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to these wonderful, amazing faces that you see here before you. With that,
let's say it so I got I'll turn things over, dot take us
into space, my friends, I was looking for my sticky note, but
oh because I think okay, yes, all right. Last week led to
a lot of new darkness point I'm sitting on ten no. Nine. In
fact, nine darkness points due to a lot of difficult roles made by the
party. As they infiltrated an abandoned tower, they finally got to use the
crawler. They literally drove up the side of this temple found some of the
Nazarene agents, these martyrs that were here to recover exactly what they were here
well to recover. Unfortunately they didn't find it before Malik took the floor out
from underneath them. And the party now stands on the precipice of this crumbling
floor that overlooks a destroyed bath house. And it is Tamir that points up
at the chandelier I believe a critical success role and points out the probe.
Oh my gosh, what are we're signaling things? They want to know I've
critical success. Oh that's right, it was a five critical success, not
just any Yeah, it was. It was great. Tamir gets the bright
idea of like, what is possibly happening or where could they possibly have hid
this because the agents did not find it in this room, and it of
course is hidden in the chandelier that now hangs from the ceiling of this chamber
above what is a forty foot drop to the floor below. Since Malik took
the floor out, I believe Tao landed a punch. I mean I was
going for it. It was a narrative punch. Well, it's gonna be
a real punch now. I feel like like, if ever in the future
there's me too that actually become a physical punch against Mike. Just be like
you dick, Oh we have he actually it was. It was very sweet.
At the end of the the sleepover that we both attended. Uh,
he found all of the red gummy bears and brought them to me in a
bag, just the red ones. That was a secret, not anymore ruined.
This is showing its baked into the brand. Why everyone accepts it?
So here in your life, Mike clearly t mirror points this thing out so
you all see it. Kasha floats face down in the pool below you,
And how do you want to land a punch? Yeah, okay, I'm
gonna have your roll a melee combat attack. Yeah, I'm I see a
leak and uh yeah, my tap Did I close it? Oh no,
no, it's over here. Just kidding, I know where my character sheet
is. Hm hm m m mmmmmm melee combat a little bit is just us.
Okay, one success is all you need. But how much armor are
you wearing? Uh? That depends on you. Dot. I had originally
given my armor to Lamara in like season one, but after we exploded and
got rebuilt into you're landing a face sit right, yeah? Yeah, yeah,
there's no armor on the face. Yeah, yeah, so that there
is a there is a bit of damage that you take. His towel lands
a really really hard punch. You can take some trauma. If you're feeling
sauty about it, I'll take it. I'll take a point. It's not
like we take a point, yeah, and maybe bust your nose or your
lip and we see a little bit of blood spatter across the wall. Say,
you need to tell someone the plan. You're welcome, you need to
tell someone the plan. It's one thing to have a plan where you only
do it and you're the only one at risk. But what if we had
run into that room? Why he listen? Okay, he gave me a
bomb. He said, there are six people on this floor. And I
said, don't worry. I have an idea. And he said, okay,
he knew what I was doing. That does not sound like a plan
or that's not a plan. Well they in that case, I didn't have
a plan, and therefore I didn't need to tell you the plan I didn't
have. Also, you're welcome, great, thanks, good time. During
this punch and uh uh conversation, we'll call it uh, Tamir has been
rather quiet. If you were in Tamir's head, you would probably hear ya,
Tamir, it's Aurora, you have a problem. I feeling so good?
And a static rings out across Tamir's head. Uh as Malik uh says
those humbling words. Your brother's eyes roll into the back of his head and
he drops to the ground unless somebody attempts to catch him. I'll try,
Yeah, I would. I would. Also, Basically, it's just a
kind of a it's a reflex base roll, so you can roll a dexterity
or an agility. Try to okay you all you all reached for him to
no success. Uh. It's almost a surprise as his body thudged the ground.
The eyes still roll back into the back of his head. Lamar is
there. Uh you know what, Lamar is there? M hm uh.
She runs over. I don't think she's gonna be able to pitch him,
and she probably doesn't even try, but she does run over, and she
will. She checks him what she kind of like, if he doesn't already
have his helmet off, she opens it up or takes the helmet off.
Okay, and she says, I don't know what's going on. He has
a pulse. He seems to be breathing, but it's like he had a
seizure or something. I can't do anything with him here, what do you
mean or something? I'm not entirely sure. It seems he's passed out in
some way. He's unresponsive nonetheless, and she kind of you know, pats
his face and snaps his to Meir T Meir. She checks his eyes and
they're still like rolled back to the whites. Not to be insensitive to my
little brother here, did he tell us where the probe was? Because I
know he was the one that saw it in the last episode. Yes,
he pointed it out to you, Okay, cool. I think at that
point I think Alia will lift him up and basically like cradle him and kind
of looks at uh uh, sorry, I was at how it was.
If it's okay, perhaps I can take him back to the ship where you
two can deal with this. I think we're good. Then do we have
any more? Do we know if there's any more in here? I thought
we did. We grab all of them, and the people that were here
with the bomb that we know of, Yes, there or incapacitated to a
very extensive degree. So you seem, from what you can tell, to
be alone, because I remember the rest of this tower seemed evacuated or empty
already. Okay, So I turned to like, can I say, okay,
big brain, how the hell do we get that down? I don't
shoot it. It's going to fall into the pool below and break. I
don't know. I don't have a bomb for that. Not everything can be
fixed with bombs. Well, then why are you asking me? I hack
things and blow things up. That's pretty much the extent of it. Okay,
Well, no blowing things up until I know what they are first.
Okay, because now I have to figure out how to get that thing down
without breaking it. It is the very injured or somewhat injured. What is
her name? My brain just died. A mirror, A mir who's standing
there, and she says, I can get it, but I guess I
should ask permission. Now you've got to tell the plan for RINOs. I'm
just what are you going to do to get it? She peels back like
a vesti layer she's wearing as almost a bellcrode, and she boops a button
and you see she's wearing a suit underneath, much like the spider suit that
was what's given to Yep. Alright, go for it, she says,
hold this, and she like unloads all her weapons, like all the things
kind of off of her hips, you know, and drops into the floor.
She's I hate this, and she jumps kind of back and out the
open doorway that drops below and sticks her hands to the wall above and begins
to like pull herself up and over and you can kind of hear the suit
working as she releases. I imagine it's kind of like that mission impossible,
like gloves right that you have to you know, this way that way,
and you can hear it, and she like up the wall and she climbs
so she's upside down on the ceiling above, and she's just next to the
chandelier. Does are y'all just gonna let her do the thing? Yeah?
I don't. I don't have any way of helping her. Hey, she
how crazy? Does she want? HI? With this little amount of crazy?
Just no crazy nothing, Just all right? You know we're gonna We're
gonna roll and see how she does. And then I'll tell you, Oh,
I gotta do a limited okay to uh great, a limited access.
Ignore the really really bad failure in that role didn't happen. She uh looks
at all of you upside down on the ceiling and gives kind of a cheeky
smile. Uh and uh she backs up along the ceiling to put some distance
between her and the chandelier. Uh. And she releases her hands to just
her feet, so she's standing entirely upside down, and she gets a running
start, and she jumps and releases from the ceiling and does kind of an
aerial flip and hits the chandelier and swings it forward. It comes at a
very fast pace towards the entryway of the door. It seems that she's going
to crash it onto uh solid ground. All of you need to make a
dexterity check to avoid big hit by a chandelier. Cool? Cool? Which
check? She said, dexterity yes, correct or or you can choose to
roll a force check and stand there and catch it. Well, I'm moving
anywhere, so I'm gonna try to do the force check. It was the
same, okay, So the good news is, uh, yes, you
got this. Ares the good news is, uh it comes just as she
planned, kind of rips free of the ceiling below that has been kind of
destructured by the explosion him and the chain swings down and heads straight for the
entryway. Uh. Malik manages to kind of move to the side, but
it looks like Tao is inevitably going to be uh like pummeled by this as
she kind of rides it down. But our dear Alia steps right in the
way and catches the chandelier with her bare hands as it kind of swings into
the space, so there is no crashing and it does not in fact break.
She proudly climbs off, putting her feet on the ground near the precipice.
Told you a job with more careful next time. I had to get
it to solid ground. Had I crawled on top of it. It was
going to release to the floors. Blue, I'll cut all over her face
next time it's real walk out. I just realized I probably would have had
to drop tw mirror because I was originally holding him, so it would have
been like, uh like I kind of a hopefully landing him in a brace.
It's okay, we could with so I imagine that if nothing else,
Lamar has moved him to the side. Yeah, you probably dropped him,
you know, and then like caught this chandelier. Malik Malik definitely mumbles under
his breath as he is getting out of the way or watching tal move out
of the way. Uh, I don't think knowing the plan really helped on
that one. I'm sorry. She takes out a she grabs the dura knife
that she like took off of her belt and slices through the chain that's still
kind of connected into the room and has ripped the ceiling, so it comes
free and Alia you're able to kind of set it down to the ground and
you can see in this multi tiered chandelier the probe, which is about the
size of a basketball, as we would know it has been fixated into the
center part of this to shield it, as if to hide it in some
way. It has been welded in here. Oh oh, what would a
doura steel sword be able to cut through any of that? Uh? Possibly,
but this seems like a much more delicate touch, as if like the
wrong cut could destroy the probe. Right, So a torch of some kind
some mechanics tools would probably do it. Of course, ta mirror is unavailable,
but his tools are with him. I was gonna say, I was
gonna say Tal has welding experience, probably has done something similar to this quite
a few times on our ship. Yeah, patching something or or removing something.
So if you don't have the tools, I imagine Tamir definitely does.
How you can search his bell for like a small hand torch or something like
that to like heat the metal. Yeah, but you will need to make
a techno m technology role technology role, Yeah, take tech here, It's
not really science to do this. A limited success hey, Yeah, whoever
welded it in was very much a pro and did a very good job of
making this look like an original part of this kind of pewter colored chandelier.
And it takes you a minute to find, uh, like the right spots
to heat and weaken. But how does an okay job with no damage to
the probe. It takes a little effort to kind of like break it free,
and you can't really do it without breaking the chandelier. But eventually it
does pop out the probe perfect? Is it in small enough that we can
just carry it around? Yeah? Like you know, it's like a basketball
would like fit under the arm. It is a metal chunk of metal though
it weighs about twenty pounds. Yeah, I got it. It's fine.
Uh, Alia, grab t mirror. Let's did anybody survive down there?
I don't think so. Has anybody moved? He like glanced? Not from
one? Well, let's uh, you know what, No, Dot,
let's not. I can tell you. I know what you're doing, Dot,
and I really didn't. I'm gonna just see if that's the faerit cover?
No, thank you, Dot. Has anybody moved? Hold on far
too? Loll No Dot, No one moved, Dot? How do I
want to do this? I think we're just gonna roll a flash. Still
going, guys, I'm all a flat okay? I then nope, we're
all twenty Why are you the way you are? What I can't get to
the character sheet now, okay, finally roll it off a different one,
so always be good. I have too many windows open. Do you want
me to roll for a Kasha? I was, aha, okay, or
try again? Yeah. The character sheet was like stuck because every time I
moved my mouth, it kept sizing the window down and up, and I
was like, no, no, I want to click a button. Yeah
yeah, so okay, I got you. Now I'm good. Okay,
she is going to roll to see if she goes unnoticed. Okay, all,
okay, I will give you all a observation check one thing. I'm
very observant, but I can try. Okay, you're dot on this point.
Okay, Actually no I'm not. Okay. I just got cut up
with glass. Yeah, makes sense. And you just almost got pumbled by
a flying chandelier. So yeah, Alia and Malik, you do notice that
the floating body of Kasha is missing. You did not see her? Leap
is one, two, three, four five. Shit, I don't think
I would know, right, Actually I would. I wouldn't know. You
would just know that that the body that was down there is missing. There
was six guys. Now he showed it's not under the rouble. I think
there was one floating right there and they're not floating. Yeah, great,
so now we have another person somewhere around here. I mean to be fair,
they did get exploded and fell I don't know twenty is feet and got
to hit with rubble, so maybe they're doing real bad. Yeah, let's
just think so. Well, I kind of look around, say we should
probably find them then, because if they're doing real bad, they probably haven't
gotten very far. Perhaps I should Maybe you guys can do that. Then
I can take medical patients now back to the ship. I'm sorry, find
them and what tie off Lussan? I suppose not me? Wow? Just
what that did? You're really seems like, uh whatever, let's go.
Let's just get back there. You know what. Really, I just hope
they haven't taken my crawler. I continue, but uh olie escoops to mir
up. Yeah, we're only just a force check for like a to make
sure you'll be able to pick him up with the question is can you maintain
the walk back to m because he also shut the elevators down. Perfect,
okay, limited success. You begin to get tired near the end and you
have to take the stairs because the elevators are out of order. Uh.
And there's a lot of huffing as you lug to Mirror in his spacesuit down
a flight of stairs actually three four four flights upstairs if I remember correctly,
back down to the loading bait when you arrive. Hmmm hmm. Okay,
you can see that, uh the there. You do not see signs of
anybody here that anybody hasn't made it before you. There's no signs of the
vessel that they rode in on. The Nazarene agents rode in on, still
sitting there, Your crawler still sitting there. Uh. Part of you coming
up here was also to get parts for your ship. Oh yeah, so
oh uh, I'm actually going to take the Nazarene ship. Okay, because
the Crawler was useful getting here, but the Nazarene ship both has the fuel
and the parts that we'll need to get off the ground here in my shift.
Uh, so we're going to take the shep. Somebody could take the
crawler. Y'all could split up, I guess if you wanted to get the
crawler back. I actually have a remote terminal and I can control the controller
the control the crawler from my tab nice, okay, great, perfect,
Okay, we should make sure that there's no one in the crawler who goes
and peaks. Yeah, who goes to peak? I'll go okay, you
know what, a mirror will accept the other right, she goes because the
two guys or three guys that she got rid of on the ship to begin
with, she finally lugs their bodies out, dumps them, and gives you
the thumbs up that it's clear. Okay, so everybody go ahead and get
in the ship. We're going to take that ship back. Okay, you
load up. I imagine you have to strap t Mere's body into a seat.
There are only four seats on this plus the driver's seats. Is there
still one for everybody? No, somebody has to stand, wants to stand.
I think it's a unanimous decision at this point, I was gonna say,
Malik stand controlling the he's controlling the thing. Yeah, okay, I
need a piloting roll from Tao with I don't think you get You're not gonna
get a blessing here. You're not gonna get uh uh yeah. It's just
it's gonna be a straight piloting check. And then my need Yeah, unless
their ship has anything. Uh, well, this is okay, so some
things here. You're gonna recognize this vessel not as a butterfly ship, but
as a consortium funded vessel. This is part of like a military vessel,
which means they either stole it or undercover or working. You're not entirely sure,
but they came in under the guise of military. So this is basically
a puddle jumper. That means that they came off another ship nearby and kind
of came down surface. Yeah, corruption bar number one. Today is the
day. Let's see. Uh, you probably won't get any bonuses. Well,
no, these may have the like hover Uh, so you could take
a plus one for the maneuvering of these cause they're they're meant to be like
surface side flying over cities and stuff. So I'd give you a plus one
to it, okay, and then I need data is en roll to pilot
this thing? What? Okay? That's all you ate? That's a success
Mike? Why? Why? Okay? Well, the good news is nobody
failed. Yeah. Basically, uh, it's almost uh seamless. The way
the crawler like comes back down the building. It doesn't make it before the
vessel obviously, or the ship because it's just faster. But the crawler arrives
almost in tow right behind the ship. Asked how lands its successfully is a
little bit of a bumpy ride, but with a critical success, it doesn't
affect the driving of it at all. It takes no damage, It avoids
obstacles. Tal had no idea, but Milik was racing. It was he
was the only one in the race. He was trying. It was trying.
And it does it kind of like it like pulls up with a slide.
I imagine right as kind of the ship lands the kind of it.
Yeah, and uh, the gangway opens up. You see your ship is
sitting there, and so is the Corsair or a version of the Corsair,
exactly where you left. Great now quick checking the ship, make sure that
nobody's gotten on it, uh, and then we'll start repairs into refuel based
on the ship that we got. Uh. You checked diagnostics. It doesn't
look anybody has broken in or there has been any seal break since y'all's exit.
So it seems like you were it was pretty much left alone. I'm
yours as well. I guess this is where we part. Thanks for your
help right. Good, look, you and I have a lot to talk
about the next time we meet. She comes over and pat you on the
shoulder. She says, I suspect you'll want to speak to you. You
might want to wait till you get back to Boreolis for that. That's such
a mind fuck God damn it, she says. But if it means anything,
I share memories and all of that. She really does care for you,
and he's trying to do great. I walk up to her and I
give her a hunt regardless. She takes it a little bit more awkwardly,
but she she does embrace you as well, and she she gestures. The
little man that was there with her as part of her crew kind of comes
bustling out and gives her a couple of hand gesters a signal that the ship
is ready for take off, and she says, I suggest you lie low.
The only place left with people on it is going to be the city
of talk about him, city of foreigners. That's it, Thank you,
my, she says. The only place left with anybody Landslide is going to
be the city foreigners. Other than that, I suggest you get out.
That's the plan. It's just a matter of getting out. And uh,
the person who knows Portal's better than anybody else is currently indisposed, So we
need to fix that first. Good luck. Thanks. She kind of gives
you all a quaint like wave as she walks away. Dot, I have
a question for you, you know, mere mere hours ago. I believe
the quote is I hacked the balls off that ship. Can I can I
get back in there and and put a tracker on that ship so that when
we like, I know that's the ship whenever I see that ship, I
would let you write a code right now. Okay, so you'll need to
make another data general, but you are successfully in so it should be easier.
Cool. Uh, and we're on our ships. So I get the
computer. Yes, boom boom, you have added a tracker to this ship
specific Yeah cool, damn it. Well there it is. Uh and she
uh doesn't wait. She gets the hell out of dodge and takes off.
I can track that ship now, great. Uh. You see cow coming
back from the closet with a bunch of tools. Uh. Yeah, can
you hold things while I thought her? I can. I know he's like
the big smart one, but I can help. Great, perfect, you
can help hold gonna just get to make a technology roll. You can take
a plus one for the help of another. Oh dude, gosh, please
work. Hey, hey, success is still a success. It takes a
while. In fact, you are all going to be at work for a
few hours as you have to remove parts, lug them across the way from
one ship to another, reinstall them. Gas will have to be siphoned or
like oil, fuel will have to be siphoned from one to another, which
is a very dangerous process. And you have to basically dipleinish the battery from
one vessel to another, which is also not a quick process. But you
are successful. Oh while you do this, let's see Lamar is gonna run
some diagnostics on our dear it's mirror, so you can do better than a
one ah now that she's back at home. When you're all done, and
I imagine at Malik and towel are covered from head to toe, and maybe
even Alia in oil and grease because maybe Alia lugs stuff. But when you
are done, Sally lets you know that the ship is seems to be at
about ninety percent operational function, so things look good at least for the for
the ship. And if you go to the medical bay. All of you,
you'll find a Lamara. She has him strapped down so he doesn't go
anywhere if we take flight, and has some like diagnostics being run like around
him. Oh wait happens? Oh I don't. Yeah, she has some
diagnostics running And as you come in, she says, oh, good,
we have a lot to talk about about to me here, yes, it's
very very strange what's happening to him? And she spins a few screens around
so you can kind of all see it. She says, here it shows
his brain functionality. Is that one that means that he's kind of well,
he's basically dreaming. His mind is still functioning, but his body is almost
entirely shut down, as if he had a stroke of some kind or a
seizure. I can't seem to wake him. Well, fuck, and I
have more bad news. Go ahead. She goes over to where he's laying,
and she lifts his head very gingerly and kind of rolls it to the
side to show you support. In the back of Timere's neck, it looks
burned out the way a socket might burn out if there was an electrical malfunction,
or kind of like a sprits of electricity of explosion. It blew it
like a light bulb. You can see it's got burn marks around, like
the lower half of his skull. The piece itself seems potentially damaged, and
she says, I have a suspected feeling that this has something to do with
it. Where in the hell did you get this cheap tech from this is
that's no piece of cheap tech. Well, then how did it? I
don't actually know. I've never seen this before. Usually implanted technology doesn't really
burn out like this, It just gets updated before. It's irrelevant. The
idea of some kind of electrical malfunction inside of his head. It's not something
that even i'm but you said that there's no damage, right. It looks
like he's functioning a breathing and she kind of points to oxygen. His pulse
is normal, though he does show some signs of uh. I hate to
call it brain trauma, but he seems to be in a coma like state.
His body is fully functional, but his mind it seems lost, and
these brain patterns show that he's he's in rims. At this point, Aliah
turns to tell because, well, if she's alive, there may be another
way we can reach him, you and I together. Yeah, I was
gonna ask what happens when we meditate? It? Is it a similar thing?
Like? Could be he be having a vision and of some sort.
It's a possibility. I don't I don't know. Doesn't seem to respond on
this side to his name or any kind of well anything. I even I
am full of adrenaline thinking it might wake him up, and to no success.
Don Malik's worked for some sort of people. Can I look at this
tech implant and and see if I might know where it's from? Yeah,
it's a you could roll a metacourgy rule, a science role, a technology
rule. Probably science technology would be better. Do Let's do science, Sorry,
let's do technology. Two successes. Okay, she's right when she says
it actually doesn't look like technology. It doesn't. This looks like to be
a very very expensive uh peace. Uh. Implants are not really accepted almost
anywhere as like civilized things to do, which we see would have had to
get at black market somehow. And you've known your brother a long time,
and he have, based on the flesh around it, has not had this
that long mm hmm. You might say, all right, y'all. One
was one was our one shots h I got you, I got you dot
a month or two months ago? Maybe, hey, hey tell remember that
time I was stranded on the moon and that was very inconvenient for everybody.
Yeah, did uh quiet though Tory go ahead? Did Did he go anywhere
super shady? Probably on Coriolis? Did you like disappear for any length of
time? Yes, like a suspicious amount of time. Look, your brother
is his own person, and he can come and go as he pleases without
me asking questions except for are you okay? And do you need anything?
Yeah. The problem is he came and went to a place where he got
top dollar. Black market tech shoved into his head. And he doesn't have
top dollar. He works here, and you've never paid a And he was
a college student, so I can't imagine he has the hundreds of thousands of
credits to afford that, no offense to payroll. I'm just saying I don't
think he can afford that. Look, if you want money, just ask.
I don't. I just want to know where he went to get so,
if you have any I don't know disappeared to. I don't think he's
ever really mentioned it. And rights. He's had other implants before and we
never questioned it. Yeah, I have an implant, you know, and
you just don't talk about it. The difference is when we were put back
together, he said that he needed to talk to me about something because someone
was looking for something very expensive attained illegally and shove into your head. Is
a great thing for someone to looking for. Yeah, well, it's also
a really good reason for somebody to hold you hostage on your own in a
special medical facility as well. Correct, But we didn't ask questions about that
then. I don't know why we're starting now because none of us knew about
it yet. I didn't know he had teck in his head, did you.
I knew he had the mute button. Look. I knew that he
had tecking his head. I knew that he went away for a couple of
days and came back, and that's all he ever told me. My concern
is that if the Hegemony doctors were looking at him to find this, and
other people might have been looking for him, and now we're famous m hm,
whoever is looking for him, and it shouldn't be that hard to find
him. But why now? Why? I mean, he seems to have
had this for a few months. Why now we were blown up for a
while and then in cryo for a while, so we haven't been him for
much time. It seems like a mouth bunk. But I'm no technician.
I don't know where to get that fixed. I mean, perhaps we're looking
at it wrong and not maybe we should try to fix the tech and hopefully
fix your brother. I think that should be unless I'm getting this wrong,
and maybe fixing the tech is how we help to me. But based on
what I understand and what I see here, he's alive and he appears to
be in some state of at least functionality brain rise. Yeah, I can't
guarantee anything, but if there's a chance that we can communicate with him and
find out any information that he himself might have, I cannot say that we'll
bring him back, but at least we'll be able to talk to him maybe
and learn a little more of what all this is I just happen now and
what we can do next. Yeah. My only concern is, like Lamara,
correct if I'm wrong, But that looks like a neural implant. That's
true, so bad news. She kind of grabs like something from the computer
and pulls it over like a wire that looks like it would fit the plug
in the back of Timrror's neck, and she says, so, I thought
maybe i'd just plug him in and see what was going on if it was
also functional. And as she gets close, you see blue electricity jump from
the back of his neck over to it, like sparks on the the tip
of the outlet and blows it out of her hand across the room. All
the lights in the space like flicker her computers like as it all comes back,
and she says, so, I think plugging him in is a bad
idea. We'll see his heartbreak like spikes a little bit when it happens.
She says, it seems to give him a jolt every time I try to,
you know, let's let's let's not then no more, no more,
a jolting. Yeah. I mean, we could try to meditate reaching that
way, but like, I don't know what you want from me, Mike,
I don't know anything. None of us know anything. Your brother's got
secrets just like you. Okay, uh, let's see your brother had Okay,
I'm going to have Not talking seems to be a family trait. I'm
gonna have everybody roll just a basic wits chick. It may be something Taal
says that sparks something in your mind success. Hey, okay, like a
memory type thing. Uhh Ali, want to roll it to you? Oh,
sure, wits. Its straight up wits. Okay, it's a flat
wits roll. Okay, it doesn't spark anything for Alia. Tow would know
when you you say he's your brother, you know he's got his own secrets.
Tamir does keep some of the artifacts and the things that he works on.
Were it with locked away, there's like a special box maybe or locker
inside of his chamber, I would know that. Uh, the towel's never
been snooping. You know, he keeps things of great value to him locked
away. Elite with your limited success, you actually uh you know Twal's right
uh to me or might have his secrets, but you have security footage of
everything that takes place on this vessel. That's true, that's true. Uh,
just in case you know that seems like the Moleik way. How you
think, Oh, he keeps all of his secrets in a place, Malik
goes, Oh shit, I can watch his secret from security footage. But
that's only what's happened on the ship. That is true. It's only what's
happened on the vessel. So, uh, there is security footage you could
go through. Uh how there is a locker you could attempt to go through.
Yeah. Look, I just want to say, Uh, legal tech
happens on a lot of the larger cities. There may be a specialist and
we have all of our friends, now right, that's true, frankly,
and this had to have happened at Coriolists. So it's so many at Coriolis,
or at least was it Coriolis a few months ago or so, And
frankly, uh, getting back to Coriolis is kind of an issue right now.
All it goes there? Uh uh La, Margo's yeah about that.
I was kind of listening into the radio while all of you are fixing the
ship. Great job, by the way, but things have kind of worsened
on Coriolists. Great. She goes over and kind of clicks uh the radio
on and you hear that static come in and as she tries to uh dial
it and the order continues its dangerous escalation. We have just received word that
a large Zelusian fleet has established a blockade and eyes walks. Our allies,
unsettled and nearror are worried, and the counts who's deliberating as we speak,
sanctions against Selusian colonies and interest are apparently on the table as well as military
response. Zalos is now completely cut off and the colonial agency is trying to
negotiate the release of non Zilusians from the City of Foreigners, with backing from
the clergy of the Church of the Icons and some of the more prominent Mirriad
clans. There are still a chance that the portals where reopen, portrade and
pilgrimage throughout the horizon. Lamara dials it again in turns tuning into our dear
charity, because I have to read something as charity. Why wouldn't I It's
actually a contractual obligation as a contractor, I have to at least one episode
charity here than huge ball. It is a green sight, bloody broken citizens
whose only crime was a desire for free trade. Merchants and diplomats who risk
their lives to trade with the orders negotiations in the infamous City of Foreigners.
Some bear the mark of torture, and we have heard several accounts of violence
and spies. Already citizens of the Free Horizon are no longer safe behind the
markers. Veil It tunes again to like another station, a news all over
the horizon of the chaos that is rising from place to place. Let's see,
I want to read you another one that I gotta decide what one want
to do. I'm gonna spend two darkness points because I have to to enact
this. Yet again, someone's trying to take advantage of the Consortian's generosity at
the Helm. After the Homogeny's recent betrayal, the Free Leak has followed suit
and chosen to nullify the favorable contracts drawn up during the formation of Coriolists.
Word is coming out of the monopolistic demands made by Steve A door Akbar's and
harbor masters as several local spaceports and trade stations. Custom fees and labor costs
are on the rise. Medical and life insurance are apparently high on the Rabble
Rouser's agenda with the Free Leak's blessing. According to the faction space person bizarre
Kai is debating the issue with the agitated knowledge as the Council. At the
Council as we speak, it seems that strikes have risen across all free trading
and docks in the third horizon. As she continues to scroll and you listen
piece by piece, it seems that a few things have taken place over the
last two days. Continual attacks and ongoing conversation of war against Zalo's rises.
The Consortium and the Homogeny have teamed up, causing the labor workers, the
traders, dedocs people to go on strike. This has caused many problems,
including getting people in and out, and it seems that conversations are being had
between the upper crust of the Free League to discuss what they're going to do
about the current strikes. Travel is going to be difficult, if not at
all possible. So you know there's that I think going back to Coriolis may
not happen. Yeah, so well, I can look through his locker and
see if there's anything there. I hate going through people's stuff though, but
we can see that. Oh uh, Malik is we need to get the
data off of this, and I hold up the probe. We need to
get the data off off of this and transmit it as quickly as possible.
Can I get you to start working on that. Yeah, cool, I'll
go figure out how I get into his locker. Malik leaves at the basketball
olia You're left standing in the room with just Leamara and Tamyr on this table
at this point, I mean, doesn't really know what else she can do
herself. I think she pulls up a chair, kind of just holds ta
mirror's hand and just starts kind of praying and kind of talking to him,
just gonna okay, you know, you're you know, basically encouraging, like
you We've been through a lot of words. We'll get through this, Okay,
you and you and all of us, We're gonna make it right.
This This is just another just one more skirmish, one more little fight.
It's not a big deal. And I don't know if this is possible,
but I feel like she herself kind of like in the process of like maybe
brushing aside his hair a little bit off his face, starts essentially trying to
connect with him and seeing your feet if she can get into have you then
roll a mystic power hit? Yeah Darknor's point, Okay, yeah, okay,
okay, so a single success. So you pray, and you pray
and you sit there in silence, and Lamara does whatever Lamara does, maybe
she claims instruments, she checks his vitals again, and after about thirty minutes,
for thirty five minutes, uh, you feel almost like when you reach
for a door knob and setic electricity clicks off onto your fingertips. You feel
that between your hand and some mirrors, and for a brief moment you get
strange flashes of of data and blueprints. The voice of a little girl kind
of rings out, but there seems to be great struggle within his mind.
Is this just a limited success so you're not able to like directly connect with
him. It's almost like you're viewing it from a third perspective, like third
perspective, but things kind of pass across what you consider your vision, as
if you know Malik is running a data check on something or seeking information off
of a massive computer. And the little girl's voice seems unclear. You can't
quite make out what she says, but you can feel that there is.
Yeah, there's there's a lot of conflict, as if his mind does not
risk easy, as if he is in some kind of nightmare or terror dream.
And then it shocks you your hand away almost the same way that the
plug did, and you have to kind of pull back. What what is
and I think at that point O point, Okay, is there any amount
of that that seems some sort of like seems cohesive or like is it just
that he's battling something almost like similar to how like roll a empathy? No,
yeah, roll an empathy? Let's do yeah? Uh? What is
there is one? Manipulation? I would take manipulation because you're trying to read
him, if that makes sense, or just a flat epath if you don't
have manipulation, you're trying to read his feelings basically. Okay, So I'll
do empathy. Hey, it's a limited success, but you can't make anything
out visually as you you kind of try to connect with him, but you
can feel a lot deeper. Alia has a deep, deep feeling. It
is as if Tamir is there but not in control, as if he too
is watching from Afar, because remember you connected with him, so maybe he's
watching. And it says if two powers to Alia doesn't really know technology says,
if two entities in his mind are battling for control. Does this sound
in any way similar to the situation between the Gin and Omara? In some
points, but this doesn't You don't get the feeling of a gen being here.
This is more of a maybe what's going on in his mind, but
not in his body. He's not a vessel necessarily for a gin. If
that's what you're asking. Okay, because then my next follow up question then
is because one of my talents is exorcism, could I somehow use it in
a way essentially, in a way to kind of create a barrier between ta
mirror and I. Well, first off, I either either expel this other
entity that is trying to take control of Tamir's mind or create a barrier so
that way it doesn't it is isolated. You can sure try. It's not
a proper exorcism because you're not trying to exercise anything from his body because there's
not really anything to exercise. It's all technology. But uh, this is
very interesting, like a it's like a digital exorcism. So I'm gonna let
you roll that mystic ability check for the exorcism and see if we can't help
or set to mirror success on baby. Okay a limited okay, coick Okay,
Well, that's the was that the that's the one that's the one,
you get this feeling. It's not the same, but it is kind of
the same. Right, there's not a gin here. You don't know that
there's anything to exercise for the body. But a lot of exorcism, you
know, is actually about protecting the vessel. It's right, the person on
the inside, because you can get rid of a demon, but if you
don't leave anything behind, and when the body is possessed, oftentimes it eats
away at the actual person, the soul of who is there. Yeah,
basically I want to create in some way some sort of a protection around what
the entity that is to near, so that he's not in some sort of
a power struggle well against basically that he has a little bit more of an
edge over whatever it is that is. Okay, I would say that that
is in fact the case that you get the feeling, and maybe it actually
takes a physical manifestation. Right. We see Alia draw some symbols around him
to create a protective circle, put certain herbs in his hands, and you
go through this process and we see Alia's hands kind of touch either Tamir's temples
as you try to protect him, and unbeknownst to Alia, in terms of
whether or not it's a success inside of Tamir's mind. It puts a barrier
up to keep t Mir, say, against whatever battle or struggle is happening
between the other two entities that are fighting. Because when two things fight,
they want somebody's got to be last person standing, and you want to sure
Tamir is still left. But I guess I have to find out about that
next week. M d rests on you and watches. I was about,
say, Laura watches with great interest, and I kind of relay what I
learned in that process. Is I kind of tell everything there. Jeez,
well, he he was struggling against yah something else in his mind. Something
is trying to control or take control, and there seems to be just a
burst of information and that is trying to I can't even explain it properly,
but not to well, I don't know anything about technology of this kind,
not really, That's not where my study was. But you know, in
psychology they say some people can hold multiple personalities, and oftentimes there's a dominant
personality that tries to take root. It's the one that wears itself on the
sleeve. Sometimes these people often will go into much like the states of coma
as the personalities battle or who takes rock? Well, it's really the mind
is not strong enough to hold more than one personality. Wow, that there
is the soul, And in this situation it seems like, well, my
hope is and with what I've done here, at least that to me,
or that we know the one that we see and cherish, at least that
one is protected. Not sure. I don't know how long I can hold
it. I can how long this barrier will last, but at least discuss
us some time. I don't really have a lot of time anymore. What
do you mean, I don't know. I have a really bad feeling.
All there? You need both, And the camera cuts away from the two
of you standing over to Mer to how now his room door is easily accessible,
You're able to go in? You know this room? Well, I
would think, even though I'm I don't know where the two of you reside
on the regular, but it is his room. Uh. And you know
that there's like a series of lockers that steel, basic lockers, and one
of them is probably the one he keeps his valuable things and stuff artifacts and
the whatnot. What is your move here? I'm going to say Uh,
Sally, captain's orders open this locker. The locker is I have no control
over the locks? Great? Uh try to pick it using infiltration. Mm,
I don't have infiltration. Uh gets a basic What is the imploration?
A agility check? So you could just make an agility rule? Yeah,
fuck it, why not, let's have fun. I mean you could.
You could also choose to use some heavy machinery and like weld the fucker open
or cut you know, cut the bolt on it, or try to Hell,
you could blast it out. Hell's not going to go that far.
H okay, because uh, she does realize what her ship can do.
She will probably try to pick the lock to see if she can, okay,
and then just an agility check. When that fails, she'll get the
security. Uh. The footage of him opening up the locker. Oh okay,
Okay, that's okay. I like that. That's cool. Okay,
So let's see if you can if you if you manage to pop the lock
by hand. No, so he has it's a very strong lock. Yeah,
after after fucking with it with a screwdriver for a little while. H
I'll dis go. Okay, Sally, show me the footage from the last
time this locker was accessed gathering free nearby on one of the HUDs, like
on the wall, appears some of the footage. I am gonna need you
to roll an observation check to see if you can spot what his combination is.
Okay, uh nom, I'm gonna take some liberties here. I'm sorry
in advance, it's very blurry and it's very very very hard to see.
He's almost like blocking it from the camera. Angle me or why do you
have to be so wide? Okay, run it back, see if you
can slow it down. Let me try. You can take a plus one
because she's running it at slow. Oh gosh, I only have a one
in observation for the record. Yeah, but you're a witch. You got
some wits BLUs some wine. He might make it. Hey, there we
go in success. It was that last one? Was that last one?
You you very slowly watch his hands turn and you try to figure out on
the dial exactly what the numbers are. How you're sured it is your birthday?
Oh okay, ah, I will go ahead and put in the uh.
I will put in the combination and open that baby and see what's in
there. This is an old school lock and you have to watch his hands.
This is not some number thing that you press in you actually you watch
as he uses this kind of ancient locking mechanism, kind of like a dead
bowlt. You turn it twice, once back the other way, once the
other way, and you put your birthday in and sure enough the lock releases
into your hand. Good job to me. I was never going to get
that on my own. All right, Uh, what's what's in here?
What's in Tamir's secret locker? There's a bunch of junk that to you would
have no value whatsoever. Maybe it's really important pieces or something like that,
sentimental stuff. There is a strip of fabric. Was that what it was
that y'all traded elite? Or was it a string when you were on the
swamp when you were in the swamps, it was it was a string.
There's a strange kind of loose leaf string that has been kind of taped or
pinned and hung to the back. Any I imagine letter that has ever been
written when Tao gifted everybody's stuff or things that have been left behind for Tamir
is kind of stored here. And in the bottom there's a bin. The
bin probably was empty except now it is filled with a single item, the
last artifact that you got off Coriolits from Josie, this helmet. What else
is in here? There's a Oh he destroyed that, so that would not
be in here. I don't know if Tamir would keep a journal, and
I imagine it'd be digital. Not If Tamir kept a journal, it would
be definitely digital. Well I would assume, maybe no one can confirm that,
and chat probably stuff from alcohol red yeah, like maybe a picture of
him and his brother, you know, yeah, little red string. Conspiracy
theories. There seems to be a lot of like maybe hand drawn or kind
of written notes around portal stuff that you don't entirely understand. It seems way
outside of your like scientific this is basically like rocket science on paper. It
seems he's been doing some more research and thing on portals, right and and
that. But in here are some of the artifacts you've recovered, like glowing
balls, right, maybe he kept one in, didn't turn one in.
And then this this helmet. I almost forgot we got this helmet all right?
Definitely a bomb. Definitely a bomb, says yeah, I see the
bomb. I'm like, apparently we have a stock. Okay, noted.
I pick up the helmet and I closed the closed the the locker. As
you pick it up, you and you kind of touch it. You see
the interior of the helmet has almost like a liquid metallic nanite that kind of
reaches as if you put a head in this, it would kind of consume
the head. It's yeah, like reaches like out it it uh reacts to
your touch. Well. I would normally ask Tamir what this would do,
but we can't ask him yet. Maybe Laura will. Now either way,
we're gonna we're gonna see you pick it up. Yeah, you pick it
up, and you're like, you know what, what's the worst that can
happen? Yeah, you didn't destroy the locker where the lockers, you're able
to put it back into like the state it was in. Yeah, you
because you've been here probably thirty minutes or so, because you jiggled the lock
for a while without any success and had to watch the footage back over and
over a few times. Yeah, And as you go to leave his room,
this helmet kind of under your arm. The camera kind of goes down
the hallway following till it finds Malik who has the probe. What is Malik
doing? Uh? Priorities man? Uh, my brother has a legal tech
and his head. So I am going to multitask because that's what computer nerds
do. Uh. I'm going to write a script. So this looks like
it's only two or three months old. So I'm going to go back to
data logs that are two or three months old. Okay. Uh see if
I can, Uh, it has and it had to be at Coriolis,
right, So I'm looking for that timeframe plus docked at Coriolis, plus camera
feed with tamrr in it. So as long as if the feed meets those
three requirements, I want all those folders, all those files, but in
a folder. And then all right, let's get a data gen role for
this. Yeah, how about that dot? Shit? What is the what's
in his head? Dot? Just tell me where he went? Okay,
so you're like, uh, screw the probe brothers in trouble. Yeah,
and you begin typical behavior, data logs and video footage of what has gone
on over the last two months here. It takes you a while. Any
kind of data of this is going to take a one. You, based
on your original search, don't find much. But what you do find is
a series of data logs since really that point in time, about two months
ago. We're every once in a while two mirror logs in and runs a
strange uh runs a strange code through the ship. It doesn't happen at any
specific intervals. But with a fucking five critical success. You take those timestamps
and run them through footage on the ship. Each and every time you witness
a couple of things. You witness ta Mere talking to himself and then plugging
himself into the computer. The most recent time that this happened was just a
day ago, two days ago maybe, okay, maybe, And you watch
as he plugs himself in because I think he wrote a critical success on bringing
Arara into Sally. And you watch as your brother like phrases this time it's
very very different, as if he loses control of himself and he taps in,
and the code that runs through this time is very different. It seems
that the program, which is the first time you're able to identify it as
such, runs through the entirety of Sally and read Sally's files, tries to
collect as much information as possible, but in doing so, anytime one system
comes across another system, the systems basically from each other. And when your
brother was done, it was such a successful like program run that it seems
that he not only left with whatever this program was back into his head,
but he left with the part Sally. He did not know that. He
did not know that, but Sally basically hitched a ride. More than likely
his technology cannot handle two programs as interesting. Uh. Malik frantically is sliding
his hand back and back and forth across keys. I would like to,
if at all possible, with that five grid, I would like to,
uh, how do I put this? Not? I would like to isolate
Sally from the rest of the ship, like this whole ship can use her,
But I want what I'm about to do to Sally to not affect the
rest of the ship, right Like I put a firewall in my room,
and then as soon as I do that, I close the door. Uh.
And then I say, Sally, yes, access to mere access to
me. I do not understand, man, do you have a link to
Tamere? I am not that kind of program. I did not understand man.
H hmm, Okay, never mind, I'll figure it out. The
vibe you get is Sally doesn't know. Sally's not an intelligent AI it.
Like I said, it probably just hitched a ride. That is the consortium
program that runs vessels and connects to like the larger database, which means probably
it was a defense mechanism. M right. It's like anytime a hacker hacks
into something and gives full access to another program, there are going to be
some kind of code that comes to fight that. And in this case,
what it did was it's have to self. Yeah, like a virus exactly
CRT, which kind of like a virus. Yeah, Malik's but Sally,
this computer doesn't know that. Right. Malik's train of thought is like he
has some study in metacourgy and normally you can't share a brain, but a
portion of his brain is a computer, and if he can load balance like
two CPUs, he can take the strain off his actual human meat brain and
share the computer load. But I mean, at a career five and with
your skills, you wouldn't know that kind of work on a computer. Any
computer requires you to be directly plugged in, yeah, which means you you
might have to find a way to connect to your brother. Yeah, that's
that's what that's what I was getting is that the port isn't working. I
will tell you this though. As you continue to try to run this and
maybe I mean A five is a lot. You found out a lot of
information. The program that he ran through Sally and took back into his head
is unlike anything you've ever seen. It doesn't use third horizon code. Right.
Code usually has a lot of identifiers. It has a lot of things
that you know. It's like a secondhand of the person that creates it.
Right, There are a lot of identifiers for the program. None of this
matches anything that you have seen before. It is a dense program, a
highly intelligent program. And this program, from what you can tell, is
specifically written to hide information. Dot. Yes, I don't want a metagame,
so feel free to slap this right off the table. Malik hacked the
blue disc from the white blue disc? You did? Does it that it
has similarities? Interesting like I mean the blue butterfly like layout, right,
is like a certain set of code that data information And maybe you find a
match inside of this larger program as if this program has some of that information
yea, and some of this intest because I know, like what we found
on the way Butterfly was vastly different than anything we see in the discs that
we use. And if this is also code I've never seen before, unless
it's like yeah, and maybe you're like wait a second. Yeah, So
when you run them, you get the idea that this program. Like by
the time you're done and you run it and it's taken you almost an hour
to sift all of this and like piece the puzzle together, you get the
idea that your brother is hiding a piece of programming that has for horizon origins.
Fuck, he closes all that and puts it in you know, safe
place, and then just Cash puts the probe on the desk and then like
grabs a blanket to like wrap around as wasn't rolled off, kind of like
get it with the Lamara egg. Yeah, like a little nest like an
egg, way less way less caretaken than he took with with Tamir. And
then you just under I assume there's like ports and stuff on it. Yeah,
this is actually this. Yeah, this probe would be launched into space.
It would have like an antenna that would come out and it would send
out a beacon boom boom. And then when somebody would pick it up,
it would be it would have been their signal like if you run it,
which basically is what you did. You activated, turn it on. It's
not floating in space. It begins letting the signal out when you read it.
It is the message from the Order's ship that they were coming in peace
to come get refugees to bring back to Zallos, which, right, it
was the message. It's the messages like can we come in peace that was
taken or never made it to its original place, which is why they thought
the Order had shown up to attack. So do you hear the message?
Just on reatheat? Okay? Cool? So there's no like, there's nothing
like super secret about this thing, and that's just a message. It's exactly
what they said you were coming for. But you seem to have found the
item. Yeah. He leaves it there, unplugs it because you know,
weird things, and then he leaves his room and closes the door and he
just starts yelling, completely devoid of the fact that we have commons. He's
like, tell Teal about you, say, babe, Egg you imagine I
imagine at this point tal has made back to medical. Yeah. I think
probably this took a while, but so did what Taal was doing. So
tal probably comes out of the room like right next or very close by,
and she's holding this helmet, and she's like, what why do you have
a helmet? It's what I found that I thought might help us. I
don't know. Okay, great, we that's crap. Okay, So not
to pile shit on top of the shit sandwich. That is our job.
That tech in his head is real, super secret, big news stuff.
There's there's code in there in his head. There's a program. How do
I put this? There's a program in his head and the program has some
code that is very similar to the code that I hacked off the White Butterfly.
I think the tech that's in his head is First Horizon. I don't
know how he got it. I don't know how I got here. I
don't know how I got in his head. But if the Hegemony was looking
into it and they didn't find out what I found, or they would have
killed him or taken it out of his head, I don't know, they're
probably gonna want that. We can't tell the Dragon Knightes because they it's kind
of why we like them and say love tech. And that's they already know.
Okay, that was their bargaining chip. That's why that would have been
useful information in our They knew he had important take, they didn't know exactly
what. Yeah, they already. They already know he's got something. That's
why we took their offer. Oh I don't remember that at all. Okay,
Well, then if they don't know what it is, we should keep
it that way so we can't ask them for help. Yeah, I don't.
Maybe this is why I didn't tell us, But why in the first
place. Either way, I think if we can find someone smart enough to
fix the port in his head, I think I can fix him. Uh,
we're told the only remaining open city it's the city of Foreigners, at
least in this area. Yeah, well, I guess we're going to the
City of Foreigners to see if we can find anybody who will somehow help without
going too deep on what they're doing. Yeah, let's I'm going to take
this and see if Lamara knows exactly how to use this. Sure, Oh,
I hacked the probe thing. It's just a problem. It is what
it said, It's just a message. Yeah, we need toward that information
to complete our mission. I think they need the actual probe. It's literally
just a message on loop, same thing over and over again. I think
the probe is evidence. Do you have the data of where the probe has
been? Like, yeah, I could pull that, okay because that's what
we need. Okay, and he like slides the tabula out. Okay done.
Where am I setting this to? I don't remember the I don't run.
The Dragon Knights gave you like a drop box squirrel at dragon night dot
com, so exactly exactly and very easily you're able to like ping them through
basically private messaging to let them know that you have recovered the item. You
imagine that you will be contacted again when they are Yeah, and uh,
Town never actually stopped walking while she was talking, so I imagine you walked
with her because she wasn't stopping. Uh. And we probably made it to
the the med lab. Now, so I found this helmet, and I
know Tamir said something about healing people with it lamar gas. The whole room
is kind of filled now with the smell of her burning incense. You can
see that Alia has kind of thrown around the medical table on the floor,
creating this kind of protection. I don't want to call it a spell,
but this kind of mystic protection barrier, and Lamar kind of guts. She
goes, where did you get that? Oh? T me ror want it
playing cards? She runs over and if you'll let her, she takes it
right out of your hands, as if she's looking at like a gold brick,
and she says, I've never actually seen one of these. Do you
know? When I was in the psych word, they threatened to use this
on me a few times. They use it quite often to erase people's minds.
Though, Okay, I was gonna say, we don't want to erase
the mind. We would just want to make it better. So if we
could make that setting go, that'd be great. Jes this is this is
kind of an artifact, and she kind of spins it around and she's and
kind of shows you in the light is almost shiny, and she to see
this is a glyfts uh depending on how it's used, and if we can
figure it out, it could maybe help. It's more than one of these
out there, I guess, probably held by really really important people. The
fact we have one is kind of an anomaly. I mean, we're kind
of important, but we are kind of an anomaly as to me. Yeah,
so apparently Tamir has some extremely uh secret and rare tech in his head,
uh that we definitely can't let anybody know about, which is why you
didn't tell us probably, Uh oh, go ahead, I was going to
ask Ala has had contact technically with the First Horizon directly to one of the
ships. Actually, right, oh that's true. Literally, yeah, you
connected with one of the butterflies. Yeah, yeah, And so when she
was connected to Tamir's mind, would she also have been able to pick up
the fact that it is related. There's you know how things have auras,
right, you would understand that there are or their manna, like Tamir,
one of the entities in there probably does have some similarity. You wouldn't think
it's the White Butterfly necessarily. It's like a piece of the code matches,
right, so you see a similar ara or you you did maybe pick up
on something that seemed familiar, but it doesn't seem like it is the First
Horizon or the White Butterfly that's in his head, but is somehow connected basically
something more ancient, something that's yes, not the Horizon. Margo's Well,
you know, I could try we could put it on it and see what
it does. Oh gosh, that any way, we can do some tests
before we actually, I mean it is an artifact, okay, and then
looks at tell. I mean neither of you are an artificer. But if
you all wanted to maybe try to identify it, you could try a combined
metacur I mean, I'm sorry, I combined uh a stickability rule. One
of you could make it with a plus one from the other. Yeah,
sure, yeah, I feel like I feel like tall. If you would
like to do the odors, oh gosh, you can add a plus one
for Alia's help. Yeah. Limited success okay, so not a failure.
That's good. So the two of you kind of circle it. Maybe you
hold hands and try to feel this object. You are not artificers, meaning
they don't call out to you in the same way, but you do get
the vibe from it that it is as a healing energy. It is meant
as a healing object. The vibe you got from what Lamara said is that
some people use it for things other than healing. Well, anything can be
poisoned if you right exactly. But but the core of it is meant to
be a It is meant to be a healing object. The vibe that you
get from it comes off a very clean and like full of light and positive.
I would say with a limited success, you get the idea. And
maybe it has to be Alia that puts words to it, since you guys
are kind of combined in the that it is meant as an object that heals
the mind and the spirit. It has multiple functions, and that it can
copy, change, or even potentially erase things if set to that. It's
not something that happens at random. It's like it's a choice made and oftentimes
with success, the helmet can be used to heal manners and mind means meaning
plagues of the mind. And I immediately starts like chuckling and kind of laughing
in a sense, I don't know where you all get all this luck,
but he might actually have exactly what we need here by or cons this may
actually work. This this items, so its entire purpose is meant to heal.
Just need to figure out how well. The question is as will it
heal the mechanical issue or is it a software issue. I guess it's kind
of a little bit of both. It's like it's like an organic thing that's
up with his mind because his mind is fighting technology, but it is also
a tech issue, so you don't really know. And I think at this
point, Alia kind of chimes up and goes, well, what I can
see what perhaps the way we can approach this is and she kind of points
to the table and what she did. Tamir is in there with something else
or what and you mentioned like two other things? Actually right, is that
something that she picked up? Yes? Absolutely, Okay. There are a
total three entities in that body. One is that Tamir we know, two
I couldn't quite identify. Oh I did. I did my best to isolate
Tamir and protect him from whatever struggle that is happening in his mind. So
at least his personality is safe for now. One he could perhaps one of
them is the the tech and the other one is Sally. Sally. Yeah,
so apart from being uh you know, uh hiding uh from first rison
tech in his head and not tell anybody, jackass has been plugging his head
into the ship. So yeah, we're gonna have to have a talk with
him about all this. Can I suggest, you know, some ships have
swear jobs. Maybe some ships should have a assage job every time they do
something. Okay, just because you know, all right, I like this.
I'll even start paying you in order for you to start filling it up
for me. Great, just put it right in the jar. So Lamar
looks really excited. She goes, we can try. Okay, okay,
this we're we're aiming to shut down the Sally side, right, that's that's
what we're perhaps strengthening the tamer side and giving him because the battle is with
him. He's the one that is fighting it. We can perhaps strengthen him
giving more assistance. But he's the mind is too much of a a labyrinth
for us outsiders to perhaps navigate with him. But he can since it's his
mind, and perhaps we can use the few. I don't know what any
of that means. Adults are talking. There was like a definitely like kind
of like put the finger up one and perhaps we can give him the tools
and the strength so that he can actually take his mind back and push out
whatever it is that is trying to take hold. Just put your finger on
the meat. But it's software you, but his mind is the sort.
I don't know whatever that means. There are there's too much data in his
head. He shut down like a computer like and he points to like the
back of his head like a computer like. If you try to put all
of the systems up on the defiant and the chip crashed, that's what happened.
He like he blue screened. Yeah, so we're trying to get the
extra software out of his head. But does the helmet remove like delete from
my understanding? Is it? It helps his mind? So if nothing else,
it may try to restabilize him so that he's stronger in fighting whatever it
is. But it's not going to get rid of the technology. All right,
Well, it's worth a try, and I guess I'll prepare to start
going to the study of foreigners. Okay, Lamar goes, I'll have this
ready in five minutes. She looks very excited to get to use this.
She says, I have seen so many people have these helmets put on,
never anything good comes of it. And she like hulks it onto and you
watches these like black spikes right that are kind of cool to the touch,
reach out and almost engulf his head as the helmet kind of slides on,
and you watch Lamar kind of touches some things on the outside, these flips
and the whole thing kind of activates. You see the glyphs from underneath have
a back like glow in there. You can see them a lot more.
She is going to make a metacurgye check at a plus two because that's how
this item works, like I'm trained at metacourgy. Can I give her an
assistance? Yeah? Absolutely, that'll be another plus one, so that would
be three. And also I was curious, is there a way to have
like because I'm assuming that we would need to guide this to the portion of
the brain or to the section where Tamba specifically is. That's the helmet's job.
It's basically a turn it on and let it work. It's kind of
like sitting under the hair slaw dryer. You just got to let it do
its thing right. So she did get a success and that is all you
need. As it begins to work, I do need to roll. I'm
just I'm just imagining Luca in in one of those things and just talking to
old ladies next to just she goes, I, well, it looks like
it's successful. You can see it, like the lights are like, whooh.
Now we just have to wait or hopefully to me or to return.
I don't know how long it'll take. Sometimes it's ours, sometimes it's days.
Fact I Alia then turns to how he was. She was. I
tried to see if I could contact him earlier, but maybe once he's stabilized,
maybe since you have a stronger connection, you could try to see if
you can reach him, maybe perhaps even guide him or let him know about
the scenario, you know, encourage him to do to continue fighting. That's
about all we can do. But he's stable, and she kind of looks,
she says, he seems okay, and it kind of leaves you with
that sound of like love, the whirling as it begins to try to heal
to mirror. We catch Taw in the cockpit in the bridge. You are
going to fly everyone to uh, the City of Foreigners. This is going
to be not a difficult piloting check, but you may be noticed. So
what I'm going to do first is have you rolled a piloting. You're gonna
get your plus one for the blessed ship and the plus one for the chapel
on board. I also have the maneuverability at plus two because of the anti
meta rebut correct, yep, yep, yes it will because you're gonna basically
take flight from the excuse bless me, bless you all right, oh three,
it's a little bumpy getting out of atmosphere. A good thing. Everything's
kind of strapped down. There's no extended flight that it is going to take
you. You basically have to go to another nut in this system. So
you're going to look at a few hours travel. Tricky thing is you're traveling
through what is supposed to be dead right now. There's like a standoff in
the skies around everything. So I need a check to see if you're noticed.
I'm going to say, do y'all have health on this vessel? We
do? Okay, I thought you did. Yeah, Because we have to
make a you get a plus two for your stealth or plus one. It's
signature by one, reduces your signature by one. Well, there's there's stealth
technology on here, and there's also ship technology. Okay, so here we
go. So thet right now, the ship is at a signature one,
which means once your stealth technology is activated, which I imagine you do,
it will negate that which means you travel pretty much under the radar that you
have to go slow and so it will be a few hours travel as you
make your way to another moon. This moon is on the far side of
Zalos the sun and is always in the sun. It is a it is
a lit moon. It shows in the sky of the planet at all points.
And as you come in to the City of Foreigners, you can see
that it is uh busy. There are a lot of ships here, both
some from the order, some probably circling the area from the homogeny right like
the ships that are standing off and tow manages kind of to land you.
Nobody even questions you coming in in terms of like checking you. It seems
that the checkpoint is going to be entering the city, which is behind a
massive set of walls. People are trying to get in refugees. You see
much of the same as the last place you left, except these people are
beaten in Bruce, trying to find safe favor not leave it, and there's
a long line basically to get in. As you all land with our single
corruption bar for the day being used, a series of bombs began to go
off in the city. Suicide bombers have Homogeny bombers have opened up act of
warfare. You explosions go off in the distance people scream as maybe you're standing
on the gangway watching this happen. Some people cover their ears the guards in
this area. The Pkria guards take up gunpoint and begin looking around for anyone
and everyone. Smoke begins to billow out and covers along with dust and debris.
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