What's up, everybody? Welcome to Table Story zero, Blue Orion. What's
up? Welcome? How's how's it going everybody? How's everybody doing today?
Are you all fantastic? Amazing? Good? So good? Okay bye.
So what you're saying, Jay is you're feeling very normal today. I'm alive.
That's how I am excellent. That's already a check mark for Monday.
Congratulations, Michael Aurora Stenson will be sponsored by Pepto Bismol and I have on
the side of my neck there's sponsored back to boc Your loves it, Arthur,
I got a plan to fix that. Welcome the show, everybody,
so I have I had a random question for all of you just to kind
of kick things off today. Fourteen inches. I expected Merlin to be bigger
than that, frankly, but my question is do any of you have either
a memory foam mattress or a memory foam pillow? And I don't know if
it's called the same thing over in the UK. I have a I have
one that was designed for really old people with extremely bad backs. It's called
something crazy like it's called like a v max or something, which is also
like a max match. Right, let me see what it's So you're you
have the mattress. Do you have a pillow as well or now? Nah,
I do have one, but I don't use it. I can go
supreme douche. I have a memory foam travel pillow. Yeah, like you
know the next things that you put around, Yeah for the airport, but
yeah, but with memory foam in it. Oh like ah, this is
the flight to Minsk. I remember this one. It's great. I'm curious
because I finally got one, uh yesterday, because I've been having some issues
sleeping lately, and I normally in the winter, I sleep like a rock
like I I sleep like a good amount of time. In the summer,
I have much more difficult time sleeping. I I basically just as soon as
it's like hot and there's a lot of light, I'm not sleeping. Well,
it just doesn't work. But when it's like cold and dark, I
just want to sleep. And I've been having trouble sleeping. So I went
and I got afoam pillow, and last night I slept the sleep of your
life. It's a oh my god. I woke up near ten o'clock.
I haven't done that shit in a long time because booboo wakes me up usually
like seven o'clock, seven thirty in the morning. Is it one of those
pillows that you can flip over, like one side is for hot weather and
one side's for cool weather. The whole thing is just it's just what I
have. It's really nice pillows like that. Yeah, that's in veritible because
it's memory foam. But on one side it's just it helps release like cool
air, I guess, instead of keeping your head hot, and then the
other one keeps your head warm. It's really really good. Anyway, it
was insane. I could be alive. I couldn't. I couldn't believe it.
And uh, I was like, I should have had this for a
long time. I'm so dumb. Why didn't I just buy it? It
wasn't expensive. I should have just bought it, like a long time ago.
And I feel really stupid. So I'm just curious if anyone else was
as stupid as me. And appears no, I was the only one that
did not have a memory phone thing. Good good, that's good. Well.
I thought it were going to make a joke about how no one remembers
anything in this show. I thought, that's what you're asked, that was
the setup. I was, that was, Yeah, I know, I'm
disappointed now because that would have been much like my pillow. Uh, yeah,
that's I was. I was genuinely curious. So that was. That
was the way that I decided to start the show today. Everybody welcome how
it how it makes its tea, That's really what I know. But I
got my sister. I got my sister a sampler, a giant sampler of
tea for uh, for Christmas, and she was so happy. So so
she like couldn't believe. She's like, how did you know that I like
tea? And I was like, I don't just she got really serious.
No, she never talks really about it. She doesn't talk about that ever,
how did you know? I don't know. I just guessed I just
watching ZBO and now it's just fascinated by tea. Probably it must be it's
just earwormed, I guess because she's she's uh, she's going into vents school
and she works insane, ridiculous hours, so I figured she probably needs as
much caffeine, whether it's coffee or tea. So I could have gone either
way. She she likes both. I could have went like weird coffees.
I could have went, you know, with the te's, but she likes
both. Anyway, Welcome to the show, everybody, Welcome to CBO.
Thank you. I don't know why that was funny, it just was,
but welcome. Uh. If you've never seen the show before, Zero Blue
Ryan is a uh, it's a an anime Mecca Lancer show. We play
the Lancer RPG here and uh, people just got themselves level up. As
you can see on the screen, they out themselves a little five Lancer licenses
and they've picked their next mecha choice. They've gotten themselves upgraded and ready to
go. I was of doubled since last we met Count Dooku. Yes,
so why don't we go around the room, Let's introduce our players, and
let's get the show started today. Brad, would you be so kind of
a service off please? I have become more powerful than you could ever imagine.
My conochy wig didn't arrive, so I still have green hair. It's
never going to arrive. Apparently I didn't order it spoiled by the Amazon that
one click thing, and you're like, this is two clicks. I just
know how to do it. Too much effort, no I refused, Yeah,
can't click. No, I think I tried to. I went to
order it and I didn't. That's what happened there. That's all that happened.
I looked at it like two days ago and was like, oh,
it's still is it in the basket? So I went, now it's got
green hair. Now that's that character's decision made for me. Thank you four
AM Decisions, Brad. So I'm playing green Head. Why it's Slate who
was gone through several personality overhauls during this show. The very last thing that
happened to me was I teleported out of existence and I wasn't in my mech
which does that? So I don't, by the way, I have no
idea what's happening. I even said to Whack, hey, what does that
mean when he explained kind of what was happening, and he went, ah,
make it up. So I don't know. I don't know what has
happened to me, and I don't think I ever will. So I have
no idea to the Shadow realm. I think I've literally I think I'm in
a different pain, Like I'm going to show up on Witchcraft and Wizardry tomorrow
as Wyatt and that's what happened there. I don't know, I genuinely have
know it. I would love that that's the only way we can get you
on there. Yeah, I really wanted to do that. I was like,
I wanted to do like a one shot where we just got some characters
from everything and just put them together in any old system and was like,
there you go, like a dumb shove show thing. So yeah, I
don't know what's going on exactly, but I'm going to be here as possibly
third character, overhauled personality. Whyat three they're free? The three wyat free.
I talk like this now though, you know what I mean? Mate?
Basically from South London now instead of East London like previous previous is from
East London. Jay Z only one here that understands what the hell you're talking
about? But I ain't done nothing right? Well may basically do right though?
Shut your mouth made? What are you from Brixton? Mate? Yeah?
What of it meant? May I see you around Boermansey though? Yeah?
But that's slight side the river in it, mate? Keep going,
Uh no, it's ruining my character choices alone from the Midlands. So I
only have so many London references before I get terribly parted. That's how I
should sound. What the accent we were just doing is how I should sound,
not Midlands should when I hear, I ain't done nothing. I just
want to correct the double negative. It's yeah, it's difficult. Why basically
you don't know what you're talking about me whatever, get real excellent, thank
you, Brad Fist. I don't know what's going on. Hi, I
played captain or Stu Flann again, Captain again, Captain Stull. He is
now a captain. He's so good. You glad I didn't take the leader
talent. But yes, he's also gone a major personality overhaul and we'll probably
keep it until he too was sent to the shadow. Realm uh, I'm
really excited about the new mechs and the level ups because this mech I've built,
I cannot wait to uh unleash that, just unleash it and see what
everybody else has done with theirs. But yeah, you need like I need
to find like a really specific sound effect for your crotch cannon, and you
have that we've established as we just need a zipper, a zipper sound,
and then a cannon fire. There's a there's gonna be some kind of metallic
like zipper noise that we can find. But yeah, it's that. Is
that the Mualner? Is that that one? Or is it a different one?
I can't remember. It's the Yeah, no, it's the mule Near.
It is the meal all right, Well, I mean that's a pretty
I feel like if you go down that route, if you're naming it,
then it's got to be serious business. If you name it mule Near,
you're very This is not awkward at all, all right? Whoa, there
is a crazy storm outside that is just shaking ship in my apartment. Wow.
Yeah, the owner was just fired. The owner was just fired.
I can't yeah, yeah, fist, thank you, Jay Hi, I'm
Jay. I play Supreme Lord Commander General Michael Stenson, who is awfully and
useless and has about as much self esteem as this soiled tea bag on my
desk. He had a he had a difficult episode last episode. He's he's
struggling, he's having some memories. He doesn't really know what's going on.
Look, no one needs your opinion. Cat, I don't say minimum damage.
You're going to turn into a rug. See the kitten. Please come
on with a minimum damage. Wow, Jay, hello to minimum damage.
Look, okay, you want to roll the dice? Yes, yes,
you can't roll dre your ship. So yeah, so I got memories going
on. Don't really know what's happening. Concert was asking me questions. It's
all gone a bit weird. I don't really know what's going on. And
if I make it through the episode without vomiting, well then that's just good
for everyone. And I heard more thunder. Yeah it's bad outside. So
if if the stream gets shut down today, folks, you know what happened.
It's insane storm outside. Thank you, Jay, Myth Hi, I'm
myth Thematic. I was really hoping that Alan Rickman was voicing the cat and
I was. I was. That's why I heard. I'm Myth Thematic.
I role play and stuff. I'm playing Doctor Zephyr also known as doctor Quanta.
I control stuff. I control the battlefield. I also know things about
the firmament and how much that is that I know we will see because what
happened to me? Can you tell me what happened? I have no idea
I find out. Okay, but yeah, that's me. Can't wait to
play. Let's uh, let's tell some stories. Thank you BB. Hello,
I am hello. I'm Pumpkinberry and I'm playing Gabriella Slash el Gato,
and I too would love to know what happened to I. I have some
theories, but I would love to know exactly what me What tell me the
theories? I already told you the theory. You know what my theory is.
And the bottom line is I am not as cool as myth's sweater cardigan
thing. So I think we should just start playing the game. Yeah.
Is there a response with I don't do well with compliments? I just go
okay, oh my god, you're British. Thank you BB. I'm my
Steve and I will be the GM of Zoom. I'll be dragging the players,
kicking and screaming through the adventure today. Thank you everybody for being here.
Let's get everybody started. Let's play our anime intro and let's get started
with some DBU. Let's do the year is fifty sixteen. You. After
many failures, humanity has each new Heights Union is responsible for all of it.
It is the Tyrant, the Watcher, and the guiding hand. The
Third Committee watches over Humanity, but is stretched thin the threats sloom from the
own of ascendency, overreaching corporal states, remnants of the Second Committee, and
other unknown dangers. Union scrambles to cope with the vast size of the hegemony
and these threats by relying on unorthodox means. Watching ahead, Doctor Zephyr,
you were just having a conversation with Wyatt on the last episode of Zero Blue
Orion. After the events of the mining colony that everyone went to save,
you managed to rescue several hostages with the rest of the group and debrief the
Union Naval Department personnel aboard the ship known as the Seraph, commanded by Aptentivius
Slate. Whyatt Slate's brother who has been missing, and you haven't really interacted
with this person and over a month instead, you've basically been reporting to two
individuals, Commander Naani and where my notes? I can't find it and Lieutenant
Commander Desora. Your responsibility aboard the ship, Doctor Zephyr, has been to
try to get this group of people into a place where they are able to
access the firmament, and you've essentially been having a You've been doing tests and
things on them three times a day or so to try and get them and
try and try and just analyze where they're at, just to try and get
some results here. However, there haven't been too many. You've gotten responses
from Gabriella and a little bit maybe from Stu and Michael, but nothing really
from Wyatt. He's been fairly repressed. However, in this last conversation things
have been different. You have started to get an indication that Wyatt has been
able to access certain aspects of the firmament. And as you were having this
conversation as why it was kind of opening up to you, he literally disappeared.
What do you do? I think? I think doctor Zephyr is stunned
for probably about an eternal feeling ten seconds. Eternity feeling ten seconds, and
he I think he then probably flicks his mouth shut and he walks over towards
his notes. Then he grabs the tablet and he starts to I think he
actually starts a video com and records this is doctor Donovan Zephyr. It is
the time is twenty two thirty eight. I believe I have just have had
success with the firmament. The subject that I had has disappeared before my eyes.
They were just here moments ago talking about and expressing feelings repressed, however
they may be. The subject did not old or possess any qualities of ever
interacting with the firmament up until moments ago, I saw anything. My mind
is racing. I will I'll have to report back. I must let the
others know. And then I think he turns off the calm and he runs.
I think he tries to gather some of his stuff. He leaves the
room, He turns around in the hallway, comes back in the room,
turns around in his room again, and then he leaves and starts to I
guess, in like a hastened walk towards the bridge, or towards to where
maybe any of these commanders are okay. So on the bridge, the rest
of you were essentially given leave for a day. You get rest after the
encounter that you had down on the planet. You arrive at the bridge,
and Lieutenant Desorra is in command of the bridge, and typically there's a rotation,
you know, for like, you know, some people actually have time
to sleep, et cetera, and it's Disorrah's rotation to be in command of
the bridge. So yeah, as soon as you get to the bridge,
you can see people just in their normal positions. The ship is you know,
as you might imagine, there's people at different stations monitoring different things,
checking the status of the ship, communications, et cetera. But Lieutenant Disorra
is is on the ship. Lieutenant Commander of Desorra Lieutenant Comredit Disora. I
have a you are you busy at the moment? What is it? Doctor?
I just I think I may. I think I have something in the
office that I must I must report to you. It's about most importance.
She stands up, hands over the con to the next officer and she gets
you know, she walks over to you and uh, you know, she
says, you have the con and she starts to follow you. What's wrong,
Well, let's say, and I guess as we're walking down the hall,
it seems as if it's it's about in regarding your Wyatt slate. He
he was well, and then we opened up the door and he was standing.
He was sitting right here, and we were having one of our sessions
where I discussed and talk with them about how they are going with their training
and everything of the sort. And he mentioned an event, a CCE and
across Consciousness event where he was having views and some sort of vision with his
believer it was his brother. And then he disappeared. Gone, not an
ounce of material anything anywhere, gone, gone, gone. There's no byproduct
or anything. I could try to wipe and swap down the seat and see
what there is of DNA traces, but I do not I gone was here?
In your opinion, doctor, what do you think happened? Well,
in my opinion, I do think that he may have possibly had an event
where he had opened up into the firmament, let himself ride between the veil
of this world and the next. This world and what we know of the
firmament. You're saying that ensigns Slate is gone, Well, I'm not saying
he's certainly not here. Could be the veil of the firmament is only passed
through or maybe even spread for a moment of time. You must either pass
through or stay where you are. He's not here, so he must have
passed through to somewhere else. So he's not Where do you think he went,
doctor, Well, that's hard to say. I will have to try
my best to see what or where, or at the current moment, I
can't say. You'll be assigned the resources and personnel. You need find out
where he went. Very well, I will do just that. This is
important, doctor, this is why you are aboard this ship. Yes,
yes it is, and I will not I will not forget that. I
will Commander Naani. Yes, very well, good day, doctor. Don't
fail me, Die, I'll shure you. I won't. She's the entire
time that she's been here, she's looked. I think I want to get
a role from you. I think this is going to be it's just a
flat y twenty. Unfortunately, I don't think you have any eleven judge of
character kinds of roles uh an eleven? Okay, So she looked unsurprised.
I think that more than anything, she sort of came across as intrigue.
Very well, all well and good considering this was. But my my mission
was, oh this is good success. I guess all right, cool?
Uh. I think next, I think I think doctor Zephyr's going to spend
most of the evening, if not all of the evening, probably all of
the evening, trying to run tests on the chair, see what and try
to recall what was going on. I also, I also feel like there's
a recordings that he has during these sessions, and I think he's gonna probably
review the footage and try to see when an infant the discussions. I will
investigate. Please, for that's a five and he's a five. You have
a plus four. That was a natural one. It was a pretty pretty
great role. There is no indication of what happened to Wyatt. Yeah,
there's no he was there one moment and then he was gone. There's no
burn mark, there's no evidence of some kind of energy exchange. He was
just gone. Yeah, because of the net one, I think I was
not gonna I don't think he's gonna be sleeping for the next two days.
Yeah. And I'm gonna say this takes you a while to review everything like
you properly do checks. There's been personnel that has sort of come in and
assisted you. You've gotten like there's been basically like there's not a ton of
scientists aboard this ship, but any that were aboard the ship we're sort of
assigned to you. Even like medical personnel. Various scans and stuff have been
done. And with the one or the five, I should say I feel
like he wasn't very discreet about his research. I feel like maybe word has
got out that maybe this happened or something. I'm considering just sloppy work,
but cool, we switched scenes. This is a question for anyone in particular,
how did you react to your sessions that you had with doctor Zephyr.
If anyone feels like there has been a sort of important moment that you had
after you had your meeting with doctor Zephyr, feel free to speak up about
it now, including me. No, okay, bye, did he tell
us about Wyatt? I don't think so. Okay, then no, it's
probably fine. Now you said, I think that you were going to rest
first before you met up with doctor Zephyr. Does anyone sort of do anything
special? I know that you, Michael, you had a well I guess
you had a pretty intense session. How are you feeling after everything? So,
Michael now I can not uncover your camera as being the elusive voice in
the voice in the void? Hi everybody? So Michael now, I think
basically a combination of everything of what happened on the mission of the Visions,
trying to research it, not finding anything at all, and then meeting doctor
Zephyr and not really getting any more answers he now has and not a bee
in his bonnet because he's not angry, it's like like a splinter in his
mind, just this nagging feeling of disconnection, almost like he doesn't feel like
he's existing on the same plane as everybody else. Just something is wrong and
that thought won't go away. Everything just feels wrong, the people, the
place him. Did you go back to you after you've redone? I think
he would have just walked. I think you would have just just walking around
the ship with his thoughts, no particular place to go. He doesn't want
to go back to the armory. He doesn't want to touch the weapons again
after the vision he had when he tried to do that, which has unsettled
him because that's his go to comfort, to what he knows. I think
he would have just walked, not interacting with anybody, just him with his
thoughts, trying to piece together what the hell is going on with him?
All right, So I think that there's a I think as you've sort of
walked off, it's been a few hours and you're just kind of meandering around
the ship. I think probably by now you've done a loop, you know,
or two around the ship, and you probably come to the gym.
There's a small you know, kind of like a gym area with various machines
for cardio and waits and things like that, and there's a there's a weird
feeling that sort of happens. It's kind of like a a jolt that you
feel. It's not a it's not a subtle sensation, it's a it's a
thing that kind of makes you jump literally, like you jump into the air
for you know, a second. It I think it feels probably like a
splash in cold water, you know, like jumping into a pool or something
of cold water, and it sort of flows across your entire body for a
moment. It's jolting and it snaps you into attention. What do you do?
Does it hurt? Doesn't hurt? But it's shocking, as has this
ever happened to him before? Will me a fly to twenty? Mm?
Hmm? Oh god where I got rolled? Twenty? I think you can
remember? So do I feel like everything's switched on? Like like it snaps
me into a state of alertness. I think that's up to you just wired.
Yeah, I think that's how how he would react that kind of jar
when he's already feeling unselled. It will be like a huge adrenaline spite,
like he's ready for combat, and huh, this is weird. I don't
know why he is. He is just going to do this. He's gonna
almost run to the armory. Okay, you sort of take off, probably
doing the thing where you're just kind of like slightly bumping people that are walking
to their stations or whatever. There's a lot of like hey, slow down,
you know, like those kinds of passing comments. And you head to
the armory. You can see there's not a lot of activity here, probably
just some repairing of weapons and things from the encounters down on the planet.
Maybe. I think that's probably what you'd see. So there's not like a
there's not a ton of stuff going on, probably just whatever the normal sort
of workflow is. It just seems normal in here. Nothing really crazy is
going on. But there's like some law arger weapons maybe being repaired or like
pieces being printed for the max. Okay, they're being assembled. So he's
he just almost not slowing down. He does that thing where he walks into
the room and you know, there may be one or two people you might
recognize him or sort of say, you know, hey, Michael, but
He's just ignores them, keeps walking and at pace. He just grabs the
nearest rifle off the rack and immediately starts disassembling it and putting it back together
again. Okay, what's what's one of the other armory workers that usually takes
over for you, He's usually on the next shift. There's Laura. Laura
m okay, don't know her particularly well. We have that kind of relationship
where, you know, just five minutes on crossover between shifts, don't hang
out in between. Have you just had that five minutes of trading information as
well as kind of our lives past each other. Okay, Laura is there
and she says Stenson, aren't you supposed to be getting some R and R?
Yeah? And not now, Laura, not now. You just he's
continually stripping and restripping and putting back together this rifle, over and over and
over. She's looking sort of around for a second. She she walks closer
to you. Are you all right? I've got to go I've got to
go back. I need to go back. And your answers, this is
where it happens. This is this is where it happens. Go back where
I don't know where where they are my friends, Kim, that face at
a fight. I have to see it again. You mean down on the
planet. No, no, not Laurie. You can't let you don't know.
Look, I just I need to do this, Okay, you need
to put the rifle back together. No, I'm just trying to understand what's
going on, Stancon last I was here, the rifle, the work.
It triggered something, all right. I saw I saw something on the planet.
I came back. I came here more visions and I need No one's
got any fucking answers, and I have to see it again. Did you
go to see the doctor? Maybe you should go to the sick bay.
Why this is exactly what they want, isn't it. That's what the doctor
said. This is supposed to be happening. Apparently it's he isn't okay,
he just wants the firmament control. What just I don't even think you're supposed
to know the fir moment like the onic. What are you talking about?
I've said too much? Yeah? Do you even know who I am?
Why? Why I'm here? I've seen everyone look at us, this crew,
I have my team. I've seen you cross to other side. Of
the corridor, leave the missiles. We hear you talking. We know that's
something about us. I don't know what you're what you're talking about. So
what. I'm just another soldier like you. We're all soldiers, all of
us. Well, apparently some of us are a little bit more. Look,
I don't know what's going on. I don't know anything about the firmament.
I just fix up these weapons and load the guns and how people fight.
I'm not any kind of a therapist or anything. You should talk to
somebody. I've got a feeling they're not going to give me the answers I
need. I don't think I'm any good to them if I know the answers.
She starts to like get like a little bit closer, you know,
and she kind of like puts a hand on your shoulder, and she says,
maybe this isn't the best place for you right now. H I don't
have anywhere else to go. I think he just looks down and keeps keeps
working the rifle. The rifle is going to break he keeps that up.
Then sequence is wrong. I mean it's wrong. I've done this a thousand
times that I hear you. But sequence is wrong. I think it'll look
down up. You're trying to You're trying to put the firing pin right in
now, but it doesn't. You have to do it at an earlier step.
I can't even do this right. Fuck? Why why? And he
starts stripping it back to nothing again and putting it back together again, trying
just to get this right. Look, let me let me help you.
Fine, and I kind of slamming the rifle down. Not anger at her,
just anger at himself in the situation. Thank you. Look, if
if the lieutenant sees you in here when you're supposed to be getting rest,
you're gonna get in trouble. Yeah. Maybe you're right. It's not working
anyway, thank you. Yeah, yeah, no problem. Look, maybe
I can take my break now. Maybe let's get some food or something.
Are you hungry? Yeah? Actually I'm starving. That'll be nice. Okay,
all right, let's let's go. I'll just I'll tell my supervisor.
Okay, she goes off, tells the supervisor, and well, if you
go, we switch. Uh. He switched to ste I think Stu.
Last we heard from you, you had shared food with people and spent a
little spent a little time with the group, and whatnot in the in the
mess hall ate a lot of food. Did you head back to your barracks
simply for rest? Did you just go to sleep? What did you do?
It was scheduled is very precise. But there is one thing that has
really jarred him. One thing that's out of the ordinary that he always goes
back to when he's finished is working out in his duties. There's something that's
been bugging him. He isn't getting rast, he isn't thinking about something.
There's something in his room that he's than studying. When is it? When
he inspected his mech, he stumbled across a book and he does not remember
like where it came from. He doesn't know how it got there, and
he doesn't remember writing it. I think the the book is probably also a
little warped as well. It's definitely had heat damage. It's definitely seen better
days. It's definitely been worked in, spine is cracked, and he's been
reading it constantly. Stu's been able to keep it together, Like he's got
this image in his mind that he's destined to be a great war hero.
But this one book he's kind of kept secret because he doesn't want to alarm
anyone. He doesn't want to. He doesn't want to make a big deal
out of it. He thinks he can handle it. How's it making you
feel? In general? Looking at the book, it's upsetting. Most of
what's in the book goes against everything he stands for now, Like Stu wants
to be remembered as a great hero of Union, but everything in this book
that he's reading is very it's very self centered. It's very narcissistic, superficial.
It doesn't sound like anything that he wants to be, or at least
that's what he thinks. Yeah, I think, how do you imagine you're
reading this? By the way, are you like in bed, you have
like, you know, blanket pulled up. Are you just kind of like
reading before you go to sleep. I'd imagine he's at the desk, like
pouring over it, taking notes. It's tight quarters in the barracks. This
is a military ship, so the desk is probably like really close to the
bunks. You know. It's it's it's you know, always a little uncomfortable
in this kind of a ship. It's meant for you know, battle,
it's meant for fighting. It's not meant for comfort. So it's a bit
spartan, where like any any like personal space is cut down quite a bit.
So the I think that the you know, the desk does that thing
where you have to be like really close to the desk and it just has
like a tiny bit of space between the bunks and the chair. And yeah,
it's a it's a bit off putting. And uh a few hours,
I guess after you had met up with everybody, while you're looking at the
book, would you be looking at it the whole time? He would look
at it for the entire time, like all of his free time. He
really wants to understand this book and try to remember if he actually wrote this.
Okay, while you're pouring over it, you're upset. Obviously you see
that you're involved with this in some way, or at least it claims.
So does it make you think of anything in your current life? Are you
associating associating it with anything else? Not? Really? Like the way Flanagan
thinks now is that he's always wanted to be what he's striving for now,
a good soldiourn, an obedient one, someone who will rise through the ranks
and achieve glory. I guess he can associate a little bit with I guess
the visage of glory that this book is trying to sell. But he isn't
really it seems yeah, very superficial. He's like, this isn't actually like
worth anything, Like he knows now that this isn't going to get you anywhere.
Work her glutes at least three times a week, what manscaping is a
must? Spend no less than two hours on my hair. It isn't perfect,
It isn't worth it. He kind of thinks about his training in the
way, how he has a very very strict schedule. Everything has a purpose
so that he can achieve his dream of being a war hero. And he
starts connecting it like maybe this would work if you wanted to be some Hollywood
big shot or Mars big shot. Okay, do you like how does it
make you feel in general when you see these things? Obviously you know you
don't have a close connection with this that you can think of, ooh,
how does this exist? How do you think that this exists? Right now?
What's running through your head? He has absolutely no idea and he was
upset at first, like he thought it was a joke, somebody playing a
prank. On him. But the more he's poured into it, the more
worried he's becoming, like he's beginning to think that I actually think like this
is this actually who I am? And he's trying to reassure himself that no,
his place is with Union and he's always tried his best to be a
good soldier and none of this applies to it. He's the more he looks
into it, the more more worried, the more paranoid or anxious he gets.
He's taking notes, it's trying to retrace his depths. Okay of a
few hours into looking at this book, and it doesn't have like a lot
of content, so it's a lot of I think, pouring over back and
forth, back and forth, looking at this, understanding that this is kind
of stupid and it doesn't compute, it doesn't work with your current self.
You feel this jolt, this feeling of like plunging into cold water all over
your body. It's shocking and its intense. What do you do, freeze?
I'm assuming I've never felt this before, Romeo flat T twenty Actually let
me check on sec. Yeah, go for the twenty. So you think
you felt that before? It was more difficult to notice. You think you
felt it in the previous battle. It was there was a lot of stuff
going on. It was difficult to you know, have this intense focus on
it like you have now. You know, imagine being plunged into cold water
while you're just at your desk reading. You know, it's a very jarring
sensation, but in the heat of combat it might not be. So this
is, uh, this is intense. And you think you felt it before
while you were down on the planet, and it felt like it happened after
doctor Zephyr had joined the group. Flannagan's he's going to be really suspicious now
as to what's going on. It'll absolutely he'll note it, and like his
big pile of notes, he'll he'll note the experience and he'll plan to talk
to Zephyr about this sensation that he just had and begins to wonder if there's
a connection between that experience he just felt and this book that he's reading.
He's really hesitant to show the book to anyone because he's afraid people might think
he's crazy, because he can't explain it if he shows somebody this book.
I mean, he's afraid what answer he'll get. Everybody, including Whyatt.
Yeah, he doesn't want to show any weakness to his team. He wants
to be Yes, I guess the word is. He wants to be like
an anchor. He wants everyone to feel safe around him, that they can
rely on him. He doesn't want anybody getting worried about his mental state.
All right, fair enough? Which scenes Gabriella. Gabriella, what did you
do after you had met up with everybody? You had your lunch, you
had your food, did you go did you return to the racks? Uh?
Yeah, yeah, I went to go get some rest. I did
my brain exercises or aerobics, and then I probably tried to sleep. Okay,
how did sleep go for you? Probably not that well. It upset
me. That's why it wanted to bench Michael. Okay, so I'm probably
feeling a little bit restless about that. How quickly he just was able to
do that and bothered me. Yeah, I think you're doing the thing where
you sleep for like a little while and a sleep and then you like wake
up and toss and turn. It's not a pleasant sleep. There's a reason
that, you know, they try and give people a little bit of time
off after a mission. Just so that they can kind of reset their brains
and sort of work this shit out. And I think that as you're resting
and thinking about Michael and whatnot, you're having other dreams. It's not just
Michael that's kind of setting you off. You've been having a fair amount of
dreams and this is a lot of the conversations that you have with doctor Zephyr.
There's a lot of different strange things that crop into your dreams. People
that you don't recognize, and situations you don't remember. There's been a few
recurring themes. There's been a large mech that you don't recognize that seemingly you've
seen really basic schematics for there have been people that look like you that you've
seen in your dreams, but they they're not you as far as you know,
people with different personalities, and there there have been battles that have occurred.
There's a lot of battle in your dreams. And I don't know how
that makes you feel, if it's something that you're able to deal with,
or if it's jarring or what, or if you're used to it. Gabriella
is used to it, so she's probably somewhat I mean even though you're used
to it, you still wake up with cold sweats and it's uncomfortable and you
have to take a glass of water and then try to calm your heart right
down and try to relax and get back to sleep, probably do some grounding
techniques, and I would try to write down as much as possible about what
I'm remembering. Doctors Zephyr tell you to do that. I don't know if
it was doctor's effort. It might have been a different doctor. Whichever doctor
kind of prepared me for what I was doing. I don't know if that
was Zephyr or not. Okay, Okay, so then yeah, I'm marking
pretty much anything down so that I can differentiate between me, Gabriella, and
who these memories are coming from. Effie. In one of your times when
you actually managed to achieve some rem sleep, you have one of these intense
sort of battle like dreams, and it is it is a city and there
is mass chaos and screaming that's going on. Is this to Claire? Is
this the city that I've seen before, like my city with my apartment and
my cat, or is this the other one with the accidental explosion. There
are elements from both Okay, different than what you experienced before. This is
a this is a different scene, a different fight, maybe a slightly different
location than the previous battles that you've seen, a different mech, something that's
fairly archaic, probably by your standards at this point, but you're sort of
archaic by my standards, by today's standards. Okay, okay, Yeah,
you're sort of like jolted by movement of the mech because it can kind of
be jarring depending on what kind of terrain you're on. So there's a there's
a big jolt of movement that happens. I have to get into the habit
of reloading the go xlr app now I think every time will not load my
samples. Let's try this again. Yeah, So your mech is sort of
jostling you back and forth, and you realize that you're in the process of
kind of like moving towards what appears to be a defended location. It appears
to be a school ahead of you, and you can see that there are
several defensive mechs that are like essentially repelling what appears to be an invading force.
You think that this is on Caracas at first, but then you realize
that the Mechs don't make sense, and the scenes don't make sense. It's
a kind of a strange mishmash of some elements from the Korakan dreams that you
talked about before. You've seen before. There's some that happened from it looks
like Union based equipment and buildings and vehicles and things. This looks like it
could just basically be any planet in Union. It could just be any kind
of fight. You can't seem to identify any of the the mechs and where
they're from. It's all confusing to you, okay, And the only thing
that you know in this dream is that you see that there is a school
and there's about ten Mechs that are currently defending it. Somehow, there's overturned
vehicles, there's uh, it appears the school has been hit by some you
know, some some artillery fire, and there's several Mechs that have already been
destroyed all around it. As you're rushing towards this school, you can see
that the Mechs that are there defending it have turned their weapons towards you.
Oh Jesus, okay, what does my readout say? Does my readout say
like, what I'm supposed to be doing? What my target is? Am
I the one attacking the school? You currently have the school in your sight?
Oh? Fuck? Okay, yeah, basically on your on your readout,
it would say primary target located. There's an alarm that begins to go
off, letting you know that you've got incoming fireheaded your way. Yeah,
I guess I do my best to dodge the fire, but I do hesitate
in attacking the school. Okay, just to clarify, I've never done this
mission before, right, Gabe as Gabriella. Yeah, okay, so this
is a new memory to me. Yeah, okay, I try to dodge
fire, but I don't attack the school. Okay, yeah, fifteen Okay,
you dodge the incoming fire. You can see that your weapon systems are
nominal. They're like ninety five percent or something effective. And you've got probably
like the equivalent of of like an assault rifle and probably something along the lines
of like like a bladed weapon. And you've got like some really basic missiles
or something set up in your mech. You dodge out of the way of
the fire. Do I know what kind of mech I'm in the mech that
you're in right now appears to be I think, like a very basic kind
of mech. It's like an all arounder type. It doesn't have any sort
of designation that you would recognize. No smiths, temno or anything like that,
okay at all? Okay. And as you dodge out of the way
of the income coming fire and whatnot, you can you feel something happen across
your body. It feels like a like you've just been dipped in cold water,
jolting. However, you are in what you perceive to be an intense
combat situation. You have what appears to be your target as a school in
front of you, and as this cold water sensation happens, you roll me
ah, roll me a spot. I don't know if Gabriella has spot.
She does not. She's investigate, but no spot. No, this will
be a flat D twenty then seven. Okay, So you freeze. You
don't try to attack the school for a second. But you can see like
this, the mechs are starting to target you. There's incoming fire that's happening,
and several missiles kind of land nearby explosions kind of going off. There's
a vehicles that are sort of getting blasted by this incoming fire and you've frozen.
What do you do? I'd like to try to look for the name
of the school, because I feel like I know this is a dream,
and I know I'm supposed to try to get as much detail as possible for
the doctor. So I'm just going to try to breathe and look around and
just remind myself this isn't real, okay, and it's just a lucid dream.
Okay, you try and get the name of the school. Give me
another FLA D twenty. Can I do investigate for this one? I don't
think so investigate requires more time. One. There's too much going on.
Maybe they're small walking it also the cold water. There's probably a bit of
shock happening here. So yeah, I probably honestly freeze. I'm not going
to shoot anyone. The dream state ends abruptly shortly after the sort of cold
water like feeling. You wake up with a sort of deep breath. I
think, I reach for my data pad. What time is it in the
middle? Well, uh, as far as the day day cycle goes,
it's all on like a cradle standard time, you know, Like, so
it would be the equivalent of you know, the middle of the night for
you? Uh, is the doctor's chat light on? Like? Ready?
Is he awake? I imagine we all have calms and we all have a
way to tell if people are idle and shit, is he awake? By
chance? What do you think, doc? Yes? Uh? Then you
know trembling. I might hesitate for a minute and then I uh, I
will type to him I just had another one and see if he responds.
Take a drink of cold water and try to home down. I think you
see him typing. Oh god, so aggravating, and then it stops.
Oh god, then you see him typing again. I get up and start
pacing around while I wait for the stupid response. I think you should come
see me. Okay, yeah, I don't even take the data pad with
me. When it comes through in beeps and I can see it, I
just leave my head straight to his office. Okay. When you arrive at
the office, doctor Zephyr, what kind of stuff is going on here?
Is there a bunch of people in here? What does it look like?
I think there's going to be maybe one other assistant who has rubber gloves on
and they're swabbing down the area where where why it disappeared? The chair right
next to the food, all of that. When you enter in, you
see a small corridor converted into an office. In the corner is a very
prismatic tube, much like the ones that we have been dunked in before,
and we have and you see it's just there's like weird power power converted power
converters in the corner trying to power this thing up. Papers all over the
place. Hair is a mess, and he looks like he's like jittering as
he's trying to sip a cup of some sort of hot drink. And I
says, Gabriella, how are you? Is everything all right? Another one
a really bad one, really a bad one. Yes, all right,
this is interesting, Give me one second. Yes, I'll be with you
in a moment. Just yes, this is sorry. Yes, we'll get
back. I know. Thank you. Is this a bad time? Do
you not want me to come back? Well? No, this is actually
a pretty uh it's fine. It's a pretty uh well opportune time is any
time, really, as long as I'd like to talk to you about it
before you lose memory? The this this happens, say you tend to lose
your ear. You're telling me everything from the top before sure, before you
lose it? Uh? Can I sit down here? Please? No?
Not there? Not there? Okay, yes, well it's right. Here's
fine. And he like dusts off another chair and probably moving data pads and
ship out of the way. There's a lot of stuff. There's activity going
on in here. Yeah. Yeah, there's like other people's data pads and
things like that. Yeah, and there were guards when you came in as
well. Can I talk about this here with everyone else in here? No?
I will, It's fine, it'll be How long do you think you'll
how long do you think this is going to I mean I can come back.
Also, I don't want to be trouble. No heit one second.
Yeah, we'll be fine. Just just right, just give me a moment,
thank you. And he closed the door behind and now it's just us.
Uh So Gabriella is still in her pajamas. She's also really sweaty and
trembling a bit, and her my knees like bouncing in the chair when I
sit down, pretty agitated. Uh sorry, whack is this? What was
that? Okay? Okay, okay, you were answering my question, got
it? Okay? I I think I was attacking a school. It was
older. I was in an old mech. I didn't recognize it was weird
this time it had it had my memories, and then other memories and things
I recognized, and then things I didn't recognize. It'sca was all jumbled together.
Right, that's never really happened before. They were all jumbled together.
Yeah, and I did. I did my brain aerobics before bed, just
like you said, right right, all right, Uh so you were attacking
the school house. So were you? What? What was the school doing?
I imagine you're wrestling like a bear or some sort of large creature.
Is that how it happened? No, it was no, it was literal.
I was there, I was in a mech. It would seem to
be a big battle. Mechs were targeting No, no, no, no,
an older mech. I didn't recognize it before my time, even before
your time. All right, and I uh, I I had the school
time targeted, and they were targeting me. And I think I was.
I think I was attacking the school. I think I was a terrorist.
Interesting at least that's how I felt. So it invoked emotions in you.
Yeah, he's familiar at all these emotions you ever felt, Yeah, not
like it locked on targeted. Yeah, of course I have recently. No,
not recently, all right. Interesting. I tried to look at the
name of the school. I tried to look at any details on the mech
or the year, and I couldn't. I couldn't. I couldn't focus on
it. I'm sorry. It's all right. If you have this dream again,
try to try as hard as you can to remember the details. All
right, we'll try harder. Please roll me a flat E twenty embryella eight.
Okay. If you could master the detail, you could master the entire
dream and all of the importance of which there is. It just felt really
real, Like I felt a moment of excitement when I saw I had locked
onto the target. Excitement. It's so it excite, all right, you
know, like that that feeling that you get when you're about to complete your
mission or succeed. I got that that rush of success when I saw that
it had locked on. Yes, I do love that feeling. Very well,
this is all very odd. Strange. It's a rather, it's the
word strange night for everyone. What do you mean, Well, everything's fine,
it's just well, you have guards outside the door. Doc. All
right, well it's I can wyatt he's missing? What well, he's not
missing, he's well, he's he's okay. Yes, it seems as if
well, he was here discussing. We were having a session hours ago,
and he was talking to me about one of these cross consciousness events much like
you are having now. And he disappeared, which is both miraculous and horrifying.
Oh I'm sorry, like in front of you, he disappeared. Yes,
no, Effie, you don't understand. They're watching us. Okay,
I'm having a I'm having an a fee moment. I'm hearing some someone's talking
to her, all right, said right now, this is happening right now,
Yeah, it just it just happened. Okay, hold on, all
right? What should I do? I could go on just keep thinking.
Okay, what two? And I try to relax and just ease into whatever
is happening right now. You have stay cool. I don't think she does.
Let me check she does not twenty take someone out. Uh. It's
not an easy experience. You are feeling stressed out, but you do manage
to kind of like at least slow your breathing a little bit. Nothing's happening.
Yeah, what happened? Explained again? I'm sorry? Do you still
remember? No, it's gone. Uh, Effie, don't you understand?
I don't remember. I'm sorry you don't you understand? That could be wrong?
I don't know. Right. Do you want me to sit here and
wait? Well, if it happens again, please rush down here and let
me know or record yourself. Okay, relaying the message? What about Wyatt?
Right? That is so? Yes, that is something we are working
actively to find out where and what and what has happened to him. This
is the first Well did you see ry Poberts? What what? I'm sorry?
Could you repeat that? Yes? Sorry? This is very exciting because
this is the first time we've seen anyone, and especially someone we had no
thoughts of ever interfacing with the firmament. Interfacing with the firmament came out of
left field. Really, why it's missing? And we're excited. Yeah,
I'm impressed. The nut sauce please, I think all right, I'm feeling
upset, and I don't think it's mine, or it might be mine.
It's really hard to tell. Right now? Can I get some water?
Yes? Yes, you can. Well one moment and he gets up and
he rushes over to like there's maybe like a glass, maybe half a glass
of water left in the picture, and he filled it up in a would
look to be a clean glass. There you are, Thank you. I'm
trembling. Take a drink, try to calm down a bit. I think
I'm getting some stuff from Effie. It's like what dialog maybe things that were
said to her? What were these things that were said? Can you pass
the nut sauce? And you look like a twat right past the nut?
Right? I'll just but it's upsetting, really upsetting. Not me. I
think they're upsetting Effie. Right. I mean, I'm upset because I'm feeling
upset, But I don't I don't know why nut sauce would be so upsetting.
I wouldn't either. It's just a delicious condiment. I don't see,
ma'am. This is interesting. So you'll see you're getting some sort of Uh,
don't worry if the treatments won't take very long. I don't understand what's
happening right now. It's still happening. It's going on right now. Yeah,
it's like they're they're in the room with me right now. Don't worry.
The treatments won't take that long. This one is calming, this one
feels good. I trust this voice, or if he trusts this voice,
whatever, you trust it. We're not the same, but you are now,
I guess right? H is it so happening? Now? No?
All right, why don't you stay? I will be probably working around you
if you don't mind. But if anything happens, let me know. All
right, all right, I'll try to keep the work down so you can
rest. Okay, all right, I'll go get everyone else. And he
opens the air locker opens it, but you probably have a cotton here,
right, Yeah, yeah, I just walk over and I sit down on
it. It's behind the desk, and he can get out of the way.
And then he kind of just goes outside and hushed tones talks to the
guards as well as the assistant, and they come inside awkwardly and finish or
continue working. We switch scenes. Wyat bah Goad. When you disappear,
there's a weird cold feeling, as if you've just been plunged into a cold
pool of water that happens across your entire body. Everything sort of stretches around
you, you see, as if you were in some kind of tunnel that
had memories or images stretched and distorted move all about you. What or who
were you most concentrated on when you were speaking to doctor Zephyr, when all
those memories and things were pomping into your head? Hmmm? Was it tvious?
I would imagine it's trevious because I didn't really recognize the other faces and
he was asking me like directly about Pivious. Doesn't take more than a second,
but you see, I think that thing where time slows down for you,
and that the tunnel that you're in and all these strange, elastic memories
and perspectives are sort of twisted all around you. You see things that the
old you experience. You see things that have happened to you since this change
has occurred, stretched out, and you see the I guess kind of like
this tapestry of different memories that are playing around you stretch and twist, and
you see Tivious start to appear in them, in various locations, on these
displays of these memories around you, and you see Tivious. Memories of Tivious
start to take over in this sort of slow down, and you hear his
voice. Now, listen to me, Wyatt, some shit's about to go
down today. It's not going to be pleasant. I need you to not
be yourself for ten minutes at least pretend. Can you do that? Wyatt?
Tibvious? What the fuck is going on? As if you're not part
of the conversation, it still continues. Look, there's a lot of bad
shit going on. I promise I'll make you right. I'll get you out
of here. I promise. Don't worry. You're still my little brother.
And as you are thinking of Tibius, as you're sort of hearing these things,
you come out of this tunnel. It's as if a you know,
million candle power light is flashed in your eyes, as if you look into
the sun. You appear in a room and there are sort of like very
bright lights that are moving about. It's very white in here. There are
it's spartan. There's a bed, and there's a I think the smell is
like disinfectant. And you realize that sitting in the in the bed appears to
be tivious. He's kind of like looking at a data pad. He's wearing
kind of like really plain white pajamas. And you land in this room.
Okay, I'm probably halfway through speaking. I'm probably responding to him before I
get zapped into this room, and I probably do some weird thing where I'm
like tvious worth here And then you look around, you see Tivious on the
bed. He's looking at you. He doesn't seem to have like a serious
reaction. He's almost looking at you disbelievingly. Pvious. His head is buzzed
down, he only has like a stubblen hair. He looks at you.
Why? Uh, what the fuck? What the fuck? Where am I?
Where is this? Why? What is happening? Why are you in
there? You in a This is just a fucking dream. This isn't right.
Yeah, maybe this is his dream. I'm gonna walk over to him
and slap him around the face. What the fuck it now? Slap me?
He slaps you? Is it hot? Oh? All right? Uh?
What the fuck? This isn't a dream? No? What the fuck
is going on? Why are you here? Uh? I don't know if
it's a why? But how maybe where is here? What do you remember?
Uh? Let's see, just come off of duty, sat down with
the dog after eating some food. Y U zephyr conna. Who uh,
Well, maybe you don't know. I shouldn't you know he's on your own
roster, on the fucking roster. Yeah, the doctor on the Sarafon we
now part of a ship at least was going to see him. I mean,
fucking lock up mate. Why you don't remember what happened? When?
What the fuck did they do to you? I knew they were going to
do something, fox sake. Did they wipe your memory? What? My
memory of? What? No? No, no, no, I can
remember everything, fox Sake. You've never seen tivious this upset. Yeah,
he genuinely looks like he's about to cry. Right, get a grip.
First of all, let's figure out how to get me out of whit.
You're in lock up for how long? I think like month or two and
then you've got a month left? Or you've been in here a month.
I've been in here a month. How long you got left? I think
they thrown away the fucking key. I can't be right. You're still in
command. No, I'm not well, you're still on the manifest fan fuckingtastic.
Why you need to fucking sit down? No, no, no,
no, no no. Why I don't need to sit down. I need
to get out there. I don't really know how the fuck you got here?
Yeah, weird fucking singularity fir moment morning cloak. Shit is our you
made it work? I suppose so. I think. I don't know.
I'm not really sure. I need to go and see the doc. I
was halfway for a fucking conversation. I am busy. I need to sleep.
I've got stuff to do. I need to figure out why they've put
you in here. What the fuck did you do? Why have they locked
you up? You need to fucking sit down? Why no, no,
n too busy. I need to tell you some things. I'm pacing up
and down, and that's where we're going to take our break. Oh god,
holy shit. M okay, okay, whyatt can blink or whatever the
ability is called now he has the teleport behind him. Yeah, I'm just
gonna go and get myself a katana. It's true. Well, well,
ship's amount to go down. You're welcome. By the way. I'm going
to get him out of there. I'm gonna blink us both into a son
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The table story is Zero Blue or Ryan. We return to I think Whyat
and Tivious? Yeah, so Tivious appears to be in some kind of brig
whyatt. He's like looking at you, still in a bit of shock,
still a bit sore from the slap across the face, and he looks at
you and he says, hold on a minute, we need to take extra
care. The camera's in here. They haven't seen us yet. I haven't
seen you yet. Look get under the get under the blanket. First of
all, you need to tell me how you get ended up in here.
I will, but we can't let them know that you're here in my blanket.
Well, I mean, locker mate. If you're here, shit's hit
the fan. Yeah. And if you're in lockup and they've thrown away the
key, then they must have had a pretty good reason. And I'll tell
you just getting under the bloody blanket. Hm. The thing is, this
man is a criminal and I don't know. Yeah, all right, you're
ten minutes and I crawl under the blanket. He sits on the bed like
he was sitting before, looking at like a data pad. All right,
how much do you remember? When was the last time you saw me?
Mm? Hm hm, I don't remember. Like the last time I would
have seen him was like the last time I was home, probably, like
I don't know if like I doubt we have like Christmas and shit, But
there would be some sort of some sort of holidayday on us. I don't
know what they would celebrate. But and also it would have been because I'm
not even sure if my the time skip that I was in the Chube either,
right, So for me, there's just a blur of time, and
then it would maybe have been a matter of years since I saw him last,
even before the tube. Mm hmm, well let's see. Yeah,
when was I last back in Lomelia on lufus ums thing? Yeah? Maybe
I don't know fox sake? All right, Yeah, I know I ain't
been home for a bit. But you're in jail. So why I saw
you a month ago? I mate, you're aboard the Seraph still is that
where you were? Not? Wait? Oh right, yeah, yeah,
yeah, yeah, I'm still just doing the old How would you be aboard
my ship and not see your own brother? They? I don't know.
I just figured that we were on different shifts. You've been busy, can't
be easy keptain that thing. You know, commanders have been sort of running
us ragged. I've been in training a lot, and you never see the
captain of the Seriff. I don't know. I don't expect you to be
making house course to everyone on the fucking thing. You don't even know the
doctor. Where's your station, Benson, I'm on the You're on the fucking
bridge and you don't see the captain for over a month, right, Well,
yeah, but you know I'm on the night shift. Nannie thesauras usually
in charge. Why you would see the captain. Yeah, I mean that
does sort of seem a bit well right, yeah, okay, so then
what the fuck happened you and your friends? You went through some pretty bad
shit. There was a an incident. Look, I tried to warn you,
I did. I only just found out. Look, Third Committee ain't
in charge here. Second Committee smuggled you all up. They put you on
some fucking back or a planet. They did things to you, they changed
you. Second Committee, man, they'll fucking do whatever they have to.
Third Committees almost wipe them out for union, but they're still remnants around.
They still have deals and shit that they've got going on. Mm hm.
They've been pulling strings behind the scenes. They've been trying to get to the
anakscendency own world to fucking wipe them out. Mhm. You ever rid of
the threat they've been using you, They'll fucking do whatever it takes. Third
Committee they don't do that shit anymore. So I thought I was working for
you all. You've been experimented on one of my lancers. Founding out people
don't know who they're working for. Look a little stronger lit smarter by your
memories. They were all fucking twisted. They fucked with your mind. We
were on Mars last month, you and your friends. They they took a
Lisa away. You remember her crawl out from under the bed mm hmm.
And I stand up and I walk over to him and I put a hand
on his head, and I turn around and head towards wherever the door is
that leads out of this place, And I say, fuck, what the
fuck happened to you? I get it now? Bang on the door.
Yeah? Whytt I wave at whatever camera's around why deep space? They'll wipe
your fucking memory again. Hemory wipe Second Committee, Third Committee? What the
fuck? You don't fucking understand why they'll wipe your fucking memory again? They
were only keeping me alive because of you. It sounds like the type of
shit I used to watch Why It. It would be the fucking straight lace
one who was always screwed on why It conspiracy theories and that the fuck why
it? Listen to me banging on the door again? Oh yeah, uh,
let me out. Tvious like gets up and he like tries to grab
your shoulder and like spin you around. Fucking look at me. I am
looking at you, brother, I don't know what the funck happened to you.
I'm gonna try and get you some help. Right bang on the door
again. Oh yeah, there's not a little peophole or anything. Um yeah,
whyhead, I'm not fucking crazy, mate, They wipe your fucking mind.
I killed him, wyat, I fucking killed him, the admiral.
I killed him. You killed a fucking admiral. You don't fucking they were
gonna fucking they already killed Luca. Jesus fucking Christ. Do you remember Luca?
Who the fuck is Elisa? All these people in your head? What
about Effie? Fuck your cracked mate? Eith? What about fucking stew Yes,
Jue? What about him? Is fine? All right? You remember
the Picnic story, Jesus fucking Christ. Now is not the fucking time you're
locked up. I can only open that the fucking murder. Remember the Picnic
story, of course, Remember the fucking Picnic story. Jesus fucking Christ.
His mum, No you're in here. He starts to shake your should look
at me. Remember the fucking Picnic story. Rob me a flat D twenty
please I the door opens? No, why you have to go? You
have to fucking go. You can't stay here. I'm gonna get you some
out, all right, brother, Okay, I don't know what the fuck
is going on. I don't know if you just need to rest or why.
No, there's like guards sort of like come in. I sort of
start to separate you. Okay, I'm one guard like pulls you away.
Tivious is like still trying to grab onto you. Just let them take me.
No, no, what fucking remember? You have to go back.
I'm like, I'm like speaking to the gods. Listen, I need to
see whoever's in charge around here. This isn't the Sarah for it is Greg.
So the door kind of like closes behind you. You can see that
the guards have like they've taken out like uh batons, and they're like beating
Tivous like in the background. Jesus fucking Christ, is that necessary? Who
are you? Uh? How the fun did you get in here? I
know I have got a really fucking long story that I need to Can you
stop sucking itting him? All right? I got myself in there, nothing
to do with him. Come with us? Did he kill an admiral?
The kind of like grab you and start to like pul you off. This
does not look like the Sarah. Uh, just just take me to whoever's
in charge. Yeah, I assume I'm still in uniform and shit as well,
so I will at least look somewhat like I don't know. I'll turn
back to the to the door as it's like closing or whatever, and I'll
say, brother, I never had any friends. I'll turn back heading down
the hallway, tape me to everything in charge. Yeah, I'll explain everything.
We switched scenes. The next day comes back aboard the seraph. The
rest of you are doing your sort of normal daily routine. Now you have
this day off as well. You had basically the remainder of the day yesterday
and today off. I think you had to food in the morning, maybe
to the mess hall, and you all arrived there at the same time.
Doctor's ever doesn't look like he slept. Yeah, same, same you pick
up some food. Morning everyone morning. Oh don't you hey, Michael,
how are you doing? Uh good? Uh? You pretty good? Glad
to see you here for breakfast. Yeah, well, hungrier than usual.
And Michael's kind of he's got a date a pad with him and he's doing
that thing like he's got like a spoon in one hand and just like absent
mindedly eating while he's reading his data pad. How is everyone feeling today?
Hip top, hip top? Good? Yeah? Ready to go, very
well? Okay, take care Michael. What mm hmm? Everything ready?
He said, ready to go? Now I have to go. I heard
the same thing as you first. Oh m right, I didn't. Bushy
tailed also ready? We all not sleep well? And he leads on Wyatt.
Ah, there is a theory, but it's only just that I'm still
waiting to test. But to be blunt, no, I can't remember.
Did did you say that you bunk with Wyatts too? Did you guys bunk
together? The little odd not seeing him? He hasn't been back. Where's
why it exactly? I didn't see him like at all, not even in
the morning. I didn't see him in bed. What's going on? Wait?
What's missing? He's not missing now, It's just there are several tests
that need extensive research, and we have theories about how those will conclude,
and we are interested to see where they will lead to. As he kind
of locks eyes with Gabriella for a minute so we know where he is.
He's okay, yes, a still being done. Kind of tests if you
don't mind me asking, just an extended session. Really, we are doing
a deeper dive into the subconscious of his dreams, so we have him under
a rest. Now, okay, interesting stuff. Yes, how's everything been
with you? Stu? E fine, great, I've everything's been really good.
What was something I wanted to talk to you about? Whenever you're free?
Nothing serious. I could clear my schedule. I mean at least a
fit in a session if you like, Yeah, that'd be great. They
are rather busy at the office, so if you don't mind floaters, then
I think we'll be able to squeeze you in. Right, I'll go ahead
and send you over my schedule. I've got a few things to do.
But yeah, aren't we gonna go to the simulation today? Yes? Yes,
that was one that was on the schedule. Oh simulation. Ah right,
what are we planning to simulate? I think we were just going to
do a standard routine go in and get out situation right, right, Perhaps
maybe one that looks very suspicious, likes five, maybe with the lights out,
maybe with thirty plus targets. We were considering that. Yeah, well,
we don't need to do that again, do we. Well, I
think extensive tests would be rather rather well well fitting for the events that we
have recorded for you. But we don't have to. We can just do
a regular simulation or you know, we could rack a ball or something.
It doesn't have to be the same place. I mean maybe I don't know.
I meant not to be rude, but it don't look like you really
slept that well. Maybe we skip the simulation and do something else. Yeah,
yeah, actually that sounds great. What did you have in mind?
I don't know. We could and that. I mean, we have the
day to ourselves. We don't have to work. Have you ever played ping
pong? Fine? Ping pong? Yeah, I don't think I have now
either. That might be fun. Yeah, we should do that. It'd
be fun some to get the minds off of the mission. What about you,
Michael, Oh yeah, yeah, I'll come along. Awesome. Well
that's three. Are you going to be playing doubles or is it going to
be two versus one? It's fun. Yeah, we could also simulate another
player. It's not a big deal, all right, Yeah, to have
a simulation run for the other player. Right, Well, I'm going to
go get ready, go back to the office and get some things done before
our session. All right, okay, dog, how long? How long
is what going to be? Uh? Well, we are going to hold
him for a little bit longer, at least for now. Okay, you'll
tell him what we're playing ping pong? Yes, I will. I will
tell him that you're playing ping pong? Good? Thanks? Thanks? All
right? Will he h? Is he going to finish his tests up tonight?
Usually? Well, I don't want to interrupt him when he's resting.
You see, he has got a lot of we're getting a lot of a
lot of the data that we should be Well, I will, I would
you look at that? I have to go all right, oh boy,
excuse me, and he awkwardly fumbles as he drops his calms into the potatoes.
Ups. All right, yes, all right, here we go.
Yeah, if you get it's in there, it's right here? Is dry
my bed? Right? Anyway? I must be off. Yep, there's
that's that's the office. Goodbye. I don't well, well, let this
you seem a little off? Oh yeah, oh yeah? Whyatt is missing
what? I lean in and I lower my voice and I listen. Okay,
he was apparently talking to the dock last night in the office and then
just disappeared like he like he's like his mech What do you mean he disappeared
like they they cut him for? Is he jail? No, as in
he vanished before the doc's eyes. I'm not following. What do you mean
vanished like here one second and then not the next second, possibly like you're
it's I don't know, and they don't know either, so they're trying to
find him. So he's the dog's god lying. I think he doesn't want
to be lying, but I think he has to be lying. Why would
he lie to us? I don't know unless right, No, I'm with
you. We can't trust Zephyr. I wouldn't go that far. I think
he is looking out for us, but I don't think he has any answers
yet, and that's why he's not telling us. He doesn't think we can
handle it, handle the truth. I mean, well, what step,
What good is worrying going to do? It's better than no than to be
lied to. Well, that's what I think. That's why I told you.
Yeah, the looks of all of us worrying is what we've done for
the last twelve hours. Okay, but what he said was so I haven't
been sleeping. Well, I've been having dreams. Have you been having dreams?
Not? Not exactly kind of Well, you don't have to say anything
or divulge if you don't want to, but I'm going to tell you.
I've been having some restless sleep. And when I was talking to the doc,
he said that Wyatt was telling him about a dream that he had had
similar to mine, and then that's when he disappeared. You and what had
the same dream. I don't know if we had the same dream, but
it's similar. I've been having weird dreams that aren't mine, that are mine,
where I see me but not me, memories I don't remembermory. Fuck,
I'm far. I thought it was just me. Wait, memories you
don't remember? Yeah, Like, how do you know? Because I don't
remember them, they're not mine. I don't recall having that experience in my
life, but when I'm there in the dream, it seems like I have.
It feels real. And I woke up last night I was really upset,
and I went and I talked to the doc and that's when I found
out about why. Apparently why it was telling him about a similar instance,
and that's when he disappeared and Normally I would trust the doc. If he
doesn't want to tell us something, I assume it's for good reason. But
if if this happened to WHYTT while he was experiencing this thing, and we're
all experiencing this thing, I feel like we should know, like it could
happen right now, you know, or like in combat like it did to
me. Is that what happened? Yeah? I didn't know what was it?
Like? It's like Cabriella said, I touched that fucking firmament tear or
whatever Quanta put down in the vision of memory, but it wasn't mine.
It was familiar, but it wasn't mine. How did it feel terrifying?
Is there any sensations anything? I had? Something similar happened last night?
Well, I didn't see anything, but it's definitely something that freaked me out.
It felt like I had been submerged under cold water. Yeah, me
too, Yeah, like a big shock. Yeah, and then I couldn't
move for a minute. Wait, hang on last night, Yeah, mine
happened in a dream. Yeah I had. I had the thing down on
the planet, but the same last night into the gym, like a cold
dunk of water. All right, what time do you know I was out
of it. I don't know. It's late maybe eleven. Do you think
that happened just around the same time? And what? Oh wait, I'm
uncomfortable. You didn't see anything, Stu you no. But now that we're
on the topic, and swear that this stays here and he flips through his
notes. Does this line sound familiar? Mm hmm? Cut people in line.
If you don't act in important and entitled, you won't be important and
entitled. Have I ever said that? Not that I know of. Have
I ever done that? Cut and line? I know, I don't think
so pretty by the rules. It sounds familiar, but not not from you.
Kelly. One more, I mean, okay, where did you get
what is it from? Just tell me if you remember this number seventy seven?
Work your glutes at least three times a day. I swear to God,
I'm not crazy. But have you heard me say that? No?
All right, now that we're on the same page. Here, I found
a book and my mech was crammed between a couple of the modules. I
don't know how it got there. My mech was cleaned out pretty good.
They detailed it for me. I've been reading it and it's apparently authored by
me, but I don't remember writing anything. I don't remember making this book.
Doesn't sound like me. It's really starting to freak me out. Glad
I'm not the only one who's had lapses in memory. Maybe I did write
this book, I just can't remember. I don't know, just being another
author with the same name. But maybe that's why you had it on.
Can I see the book? Yeah, well it's in my it's in my
room. Oh okay, I have some notes. I'm just trying to I
thought, yeah, I could just be somebody, but maybe it's just somebody
with the same name. Have you looked on the i'llknew it seeing if there's
any told with his book or who the author was, or I'll be honest
with you, I'm actually afraid I haven't looked. I can look. I'll
look right now. No, no, no, no, no, it's
not Please don't just what you want to know? Just no, I don't
want no, don't look it up. Please just I can figure it out.
Yeah, I'm sorry, I told you about the book. That's it's
probably somebody with the same name. Probably somebody with the same name. Look,
Stu, we've all said that something's not right. I know, we
can't. I've said the last twenty four hours trying to find the slightest tint
of something from my vision and I can't find anything. And that's just fucking
weird. Lex See, I'm sorry. I just looked it up. There's
no books authored by Stu Flann again, there's nothing. How is it shown
the data pad? How's it possible? I don't know. Nothing comes up
for Stu Flan again. Did I spell it wrong? No, that's that's
right. I think we Maybe it's a self published book by someone with the
same name. I don't know. I mean it sounds kind of cheesy to
me. Yeah, I know, right, Yeah, book is just nonsensical.
Holy crap, I think you might actually lose brain cells reading this book.
It's terrible. Yeah, I mean, really, one hundred and one
hundred and one ways to seduce your way to success? Anyways? Do you
think Zephyr's hiding something from us? He lied to Michael and I. You
think there's something he isn't telling you, even all of us. I don't
think he's I don't think he's lying on purpose. Well, yeah, I
mean he lied, but then he ran away. He was clearly lying and
bad at it. So I think they told him to hide the fact that
why I was missing. I think all three of us should pay him his
in Okay, there's something that he has to know, something all three of
us possible, even Wyatt, absolutely Wyatt. Come to think if all three
of us are having this issue, it's no doubt why it is too Well,
that's what troubled me about what he said. And maybe the simulation today
should be should be something like the Firmament. Maybe we can see if we
can find Wyatt. If we can, well, I mean it's worth a
try, right. You know they're telling us to say calm, but they
have no idea where he is. I know, if he used the Firmament,
then maybe that's the only chance we have to find him. Michael,
how do you feel about going through the simulation? Are you all right?
I think if we said we wanted to go and play with the femine,
and I think the dog could only be too happy to help. I don't
I don't trust him. He I went to him after my trouble on the
planet, and I told him the thing is I'd seen in the vision and
all he cared about I told him I'd seen fighting and death, and he
just said good good. He just cared about how well I'd interacted with the
firmament. So we need to be careful with him. But yeah, mean's
getting answers. I'm fine, all right, all right. He's a man
of science. Don't really think he studied and you know, psychiatry and what
have you, philanthropy. I think he's more in it for the statistics rather
a well being. Sometimes I wonder there's information that's still being withheld it's really
going to hurt us in the future that he isn't telling us. I don't
know. Thinking about this, worrying about it is no good. Yeah,
I feel antsy. I'd like to do something same. I don't think going
into the simulation like this you a good idea. Well, I'm willing to
try a couple seconds later. You see why at approaching the table? Why?
Why? Whyat bye evening? Where did you go? Hi? What
have you? You've been missing for like nearly a day? Right? What
happened? Yeah? How did it feel? Like? Where did you go?
How did you get back? Did it hurt? What on earth are
you not talking about? You disappeared? At least that's what I've been told.
Yeah, they said, they said, you you know, like you'r
mec like the morning cloak. You just all right? So as for today,
I think we should probably get on with some training. How you feeling,
Michael confused? Yeah, dog feeling us? Ten minutes ago you were
having a rest and now you're here. Yeah, well you didn't sleep.
Have you gone in sleep? No? Just fine? But you weren't You
weren't there? You were gone right? Where did you go? Well,
I've just been completing my rounds, doing my orders. I had to I
had to debrief the commander. I was in charge. That's not true.
Think you remember what? Uh? Debriefing the commander? Walking back in here,
you're not acting very strange, indeed, are you Okay? You guys
need the day off because I don't know if I can swing it, but
probably you're do. I have to do it now if you need the rest
time. Did you do it on a training day before debriefing the commander?
Well, let's see, I had a bit of a sleep before that,
spoke to the dock before that, we had some food before that. We
came back from the mission. So you came back from the mission. You
spoke to the dock and nothing weird happened when you talk to the dock.
Well, no way to the normal. And then you went to bed.
Yeah, oh you didn't. You weren't there. Stu says, you never
came back. I don't know, let me think about it. I mean
it was a pretty maybe I slept somewhere else, somewhere else. Yeah,
well, must have a little nap. It's not like you or you were
missing missing, I like some little girl on a spice milk cotton. You
just you just did you just disappeared. Bring up my data pad. It's
been all of what less than twenty four hours? Rule as saorry each other
sixteen though, right, and you didn't go back to you didn't go back
to bed. And the doc said that you disappeared before his very eyes.
You're like blink like like in the morning cloak. And then you were gone
blink like the morning cloak. Okay, yeah, wouldn't that be nice?
Why why listen either, we've just seen the doc like five minutes ago.
Okay, So what you want to send out an APB find out where he
is? He's gone missing for five minutes or are you worried about it doesn't
lie. Either he's lying or you are. Why we were really concerned.
This isn't something to brush off. I don't understand. I mean, you
not go missing all the time, when you go to your posts, when
you go to the bathroom. I'm here. What are you worried about?
No need to worry. We have a set schedule. Did you try me
on the comms? We appear places we need to be. You vanished.
You were nowhere to be seen. Guards outside the dock's office. They told
me not to sit on your chair. Why. I don't know. I'm
assuming it's because you vanished, probably not because of something you ate. Okay,
now I'm confused. Why what are you saying? What? What are
you saying? You're whyat what I said? What are you saying? Are
you saying that I went missing for a few hours? And your conclusion is,
look, I make the doc. Do you think we under attack?
Do you think to who you yeah about? What happened to you? I
don't know. Maybe it's one of his I don't know, therapy things.
See how you lot react under stress. I don't think you respond to a
superior officer going missing. Maybe something like that. He's obsessed with the firmament,
So I wouldn't make it wouldn't be too much of a stretch for him
to lie about one of us suddenly disappearing. See how we react, Oh,
he's disappeared, and then one of you tries to do it happen in
some sort of magical firmament powers. This isn't a sort of social experiment,
Wyatt. This is a man who's trying to figure out this mysterious firmament.
I don't think he's running social tests on us. I think this was concrete
observational evidence. Still, Flanagan, are you there? Hold on one second.
Hello, Yeah, this is doctor Donovan Zephyr As to who's with you
there? The whole gang? Whyatt came back right by? All right,
wonderful, Yes, so of course he is. Uh, my schedule is
cleared up, and I can take you whenever. All right, all right,
Oh, thank you. Maybe we should all go talk to the doc.
Maybe we shouldn't. If you're concerned, what are you worried about?
You? You disappeared far from me, disappearing in the dock lying to you.
I mean, I've been with Lieutenant Commander Disorah, So you think I've
been banished away by the dock he's told you I have. Maybe we should
be more concerned about him than me. Is it possible that he's doing stuff
above his pay grade as in and leaning a little closer? Like he messes
around with the firmament all the time, right, opening black holes and whatnot?
Yeah, so who else does that? Okay? But if he's in
contact and he's starting to do some weird things, why I don't think now
is the time for conspiracy theories. Oh I'm the one with the conspiracy theories.
You lot seem to believe that I've gone missing after being missing for what
a few hours? Doc's lying to your Why why would he need to get
to you without me? I don't know? Why would he pretend that I've
gone missing? Go talk to him? Can we just can we stop and
just go and ask him? You can't lie to words if we're all there,
all right, he can't play us off against each other. I don't
know what's happening. I don't care. I just want some fucking answers.
Can we please just go? All right? Listen? Fine? Uh lead
on then? Okay, but listen. If he has all the answers,
I don't want to be spending too much time on this ship. We've got
real work to do. As far as we're all concerned. This is real
work. This is something that needs to be addressed. Yeah, I understand
you a little worried, okay, but I'm sure there's a perfectly reasonable explanation
for all of this. I'm sure there is. You guys need to make
sure that you're resting, you get in the sleep you need. Do you
need the day out of the training simulator to kind of look at Michael for
it, and you take a day out of the training simulator? It's fine,
okay, we need to be that already. I don't know when we're
going to be called upon next. And if you lot afraid at the edges
of a me going miss him for a few hours, there's some miscommunication with
the doc. All right, lead on, I'll come with you and I'll
stay quiet and you can speak to him and we'll see what he has to
say about this lie. All right. Oh and by the way, this
this ring a bell? Number fifty six? Remember always always always picture of
food first, eating second? Does that ring a bell at all? Please?
Don't make me have to break all of you a lot. What the
fuck is going on? Never mind, never mind, never mind, let's
just go like usher them out. I want to follow all of them,
hands behind back anime style. Okay, so you head off to uh doctor
Zephyr doc. Oh, yes, hello, Gabriella. Hi expecting you.
Hello the way, the activity has ceased at the office. Hope you don't
mind. I brought a few extras along. That's fine. The more the
merrier, Come in everyone, Wyatt. Okay, where was Wyatt? Well?
I was hoping for one second, Please sit down, make yourself comfortable.
Anybody hungry at all? Water anything? Give me one second. And
he makes his way over to the door. He looks out both ways and
he closes the door. He reaches behind and turns the camera off. That
he that the light has always been on. He turns the light off.
You wily assume it's the camera. And that's what I was hoping you'd answer
for me. I'm quite peckish. Actually, yeah, what you've got right.
I was talking about your experience here. You are just anything you like.
It's go nuts. It's it's a usually the trade. That's what the
name of the nut sauce is. By the way, nuts ay nut sauce.
Is it a nut sauce product? I don't know. I'm nuts,
I'm nuts souce intolerant. I'm not sure. So the uh uh so,
the the trade that's usually offered to you is more bountiful than this. It
seems like he's missed a day of re like prepping, the prepping the tray,
but he offers it to you anyway. I was hoping that you would
tell me more about where you've been. I don't want to wake that.
Uh you don't have to. Well, I don't know why everyone keeps questioning
me on it, but I went for a nap. Let's see. I
believe I must have fallen asleep at my station on the bridge while waiting for
Lieutenant Commander Zorah, and then spent a while debriefing, and then I was
told to regroup, review a lot, go and be on with the day.
When we had we had bring up my latter pat again training scheduled.
I was going to refit my mech with some power knuckles. I look at
Aurora, you'd like that. That was it? That was it? Nothing
else from the evening prior. No would somebody liked to explain to me why
everyone is on edge about precisely where I've been considering after every single mission,
the briefing is part of the process for the team leader. Whyatt, you
were here in the office, sitting in this chair here and whoever's sitting in
it, and you were speaking to me, we were having a one on
one session here and you vanished. You didn't see it. Okay. I've
spent most of the evening, in fact all evening and most of this morning
up until about twenty minutes ago, studying where you might have gone hit my
com and just just speak to him. You could always just if I walk
out of a room and I'm looking at everyone, I haven't vanished. We
can. You didn't walk out of the room, Wyatt. You disappeared in
front of him. Thank you disappeared like like there one second and they're not
there. Okay. As in Singularity on the Morning Cloak, as in the
exact same thing, exactly like the Singularity on the Morning Cloak. In fact,
we were talking about the Morning Cloak at the time. You also mentioned
a vision about you and someone you recognized to be your brother watching you.
Is this ringing any pails? Well, yes, of course I remember our
conversation okay, and I thought it was a private conversation that really was not.
I mean, I'm over it. It's fine. I'm feeling perfectly okay
now. And then you did disappeared, right, So let's say for a
moment it did disappear right and interacted the firmament. Yes, yeah, come
back, I've come back. It's fine. Who do we need to report
this to me? Right? Then? I suppose that would have to able
to report it now make up for the loss of time. Well, yes,
I mean I must have come back, and I didn't realize. If
that's the case, why wouldn't I remember it? I can remember it when
I do it in the morning, cloak. I have my theories. M
hmm. Maybe it's different when we interact personally with the A moment, should
I be worried? Am I gonna zip outside the fucking airlock? Am I
gonna zip into the sun? No? You will not zip into the sun.
Come back. You're here in front of us, which means you found
the path back. Whether you're conscious or subconscious, you've mastered at least this
form of travel. I think the veil of a freliment were not going any
video h we do. Oh let me see, so right here is where
we're discussing. Yeah, I'm getting up to leave. Yeah, you're getting
up to leave? There you stop? Fuck may how how amazing isn't it?
Right? So what the fuck is that all about? Do I need
to stop using the morning cloak because I really don't want to? Then don't.
If you can master this and you can remember what you've been through,
you will be able to interface in a more intimate level with the firmament.
Jesus fucking Christ, though, magnificent, well done. I feel like I
should probably go and tell someone else though, Maybe me and you should go
and speak to one of the commanders whoever's on duty right now. If you'd
like, we could we could sit and stay in chat a little bit longer.
Oh h yeah sure? Sorry? Okay, Well, first of all,
unless you're all comfortable with this way, well, I don't. I
mean, I didn't realize and explains how I felt when I I felt strange
yesterday, you know, when I was. How are you feeling now?
Wired? Fine? I feel completely fine. I feel really well rested.
Actually, and yeah, I'm sorry everyone. I didn't know. I didn't
realize it just felt like I left the dark and then just must have had
a nap. You know how I feel so arrested. I was tired,
and I spoke to a lieutenant commander and then well now I hang on,
hang on, Yes, everyella wired me STU. We've all had something fucking
weird happen right when we've touched the firm fucking thing the famin, Yes,
got close to it, went through it, interacted with it. We all
remembered, in fact, that some of us had more fucking memories. We
didn't lose a day. Okay, theme stamp on the video it's eleven.
Does that mean something? That's when we all felt it. But what just
summer? Summer in cold water? Really like our entire body's gone cold,
just all of a sudden. It's the weirdest thing. I didn't see anything,
though, What does that mean? Sick? But the fuck is going
on? Dog a rash of cold water. I have my theories and this
is where they start. So we've been discussing in having these one on ones
for about two months now, for the better part of a month, and
it seems as if there are several familiar details that happen in each of the
events of these ccees, these, of course, are the events of cross
consciousness before interacting with the firmament. Thus my theory those as follows. And
here's why. Wyatt. You had a CCE before your event the other day
at THESEUS five where you saw your brother's face someone you remember. You weren't
transported anywhere to any location, but you did remember your brother's face. Michael,
we had a discussion the other day. During your CCE you mentioned something
about familiar faces of those you have never seen before, but very real and
almost uh familiar. Yeah, in all the senses of the word, but
still yet completely foreign to you. That's right. I have yet to speak
to stew about any of this. But Stu, have you had any sort
of events that you can't question, or any feelings you can't quite wrap your
mind around? Just the sensation? I haven't had any. When would you
see and feel the sensation around the same time, Like Ebriella was saying,
just a sudden feeling of old water? I was pooring over something. It
was apparently written by me, but I I don't remember writing it. Do
you have this specimen? It's in my room, but I have notes.
Do you have those here? Yeah? Very well, he looks them over.
So you, what can you tell me about these notes, these things
you've written but haven't written? That's just it. I don't know, I
don't remember writing it. It doesn't sound like me. I thought it was
a joke at first, but it's in my mech very well cramed between the
modules and Wyatt, what did you what do you remember from last night's well
from here onward? Uh, I don't know really, just a sort of
a bit of a blur, I guess. And then then I was reporting
to the lieutenant commander to debrief the day. So it seems that in your
volatile, your volatile subconscious memory, it seems to be this at this the
strongest point which we could then use these ccees to then part the veil of
the firmament. But why you've assured me that this is not dangerous. But
I mean, if we're losing time, if he's got two personalities that are
writing books, should we not be concerned? I could assure you all of
the state body of the interfacing with the firmament. We'll lead you nowhere,
but where I'm standing here right, But can you assure me that this is
not dangerous. I'm fine so far. Did you feel this stuff too?
Yes, I still do, but it's not as random as it used to
be. Can you do it on purpose? Can you induce it? I
could get the sensations of trying, but I had no results without my mech
Did you lose time? Not we all? Did you struggle to remember things
you've done or pull up odd memories? And he's got an actual book.
Yes, there is one consciousness that cross us with mine, and it's usually
get walking through hedges of a foreign land, usually watering plants, weaving wicker
with a family that are not mine. So these are someone else's memories and
they're bleeding in. They have to be the ccees we have. We are
all we all tangle through time with our with our counterpart matter, antimatter,
light, dark, You all right? So how do we anchor ourselves here?
Before this will go even more insane? Because they are starting to get
a little bidgetary that I do not know. Michael, I am literally flipping
out of rooms. Michael, please please roll me um. I think you're
read a situation. Yeah, I thought it was going to teleport out of
the room because it's two minutes to midnight, and then it's usually wrote me
in alright, two seconds of my roll twenty if mm hmm eighteen While this
is going on, how are you feeling while they're having this conversation. What's
going through your head? It's he's just terrified, it's all. He feels
out of place. It's just it's he nothing adds up. The book.
Stew has a book that's clearly written by him, but nothing shows up.
I struggle to remember life before the seraph, and I'll search for myself and
there's nothing there. I search for the memories that I have, and there's
nothing there. Everyone feels familiar and foreign. It's like having a constant panic
attack of suspicions and mistrusts and overlapping memories kind of all hitting him all at
once. And he doesn't trust the doc. It's not that he doesn't trust
the dock. He doesn't think the doc has any other intention than just getting
to grips with the firmament, okay, and he knows someone's lying to him.
There's a I haven't personally had an extreme panic attack in my life,
so it's difficult for me to envision it perfectly, but I've seen it.
Represented on shows and things like that. I think what's kind of slowly happening
to you in this conversation is that you're sort of going from a normal view
of the conversation and it's almost as if you're taking a regular camera and it's
slowly becoming like a fish eye lens, Like everything's becoming sort of distorted,
and you feel this like weird pull towards one of the one of the walls
of the room, Like if you're sitting down, you would feel compelled to
start to like look that direction and potentially stand up and walk over there.
Yeah, I think so. I have had a panic attack before quite a
few and knowing how Michael's wired, I think you would just see this him
stand rapidly that kind of thing where you there's a lot of energy in someone
but they're not really going anywhere and it's all just contained in them. Like
he's trying to decide whether to go over to this wall or not, and
then you just see him that the break come off and he frantically is over
at this wall, Like I kind of imagine it because it's a science room,
like walls are kind of built, they got paneling almost and likes.
He just starts running fingers around the edge of a panel. It's like scratching
at the walls, down the side of the panel, underneath that panel,
then across next panel, just frantically, almost like like there's a fly behind
the wall that he that he has to get to. That's all he's concerned
about. He needs to get to the fly. You will see him do
this. Well, Michael, are you're right? It's it's gonna stop.
It's gotta stop. It's just all gonna fucking stop. What's gotta stop?
What's going on? Calm down? Can you feel can you feel something?
Not right? It's not fucking right. Oh, he's just like almost full
weight trying to pull on one of these panels. Michael, just try to
breathe. No, no, Doc, Okay, you're lying. Somebody is
fucking lying to us. I'm not lying to you. I don't care,
Doc, I don't care. None of his sets up, none of it.
A can I do? So? Who I am? I can't find
myself. Nobody here knows who the hell they are? You included? See
Doc? We need an anchor? How did you do it? Has there
been any luck? What information do you have? Have they been located.
I want them found, They want them found. Now you hear this,
Michael, Well, I know who I am. Yeah, but the fuck
the fuck he's further along the nasony my clock? Yes, I'm here?
Is that you here? Michael? I'm here? Yes, this is who's
been found? Who? Who wants somebody fucking wants them? Why it's here?
Now? What do you mean? What? What is happening? What
is going to fucking hear that? I did not hear it. Please,
it's just a voice, just a fucking voice in my head. Another one.
Have they been found? They want us, they want all of us.
Who I don't know. I don't fucking know someone on this ship does.
All right, calm down, okay, Stu, he's hearing stuff from
cross. Don't tell ship, don't touch him. I'm not quite sure what's
going to happen next, right, this is a cet. Anything can happen
now. All right, well we need to bring him back. Your name
is Michael Stenson. Okay, you serve aboard the seriff, Michael, yes,
great, frontlinemen. Look around the room. Pick some stuff out.
So many colors, blue chair, red folder, black shelf. Fucke,
Yeah, take it easy, I'm not I'm not not him, Michael,
Michael. Would you like some food, Michael, He'll calm you down.
I fucking glucose? Would it help with your renaxation and help release a bit
of dopamine? Let me get He makes it way over to the train.
This is chocolate, Michael. It grabs a fistful and just rams it in
his face. Better. Are you feeling better? Michael? Is all fucking
wrong? Why can't we find them? Who's blocking? Who's blocking? One?
One for results? Now? Are you? What do you want from
me? Michael? I need to do a procedure. I won't. This
is completely up to you, but it will help you relax. I need
you to change into this and he pulls out a wet suit and then you
just step into the tank. He said, what into the tank? There's
a prismatic tank in the corner of the room. What the fuck is that?
It will help you relax, It will orders to help you with the
fermlent. The water is quite cold. It's probably a good place for us
to end, considering that we lost Jay. Oh that's a great face though
time it disappeared into the firmament. He's gone, He's gone. That happened
to me last week. It would have been if you made that exact face,
made that exact face, it would have good. Uh, let's see
if I can try and get the cameras into place. I don't know if
we're gonna get Jay back in time. He says, uh, his computer
blue strained. He's putting back up. He'll be back in sixty seconds.
I say, uh, I try and bother with the camera or I vanished
into the firm of it. Just make fist bigger, so I do,
just make I wish I had a photo zobot to put back there. It's
so useful. Yeah, that was Uh, that was pretty good there,
guys. Why don't we go around the room and do some shout outs to
wrap things up? Pebe, would you be so kind as to start us
off? Please? Absolutely. I'm Pumpkinberry and I played Gabriella for you today.
I'm actually not streaming this week because my Bessie's gonna come and visit and
what my other good friends is here right now, so I'm very excited about
that. But I will be back next week. So yeah, you can
catch me over at twitch dot tv slash Pumpkodbarry and welcome back. Thank you
Jay for returning, and thank you Peb Myth. Hi everyone, I'm Mythematic
or Chord or Myth or whatever. I'm a role player and voice actor here
on Twitch. You can find me on Twitter dot com slash Mythematic, where
I I'm actually running a tweet your own adventure right now, where you guys
for how and where the protagonist goes. The audience has chosen in a paladin
of the Old Gods in a world that doesn't like magic, so that's pretty
cool. I'm also going to be streaming Star Citizen after this. I really
love the game and love role playing in it. And yeah, if you
like cinematic immersive RP, look no further. That'll be up in a bit.
But thanks for having me. It's been a lot of fun. Can't
wait for next week. I'm really liking want and really liking where this this
arc is going, and I love our being with all of you. It's
been. It's been so great so far, so thank you. It got
really crazy last couple of episodes, isn't it crazy? At them? When
Jay literally teleported out? What was the last thing you remember? Jay?
Everything? I can thank you, Myth, Jay, Hi, that's the
most poorly timed blue screen of death ever had. Really, yeah, so
I'll have to watch the back and find the happening to a picture. I
didn't know you were gone. See you're just that good, myth. That's
the thing. All I need is a picture? Is that good? All
I need is your picture? That was weird. That was a hell of
an episode. I love this. I didn't see half of that ship coming,
the twists and turns in everybody's arc. It's just amazing, a wonderful,
horrible GM black. So yeah, I'm Jay Britten, voice actor streamer.
You can find me on Twitch Jay Britton or Twitter voice Jay Brittain.
I had the pleasure of being Michael Stenson. Oh god, a bit trippy.
I need to lie down now. Thank you everyone. That was awesome,
so much fun in a sick, horrible way. Thank you Jay for
hist Hello, I'm Fist of the Walris. Catch me over at twitch in
Twitter at Fist to the Walris. And today's episode was incredible. It was
my heart rate probably hit like one ninety. It was intense. I think
it's also the first episode where we broke character like under five times, even
to laugh and joke with each other. It was a really good, solid
episode. It's been really really good. And catch me over. I'm playing
right now the Witcher, and I'm very good at that game. I am
so good at that game that I only die ten times. That one shot
was great that game is playing it on the hardest setting. I'm playing it
a step down from the hardest, and I'm so glad I didn't. I
did it on I think when I first played it, I played it on
the the like normal setting and it was like too easy, and I restarted
and did it on the hardest setting. And the only time I deviated from
the hardest setting was right near the end on one of the bosses. And
I'm guessing if you played through, you know what I'm talking about. Yeah,
first time playing that is because it was savage, like it's savage like.
The first fight is like super hard, like on the very hard,
on the hardest difficulty, and yeah, it ruined like the little trophy for
for Steam. And I was like, I don't even care. I'm too
fucking angry. I'm too angry. I have to go one step lower because
I will break my monitor. Yeah, they don't hold any punches, but
I've really enjoyed it. I can't believe I've missed out on it. And
I've also am starting to understand the Witcher series a little more, which is
great, good, good, Thank you for bread. Hello there. I
have to do so many like strange mental backflips. It's great. It's so
weird, like I'm like, well, how do I justify this to a
great now? It's and it's it's really fun. It's weirdly intense and and
strange to do. It's been really weird. How I think. I posted
that this show got real fucking real fast in the chat earlier on and as
of next week, we are rebranding to knock Turn twenty eight, which is
that's that's the real twist is that this was actually a secret all along.
Now it's been really fun. I have nothing to announce. I'll see you
next time. We have announcements that are more important that I'll leave to wag.
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yeah the next year, Dad, Joe, bad joke. Oh wait,
that means I do have an announcement. Yeah, changed my mind.
I do have one. I'm playing Metal Get Solid the entire series chronologically through,
starting on Wednesday, the first on my stream, and I normally stream
early in the morning Americans, nine Eastern is when I start. If you
wanted to watch that, I'm doing that, and it's this it's like a
story play through it, so there's no spoilers and stuff. If you didn't,
you know, loads of people were like, oh my god, I
really want to see Metal Gay Sally but can't be able to play it,
and that seems to be that you'll make selling point. On on Wednesday.
You get to watch Brad play a game that he actually enjoys, which is
kind of shocking and it doesn't happen often. Yeah, it's gonna be fucking
weird for me today. I'm gonna be like, I love that. What
the fuck was just complaining and particizing all the time. Yeah, So thank
you everybody for watching peace Out, Happy New Year. We'll see you next
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