Arise, millions, and welcome to this Unmade Gaming production. Join the crew
of the Defiant as they journey through the Third Horizon at the Mercy of the
Icons, trying to understand just what's happening to the mystics in this Coriolist campaign.
Void, the show you're about to listen to, was originally a live
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with. I'm sipping my tea for you. Okay. Malik dies, end
of show, got it, thanks, team. Well, I don't even
know where to begin. Uh. Last time we were here, when we
did our one on one shot, it was Towel's turn, and we saw
where twe was nine months out from the point of souls arrest, which is,
of course, spoiler alert, the end of season two. This is
spoiler rific, y'all. All, So just get ready. And tab took
a little trip with her sister into the bowels of Coriolis to find that well,
there's more there than meets the eye, and that her sister is into
some weird things like snakes. But today's game does not follow Town. It
follows Malik six months out from the point of souls arrest. Six months is
a long time. You have not managed to save Lumara in this time.
What has Malik been up to? Nothing? He's been six months. Yeah,
he's just been He's just been hanging out playing mahjong. It's just you
know, I imagine poorly. It just being safe in like a marshmallow padded
room where there's safety. Does he have a marshmallow padded room, No,
dot, he has danger. He Uh, Malik has been I mean for
for all, for all intensive purposes that the crew knows he could be very
well in a marshmallow padded room somewhere. Because after the shortly after the events
of Seoul's uh kidnapping, as Malik has has been calling it, he has
disappeared. Malik has had little to no contact over the last six months with
anyone on the ship. There have been emails exchanged from the main account on
board the Defiant. There have been emails exchanged between himself and Tamir. All
of them have been met with automated response emails that Malik has set up.
Because he is not taking calls at this moment, you would the Coriolis would
think Malik is dead. Uh. The cameras have not picked up Malik in
months. He has not been seen, but where he actually is is inside
of the apartment that he owned when he worked for Space By where I'm guessing
it's probably not a very nice apartment. It's it's not in the slums.
Uh, It's it's on the tech Plaza, which I think is like in
the central of Coriolis. But it's definitely like is what it is a lot
of like an open bizarre Yeah, it's it's it's like I imagine it like
the new Judge Read movie where they have like the law like the very high
like buildings that are just like stacked full of apartments. Basically it's like that,
and he purposefully chose, uh in one in one of the least like
safe areas. It's an area where like no one wanders into accidentally, and
most of the Coriolist you know, Space force avoid it. Yeah. If
you come to the technicolosy, you're there for a very specific reason. Correct,
It's not just like a shopping walking district, right. Okay, So
I would say that our camera would pan in on Malik's apartment, but he
doesn't. It pans in probably maybe on a table or floor of Malik's apartment
to a container, a white container, cylindrical and uh, glowing red around
the edges. It looks about the same as it did six months ago,
in fact, exactly the same. Does Mili keep it anywhere specific? Yeah,
so if the if the camera kind of pulls in, it starts it's
focus there and does this kind of like out like this is this you know,
just zoom out as it were. I would say it's actually zooming in.
Okay, it's gonna zoom in very tight. Yesh. It is on
a relatively nice looking table. Whether it is actual or faux space marble,
you're not sure, but that's the design, is what it is. And
it's like a you know, dark wooden legs, but there's nothing on the
table, and the table looks like glossy, like as if it is cleaned,
and the there is no dust on this, uh this cylindrical item as
well. I'm guessing it's the only thing on this countertop. It is the
only thing on this table, yep. And you can it's so glossy that
it's like it's it's almost perfectly centered, and you can kind of as it
zooms in, you can kind of see it reflecting in several directions from all
of them lights table. Yea, I love it, and maybe even a
flicker for probably a computer screen or some kind of hud screen off. It
distances as it kind of zooms in on this white container, and it keeps
zooming, and it keeps zooming until it passes through the outer hole into this
container. Oh, I hate that it's pitch black, and all the audience
really can see is a woman, black and orange hair, white clothing,
untouched, probably cleaner than when she entered it, sitting on the floor,
leads up to her chest, crying into her knees, and a voice,
booming and harsh, comes out of the blackness. Would you stop crying?
She sobs harder. It growls in response, making itself known visibly. A
strange floating form erupts from the darkness, hair, kind of floating and standing
on in it's ethereal, kind of poultergeisty body flows with robes and it looms
over her in size. Mar cries and she cries. She is whispering something
to herself, though you can't really tell what it is, for the presence
of the jin sucks the sound out of space and time, and its voice
booms once again. Give up, child, She cries, it's gonna be
fine. They're gonna find a way to get me out of here. It's
gonna be fine, she kind of whispers. She sobs into her knees,
and when they do, I'm coming with you. He laughs, big and
bold. She cries just as hard. There's no tearing us apart. Now
she stops crying. For the first time since this scene, we actually see
the gin outside of her body, and she picks herself up off the floor,
maybe with the last bit of effort and bravery that she has in her
body, and she looks a gin dead in the eye, and she says,
they're gonna they're gonna make sure that you go back to where you came
from. Malik's gonna save me. The gin laughs a big laugh, so
loud that Lamara has to cover her ears, and she shrinks once again into
the size of a small child as she hugs herself and begins crying once more,
and in maybe a moment of love, or maybe it is bravery,
she screams back against his illustrious booming voice. Go, she screams, and
as it does, it breaks whatever he spell he was trying to put on
her bind on her, and the camera cuts back inside Malik's apartment, this
white canister that sits on this very sterile table begins to jutter, and with
the sound of her saying stop, the canister slings itself across the room and
smashes into the wall. Malik, I feel like this isn't an abnormal occurrence.
And Malik, who is in you know whatever makes for a super high
tech uh switch streamer chair, he slides his chair back, and like,
as the camera kind of positions to the chair sliding back, you see that,
like the room is very dark as I realize I have the wrong background
on, but the room is incredibly dark save for the flickering screens that like
jutter on and off all over the room. There are at least half a
dozen that you can see flickering. Yeah, so there's there's probably three at
the desk that he's working on, and then there's miscellaneous ones that are running
other things around the room. And as the chair kind of slides along whatever
makes for this like heart and you know, metallic linoleum floor, you can
see that there are basically pathways cut into junk on the floor of where this
chair has slid from this place to the computer to displaced to the computer,
basically going from all other server racks and computers back to here, and he
kind of spins around, gets out of the chair and in the you know
that that blue light cascading from the primary screens, you can see a very
different Malik. The shaved hair on the side of his head is probably an
inch and a half longer and kind of scraggly. The the the well manicured
top, not the little man bunny had on the back, is now just
sort of cascading down the sides of his head. It's unkempt, disheveled,
and he has a full, probably salad like four inch long beard that is
kind of haggridy, if I had to say it's it's it's definitely wiry and
out there. And he kind of stands and like kind of pulls it into
some kind of shape, looks at the the urn on the ground and waits
for it to stop like juttering, and then he just calmly picks it up
and places it and adjusts it to the center of the table and then quietly
walks over to the other machines and you see them like press a button.
You hear a keystroke and then more poo boo boo boo boop. Screens kind
of light up around and you can see that there are two large server stacks
are just running just like it. It's like the matrix. They're just constantly
writing lines and lines and lines of Uh. These two are looking for things.
These two are are patched into as much of the Coriolis main system computer
as possibly can, with varying depths through their firewalls, scouring for any information
on Gin is one of them. Anything. There's like various search commands for
gin lore Gin, anything like about that deep, like compiling any any term
that he could think of around like in a thought cloud of the word Jim.
And the other one is compiling a similar thing on the name till trail
Marian and uh, what the hell was the other name? I think that
was a trail marrying because I don't know where the prison is, so it's
just trail Marian is what it's compiling on. And he has that one is
is as deep as he can go without being caught by this indicate, Okay,
as deep as he can go without without being out hacked. And then
there's he walks to the third one and side of lights up, a keystroke
and a single smaller monitor runs and that looks like it looks almost like an
old school message board. But as he like hits a few keys, you
can see that it's completely automated and it just keeps responding to certain things.
And several things on there are emails from the Defiant, emails from Tamer,
and several of them are contracts from unknown entities hiring the leak to look for
data, and he has them all automated, so you get like an away
message. The Defiant and Tamer ones are getting away messages. The other ones
are scouring for business opportunities because he's not leaving the apartment and he can do
his special brand of business from right here. Okay, he needs to pay
to upkeep the amount of electricity he's using. It's easy at the moment.
Yeah, and to probably try to convince Coreolis that you're not a power of
at the moment. Yeah, it's a lot of energy. It's it's the
it's the four server stacks, the one he's using, and these three automated
ones and then a bunch of industrial coolers that are just in here and then
jump on the floor. Yeah, okay, You don't check the messages ever.
You just them except for the actual business ones, the ones that like
meet a certain monetary threshold. In the business ones automatically get forwarded too my
main computer, but not the ones from the Defiant. There's an automated response
for those. When was the last time you spoke to your brother? I
don't think Malik knows what day it is, maybe because you're over here,
maybe because your eye catches it. You check the date. It has been
roughly three months since you have actually left this apartment. You know that samere
knows where you are kind of because occasionally he'll drop off a care package and
you've been dropping off your own packages or having them delivered to the Defiant when
it docks. That is correct, Yeah, that is. That is another
one of the automated on the smaller computer. That is one of the automated
things is that every he hasn't set up to be like every thirty days,
a shipment will be assigned to the Defiant, whether it's at the dock or
not. That's that's up to the dock master to hold onto it. But
yeah, he has a small crate, smaller than the crate we took to
Kua, maybe maybe a quarter of the size delivered to the ship delivered to
the ship. We'll find out what those are later. But it's been three
months since you have actually walked out of this apartment, since you have done
more than look out of your window. Even if that down at the plaza
below, your food is running low, Jamir is not going to be by,
or if you're counting he's supposed to be out with Tao, you would
would you know what he's up to? Would you have kept tabs on him?
No? Okay, then you wouldn't know. But if if Tamir has
been making food deliveries to you, a recent one has not calm because you've
really lost track of time. It's been about twelve weeks, so you've not
checked your mail, your hard mail, not your email or any of that.
Do you feel inclined to do so? I think it's one of those
things where like he he doesn't realize that it's been so long since he's gotten
a care package and or food until he turns to go back to the main
computer where he was sitting originally, and you hear that, like and he
kind of sighs, and like runs a keystroke across the smaller computer again,
and you can see automated script start to run, and an email is sent,
and then a phone call is dialed and he basically orders space dash to
his door. You place an order and get it in and I'm gonna today
you've been running this for a while, I'm gonna have you roll a data's
gen role. Okay. See how successful some of this coding has been in
getting you the information you're trying to retreat. Yeah, which is kind of
key. Oh and I need you to draw a card. Of course you
do not. Why wouldn't you, the faceless one draw one card? Let
me see here, I always forget to do that at the top. Don't
let me forget to do that at the top. Okay, okay, okay.
A person of influence, Okay, okay, that is good. I
have a plan for that. Okay, I'm taking that means I take it.
Okay, a person of influence. So your your your your void dash
has been ordered, and uh, you are probably headed back to your computer.
Let's get this this data gen role and I'll tell you if anything pings.
Okay, limited success, it's a success. Most of this is pretty
standard over the last six months. I I would say probably the first three
months was the hardest. You had to get this place set up. You
had to get it off the radar, which we spend a lot of time
just building the security network. You needed to do it, not actually doing
the research. By I would say month three, you were deep into a
safe place where you could start digging. What Malik has managed to pull from
this is that all the way back to what little records we have, even
after the portal wars of the like, kind of original humans that were here
talk of jin and it comes in many forms, like you said, demon.
Sometimes it's an old language, calls it a genie. You don't even
know what that is. And all the interpretations are a little different. But
what has pat your interest in most are the first hand accounts, because there
is no history book that's going to tell this to you. Right. You
might find a paper in the Coriolis Library where somebody dives a little deep,
but they would have probably edited or since sinsored of some of it out with
black lines because space is a scary place. But it's the first hand accounts.
There are two that really pique your interest. One is a first hand
account by a young woman. She's not called Priests then, but her last
name is Showley. Many many many years ago, Showy debriefed here on Coreolis
after bringing a group of children on board from rescue mission to a planet called
Hru. She adopted one of them. The other account that kind of piques
your interest is mostly the ramblings of a madman, which only a madman himself
would be able to get anything from. But a theory that he had that
jin are brought into this world by having to have a vessel at all points,
which is why they need a body. They ride back from beyond,
from the void of nothingness back into this plane of existence. Yeah, and
while they are here, they need a body to possess and these this is
the word he used, possess, which probably doesn't settle well with you.
But technically the gin has a container, and I would think that Malik would
have been able to decipher over three months time that the gin in another container.
It wouldn't need Lamar's body, which means that she's dwelling with the gin
inside of the container. Okay, you don't know what happens when they come
back out, that is the big question. But the problem is you've not
been able to find heads nor tails of any information of how to fix it.
Nobody talks of a reversal or an option for saving the person, just
that when the gin is here, it is here. The doorbell rings about
this time, and I think he walks over to the door, having already
paid, and just sort of stands by it for a second. It just
waits until he hears the footsteps recede. Oh, I was hoping for a
tip, And you hear kind of another knock, and eventually the footsteps reside
and that you can kind of creak the door open. Yeah, it's it's
like it's like a goblin. He like opens the door just enough to like
get a hand and the food. Yeah, I was about to say,
sterile white light pours in. So does all of your mail. Most of
it is garbage, but it all pours in it your feet where it has
been kind of left out front for a while. When you slide the food
and it kind of rakes all the mail in, just like a goblin.
You poured it into your cave and you closed the door, and might even
hear the patter of footsteps and he's like, hey, I need this tignature
and then the door like closes and the mail just kind of blends in with
the rest of the trash on the rest of yeah, exactly the rest of
everything else. I actually, I'm gonna have your role in observation. Okay,
let's see what happens observation. Let me remove this plus observation critical alisade
back at it again. Boys, no matter how hard you try to hide,
there are some things, no matter how hard you've tried to like remain
to yourself. In all of this mail as it comes through, you know
your brother's handwriting. You know it immediately. There's a handwritten note from your
brother, not an email. It looks to be at the bottom of this
pile, which means it's been here quite a while. You checked your mail
three months ago. In the sims it would be bright red. Yeah,
he uh uh, I don't know. There's there's something that sticks out enough
that like fur to mirror to go to this analog of a of an attempt
that like it's enough to him picking up and open it. But he's very
irritating about it, like image, like the fact that he now has to
go through whatever this is that is to him right now a distraction from what
he is currently doing, much like food and shaving. He kind of picks
this thing up and like unseals it. But as he's unsealing it, he
like kicks a metal waste paper basket over towards like one of the clear parts
of the of the walkways in the room, and then kind of pulls it
open and is absolutely reading this in strained blue light from the computer screens.
Yeah, as you creak it open, two things. It's a note from
your brother and inside is a data stick. I imagine the note from your
brothers rather short. I suspect that Tamor is smart enough to get the picture,
but it's probably a little personal note to remind you he's your brother and
he's concerned about you, and more importantly, that he met someone that gave
him information that you might find interesting. M I think, in no in
no malicious way whatsoever, like just purely efficiency and paper trail. He takes
the data stick and sort of like tucks it into like his schimagra now and
then you see him like reach down to one of the piles that like obviously
he knows where things are in this disheveled mess, and pulls out like a
small lighter and lights the paper on fire and drops it into the bin because
he knows to me or and knew that whatever was going to be in this
was likely incriminating, which is why it was in containing exactly and why it
was an analog. There was something about not wanting to send you an email
with this information. So yeah, he drops in the bin and like that
becomes the brightest light source in the for like thirty seconds, orange and warm
light takes over the space which everything else has been washing this like blue green
cool tones. And I think we really see how tired and probably emaciated and
maybe even sickly uh Malik might be after just spinning this much. Oh yeah,
sure, like you with with the flare up of that orange light for
the thirty seconds it's going to take form that paper to burn. You definitely
see that he is in like a raddy undershirt, like a T shirt that
has like a couple of holes in it. He's in like the basically like
the pants that he was wearing is what he's been kind of wearing. And
you can see like his jacket is on like the what was the couch which
is now a pile of clothing, and like his with the red light sort
of jumping up. You can catch the massive shadows and pits in his eyes
that like he's maybe getting two hours of sleep every couple days. You can
see that there's like another small trash can next to you know, there's an
attempt at cleanliness next to his main computer station, and it looks like it's
just full of those those like metal pill tablets of whatever he's been using to
power through and stay as a wake. Yeah, it's just that's just full
of it. And so yeah, he watches the paper kind of catch and
then looks like between terminals before sitting back down at the primary terminal. And
then you see him like reach up to something and the screens kind of rotate
and he plugs the data stick into a different one of the screens. You
click it in and it very quickly pulls up some pretty basic data files.
This is just like a folder with some files in it. But what interests
you the most is and I imagine you like not only bring the file the
videos files themselves up, but you're like running data information on it as well,
and something else. And there are a few things that catch your eye.
One these are like video files, but two. You've never ever seen
code like this. This is This is a dadisin And nonetheless it's written with
an additional code that you don't know or understand, something that's outside of your
normal purview of like hacker knowledge. But to open these videos, nonetheless,
they play kind of staticky and unnaturally. You're seeing through the eyes of a
person first person perspective, almost like a premonition or a dream. You walk,
They walk through a door and it changes, and they end up on
a desert planet listening to the teachings of a man. He stands in black
and white garbage. It contrasts this place entirely, and he holds in his
hands a tome. It doesn't seem to be like It seems to be more
like a scrapbook filled with pages from other books that have been combined in some
way. You cannot quite hear what he says. It's as if the sounds
are underwater. But as he points and he gestures, you begin going through
the rest of the files, and it seems that there are there's information here
about a book, a tome, an ancient piece of hard data, not
computer data that has been lost. The second video that you watch is is
of a ship. This man is on it, so is this other person,
whoever this first person is. And the ship goes down on a planet
that well, I say planet a system that you know al goal passes by
in the window as the vessel plunges towards or is pulled towards a moon nearby,
one that you know all too well. It is a junk moon.
The consortium magnetized it, so it is consistently growing in size as the metal
is Basically, they dump it in space and is attracted to the planet and
it compacts itself. It's been compacting itself for quite a while. H The
ship shoots towards the surface and goes down. One of the files that has
been combined seems to be a personal of personal journal entries research, and one
of them talks about a ability a writing a source that is said to be
able to rip something from the body, pull it from it, exercise it,
you might say. The journal entries are signed to bite like I have
the camera kind of doing that like screen to Malik to screen to Malik kind
of thing. He's like, I mentioned your eyes are like yeah, you
what you see is is all of the all of the humor and sarcasm and
like, uh, I don't know all of all of the Malik is gone.
It's there is no right brain, it's only left brain. So these
videos are playing and you can see his eyes sort of jitter left and right,
but his hands are moving, and anytime there's a word on the screen
or a ship name or a word that like sticks out as like I don't
recognize this thing, there's like a slight hand movement and you see it appear
on the different one of the screens, and he drops it in what looks
like a folder. And then when the camera kind of cuts back, you
can see that the terminal that was searching for Jim has now added words to
it. It is now searching for these things. It is. It is
a very cold and calculating Malik. He is just I would say, program.
The next thing that you pin is actually the ship itself. You get
the name of this vessel that they were all writing and that went down on
the jump planet. I'm gonna give you a name of this jump planet.
Yeah. Once he starts picking up these keywords, you'll see like the hand
again go to that like dropbox basically, and he starts deleting the gin search
terms. And now he's and again there's no one to talk to, right,
so there's no there's no need to make a noise here. He's in
this sound dampened room and he's just all you hear is the occasional keystroke and
the click click, click click, and then of the fans spin up and
as a new search begins. So the search begins. You would know this
junk. You would know this jump planet. Well, it is in the
algal System. It's called xar is. The name of the is the name
of the planet or the moon. And then the name of the vessel is
the OSI, O s I the OSI. You go through ship logs running
the OSI. They run and they run. Malik's used to waiting. Takes
a few hours and finally something comes back to you. The last time that
the OSI was sited was cited was before the Portal Wars. A very old
ship log. It said that the vessel was lost and crash landed on XR.
The file says that it was unrecoverable. Okay, interesting, Yeah,
is Molik or has he been able to track and or locate Priestess Showley.
I would say yes, you would know that Showley has gone into hiding,
and when she left, she left her protege behind. They have been staying
on for the Defiant pretty regularly. You would probably not know anything more than
that because that's about the time you pieced out, so you don't know anything
about them. You just know there was like a new there's a new crew
member that's been there pretty much since Sewell was arrested and Showley went into hiding.
You might be able to get word with Showley. There's a good possibility
of that if you wanted to talk to her about the data gin I would
say she would have left all of you with a way to communicate with her,
maybe like a bad network or something where you could leave a mess and
she could respond, Yeah, something that what's her name set up probably tell
sister je Jelissa thank you. I think he sends a message through whatever this
means is, you know, obviously as encrypted as he can make it,
and the message just contains two things. Obviously a wait to get back in
touch with Malik that goes without saying, but it contains uh, the word
osi, and then an image of one of the pages of the book,
like a section of the book of the book are sitting, the one with
the actual like exorcism ritual, the one that this dude was carrying. The
dude on the osia was goa say, well, he had a whole book
full of things. Yeah, but but the ones that were pained specifically,
it seems to be were of interest worthy. Yes, kind of exorcism ones.
Yeah. It would be like if the if the whole page is like
a page of exorcism stuff, it would be like the one part of the
page that says the word exorcism is the picture he would send because if she
knows the book, shall identify it by what it looks like. Right,
Okay, yeah, you get a message out through this what is basically like
a private forum board that has that has been set up, and now you
just have to wait. You don't know when she'll get back to you,
but you have put the message out at least, so we'll have to see
uh in your running of information, because you're the words you paid were XR
oh SI you know, so forth and so on. There is a vessel
that is leaving from Coreolis to go to XR. Now I would say that
Malik would know this because it's part of the algal System. XR is,
like I said, a magnetized planet that is specifically used for chunk. Getting
to the planet is very easy. Getting off the planet is not. It
is also rumored that one of the reasons why the Consorcetion tries to keep people
off this junk planet is not because of pirates. They don't care if pirates
take the junk, but it's because they have developed a metal eating worm that
consistently consumes This is a This is a literally a recycling facility. This this
moon is being used to recycle junk out of the Third Horizon, and they
do it by using an organism that eats metal. To get off the planet,
you have to have a special ship that can reverse like magnetize itself,
which basically when it reverses the magnetism, it launches you off the planet.
Is what happens, but it requires a special kind of ship, which means
making a trip to XR is not going to happen very frequently. But the
ship that's going is labeled the Corsair. I know that ship name, Yes
you do. I know who owns that ship? Yes you do, I
am you know what I'll say, that's corruption bar number one, just getting
to watch Mike deal with that information. I mean, honestly, I'm the
I'm on I'm of anyone. I'm on the best terms with them. It's
true, you are. You are on the best terms with her out of
anybody, like I have anyone on the ship. I am on the best
terms with her. Yeah. I don't think despite the hesitance on my face,
I don't think. Uh, I don't think Blik shares that. I
think that there is another window gets pulled up and it's he has her card,
so he has direct contact to her. And it's it's a it's the
man, I it's it's the least it's the least amount of encryption he can
put on this thing, right, It's not it's not like open yeah,
it's just like yeah, and it it just says one line of text and
it just says one for one question mark, and he sends it one for
one. This one comes back a lot faster. Shore Lease is still not
returned to you, But a few more hours pass again when it is time
to you, you don't even know what's day or night anymore. Were Mmm,
I'm interested, what are you trying to get out of her? One
for one, it's a favor. You do me this favor and I'll owe
you one. That's what I thought. That's exactly what you wanted. Yeah,
I know it is. That's that's all I needed. The it pings
back to you and just a pretty much as as short of a conversation.
It gives you a stall which is located in the core of Coriolis in like
a shopping district where the I guess maybe you could find her. So basically
there's a location that's given to you, and the response is simply says deal.
I think Malik starts hitting buttons right, and you start to see things
shut down, and then you see like file progress bars start to transfer on
his primary computer and they're transferring towards his tablet that he brings with the most
places is the searching computer shuts down, the email computer shuts down, and
he like looks over at the other one that's searching for chall Maryan and doesn't
hit that button, and that one just continues to run. But he like
reaches over and like cranks this like weird like archaic mechanism given all of the
like the tech in his room. Yeah, and like up the ceiling sort
of like opens like an exhaust fan as he is on one of the the
the highest floor, and like actual synthetic light begins to like bleed in from
upper that a sunlight pulls in and you can see like the layer of dust
and it's been in here. He like flips a switch and you hear that
like as the fan rims up, and then he just clean He just starts
piling up all of the shit all over the floors. Like he like looks,
looks at a few of them, throws them in the metal bin,
looks at a few more, throws them in the metal bin, and then
he reaches over unplugs the data stick from from Tamir, snaps it like in
episode one, and throws that into the bin as well, and then continues
to throw more of the you know, the trash around the apartment into it,
and then you see him light a corner of it as he begins packing
his bag. I imagine that, do you have like a special sling for
the container you're taking it with you? I'm guessing despite what was seemingly ceremony
of having it like centered on this very clean table. Again, he's all
left brain at this point in time, and he's bringing it with him,
but not in a way that anyone would see. It gets down in his
bag. Okay, yeah, you kind of just put it in and again
I imagine this is like it's almost like a soup thermous. Yeah, it's
just about the size of a soup thermos massive and it slides in the bag
with the rest of everything. The data stick finishes, Uh, Piller,
I'm sorry. All the information goes to your data pad that you wanted.
It finishes kind of filling, and maybe you hit that final button and before
you do, on the black screen of the this like private chat. Uh,
white letters begin manually like inputting themselves. It is showy or you think
it's showy, or whoever is repping her, what would it say? Did
you ask her specifically anything about jin or you just sit to her what you
had? It literally was just a picture of like the word exorcism from that
book and the word oh si question mark. That was it. I would
think that a more personal message comes back from Priest's shoulder, and it probably
says I have only ever known one mystic capable of exercising a human being,
and they've never been exercised of anything more than a little bit of darkness.
You're going to need a very very powerful mystic to do what you're thinking about
doing. The final line says, good thing I left you with one.
Surely Malik has no idea what that means. He does not put into you
you've not been around, Yeah you don't. You don't know, but that
that is her message back to you. Interesting. Okay. I think I
don't think he responds. Uh. Yeah, I don't think he responds.
I think he finishes transferring the files and getting his stuff ready, and as
the the the you know, paper pile burns down in this trash can,
like there's like a second where he like catches a glimpse of himself for the
first time in you know how long, and you just see him like annoyed,
the same way he was when he picked up the letter is as in
like self care is an inconvenience right now, but he realizes that what he
looks like, uh, And you see him grab another pile of the paper
and throw it in the bin and imploye and the smoke kind of gets wafted
outside as he places the bags and prepared things that he has on the now
cleaned couch, and then he walks to a door, hits a button,
and then walks into the bathroom and then it closes behind him for an indeterminate
amount of time for him to not look like a hobo. You come back
out looking a little bit more like the Malik. We know your food has
gotten cold, and I imagine at this point you take it to go.
Yeah. I think he almost forgets it and just sort of like reaches in
the bag and grabs whatever's on top of it. Yeah, whatever's on top
you take it to go. And I think as you close the door to
your apartment, the last time we saw you leave this place was at the
top of season one. This is almost a little bit of a repeat.
The door closes, we see you type in whatever code to lock it,
and Malik walks off down the hallway, a few flood of stairs and out
into coriolists for the first time in six months. Is so much louder than
you remember. There are a lot of people and a lot of footsteps,
and you quickly make your way. You've been on long enough to know it
backwards and forwards. Actually, I think I think he kind of walks out
in like like almost a hangover right where the Malik we see is like he
gut whatever makes for gel which like we don't know what that is, and
he slaps. He just kind of like slopped his hair back into like this
weird loose ponytail, which is not an attractive look, and he he has
like buzzed off most of the beard. It's now like a short still not
great looking. It's not like manicured like his old one was, but it's
like like he cleaned it up. And he is obviously changed enough of his
clothes, but he is wearing a far less fashionable jacket than previous like basically
if like like a like a like a space zip up right, like a
like a like a Third Horizon zip up, and like jeans, what what
makes for like just super casual clothes? And he has this his bag kind
of slung over one shoulder, and I think, I mean, it's the
future, so why wouldn't there be I think he has some kind of like
wireless earbuds. Yeah, because it's so loud like, and he knows that
it's going to be loud because he's been in like a basically a soundproof room
aside for the fans and words and clicks, but he definitely looks like he
has a hangover. He has like some kind of sunglasses down. He has
earbuds in a bag over his shoulder, and as Chat said, what makes
for a space tracksuit? Basically, as he's walking towards if you're in a
depressed state in your life, okay, I don't make your way down.
I don't even think I don't think it's even a depressed state. I think
it's like a I think it's almost like what the hell was his name?
The apple guy? Right? Like he only wore a black shirt and jeans
every day. It's like, I don't all of my brain computing power is
going towards this thing, so I don't think about anything else. It's this.
I just grab these two articles clothes and put them on, and put
the thing on. And so you adjust your bag. We see you popping
these these these earbuds to protect yourself from the noise, and it drowns out
coreolists that now becomes like a light hum of people, just like it was
behind the walls of your apartment. And you make your way down towards the
core to the main plaza. When you arrive, you find a small noodle
stand, which is what has kind of painted at the address given to you.
There are four figures eating noodles. They two have bags at their feet,
and a familiar figure though this time she doesn't wear a dress, She
doesn't wear the crazy white and black makeup, her headpieces missing. She's not
performing. She too wears kind of a space jumpsuit. It hangs loosely around
her very well toned body, and it's kind of almost like strapped in at
places, so it kind of bulges in this this kind of odd way,
but she makes it look extremely fashionable. It is, of course, the
ever favorite. Amira stands there with her crew. She sees you across the
way and she gleans a smile. That's the moment you know it's her,
that knowing smile, and she simply gestures you for you to come over.
All four of her crew make eyes at you. Yeah. He there's like
the holograph that he wears on his wrist. He kind of like hits a
button on it and then you can hear like the like he can hear like
this boom, this like little word noise in his ears as like whatever is
the noise canceling sort of like lessons and dampens so we can hear more of
Cornolis actually, so he can actually leave them in and talk to her.
And he just sort of ignores the other crew members and just walks past them
as if they do. They sit on noodlebwles like one of them is like,
yeah, like shoveling news. But they're always eyes on you as you
kind of walk over. They are white noise. Yeah. Amira looks you
up and down, taking your new state in. She says, you look
thin? May I buy you some noodles? Sure, she snaps, And
the man that's running this tiny little noodle cart always already has hot noodles for
her. There's a strength power dynamic there. And she passes over a hot
bowl of noodles to you, and she says, one for one. And
what is it that you need for me? A leak? You have a
ship, you're going to XR. I need transport, right, She kind
of stops herself as if she knows the answer to that question. I need
transport to and from the three men stop slurping or the four figure stops slurping
noodles. She looks around and she says, and what do you offer in
return for such one for one m hm says, well, I guess we
were going anyways. It's a big favor you ask, and it's not a
short trip a leak. Now the leak, you would know that it's an
open ended request. I'm not killing anyone, but it's an open ended request.
Fine, we'll bring you along the rest of you can sell. The
rest of the same team does not like this idea at all, and she
says, as long as you don't get in our way. But I have
to know why you're going. There's a salvage I want. Is it valuable
to me? Hence the favor? She kind of makes eyes that you would
get it didn't really quite answer her question, and she says, well,
it could be valuable to me as well. She looks around and she goes,
where's your girlfriend? Won't she miss you when you're gone for two months?
There is like laser gaze and stone called silence. She goes, oh,
I'm sorry, Malik. Well, I guess we could give you a
little company. You look like you could use it. She kind of makes
an eyebrow the rest of the crew and she says, this is my crew
at least for this trip our pilot. She kind of gestures engineer, and
are two heavies and they are heavy. When do you leave XR in two
hours? No? Not four XR? When do you leave XR when we
get what we came for or when we get what we are going there for?
Give me a window. It'll take us roughly. Actually, I can
do this math. I've learned how to calculate space travel time. While while
while she's while she's doing maths, he just kind of looks at her again
with that same kind of like steel cold like eyes, and he says,
we leave, we talk on XR. I deboard your ship. That's it.
I'll be back on the ship before you leave. She says, fine,
it's probably going to take us a month there and a month back.
Okay, we'll probably spend at least a week, if not two, on
planet, depending on how long it takes us defining what we are looking for.
I'm not helping you unless that's your favor. I don't need to know
what you're doing, and i'd like to keep it that way. This is
fine. I won't tell you, and you don't have to tell me.
I get it one for one perfect. She says, you might want to
be more friendly to the crew, though you'll be bunking with them. He
like looks over one of them, smiles and is like missing teeth. Yeah,
not that one. They are not your career. This is not the
Defiant. This is like the bottom of the barrel space trucker my favorite.
Yeah okay, And she says great. Not only are they space trash,
but not even space trash that could afford normally. But she's got your ride.
And you know that her ship has obviously got to be equipped for this,
which makes it her special. And she she says, fine, meet
us at the net in two hours. You have a watch, don't you.
He like lifts his wrist up and like the time pops up in the
hologram form. She says, good, you look like you've lost quite a
lot of it. She slurps up a noodle in a rather promiscuous way,
a final noodle. The crew watches. Of course, she smiles because she
loves it, and she looks at the four of them and she says,
don't be late, or I'll do what I did with the last crew.
One of their eyes gets really big. You don't know what she did,
but they look very scared. Yeah, I think man Blik isn't one to
make friends normally. But like as she leaves and isn't in eyesight of this
disgusting act, that's what to happen. He takes I assume a fork.
He takes like a fork. It sort of like stirs the noodles together and
then just like look over, leans in and gets as much of the noodles
into his mouth and then like slides the fork out, puts it back in
the bowl, and pushes the bowl away and just walks in a different direction,
just chewing a mouthful of Now I'm gonna say one of the guys will
probably stop you, probably one of the heavies. A big hand sets on
your shoulder and he goes, you're not even gonna introduce yourself, mate.
There's a pause and like audible chewing right as you can see him like like
a like like a cow with cud, and then he just swallows. No
less, help find some manners, he says, I am dud. Why
don't you tell us your name? Kid? The less I know about you
and your crew, the better. Another one, this is your pilot.
He's a little slimier. He's like a little weasy. His hair is like
slipped back in this nasty, like unwashed, like greasy kind of way.
And he says, oh yeah, and he says, when you're gonna be
traveling on my ship, the least you can do is be nice. And
I don't like the way you said crew boy dot. Did these guys look
like they're like they look like they're they're bottom feed or space truckers. Right.
They don't look there in any kind of way affiliated with anyone. Right,
this is like a she needed a crew, she scraped the bottom of
the barrel. Throw these guys together and they don't know what they're doing either,
what do you know about her? Yeah? No, they definitely look
like they're good at what she hired them for, flying a vessel, engineering,
fixing things. There's like a mechanic he's in a jumpsuit, and then
two heavies. Right, But they don't look like they're organized, like they're
not. No, no, no, they didn't come on as like some
marine crew or ye working together before. She probably has a large group of
pirates that she pulls from to do her jobs in their course there. Okay,
yeah, so they look like scummy pirates. Okay, yeah, I
think, who looks like they're in charge? The captain. Yeah, yeah,
he's a little yeah, yes. I imagine they all like stand behind
him because he's kind of quaint and tiny, but like they're he's flying,
he's the pilot. I'm trying to think of what Malik would say. I
know what he's about to do, but I don't know what what words are
about to come out of his mouth right now. Hmm. So what I'm
going to do is, I'm going to use one of my talents. Fortunately,
it's not a talent that nets you any darkness points you dirty heath In.
I don't need any because guess what, I don't want to thanks to
Tao Great great. I think he leans in very very close, like too
close to this pilot to which I don't think he knows his name, and
he's going to say right, and he's going to say something like directly into
his ear that only he can hear, like in a whisper, and he
just he simply restates, the less I know about your crew, the better.
Was not a statement for me. It was a statement for you.
And if you continue to press, I will lead you from Coriolis and I'm
going to use my talent. Okay, faction standing syndicate member okay, which
gives me a plus two bonus to manipulate or threaten. I was about to
say, you're you're definitely manipulating this one, all right, go ahead,
So they're gonna get add a plus two here and limited success. Okay.
He at first, he probably bugs up a little bit and like you're standing
nose to nose almost in this space, and you can feel the two heavies
are both all eyes on you, and he goes, all right, but
you can't expect it's not to ask questions. We got two months together,
kid, I get that you hide in something. He kind of looks you
up and down, eyes your bag. They are pirates after all. He
takes a step back because like he was like chest to chats with this guy.
He takes step back and he says pilot engineer and just sort of like
drags his finger over the two heavies. I'm your comms officer. I'll see
you on the flight deck. And he takes a step back and waits a
beat. Yeah, he goes, violent, was it that hard? As
as you know, you put some space between you, and he says,
see I'm offstrick your pilot. He points you met dud Jace. He points
to the other heavy and he says, and this is Afther, our engineer.
Afther's a little bit non gender specific, bald head kind of goggles,
these big goggles that make the eyes kind of look oversized, and a large
kind of wrench. And I would say a you know, like hand blowtorch
is on a belt that hangs low on their their their waist. And he
says, I guess we'll see you then, and he just takes another step
back, turns and starts to walk towards Jase goes, don't forget to bring
your pajamas. We don't sleep in the nude, got it? They seem
unceremonious. Yeah. He he wends his way almost like like like you know
when you walk through your house at the dead of night and you just know
where everything is. That's how he approaches the bizarre. It's like he whether
things have popped up in the past X number of months that he's unaware of.
He just continues winding through these paths that he's well worn over the course
of the three and a half years he's lived on Coriolis and he he belignes
towards the net. He belignes towards the the docking base, and there's the
Corsair. It takes you an hour of the two to get down there.
Coreolis is massive, and there's a set of trans that like run the centralized
core and drop you from one place to another. It's like getting around New
York City in space. You got to take the L train to cut across
city and be able to take a tran north. And so it takes you
a while. Maybe you find some kind of comfort and being back in a
mundane existence on Coriolis, there is something familiar about it. Lost to six
months of time and a dark, dark little man cave. But you do
make it to the net. And I said, some nostalgia washes over you
because at the dock where the Corsair sits, it is also the dock where
you first saw a Defiant, a vessel ship, and all of these feelings
of everything that you went through with the crew of the Defiant kind of washes
over you. The fact you've not spoken to your brother in six months.
I feel like we have that cool movie scene right where like he walks,
he walks to these docks and like the same the same docking skiff where the
Defiant was, there is another science freighter that is similarly shaped enough that like,
at first glance it looks like it, and like he stops deadness tracks
and looks to see like a conveniently red haired someone talking to someone else who's
like working on a part on the exterior hull, and he like looks for
a second, and then like something passes in front, and then he can
see that it's definitely not the Defiant. It's missing, you know, certain
key features and the you know, the engineer has a foot onto me or
and the blonde the red hair was actually brown hair, right that that convenient
ship as he likes, He like lifts his glasses and kind of rubs his
eyes and then looks for the Corsair again, and you kind of shake it
off, and you see it, the Corsair there at the docks, and
your heart stops thumping long enough for you to make it over and you step
on board. The Corsair is actually a little larger than Defiant. It is
also a cargo based ship, but it seems to carry have a much larger
carrying hold. It carries big stuff which is maybe why you're headed to a
junk planet. And if you remember correctly, the last time the Corsair was
collecting things that you remember, it was out in the dead of space in
Hamura from all of that, they were collecting all of those coffins of bodies
out of space after the massive shipwreck that happened when they tried to pass through
to Tawan. And on board the ship you go. You're followed very quickly
within minutes by the rest of the crew. And she's standing there doing per
thing. She a mirror. She welcomes you on and she says, well,
there's no time to waste. We're next up in line, so to
your stations. Is the crew there as well, or is she the only
one outside the ship. No, she's she was there and met you.
You were first and followed pretty promptly by the rest of the crew. I
think there's like a slight spark of Malik as he's the first one there,
and she says welcome to the Corsair or whatever, and he kind of like
looks at her and then like looks towards the deck and he is this your
ship? It belongs to a woman. Her name is Sabina, I won't
touch anything, and then he boards the ship. Yeah, she says,
welcome aboard. It is a newer vessel than the Defiant, for sure,
but it has had a lot of personal upgrades. On the inside. You
can tell they've added hidy holes and strange cargo spaces, and they've added a
few drop pods, like launch pods for escape and those kinds of necessary things
when you're well pirate. And so the rest of the crew meets you.
There's a small area where you gather in like the loading this massive loading dock,
I imagine it looks like the loading dock of the Serenity. It's like
massive hatch that drops out the back that you could roll like other small ships
into are big, big crates, very different than towels, which is like
a crane lift. That's how that's how you get things on board. So
I like it. Yeah, And she says, well, let us not
stand on whatever this is, and she kind of gestures around. She says,
our goal is to field this ship and come back. And she says,
and if you don't, well then I'm taking your pain. She says,
Oh, I'm sorry. I always come back. And she says so
take your stations. We're up in ten minutes for our first prep to jump.
Malik. He walks to whatever the first bunk is and like drops his
bag and slides it under the bed and then heads towards the the bridge and
just slides into whatever the comms officer station is. Yeah, there's a there
is a calms officer station. It doesn't even have a chair. You can
tell she probably doesn't keep a calms officer very frequently on board the vessel.
And they are you can tell that they're feeding information from the coriolist like portal
Master is putting in the algorithm for your jump. You're gonna be getting like
in line for the first one. You'll be jumping from Kua to a quarter
of the third horizon and I can't read it. Okay, Yes, So
it's called the quadrant of the pillar. You're gonna be coming in on a
corner of it to a system called alt I all time, and then you
go all tie to Owahi Awadi and then Algal is the next one. So
you've got multiple jumps. And I'm just going to make a flat series of
pilot rolls to see how successful these happen over a series of what is going
to be weeks, because of course you make it through one, the ship
has to stop, you have to prep do it all over again, and
so you spend a lot of time with this crew. They're not terribly bright.
The engineer is, but the engineer is very quiet. It does not
speak much. They're not terribly right. They're not terribly right. Don't judge
me. Dot. I see them as like restained in space overalls like not
like not like not like mechanical coveralls like. I see them in like straight
up farmer overalls. Like that's basically yeah, Oh this is so bad.
This is so bad. Okay, I'm going to spend the darkest point to
reroll because I need you to actually get where you're going. You know what
is it smoking aces? Yes, you know the brothers that are like that,
that's them exactly, That is exactly them. There they are like they
found She clearly found them, or they came here to Corios from some backwater
planet. So bad news everyone. The first jump gets no successes, the
second jump gets no successes. The third jump gets one successes and two critical
failures. Cool cool, this is so bad. Okay, Well, she
might have hired this pilot ostrich, but he clearly doesn't know what the hell
he is doing. Tells a much better pilot, And you recognize that now
that you've traveled with somebody that flies like tow does. It is a very
bumpy ride on a regular basis, you think you might die. He cannot
parallel park, he cannot pull into doc Everything is is comes in too fast.
More importantly, I think the whole ride, like any crucial moment,
there's like this like because I picture him like on a crates right, because
there's no seats, so there's very much like there's no stability when we're like
lurching in space. And every time the pilot fucks up, like Malik just
looks over at what's her name of a mirror. Yeah, he looks over
at Amira and then returns to the calm station. And then the keys start
clicking again, and then it like it larches again, and say, she
never loses face a mirror never loses his face. She seems cool and calm
as a cucumber. But you might see a beat of sweat, specifically on
the second jump, because as you come out of cry asleep through the other
side you did in fat or I'm sorry from your set. Yeah, your
second jump, your plan was to go from all tie to this in between
space or this in between system before alcohol. But it doesn't do that.
Instead, you miscalculate and you end up actually having to make through this trip
the entire loop of the quadrant of the pillar, to come back and do
it all over again. Your month trip there now becomes two and a half
months there. The beard that you shaved is now grown back out. I
wouldn't say that you get to know these people. Yeah, I think there's
like a level of like familiarity, like mannerisms that he picks up, like
you know, this guy always does this one thing and then farts right like
he like he knows like these things to avoid, or like what it looks
like when one of them is actually pissed off or going to be violent or
drunk or whatever. It is exactly, and it is there at the end
as basically you loop all the way. I think I can show this to
you. Actually, yeah, I can show it to you. Let's puing
it on the screen. Chat you can't see because I didn't make a joy
yet. So you started at Kua. You were headed here and you were
going to take this this road down right, but instead you ended up going
to or yeah yeah, to serve us and then back to and you had
to put the whole loop over again, which basically quadrant like like tripled the
trip in time. By this point, Amira is frustrated. This section of
the Third Horizon, you know, to be well, first off, you
had to go to Zayu, which is the back end of the Third Horizon,
and it's part of known of a very dangerous area that was super freaking
active. Yeah, was really really active during the Portal Wars. Yeah,
And you look back down and around and by this point Ama is fed up.
Finally you come out of cry asleep and you look out the port window.
You've reached Algal. You see your home planet for the first time since
you probably left it. It looks exactly the same, same smoggy cloud around
it, same globe made of lights and flying vessels and satellites. It's Algal
and they're off in the distance. You may norally fly towards this ship.
You hear the pilot Osrich say, buckle up, ladies and gentlemen, we're
about it. We're about to cross into the Magnetize zone. I think there's
like a twinge of it's been two and a half months. There are people
here. Malik is feeling slightly more peeply, but there is a twinge of
familial uh responsibility as he kind of passes into the Algal system and as that
as he's doing whatever, his version of buckle up on this crates. He
like, he sends an email and it's not like encrypted because we're in a
system. It'll take time to get back there, but it's not as encrypted
as it would be as if he send it from like his personal columns,
so it'll have like the Corsairs whatever it's make believe designator is on it.
And he just sends it to the Defiant, to to to Tamir via the
Defiant, and it just says I'm fine, period, And it's sent to
Tamir. Never tell him you're fine until you land on the planet. He
has to make a landing role this pilot at this rate he got his success.
It was an emotional I'm fine, like I'm okay, I'm okay as
a person. It sends out just in time for the yellow lights in the
vessel, which are the caution lights to start going off above your head.
You can see the rest of the crew are basically strapping themselves to the wall
that is the seats. It's like this like thing and you click it in.
It goes between your legs and over your shoulders and it straps you to
the wall of the vessel that is this kind of ship perfect. You're all
like as it starts entering the area and you immediately fill the planet. As
you cross into magnization, into the magnization zone, it grabs the ship and
worches it forward. The alarm starts going off. You can hear the pilot
like, hang on, everybody, I mean this, this feels like every
other landing He's done so sure, and you can feel it. It's it's
almost unnatural, the rate at which the ship is being pulled. And you
can hear a mirror at one point go we've got to slow down, and
he goes let me drive, and she's like you you know, and they're
kind of arguing back and forth, and maybe your eyes are closed and you're
just praying. You're freaking yeah. I think I think the his hands are
holding onto the straps because I can I only imagine that they're rickety, and
like he pulls his hands as close together as possible and like hits that button
again. And then you hear them as the two headphones like white noise out.
What's happening or is it? Yeah, you're just trying to stay like
meditate and stay calm, meditate and stay calm, and oh man, you
finally land. Do you hear the crunching of metal against metal. The entire
surface is covered in and it juts at odd angles. Everything is unfinished.
The ground itself is metal because it's just years worth of packed metal on top
packed metal. And finally the ship comes to like like this grinding on metal
sound. You can see the sparks flying as it bashes into the side of
a rather large like heap of junk and finally comes to a halt. Amira
unbuckles herself. She says, praise God. She says, drop the hat
and start collecting. And she looks at Malik and she says, you have
exactly two days. We're already over and we don't have an at this point,
we don't even have enough food to get back to Correolis. Uh.
He like I think, he like reaches like I think at this point,
like that this landing he would have had his bag like ready to go on
him, like buckled to the seat, and I think he like reaches into
it and like you see this quickly swipes across the screen on his tablet and
like it sends her a message. It's like essentially his phone number, and
he basically says, give me an hour an hour before you leave, and
I'll make it back. She kind of nods as if like, okay,
good luck with that, Malik. I'm sure as you finished sitting whatever this
message is, you reach in the bag as well for a reassurance that the
container is there. But you know, darkness is everywhere and even in space
a long time it's missing from your bag. M M darkness point number two.
Somebody has taken the canister. Uh. He stops in his tracks,
like leaving the bridge. Where where is it? Just amara or it's a
mirror, and then you can see the like the pilot is probably like still
shutting the ship down like high drogs. You can hear him outside, so
he's in like the cockpit area finishing that up. The engineers in the back
with two heavies which are doing things like making space, dropping the back door.
The hatchback door. He stops in the door of the bridge and he's
still facing like as if he's walking out, uh, and not even like
turning his head. He just speaks to Amira and he says, I don't
need to threaten you, and I don't think it was your one of the
smartest people on this ship. But I'm missing something and I only have a
few things. She says, I wish I had the patience to take that
as a compliment. What are you missing? Your crew of pirates has taken
an object from mine. We prefer to call ourselves Corsairs. That's fine,
this vessel. It's a small cylindrical object, about ten inches long and three
inches wide. She raises a lewd eyebrow. Well, Milak, I definitely
want container, if you would like to take it up with the crew.
We have an open policy here aboard the Corsair. If it was taken from
you, it must be given back as long as you can prove it's yours.
Okay dot dot okay, okay, okay, So chat, don't you
freak out on me. You're all the ones that wanted three corruption bars before
we got started. Do not even at me. He again, still facing
the same direction, reaches out and hits like the ship intercom okay, and
says, this is your comms officer speaking. You have five minutes to return
the object you stole from me to the bunk that I slept in, or
the entire Coriolist space force will await the coursayer upon return. Try me,
and then he depresses the button. Okay, I'm going to have you make
a manipulation list, and then the person who actually did this is going to
have to roll against that to not guilty. Does ah man? So I'm
I'm I'm confident. Malik is confident that it's not a mirror. He's confident
that she at least knows better. I would say that your gut is probably
right on that this is not a mirror. Start right in that vein does
because I assume the captain here, the pilot here would have spread around what
Malik told him. Does the syndicate still apply? Does that plus two still
apply? I don't know how many times you can use a town. How
about this? How about this? I would say, because you made that
role specifically to the pilot. If the pilot is the guilty one, So
I'm gonna have you roll it with the plus two, and I may take
it away if it's not relevant. Gotcha? Okay, so let me roll
a plus two here. That sounds silly, but no actually affected. Why
yeah? What limited success? Okay, a limited success? This rings out
and echoes down what is really an empty chamber of this cargo vessel one?
You hear one of the heavies go, what did he say? Well,
I didn't take nothing. Why I didn't take nothing? And then, uh,
I imagine the pilot goes, would somebody just come clean? I know
that one of you took it. And now they're bickering over the columns as
to who took the thing? Do you go back to your room? Where?
What are you doing? Amidst this? They're beginning to cause a little
bit of chaos. He's like, no, I'm telling you, I don't
take nothing. It's like Malik's intent was that this could be potentially amnesty.
And he stands there in the same spot to which I assume Amira would probably
find very amusing. And he just stands there and waits and waits and waits,
and then he hits the button again and says four minutes and then let's
go and just stands there and continues to wait, and you wait and you
wait, and it's actually the smaller sound of footsteps, quiet feet, the
feet of the engineer that come around kind of a private corner and her.
Their hands are behind their back, and I would say, for the first
time in months, you hear this person speak and Arthur says, I'm sorry,
I didn't mean to it was I've never seen one before. And she
or they pulled the canister from behind their back and very openly hand it back
to you. They seem to have knowing eyes of at least what this was,
maybe not what it is now, if that makes sense, that maybe
they knew it for it's used as an artifact and as somebody that is a
tech savvy person, very tech savvy. From what you can tell, they
were interested, I think, in it, and as they kind of passed
it over, they never make eye contact with the guy. I didn't do
anything. I just ransom diagnostics on it. He takes it and like gently
places it in the bag and then looks at them and says, it's been
used. It's purely sentimental. Oh. Their eyes kind of like go to
the ground again. They don't say anything. They seem rather ashamed that they
took it, and maybe as you go to walk off and actually hit planet
proper, that kind of peek their head around a corner and for the first
time pulled these kind of goggles off and you see their actual eyes and they
simply say, be careful, it's unstage stable. He like glances over his
shoulder like again this same like dead eyed look, and he just is I'm
well aware this is but and he kind of he says, here and hands
you what looks like what we would consider a receipt, like a long light
strip of paper that came out of a small like old like little dospriner or
something and hands it over and it is seems to be some data which you
would know immediately it probably came off of not even a HUD deck or some
kind of data pad. But like this is the kind of redoubt you get
when you check like electricity currents kind of thing, and making sure none of
the rest of the crew are around, because they have a feeling that if
they knew what you're carrying, there would be problems. And they don't seem
to want to wrat you out. That is not the purpose of this.
They pass it over and kind of crumple it in your hands, and After
just says it's nuclear and points to the data and you see it that there
is a repeat pattern that's showing in the data that it is fluctuating and that
given its current state, it could explode, like actually go nuclear to some
degree. And After simply says, maybe maybe four months max. Whatever you
do, don't drop it. I think, like with the crumbled paper in
his hand, Malik kind of like lashes out. Seems like too violent of
a ward, but he definitely grabs either by the wrist, not aggressively,
but like he like quickly grabs him. They shrinkle a little bit. This
person shrinks a little bit. I'm sure they don't have physical contact much and
what they probably had is not been kind. Right, This isn't kind,
but it's not mean either, yea. And Malik just coolly says, that's
what I'm here to prevent. And then there is like a glimmer of a
crack and you see like just a slight heartbeat of life returned to his eyes
and he says thank you, and then let's go, and just walks away,
and you see after watch you leave as you step onto the planet,
which is breathe air you don't have to wear like a proper spacesuit, but
here it is windy and metal particles and dust just rain in the air.
It beats against the side of other metal pieces. You can feel it tear
at your skin. You probably have to pull your sleeves down or put a
jacket on if you don't already have one. You're definitely gonna want to have
some kind of basic mask which was probably provided to everybody on the crew,
that you wear so that you have you're breathing in less metal particles which will
literally kill your lungs. And he for sure takes the shimag off and like
rewraps it so that it like it's like over his eyes to keep the dust
out of actually hitting him in the face, and up over his mouth to
act as a secondary layer to whatever the breather apparatus is that he's wearing.
But yeah, he kind of has it as as a head dress and begins
to head out into the dusk fields. How are you tracking this because this
is an entire mood, that's the thing. Dot. I don't know,
but I do I do think, I do think there is a comical scene
for a second where like he gets far enough away that like the corsairs,
but it's visible, but it's like a speck on the horizon right where he's
confident no one can see him. And he's in like a small enough clearing,
like you know, surrounded by debris and detritus, and he kind of
like sits down and begins like moves several of the things out of his bag,
all of them useful, useless for this kind of thing really, And
as he's like looking at the bag and like just running like a finger across
the tablet trying to like figure out what's going on, he's like, son
of a bitch, I just fucking him. Then, oh god, where's
Tamir? Oh god? No? And then he like piles things back into
his bag and throws it back on and continues walking, continue because like this
is his strong suit, no direction and no purpose. You have two days
to search an entire junk planet for a vessel that was lost sixty years ago.
Yeah, sixty plus years ago. Really, Yeah, I think what
what he's doing is, oh man, I forget what this item actually does.
I was gonna say, so you have a few options, Okay,
go ahead, So I think so the things he was like sliding across the
data pad were several of the things that he was running back back home.
It's it's very poor math, right, but he saw a video of this
ship crashing, so he's trying his best with shitty video and like line of
sight, which is like impossible on a planetary level to triangulate where this could
be. So he's input like a random set of variables here and then like
another one of random set of variables. So he's running even go back and
rewatch the video. You can even like hit because you have that data,
right, So you're like, okay, yeah, let's let's do this the
same way that you did it when you were trying to go to Kua,
the way that Tamir tried to do it, where you kind of triangulated based
on what you could see to what you knew. And so I am,
how do I want to have you do this? Okay, Well, first
off, you watch the video and this time something sticks out to you.
Last time you're just trying to take it in. This time you see as
the vessel comes in, well, whoever this first person this is looking out
like the pilot seat, like over the cockpit and out the front window.
Yeah. I think he's actually actually watching it this time, as opposed to
like looking for data data exactly. You're like, okay, let's slow down,
and so you really watch it for content. And this time you see
as the ship comes in out of the atmosphere and begins like plummeting towards Earth,
and it clears up enough you to see there's a massive spire that juts
out of the ground not far from and it's huge, probably probably part of
an old space station. When I mean spire, I mean like spire,
and you watch as this vessel plummets towards it and probably actually crashes into this
spire. Uh do I see the spires? Good question from here? Do
you have anything on you other than your eyeballs that can help you with this
one? Dog? Can have you roll an observation to start? I mean,
uh, yes, kind of. I don't think it will help with
this role. I think it might help with like the next thing. Once
I see it, I think that will will help you. Yeah, yeah,
yeah, Okay, let's start with just an observation and let's see if
you see it on the horizon. Because here's the thing, junk is stacked
everywhere, and it's really not easy to walk. You're having to like dodge
through pieces here, dodge through pieces there to success. Let's success, You're
you gotta get higher. Yeah, junk is piled over your head, and
so you start kind of climbing to get a better viewpoint of what is out
there, and you kind of peer and often the distance you think you see
it, it's quite a ways away. It is not close. And you've
got a lot of junk between you and there. And if you're gonna make
it in two days, it's gonna be really tough, especially because you gotta
come back right, which means you got one day to get there, find
once you need, and one day to come back. And while you're up
here on what is just a stack of you know, maybe an old I
don't know, like an old vessel of some kind or some old junk that
was peeled off the side of a ship, and you're looking out, you
hear something from behind you. It was a high enough observation role that your
your senses are heightened, and from behind you you hear this crunching of metal,
the sound of it being like scrunched, and then chewed up, and
if you turn around, you see something quite extraordinary. The average person may
not call it a worm, it does. It's more like a salamander.
It's more like a salamander, and it's huge, and it's just sitting there.
Uh, and it's just like munching away, ripping away with its mouth
pieces of metal and just munching. Does it look like it moves fast?
Uh, you don't know, because right now it seems to be in like
like eating. It might even look up at you, has gotten like a
maybe an old weapon or gun like hanging out of its mouth, and it's
a big tongue which you see is like made of some kind of alloy,
laps out around it and just like crunches like curls that gun into its gullet,
which now kind of gets big like a frog, is it like,
and continues to chew this metal. Uh? Yeah, I think. I
mean, there's only so much quietness that that Malik can have on a metal
planet. But he's going to as quietly as he can like slide down this
mountain of metal away from this thing. Okay, you kind of slipped down
basically the way you came. Because it's kind of on the back side.
It doesn't seem to notice you, or if it noticed you, it doesn't
care. You were told that there were worms here that eat metal, yeah,
or yourself not made of metal? Right. I would say it's twice
the size of a komodo dragon. It's probably from tail to nose about twelve
feet, think more like an alligator side. It's like a big crocodile like
Hue. Then ride this thing if you wanted to. Male gets that big?
Did the tapping stop? I don't know what that is, y'all?
It seems to okay cool? How how far away does this thing look?
I mean you would come off the other side of the junk pile and be
very close to it. No, No, the spire, Oh, the
spire. I would say that you could run some data on you kind of
try to get a trajectory. Yeah. Five miles Oh okay, I mean
the terrain is rough, but five miles is I mean great? And he's
he's we do it in a day. You could do it in a day.
Yeah, I mean five miles you can do in like an hour?
Maybe you can. I mean I walked two miles in forty five minutes now,
so yeah, you're also on flat you're talking like you're gonna be crawling
through Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's it's a whole
different ball, right. I imagine it would take like at least half a
day to get there. That's not I mean by by Malik's calculation, a
half a day to get there and then a half a day to get back.
That leaves him with it the better part of a day to search for
the thing he's trying to find. Yeah, I don't think while I would
love to ride a giant space worm towards the spire, I don't think Malik
processes that information. It's too ridiculous for his brain to even comprehend. Yeah.
I think he quietly gets away from the worm thing and then like he'll
he'll cinch his bag tighter so that it moves less, and then he just
starts like running trying to traverse this. Yeah yeah, yeah, Okay,
this is actually going to be a role. This is actually just going to
determine how quickly you get there. Sure, there's like a dexterity role,
So let's do that if you've got it, If not, just roll of
flat agility. Yeah, let me see here, do I have anything at
all that could help me here. I would also take a witch role,
like a survival role, if you wanted to try to make it based on
survival, which would be like what's my quickest route versus what's how quickly do
I get there? I guess the question is dependent on this answer. Would
the fact that I have hyper rope help me in any way of traversing this
place? It's not gonna help you right now, but it sure would help
you when you have to climb that spire in all right, then I will
make I will make a survival role. Okay, let's see if you could
just be like okay, instead of trying to go like what's the most direct
route? Basically limited success. Oh it's super hard to tell. Do you
have any technology? I have plenty of technology, not if it's useful right
a second though, No no, no, I mean do you have technology
as a as a Oh no no, no, no no no, you
have no technology. You have no science, no data, gin culture and
medicurge. This is what I have for advance. Oh my god, you're
a myth. Okay I'm not. I'm not the science boy. Quietly or
silently, are you just trying to get there. Uh No, he's just
trying to get there, right, Like compared to the rest of the planet,
Like Malik has a tablet, a gun, a wristwatch, and like
rope. So like the amount of metal he's carrying on him seems at least
he like that's what he knows. Like there's metal leaving worms, right,
So he's like the metal leaving words are I'm gonna bother me because I don't
have metal. So he's just sprinting. Yeah, he's sprinting as quickly as
possible. I mean, there's nothing saying that in other living right, And
of course he didn't research any more of that. So yeah, he takes
you the better part of a full day to get there. You crawl through
the holes of old vessels, of space train cars, of pieces of space
stations. You see, everything here is metal, so you're not finding,
like anything, a whole lot of personal stuff. This is more just the
leftovers, the leftovers that have been forgotten by the battles in space. And
finally you come to the base of this massive spire, which you see does
in fact attach itself to a massive space station that must have crashed here.
Who knows how long ago. It's not any technology that you recognize to it
definitely had to be part of possibly the first horizon. And as you look
up you can see it like a kind of it's like leaning kind of like
a skyscraper where that ship the os I had smashed in and is partially sticking
out of this kind of like pillar type tower. It is up rather high.
This is where Malik's technology comes into play. And he like reaches behind
him and slides out the pistol from the back spot that he keeps it in,
and then he kind of like lowers bag down. You see him like
rummage through a few things, and he pulls out this like weird magazine and
sort of like checks the five rounds that are in it and e jects the
magazine from the vulcan pistol and slides this one in and sort of drops the
rounds into his bag, and then he fires at the ship. And what
I'm firing at the ship is a ballistic cartograph. So what it does is
it fires a bullet and in a short distance from wherever the bullet hits,
it basically sends me a whole mass map. It's basically sensors that transmit a
three D image of the whole area within a short range of impact to my
TABLET. Okay, interesting, it like maps the upcoming space for you.
That's very cool. Okay, do you need rollers that just do it?
It just does it. It's a it's a it's an advanced item that you
let me have. Uh, it wasn't a sidem. It shoots up and
uh you see it almost like a flare like dives and it touches the top
of the vessel. What little bit is like poking out of the OSI and
then the rest of this the spire and almost like a like a blue ether
kind of like hands around all of it. And then when it dissipates,
it feeds that information to your dad. Yeah, and he has so I
have five. It comes with five rounds. So essentially I'm going to fire
until I have a complete like wire frame map of the area, Like I'll
keep shooting. You want the full spire or do you just want the os?
I I have to climb it, so I want as much of it
as possible, so I can like sort of look for a structural integrity of
where I can climb. So basically he's he's getting as much of the ship
and like below the ship as he possibly can. So I up to I've
up to five rounds to do that. I would say it takes you at
least three to map this, okay, one with the space ship, one
with kind of like the middle tier area, and then the lower tier,
which is still you're looking at you know this, this is the height of
the Empire state building right right right now, This is you know, two
thirds of the way up smash Dan and so you map it all out.
What you see is that, uh, this was definitely an arm of a
much larger vessel which you you don't map, but you could see if we
kind of feeds into the ground, this spire is meant to be like this
mm so all the rooms when it when basically what it poked out from the
side of the vessel, and when it crash landed, it tipped like this,
and so there's it's actually going to be very difficult to climb from the
inside because all the doors are the wrong way, and you may actually have
more success integrity, like a structural integrity to climbing the exterior of it.
More importantly, does this pick up on organic life or just fasub so it
says. The cartograph is a small unit connected to a computer or a tablet.
It comes to the tiny pack of missiles that fit the faulting weapons and
spread a cloud of microsensors when they hit a solid object. The sensors then
transmit a three D map of everything within a short range of the impact back
to the home unit. So you can decide that I guess, yeah.
I think it's probably hard to see a whole lot of what's inside, but
there does seem to be some organic life on the inside of this despire,
not the vessel, and you can tell that, like the organic life stops
where the vessel crashes. If it's on anything's unable to get higher up in
the spire because the ship kind of cut it all off, gotcha. But
there's some kind of organic life living. And I wouldn't say it's like bodies
moving. They don't look human, but there is something residing inside of this
Okay, Okay, I you know, man, he's he's not prepared to
fight anything, but also he doesn't have a choice, So I think I
think he's just gonna he's just gonna go. I think he like he he'll
like look around because it's it's a metal planet, and he's gonna find like
the hookiest thing to spashion some sort of like makeshift grapple, and he's just
swinging it by hand and like trying to climb. This is an athletics check,
and you may have to this is you know you're gonna have to do
this, probably a couple of times. Like and you can see, like
the spire, there are a few like landings or pieces of metal that have
like eked away from it that you could like climb up to stop there,
toss it again, but it's gonna take you sometime. So let's get an
athletics roll. Yeah, okay, I will say that he has like used
the tablet to transfer the wire frame map to his his personal hologram, and
so like he can just kind of stop and like a boom, it like
appears as what that looks like? So uh dexterity, I assume is what
you meant. Yes, yes, okay, so I have a plus one
from the hyper rope. So you have a plus one from the hyper rope
for sure. Let's see what two successes look at you go, man,
Malik's found purpose. You toss it and it it hooks and we see we
see Malik once twice, three times toss this hook, climb this wire up
to a landing, and toss it again. And this little Malik gets tinier
and tinery as he gets higher and higher up. When you reach the vessel,
you're able to kind of swing around and slide in between the osi and
the actual like damaged part of the ship where it's like crashed in to kind
of slip in based on when your feet kind of land, the whole thing
kind of eeks and cracks as if it's like still teetering after all this time
of possibly dropping. You can see that the front end of the ship is
heavily damaged. The cockpit itself is pretty much smashed nose into this area.
You see what's left of the bones of the pilot dove. Yeah, but
you are able to enter that vessel like kind of crawl in if you wanted
to. I think because he's aware that there is some kind of of a
life form or many life forms. I'm trying to do the math. How
long is five meters? It's it's several feet, for sure, It's like
fifteen Yeah, it's something like that. It's sixteen feet. Okay, cool,
So like once he has a stable kind of balance, he again like
obviously coils up the rope because he's not gonna neither for right now, kind
of like slings it over the bag, and then you see him rummage through
things and he pulls out what looks like a tinier version of the hyperope,
except it's this list like weird metal tube and he just starts to uncoil this
thing, and he has a fiber scope from season two that is connected now
to the base of his tablet and begins to slide this thing around and on
the tablet. It's watching like a color it's like a It's like yeah,
it's like a pipe yeah yeah, yeah yeah, like what plumbers she used
exactly, like like a yeah, like the snake camera, but he has
sixteen feet of it and he's moving this thing around and controlling it on the
pad. The snake cam actually it's not as rigid as like a pipe cam.
It it does it. This is higher end technology. It weaves like
a snake in and out. You see that whoever the person was who whose
eyes you were looking through, is also there. They took a large piece
of rebar or metal through the chest and the rest of their skeleton like hangs
there with it still through through the chest of whoever this person was. You
continue to snake back and at the very very back of the vessel, which
is probably this is a transport ship, not a cargo vest, so this
has like seats and things strapped In the very very back seat of this ship
is a skeleton that is clinging to a book a tome, same tome you're
looking for. So far, you don't see anything in here that's moving about.
Everything seems to be like properly dead. The same strange symbol of two
lines crossing hangs around the neck of the man that was speaking, and like
I said, it's still click kind of clings. It's almost like strapped in
under the seat belt with them their arms still bound around it after sixty plus
years. Girls hate that. Judging by the wire frame maps, obviously he
doesn't actually have any kind of structural integrity readoubts on this thing. But judging
by the wire frame mapping of this area, what is the can can he
attempt to figure out the likelihood of this thing collapsing or sliding down? Yeah,
as long as long as nothing like we're to tip the vessel like I
don't think your body weight would. But like, as long as nothing were
to say, heavily weight the back end or push from the front, you
should be fine. It's just kind of like it's settled at this precarious way.
Mmm. Okay, okay, I'm still gonna have you roll dexterity.
As you enter the vessel, I think, how far back is this guy?
He's at the very opposite end, the very tail end of the ship.
Your graph to go all the way to the back. Okay, is
it a big ship? I would say it's about half the size of towels.
It has exactly what it needs, cry out sleeping pods for jumping seats
for people to sit in a very small mess area which is really just a
countertop area people probably, and then some like a shared bunking area. This
is for moving people and jumping from like planet to planet to and does that
make sense? This is not really meant for the kind of travel that say
the Defiant is right, I'm trying to figure out how much hyper is I
still about one corruption bar to spin chat. I got plans for it to
the real question is which one do you all want? Oh? I have
so much rope okay, yeah, no, I'm going to I thought it
was like ten feet of rope, you know, like it's d D.
Now it's it's fifty meters of hyper rope. I have like a mile of
rope. I imagine it looks a little like floss. Yeah yeah, yeah,
spools, and you get a ton of like spider silk. Yeah.
I think he like he'll he'll look for one of the like the what he
thinks is the most structurally sound shutting of metal outside the ship and then tie
off to that and then make an anchor point and tie off to himself and
then begin to kind of slowly like let himself out as he moves down.
Yeah you yeah, you basically bailet down this down it because it is at
a little bit of an angle. Yeah, you've attached yourself that way.
If the ship falls, hopefully you don't, right, and you work your
way down until you're in this this area with these seats and you can see
him whoever this part this man was, like I said, the symbol still
around his neck, clinging to a very dusty, very damaged book. You
know, dot I saw videos once. What does this guy look like?
Uh? The first time? The first time you saw this man. Uh,
he's a very fatherly type figure. Like right now, is he just
a skellington, He's a skeleton, He's a yes. I think there's there's
a second where Malik like reaches out towards the book and then immediately recoils his
hands and is like flashed back to the mining station in them and the harm
in the in the town system, and he like reaches out and like just
grabs a scrap of like metal or something that's around and just sort of like
knocks the skull off this guy's head. Yeah, you nick the skull and
it goes like, oh, flying, and it hits the side of the
wall and actually cracks and crumbles. You can tell it's been here a while.
And you can even undo the seatbelt if you want. He doesn't.
He just wanted to make sure this thing's dead and not gonna come up and
attack him. He doesn't look like it's an undead of any kind, even
in your pants. Yeah, he'll he'll reach out and then like grab the
book very unceremoniously of this dead guy that he just beheaded, and he just
sort of like arms like crunch and dust a little bit, and like fall
and clatter to the floor. You can hear an echo throughout this this empty
vessel, and the book is in your hand. You can see there's a
little fire damage around the end there, and you can see maybe on the
wall where there was an internal fire when this first like landed or crash landed.
Yeah, I think like he, I think he like takes the book
and like puts it, you know, in his in his bag, right,
and then he like grabs the hype rope and starts to like turn and
come back. And then he he like looks and there's like that like pensive
moment, and he just sort of like leans still holding onto the rope and
just sort of grabs that pendant and just sort of gives it a tug.
Yeah, pull it from the net. There is no head anymore. It
kind of snaps the rest of the spine and it dangles from a metal chain
that is very rusted at this point. And it's, like I said,
is a strange symbol that you do not know of two lines crossing one another.
Yeah, he doesn't know, but he's sure that that Showley might and
whatever that's worth to her. But yeah, he he tucks that in the
bag. As well, and sort of secures this bag around all these new
bulky objects and slowly begins to pull himself back up the hyper rope. Slowly
begin to pull yourself back up the hyper rope. I'm going to spend another
two darkness points. I mean, you want to just spend that corruption bar.
Don't just got plans with that? Okay, cool, cool, cooling.
I think the chat will really hate me when I'm done with that.
Cool, So I'm going to spend You don't understand, but I found out
anything else you want? Google? You stop at Google. Wow, it's
a different timeline. You Uh. You begin like pulling yourself up, uh,
and you hear something from beneath you, the same kind of crunching sound,
this time much larger, and it's getting closer, the same kind of
crunching sound, but like that, like that, like that, like that,
crunching and consuming of metal. M Uh, this is a people mover,
you said several times, not a not an object. This is a
people mover. Now the ship itself is made of metal. But yeah,
yeah, yeah, I was. I was looking for something heavy that would
be in here. But if it's a people mover, it wouldn't be uh,
Malik, oh God as your own most alves. Yeah, ship,
and he's this sound is getting like closer and closer. You see the crunched
and cockpit that the main like box data box is still intact. I see
what you're doing, dot, I see what you're doing. Yeah, like
a mommy sized crunching sound. Wow. Okay, I see what you're doing
here with things that you think Malik wants. Uh, I'm just tempting him.
Yeah, I know. I just need to know if he stops to
pick it up or not. He doesn't, you know what he doesn't.
He is here for a one track purpose and nothing about what he watched or
what he's skimmed. Is that information made me want to know about this ship?
I want the book? Uh? And the the captain's log does not
tell how to you know, exercise a fucking demon gin out of my space
girlfriend? Okay? It well okay? Uh. And so you you hesitate
just a moment, you might even consider reaching for it, and you you
have that reasoning. We see Malik reason uh that that there is something A
prioritization happens, and Malik grabs his uh, hit the rope again and finishes
pulling himself out. As your feet land back on kind of the open area
of this part of the spire, that crunching sound is right in front of
you. It feels like it is right under your feet, and you immediately
see something from beneath mouth grab hold of the front end of the O s
I and it begins munching it. And as it takes a bite out of
it, literally like a bite out of an apple, this massive like mouth
of this again, this whatever this worm like creature is, the worms that
they call it, these metal eating worms. As it bites the vessel,
it changes the waiting and the whole vessel begins sliding. I have a question,
because I'm dumb and you like drama. The the vessel itself. Obviously
it's it's it's crash landed and it's been here for X number of years.
How sturdy did the vessel look? Other than the crunched in front end?
It was pretty sturdy. Now do will it work? That? You don't
know? No, that's not that's not what he's concerned with. But uh,
it's going where he needs to go. So it begins like, yeah,
I think there's a second where like he just like it's too far,
so he just cuts the end of the hyper rope and then jumps back in
the ship and like scrambles towards one of the seats and buckles himself into the
seat. Okay, okay, I love this. You make that moment of
like, well, first off, it's either going to be the ship jumps
and then you're gonna be left with this massive quar thing. Yeah thing,
so you dive. I am going to need a roll for this. Yeah.
Again, it's not to not get in. It's going to be like
do you take damage? Do you man? You get buckled up? What
do you need in dexterity? I assume yeah, all right, I'm gonna
assume that my rope no longer helps me remove that. That's not Let's see
what happens here. One limited success. Okay, you buckle yourself as the
end of this or the tip of this vessel freeze itself from the spire.
The friend end of the ship is now missing, so it's open air and
you fall for quite a while and you click it just as the entire vessel
smashes to the ground. Can I ask you a question? Yeah, what
did you do with your bag? I think I think at the risk of
Malik being injured. The bag is what gets buckled in. It's like,
yeah, it's you. It's the same way that the priest had the book.
So it's like the bag is on his chest and he's buckled over it,
which means it's less safe for him, but almost parallel, Yeah,
almost a parallel. Sixty seventy years later, there is no more priest,
there no more skeleton holding a tome. Instead, Malik sits in the seat,
buckled in the exact same position, now holding the thing that he cherishes
most along with the tomeb tightly. Malik, this is a This is a
massive ship. A crash is what this is. And you're going to have
to survive this. Yeah, this is gonna be a thing. Okay,
are you wearing any armor? I am well, I mean I guess not.
Okay, I guess not because I gave my armor to Lamara and she's
inside of a jar. So you did. Okay, guess what one success?
One success for? Like really that's like the kind of like the damage.
Okay, So the good news is it crashes. You see the massive
creature head like peer out of the spire down at you. I'm gonna say,
Malik, because you succeeded on getting buckled up. Sure, you take
some minor scrapes and bruises. Okay, maybe even like a piece of the
vessel like collapses in and crushes your hand a little bit. Yeah, maybe
a broken knuckle, like some beat up stuff. You've not taken a whole
lot of injury in. Okay, we watched Malik grab the tome, grab
his bag and begin the trek back. You're exhausted at this point. It
is now dark on this moon, which makes it twice as hard to really
navigate anything. Yeah. I think I don't think he stops. I think
he stops for a second and reaches into the bag and you just see him
like crack open another pack of whatever he was eating in his apartment, and
he just like throws them in like skittles and choose them. No, no,
no, the bucket of pills. Uh yeah, Yeah, he cracks
open this like these this metal casing on these these tablets and throws him in
and choose him like baby aspirin. And then he like cuffs his his his
left sleeve like up to like the crook of his arm, and it hits
a few buttons and then the the the holograph just sort of a holograph,
probably the spire right, that's the most recent one, just appears and because
it's a holograph, it projects a small amount of blue light. And he's
just holding the bag like holding his arm out to project any kind of light
in front of him, so he hasn't like falling takes you, yeah,
it takes you a while at night. These metal crunching creatures, they don't
eat. They sing to one another, a croaking, croaking of kind of
a massive gullet. As they sing across this junk planet. It echoes on
metal and it's rather eerie. The planet is never silent. And you traverse,
and you traverse, and as the sun comes up the next day,
you can see it maybe a half a mile off the corsair. But your
gut drops because the Corsair is not on the ground. It's taking off.
I will burn the last darkness or the last corruption bar. They left early
and without you, And at the end of our campaign tonight we find Malik
stranded on a junk planet. You like to do anything before we close out,
You could potentially say, get a message to your brother and how to
come pick you up. I hm, I would be a month before they
can come get you. I would the Defiant can't take off from here.
It doesn't have a reverse polarity a reverse polarity drive. I would actually see
you see that happen. You watch the vessel and it like shot puts it
into I mean, they do have a patron. They could get it for
you. It might take some time. I would like to do. How
about this, I'll give you two options. You can try it. You
can try to run it down. You can try to run it down,
or you can try to get a signal out to tell you get one of
two roles I. Or you can do something else if you have a better
idea. I do have a better idea. So previously I had emailed to
me or from I'm fine. I'm fine, you said from the coursayer,
meaning that it had the Corsairer's tagline in it or it's ship identifier. Yes,
I'm going to give you a darkness point, I hope, and I'm
going to use the faceless one's talent to change a single concrete detail in a
scene to my favor. Okay, despite what I said to a mer the
irritation I faced with the shitty crew wore through to Malik and he did hack
the Corsair. Okay, So what I would like to do instead of sending
an email to Malik, I'm going to send an email to the Correolis station
marking all of them as criminals and thieves of XR wanted, marking the ship
so that if Malik sees the wanted poster, he knows that that's the ship
that that Malik was on. Okay, So my understanding is you're basically putting
out a signal to Correolis to label the Corsair as space junkers and illegal pirates
from this this location to inform to miror Yeah, I mean it's it's a
it's like a I assume it's like I don't know how, but when I
when I see like a coreol is things I think of like when when freaking
Shepherd walks across where it's like this is my favorite store, right, Like
everyone sees the alerts for like wanted criminals kind of thing, right, So
like in the hopes that Malik will at one point or sorry Tamir or somebody
on the define, we'll see the oh that's a wanted criminal on the ship
that Malik was on, and hopefully Tamir makes that connection. But if not,
I guess I live on a jug ship. Yeah, okay, So
will say, you're gonna be able to get out a couple messages over the
next few days, okay, but the one that you get out today is
labeling the Coursayer as a junker pirate ship. They're going to struggle to be
able to land back at Coreole as probably. Oh he'll even he'll even take
out like the fucking the fibroscope and like just point it at the Corsair and
like take still frames on its tablet and attach them to the wanted thing.
Do you left me on a planet? And Malik just got real petty about
it. I know he did, okay, and he's now basically branded the
Corsairs what they are, which is space prits. I imagine that over the
next month, let's see you two and a half months to get out here.
Tal and Tamir won't be back on DOC for at least another two weeks
after you arrive, so we'll say that it's almost another two months because they
need ship upgrades and they have to make the jumps successfully. Eventually they make
the necessary upgrades, and they do come and save you. But we'll have
to find out later about that journey to save you and what Malik undergoes two
months a junk planet, right starving, having to find say food, you
might be eating worm hell you uh, you might make a worm friend,
yeah, or two. But Malik is currently lost to a junk planet at
least at the end of two and a half months, almost nine months,
nine months, I would say it's probably ten maybe eleven before they actually come
and get you, and Malik may never be the same. But you have
your container, you keep it safe, and you spend quite a lot of
time digging through an agent home. It is, like I said, a
scrapbook. Pages from other books have been pulled and put into here, an
old language that you don't know, that you've never seen before. Most of
this is written in a couple multiple languages that you don't understand. They talk
a lot about a god, not an icon, at least from what you
what little you're able to make out. These seems to be stories, and
some of them rituals, old ancient pages of handwritten, beautiful art. But
this is beyond But what you do note near the back of the book is
a ritual and you know that it is the ritual you need because the cross
or the symbol that you fall from the neck of the priest is sketched into
this book as one of the key things needed to make it work, and
finally as your brother and how rescue you off this planet. A third figure
stands in the doorway of the defined. They are large, and I don't
mean rotunt I mean tall and muscular. They wear robes and are rather rather
a beautiful woman. This must be what Shureley left you. I think like
he's been on this planet for so long, and again, much like being
in his apartment for months, there hasn't been much need to talk other than
to like live or not go insane. I think you see this like what
we saw was like a hobo Malik, and now you say like survivor Malik,
where like the beard is now like it's braided sortesn't get in the way
of shit. Yeah, the hair is definitely like it's like tied in places,
and it's definitely like he's trying its best to like tie it into like
you know, like essentially French braids right around as he's trying to like keep
it out of places or of getting stuck in like a metal pole or something
like that. And he sees the ship and just rights the bag to the
front of him and like holding as like one block the urn, the book
and the symbol. He just kind of croaks out and like shoves it towards
whoever this person is. This woman very graciously and humbly accepts it from you,
and you make guy contact with her, look up into her eyes,
and something about her face is familiar. Months ago, you read through a
file about Showy one that she wrote dlcie, I'm sorry ah, a debriefing
after she left you, Haru, all those years ago, with all of
those children she adopted one a girl, dark hair, beautiful skin, bright
eyed, kind of round face. This is not that girl anymore, not
that little girl. She's grown now. Would you remember her name? Eliah
elsa Bar. I don't even think he like he may remember it, but
I think from like whatever he's been doing here, I think he just sort
of like shoves this towards her and then like crooks shurely said fix it,
and then he walks off towards like he doesn't even acknowledge like Tamir and and
and tell because he looks like he's been through hell. But he shoves it
to her, knowing who she is, and then belignes towards the ship's bathroom.
You are actually home, Malik, for the first time in eleven months.
For the first time in eleven months, Malik is back aboard the Defiant,
probably after a very dense punch the face from town. And they've found
you. They brought you all the way back here, and now you can
go back to Coriolis. You are not the same man that you were.
In fact, you're going to gain two points in survival for having to survive
on a planet like this for so long. Thanks Chat. Two months is
all you have left before the container blows, or at least what the readout
said, and our story fades out the sound of a very warm shower.
We do not see it, We only hear it, Sorry Chat. As
Malik cleans himself of this adventure, of this outing and trying to forget whatever
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