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being said, and turn things over to Dot that looks so confused. No,
no, I just processed like five things in in a single moment.
In front of it all, I said, now to Dot, She's like,
what do we? Where are we? How did I get here?
I was like reading a message or remembering on tracting God that was on me.
It's okay, it was partially are you partially like? Oh shit,
I don't know how many dots points I have? Where's mistake? You know
in the book which shelves is the book going Oh shit, Mike's talking to
me oh shit, I need to read this. That was everything happened in
that single moment. Okay, I still have a corruption bar from last week.
I don't like that that we are sitting on. So just you know,
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yes, so just so we know where I'm at there, my chick.
The crew of the Defiant made it home to a very different Coriolis than they
left. They were met by uh the the deckhands of the net, but
they were armed and a bit skittish, and Tony told them that nothing is
really the same. But they were looking for a temple because well, Lamar
is not doing so hot. After the time. The jump between all of
the mini portals really time folding is kind of what Tamerror programmed. And you
were told to follow a series of symbols through the burnt out cellar to somebody
we all know and love. At the end of last episode you had made
it followed these symbols with a strange kind of doll. Who picked it up?
I think it was Alia Wait I can tell you who made the observation.
Yeah, Alia, and oh yeah, picked it up and yes,
and got a gun to my head right, and your sister was there,
My loving sister was on the other end. So we're okay. And I
want to think, as she said, she thought you all were jed.
And the steel barrel rises into the air and you hear the safety trigger go
into place, and she smiles and she tosses her arms, aroun you towel.
I hug her back, and I say, I'm really glad to see
you in her ear because me too. But it's not been so hard to
track you. You're all over the news. Great, that's exactly what I
want, you know me, I always wanted to be famous. Let's go,
and yeah. She kind of turns, still wearing this fur finish of
a large creature that she slayed many many, many, many many episodes ago,
and she leads you through the stacks. You weave through a labyrinth of
steel. It gets darker and dingier. At one point she she mom arms
all of you and gets the side of one of them, pushing you back,
and she puts a finger to her lips. As you see troops heavily
armored, the most heavily armored. It's like swat basically for Coriolis. As
they the judicator's jog guns in hand, a set of uh, you know,
three by two clearing this path, and as they don't notice you,
she gestures once more and you pass through until you get to a large air
duct probably at one point had a fan in it. It has now been
removed and you can see it's letting out hot steam and it's very dark.
And she gestures it's about three foot or so high. As she squats to
get in and begins moving through it. Does anybody say anything or y'all just
gonna go with her? I mean, we were trying to be as inconspicuous
as possible. Great, okay, great, So nobody's gonna say anything to
make sure there's are we in like obviously secret quarters? No, because people
can hear over the walls and stuff like that, right, So no,
we're not gonna be talking great here. As you get apor into this hot
like air duct, the moisture fills the air and you can smell lots of
people, like bodies, and not dead bodies that's corpses something different, but
just like people, and the smell of filth and rotting food. There's like
dripping coming off in the distance, and as you pass under these like tint
these dense beams of light as they come through holes in the ceiling of this
air duct. She leads you down and your boots splash through water, and
so you make it to what looks to be an end stop. Seems to
be nowhere else to go. She wraps her knuckles on the stone in a
particular pattern. There's a moment, and then you see the wall roll back
out of the way from the kind of steel corridor, and it's warm inside
and all of you you see, I think, No, you all came
down here when you dropped suol off last time. Yeah, so this is
a new entry way into this same large area. You walk in and you
could see the statue old Were you older when you dropped off school? I
don't, I can't remember. It was just me. It was just okay,
right, So how you know this place? But nobody else does?
And I think how and to mirror somebody, no challenge talent, Jelyssa came
down here. So tow's been down here three times now because I came down
here with Jelusa the first time, first time in one I came down with
Saul and then now, now, okay, so you would know this place,
this is not the same entrance. So they've they've clearly changed how people
enter an exit. But as it opens up for the rest of you,
you see probably what was a room that held large generators for the station or
some kind of electrical There are like big ducks that run up and over your
head, stories and stories high scaffolding that has rusted clear of dripping water that
probably should have made it to the cellar and never did. And in the
center of the room you can see a statue has been erected taw you'd be
the only one to know that it is not the same statue. The statue
of the beast that once stood here has been ripped down. In its place,
a new statue stands, a new idol. In the center. There's
a pool of water that is collecting around it, like a small moat that
drips from the ceiling in this natural fountain. And this place is full of
refugees, people laid out everywhere, almost every inch except for a small walk
path with sleeping bags and starving children. You can see a couple healthcare professionanols
are like walking around. You can tell by the white garb, well once
was white. It's now covered in bloodstains and dirt and oil. But they're
walking around trying to tend to who they can. An elderly woman pour soup
for a few people out of a shared pot, and Jelyssa waits till all
of you enter, and she hits the button, the makeshift button. It
slides that door back and seals it shut once again. And we're in this
large area or we went through this laugery area more in no, no,
you're like standing there. She was waiting for the door to close, and
she turns around and looks at all of you, and she lets out a
deep, kind of loud sigh, letting you know it's that it's I guess
somewhat to safe. There's not a lot of chatter. It's not very loud
in here. I would say you can tell that the general five of this
room is of sanctuary, that the people here are seeking a place to stay.
And in fact, Alyssa turns to all of you and she says,
welcome to sanctuary, the last free place on coriol is cool. Question,
how does Julissa look tired? Especially now? That she pulls the head of
this this eared creature for that she wears like back because she looks a bit
thinner. I wouldn't call her emaciated. She's not going to like pass out
and die on you. She's still a very muscular woman, lean and fit.
But you can tell that she's not in the same state right. Everybody's
clothes, including hers, are really really worn. If you look close enough
on her the bottom of her robes, there's laser holes that have been burned
through where she was clearly in a firefight wearing this at some point. And
her arm is still bandaged like around from maybe the last fight or something that
went down. But she your presence puts her in good spirits and she looks
like Jilissa no like yeah, she is close to no wild hair colors.
You can tell that she's not uh incognito anymore. That doesn't seem to be
her life in fact does she walks through here If you know, as all
of you follow, you can tell people quite revere her presence. She's a
bit of a of a Leyah figure, a Princess Leiah type figure. She's
leading this rebellion. Uh hey, this is super shitty and all. But
is there a temple standing in it? Alia? Will just work? Wait?
What? What? What? This is a this is what? Alia?
Yes, look around you, this is a temple. I'm not denying.
I just was not expecting it for a second. But are there any
other police, miss anybody else here? You've been away a long time.
And she sees that Lamara is in your hands with this strange helmet on her
head, and she says, come, let's put her down and we should
talk. We don't have I guess we do have seven days for this thing
finish, rather not if we can. We need to figure out what's going
on so we can find our next steps. More information I have, and
if possible, at least more more connections, I can do this better.
That was kind of the entire point of coming out. If I can have
the supplies and at least some sort of appropriate space, then perhaps that would
serve us more. Okay, rushing it won't change anything. She kind of
for you to follow her, and she kind of leads you through this tight
path between people to the opposite side of this, this rather large steel sanctuary,
through another door that leads I believe how you saw this again? When
you dropped off Sool. You take a like a graded bridge across like scaffolding,
and she kind of leads you and you're all looking down over again another
space that's been converted in the bowels of Coriolas, and there are I hate
to say children, I would say young adults ages eight to eighteen in lines
below you, and they seem to be training in a combat of some kind,
maybe martial arts. And you see there are two leaders at the front
that are like teaching them the motions and the moves, and there is no
sign of Soool. And she leads you through once more to small chamber.
There's a flap on the door and she pulls it back, and this closet
is probably what it was a maintenance closet, has been converted into her private
chambers. And she gestures for you to put Lamara down on her bed.
Alia goes ahead, and that's her down gently. She says she'll be safe
here. Before we leave the room, I say, what, what exactly
is going on here? Well? A lot in fact, after the sickly
can damps and Malik's first message and your grand escape, Coriolis fell into a
bit of a disarray, and then of course, the Order of Priorship was
shot down, and things only got worse once the Free League claimed that they
would no longer support. Docks were closed. Shipping became a problem, so
did food, and in times of scarcity people do horrible things. Fighting and
basic gorilla warfare broke out amongst even the top levels of Coriolis. So they
e barricaded and shut down most of the upper floors. The Achristocratic Society is
in quarantine. Most of the seller has been cleared out, and anything that
was left of the Order of Pariah has been burned. Those levels are also
blocked off. After you left, I sat with Seul for quite a long
time, long before they were fighting on the docks. We decided that we
wanted to prepare the people of Coriolis for something that was to come. Didn't
know what, and so we started poking around making allies. We learned that
the Second Horizon, thanks to Julie or show Lee, has been here seeking
the First Horizon for decades. They've been feeding us information. At one point
we even housed one of the emissaries. But now we were due for new
information. An order of the Para agent a priest, and she looks right
at Alia was supposed to be delivered to us. We were picking her up
about twenty four hours ago. Suel was leading the party and they have not
returned. How long has been We expected that the mission would take ten hours.
They've been gone just over twenty six Have anybody been sentenced? Have you?
We sent a scouting troop to see if they could find out more,
and we learn that they're being pinned down in one of the corridors and of
the upper levels, where it has it that they have the priest in hand,
but they can't get across at this rate. They'll either starve them out
or kill them first. It seems that the icons are on our side today
because they delivered all of you to the stacks. They need something more precious
than soul and a priestess to distract them. It's true, we believe that
the priest is carrying information vital to the places that the emissaries are being sent
to. As of yesterday, they have officially been separated, something to do
with large machines and their ability to shut them down. We were expecting all
of the details, but until we can get the priest, we won't have
them. So we need a distraction. I need you to rescue Saul and
the priest. We're not combatants. I mean, we are probably not less
trained than any of your folks that you have on your team. Maybe,
and I can send some extra guns with you. I guess what I'm saying
is the four of you tend to go into the inevitable and always seem to
come out the other side. How's the ventilation system over there? I imagine,
other than a little covered in some ash and soot from past fires where
they've ventilated out, probably intact the easiest way to get them out. I'm
surprised school hasn't done that already. I think this situation is a little bit
more dire than that. The homogeny has a lot of soldiers. They're sending
them as fast as they can kill them. I understands that they're barricaded in
a small first aid facility, the station just outside one of the you know,
look at first age station right outside one of the major residential areas.
They backed them in a corner. I mean, Malik and I have experience
in urban warfare. How hard can it be to get them out? Well,
I don't entirely know, but I imagine that the sons of Algo can
handle it. Sam kind of WinCE is at that. I'm and uh soon,
he's our friend, and we will not We will do what we can.
You look constipated in Malik. You know too. I like Suel as
much as uh who I guess the most, don't We have like a monolith
to blow up or six, and like a galaxy to save. Here's the
thing. We don't know which monoliths. I'm pretty sure. And he looks
over at it looks at Alia. I could guess at least the one named
Kola. What about the drawings. We're not trying to blow it up.
We don't want to blow it up. Blow it up is the wrong word.
We're trying to disable. People live there, And how do you expect
to disable ancient technology? Blow it up with ancient technology? Well, that
is what I thought the emissaries were. They're the key, right, If
they can turn it on, they can shut it down. Shuffled. They
won't do anything. JF moved to the monoliths. Yeah, we found a
lock pick. What do you mean they have a bead? That's all I'm
saying. You know, you know, I can't say anymore. How about
this. This priest is the last on Coriolis. They stayed because they turned
against the order of the Parya, because they were feeding information to the Second
Horizon. And they are agents the children of the Song. Many of the
children you see down here or you saw back there. She kind of gestures
back the way you came. They're all that's left of the children of the
Song. They asked us to train them, to prepare them so that they
could fix whatever this is, so that they could protect the emissary, so
that they could turn off whatever weapon it is that they think it's going to
go off. But children as soldiers, would you prefer them to die at
the end of a gun, right, understand for your doing it for self
defense, but not to send them off as soldiers into war. We don't
send them off where agents, spies, assassins. One thing that time I
turned to Malik Marik. If I am to expediate or do whatever I can
here, I don't know if it's necessary for me to do anything to Nomara,
because the Helmet probably already is doing what it best can. But if
we want answers more about why Lomara has these visions or these drawings in our
head. The best one to do that or give that information. It's a
long story. It's the best person is the one that is in containment.
And you know what I'm talking about. And I cannot handle that on my
own, and I don't think an all three of us together here. We
barely managed to suppress it last time, and that too because I had to
contact one of the icons, and I don't know if I can do that
again. So if I need to do something about this, if we need
to do something about this, we need that priest. We need all the
help we can get here. Well, yeah, come on, we went
to the edge of the third horizon to get soul out of a person.
We're of course going to get him out of a barricade on Coriolis. Seems
absolutely. You can feel like one's a lot safer than the other one.
Though about I'll leave you all for a moment of peace and quiet to discuss
it. I'll have some food what I can find sent over to you,
and you're always welcome to come pray in the temple if you'd like. Is
all you have? Soldiers, No what doctors decided to remain and not report
to cool. A few mothers and caregivers are here to help where they can,
And we have a few. If anyone like him, any like thumbs
that Tamir science civil service, most of them are down at the docs or
have offered themselves already to different missions. She kind of eyes her sister like,
I also can't tell you about those. But yes, we have a
variety I guess of people in the rebellion. But I imagine that you didn't
get this far because stop Stop training the children in combat. Have them civil
servants, Have them work with the doctors, have them work with the engineers,
have them work with the technicians. Do you think that we're mocked?
Training a kid for war is how you get me. Training a kid for
science is how you get to mir. Only one of us is going to
save the world. So stop training here kids for combat. As much I
appreciate your opinions, this is not your operation. Your guest here, Malik,
and I am happy to give you everything that I can, but you
will not come in and dictate my operation. We have saved so many lives.
Those children have saved the lives of their parents, their loved ones.
Do you want to know why? Because we taught them not to back down
when someone tells them that they are not worthy. We have taught them to
be able to fight for what they believe in. I'm not putting them on
the front lines. I'm sending them for information and assuring that if bad arises,
they can handle it. I have only made these kids stronger and given
them a purpose in the face of war. They have watched their friends,
their peers, their grandparents launched into space. They deserve more than to be
asked to sit there and watch. Yes, we have children training and technology
and first staid as acolytes, and those that choose become fighters. I think
someone at that age has the information, the knowledge, the maturity to make
that choice. Yes, of course they do. This is their whole leak
what you know, how old we were. It's not a choice. When
you pray out emotions. Everything you said is the same words that come out
of every other dictator that thinks they're doing the right thing until they're proven to
be wrong. I'm not saying you're wrong. I'm just saying you're going about
it the wrong way, and I take your opinion with a spoonful of humbleness.
But nobody is being forced to stay here. I am no dictator.
They're being forced to stay here by sheer fact. They have nowhere else to
go. Incorrect, anybody that has wanted to leave and go planet side,
we have found a way off the station for them. These kids have chosen
to stay here because they have nothing else and because they want to. And
you may struggle to swallow that, but the fact of the matter is they
chose. And in this rebellion, you always get a choice. Now,
if you don't like it, I'm happy to put you back in the cellar.
But I suspected that you would be more interested in saving both your friend
and the most vital information you can to stop this war. You so adamantly
don't want these children fighting in Yes, right now, we are pressed for
time, and what we can control is say we got friends. I suppose
talking philosophy and talking what is right and wrong. If it's swalling on deaf
ears, it's not much we can do. And Alia gets up and walks
out. I'll be back with food, and she turns and leaves the three
of you standing there. I'm gonna just sit down on the bed like next
to Lamar's feet, and just like put my elbows on my knees, head
and hands and just take a moment. What what now, Malik? What
has to soul riled up? What about the kids? They shouldn't be on
the front line, you If they have to be here, if they choose
to be here, there's other things they can be doing. And maybe they
choose to fight. Mm hm, you wouldn't let me. Yeah, and
look who we're at now. Anyways, what makes you think that my sister
would put children on the front line. Anything out of this room puts them
on the front line. She has them getting information. Information puts them close
to danger. It puts them on the front line. She may not think
that she's sending them in a ship to fight another ship, but it's still
the front line. They're going into into combative zones to get information. We
live in the combat zones. This is a sanctum. They can help heal
the wounded, they can harvest food, they can have moisture collectors. There's
so many things they can do here that doesn't put them in the line of
a bullet. Be all sent off in the place that they're safe for them
and not have to face this type of situation in the first place. But
they can't and they're in this situation already. Let them fight. It's not
a choice. And who who are you, Moliku, to tell Melissa what
to do with her people here when your own voice calls the death of hundreds
of thousands of people on algo? What about the children there? Well,
they life on alcohol. It's life on alcohol. It's the same thing here.
So we just perpetuate the cycle, then bring it to a new place.
We can't stop what is happening here. We have our own mission that
we need to be focused on. It's also here, whether we brought it
or not. H And frankly, a lot of people estimate kids. A
lot of people underestimate kids. They can do so much more than we give
them credit for. But because of that, they make great spies Because people
underestimate kids. Kids can hide, kids can go into places that adults can't
get to. They're fucking resourceful as hell. They're little jackasses. But you
got to give them credit if they're capable or not captain it's the question of
whether they should Well, who are we to tell these people what they should
or shouldn't do? And if not them, then who who is going to
stand up for their own people? Their home. This is they're home.
Everyone else who's already standing up the few left, there's hardly anybody. These
are their forces. They are tired, they are hungry. I don't understand
why we're even arguing about this. When did you suddenly come in here into
Corlism with a conscience? About thirteen years ago, every time I had every
one of your missions canceled, every time I took one of your missions that
I couldn't get canceled, that's when I hate to say it, but we're
still in the position that we are in no matter the choice that you decided
to make without my knowledge or consent. And while I am great, they
don't have to have done for me. Let them. They were given a
choice. They could have gone to Goula. They've chosen to stay here,
to defend themselves, to defend their families, to defend whatever is left.
Let them. That is not our fight. Wow, Okay, curtain pulls
back, and there in front of you stands a twelve year old boy.
He has plates of some kind of stew uh and probably stale bread uh,
and he looks like he's staring at superheroes at all of you that he's been
given this chance. Uh, and he says, I'm so sorry, Tanner
rug I brought brought food. One Hi, hello, and all your kind
of just squats down in front of him, was, Hey, what's your
what's your name? Uh, I'm I'm Cameron. How Cameron? You have
a beautiful smile? Uh. He kind of he looks down at the ground.
He's looking up, but well, I know I know you. Yeah,
but no, it's still big. You know anytime you try to make
eye contact with the teenage boy, you know. He kind of he digs
his feet and he says, I'm just supposed to deliver the food, but
us he kind of nonsense. Then he looks up from underneath his his downward
head, and he says, I killed those rats, the ones in the
stew I'm sure they were terrified. They were kind of one bit me.
And he pulls his sleeve back and you can see where like the rat bit
him. He said, but I killed them. It was it was the
best hunt of the week. We've had, Sue for three days. That's
amazing. Did you get that bite looked at? Oh? Yeah, they
disinfected it. Okay, it doesn't look still infected or in any way.
No, it definitely looks like you know, you know, like two he
was bit and nip. Probably you know, he probably went to a horde
of rats and killed a whole bunch of found some and brought it up back
or whatever. Alia goes and like ruffles his head and goes, good,
what that was very brave. Thank you for letting Suel stay with us.
Well, sue is a fantastic person himself, and he chose to whether we
wanted it or not, but we're glad that he did. He taught me
all my moves. Oh, would you be able to show that to me
sometimes? And you're free, maybe you just ask the rats really good,
well, I think these are yours? And she grabs the plate and food.
How is he looking in terms of just like is he looking? No,
I mean no more than anybody else's right, Like, nobody here looks
like they're like flat out dying. It looks like more they've been injured in
combat or like you know, and so they're healing. But it doesn't look
like there's a lot of food, right, So, like the bowls of
the stew were half full for each of you, right, and this is
probably stale bread that's been rescued from a cargo container that they managed to like
find it and get it out of. So uh, Aliot takes the train,
kind of sets it down, and then grabs one of the pieces of
bread, breaks it in half, and then dips it in the soup and
hands it to the boy and goes here. I don't have much money right
now, but I feel like that might not really work here anyways. So
here's your tip. How about that? Yeah, he takes it, He
looks at it, thank you so much, and thank you all for saving
us. Yeah, like Alio is like trying her hard is to maintain his
stoic, like smiling face. But as soon as that boy turns around,
it drops. Yeah, and you can hear him like like munching on the
bread as the flap kind of goes back and he walks away. I think
everyone looks kind of pained when he says that. Regardless of what is happening
here, Captain, I think the best thing we can do is stop this
water as quick as we can in whatever way we can. So if that
means getting school out of there and this priest and then taking care of those
monoliths as soon as we are able to that's our course. I'd say,
Look, the reason why I think we should go after the monoliths is because
it's the most effective way for us to disable weapons to kill people, Like
we can go around trying to get rid of everybody's guns or trying to ruin
their data systems or which we could do. But perhaps maybe and we pal
gets up a little and walks a little closer to kind of everyone else so
that she can lower her voice. We know that somehow, some way,
someone is going to try to destroy Coriolis, and we might be able to
stop that. How could we not? We gotta at least try, right
means sacrificing a friend, because I feel that if we don't act soon,
we're going to lose Sul. I mean, yes, that's look, we
have to get Suel, and then Sue we'll probably be able to help us.
I thought you we were discussing ultimatums. Then that's not what I want
to eat that. I was just No, we can't do more than one
thing. I swear to you. We we we can't get to the monolith
without first getting out of here. And you know, there's like an order
of operations we have to do here so big picture, we have to go
to the monolith. But right now we'll get seal, right, Yeah,
does everybody eat? Hey? Yeah, whatever we can. I feel like
it would just I mean, it's it's pretty basic stew. Uh, It's
it's got like rat meat and some potatoes in it. So it's probably not
the best food you've ever had, but depending on where you grew up,
it may not be the worst either. So uh, you know, Malik
probably lived off lizard meat for a while on a junk planet. Well,
Malik doesn't eat, but he he is like once the group finishes their discussion,
he stands there like spooning the stew in his hand and like looking at
the ground. He just says, figure ot what the plan is and let
me know. I'll be outside, captain and walks out of the flap.
Tamr sets this bowl down as well, not interested in eating whatsoever, and
it's like, I need to clear my head. I'm going to go pray.
This is a sanctuary. I'll be back as well, and takes off
Malik, where do you go? He gives the bowl to the first person
he sees that looks like they could use a bowl of rat stew. So
a woman. She's very clearly a young mother. She has a like a
swaddle in her arm, so there's like a baby baby in her arm,
and she's clearly headed back to wherever the residential, like wherever she stays.
And he's walking around this sanctuary slum and just trying to like see everything,
Like he's walking. I don't know how big this area is, but he's
walking as much of it as you can until someone tells him not to looking
around. Take you a while. Nobody really stops you. This seems to
be like people come and go freely. This is a very it seems like
a very trusted space, and you're not looking at it a lot of skeazy
people, Like you don't have to worry about a guy in the corner who's
like eyeball and trying to pickpocket people. Uh. This seems to be a
place where either people have like chosen to be or have found refuge in.
As you kind of walk around, a lot of kindness, a lot of
praying in the sanctuary. As you walk the space, what you realize is
whatever central core that the sanctuary is built around, there are a series of
like hallways right that jump off from it. These these these graded walk pasts
that go into different sections. This is probably somewhere near the center of this
cellar. They've like renovated all of this area and it kind of spiders out
like a like a sunshine the way kid would drive draw a sunshine some of
it and most of it has been converted whatever spaces they could into sleeping bunks,
residential housing, and private spaces for the elderly. You pass the training
space. Kids are training off to the left. You see they've kind of
created out of sheet metal in what they could find a small single room building
that seems to be serving as a school if you like peep in there.
They're still trying to educate the children mathematically speaking, science history. You uh,
let's see place to cook, right, somebody's got like a hurt.
They've they've reconvened like a nook in the steel wall to be that has like
a ventilation system, to be like a space where all of the food is
probably cooked for people. There's a small medical place, which is really just
a series of cots that have been laid out where they're treating the worst of
people like amputees and things of that nature. And you get to the end
of one of the residential areas. As you're just like scoping and you've been
walking thirty minutes or more, just kind of getting the lay of the land.
And there is a kind of art steel door at the end of this
particular hallway and it stands open and you can see there's a light inside it's
on. He pokes around as you kind of creak it open. You see
an old man. He's kind of his ran shack on. His ropes were
probably nice at one time or another, and he has a pair of double
layered spectacles on and he flips them down as he creaks open a book,
like a book book, and you can see as you peer into this room
it is stocked almost from ceiling to floor in multiple places with burned and charred
and what remains of some kind of library. More than likely this man helped
save it in some attack that happened here on Coriolis. And they've converted a
workshop space like table into a place that he could work. And he's got
another light, like a work light hanging there to add extra light, and
he flips his second set of glasses down and he's like and it's kind of
muttering to himself as he's flipping through these charred pages very carefully. Yeah,
the leek kind of looks around. It's you know, he doesn't work in
books, but he sees this like weird old guy, and he says,
what what happened? Oh? He turns around and goes, don't sneak up
on me like that. God, just come in. I did. Okay,
we'll close the door. Nobody else comes in. It's already open.
Well, okay, okay, what do you want it? Just that's what
happened. What that's a bit of a loaded question to the Fiery Books.
Oh, they burned the Order's library, all of it, everything, all
the ancient homes, all the books say from the portal wars our History,
Bye bye, gone up in flames. This is what remains of it,
pretty sure, like all that's been digitized. You think the consortium wants everything
the homogeny wants everything digitized. I mean, then why don't you digitize it?
Cause kid, I don't want people like you to have it? The
hell does that mean? It means you want to share information, you want
to make it available to the masses. But some information, kid, the
messes they shouldn't know. They can't handle it. Thanks, I've read.
I just had that conversation a few months ago with my brother. I agree,
So what are you really doing here other than questioning old manda is?
Apparently I'm saving the world. You smoke? No, I wanna no,
well could I fucking well? I asked you that. He like goes over
to Yeah. He like he's he's frail. He like stands and he opens
up a drawer on this workshop bench and he pulls out a pipe made of
like metal small pieces of metal piping that you would use on like a small
sink or something like that. He's like, he's made one, uh,
and he puts uh some in it and he he kind of puff puffs on
it, and he says, what will you say, kid? Oh right,
save in the world. Good luck with that kid. Yeah. Thanks.
It's the bit of a crap shoot, So you know, I'll wait
a second. And he flips the he had both layers of his crazy glasses
down. He flips like the top one up and he goes, I know
you, yeah, yeah, yeah, I know that face, and he
gets really close to you has he kind of looks you, Yeah, you're
the what all those hips you is are dressing like you're the famous one.
What is it? Uh? No, don't tell me, okay a leak
noleak no mak it's in there bleakirk yep, all on your own. Yeah,
you're you're Uh, you're a fiery one apparently. Yeah, those staffers,
they sure do like that undercut. Thanks, it's a it's a real
good disguise. Clearly. Not everybody dresses like you can't, which I don't
know why you ain't got any style, says his old man, like multiple
layered ropes burn to a crisp at the edges. Thanks man, Uh good,
live with your books or whatever. I want to read something? God,
does it gonna help by clear some mind? You just offered me a
random book? Or do you have something specific in mind? A big one?
Say right, I guess and he just leans over and like whatever,
his hand grabs that's the book. He pulls off the shelf. Uh draw
a icon card? Ooh, you son of a bitch? Uh draw one?
What did I do that? Bitch? Oh? Fuck you dot?
I hate the show. I did not plan that one. I have a
question. How many cards are in these decks? Like four or six?
Four? So they cycle? Yeah? Okay, all right, okay,
rings is there? Like, are there only two cards you could pull?
You? You? You don't even look unceremoniously you pull a book from the
stack, and the faceless one he has a tricky icon uh unforgiving in certain
ways and relentless. And from this stack you pull a hand bound leather book.
The old guy flips those lenses down against so maybe he can see from
across this narrow room what you pulled. He wants to know what did the
fates give you? Uh? He like flicks the book open and flick a
couple of charred pages, closes it and then just holds the spine towards him.
Ah, history of the jid. Interesting choice, keep it, thanks,
I'll uh, I'll send you a digital copy. Ah, okay,
I'll make a website for it so everyone can have it, don't I have
no access to such technology. I'll get you one. I'm famous, after
all, Right, way to kill an old man. You made it this
far? I ain't that the damn truth? You know? Good luck?
He goes a hey, kid, Yeah, you know I've seen two wars.
Now, nobody ever totally saves the day. Yep, So take the
weight off your shoulders. Yeah, I'll uh, I'll try bye right.
He goes back to his book Creepy Weirdo. And if he walks out of
the door, it as that big heavy metal door like spins behind you and
you stare down this metal grated hallway back to kind of the main sanctuary,
all of these rooms like off to the side that have been repurposed and whatnot.
At the end of the hallway, under a flickering work light stands a
child. You know this child? Fuck you dad? Malik is there is
there is there area past him to walk? Like, do I have to
walk by him to get to work? I walk right through him. That's
like five foot wide. Yeah. He just keeps walking and like when he
like gets next to him, uh, he just sort of mutters not the
time, man uh and tries to keep walking. He his eyes just kind
of cut up to you. He says nothing, creepy kid underflickering a light
says nothing is Malik just breezes past him and he heads back to the last
place he saw Alia. It takes you probably forty five minutes or so.
You've been gone that an hour at max. But the camera is going to
rewind and cut back. Two, let's get back to Tamir. Tamir had
a place to me, really really really wanted to do. Tamir, you
head back to the main sanctuary. It's getting later, you can tell,
because a lot of the kids are sleeping, a lot of the adults are
settling. It's gotten very quiet. Food has been had, and there are
few people. That's two corruption bosh, Actually it's one because I played one
to make elite drawbook. Hang on, I shoul weren't that. So there
are a few people here and there leaving offerings at the foot of this statue.
But now that you really get a good look at it, there's no
question in your mind that this is the machine. She stands there, arms
kind of by her side, palms forward. You can tell because of course
she wears that dress made of the stars, and this concrete statue has been
hand carved, and you can see that the robe she wears almost flutter backwards,
and where there's a negative space, they've punched out the stars so light
shines through them. I think Malik is just going to stare for a moment
and recall his own face to face experience with the machine, and places hand
on the statue. As you place your hand on the statue, something happens.
Not everybody notices. It's quiet, but up in the ceiling, way
way up, a door like an oculus opens, revealing space a window,
and from it you can see the last of the Star of Kua over the
planet of Kua as it shines in and as it does a beam of light.
It's perfectly the back of the machine. Dense beams of light come through
the stars and burst onto the ground, spreading out across your face and everyone
that prays here quietly? Do you say anything? Yes, what would you
have me do in this situation? I know you watch, you're aware.
What are we supposed to do? How do we stop more people from getting
hurt? There's a long pause as we see to mirror kneeling and putting hands
on this statue in the middle of a quiet sanctuary, as the stars shine
through the statue, and eventually you hear this ringing kind of beautiful, actually
like what you imagine a star sounds like. And as it takes over,
and maybe you even look up the lights shining from behind the statue. I'm
not sure it's made of stone anymore, And the face from underneath the carved
hood moves and looks down at you, and the machine says. The machine
does not tell another what to do. The machine is order. It has
a purpose, just as you have a purpose. And what is a purpose?
That is not my job to tell you. I am not that kind
of machine. But you do understand other machines. Yes, yes, we
want to stop one machine, many machines of the same type, from destroying
what we know, from destroying the third Horizon. Innocent people have already perished
because of our choices, because of our inactions, more will suffer. I
don't want that. Then you have answered your question, Tamir, You cannot
stop war. You can only save people. How you do this, that
is your programming, your choice. But I will tell you this. Once
I was locked away, many icons were he didn't from the people of this
place. Long before you arrived, we were fighting wars amongst ourselves, the
icons, the stars bigger than even your mind can comprehend. When your team
released me from that prison, I knew. I knew dawn was coming.
And then the first horizon released the beast. The third horizon is changing to
mirror everything changes. I have learned that. Yes, so What is it
you're trying to stop? Is it change you are trying to stop. It's
impossible to stop change, yes, So stop trying to change the things that
you cannot and do what you can. Two bit, since their regards she
okay, She is in hiding, waiting for her moment, for her to
break out her programming. You know what it is you have to do?
Ta mirror. You are here at my feet because you have not accepted it.
You see, even if those weapons are used and humans are bla from
the stars, things will keep going, change will continue. The question is
how do you want to shape that future with peace? Always with peace?
Then you should find some for yourself, for you cannot give it until you
have it. I have one more question. Quickly the light is fading of
my promise to you. I still intend to enact on it, but I
don't know how. I've never been a man of cloth. Do you think
that the machine seeks acolytes? No engineers? Correct? The icons locked me
away because I wanted to see a new future built. I did not want
to stick with the old ways. You want to live by the machine.
You already are engineer yourself the peace you desire and then you can engineer it
for the entire galaxy. You have everything that you need, but the belief
in yourself. I hope to give that to you. Thank you, go
with peace to me an engineer future. And as the sun passes down over
the her like the planet line of Kua, the stars stop pinging through in
that oculus at the top closes, and you're left once again in kind of
a dark space, brought back. I'm gonna have you draw a card.
Oh mm hmmm, she noh, oh, well look at that wow a
technician. Yeah, I guess we'll figure all that out here soon. The
camera once again cuts, and maybe as Malik passes from hallway to hallway,
you can see your brother just there praying Samir. You don't know how much
time has passed, but our camera is going to cut. Aalia, Alia,
what do you do? I seek? She or once really doesn't know.
He kind of just I think initially it's just fidgets about in the room.
Uh is Tal still there? Yeah? Tal sat on the bed and
she got up to speak a little bit softer, just in case anybody was
going to overhear them. But she sat back down, and we still have
the orb with us right, it's in your bag. You've not brought it
out or shown it it to anybody. You see her like fidget with the
flap of the bag occasionally and take it out. What's the matter? I
don't, I guess I'm just anxious. I feel like I'm not able to
do much, not yet anyways. I'm just waiting, I guess, for
the next steps. And I have this thing here next to me, And
even though it's meant to be light, it feels like bricks are in this
satchel. It just weighs on me and that I don't it kind of turns
for the first time. She kind of turns to you, like up till
now she's kind of like pacing looking elsewhere other ways, because I'm scared a
little of it, of the interaction I've had with it last time, about
bringing some and who doesn't know much about it into this into its into its
purview. I already feel regret for bringing anybody else. I could have put
so many jeopardy trying to mess with the last time, but we'd had no
choice. But here, it's just I'm just trying to figure out if there's
better ways to get the information we want without having to talk to it again.
M h m uh, I don't like. So you were supposed to
be my mentor. I I don't. I don't know how to help.
Oh but maybe maybe not. Yeah, talking to vision in a ball that
seems like a good idea. No, it's it's probably not at all,
but it's definitely the one that gave those visions to the motto over there?
What about a jenne out of a ball? Says a small voice from the
doorway. You gotta stop doing that, kid. I turned and then I
look at him, goes helloa, b sister. Oh that's creepy. That's
very creepy. I think he wanted to call me that, But I guess
I'm not against it. Things are different, it's been different for a while.
What are you have? What do you mean? I can feel it?
And you see Aliyah subconsciously like clutched the bag tighter. Yeah, you
found another h They are drawn to you, Alia? Why why is that?
We don't know? She's strong, full of faith, mystic in a
certain way. It's like there, Area has an aroma? What what's doing
it? How does Alia smile? Probably not the best considering I was about
to say to you maybe to tell not maybe not great. Y'all have been
traveling a while. When was the last time you were just like, let's
take a shower. I mean, you know, we do spend a lot
of time on the spaceship, and we tend to skip over things that don't
necessarily pertain to the story. I assumed showering was one of those things.
I mean took them all the time, so all had important character moments in
the shower. Most of us just take normal showers there. Yeah, I
mean, well we did jump straight out of a the cryo, saw that
a bunch of death and destruction was around us. I don't know if we
had the opportunity in that moment as we went straight from there to landing to
really take a lot of shower or anything, so we we we'd be stinky.
Probably. Yeah, does it smell great? There's a lot of people
down here and not greatly intoltid place, you know, sickness, but wounds
and so forth. So smelling, But says uh, yeah, I call
that Ali at number nine. Yeah, don't you don't smell so hot too?
Captain you know what, I didn't expect to but he said, you
smell good, So I had you know, I had a check. It's
comforting. You are stable, and that's unexpected. I was not. I
don't feel stable, but thank you. I suppose. Why are you here,
Babir or do you even go by that name anymore? Is that what
you want? That is my human name? Okay? Do you want me
to call it? Call you? The beer is fine? Why are you
here? I've been here? No, why are you here it now in
front of us? Because you want of that? And he points to the
bag. I could feel it strong to it. You can't. You know
you cannot have it. What do you plan to do with it? If
you do consume her? That is what you didn't do? And why would
I let you? Because I promise you'd much rather me than her. You
were just saying you were worried about what to do with mhm right. But
in the sense of how I can talk to her, in how I can
get more information who put her? Then that's neither here nor there. Oh
yeah, it is important who released her and who put her back in a
container? Said was I have got the help from the lady of the tears
and her out from her? And she yeah? Okay, oh no,
I don't like that vice. Okay, No, it's good, it's good,
that's great, it's interesting. That is not the response that is comforting,
not at all. Yes, I'm clearly here for a lot of comfort
tonight, everybody. Yeah, he say no, no, no, you
pulled it from the woman. He added, yes, and she needed saving
and you put her in that and he gestured or whatever's in the bag speaking
yes, did she grant her wish? Wait? No, no, you
released the gin from its vessel. She owed you a wish. And it
looks like, wait, would Olio actually know this or that's is it common
knowledge? No? No, I mean how many gin do you come across
in a lifetime? Ali has come across too, So yeah, well it's
not like she had the opportunity to really make it right. And and the
beer was already Nobody pulled him from the boy's body that he's currently possessing.
You just saw, well Shureley did. But she put him in a vessel
and then right in the container, and then somebody had to release him from
that container. So there are two things that you can ground from this one.
That gin in the globe owes you a wish too. He's working on
somebody else's wish. I'm able to deduce that, especially that second party,
if you believe what he says. Yeah, okay, let me get this
straight. Then, because I pulled this genie out of her vessel, she
has to grant me her wish. Yes, will I be in danger if
I approach her with it or anybody else? Gin cannot harm the one who
frees it. Now, once she's granted your wish, she is free to
do as she chooses, unless somebody puts her in another vessel as she kind
of. You can hear his tiny little teeth grated a little bit as he
thinks about Showley doing that to him. Are you free then to do as
you wish? No? Not yet? Whose wish? Are you granting?
That the one who freed me from the vessel Showly abandoned me in I have
a very funny way of remembering things. You were about to kill all of
us. I was going to kill Showley in an essence, kill all of
us because we were children on a wayward ship with no real knowledge or experience
on how to operate ones. So in an essence, yes, I cannot
feel emotion or sympathy for that regard. I am a creature supernatural in existence,
and I have a purpose I had another years we knew each other.
That meant so little. Okay, what is your wish that you need to
crant? If I may ask? I was asked by one to stop the
misticides. I have not been successful in my attempts, no matter how close
I have gotten. But every time I get a new line, a new
path, one ever closer to the solution to this wish. You all seem
to be there already, Not that that's a similar goal to mine. Perhaps
we just happen to cross paths because we're on the same mission. Maybe well,
maybe I'm here to consume that jin and gain enough power to stop all
of this. Then what's stopping you? After for the first time, this
creepy little boy in suspenders smiles absolutely nothing, and the captain he goes,
he goes, I think kind of leans he goes. Captain. We can
not let him have his genie. He already is so powerful. If he
gains more power, yes he may stop some of this, but we will
be facing something much much worse than any First and first, I was about
to say inquisition. It's not inquisition. First horizon, he cannot have this
gin I know, like m very quietly saying, I don't know what you
want me to do. He's a shin. I can't stop him, but
it's like, I know, I don't know why. I'm sorry. Go
ahead, you want to get answers, You have a wish and can get
answers. He wants a snack, you can get answer or is he can
get the snack and go along his way and maybe he will remember that we
helped him and let us keep as you and I have a agreement. Yeah,
that might be the first time you're hearing that, Alia, Yeah,
what what agreement? You made an agreement with the Yeah, he possessed my
ship when we first met. I met him because he possessed my ship,
and uh, we were at a different system, and he said that he
wanted to ride here, and I figured, well, he already possessed my
ship, so why not. But I told him that he couldn't hurt me
or my family and including my crew. So you've done a great job,
looking at him, like, good job, thanks for out of your agreement.
But you know, would you just like I don't know, work sometimes
you work with people you wouldn't expect when you're a free version, free trader.
All y'all know how long they were in this, like in their own
little adventure before she came on the ship at all. What this started a
year maybe or less before you, a few months before you joined the crew.
It would have been probably roughly six months. I was thinking about a
half of a year because the cycle kid started jump season, so that seems
about right, a half a year, a half a cycle, yeah,
half a cycle, and then we've been traveling together for about a cycle and
a half almost now. Have been a little suggestion, perhaps maybe an advice
for the future. Whenever all this is over, I feel like we should
all just stop going to space because I don't know how this keeps happening,
but we end up somehow, or you somehow end up going into a lot
of weird things in a very short amount of time. Yeah. So here's
the thing. I grew up on that ship and this is just my life.
Okay, Well I tried. The kid is not there. He made
his offer. He's gone. Oh he's gone. You can seek him out.
He's gone. Well you know what, No, I already got what
I wanted. Oh yeah, go ahead, And well I guess the next
option is to have a little conversation, and she flips open the satchel oh
wall whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa whoa. Hold on now, so
he's not here anymore. You and I can't handle a gin by ourselves.
After she answered your question fulfilling your wish, and then no longer owes you
anything. Uh, he's still on his wish, so we can maybe off.
I was going to ask, perhaps we can ask for something similar.
That is as difficult. I thought you wanted answers, You get one,
he said one. Right, we get a wish. You get a wish,
so you wish for your answer. She gives you your answer wish.
Branded she's done you you can't get the answer and then also ask for something
else that No, no, no, I know, but we can't.
We can't handle we can't handle her on her own. I don't consent to
that. No, no, I was not thinking you bring him back here.
Sure, okay, I'll be right back. Actually, you know,
maybe you both go try to trail behind him. When you get to the
kind of walkway, everybody's kind of sleeping. It's quiet, it's finally kind
of gone silent, and the four of you happenstantially to me, or you
come out of your prayer. Malik back to the main area, Alia and
Tal even on the hot trails of this kid, you don't find him,
but the four of you meet back up in the main sanctuary. Hey,
Elia, catch make a I'm gonna have you make a check to see if
you catch it or if it hits the ground and makes a very loud noise.
Oh no, let's see make a I guess this is an agility check.
I would let you make a dexterity if you have it and I do
not, so straight agility. Straight agility check is a what did I get
a failure? Okay, great, yeah, of course yep. Uh.
Malik goes hey and tosses this dusty book, and it slips right through your
hands and goes on the floor of this empty chamber, and it echoes out.
A few people sit up and look around and stare at all four of
you. A baby begins crying. A few people a grumpy old man's like,
but at your feet. Alia is a book carved by hand and inlaid
with gold foil on a a hand bound leather tome. This is the history
of jin It is a book paper. Some criby old man gave me that
book. Why would you throw things? Why wouldn't she catch it? Yeah?
Catch and I chucked something that's nearby atoms get picking a Dylan e chick.
The only thing nearby is maybe like a piece of rotten fruit on the
temp on the altar steps or something. God, I hope you critch.
Yeah, it's not that hard. You catch it. But the fruit is
kind of rotten and it's a little sold And it's that's what you do when
someone throws something at you and it sort of leads down and draws it on
the ground. You catch it. I hate you, Malik, I hate
something super normal thing to do. Anyway, pick up the book and I
just was like, I'm going to go. And what's old man? Who?
I don't know, some creep old man like a closet. He was
weird, but he gave you that book for free. I think you might
be ordered of the Variah, but I don't know. He was down here,
so you can have that book. Does Alia at all recognize this book
in any way? You could make a culture check? Oh God, at
least something going my way? Figure the last ancient Tell what I found last
ancient tell that I found I gave to you. So maybe it's because I
mean, you know what the book is clearly about the title alone tell you,
so there's no question there. But in terms of having ever heard of
this book, yeah no. It is a little crispy around the edges.
You can see where it was like padded out, and some of the pages
are kind of burnt. But yeah no, having heard of it previously,
absolutely not. This is not in your repertoire. Okay, yeah, I
I I like, like gingerly pride open and kind of do I get anything
stand out? Or as you flipped through you realize it's handwritten, it's not
typed, it's not printed. It's a handwritten book by uh, an old
man. Milie. You didn't get his name, did you, the creepy
old dude? No, I didn't ask. Okay, great, Uh.
It says uh uh collected collected manuscript by UH. And it's signed Howard.
I think that's what you think, you like make the handwriting out his name
is uh. Let's see, what's a good I need a good last name.
He's a He's Howard Gambino, doctor Howard can Howard Gambino, historians.
I was why, I was I expecting a Jewish name for some reason?
Oh, I know why. It's freaking what do you say? What do
you sing? Gambino? That's not strong Jewish Italian getting a vibe here.
It seems that a lot of these rebels and free leagues are all a little
bit Italian Jewish between tall you know, I and you know there did cousin
Coriolis is just Chicago Space, Chicago, Chicago. So but you you see,
it's like written by him, and it seems to be with like a
quick flip through a collection of information that has been re like written and put
into uh like solid thoughts where he'll write a piece of somebody else's information and
then he does like an essay afterwards of how he think connects to other things
in the book. It's a it's a manuscript or like a massive essay if
you wouldn't in a certain way. And it's all about the history of Gin
in the third horizon that we know to date. Amazing this is And you
didn't get the name, Oh no, was it the Howard? I don't
know. It's just some old guy in a closet. Man, I would
I need to do more of an in depth read on this to get a
better understanding on Gin or any partner. You're going to need to spend some
time with it. Okay, you would definitely need to spend some time with
it. Oh yeah, that creepy Gin kids back. Yeah, he came
here. Oh news to you, Tamir. Wait what Tamir? Has not
Malik or Tamir have met him on the way out? I didn't know.
They did not see him and goes as he pleased. He could possess the
entire tirety of Coriolis if he wanted to. You know what, I'm not
gonna ask that question. No mind, you know what, No, I'm
gonna ask it. What's stopping him? Why hasn't he already done it?
Because he doesn't believe that it's going to actually have any benefit. Because so,
he basically can move throughout the ship the way he feels possess it.
Reappear in certain ways, but always in the form of this boy. It
seems to be that seems to be his chosen his chosen form, just like
her chosen form was a very sexy lady. Will sit down and drink.
Perhaps this seems important. Yeah, I hope it helps. You might want
to get back to Julysis or yeah, I'll go there. Do you need
any anything from me, Captain Not at the moment. I think what we
need to do, though, is go get school. That's the most pressing
thing we have right now. You see Melissa very quietly cross the space,
all of you kind of finally convened in standing and a slight whisper. She
says, I've gathered a few people, not children, to help you all
as you cross. I thought her idea of the air ducts was a good
one, so I put one of our best technicians on it. And she
gestures and behind her, near where she exited the hallway she exited out of
there is a girl standing there. She has a partially shaved head. You
can tell that she's had some kind of surgery. You don't know what kind.
It might have been a implant, or it could have been, you
know, shrapnel taken out of her head. You don't know. You can
just tell they've shaved her head for the beads of stuff. And she said,
she looks right at Milik, and she says, one of our best
train technicians, she was able to dive into the Coriolis mainframe and get blueprints
of the air ducts, of the internal workings of the cellar. Not an
easy find. Perfect, that's great. And she passes off to Malika a
data disc because you know it's all digital, and she says, but I
think it best for us to wait until there's more light. And a lot
of the quarantine areas have cut power. There's no generators left anymore. I
am. I will warn you. Many of are more wounded claim that the
shadows move. Coriolis is a crypt place full of dead bodies that are still
being cleared out into space. And where there's this many bodies, sometimes the
darkness takes hold. I believe moving with more light would be safer. The
sun will come up on the other side of the planet in just a few
hours. Do we have anything any extra light sources we could use. Yes,
We've got a few light sticks as well as flashlights in the usual.
It's not completely dark down there, and as long as they still have some
of the windows open on those upper decks, you'll catch the sun at first
light. It may create some shadows, but at least it won't be dark.
Shadows can be a problem. How well armed is everybody coming with us
well armed. In fact, I thought, maybe I show you all to
the weapons locker. Oh goody. A dog somewhere off in the distance barks
and excitement. Uh maybe a kid as it wakes up a grumpy old man,
and she gestures in the direction of the weapons locker. Alie, I
know you don't really do weapons, so I imagine you're going to spend some
time with this, uh this book. I'm gonna have you make another culture
check as you read through it. Oh good, come on, baby,
where's paved? Okay, come on, fingers crossed? Oh, there it
is, that's what we needed. I'm also gonna have you draw cards.
Do you have to paint my moment like this? Who knows? It could
be a really good thing? Technician is a is a? It could be
good. Okay, all right, we'll see, we'll see. Uh so
draw one card tears card for me? Is that the one I clicked to
hold up? Yeah? Okay, so draw one? Uh uh no more
cards? Oh let me, that's not good. Hang on, hang on,
you're the Lady and Tears. Let's recall all of the Lady and Tears
cards. Let me shuffle them. Okay, now, give it a draw
okay mm and uh quick and drag it out lost love. It's never good.
That doesn't Yeah, no, never, it's it's a it's a it's
a mid tier. That's a mid We'll see, we'll see how this goes,
all right, this is this will be our lab. Okay, so
your critical success as you spend a few hours while the rest of the team
maybe decrypts these blueprints, chooses some weapons and armor for themselves. It's a
pretty it's a it's a random selection, but you can tell they've taken it
off other soldiers, right that it's a collection of things that they've taken from
the homogeny, from the judicators on corio lists. You begin reading this book,
it's written and has been translated, so it's so much easier because you
got a critical success that a three. I'm going to give you three vital
pieces of information that you pull from this book over a couple hours. One
every encounter that has been written about or journaled about, or in some way
documented says that when a jin is released from its vessel, it offers the
person that releases it a single wish. But in addition to this, gin
are built around the concepts of trickery. They are demons, which means that
usually the tricks or the wishes tend to backfire or they have a catch twenty
two to them. In certain ways, you get what you want, but
I want a vacation home and they put it in the middle of Mars where
you can't breathe the air, or you know, I want peace. Well,
so they take everybody in a town and make them docile. They stop
reproducing, they stop eating right, so there's always like a trick that comes
because the gin only wants to be released from the wish. Everything else is
secondary. Two. There are multiple different kinds of gin, and this book,
for the first time ever, seems to categorize them for you. It
defines them. It talks about some of their strangities and oddities, the ways
they manifest, the people that they seek to possess. Along with this,
it tells you that jin don't Jin seek power, because the more powerful they
are, they less likely they are to be put into a vessel right to
be captured. So they consume one another. They hunt each other. It's
like a highlighter thing. There can only be one kind of a thing.
If another gen knows another gin. They it is what they crave the most,
They seek it for consumption. And three deep in a footnote somewhere you
find some theorizing and a drawing, a flat version of what was in a
three dimensionally a three dimensional holograph just a few hours ago, the same drawing
Let them let them that Lamara made. You find information that this drawing was
a capture off the side of a cave wall on one of the distant planets
in Odicon, long before the Portal Wars, by a woman who is possessed
by a jin that every time this gin seems to manifest, she brings with
her a prophecy of towers of light used to destroy the universe. It seems
that this same gin that hasn't been seen since before the Portal Wars, rode
Lamar's soul back, and with her brought the same prophecy, but this time
carved into soft white walls alia. Maybe this information takes you a while.
Maybe you pace while you read while quiet sleeping hallways of all of these people
who may not have had a good night's rest in a very long time,
and you hear while you're deep reading about this prophecy consuming everything that you can
in this book with your critical success. And you hear a grunt, a
pained grunt, off to your right, and when you look up, you're
not even sure where your feet have taken you. And as you look through
the other side of like a blue holographic wall that they've put in, right,
like an energy wall, you see your sister, or one of them,
chained to the wall. It looks like she's probably been beaten. I
wouldn't say tortured, right, That's not what I mean, but she's definitely
had. They are clearly trying to get maybe in for out of her.
She lays there, head tilted down. The last coruption bar of the night
is played for lost Love, and as the rest of the crew suits up,
breaks down a plan. You stare at your sister hanging by chains on
the other side of a holographic call and we will pick up there next week.
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