Arise minions 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 Coriolis campaign. Void,
the show you're about to listen to was originally a live stream actual play
on twitch dot tv slash Unmade Gaming. Arise minions and welcome to Unmade Gaming.
We are here for the fourth, fifth, fifth, and final one
shot four Void Coriolis the in Between season two point five. We are here
with our illustrious game master and everyone's favorite criminal assassin, Criminal Paul aka seul
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us to prison. Well, okay, tonight, it's a very special night.
So we're just gonna take a little minute, and we're going to do
a small recap because a lot has led up to this moment. A lot
has happened since the last time we saw Sul. So it's important to note
that over the last year, or at least an equivalent amount of time when
you're all over space, the crew of the Defiant has each taken on small
missions of their own, each leading them to new information regarding the whereabouts of
Sul and the prison that he was sentenced to, as well as so inside
information like a map and uh, you know, a means of being able
to go through say a corrupt or broken portal. A new crew member was
gained, of course, we learned thanks to to Showy who has brought Alian
to this vessel, and a rescue mission poor not Soul, but Malik,
had to take place before they could ever make it to the opposite end of
the third Horizon. Their trip is taking them from Kua to the system of
Odicon. I have given our players a chance in this regard to choose how
they get there. But we'll get some rolls from Tao on their journey to
save Seul. But our camera cuts into the system of Odicon, where Seul
is said to be housed in a prison known as yes Pry zero. In
prison prison is a dumping ground. It is a asteroid, some call it,
others that have a deeper knowledge of history, and no, it's a
piece of a planet, a planet that was destroyed in one of the final
battles of the Port Wars here in Odicon, where everything ended, And though
there are a few planets left, what remains of that one is mostly an
asteroid belt, littered with vessels and ships, a graveyard some call it.
And in this asteroid belt is one particular asteroid, massive in size, small
continent probably, And on this massive asteroid is a small structure And as its
camera zooms and you see it's actually a docking station connected to this asteroid,
we can see a couple of guards roaming about. The docking station is empty,
but the camera cuts in through dense metal sliding doors massive in size.
As they open up, change of guard happens, you can hear the sound
of prisoners and we get a series of vignettes. The first one Soul's arrival.
As much as I'd like to think, you skip your way in.
Unfortunately, you come out of an extended cryosleep. You're not sure how long
you've been there, and you are dumped on a dirty, dusty floor.
You can hear the sound of others around you, gruff noises, the smell
of rotting flesh and bo is all around you, and as your vision comes
to over a series of days, you find yourself in a rather dangerous place.
Soul. Yes, you still at this point look like your father.
Fuck, you haven't changed back yet. It's only been about well, at
least from your knowledge, a few days since your trial. You find yourself
as always alone. This place is a labyrinth. These tunnels are made organically
by something that burrows here, and you learn the hard way within the first
month that you're there that you can never say any one place too long.
Soul. I'd like you to make an agility check. Oh shit, all
right, cool, cool, Ali, you're hanging out, You're feeling down
on your look, your face still looks like your father. And the rumble
in the caves you hear of the few men go right. You've never heard
this before. You've been here a while, but the ground around you shakes
and with a two limited success, which is pretty good. You may look
like your father, but you still move like seul. Hell yeah, hell
yeah. Uh you bolt, you run, you duck and as you dive,
you watch as three of the prisoners are turned into paste under the weight
of a massive worm, and it panned by you as you tuck your body
into a small crevice or hole. When it's gone, you can see the
kind of crushed corpses of these men that were running. Weren't you in fact?
Is anyone around me? Or are they all just like scattered? That's
it. They're You're the only one that made it. The rest of them
died. You stand now silent. You can hear the worm burrowing a totally
opposite direction. Is there anything left of them other than pace, like the
clothes they're wearing, or there's still like a crushed body, right so you
know technically yes, there's clothes and boots. One of them has a shank.
Oh oh, I like, okay, I want to Tho's gonna run
over and kind of try to see what he could best he get out of
the outfit, see if there's any unification to what they're wearing to see if
there's any kind of symbols. He immediately goes into this mode of like,
Okay, I'm in an unknown spot with no idea what's going on. Everything's
gone. I need to gather myself. So yeah, so we see you
like quickly check these bodies. You find for the first time, here shank
a weapon. You've not had a weapon since they took all your stuff.
And these guys have nice boots. They must have taken them off somebody else.
And we kind of see you suit up as the montage fades. I'm
gonna have you roll and invest investigation check. This investigation check is going to
tell you, over a series of months, things that you learn about this
prison and the ways that you survive. What I roll for that. Let's
see. I believe it's I can see it's been a while, y'all.
You can roll a oh, I will take a survival check or an infiltration
check. I'll do infiltration. Hell yeah, let's let's see if you can
infiltrate this prison. Okay, the basics that you know, it's segmented by
color. There are specific areas in they've kind of broken it down. This
is like this, look a blue quadrant and a red quadrant and a green
and so you begin to kind of figure out where and how deep you are
and what quadrant you're in based on this like color coding and pattering patterning that
they have. The guards rarely ever come very deep in here, and you
know that there, and you manage to lightly map out how to get to
and from. You know, if you can't make it back to mess then
you don't get to eat, So getting lost into tunnels is a bad idea.
And you begin to kind of spend a lot of time by yourself learning
the ins and outs of this place. Over another three months or so,
and we see you become more haggard and well worn. More importantly, you
only eat once a day if you make it in time, and time is
obsolete here and a place where you never see anything outside of these dingy walls.
What does Suel look like as he starts to well, you know,
he's getting a little unkept, you know, but he still has that shank.
So he's starting to trim off whatever hair he can, trying to keep
his hair tied up, if not just cut as much as he can.
He's going for more practical rather than stylish. The clothes that he wears,
he will consistently dirty up to make it look like if he needs to blend
in somewhere, if he can, is the best option for that. He's
not really wearing too much other than whatever he eats just for weather and warmth.
I guess yeah, because he's not trying to be tied down. But
a lot of what he's wearing is just rags, ripped up clothing. You
can see some of it being attached from like other parts, you know,
And he's just kind of like surviving as best he could, minium as minimum
as he needs so that he can move around fast. Months pass at least,
you're pretty sure. Maybe we see you scratching onto a wall to try
to keep track of the days you have scoped this place as much as you
think you can safely. It's hard to do anything in this place without somebody
watching your back, and you don't have anybody watching your back anymore. You
would think that if a defiant was maybe coming to get you, they would
have done it by now. I would say, in the earlier stages of
his stay in this hospitable location, it would be very hopeful he would constantly
return to a set point every like time frame that he can remember, thinking,
all right, if I need to set up ground basis, so that
way if they do come for me, they'll know where I'll be. So
I'll just keep going back back there every single day as much as he can.
As the months and the time gets longer, he starts going every single
day to once every three days or once every four days, and eventually he
would go just to check up, and his hopeful demeanor slowly becomes more and
more cruel and kind of edge on edge and very uh, just aggravated at
something, at someone, or just in a very constant aggressive manner. And
so let's see what I got. I'm going to have you. I'm going
to have you roll a melee combat role, just just one, okay.
I imagine that we see this change begin to happen, the gruffness of your
brow, the change in your face as your fathers begins to disappear and yours
finally starts to come back. But we see it as it meets a fist,
a big one, a fight in the middle of the mess hall.
You're getting the crap beat out of you by some men and the guards come
down, and you hear them fire up into the air. A couple of
the prisoners break up. The guy kind of picked you up by the gruff.
I imagine, we see you struggling, choking, bloody, and the
guards point the guns down at all of you and they say body plops to
the floor and they say back to you, or they say everybody back up,
back up, new prisoner, and they move in a very large man.
He's twice your size. He's huge. He's got a bandana covering you
think what's left of his hair. He's got kind of a quirky smile,
and age wears on his face. The cuffs almost look too small for his
wrists. As they finally undo him, and he kind of like snorts at
the guard. He looks down on and the guard kind of step back,
steps back a little bit, and they shock him with one of those prods,
you know, and he moves down the stairs, adding a new prisoner
to the ranks. The guy who was beating on you stands up and looks
at you, and there's like this tense moment between this big guy, the
big guy who was beating your face, probably you and his like posse that
was standing around watching I think still at this point, especially with everything that's
been going through, is Mike. He kind of like lays on his back
and looks up at the like from a downlard. It's just a crew.
He just sees three or four big dudes just looking over and he's just gonna
start laughing, and he just kind of like spits out a little blood and
he just lays there kind of just like all right, you start, you
start to laugh. I imagine you laugh and you kind of spit spit this
blood like a huge harsh chuckle. Yeah, just like like a call it.
You get done, and maybe you spit up some blood and then you
hear another laugh. The large man who came down the stairs, he starts
to laugh and he kind of like looks at the situation back and forth in
this kind of awkward way, and he steps over and offers a hand to
help you up off the ground. If I look over to the other group,
what are they doing? They think he's nuts, Like they kind of
look at him like, what the hell are you laughing? Actually, probably
a big guy who still has your bloody, uh, you know, your
blood on his knuckles, says you got something you're laughing at is he saying
that to me or the big dude, the big guy who's like, you
know, and he's kind of like laughing and offers you the hand and kind
of helps you up. If you'll accept, I'll accept. And I accept
very cautiously though, and just making sure, like I want to make sure
he's not gonna just sucking like stab me. No, he doesn't look like
it. I mean he's barren, if anything, he just got in the
prison, you know what's like. Yeah, he gets up and he kind
of he puts a big hand on your shoulder and he goes. You know,
my dad he always said that you only learned something about a man in
a pot. What did you learn? I learned you can take a punch.
I learned he's an asshole. Okay, uh, you go ahead and
keep learning. I guess you two. I'm Garvey. This guy goes,
I was talking to you. I asked you a question. Did you see
something funny? I look over to the guy and then look look back at
Gharby. I'm like, I think he doesn't like your little lesson. Well,
it sounds to me like he missed the point. I would go over
it. The guy who liked it, and he turns and decks this guy.
Okay, uh, just just decks in one. Oh a failure.
Okay, no, this has to happen. I'm spending darkness points to reroll
because I want him to deck this guy one. Okay, a limited success,
that's all. It takes one limited success and he just his fist is
massive and it meets this guy's like shaved head with a thud, like rock
on rock, and I imagine we see a little bit of a brawl breakout
once again as mis mom tash, So we begin to see you and Garvey
hang out as much as one would hang out in a you know, prison
on the back gass end of the third Horizons. But uh and there's no
real cells in terms of like behind bars. But you become friends in some
way. And what do you and Garvey do for fun? Well, I
feel like Seul wouldn't have the same idea as fun as Garvey. Okay,
school would spend most of his time continuing to map out the tunnels, trying
to kind of understand and at this point what's important to him is building a
reputation not be messed with. So I think what Seul would do is use
the opportunity to over kill or over beat up certain people. Okay, like
that punched him. If I had the opportunity, soul would like curve stop
his neck. Yeah, leave. Okay, we see this. We see
the two of you kind of and want this this lesson to Garvey, like
I am trying to explain to Garvey're like, hey, this is what you
gotta do. Okay. So we see you teach Garvey things, and we
see Garby teach you things, and uh, let's see you. We see
It's kind of like a buddy cop montage. I imagine where you're like eating
together and then you're like stomping people's faces into the curb together, you know,
and you're like you're doing that thing that you do where you bond and
as you begin the process of infiltration, I'm gonna have you roll once more.
Okay infiltration m h okay, because oh even better, you spend more
time. And it's really helpful having this guy around because sometimes tunnels are up
there and you can't get to them, and this guy can boost you with
a single hand. And in this montage, we see the two of you
kind of walking down a much darker unkept tunnel, signifying it's a little bit
farther out on the outskirts of where most of the prisoners spend their time.
Dangerous in fact. But you've not mapped this area, and you've got to
know, especially if you're going to ever find a way out of this fucking
place. And we hear Garby going, Uh so a boss, what what
you know? I was just wanderings? Uh are we really going to try
to escape? Oh? I mean escape? What did I say? Remember?
They don't you keep your voice down when we're in the public open Oh
right? What was that their co word we had? Uh? We're going
for groceries? What no? I rush? Shut up, shut up.
Yeah, we're just mapping out. We're trying to figure out what's there,
and you know, we'll go from there. If we can find something.
We might find some but don't get your hopes up. Oh but you said
we was leaving. Yeah we will, we'll leave, but you know,
I might take some time. Okay, okay, okay. And I imagine
he kind of you hear his feet like drag behind you, this big,
big man, and you come to a dead end. You rarely find a
dead end in this place because that's not really how it happens, and it
seems odd to you in some way, and you look up and there it
is. You see a small tunnel, much smaller than usual, up high,
and he goes, you want some boost, boss, Yeah, but
a light one. Don't don't throw me up there like last time. Yeah
yeah, yeah, no, no, no, I won't. I won't
throw you, okay, And he kind of helps you up, and you're
able to pull yourself up no problem. I imagine you're leaning fit at this
point, if you weren't already before, and you kind of crawl through almost
like an air vent sized hole. This seems like somebody else carved it.
And as you kind of pull yourself forward, you see some light. Oh,
and this is it's been a long time since you've seen any kind of
light that's not just like basic like glow sticks and flashlights and head lamps from
prisoners. And as you grow closer you see the wall ends again, but
there's a small piece of it missing, just enough where you could like almost
put your face up next to it, kind of looked down, and as
you do so, you're met with you've been in this place nine months,
nine months. You've seen some crazy shit. You've watched more men be flattened
by a giant worm than you ever thought possible. You've watched guards drag those
corpses off with little to no regard. You've watched men run down by dogs
that are trained to do nothing but eat human flesh. Yeah, you've been
You've been in mess hall fights, You've been in hallway fights, You've been
in fights over fights. And you made a friend along the way, and
he's probably the only thing that's really saved you. He's always had your back
because together you were going to get the fuck out of here. But this,
this thing that you look down on, is not like anything you've ever
seen before. Based on your calculations, you must be really close to the
center of this asteroid, which is why you didn't expect to see a dead
end. Right on the other side. This space seems to be more structured,
as if it's been built out a little bit finished, And in the
middle is a giant mechanism. Big gears and turning pieces, spinning parts all
lined up, and you can hear this mechanism kind of turning and clicking,
which wouldn't be a big deal, except the entire thing is covered crunching.
You can hear in corpses, the corpses of the prisoners attached to certain places,
their bodies mangled left and right, wove between these steel gears. As
it does, it crushes and they decay, and the whole thing is like
a rotting clock. The smell now hits you. You've looked over it long
enough to kind of get the full picture. You don't know what it does
or what it's powering, but you can see that it's held in place to
like the top of the ceiling and the bottom, and it kind of is
right in the center of this huge space, so it's like two bars something
like spherical, and then it's just it's just wrote like yeah, it's like
it's like if you took out the inside of a clock and like pull the
whole thing big, yeah, big, big, big, like something the
size of towels vessel, and the whole thing is just like a giant mechanism
of corpses. It seems to possibly you're not really a stupid man, and
you even though you're not like you know, a tame or you don't understand
mechanics that way, but you would think that this thing is being powered in
some kind of unnatural way by these corpses. If I look, can I
look into the room through the little like, yeah, you can like look
farther down, yeah, is if I look around, is there anything that
looks like an entryway or like a way to get into this thingy? No?
So is there any any like entry point for these corpses to get in
here? That's a good question. Do you know what I'm feeling saucy.
I'm feeling I'm feeling saucy about this. You you You're like, where how
did the fuck do they get them in here? Because you don't see a
like proper door. Uh. And then you hear something the sound of like
clattering in some way, and you watch as two corpses drop from the ceiling,
like where that big bowl or that big rod that's like centralized right goes
up into the ceiling it's actually hollow around it. It goes even farther up,
and you see bodies just drop from the ceiling, these two corpses,
and they smash into the clock in different ways. Some body parts break off,
it sticks to some of the decaying stuff, and these bodies now become
part of the larger conglomerate of this corpse clock. Yeah, I'm good.
I'm gonna start crawling back. Yeah, you're like, oh, and maybe
you know what I need you. Come on, No, no, no,
it's it's it's perfect, this is perfect. I need you. You're
gonna make me roll in the middle of a corpse clock to roll roll empathy.
If you don't have empathy, just roll for your wits. Okay,
I empathy, empathy, empathy, empathy, I do Okay, I have
empathy. Okay, okay. It catches you by surprise. It's been a
really long time since you've seen this much death. And maybe you go to
back out and you lose your footing. Remember you did climb up here and
you slide like backwards down this tunnel, and your friend here, Seul is
going to where where's here? Where's old Garvey? Garvey is going to try
to catch you. You gotta catch me, Garby, don't let me down.
He's gonna try to catch you. I think this is gonna have to
be his decksterity, which is not good. But you don't know we're doing
it this way. Oh thank god. Okay, he does you uh,
he catches you right into his arms and he goes, oh, I got
your balls. Oh, I like swarm up, like like I'm glad he
caught me. But I can't show that right because I'm a bad So I
tried to like swarm out and be like let me now, let me down,
star our boss. I didn't you did want me to kitch you run?
Yeah? Yeah you did? You did? Good? Stop calling me
boss? Did you find a way out? Not? I found a way
out, but it might not be a good found a way out? Well,
no, I said I found any way out. I found a way
out. Uh. Where you go after that? You might not like?
But yeah, all right, we're not gonna go that way though, we're
not going to go that way. We're not going that way. No,
okay, which way are we going? Because this is the day end?
So we got to go that way. No, we're not going to go
that way. I think we should probably go back and find another route.
Hey, boss, what you know, I thought it's coming to this here
prison was going to be the worst thing ever. But I met you,
so that's not really worse thing ever. You you're not really gonna say that
coming to here isn't as bad as he thought it was. Are you well,
i'mout be real at all honest with your boss. You know. I
know I've told all them their stories about why I got thrown in here.
But you know, the truth is I I mislabeled some crates that has some
important stuff in it because I don't read so well, and so it really
wouldn't nothing scary though. It was just a It was just you know,
I get I get letters backwards sometimes. Are you telling me I've risked my
neck for somebody who came here because he can't read well. They don't know
that. They just got really angry and thought that I you know, I
told stuff in the box. You know what, I forget it. That's
not the reason. Stick with one of the other fourteen stories he told.
Just don't never say that story ever again. I was just trying to be
honest with you because I feel we're bad. I've lied to you know.
It's fine. I don't really care the reason why you came here. Just
just come on with, oh my god, what what you know? When
this is all done and we scaped this her prison? Where are we going?
Uh? For For a moment, Sewel actually sinks into his like like
stomach a little bit and he thinks about immediately at home, but then he
kind of remembers. He goes, you know, that's a good question.
Do you do you have a place you want to go? I used to
have a home, but I know my waffle won't take me back. Now
she didn't even like me the end. Now I'm just a guy who missed
up the crates again. You're telling the story. Don't what what I say?
Don't I mean, I'm just a guy who smashed up guy's head.
There you go, Yeah, that's what I did. It's fine. Well,
well, well maybe we'll go pay a visit to your wife, and
you know I can. We can figure something out for you. All right,
we want to meet my wife? Well no, no, I don't.
I just mean like I will just maybe we just make that you know,
that didn't have to be part of our journey out of this place.
We could just maybe skip that part and just keep going. You seem like
you don't want to meet your wife. That's because you ain't met my wife.
All right. You know what if if we escape? If we escape,
I will let you decide where we go next. I can't really,
I can't really go back where you're gonna let boss, You're gonna let me
choose? Yes, I just I literally just said that. Oh Boss,
nobody ever let me choose nothing. I can't imagine. Why can we please
just leave? I don't want to stand in this corpse clock, I mean
we I don't want to leave it this and dead ent tunnel here. Let's
just let's just go. He's gotta let's just go. Uh he he does
not. He He bear hugs you, like in the biggest like he bear
hugs you and squeeze it. He goes. He goes, Boss, you
made me the happiest. Well, I guess I'm not really a dark worker
no more. You made me the happiest fugitive that ever fugitives? What have
I just get the fuck off me? He goes, Oh, hey,
boss, guess what what what I think Today's I think today's shower day.
Fuck, I think it's the best Horry week is gonna be late. Yeah,
yeah, I just fucking go. And I'm just gonna just I'm pushing
forward. It's like right, And so you meet up with the crew like
you you know, they take you in in groups. You get to shower
like once every few weeks maybe, and uh, so I would say during
the shower, though my primary objective would be to see if I can steal
other people's stuff distract. Okay, yes, shower montage. That's gets It's
actually not as steamy as you think it is. Everybody, let's get a
I'll take another infiltration role if you want to make it. Yeah, let's
do another infiltration. You can try to. Yeah, you continue to take
people's things. You gather another like shank. Here, you get a better
pair of pants, some that have like some padding in it. You don't
even know where they got the padding, but they did. And uh,
so you're the showers are like stalls. They're kind of like these these booths,
I guess you could say, and you're in yours, and each one
is identical. There's a mirror to your right, uh, the shower faucet
itself, and a drain in the floor. And at the end of the
room is the man who makes sure that nobody leaves while everybody's taking a shower,
And everything kind of gets real steamy as it does, and it's kind
of like you blackout for just a second. Cool cool cool coo cool cool
cool, and when you come to, you catch your body almost like just
before you go to faint, kind of on the edges of the shower and
you hear the guy over going, hi, here's to yourself. And so
in the steam of the shower, on the mirror in front of you,
which is already kind of cracked and jagged, something is written. Maybe it's
your finger, because when you look, you see it's gotta cut in it,
just a little bit of blood down the side of this like like crack
in the mirror. You can see that your finger wrote this message, but
you don't remember doing this. It simply says, defiant family relieves tunnel pressure
blue sector two weeks. Can you can you repeat that one more time?
Absolutely? Absolutely, absolutely, the defiant family relieves tunnel pressure blue sector two
weeks. There's no like time sense of time in this area, right.
You're trying to keep track of days, right because you know they feed you
once a day. So as long as you show up to do that kind
of thing, you can kind of keep track of it. Okay, So
I will, I will. I'm going to send you what it says so
that you have it. You would know that the blue sector is the outermost
sector, the one that is said to like be part of the actual exterior
wall on one end of this asteroid. Uh, what did I say?
Blue sector two weeks? Okay, that's the if you would like you could
make a role to see if you can better break that down. But the
thing that kind of sticks in your brain and it almost freezes you is that
word at the top. Two words at the top, defiant family. For
a minute, Seul will have a kind of a shocked face, and he's
kind of looking at like he looked he was stumbling around, but he like
he like frozen time as soon as you saw the word defiant and he just
kind of looks at him for like a split second. He has a bit
of a relief feeling, like his whole body just lifted up. But then
he immediately just came crashing down as soon as he was brought back, and
after snapping out of it, he memorizes the what is written, you know,
relieve pressure blue sector two weeks. He quickly takes a look around.
Do I do I see anything anyone kind of like looking at me? Or
no? I think it's everybody's still kind of doing like in their stalls,
in their showers. You can hear a Garvey down at the end like common
and you said this was on like a piece of glass or like a yeah,
it's like a mirror, a proper mirror. And then it's kind of
cracked from like somebody probably punched it years and years ago. So when you
wrote the message during your blackout, you kind of nicked your finger, so
you know that it's you that actually wrote it. Okay, I would so
sewel would just like smear it to get rid of whatever. Yeah, yeah,
you quickly run your hand across it. Yeah. And about this time,
the singing gets a little bit louder, and you hear Garvey. He's
wearing a normal sized towel, though he's not a normal sized man, and
he comes over and he says, oh, all right, boss, you
okay? You looking kind of pale. He like lifts his head, he
kind of under his breath, breath goes perfect, and he kind of gets
together and passes Garvey and he'll motion them to follow over, and he'll just
say yes out preparation to do little boss. And you gotta hear him clapping
as he like putters behind you as you can keep it, okay, boss,
I'm so excited, And we see the both of you disappear, and
the Montague ships once again. To two weeks later, you and Garvey are
sweating running you have to make it to the blue sector. Unfortunately, the
two of you are being hunted by a pair of dogs. You can hear
the barking, and Garf goes, boss, we ain't gonna make it.
I'm gonna just say shut up and keep running, like yeah, run run,
run, keep running, keep running. I'm gonna have you make an
agility check. He's also gonna have to make or a dexterity. You can
make a dexterity. He doesn't have dexterity or chili. Oh he made it.
What a big bumbling buffoon. Maybe you trip over a small rock,
jumps over your body, he picks you up. He picks you up with
a critical success. You're both running. He snashes you up by the scruff
of the neck and tosses you over his shoulder. You're now backwards like looking
over his back, and he's like when you can hear him like running.
You can see the shadow of these two dogs around this like corner where the
light is. Do you do anything sool quickly looking at it? How would
I be able to measure whether they like our speed is not fast enough to
outrun them, Like, can I see how fast they're coming up? Oh,
they're coming really fast. You can hear their paws. They're gonna be
they'll be on top of you and very quickly. How far is the blue
sector from where we are right now? You were technically in the blue sector,
but you've not made it far enough down like you you suspect from the
message that they're going to actually break the outside of this asteroid. This is
why you need to get on the farthest end of it, so that they
can break in or drill into it. And so you need to be as
far as the tunnels will take you. Okay, Sewell is going to not
act this round, okay, and is going to prep his shank. Oh
or by now, I assume I would have like a bit of a bigger
weapon or something. Maybe I would, Well, you tell me, do
you want to try to make something or do you want to just have collected
a bunch of shanks? I think he would have like tried to collect a
bunch of raw metal and not make like like a sword or any but like
just make a longer knife than the shank yeah, okay, I'll give you
basic I'll just say you you get basic knife stats. Yeah, that's so
if you have just a basic knife. Okay, let me make sure I
have their stats because yes, Okay, as we're running and we're like doing
this, I want to like ask Garvey, Hey, Garvey, have I
ever told you about my family? There's no boss, you don't ever talk
about your family. Okay. As I get him talking, do I see
the dogs closer and closer? They're kind of like you. You can see
their shadows grow taller, which means they're about to around the corner. Is
there a way for me to make Maybe I'll ask you, like as Suel,
does he know that they're gonna catch up? Probably? They usually catch
up with prisoners if they're if they're set on someone. Okay, all right,
you're doing great, Garvey, keep running. Yep. I had two
brothers. One of them died believing what he thought was right, and the
other one died because he was a coward. What would you die for?
What? Boss? I don't know if I ever thought about four how you
guys, he goes, I sure would. In the middle of them,
I'm going to stab his leg. Oh, Okay, I need you to
make a melee combat attack. Okay, oh, Soul, I got two
limited too limited success. That's plenty enough. You stab this poor dude.
He has no armor on. He takes he goes ah and he goes tumbling.
He tosses you. I would have prepped. I would have prepped myself
to roll out. Oh all right, Soul, this is this is tricky.
I did not see this coming. This is beautef full, and you
know what, I think. I'm gonna use my darkness point to do exactly
what the audience doesn't want to happen. Sorry, y'all. And he goes
awe and he goes tumbling. You see the two blood fiends round the corner.
Now, when I say they're dogs, I mean they kind of run
on all fours. But a blood fiend is technically if it stands on two
legs taller than an average human. I would say they're actually about the size
of your friend here. Pretty big. These are, from what you can
tell and what you've managed to see at a distance, these are bionic war
dogs, okay, that are bred and created to eat people that they that
is what they are used for. And they immediately see they kind of like
round the corner and the two of them like slide and then one of them
stands up on two legs and they see Garvey down. You are in front
of Garvey. So do I have time to react? Or is it you
do? You absolutely have time to react. So what I'm gonna do is
I'm gonna take one of the small because I'm assuming the bigger knife is now
jabbed into Garvey. And then I'm gonna pull out the smaller shank than I
have, and I'm going to cut my uh sorry, warning, I don't
mean to like you know that. I'm going to try to cut a piece
of my arm open and the blood and kind of spray it like in front
of me and onto Garvey, and then I'm gonna run. He looks like
this, what are you doing? Both as like your blood splatters down here.
I'm trying to My goal is to like create a wide range of scent
around Garvey, around Garvey. Yeah, you kind of splattered when it hits
the wall and the floor, it splatters across his face. Uh. He
removes the knife from his leg and he turns and rolls over and sees the
two dogs and start running at him. I'm gonna run. Okay, you
don't look back and begin the run. I'm gonna get another a dexterity check
from you. So you're such a tricky little man. Okay, that's enough,
because he is going to basically go into combat, and you hear and
go as the dogs basically tackle him, and you hear the sound of like
stabbing and his screaming and the gnarling of dogs and flesh as you you're almost
there, You're almost there. You see it. You think something at the
ceiling at the end of this hallway. The dirt kind of crumbles a little
bit, and something kind of pokes through the ceiling, large and silver.
That must be the spot. And then you feel something rumble of the earth
coming this direction, and a drill finishes like breaking through the ceiling straight down.
As the camera cuts up and out of the prison to show you the
full spectrum of this asteroid and the docking station on it, we're gonna rerhyd
whind time about two weeks or I'm sorry, about two hours. From the
point of that, we see a ship on the side. The letters read
the defiant patches of fresh metal and some mcgivered parts make it home to a
crew. They all stand around a table taw to mirror Malik and Aliya,
the newest member of the Defiant. They stand over a map plans. Malik,
I'm sure has a data pad, but I think it is only fitting
as the camera literally does that like that seventy show spin to see what each
of you look like now a year later, A year's worth of hard travels,
a year's worth of isolation on a junk planet, a year without your
mentor a year What has a year done to each of you? How has
it changed you? And I think the camera goes to our captain town.
Well, last you saw twel she had quite long hair that had been burned
away, you know fires as they are now her hair's cut a bit shorter
in the back, leaving a little bit of length in the front, but
still still curled. She now wears a bit nicer of a leather jacket.
It looks like it's it's got some padding to it, which helps with her
armor a little bit. She wears UH tight leather pants and UH boots that
are very utilitarian. You can see they've been scuffed and marked. She uh
now has a shamag that looks quite a lot like tamars that she wears around
her neck, and she definitely has been upping her training lately. She she
looks a little bit more buff now, yep. And yeah, but she's
she's got a hard look to her face. She's got a lot of weight
on her shoulders now. But yeah, yeah, you haven't seen your sister
in a few months, at least, not since the incidents there. And
I guess you could say the Defiance had some upgrades. That one of them.
I don't think we're going to get to see quite yet. I don't
think we're going to get to see that quite yet. We'll hold that one
for later. But the camera pans past how who I'm sure looks troubled and
tired, but wearing the very utilitarian boots of Captain very well. Next to
her is a tall woman, Aliyah Aliya. For those that did not catch
her one shot, tell us what does Alia look like? Excuse me?
So you see, as you mentioned, a very tall, also very buff,
dark skinned lady. You see, her hair is in braids, kind
of like it's a mohawk. So her sides are shaved and the mohawk is
up there, but it's in tight braids. That go back and fall behind
into kind of like a tight ponytail back, which is also silver in color.
Her eyes are hazel brown, and she's wearing a very simple, slightly
elegant I mean it has some slight small patterns, but a simple robe that
looks very pious. She is, you know, a priestess or a aspiring
priestess under the tutelage of her mentor showy. Well else, I think that's
fairly it. You see, you know, very bare minimum of any song
forms of accessories. Oh, on her side where she's shaved, you see
golden scriptures that have been tattooed on there. So that's that. Outside of
that, yeah, just some basic access So there's like some small bangles of
simple earrings. Uh No, no real makeup, just you know, just
her as a simple person. And the camera continues its pan around the table
to our dearest tam tamor you stand on the other side of Alio. What
does Tamir look like now? Well, Tamir grew about seven inches to be
definitely the top. No, Tamir is no longer the tallest of the crew.
Literally, Aliah stands much taller at this point. But our fluffy boy
put in some time with some iron and slimmed out a little bit bulked up
after a lot of the transpiring events over the course of the year. He
is the sides of his hair is shaved, his curls kind of still popping
up on the top of his head, and messy as ever, untamed as
ever, his beard so relatively clean, maybe a little thicker than before.
He very clearly though has dark circles wing underneath his eyes. There is never
time to sleep, never time to rust. There was always something to be
done, and it shows he just looks constantly exhausted for someone who is what
ripely twenty four now, he probably looks thirty four at this point. Clothing
wise, he's still very plain, very simple. He has a white,
very snug fitch shirt that kind of collars over a very simple navy and green
jacket, and his shamagh is still fastened around his chest, although it's a
little tighter now and shows shows a lot of where there is a hole that
is still in the center from where that rebarb had gone through his chest,
although now patched up things to thanks to twel and it's singed from the fire
that they narrowly escape from any anything that they've been through that Shamag has survived,
and as long as the Shamag survive, Tamir survise. There's also a
subtle change to his tattoos along the along his ear or several little markings and
alongside his neck or a few more. And I imagine we catch the kind
of glisten of that tech as the camera pans once again, and we just
see that side of your face as your pans too, Your brother, We've
only been back on the ship two months. What does Malik look like?
Fine? Looks fine. He looks fine in all all aspects. So Malik
looks mostly the same, Honestly, he looks he's slightly more tan, you
know from exposure. He does have a few more scars on his face that
you're pretty sure weren't there before. You're not sure if they were there from
the events on Kua, but you know they definitely weren't there at the start
of this adventure. Namely, he has like one across his chin and another
like down the side of his face, and he's still sporting the same style
of like. Apparently this is the theme for the night shaved sci fi hair
on the sides, but normally his slicked back kind of top knot thing on
either side of it is now braided because there was just a lot of hair.
And whereas before it looked like this was done in like some kind of
uh, you know, Coriolis salon, this looks very much like he did
this in a bathroom with a knife. So it's mostly shaved, but there's
some there's some parts where it went a little deeper than he intended to,
where it's like straight down to skin, and that's really that's really it.
He as soon as he got back on the ship, he you know,
went to his closet, which was you know, fairly stale space moth eaten
clothing and put on the same things that he normally wore. And that's it.
He's just been kind of listing around the ship. Well, these four,
I would say, these four individuals who have seen quite a lot over
the last year, each in their own way, have about two hours before
your planned heist. You have a chance to go over the mission once more
to assure that everybody knows exactly what they are doing, exactly how they are
supposed to do it. This is a very very high end and important security
prison jail break will not be easy, but each of you have collected bits
of information and have prepared. I imagine we hear, well, what was
her name? What's the computer system's name in here? Actually you know Sally,
that's right. I imagine we hear Sally go, this is not a
good idea, and we it's it's actually tame or that here's Aurora. So
she doesn't know what she's talking about. She may, she may, She's
not wrong. This is a terrible idea. You all hear to be her
say that out loud, but you don't know who he's talking to. Unless
he has informed you of Aurora. You do not see her. Uh.
Yes, he has actually, in fact told Maybe he has forgotten to tell
the leak, but he is certainly told Tall. Yeah, yeah, I
know there's nothing else that's new. It's fine, but yeah, no,
I think that like, because he has to verbally talk, he'd look like
an absolutely crazy man. It's as far as maybe they know, it's just
an AI program, nothing more, nothing more, nothing less. Yeah,
uh, Sally goes. The likelihood of success is exactly two point three five
percent. You know I didn't ask for that at least not the zero.
This is true. Two point three five percent is not zero. We also
weren't supposed to make it into the well anywhere. Really, we should have
died like ten times, you know, yes, And every time you succeed,
the likelihood of your death becomes more imminent if you, of course believe
in logic and statistics. Sorry cash chat, they're being they'd be as silly
as what's up right now, my bide. We're being completely normal about like
this is the first time we played together in six months. That's okay.
We just have the sillies in us, all right, we'd love it miss
each other. We're having two separate games here, this serious game and then
it games nonsense in chat. God's just trying to wrangle all of it,
okay, so uh yeah, wrangling us talking about uh it, Sally goes.
If my calculations are correct, this is the location where you should begin
drilling to assure success. And you kind of see a augmented, uh like
blue grid version of the asteroid kind of appear in this hollow deck in the
middle of the table, and it kind of spins a little bit. You
can see the base piece on top. That's where you know, the ships
would dock, and there's like a little arrow that like points to the location
where you should you should do the thing you're going to do. Okay,
so run me through the plan one more time. We land on an asteroid,
we drill into the center of an asteroid, and we get to mam.
Yeah, uh huh, look I already at the lisnach mhmm. Okay,
sounds solid to me. What did you say though, Well, I
mean we I think we got a message to him, so he should be
in the right area. And what about area? What about Plan B Blake,
I'm gonna say it's been two months and we haven't had a Plan B
plan because we blow the holester. It's a whole. We have one turret
gun and a Mason cannon. We can also use some of our corfus and
bring with us a bomb, get at as close as we can and blow
us a big exit if we need to. Okay, I mean, I
just all right, it's worked in the best not Sometimes the simplest method does
the best method. Okay, here you go, I got another one.
How about you get documents to get us in and then I can just steal
that ship. I mean that probably would have been great to do two months
ago. I can try to hack it on the fly and send it via
space mail. Look, we already have the mining equipment. No, I'm
not saying not to do it. I'm just saying we drilled the whole.
It's still an asteroid in space. Like, does he have a suit?
Does he have a compression suit? Does he have oxygen? Did you get
him that message? What did you say? I didn't How did you get
him a message? Not important? It doesn't really matter. How do you
really want to know how we got him on a message? I don't care.
How does he not get stuck into the vacuum of space? I mean,
so, here's the thing is that if we're drilling, we're drilling from
a specific spot. If nothing else will catch him. Hey, wait,
wait, wait, wait, hold on, hold on, I got you
have. Malik turns to jam Or and says, hey, hey, Tamir,
you know what, never mind, Sally, how long do you live
if you're a vacuum, if you're shot into the vacuum of space, you
can live human in this scenario. Yes, I'd be human in this scenario.
As to me, you're pointed out you have the possibility of living multiple
minutes in space, though your brain capacity at that cold will endvelop much sooner
and you well, we'll die. How long do you live as a functional
human being? Roughly forty five seconds before brain damage sets him. I hope
you guys are a good cat. Second window. Okay, So think it's
important for me to tell you how the mining equipment works. This stuff,
I mean fucking plan to save me scene here. I would like it to
be known or the records that in case anyone hasn't been paying attention talent to
mere have taken two mining trips with Nalia so far with this mining equipment.
This is not their first time. This is not their first rodeo, folks,
it is not. It is their first prison times is the first prison
bet break and they're treating soul. So this is they have been full minding
missions. Okay. What this mechanism does is it's been attached to the vessel.
It has a large drill that drops down and drills deep into the core
of asteroids. All right. Following the drill is a large tube. It's
it's like a large tube that drops down into the hole that's created and begins
to suck out like a vacuum tube whatever's on the inside of these these asteroids.
So, yes, we are going to suck Soul straight out of this
prison. Hopefully, if he's exactly where he's supposed to be, Soul will
be the only thing that gets sucked out. Once you do, of course,
remove the tubing and the drill, there is a hole in space,
which means you have opened up a vacuum inside the prism, which I'm sure
you don't even care about. Right, It'll be fine, Greg, Great.
I'm just imagining that entire Like can I just so just imagining the entire
Rick and Morty episode where they do a heist and it's just the robot drilling
into the planet and just shoving a camera and like trying to get pizza and
okay, oh boy. So I'm just trying to say, if you drill
in, he has about forty five seconds, and if he's not right there,
right where you're drill in, it's just gonna cause a vacuum and he's
gonna get sucked out. I'm not going to drill until we confirm his location.
How the same way we've always been confirming his location. How do you
really want to know kind of if we're gonna suck him into space, we
sit in the circle and sing Kumba. Yeah, I believe that sounds like
how you made up the plan. It is a good plan. You have
a degree drill into an asteroid prison. Someone paid for that in portals.
Yeah, I'm just saying that's pretty high tech. Let me tell you what
a jug bladder has done to the leak because he made a more of an
asshole. Fucking he spent more time on the jug planet than he spent back
on the ship. So fully. Yeah, seriously, think that you can
forge the documents to get us into this prison and somehow get out with a
prisoner, something that's never been done. Prisoners don't walk out of this prison.
I'm not saying I can. I'm just saying we have to think of
like what happens if space. Yeah, well, I mean, breaking into
a prison's one thing to save someone. But then if you break into the
prison and don't save him, not only is he dead, but now we're
super wanted aminals. Then he places that to me, or for a second,
may I say one thing? Yeah? Sure, at this point,
we have two options. One we let soul rot in prison. Which I
don't know if that is any difference than any different than him being dead already,
because as of this point he's not getting out either way. Ye.
The other option is how's getting us up? Now? How we do it?
I mean, if you can somehow increase the chance of what was it
again, selling some percentage? Two point something? Two points? Oh,
I'm sorry two point three five. Well, if it is any more than
that percentage, I am open to that plan. However, if it is
less, there's really no other option unless you are willing to just let Sul
live in this prison and hope that he somehow survives another few months, or
let the prison system get to him. We at this point running out of
options and time. Yeah, I mean you're not You're not wrong. The
cargo netting what's the diameter of the holes? And the cargo netting? It
catches rocks, right, can it catch people? So you have a crane
This ship has a crane arm that drops down out of the bottom, So
technically you could try to catch Sul with it. That is that is true,
Jesus, If you could use the crane arm to try to grab him,
there's no netting If things go poorly, the crane game. Shut up,
Paul, out of here. I mean, technically, if you could
just drill the hole and drop the crane arm down, he's gonna come flying
out that hole anyways. You could just have the crane arm waiting on him.
So here's the thing is, what if we put a nutting around the
crane arm and have someone there as well to finch him with oxygen supply.
I think that's saying we don't have netting you have. I mean you can.
You can break that up, you can bring it up. It's just
like the normal way as things are usually said. It's just a crane arm
that like drops down and out of the bottom of the ship and lifts cargo
up and over. So wait, wait, what's the to me? What's
the diameter of the drill? What did I feet? Shit's a big est.
This is a big est. We literally I get it, I get
it. Why don't you we have multiple exosuits? Right? Why don't you
drill ninety nine send of the way there, and then we drill the rest
with hand tools, and then we bring a third suit and then we put
him in the suit. Yeah, I'm pretty sure we can get him in
a suit. In less than forty four seconds. He doesn't even fully need
to be in a suit. Yeah, he just needs the oxygen. Yeah,
I mean y'all could drop. You could drop to mer down in his
suit on the crane, grab Seul and drag them both out via crane.
You don't have to suck him up the vacuum too. No, I'm saying,
like, drill in, pull the drill out, we walk in hand
to chop the rest of the way and then put him in a suit,
walk back up. It is going. The moment you release that drill and
the hole is out, it's sucking stuff straight out. I'm saying, we
don't drill all the way through. We drill like nine nine percent and then
we do the rest by hand. I mean either way, the moment you
do it still sucking stuff up a straw. The drill. We do it
quickly, and technically it's airtight because the tubing comes down and like fills that
hole. That's you know how you technically are supposed to like drill it out.
So I mean, how about this. The crane is an option for
sure, you just risk so you know big past. Yeah, yeah,
there's a dying part. You don't get to say in this paw, you're
not here. You're running from worms right now. Don't worry Garvey. Garvey
rolled a critical success on his combat with those dogs. Don't you worry.
Don't worry. Chat I got I got a corruption bar for a reason.
But I'm just saying I'm gonna be real pissed if we come all the way
out here and he dies. You've been traveling a month, Yeah, I
know. Look, he's either going to die or we're all going to die.
There is no in between. Stephinitely knew this coming out here. I've
been planning this for months. The chance of survival for anybody particularly so it's
not very high. I'm trying to make that a little bit higher. But
all right, all right, Look, I'm just gonna stay with the ship
and make sure that if anybody starts coming up on us, we can either
dissuade them from doing so, or I could just you know, shoot them
down. Do you want me down there in this suit honestly drilling by hand?
Look, I'll if if you come with, you can go up.
No, you're the drill operator. I don't want to use that thing.
Tell Sally what to do. Sally operates it. It's literally automated. I
am very good with a crane. Thanks Sally, you are welcome. Mute.
I think I'm saying that I am the largest considering I'm the largest one
here. Ah, then I feel like my teach would be much more than
anybody, and also certain skills. I feel like I'm utilize, perhaps predict
what he might be, let's say, and maybe use that as an advantage.
That may be very helpful. Then if we're down there, which were
the less bit of the way, like Malik says, and you are able
to pinpoint, we wait until he is right there, we have the we
have the other suit already and it all works out. Yeah, our plan
is powered by optimism. You know, KP. I know that you watch
the whole show, both seasons. You tell me which plan isn't powered by
optimism and bullshit, and I'll call you a liar who didn't watch the show.
There's proof you watched it. You were doing video proof. I was
there. Okay. So the plan, so I completely understand, is to
drill of the way there to send to Mirror and Alia down in suits.
I feel it is surface except for tal except for Tali. Yeah, all
three of you are going to go. I can't do we have we have
learned a lesson though, Like we don't want to leave our pilot alone.
Tyler's got to have so hang out with your girlfriend. Are you going to
operate? It's a drill down, it's a hand drill. You still need
to No, that's not how these things you just said. Sally operates the
drill. No, Sally operates the big drill, the little drill. You
have to operate yourself. Press the button and you push. No, that's
not. Do you want us to fail because it's kind of seemed like you're
you're trying. Fine, do whatever. I'll just sit here. You maybe
be useful and do ops or something. Make sure that nobody else is coming
around, and yeah, boop, no one's around. Good, you not
have to do your chop boop, no one's around. Okay, if that
changes, no one's around, can dissuade them, and so I don't have
to Yeah, no problem. So the plan is that Tamir and Alia are
going to go to the surface of this asteroid. They are going to hand
drill the rest of the way and be prepared to catch Soul as his body
is sucked out of the hole. Is that well, I don't say it
like that. Oh yeah, we're sucking soul out of holes, right,
Okay, I just want to make sure how did thisscipline happen? We had
you left it to me. This is what I came up with today.
Welcome significantly safer to suck soul up through a vacuum like a pipe than it
is for you to try to air catch him empty into space. But just
the computer systems set. Look. Look, the worst of the worst thing
that could happen is is he's flying its space. We've got our exo shells
on which has boosting power. We catch him by our hands. It's a
backup both Alia and Tampierre, and you're we're gonna use the crane to drop
you down and then the crane to bring you back up in the forty five
seconds you'll have for Suel not to die. What if what if we bring
what if we bring what if we bring a cooler? What if we bring
like seriously, like like the car, like the car goes dropping, right,
we just stop it. I saw it in the show once or did
he do that? I'm so confused. I watched way too many space things.
No, it wasn't the expanse. We're doing that. Here's a cooler
that's able to survive space. We have a thick of oxygen there. We
throw them in the cooler and that's it. Close it up, y'all come
a year of trauma in a president. I just I want to take a
pause, real quick, little out of character break here, guy, intermission,
if you will, then I miss you Off Zoe. The end of
the end of season two was six months space. Six six months ago was
the end of season two. At the after show of the end of season
two, we said, we need to have a prison break episode. We
all agreed. It has been six months and we've all known that if there
was to be a season three it would start with a prison break. We've
had six months to plan this. We've had six months to plan this.
We started eight hours ago, hold on, hold on, hold on,
hold, on, hold on, asking questions for like three days. Now.
That's true. That is true. I've been ruminating and saying, hey,
we need to talk about this, and then nobody said anything. That's
true, But we still started eight hours ago. Does anybody have any comments
or concerns or anything? And then you said the one thing that I'm not
even saying it was awful. No, I want I don't. I know.
I'm that here right. My entire future of season relies on this episode.
I just want people to I we gave it eight hours, Paul.
Okay, yeah, that's even more than I really thought. And I purpose
you're welcome to any like spoilers because I wanted to see the most creative because
I know these guys are smart. Everyone here is so smart, and I
know the cruelest is gonna be the most badass. I've learned that never to
put my life in any of their hands. I'm gonna I'm gonna go back
space, drill Paul what you want. You're safer in the darkness, and
see there it is the plan laid out as Yeah. Sure, I will
uh one one last thing, one last thing. I'm going to invoke,
uh my traveler's talent. Okay, which is your traveler's talent, dude?
My traveler's talent is you can ask the g oh oh, come on about
a choice you have to make in a game. It has to be a
choice with only two options. The GM then must answer truthfully about which is
the two is most beneficial to you if at all possible to estimate. Okay,
okay, okay, my question is it better to just bag you stuff
suil out or got in my head? I'll tell you this. This is
what I can tell you regarding that question. If you vacuum suck Suil out,
the role is on Seul and I can't tell you why. But the
role becomes a role for Sul if you have to catch him. It becomes
a role for Aaliyah and de mirror. So the question is do you want
to make the role or do you want Soul to make the role? Guys,
get souls rolls real quick. Oh my god, I want to talk
so bad your mouth, Paul, consider consider souls rolls throughout history. Everything's
fine, It's gonna be fine. That's that's that's that. That's what I
know. What though, when Suel needs to do what Suel does, Soul
does it. That's true. He is crit like every time it mattered when
it let's let's let's put it, Paul. You want it on this,
We're putting it on you. This is your role. Yeah, are we
cool with that? We're gonna put it on. We're gonna put it on
Suol. Yep, Look, your life is in your own hand, buddy,
Suel gets one role for this. I gotta make two pilot and you
check Soul can make one role. That's true. So here's how we're gonna
start this. We see the montage exactly as it's supposed to be, around
the table, everybody doing their part. We watch this, Tamir and Alia
get suited up into like some heavy armors so they can basically go outside of
the vessel. We see, uh, we see Taou take the pilot's seat.
I'm gonna get two roles from you, one for your trip here.
Actually I need yeah too. Let me just get two piloting roles from you.
Each of them will be blessed because you have a temple on board.
You've got I believe there's some the maneuvering things. Give you another plus one
two. I also pray before we leave, before every jump great, So
I'll just say three four to each one of these roles. Oh and Tamer
four because Tamer plotted your course. Plus four. Come on, but Ali
praying anything, it basically is going to continue to give that plus one to
the prayer. Okay, okay, let me success It is a well plotted
course. You it takes you the full month exactly as you planned, but
you have no issues jumping from portal to portal to portal to portal and have
you roll once more. This is for the trip here in Odicon and to
actually pull up to the asteroid and land without any issues. Same thing for
Yeah, okay, it's a little bit more of a bumpy ride as you
go to land. But you know this also isn't a planet, it's a
spinning asteroid. And the vessel finally comes to a like and powers down,
I would say to some degree, you know, like thrusters like power down,
and we hear Sally come over top of the like intercomm and she goes
preparing drill and you can hear it on the side of this ship, like
as a drill gets ready awaiting your queue. Captain. Ope, I think
you're muted there we go. Yeah, okay, you're good. Well,
keep keep an eye on the radios going around here. Yeah, okay,
I'm you hear the chatter of the guys in the prison, you know,
like there their radio chatter, but there's nothing odd. Yeah, noing around
and knowing around. Fuck you. Uh. Sally goes I take that as
my cue. Yep. And you hear the drill. You feel the whole
vessel shake a little bit as the drill hits solid rock and begins to drill
through it. Aliyah to me or actually, Sally can't drill and man the
crane. Guess what, Malik, You're gonna need to make a mechanics roll
technology, So I take a technology. Yes, technology, so sorry,
that's correct. That's what I'm sure. Yes, technology roll correct, because
you're gonna yeah, perfit successes. You keep manning the radio and we see
the crane, Alia hugging one side to me or hugging another suited up net.
You asked for a net, there is one. As the door opens,
Malik, you're on the other I'm sorry, you're on the other side
of a piece of thick glass and you can see it, the silence as
it opens up into space and the crane drops down. It takes about ten
minutes for the drill to hit the ninety nine percent point. You hear Sally
finally come through as you watch your brother's head dip just below. She says,
drilling complete ninety nine percent through the core. M thank you, southing
Aaliyah Tamir. The crane comes to kind of a halt, dropping down just
about as far as it can go. You see, the tubing has not
been dropped down around the drill. It's just an open drill that's like dropping
out of a hatch in the defiant. It has stopped and kind of withdrawn
and you can see it drops down about five feet six feet or so and
stop. It obviously is not all the way through because well, you're gonna
have to drill the rest of it by hand, right or are we sucking
them out? Oh, we were sucking them out. We were gonna leave
it up to that's fine, said okay, great, so uh I would
say you're both still out there regardless, because yeah, contended plan. It
never hurts to have an extra person there. And to mirror, you would
know that there's like the side of the drill itself can be controlled, probably
from your arm. You've been doing this now for a while. I can
only imagine that you've added a thing and the drill kind of finishes. You
watch is this big like huge like four foot circumference tube like out of the
bottom of towel ship and it fits perfectly right down into the hole. You
control the rest of the way, the one percent all the way through,
and you get a notification on your arm. As you and Alia kind of
stand there and watch the tube, it tells you that you have like broken
through to the other side. As the drill is removed or slowly removes,
do you say anything, yes? Oh, yeah? Are you able to
locate so before do we fully removed this? Are you asking you if I
can see if he's on the other side? Yes, I can certainly try.
You can roll a mystic ability to try to locate sourcee if you can
maybe pinpoint his presence. Come feel me now, yep, okay, you
are out here, you kind of if you try to concentrate, but you
don't feel him, it doesn't mean that he's not there, and there's no
really backlash in regards to this. But you don't feel him And to me,
as the drill pulls free of the dirt, I'm also going to have
you roll a mystic ability, but for a very different reason. Yeah,
okay, you succeed. You've been working with Alia and with two bit quite
a bit on your misstckabilities, the feeling of nauseousness and of the uncontrolled part
that you felt very early on has dissipated over the last few months as you've
become stronger. But as the drill removes from the dirt, you see it
like crumbling. You can actually see through. You've done it. You've creshed
the asteroid. Something hits you like a ton of bricks in the chest.
You feel that feeling again of uncontrolled presence of something big, of an artifact,
your artificer tingly start hair stand up on the back of your neck and
side of your space suit. And something powerful is here, super powerful is
here. It might even take your breath away for just a second. You
do you sense this too. Aurora is like she's just a projection in your
mind. She's down on all fours by the hole, and she like just
in space and she's like looking and she goes, that's a big hole.
Oh right, since things since something here, I can hear it ticking tick
talk, tick talk, take talk. You feel as she says TikTok,
your heart begins to match the pattern tick talk, tick talk, and you
can feel that artifact pounding and beating. Please everybody, it's extreme question.
And as you say that, the camera cuts inside of this asteroid to the
face, Seul. You watches this drill finishes, tunneling through, and as
it pulls free, you're like, God, damn, they did it.
They're here to And then you hear something from behind you, the sound of
one dog with a knife to the neck, and you say, you hear
somebody's boys, go boss, don't leave me. I'm a common I'm common,
boss, Seul. Something starts to happen, the sound of as the
vacuum tunnel begins to suck out everything in its path. The ground on your
feet continues to rumble as the worm gets closer. And I'm going to need
you, going to need you to roll a dexterity check or I think a
dexterity checks probably suited, because your feet begin to rise off the ground as
the thing begins to suck you in like a little little tiny dust bunny from
under the sofa. Okay cool, yeah, okay, great. Your feet
begin to rise and you realize that this thing is about to suck you out
of here, and you give in, which is good because the pressure finishes
and it like jerks your body and you go praiseby head first. It's a
good thing. You got two successes head first into this tube, and you
remember to draw your arms in and tuck in tight to mir Aliyah. You
watch as suel up this tube and into the defiant. But because we have
this corruption bar that we've been sitting on, I just have to I have
to do something. I have to try for something. Yeah, so you
get free. You see ta mirror. It is suit. You haven't see
ta mirror in a year. And you see and then a hand, a
big one, grabs you by the boot. If you can't really because you're
in this tube, but if you manage to kind of look over your shoulder,
you can see feet off the ground, unable to fit in this tube.
Holding you by the foot is garvy knife dangling from his hand. He's
got blood all over his face. At his foot is a dog that is
still partially alive, gnawing it. Locking all three of you into place.
Your body is like in this vacuum tunnel. As he's hanging onto you,
and you can get hear him go you short of a bitch. You you
can't leave me, And he goes, I'll cut your foot off for I
let you go, and he's like you backstabbing, betraying son of a bleeping
and you're like, so you can't hear all the horrible things he's saying to
you. What do you do? Am I able to move at all?
You can? Your hands are by your side, The tubing is like just
a few inches on either side. You can try to force your foot free
of his hand. You can try to kick him in the face. You
can do anything within limited motion of being like because basically the tube is sucking
you up. It's pulling you one way and Garvey's pulling you the other.
Garvey is a pretty big dude, right, Garvey is a big man,
and I assume his hand is probably just a stroke all the way around your
ankle. So fuck? Am I able to kick my own ankle? Oh?
You want to like kick his hand, not only kick my foot?
For what reason? I want to try to break and dislocate my ankle from
his hand? Oh my god? Okay, all right, there are two
rules I'm gonna need for this. Actually, before I jump to conclusions and
decided I can't do anything, I'm gonna try to kick his hand just to
see. Okay, just try to see if you can let it go.
That would be a melee. I'll take a melee combat or forced check.
Either one's fine, Okay, I'll do melee combat. I don't know why
my first thought was let's break my own foot, but yeah, let's just
I mean, that's a bold ass move. Okay, that's that's really really
good. Actually, do I have it? Do I have anything on?
Okay? He fails, he fails the strength check not to let go?
And you see him, I says, you know what, No, I'm
using a darkness point. Let's not you know, we just started. I
got ten, y'all. I mean, I want you to think about this.
I'm in the tube. Okay, alright, one, he only got
one his hand. Let's go a little bit and you realize it. Let's
go of your ankle, but he manages to snatch the bottom of your pants,
so you you slide up a little bit more. And y'all see,
like souls, it is like this far above the asteroid end or like a
baseline. But he's not you can see he's like struggling with something. Do
I either, If you do anything, you're basically hanging on to the crane
that's right here. And Tamir has been working the technology to like bring the
drill the tube down. Still clear, So it's I don't speak too don't
speak too soon. Is he out of the hole even about this far out
into like you guys can see him this far. No, he's like in
the tube from the top of the ship all the way down into the earth
is a tube. It's clear you two can see him. But something seems
to be weighing him down into the prison and you can't figure out what.
You only see about this much of him. And he said, he's grabbing
my pants, right, he's got your pants ling Now that's all it's not.
It's not a stronghold. I'm gonna wait, go ahead, Okay,
I was gonna I think then to me and at this point, because you
realize it's like something is holding him, like something, I like, either
we stuck or something. The only ways like the suction you could increase the
suction split this pork was gonna come backing that ship. Uh yeah, you
could increase the suction u pretty pretty easily if you wanted to. If that's
the I'll give you that. Oh my god, Hey, guys, you
have you have six months to plan prison breakout? Got you fami? What
about you remember that you remember that Tropicana Orange commercial from the nineties with the
straw and the thing. That's the plan. It's okay, okay, cool.
Uh would you like to increase the suction. That's just that's that's on
you. That's for tamir, I mean Alias suggested it. I suggest drilling
like we have tools, and yeah, increasing suction is such a risk it
harming body. I would rather the two of them take the time and just
try to drill the bigger hole to see what's on the other side. Okay,
that will take some time, but you can you can totally do that.
So the two of you see this and uh probably like touch down on
the asteroid proper, like your feet hit in these two suits, and just
next to where the tube has gone down the hole, and you see soul
kind of struggling. I'm sorry, that's funny. It's funny you begin trying
to like the two of you, I would think this drill to get a
hole big enough like what you're looking at, it requires both of you to
work it at the same time, and both of you need to roll a
mechanics I'm sorry, not a mechanic, roll a technology roll for me.
Acknowledge you Okay, oh, if you're missing it, just roll wits okay,
okay, okay, I'm I'm gonna I'm gonna give you a point.
Okay, take great, all right, this is this is gonna be this
is gonna be fun. Okay. So here's what happens. You see souls
struggling. You can't figure it out. The two of you touched down,
and we see your drills like hit the surface of this asteroid as you begin
trying to like drill through it into like making another hole. So you can
see what's going on. Camera cuts inside taw. You see this from a
cam in the cockpit that they're now drilling a second hole. Stool seems to
be stuck like a like a like a chocolate chip at the bottom of your
shake trying to get up the straw. And it's not like won't come through,
you know what I'm talking about? And yeah, exactly, it just
like will not fit Malik. Maybe you go to be a cheeky mother was
saying, to be a cheeky motherfucker again, to just come over the radio
and say, you know nothing here but that beap. It doesn't come back
the saying this time around. Something does show up on the radar, something
big, and when you look at like the hood screen and it kind of
boot and it comes around, you can see it's almost kind of spread out
like a cloud of some kind. It's a little far aways off, but
it is headed towards It is headed this direction. Every time it boop comes
back around, you see this like cloud get closer and a little bit closer
the way like a storm cloud might have here on a Doppler radar. I
hate you, Dott, you know you do. I also read the book
this is why you don't look ahead. I'm a GM two dot. I'm
running the same game as you. Okay, Yeah, so I think there's
a few more All clear? Still all clear? Uh, not not clear.
Oh look, I'm really glad we had someone on that what is it?
Space cloud? In organic cloud, unsure of its makeup, heading this
direction through space at a rather rapid pace. Hey, thanks, Sally,
You are welcome. Had it with space cloud cloud. Hey guys, did
you probably hear to mirror and Alia Malik's crackled voice in your ear? H's
common space cloud like radiation on organic objects. Both of you are like hands
on this drill. You think you're almost through to the other side. You're
not entirely sure, and then Malik comes into your ear. Maybe you look
over your shoulder. I think all you you're like looking over to Mirror right
to me, or if you turn around and look, you both see it
off in the distance where they're like stars and stuff. Some kind of dark
uh cloud or something is coming through space. It's blocking the stars at a
distance and is moving this direction rather quickly. You can see it. But
you both failed this lovely little role that you had on this technology, and
unfortunately the drill snaps and like breaks off into Mirror's hand. I don't know
if you hit something or what. Actually, tell do you want to take
any action? Just two? I gotta give Tel chance to take action,
and then we can cut to Seul because this is gonna be good. Towel's
gonna go to where seeing seeing that there's all this stuff going on, Twel's
gonna go to where the material usually comes up, like hand on the other
side of the door, just in case, you know, because she wants
to make sure that Seul does have oxygen and and doesn't die right right,
She's gonna move over there so that Actually, I think, if you're looking
at somehow becomes unstuck. I actually know this. I can tell you where
this drops. If you go to the third floor of let me take you
to the third floor of the Defiance. The second floors where the actual like
drill module is, but it dumps down into this storage unit. There's like
the tubing like runs down and into this room here on the third floor.
So this is basically where you'd be waiting on him. And this is the
cockpits, so you don't actually have far to run. You run back there.
You're like, come on, he's gotta be He's gotta be here soon.
He's got to be here soon. The camera cuts to Seuil still in
a literally like soundless vacuum. As you're being you can you can hear him
still shouting profanities from planets you don't even know. Yeah, my hands are
to my side, right, Yeah, both of them are by your side
technically, yes, which means I could, I could, you could.
I would like to do what I want to do, and I'm going to
So we'll take a deep sigh and take off his pants. So you untie
the knot for the rope belt that you're wearing, and these like ragged to
close. He's gonna ask me what game am I play? You? Hear
him go you was my best friend. I'll never forgive you, so I'm
coming to find you wherever you and two things happen at once. Soul,
you remove the belt that is holding these pants that are far too big for
you on, and they come off effortlessly. As it does, your body
shoots at super fast speed up this tube. You cut around a quarter.
It bangs you up. It's like a it's like going down a water slide
at a water park that's definitely built for children and not adults. And you
come tumbling out the other end into a room full of soot and dust where
usually rock is dropped, and this kind of black cloud finishes behind your body.
Tell is standing there in silhouette in doorway. You are pantsless, covered
in soot, but you are aboard the Defiant. At the same time that
Aliya and say the first thing that he hears welcome back, Soul. I
see you're messy and with no pants on. I missed you. And the
camera cuts outside. At the same time the Seul gets sucked up this straw.
We see these drills break in ta mirror and Alia's hand, but something
else was coming down that hallway. And even though there is a tube and
now the suction, maybe I imagine Tao might turn the suction off from inside,
like you like pull as soon as seuls and so you know, you
don't suck other things up with you. But where you were drilling, a
whole chunk of it releases into the air. I need to mirror and Alia
to make agility check or of some kind. I would take dexterity as well,
if that's better for you to dodge the chunk of ground that comes like
breaking out around you, because this is going to be impoored at. Yeah,
yeah, go look at both of you. Both of you like take
a step back, almost in like slow motion as the whole chunk like lifts
off and floats away with the hand drills that have been broken into it.
This unfortunately does leave a new hole in the prison, and immediately a new
vacuum starts. The only thing nearby was a giant dog and Garvy and the
two of you witness this giant kind of hound like bionic creature gets sucked out
of this hole. In its mouth is an arm, and then the hole
gets plugged very quickly with some kind of fleshy ribbed substance. You don't even
know what it is. It's kind of but it literally comes over the hole
and just like seals, it shut. The dog floats away off into space.
It's all frozen and dead and stuff arm in its mouth. I want
it ud check like, can I scrape some of it out of my hand?
Yeah? You like touch it? It seems organic from what you can
tell. You may even run like a quick thing. You're not sure what
it's attached to, but it's entirely organic. It's a little fuzzy like a
peach, and it's got like big ribbing in it, as if you it's
some kind of large creature. Maybe you're unsure, but it is currently it
is currently plugging this hole. How it comes over the cons it says,
all right, everybody in, let's go, there's a cloud coming. Malik.
Do you bring up the crane? Oh yeah, okay, uh you
you you both of you hear the crane, like, oh, let's go.
This is not that problem. There's there's a there's a space club.
Yes, now it could be nothing. Just be careful. Keep in mind
that I have Sally run some test to see what sort of inorganic material of
it is. We are on the way up its okay question does I'm sorry,
so are you okay? Uh? Yeah, he's alive. Yeah,
I mean I'm seeing he's fine. I can go back to the pilot's see
we're getting Can I grab something to cover myself? Please? Yeah? Sure.
Tal leaves you and you're left in like this entire area standing alone,
pants list and you know there's got to be something around a towel or I
have a real question, question I should have asked us before. And I'm
gonna just go back real quick. Wow, when Garvey was grabbing me and
like we were running, did I have the opportunity to grab his bandana?
Sure, I'd say you could have grabbed his bandana. Okay, so this
is very important for me. As Seul gets up to look for something,
he opens his hand and he kind of sees the bandana and he like grips
it really really tight, and he's going to keep that bandana and then go
to look for something to wear. You know this ship like the back of
your hand, and you wonder if they've even gotten rid of your bedroom and
you walk to go find out. Aliyah, you had a question. Yeah,
I mean, so this is something we asked I mean I asked for
But does she sense something at this point, because you would sense that there
is Like I said, you would have sensed that there are some mystics,
like if you reach out, there are some mystics here. Ali would know,
at least based on her training, was shotly after these many years that
a lot of mystics just never awaken, that they're kind of like sleepers,
or even if they do awaken, they don't even know they have the ability
because they don't meditate or they don't really lean into it. So a lot
of mystics never even blossom. I guess you could say a lot of them,
I would say all, but probably one of the five here seemed to
potentially be sleepers or their abilities are very light. You get a faint sense
of them, but they don't seem to be terribly powerful anyway. But there
are mystics in this asteroid. More importantly, there's also some other presence,
but you can't quite put your finger on what it is. That one is
very powerful, but that that you can't that you've never felt anything like that
before. You could just feel a presence here not like, it doesn't feels
human like, it doesn't feel like a fature something. It's like an essence
or some kind of presence. You don't think it's a person. You don't
think it's a person or a living thing. Okay, that's that being said.
The two of you ride the crane up. The tube comes up last
right, everything air tights, we fill, the tube kind of pulls itself
in. Now a second hole resides in the whole of this prison. You
can't see it, but about five foot down where you broke free, a
giant worm is currently vacuum sucked to the ceiling of this tunnel. It is
slowly adding extreme amounts of pressure to an object that is this large town.
Where did I see you? What are you doing? Tal is like ready,
she is just she's just waiting to hear that Aliah and Tamir are back
on board so that she can fucking leave. She wants nothing more than to
leave this place. Now, do you let I'm guessing that would be Malik,
probably because you've been on calms. Oh yeah, I mean I assume
they would have said something, but yeah, he's if as there is,
the crane like locks into place, and I know that the airlock is sealed.
He looks over says, Okay, let's go. Let's go. Yea
space cloud. Hal takes off. T'm gonna have you make another pilot check.
Same bonuses all apply because I imagine at this point Ali is like on
hands and knees. Yeah, I kiss my hand and then touched my yep.
So you can take the four again for your bonuses. The lifts off
good thing too, because as the Defiant leaves the asteroid, we as the
audience, can see the surface of this asteroid begin to crack become fragile.
For those of us that are science people, when you put something that large
on the opposite side of a very thin layer with extreme amount of pressure pulling
it through two holes, something has to give, and in this case,
the entire side of the asteroid does. Damn taw pulls away just in time
for all of you to watch as this giant spaceworm that called this asteroid home
when it was basically chunked from the planet that once existed here, goes shooting
out into space. It literally breaks free. A massive chunk of this station
bodies go flying out into space, as does the spaceworm. That kind of
rolls on end. The asteroid itself from that amount of pressure gets tossed a
little bit, and what's left of the asteroid goes kind of flying deeper into
the asteroid belt away from the Defiant for the first time and a whole year.
The Defiant is full. Five people on board the ship pilot, a
dadash in, a scientist, a fugitive, and a mystic. Things are
quiet because you can't hear a massive explosion in space. Excuse me, dot,
there's a sixth person on the ship, So who's that? Wow,
she's still a person if she's in a jar. Last time I checked,
she was in a jar. Still a person still on the ship? Rude
jars on the ship jar and and a jar? Five people in a jar
jar Mara is still in the room. Why did it take us, that
is, six months to come up with Jarmara? Sixth month? That's what
you're thinking about in six months? Not how the same w your pants?
Sally says, the likelihood of this plan's success was only two point three five
percent. Congratulations, crew of the Defiant, you have successfully completed your mission.
On the other character question, do I remember them being there being a
Sally ownership. You do you do remember Sally? Yeah, Sally was definitely
there. Welcome back, Sul, I still hate you, and I'm just
gonna walk and like look for I'm still looking for pants. You, I
would say about this point, you hear her say welcome back Soul. Would
Tao or to Mirror or Ali or anybody have messed with Soul's bunk? If
anybody, maybe, oh Tau would have gone into to make sure it's clean,
but everything would have stayed exactly where he put it. It was just
so we'll maybe you take a deep breath. Yeah, oh yeah, I'm
sorry, go ahead, Kap. I think just like Ali, just considering
that she was into the hopes that this would succeed, would have like a
little comical, little welcome back kind of card plattered on the bed or something
like that. Oh my god, okay, you slick, the door slides
open. Have I met anyone yet? Or have you have not? You
have not met Ali yet, You've not You've not come in contact with anyone.
You went straight to your bedroom. You get pants, I mean,
unless you want to meet everybody pantless. No, I didn't think so,
I didn't think. So you walk back. The door slides open to your
bunk. It's almost a little bit of a shell shock. Metal under your
feet, saw the walls, and when the door slides open, your room
is exactly as you remember it. All the guns on the walls, exactly
where you put them, your dura knife, your rifle, everything that was
in your pockets the day they arrested you sits right there on your desk where
you left it. Somebody's come in and really swept and cleaned, made the
bed, got fresh sheets and probably a fresh jumpsuit of some kind, maybe
folded at the end of the bed. And when you if you go over
to put it on, you see a small card. What does it say,
Aaliyah, just as welcome back. We've been waiting all right. Is
there any signature on it? Or is just that it's just it's just I
think she would say, well, no, I think it does at the
bottom actually welcome home to the divine but no signature. So Stul would take
his time, walk through, very very slowly through the room. Each step
kind of he feels his body shake more and more. He runs his hands
like along the wall and expecting dust but not seeing dust kind of brings a
bit of like a smile to him knowing that like they've maintained it for him,
which means like, you know, they thought about it, so yeah,
you know, and maybe all the feelings that you had six months ago
before you ever got to meet Garvey, there was feelings of betrayal and them
leaving you behind, you realize we're maybe inaccurate. They did care, they
did come back for you. Just took him a little bit. And I
think with that he would put on pants, obviously, and then he would
walk over, pick up the card, read the card and just kind of
feel dazed by it because it's such a simple thing. But for Seoul is
more just like yep, I don't know how to respond. It's like he
has emotions as he's familiar with, but the past nine months have dampened them.
So he's really trying to understand what to do. And he gently puts
the card back on the table, and he takes the bandana and he folds
the bandana that was Garvey's bandana very neatly and places it right next to the
card. And what he'll do is he'll just kind of look out into the
window, and I assume he sees the debris and everything that was left behind
you. I would say, at this point, you see the prison like
tumbling like through space through this asteroid belt. What's left of it. The
giant worm now looks so tiny, like something you might go fishing with often
the distance of space. But you look it out the window. This is
perfect. You're looking out the window something you see like the worm, and
oh, there goes the prison by prison, prison, fucking prison. Right,
You're kind of like looking over all of this, and then you see
something else, your eyes attuned to it, this strange cloud of something as
it passes over the asteroid headed your direction. You watch as the prison the
the like docking bay that's attached to the prison, actual metal facility and structure,
which you would have learned is actually a whole ship. It consumes it.
It passes over that piece of metal and eats away at it like acid.
About this time, Sally comes over and she says, I hate to
be the bearer of bad news, but we have an incoming object. With
that, I think soul would like snap back into Sorry. My dog is
like she's sliding on the floor. Sorry. He would immediately snap back into
reality, and he's gonna walk back out, but on the door on the
way out, he's gonna kind of tap his little recondroids drone to wake up,
and it kind of just like hovers up. It takes in a minute.
It's not turned on in a while. It's like a computer booting up
that hasn't done it and forever. It kind of like takes a minute and
when it gets it's it's footing right, it gets its balance, and it
finally comes to and I would and I would just walk out and try to
like find everybody or I'm just trying to find where to go next. Does
everybody convene or what is already doing? Because I would say, Malik,
you see that this cloud is almost on top of you. Uh yeah,
I mean Malik is on the he's on the bridge, and so yeah,
I think so the tube leads to Cargo and I assume that's where Tamor and
Aliyah are as well. Yeah, so he kind of just like leans over
to talent, Hey can we go fast, sir? It comes out.
It just slams on all coms. Let's go make it fast best this Does
everybody go to the cock pit like to the like no, no, Okay,
did you ask it like that? If if if Tale wants you want
fast, right, you want like we need to go fast? Okay,
Yeah, so Tamirs go into the to the engine room. Yeah, you're
gonna go to the reactor. Yeah, and we're gonna reactor. Hey hey
a little bit, hey dot, Since I'm tracking this cloud, is it
moving in like a straight line, like a straight predictable line. It seems
to be moving. I wouldn't say a straight line in that it's like geometrically
straight. I would say it is moving directly towards you, But it's a
it's an amhobous like cloud blob, so it's not really holding shape or form.
It's just kind of moving ambously through space in an unnatural way to be.
Do you know anything about space clouds that can move like in omnidirectional face
cloud. I mean that there's not the comment phenomenon. But yes, the
sun can emit things if something could have vented from the estrad. Yeah.
No, No, it's not moving in a straight line. It's following us.
I would say, you don't know a lot. Tamir can roll a
science, Aliah can roll a culture. I'm just gonna run a look at
our culture phone having on a color Yeah, okay, yeah, you would
know. Yeah, okay, so you would know science wise, science wise,
yeah, a lot of things that can that can do that. Oh
snow dog, thank you, thank you. You know, there are a
lot of things that can move that way. But the way that Tamir is
describing it maybe makes it sound like, I mean, you've only ever read
about them, right, But supposedly there's something called nanites. Nanites can be
a thing. Two Bits probably even mentioned nanites to you if you visited her
a couple more times, like you may have talked about how some augmentations can
include nanites, which really aren't necessarily an augmentation of the body, but kind
of a separate thing. Al Yeah, your limited success is not based on
science. It's based on what you've read and what you've been told by Sholey
over the years. And Sholey was not a great storyteller, but she was
a knowledgeable woman. She's seen a lot of the Third Horizon, and you
would know that Odakon is not a very welcoming system for a majority of reasons
including say, you know, I don't know the ship graveyard, the asteroid
belt created by the exploded planet, or the fact that this all used to
be a war zone. But those that frequent Odicon, the pirates here tell
a story of something called the Bane of Ashes. The Bane of Ashes is
a little bit like a nightmare. It's told on whispered breath and hushed lips,
but it's said to be an entity that can destroy a ship by breaking
it down molecule by molecule, completely disintegrate the whole thing. And considering the
fact that Sewel just watched the entire prison portion of this asteroid go under in
matter of seconds, Polly may not know that, but you do know that
Odicon is haunted by something called the Bane of Ashes. What it actually is,
people aren't sure. Some people call it and in a semi intelligent war
machine left from the Portal Wars. Other consider other people scientists say there's no
way that's what it is. It has to be a cloud of nanites.
But the fact of the matter is it exist here in this system. Yeah.
At that moment hits the cons and just goes we need to leave now.
We need to leave now, and that's what we're trying to do.
Well, we'rek aga, Okay, Tal, you're gonna make a piloting check.
Twel. Yeah, let's get our piloting check. Does anybody else want
to do anything to assist in towel or do you want to try to shoot
at it? What? What would people like to do? Tamar and Tal
have done this maneuver before, back in their early Yonder adventures when they were
first just kind of meeting as an intern and a pilot. Timar's in the
engine room and he is going to basically unbolt some of the pistons to allow
them to move at a more rapid pace. He's he's loosening it up.
I'm going to need a science check to make that throttle go feel faster,
a little faster than an okay, sit, then I'm going to oh,
I'm going to need a science check from you. This is a day you
could totally uh, you could totally make the reactor unstable. Yeah we know
that for sure, No, no big deal. But you got to get
the you know, get the fuck out, as it so said. So
let's get your role dot h O good good. If you succeed, you
will add a plus one to taos piloting check to get the fuck out of
here. Well, I would say, so, Joey, before you roll
dot, can I start powering off the rooms that we're not using to have
less draw on the actor? Yes you can, Okay, okay, yeah,
that's actually a great idea. Yeah, you see what your brother's going
to do, or maybe he says it over the calms and you begin like
flipping lights right like you can run the mess and we see you like slide
down one of the poles to the second floor and you begin like clicking out
lights. I imagine you finally see sul who maybe is in like the main
area. I'm just walking around at this point, I'm Malik comes barreling through
at top speed, flipping out all of the lights. Very briefly you get
a look at him. He seems I feel like there's a Cramer moment where
like he slides down one of the stairs and he's running and like skids into
the mess hall yea, and then just sees you. I'm just staying.
I'm just like right, I imagine you're eating something you have probably not had
real Okay, so long Malik would walk into me basically ransacking the mess hall
and just like opening all the cabinets and just like the plates are everywhere.
They're just cans open, like not even like fully opened. They looked like
they were to open. And I'm just I'm just like, I'm like,
I'm on the table with my foot on the on the bench and I'm just
like and I just stop midstop like it, and he slides in right like
slides Hey, hey, welcome back. And then he hits the lights and
the messhall lights turn off, and then you just see like the footsteps,
hold on to something, hold on this up thing, and we're gonna get
the role from to mirror to see if you successfully kind of rerop you do,
you take a deep breath because you know, if this goes poorly and
you don't do this exactly right in the exact order of this reactor blows and
you're all dead anyways, and we watch you flip the switches like clockwork town.
You can see on the hood in front of you as you and you're
piloting seat that the like energy levels of the ship begins to drop in some
places and the reactor begins to boost, and you know that is your queue
to get the fuck out of here. Make me a piloting check. Five
additional dice this time, you can do this. You can do this,
oh yes, for critical success. Twel Maybe it's as you kind of pull
the vessel and you get ready. You see it, this cloud, this
incoming darkness, this black thing. As it moves towards you, it passes
over the giant worm that's floating off into the distance, and seconds it leaves
behind nothing but a corpse. It eats everything off of it, leaving behind
kind of a bone structure of this worm as it floats through space. And
that is all you need to see. And you punch this fucking ship into
high gear. You hold, you're turning out of a hard right, and
you begin We see the Defiant dodging and weaving through the asteroid belt, putting
as much space and ship debris and stuff as it possibly can between you and
this nanite cloud. You successfully get out, I would say, of the
way of this nanite cloud. You've outrun it to some degree. Though you
can, if anybody is watching, see way off in the distance as it
chooses a new thing to go and consume another part of a ship, another
piece here. And though we are all aboard the Defiant, perfectly safe and
at home, and you can feel the ship is moving faster than it usually
does as Towel weaves and ebbs and flows. But there is something about this
system. It's not really a great or good system. And as you dodge
and weave through this graveyard, I'm going to spend the last of our corruption
bar we had two our final one. Twe is a fantastic pilot, but
you can't see what you don't know is there. And as tow dodges and
weaves, she successfully maneuvers, but bumps a piece of debris that smashes into
an old mine here as it explodes and goes off, it chunks a piece
of debris into one of the back thrusters of the Defiant, and all of
you from the inside, thinking that you are and clear here really horrid sound
of metal grinding on metal. Black smoke begins to fill the engine room to
mirror as how you see one of your engines blows and goes out. The
Defiant is sent kind of tumbling ass over tea kettle as it bumps into a
couple of small things here and there, leaving a black trail of smoke behind
it. Tonight's game ends with the crew together. Jamara included actually I imagine
with all of this, we see a jar go rolling off a table.
It hits the floor and rolls to a corner, clinks to the side.
You did it, You saved soool from this endless prison. And as the
defiant tumbles through space, unable to stop. At the moment to me or
something in your chest, it feels heavy, you get that nauseous feeling again,
and that sound your heartbeat, tick talk, tick talk. The corpse
clock has been broken open. The asteroid is no more that housed it,
and it now empties itself into the bowels of space. Without a regular source
of corpses, it cannot function and tame or you feel for the first time
an artifact begin to die, unable to continue what it was doing for our
audience. The camera ends with a defiant kind of tumbling off into the distance,
and we see a broken open asteroid at its core, a clock still
held in place, but the corpses are gone. It does not take or
turn. It comes to a resounding halt, and as it does, the
mechanism begins to shift, gears, twist, and flatten. Something opens up
as the clock falls away, literally off of its hinges, it reveals a
box about seven foot tall four or five foot wide. It seems suspended between
the two rods that held this clock in place. The latch on the top
of the door clicks open. The door swings just a little bit with the
emptiness of space as it lifts, and something is awakened that has been asleep
for a very long time in the Third Horizon, long before there was humans
or a Zenith or Portal wars, an ancient mechanism a lock. The crew
of the Defiance has unlocked it and release something. But we'll have to find
out about that in the new year, maybe because we have to call tonight's
show. You're welcome. I actually have the next seven hours free, okay,
So first, I've got a little ditty for you quick three mystics,
two bottle gin and a nasshle with a keyboard. Guys, I'm actually gonna
refund your money for season three. That's the album ever. Christmas coming near
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