pulls the chair
out from the small desk in his room and sits in the chair and it's
waiting for tal to get there. I show up just a moment later.
What's up? You need to come in the room, okay, And as
soon as you're in, he stands up and locks the door and says,
I just had a meeting completely unplanned with your father, A date with dad.
You'd say, I wouldn't say I called it. I called it.
I called it. I'm going to tell you this much and that I'm not
going to tell you anything else because it could compromise you as a captain.
What you tell the rest of the crew is up to you. Only your
mother thinks your sister is a mystic. Your father is convinced and has intel
that she is causing or at least working with the people causing the mysticides.
He's fine with letting your mother grieve over the loss of a daughter. I
don't think he wants her returned either way. I don't know what she is
or what she's doing, but you need to be aware that there's more than
one outcome. She may not be just a mystic, and she may not
be on whatever side we think we're on. I sit in the open chair
and I say, you know, I'm like, I just had a very
interesting experience. I suppose I just had a vision through the eyes of a
mystic that I knew was being held, and I saw my sister. Okay,
she is working with them, but I'm not entirely sure she's working with
them. That's fine, and I don't care either way. I want you
to not be surprised if she is. I understand, appreciate your work,
and I understand how difficult it would be if Malik were on they R sorry
if to me or we're on the other side of that to have to make
that kind of choice. So I don't want it to come as a shock
when you see her on Kula. I look you dead in your eyes,
and I say, what would you do if you or me and you were
faced with that choice? Wow? He do what soul doesn't dol. He
pauses for a second, and probably in the most truthful look you can you've
ever seen on a Malik, he looks you and says the wrong thing.
Which one's the wrong thing? You'll know in the moment m and the camera
cuts to Suel, to me or who maybe finally shimmy their way not quite
as dexterously as um Tal did to the upper deck. And when you arrive
on the upper floor of the Defiant, possibly to even join Tale and Malik
standing in your ship, is this figure? Why Why are there so many
people coming to the ship right. What the fuck? That is terrifying?
This is the judicator, were Malik here, They're on the ship. They
are standing just there the door. Um. Guns not necessarily in hand,
it slung over their back. So you would definitely know this is a judicator,
and you would know that a judicator is um more than the police.
They're they're kind of like consortium private SWAT and they have a lot more ability
to say deal judgment as a judicator. Um, this this one is standing
on your ship. Um, I look at tam or hello, can can
we help you? Uh? They press a button on their helmet. The
face place kind of face plate slides back and you see the face of a
woman underneath. She has dark eyes, dark features. Um. Uh,
she says, I am here following Malik. Why are you going to kill
him? No, he is not in trouble. I have been assigned to
him and your crew, oh, assigned to what to escort you to the
emissaries quarter so that you can investigate them and report. I feel like we've
missed a couple of steps. Was I not clear? No? You were
clear? Again? Tamir Malik Malik Malik, yep, hey, um,
did you get there out here? Out and they say that we are supposed
to be escorted to go investigate the emissaries. Are you telepathically telling him this?
Nope, just his room. Nope, just his room. You're on
echo and not comes. That's why we like them. Wow. Thanks,
you're on the astral. This is my mystic power power. The giggles are
the bast think about it. I think in the same room with cal like,
he's like yeah, he like nods to Twel and then hits the unlock
button and then hits the commons and says, yep, that sounds about right.
What are you going to tell us or just you know, let a
judicator on board, no call, no text, little heads up. Pretty
sure judicators can just come on board. It's kind of like their job.
But I had to have a word with Towel before we left. So this
is so this is he finally figures out, So this is this is okay,
you can understand that damnage, no, no, all starts walking.
This is going to be working because like every everything should or you can't stop
a judicator. You can't. And as soon as Twel exits Malik's room unlocking
it from the inside, the rooms are on all four corners of what is
basically the common area. And you see the judicator standing there. You see
Soul fiddling with his calms, um and to me are standing nearby. M.
The tension is thick in the air. I hate this thing so much.
We're in the same room now, you can oh, okay, so
shall we go investigate? Then? I suppose yeah, I mean I have
uh lamara. We need a full inventory on the trauma lab. She comes
over the colms. She goes, I'm already working on him a league great
minds, think alike. I've already started taking note of how many blood pipes
that they're actually going to And she's just like clearly still talking. But you
turn her calms off, and she has no idea. It's the butt again,
says remember what I said about the thing and secrets, all of the
secrets, and I'm going to make sure to label everything. As I clicked
the judicator's head actually kind of like tips relieved dead in the eye as I
click the buttons. That's fine. He doesn't stop you at all. He
just kind of nods and drugs. All right, let's go. We should
probably leave before she knows this is We're gone. Just so we're aware and
we're all there. That would be nice. He like glances at at Kasha
and looks back and says, I have intel that the emissary was attacked in
their home. I have temporary access to the key card and an escort.
Once we leave, the key card is gone from where I think it is.
It's best if you don't ask questions. I give you just a dead
pan look all kind of notice. This is like, it's related to what
you just told me. It is. I okay, I know exactly where
this came from. Next time you talk, say thank you. Plausible deniability
and he like a pockets the key again. Judokator says, are you are
we ready? Yes? Well, now Tomy's gonna go runt to his room
and he's gonna slowly run back with a big fucking box and he is bringing
with him his portable lab the investigation and I want to use this fucker.
Okay, this is actually cool. This means that we may be able to
skip some stuff. Malik follows you when you run away, noah, shit,
And as you're in your room, he leans in the doorway as you're
like grabbing this box and he says, hey, bud, I heard you're
a mystic. Yeah, this is the last conversation we have about keeping secrets.
And he steps back and left the door. Wait, but I said
when we were in the not to me. Didn't you never told Malik?
You never told Malik not proper. I don't think you said that towel.
Yeah, you you made it clear towel was, but you didn't tell Yeah,
everybody tells I thought it was grinding. He's going to start telling each
other everything you never told me. So he says to him, as soon
as you have that, like that rabbit realization that like oop oops. He
steps out of the door as the clothes. As he walks back to the
group, I say, this judicator looks a badass, right, Yeah,
the judicator to the jail. They're terrifying the jail. Yeah it is.
You would have to be legitimized as a judicator. But yes, so um
and the judicator leads you all out to the elevator. Uh. They kind
of look you up and down. Uh, and they say, try to
blend in. I look over the towel. You'll have your dad's shirt,
do you. I can get it real quick if you want to change you
know what. Why don't you just keep it? Oh this is not another
one of your presidents. Yes, I run to my room, Oral quick
grab the shirt and run back and I throw it at you. Welle,
did you open your present a box on your bed? He didn't. He
pushed it aside to sit there so that Twel would have a spot to sit
because that's okay, heavy news. And then he left her and Dal did
not mention it, and she wasn't gonna He'll just find it eventually. He'll
get it when he gets it. Such a Malik and Twel thing right there.
Ye. Yeah, she wasn't gonna actually give it to him. She
was just gonna leave it on his bed and then never say anything. So
the judicator hits a button on it. Basically you end up taking like a
train down to a more privatized elevator, you knowing only that the judicator can
get in. They use a card to kind of put in for this elevator,
and they hit button number ninety six. None of you have ever been
this high up, I guess you can say, because it counts up to
one this high up in the spire itself. As the doors open, you
are not met with what you expected. You are met with what feels like
fresh outdoor air, the sight of real mountains and tills, and a lake,
a man made artificial lake. All of it looks like real outdoors.
People walk around in beautiful, clean clothing. These dirt paths here, houses
built into a hillside on the interior of Coriolis. Your mind takes a minute
just to put this all together, because you do not feel like you are
on board a space station. Fake sunlight hits your face, it's warm.
The judicator a just the gun to their back so that it doesn't look like
they're going to use it in any way. You'll notice here there are still
guards as there is on the rest of Coriolis, but they still heavily armed,
but they don't stand at guard quite as much. This seems to be
a bit more peaceful area of a crusty kind of suburbia space. The judicator
points across the lake to the other side. And if there's a building,
an apartment complex more than likely, and sits there, that was their private
residence. It sits on the lake. Wow, this is a this is
a lot. They kind of nad yes, and he was attacked where in
his residence like like that, but yes, they're like I pointed as if,
like, what have you never seen anything like this before? Kind of
a thing? No, yes, well I'm sure I've been here before.
Um so basically you're um uh, let's see what is this place called?
It has an actual name, and I was going to give it to you.
Well, can I lean into malik? Wait, what are we doing?
What do you mean? I don't we were supposed to investigate what the
emissary oho kind of like looks around there seems to be missing information. The
judicator, as you get like continue walking, begins says, are you going
to fill your crew in? Or should I? So the emissari is missing?
We knew this. I know I missed science. Why are we investigating
this whole thing? Like? Why are we missing? Because that's what the
judge wanted us to do, investigate the mystic science. This is where I
started from. Oh oh well, I mean okay, yes, you you
have firsthand knowledge. Caution, if you don't mind filling us in from that
perspective, that would be agreed the judicator. As you walk, it becomes
a little less populated, like you're as almost like you're walking through a park
it's unbelievable as your feet crunch under real dirt and you walk this kind of
narrow path towards these very beautiful buildings, and the judicator says, it came
to our attention far too late that the emissary was missing. They kind of
keep the hush tone as if to not let everybody know. Captain Tuma felt
that it would be helpful for all of you to investigate, and it just
so happens that one of the judges asked him to provide you with additional information.
It seems that all of you have some mission at hand for the consortium.
Don't tell me, she puts up a hand. She has zero interest
in that. That is not her mission, she says. Regardless. After
the MISSI with missing missing, which we did not find out until much later,
we investigated the site and scene of the crime, and we'll actually do
kind of a hard cut to the apartment building. Um as you enter this
pretty beautiful place. Internal map, yep, internal map. Finally, an
internal map. I know, um I talked together. UM, so let
me kind of tell you what you look at, and then we'll do like
a proper because I know everybody's gonna want to investigate stuff and this kind of
thing. So as we get there, um to the building itself, up
sets on our war to the building itself. UM. Oh yeah. This
place is called the a Bara Floor UM is part of the spire proper Um.
This is a three story building partly built into a hill with balconies made
of green marble um and rather ornate kind of granite archways that lead down these
hallways. UM. It stands out in a kind of surrounded by small our
buildings passed. There's an orchard out front. There's cool of vines, probably
growing grapes that make wine trees, that kind of thing. The judicator has
to open a special lock that has been placed on the outside of the door.
As you enter the apartment complex proper, the judicator tells you a couple
of things. Important facts include. They say, from what we can tell,
this entire complex is covered in motion detectors and cameras covering both the outside
of the residence. At the time of the break in, the security central
is in the basement of this complex. We have knowledge that the last one
to visit the stored data system was an ambassador for the council, Johar Quassar.
He is a Anythian homogene and we did not see him leaving the residence.
After his entrance, the door kind of slides open, and you see
it is definitely a crime scene. Nothing has been touched since the event.
The apartment is in shambles a relatively. I mean it's a very nice apartment,
but like it's not well stocked. You can see there are no plates
and glasses. There is no food in the open pantry cabinet as you enter
the doorway here. Yes, you see straight down the hallway and into what's
going to be a more open area. Blood everywhere, things tipped over.
It is very clear there was a struggle here. The judicator looks to Malik
and says, do you have the envelope? He pulls the envelope out and
dot for my notes. Who was the council member? Yes, yes,
their name is Joe har j O H A R. Kissar q U A
S. S A R. And they are as Zynithian homogeney Ambassador to the
Council. This says, the last one to visit before the system was shut
off, meaning the security system on the emissaries building was none other than this
ambassador but there is no footage because they cut the security while he was there.
There's no footage of him leaving the residents. Okay, he hands the
envelope or you hold the envelope out to Kasha, Kasha empty say, it's
just kind of a small pocket sized envelope. In it is a casing.
Um, I will this is this is a this is a soul thing.
So you can roll an observation for this. This is a wit space thing.
As the bullet kind of comes out in your hand, let's see if
you know anything about it. Okay, okay, observation, he said,
m observation, Yeah, okay, it slides out. Maybe you're just not
close enough. You don't notice anything right away. Um, yeah, you
don't notice anything, Like right away, you do see that there are bullets
all that there are holes in the walls where there was definitely a sign of
fire. Um, deep holes, which tells you that they're probably carbines of
some kind of like physical bullets, no energy or plasma. Um, this
is actually um. Do you have command? Uh? Who has command?
That's that's our our captain, isn't it. Oh you didn't take it.
It was between command and mystic powers. Yeah, Okay, that's cool.
That's cool. And DOT said that I might be able to control the visions
more if I took that, and I just you know, that sounded more
fun. Ye ye okay, um, I will say I was. I
was just gonna wait. But like there is some think specific that Soul would
be looking for. Okay, go ahead, yeah, tell me, do
you want me to just okay? So he's basically, since he is his
profession is assassinating people, he would be looking towards blood splatters and seeing if
the shots came through the window, which angle they were coming from, and
then saying that there seems to be blood on the floor, if they were
drips, as if the person themselves was walking out when they were dripping it,
or if he was dragged out and it looks like there was a blood
smeared across question. He's trying to see to sum it up. He's trying
to see if it was a like a far range assassination, or if it
was more of like a close range assassination, or if as a mixture of
both. Okay, okay, um, here's the thing. There's a lot
of blood here. It's very clear at least one person had to be injured,
so I'll give you that. Um, this might be the prime time
to maybe analyze the blood. Yeah, you have somebody that can do that.
Is going around like he's already like found a spot and set up and
it's just like this swabbing. Yeah, standing in the middle of the room
looking around, arms crossed, and she says, this is a lot of
blood for someone who's not done yet. Says yes, I know. Um
the judicator does um um, okay, go ahead and roll the science on
this. Does the kid give you any bonuses or is it just meaning you
can do it on site without having to go somewhere else? Does a plus
two? Yeah, yeah, it's heavy, that's yeah. You you literally
drug it a cross correolas to this point. But you you you got it
here. Oh, he is so excited. This was probably I know you
you just probably got my little science exactly like may maybe you could have been
a criminal justice degree or something. Yeah, you should have been CSI.
Yeah, totally. Okay, you begin to test it, you begin running
it. So the first test that you run, you just swap the blood
and you realize that they're a multiple there's multiple blood here, so you actually
have to run multiple tests. So the first time around is a failure,
but it gives you the information that you need to run multiple test. What
you find out is there is Zelosian blood from five different individuals and Merion blood
from one, meaning there were at least six people here. Blood stains for
Seul are around the door, on some of the books on the floor,
and then the colonnade just outside that is Zelosian blood. Just outside the colonnade,
which I'm going to guess is probably like here ish on the map right.
Let me see then, so I can see what the hell's going on
in here. There are a few things, so you can see this as
like a centralized area. What I can tell you about that, okay,
as you the judicator comes over and holds the bullet up and points to one
particular hole and says, we dug the slug out of here, holding it
up and they say we ransom test and the rifling pattern on the bullet shows
that it was handmade by a gunsmith from some kind of Derhamite copper alloy to
create almost a noiseless exit from the barrel. That is rap a lot.
As an assassin, you'd immediately know that a lot of time was spent to
do something like that to hand. Now we use power carbines and those kind
of things, like we don't need this, but to have a specialized bullet
made to change the vibrations in the air so it's quieter without a silencer is
Would I know of any like possible locations are who will have been rumored to
even have it? Because I'm assuming this is a very very high skilled like
you would know that this kind of bullet is not available on the open market
and is not produced by any kind of consortium company. UM. As an
assassin, you would know that there are a large handful of popular rebels and
shady weapons dealers, like say the one you met just earlier today, that
might have information as to where to find something like this. Do you yourself
know? Absolutely not? Right? Let's see, all right, h the
walls around the door in the sitting room, M this is the sitting I
believe this is the sitting room here. That's four um show um as well
as parts of worsh several pools of blood. We've kind of got that.
The cracks seem to there. There are kind of tiny mesh cracks all over
the place. The cracks seem to emanate from a point on the floor near
the door and disappear a few from the prayer rug before reaching the mosaic on
the wall. Um. So there is a mosaic on the wall that seems
to be painted. Uh, actually think it's on that wall. Um.
But there are these kind of tiny cracks in the floor, which, as
you continue to investigate, seem to emanate from a point of origin. Can
I kind of move the rug and see if there's anything under the rug?
Yeah, you move the rug. The only thing there is like some blood
that has like seeped through the rug. But again, the ground here is
not cracked. Um. I would give this this is a wit role for
anybody that maybe wants to try and make it. Um, I will give
a bonus to towel and to mirror. What was this for again? Uh?
This would be uh what did I say? A woods roll? So
I guess you could do observation if you wanted to site based knowledge base.
You're looking at these cracks on the floor that have like emanated out from a
point. Yeah, okay, I'll do that's with your plus one okay,
yeah? Um so everyone but town, Yeah, Mali and malik and U
seul Um. You you look at, you can take not the point of
origin and based on where it's at in the rug, this was the mystics
place. This is a meditation rug, and it centralizes from the point of
origin, which tells you whatever happened to call those cracks originated at the mystic
who was probably sitting on this it's me or you've never seen cracks like this
before until today after the blast between you and tao Um. These kind of
riffs and small cracks happened because of force damage and things like that. You
don't know a lot about mystic abilities, but if this is truly one of
the emissaries who's claiming to be the Judge incarnate, somebody that carries hiper mystic
papabilities, there's a possibility they might have tried to defend themselves if they were
being attacked from their meditative stance, and these cracks represent what is left over
in the wake of powerful mystic abilities. I feel like Soul wouldn't note too
much about mystics. No, that would definitely be to mer, But I
guess from what he does note Um, he's just gonna vocally say it looks
like there was something powerful right here, whether it be some sort of weapon
and it emanated outwards. But I do believe it was a weapon unless I
don't know of any weapons other than like grenades, but there would be more
debris. Do you call were you awake? You might not have been conscious
support that part, Malik was Uh when Tamir blasted them with the stone,
No, I believe I was not. I think you were knocked out.
Mystics are capable of incredible things, and these looks. It is not explained
by uh normal laws of physics, which definitely makes me suspected. It is
of a powerfulness to guess. So perhaps they tried to defend themselves. That's
what it appears to be. Tamir, What are we looking at here?
Any kind of like motions to all of the blood everywhere? Uh? There
are well that's blood. Thank you, Captain Obvious, You're welcome. I
tell your name was Yeah. Um, there are five Zelosians um who are
here that they've been able to trace U five O five from scene and UM
one from Mirian Mm hmm sorry did you say five from zine? That's five
difference? They were samples, yes, yes, uh Zealous one. Yes,
I wrote it down. What is the first Wait? I got no
Zalosian blood from five different individuals, um so, five Zelosian and one Miriam.
What is Marian against two different planets? That's why? Oh okay,
thank you. Yeah, I wrote that down. Five from zalos one from
Miriam. Uh val with another planet? Right, it would be another system
correct that you would know about is in third horizon. Yeah. I think
all of the planet the systems are amage of the primary like planet like yeah,
the star that they the star that they circle around. Um, I
would say this too. I'm going to have you figured out the blood.
I'm going to have you roll one more science role with your your special kit.
They're specialized science kit. Am I also able to look for a point
of entry. Yes, I'm gonna have you roll in observation. Come on,
so don't be don't be useless belief on the Uh the judicator comes over
to you. Maybe it's because you just look the part. You're not sure,
but they say the security room is open if you wanted to run information.
Uh. Yeah. He he like sees them, It sees her to
come up and he says, oh, I was going to ask, but
I was waiting till hand you another key. This building has been evacuated,
nobody's here is empty. This whole building is considered a crime scene at the
moment. And yeah, feel the expanded round. Does that need to go
back with the key? It is the one that we've been able to recover
undamaged from the wall. If you take it, then we would say,
be unable to process more information? Is there? We only ask for the
key back. Is there any more information you think you can process from this?
They kind of look at She looks at you that I do not know.
It is not my job to process such information. But if it is
being handed over to you now, I suspect that they've had time to get
what they needed. Malik's size at the door and turns back to the group
and he says, in the spirit of not keeping secrets like through gritted teeth,
I have one favor with the dancer, and he points to the bullet
that I think Sewel has. I can ask about that, and then he
looks to Town and says, or I can ask about your sister. I'm
going to the security lab. You figure it out, and he's father,
I know exactly where my sister is we've already seen what she is. Ask
about the bullet I don't like the dancer. Wasn't an we see Malik leave?
The door closes? Did judicator notes it. I don't know what dancer
you're talking about. But you're going to find a mirror and to run information.
So to make this quick, I'm just going to have you roll a
data a data gen roll to run some information into security chamber downstairs to learn
more. We got a one from Samir. Next thing you do is you
pull something else out. It begins to track trajectory of bullets, kind of
a yeah, bopop, and it kind of aligns from the points in the
wall. It's like the way that they do like landscaping and things like that,
almost like reading those points, and what comes back to you is something
of interest. The bullet holes in the wall, at least a couple of
them, seem to originate from the point of origin of the cracks as well,
which tells which kind of tells you that they were shot at the mystic,
and the mystic used something to deflect them and deflected them into the walls.
You can see that the bullets take this kind of hard right hand turn
from the point of origin on this map. Excuse me, as you continue
to run this diagnostics, you note there are four bowls spilled over on the
floor, and a series of books and things that have some stuff splattered on
them as well. Four bowls. There were bowls, small bowls from bows,
and they look like they were thrown on or like an impact. It
looked like they were probably part of the meditation that was interrupted. Yeah,
I think actually you're from Algol. Yes, okay, I'm gonna have you
you're from Algol. I'm gonna Actually I forgot. I didn't think any of
you would be able to make this, and then I just realized that's not
entirely true. Um, I don't have culture though, that's okay. I
believe if you come from Algol you get a pass on that for this role
specifically. Let me double check them though, because this would be helpful.
Yeah, it is. Actually it is super specific. But it is actually
really elevent aren't you glad you're from al Go? In the book? Is
this big? It's a paragraph. I just want to say. That just
goes to show how detailed these writers are and how stupidly details for they are
stupidly detailed. Um. I'm still using only a portion of some of this,
because good god, there's a lot of information. Um that is very
impressive. That's so yes, Okay, okay. In the midst of the
chaos, Um, there are these four overturned bowls on the floor. You
can tell at this point because it's so much later. One of them you're
unsure what its contents was. One very clearly had incense that tipped over and
burned a hole in the rug on the floor. Um. Uh. One
has something called cococious cautious c u s c o us. I've never heard
of that before. And then one has as cute is it really? Is
that kind of like a rice? Oh oh oh, I know what cuscous
is. I just I didn't know what was spelled that way. I don't
know that I've ever actually had to spell cuscous But okay, there's couscous um
that has um is like spelled out. Um it now very stale. And
then there is a small candle that has rolled out of one of the bowls
that was very clearly lit as well. All right, here's the part where
if you're from algal blah blah, um if you're from Algal blah blah,
m hmm. Okay, so this is a culture test, Um, this
is a culture test. You're going to get to make it because you're from
al Goal, though you don't get any bonuses to us. You're just basically
rolling it. You're you're I think that's a wits right or empathy. It's
empathy, Yeah, yeah, go ahead and roll it. And let's just
see. Let's see. Oh right, duff yeah, just the empathy.
That so the fucking empathing. I'm glad that the game is like, hey,
you fucking idiot, don't ye Okay, great, okay, it takes
you a second. Maybe you ponder it for far too long. There might
even be giant silence in the room. These bulls, regardless of how religious
you might have been on Algal, were mainly found in prayer towers common in
the Algal system. The one bowl represents the lowest passive form. Couscous is
life from the earth is the base from which all other forms spring. This
is kind of the general knowledge. How much of this you know, I
will leave to Tamir. Then you have the reactive form of water. Water
is life and motion. The candle representing the fiery antitsy and necessity of human
relations, and then the burning instance representing the whirling movement of free thoughts.
So these are kind of like the representation on Algal of what these kind of
bulls usually represent. There are lots of other systems that you similar, like
uh, meditation bowls and ritual bowls, but for you specifically, the book
feels necessary to say that, like, Algal connects with these in a specific
way. But that's about all you know of them is like they would be
used probably in some kind of prayer tower. So if nothing else, it
solidifies the fact that you knew the emissary was in meditation. This is I
mean, this is incredibly interesting. I don't know, um if you've ever
let's try, any of you have traveled to Algal. But um my,
uh ema, my mother used to pray to the icons in this man there.
But why why the emissary would take interest in Algal rituals is curious.
I guess it's a kind of leaning up against the counter. So as well,
you know, different rituals generally come from at least one similar source of
thinking. Oh, on tradition, tell whether it's you're a religious person,
aren't you or like you, you have some knowledge? Yeah, yeah,
she's she's studied a bit. Um, I wouldn't necessarily call her a religious
person. You have do you have culture? No? No, roll me
and empathy as well. Then I'm just gonna let you roll a flood,
ethy because you're saying all the right things, and I want to I want
your light bulb to go off, basically, let's see if it does.
Nope, Um, I have not succeeded on a single role tonight. It's
okay. I mean you can give me a darkness one. She's got fourteen
fifteen. Yeah, I already gave you a darkness point today. I actually
I give you two today, so you have those. Yes, that's true.
That's true. I would say then to mirror, as you're piecing this
together, you may not know what each of them represent in terms of like
the big religious piece of it, but you know that each of them represent
an element. The empty bowl probably had water in it. The couscous represents
earth, the candle represents fire, so you can see the herbs represent air,
so there's an elemental tie in. Keep going as Yeah, well,
you know most religious or traditional practices generally come from one common place, whether
it's changed over the course of the history of the people practicing it, or
you know, has anybody looking around, does anybody look like they understand what
I'm saying? Or the Judicator like nods in agreant and says, just to
kind of vacuum, and says, the emmissary was known for keeping themselves in
deep meditation. They never requested much of anything except for silence in this space
to meditate in. Why they were doing such a meditative ritual for elements or
whatever is still beyond us. We do not know, and we've never questioned
the emmissary. Now at this point, the Emmissary has been here about a
year. A born coriolis really a start to the Mysticides. The arrival of
the Emmissary turned up something in the populace that made them distrust right, especially
them claiming to be the judge at Carnate. Right and Unicator says, we're
still unsure where they took them. We have no footage of anybody entering or
exiting, and we found nobodies. Even with all of this blood and you
know, kind of gestures to all of this, Snammysary is still alive.
We don't know, no, I'm telling you. Oh, she kind of
seems shocked, so kind of looks shocked too, and in that when you
say the Immissary is still alive. Nice, thank you, Mike. Um,
I'm going to have twel and ta mirror. As you're having this conversation
and you're like standing on this bloody meditation, Matt, the pillow tossed it
aside, The bowls tipped over, this giant metaphor and literal representation of the
struggle that the Emmissary has seen both on Correolis and in the fight for their
lives. Something begins to rise in your gut. You feel it. Maybe
it's because you're talking more about it, or you're concentrating on it. Maybe
it's because you've put your science kit away and you're using your instincts now.
But the air is sick, and you feel a headache beginning to move in
on the both of you, a pressure in your temples. I need both
of you to make a Mystic's powered test. Yeah yeah, when accounts accounts,
it begins to wash over you. But you've had these these headaches.
You know this an episode, a mystic episode is coming on. And you
almost brace yourself to me. Or, on the other hand, is not
used to this, and because the role was made it a negative one.
Funny enough, I imagine we're both probably standing on the rug right next to
each other, and I try to bring myself against Yes, you are going
to take fall two mind points of stress unless you have anything to help buffer
your mind. As you watch just tame Or falls to his knees, the
ringing in your ear is more than you can handle. Let me make sure,
yes, okay, you fall to your knees, a ringing more even
louder than the rock and the stone earlier, and it you feel as if
your head is going to explode, that your ears may bleed taw. Something
else comes through your ears. A song. You've heard this song before.
It begins very lightly, and even if ta mirror screams out, even if
Suel reaches to help you, all you can hear is this repeating series of
notes that seems to be coming from the station's speakers. You can't completely under
second understand it, but it's like an echo, a ringing out of sound.
And I'm going to say, since you had a two, even though
it was at a negative one, it's in the air, as if sound
patterns themselves are ghosting from where the mystic left something behind, and the camera
cuts down a hallway as Tamer holds his ears. Taw, here's a song.
Malik alone in a dark room is tapped into the security system and is
running footage at a too success, which is good. Technically you should have
made it. There was a negative two to make the role, but you
managed to um to hack in to some degree and get some additional information.
The first thing that you note is the camp. The security cameras are cut.
Is it a negative two because of security stuff? Yes? I have
something for that. Yeah, I have. One of my new items that
I picked up is a security tablet that allows me to work around those I
no longer have the minus two on those roles. Okay, bitchin so you
don't have it. You tap in perfect time to break all of this out
and you begin skimming through it. Does look you see the face of this
man what was his name that came through Joe Hard Yeah, Joe, the
council member of the ambassador. As he comes down a hallway and he enters
the emissaries room promptly. A few minutes later the cameras go out. But
all of this is what you already know. What your role allows you to
do is to tap into the backside of the security. It reveals that the
code appears to resemble means used by the Order's monastery cruisers. You're able to
kind of take this strange code and run it against a database of light templates
basically, and what you find is that the Orders monastery cruisers use these kinds
of means and it appears to be a Zealousian in origin. Um. That's
kind of the big part of what you get. You can even with the
security check, maybe you run the name of them, the man who was
said Jahar, who was said to be here last, the council member,
and the first thing that you note is that most of his files are blocked
and that he is how he basically has factionary immunity, which is why he
has yet to be interviewed by the factions because he has faction immunity and they
can't get their hands on him. Shit. Okay, I have one question
for you, if I may, before I do something dumb, because this
is what I do. Do. I so checking the logs of the computer,
right because they log all kinds of things. So I assume the code
you're talking about is the code for it's the code. It's the code that
tapped into the back of this cup security. Oh okay, okay, okay,
okay, it's whoever did the thing? Okay, then that is what
I was going to ask. It's coming from the It looks to be coming
from the Zelosian order. M fuck. Okay. I take this information and
I transfer that code to my tablet with you know, along with all other
part of the you know, the typical malik. He takes everything to the
to the tablet um and then he takes the information about Joe har Johan Joe
har h and he's going to take the video of him. What is it
common knowledge that the emissary is missing? What is the knowledge? There is
tabloids that say the emissary is missing. People whispered that the emissary is missing,
but nobody has confirmed it because nobody wants panic. But the emmissary only
comes out for big time stuff and the rest of the time they're they're they're
literally called they're a ghost anyways, right, so most people don't even know
about them. Maybe you have never laid eyes on them. Um, the
upper cross know that something's wrong, but nobody can really pinpoint what. Nobody
has confirmed it. So again it's a it's a rumor that is truth that
people are trying to keep a rumor so that there's not panic. Fuck oh
no, okay, Um, I can't tell. I didn't have enough interaction
to judge this person's character. And this is a risky thing, but it's
absolutely what Maliku would do because he doesn't take other people's interest into account.
I send an anonymous email with the footage of of Kassar walking in and the
security being cut. But the email comes from like a dad address and it
says not a story, diplomatic immunity, please research, and I send it
to the woman of the bulletin the boo boo boo boop the camera fuck to
a printer similar printer seen before. In a dark room where single light sits
on a desk, a woman clats away a face that we know over her
shoulder. We see a single print out from Coriolis as it spells out Malik's
message. It did was spells out Malik's name like what it spells out Malik's
message as it comes at the DeFi dot com dot com. You're working,
it says, it says, not a story, Oh my god, diplomatic
immunity, please research, might as well just roll, please print tomorrow,
and she kind of rips it off. We see her read it. She
smiles and goes back to typing away, but not before we see her swipe
swipe, swipe, um and track back where this is coming from. And
the scene ends there for tonight only because we're over time and it's the perfect
place with the message going out, fuck to our little Bolton friend. Let's
see what she knows. Okay, cool, cool, cool guys. That
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