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keep stacking. Thank you. That being said, I'm gonna just put my
work card down. I'm gonna put it where I can see it makes me
happy. Okay, last time, last time, Last time, there was
a date with Tell's dad, who actually crashed Malik's date with their new doctor
lu Mara, and to deliver some information. Malik had requested more information regarding
Tao's sister and last whereabouts and her father believes that she is in fact more
involved in the missing mystics than her mother believes that she may be working for
the other side, and to help in their investigation, he relieved the local
enforcement of a key to the emissaries estate that was given to all of them,
so that they could go put their own CSI into full on action.
Right. So when they got there, they learned a couple of things,
some really important things. That there were more than one person here, the
emissary wasn't just taken by one, and there was a massive firefight, blood
everywhere. The apartment kind of turned over. The emmissary was based on location,
probably in some kind of meditation, and there were four meditation bowls around
them. In addition, there was a man named Johar who was Johar Qasar
who was the last man scene entering um the estate and the camera's cut,
so there is no footage of who left or if and when they left at
all. And um Malik went digging in the basement for some more information to
confirm a lot of this video camera footage. Business Uh sent a message to
a very to a to an old friend that they haven't seen since the last
time. They were on a space station for far too long, and is
a word. This is what happens when you go to space stations. You're
around other people and they get you in trouble. This is what happens when
you leave unattended. Also tree Uh and ye does this mean that we're going,
Oh, Lumara could be Mileague's babysitter. Mouth. Oh, I really
like this idea. Everybody go home. Um, okay, if you have
more every moment, go ahead. Sorry, I know I that's that's pretty
much it. In addition, we learned there was let's see um six men,
seven men. We decided in here, um there is let's see anything
else? No, I don't think so that was the big stuff there.
This is a couple weeks old this crime scene and has kind of been left
and the missing emissary is not really public knowledge. It is a well kept
secret amongst only those that kind of need to know. And this kind of
uppercross that whisper about it, panic could potentially ensue. But you can tell
by the now increased security on board correolists that there is at least some concern.
And we watched Malik creak open the door and there stand uh the rest
of the crew kind of still investigating, and it's actually gonna be soul.
As he creaks the door open and steps in, it almost um, it's
almost like a trigger or something. Oh, let me lose as left don't
know it did trigger something. Good job, So I snapped and she was
gone, and I was like, whoah, bad pressed the wrong button again.
That's all right? While Aris is gone? What it what it triggers
in you is you realize you've been coming at this crime scene investigation um all
the wrong way. Soul, you're an assassin, I am. This is
the kind of thing that you do. It is how would you have kidnapped
the emmissary? Well, souls are My experience is, Oh, it's not
kidnapping, it's more eliminating. Okay, so he doesn't have he doesn't have
a lot of experience bringing people back. That's okay. Then maybe it's more
of if you were going to say, do away with this immissary, but
they needed to be moved first to a different location before the task could be
completing. Create the current location that they are in inoperable and hostile where they
would be forced to move to a new location, and then understanding their route
by watching them within weeks prior, blocking off certain key points so they would
be turnlenecked into a certain location. Okay, you peek around the room.
I'm going to have you make a do you have infiltration? I do.
I'm gonna have you make an infiltration check. Okay, this is all about
being sneak. Well, it's all about being doing what you do um infiltrating
and assassinating. All right, I got a critical success. Holy that may
be how okay? You go through this and you're like, if I was
to do this but I work alone, can we just appreciate how fucking creepy
that is to everyone else? If I were to plan this assassination, here's
how I do it. And yeah, I imagine, And it's a Sherlock
moment. Suel kind of breaks and starts like, can see us eyeing full
on the indience? I imagine that glasses. I just see if I were
to plan an elaborate murder, I'm sorry that would I do it? And
so but you're like, but that's how I, as an individual would have
to do it. The emissary was probably well well watched over and guarded,
and you kind of think it three and you're like, they had a team
of men, six of them. If I needed to get a team in
not through the door, how would I do it? Hi? Hello,
sorry, you need us to should we shuffle? Mike? You're mw if
you could ask all the power we know that Okay, shuffle order. We
can know the shuff order. Okay. Um, like it's like we've done
this before. Okay, good. So yeah, I think Soul, if
he was he would be describing all this like very kind of mumbly a little
bit, but yeah, that's how. So what you missed is that Malik's
returned and Seul has kind of gone into this uh critical success of of an
assassin's mind. He I asked him to how would he have kidnapped the emissary,
and right before you popped in, he realized that, you know,
if he was an individual, he would have kidnapped the emissary one way,
but they had a team of people. And moving a team of people in
through the front door of the emissaries apartment is it's like kind of like leading
a sheep, like a herd of sheep, right exactly. Well, yeah,
and you can't you can't just walk in without people noticing. So don't
use the front door and there is no exterior access, and your eyes as
you kind of search the apartment stop blatantly on an air vent in the ceiling.
Okay, does this the air event seem tampered with at all? It
does? It has fingerprints markets on it where somebody tried to put it in
place and there was a lot of blood. Do I have bring my weapons
with me? Did you I think I would have? Would you could have
walked around a lot with a lot of weapons r on Coriolis? Okay?
In that case, does our judicator friend have I'm gonna ask, do you
mind if I borrow your rifle for a minute. The helmet kind of tips
the first emotional thing you've seen out of this person, and they kind of
sling it off their back and as they turn it over in this almost holy
way to hand it to you, they're like, as long as you can
handle it. So we just ignores that and pick them just takes it.
And then he would pull a piece of handkerchief or like cloth, flup it
over, put it on the butt of the rifle, and use that to
kind of push up the vent without using his hands, kind of like a
yeah, like you're like something tall. Yeah, So you just kind of
kind of lifted up to see if anything falls. Everything you lift it up.
Nothing falls per se, but you realize that it is very loose.
It was bolted and it is not anymore. It's barely up there and as
you you take it, the whole thing falls down and you really see that
the interior of the grating that has fallen between all of you is covered in
a lot of blood, and around the edging you can probably see there's some
dark blood as well. They moved everyone up. Okay, and this and
I'll tell you this. This vent is rather large. The ceiling in this
place is like massive plating. You said there was fingerprints on their great Okay.
I would return the rifle just kind of nada, thank you. Used
to hank the piece of cloth. They grab it a grate and kind of
like give it to Tamir and then be like, can your little do hickey
do anything with this? And I kind of I point out like the I
point out like the fingerprints and stuff and all the dustiness and the aikeness,
and I kind of give it to me with that. I after I hand
it over to Tamir, I would grab like a chair or something and see
if I can push myself up to oh the inside of the vent. That's
an agility role. That's fine. I got that. Because it is taller
than You're still gonna have to like jump to catch the edge and pull yourself
up, all right, I don't got great. You jump and hit the
chair and fall fall. It's too high. You can't make the jump.
You're gonna need somebody to boost you. Okay. I uh look at the
judicator again. Hey, um, you're now slinging their rifle back over their
shoulder. Can you can you give me a hand? Here? And I
point upwards to the event. They look up, they walk over, look
at all of you who have not moved to help squat and put their hands
like low. They're gonna like literally boost you. Okay, I will unintend
so doing all those things where he tries to like step on them but like
not considerately so so so so so stop what um? How about you boost
me up? Oh okay, and then I'll get to a position where I
can push twel upwards. Okay, uh, you are gonna put this is
a strength or force, because you're literally like tossing her up to catch the
edge of it. I will take a force if that's okay, a force
it is? Okay? What a fucking boss? I mean damn okay,
sorry, so baseballs, Um you know what with with the help stop with
the terrible help from him is dean what one more tale is strong herself.
Can I try to essentially use his bullshit help to try to push myself up?
And John, you want to climb him and jump? Yeah, you
make the agility check. Okay. I love how I can mentally predict what
happened, But when it comes to fucking lifting and getting on a great I
can't fucking do that. You either get your either brain or braun. You
can't be both at the same time frame. All right, thank you?
All right? She climbs you. You you try to lift her up.
Her foot hitsue and she's like shoulder head and she pushes off the top of
your head and you manage to go at the edge of it, and you're
kind of dangling just you know, a foot above his fingertips. You're gonna
need to make a strength check to pull yourself up to actually look inside.
Can I use force? Yes? You can? Okay? Cool? Can
she do the you guys, watch his Towe hangs and she goes, you
know what, you can be the assassin now and Tow does a fall on
chin up. As she peeks inside this air vent, the first thing that
you notice is is a rather large air vent. This is it's huge,
more like a shaft in fact, and you see it is dark, but
as much as you can see there is bloody. They dragged some of the
men out of this combat back. They moved all the bodies from this place
in here, and it is just smeared with blood in one direction where they
went. What what do you see? Which way is that out? It
would take them like that basically, it takes them into the building near the
like exit hallway that you all that you all came in, like probably where
the elevator is and those kind of things. That's about as much as you
would know in direction from inside the elevator shafts or the fan shaft Before I
let go, I say, it looks like they went that way, and
I kicked my leg. In the direction that the shaft goes, it probably
leads outside the exterior exterior event. To see where it leads, you can't
the exterior. You would have to pull proper blueprints if you want to see
what this vent. Okay, I'm actually gonna follow this event here if you
guys don't mind, be careful. Yeah, I got this doc, could
I do? I will? I will pull myself all the way up and
how how finish is pulling in your You're like I said, you can't really
like properly like fully stand, but you can actually like half squat in this
space. And it's about's not very tall, so she's probably just a low
crouch low crouch, Yeah, just to kind of um walk and it's about
twice as wide, um in fact, and you begin following it. Malik,
I bet you're gonna try to pull up the blueprints? Yeah? Can
I can I do like a little flashback and have pulled up the blue print
because I'm pretty sure I crate the shit out of that security system. Oh
for sure? Yeah you would have. Yeah, you installly know. Oh
I cracked this already. You just gonna go find the file. Okay,
So let me give you a thing here, you give me a thing.
Let me little on my actual character because I'm prepared to play this game.
Um, I know what I'm doing. Uh, data Gin data gin data
click Wow critical success cool. I know the entire thing about everything about this
building. Forever Boom tell you hear Malik in your ear? Um, he
tells you cashual Chris successful? You know, um, yeah, there's you
you hear um? I mean you have the blueprints, I would let tell
them. Yeah, so what I assume once I hear um sewell kind of
say uh ask whatever you say, be careful following that, I'm still leaning
on the door because I can contribute nothing to this crime scene. Physical crime
is not my strong suit, but all the cyber crime and drugs. Don't
touch things. Listen the drugs the first time, dot don't peg me some
kind of facially a drug dealer, some kind of dr Technically I am the
most qualified a drug dealer apparently in the group. Great thanks to him.
Um, I mean technically you all smuggled the drugs. I just delivered them,
an asshole, So that's what. So from like leading in the doorway
watching this scene of seoel like trying to lift it and the legs kicking and
the thing, I go, um, you want the blueprints? That would
help? Okay, Yeah, I'm not stopping to listen to this as soon
as I pullow myself up. I'm just I'm just following it around because I
want to make sure I know exactly which way they went so that if they
if it does split, like try know it's obvious. Um, you follow
it for okay, you boo boop. You're gonna beat boop on whatever like
small hood you wear um and you hear in and so how you can kind
of follow the map. Um. I'm also looking for anything they might have
left behind. Okay, you follow it for a while. It connects actually
to more centralized area of Coriolis on this floor and splits out into all these
air vents, and you can see the blood for a while, and there
is a point where the blood begins to kind of pool. It all like
stops and you can see there's like a heavy piece and then it begins to
drag again, like they were dragging someone. And as you kind of come
to a stop, you look right and left. You see right there is
the body of a decaying man. Oh, he's been in the air vents
for about two weeks, he is. He's probably why they stopped for a
while. And if you can see that that there is more blood because there
were other people in the combat, and it's much lighter and thinner. But
it continues that direction and you're pretty sure that this is going to lead you,
based on the blueprints that you have, into the maintenance shafts of Coriolis
and the maintenance chefs mhm. Usually I don't would you know this? You
would not this maintenance chefs on large space stations like this usually lead into the
bottom and top of it. He goes like top to bottom, and you
would know that the ones here and Coriolis specifically go to the cellar. But
you think you could probably follow this trail literally the whole way in which they
escaped with the emissary if you wanted to. Okay, when I feel like
I'm definitely out, well, when I know I'm definitely outside of the range
of the building, like that particular building, I'll start on the head back
all I guess slightly after that, I'll start to head back and just casually
drop down boots completely covered in blood. Before you get back, because you're
gone for quite a while. You travel for roughly ten minutes or so,
and um, the gentleman or left standing here Tao has not returned. Is
there anything you do in this ten minutes or you're just sitting side. I
would probably ask Tom if you found anything with the Oh yeah, you wanted
to run the fingerprint. I don't know if he did, I would just
ask him, is it was there any anything? Was that gone off?
To break out your science kid the science kids bid out. We wow playing
with this like it was Colonel Butts and Burner because it's time to roll.
Uh, I'm gonna have shut up, like I'm gonna have you roll?
Uh? What did you? What did we ro? Last time? It
was in science? Wasn't it? That was a Christ's success? Wow,
there's a lot of Chris. We've had what we've been like for what twenty
minutes? Let me tell you, guys found very little last game in this
day. You're all like, all it took was everybody just like taking a
breath, and you've come back and you're like, we are the best people
for this job. Okay, Well, sometimes you just need to take a
time out. This is the second half. Okay, second half half of
the game. We're ready. Dusting for prints is kind of an archaic thing
to do, but it is something you can do and it's works. So
you break out the necessary of things and you dust for the prints, and
then you pull them and you run them. There are m There are two
sets of fingerprints. Unfortunately, one of them was very clearly wearing gloves,
bastard. The other has no fingerprints Bastard on a critical success, you would
recognize it as probably burned off. Arson's sorry. No, I'm in the
weird mood to Paul is so puny, so punchy again, I'm so sorry.
Can we just imagine that scene for a second of that actually happening to
me is like I think this one had his hands, his fingertips burned off
with the cucles an arsonist an arson. No, no, no, no,
that's nothing. No, there's not implied that they're an arson due Oh
sorry, continue, I don't mean they're they're uped with the blood samples,
though, was there enough for like DNA? Can we cross jack that system
that you already ran blood from this space and you can pretty much instantly UM
with the critical success recognized. It's it's there, It matches UM them here
UM. Running the samples through a system is actually a data general because you're
running it through Coriolis's private personal files. So what basically what happens is your
lab kit has a small hood on it that tells you, like the biological
breakdown of the person, not their identification. It's like, here's their blood
type. Here are these identifying factors of DNA UM that can be given some
leak to run through the system for matching. Great, Malik, are you
in the room where you still down in set there? Great? Uh Malik?
Uh, do you mind getting us a little bit deeper into the Correolis
database. We have enough, we actually have the in the evidence. I'd
like to see if we can't gardance against somebody who may already be in the
system. We're looking for an arson, go deeper. Well, no,
we are not. We are not looking. There's no fire here. We
are not looking for in ours. Um. Yeah, you know what,
I think I have a really good idea. Um, Hey, Kasha,
could we access the criminal database? And he looks to ADJUSTICA assigned to me
a slide this like covered piece back uh and it reveals like a risk of
data pad I guess or hud deck um, and they kind of type some
things in. Um. They without saying anything, put their hand out to
you, uh, Samir for the data. Oh, I'm glad that you
clarified that. Yeah, can you would stand at that fucking for your minute?
I'm stick out stick over. They kind of click it in and they
simply say yes, the it can be run, but not by you,
and they boom boom booms, you think, yeah, right, and there's
a moment they kind of look it over. Um they swipe because why not?
And they kind of look this this information over. U. First things
first, let's see it doesn't tell me while she's doing that, he believe.
I guess I'm not really familiar with the law. They have never needed
to be cautious with them. Um, they've had two weeks to do this,
So why did they not run these sorts of tests before? Why?
Why do we not have access to this information already? Are we just doubling
up on work or are you asking me? Yes, I am asking me
if I remember? Are you in a whisper or is you saying this out
loud so that the judicator can hear it's out loud? I think he forgets
that the judicators usually in the room. Cool. Cool, Cool, that's
what I want. Quick question of character, just reminding myself. Did they
say that they did an investigation? I can't remember. This was an act
of crime scene, so they did an investigation already and we're just returning back
to the scene. Correct. Yeah, it's been a few weeks since they
have done it, and uh, well, I guess Malik hasn't shared that
information with you. But in meta knowledge, you know that the last person
seen here has diplomatic immunity, which means that the police investigation could have been
shut down if they were digging too deep. Yeah, and that that's what
Malik is going to attempt to explain um uh once to me or kind of
asked him still still sign kind of like leaning on the entry entryway wall to
the room. He just kind of like, um, probably probably two things.
Um. One would probably be the fact that the last guy to enter
here, um has diplomatic immunity, um, so they couldn't dig too deep.
And probably the other thing is that the codes that shut down all the
security cameras came from one of the council members factions, the Order of the
Pariah. So you know, I'm sure not everyone wants this information found,
which is probably why I think this was an inside job. I say out
loud, yes, yes, Sue, Wow, you cannot prove this,
which part that it's an inside job? I didn't say, I just said,
can it be? I mean, the Order of the Pariah definitely shut
down the data, so I can prove that, and I can you mean
they shut down Okay? Well, I know You don't have to score super
high on the intel tests to be a jest a car. But when something's
on and then you turn it off, GM, is there a light switch
in this room? Please demonstrate this. Are you gonna walk over and flip
the life? That depends on our answer. If there's a light switch in
this room, there a light switch in this room? Okay? If I
look at the Judah car, how pissed does she look already? She's wearing
a helmet and you don't know it. Poor and more importantly, they are
stoic as the day is long. Go ahead, flip the light switch.
No, no, this is this is Paul wanting to be a big soulvann
do it. I'm gonna move on with my life. Continue please. The
leak does explain it that way, when something's on and then you switch it
off. It may not take a lot of book knowledge to be a judicator.
But now that I have the position, I could put you in all
your friends in jail. We do not antagonize her. I whisper very loudly,
and I just leak the emissary missing it is already leaking. Your threats
are hollow. They land on deaf ears as for your question, and he
looks over to Malik, or they look over to Malik. We did an
investigation. We did not find this, They point to the ceiling. Why
would you not? That just seems you two. Am I going deaf?
I don't. Are you not saying? Balance on Coriolis is problematic at the
moment, and there are many who did not want this looked into. We
have been watching many of these that feel that way. But the fact of
the matter is a missing emmissary is a problem for only a certain amount of
people. Others believe the emmissary reign in the judge and the darkness that follows.
So for all of you that stand here worrying about how well we did
on the investigation scene should be worried about much more. And the fact that
you found what you did is exactly why you were sent here. I was
told that you were all a bunch of successful freelancers. I did not believe
it until now. So continue to throw your room insults at me. Are
you talking on the league? He's just he's usually like that. No,
I talk about all of you will except for your pilot, and then tail
drops out of the sea. I mentioned that was such like an awkward moment
where everyone's just dead quiet and where it's like we're gonna die and then just
goes boom. Yeah, you just hear a boob behind you. I think,
well, heyda, that was bloody. Uh. There's a about ten
minute five minute walk or so in the event that way. There's a dead
guy routing. Uh, like a full course corpse. Yeah. Well,
I mean it's not full anymore. It's starting to rot. But you know,
just so you know, I don't know if you might want to have
someone like there's thing calling people will get it cleaned up. I mean,
you don't. But there's a blood trail probably all the way to the maintenance
chafts, I believe. Um. Looking following the layout that Lake Scent looks
like they probably went straight down to well, they just went down. So
with my role previously, did you see they took the bodies up through the
vents? Is that what he said? Okay, they took everything up.
Okay, so we'll like throw his two cents because I guess up until now
he didn't really vocalize his thought process of what he thought happens. So I'm
just gonna say that I would tell everyone vocally, Like, you know,
if this was a job, ideally, the best method would be to take
the bodies unseen and that vent the blood the dead body. Where it leads
kind of makes sense that that's where it all went up. Yeah, Malik,
is there any in the blueprints? Are there any exit points that of
interest? Some sort of like garbage shoot or access to the docks? You
take back tells data and you would see the path she took through the blueprints
that you sent her very easily, Malik. No need for a role on
that front. And you see that it does dump out at the maintenance shafts.
These maintenance shafts would go to the cellar. She did not go down
there, so you don't know where they would have gone when they got off.
But you know that this leads into an area that you've already been to
the staff. It's cool. What the stacks? Okay, where you met?
Um? Where you where you acquired some weaponry? Um? Yeah,
so I have a I have a personal holograph. UM. So like he
does like a few swipes on the hind pad for this thing and brings up
that three D hologram of the um and Tony starts it right is the diagram,
and he like moves it around and like follows the path of this thing
and says, this is this is where it goes, and then it kind
of drops down to here and then zoop zoop zoop zooms it up and follows
all the way down to the base of of Coriolis. M Um. Yeah,
so you basically, if you want to follow the trail, you have
two options. You can go to the cellar and attempt to find where they
got off, or all of you can follow the trail all the way there
if you even want to. The judicator could also put their team on it.
Um. I mean so I last episode, I asked a question and
then sort of walked away. I don't think I actually got the answer question
a question. I asked a question too uh to tell uh, and said
I have a favor I can pull. Do you want it about this or
do you want it about your sister? And then I said to think about
that and I left. Oh no, I said, I know where my
sister is. Okay, great? Perfect Um. Then in that case,
um uh dot. I imagine that these uh these business cards because we're in
the cyber future, right, I imagine that they're like, uh coded like
data sticks, like the same way the credsticks kind of work kind of thing.
Um. So he's going to take out this um shiny business card from
the dancer and sort of insert it into a reader that he has in his
tablet and send her an encrypted message that will then expire the card. Um,
and he's going to send her a message asking for self destruction. He's
going to ask her to find out or to send him, um, the
shipping logs like the because there's there's they're not they're not gonna be shipping logs,
but like there's an illegal entry point to Coriolis in the base of the
of the of this area in the stacks. Um, I want to know
what ships were in and out of that area around this time frame. Okay,
because I don't think, I mean, Lilik is smart enough to assume
that no one that lives on Coreolis is just going to randomly kill this guy
and then stay on Coriolis, like you need to get in and get out
kind of thing. So he's going to message her and that's what he's looking
for for like probably like I would I would say, like a two week
before, two weeks after this happened kind of period, so whatever, like
the date of the murder is that we think it is the month surrounding that,
so up to now and two weeks prior. Who came in and out?
Okay, the message goes out. The kind of holocrd dissipates after it's
had it's calling, and there's kind of a moment where all of you take
in this new bit of information and you hear the sound of footsteps coming down
the hallway, not a run, but a rather quick pitcher pattern. Do
we need to hide? We are not supposed to be here? Right?
The just a car grabs stops exactly what they're doing, and grabs the rifle
and like readies it for the door. What's lamar? And around the corner
you see I found you, Malik. I will immediately go No, that's
that's harmtic, that's not harmatic, damn sul And like I think, I
my beautiful Malik. How did you get here? I tried. I just
had a feeling you were here, Like you know, I just followed my
gun. I've been searching for a while. In honesty, No, how
did you get here? It's supposed to be locked down? I have friends
soul's kind of weirded out at that comment. Right there, Oh a crime
scene, Yeah, there's uh upstairs. If you go up the the air
event here, you can follow the blood trail, and there's a body.
The judicator keeps the rifle on her. She seems unfaced. I will like
most and Judy Kate, I'd be like, I guess it's fine. She's
with us. Unfortunately, slowly lowers. It's still a little hesitancy, and
she goes, oh, was this one of those They came and killed the
person through the air vents kind of a thing. No, they tried to,
but they just take him with them. Wow, that's a lot of
blood. There must have been like what six or seven people here. Yeah.
Kind of starts walking around looking. She's my, where are the bodies?
Ah? They moved them? They you mean they left point Well,
the bodies didn't move. The people who survived took them with them when they
left their third event. They must have been injured. Yeah, one guy
died. Have we found them? I did you found all of them?
No? Oh, just one of the guys. Hey, Now hold on,
Milike, did Themara love for so much? She's just Lamara? When
I have a question. Have you have you done? I just, uh,
what is it? What's the word called after someone dies and you cut
them up into figure? Yes? Perfect? Have you done one of those
since? Um you met us? Since after? Well? Does that include
the pig I dissected yesterday? Sure? How is that? Oh? It
was good? Yeah, I'm sorry, mold On. Did anything happen with
the pig when you did it? No, it was just a dead pig.
Okay, that'd being said. I had to say a dead pig.
Hold hold on and stop, Malie. It was on your ship town.
Sorry, all three. I can just imagine all three of us just like
well, we got the new how by the way, was coming in and
I thought I'd try some things out and see how it worked, and then
I just had this like instinctual need to dissect it. Do you know a
pigs intestinal track and other things are pretty incredible and you can reuse them for
all kinds of things. Technically, I could replace your heart with a pig's
heart if I had to, if you give me a pig heart. Okay,
guys, can we just play the quiet game? But just the three
of you while I talked to the doctor, please, because I feel like
she's on to something if you just let her keep talking. Thanks ta Okay,
so what drew you here? A Milik? Yeah, no, quiet
game over at twel I need to talk to you always, like right now,
before you ask any more questions, just like real quick, just like
a one on one. Yeah, great, Lamar, if you could just
know, if you if you could just for like I don't know, sixty
seconds, play the quiet game until we get back in the room. I
can't. It would be great quiet. Just say something bad, remember the
conversation we had no great okay, just you didn't say anything bad, just
for like a little bit. Okay, okay, thank you so much.
And like Milik goes to like grab at twel to like get her in the
allway as school as possible, could you, and then like closes the door
behind them closes. She looked. She just walked very quickly to Tamir And
so it just did I do something wrong? Yes? Oh no, outside
okay, listen, I'm on the same page as you with Lamara that she
might know something. Thank you for that, by the way. But I
don't know this Jesticar, and I don't know your dad. No offense.
I'm pretty sure she's a mystic. She doesn't think she is, but she
gets feelings and she can she's definitely a mystic. I know. She can
also point out other mystics and she can sense things. So the more questions
you ask, the more closely she gets to revealing that she's a mystic to
this jestic car and I don't know who they are. Here's the thing,
um, Jamir and I just did some mystics stuff in the living room here.
I'm not sure if you notice your problem down getting data, but we
just did that in front of her. So, um, if Lumara is
getting something from here, we need to let her access it while we're here,
or else she might lose it. Okay, we're just doing that in
front of all right, yeah, Captain, I guess all right. He
opens the door again, like waves it. I walk back in past.
Lamar goes, did you figure it out? Yeah, yeah, we're fine,
We're good. So who did it? Oh? No, we figured
out the question we had. Oh m hmm, this this a secret question.
It was that Maligan needs to learn how to just keep a mouth shut.
Oh yeah, he's not very good at that. Yeah. Anyways,
Um, so you were going to say something about this room. Um,
she kind of krn. She goes, I mean it's kind of a blood
bath. Really, yeah, she kind of and and she goes. And
there were no bodies, and bodies don't walk, so somebody had to carry
them. And where did they go? That's not true? But but where
from there? They followed the vent to the maintenance shaft down to the cellar.
Yeah, I'm probably out on some ship somewhere. No. No,
I mean if you had taken a cup of bull wounds to the chest,
would you be able to fly a ship? No? But where would you
go to see a doctor? Okay? Uh m hm, doc? Okay,
what they wounded the people and took the bodies someone else did with the
intention of not helping them get better. Well, not the dead bodies,
I know, they're just dead, right, But the other people that were
moving them were also injured. I could tell. There's like at least a
couple four or five people's blood on the carpet. Huh, they're total of
seven. See sometimes I can't smell them all. Use Okay, I'm gonna
move past this. So you, being a doctor, if let's say a
person can't go to a public doctor, where would they go. I feel
like I would not this. Yeah, you could roll, you could definitely
roll for this. Where they might go because I probably imagine I've been hurt
a couple of times. I probably have to go to like a black market
doctors think you could see what you what you know? That would be kind
of a toughie because I mean it's just gonna be your wits. But if
you have something you feel like, I don't even have survival in their mind,
just just your it was just your wits, Like for this is your
straight risk never mind? Okay, no you're like, so here's the thing
Coriolis has. She goes. I mean they could go to another black or
doctor in the cellar. But I mean everybody who's anybody is allowed to be
treated at the sanatorium. Do we know what that is? It is the
biggest and largest hospital basically like care facility on Corioli Is. It's massive.
It's where he went to recover. Um I turned to the judicator, I
say, I want to check the records for anybody coming in with injuries and
the sanatorium within probably about two to twelve hours after the camera's cut here,
specifically, blunt force trauma or shotgun kind of wound this in. I wasn't
ask is there a way we could just you could just like find out right
now, like did they not have access to these kind of datas they do
that? Um? So they kind of beep in and uh kind of sift
through some information and they say there was, um two individuals who came into
the Samaritan Sanatorium about the time of day, only a few hours after when
we suspected this all happened. Kind of flip throughnesses. But their identities are
all known as they worked underneath the church and their files are kept secret for
religious purposes. But it does look like they were treated by Brother Ramos and
Sister Roba. Well, oh, well, I guess we have a new
point of interest, Lamara. Are those any of your friends? No?
Okay, do you think I have so many friends? Do you kind of
like, you know, I mean, did this to yourself? My?
You know what, Lamara, I'm really really sure that you have more friends
than like us. Oh I believe that. But I'm his best friend.
Oh aren't you just the best? I know? So should we go perhaps
talk to these brothers or religious folks and uh maybe see what they know?
I have a bit of a concern with that though. We know that there
are a bunch of mystics downe on Coola right now who probably being tortured.
Yeah, doctor, this is the quiet time, so we already know where
this already is going. Really, a lot of the stuff that we have
is confirming information. This is stuff that we could hand off to her father.
Also, uh, brother and sister whoever the hell I didn't Rams and
sister Roboa. Yeah, I wrote down Brother Raymond, great perfect religious folks.
We have a very respectful dream. I was just I was writing and
brain is not as I love it. I love it. I don't think
Malik doesn't care. He looks to Casha. It says brother and sister whoever,
they're Pariah. They're from the Order, I would assume, yes.
And we know that a monastery ship cut the data stream on all the security
and that ship was from the Order of the Pariah it was, which means
that these people were treated by Pariah operatives at the sanitarium, which means even
if we go question them, they're not going to give us any information.
They're going to protect their own people. Correct. So yes, it's a
lead, but it's it's going to be a dead end for us. Well,
it's your lead. And then I point to the judicator and then I
look over at Towel and I'm like, we have our lead. Also,
if we go and talk to them, then they'll also I mean, we
can't really do very much. We have no actual power over anybody that we
talked to in the sanatorium. I think what we're trying to say is there's
well, there's just we can't get anything from them, and it would just
tell them that we're onto them. Or if someone is yeah, damn it,
dots, stop making those faces. Just letting you all simmer. It
just makes me so happy. No, I was, I was. I
was looking at the judicator and telling that to them. Oh okay. They
then they basically look at you and they kind of nod. They don't say
much. Fine, I will report if you feel that it is not your
place to investigate. I would look at Talent and be like, so what
should we do then? I mean, same thing we've been talking about doing.
All of this is connected. We know where we're going though, so
let's finish making our preparations and get to it. Okay. So he just
kind of nods, and starts kind of like stepping over the blood splats and
like making his exit, not leaving, just preparing to leave. I think
Timmy is going to start packing up his stuff, but like quietly look up
to the doctor. Um. Hm, no, she or again her eyes
kind of pant. They're panning around the room as if she sees something you
don't, Uh, doctor, do you hear anything? No? I mean
what do you mean, Uh, like a sound beyond sound, beyond the
ambience that you can hear hear? Is there a humming or a bell?
Nope? Hmm, okay, thank you. I smell stuff though I see
stuff too sometimes. What do you the doctors told me I was crazy,
people things, sickness. Um, could you be more specific? Is there
something here that there? Oh? Here? No, there were definitely four
men that were left alive, that left along with another smell. I can't
quiet place. It's kind of sweet and doesn't at all smell like normal human
blood. M Have you ever been around the emissary before? No, that's
silly. Why do we know about the emissaries physical composition? Um, that's
actually a good question. The book is very vague. On its super vague
They call them the ghosts, you know that about that they appeared about a
year ago, five that five representatives. They sent one to Coreolis to sit
on the council Act. Well, they arrived to Coriolis and requested a seat
on the council. Let me praise that. And because of the fears that
we're associated with them, it was granted. They are the first non human
life that we have come in contact with, and which is a pretty big
deal. So there's a bit of the alien scare about Coriolism about them,
and considering the fact in their first council meeting they announced that they are the
Judge incarnate, that they are sent from the icons themselves, there has been
a lot of scare around them. It's they're more like celebrities and the one
is really the one representative is the one here really on Coriolis. So yeah,
that's about what you know, I mean, they serve they represent because
people are too scared to tell them no. You know. It's like how
with the Order, they're too large to say that they have to disap hate,
but they also don't. They don't run everything like they still have power,
but it's their own self earned power. So it's kind of similar but
the yeah, the the immissary themselves. They're quiet, they keep to themselves,
and some people believe they don't even exist because of them seeing them.
Would it be far fetched to Tamir can hear this energy? Yes? Is
she seeing it? Is she smelling it? That beating? For him to
think that's where he was going with us, No, it cannot be.
It would not have parfect at all for you to think that. I mean,
Malik just said out loud, right, Oh no, he said it
to tal right see and so and that's Tamir doesn't know the conversations that they
have had together. He doesn't know that he's trying to keep huh, her
identity quiet about being a mystic. Tamir had already assumed she was a mystic
when Malik had brought her a board, because he said that, you just
say her life when everyone was like, fuck you, why did you bring
this person on boyd? Right, So he's going under the full assumption that
she's a mistake, okay, which that is not a fair assumption. And
it's interesting, Okay, I say that that she's a mystic. Her powers
are different than yours. That's evident that there's something more there. They wouldn't
even know anything more than mystic though, right, And so, yeah,
you don't know a whole lot about mystics, and you're relatively new to it
as well. But that being said, she would also be rather new to
it. You all got your powers in and around the same time, though
differently. But her powers seem to be manifesting faster. She doesn't seem to
have to concentrate and meditate and do a lot of what you in toower doing
as you're working into your mystic abilities. It's almost like she's wearing a pair
of goggles instead. So she could be a mistake or she could be sensitive,
Okay, mystic sensitive if that makes sure? Sure, sure, sure,
um yeah, then he'll he'll kind of continue on that train of thought
with her, Um, like, what what what is it that you can
smell? You see? You mentioned a sweetness? Yeah, I don't know
what that is. It's so faint though, And she kind of you watch
she like drops down to her knees and she gets on all fours and she
begins to sis in the bloody rug. But yeah, I kind of I
bring her over to where the um the middle of the rug so it doesn't
smell the most concentrated over here. Yes, what is that? It's like,
I think that's the emissary. This is really weird on all four.
She turns and looks over at you. What are you talking about? No,
this is not the weird I just let it go. She smiles at
you. The person who was missing, they were taken. That's the sweet
smell. That's who we're trying to find right here. Oh m well,
I smelled that anyone else and coriolis She kind of takes a second. She
it's the carpet really deep. She's like, there's so many other smells and
they're so old, Like, yeah, I've smelled that before. Maybe I
could track it, and I know if I smelled it again, you can
track it. Oh yeah I could. I could. I could smell it
if I came across it again. Maybe we should go down to the cellar
and just walk around a little bit and see if smell anything interesting. Now,
if we go to the cellar, we have to be extremely careful about
what we say, Lamara, Okay, why am I not careful? Though?
Just people there might misunderstand, So the quiet game again, Yeah,
well they might misunderstand. You don't speak until the quiet game's over. That's
how you win. But people might misunderstand you're talking about how much you can
smell and see. Okay, how about this, If you talk too much,
Malik's going to get in trouble. Okay, So if you need to
if you need to compli if you need to communicate or converse, Malik will
be your point of interest for talking. So just unload on him whenever you
ofterest you're muted again. What's happening right now? We're going to go to
the cellar, and I'm checking in with you the whole time, Yes,
Malik, the entire time. Okay, it didn't seem relevant before because we
were leaving, uh, but I just wanted to be known that the last
time I went to the cellar, I walked by a murder scene. Murder
scene, yeah, you know, like one of those murder scenes. And
he like looks at tal and Malik are talent to marry rather so all right,
all right, all right, all right, all right, all right,
just go, just go. I mean, I'm not opposed to it,
but you know, I just really wanted to go to the cellar.
Come on, we only have them for right now. And he like thumbs
over to Kushakusha is like honestly ignored you. Actually probably in fact, at
this point they look at all of you and they go, fine, I'm
going to to gate this. Yeah, sanatorium problem. If you're not already
gone, I'll report back. If not, then actually we should probably go
ahead and just given keys and everything like that and get going. Speaking of
key, they put their hand out for the key to this estate. Uh,
I'm going to give the key back. But I have a question for
you dot. Um, since I since I've create like twice in this goddamn
security system, Uh, is it possible that, like I mean, obviously
I would have turned it back on? Um, is it possible that I
could have the feeds routed to my system so the security cameras on the emissary's
property. Sure? Cool. Then I happily hand the key back, um,
which might actually seem strange to the rest of the crew that I go,
oh, yeah, no problem, I am. And they kind of
took it away. Um, And they say the door will look behind you
when you're done. Great, are you staying here? Are you leaving?
They walk out, they're on you watch they all leave. The mark is
by Yeah, look, so it's just us in this room now, right,
we should cool. Yeah, so the discretions out the window? Um,
yeah, what are you? What are we hoping to find if we
go to the cellar? Whatever the sweet smell is. Well, I know
the mystics. I see them for who they actually are. Yeah, that's
how I found out about Tamror. Oops. Yep. So the crime scene
I walked past, I'm pretty sure was a mysticide. Which is a dumb
name. Um, actually it's a really good name. Whatever it describes the
actual and I know what it describes. It was in the sailor. I'm
just saying it's happening more commonly down there because there's less law enforcement, and
there's now two and a half of you, So you're reason not wanting to
go to the Yeah, it's between three mystics in a group. It doesn't
matter. We know that at least as of last time I saw heard the
ambassador is in a jungle on Kua. We already know where they're going.
Soul does not know any of this, right, Like he wasn't present for
the visions you guys had, the conversations. You guys had all that stuff.
Every moment how face with a vision once. That was when we first
you dropped a grenade and came in after you heard the big boom into Meir's
room. So you are not there, Damn, what the fu you just
realized has not technically like like directly been informed that you guys are mystics.
You found out through Lamar. I'm saying like Soul has literally not been told
or informed by anybody about what's going on. Don't worry. Tale hasn't told
a single person. It's fine, tells everybody. Yeah, I feel like
I feel like Malik just spilled the beans in that case. Then that's yeah.
When when he says about Lamara, that's when he like he like looked
at a Tale because he knows because of what the conversation comes with her father
to know this for this next part. Okay, so so after you say
that would be extremely just kind of like wait a second. So you and
I point to Tamir, you're one of those mistakes. Yes, and then
I point the towel. I'm like, and you what do you mean you?
Last time? You? How how did you know they're in a jungle?
Are you one of the mystics too? Yeah? You know some weird
shit happens when you get too close to the darkness Soul, and and I
point to the doctor, what dog, are you a mystic too? My
week mystic? No, it's just two and a half mystics. It's fine
new Okay, So you're telling me because it's all kind of like it's like
kind of taken aback. Uh. So do you do you recall when you
were the attacked you and you were in the medbay? Yeah? Do you
remember what happened? What happened? I mean, I saw some freaky things,
but I thought that was high on morphine or something. I've been that
before. I'm sure you have what happened in the midbay if I I mean,
I thought it was a dream. But I mean, your brother here
was I don't know, a phantom thing ripping other phantoms out of our bodies.
That's not how it works. Well he doesn't know that though poisoned.
Oh that can happen sometimes. Tamir did something I don't I don't know what
he did. But she was like pulling goop out of us, and Soul
was yelling and being really freaking difficult. Well, I'm sorry. When there's
a floating shadow in front of me, which looked like was ripping things out
of my so called crewmates. I reacted as if I should because it was
the poison manifesting. Well, I don't know what mystics do or don't do
or all this. Yeah, your friends are weird. No, I'm aware.
Was this when I found your unconscious? So when you gets slugged?
Oh is this why you need a doctor? Goo is not my specialty.
Lenora and souls like really getting frustrated at whatever. I love that you never
get her name rights, I thought, right, never you? Yeah,
Lauren, I'm no, I don't care. Listen you just I'm I'm okay,
cool. Yes, we're going to koa okay, end up going to
cool. We're going to understand why it is important for us to go now.
Yes, I get I get that. I just didn't know I had
target. We were walking with targets. You are a member of the syndicate,
now disconnected. You are also a target. You work for the syndicate.
Oh my god, tomorrow. I don't think she's actually at the family
dinner table. She doesn't have to suit at the kid's table anymore. It's
here. You're really good at telling other people's business. You should practice not
doing that. Oh that's actually and I will start walking back out. It
was just like wait wait um, and as you go, uh your science
kit samr m h, it starts beeping. Pity is that? I'm sorry?
I was just no one is going to acknowledge that burn ship whatever.
Just doctor after that, hope you go over you go over the war points.
Um, some of the data you were running completes on a critical success.
Oh, you have the identities of a few people. One of them
is the Merian blood. But what the screen shows you is something you've never
seen before. The machine says, uh uh uh analysis unknown, analysis unknown,
not in terms of the person, but in terms of the blood itself.
Unknown information. It seems that the blood um and this person's DNA has
a pretty incredible reginative regenerative rate that's far beyond your like how we heal?
And you and I mean Lamar would even go that's it's not supposed to be
like that. No, it's not supposed to what's not supposed to be like
that? What is that? How is that they've been possible? What is
what? What is possible? I can't read this. I don't know um.
What is of interest to you though? Is that the biodata other than
that seems partially corrupted and you're unsure if it's male or female? Dot?
How common are is knowledge about non humans? It's not like like not aliens,
but like humanoids. Uh human I oh nights Yeah yeah, Um,
I would be a law roll. You could roll a lure. You wouldn't
know if you wouldn't know that. Do I have culture? I don't have
culture? Oh culture? Yea, all right, cool, so I would
not I don't. I don't have anything you it's whispered, it's rumored it.
People talk about it. Some people call them crazy, some people don't.
Um, you know, it's like saying, yeah, sponsors out there.
Yeah, it's like a myth kind of deal. Yeah. Um,
so it lives in kind of this myth myth yeah place. If anybody has
laure, you can roll it. But no, we we are a group
of unculture people. Sweet. I don't actually think I'm gonna like nudget ta
mirror what what? What what does it? What does it say? It
does a unknown origin? And yet um, somehow in the blood it no
whoever this belongs to um. They have incredible regenerative abilities, regenerative abilities?
Yes, does it? Can you pinpoint if that was the blood on the
floor or the blood like where did Where's that blood source from? Maybe weekend?
Of course that is where everything gets labeled. That's what all the tags
are. Wherever it was. If I look at where he pointed, could
I make a possible assumption of whether it is like fuck, how do I
phrase this? I'm trying to see if it's a person that was like running
away and got blown up, or if it was a person that was doing
the aggression that have like a bit of a splat back with the blood because
okay, well, what I'm trying to determine is if this blood was the
victim or the assassin. In all of the blood, there are six people
that you could account for basically, right three come back as male, okay,
to come back as female, and on what is unknown, and that
unknown is the one that has the originative properties. You can rightfully assume that
it is probably the blood of the emissary. Would be an easy assumption,
and when you can without rolling, Okay, yeah, I mean if this
mean that blood is probably of someone important, I mean, and I look
out towards the door with Tao went like, what should what do we do?
Do we just leave? Like is there really that much importance if we
try to chase this lead down the sellers risk all of your lives for what
confirmation that, yeah, some big bad dude did beat the crowd out of
an embassy or emissary? Or do we go just go to tech? I
mean, you guys have a point. I'm I'm an ex assassin. He's
a hacker. You're out of school. Like, we don't really have the
strongest rep here to demand anything. I think we're all pro kua right now
that this is what our patron has asked of us, right, okay,
it is something that we can take action on the right now and help people
immediately, right right. So it's like kind of like constantly agreeing, but
for some reason he has this like uneasy jitters. It just feels weird.
But yeah, it all makes sense, y'all makes sense. It's not often
that I say planet side is safer. I haven't really been planet side in
a while. It's been a couple of years. All right, Well,
I mean, let's let's pack this up, let's get out of here.
We're not supposed to be here anyway, and our our ticket to being here
just left. So yeah, plus I have I have the dancer looking into
the ships, so kind of like does one of those like mm she he
just he just walks away, doesn't care anymore. He's walking away. She
showed me a favor. Oh is this the cashing in on favor? Yeah,
that's what the card was. Um cool, you need help breaking that
down? You like motions do to be her? No, I'm I'm fine,
all right? Well cool, And he opens the door and like motions,
lamar out, let's go, you motion Lamara out, And as you
do, Lamar goes, oh you hear and say, oh no, are
you lost? And she kind of turns and looks down the hallway and there
stands a child. Fuck that. She goes, you really shouldn't be here,
little one. Do you need some help? All of you recognize this
child immediately? What I ever left already? Or if you exit the door,
the child is just the left down the hallway. I can't there when
I left because I walked out. Yeah, if you walk out, you
see the child state I walked out before they even got the results. Oh
that's right. Yes, we cut to tow O God. You begin to
walk away, recounting your steps backwards and out of this apartment complex and off
of this just jim encrusted insults to those other people in Coriolis. And as
you head towards your your ship, your home, and you have a plan,
you have a mission, need to save your sins. You gotta do
the uh you see directly in front of you on an empty path, and
this over this, looking over this beautiful lake. The boy fancy meeting you
here? Why is it fancy? M hmm. It's an expression. I
hate it. Not the biggest fan. Ei there. I won't use it
again with you. Um anything, bring you here specifically you Oh, your
investigation, you get closer to the truth of the emissary. The child obviously
not speaking. It's just tards in front of you, blinking, so creepy
when you do that. It's fine, it's fine, it's fine. Oh,
I think I gotta be a kid. Um. So what should we
continue following this lead? Or just because realistically I feel like we should just
skip to Kua. Tell me what you know, I'll do it. He
can make you till him. I don't want to have to do that.
I know I know, yes, you do fill up that corruption bar and
make it happy. Oh my gosh, corruption. He just said, what
you know, Remember, we are working towards a seend. I know,
just hat being ordered around. Sorry, Malik's doing it enough. UM help
if I say the word fancy you know what that did kind of help?
Um. Anyways, so there were seven people, uh well seven people worth
of blood. Um. One of them was the ambassador himself themselves. Um.
Looks like there was some sort of fight in the house and they,
I guess, knocked him unconscious or something and took him out the vent.
A few people died along the way. I think, do we know these
individuals are not exactly but I have no names. I don't but your family
does. I don't have any names. When Tamir was running everything, he
didn't have any names there. So if they've found anybody, then I don't
know. You're seeing any kind of begin stepping towards you troubled. What is
wrong? There's a lot of fucked up ship going on right now, and
I really just want to like sit down and think about a couple of things,
because I feel like if I can just have some peace and quiet,
I can put some puzzle pieces together. But every time I try to,
somebody else comes says, hey, you need to do this. Tell just
let's oop investigate this house filled with blood, or you know, go pick
up these shady states. That is this place? Yeah, I would like
to see it, all right, turn around and start walking back, he
goes. He goes, no, no, kind of puts his hand out.
Continue to your ship. There are someone you would want to talk with.
Great more company. And he goes near the door, but stops in
the hall way. You even look over your shoulder to see they stand there,
unmoving and unwavering. A few minutes later, after talent has gone back
to the ship before all of you, the three of you walk out and
there stands the child. You hear them in your mind. They do not
speak. They simply stare at you. Lamara still being like, um,
are you okay? She takes a couple steps towards them. I'll like,
instinctively, even though I don't like her, We'll reach out and try to
like hold her back. She goes, it's just a kid. It's not
just a kid, doctor, This is a this is a gin. This
is you tell your brother was funny. I'm not funny. He's the funny
one. Actually not funny. They're both not funny. This isn't a joke.
Chans are real. Yeah, you're staring at the one. Yes,
why is it a kid? Okay, don't know. I'm pretty sure they
can just be whatever they want. Well, we we don't, we don't,
we don't know, we don't know. I let all three of us.
She goes quiet for the first time in a while as she kind of
trails off and there is a rather pregnant Paulsi. She tries to decide whether
you guys are pulling her leg or not. And this the child finally speaks
to all of you again, not moving its mouth, but in your heads,
and it simply says, tell me what it is that you know?
Uh? Do we see? Do we see tale? She's not gone?
Oh she's got by um man, can you just have like a data pad
or something so I could just send it to you in an email? My
data bad, white, useless, wireless. I don't I get it there.
I'll explain because like very rudimentary, like fundamentally just like what we've kind
of discovered. Do you know the names of these people? Was here?
No? And what good has your investigation, man, and that's not true
from a GM perspective. You do know a name of doing here we do,
just waiting on Malik to speak the hell up? I know, I
genuinely, I genuinely thought we didn't know. Okay, certainly not. Don't
you don't know? You don't you don't know. Yeah, Malief is pretty
much the only one that's been able to identify the judge. I still say,
no, Malik doesn't trust this fucking GM. Right, it's let's say
okay, look, let's listen. We fine, I would figure it out.
Okay, Malik says. Once he says that, what what uses your
investigation? Uh? He looks to me here and says, I wasn't paying
attention. Can you give him the names of the pariah doctors? Yes?
Um, it will be have reason to believe in. Like Tamir is kind
of like looking back and forth between the kid and and Malik, like you
want me to share this information? Okay, I kind of see the hesitation.
I smacked me ror and the shoulder, just like, just do it.
There is a a if was it a father or a doctor? Brother?
Brother, sister, brothers and sister robe blow yeah, yeah, let
me just type those out for you. Mus all, robe bla, this
is that one. But I'm not gonna lie. That's exactly what I wrote
down at first, and I was like, that's not right. So many
letters. I thought it was like French, and it was like. The
child says, and these healers you believe them to be a part of all
this. The man mean that broke in here, we're injured. Those two
people healed the injured people. Yes, I can smell them the blood.
Hey me too. Shut up. He squeezes her hand. The child for
the first time moves when she says that and tips its head. I'm sorry
you too, I can smell their blood. Oh my god, shut oh
doctor police. Oh wait, is this the quat a game? Yes,
we get any much to get my trouble. The child begins walking now towards
you, closing the gap of space, towards the doctor. Timmy would like
to kind of step in front of the doctor. Yeah, I would,
fuck man, damn doctor. I would say, is interesting and kind of
like looks at her like she is something that she that the exterior is all
wrong. He says, you've seen it at the darkness on the other side.
I did too one time, but I came back. She goes me,
do I'm going to send you right back if you do not stop talking?
He says, you can't send her back, not anymore? Can we
We have a we have a deadline. Do you mind if we leave?
No? What do you mean? I mean that she is? She's on
our way? Like me, I will step away from this doctor. At
this point, she goes a child. How close is he to us?
Rather close? Damn. When Sewel steps away, it like opens up a
space from a leak to walk forward. And he steps till he's like right
in front of the kid and then squats down to kid hight and in like
a very serious, non sarcastic Malik tone, he says, I don't trust
you at all, shouldn't. I don't like you at all. The fact
that I'm even working with you makes my skin crawl? Is there any way
to stop that? And he like motions back to Lamara. Oh, he
leans around you and looks and leans in like a kid might to somebody that
they really love, And he says, not that I know of. But
then again, the darkness works in mysterious ways. And when I was still
mortal. I didn't have what she has, and that is screw m so
it'll be like, Oh, Malik stands up and he says, all right,
it's time to go. Good luck. I'm going to move back a
little bit to let everyone out first. He starts to walk around the kid.
I look at the mirror. I'm assuming the doctor doesn't go behind my
leg. I was gonna look at the mirror away for him. Yes,
he's waiting for you to go. Oh, okay, great, Yeah,
he's fucking following. Yeah, and I will back away like constantly, just
keeping an eye on the gin. Yeah. As you balk away, the
child looks at the door that's where they're headed, and the child's kind of
smiles and place says good luck. Yeah, whatever, I'll tell you more
of what I find. And since you're the only person looking at him,
oh damn it, don't don't. Don't do this. He shifts because he
must go through the door, which has locked behind all of you, and
you see, for a brief moment, no the gin, No damn it.
Why the fuck? Why me? You needed to get your last word
in and I needed to make sure you saw the gin. I'm not Darkose
points to spend y'all, we can't go to court. I'll kill you on
impact, So I really should spend some of them. Wait wait, so
no one. I are having a conversation earlier, and he goes, he
goes, he goes, there's no proof that will actually land on Kua once
we leave the station, and I said, no, don't worry, buddy.
Every time he's like, why is it? Once you hit it,
Once you hit an atmosphere, you owe it land precisely me seeing the gin
because the last time I saw the gin and fuck me up? So am
I getting You're gonna have to make a role, and I want to make
sure I know what that role is. What the fuck? This is what
I get for trying to make sure everyone gets out before me. Next time,
I'm gonna leave the mirror as you get for looking back and trying to
taunt the guy. I wasn't trying to taunt him. I was making sure
that he doesn't do anything to our backs as we're leaving. It's a it
is a normal I don't know military, but like it's a I would assume
normal video game. That Okay. I've always you know, checking your six
and making sure you're good when you leave. Hey, I've just gonna very
quickly give a riggety roley dirt. Okay, well to do Okay, I'll
got one. That's okay. You see it again. That that haunts uh,
your nightmare is the one that ticket from you. I'm going to have
you roll a D six, Roll one D six. Okay, I got
two M plus four, I got six? Okay, um okay, every
okay, you rolled to two. So that is not as compulsion mean,
this is a mania. You basically have a mania, I add somewhere,
or this is a nope. This is just like the last one where you
you had to like look away. It's more kind of a role play thing.
But did that look away thing go away as well? Over time?
It wears a way, I would say, unless they continue to taunt you
like this. Um. So you have what's known as compulsion, which means
that you can pulsively perform a specific action in specific situations or certain situations.
You cannot be around a child. Good being in the same room makes you
nauseous, and you compulsively must turn away and leave. And you watch as
that face again goes off as it shoots into the room and the june is
gone, and you have a moment having to catch your breath as your knees
almost buckle. As I back up, I'll probably try to grab the side
of the wall or whatever to balance myself and then just take a moment to
regather myself. And I guess I get the same feeling as before, and
he sould, being adaptive, will recognize that and he'll just be like,
fuck that thing, and then he'll he'll get up and try to regroup with
everyone else. You have to pick up your pace a little bit to catch
up, but you do, and you begin to leave this floor headed back
to the Defiant, all of you. Yeah, yeah, I think Lamara
asked questions the whole way what did he mean by as you, I'm sure
attempt to shush her the whole way. As the camera pans out and down
to the vessel, the Defiant is almost ready. You have been. When
you get to the ship you have been, you can see there's like a
note or a notice it's been placed that you have a slot to portal jop
from here, which you need for a busy system like this, which would
be tomorrow morning, okay. And not only do you see the posting.
But you see a woman by the ship. She's leaning on it nonchalantly.
She looks up at you. You know her it is your reporter friend.
Why hello there? She says, I was not expecting you, though I
guess I should have been. She looks at the ship. I see you
have made a lot of upgrades. Yeah, well you know I'm changing,
I guess or something. So what can I help you with? Well,
I was looking for the league. He was, in fact the one who
sent me this. She hold a small slip of printed like paper, like
almost in playing receipt. She kind of jerks it back so you can't read
it, and she says, he was said a very cryptic message about diplomatic
community. Now, whoop would four ragtag freelancers I want to know about diplomatic
immunity. I feel like this is a story for the front page, or
it's a story that shouldn't go to the paper but should go elsewhere. You
want to come talk on my ship? I thought you never asked. And
she kind of folds a piece of paper and tucks it into like a breast
pocket on her best that she wears, and follows you into the ship.
She looks around. She says, you have made some upgrades, much nicer
than when I flew with your parents. Well, I'm doing different kinds of
jobs these days, apparently, apparently, she says, So tell me what
you know on the record. Of course, on the record. I know
that, um, I know that there's more to a story that you told
me about previously. Is that right? Mm hmm. I know that diplomatic
community is the reason why they didn't get very far on it. Okay,
And who has this diplomatic community? I look her up and down, and
I sigh heavily. Okay, you know what, I really feel like this
is something that Millie should tell you since he started the story. This is
his story. I feel like you're a bit nervous. Yeah. Well,
I don't necessarily want to be the one that's being blasted on the front page
of the papers saying, oh this is who did what. It's not like
they believe me anyways. People still don't need that in your mouth or from
your keyboard. I see. Well, then, small talk till Malie gets
here. She reaches in her pocket and turns off her recorder. Off the
record, How are you have you seen your parents? I have seen my
parents. They're doing okay. Everybody's a little anxious these days, that's true,
but you know, everyone's coping in their own way. I guess many
of us feel like maybe the things going on are good for Correolis. That's
not what you think off the record. I think that the mystics have caused
problems and that somebody pushing them to leave is not always a bad thing.
And the emissary did demand a place on the council. It's not how we
work fair. So the bulletin reports on the mysticides and we try to stay
neutral. Well, can't always stay neutral. Sometimes you just absolutely have to
pick a side. I know. It's why I write the news. I
live for those moments. And I'm I was hoping, based on this little
note she actually pets the breast pocket where she put it would lead me to
another great story, because the last one that I had happened because well with
you. You did get to read the story I wrote about you, right,
I'm afraid I didn't actually what. I'll have to send you a copy.
I would like that you did do an interview I did. I don't
know exactly what you would have said, though I didn't really give you much.
You gave me enough. H Well, I expect to have that article.
Watching the three the other three of you. You are so nervous right
now. Yeah, it's so funny trying to keep it under rats. I'm
nervous just watching the three of you. And I'm a gu I know what's
going on. Exie dot that's not a talker. Huh. She goes,
well, do you have anything to drink aboard this? Yeah? Do you
want it to be hard soft? Or do you not care? Hard?
Preferably? But do you know? All right, I've got a little whiskey
in the back, and I rummage through some cabinets and pull out a bottle
from the back and say, yeah, I've been holding onto this one.
She takes it, and it's gonna swings it when you serve it and SIPs
on it. That's good? Is that? Mm hmm? I think they
call it supernova. Your sister used to drink supernova totally. Have you seen
her recently? It's been a while. I haven't. Yes, Sorry,
I'm sure she's in and out of trouble. That's what she's good at,
certainly good at getting into trouble. I was always the one in getting her
out of it. So who knows, Well, you seem rather busy.
Now, Yes, she's gonna have to find somebody else to clean up her
messes. It's not your job to clean up her messes. I know That's
why I stopped. Well, she looks over as the doors, the three
of you in Lamara stand there in the doorway as you enter, you see
Tal and reporter. I cannot remember her name off the top of my damn
hid h is it? Yeah? It's Anita. Tale is kind of sitting
back and what looks like would be a relaxed position for almost anybody else.
But I'm sure at least tam Or can tell that Tal is extremely uncomfortable.
I think Saul remembers the conversation of where we were talking about going topsiders seller
and Tao said that she really doesn't want to talk to people. Uh,
this is so. And also I don't think Soul trusts the reporter, so
he's going to kind of eye the reporter in the very hostile manner. And
just, huh, why is it every time we come here there's somebody new
on this ship. I don't know. Apparently I need to stop telling people
where I'm docked. This is Oh, I was kind of invited here and
too, it's not hard to run diagnostics to find out where ships are docked,
and the Defiant is a bit of a unique name. Out of character
questions, Sorry, we don't know that Malik sent that report, right,
okay, you have no idea? Yeah, invited by who? Well,
belief? Of course, I immediately look at Malik, all eyes on,
Belik. I didn't invite you anywhere. I take a large sip of whiskey.
Well, when you send a rather cryptic message direct to the hotline printer
for Coriolis and it comes through with the words diplomatic immunity, she reads off
the piece of paper. Please research. After she says diplomatic community, I
would push everyone into the ship and closed door. Keep going with the rest
of the message. Oh, she said, that was the one that interested
me the most. What was the next line? I don't have that written
down. This is not a story. Also, nowhere on there, nowhere
on there invited you to the ship again. When you hack into my private
hotline and you send a message with such vigor, I felt it necessary to
do a little research. Isn't that what you asked me to do. What'd
you find out? Well, I haven't yet because I'm here to interview you.
Oh okay, I what is what? Mali immediately hits the door and
says, not a story, and motions for her to get out. I
will immediately move out of the way to make a path for her to leave.
She goes, all right, I see that you're a bit testy about
it. My question is why bring me into your mess. You have ties
that I don't. This is not a story. And he still has his
hand out for her to leave. Everything is a story. This is not
fine. She looks over at a new person. I know you, Lamar
waves you're the doctor. I will immediately grab her and start pushing her towards
the medic because I do not want me. Yeah, you start moving her
shoes. That's the doctor. No it's not. No, it's not.
No, it's not And I will just keep motioning her towards the mead bay
and pushing her in. Yes, we have hired a physician because we didn't
have one on the ship. I finished the rest of my whiskey. You
take a big gulp. She takes your lead and follows, slipping hers down.
She says, well, I see I'm not welcome here. Next time
you message me privately, Malik, remember that I'm a paper and the bar
has filled. Ah, I love this so much. I love this so
much, and the bar has filled. She goes, it was nice to
see you all. I hope that you have a great trip wherever it is
that you're going. She takes a look around again, seeing the changes to
the vessel, and as she goes to leave, she turns around and she
says, Malik, yeah, diplomatic community is given to those are given to
very specific people. In my time doing research, anytime we run into diplomatic
community means you should stop. I hope to see you again. I encourage
you to stop. If that's the case, then this is not a story.
She goes, I don't have a story yet. There was no interview.
Have a great day, Anita. I will try and leak. Don't
forget. You can call me up when you do have a story if if
you come back. She hits the button drop stumps. I want to walk
over to Tamir and kind of like whisper in a low tone, your brother
seriously needs to stop bringing girls the ship. I grab the rest of the
bar and start drinking the rest of it straight from the bottle. On my
way to my room, everybody begins to depart, to dissipate, going to
their separate places, and one more day is all you have, just a
night night. Technically in the space, I hear a few more hours.
I guess maybe each of you go to your rooms, Maybe you have some
quarter conversation. Maybe you use this time to prepare for your massive and importance.
I want to look for that grenade. I'm saying that right now.
I want to find that grenade before you do anything with it. I want
to find the fucking grenade. You can roll. This is kind of beat.
It's such bullshit. They're supposed to be a joke if you say it,
so it is okay, you can roll for this. Um. This
is an observation to dig around the ship for it. Okay. Please.
If there was ever a moment to give me a crit this is it.
Please. Well, then you go there. Did you searched the ship high
and low? You retrace your steps, you do not find the grenade.
Oh. Also, on my way out, I tell everybody we leave in
the morning, don't be late getting up. Hate this, And everybody takes
to themselves a towel. It is you. You're woken out of your sleep
in a hot sweat, You've been having nightmares, whatever it is that haunts
you. When you close your eyes, they open up to a child in
the corner of the room, a dark shadow across their face. The light
from the kind of slit in the window of your door of your bedroom beams
across their little eyes, and they stare right at you. Uh, whoever
is in nearby rooms, Probably here's an exploitive from Tal's room, a little
holler all of you. Observation. You're asleep, so there's going to be
negatives to this. If you're sleeping, it's probably a negative two. You
can put negative two into the modifier negative two observation to see if you hear
Tals scream out. Yeah, oh that's nice. Great. Didn't let me
It was lacking for me a little bit. Yeah. Hitting a syntax air,
yeah, I refreshed the page. The reason you're getting a syntax area
is because you probably put positive down to negative two. Yeah. Click negative
two up too, so it says positive negative yeah versus negative two. Does
that make sense? Use the sheet? I did use a sheet where the
word says negative, click up twice to make it negative positive. It's at
it. It's oddly you've written. But yeah, it's a fan made character
sheet, so I get it though I'm positive and negative dice. Yeah that's
what I means. Okay, Um, So did you see there was a
kid by the way? Yeah, yeah, there's a child on the corner
of theres a kid. It's it's the very special kid. But essentially her
what the fuck? Yeah? You hear you hear tale start out of a
out of a nightmare. You can't do that. Can't do that? Do
I hear that? Do I hear her saying? You hear the like kind
of explosion of her waking up at saying the kid? If you wanted to
to go check on her, and it's late at night, it is everybody
at least is a sleep on the shoe. Okay, I'll go. I'll
go check up on her. You go down to Tal's room. It takes
you a minute because you know, you might want to put your boots on
or something. Only as you as you walk down the hallway, all that's
on the on towel's door is a is a slit. I'll knock tell him
to go away a towel. Are you okay, I'm fine, soul,
Thanks, thanks for checking. I just leave you go back to sleep.
The child stands there again, that beam of light across their eyes, and
they say, I felt something. Okay. Do you have to be so
creepy when you always say hi to me? Creepy? I don't understand me.
It's it's fine. What do you have? I have information about an
ambassador? Oh yeah, after my own investigation, I was able to track
down one of the individuals there. Their name is Joe Harkassar, an ambassador
of high standing. He bears the responsibility of being an ambassador to the Council
of Factions. I spent the day with him. Your brother and sisters at
the sanatorium are not guilty of what you think. They were just healing people.
They are doing what they believe is right there. What about the ambassador,
he is guilty. He is planning something. He knew of the ambassador.
He knew of the emmissaries kidnapping, though he was only a bonne.
He seeks power. I left him with nightmares. Mom at least they were
well learned. But he would control the ambassador. He carries his father's name.
He wants it so badly that he would do anything to gain political bound.
Humans are weak. Tell they are easily manipulated, and get a very
small price for a very important creature. You know, I've noticed the smaller
the men. Yeah, m hmm, No, that's not right. How
do I put this? Uh, the more insignificant man, the lower the
price for atrocities. He hides it behind the money and the name. I've
been wished you for a very specific purpose. I must continue that purpose.
Good night, Tell Tom good night. If you could keep your visits to
when I'm awake would be great, He goes, No worries you are headed
away from this place, correct, Yeah, I'll take you nightmares. What
do you want to dream of? Tell Tom? I will just wish for
my own dreams rather than telling you, so be it. Good night.
Tell him good night, Carl. And as you I'm sure you dropped back
down on the bed going to sleep, maybe you open an eye and look
back in the corner and the child is gone. Because we filled a corruption
bar. Jan is not done. A board a vessel he's been invited on.
He goes to visit a sleeping doctor. Where does the doctor sleep Malik
with you in a cryoto. If I have my way about things, you
force her into a cryoto ban No Tao would have had another sleeping area prepared
at one point or another. If nothing else, she would have ended up
inviting Lamar to stay in her room. Oh interesting, So well, you
know when the medby got expanded, she might have had a bunk installed in
the because it did get a massive expansion, so I'd say that's probably reasonable
idea. If nothing else, she might also sleep on the slab, the
medical slab. Tal wouldn't make her sleep in the cryod chamber. Tyal would
make sure she had some sort of a bad We see the child manifest again.
Out of an eerie kind of reddish smoke. It walks down the hallways
of this ship, running its hand across the wall all the way down,
and it stops on the med bay door flat and he watches. Their hand
pushes through ethereal like and they pass in. They look over to a small
bunk where the where Lamar sleeps. She rests very soundly. She holds a
scalpel in one hand as it drapes off the bed. They walk over and
slip the scalpel out of her hand, set it down. They're gonna roll
some things, yea. They watch her for a very long time before they
reach out and touch her on the forehead. It only takes a few seconds
from the perspective of the camera. The jan smiles, grabs her sheets,
pulls it up, tucks her in, and he leans over and he whispers
in her ear, so you will have to fight a new home, dear
Shin, you know when it's right. Return to me when you are done.
And the boy again, with a slight tuck, making her a little
burrito. They walk out, passing through the door out of the main hall
of the ship, and we see them as they fade into the crowd of
people that do not sleep aboard Coriolis. I do have one more corruption board.
Do I save it? Do I save it for the top of next
week. We're gonna save it for the top of next week. We're gonna
start with a corruption bar. The sick love the silence stop. I mean,
do we do you want to wait or do you want me? I
could? Okay, fine, I'll go ahead. I'll go ahead and give
you the correction bar. Now. As the Blue walks away, fading into
the crowd of people there. You see, we see two figures standing kind
of a across the walkway of this gangway that leads to towels ship in this
private sector. Two figures wrapped h in kind of their heads wrapped in a
black a very tight kind of black mask, and they wear robes of kind
of tight fitted robes. They watch your vessel. You watch as they reach
under their cloaks for two vulcan pistols, and they begin stepping across the way,
unseen by everyone around them, towards the ship. Okay, you wanted
it, It is great. What the fuck does that mean? Tal is
never getting a good night's sleep ever? Again? No? Wait, is
that what we're ending? Yeah, fucking goddamn it. You wanted to lie,
but now we have to wait a week? Keep a week. We're
asleep, right, yeah you are? Oh fuck, we're gonna get assassinated.
Okay, all right, well, okay, I just want to say,
like Dylan, I was just joking, like have joking, but you
actually may have just killed us. For the record, Tell probably did not
go straight back to sleep after that, I imagine not. I never I
never said I went to sleep. I'm just back. I just want to
say I have recently got caught up on all of Letter Keavy, and I
know that dot watches it, and all I have to say is okay,
okay, okay, done, okay, okay. Oh this is so bad.
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