Arise, Midians, and welcome to this Unmade Gaming production. Join the crew
of the Defiant as they journey through the Third Horizon at the Mercy of the
Icons, trying to understand just what's happening to the mystics in this Coriolist campaign.
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I will turn things over to Dot to take us into space. Yeah,
we see the defiant break out of a portal jump into Zallos, the kind
of front line forward your sound Okay, thought it was me. I was
like ship hearing day and I thought my hearing just stop. I paniced and
check all my stream stuff. Okay, so sorry, my friend's voice mod
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so t Zallos, which is basically the budding frontline for a well civil war.
As our swinky new recap past, Dot told you all about the different
radio broadcasts that are spilling the news of what's really happening on Coriolis versus the
kind of cover up that is trying to actually take place. But all of
you have a new mission from your brand new patron. Information the most valuable
thing in the third Horizon, especially at this moment and whatever probe will sit
in advance or to kua to to like announce the arrival of this order of
the prior ship, to grab all of the refugees for safety and to get
them off of the hostel, out of the hostile situation. It either didn't
arrive, or they ignored it, or was something changed. That is what
you're all there to figure out. But the first one up, of course,
is gonna be our dear, dear towel. You are the pilot.
Your pod will open to the normal sounds, the normal lights, the disorientation,
the feeling in your fingers, like you know when your limbs go to
sleep, like as as your your tactile process comes back, and uh yeah,
you see out your front window. Well you see the system of zallos
and the vast amount of ships here. There are quite a few of them.
Well, the first thought is, fuck man, yep, do they
look scary and terrifying? I mean they can look scary and terrifying, if
that helps you out mind. To be honest, I mean, the vast
just the amount of people that must be on those ships actually terrifying to tell
personally for sure. Okay, actually you know what I'm looking at this now.
Okay, so you would have gone not to actually zealous because you had
one stop before that I was, which we kind of talked about. This
is where you see the blockade. There seems to be a massive monastery blockade.
I'm gonna paging that for you all roll twenty. If you would like
to see it, I'll hang it again you poo. This is the system
before Zallos, and you can see there are orderships the last at this point,
probably what you imagine is the order of the parized fleet because the rest
of them were wiped out in a massive explosion energy explosion that happened back at
the beginning of our dear season, So you can't imagine that they actually have
that many, that much left in their fleet. Yeah, so you see
these monastery cruisers, these torpedo ships kind of building blockade. You can see
stand off between the official fleet right from Zalos that has come here to like
basically stand off. It's a it's a rather tense situation. The entire area
surrounding this system is just full of militarized vessels. So standing there just taking
all of this in for a moment before I wake up my crew, I
say to myself and to the ship and to the traveler. You know what,
I didn't really believe in all lot. But if anybody's listening, I
could use a little walk right now, and I will go wake my crew.
You walk through a really quiet ship in the emptiness of space, and
you hit the button that begins to relieve your crew of their cry of state.
If I remember correctly, Lamarrow hopped in with Malik at the last second.
Do I remember that correctly? Yeah? Okay, over great, and
then everybody else would be, you know, in their individual pods, and
the same for all of you. Begin to come to your limbs, your
vision, the feeling of literally being in a stasis, that jump through time
starts to slowly lose its effect. The more you do it, the easier
it is. I immediately after waking everyone, start to look at what my
options are here. I imagine all of you might gather. How shows you
the great scene of this ship barricade. You were not told that there would
be a barricade here, so this must be a new development in the wake
of what is happening. Um, I will say this, You need to
get through the other side the Zallo's portal station, because there's always a portal
station, like comes into view, right, it starts like you can see
it slowly orbiting, and it starts to come into view, and you can
see that the barricade is being blocked. It is blocking the the portal out
to Zallos, which is where you believe that you need to go. Maybe
a few things are running through your heads, other than the fact that now
there's a blockade, which means it's gonna be a lot harder to jump to
the other side, if you can even get there at all. This anywhere
that you land, like the portal station is always open to any human of
the third horizon, Okay, like you don't. You are allowed to dock
at a portal station, right, it's like a trading post. Everybody is
welcome there. Now, depending on the ones you're at, you might not
want to be there, but that's a whole different story. So you can
always dock. So far, there's no combat, there's no ship battles.
It's just this. It's that feeling of the Cuban missile crisis, where at
any point you all might just have to get under your desk and duck and
so you might also be thinking if you can't get through, you might be
able to find some information to help you get through, because remember y'all well
connected. Now, last time I set yeah, you know somebody at every
port or I know who somebody is refined If it's not Joey's cousin, mh
Tony, Tony, Tony, I know Joey, he's my cousin. Yeah,
yeah, it's gonna be. It's gonna be Henry. Yeah. Maybe
there's like you know, I got we got cousins all all over the place.
Your Henry is he becoming Louise from a man my cousin, Tony's sisters
it brother told me, yes, the family of words? Yes please joy
moment is this? Yeah? Yes, I want you to see how big
our list has gotten. So okay, So does anybody say anything? Because
I imagine that there is a there might be a little bit of some tension
not best well maybe between all of you, uh, but definitely in regards
to the current situation in front of you all you would see that that's new,
yeah, but also somehow very familiar. Let's the plan for this one,
Well, go to the portal station. Freest dock is normal, see
if we can get any information on what's exactly happening here, maybe who's in
charge. Maybe see if we can get some documentation getting us access to the
other side, even if we have to change some codes or something that might
help. Perhaps we can contact someone we know. I don't know anybody off
the top of my head here, but I avoid Zellos definitely been But yeah,
I agree, Perhaps just at least doctor would be the spot to start.
Yeah, we're gonna have to refuel anyways, Like, even if you
wanted to make the jump, you'd have to at least go to the portal
station to refuel and and prep for what is basically another cryo jump. Yeah,
so uh yeah, we'll re stock. See we can find out here.
Okay, Dot, while we're kind of floating through the void of space,
can I can I do a scan on my new radio that I made
to see if to see if any of the signals, like because I know
it was hopping frequencies, Can I scan and see any of those for making
it this far out or having it this far out? The radio you mean,
yeah, the pirate radio? Sure, Yeah, you could turn you
can flip it on. Okay, what would you like for a role there.
Well, I mean it is a tune to the frequency already. You
don't need to make one. You just see if you can pick it up.
I do now if you want to make a role. If you don't
pick it up, you would be like, oh, this is why I'm
not picking it up. But just to test it out, because he's gonna
be like fine tuning to see because he knows like the range of frequencies that
bounces around. Okay, I'll give you a quick little role here, just
to see in case, how did you roll fucking make Okay? Fine?
Fine, Mike, what fine? Mike? Mike, Mike, Mike gone
back and just seeing how many crits Mike success, Mike, you're not recording
zoom, Mike, you're not recording zoom. Don't you need to record our
audio? I mean, I forgot like the last three episodes. So it's
fine, I know, but I'm just reminding you now because I just thought
about it. Okay, with the four critical success which belongs from a leak,
not Mike. We yeah, you have no you you flip it on.
It still functions beautifully, wonderfully, and you begin kind of tuning,
you extend the Radius and you do begin to pick it up, but not
before you pick up the great and wonderful uh New Entertainment. It was a
critical success, Mike. That means you're still getting broad cast from KUA too.
You were very successful. You're getting all of the broadcast, including the
new Network Entertainment channel honoring the crew of the Defiant. Last week, we
got to see The Bachelorette, and I imagine as it starts to come in,
you just hear lamar, go oh, I thought I was gonna miss
who who she gave her charm to? And she runs up behind you to
like listen in and kind of look in. Unfortunately, it's the end and
the credits are rolling, so we'll have to find out next week who are
Bachelorette chose. But but you hear Charity's voice simply say which one do I
want to do things? Yeah? No, this is this is the one
we're doing. You'll hear Charity's voice say, we boy, have we got
a special surprise for you. A new movie coming straight from the reels of
Coriolists to Taal Too Furious and it like cuts to this like top gun style,
like and tows like dodging and weaving and the crew of the Defiance like
hanging on behind tow as she's drifting, uh drift, racing through space to
town to furious. Yeah yeah, basically uh, and it plays through the
commercial for the latest upcoming uh third Horizon Blockbuster to tow to Furious. Yeah.
Yeah, I have a list of the ones y'all suggested, and we
are gonna go. We're going through them. But just as it starts to
reach the climactic moment where where uh, I guess maybe maybe the call her
well, I guess they'll call her towel, but the rest of the crew
maybe has like monocras or weird yeah nothing. Yeah, it's gotta be too
tal, too curious. It's too good. Right as the climactic moment happens
where where Tal is gonna kiss to me or it's like and uh, Malik
picks up the uh actual like radio broadcast he was looking for the pirate radios
it comes through and was like, oh ah uh it's you know, she
didn't get to see it. Are you just trying to see what they are
broadcasting? I mean I was just trying to see if it was getting out
this far. But I mean if they're gonna be broadcasting some stuff. I'll
take a look. The radio is still act up. You hear the same
voice of that woman from before. She calls herself. Actually she does not
call herself anything, because well she does call herself. Yeah it does.
Okay, I will tell you this. You wrote a critical It seems that
they probably have they're gonna have a centralized pirate station like radio station, right,
but they are. They have. They have transmitters in probably all of
the third reson. They are slowly they have slowly dropped off transmitters because you're
picking up on a localized signal in the system. Yeah, so I can
definitely tell you that. But you hear the same woman and she's reading the
news, and you pick up right at the end, and she says,
we need more like him that will stand up against the homogeny, against the
order. Don't let his words die out hidden behind black tape and bureaucracy.
Be like Malik, and she hits play and begins broadcasting your speech from the
banquet. It was a critical success. Malik turns it down right before it
says, be like Malik, Lumargo, stop that's you. Listen, No,
I'm trying to not I was there, I said it, but you
can see that it is Malik's speech, the one speaking out against everything that's
happening here, the lies, the tales that is being broadcast like some sort
of inspirational mantle to encourage those across the third horizon to step up against whatever
is happening here. And she does. When it's all done right before,
maybe Malik like or clicks the it off. If he does. You hear
her say, yes, one of the son's of al Gold. Interesting,
No, he lets it play the whole way. Throw in case there's some
relevant piece of information. No, it seems like they're they're talking a little
bit more. Let's see. Yeah, okay, Uh, she finishes,
She comes back and she says she does say, you know, the son
of alcohol, and she picks up this just in the order continues its dangerous
escalation. We've just received word that a large Delucian fleet has established a blockade
in Eyes Was. Our allies on Saddle and Mirror are worried, and the
Council is deliberating as we speak. Sanctions against Thelucian colonies and interest are apparently
on the table, as well as military response Zallo's is now completely cut off,
and the colonial agency is trying to negotiate the release of nonzolotions from the
City of Foreigners with backing from the clergy of the Church of Icons and some
of the more prominent Marian clans. There's still a chance that the portals will
reopen for trade a pilgrimage through the horizon. Now, that was just like,
ah, they're trying to figure out some trades that y'all know. They
blew that ship out of the air. Yeah, Malik turns that up so
that like or he makes this like the whole crew can hear it, even
if they're not in the bridge, and he kind of looks to Talent says,
the City of Foreigners is the only city we would have been allowed to
go to, and if they're trying to negotiate people out of there, getting
past this blockade is the first of many challenges. You hear her voice once
more, and she says, that is the broadcast that coriol has put out
about the events that have recently happened. But the truth of the matter is
the Zanithian's corrupt grass breaches the quadrant of the pillar. Reliable sources indicate that
the growing Corsair activity is actually a homogeney sponsored plot to leverage the greedy consortiument
concessions control and Camura makes you influential in today's horizon, and we can be
sure that we haven't heard the last of this issue. So you can tell.
Basically they're taking Coriolis broadcast, putting it out and telling people what's wrong
with it, like what's not Actually the truth is what it seems. But
again maybe it's because whatever their the satellite is with the station the broadcast point
here, maybe it orbits the planet, maybe it disappears, but the signal
becomes unstable and you lose it, beliek and it comes back on to the
voice of course of charity we all love so much. Yeah, he like,
once it goes to charity, he turns it back down and says,
look, running this blockade it's gonna be at least as hard as running the
last one. But once we get into Zallos, it sounds like it's way
worse than it was. I don't know what your plan is here. There's
no plan. When has there ever been a plan? Sometimes we have plans.
We had a plan to what if, see what if we I mean,
I mean, look, hold on, I've been conscious for like three
days time since all of this happened. I don't have time to formulate a
plan in that amount of time. It took us a year to get sold
out. Okay, because we planned. That was a very well thought out
plan. No, okay, neither here nor there, because we had the
tools to we needed special tools to keep me. Get listening. Stop just
listen. Stop defending your terrible plan. Doesn't matter. We saved him.
We're here now. Yeah, the year long plan worked. Yikes, guys,
if that took you a year, okay, So I'm you know,
I just got a tube, just very very cramped tube. Do you mean
it was cramped? They're made for one, but we are one. Oh
that was even too much for me. Malik breaks the fourth wall. That
was too soft, and she goes, okay, what's fine. All it
comes up and just kind of like puts her hand on the mars. It's
okay, he's a little dense. It's fine, And then like and then
she's come back from the kitchen, so she actually has like some tea and
snacks available just because of a long time it's been and understands that probably needs
something at least, you know, perhaps we can sit down and discuss the
cup of time. Just relax for me. It's so fun. That sounds
good. I fuck man, I grab a cup of tea and I start
sipping. All right, how the hell are we supposed to get into We
got a refuel that sounds I mean, everybody's safe at the portal stations,
right, they're trying to empty this one. But she kind of looks out
the windows, seeing it like off in the distance. But I mean we
can still go there, right. We're not not want we're famous, She
points to Grede. Oh we're not famous in a good way, Lamara.
But we're famous as rebels and renegades. We are considered pirates. Now,
really, I feel like you're putting on the wrong I don't think it's complete
true to her, that is a bad thing. Yeah, I promise you.
I don't think so either. It's it's not it's not a good thing.
Most most places don't want to see us. Oh hold on, let
me try this. We're pirates and all of the space station's portals and most
of uh Coriolis run civilizations are the police. But what's wrong with the police?
They fight pirates. What did you think pirates do? Okay, never
mind in this scenario where the bad guys were bad guys for it takes a
little bit, but she's we're doing all the bright stuff, right, Yeah,
we are. They're the bad guys, and she points to all of
the warships standing off and staring at each other. Yeah, yeah they are,
but they have the powers being shot down. We're the good guys and
they're the bad guys. Well we are still well, we are still free
people of the third Horizon. And you know, I if you don't remember,
used to work on a portal station. Everybody's supposed to be allowed to
be there, so so we can at least talk, right, Yeah,
I mean we have to. We may not have to. Oh, we
need fuel, So we get fuel the old fashioned way. We scavenge.
There's bound to be a graveyard here somewhere. I mean, she points out
the window at all of the tip She goes, I mean all of those
battleships have lots of fuel. We are pirates, right, do we take
stuff? We could just take their fuel. This is the thing that situations.
Yeah, imagine, I mean siphoning off another vessel is not not an
option. It's just a dangerous one. Must here's the other thing. Okay,
yeah, well no y'all made. Y'all made enemies of both the order
and and the homogony because you didn't choose them. So whatever can I would
like to answer? Lamara? Okay, Lamara, just because we're pirates doesn't
mean we have to be what people expect us to be. Okay, So
we're good pirates, good and bad. It's kind of an ambiguous term.
Okay, Okay, she says, like all y'all crazy, Okay, Okay,
she she looks out the window at that cruise. But that's like,
it's just it's right there. Just stop tempting to die. Welak's on board
for that Planli's not on board for that. Malak to me, okay,
for yourself, just just because I usually do the dumb the dumb bad ship.
Don't don't get this one twisted. Now here's the real question out this,
out this far. Who knows if the people are actually be able to
recognize you. They may know your names, they may know the ship's name
because you all kind of have your own TV station now basically in honor of
you, but they may not know who you are, like, you might
be able to go incognito. That is a that is always a possibility.
You could try to just stay low key and you did just learn from the
radio broadcast. The Zelucian ships that have come through and kind of stood off
with the Orders fleet is brand new. They probably just beat you here.
This hasn't even been going on twenty four hours and in the in this system,
so there's probably still people. Even though people are trying to leave the
portal station, they're gonna there's gonna be a line. You might be able
to just pick up on what's going on from just being civilians trying to be
civilians, Like you could just do some some some old school intel work,
you know what I'm saying. That's a sense let's I was going to try
to do. Yeah, there you go. Yeah, I don't want to
start trying to aggravate other ships by taking their fuel. I'd rather just go
to the portal station and try to stay low, not not say our names,
and put our business everywhere. Okay, what's the what's that can happen?
Don't say that, Malie. Is that rhetorical? I can answer that.
You're never allowed to say that. On my ship again. Please actually
scratch the police. You're never allowed to say that on my ship again.
From an asks to an order, all right, how do you pull this
thing into doc? Is that the plan you're going to try? You're not
going to be stopped to go dock on the station? Basically, yep,
I'm gonna fly casual And okay, okay, did we did we already change
the name and data codes and stuff on this yes? Yeah? Did we
get yes? Yes, we did get a critical all a sign of roll
on that. Yes, you basically have kind of fake identities in essence,
like chip cars that will get you in and out of places that don't call
you. They have your face but they don't call you Tao or Moleek or
you know, basically have a fake name, because, like I said,
only really Coriolis and Kua are going to know what your faces look like,
right, most everybody else is going to get secondhand broadcast unless they're in a
really really wealthy now the homogeny fleet and say the order, they may definitely
know what all your faces look like. But this general civilian station, you
could imagine in the forty eight hours that it's taken seventy two hours. It's
taken for all this to go down. You're popular, but you're not You're
not Biber level popular popular yet. Space beabs Yeah, Space Bebes. That's
a whole other. Yeah. Maybe Space Speeds will make a cameo in Charity's
next the next showdal no need for a piling a roll. You pull this
thing up, you do hear? Of course, the them kind of come
through on calms looking for correct codes and things like that. Your ship is
approved by you know, the person on the other end of the speaker,
and you It takes you all about an hour in line to dock because there
are still people trying to come in and people go out. But what you're
probably will notice is there are very few people going out. The station is
actually kind of crowded. And you dock on a very full platform and a
man in a set of coveralls kind of comes running up to put the clamps
on the feet of the vessel. He kind of pulls the heavy machinery down
and clamps it down, and he's got his cover alls like down and like
tied around his waist. You know, that's like cool, the cool way
he's got like purple and black grease all over, but he looks familiar.
As the gangway opens up, you're like needed by, you know, met
by this guy who's like, let me guess you need a refuel. Yeah,
everybody here, he's got the refuel. Everybody needs fuel. And he's
like dragging this huge pipe over that he like, you know, like leaks
into place on the side of the Defiant. I mean put up into a
gas station. I feel like that's expected. But okay, yeah, he's
just he hasn't he actually as he stopped to probably notice y'all, he's just
doing his thing. Okay, great, do you have it to painted on
the side or is it just blank Harris painted it? Yeah, okay,
because I don't think we ever repainted on Defiant on the on the current ship,
right, we just have the sign that we brought on. Yeah,
the sign is on for it. I haven't. It's tucked under towel's bed.
Okay, so you change so uh, he he gotta like plugs it
in and you know, he pulls the latch and you can you can see
the giant uh tube uh filled with fuels. It starts pumping into the Defiant
and he says he simply says a starlight. It's kind of fancy, ain't
it where y'all coming from? Uh? Who? Uh? Kula? You
know I got family on Kula. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm Tony.
Where you look really familiar? I get that sometimes, you know,
I got lots of cousins. Uh. I got a Joey and Henry.
Uh this Jeff. Everybody likes him. Well named Jeff. Yeh family name,
but it's not the one anybody wanted. I think I met Joey once.
Oh you met my cousin Joey. How's Joey doing? Is he still
over there in that Hemura? Uh No, he was over on Corioli's last
always stepped it up in the world. Got a bitch. Let me tell
I bet he don't even wear cover roles no more. Oh no he does.
Uh he He looked a little rough when we saw him though. Things
were a little hectic on the on the docks. But you know, I'm
sure he's fine. Uh. I mean, he's always big Joey. He's
one of the toughest in the family. You know. He he's got a
good ad on his shoulders. Yeah. Oh, and he pulls, you
know, stops short of them. So uh, cred stick stick because that's
this well not the only one. Put the stick in hand, yeah,
and he like clicks and then he does like the you don't care that you
know his family, you ain't family. He pulls the CRD stick out and
gives it back and he says, you know, I gotta be honest,
I'm really glad to see that cleared, because not everybody here is is you
know, coming to the table with pay. They all want to get out,
but nobody's got any bar, you know. Yeah, that's fair.
Let's see question the symbol that you were all given, like the sign,
the symbol of the card. Are any of you wearing that symbol openly?
I just need to know are you wearing it like on your lapel or whatever?
Okay? Cool? Oh no, I feel like Tameir would because he's
it's not bright. Sometimes it's a uniform. Yeah, okay, tow would
put it in a very uh, very discreete kind of place, like uh
like changing one of the buttons on her on her her jacket. Oh okay,
all right, Uh you maybe he's like doing a second he like removed
again. He like undoes this huge tube and it like plops to the ground
and he starts to pull it away and he looks back and he goes,
well, oh, you have a and then he sees probably on towel and
then tameir for for for reassurance the symbol and he goes, oh, uh
you know why you yeah on the station. You should visit. Uh my
my other cousin, Josie, do share a cat, a space cat?
Yeah? She yes, she's got multiple cats, but we don't talk about
it. She's a bit sensitive on the matter. They're like the children,
you know, Yeah, you see it's already weird. She goes, but
but you know, just uh go talk to to Josie. Yeah, yeah,
anyway, like you know, he drives to like suddenly he's not very
subtle. He's not subtle. I got you, yeah, and he goes,
hey, no, that's not what you do with that? What are
you doing? And he like yells across to somebody. He goes, you
know, it was real nice to meet you. H what's your cove name?
That's do not oh shit, captain of the Starlight. I don't know
who about I knew the name. I can't think of a single name in
existence. Chat. This is this is some this is some homework for you.
Uh, you have exactly five minutes to come up with. We need
cover names for the whole cover name. I forget what I feel like all
you must have had one, and I'm just blanking on orders. Was just
all so it's all right. He kind of gives you the like russ I
will see you later, captain and crew or whatever. Uh, and he
kind of bustles over to stop whatever's going on on the opposite side of the
docks that he is unhappy with as the dock manager. The last one out
of the vessel is Lamara. And if there were such thing as a slow
mode camera pan, this is the moment for it. Lamara walks out,
no longer in her kind of medical attire. She still wears white, but
she has taken every effort to dress like a space pirate. She's made every
effort. I'm gonna spend a darkness point. I love no no peg leg
No, she's more like she's given up her like doctor's coat for this trench
coat that's over top of like her very tight white jumpsuit she always wears anyways.
Right now instead of like little like white medical moon booties, she's got
these like white heeled shoes that like come up to her knees, and she's
very clearly trying to like fold the ends of them down to make like pirate
boots. She has removed her hair from the braid, the single braid,
and yeah, it's like a hole. Like she's trying to be like a
space pirate, but she clearly doesn't have the clothing to do it, but
she she's working on it. And shes got like a belt slung two belts
slung opposite one another, instead of like her handy medical belt that usually fits
very tight around her waist. It's just like, you know, she looks
like she tried to do Halloween from the closet she already owned. It's like
twitch cosplay wow, like to TAM's just gonna do one of those like really
close brotherly like whispers where it's like it's so hard to even hear. You
need to do something about this. We do about it. Okay, okay.
Look, the option is that or the ball gown. At least the
ball gown would make it appear that we are wealthy, not that we're here
to steal everybody's lunch money more like lamar like winks at someone coming down the
game when she's like and she goes, okay, I'm ready. It's not
even a pirate. People are looking at Lamara, but you can't decide if
they're like why they're looking at her? Pretend like it's cool. It's fine,
cool and cool. That's what I said. Your new outfit super cool.
She plants are like kiss on your cheek, because you know she needed
the reassurance. Yeah. No, it looks like where did you get that
from? Well, technically some of this belonged to sool yeap. That makes
sense. You can see that. Like she has like cuffed his like old
jacket which is a smidge large, but like, you know, she's got
cool belts and stuff. She doesn't. She says, you know what I'm
missing? I don't. I have great idea. She goes, I have
one of those in the med bay Lamara. Lamara goes to turn to like
run in. Uh, we need to find information, and the more we
look like everybody else, the easier it'll be. But I look like everybody
else, right, No, well, so he cool. That's the thing.
No one else looks so cools. Yeah, it's like if you look
around us, not you don't see anybody looking nearly as cool as you.
Everybody looks plain like me and mirror. So you you got to look a
little more plain like us so that you blend in better, so people don't
notice you listening to them. Well, you know, I'm a first off
who's rolling a manipulation role. Oh I that was a command, okay,
commanding her to like, Okay, you need to chill the funk out because
we need to. I want to take a command, but you're gonna have
to give her the command because that was a little like you're you look so
special so much everybody gently like you need to. You need to look more
like us. Okay, give the command to look more like y'all, and
then you can roll the command. You need to. You need to look
more like us so we can all blend in and and find the information better.
Oh yeah, I don't want to give away our secret identities. Yeah,
fulimited success. The good news is she's still an empathetic person, y'all.
Like she's actually highly intelligent. She's just you know, Maara, you
know what I said that she was stupid. We're just trying to figure out
how she would roll against you, right, because she needs to figure out
like does that make sense? So you get the command. She takes it
seriously, but I want another empathy role from her. If you're against manipulation,
is both is like insight and manipulation and manipulation Again, That's why I
think she's probably gonna roll it that way. Okay, they're equal. There's
a moment where she like you can tell she put a lot of effort into
trying to look like a space pirate, and she was very pleased with the
like final outcome. But she also hears her captain's command and recognizes that maybe
you're right, I do look too cool for school. She's far too cool
for school. And she's like, well, is it the belts or like
the jacket? No, you just don't need to add anything, just just
keep it, keep it. She like looks at it. She's like,
oh, y'all looks so cool, and I all I have is and she
goes, oh I have is my medical jacket. Well, you know what,
while we're here, we'll pick up some new threads for you. Can
I keep the jacket? She kind of like seles like a little oversteps like
jacket okay cool. She's like all right, I'll take the belts off.
She like take the belts off, and then you see, she like undoes
the cuff on the top of her boot, so it's a little bit more
just like high healed space booty basically, you know, so it's a little
less. And she goes, I guess i'll work with the hat too,
and no eye patch. I'm speaking convention somewhere, and you can with that.
You're not helping. And she says it's all right, and she kind
of like takes the belt off. She's like, I'll go, I should
probably get my actual medical bag anyways, I don't like to leave it behind.
And so she turns to leave it and she leads into Beliek and she
goes, you know, I'll keep all this stuff for later, okay,
And then she like pitters up. She pitters up. Y'all smell that smell
in the air like floral. Uh. She blushes a little bit when Malik
says that, and then that smell like rains across She basically crop does pheromones
on all of you. She goes up the gang way back into the ship.
I'm not that dumb, does she think? I mean, she looked
like lady Seuel as much as to wanted it. That's not my type.
She just wants to look cool, she was. No, no, she
did. There was a wink and there was a whisper. She wants to
look cool, she used, so she had, we'll buy her some actually
good looking clothes while we're here. I think you're missing the point. She
meant, like for later. I pased this so I don't know I'm gonna
in the how does not does not register? He like he like looks at
the mirror for help and then realizes he's looking at the mirror for help.
Okay, yeah, we'll whatever, Okay, can we this time? She
comes back out and really, all she's wearing is this kind of like military
green style kind of camo. It's really a duster on her. It almost
touches the ground because she's not soool, but she's kept kind of kept the
a sleeves roll. But she's wearing pretty much her normal like doctor jumpsuit underneath,
and she's got the white medical bag now like slung on her side.
Yeah, she took a little bit of like the extra makeup off. You
could tell she tried to do like a mirror style like cool lipstick type things,
and none of it really worked out for her clearly. But she looks,
as you commanded, Captain, more normal well with blend and butter.
Uh and she walks back up. Look, that's that's way better. You
still look cool. We'll get you. We'll get you some good accessories while
we're here, and you can you can, you can get a new outfit
or something if you want. Do you want to look a little better?
Guys, y'all really don't know what it's like out here one of these portal
stations. But I might look good in a jumpsuit. We've been on several
dozen important Okay, can we do? What are we doing besides getting fuel
here and now shopping information? We need to go see Josie? Oh right?
And no? Why all right? Reference No you're feeling. Josie will
have more resources and information on what's going on here than we can find on
our own. Okay, do we know anything about Josie? No? I
figure i'd start walking around and seeing if I could find it. That's usually
what I do when I come to a new portal station and I'm just given
a name. Oh all right, you enter this station. It is laid
out exactly like the one in him Era, exactly like the one in u
Haru, exactly like the one in Kua. These portal stations are pretty much
just identical replications of themselves. Each one on the inside may like instead of
that being a general store, it may be a restaurant instead, right,
but the general like blueprint layout is always the same. The coffin hostels always
in the same place, can circular cantena in like the middle of the bizarre,
like shopping area, trade district always there, a portal master station always
in the same place. So there's maybe even a sense of deja vu that
might rush for all of you as you step onto the station. But unlike
your time in Hamura, this station is loud with people and it is significantly
more populated. It's like an airport at Christmas with everybody having layovers, people
from all sorts, children crying, just like a general frustration in the air
because people can't seem to get out correct. Hamura is the station where they
met Lamara, so like again, there would be like a medical facility in
the same place. Straight to the bar. You go straight to the bar,
to no surprise, there's a dancer and kind of a young woman we'll
say maybe early twenties, kind of slides around the bar. She wipes it
off, and she says, what can I do for you? Yeah,
blue or asteroid please? She looks at the four people behind you and whatever
they want, I'm all saying, that's the world. Milk please. The
mar comes up and like leans on the barn and so she goes, I'll
take up blue asteroid, asteroid. I'll tell you a blue asteroid. Why
are you doing that with your voice trying to be cool? That's you just
so blending and blending. That's not just just like flicks MOI on the back
of his head. Be nice, like just use your regular voice. The
woman kind of looks a little weird, but she doesn't really say like she's
met some weird people on these stations, like she's a bar tender for pizza.
So she reaches around. You see the centralized column. Oh that like
where this uh the bar like circles. She she grabs a lever and pulls
it like and it spins around until the right tap comes around. And then
she grabs two glasses like it's second nature and fills them up and slides this
like windex blue drink down the bar to Tao and the Lamara Simir does.
Does she do this often to go in those stations and finding people. I
mean, we've kind of been to this station before because I've been with the
crew for a long time and you guys have never found anyone this way.
Yeah, tow May just wanted to drink Mamara. She cheers with Town like
dinks the glass and like slaps it down, and Lamara tries really hard.
She's not a drinker, but she does. She does cheers with you Town.
Okay, cool, Yeah, tal was attempting to order. Essentially,
Uh, what what is an equivalent of a like a very hard whiskey.
Absolutely, yeah, it's blue. Yeah, it's blue. It's really badly
distilled. It doesn't taste great. Yeah, essentially, no one really knows
why it's blue, but it's just part of the results of the process.
They they when they named it, they were embracing that color. Uh,
you would know it's probably actually the the fermenting process changes it. Yeah,
the color or something weird like that. There's actually like a scientific reason.
But like it looks like wind decks. Yeah, probably tastes like wind decks
of coss uh. Yeah. So Tal takes it and just essentially like downs
half of it in in one set. So hey, uh and and looks
over at the fire tender. Hey, have you seen Josie around? I've
been looking for for them, and they just well, you mean, well,
Josie is you got a point behind you across the crowd, to the
back wall where like some of the shops and stalls and things are. Uh
she points at one specifically, and she says, Josie owns that one,
but I haven't seen her today. Huh. I'm right, she is old.
So wow, that's fine. I haven't seen her around today either,
So I thought, lady though, all right, well I'll go see if
I can find her. Thank you. Uh no, remember that Tony told
you this was his cousin. Yeah, uh? Tal never for just to
be clear, Tal never really told a lie there, You did not.
That's why I didn't make you make a roll like you. You simply asked.
You knew that Josie is somebody here? Yeah, I said, where's
Josie. I haven't seen her today, I you know, true, she
basically reassure. She says, actually I haven't either, But she says,
but you know, today's been a little and she gestures to all of the
people, and somebody down the bar makes her crude comments like when am I
going to that block ride because that's left? Uh so yeah, yeah,
and I put enough creds on there to give her a good tip too.
That's nice of you, She notes that, and she smiles and gives you
a little top off. Thank you. All right, so we need to
go over there. I'm guessing I'll just push their crowd you when you can
find out what the shop is. Yeah, just kind of like but paved
the way, act as like the beacon in this crowded bar, and people
do part for you. Uh, no problem. Fallow solid two feet shorter,
just walks behind her, sipping my sipping my drink. On the way
out. Before we get to that to the bar, I put my empty
glass on someone's table as I continue keep going, excuse me, okay,
thank you, please excuse me. You know it's like trying to get by
people and not even needing to do that. Yeah, some people like look
up at you. Parents are like pulling their children back. I heard corruption
bar number one. I have good plans. Thanks chat for that. You
cut through this crowd of people. It's like it's like cutting through a concert,
right, It's always like you can lose each other. But Alia being
the beacon that like leads the way, you are able to kind of get
to the exterior of the crowd of people and see the wall, this particular
wall of shops, and there is what one might consider to be a chosh
key shop. It's like the shop in the airport that has like those stupid
glasses with people's names on it and the key chains, and it's like,
you know, welcome to Oza's. You know, it's like been here,
uh, you know, with like postcards and like like there's like probably a
standard one of these on every portal station, and you can see it's like
the shop but it's open. You know, it has like iHeart Ozma's T
shirts and stuff on it, but like doesn't Yes, Mike, you can
sit on that for a second. You can sit on it. Yeah,
this is where you could get like just basic. It's not even a general
store. It's it's basically a convenience store with choshkey items, but there's nobody
behind this like front face encounter. As you enter, you can kind of
step in. It's about eight feet deep, right, and then there's like
a solid counter. There's just freaking stuff all over the place. Chowski stuff
all over the place, bobbleheads and stuff, but there's nobody behind the counter.
As we walk in, I kind of get close to to me and
I say, hey, check for anything good in the store while we're here.
So Tala is a fairly common name. No, I mean, check
if there's anything good on the shelves. I get the feeling that this lady
is also working in the same industry we are. On their steff. It's
about this time you hear and a cat pops up on the counter. Space
cat. Because I think it's so cute. All space cats have their ears
like you know, the light folded you know, like you know, the
their ears are kind of folded, and their tails aren't quite as like long.
You can see they're like short or bobbed. Mostly because I just think
that's cute. It like it like like stretches, it puts its email face
and then it like ooh, it like kind of lays down. You just
kind of immediately like just lead over and like completely be engrossed with this cat.
It's like just start heading it and finding like like she had little tassels
on her rope, like on her robes, right, So you just see
her like using that to kind of play with the cat. The cat is
now kind of like playing in batting. It's purring, and as it's on
its back and it's playing with the tassels, you can all see it's got
a collar on. So it's a claimed animal that has an It has like
a number on it. I hate to call it a vile it's more like
a locket. It's a little flatter, right, but it's a piece of
metal and it's got a number engraved in it. This number is four.
But you can't you know, you don't know what's like inside of it or
whatever. If you can even get in to it, call it hello,
anybody here? Your voice rings out. Nobody answers right away. In fact,
your voice breaks the silence, and the cat like it kind of startles
a cat and like get starry up on all fours. I can kind of
like scritch his head just a little bit. Sorry about that. It's contented
now. And then you see, like maybe when you lean over and yell,
there's actually a couple rows of bulls, quite a few of them,
which means there's probably a lot of cats around here, you just don't see
them now, tam Or did you want to do anything to try to check
for stuff? Yeah? I think well tal is kind of walking around or
like calling out. I think Tamir is kind of like walking around just kind
of absently kind of letting himself kind of get into that mode where he's basically
trying to pick up if there's any artifacts nearby. Do you want to do
it using your actual mystic ability or do you want to use glasses actual mystic
There's no need, there's no reason for him to pull those glasses at right
now. Great, so there's a weird metaphysical thing around he kind of knows
not No, you kind of walk through and uh, how does how does
how do you manifest your ability? Like what does it look like? I
know Alia does a lot of meditating, right, but like what does what
does it look like? When Tao? I mean when t Mir does it?
I think he literally just kind of does what he always does, like
if he gets really in depth with like some sort of like equation, right,
he just kind of loses himself to maybe there's a ticking that he just
picks up more clearly than others would in you know, in the in the
in the vicinity, you know, maybe there's a scent of oil and he
can how that, oh, this is refined oil in comparison to something that's
a bit more crude. You know, that's something that's just more familiar.
Yeah, So you start walking through, maybe you're even kind of like running
your hand down and you're touching things I call and acting. We call this
soft focus. That's when the world around you, like your focus, you're
in character and you're like living your thing, but the world around you,
like the audience and the lights and stuff, all that becomes kind of blurred.
Right. You become hyper aware, is really what happens. And living
in soft focus is a really great place to be to live in the moment.
So your soft focus, you know, you kind of you take that
moment, that deep breath, and you begin like walking through in your soft
focus begins to pan in. It's almost like narrowing your vision as you kind
of like look around. You're feeling things on a hyper aware level. You're
trying to see things, you're touching them as you run your hands down.
Just for shits and giggles, because I love this idea. Chat. You
reach the candy section and you see there are pears dispensers like little pezzs are
bibble heads, they're bobbleheads, bobbleheads of all of you, like just one
tiny shelf of like Defiant crew. You don't know how they got a maide
or shipped out this fast, but they're here, and there is like a
hand. It's all about mosen dice and that shit goes. Where's the royalty
for this? Right? Where's y'all didn't stick around? Y'all didn't stick around
to get it? Uh so they think. But like there's like a hand
and there's new merchandise. But on the floor itself, you do not feel
or see anything, but there is something here. It's like the aura of
this place. It does have some artifacts possibly or like some stuff. It's
either coming from an area you cannot see or below your feet. Okay,
but there is there is a presence here. You can't quite push your finger
on it. But oh, who do he goat? Doctor? Who?
Lamara? You turn around and she's not there? Corruption bar number one?
Has anybody seen Lamara? She's probably buying everything in the store. You're going
to go find her. No, it's a space station. She can't get
very far. You only have one ship. She'll make it back. That's
she's like a kid in a candy store sometimes literally, if you place in
the candy huh may I. She's going to say something. It's about this
time. You hear the shuffle of feet on a bell. Hurry yeah,
she says something. You hear this like and this like haunch back. Old
woman. She's got like a crocheted kind of head piece, like a hood
over and this like tight thing, and she's o custal and she kind of
comes up. She's just high enough where like the counter is like here on
her right, and she's, oh, dear shoe. She picks the cat
up and and you hear bones like crunching crack, and she like oh,
puts the cat down, and she says, how can I help you today?
She's kind of deep under this this hood Yeah, oh ship. What
was his name? Okay? Yeah? Yeah, uh yeah, Tony sent
us to come say hi to you. You're Josie. There's almost like a
there's a moment of pause where like her body doesn't move and you think,
oh god, she just died. Like she's gonna she's gonna kill over right
in that moment. But tew. She reaches out and pulls the bell back
like behind the counter, and you notice that her hand it's not old or
wrinkled for any of that. Thank you. Uh So she pulls the bell
behind the counter and she replaces it with a closed sign, and you catch
the glimmer of her eye as it catches your symbol, and she just says,
oh, yes, Darry, bring you and your friends to the back.
Okay, thanks, I have just what you need new bubble heads in
h yeah, definitely what you're here for to find bibbleheads. She kind of
yeah, she just as she goes there, I turned to the remainder of
my current. Anybody want to go find Lamara before I can go to put
her. Maybe I can have a better advantage point from my height. If
you want to just peek out and make an observation, you're welcome to sure
see if you can see her. Oh, I'm thinking we just use our
instruct and look through her, try to find her to see what she's staring
at. Okay, observation from all Alia. Okay, I'm trying to find
where did it go? Uh? Doing this us mm hmmm, oh there
it isn't. I'm not very observant, so wit it is? Yep,
what's just your wits? Okay? You look around you you're like, like
you said, I head higher than everywhere. You're like looking, you're looking
for her like orange and black hair, which you know she wore down.
She didn't wear her usual bright so you're you're trying to find her. You
do not see her, at least with this crowd of people. You you
can't even with a success, you never find her. And the old woman
goes kids a yeah, okay, okay, cod and she gestures all of
you to the back. You go behind a beaded curtain into this kind of
dusty back room where all of the cats are sleeping on boxes and metal crates
like space crates. Uh, there's the smell of cat food in the air.
And when you all come through and the beaded curtain stops swishing, she
reaches out with an arm that is not that of an old woman and slides
the door closed behind you, and she throws off the kind of robes and
things that she was wearing to hide herself. And before he is a very
young girl. She's cut because why not. She's got short like red bobbed
hair, and she does wear kind of your average non nondescriptive space jumpsuit.
It's because I want it to be subtly. It very subtly has like leopard
print, like catprint all over it, very very subtly. It's worn down
from the years. It probably was much more vivid at one point. And
she says, Oh my god, I'm Josie. It's so nice to meet
you. Alia leans over to childs the matter wouldn't have been so out of
place as we thought. Yeah, mhm, is this something I'm not?
You are? You're missing somebody from your poddy. Yeah. Unfortunately she's really
good at slipping away when we aren't looking. Sounds like a girl after my
own heart. You know what. I have the feeling you would like each
other very much. It's a shame she's not here right now. I'm a
relatively likable poison. At least, that's what my cousin Henry says. All
right, I see you got you know, how can I help you?
So? Uh? What's I swear? If somebody doesn't clip in space,
I will never forgive you, you know. Tell on second thought, Ah,
you're you're right, Lamar, shouldn't this. I'm gonna go anywhere.
I'm gonna go with her. It's fine. You gotta we gotta find the
other person. Can you just ive been open the door with a look like
I said, I'm a head Tarla. So perhaps you have valuable insight that
should be heard here. You're the voice of reading. Enough, open the
door. We are all in this room, now, ye what you wanted
to stay exactly? Greet you out because you know what you well. And
she goes over and you see her slide. One of the food bolts to
the side, and there's a pressure switch on the floor and she steps on
it, and when she does, a false wall slides out of the way,
and you can see there's like a room behind this measly chotchkey shop,
and she goes, well, what'd you wait for an invitation? Lets go?
We're some kind of car. There's a okay, there's a moment knowing
this. She has a moment where she looks at all of you like maybe
you're actually not who you're supposed to be and she could be being infiltrated right
now. And her foot comes off of the the pressure plate and the door
closes again and she goes, I do what do you have to do?
This door? You but you're gonna have to tell me who you are because
uh, you know, the way are that kind of symbol and she kind
of gestures to the one on t Mer this time means that you're supposed to
be in the no ta Mer like holds out one of the bibbleheads of Malik
because he was gonna buy something from the old Lady's now no longer an old
lady. She she goes, oh, you found the bubbleheads. Those are
brand new. That's that's him. That's my brother and a bubblehead. She
actually takes up the old lady glasses. I'm like. She goes, oh,
oh, oh, oh, you're the uh you're those uh glamorous ones,
the ones who upset all all all those folks on Coriolis. Yeah,
we're a little new too. The bubble heads are new, so were we.
But don't you worry. Josey is here to take care of you.
She says, come on back, let me get you some fresh food,
you know, and we'll talk and I'll see you if I can't get your
food in It's been a crazy forty eight hours. Oh, I believe it.
Tell's already going to sit down. Yeah, she just just no to
me. She it's that pressure plate again. And the door opens and you
get that wave, that waft of energy of artifacts and things. This is
not where she keeps the spare bobble heads, if that makes sense. There
is more stuff back here than that, like cat litter, yes, like
catnip and cat food. I mean, all that cat litter has to go
somewhere. She has so many cats. She has to do something with it.
But she gestures you back and you actually see her living quarters, which
is a very meager, like hostile coffin that she probably removed at one point.
But back here she's dripped like some pretty things like around it. But
that's very clearly where she sleeps. On the wall is the symbol, the
same symbol representing the very super secretive group that you all work for, and
shelves that hold everything from weaponry to maybe a couple small artifacts. There's some
crates and boxes food just because there's like there's like a whole stack of cat
food, like a pyramid of cat food cans off to the side, and
cats everywhere. There's got to be like eight or nine cats here, and
she goes, just ignore the pussy cats. They really love people. Ayo
just goes off and starts playing with the cats. Yeah, they're around,
She goes, So what can I do here for? You know, I
don't care a lot of visitors out here, and with all the new rage,
I'm trying to you know, why here here? Well, we got
to figure out why everybody else is here exactly. Well, I'll tell you.
When they came through that portal, it was like a you know,
a thunderstorm. The whole sky shook was like a uh. They came in
such a bush, you know. And then they said, oh, no,
leave in the station unless you head it back to Coah. And I
was like, well, we don't want to go to cool. We're trying
to get the Sallos. Ah. Well, they're letting people through right now.
We need to get to Sallos. That's our next step. She excratches
on. He didn't hear me, she says to one of the cats.
They at letting people throw k it. You can't get you can't get the
cello stick up alcides and stuff. You have to have special papers and stuff.
And where would we get those. Ah, well, proper paperwork has
to go to the pointmaster, uh huh. And the improper paperwork that's a
little hot because right now I got all these lockdowns and stuff. Okay,
let me see what I can't do for you. And she kind of she
goes you do know my cousin, Joey, My cousin told me, and
she goes over Joey. You know, you know he's it's such a trouble
maker. What's he up to nowadays? Probably God is he ain't Cardonal,
you know, Gias is them or something. Well, he was in a
little bit of trouble last time we saw him. But he, as far
as I know, is still on Coriolis. Oh he's living the high life.
Well not now, he's not highlight. There was riots and boinings and
the senatorials. Who lights a fire to one of the most important space stations.
I just don't want to stand. Why is everybody so maan? I
don't know. She like fonds is the top of this box. She like
fawn spawn smashes the top of this box and it folds open into a console
panel and she starts like clinging away like a secretary that like does this second
hand, like, no no hesitation. She just starts like she doesn't stop
talking. You know, I always told Joe he would do for something more
than that station. I'm there. I don't even know why we did to
begin with. I suppose you have to start somewhere. It's like the lady
at the freaking airport, you know, just checking and give me just a
second. Let me okay, payper white for four for five five. You
know, some people call me dance and all that, but there's only for
you. I did tell you that we lost one right oh the checking and
she basically uh, she starts clacking away. She says, well, this
is not good. This, this is not good. It off for you,
yeah, says here. The only military vessels would colonial agencies. Number's
going to get through that blockade? They said, Zallos is a hot mess.
Mm hmm. Well, and I look at Malik. I feel like
everybody looks at Malik. I just changed them. You know, I don't
have idea. It's a long shot, let's hear it. Well, so
see, yeah, this is the manifest of all the ships getting ready to
actually go out, the ones that have the permission channel. If all of
us could you know, make the timeline. You could try to jump either
in the wake behind one of these colonial vessels headed to the Zellos. She
says, you could just steal their coats and be the voice to one through
and then their coats don't work no more. See I like that one better.
Well I hate to break it to you, but it looks like you
got like team minus like six hours before. Uh well, uh, the
last one's going out. Looks like they're putting a whole ida you know key
wash Oh, I not let peoples through what you know a key bosh?
Nope? Okay? Uh could do? Can I do? Mind? If
I can? I do I mind? What can I come around the counter
there and use that? Do? You would two wants? And I would
be like you don't hold I mean, uh you can see she like click
some buttons and put some stuff stuff behind some fire. She's gonna give over
her computer to Malik. That's not gonna do what. Oh skills me,
let me use your computer. But what is Chelsea now? And she like
slides to the side from Alik. Do whatever makes you feel safe? Yeah,
he slides in. I imagine he just immediately undoes whatever she just did.
And then he goes business. No, no, no, you don't
understand, Malik. She has a very high security firewall. This is she
knows what she's actually doing. We'll see what he really wants, what he's
trying to get information. What he's trying to do is switch the codes on
the ship. So you're trying to grab one of the code sets from one
of the Consortium ships. So the point she was trying to make is if
you take it now, they're gonna know that somebody's here doing that. You
basically have to take it the moment before and jump through before them. If
you take it now or change it out now, they're gonna be aware of
your presence because somebody just tacks their code. I got you. That's why
she was saying, it's so time sensitive, Yeah, because these are like
high end military codes. These aren't just like oh, you know, we're
putting a transport through from Coriolis to blah blah, like that's this is top
secret level military codes to get into what is basically frontline combat at the moment,
so like not anybody can get through, and they issue those two specific
vessels with specifical manship. So basically she said, you have to cut in
line as soon as their code is approved and jumped through before that ship gotcha.
Okay, yeah, but you would be able to see that. That's
what she pulled up. You could see the full ship manifest. You could
see the time slot for each ship when they're supposed to leave, as well
as you can see their codes. Right. You just don't want to use
it yet because, like I said, it's so time sensitive. So okay,
yeah, that's my band, my band. No, hey, you're
good. Anything else you want to have because you can still roll and see
if you can find other things. Like I mean, this computer seems to
both be connected to this system the station excuse me, as well as whatever
maybe private stuff she's got going on with your here. I'm not going to
intentionally trying to hack her stuff dot, but I mean, if I'm here,
you know, I might as well do something. You critical success,
you can hack her stuff. What I what I want to do is I
want information about everything that's been going on. She's been tracking this kind of
stuff, and she is a high level something or at least has a high
enough letbal firewall because she's part of the Dragon Knightes. Thank you. That's
what I'm looking for. Yeah, this is the Dragon KNIGHTE system, so
yeah, yeah, totally kind of enroll a data is yet Yeah, I
feel like there's at least two agents here, so they must be collecting some
kind of data. Let me see here where is? But I would say
this is all your first time seeing the dragon Knights, like behind closed doors
or what it might look like on a station. But you would know,
now this is something that you could find prather regularly, right, like you
would be able to sort out finding Yeah, more of this on each station.
He like pulls out his tabula and he like places it on the desk.
I assume he like slides away a very ornate, ostentatious like cup holder
with like pens, and he like puts his there and connects it and then
he starts ticketing ticket away critical success stuff. Do I attack her? Why
do you even bother saying it? Don't threaten me with a good time.
You can get you can hack everything and you get a crypt Okay, So
she watches you and she goes, oh, oh, oh, I see
what you Oh that's smart. I like that, that's that's clever. What's
your name again? It's Malik? Oh whit Malik, and she she watches
you as you hack through and into their system basically, so you're going to
gain access. So let's talk about information first versus like you break in her
firewall, because that's a whole different thing. Go for it. I'm asking
you what are you using? So he like I said, there's does at
least two agents here that we've seen, So he assumes that they're collecting data
on what's happening here and what's happening in Zalos and like what's actually happening here.
They're like boots on the ground. So he wants the real data about
what the hell's going on because we have like what Coriole is saying, we
have what the fire radio is saying, we have what we can see,
and we know that none of that's actually what's happening. So about twelve hours
ago, the remaining fleet of the Order of the Pariah arrived here trying to
find escape and get out, which seemed to happen after they blew up the
Martyr ship that came to pick up all of the refugees from Coriolis that this
was kind of they were running when they arrived in this system based on whatever
went down, which is not reported here. Again, those are like the
news broadcasts you've been listening to in the Pirate Radio. Zalo saw it as
a threat, and there's a manifest series of like letters or commands that are
being sent from high command of the homogeny and out of Zalo's that believe that
the Order showing up there was a threat based on them blowing that vessel and
the people on it out of the sky or out of space, and so
they reciprocated. It is literally like the Cuban missile crisis. They reciprocated by
sending a vast fleet to stand off against what's left of the Order of the
Parya. The command from the from Zalos is that if the Order attempts or
anyone outside of military command or without military codes tries to pass through Zalos,
they are to be terminated immediately, including these civilian ships of the Order of
the Pariah as well as their torpedo vessels DAH, which is not good like
you can see. These are this is basically top secret files that are being
passed amongst the military ships floating out away from the portal station that you all
saw when you came in. So you get all of that. I think
he like takes the tabula, like now that he's not using it to hack
anymore, he like puts it on the desks facing out, and then you
just see these reports scrollings that everyone else can see them as well, that
like they're blowing ships out of the sky as he's gonna, Yeah, it's
not it's not looking so cool out there, you know. It's you know,
you know, you weren't you weren't sugarcoating it. It's really I've been
called sweet before in my time. Really deserve this, She boos. Click
click click clickickck licklick. Firewall goes down quickly, click, and she goes,
well, you know I'm happy. Are you hungry? Would you like
something to drink? You know? I got some uh some fresh uh fresh
threads. If you you know, you need some clothes and stuff, I'll
to kill you. I want to make sure you have what you need because
I'm gonna guess the reason you're snooping about and breaking the firewalls on my computer
is because of the use trying to get the sallows. We said, oh
yes, I know, but I mean, like my question is why what
you doing there? How can I help you? We need to figure out
what actually happened? Was stand off is going on? It seems like a
big old, harsh podge of basic communication to me. You know, if
everybody would just be honest and tell each other how they feeling, we wouldn't
have these problems. You know, me and my cousins we made a pack
one time. You know, I remember this, I told Joey. I
said, I never lie to you, nor you Tony, nor you Henry.
We're never gonna lie to each other. Why because we're feeling and we'll
all find the same damn thing. Did you just watch the To Tell Too
Furious trailer? Oh my god, I cannot wait to see that movie.
It's going to be so cool. I thought that was like a line right
from the trailer? Oh is it? Yeah? I mean the family like
fourteen times and the you know, I'm all about a good family family film,
little family action. Yeah. I can see that. Yes, But
we all lie to Jeff because nobody can trust him. And don't trust Jeff.
He's the only you know. I wouldn't even call him a black sheep.
He said, he's like a He's like a budgion. He's just always
around, just rubbing about in his shoes, and you're like, why are
you here, Jeff, please, I'm trying to walk to White. Well,
at least you don't have a fire walk. I just come out of
my coffin most of the time. But it does take me, you know,
so that a half hour just to feed the cats most of the time.
But you know what, I got something all of you. She starts
looking around at all the time. She goes, no, no, no,
no, no, no, oh yeah, hey come here, hey,
stop it, and you could have putters after a cat, and she
gets her hands on one and she puts it over like a baby in her
arms, and she goes, now stop it, don't don't, don't show
your bobtail, and she removes the locket from its neck and she puts the
cats down and she hits kind of like a small latch on the side and
you see it like open. She goes, I got something for all use,
and she says yeah, yeah, yeah, and she comes over and
hands towel a very very small I guess it's really like a data chip of
some kind, and she says, you know, I don't know what it's
gonna be like over there and sallows. I don't even know how functional the
actual you know, portal station is, but this is this is a key
card. You'll need to find, you know, a card to put it
in, but it'll gets you around if you end up in station. You
know. Oh that's uh, very very helpful. I will grab my extra
extra data chip and pop out the little chip there and put yes slide in
and you see it like it doesn't make a noise, but you can see
like when it clicks into place, almost like a single light on it,
like one light goes green to let you know that it's a good chip,
that it's functional. And so now you kind of have a key card that
will get you into probably some security doors and some things like that on this
the portal station in Zalo's if you end up there, you know, the
whole collection of that one there that well, that one was some newer though.
I bet they've changed those clothes by now. And she's pointing to all
the cats she has them around the next of all of the friendly kiddies.
So that's a durable, pretty good you have. I'm sorry, just goes.
That's some interesting system you have. Everybody's got their own system you know,
and look when they walk in my shop. Oh my god, I
look at that old lady and Oliver crazy cat. What they don't expect is
to be like, oh my god, it's Josie and her bussies, you
know. M I bet they don't say that. They don't, which is
how I know it's a good cover. Yeah, you had us fooled with
them. I try whole thing. So what was we? Oh? I
hate to break it to you, but it does look like a well one.
It's nine p fifty one. We'll run and short on time, and
uh, you know you said you had a free fifth poison in your buddy.
Uh, you should probably maybe find them, you know. I think
we have a shortcut to do that. Do you do you mind if we
meditate here for just a Oh, Draack and knights are always welcome in my
humble abode. Okay, thanks so much. And she she goes over to
a small like kitchen at that she's very clearly set up herself, and starts
scooping something probably looks like like oat mill porridge or something hot into a bowl.
And it's about this time you hear the ship's inner comm system turn on
and a familiar voice that of Lamara comes over the entire inner com system and
you hear her say, this is doctor Lamara serving today at the Medicaid station
on the OZWA. What is this on the OZMA station. She says,
I'm here to serve all of your needs. And there's like uh A and
she says, so please come on buy and we'll make sure to give you
a full check up. And there's like a click as it goes off.
Actually, and it says and then at the end she says, uh.
In addition, can we please have and I don't have his name on me,
but the basically the head of the station head to medical bay. Please,
head of station, please come to medical bay, says Lamara's voice,
and the intercom goes quiet. She goes, oh, you know, that
must be the new doctor that was supposed to be on the station. There
was supposed to be sending somebody out, but uh, I don't know they'd
ever made it or whatever, so it must have just been delayed by all
the portal stuff. That's our doctor that Oh it's you a doctor they sit
here. Huh no, well I found our missing party member. Yeah,
to go to the medical bay. About that and she kind of looks at
all of you. She goes, you know, it's drack and I code
that once we kind of give away us safe haven. You don't really leave,
do you know? You head it to your next I can't let you
just walk around code and all that. So ah, she goes, one
of you. I can let one of you go, but I gotta keep
the rest of you for collateral. Kids. You try to funk me over,
you know, Okay, I'm gonna, I'm gonna, I'm gonna go.
I can't do that for six hours. And she says, okay,
you can go. She says, no, I get my computer back me.
He unplugs the cable and you just see download complete. He takes his
tablet. Yeah. She she watches, you know, just a little like
dadash into dadas in like shade data shade. Okay, yeah, yeah,
and uh she she kind of goes over. You see her put a coat
into the wall. The door slide's open, there's the you're met with those
beads again, that like beaded carton. And she says, oh, will
you do me a favor, and you know, just make sure the front
side is closed. You got it. Thanks, Malie cap bye and she
hits a button and the three of you are left standing. She turns around
she goes, so, well, what are you wants do for fun?
I like to meditate and pray. Anybody play cards? As the camera cuts
to black, and we'll be back next week four for the continuation. We'll
have to see if Malik and vine Lamara and who is on her own mission?
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