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Void. The show you're about to listen to, was originally a live
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bottom right hand corner using the coruption bar. That serves two purposes. One
is when that bar fills, DOT gets to the hell she wants to KP
and he just gets to suffer in madness. No dotat me and has nine
Wait all those nines are for me? Point hold on, hold on,
hold on, wait, I don't don't want to get a mulligan. Now
what's it? You get nothing? The second the second thing that cops why
am I getting them? Use them all? Dot? The second thing that
corruption bar does is every single doll that goes into that goes back to this
specific cast for us to do awesome, cool things for season three. I
think the last thing we're pushing towards is nothing. We succeeded on every single
goal to include three hour episode, so everything else goes for us just being
awesome. That being said, one of the bars already even filled, So
with that, I don't have to use that darkness, Dot, I turn
things over to you take KP to space for the first time. Well,
I feel it's important for you to tell us who you are, KP,
because this may be the first time that some of these people are even meeting
you. So why don't you introduce yourself and then and then if you would
like, you can tell us anything that you would like to to share up
front about your character, if you would like to hold it all for in
game. That is also a superple answer. Hello everybody, my name is
KP. I go by KP Elom and studies on pretty much all your social
media, so on Twitter, Instagram. You used to have a Facebook,
I don't think. I don't even bother, so I don't bother just Twitter,
Instagram, Twitch, I do live streaming. I do anything that's related
to Indian culture, so as you can see, I'm kind of representing right
now. Primarily though I'm a photographer. I do cosplay and portrait photography,
but recently have kind of due to the current situation, you know, have
not dabbled as as much as I'd like in that. But yeah, I'm
also the Gilmore that you probably have seen around if you are into critical role
or anything. I do cosplay of Gilmore, so you might have known me
from that. Oh that's my mind's going black. To be honest, I'm
just so excited to be here. I'm just like speaking words. Uh.
So KP has had the both great joy and uh, I don't know,
crazy ride of getting to rewatch this every Wednesday. I've tried to make everyone
that I can to watch the Shenanigans because it's it's very telling, and uh,
I'm very excited because over and over again, it was kind of like
shouting to the icons of this blank space in the group's dynamic. Over and
over there was always like kind of a missing link. And I very much
look forward to the balance that your character, I hope to our party in
this uh, and what's going to be a much darker turn. I think
first season three just chuck me into the deep end, you know. So
over the last few months, we've been going character by character and we've been
working backwards down the timeline. Spoiler alert for all of you that have not
finished season two at the end, So kp Seul is arrested, and yes,
he's arrested. That's all I'll say to that. That's the only spoiler
piece I'll give about that. And so we started a year after that,
oh excuse me, nine months really with Tao, and then with Malik six
months, and then Tamror three months after his arrest. But your timeline,
your timeline is actually going to start many years back. Because all of you
know how much I love a good flashback. How old would you say your
character is now at this time? I would say she's about thirteen? Okay,
No, I mean like in the like if we were to start time
specific a year from here, how old would your character be? Oh,
I would say around twenty twenty seven. Okay, So we're gonna go back
probably fifteen years or so. Okay, yeah, uh two, a little
bit of a different time. Uh, you know, uh, the Portal
Wars are have only like happened recently in the last sixty years, and so
at the closer back along a timeline you get to that, the more you
realize how much it affected everything. It affected growth, and but it also
stimulated new things and new villages and new outcroppings and new colonization of planets all
across the Third Horizon, one of which is a small village on a very
dry desert planet called Yuharu. Its landscape is sand that has been pressed by
wind and time into wave like structures all along its surface, and your village
is built up behind sandstone walls, as most villages are, to keep out
all kinds of things. But at thirteen, you would have friends it's rather
well populated village. And as this memory will call it replays in your head
of your village. Who do we see? What do you look like?
As you sit with your four best friends? All right? So you see
a young girl about thirteen years of age, but unlike other young girls her
age, she is tall, actually quite tall. Indeed, for the age
of thirteen, one would expect maybe five one five two mas five five.
She's hitting close to six feet. You can tell that she's quite lean,
athletic, but almost skin and bones. Also like there's just a strength there,
but it's hidden behind and you can't really tell until it's necessary. She
definitely looks so she's quite dark. The way I like to describe her skin
was it's dark umber brown skin with copper undertones. Her hair is long,
almost shoulder length, but almost frazzle looking. It doesn't look like it's been
taking care of very well. She looks quite almost a little bit mal nourished.
Not quite like no bad bad, but just you know, okay,
definitely not someone that is you know, well well to do. Uh.
And she's properly clothes and it's not like you know, she's you know,
in rags or anything. But it's definitely nothing too fancy or nothing. It's
just you know, common clothing, very utilitarian, very farmer esque. But
her hair unlike and you know, and you know it's actually silver in color,
which I forgot to mention. So yes, it's silver in color.
Uh, And what else do I want to describe? I think that's pretty
much shit? I think there it is. Well, you sit here with
your four you call them they're four best friends, but you're the kids of
this village. Of a similar age with you is a set of twins named
Tuck and tick uh Semina, And well you kind of named this kid your
family all but adopted them as they wandered in one night out of the desert.
What do you call your best friend who is a mute? I think
I chose crap. But beer, I think is what I call them.
But beer, the beer. I love that. And the beer sits there.
Uh chats already getting cheeky, I see. And the five of you
kind of what do you do for fun? What do you do for fun
in this in the in this desert village? Oh boy ah, I mean
it's not that big of a village. It's a matter of just whatever we
can find lying about. It's a matter of just at this point in pure
imagination. So a stick is not a stick but a sword. A stone
is not a stone but a ball. So it's just a matter of exploration
and looking up into the stars and wondering what's out there, knowing that there's
other things out there. It's not like they're completely isolated. They know that
there are other worlds that you know, once in a while you do have
ships come in for various reasons. But it's just constant dreaming of a better
life, constant wonder of what else is out there and if there is anything
more than that, or if this is life, this is what it is.
So and maybe yeah, and maybe we see the five of you pontificating
about what's out there. But there's aliens, all right, bet this space
grouse and one of the twins like makes the gesture of using a gun like
a you know, like a judicator or something. There's this kind of like
play that happens between all of you about dreaming what's beyond this place. And
rarely do you ship see ships come in or out. That's not what you
really you do. Hear your village in fact, stands in the shadow of
a rather large dirt mount I'm not even gonna call it a mountain. It's
actually built rather narrow and tall, the way we might imagine lake an ant
hill in some way, but in math size. It seems to have some
kind of I wouldn't even really call it heavy machinery light machinery near the bottom.
And then the village is kind of built around it, and you would
know that your village minds a This is a abandoned ant hill, is what
this his? It's an abandoned ant hill, and from it you mine the
remains of Umbria from this sun ant hill, which is why you have sandstone
walls, because the sun Ants are kind of a terror. Yes, exactly.
So here you are playing, and almost as if the icons heard you,
you see a strange light, uh that kind of appears on the horizon
and is quickly approaching. It seems to be a vessel, a small transport
ship of some kind. This is not like the one that comes in to
pick up the Umbria. Now, this is not like the pirates that pay
year village when they come pick up the Umbria. This is something different,
someone different. Yeah, your friend, but be your pulls your your sleeve
a little bit, and my points as this vessel it kind of billows your
gray hair as it passes over. What So I tried to set it up
for her younger version, but I couldn't manage it. So I'm just going
to that's all right. I'll reveal her actual voice later. So this is
just pretend a young girl. What what? What is it? Sabina goes,
Oh, who do you think it is? I mean, you are
usual pirates, probably, I don't know, it's just maybe a bigger pirate
talk and take go. I'm so tired of pirates. Can't we ever get
like like a commando? Oh that would be amazing, wasn't it. What
would you do if you saw them? Would you play? You would do?
I wish I could test that most of them like salute, you know?
Together? Clearly this kind of like dream of leaving this place to serve
is there, And it's actually your mother, the voice of your mother that
you hear. Do you see her silhouette almost as if the sand in the
air blocks extended distance, and you can see her up on a set of
stairs. She waves and she calls out, and she she simply says all
yah, come, they have someone I want you to meet. Yes,
Mama turns, she turns around to us, all right, well see you
all tomorrow. Yeah, and they kind of not of course, the beer
follows you seminea and Tuck and tick kind of stick behind and continue there.
Maybe they even run towards the ship. I'm sure they want to like see
it up close. Turn him immediately to I'm gonna go, Lucky. Why
do we have to go in home now? If you want, you can
go over there, I'll well, I'll talk with Mama. No, sure,
okay, all right, And he kind of like his eyes twin a
little bit, like I don't know, there's like a ship and that's really
cool. But like you're his big like sister, so there's like, yeah,
he's there for that. So he filled out hurls out her hand and
grabs hold and then you know, leads him forward, does the same.
And when you arrive inside of what I would imagine is rather quaint living like
I don't know why, but like the structures from tattooing, I haven't mind,
you know what I mean, like sandstone, I think they're a little
bit better built than that. Like it's actually brick, sandstone type stuff,
but like I swear, structures of just like desert, very simple, simple,
and floors like sands everywhere. Okay, And I imagine your mother's trying
to get it off. What little bit of solid is it ground is in
here? She can obro sand out of the back door. And I just
remember the infamous quote from Oh Yeah Gets I hate sand. It gets everywhere,
everywhere. And that's that's that's literally, this this life and this place
that you you live, and at your kitchen table is somebody you've never seen
before. She is tall and thin. She wears not clothes from around here,
that's for sure, at least you've never seen anything like it, this
long dark robe with kind of beautiful embroidery around the sleeves. As she pulls
her hood back, you see that she is in fact bald pretty much entirely.
And she turns around and with a very warm smile, she says,
I am so excited to meet you. I'm priest to Shorely. I'll stays
quiet. She kind of just more recedes against the wall and kind of just
kind of just slightly hunches over and kind of just her head's down. But
she's kind of lying up and down halfway through. But she's just trying to
be like no one's ever talked to her, No foreigners ever talked to her.
It's always been like they come in, they take care of business,
and leave. And so she's never actually yeah, so she's never actually interacted
anybody beyond her, her town, her people, her friends. So she's
very much like reclusing herself from the situation, from the situation. Yeah,
so, she says, don't be afraid. Your mother has invited me,
and your your mom looks at you and kind of very much nodded, and
she says, I invited priestis showly because you've been having those of the fits.
Al yah, why I told you That's not something I was worried.
And priest as shurely is a bit of an expert. You're not going to
stick me with needles, are you. There are many ways to do things,
none of which involve needles, at least not that I know of,
she says. But there is tea. Would you like some tea? Tea?
I don't what's what's tea? Uh? You can see that she's brought
a couple of things are out on the table. Maybe as gifts are offering
to your family for hospitality and for welcoming her into your space. And uh
tea, and she says, oh, your mother's brewing up some now,
And your mother smiles and says, we've not had tea in a long time.
Come on, And so she puts around for everybody, including a beer,
who Shurely very much welcomes to the table as well. Oh she Ali's
pretty much like dragging him everywhere, like she's holding him close, like she's
like a part of it is like coming from a protective older sister. The
other part is just stick around me. I am uncomfortable stay by you.
You know. The beer, of course, does not drink the Tapa Beer
is a rather untrusting child, and though has acclimated to the village, has
not always acclimated to everything. And the beer tends to not eat very much.
So Shurely simply looked at you, and she says, I have similar
fits you do. You'd be surprised at how many people do. Never it's
it's only that ever been here me, It's only ever been me. It's
right this many. She just hold out her hand and she says, it's
actually many more than that. I've been contacting each of us one by one.
We are special. Oh yeah, how how am I? I know?
I'm tall? I know, Mamma says I'm special because it's very special.
But and is that the type of special? You mean the other tall
people like me? She goes, Yes, there are many tall people,
and she actually stands. She's not a short woman by any means. She
doesn't bridge six foot, but she's not necessarily a tiny lady. And she
says but and then sits back down. When we are special, those who
are not fear us because we are different. I'm not scary, Jack,
I know this. Unfortunately they do not. And as much as I'd like
to say that I could change the hearts of everyone, I can't. But
I can train you, okay, I mean like in just in mathematics.
I can count till one hundred. That's the most I can do. But
what do you mean fighting? I'm not much of a fighter. I don't
know. It's just no neither am I. In fact, she kind of
gestures, no weapons. I mean, train in your abilities. You feel
the tiny hand in yours kind of squeeze a little bit and it turns her
head. Yeah. When she turns is he's like looking at me. Is
the assuring like an assuring voice or oh, or like an assuring sense?
Question sounds like we need a role. He's not trying to hide it necessarily,
but if you want to read him, let's get our first role.
So all, yeah, I'm gonna say this is kind of it's kind of
an empathy role. This is an empathy with the Okay, there it is.
Okay, do I just do the straight up click the button. Yep,
just click the die right next to the number in your empathy box.
Got it, and then it should pop up a modifier. Yep. Perfect,
Okay. He doesn't seem worried like this woman's bag. He seems worried
about the idea maybe of your powers or increasing your powers in some way.
Mm hmm. So and and I don't know, he can't really say anything,
but he just kind of looks at you and squeezes your hand as if
he doesn't want you to go. I squeeze it back and kind of just
smile at him. Shelly actually kind of senses it and smiles at vere,
and she says, I see you have a protector. He's a good one.
Yes, he's quite observant he uh, thanks to thanks to keep around.
Uh huh. I think Shelly's gonna roll for something. Let's see if
she figures it out an hour later. All right, excuse me, Okay,
she only got a limited success. Okay, she kind of squits,
and she says, well, everybody needs a protect her. Yeah, I
guess we are each other's But so how long will you be here to train
me? For a short time? A few weeks maybe, But and she
kind of looks at your mother for a little bit of backup. And your
mother says, Aliah, your father and I we thought maybe you could go
with Priestess Showley. What me? No, not forever, mamma, are
you're sending me away? We are? No? And she kind of you
can tell she's struggling with that idea of like, I know, I know
there was a drought this year, and I know I know that we hadn't
we've been a little short on food. But I can I can cut back.
I can. I know. I say I talk about going into space,
but I don't mean it, I don't your mother. She kind of
rushes across the kitchen and puts her hands in yours, and she says,
oh yeah, your father and I are worried. People in the village are
whispering. And somebody the other day told one of the pirates about you.
They will send people come come with me, don't what can't We have to
stay here and finish paying off our debts, you know that? And Showy
stands up it kind of looks out like almost through the wall of your house,
as if she sees something that you don't, and she says, we
must go now what you're here. Then a ship pull in on the far
side of the village, a very large one. Shuli says, they've come.
Your mother says, gather your things right now. Go everything you can
put in a bag. And so there's kind of I imagine a montage,
Okay, I feel like it's very reluctant, and like it's more of like
her like trying to figure things out, and more of her mom like stuffing
things and into the bag before and you begin to hear gunshots, gunfire,
something that your village doesn't really have guns. The pirates don't let you have
them. At the end of the village, people will begin screaming. You
can hear the heavy footsteps and the sounds of voices off in the distance.
They are questioning people, and Shirley says, quickly, we're going to get
in my craft and we will get out of here. And she looks at
a beer and she says, you're coming too. So Alia grabs onto her
mother's arms, mamma, please don't come with me, please, And she
kind of puts her hand on your face and she says, we'll be fine,
but none of us. You have to go. You have to stay
alive so that you can come back to us, okay, okay, if
it's okay, and she kind of kisses you on the forehead. You hear
the sound of a door in the back. This is your father kind of
arriving. He's sweaty and has clearly run across town, and he says you
have to go now, and she kind of that moment of him taking everything
in and surely brushes you out of the front door and kind of down an
alleyway. There's dust in the air from all of the sand. It's getting
late and dark, and you can hear the sound of tick and tack or
tuck and tick. I'm sorry, tuck and tick as they one of them
goes look real soldiers and the yeah, the other one goes, it's cool
they've got guns. Really doesn't know what to say at this point. Honestly
speaking, she see them down an alleyway. Sholey would would definitely see them
at least as well. If you feel like Ali isn't a bit of a
just like follow shock, if that makes sense. Yeah, I think at
that point she says, I think the only thing she will say is my
friends. She sees the two kids, and you can see the soldiers are
like, hey, grab those kids, because they're here for a kid.
And soldiers begin running at them, and the two boys almost too late,
realize that this is not like a plaything anymore, just in time for Sholy
to step up, and she's going to, oh, that's not how that
algorithm works, y'all. She just rolled four six. She steps off,
and you watch her kind of step in front of the two boys as these
two commander in like full suit armor, guns in hand pointed at them,
step up and she looks the both of them in the eyes and she says,
turn around and walk back to your ship, and both of them kind
of like stop, and you can see there's like a moment where their bodies
struggle. They're gonna get a chance to save they do not. They fail
miserably, and that both of them like stiffen. One of them begins to
cry. You can see it because she's basically controlling their minds, and they
both turn put the guns in safety and walk around the corner back towards the
ship and she grabs tuck and tick. Wait, there's one more, Samina.
Where's Samina? You can see actually what actually both of them at the
same time. They're twins. They point and you can see she's hiding behind
some craze and she's crying. Something that comes. I don't care, she's
like, and she's just kind of crying, and Showy scoops her up and
she says, you're okay, You're okay. And you can see that they
are if you look behind you as you run towards Sholey's vessel. They are
devastating this town. They show very little mercy when it comes to hunting this
the children that are here, and the five of you make it onto Sholey's
vessel and she takes off. As you see your village for the first time
from the air from a space ship. You're in a spaceship right. You
can see that like you've got everything that your mother put together for you,
which is a small pack. There's like I see there's like a like a
jar that has some like foods and things in it that's like strapped on there,
just like everything that she gave you, everything that Baber could carry.
The other three don't have anything. Sholey is like panting as she's trying to
get off this planet as you can see small explosions light up the sky.
You just see that at that point, like Aliyah scream Mama, like yelling
it out and like continuously like it's mama, Mama, and like basically like
pressed up against the window that that's there or whatever viewing panel is there,
just trying to almost as if they like breakthrough. Yeah. Yeah, And
you maybe even put your hands against that like window as you kind of look
out. All all of you do kind of crowd around any window that you
can as you watch the town begin to burn. I know it's sand,
but what you can of it burns, and the ship takes off and begins
following, and you hear Sholey say everybody please find a seat and hang on.
Oh okay, okay, And at that point, like you need to
see Alia kind of compartmentalize a little bit, uh, realizing that there's nothing
really more she could do. The best she could do is being probably the
oldest of the bunch just kind of corral everybody and kind of calm them down,
kind of essentially take charge, because she kind of has been like the
you know, even though they don't say they're all friends, it's been like,
you know, she's been the older ones. So everybody kind of you
know, looks up to her. She kind of mothers them a little bit.
Maybe you all crowd together a group of friends and they kind of hang
onto you as the oldest of the group. There's some scraps and things that
you can like hang on too, and everybody can kind of bind binds themselves
into you know what I mean. And she should definitely like like as they
corral, like her hands are all next to them and kind of bringing them
closer, and while their heads are down, she's kind of shushing them and
you know, it's okay, it's okay, fine, would be fine.
And then but the thing is they don't realize that she's crying as well,
Like she's trying to look strong and she don't they don't see like she's trying
to avoid their days. I think I think the beer reaches up with a
small hand and brushes at the tear from your cheek, and maybe when you
look down to see him in your arms, you realize that he does not
look scared. He is not crying. Fact, you don't know that you've
ever seen the beer cry or act with extreme extreme emotion. Granted, it's
not his village. He walked into it, but he's grown up there and
he shows just a little to no emotion in the moment, but seems to
want to comfort you in some way. I pull him closer and hug him
tighter, and we get the first blast from the vessel behind and do you
hear the boo boo boo boo boo boo boo boo boo. Right is like
lights and things flash inside and Showley's trying to like pilot this vessel. She's
very clearly not a pilot, but she is doing the best that she can.
And she says, hang on, and she slips between two sandstone like
mountains into a crevice and groove. She kind of turns it on its side
and it slips through and as it does it nicks the side and you hear
the vessel go woo as it starts to go down and you crash into the
sand. Showy immediately turns back and she goes, is everybody okay, if
you don't mind me saying one thing at this point, can I have this
moment where something heavy breaks off and basically falls on Tuck's feet and he's stuck
underneath there? Yes. She turns around and sees that that is, in
fact, like he's stuck, and she goes, oh my gosh, and
she kind of rushes over. In meantime, I'm paled, you know.
And now Alio at this point also runs over and he's trying to lift up
this heavy object, but it's just she she can't. She's really unable to.
She's trying her level best, but it's beyond her. At this point,
Showley says, everything is better when you do it with friends, and
she kind of sticks her hands under it, and his brother and Samina come
over and pick it up. But beer, in fact, it does not,
and I think maybe with all of you. Yeah, it starts to
like, you know, like eat open, and he's able to kind of
like slip past and it crashes, and Showy sees that he's probably bruised and
has like some cuts and operations. He's not like bleeding out like that.
I would assume it's like a light limp or something. A light limp,
yeah, like definitely a sprained ankle, maybe from the crush or something like
that. But immediately Showley gets down on her knees and she says, as
long as everyone is okay, and she closes her eyes and she begins to
pray, and you hear her whispering these chants. I don't know how spiritual
the town was. I think, okay, I think her mother and them,
but she I mean the spiritual in the sense of, you know,
I feel like they would say, like praised the icon when things happened.
And but she, being her young herself, doesn't really know too much about
it. She kind of is more of just mimicking everything that her parents do,
so she probably actually doing similar things now, like she sees Showly as
as the authority figure and seeing her do this that, you know, instinctively,
not instinctively just like out of habit, out of muscle memory starts uh
not, you know, praying herself like closing her eyes and coming closer and
just following the lead, I guess, and Showly begins to pray, and
you feel the the like crashed vessel begin to kind of like rock a little
bit with the pressure of the wind. Now, windstorms are normal, You've
lived through them your whole life. But they don't they don't start up this
fast. And she prays, and she prays, and you pray, and
maybe maybe the twins join you out of some of hope for whatever's happening.
Samina and Baber. I don't think join you, okay, But she begins
to pray, and this massive sandstorm rushes over. You can feel it like
rocking the ship as it begins to bury this vessel. And Showy finally stops
praying, and she says, well, we're here now, at least for
a little while until they can't find us. What do we had, birdied,
How are we going to get down? She says, We'll dig our
way out. Okay, you say, soul, She says, you cannot
worry about the what if. We must live in them now and right now
we are safe and we are alive. This is something to rejoice, as
is the sandstorm gifted to us by the icons. Some gift. Gift take
many forms, oftentimes oftentimes overlooked. She is not. The beer is in
the corner kind of watching her, and something happens, Aliyah, something that
has never happened before. He opens his mouth and speaks, you are powerful.
You are not like the other mortals I've fed upon. You have real
power. Shorely's eyes grow wide as she looks at the child in the corner.
M hmm. At that point, Adio kind of just turns was but
appeared? Is that you speak? I'm gonna try to see it. I'm
gonna trp with a voice one now, let me see if a work.
Well. Yeah, first off, he ignores you. First thing. Second
thing he does is he looks at Sholey and he says, I will feed
upon your dreams until you are nothing but flesh. Home. Shirley stands up
and she says, children, do me a favor, stand behind me please.
Oh yeah, here's this. But she's because considering like you know,
but beauty is a brother to her who was come. She like starts approaching
him, Papa, are you I don't care? What are you sick?
What happened? You can speak? And honestly, she's actually a little overjoyed
because she's she heard him speak for the first time. She thought, you
know, he couldn't or he'd you know, maybe some kind of trauma is
preventing him. So the fact that he did, like doesn't the content didn't
register, it's just that he spoke. And so he looks right at you,
this time, his eyes jet black, filled with the darkest of dark
avoid, some might say. And he looks at you and says, I
am not the beer. I am an ancient one. I've plagued your village
for decades, taking many forms. I have appreciated your friendship, but now
I must move on. And he steps forward and showy kind of grabs you
very gingerly by the shoulder, and she says, just a moment, may
I have that jar? John, and that she looks down and then I'm
assuming she's holding a har Yeah, like your mom kind of packed the jar
like on, there's a there's a jar there. She removes it because I
mean, I doubt he wants to eat anything right now. But if you
think that's going to calm him, Jesus, thank you. He says that
a sorry peace of ceramic will be no housing for my soul. I have
rolled the third Horizon for more time than your mind and even process when shock.
He is not who you think he is. Aaliyah right, that is
a shin. Tins are the admits that the stories, the children's stories,
you can't. Maybe I'll tell her, yes, Shin a term whispered by
mortals fear. I am known as a shin, but I have many names.
Immediately Alia, at that point, she actually starts getting angry, like
instead of like being scared anything, she goes. She's she's like now the
older sister mode. She goes, but yeah, okay, that's enough.
Okay, you're scaring the kids. I know this is a joke. It's
funny. It's ha ha ha, it's all fun name games. I'm glad
you can speak, but you're taking it too far. Please and uh,
she says, you're right. Funning games are over. Fuck And he kind
of steps out of the shadows and you can see that, like the veining
in his neck runs with this kind of achy blackness, and she begins to
change in front of you and show you his true form. I'm gonna say
the three kids in the back have kind of they're hiding themselves because this is
heey, but you and Sholey. You and Sholey are going to have to
roll. Yeah, let me see, I believe if I'm correct the jin
see here. Yeah, this is I'm gonna let you make a wits roll
because this is to keep your wits about you. In that case, Sholey's
going to do the same thing. All right, I'm gonna roll. Okay,
So you're now Remember you can always give me a darkness point to reroll,
or you could just except you could just okay, you have ten or
nine? How many? You still have one corruption bar? That's right?
Sorry, and you have nine. I think you said you have nine,
and then you also have corruption bars, so two I spent one to crash
the ship. I spent one. Sh okay, yeah, uh, okay,
agree roll m alright, screw it, we'll do it. It's okay
too. So I'm gonna spend what you gave me to reroll for surely.
Just okay here, let me I'll do it again. God damn it.
Okay he is he like, It's almost like the flesh just dissolves, dissipates
into thin air, and what it reveals is this black, smoky uh creature.
We both of us have to roll for Hey, Okay, we we
have now have an actual effect on us. Oh, I was like,
I want I'll pass that role. It'll be fine now here we are here,
we are gonna have to look it up. Sorry. So yeah,
she I imagine Showy. This actually takes Showy back a little bit. Nobody
ever seems nobody ever sees is yin like this and really survives except for Sewell
with how that turned out. Okay, would you like to take any kind
of action before Sholey does, because she's gone. She is going to do
something, but I want to give you a chance to actually do it as
well. I think now she's genuinely scared. The only thing she can think
of doing is protect the other kids. So she kind of goes back and
kind of just like she kind of does this, like kind of spreads her
arms and still facing a beer, but like holds it out and tries to
like be like the in between him and the rest of the kids, the
rest of the kids. Okay, yeah, I can't find the table.
We'll have to roll a D six certain a second when I could find.
Okay, so she she is, she kind of steps up. It doesn't
attempt an attack on her and you see she kind of ah as she goes
to her knees and like puts her hands on her head. He doesn't make
any sound, but his presence. You probably shield your own eyes as well
as the kids, from looking at this kind of horrific otherworldly creature. She
takes that those mind points, She's got lots of those, a lot more
than hit points, so that's good. But she will retaliate. And she
cracks open this jar and she holds it forwards, and she begins kind of
chanting, kind of saying something. She is going to Nope, I got
my numbers backwards. Okay, she only got one success mmm mmmmm, She's
gonna need more than that. And that is exactly what he says. He
begins to laugh. You may be strong, but you are not worthy.
She continues chanting. She will roll again, just for the fun of it.
Hopefully I don't fail. Come on, showy, show us what you
got. Yeah. She steps forward, looks him in the eyes, and
continues chanting, and you see something begins to happen. The kind of smoky
dark mist in the air begins to swirl, and the jaw and he goes,
no, no, no, you can't do this, and it pulls
him into the jar. The lid snaps on as if magnetized in some way,
even though it's just ceramic, and it snatches itself out of Sholey's hand
and into the corner of the ship, and it sits. It kind of
a places itself there in the corner. Sit is it is? It?
Door surely goes. It is never over for a gin. But he is
trapped as long as we do not open that jar. He's in the jar.
How did they t Sully says, I will explain it to you,
but first we must I need to run a scan and see if they are
still looking for us. And she kind of stumbles. You can tell that
she's very weak. Now she took a major mental hit from this gin.
And she punches some things in and runs a skin and she says, oh
good. She says, the sun is down. The suns are down.
There will be some darkness. Now, it's a good time to travel.
We'll find another vessel. And you can tell this one's completely damaged, like
it's like smoking. There's no way. And so she says, everybody sit
back, and she puts her hands on the top. You can see she's
tall enough. She puts her hand on the top of this vessel and she
begins to hum a sound, and as it does, it kind of rings
out and begin to vibrate everything around you, and you watch as the sand
around the ship begins to just shake off as her voice kind of empties the
top of the vessel, and she says, okay, everyone, and it's
open. And as it does and you crawl out, you can see the
wrecked vessel of the people who took over your basically destroyed the town sits off
in the distance, more than likely your way off this planet. But you
sit up in a cold sweat from this nightmare? Are we living? Yeah?
Right? And you sit up and we actually get to see you now,
all these years later, twenty plus in fact, or when I say
fifteen fifteen, fifteen in the in the future, what do you look like
now? Now? Aaliyah at the age of twenty seven is still tall,
in fact much taller if one were to measure her, she's now six eight
Ah. Yeah, so she's become quite tall, but even more different than
that. Instead of the old things crownee self that she used to be,
you now see a very buff, strong, capable woman like pretty strong,
Like she has boulders for shoulders, Like she can probably lift that crate that
was in there twice over that fell on her friend that she couldn't lift when
she was younger. She could now probably lift that thing now like three or
three times maybe. So she's yoked. And her face has you know,
a little bit a very angular, very cut, but very like there's something
gentle about it as well, possibly because like you can see like what is
it called the smile smile lines that are on her face, So there's that
gentleness about her. Her hair still white and almost like silver silvery white instead
now of like being all sorts of just you know, weird length and fraid
is sleek and tied up in a bun with her side shaved and it's going
backwards like this. It's in a bun, but it's like a weird like
almost a mohawk ish kind of a bun braided bun that comes up and then
like thick braids that are coming down to the back and to her back shoulder
with the side shape like I said, and on those on the sides you
see like golden scriptures that have been tattooed onto it. Her eyes her eyes
are hazel, like dark hazel in color, brownish hazel in color. Uh
and yeah, that's uh, that that's what you see. We see this
old woman. Oh yeah, So I was just gonna say, her nose
definitely looks uh, it looks fine, but it definitely feels like it's been
broken several times and then she set it back in place. Okay, okay,
you know what I mean. It's not perfect, slightly crooked. Uh.
It definitely is not something that you know has survived the years very well.
Yeah, you sit straight up in a hot sweat. The cellar is
all always hot and here on Coriolis, and you're in your own bed,
which I imagine is probably rather quaint she would shorely live in. It's actually
too small for her, like clearly like her hand off. Like she actually
has like a little chair or stool at the end of the bed just so
her feet can stay propped up by at least a good foot and a half.
I would say, so definitely not not her size. It's almost like
a coffin bed kind of a situation where she can't like really roll around.
If she does, it has to be like in place. Definitely have a
small Yeah, there's like small coffin bed Shurely has an identical one, and
of course a special space has been made for an altar right a place that
you can like pray or some kind of shrine. But when you roll over,
when you sit up and you're breathing and you're trying to come out of
these emotions, you look over and Surely is not in her bed. Bully
this works mhm. Shurely, how are you that shore bags are not there?
You even peer around, maybe you pull back to Probably there's like a
curtain or something that leads to where you can wash up. Maybe this small
area you each keep some clothes in, but like a small area, you
peer nothing there, you come back. She did not return last night.
She was supposed to. She was. You would know that she had was
moving another group of people off of Coriolis. She was making the rendezvous with
them to get them off, and then she was to come home and she
didn't. It's that in form of communication that I might have between her.
M hmmm. Probably not because what you do as soocie gup. But you
could go ask around. You know that there would be places that Shorely would
have hit, like there was an order of events. You're she raised you,
and you know exactly how she functions, like how this this underground kind
of railroad functions to get these people out, so you would be able to
ask around and that would be about it. Okay. You see her walking
into the bathroom first, kind of wash her face, like splash a couple
of bits of water, kind of real locate herself, you know, set
things back and inform kind of just you know, looks into the mirror for
a bit, kind of remembers the dream and like, I haven't thought about
that in a long time. I'm trying. If it doesn't work, I'm
gonna just leave it. Bit. But okay, you want to are you
actually wanting to do? Like do we use one of your mystic abilities or
what is your what are you trying to achieve? I was trying to use
the voice. Yes it does work, Okay, I don't know if it's
Yeah. It was like, is KP body his voice? Yes? I
would say said, yes, KP is moody voice. So you kind of
walk in you maybe even look at yourself in the mirror. You haven't thought
about that in a long time. It was years ago. Since then,
you've surely have done so many things. You've learned so much. She's passed
a lot onto you. Most recently, she's become obsessed with uh two sisters
that she's been stalking. Uh Tuma is their last name. You don't know
why, but she's become a little obsessed. Believes that they're important in some
way. Okay, yeah, but this, this this group of people I
guess was like supposed to be an easy thing, no problems. She gets
dressed and as she is about to walk out, she grabs a voice much
later and kind of this is that something that she puts on on the throat
and then kind of covers her She has like all scar that covers her face
like this, and she walks out and tries to go to the place that
would she would think that, you know, showing you might have hit already.
So we see you walk out into the cellar. You're on one of
the like of her levels I mentioned. It's like a hotel. It's got
like a just an open railing that like looks down on the rest of the
cellar, and you make your way to the first kind of couple points right,
you would know, well, the captain that was supposed to move them
would be he would not be back by now, but you would know you
would know the doc master, like the the the illegal docks here in the
cellar, so you would know the dock master. You would know the meeting
location, which was a cantina here on Coreola or here in the cellar where
they were going to meet, and Shelly is going to move them. You
know, they would have been moved through the stacks. So that's a location
you can also investigate. And uh, you know that there is oh trying
to think, I'm got to think about my timeline here. No, No,
you're good. That's it. That's it. Those would be the three,
I think the three places that you could you could look into. The
first thing, she's going to go onto what was in the stacks. Again,
the stacks is actually where the people are moved out through to get down
to the like illegal docks, basically like where we hide the people so that
nobody knows we're moving people. Okay, So first thing set, she's probably
gonna go out there just to see if Shelley's over there, like two of
her last minute preparations and why you get ready if you're already back. So
yeah, that will be where I believe she would be happy. Okay,
yeah you uh so you got to think this through she would have Okay,
yeah, okay, So many timeline things are about to come colliding, y'all.
I hope you're ready. So you hit the stacks. The stacks are
so it sounds like stacks and stacks of these massive metal uh like containers that
things are held in, a lot of them have been forgotten, some of
them hold probably rare items, but there's so damn many of them down here
that it's like a labyrinth. And uh, you kind of walk the known
path of this place kind of through. You see Sholey's marking and the marking,
and you're troubled when you kind of get to the end here because there's
was very clearly a firefight. So like you kind of slide down this like
the everything and hang a right, and it leads you to a backdoor.
It's kind of the way out, and you can see that there would there
is blood, uh kind of fresh on the ground and this the dark burn
marks of like a firefight in this area. Sorry wrong, Uh. So
she kind of looks around. She's definitely worried at this point, and she
kind of tried. Is there a trail of anything any sort that I can
go follow? I would say, unfortunately not. You kind of picked actually
where you imagine would have been her deading, because she would have gone to
Cantena to get them first, right because I was bronding boom. Then she
would have brought them here and this is where they would have moved out.
But you can kind of slip around the corner, and first off, you
can tell there's not enough blood that like all these people would have been shot.
It looks like maybe a person was shot. There were based on the
gunfire, maybe two or three commandos that kind of came through here or you
know, to do this. And you can see that the door at the
end is cracked open as if somebody made it out, and you know that
leads out to the illegal docks as well. Okay, I think at that
point she's going to hurry on over to probably check up for us on the
docks, just to see if Shorely's there. If not, then the next
step would be going to the bar maybe like you know, just basically retracing
steps, retracing steps, and so we see you barely fit down this tiny
tiny This is probably the reason why Sholey does this run and not you.
It's very hard for you to fit through here, and you slip out of
this side door that actually leads you to just like a tiny landing that overlooks
these illegal docks. On this back side of Coriolis, a ship is actually
taking off and a ship is landing. The side of the vessel uh is
painted the course their sure what had apps? You've gone open? She turns
around. Surely, how do you hear? Are you trying to reach out
with your like mystic abilities? I think she's just trying to like observe and
see, like, is there any chance like she could be hiding somewhere somewhere?
Okay, so you could have a hully Yeah no, but you're thoughts.
I guess you could say, maybe interrupted by the opening of this vessel.
Out walks a few scraggly pirates. But it's who follows a figure.
But you know all too well, beautiful, perfect hour glass shape, far
too beautiful to be traveling in a vessel called the Cours Sair. It is
Samina. That's how you know her anyways, she doesn't go by that name
anymore. Do I instantly recognize her? Instantly? Instantly. You can't not
recognize her, And does she recognize me? She I don't think she's quite
seen you yet. You're kind of you're up on like one story above them,
kind of looking down. I would say at this area, but there's
like a a flight of stairs, i'd say stop. I think Alia stays
quiet, just kind of observes her and observes the crew walk on by.
It doesn't really say anything. Yeah, okay, so you don't You don't
attempt to interact with her in any way, not right, not yet.
She's just kind of observed because she's trying to keep keep a low profile,
considering well as low a profile as she can considering her physique. But is
that my role? Man? That was shitty role. I'm gonna spend another
darkness point to eight. I want to read. I can I can reroll,
I can has reroll, Yes, I can have reroll. Please,
I'm fine with re rolls like this. She doesn't see you, she doesn't
see you. What I will say is she's kind of walking. She's carrying
a crate very small, like under her arms, so it's not like Hue,
just like a little box. And she stops for a second as if
somebody tapped her on the shoulder. But she doesn't turn around, and then
she keeps walking. I think at this point Alio kind of just steps away,
takes another look around and starts heading out, knowing that clearly Shorely's not
here. Yeah, it doesn't look like it. You don't see you don't
see the ship or the captain, which means that he definitely took off.
If he took off with the cargo or with the people that you don't know.
But you find your way down into the cellar all the way over to
this cantina, a hole in the wall, absolutely nothing, but it is
run by a woman and she lets Showlely have her people meet here. I
mean, they support your efforts. I guess I should say, of moving
mystics. And that is enough for Shoally. What was her her name is?
Oh, there's a cantina. I want to give you the right one,
but I'm not going to remember. No worries, just the we'll just
call her. We'll call her. She's a really rough and gruff name.
Uh. She calls herself, you know what, she calls herself, Hilda,
Hilda Hilda, which is not a usual name. But she wears it
well. So she's like walking and she kind of looks up and she grunts
at you. Anything's Hilda, are you well? She kind of looks around.
It's empty. It's like you know, businesses always. This is a
good time. You can I ask a question? Yeah, have you seen
Shuley come on through? Yesterday? She left here with four bodies, bodies
people she has got concerned for. She she goes, always taken everything,
so literally, kid, and she gotta like wipes it down. She goes.
She they left here headed for the stacks, you know the routine.
Yeah, but it's the morning. She hasn't come back. She didn't see
that since No, Nah, there's way a second. It's two scraggly types
we're in here last night? Oh what what? They look like? They
were scraggly types. But they were talking about they were talking about a firefight
that broke out in the stacks yesterday. Said they took a couple of people.
Do you know? Do you know where they went? I don't,
kid, And she says, look, look, look, look, look,
she says, I know. I just give you a space. But
they the new people you were moving call some trouble in here. They brought
a little bit of attention on themselves, but surely was seemed interested in still
getting him out. So thank you, I'm wanna I'll talk to you later.
Have you seen them a kind of nod's like okay, you know,
kind of used to the like covered face and the voice modulator and the whole
the hole spiel, Like it's just like, oh, there goes my book.
She's so used to it. And she then yeah, she just kind
of wipes down bar. She tries to gesture somebody into the canteena nobody stops
by. Nobody has any money down here for this kind of thing, you
know, And you are almost well, because that's how it is. There
are screens, lots of them, kind of everywhere, some above certain places,
some just kind of out in the open, hud decks that can be
used to access the main library of Coreola is so forth and so on.
But today most of these screens, and maybe it's just because you've been so
busy looking for Shorely, they they read that the emissary is missing. Now,
see, what'd you know about the emissary? Well, you would know
what the average person knows, which is that they appeared about a year ago.
They were claiming to be Judge and Carnate, right, they were true,
they were. They were claiming to be like icons in flesh, and
basically one of them walked toward Coriolists and said they would be an emissary and
they wanted a seat on the council. They come from the planet Zine,
which is inside of Kua, so inside of the system, but on the
it's a planet on the other side of an asteroid belt from where we're currently
are located. And they are really the first other intelligent life that we have
really come across that we haven't created ourselves, right, so to some degree,
so they this is like a lot a lot of people believe them to
be. They speak heresy that their presence is what has like awakened the darkness
which flows through all of these mystics that are sick, and it's these immissaries
faults. There's a lot of rumors and hearsay, and people have all of
these theories about them, but all in all their rather mysterious. But the
fact of the matter is one of them has gone missing. And the mysticides,
as you and showly very much know because you're on the front line,
have been getting worse all my acorns. What is going on? You see
her kind of she's trying to figure out what her next steps should be.
Now she knows that there's two people that know about the firefight, know about
what happened down in the stacks, and so I guess that's where she would
want to go and try and investigate to see if she can. Why don't
we actually get Okay, so we're gonna do two things. First off,
you've not actually drawn in your icon card for our so I'm gonna have you
draw your icon card. Your icon is the Lady of Tears. Yes,
yes, okay, I'm gonna shuffle the Lady of Tears deck along the right
hand side. You should see a few card decks scrolled near the bottom.
I think this is a Lady of Tears. And when you hover over it,
yeah, when you hover over, one of the cards will pop up
the top. Just grab it and drag it out onto the playing deck.
There's one that says draw. Can I just click that? Or if you
draw it, it's gonna put it in your hand and you're still gonna have
to drag and drop it. Same. It's the same thing either way.
So Okay, there it is, and then there there work there it is
where on the map looks like it's Oh, oh I see it, I
see it is probably looking at okay, Lady of Tears, Oh a song.
This is so good, this is so perfect, this is so good.
So you maybe you just have to take a minute. This is all
rather over me. You wouldn't surely have been fighting as rebels and fugitives and
trying to move mystics your whole life. It's all that you know surely has
always come back, and this time she just didn't. And you, maybe
in a meditative prayer, maybe in just a breath, you hear a song
in the air, not just in the air surrounding you, but like in
the air amongst everything. It rings out in the darkness. It's beautiful and
sad. You can't quite make out what it says. But somebody sings a
song, a final song, an effigy for themselves maybe, but you can
hear it. Maybe it is clear to you, maybe not, but this
lost emissary is crying out for someone to save it. I think at that
point, Alia kind of just stiffens up for a bit, kind of close
her eyes, and she definitely. For a second, you see a little
bit of tears forming at the edge because it hits her for some reason,
even though she doesn't know what the sources or where it's coming from. Does
she understand it's from the emissary? That does that? Does that register with
her? You could maybe let's roll for that, because I think you definitely
know that this is otherworldly, that this is not like somebody in another room
singing that this is something bigger. But let's roll for you could roll an
observation. But I would also take your mystic ability here. Okay, I
would also take your mystic ability because I think that I've taken that before for
talent to mere for a very similar reason. Okay, so just click the
mystic powers one. Yep, by mystic powers, there should be a I
die. Yeah. Man, we are just killing it tonight with these horrible
dice rolls. Maybe we're just too emotional. Maybe you can't center yourself the
way it surely has taught you all of these years. When push comes to
shove, you just can't quite do it, and you hear a voice behind
you, a voice you've not heard in a long time. I'm gonna play
my second corruption bar here, She says, well, I come back to
Coryonness to find the great Dhalia wandering the streets of the cellar. It's good
to see it through, Samina, I didn't say it was good. Well,
at least one of us has to be in the no diplomatic side.
Do you have to wear the mask? Really? Wow? It's for protection.
Notice, we never know what the eyes are on us. Just because
you are not comfortable walking around the mean that it's always the case. Maybe
I'm safer with eyes always on me. Means they can't see the other things
that I do. I'd say you look well, but you look distraught.
Let's got to the chase, says have you seen that I've been dancing on
a space station? And Tawan No, I'm sorry, and oh it's the
middle one doesn't matter. Do I look like I've seen Showley? She doesn't
want to see me anyways, right, great disappointment, even though that's not
true. Really, would you like to convince me of that before? After
she left me at the orphanage? Thank you, Jamira. Yes, I've
been dancing on a stage in her mirror. We have had this arguments before.
I know I cannot convince you like this. But I hope in time
you see that was the best option. You're safe, you know you were
successful and you're here. Yes, through nose surely. And to do me
a favor, don't call me Samina. My name is a mirror doesn't roll
off my tongue as well. Yes, well you think after I don't know
a decade, you'd get used to it. To me, you will always
be test little girl that I used to play in the sand to it swift,
nothing will do nothing, you say, it's point going to change that.
Yes, maybe, but we both know that little girl died on a
spaceship when she stared at gin in the face. Why are you so?
She's kind of gestures to you. I could feel it. I told you
I can't find Shuli. She was supposed to be her last night. I'm
sure she'll be back. She always comes back to you anyways. Does she
know about the runs that Shuli's been doing? Now, okay, she knows.
Oh, actually, I don't know. I would think that Shuley doesn't
want her to know whether or not she has learned on her own because of
the kind of work she does. You don't know that I would think I
think that maybe that's your speculation. She's very smart, you know that,
and very cunning in a different way than Shorely. Mh. She normally does,
but usually there's some form of communication when she does come back, and
usually there's a set time that we stick to. It's a schedule. But
she didn't that there was no communication. I've gone through all of her routine
places that we normally meet or that she normally is at. She's not here,
I ask you, and I know history set aside for the person that's
say it on lies. Have you seen her? Like I said, I've
not laid eyes on her. But you're not as charming as I am.
So I'll ask around, thank you, and I'll tell you if I find
anything. Oh, we can't work together. I have a job to do.
And she pats the crake she carries in her arms. I have a
meeting. I want to ask. You. Don't have to tell I wasn't
going to. She kind of smiles. As she goes to walk away,
she kind of takes your arm in her hand, like kind of grasp your
upper arm in her hand and pulls you kind of close, and she says,
look, and now you don't like me or whatever, and you have
this righteousness about your existence. But we all do what we have to to
survive. And I'm back for a reason. She reaches Alia reaches to her
neck, and you can hear a click on the voice modulator, and then
she gets closer place and had actually right on her on her cheek. Oh,
my dear Samina, I always takes the thing that I don't like you.
I too, I don't like what you do, but you will always
have a place in my heart. Yes, and my home to come back
to whenever you wish. My home is my ship. You and I both
know that. And you say you don't like what I do. What everybody
likes the results. I believe that. Let me collect myself. I don't
like that you have to do it. I don't like that you will have
to put yourself through it. And I don't like the anger and resentment that's
inside of you. And I wish I could take it. I wish somebody
would take it, but they can't. So here we are. I guess
what I'm trying to say is there's some foul play in the cellar. I
have good word that the Syndicate is making deals to move people and not the
way that you and surely move them. How do you not this? Let's
just say I have my ways, and I have a contact. I tend
to pump for information. Okay, whether or not, whether or not Ali
knows what she's saying is all on you. But that's what she said.
Indeed, how do you think have you been put to yourself in danger?
Always? My job is dangerous, but you know how it is. Listen,
there's a there's a woman here in the cellar. She's troubled, more
trouble than I am, if you can believe that bit of a definitely laves
Yeah, a free spirit, they call her. She has a taste for
tattoos, tatrous well that in information, she deals in it. Specifically,
you'll find her here in the cellar, at this cantina, and she kind
of she whispers a cantina name. And I'm not going to remember the name
of the cantina from the very first episode. There's no way. I don't
even know if I named it. It doesn't matter. She gives you the
name of a canteena she says, it's you know, a few cells that
way, if she's there drinking, you might be able to get some information
out of her, but be careful. She's a tricky one. And well,
let's just say her face is always changing. Her face. How would
I recognize that if it's changed. That's the point, isn't it. You're
not supposed to How am I supposed to know who one's speaking? Come?
Is there some way I can I kind of person? She kind of leans
and she goes, you're the one with the powers, right, I imagine
you'll figure it out. M thank you, let's start. It's sech a
lead kind of nods and she says to Lou bye, And you spend what
I imagine is a couple of days stalking this cantina, no sign of her.
One day, two days pass. Shule's not come back, no word.
The station has gotten a little bit more hostile. There are now rumors
that people that walk around in commando uniform are not actually commandos, that there's
been some kind of insurgency, or there's like yeah, basically they're posing to
take people away getting the pressure is rising. But on the third day,
you walk into this cantina and there's a woman in the corner. She's blonde,
she has her hair much like yours. Kind of tight back, but
in like a ponytail. She wears a jumpsuit and a few bits and belts
and things that like hang off of it because she's got a lot of stuff.
She's got a blaster on her hip, and she slams down shot glass
and lets out a belt much too large for her body, and she says,
I told you fuckers, I could drink you under the table. And
somebody goes on and they kind of like passed around some money, and she
seems to be making a bit of a scene. I approach her, and
would I, based on the usual clientele, would I've immediately understand that she's
new and she's not been here at least possibly is the one? Is there
a way to's? Definitely she's the you've not seen her here in the last
three days. This cantina is okay, y'all chat. This is a different
cantina than the one we were just at. Suley did not do her business
at the same canteen as she found talat okay, okay, okay. So
there's a different cantinas for everybody. So this one, though, is called
Rashina's cant Tina, and there's you know, China is behind the bar,
pouring drinks as fast as she can because you're having this drinking competition. You
have a name, Uh, I would say, probably on her way.
Yeah, when Samina went to leave you, she probably whispered in your ear
tom Uh. She approaches Alia actually no first, Actually Alia goes to the
bar keep and gets closer to her China basing night only when she's around.
That's why I let her stay. Who is who is she? She's quite
a quite display. She kind of smiles and she says a lot of people
ask who she is, she's whoever she needs to be, m indeed,
and then she slides a credit and goes, oh yeah yeah and uh yeah,
burr over and she goes, can you the prop sis? And a
clink for her from me? She gotta smiles and she says she uh,
she goes not a lot of people try to pick her up in a bar.
But I'll send her a drink and she kind of walks over and passes
another round, and she pours a different drink than like a shot, like
a nice one, probably her favorite, right, something dark and in like
a short glass, and she kind of leans over and whispers and walks away.
And you see this kind of blonde head, lean the ponytail and everything
like lean out from a round all of these men that she's drinking under the
table and she kind of squints and eyes look you up and down. Maybe
now you can see on her arms she's got the like jumpsuit rolled up.
She's got some tattoos all along her arms. And she kind of stands up
and let's set another belt and she says, I'm bored with all of you.
Piss off. And they're like oh, and she kind of pushes them
like to the side. She's drunk. She's drunk, and she kind of
stumbles over and puts the glass that you paid for down and she says,
so she goes way, where's your drink? Oh? I just I'm trying
to hold off tonight. I apologize not much of a drinker. I just
appreciate those who can, though. And I saw you and you are definitely
quite something. I have many talents, drinking one of them. I see.
So is this like gonna be a thing, gonna go for walk or
like, what's the I find sometimes conversations in Raka's bar tend to flow a
little bit smoother than any isolated place oh you want somewhere quiet. Okay,
She like gets up, She's like, just follow me, and he's like,
no, no, no, she stopped. I mean if you touch
her, she'll stop at Traga what never mind? Lead the way. She
kind of leads you down and around the corner, and she actually leads you.
She's like, I was like, going, how does how does she
do this? Yeah? Yeah, how does shelly deal with people? Like?
She tries to keep you safe? Right, so she surely doesn't want
you out very often. She definitely doesn't stop you, but she's very much
encourages you to keep safe. And she leads you down through the cellar to
a barber shop or like a hair shop. You could hear the buzzers like
they're like shaving somebody's head. This is not a very stylish place. It's
probably not a very clean lace either, And she says, come on to
the back, it's where the real magic happens. She kind of her eyebrows
for eyes. She gets back there and you can see it's like a very
small door. Not only is it kind of short, it's a little narrow,
and she goes home quit. She clicks the door open, and it
is probably like three hundred square feet make it's like a room that's like maybe
three hundred square feet, and you can see she's got an excessive amount of
clothing, like odd clothing from all like in all kinds of form, like
hanging along one rack, and her bed is clearly unmade. There's bottles everywhere,
and she's like, come on in. She kind of like takes a
seat on like the single chair she has. She's like, I was gonna
offer you a drink, but you said you don't drink much. You're a
little bit a lot. That is fine, thank you. I said,
you have some kind of looks like my five stars. So she walks over
to the spickett that's in the room and like pours you some water because water
is in the cellar. Depending on the day, it may not even be
around. She fills the glass up for you and kind of slides it down
and back kind of back to you, and she says, okay, water.
So you got a name, m hm, and you see Alio kind
of click the voice modulator off. My name's Alio. Nice to meet you.
Uh what nice to meet you? Two? M juliusa USh. Do
you have a last name? Uh? Not important? It's not important.
I am looking for a particular person, and I hoped it was you I
need and I hope, I hope. It's fine talking to you like this,
but if you happened to be this person, I need some information.
Thou you're talking my language, but I thought you were coming on to me.
You just fought information. Oh, I like rushes her nose a little
bit. So I mean, I'll give you some information. I just uh,
I mean no, no, no, no, trust me in any
other situation, if you would be lovely, I just trolling. Nice of
you to say, who know, I'm sure if I like being a blonde.
And she like pulls her hair down, kind of shakes the blode out.
She goes it's kind of strange. She like walks over to the mirror
and like touches her face. It's all new they I don't even remember what
it looked like, not really anyways. She kind of turns around, what
do okay, do well? You look lovely? I love I like the
blonde. It's it's a very cattle yeah m hm. So about this information?
M what what kind I have? All kinds of information? What's been
rumless about things happening in this town, and in particular, I'm looking for
a woman I've been told you might know of such information. She's tall,
she's not the still as I am. She's not so bald. She goes
by the name of shay Hey, and she kind of it's like a light
bulb goes and she points. She goes, she's been following me for a
while. This is why I changed my face. She because of her.
Okay, okay, okay, Oh, what are you here for. I
haven't I lost her? When you know it didn't look like myself anymore.
Can you tell me when you last saw her? She m hm. She
kind of looks at you like she's not sure if she should say this,
because she it's like it actually matters to her. Just y Sorr. She's
been following my sister too. I don't like it. Yes to ask you
something? Ye uh yeah? Do you have you had any Saints visions,
any incidents? Is anything you could not explain? Then a tattoo that makes
my body change, not as one, but she's more internally, more from
from you, and I'm going to have a headache tomorrow morning. She goes,
No, nothing like that. She's like, what do you ask him?
If I'm a mistake or I mean, okay, okay, but yes,
I saw her the ball woman with another female. Do you know where
where was it that you saw? That's where I came from. I saw
circles on circles. It's been like, I don't know a few days,
see five, five or six, maybe six? Okay, all right,
thank you so much, dude. If you see her again, if you
happen to find I'm following you once more, can you please come to me
and let me know who? Is she? Someone I know? Someone someone
uh I need to meet? Are you lying? You're gonna have to roll
manipulation because that's a lie, that's a super lie. All right, Oh,
this is not gonna be good. This is gonna fait. Wait if
it's a zipulation, if it's a zero, than just roll an empathy?
Okay, empathy where I can't lie? What was learning to say? Yeah,
I know she's not much a liar. Hey she goes whoa who?
Okay, if I see her, I'll let you know where gonna find you.
I'm at the bar usually every day, so around how about in the
evenings, I'll be there at five pm. This is a date. She
kind of like jokingly like clicks at you, and she kind of like sits
down and you can see she's getting to that like passing out point, like
her body is just like totally done, like that comes down and like oh
like about to fall over at all. Yeah, she kind of doesn't like
onto the bend like you know, fat cat sits. She does probably doesn't.
They like zipper on the jumpsuit a little bit to like make some space
for all of the liquid in her belly. And she goes, oh,
well bye, are you okay? And then like Alio runs over like with
a glass of water first, and she's perhaps you should drink a little bit,
just water just she splashes it all over face. Not okay, Ah,
I feel better. I like you, Ali, And she kind of
like puts a hander's sho. I like you. Oh, I like you
because thank you. Well, I don't know why I like you. I
just have a good feeling about you. It's a good feeling, you know,
Alia. It really likes me, my sister. She doesn't really like
me, oh, or my mom, she doesn't. She doesn't like me,
or my dad. He's he's a he's all hardy toity, he's a
cop. She just they don't like me, but they don't know what I
do, why I do it. At this point, Alia like you can
tell she's having a hard time. Yeah. Yeah, Alia, being the
EmPATH that she is, like she knows that, like there's nothing else she
can do tonight. So she kind of like sits down and next to her
and kind of she's like, Okay, I'm fine, We're fine, feel
great, great, I look great. She does not look great. It's
not I just need just another drink. You would go out, perhaps some
place, not as a maybe some food. I feel like that, yes,
my treat. Oh you're paying, so it is a day. I'm
sold. The zipper backup and like stands up kind of wiggly woman, and
she's like, yeah, I could use some real food. This is some
noodles. Some noodles. Noodle sound wonderful. Thank you, And the two
of you will walk from the cellar to an elevator and go up to the
main transportation that'll take you around and kind of moves you to the centermost hud
of Coriolists, which is a massive shopping complex. I don't think either of
you are I don't think either of you have enough money to go into any
of the like upper dinings, so you end up down here, which is
it? It makes me think of like an airport food court, like tables
open face like restaurants and like stand just like anything that you could possibly want
somebody serving. It just stalls. Yeah, it's like one of those,
uh, like the Portland food cart places where there's a bunch of different food
carts and you just kind of just like that. You just kind of do
your thing and so eat. You find some noodles and she she begins to
sober up as she munches on these noodles, and she kind of like finishes
slurping one, and she says, I have I should apologize. What the
fuck? There's nothing I apologize food. You you say, my drug ass
from a bar and then you took they didn't take advantage of me, and
then you brought me here and treated me to noodles. Oh, and that
such things? What any decent person? What can I tell you something?
Mhm? I think something bad is happening in Coriolis? Why what's what do
you mean? Kind of looks around nobody's bank any attention to a few just
people are disappearing, you know, the cyndicate has its claws and everything.
I have too much information. I have to keep changing or they'll find me
or didn't. I have to keep tell safe. Is that your sister?
No? I apologize, I should not have asked. No. Oh,
okay, she's kind of like keep that on the deal. That's probably like
her big secret, right, Like she doesn't want you to know. And
she says, I lied to you. What do you mean it was my
sister that Shuley was talking too, because she this woman, she's she's a
she's she's my mother, well as close as as I can have till my
time anymore. I'm sorry. So I think that's the reason why I need
to ask you, please, if you know anything more, if you have
seen or heard anything at all, can you please? This says she went
disappearing. She's been missing for a few days, and I think I have
the lets to say that she has. She has been investigating these disappearances as
well, and we have been trying our best to monitor and take appropriate actions.
Yes, she is like him. She kind of means like kind of
gestures like meaning mystic. We are like, oh, oh, she like
sleeps swarps up a noodle at the end, Okay, wow, way to
keep you know, the important stuff hidden secret. She got of nods and
agrees that that seems like a fair trade, and she's just showly I have.
Alia is also banking on the fact that she's probably gonna forget all this
in the morning, because she's will she will keep all of it. She
was, I have good information. And every few days there are these like
pods that just drop out of the bottom of correolist of fault the cool.
But don't say I told you what you're saying? Do you know what they
have inside? People? People heard? Is it that hard belief? All
these missing people gotta go somewhere? O, dear god, do you know
how where have you seen these pots? Have you seen them? Oh?
I've I've not seen them. I heard from a friend who heard from a
friend who, being real, might have some friends. I see. Okay,
well, this is good, this is good, this is this is
information. This is Come on, I think, I think, I think,
I think, I think I do. What can I do? She
goes, you really real wound up about this one. You seem stressed.
It's been a few days, It's been quite a few days, and this
information I'm starting to connect certain doughts, but opening new doors for more mysteries
than I need to solve. Mm And it feels like the time is running
out before I could solve anything. So I apologize if I seem a little
bit out of it. Did you know what you need? Non noodles and
no, not a drink. Just come here. I've got something to show
you. And she gotta stands up, and she takes your hand and leads
you actually to some of the upper floors, and she's like, you guys
are taking Elvis because she ever come up here where all the hooped you jews
with all the money stay. She kind of presents herself. She goes and
you can see that she's wearing very simple robes, just a little you know,
they have patterns on them, definitely something like not religious but not quite
like, just something they had to cover her shape up and kind of help
her from whatever she could do, keep eyes off of her, make her
seem less interesting than she might already be considering her height. And you go,
oh yeah, go ahead. So I look like someone phone calls up
here often vade, but I got something They love this. Anytime I'm feeling
like shit, this is what I do, and she kind of opens it
up. And when she does, she opens you up to the upper floors
of residential, which is beautiful. Here. It has fake sunlight, it
has tons of plants. There's like built in parks on this tier. There's
like a park inside of this space station with a fake sun like. It's
beautiful. It is. It is the foil of the cellar in every way
possible. I would say that the first thing that your eyes see is kind
of off in the distance in one of the buildings. There are a lot
of police officers and commandos that have like one of the balconies taped off,
and they seem to be doing There's a lot of activity over there. You
can see like lights in the whole area, and a couple of people have
gathered, but they're trying to keep people away as much as possible. And
then you you see her go free and she lifts up a hatch in the
floor. She says, do trust me. I don't know how much I
can anybody. I never heard anyone. I was about to say something to
that. She thinks, well, some adventures too hurt and points her noise.
I just clearly She kind of pulls back and you can see she's got
like a big collar bone scarches. I know what you mean, but I'm
telling you come on. And she drops down into this hatch. You can
see it like absorbs her whole body, which means it you're gonna have a
little bit of a drop down. You can see that. Do you follow
her? I do? I think I do? You know, like kind
of maybe look around, make sure nobody sees you. Like, it's just
super illegal. You're not supposed to be like under all of this, and
when you drop down, it's probably not what you expect. The you're on
the underside of this park. You can see all this dirt that is kind
of glassed in this in this massive glass thing, and you can see like
the roots of the trees, and it's like cutting the earth in half and
kind of looking down into this this piece of dirt, and she goes pretty
cool, right, But that's not the best part of my crick And you
round the corner and you see that there is a massive window that looks off
into space into blackness, not not It doesn't face the side in terms of
the rotation. It doesn't face the side of Coola. I faces out into
nothingness, and it kind of is like dome shape, so it like it
bends, it bends outward a little bit, so it's cons thinks, right,
it's convex. And she kind of walks over and she goes check it
out, and she opens her arms and she falls face first onto this this
different piece of glass, and she goes, it's fine, and she kind
of turns over and looks face down, and you can see she's like,
come on, come on, come join me. Approaches and a little more
gracefully tries to get on the floor, like knees first, and then it
kind of hesitating because clearly she's like, am I, Am I doing this
right? Is this is this right? And kind of goes face down and
when you do, yeah, when you yeah, and she goes to put
your arms out, yeah, and she's like, now just just look.
And for a brief moment, it feels like you're just floating into space.
There's nothing but glass between you and this vast void of emptiness, and you
can see stars and darkness. It's beautiful. And because of the way it's
domed, it wraps around you, so your peripheral vision is also capsed in
and there's there's a strange feeling of just floating there for a second. And
you hear Jelisa say, I come here when I'm sad and just try to
regroup. You know, I understand that's this is an experience I've never I
never thought I would face. I'm not even floating in space, and I've
been out there quite a bit, but this is different. Sometimes you just
you gotta find the stuff under the stuff, you know, I think I
do so. Uh this woman your mother. Shurely, he says, she's
important. Well, I don't know if to anybody else, but to me,
she's very important. I Uh, I think I gotta go. I
have to have to go. Just a feeling I have for thought, Wow,
will we see it again? Probably? I feel like I all you
want property after this? She loves at Jesus to see you are charming and
knew it. And she says, yeah, I've gotta I think I gotta
do mission. You know. She gotta patch you on the arm, very
like friendly and like you know, and she kind of stands up and it's
almost as if she readjusts herself. It's like, even though she's still tipsy
and kind of drunk, it doesn't really matter, and and she says,
enjoy yourself. Nobody ever comes down here anyways. Oh but they water the
plants in the morning. Don't be down here in the morning. And she
kind of saunters off, and you can see she seems deep in thought as
she kind of climbs the ladder back up and out where you drop down,
and you can hear the hatch kind of clothes, and you have kind of
a quiet moment to yourself. The hustle and bustle of this very busy district
above you, of parks and fake fake sunlight and probably fake animals and birds
to even go with it is all muted and danced out, and down here
there's nothing but this you and this window, really and Aliah just kind of
just sits down for a moment, and then as though instinctually, she kind
of just goes into her meditating pose, you know, sits down cross legged,
her eyes just kind of close for a bit, and all she's thinking
about is surely and trying to figure out where she might be. And but
then even that she's trying to dump out kind of just empty her mind and
just be because I feel like at this point ap till now. She's had
so many different worries and so many things going on in her head. She
has been like running around all these last few days trying to figure things out
that she kind of just takes this moment to you know, resenter herself,
Yeah, and kind of breathe. And you go into a little bit of
a meditative like state, like mind state, and you sit here and you
meditate, and you meditate, and sometimes with meditation, no matter how hard
you try to clear your mind, you actually see things, not that your
mind wanders, but that you're given things outside of your site you can see.
And as you sit here in this meditation, you can't seem to get
your heart to stop racing, and you can't figure out why. And while
you try to keep your mind clear, there is a word that keeps plaguing
your inner monologue that you can't seem to be too quiet in some way,
it keeps pinging you. Defiant, defiant, Tuma, defiant, tum tuma,
defiant. And this kind of repetitiveness is these two words process and your
meditation are broken by a very quick image that like slices across your mind.
Be beer, but it's not back on a sand planet. It's not in
the back of a vessel, crashed vessel. He steps off onto coriolas we
see him. He takes the hand of a woman and walks away. When
you come out, maybe of your meditation, or maybe you catch your breath,
you're sweating again, just like when you woke up a few days ago
out of a nightmare. Yeah, he's he's here. Oh, dear Lord,
he's here. And you see her get up, and she she walks
out. Immediately the silence, I mean, the peace of the place,
the quietness of the place, shattered in her mind. It's still quiet and
muffled, but to her it's now even though small noises are pretty much a
cacophony of sound that she's trying to get away from, and she starts heading
out. I think at this point, probably I think she actually might first
try to go find Jlissa again again just as a last minute, because she
she wanted to make sure that she was okay, and she made made it
home safely because she knew that she wasn't you know, in the walk back
and maybe even knock on the door, she's not there and you don't see
her again, not for well, you don't see her again. But oh,
by the way, did I recognize the woman that he was taking away?
Oh the beer you said she had? No, No, no,
you do not recognize a woman. It just was some woman he grabbed her
hand. I imagine that she was rather blurry, right because it was like
on the beer. Okay, yeah, so uh yeah, please, is
there anything specific you'd like to do, because there's gonna be a few days
that kind of trail of all here. If there's one thing specifically you'd like
to like really dig dig into, like in terms of like an informational type
thing or something you'd like to do, we can also go that route I
think for now, like definitely her now big new information was about the people
being you know, sent out and somehow the syndicate is involved in this,
in the movement of people, so you might try to go in and investigate
that. Okay, you can roll a it's not substrafuge. What is it?
What do they call them? This game A it's gonna come infiltration,
and infiltration will be like I'm going to kind of sneak around and just try
to pick up information spy style. Okay, that is, you could choose
to do just a flat like I'm going to sit around and see what I
observe. That's always an off you could hang into. You could try to
command some people to give you, Like you could try to command it out
of some people. You could try to I was going to see manipulated out
of them, And that's kind of like a you could try to talk it
out of them. Or I don't know what kind of mystic abilities do you?
I have a premonition, I believe. Let me double check. Where
is it? Where is it mystic powers? Premonition? Yes, is the
what I have? You could always use. You could always try to actually
roll for a premonition. True, I think, yeah, I think that's
what she might try doing. Just because it's a few days. Like after
a few days, I imagine that we see you walk the sellers pine over
this. You find nothing. You find nothing, no sign of Showy.
Nobody knows where she is. Most people, I mean most people don't even
know who she is. Because nobody's supposed to know who she is. You
continually hit dead ends, and you're beginning to feel a sense of loss,
as if she's not gonna come back, and you know that you don't have
the means to take a flight to Kola. So maybe we see you at
one point sit up again out of a hot sweat, maybe a nightmare,
maybe a bad dream, or maybe you're just like Dot and you sleep hot
and you I feel like she would definitely be now that she knows of the
place. I feel like she would keep going back to that domed area where
like space is available, just because now she does find some sort of peace
there. Yeah, maybe even hoping that like oh and then definitely she may
return. Yeah, I think definitely that that night she's she she remembers it
and hope, well, part of it is out of concern, like hoping
she was okay, because she seemed like something had come up and walked away
on a mission of some sort. Yea, so hoping she came back from
a said mission and she was fine. Far No word from Jalissa. But
you meditate, and this day you decide maybe you'll do even a little more,
Maybe you'll actually try to reach out a little bit and wield the darkness
through your mystic abilities. So let's get your mystic powers. Role Okay,
a limited success, that's a still success. You sit into deep meditation,
you can feel the space beneath you as you sit kind of in this domed
window, and you leave yourself a little bit. And I'm going to make
sure, because premonition is different than another one. I don't want to I
want to make sure get it right. Okay, here we go. That's
the darkness point page. That's the darkness point. Skills talents, that's what
I want, right, Talents talents I think so, no talent I thought?
Is that? Ye? Talents? Group talents? Yeah? Sorry,
mystic ability, talents, cybernetics. Okay, general talents. Where are you
mystic Okay, we go here, maybabe, we go. Okay, you
premonition in some mysterious ways. You can sense impending danger. Okay, that's
a great I just wanted to finish reading that perfect Okay. So you sit
here and this that same pounding in your heart you can heal hear it right.
It begins to It starts real slow, and it begins to pick up
as your adrenaline begins to race, and your mind and your body and your
essence reaches out into the darkness for some kind of answer. A premonition back,
of course. And you know this is how the power works. The
balance as Sholey would call it of having an ability, is that your premonition
is always of impending doom. That is what premonitions are. It's never going
to be about something happy. It's always going to be about impending doom.
And I might see something for season three instead. Okay, you sense something
in space and time, a disruption that same song, it calls out.
It's more urgent now than ever before. But you still can't hang on to
it right. You can't manage to get grasp or your mind can't hold it.
You feel so much pain and misery, so much hurt and harm and
hate. It's almost over whelming, and you may think you're going to drown.
And then as your body literally breathes, your premonition kind of stops rushing
and comes to a resounding halt. You see, you see Samina standing over
the body of a man. He's not anybody that you know, but he
seems of import Two daggers stick out of his sides, and he seems to
sit rather gingerly like in a chair, like he was in the chair.
And then she stabbed him, probably from behind, and she looks over at
him as he bleeds from kind of the size of his mouth, and he
clearly kind of dies there, and then you see Julissa. She doesn't look
you know it. She listen, but she doesn't look like the blonde girl
from the bar at all, curly dark hair. She walks through empty darkness.
She carries a handmade weapon and you can hear this growling off in the
distance as she gets a running start and dives for some massive creature that hides
in metal hallways. And then it cuts one more time and you see shurely
in the arms of a red haired woman. There are other people there,
and you watch as she dies, sound of blaster shots in the background,
and she she fades away. Her light goes out, and then this strange
man that you don't know, he opens something. He lets the light back
out, and she breathes life once again, and that breath of showly coming
back is in fact also your breath as you're kind of ripped out of this
premonition. Oh my god, Oh my god, Oh my god. She
runs she's in her room at this point, or is in the domed area.
I would say, you're in this domed area, okay. She immediately
runs out and you know, climbs up the stairs. You climb up the
stairs and there is somebody adjudicator mask. She's a female. She stops,
looks down at you crawling out of this hatch. She says, you're not
supposed to be in there. Uh quick, I'm sorry. I was lost.
I was just time to find my way and the hatch was open.
I thought that was the next old down papers. Come now, I don't
mean the papers I just walked out. It's it's not I can carry them
with me everywhere I go. Coriolist policy says you should have your papers on
you at all times. You can try to make a manipulation if you'd like.
All right, m y a success. She got a squints and she
says, dare I ask what you were doing under the park? Well,
I mean I heard that that was it a way out. I was trying
to go back to the law and levels. I'm sorry. It's a big
station and I'm bad. Leave you one out here? And where were you
trying to go back to the law of lens the seller? Yes, she
says, well, you're in luck. I'll escort you. She you can
hear her like click the colms on in her in her headset headed down to
the cellar. I'll be back to the crime scene shortly. Oh, Kasha
out, and she says, come, I am judicated, Kasha, I
am tad busy, but we can't have raf raff running around in the underbelly
of Coriolis. So let me assure you make it back to where you belong.
Thank you for thinking the time. Trouble always, but it is my
job. Thanks. Thank you for doing it, she said. Since you
don't have your papers, can you at least tell me your name? My
name is on It's nice to meet you. Oh yeah, I'd say it's
nice to meet you too, but there's nothing nice about Coriolis these days.
Come She, with great vigor and purpose, marches down into the cellar.
You take. She doesn't say much unless you're gonna try to talk to her.
She's not gonna talk to you. This is basically a police escort back
to your district. She drives with me like like casual band turned. I
think she might actually want to investigate more into like what the situation that she
was on talking about the walkie talking if she can gather it at all,
considering how many things are going on. Oh, that's an observation or wits
roll. Okay, think either, I'll take either. What is my observation,
is this yours? I will do wits because that is much better.
Okay. She doesn't talk much about it. She says, Unfortunately, I
can't disclose that information. It is a crime scene. I'm sure you've heard.
And she gestures to one of the monitors that's repeating the story of the
emissary missing emmissary ah, and she says, but don't you worry. We're
here to keep you safe and sure that we returned the emmissary exactly like he
left. That's good to hear. Thank you, and she says, now
and the kind of elevator like sides open, She says, home, please,
And if you're going to visit the upper floors, at least respect the
people that live there. I have not I understand. I've not met anybody.
I have not disturbed anybody. I just happened to vote at all.
I understand. I apologize. She kind of nods, and you see she
actually steps off the elevator and hence the opposite direction of you deep like off
into another part of the sellers. She seems to have business here. Possibly
Aliah hesitates for a bit and then she follows, or tries to follow as
follow well more of like, she tries to see if she can. You
know, this is her place, is her home. She's just she's just
walking around. Make it as it's an infiltration. If you don't have infiltration,
you can roll agility. Oh actually I might have agility, but the
Mecheck infiltration is a zero, So yeah, agility. Let's see. Dear
lord's come on, did you do it? Failure? Oh fuck? Now,
here's the thing though, you are following and not very well like she
probably knows this year there, but she doesn't really care because as she rounds
the corner, she almost gets hit with a shot a fire a blaster shot.
As it like, she kind of backs up, and she immediately grabs
her gun and comes around the corner and she says, i'mould judicator, Kasha
pulls your weapons down, and a firefight begins to break out here in the
cellar. Not unheard of. It happens all the time. You're kind of
around the corner. Do you do anything you could also reroll? That's right,
Chat's right, you could give me a darkness point. I mean,
she y'all are just setting up for all these darkness points when y'all try to
break Seul out of that. I think, honestly, like she thinks that
she has I think this is actually in character considering her stature and who she
is, Like this is very much like she is a jilt. You know,
she does have a agility, and you know she's quite spry all considering,
but you know she is big and she's you know, easy to be
identified. So goodness is, there's a lot of commotion as like people scream,
a woman grabs her kid, and a lot of people are running away
from the action, and you can hear kind of the shouts as a fires
you know, shots are fired. Two people say, uh, they're not
who they say they are. They're taking our women and children. You know,
there's like this whole like chaotic just like choo choo choo bitle are like
shooting blasters. Do you intercombat? Do you round the corner? That's the
real question. I think at that point Aliah does, especially after hearing you
know, they're taking the women and children, a sense of protection, a
sense of wanting to help them comes about, and literally I think what she
does because it's a firefight, is there anything like big and thick around like
a barrier of any sort. Doesn't mean yeah, crates. There would be
probably some kind of some steel barrel you could pick up. Yeah, I
wouldn't know that. It's probably not flat, like it's not like a shield
like a sheet of metal, but you could find something to put in front
of you or yeah, I think no, she picks that up and kind
of tries to hide behind and use that as a method of uh okay cover,
Yeah, okay, And I imagine that it's probably right there on the
edge and as you kind of squat, you can even peer over and see.
And what you see is there are it's Causha two more commandos in like
full armor gear, and they're firing at three kind of average citizens, three
men down at the other end of this like area that's now very much cleared
out. They seem to be the It seems that these civilians believe that the
two commandos are not who they say they are. Mmmm. I would say,
oh, man, what would she do? And she did she hear
the person uh that said they're trying to take the woman and children? And
is there any civilians and dangers so far other than like the people that are
trying to get out. It seems that these men are accusing these other two
commandos of specifically being not who they say they are, and that they're involved
in these in all the people going missing, not specifically any women and children
on site right now, but they are involved in the larger mysticide problem.
Mhmm, oh man, do you I mean, I guess the first thing
she tries to do is look for seeing you like to see if that she
can protect anybody that's around that that that's kind of you know, hidden or
you know, in hiding and trying to cover from the fire. Maybe there's
you know what, it's perfect for you. There's a kid who you hear
whimpering, who's like hiding on the opposite side of the hallway behind some like
crates and things. Okay, she will, she will try to make her
way there. Okay, yeah, you kind of dodge over his more blaster
fire comes by. The kid is kind of like I dropped. It's okay,
it's okay, I'm here, I'm fine. You're one of the men
goes ah, and he falls through the ground dead. They've shot one of
them. I cover his vision. I covered the kid's vision and like,
okay, look at me, Look at me. You'll be fine. Come
here, Come here, Come here, Come here. And then he like
she like lifts him up and kind of hugs him clothes and kind of tries
to cover like his face and like puts it against her shoulders so that way
very much like arms around your neck, like there's no fight from this child.
Yeah, and then I try to hand the delete, pick up the
crate, yeah, and toss it and yeah, and I'm going to like
what I'm gonna do is I think Galia is going to try and to toss
it into like a different corner to kind of distract people away from this situation,
as though like everybody kind of looks there, and then she's going to
try to make her way out of there. Okay, let's go ahead and
toss it. So this is gonna be a force, Okay, all right,
full of stuff. Okay, God damn you you toss it. It's
just not very far is it like explode open? And it basically doesn't cause
in the distraction, Like you toss this crate out there, and it kind
of goes sliding between the judicator commandos and the what is left now of these
two men and as you pick this couch out up and you kind of toss
it out. Then you run across to safety. You kind of see out
of the corner of your eye they take down the other two men, shoot
them dead. The firefight kind of stops, and as you get to the
other side, there's a woman there and she screams as she kind of reaches
out for the kid, clearly the child's mother, and she says, thank
you so mud, thank you so much. And she tries to like give
you stuff like she's got like bread and some things on her run. It's
not safe, get out of here. Take take take your things, take
your kid. Rubs the kid, yeah, and she runs. You tell
her to run. She's running. She trusts you, And then you hear
them having a conversation because they didn't really see you kind of pass like behind
you. Hear Castias say, clean up this mess. And the two of
you need to hide yourselves better. We can't have just anybody claiming that you're
not who you say you are. Business upstairs. If I hear about this
again, I'll make sure the two of you all right at the wrong end
of blaster. And they're both like you hear them both go yes, ma'am,
and they kind of begin like picking the bodies up and starting to kind
of like move them. People stay clear of this area. Kasha comes across
and she reaches into just a pocket on her cargo pants and she begins taping
this area off, creating like a crime scene, and she hits her calms,
you know, reports it to send extra people, and Kasha walks off
like farther where the same direction she was headed. She'll she still clearly has
all of that business down here, but you're not going to be able to
continue to follow her because it's on the wrong side of this crime scene.
And again, a few days will pass, the song gets louder and stronger,
and that feeling in your gut of Shorely dying doesn't seem to go away.
In fact, you are pretty sure you feel her die. Maybe you're
having dinner or trying to meditate, but something leaves you. When it leaves
her, you feel her pass. And then on this night, you're woken
up in a hot sweat, not by a bad dream, but by a
feeling, by a voice in your your mind's eye, Sholey's voice, and
she says, wake up. Balia is am I in is She in like
a you're you sit up, you're you're in your you're in your bedroom,
like you heard her her voice, but you sit up and she's not there.
Oh my god, oh okay, to get it together, on it
together. I think think think there's a non chose door. Who is it?
You? It might beat might be a small little screen or hood or
something. Uh, you turn it on out front, is Semina. She's
very clearly trying to hide her face. She wears a hood, which is
not usual for her. I opened the door immediately. Oh my god,
thank god, thank god. And then she she actually runs up and like
straight up just bear hugs. Yeah, and and she Semina is not used
to that. She goes, okay, I was just here to deliver some
good information. It seems you may need it. What have you been a
god? You're okay? How you been fine? Of course I am.
I've been undercover. I guess you could say, I've been doing some more
researching into this problem. Come come, come, come. Oh. She's
already in the door like closed, and she's like, I have found the
source. It seems that they are done moving people for a while. They
got what they needed, but not giving up. Yet my time will come
and she kind of adjusted, she says, but that's not why I'm here
at this time. You can, like Alias pretty distraught, and so like
half of what she's saying is resisting, half of it is not, and
all you hear is selling. Go, Okay, that's good. That's Alia.
Sit sit down, sit down, Okay. Would you like to talk
about it? She kind of rolls her eyes a little bit. Don't talk
about it, or do I even begin? What do I say? Surely
her say what's on your mind? Oh? I feared that Surely might not
say anything. I felt a guy something that I felt her begging paths,
And yet today I hear her voice in my head. I don't know.
I don't know what to say. I don't know what to do. I've
been searching frantically for her, and each day more desperate, each day more
hopeless. And then as soon as I hear that voice, you show up.
I don't know what to do. I was here to tell you I've
gotten to the bottom of the tumor. Name keeps coming up. It seems
that there is a pilot. She's likable. She her name tal Tuma.
If you said Tom, I did she flies with them an interesting crew to
say the least. Some would say they are judged. She kind of stands
upright. You would know that one of the big constant struggles between her and
Shulty was that she chose to worship the Judge and not the Lady of Tears.
That there was always a little contention there because they are very different icons
and they were present very different things. It says that being said, I
got word about two hours ago. I have put a request to know the
goings to and from of Tao Tuma's vessel, the Defiant. I have a
particular interest in one of her crew. It's part of my plan. Needless
to say, they have arrived back on Coriolis. Maybe you'll find what you're
looking for with this tal Tuma. Okay, And you see like a closed
her eyes for a little bit. I'm kind of just piece herself back together
again and kind of s up a little straighter, like she's definitely trying to
get more composed and bring it in together. And especially now that those words
like defined and Tuma have been said in this conversation, she realizes this is
what this is it, This is the final Finally, the lead or the
direction that she's been looking for this entire time, and she thank you,
This is exactly what that need. Is. Everything appreciated to me. Don't
thank me yet. Their trouble, the whole lot of them. Also,
Okay, we'll get wrong. I mean, if you say they are,
I'll be careful. Do you know where Atlanta? Do you know how I
can find them? She hands you a slip of paper, handwritten private docks.
Good luck. What these are in the upper one hundred floors of Coriolis.
They're parked in the shanky uh side of Coriolis. Oh dear, ah,
wow, this is going to be an easy elevate up. I always
supposed to get up there. That's not my problem, and I must go.
Like I said, m puzzle pieces are moving and one of the important
ones just arrived back on Coriolis. Okay, well, thank you, thank
you so much. No, I'm glad you're okay. Hey, you keep
saying that that's true. She kind of smiles a small smile, and she
says, well till next time. Oh, and you owe me one kind
of hits. Yeah, she hits the button. It like slides up in
and now you can see like your silhouette what do you say some tea,
Suffice, She goes, You know, I don't drink tea. Another white
her and Showy always had, and she kind of leaves. Here's the thing
about the private docks. Not anybody can be in this area, So it's
wealthy residential. It's going to take you a couple of days to get the
right codes and the right people before you can make your way up there.
But finally, after about forty eight hours of hard work and probably trading every
bird that you have, you get the right access coast to get up the
elevator and the right access coast to like get into that that numerical section of
those like private docks. And you see it, a ship docked at the
end of a sterile like gangway, and written on the side, this is
the defiant She She starts approaching the ship carefully. I mean, she doesn't
want to incite any unnecessary eyes, especially considering that she should definitely not be
here at all in any sense of the Lord. And I think, oh,
she definitely tries to spooce herself up a bit. She has an old
selt of a bit more of a religious attire that she's kept for more formal
occasions, and you see it's it's it's not as it's not form fitting,
but it's not as loose as her robes. She has a what's the weapon
that I have? The door sword? Uh, this doura sword or more
of a dagger I guess you could say ceremonial dagger in her waist like against
her belt and still her like her face is being covered by a veil with
her voice modulator on and tries to feel a bit more upper class or look
a bit more classy, so that way, at least you know, her
attire won't give her away. I would say, you gotta spruce yourself up.
You've been preparing for this. It is taking me, like I said,
forty eight hours. In this time, there's been a big hoop to
do about a man named Murez Alcan who's been arrested and is being blamed with
a large portion of the Mysticides. He's being taken away basically forever and put
into one of the top tier like critical prisons in the third Horizon. There's
been a whole lot of things going on, but that is really the one
that's like made front page and I kind of see it flash right whereas I
can leaves Coriolis last night, right on a screen behind you, as we
see you walk down this gangway towards the ship, do you ring, do
you knock? Do you say anything? I definitely if there's an intercom,
she rings the intercom and you hear, yeah, I think we've had a
ship doorbell before. It's like doo doo, and it like it rings,
and I imagine there is a little bit of a pregnant pause and the screen
then pops up and it's a not a face that you know, but a
voice that you know. Somebody says, holy shit, Aaliyah, and it's
very clearly Julissa. She looks very beat up. You can see she's got
a little bit of a black eye. And she hits the button and it
like slides open, and you kind of see Julissa is standing there, and
behind her there are quite a few people one, two, three, four
of them didn't get there, right, No, three of them because one
of them is that one of them's yeah. Three people plus Julissa stand there
looking at you and she's what are you doing here? I think I'm not
expecting you here. Well, I wasn't expecting you here, What are you
doing. I'm looking for some I'm looking for a shorty. She grabs you
and like pulls you into the ships and she takes you, like without saying
anything, around the corner to the medical bay. There lie shurely sleeping or
like resting. You can see she's on she's not on a Venti lator or
anything anymore, but she's very malnourished. She looks very sickly. And Jelisa
says, I said, she's gonna be really mad that I let you on
the ship, But you inspired me to do a little bit more digging.
I found out some stuff and made my way to Cool. Cool. You
said, yeah, she was shipped down with the rest of them. She's
she's the only one who made it out alive. Sure, And you just
see Allia can like as if thought all the stress that she's been holding in
kind of get relieved. But then at the same time it feels like like
it's like this sense of bosses, I mean, sense of stress being relieved
and then another additional burden now being added on with the thought of her being
the only one alive and the implications that come with that. But it doesn't
it's there, but it hasn't fully registered with her. All she sees is
Sholey in front of her, and like her hands shakily approach and grabs her
hand, Sholey's hand. Oh. Her eyes probably actually flutter awake at this
point. And she she smiles at you and she reaches her hand up and
she says, oh, yeah, you love her. I wish I could
say the same for you. Yes, well, I have been rescued from
what we can talk, Alad, I just start, she says, listen,
I need you to do something for me. Can you do this?
And it waits you get through not she goes, I am, and it's
important. They gave up something important, very important, so that I could
be here. Oh good. She gestures to the door, where I imagine
you see Tale and Tamror standing. I'm not sure. I spend about forty
eight hours since say Land, and Malik was probably starting his like hiding process.
He may not be there quite yet, but he's getting close. Maybe
he's there, maybe not, but definitely the two of them, they kind
of stand and hover in the door, and she says, they did,
they stopped the operation. And I don't have the energy to tell you all
this now, but listen to me. I can't stay on Coriolis anymore.
What do you what do you mean? Where are you going? She says,
We've always been fugitives, Ali, but there is something much bigger at
play here and I need you to teach them. And her head kind of
rolls and looks too to mirror and tell they need you and I must go.
I'm being called elsewhere. I have been given a second chance. I
cannot waste that. She says, I've been together for ten I can't.
I can't imagine with don't you? I mean, did you go for a
few days? But you're not without me. I'll be back, but I'm
leaving the Sorry cool, I'm not leaving you. She kind of pats and
squeezes your hand. She says, I'm giving you something, a gift,
a family. And she kind of looks at you know, Jlissa and Towel
and to me or and she says, these are these are good people,
and the icons they watch out for them. They need your guidance. The
two of them have abilities that I can't understand. They're connected in a strange
way. Their abilities are intertwined, and they don't have a teacher. You
have been my student for fifteen years. You are not my student anymore,
she says, more importantly, there is a soul that needs savings. It
is the same soul that was sacrificed for mine. I know you don't understand
now, but you will. And she kind of tries to sit up a
little bit. M h. She says, I will leave tomorrow. Are
you're not even fit to get up? Right now? She says, do
you underestimate me? She's not a fair question. Let's get dinner and some
tea, and I have desperately missed a good meditation. And tomorrow morning I'll
answer your questions. Okay, it's not goodbye forever, just goodbye for now.
And it's not even tomorrow yet, Aliyah, what is the one lesson
you're always learning? We must live in the now? Come? And she
kind of very weakly stands to show you that she can walk, and Julissa
probably helps her, and towel and Tami or watch and maybe as the two
of you go to leave, to maybe get some food or to find some
privacy so that you can spend your last twenty four hours together, you see
a man Malik sitting at a table in the Defiant like in the mess area
on the table in front of him as a canister. It's a cylindrical canister,
you know, like about the height of like a sup canster, but
a little bit whidter. It has like glowing red edges kind of like around
it, like where it's kind of the mechanisms locked in place. And though
it doesn't look anything like anything you've ever really seen, there is something about
it. He I don't want to say that, he cries, but he
seems to be in mourning, literally mourning over this canister, and something about
it flashes back to you mourning over a container and a vessel fifteen years ago.
It all feels so personal and kind of like home, and surely explains
to you why these people need you and why you need them, and how
you can no longer stay on Coriolis. She tells you about the dead Emmissary
spoiler alert. She tells you about the dead Emmissary and the kind of experiments
that they were doing on the Mystics, and she tells you that there are
still four mystics, are four Emmissaries out there hiding among the stars, and
she and this crew are going to find them, and she wants you to
help I my best. You always do, and she's come on, I
need a cup of tea, and we see Showley and Dali'll walk off for
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