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please kill us in space chatter tonight is dot dot wait did it again?
Dot dot dot dot dot dot dot see guys, dot dot. We we
we chat in the discord and we chat in the comments about like how we
can how we can level up on me of gaming and then no home over
here is like, bro, you know this is just your stream is so
good. We just gotta level up like the tech and you'll get you the
next level. And then he comes on shows and does this this. Uh.
So we open tonight with a dot dance because children tense last episode.
Uh some some uh the conflict has escalated and there were some repercussions for some
actions. But before we get into that, because we are wrapping up into
the final bits of this campaign, some of you are sitting on experience points
and I'm sitting on some darkness points. Now for those of you who have
not spent your experience, I will give you an option because I will be
dumping all darkness points before the season is over, just so that you know
that that we would not end the season with anything in the bank. How
many darkness points too have? Well, I spent four last week, so
that has put me at six plus a corruption bar that yeah, yeah,
no big deal. Just the sacrifice of al goal an attack on al gool
and you know some did you know, played some cards. It was fine.
So here we are. I'm going to let you right now knowing that
you're gonna be making some big roles and we'll probably build more darkness up before
the end of the season. You can exchange them in the way in when
you would exchange to have leveled something like, uh, we're added something,
so five experience will negate a darkness point, I think, I mean that's
kind of been wrong. It's yeah, but they come, they're dark points.
They come like like can this is why I'm giving you it. Well,
if you choose, you all could just accept your roles. We knowing
the knowing our nature here, we're gonna give those to you like their freaking
I don't know, uh, like one of those just jumping up and like
to knock some down. Now the end KP. It's only because you you,
you rack them up like that. We all do. All the critical
successes that have come No, no, no. Season one was all Malik's
fault. Season three is all Alia's fault. You You, if we go
back, I think you have failed ninety percent of your roles. I think
you are the sole reason for Doctor's points in season three. We love you
and it's worth it. No one's complaining, but the reason why they're so
easy to come by to keep failing wrong. Okay, let just keep going
down the line. We'll blame rolls. Wow Chat's fucking fire and shots is
at least Malak succeeds I Rolls Alia doesn't. Wow. Damn, you're setting
them it up. I'm giving you all that chance. Now. I did
provide some things to you and chat of ways in which you could like,
thanks Sorr. I'm trying to find a writing pin okay, uh that where
you could like level up uh and some new options for the did yeah last
time we played it two years ago. Up in Twitter chat, you'll see
a bunch of like lists of things I think all he actually mentioned when you
might like for all oh yeah, oh yeah, right right right, oh
that's right. You could always take them, but for those of you that
may have accumulated a bunch, some other ways to spin them might be to
knock out some darkness points. I just I don't think. I don't think
now that I have been called out, I can consider that it's going to
that that won't change. It's gonna happen because clearly Roll twenty hates me and
I unless somehow magically transform into a critical asade. I mean, will you
three when two boys adopt me into the Assad family? So I don't know,
fucking list one of them. We can barely get talent to role quits,
so well, only one adoption at a time. Man, real,
Uh, you know being a brother right now? Is that really great things
to say? Kai? Well, one of them kind of cause the attack
on their own people, So it's yeah. So that being said, I
think for me on my end, it's it's it's gonna happen. I just
I says, have to accept it. I'm just gonna be racking up those
points again, and it's not worth me losing five experience points for one darkness
point. Give me ten dot you make that ten darkness points, I will
do it. I'll do it. We can negotiate the number, okay,
kyp an alternate, an alternate use. If you level up something that you
use a lot, like mystic abilities or uh or observation or manipulation even uh,
then you may not need to use the darkness points anymore. Then she
also gave us that really those list of cool little new talents. I know,
I keep thinking about the talents or just boosting up my mystic powers.
Yeah right, it's just so oh and and honestly, like I do want
to make Ali you look a little more badass because she's just look, the
experienced trick is not one for one. The experienced trick is five to one,
right, and I have literally five. I don't even remember the list.
I have to go back a little. It was up somewhere. A
lot of talking since then. Uh shit, somewhere way up somewhere. I
can find it. I forget what specifically the one that you sent for.
Ah, there it is, okay, I'm up there now. I think
I spent this corruption bar Okay, I think I spent it to play a
card. I can't remember last time. But it's fine. You spent it
a lot in the stupid cryd tube to break the cryd tube? Yeah,
which I think I need to pull a card. Oh everybody will, We'll
do that is love? How dreamy you were like, oh yeah, remember
with your girlfriend who's been calling her face off? Remember remember she clawed my
face off? What a date? I pulled her hands off herself? Yes,
thank you? They okay, so lightning, You're right. Personal influence
and malfunction because the yes, because that was the pot is what malfunctioned.
In the middle of the jump, thank you having I just realized, Fuck,
okay, so I'm okay. Can I read out one of the options
that I was really interested in that you had? Oh? Fuck, where
to go? No? Did you lose it? I have to jump back
up again. It refreshed it. But it refreshed. Okay, I can
get back. I can get back to it. Ah, there we go,
Okay almost there. Uh. The one that I was very interested in
was the prophetic blessings. There it is which says you have been chosen and
trained by a prophet dedicated to the old ways of the iconic doctrines. Once
a day like a second horizon person like I just got revealed, Yes,
once per day as a slow action. You may try to bless yourself or
an ally within close range test. But the each six on the role gives
a large target of the blessing, an automatic six that can be used that
so I can give them multiple blessings in one go. It seems like,
so each six is a blessing, or each six gives them one more six,
So that's like six is a blessing. Okay, Yeah, so you
could do multiple blessings, yes, or correct basically, I can give them
multiple dies by just rolling it going for that. That seems like a very
good because you know, if you like to bless their roles anyways, that's
right now has a mechanic to go with it that would maybe benefit you more,
say than a reroll. Yes, so I think I like that especially,
so I rather than just getting one a copy or save that image so
I can and repaste it at the bottom KP so we can. I can
make it a roll twenty option for you and I'll send it it right now,
perfect, okay options? Anybody else want to talk about like the experience
that you've had. Now, let's talk about how much time has passed.
We're talking like months since the last time you've been here too, maybe more
in terms of the travel it took to get there, the things that kind
of happened in between, and having to land on a moon and a planet
multiple times over along with the jump back. Now you didn't have to jump
multiple portals back, which was great, but you still don't know how time
functions when you dump that way. This is the first time you've all done
it, so there may be some questions as to how much time has passed.
But we've all seen and done some shit now, so leveling up seems
appropriate in terms of what you've learned, what you've experienced. Yeah, I
think ultimately I'm just going to go ahead and go with three points into my
mystic power put all fifteen in it. Yeah yeah, I think I put
all fifteen, so that gives them a dice pool of nine. H wow
mystic wow. Yeah. Well, I mean I think it makes sense because
of his connection now with I mean, he has physically seen the manifestation of
two yeah, two icons now at this point, like how he cannot be
deterred from being a believer. The short year that you've known Alia, you
are now at Alia's level from zero. And let's remember he also has some
technology that may in some weird ways, right, that was the whole thing
with two BID is like two bit loop somewhere between the mystic side and the
technology side and whatever that combination was. Yep, No, that's what I
was, just like, God, damn, that's so cool. You leveled
up quick. You're natural. Anybody else okay, all right? Spending mine
for you? Well that's good. What have you can you can you remember
y'all some of the stuff y'all have spent it on, Like I know we
saw one of theleaks come through, but what did uh tu spend? I
tried to keep them very story oriented. So whatever, uh, whatever ability
I've used most relevantly lately or the most often, I'll put one in there.
Like I I upped my command at one point, uh my pilot SAT
five Now, I don't know last time I checked in. That's yeah,
yeah it does. I also recently upped my technology. I believe it was
Oh nice, okay, oh year is not available? Yes, uh and
uh no, it wasn't technology. It was observation. Oh, because I
should be a little bit more preserved. Yeah like that. Yeah, that's
good, especially since you're kind of a sharp shooter of the group. Nice,
you only shooter of the group you used? You used one of your
new talents. Yeah, it's called Agua. Yeah, when you did the
radio broadcast, it's right, yep. Yeah. Basically, the more people
I talked to, the higher boost I get to my manipulation or command role,
because I am a political agitator. Surprise. Speaking of political agitation,
let's play some Coriolis. We saw what kind of happened last week, so
we will pick up in the moment where we left off. The camera is
on talent to me as a lookout the open windshield of the Defiant on this
like space graveyard of bodies that trail and leads straight back to Coriolis. The
lights on board Coriolis flickers. Some of the small like small portions, especially
in the cellar, are like smoking or venting out into space. You can
see that there's been some kind of attack or combat on bordering on entirely sure,
and the ship traffic is minimal. We're all awake at this point.
We are. We are in all different parts of the ship. They're in
the cockpit and there the cockpit that you and I and unconscious LaMura are in
the midday. Yeah, okay, over the calm system. You hear,
crew, it's brutal out here. What prepare yourselves when you come out?
Okay, do you have do you do? You want me to stay?
And do you want to go up for her? What? What the hell
am I going to do? You don't even know what's wrong with her yet?
Yeah? I mean, do we know? Did we bring us out
that the Malik knows that there was some kind of malfunction because they both in
the middle of the jump. Malik was unaffected, but Lamara seemed to obviously
be very much affected. And when they broke out or broke free, she
passed out. But you can see she's got wounds across her face where she
kind of has kind of kind of clawed the top layer. She's bleeding out
of the orifices her eyes, her nose, her ears, her mouth.
Uh, this kind of thick, viscous red, and she is breathing.
She seems to be breathing, but she is injured. Okay, Uh,
I think at this point, I'm assuming that you know, everybody kind of
knows some basic medicine, like basic Uh, if you're not trained in medicine,
you can make a wits, I got, I got you, Okay,
Malik is actually that's right in medicine, right, all right, so
Malik can make a medicine check. You are also in the ship's medday,
and I believe you get a plus one for that because you have all of
the things you need to say. That's not too sad. More than likely
she went into a state of shock and passed out, like this is just
a it will pass. She didn't bump her heads. Do you imagine it's
not a concussion. You're able to tend to the wounds on her face and
neck and her fingers pretty easily and clean her up. Uh. Do you
do you want to attempt to run any tests or you just bare minimum?
I think his immediate response is to like just click, like clean her up,
uh and like first aid and then if we have I know we've kind
of mentioned it before. I know we don't have it auto doc, but
get a plus four because of the trauma lab. Oh bit, So he's
gonna he's gonna try to hook her up and like let the basically the system
run a diagnostic. The system run a diagnostic. Yeah, okay, yeah,
roll through more and let's see that's not. Don't don't you worry.
It's not how that that role works. Hey, you got another one,
so that's three okay. So you're able to clean her up relatively quickly if
you stay. You see this, uh Alia? Yeah? If not,
and you leave, Malie cleans up Lamar's face, her wounds, she didn't
dig quite deep enough to need stitches or anything of that nature. You clean
out her fingernails and then you put her in like a diagnostics too for the
record, uh kp or or uh ah ya. You see that, Like
there's probably one rake of figernails on her face, and the whole time he's
fixing her up, there are several on his face and neck that are not
being tended to whatsoever. As he is like cleaning her up and hooking her
to the machine and like getting her on the bed as he's getting her situated,
and then he he kind of like once she's in there, he hits
the button. We have a problem here. What's the problem. Lamara is
unconscious. It's a big problem. Why is she unconscious? I'm trying not
to blame the ship, but we our cryotube opened a couple hours ago.
Captain, it seems like she may have been affected by the by the jump,
something perhaps similar to what you two had faced a while back. But
we're in the middle of this and I may need to be here to perhaps
monitor, and also we may I may need to check beyond the usual medical
statistics. Yeah, I uh, that's awful. Usually if that happens,
the person has to go back to where we got her from. Was that
you were saying? Or was that tall? That was? Tal okay?
Between that? Do you know why? I don't know why. I'm I'm
asking a s k P. Why why what? Why would you need to
go back to where they came? Like the original? You don't know that
that makes sense because Alia has no knowledge of Lamar being broken out of a
mental Yeah, so you can ask what do you what do you mean?
Captain? Oh? You you were here for that, Malik, you're there,
that's your story. Oh uh you know the uh the Samaritan on Coriolis.
Yes, yeah, she was on the top floor. It's uh.
Is he like leans forward and covers her ears? It's a psych word.
Right. Oh was that around the time because of the gin or before the
gin? Hmmm? I don't know. So she's fine, right, Yeah,
she's fine, So what happened was we met her on Hamura and then
your sister stabbed her to death. Uh, and then I put a bunch
of her insides back inside and sewed her up, and she lived, but
she went a little nutty. And then she got brought to the Samaritan,
and then she told everyone that I was her boyfriend and that I would come
rescue her. And then I just happened to find her there and ironically also
rescued her and then brought her here as the ship's doctor. And that's also
not for you. You left your number. Then then she went a little
Jimmy, I don't know when that happened. A quick like there's a up
till then aya just look, you know, regular, and then that that
just her face as sinks and then she kind of turns to her and then
like there's a hesitation toout, wanting to approach, and then finally she comes
up and then grabs her hand, and then you just see her just lead
and just start saying I'm I'm so sorry, I'm so so sorry, I'm
just I'm and then just kind of I think she tries to reach out to
her as a mistake, as an EmPATH. Oh to see like, yeah,
I think I don't know if it be conscious or unconsciously. It's just
like hearing that a lot of her problems now was directly related to her in
the sense of like I mean literally because the well this Gin technically wasn't the
one. But you know, she she she basically got like her own sister
or at least one of the which one of the clones, who knows,
but one of them did this, which for some reason doesn't make any sense.
She's she's running out of options to justify her own sister. Then on
top of that Gin, her sister wasn't a part of right, Like,
you didn't know that one of the clones was moving drugs and got their hands
on some, and that Lamar just got wrapped up in a very unfortunate series
of events, right, You didn't know that maligue technically brought her back to
life and Gin rode on her soul. You there's just these these are things
before it was like here in the chaos, right, But you're hearing it
now, Yeah, but hearing it now. But to hear that Lamara was
in a psych word prior to any genectivity, that she was committed for whatever
reason. I think. I think it's just her trying to reach and convey
her apology to her and also in that got desperation to find out how she
can fix this. You see the computer it like beeps like the timer for
the diagnostic beeps uh. And the computer screen shows her diagnostic. In terms
of bodily function, she seems to be fine, like blood cell count is
okay, she doesn't seem to be losing blood. Her breathing is stable,
her heart rate is stable. At the bottom, it lists like illnesses or
like effects on the body, and one of the things that you see is
hyper sickness, which you would all know is whisper and about like if you
spend too much time in hyper jump outside, it can make you ill in
a variety of ways physically mentally. But as you touch her and this thing,
she's coming down and goes boom. She sits straight up, eyes open,
She stares like ahead at the kind of blank space at the end of
this cubicle you slid her into for diagnostic. She turns her head first and
then her body follows. Her feet touched the ground, and she stands and
looks around without saying anything. No matter, are you? Are you okay?
I hate that I have to ask this for Malik. Is this unusual
behavior? Well maybe you questioned that that You're like, I don't know if
this is just Lamarmi and Laura. She doesn't respond to either of you,
including Alia's words. She simply stands, kind of looks around and goes over
to kind of walks over, and you think, oh, she might be
getting something from a cabinet. And then she just stops and stares blankly at
the wall in front of her. No matter, Now that is weird.
I Alia comes up to her and places a hand on her shoulder. Hey,
my dead are you Nomara? Are you okay? She kind of blinks
blankly. Her head turns, though her body stays facing the wall, and
she looks at you in the eyes, and then she looks back at the
wall, almost apathetic in a way. Yeah, I think something's wrong.
This is it comes my dear comes some comes it down, come here.
I kind of try to like steer her back to the back to the gurney
or or the yeah, the bed. She she I say, she comes
willingly. She like she's apathetic, so like if you move her, she
simply follows without question. You have to really like try to sit her,
like helpen the knee and everything, and she kind of plops when she hits
a certain point and just sits there. I I cut her cheeks and tilt
her and look into her eyes. E MA, it's hey, are you?
Are you here? Are you? I know you must have had some
something very scary happened, But you're here right, You're you're say say say
something. I kind of do kind of like the hand wave in front of
her face. Yeah, and she she blinks right like in reaction to the
hand passing, and she opens her lips as if she might say something,
and then just kind of sighs it away and goes back into like complacent stare
Marik, has this ever happened to her before? Malik is standing a few
feet from where she was when you moved her, and he is like his
head's a little cocked to the side, and he's looking at the same spot
of nothing on the wall, and as if he's ignoring you, he just
says, hey, you know, oh weird shit like ancient yes stuff,
I mean, I mean, yes, a little cool, cool to stand
here, and he just like points to next to him okay, but match
sounds okay, come here okay, and he lives. He lifts his communicator
and he like spins a dial and hits a button on it, and a
small wireframe cube appears, and then he kind of hits it again and it
expands to the size of the room and dot from memory, I'm going to
try to orient us in this square room in the same way that I was
oriented in Lamara's cell, because I took a scan, a three D scan
of her room, a wireframe scan of all the weird, crazy writings she
carved all over the place, and I hit that and sort of expanded onto
the walls, and I'm looking at the exact spot where she was looking,
and that's where I'm navigating Alia's up to. Like Alia, you see this
project, it's like you know those things that kids put stars on the ceiling
with right right behind it, But in this case, it projects like drawings
and writings across every inch of this medical space. You can tell that it
would be a lot clearer if it was on flat walls, but it binds
across the cabinets and the countertops in that space. There seems to be nothing
in partic cutler. She does kind of stand up very slowly when it projects,
and she kind of looks around as if it is familiar in some way,
but you still get no reaction or bodily function or word. She uh
carved this or wrote it mostly with a scalpel in her room. Are you
are you talking about back then? Yeah? Seventh floor. Do you think
that she's very similar to how she was back then? I don't know.
She was significantly chatty er. You've never seen Lamara this squad? Yeah,
she was. She was normal Lamara back then. She just also wrote a
bunch of crazy stuff on the wall. It didn't seem relevant at the time
because she just seemed nutty. I don't know that it's relevant now, but
that was weird. That was weird for her. Would Alia be able to
recognize any of this writing? You can roll a culture check now for talent
t mirrh. You get the notice of something, so up, do y'all
head down or do you stay in the cockpit? Okay? And to stay
we got to steer and get ourselves acquainted and figure out where we're gonna land.
So that I was about to say, okay, are you going to
pilot in? And where are you thinking of landing? Yeah? So the
thing about I I remember that you said that there's a bunch of debris and
bodies and all sorts of stuff, so we cannot like autopilot this ship.
No, So yeah, tal is going to have to continue to take the
ship. And I feel like I got a cat hair in my mouth.
I hate that it is. I got it six to your lipstick, I
got it. Yeah, okay, anyways, okay, it was like in
my teeth. It's gross. Yeah, So gonna be carefully steering towards Coriolis.
Hey, let's get not pilot chick. Uh Yeah, I'm so.
I Am going to be trying to keep my stealth up because I did just
come through a portal that was supposed to be like inactive. So I want
to kind of take the long way round and look like I'm coming from somewhere
else if I can. All right, so we're gonna get a piloting check.
We'll say your stealth is up. So if anybody spots you a heavy
role for the stealth, but in this case you're just trying to pilot,
you're gonna get the plus one for the temple on the ship. You get
a plus one for the boosters, the like maneuverability thrusters. Now the ship
is rebalanced in power. Last time you had like moved all the energy to
the right to get through faster. But everything's rebalanced now, So things like
the proximity lasers or guns or whatever they are. Something that hits the hall
is available, but that'll hit if you turn those on. It hits everything
bodies metal. Yeah, unless for some reason it was like reprogrammed right or
something like that, but right now, as it stands, it keeps anything
off the hall. So yeah, I'm just trying not to think about that.
Perfect. So let's get a plus two to your piloting check to see
your success of coming in. Now, where are you headed on Boreal Let's
yeah, I'm going to give you a darkness point for that. I don't
f YI. If you want chicklets, we give them like chick lits.
I tell you, hold on, hold on. The only roles I ever
give darkness points for are pilot roles because that influences everyone. I'm just saying
I felt like it's been a waste of using our experience points for that because
it's just we're going to rack them up it's just gonna happen. It's just
yeah, it's fine, it's fine. It just makes the game more interesting.
Absolutely, I'm just saying that it would have been a let's try again.
We'll go with that limited success. It isn't possible to dodge everything.
There's far too much like metal and debris and bodies and all of you can
hear if you stop long enough to listen the sounds of fuds as bodies roll
across the hole, or some kind of piece of scrap metal like scrapes down
the side as Towl moves slowly and precisely as possible towards corial lists Welcome in,
Welcome in. So question where are we docking? So uh, we're
actually we're going to talk about that. So as as I'm moving the ship
through, I look over it at Tamir and I say, you know,
I don't think it's a good idea for us to dock in the nice section
of town this time. You could looks like you you could always go to
the cellar right and hit the net, which is where all the major parking
happens. You also have some connections there, right, you know, Tony
will be waiting on you. That's where I'm thinking you could doc in the
private docks. But he's not really your patron anymore, so that's a gamble.
Yeah, but you can probably imagine the private docks and the upper cristal
society here may not be suffering as much as say the seller. Uh tamyor
looks the towel and just kind of nods, yes, I think our best
baptist to go to the cellar. We blend in much better. We can
understand what is going on on Coriolis significantly more from the floor up. Tuly
did say it's changed to them. Well, I kind of waved my hand
at the screen. We can see all the debris and the bodies out down
there. Yeah, say, it probably has. We can hope Tony is
still on the docks. He can point us in the direction of someone who
can give us more information. Oh go ahead, Sorry, Oh no,
I was going to move to the next scene. But please say what she're
gonna say. I want to hear what you have to say. Oh,
well, we also have there may be track of nights here. There may
be your sister probably should connect with her, let her or not. What
is going on? Yeah, kind of stare out the window. I hope
she's still there. She's your sister. Seems like she's been through so much
already. I'm sure she'll be okay. Yeah, you know, m h
this is getting really really big, Tamrror. It's entirely possible that I could
be leading you to your deaths. You know that, right, Huh.
I think we've already come to an understanding that no matter what we do,
it's going to lead to death. I think that's why we're able to overcome
such adversity, because we don't seem to fear it. Yeah, you know,
there's actually there's a lot of things that I fear in us, not
really one of them, and you see so much of it. It's inevitable,
right, Yeah. I mean everyone does die eventually from some thing,
so at least we can die doing something good. Hopefully. This one seems
really out there in the grand scheme of everything that we've kind of done.
The Monolith a massive weapon. We broke into the most heavily guarded jail in
the third Horizon to get a friend out, And you think that disabling the
largest weapon is weird? Yes, we literally went out there. We're now
in the center of things. Here's the difference though, between the two.
Right, we may or may not have also unleashed who knows what from all
my crown. There are people who live in the monolith. We can't just
explode it and hope that that works. We have to go in with care,
surgical precision. Millions could die, millions more will die. We can't.
We can't have them be sacrifices. Well, that's why we're trusting the
technology in your big head. It's a very small head. There's just a
lot in it. As the both of you tal is like precisionally, like
driving the ship through the debris leading up to Coriolis, and it grows in
size as you get The camera cuts back to the medical bay and alia,
you've had a chance to look up and down with a two culture success,
you are able to read parts of this, and what strikes you most interesting
is this is not the ramblings of a crazy person as we look to most
people. It's pieces and parts of various prophecies and literature and cultural events.
And there's one thing that sticks out to you in particular. All around the
room is a pictograph of what looks to be like a tower, a monolith.
Some might say six of them, and each one of them is lit
up and on the inside has a crude kind of drawing or like silhouetted shape
of a figure, a humanoid right four limbs ahead, that kind of thing,
and these kind of crude lines as if like light or energy is dispersing
from it. Lamar kind of stands in the middle and looks around but does
not again say anything. Is extremely complacent, but you get the idea that
there is something happening here, and based on the information you were given,
there seem to potentially be six monoliths in the third horizon. There's like one
really big one, which you imagine as the one on Kua, and these
figures kind of standing in the midst of them. Is there any distinguishing feature
of those figures that can outside of just be humanoid or does it look like
perhaps something like the emissary or a symbol of emissary. There's something that gives
away what it is. But you were told that the emissaries have the capability
of of stopping these But what you're piecing together now, and if Lumara had
some kind of prophetic dreams or visions, you're not entirely sure, just her
ramblings as she was writing these out a year plus ago, is that there
is an emissary per monolith. The problem is we've lost two emissaries. You
see Alia at that point kind of she's been walking around the room kind of
almost like whispering under her breath, trying to read out perhaps and or process
what's going on. And she kind of stops at that diagram and you see
her like pull back quickly and just staring. She goes she knew what least
we could have known that there were signs this was, and she was this
is a prophecy. This is about the monoliths. This is about what we're
about to do right now. She knew or at least had some level of
knowledge a year ago. These are not the ramblings of someone who has no
no cohesive mind. This is something reached out to her, something I don't
know. I don't know if she herself had these powers and could tap into
it then, or perhaps an icon through her. But this is not just
mere ramblings. I mean, there's the gin that you guys said, but
that was before that you said, right, The gin happened after. So
here's the thing she was pretty normal when we first met her, and then
she kind of died for like a few minutes, and then she got a
little kooky, and then she also started making people's brains liquefy and drip out
of their nose and other things like that, and then she got locked in
the jar. So yeah, I don't kind of really all together. Yeah,
you're trying to figure out like the order of timeline from once you get
Alia. She died when she came back to life, the Gin probably was
already with her, and because the corruption took so long, they thought what
was wrong with her was she had lost her mind coming back from the dead,
and so she was sent right away to this. But she was put
into the asylum with a vigin in her and they rescued her basically not knowing,
and as it got worse and she gained more ability and the Gin was
beginning to take over. It's about the time you showed up. Okay,
okay, Oh you see Alia, mm hmmmm hmm. You see Alia just
walk up to Lamara and you just there's a brief pause and then she kind
of just goes in and then takes her into her arms and just goes poor
thing. Oh, I cannot even begin. I turned to Maligan. This
is I don't know if I can fix it here, but we need to
take her to my temple, to a proper temple, not not the one
on the ship, but the one perhaps on Coriolis. She she's not.
She's been exposed to the gin for way too long, for far too long,
and even removing it, I'm afraid even some some of that, the
vestages of that gin still resides in her. She's not, okay, Malik,
I don't have any idea about any of that. So I'll take you
at your word. This says she's I mean relatively fine. She looks relatively
fine to you. I listen, scientifically, she is relatively fine for who
she is. This doesn't do psychic valves. She has hyper sickness. We
have the things to treat it here. Medically, she'll be okay. Magically,
I don't know, man, I just I sometimes you need to open
your mind to something more than that. Okay, I'm opening it. You
take out of the temple. I didn't say no, Okay, okay,
I'm trying to be supportive here. I don't get I don't have any insight
to that when he says that kind of points over to her. You look
at Lamara stands there, just blank as can be blank. Stare there are
you know you did do an all body scan. Some more studying of that
might reveal more things if you're interested. I mean Malik's Malik has no intentionally
he hasn't stated it, but he has no intention to leave here. So
he's he's going to be in here running whatever he can run on the computers
with his knowledge. That being said, maybe you pick it up, maybe
you don't. I will leave this up to you as player to character.
But on the counter just next to Lamara, almost in like the background,
it's a helmet on a counter, on the same counter that holds the filing
cabinet where she's storing the gin. Im Alio is not ready to tackle the
gin just yet. But the help it is the one that we used to
heal t mirror, right it is it is. I see that and immediately
go ahead and grab it. And I said, perhaps I can at least
help a little here while we wait well before the temple. At least we
can maybe bring her back to what she was before the jumper. Sure,
I use the I would like to use the helmet please. Okay, So
here you put this this kind of helmet. The black tendrils like seep in
and surround her head, kind of like one of those squishy things you get
at the arcade, you know, like it's just like no, no,
mammy, her head. You can see that Aulio is very awkward with this.
She's not a tech person, she is. This is a somebody has
to test metacourgy. But you can do it at A plus two if you
so. So, I will say KP if you tell the leak what to
do, because from Malik's point of view, you found like to me or
found this randomly, didn't tell milnk about it, and then you pulled it
out. We're like, I have a magic helmet that can fix them.
And then you put it on and said I did all I can and then
left and Linke was like, okay, so you put a hat on my
coma too's brother. Cool, let's go save the planet. And then we
came back and he had it off. It was fine. I was like,
okay, I don't think that did anything to him. Uh So Malik
has no understanding of his device whatsoever. So you're saying I Alio was the
one who put it put it on. But somebody has to run the medacour
dey check basically to like turn it on and do this. I'm not I'm
not. I don't do technology. I don't some buttons perhaps here something.
I don't know what what was done. I just remembered using it and then
yeah, uh okay, okay, uh you know what. Just uh can
you take a look? Just yeah, do you a favorite? Just just
close your eyes so you can't be held accountable for this. He's a hut
like a hud panel for your hand on the side where you kind of program
it and like set it to do the thing. You can make a medaicur
de tech at a plus two plus you're in the lab, so you a
plus four. Uh. He like he like cracks his knuckles and like cracks
his neck and he mutters under his breath and sores that could happen. No,
probably a lot. And then he's gonna roll plus six because four for
that two for the helmet. What hey, here's it that you just have
to succeed. If you fail, we have a much larger problem. All
you have to do is succeed. So many that guy it's far beyond you.
You manage to being both a little bit of a tech wizard and have
bare minimum knowledge of what this does, and having seen it work before on
your brother that it does kind of heal the mind and potentially the spirit.
How much of Malik believes his spirit part is on him? But you basically
set the timer like a microwave, You kind of like, dude, do
dude, do the bare minimum and hit the go button and you can see
it to count down what you have programmed to do to successfully, like try
to heal her mind from whatever mania is has been in. Set is gonna
take six days, says the double dice. It's two D six. You
got six, which could have been a lot worse. So it'll take about
six days. And you see the like timer pop up and you do the
math of the hours as it counts down, and you see about six days
week? Is that a timer for six days? What is the time?
What does it mean? Six days for? What are you asking? Yeah?
Yeah, yeah, I don't properly. Still, it's fun. Do
I feel anything? You know? There was a countdown on the leak his,
I mean onto miror his was like seven days, so you can imagine
the countdown is how long it's going to take it to heal her mind.
But you thought you put it on my head. You put it on her
No, no, no, incorrect, Okay, could I perhaps because when
we did it, because I think what happened from what I call, I
tried to help and perhaps assist, but it failed the last time. From
what I I think you tried to do something with your mistic abilities. You
cannot roll if you don't have metacursey for this item. I see uh in
the mean time, So remember Lamar rolled last time, and you blessed Lamara
as she tried to use it, and she gave a big bonus to t
mirror, and then you did some mystic thing that also gave us to Mer
when he was trying to get out of like the mind block or whatever.
But in this case, the item can only be used by U. See
but this item also wou used gives three darkness wots. So just I love
pretty much, but I feel like that would what happened. I love what
she said. It is like I first put it on my head. It's
like is this how it works? Like wait, no, that's not right.
Rocks onto Lamara boo boo boo, and you can see the timer and
she she kind of she gently lays back into like a reclined position with this
thing on her head. She doesn't move, she breathes steadily. You can
see the like diagnostics on the screen on the helmet like boom boop, and
show her heartbeat and that her brain is functioning at full or well it's healing
the brain, right, but it's it's doing what it can to make her
brain be back to full capacity. I realized I could goddamn use my new
my new talent, my prophetic blessing. Damn it. Uh oh well,
trust maybe you may get the chance. And as she kind of lays down
and hits that point of like she's now in rest and healing. Uh.
The small port window, Oh no, no, no, the the it's
the uh uh the air ventroom. Y'all have sent many of people out it
like the air tight room on the back of the medical bay. Uh.
You see the window at the far door that actually hits the outside of Something
hits it and you don't hear anything. There's no noise, but you you
see like something thud against it and then like a hand drag past it and
maybe for the first time, you and Malik take a look out of the
medical bay port window and through the small circle and the kind of dome of
the lens of the window, you can see out and you you now see
that you are flying through a debris field of ship and cargo and people corpses.
Anyways, I should say, and off very very close now is Coriolis?
I got what in the icons happened here? Malik doesn't say anything.
He just reaches over and like taps the panel a few times and slides it
and like the blast window cover slides closed, like the metal covering on the
outside of it, so you can't see how anymore. Yeah, and he
just grabs like that that for that four wheeled stool and just slides it over
and sits next to Lamara. Hey, you should go check on the rest
of the crew or whatever. It is the same thing we can do.
I'll stay here and you see all your kind of just even the blash shields
now covered. Like she's touching the window and she's yeah, yeah, I'll
go, I'll go check. Hey, we knew what we were getting into.
It's only gonna get worse. Okay, Okay, I'll be back.
Are you sure you'll be fine here? I'm fine, all right, I'll
go check up on them. Do you need anything? And that's why I
think for the first time properly noticed that Malik's face is also streaked in blood.
And one second and I go and kind of like just I go and
just grab some like gauze and like basically like yeah, kind of cool.
And you can see it's not like she again, he doesn't mean stitches.
It's more of like a the way a cat may like it is like break
skin, but it's like red, as if she was trying to break skin.
It's kind of like that she didn't have long nails. But get up,
go to the go to the cockpit. I'm fine, okay, here
clean clean, Yes, I go. He hands you the like space gaulls,
which probably comes with alcohol like already on it and had your brock set
or something, and uh, you hear the door shut behind you. Ali
as you head to towards the cockpit, and as you arrive, you can
see coriolis out the front of your window, and you're pulling towards the bottom
like you're gonna be docking to the cellar and as you get close tow the
calm in the cockpit. Come on, somebody's trying to contact with us.
When you get that like ooop oop like incoming message, I listen to it.
You turn it on and you hear a familiar voice. You know,
I don't know what you're doing here, but it is. Nobody's talking at
Coriolis right now. We haven't locked down, So just turn around and go
somewhere else. Oh is this Tony? But who is this? This is
your best friend? Is it? Tao Is? Oh? I say,
the Defian is coming? No, trying to be down blow the Defiant coming.
You're really discreet, did you know that? Oh? Okay, pull
back, Just be real careful, right, you know they got the dogs
unlocked. We got it unlocked. But they got it unlocked too. It's
kind of a war zone down here. So just is uh is Tamir?
Would you I uh? I throw I throw a look over Severir and just
with with a big grid, I say, oh, yeah, he's right
here, say hi Samir him, Oh it's just Tony. Hey, Tamir,
just we'll see you, okay, And then the line kind of like
goes dead in his nervousness, your boyfriend's really happy that you're home. I
see that is is the Is this going to be a problem you should have
talked about. I didn't mean. Look, you can love whoever you want
to love. That's that's okay with me. Uh you know you might want
to tell Tony about us though. This is complicated. I you know,
love is like that sometimes. Oh hey, Aliah, how's it going is?
Did I come up at the wrong time? No? I could,
I could cleep, I could come back. Since you guys are okay,
I didn't know you had a boyfriend. H it seems nice. No,
No, no, I I mean, I mean, I'm not want to
judge Iy. Like like Captain said, love is not but before I if
you want me to go, I can go. But if I before I
go, we may have some situation below. It's been handled at least to
the best I can. But it's tomorrow, Okay. I hope So she's
I don't think the jump did her any good. However, I Captain there's
some something's going on here that is beyond my capabilities, and I need to
consult with more of the order if Shurely is back with Shorely. But at
least I need to go to the temple a proper one and take Lomara with
me. There's there's something here. She apparently the scribbles that she had in
her apparently in her world she was I. I didn't know this, but
apparently she was in the psych ward before you found her first. And well,
those writings that she had, they were not just random chicken scratch,
from what I could guess from what I saw, the best I could make
out, she prophesied about the beacons over a year ago. So I don't.
Wow, I don't know what you said. There was writing apparently,
apparently she had writings on the walls, scribbles, drawings, pictographs, symbols.
The person that would know about that would be the league. Yeah,
he didn't tell anyway as usual. Oh you read that in chat. Yeah,
well that's that's news to us. I you know, he was probably
right not to tell me that. I might not have let have put her
as the doctor on ship if I knew that. I don't. I don't
think it's directly her. Either something reached out or perhaps so I didn't know
that she had died at certain point. Yes, and Hamura cutting death and
coming back to life, depending on how long you don't come back by yourself.
Something always grabs on that tries to be pulled back with you. And
as we know in this situation, that was the Gin. Al Yeah,
as you were talking out loud, like filling them in, and maybe you're
even sussing the information out for yourself. You think to yourself, if the
writings she was not normal before the writings came after the Gin, maybe it
was the Jin who had the prophecy, and maybe the Gin knows more than
they ever let on. And as soon as I realized that, I ah,
I have some work to do, and I don't think I can do
it alone. Not again, I'm not sure, but I may need to
face the Gin once more. Why I don't think it was Lamara that had
these visions, these prophecies, these writings. This is I'm pretty sure the
work of the Gin that took her. It knows more than it ever let
on. But I think it knows more what is it gonna want in exchange?
Like we could even find it. It's gone, And that is another
thing. It apparently was never gone. Lamara has the orb, which is
also another reason I need to take her to the temple. With the orb,
I need I need the help of more than one mistick. As soon
as we're talk in CORIOLI is I'm getting a double, and then we'll go
to the temple. I'll get the double on the way to the temple.
And you see that you are in fact pulling in tal as Uh. You
get close, you can see that some of the docking stations have been completely
destroyed, blown up. You're not exactly sure what happened here. You can
see that the net itself is not in the state that you left it,
and there is a single loan soul the runway lights not here, People flagging
you in not here, but a single lone man in a jumpsuit waves you
down. Across his back is slung a rifle of some kind, and you
can see the kind of charcoaled space cargo bins that have were what stack here
now lay asunder. Have a few men hiding behind them with weapons as well.
They look purposely. They're not like they're sneaking up ontoleny. They may
be his backup, your backup. As he kind of waves you in and
points to the dock for you to land. There will be no assistance for
this landing. You have to make it blind basically, so I am going
to make you make one more piloting check. Do I get a plus one
for the antimatter robots for maneuverability, for the maneuverability, and you'll get the
lessing for the vessel. Well this happens, Uh, could I have enough
success? Like you basically parallel park the ship out of this vessel boo boop
right in there. And you see Tony's like like totally impressed as you line
up exactly where, yeah, where it can be pilot in the galaxy,
y'all panel and like pulls a few levers to have like the arm come out
and grab the vessel so it's not air floating anymore, you know. And
you can hear like slock on. You can see there are a couple vessels
docked here, but most of them seem abandoned or so damaged that they can't
they can't really fly anymore. And you hear that that panel door like open
and the gangway drops down into breathable air. You see Tony and then his
gun now ready, He says, come on, hoorry you see uh.
At this point goes back to Malik and says, put in the do we
have any form of transporting her out of here while she's in the state.
Uh no, I ah, okay, I need to U don't open that
box, but can you bring that with you? What the orb? Yeah,
it's in a in a filing cabinet, locked filing cabinet. Lamara's locked
filing cab gotcha, gotcha. Oh it's a it's a code. It's a
few digit code to get in. Oh, heavy used this filing cabinet.
It's attached to the vessel. Oh God, damn it. You'll have to
You'll have to break into it if you want to get it. KP.
I love the innocence of Alia. You know your first thought was don't use
one of the most successful criminal hackers in the galaxy. I'm going to pick
up this fileing cabinet because I'm a whole thing. I feel like I feel
like Alia goes to get it and there's just Malik is just watching her.
It's definitely attached. You try, but to no avail. If you wanted
to try to crack it, you need to figure out Lamara's password. You
throw your back out. What are you doing? It's fucked. It's I
don't know how to open it. Then we need what's inside. You can
just ask, oh, can you not mention what just happened? Yeah,
I won't mention it. Malik. You know everything on this ship is reported.
Oh yeah, Malak's the one. Yeah. You just see like the
biggest smile stretch across Belik's whole face and he goes, yeah, I won't
mention that, and then he walks over, runs a few cables out of
his bag, and I will attempt to hack this. Uh, this is
her cabinet, so it doesn't have any like extreme measures on it. You
say, you just need a success, but you do have to figure out
what her passcode is. Sure pass code and past code. Yeah, it
is a seven seven spaced password. Almost yes. O wait, I clicked
I clicked metacurgy. I'm sorry I clicked it. I mean, let me
try that one more time. You start running before you even bother, maybe
you question if you can just figure out Lamar's password. She is her girlfriend
technically, So you try everything from like your birth date to your name.
Nothing really works, and so you break out the cables, plug them in
and begin running the diagnostic and eventually between all the number and letter codes that
run through a seven letter word appears. Boo. It says box date.
I hate the show Christ you would you monster the most important moment of Lamara's
like adult life box date. Yep, yeah, he gets it, like
he sees them come in and like as soon as like b o X clicks
over, he just has like a yep and then d at box date.
And you see it too. Alia, it doesn't mean anything to you,
but her past cod is box date, box date. Oh that was KP
laughing and realizing what uh yeah, So like tink tink tink clicks over and
the latch it disengages, and he opens this cabin and says this, and
you're sort of like haphazardly picks up this ball and it's you know, it's
like an orb. Uh and you can see the black miss kind of swirling
densely packed inside of a very very thick orb. And Malie holds it up
with a single hand. This thing probably shouldn't best not to touch it directly.
Uh. He give it, give it to you please, and I
take it. As this has happened. Alia has like you know, she
she has layered clothes and she has a shawl on, so she takes that
and then wraps it up in the shawl. Yeah, and you might have
a bag sling back yeah, like slotted into yeah, put it back and
put it in there, and she goes, okay, right, ah,
I'll carry her. Then perhaps I need to take her directly to the as.
Yeah, quick as we can. Where is it? So I know
where we're going? You which templary headed to? You don't even know what
temple? Still stand? We haven't even landed yet. Oh wait we landed,
well, yeah you landed. Yeah, you hear totally one secon go,
I said, Harry, what are we waiting on? Yeah? Tous
counting, like, come on, everybody out. I go up and then
I pick up Lamara and then just start taking her out of there. Small
and light in your arms. You know, maybe after a while you have
to rest, but you scoop her up, no problem or but at your
side and Malik and Ali are the last two to exit the defiant as.
I'm sure you put the lock code in behind it so nobody can get on
board. And at Olia's side is this kind of bulging knapsack bag satul bag
that has something in it and in her arms is Lamara who has a helmet
on the white helmet that was put onto Mer is still on Lamar's head.
What a strange sight. Totally normal, totally normal, and totally goes,
what in the okay? And we had got to hide to mirror. We
could you go this way? He points with the tip of the gun,
following you, let's go. He starts running back towards the other like three
probably dock hands based on the jump suits that are there with guns in hand,
and they kind of cover all of you as you run in and once
you get to the other side of the door kind of closes behind you.
He goes, You're all really lucky. We have yet to be able to
take to the docks without the firing on us. It must be distracted by
something. I bet your ass for lucky. See all of you, we
thought you was dead. You know, we thought we were dead to you
a few times. I feel like that's just that mo. We kind of
tend to always seemed to be or assumed to be dead, and then we
surprise everybody. I don't know why, people, He said, you know,
you go and put out a broadcast and he gestured from a league,
and then you just up and disappear for like three weeks. It's only been
three weeks. Oh, he says, no, No, you've been gone
like three months. But the broadcast was like three weeks ago and it started
all kinds of stuff. That means that the jump, though only a single
jump, there was a time delay of some kind. How long would it
have normally take time delay? It's a time time sped up. It takes
it takes like that was fast. Yeah, it takes it takes months to
travel from Coriola's to to Zalus. Had you like made the jump by jump
now, yeah, three weeks is nothing but instantaneous. It wasn't instantaneous.
Yeah, it would have taken us like six months to get back. Chiefly
made good times, Tony, What has happened? What is going on with
Corilla's? Why are there all those bodies? He kind of looks around and
he just just for his soldiers. Let go back to posts, and you
can see all around what would have been like the large open space where people
entered the docking bay. Right, this is where they would have done customs
checks, where people would have picked up baggage if it was transport. It's
where you pass through. The basics is now shut down. Things are boarded
over. You can see scorch marks on the walls. A lot of the
deck hands here have weapons, but they are injured. Right. A bound
leg here, a bound arm there. And he says, well, it's
not looking so good on Coriolis. Oh, we shut the docks down.
You know, the freely thought maybe it was a good idea to you know,
not be dealing with the Consortium. Since oh, I don't know,
about a week ago, the Consortium and Zelosians they teamed up and all that
jazz officially or whatever. It didn't go over so well. Uh and since
then, you know, it's been basically a full on war zone. The
cellar is like, uh, you know, no, you don't know.
We had the Consortium and the Selothians teamed up against who begemony? Yeah,
huh, Because as you really are at the loop, where have you been?
We just jumped from Zallos three weeks ago. Ain't no way you jumped
from Zallos three weeks ago. That's a two month trip. He broadcasted that
from Zallos. Yeah, but to be fair, we just got here.
Okay, so let's pretend you jumped from Zallos here in three weeks time across
multiple borders that are officially closed. What is it you're doing here now that
I ain't glad to see. I'm really glad to see it to me,
but but what are you doing here? As you hear the broadcast? Oh,
I heard it. I heard the bombed Algo recently. I also heard
that. Wait did we hear that? Yeah? It was on the charity
Uh no, we didn't hear that. It answer that, No, Malik
and u Alia heard it because they were in the medical bay, which where
Lamar kept on Chastity's channel or charity channel. Yep, the two of you
did not because you were in the cockpit. So that is news to tamr
Uh and malink. Malik does say, yeah, I heard. What do
you mean they bombed alcohol? Oh? Whoa, Well, the radios just
put out that they had been building forces for a while and since you know
the brother's an Algo and all that, they decided to uh, I guess
to hit it where hearts. They didn't like to broadcast too much. Malik.
That's kind of the point. Well, uh, you lot has caused
a lot of problems. Are you hungry? I don't offer you some food,
but we ain't got none. We need to go to a temple,
any like motions to Lamara I could take if you guys need to go elsewhere.
I just when I'm standing, one of the mystics is do you have
a what temple? Whichever temple is available? I mean, probably do you
haven't? Is there a lady? You understand that they burned all the temples
on Coriolis right when the Consortium and the Zelosians teamed up against the homogeny,
that there ain't no temples left. Well technically no temples left. What what
happened to the people? What about Well, I hope anybody that was standing
with the order got out, but the ones that didn't, I imagine,
you know, the frozen bodies welcomed you in content. Warning everybody, I
want to visit the temple that doesn't exist. I bet you would. Well,
that's gonna be a tricky one, but I can see what I can
do. And he kind of snaps and two of the two deckhands run over
and he says, hey, escort them to the edge of the cellar and
then give him some instruction. Yeah. They kind of nod, and he
goes, they need to get to the temple. Yeah, and they're like
yeah, okay, everybody, No matter what you see, We're going straight
to where we need to go. No stopping, no distractions, got it.
You know, if you if you're scared to me, I could come
too. Oh it'd be like a little date. We could call it whatever
you want to call it. You know, may be on a bed of
circumstances one day, but Tony, what we are doing right now is incredibly
dangerous and I wouldn't want to put you at versk like this. Also,
I need to be very very clear and honest with you. I'm currently seeing
Captain Tuma. That's funny. Oh you for real? Do they share a
cabin? Oh? Oh yeah, no, of course. Why wouldn't you
be dated the captain. Yeah no, that's fine. I'm fine, This
is fine. Will you escort them to the edge of the cellar? I'm
fine, this is gonna be fine. You are a very wonderful, wonderful
person, and I'm so grateful for all of the opportunities that we've gotten to
work together. I just needed that to be clear. Wow, you are
just you have such a way with woods to me. He's also a great
cuddler, you know, I don't doubt that. Not that thought about it.
But okay, so when you get there, just keep your head slow.
The last thing you want to do is run into a bunch of Yeah
you know, I'll be here. I watched the ship. I watched the
ship Township most wonderful. That's a grumpy face of towel. Yeah, I
watched the ship. It'll be tell tell us, Oh we're not exclusive.
Oh so there's hope that's between you two. Oh oh oh, I got
something to fight for again. Okay, chop chap, let's get these people
to the SELA huh is behind talgoing. I love both. I love space
polyamory. Now I love that. This whole scene is brought to you by
a lie, a very successful and a critical one. I remember he grabs
you all begin following. There are two of them with guns kind of ahead
of you, and they kind of start at a jogging pace. He grabs
one more guy and kind of pulls and close and goes, maybe you hear
it, maybe you don't go. Nothing happens to that man. You understand
me. If anything happens, dam it's your head. And he's like,
yes, sir, yes, sir. He kind of tosses them forward as
they begin, he begins to run after you, flinking the kind of group
of you as Alia carries lamark about this entire storyline and just go with Tony
into mirror story please, I just I just an entire episode on about their
date and and like and like cowl just tagging along in the background. So
off they lead you, and as you follow them deeper towards the cellar,
the scene gets worse. You there are no bodies in this area. You
can turn. They tell they cleaned that up or they've moved people. But
you can see a large portion of this of this concourse, we'll call it.
Uh. There are people or bodies in bags and they're kind of laid
out with nowhere else to go, nothing to do with them. Uh.
And men flank the side of the door as they open it up, and
hot air pours in. Smelly air pours in of sickness and war and death.
Uh. It's not at all what you imagine. The lights no longer
bright, the sound of people laugh thing and shopping, of the drips of
the cellar, the patter of kids playing, this is all depleted. It
is empty air. As they kind of sneak around the corner, guns first
assuring that it is safe for all of you to follow. They very quickly
gesture you on. I have a question. Do I recognize this place?
Oh? Yeah? Anytime I would say that this is the main way into
the cellar. So anytime you've docked at the net and come into the cellar,
you've come this way. The difference is things are boarded up. There
are barricades in certain areas. Entire doors have been barred away. You can
see as you get closer to the cellar the places that were maybe private residences,
some of them have been marked. The doorways have been marked with massive
x's, probably signifying that these are lost people or lost homes. And the
closer you get to the cellar, I don't want to say, the more
silent it becomes, but more eerie the air is. It feels like trench
warfare at night, which means all you can go off of is sound nothing,
no taverns, no canteen of music, no drinks, no bartering.
And as they get to the cusp of the cellar, you can see a
massive barricade has been built up with junk, from like container barrels and boxes
to anything that people could find old furniture. This area has been blocked up,
and there's a small kind of gap that you can slide through to get
to the other side. One of them goes, this is as far as
we go. We have to hold the docks. That's all right, thank
you so much. He goes way way way. Wait. Wait when you
get in there, don't start asking around, and whatever you do, stay
out of sight. Where do we go. There's an old cantina was owned
by a woman once. How you know immediately which canteen is. It's the
canteena you met Shirliet. It's the canteen that you always go to in the
cellar. It's your favorite place and the only one owned by a woman.
It's all boarded up now. But the back room that has a door.
It leads to the stacks. Follow it through. You're looking for this sign
and he holds up it's marked. It's not a tattoo, but it's like
markered on his wrist so that you can see the symbol. How you've recognized
this symbol? Anybody that's been down to see Melyssa and the operation, you
know this symbol? He said, Follow him around. If you're lucky,
they'll let you in. Well, you've been lucky so far. Thank you
for your help. It says, good luck. Yeah, we're gonna need
it all right too, Rashidas. I guess yep to Rashida as you go,
maybe she actually has a drink for me. I need to know how
you are managing all of this, like how is how is movement happening?
Is somebody leaked tow obviously knows where you're going, so you don't have to
make anything like find your way there, but you do probably all want to
make some kind of check for stealth, which would be infiltration. Don't have
that agility. I'll take an agility. It may not add as much to
your still to say infiltration would, but agility will help you get past the
debris, the barricaded areas. Yeah, okay, nice makes day two days
unsuccess? Okay, what about old Malik? Okay, talented be or you
move rather quickly Malik and Ali a pace behind you, which makes sense since
Alia is caring Lamar. It's just a slow process. Okay, a single
success. So as you're kind of traveling through, you can see some people
are peering out of behind sheets and windows, and as they you walk past,
they close them very quickly, as if they don't have anything to do
with you. Uh, there's nobody else around from what you can tell,
I will give everybody an observation if you want to keep eyes on the situation.
I mean, I think there's no way. You know what, It's
always worth the shot, why not. Nothing bad for a failure, nothing
bad for failure. You just may not see the thing. Oh oh one
success from leak. Okay, Malik, You you are all traveling, and
you get the feeling that you are in fact being watched. You don't know
from where, but you may not be alone. And these aren't just like
prying eyes closing their curtains and their draps. This is somebody's following you.
Mmm, you're being tracked. Yeah, Malik, who was probably walking like
a step behind and to the side of Alia, he sort of like SLINKs
up beside her and like just puts an arm on like her giant bicep and
just like shakes his head no, and then continues walking past and walks like
quickly and quietly up to twel and just sort of leans in and just as
we're being followed, and then he slowly like fades back towards Alia. Did
Alia happen to hear that at all? I would imagine it's a whisper and
there's not a lot of sound. Then maybe like some dripping pipes and a
baby crying off in the distance. You see Alia hold Lamara a little tighter,
more secure now system just in case, just in case something happens.
Actually, no, she switches over to a show like a fireman carry and
then has her other hand on the door sword that she always carries just in
case you switch weight. Yeah, Tal runs her fingers through the brass knuncles
in one of her pockets and kind of readies herself to draw from her her
hidden holster in case something pops out. But she she kind of goes on
hypervigilant mode to try to figure out where she to try to figure out where
any threats. Maybe, Okay, everybody's awareness kind of heightens. Sorry,
right, Lamara sneezes under the helmet, and how maybe you pick up the
pace a little bit as you all move along the walls. You're almost there,
You're almost to the cantina. Who's in the front. That would be
me. And because I know that we're being followed now, I'm not going
straight to the cantina. I'm going to take a little bit of a detour
because I'd rather try to lose them rather than draw them into where we're going,
since I don't know who it is that's following us. Okay, so
that makes sense, Yes, it definitely does. Let me see. You
know what, I will give you a command check on this, because this
is a This is tactics for you and your team. Instead of stealth,
this is tactics of like how to mislead these people and get where you're trying
to go. So make a command check for me as you like, give
hand signals to the rest of the team to like do things to mitigate them
not following you. Let's see, No, would you like a darkness point
or to give one? Yes, shut up, I'm trying to protect the
team. Oh, I never go just pilot rules. I only haven't fail
pirate. Come on, No, I never said I only ever fail pirate
pilot roles. I usually only ever use them. Yeah, that's true.
There are always exceptions to the role, and at least I succeed. Usually
when I do use three roll okay, at a one you begin leading them
around, they fail entirely, and you can hear since as lily get picked
up on it. The feet that we're following you are still following you,
but thanks to towels daft thinking. Instead of going straight there, you take
a small alleyway here, and you dart back this way. You see a
kid like gasp as you come around a corner, and they bolt into their
home, hiding from whatever is incoming. Eventually the footsteps stop if you no
longer hear them. As all of you sit like across a large walk path
we'll call it an alleyway or street here in the cellar and then the open
canteen and now board it up, and you can see the little slipper to
like slip inside, like under a chain link fence or something that somebody's put
up here. But you're pretty sure that you've lost this person. Okay,
if I'm pretty sure I've lost the person, we will go in to that
back room and follow where it goes. Nicely done, you slip in.
It is very dark in here, completely boarded up. Only slivers of light
paned through the dust. You can see the walls are spattered with blood.
Whatever happened here was a bit of a catastrophe. The bar stands in shambles
as of a small explosion, maybe a grenade of some kind went off behind
to the bar. There's still glass shattered all over the place. No casings,
because that's not these kinds of weapons. But you can see the the
you know, the back room. Actually, so does Alia. Alia.
Didn't you come this way during your one shot? Yeah? Did I go
to the CANTEENA. I feel like you did because you went the path where
they were moving people. Remember, Yeah, yeah, yea, this is
you. As you come in, you recognize this is the place where Sholey
was doing was moving people. Yeah, you know this place for a different
reason. But yeah, there's a a familiar familiarity and you see, I'll
you kind of just start looking around. Yes, I'm assuming it's a lot
different from what it was. Fact then in this case it is just it
has no people. There was some kind of open combat here, and the
back room is still there. You can see like the door stands off the
hinges a little bit or like partially cracked open more the hydraulics not work anymore
to open it. And you would have known because you came through this way
that the back room leads to an area of the stacks that leads so forth
and so on. Captain, I've been I've been this way before. I
can do I don't, I don't, I don't. I mean, the
door seems jammed, but if we go through that door, we should be
able to reach the stacks. Yeah, I've been here before. Let's go
and you begin looking for the signs. At first, it's pretty evident.
It's like some graffiti on one of the stack boxes. And as you move
into the stacks, basically the wall opens up and gnome you know this or
tamer knows the stacks very very well. You begin to see those large container
crates stacked one on top of the other that makes this labyrinth of of of
a space here inside of the cellar. I am gonna need a you could
roll a mystic power if you wanted to feel something, but you don't feel
anything. Okay, that being said, I will take an observation because you're
gonna have to start looking for the symbol. It gets harder and harder to
start finding it the closer you get. Uh, do you want all of
us to roller? Everybody can, because you're all looking for the same symbol.
Okay. Oh, and we know what the symbol is, right you
do. He showed it to you kind of like written on Oh yeah,
okay, So it's only to mer t be here. Maybe it's because you're
focused on trying to feel something else that you're not really in tune to looking
for the symbols. But what goes from very evident graffiti on a wall turns
into a small scraping here and a small poster that has something written on the
back of it. They have to peel up, and it takes you all
a while to like start locating these things. And as you kind of round
the corner, you find the very last one, or the one that you
can see, which is there is a plastic doll left behind by a child.
No doubt it has blood and scorch marks on it, but in the
chest of the doll is carved the symbol and it's just set off to the
side. The average person would see it as trash. But as you who
picks it up, does anybody pick it up? Does anybody go over to
it? I don't think all you can pick it up, it's too that's
true. You gotta yeah, you got a lot. I would pick it
up tal. You go over and pick it up, and as you stand
up, from around the corner and arm comes out holding a pistol right to
your temple, and you hear a familiar voice, that of your sister,
and she says, it's about damn time you came home. Well, you
know, I was just off trying to stop a war and accidentally starting another
one instead. Yes, you've become rather famous, but we should hurry.
It's not safe here. More importantly, Soul's in a little bit of trouble.
She tosses her hood up, still made of the creature that she killed
in the bowels of Coriolists, to kind of take claim to this group of
people, and she leads you off into the darkness, and as the camera
fades to black for this episode, all of you are in the diligent care
of a family. We'll call it, and we'll have to pick up next
week to see if we find the temple, what Soul's been up to,
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