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Well back is where you well better did you all decide? Did you
all decide? We are going back to Coreolas That's where Tamure plotted the course
too. Right, okay, all right, we're going to where you put
the course. No, we were going back to Algal. I've got some
unfinished business. Great same season. Oh gosh, okay, let me just
crack this book open. Don't worry. There's exactly one page in that book
about it. I know, I know. It's It's like the last system
you left it on. We had one paragraph. Oh no, no,
what's started. Just give us Thank you for the corruption Bard. This will
be fun. Are you correct? This is gonna be great? Okay,
I did so last time. Our Valiant team finished up their time aboard the
abandoned space station inside of the Twin System. Um. I say abandoned because
there are very few bodies there, and the bodies that are there get up
and walk with the shadowy dark around them. But none of that mattered because
the shadowy dark figures put Seul Nope into a trance, and one that sent
him into a very dark place in his past, where we learned that he
killed his own brother to assure that a contract was completed. What bay Back
in the real world, Zamir and Malik, we're battling these shadowy figures,
and when Samir went to check on U, Seul unfortunately took a stab to
the belly. In addition, the ship returned with twel on board and a
partially partially damaged but wegg but but survived droid uh drone that belonged to Seoul,
and a Ghostlyian figure that seems to have taken over the ship. By
all of this is fine, all, it's fine. They fought their way
through until tal showed up, and they managed to plot themselves a course home.
But plotting things takes time, and upon boarding their vessel to return,
they had a long and interesting conversation with the thing that's currently living aboard.
Anybody want to remember what he told you? Do you remember anything? Oh?
That was just a talent. Oh, it's just a tale. Oh
that's right, that's before you left the ship. Yeah, that's right.
You told them that it was living in your ship. WHOA yeah, um,
I mean we don't know what it is, but yeah, I told
them that there was something in the ship. Great that I made a deal
with it. Oh, it's right, because I mean, what else do
you do when there's an entity who obviously fly your ship to the sun and
drop you off if it wants to? Yeah, who are you to say?
Yeah? Exactly, that's right. You did make a deal deal with
a devil. Possibly probably she just flat outside devil. Yeah, yeah she
did. And the deal is you have to just return it to Coriolis.
And so you do, all of you, after what can be considered a
very long and dangerous journey from this same space station, arrived back at it.
The first pod opens, the captain's pod. It takes you a second
to come to your bearings. You know that feeling of your your skin being
cold, and two bars and uh, you kind of come to towel.
Your eyes open up and you see your ship. The window kind of parts
open as you come to a halt from this portal, jump and out the
front you very clearly see the Corioli station. It is unique and cannot be
missed. Before I go wake everybody else up, I will stand there,
take a couple of deep breaths, and I say, okay, so you
want to go back to Coriolis and we're about to be there. Really hope
you don't function up for me or the system. Are you talking to me?
You know what? Yeah? I am. It's a surprise because I
will be please to jump ship any chance you want to share what you're doing.
No, I didn't think so. But all right, Coyle, this
is a fine place to b Well, if you run into my parents,
please just leave them alone. They've been through enough shit. He says.
It's funny you think I'm they're to mess with the individuals. Oh no,
I'm pretty sure your eyes are set on a bigger picture. But I take
it as a favor if he just went around them, if he saw them,
and he says, I dare ask, what are your parents' names?
M names have power. You'll know them when you see them. They look
like me. He's as well. A little pilot picked up a thinger two.
I'm impressed. The other three were not as wise. I don't make
the best decisions, obviously, but I learned simple old thing that they are.
It's great. I'm having a hard time focusing. I don't know what
the stupid gin or the stupid pilot. I'm not still another thing anybody.
I promise to continue making Mike's jan all right, anyways, um dealing with
that conversation, it's probably run its course. I will. I'll start walking
to the rest of the crowd tubes and I take a moment and look at
each one and last my eyes go to two merrors. I sigh very deeply,
put my hand on the glass. Sorry, damn, I wish you
weren't leaving, and then start unlocking them. Kiss, we have a gin
and an ancient gin a board your vessel, and all Mike can think about
her smoochies. Listen. I'm it's my little brother. I'm just trying to
make things happen. Okay, it's you know. It could be a last
day in space. We don't know, so you know I must be doing
something right when my own cast is donating against the other cast. You actually
not invited back for things you can Oh wow, Oh my gosh wow.
Well I got three bars to get through tonight, so we better get moving.
Pods open up, gentleman, the same thing. It takes you a
little bit um to kind of come to the more you go into cry a
spaces easier ready is, but skin is still cold and the corner of your
eyes take a moment as they kind of come out of blackness too, to
readjust to your environment around you. Tie stands there in front of you.
I will just start walking back towards the communications to start talking to them.
Are you headed towards are you actually going to pull into Coreolists. Yes,
Um, we're gonna essentially, I'm gonna be like, hey, we're we're
coming into port, um, you know, into doc We're gonna take our
time on it, but we're coming, so be ready. You know that
Coreolist is a busy port and sometimes getting into um the oh my god,
what's it called? Not the cell that's a whole different movie. Oh that
would be an interesting game. Yeah, everybody, that's for a different game.
Yeah, free for the docks. Yeah, right, the docks.
Oh yeah, the docks. You know, it takes time for you to
to It's basically a lineup and you feed through in this giant machine like grabs
your ship and moves you in, uh to Coreolas. So it's going to
take you some time, probably about an hour before you're officially like through an
inn. Yeah. Um, on my way over to the communications area,
I kind of stay behind me. Hey, if there's anything you need to
hide, make sure you hide it well and quickly. Oh and don't touch
my stuff. Um hey, um real quick, did did you um we
broadcast that we're here. Yeah, I'm on my way to uh just go
follow up and get everything ready. Um, remind me again where you're the
newsy friend was stationed. Um that was at the Harabi system. Um,
but but they were leaving right to come back here. Yeah, so would
it be unlikely that they probably have some kind of junket waiting for us since
they didn't get that interview and they know it's only been more and more time
since we did what we're doing, Well, then they'll be waiting for us
when we get there. Do we have any thoughts on how to deal with
press? You didn't seem too reticent to have an interview, never mind a
camera jammed in your face. Tell gulps hard on that. Yeah, Oh
god, I'm gonna have to talk to somebody. It doesn't you already talk
to somebody? I mean yeah, but we just we just went into a
system that was dark and came back. Um that's a little that's news worthy.
Um. Well, hey, I mean maybe I'll give you some more
business the pilot that survived the dark. I think we need to have a
very serious conversation about what it is, what information we're going to be divulging.
That are several people who are supposed to report back to what what what
do we say? Well, I am going to report back fully, what
we explored and what we got back was pretty much nothing. And that data
that I point to, the leak that you retrieved, just transfer that over
and that's all I'm gonna do. I don't I don't know. I know
you work in the shadows most of the time, so I don't know how
often you see um like a full court press of news. Um if they
have told anybody, the entire docks are gonna be swimming with people. So
we're gonna be pretty stuck on the docks until we answer the questions that they're
going to let us through. Unless this whole time you're talking tells starting to
go into hyperventilation mode. Well, and I look around, like, is
there any way Is there any way for me to sneak out? Yeah,
just put on your space suit and jump not putting on What do you say
sneak out? What do you mean? Like, I'm assuming there's like these
are There're gonna be a lot of press, right, is there any way
for me to like, you don't know, there's gonna be a lot of
people, don't know. I though that's what you were saying. That's that's
what I'm making. Yeah, because I'm going off of the Malik's got it.
So if if with my knowledge, knowing that there's gonna be a lot
of people crowding and Soul, being not a very social person, even three
people as little too much for him, is there any way in his mind
that he thinks he could just you could dock on the back side of the
seller. Yeah, I don't know if that's gonna work. I mean,
it probably works fine for you. Tamir could get you through. He's very
familiar because he's a criminal. Left me forget remime. What is the seller?
If the if the basement, it's like so if here's the coriole,
it's like a like outside I'm tear drop. It's the bottom of the tear
Drop. It's where like the poorest of the poor live and there's a legal
docks. So we would all need to dock there and then go out that
way. Or if you could, you could you could pull your ship around
to the cellar and doc I would think that Tell might know if nothing else
so he or knows that there are some docks there, but it's not.
It is heavily frowned upon to duck on the backside. It's like you're not
supposed to because you're basically legally coming in and everything that moves in via those
docks in the cellar is illegal, every all of it. And this is
the it is the full on like black market in So it's gonna look bad
for the ship even if it goes there. Right, there's no coming back
from docking in the never mind. Yeah, No, I was gonna suggest
maybe if you just drop me off. I mean there's stops. I mean
you could, you could, you could jettison. No, I don't love
to see that. No reason, there's no need to make I will say,
Paul, in game, you do see the state of tal currently hyperventilating
the thought of meaning a throng of people. Yeah, so it's not an
outside you know, you could you could make the I'm thinking we could do
this. So if I look at Talent, you're just like Tala is getting
very oft. She's she's closing it on panic attack. Okay, well,
how um, clearly you are not a fan of large crowds as I am.
So there is one option that we could potentially do that may avoid various
eyes. Um. It's not the most traditional method of coming home. Uh,
it's an equivalent of going through the back door, jumping onto your ex's
roommate and then breaking through their glass window and then going into their home.
And by that I mean we can duck and I point like further, like
just like just down. That was a very specific anecdote. Absolutely not,
It's just a suggestion, you know. And there's a lot of press,
and not press, there's a lot of eyes. Actually, just just give
me a minute, and Tal walks to her room and just shuts the door
for a few minutes. I didn't think it was that, you know,
unreasonable. I'm just it's just you though I've been there. It's just a
scary ass black market of Coriolister soul has probably gone. Oh, you've definitely
been down there. What you know about it is that it is bottom of
the barrel. All the leagual activity happens down in the cellar um. Also,
where do I need to drop off my data? I can't remember if
it was back where my dad's all. Your father is back to his office.
All right, yeah, you report to your dead okay, um,
But after we hear this kind of slamming, well, there's no slamming of
a twel's door actually enters it and the ship itches ever closer towards Coriolis.
Uh, they're from the cockpit. Uh, comes a sound of somebody attempting
to call type the ship the vessel. You hear blue, blue, blue.
I think someone's communication. No, no, no, no, what
do you mean an answer? What if it's the news anchor blue? We
will deal with it and I'll go ahead and what an answer? The okay?
Blue? And as you boop it on, you hear uh static from
the other end, and then um a voice that simply says, uh is
um, this is corriol Is. Correol Is calling the Defiant vessel the Defiant.
Please respond, Oh, so they already know who we are? Great
good, So of course they knew who we are. There is a transponder
code that identifies every just answer just Correolis. This is engineered to me of
the Defiant. Your vessel has been approved for special docking. Could you please
pull up? Yeah, and it says um, uh coordinates inbound. Please
pull to the upper floors. Those are private docs. Yeah, okay,
Uh could you please uh let us know what under what jurisdiction? Uh,
we are supposed to be going to the consum You are to deck on the
upper floors coordinates inbound and it kind of pops up on the screen over and
out. Click fuck just out, well, he says, over and out.
Mike says, yeah, yeah, over and out. Question, how
is since this is everyone's pretty much home and it's als home to what what
information do soul know about the relation between the syndicate and they called them?
Of course consortion. The syndicate on paper is not really supposed to exist,
right of course, right, so they are in they walk a fine line
because the consortium is supposed to handle dealings of all sorts. Right occasionally there
are you would know, there are things that politically speaking, aren't allowed to
be handled in public view. So oftentimes the syndicate is who the consortium will
give contracts to, say, a contract like the one that you took to
handle under the table. That's what I figured. Um, should Saul have
any concern with this in the sake of I don't know, do you have
concerned? Paul has a ton of concerns, does does Swool? I mean
you would know that you are supposed to report to your father, but you're
this is probably knowing what you know now. This contract that you took is
a bit bigger than anything you've ever dealt with before. Okay, Okay,
then okay, I guess that's All's not as anything. He's just gonna look
a little a little more worried than usual. Malik. Anybody gonna get the
pilot to dock the ship? Yes, yeah, Malik, I need to
go check and tal h can you make a copy of all of the transmissions
that we've received? I just I have a very sick feeling. Copy somewhere
safe. Uh yeah, huh. You're thinking a lot like your brother.
Now, as a data gin, you would know making a copy of real
of this kind is doable. That's not the problems illegal, isn't It's very
illegal. This is not your property. Yeah, this is like stream job
to me, Malik. Malik says yes in a way that he's trying to
make it sound like it's it was. It was Tamer's idea, like oh
yeah, and that he isn't halfway into the process of doing it already.
If you're to keep it, if you're storing it on something physical, Um,
there's a hidden area I can show you on the ship just in case,
thank you. Yeah, and anything? All right, Yeah, I
am going Okay, I want to lean into Malik like very impressive, what
nothing nothing, go ahead, and then he just leans back what nothing?
Just do what do? What do you do? Okay? Weird um or
whatever? That it's because I am I am so sassy tonight and so I'm
muting myself so you can't hear my sass. No, we want to hear
it. That makes this, That makes it worse. I think, good,
we have to. This is a member of the third bar. Was
supposed to me, Mike sad, So I'm going to keep my common It
wasn't No, it wasn't done. It was I want to think. Actually,
may that heaven I wanted. I wanted to be a unified I want
to be this I want to do I want to do. Actually, it's
just it's the same thing twice. I guess my intent was to duplicate all
that information anyway. Um, so I'm going to attempt to do it twice
and store one on the ship and then I would like to, if possible,
send one to my terminal on Coriolis. Are you on to close the
network? I assume we're on the Coreolist network right now. Okay, Like
the ship I think is a closed network. Right now that it's in range
of coreolist, it probably connects. If that makes sense that you can get
into the larger network I'm talking about. I mean I don't know enough about
like how the cores network. So I have my own So I have the
ship's terminal here, but I also have my own terminal on me that is
my personal terminal. Oh yeah, that that's like it sources things locally,
basically is what a mask. I want to make sure you're not tauched into
a lot because you're basically gonna have to transfer that information somehow, and unless
you're directly transferring, it is kind of run through their network and you're you're
moving that data through their network. I mean that's kind of how hacking works
anyway, right, So it is so if you think you can move it
through like I'm gonna say backdoors again, If you think you can move it
through backdoors and um not be seen. If that's the kind of like way
you want to go about the role, then will I think Malik can get
a lot to the backdoor? Okay, thanks, success, Okay, please
take a darctness point every time. Listen. If we're not doing darkness points
get taken away from Doctor Puns. We can't do been playing today she was
on the whole rest of the season. I've been, I've been, I've
been been good on my puns. I actually think you one episode she did
take away darkness points before Puns I did. I did love the darkness point.
Don't worry, guys, I'm going to be giving our darkness parks.
We've got so many to give you. Like, Okay, now we get
to click clack away. You are. You are successful in moving it,
but it's going to take you some time. This basically it's like trying to
transfer money from bank account to bank account. You're like paying private networks to
like move the information. It's going to take you some time. Okay,
so great. So then as to to play off of that, what I
want to do is the copy that we're leaving on the ship, I'm going
to transfer or to my terminal than my that I have on me, and
then I'm going to put that in this whatever Jamar is going to show me
while it's continuing to transfer back to my home terminal. Oh great, okay,
um, okay, interesting, all right, um, you know where
it is. We'll say that that happens while you're click clacking away. Um,
we cut to Tamir at Tel's door. I mean, yeah, Tamara
at twel'sdoor. I know all your names. Uh yeah, he'll He'll go
ahead and kind of knock. Um pal yeah, yes, Um sorry,
are you okay? Uh? Door opens? Uh. Tel's face looks red
from crying, but she's yeah, Um, I'm sorry. Uh I should
get docking. Um no, no, you can. You can take a
moment. We can take as many moments as we need that we don't have
to dock. What I delay? I you know, you know we're not
alone, right, Yes, so I want my ship back. Then we'll
get your ship back. We need to dock first, and then the ship
will be mine again. But I have to dock first. So I'm just
gonna hope that there aren't a bunch of crowds in the h in the docking
bay this time. Well, let's so, we just received a notification from
Correolis. They want us to actually duck in the special ducking quarters prove the
consortium. So I don't think that there will be crowds, But I'm still
very concerned about what is going to wait for us. On the other side.
Yeah, they've never had me dock there before. Haks on that floor
are owned by someone, they're private. Yeah, I mean we are full
of so many new experiences this this trip. Yeah, well, I suppose
they probably want to get their hands on the data we have from the portal.
Um, Let's just keep it to what data we found and leave out
the more extravagant details. I'll make sure to have a clear head before I
write your recommendation for your next ship. What what do you mean next ship
to me? Or you? Just you realize when you turn in that report
at the end of your internship and we will really when we get back in
here, every single ship on Coriolis is going to try to regret you.
You're brilliant. I can't afford to compete with that. But this is not
about the money. Though we've just done something incredible, I would not continue
doing something like that because that was the last job I had. I got
enough to fix up my ship a bit, but I can't afford to pay
you, and so I'm just gonna kind of hang out until I have another
job. Well, and that's fine. I can go out there, I
can go find other jobs for us. There are other jobs. If they
want me, we will get the jobs. Do not want the manager ship
that he do something? No, I mean it, it's not the same
without you. Um, I don't know. While you were gone, it
was it was weird. Um and um no No, I just you know.
I you're working at working at your degree, and you you've cut such
a bright future out of you. I tell, I thought I thought I
had my future entirely planned out. I knew what I wanted, I could
see where I was going to go. But after everything that happened, what
what I can here? Now? Would I what I have seen? What
we know? Honestly, none of the matters. I there's no other ship
that I want to be on. I feel that the universe has put us
together. There's something greater because there's something greater in you, and I don't
I don't want to leave your ship. I don't want to leave you.
Tells face turns as red as her hair. Oh, inclusive, check fucking
check why Tell's face turns as red as her hair? Uh? I don't
understand why you would want to be on this ship. It's small, it's
not that great, and it's just me. But I mean, you always
have a place here. Tell it it's not the ship, it's you,
fucking Mike ky Mike. Um. I mean, there's not really anything special
about me, but sure, I what are you saying? I I don't
know. Um, I would like to see what type of future we could
have together. Maybe. Well, whatever type of future it is, I'm
sure it's going to be an eventure if the past week has anything to do
with the future. I gotta go, doc. Apparently I need to go
set new coordinates. Oh yeah, they um, they sent them over the
programmed and they're ready for you. Thank you. Um, let's just stick
to the data, okay, right, Uh, put my hand on your
shoulder as I go past you in the doorway and go straight to the cockpit
to go correct our course. Apparently, LA hate you. I hate you.
A tense moment was who and I are really good at ruining shit like
that? No, there there is this show. It's because my Oh that's
fired. That's because I was trying to smooth who stabbed her in the chest?
So I mean, who is that? No? No, no,
the audience stabbed. Oh I will always flame it on jet jet. Okay.
So there's a very tense moment as how literally passes by to mirror,
bodies close, heat tension as the doors open um and it's not the sound
of sturm but hydraulics. As Tao slips out to cockpit, leaving to me
or standing in her room, Hello, hand sweaty. When you get to
your cockpit, you interrupted me, Mike, that was your fault. When
you get to the cockpit, Malik is there standing over your dash as if
he owns the place, staring at the message of coordinates that they have sent
you from Coriolis. I will essentially just go right in between him and the
dash and just start pressing buttons bump him to the side. And you said,
A course, you realize these coordinates put you on the upper floors of
the spire. The spire is the very top of Coriole is made up of
two hundred floors of those affluent, wealthy and well to do folks that Coriolis
can hold. This is where the both okay, the little both, I
think, really um, they eat and dine here. This is where your
judges will live. This is where judicators will live. This is important,
folk. And the message on your dash says that you are currently on the
way to a private doc registered to a judge. Kuahan is his name?
Uh? Does the name ring any bells to me? The only thing that
should is the judge part great, which you too additionally think of as judge
in our world too. Or yeah, they're gonna they're gonna serve um to
some degree on a higher level. So yes, the bare minimum foundation word
term of the word. Yes. Cool And if nobody needs to do anything
else, Yes, I knew it. Are you gonna go take a shower?
No? Okay? The last time you love Corriles? Yeah? Thank
um. Uh. Saul would be in his room and meticulously disassembling his robot.
Disassembling it, Yeah, disassembling it. It's laid out on your bed,
very like OCD about all the parts, and he's looking for a specific
part in the drone that contains memory, and he's going to remove remove it.
You slide the hard drive chip out. He will stare at it kind
of blankly, put it inside is pocket it and then slowly start to replace
the parts and close it back up. You place it. You you have
to put a new card in. Basically you could spare chips. It would
be it's like a thumb drive. Basically like any kind of memory stick,
Um, you replace it with an empty one. So he's doing this to
kind of give to Malik later because like his drone also recovered like proof,
I guess any other one that just floating around. Okay. As he's doing
this, um, he sees on the side where the name Gizmo is kind
of engraved and will slowly start carving the name out with his chip, chipping
away at it, trying to erase another memory. Yeah, and then he's
going to put it back together, leave it off and place it to the
side of his room, and then make my way to hand over to memory
chip to Malik. A pandoff is made as you all prepared to dock to
me or you now have the raw footage of pretty much everything from the drones
perspective that includes the ship. Um. Don't forget the ship was also loaded
with that UM and I believe that was all downloaded also by the leak,
because everything was fed to the ship's computer rucks. He sent a copy of
it to the to the computer ship to the ship's computer. Yes, uh,
if if you can make another one, if you want to get rid
of it. No, I was gonna say if possible, I would have
I would have, like, you know, control cut all that onto my
Databad. That's what I would have sent to get it, Okay, to
clear it. Okay, Yeah, I don't want that Ontel ship. That's
incin. That's that's incriminating. That's incriminating. Beyond beyond what what what I
would implicate tell with I think it's I think this is standard protocol for people
in the syndicate. If we use a non syndicate vessel, we would probably
do everything we need to descrub it clean. Yeah, probably, unless your
mission is to return information. Even then, I'm scrubbing from the ship.
Yeah, from the ship. That's why my memory he's given to uh Malik
and not just deleted, is to you guys, look so guilty. Everything
he's gonna be scrubbed clean and you're not going to turn anything ever, they're
going to go. So you just say, we have to give them the
Gazali info. Oh yeah, so that's that's the thing. So okay,
so out of character here, Okay, tell me exactly how you've broken this
down. So Malik would, as part of his normal routine with what he
does with this indicate scrub his like existence away from everything, which is why
he took everything off the ship that he has. So Malik has taken from
the ship the Gazzali information, the Hamura information, and all the information that
was on the robot and on TAMR and whatever I pulled off of the tao
In Um satellite of the tao In space station. That is all now on
Malik's hard drive that is currently transferring back to his home terminal. He has
the disc, the Blue Disc, and he has whatever m Sewel just gave
him, which that is just about is he's keeping that. He's actually I
will not another I think about the soul, will not give it to you.
Okay, that's fine, He's hold onto it. He's planning to turn
the Blue Disc over to the consortium, Okay, because I just realized I
probably need some sort of proof to report back to my dad anyway. Yeah,
okay, so, um, you better not be scrubbing my travel logs.
I took any any any data that was pertinent to me, Like,
so any anything that I put on your computer, I've taken off your computer.
So the travel logs are a normal function of the ship. I would
leave that alone. That would be suspicious if your ship had no travel logs.
Yeah, okay, al right. It is intense silence as the vessel
docks to coreoli Is for the first time, with all of the travel and
the travel back and timy wymes. It's been all almost two weeks. Damn,
you've been gone a while. As the vessel docks, you see the
upper floors of Coriolis. I don't know how many of you have actually been
to the upper floors of Coriolis, if ever, no, but here you
are, and this area is a single like docking station that very clearly docks
to a private area. And when you step off or when it opens up,
there are four guards and a man shaved head tattoos down the center and
long robes that stands there that very clearly identify him as a judge here aboard
Coriolis. He simply smiles at all of you and he gestures and he says,
welcome back, thank you, um is there is specific reason why we're
dogged here. Yes, follow me, and he stubminced to turn. The
four guards look at you, guns in hand. I will follow. I
turn in, give an eye to the guys behind me. But I don't
see anything else. Oh boy, this is definitely not suspicious. And then
I'll also follow. I just look back to Maleak. He's just staring at
Seul who just spoke. It was like he starts walking. I would have
said that very low, just saying all right. The whispers very okay,
okay, you follow the judge. He speaks as he walks with you.
For those of you that have never been to the spire, the ceilings aren't
high. Everything here is clean and well kept. There's no trash. People
don't stand around, there's no loitering. There's purpose and placement to pretty much
everything. And if this is privately owned, it is well funded by this
man. I feel like Saul would be very uncomfortable in this setting. Same
he the guards follow behind all four of you, and he leads you down
a hallway that eventually opens up into a massive glass panel that looks over the
side of the spire down all the floors. You're about halfway up the two
hundred floors. You can see there's a bustling of internal transportation. It's hollow.
The light a fake light in here, feels like real sunshine. Everything's
warm and bright and beautiful. The air is being filtered. It's clean,
and he leads you down as you kind of look over this beautiful scape that
is the spire to a double paneled door, and he says, welcome to
my home, and he gestures to allow all of you to enter first.
Okay, opens up. It's probably what you imagine, more than you could
ever hope for, probably the size of towelship. And then some wide open.
There's food already laid out on a table, like real food, vegetables,
the works. And he gestures to a large table in the center of
this very very beautiful kind of loft style home, and he says, please
have a seat. We have much to discuss. Bleek just cautiously sits down,
slowly sinks into the chair. Yeah. I do very very much the
same. I'll follow their follow their lead very cautiously. We're all very nervous.
He could tell. He can very much tell. Uh. Yeah,
were we able to bring any weapons or anything along with you? Okay?
Check what about my knife? If it was on you, I would't think
they would. He would have asked you to get rid of it. But
he's not gonna let you walk up in here with a gun bigger than his
guards. Yeah, okay, I'll knife is all. I carried the gestures,
noticing your general concern, and the four guards leave, he says,
wait outside the door. They exit, leaving you lit truly alone. Doesn't
seem to be anybody else in here. Does anyone know this guy? Oh?
What do we know? The visit visit? He says, you have
returned. I expect a full report. Well, a complete report takes time.
We have that an information, and that needs to be translated. So
you're telling me you've been gone for two weeks and have nothing. No,
we have the data, but that needs to be trying. Don't care about
your data. I want to know what happened. I'm sorry. Who are
you? He says, I introduced myself. You know what? Who are
you? I'm Judge Curahan. I have been overseeing the contracts that you all
accepted. Do you have proof? Sure kind of walks over to a panel
on the wall and touches it without even looking, and a pad, a
data pad like, drops out of it, and he kind of hits a
couple of buttons, and in the center of the table, a hollow um
like a hologram like leaps up with like a a hud deck on it.
Um, and you can see um. He pulls up a couple of things.
He says, well, here's your contract. Um, and he said,
and he kind of scrolls through and he says, um, if I
remember correctly, you were working for the syndicate. What No, what does
the contract say, dot it is? It is the contract that was given
to Seul. Does it on that contract does the say the report to report
back to my dad or does it say the report to whoever? Says simply
to report. Okay, that's what it said. And he says, um,
I issued this contract as request from the council. Um. Someone willing
to accept it. Well, we managed to make the jump to the Harmora
station. Um, and there was a crash ship And he pulls out the
blue disk and puts it on the table and slides it towards the judge.
He stops it with a single finger, very gingerly and looks at it.
He says, you did manage to recover? We did? Yeah, that
was the mission recover any then the portal was actually broken to the town system,
right. I said that that was data, but we just haven't had
the opportunity to transcribe it. He says, well, I'm glad to say,
we have something. Did you watch it? We saw bits and pieces
of it on the ship that we had to pull it from. But I
think it something happened and that something that portal did something and it shot something
back and that broke up the Gazzali, but that it was degraded by a
long show. Whatever was on the ship. This needs a password, so
or he points to the disc, it says, that needs a password.
So we didn't see what's on that. He says, would you like to?
Oh? Sure? He takes the disk and walks back over to the
same spot in the wall. Click click click, takes his pass code in
and it comes up and it is the captain's logs from the Gazzali. Um,
did you manage to hack through it? You did it? I stole
the passwords from the army. I thought so totally. So it's it is
information. He plays through it, watching it happen, and Leek also is
looking at him. He's like, oh, like at all the appropriate moments,
right, If that's the case, it's just keeping his head down for
that, Malik. You seem to be uh, what is this? This
is a manipulation? Okay, great, we can do that. Hold on,
let me change one. You can. You're manipulating him. You're manipulating
him into believing you've not seen this footage. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah.
Uh. You know what, let's just for ships and giggles. If
the penultimate episode have a darkness point, ye yes, I'm an actor,
the world famous actor. Okay, okay, that leaves me ten darkness points
to use between today and next episode. Next season, you have a whole
season? Do you have a whole we have to start over. Okay,
that's so we're gonna just see yea and three corruption bars. I'm just gonna
roll quits for the rest of the show. You understand tonight It's gonna be
a longer night, right, Um Okay, I'm gonna have to send a
message if that's the case. Um, good, because so I'm not opposed
to it, just saying thank you everyone. He watches, believing Malik to
start um and he sits and watches through it, nodding, taking it in
with a very stirred face. M He says, in your absence, there
has been an outbreak aboard Coriolis, not of disease or sickness, but of
missing people. Missis. He kind of says, almost struggling to get the
word out. He clears another button and the most recent paper from the bulletin
comes out. The mysticides. They're calling them a series of disappearances of people
people believed to be mystics. What does this have to do with us.
I'm sure that you've heard. He completely ignores you. I'm sure that you've
heard that one of the immissaries is missing at news, did Risha's it's good
to tell them, not tell us about that? Right? I told?
He told Tamar? Did you tell Malikan? Told the rest of us too?
You you told them that there was that She was busy working on another
story, which is that one of the emissaries had gone missing. Yes,
you know that much of it. That's about yet. Tell on the other
hand, knows a hell a lot more because she felt it. Um.
Have they been recovered? No? Does anyone seem to know where they are.
No. We have a general idea that there has been a conspiracy aboard
this space station, one that has left us with little knowledge as to what
is really going on, he says. We have some knowledge, but very
little. There are whispers in the right circles of a group called the Warriors
of the Holy Light. Huh, Renegade Martyr group. Why are you telling
us this information because the contract that you so definitely completed it was only important,
and that it was a test you all passed. Congratulations, hold on,
a test usually means there's going to be something after correct this, this
is no, this my agreement was this was the final I'm sorry your agreement
correct, this is the last assignment that I'm getting. This is That's not
an agreement I made with you. M It's all just kind of suspense.
If you speak of some under the table agreement you made regarding the syndicate.
He says, I don't care about that, because you don't work for the
syndicate anymore. I can agree with you on that. He says, you
were working for all Corelis a mission to save the people. So why yes,
what if you failed? What have been in that return no information?
Then we would have found others. This task optional? No, unless we
reject the task, go ahead, reject it. Well, I'm just asking
no. Saying that they might. He says, well, there's only one
way to find out, and they look around realizing that, um, it's
probably not gonna be a good idea. And so we'll just sigh and just
kind of slunk in all the band's chair. This is based on the knowledge
that we have of this group of commandos that are cleansing Corey Illness. They've
infiltrating the security. We don't know who they are. So therefore we are
building our own under call a group. I'm guessing we're part of that,
aren't we? He says, you are it, But we are not trained
the military. We are not precisely the reason why I want you. We
sent a whole fleet of military to hit the Twin system, and yet all
of you made it there and back. I really can't argue with that,
he says, So my test worked. Because you are undercover. You cannot
report directly to me instead of have someone that, well, one of you
might be familiar with. He looks over to Soon. Fuck fuck fuck fuck
fu fu fuck fuck fuck. The last time I checked they were interested in
speaking with you. They said they owed you a thank you. Shit.
Just to clarify that, it's the dancer right on the I can't my memory
is kind of foggy. You don't know. Oh fuck, okay, you
don't know, he says, there is um they are located here in the
spire as well. Do you want to thank me? You can find them
here, and he slides a actually a piece of paper across the table for
whoever would like to take it. I will take it. It's made of
plastic technically, but it's another address for here in the spire, a few
levels down, actually quite a few levels down, closer to floor one.
I guess you could say, um, but nonetheless here in the spire,
he says, consider them. Well, I'll let them tell you. He
says, you may go now. I will send documents to you. He
looks at Malik to me, you are there, dadgine space by not anymore?
You don't, oh like Molik, I guess you're on my ship.
How does it fail? I mean it sounds like it's not your ship,
And he says, and ask for your brother's debts. They are also complete
as long as you return with the emissary. Huh, I am very confused,
like side eyes to wear. So prior you said I no longer work
for the syndicate. Does that mean my records and previous obligations are revoked?
It means that the syndicate has no hold over you. Perfect the depths that
you owe, those are yours. Fuck, he says, I am just
a judge after all. So upon accepting this new role, and I look
at all of us. Are there parks, benefits, payment, something to
help us get along with this? Perks? She kind of smiles at the
quaint idea. M h, I know you've been away, but a lot
has changed from Coriolist in two weeks before you accept my offer. See it
for yourself. Okay, it's my ship, still my own. It's funnest,
it's funny. It wasn't actually your own until today. But I don't
need to worry about that anymore. Yes, it is still your vessel.
Like I still look back on that contract between me and Jine. Yep,
it goes end. Like I said, I've simply freed you, giving you
a choice take it or leave it if you would like it. He says,
Well, the pilot's on board. I'll take it. Yeah, I
mean and for a penny? In for a pound? What like an addendum?
Addendum? I am listening. My debt is not part of this negotiation.
It is mine to pay off and they'll not be tied to it.
Yes, he says, your debt was never your worse to pay off.
My understanding is that your brother is paying off your debts and it is my
debt. It will not be transferred to somebody else, he says. It
already has been long before today. My understanding. How long have you worked
your job, Malik? How long have you been here to me? Ye
are? I'm just saying it's going to take him another three to complete it,
or you can wait for further instruction. And I wiped her dead clean
today. Well he's dead anyways. Gives you more time to say, think
it over, accept it if you want to. Until then, I suggest
you visit that man and he points to the piece of paper and look at
it in your hand again is an address? Um, it has a name
on it. What's ther name? To ask that question? The name on
it is abdual Massar. Fucking do it? He says. Well, you're
welcome to stay here. But that is all I have to say. I'm
pretty sure. I'm sorry. We'll fill you in on everything else. All
right, Well, thank you, I guess for this extremely uncomfortable introduction.
Back, Um, do we just leave or your your grace? I don't
know, he says, please, okay, okay, we're working together.
Sure, And I get up and I'm just like, oh, I just
feel like I had to talk with my dad. And then I'm just gonna
you haven't even had that chance. Yeah, yeah, to wait for everyone
else. When I stand, I say, that actually is a very good
point. What do we call you? Oh? Well, just as I
introduce myself, Okay, I just wanted to make sure there wasn't a fancy
title. Now, he says, I am a judge. I said,
that is the only title he ever needs. Ever, clearly he's worked very
hard. Um, and some people like collecting titles, like you know,
rings or whatever. Simply more to say, one title is enough as long
as it does the jump like you, This is good. I have a
feeling I'm going to like all of you as well. If you return again,
of course, okay, have a good afternoon. Oh and enjoy your
time. At least try to question. This isn't where I should be docking
every time right now? Yeah, because as you are welcome to dock here
if you would like, as long as there is, of course, not
my personal vessel docked. Oh damn, you want to perks current, Yeah,
I mean we are as you said, possibly the savors of Coriola's in
so many words, I bade you all ado and he simply turns his back
and has a seat and what is very clearly his chair. As all of
you exit, the four guards, two on each side, still stand outside
the door. They look at you under these kind of glistening heavy mask.
It's almost like a full motorcycle helmet. They're white and they match white set
of armor that they all wear, the guns prepped and over their bodies and
in hand. They do not move or look at you as you exit.
So that was interesting. Yeah, I'll go just straight back to the ship.
I don't know if anybody else has anything that they need to do,
but I'm just gonna rest a little. I'm really tired. I'm gonna sleep
for a while. Shouldn't we discuss it seems like we are now a group,
ye, a team. It does seem like that. I mean,
you got aside from Tamir because he didn't accept well, he's he's pending.
Yeah, I I don't think it's a choice kid. Yeah, I didn't
really get that vibe either. I can't hear what you're saying, but I'm
sure it's very important. I'll think of something, you think of what hey,
hey, hey, Now he needs to think it's a big deal.
No, no, no, no, no, no no no, I'll
think of something. Means an alternate to what was offered. There's always an
alternative. Yeah, there was an alternate when we got here. What are
you gonna that's the that's a judge of the Consortium, that's the largest faction
on all of Coriolis. There's nowhere unless you're gonna go back planet side.
There's nowhere. If you get blacklisted by the Consortium, you're done here,
You're done. No ship will take you. You'll be kicked out of school.
There's nothing for you on Coriolis. This it's no, it's optional.
It's a big decision. Let him. I'm not saying that he doesn't understand
it, but maybe, you know, he needs to sit on it a
little bit, just to let it steep. I'm sure tom Or will come
to the right decision after he has time to process. There's no decision,
I know, but look at him, give him a minute. I'm right
here. I don't I can to you. There's no decision. There's a
decision of other people making decisions for me. So you made a decision for
me. He didn't to make a decision for me, give me a choice,
and he's not giving me a choice. I'm going to find another way.
As this arguing is happen. Happening now, I'm going to have you
roll um for um. What is It's not perception? Is it perception?
Observation? I always forget his called observations game. Is there a bickering in
the middle of a very quiet Yeah, probably residential hallway. I'm gonna have
you trying to stay quiet, but just there's a lot of emotion going.
Yeah, I'm gonna have Okay, it's all you need. As they argue
and you maybe you're looking around to make sure nobody's hearing or you're not drawing
attention. About twenty feet down this beautiful glass hallway that you're standing in,
you see a boy, the same boy that hopped a ride from town to
Coriolis. He looks a lot cleaner, now dressed very differently to suit the
mood and vibe of Coriolis. He simply smiles and waves and turns around and
begins walking off. He cuts left down a hallway. He is gone,
Well, that'll be fun to deal with later. Way my ship's actually mine,
you know, apparently not. I got to reread that contract. Anyways,
Um, this is probably not the best time to hash out any tensions
here here. You want to go back to the ship and argue, or
perhaps that's the we havent. I'm not even looking at Soul. I'm looking
at tam or Yeah, you see Soul, like I agree, Like,
do you want to go to the ship to argue? Or okay, would
you like to go get a drink or something? The best restaurants are said
to be here in the spire. That don't mean we can afford it.
Yeah, I don't have money. Let me check? Do I have any
money left over from? Actually you need? So you go in, You're
like, how much money do I have left over? Man of a fake
stake? Sounds great? And you check your account. You have a lot
more than you think me. Credits are already there for me. Your account
has been credited for the completion of the job you were sent on. How
much five thousand burr? Five thousand more added? Fuck? All right,
cool, one contract down. For those of you that potentially have accounts bank
accounts, you two have five thousand burr waiting for you. Was an account.
It had probably two burr in it. Um. It was a job.
You completed your job, you got paid right away. I feel like
I need to you know what. No, I don't report to him.
I don't work for him anymore. Are you guys hungry? I will report
the good peak though. Um let me back with you later. Yeah.
If we're going somewhere, I'm gonna go home and grab a change of clothes.
Splitting the party. It's been two weeks, A kind of like a
justice cloth his jacket. Oh my god, you're not going to visit the
name that was given to you want to slip of paper by a judge of
correolists. I was like, I need to change your clothes. I want
to, but I feel like nobody else is ready to. Okay, all
right, I will. So I was gonna stand and ask, hey,
listen, I'm gonna I'm gonna like try to reach out, like wait,
wait, before you guys all do your own thing. Like I mean,
in all seriousness, this is a very interesting opportunity that has been presented to
all of us, regardless of your bickering or issues or whose ship is who's
or oh my gun, my brother betrayed me, like, do you not
realize everything at this moment could fix at least financially and systematically what is happening?
And then I pull out the paper. This is an opportunity you do
not want to miss. So we already said yes, but you guys are
leaving. Yeah, there was no time for him to meet this guy.
You should always go to your target when given an opportunity. Oh alright,
alright, alright, alright, alright, coming from the man who didn't take
out his target the last time he loved play you no, listen, I
had two targets. I had to choose which one was priority, the mission
or him. Okay, and saw me the decision. That's a difference.
All right, come on, so let's go. Well, one of two
bars have been burned, or one of three bars has been burned. There's
now an ancient gin spreading darkness around Coriolis. Shit. Okay, well,
I mean towel's gonna be welcome. Do you what do you two we're gonna
do? Um? I think this as far as you know, I'm gonna
do exactly what he said. All right, Well, ta mirror report because
I still have to finish school. Oh, all right, go then I
guess, uh, meet back of the ship. Sure, and then as
I as all turns around, he's gonna be like, damn it, fucking
suck at this, and then he's gonna like a walk I guess towards I
guess an elevator or I don't know what there would be. There would be
a many means of transportation. UM Coriolis is large enough. It has internal
trains basically UM like monoreel type system that runs you from section to section.
So here's what I'm gonna do. I'mna where's everybody headed. I feel like
there's just a very tense and awkward, silent walk back to the ship because
that's where Malik needs to go to and I know that's where Tamir is going.
So you're not going to the ship in that case. I wasn't sure
if you had to gather stuff from the thing. In that case, I
walk back to the ship. I'm going to the ship and then I'm going
back to that elevator. I need my computer. Okay, data has been
transmitted. There are two guards outside your vessel or TWA's vessel. I assume
that they work for that guy. They have a white. They don't budge.
He walks in and gets his tablet and walks out. It's great.
Next, I'm headed to the where the journey started. So you're headed back
down to what is that the ring? Wherever the marketplace is? Yeah,
the Core, the Core plaza. Okay, we had it back down to
the Core. Clasum, what about Seul? I believe me and Tyl are
walking towards the elevator and I'm like looking up the number and you're gonna go
visit this contact that he gave you as I'm very curious to see why he
wanted to thank me. So okay, I mean, Paul knows, but
it's right, and some mir, where are you heading to complete your report?
Tamir will head back to his little apartment pod and off all of you
go your opposite directions. God, we're gonna start with Tamir, I mean,
I'm sorry, We're gonna start with Seul and Tao. It won't take
you very long to take um basically an elevator down to another floor, maybe
twenty minutes or so. By the time you mitigate this massive place and figure
out exactly how all of the addresses are laid out, it's very different than
probably where you spend most of your time on Coriolis. You get to a
kind of identical door to all of the rest of them, but it matches
the number and uh. There is kind of a calm system like on the
outside of the door that you can use to ring or buzz. I will
buzz it in. There's a moment the screen opens up and there's a older,
kind of older face um man uh, kind of greasy hair, uh
that is far too close to his camera. Um. And he looks in
and he says, who is it, Captain Tuma of the Defiant. Yes.
Um. He doesn't say anything. The camera boots out and the door's
open. I will walk in soul like caution. You walk into what can
only be described as like a waiting room almost. There's like a back to
back a white sterile benches sitting in the middle, and you see there's a
door that has private security hired. This person is standing here. They're not
holding a gun, they're not wearing the white mask that represents them as like
Coriola's guard. This is private guard. And he stands next to a very
dense metal door that has kind of like barring on it. As if something
important is on the other side. As you enter this, he kind of
reaches over key cards and that door cracks open and you're able to go into
the next room as you walk in. This is quite a sight to hold.
It's funny that Tamir's not here, because this might blow his mind.
This place seems to be a museum of some kind. Possibly. There are
these pillars kind of gritted out like five by five, and on them,
on treated like a pedestal, are different artifacts and items that are encapsulated in
these these like bubbles, almost to keep them safe and protected. They're all
labeled. These are more than likely very rare items and walking straight towards you
with very little question is the man that you saw soul the day you left
Coriolists, the last time you love Coriolists, the one that you were supposed
to assassinate. Did I know what he looked like? Because I think the
information I was told is that he would be at the docks at a certain
time frame. I can't remember if I was given any visual aid. Maybe
not. Maybe you weren't. Maybe you were just given his name and the
time frame he was going to arrive. You're probably right, Yeah, I
think the dude with the too. I asked him, like, who's my
target? And he's like, he's like, this is it. You'll you'll
know him when you see him. You'll know when you see him. But
with my memory, am I able to put the two together? Um?
No, not yet? Okay, not yet. Then if you don't know
what he looks like, there's nothing so far to give it away. Name
though he has his name, but you do have his name, which no,
you well, that's true. You would have known that you were supposed
to kill this man. That's it. You don't know what he looks like
till this point, but you knew you're supposed to kill him. So my
my initial shock was when I looked at the paper. Then yes, then
I'm just gonna keep quiet about the whole thing. Yes, And he says,
well, don't stand on formalities, come in, come in kind of
gestures okay, And then I look at tal for approval to see like what
she does? Yeah, I'll bleed in. He says, I'm so sorry.
Let me gets the judge scared you? It's not really the word I
would use. Well what what what word would you use? Uh? Shock?
That seems appropriate? Yeah, it's been a little eventful the past couple
of weeks. Interesting. Was not expecting to talk to a judge. First
thing when I came back. Why not, you did take up high profile
contract, right. We totally knew that. His voice gone trails off.
He'll be honest, I had no idea what I was getting myself into.
He says, then you need to choose your friends more wisely that he looks
right at soul so kind of like dark. He still can't look at people
in the eye. He like, he looks away and he's like mm hmm.
Yeah. I didn't know him when we started this, he says.
It. It's come to my addition that my life was spared thanks to you.
So I was like, oh fuck, he's kind of like looking at
around like he says. He says, don't worry, captain. He says,
you're also has poor taste and friends, if I do say so myself.
But that's in the past. Now I'm here to simply thank you and
to offer what I can, such as patronage for you and your team.
Okay, um, we were also told you were going to be our point
of interest from this point on, Hence the patron part. All right,
right, sorry, he's still just trying to like look away, like,
yeah right, that's that's what that means. He says, take it or
leave it. But you did, in fact save my life, though you
were also going to attempt to take it. What I'm trying to what I
am trying to say, is that I'm interested in funding your party's endeavor.
His ears perk up funding. Yeah, so tels, He says, what
do you think patron means? Yeah, to be honest with god, I
don't know that, Saul and Paul just saying. He says, it's not
a usual exchange. I guess that occasionally the an interested party with enough spare
income can in fact fund endeavors or say bringing things back. I elbows tally,
a'll be bad. Well, I mean, I can't really say no
to anybody who wants to fund running my ship. Nic said, I'll be
able to pay my employees. He says, as you can see, I
have a bit of a problem, and he gestures to his massive collection of
ancient artifacts. I think these are cool, he says, Oh, they
are very cool. I engineer would love to see this firm. Yes,
as far as the rest of your team, I thought there were four of
you there is They seem to need a few moments. We haven't locked in
an essentially a spaceship together for two weeks. Sometimes people need time apart.
I bring him off the room, give them, giving them some room to
breathe. I see, well. I hope that they find whatever peace they're
looking for. That Coriolis is not a peaceful place at the moment, so
I wish. Sometimes you just need to be away from people you've been too
close to for too long. About that? Why is Coreoli is not a
peaceful place anymore? Oh? He says, since the disappearance of the emissary,
things have been hostile. Right. The judge mentioned that any information you
can give us about that, like he said, to go for yourself.
What does he mean by that? The judge has such a way with words.
I think what he says is you won't believe it till you see it.
Security has been doubled, and we are not entirely sure that security is
not part of the problem. There seemed to be some dark forces at work
of board correolists interested in getting rid of the problem. He kind of puts
the quotations knowing that he means mystics, He says, I'm going to assume
that the both of you aren't caught up in a mess like that. You
seem to be pretty normal people. I can't remember. Yeah, we're fine.
So what exactly we were told that you would tell us what mean?
What the next step would be? Yes? Of course, Um, well,
if you accept the patronage, of course it would be regular funding for
your message missions and such. But under a condition. Okay. I am
a rare collector. I like my artifacts. If you are to come across
them on your journeying under my berth, they belong to me. You simply
hand them over. That's it. What I look at his collection? Is
there a pattern of what he's kind of collecting? Oh? Um, this
is gonna be a role, because artifacts really aren't yell thing. I was
going to look around here at that. Yeah, you you're welcome. He
does not stop you. He seems very open and understanding of you, looking
like he wants you to. This is he It's almost like I said,
he keeps it like a museum, that everything labeled. Um, these are
must be his favorites. He has multiple other doors, which you can only
assume house other rarities. Um but sul um. Hi. Yeah, this
is a cultural role. Okay. Um. If you don't have that technology
role, it's okay, so you can role technology. But I don't think
he has technology either. So I know I have technology. Yeah, you
can make a technology role. Soul doesn't have either, so, um,
you know what, We'll just make them both flat witswirls. So you can
make the technology if you have it, just make a wits role else wise
to see if you can figure it out. I got two technology because I
need to know my ship. I fail. These things look old, Soul.
They are valuable and old cool. Okay, Now they do seem to
be Um, they have a lot of basis in technology. They all seem
to be a technological artifact of some kind. Do they sit in a stasis?
Not all of them are technology, but the majority and here seem to
be technological artifacts. Okay, and very very impressive and rare ones. Well,
I'm still not knowing anything. How will we know what you want?
He says, It's not about what I want. The greatest things aren't found
because you want them. He says, I'm asking you to bring me what
you find if you find it, I'll delineate its value. I look at
how I can do that. He's like, I, I mean that seems
quite fair, right to He says, So, for example, did you
happen on this trip to find anything? Um? Did I find? No?
That was given to me before I left for the trip. No,
technically, yeah, I didn't. I didn't find anything. And who has
it? Seemed interesting? I've got I've got the statue? You ever said
you? Who has the bassemir has the base? I didn't. I didn't
find it on the trip. That's right, you didn't. It was given
to It was given to you. Soul is ill a person that like found
something? Yeah, the butterfly imprinted and rolling. Yeah, the Yeah.
I don't think I would have carried that. I think he would have left
it in his quarters. Perfect. That's all I need to hear, he
said. So nothing that comes to mind. No, that's okay. We
have we have all the time, he says, very calmly and with a
smile. He says, So here's what I'm going to do. He hands
over a credstick to tw He says, this is your expenditure. Okay,
if you ever lack what you need, simply request I will see what I
can do to still, all right, and he says, and considering the
fact that you will be going planet side next, you may want to use
that to restock your ship. Sorry what, oh right, you don't have
the next mission. This will be since you or something as per the judge,
but you will be visiting the jungles of Kula, said, jungle of
Kua, he says. You do know at the base of the spire that
sits above Kua is a jungle, right, Sorry, that long day,
yeah, he says. He says, of course, of course you have
done much portal travel. It's my understanding. Right. Well, I'm not
even sure if I've slept in the past week or so, aside from cryostasis,
he says. It sounds to me like all of you could use drink
a good meal in his sleep. Yeah, what I'm going for, he
says, wonderful. Well, then let me just and again have pulled out
a data patter like pink round. He says, I've added extra to assure
that your amenities are taken care of while you rest for the next few days.
Right, oh, thanks, yeah, thank you. He's a little
off put by how quickly he did that yeah, I mean too all right,
well, well you know, we just came here as a formality,
just to introduce ourselves first, he says, I appreciate that, and once
again, thank you. I hope it doesn't cause you too much trouble.
Your decision to spare my life has given me a new look, a new
lease on it. He might say. Yeah, I'm glad I could help.
Um. All right, well, thank you so much, and I
will. I will start grabbing soul and like he says, come back anytime,
I'll show you more of what I have. Okay, thank you.
I'm gonna wait until we're like past the iron doors. I guess he's kind
of weird and awkward. Yeah, it's like the nerdy kid that nobody ever
liked. Um, and but now he's the rich, wealthy kid that nobody
likes. He reminds me a little bit, a little bit of the older
version of the guy from Grandma's Boy, the one that's like, yes,
okay, he's like totally he's totally awkward and totally alone and totally has so
much money. Was there anything suspicious about the way he act? Or did
this seem kind of more so, like it just so so awkwardness and eagerness,
roll and empathy not damn it, come on, so you can do
it. Okay, Yeah, okay, the awkwardness was like a lot.
He was definitely excited you were there. He was definitely a little fan girl
that you saved his life. That was very obvious. Um, is he
sketchy. No, not necessarily and definitely not in the way that maybe the
judge was off putting to you. But he clearly wants something out of this,
which is that he wants you to bring back all the rarities you find
to him. Got you. This is his underlying cause here it's like,
you guys are great, you did this amazing thing. Now I'm going to
give you all the money you need so that every rare thing you find comes
to me. So I get this vibe of like it's like a very rich
neighborhood and everyone is like super smiley and happy. I'm proper, but behind
it all, it's like some shady ass shit and every single door, yes,
which is very off putting and very uncomfortable for Saul. Yeah, people
here are never who did up here. Nobody lives who they actually are on
the outside, right, So I will turn into Saul, I mean,
and that's what I'll turn into towel and just be like, what the fuck
rich people are weird? I mean, but check how much? Like can
I point to the like credit, like, how much did you actually give
us? You plug it into your like uh arm piece or whatever you've got
on you currently sitting in that account is twenty thousand Burner. I don't,
I don't look go over. I just wait, well, uh more more
burr than I've ever seen in my life, okay, Can I and I
like lean to see the number? Can I like the total number on like
the bottom of the accounts total? It's just too twenty five thousand and two
Burke. I'm like, oh my gosh, wow. Um, I mean
that's a good that's good startup money for whatever we're gonna. Basically, daddy
just gave you a piece of black is so at this point is oh point,
it's super enthusiastic simply because he knows he's no longer with the syndicate.
Um. But it's kind of like a lost puppy at this point now because
all they knew the syndicate. So let's uh go back to the ship.
Unless did you have somewhere you needed to go to pick up stuff like a
house or whatever, because I assume that you're gonna move into my ship now.
Um, soul kind of just thinks like, no, I think I'm
pretty good with leaving that stuff there. All right, Well, let's just
let's go back to the ship. I want a shower and okay, then
we'll go get food. Okay, and off The two of you walk,
pondering the fact that you're now carrying more money on you than you've probably ever
seen at one time in your life, enough that you could make upgrades on
your ship. You could stock up, you could buy new ground vehicles for
say the jungle you're about to head into. Possibly, Yeah, and the
camera cuts it's Mere. Where are you headed to? Mere? Headed back
towards your pod. Yeah. You house yourself with the rest of the students
who are given sleeping chambers under your scholarship and your studies is part of kind
of the collegiate side of Coreys near where the school is. Quite a few
of your your classmates at this point are out on their own missions. This
is kind of part of the process. So people evan flow. But it's
been a while since you've been in your pot. Your pot is exactly six
foot by six foot tall wide, it's exactly a cube, and they stack
and you were able to get back to yours. A few things that you
left behind, what you can manage to store, and hear a small desk,
the actual place that you sleep, and a single sink. Yeah,
he will go ahead and enter and just probably sit on the bed for a
long while quietly, and I think eventually he will kind of reach into his
pocket and pull out the placeman. You pull it out, it's smooth in
your hand, except for the few carvings that kind of are in it,
but it is a beautifully crafted smooth stone. You fumm it and spit it
in your hand, pondering over it. He'll go ahead and just sit it
down on his desk and I think pull out, you know, his at
a pad, and maybe starts sifting through some of the notes that he'd been
taking over the course of their trip, trying to figure out what it is
that he will say in his reports. But I think he's at lost right
now of what to do for that report. So he'll grab the talisman and
pack up the the the pad and head off into the university. As you
walk through, this is what you would expect out of kind of a high
tech university, one that's well funded and put to you for good reason,
the place of learning among the connected systems of the third Horizon. And as
you walk through, naive students sit in desk, unaware of what's going on.
As you pass by digital bulletin boards, you see strange postings chatter that
the Order of the Parah is behind all of this scum. They're called more
articles about the Mysticides. And then a series of missing posters students faces that
you recognize from passing. Maybe you've shared a class with them in the past
in your early years, but a lot of them ten twelve faces missing.
Where are you headed? There would be like a library obviously, and like
study halls and classrooms and those kinds of things, and you would know where
all of these things are very much so perfect. He is definitely going to
go to the library, I think right now he needs to learn or find
as much historical documentation about mystics that he can. Okay, you head to
the library quiet as you might assume, But this is not the library as
we might consider it. It is an archive, a digital archive full of
data drives that can be rented and checked out and plugged into the internal network
system private network system of the university here aboard Coriolis. It has full access
to the Correolis like research database. And then some as you walk in there
is a librarian that sits behind the desk. You can tell they are actively
like typing away. They are like ten monitors and they're like clicking across multiple
keyboards, very much not interested in anybody that's in here, including you.
Great, perfect and you set to work how and what exactly you said you're
looking for information on the mystics? Yeah, are you looking for information or
new information? Because the easy search of what's recently been going on, you
can very quickly pull up years worth of bullet like recent years worth of bullets
and post and see the ongoing like this person is missing and this person is
missing. And I would say year smart enough to very quickly pick up on
the point that once the ghosts of Zene declared themselves the judge incardinate the emissary,
there was a direct rise in missing persons related to mysticide cases. So
this has been this kind of growth that you see happened very rapidly after they
arrived about six months ago, and it continues to rise at a pretty rapid
pace. Some of them are just missing persons reports. Some of them are
death certificates where they've actually found people murdered in dumpsters in the cellar and things
like that. Um. But all in all, that is that's the bare
minimum what you're able to put together about recent news. Okay. On the
mystics, you will need to roll if you want to try to piece together
information on the mystics outside of that, yes, please definitely looking for more
like archaic Yeah, more kay information? Um is there a pet shelter and
correolist? Why wouldn't there be? Yes? Um, yes, so why
wouldn't there be? We'll have to figure out what space CAx looked like later,
Okay. Um, so I'm going to say, oh oh oh samr,
this is gonna be This is really just a wits roll in honesty,
um, just to piece it together. It doesn't have anything to do with
science. This is just just a wits role. Yeah, Okay. It
takes you a while. You take the small kind of elevators up and down
the multi tiers as you try to seek out the data that you're looking for.
These are ancient archives, some of them that have been collected over the
years trying to replace the lost information after the Portal wars. It's not a
lot, there's very little, but what you begin to piece together, what
you're able to decipher, is that mystics didn't really appear until the zenith shifted.
There are everything from personal journal entries individuals in the order of the Parah
to individual journal entries even that you can see people reporting on their experiences.
They're awakening, as it's called. It doesn't seem to have any correlation to
upbringing or location or place, just that there was kind of this mass rise
in people that began to have weird abilities. And then on the opposite in
the spectrum, you find a series of medical reports, police reports, calling
it a sickness, a sickness of the darkness, that mystics somehow have tapped
into the darkness between the stars, and that they draw power from it,
and therefore they themselves are part of the darkness. Some conspiracy theories say that
if we simply ridded ourselves of the mystics would go away. Others believe that
the mystics reach out an attempt to touch the icons. See. The information
varies on what the mystics actually are, but the fact of the matter is
they're all tied to the arrival of this in the ship, and people continue
to report their powers awakening up until about six months ago, where people stopped
talking about it except for the news because being a mystic put a target on
you and your family. I'd say too that the reports on the mystics in
terms of the powers themselves vary. You get reports of everything from premonitions,
two strange stories of being able to hear objects speak to them, to the
rising of dead bodies. Um. I think the Mirror is trying to find,
like maybe locate a little more about the rise of the dead bodies,
especially with that recent experience of the Bore. I'm going to have you roll
another width as you Actually, I'm going to give you your technology on this
because you're getting deeper into something, um, and I want to see if
you bake connection as you scroll through vast amounts of information. Okay, this
is that moment where like Neo sitting at his computer and it''s like it's just
scrolling. Take a darkness point great, awesome of great great great great great.
It's a lot of information. From what you can tell, it is
very very rare. This this power, it's not been recorded a lot.
Only one case really has a report on it. But the person who wrote
these, it's just a personal journal basically devoured into chaos. It was said
that they reported that they could touch a dead person or an injured person and
regenerate them in some way. But something about the regeneration took from them.
It almost gave their life force to another. Is it true? You don't
know. Is this person crazy? Probably to some degree, especially over time,
but they basically disappeared. Their record cannot be found, like this person
never existed and somebody forgot to erase the diary from the archives. Can timure
take this? You you can download I you wouldn't lay download the just in
the students do that all the time. Download the information onto like your data
pad. Yeah, you could download his journal entries onto that data pad.
Um yeah, uh yeah, that's what you uh, that's what you managed
to get out of this. There's a lot of other information, but um,
that's what you get out of that piece. Yeah, um yeah um.
And again there are multiple multiple reports of everybody from um clairvoyance to general
intuition to like premonition, UM, some people controlling people's minds. UM.
But the fact of the matter is most of those people are long gone,
either reported as deceased or flat missing. Okay, UM, I think before
tmre you know, graps of stuff and and maybe takes back off towards the
ship. Um I'd like for him to send Professor Tuma a message. There's
no need because when you look up, she's already in the library. She's
already standing there. She is working with a couple of other students. She's
kind of pointing at some things on a table and doing the teacherly duties that
she's known to do. But she makes eye contact with you and like puts
her arms out as if like were you're not going to tell me you had
come back. And she quickly looks at her students and says, I'll be
right back, continue working on this. And she crosses to you and she
says to me, or how long have you been back? A couple of
hours and a couple of hours and you're already in the library. There's a
lot to do. But I think I think tal is going to be in
danger. Why would you say such a thing. I mean, there's a
lot of danger. To be honest, I don't I don't know if it's
safe to talk here. Well, we can always go to my office.
That's where you and I usually conversate. Yes, please. She walks back
over to her students and assures them that they need to complete the assignment or
whatever that they're working on, and introduces you, and she says, this
is one of my finest students, brightest in fact, not to be here.
He's just returned from a couple of portal jumps. It's my understanding.
I hope you have something to report. There's a plenty to report. I
look forward to hearing. It's going to be a long report. She says.
Good. I love long reports. And you know she's telling the truth.
And she consider students, and she says, so just so you know,
you all have to live up to almost in a joking way. As
she pats a star pupil on the back and leads you down into her office,
you know exactly who this is is attached to her classroom, which is
somewhere between what I imagine a like medical lab classroom to be and an auto
mechanic shop because you study portals here. But it's also very much a structured,
a clean environment, so pieces of past portals have been brought in,
even possibly destroyed ones, so that you can do the kind of research you
need in a classroom setting, or she can make her points. And she
leads you to a small room in the back of her back of the classroom
and glass. Nothing sketchy about that, and she gestures for you to have
a seat as she sits behind her desk. There's a picture of her family
on the desk, yes, she says, So tell me, please,
what did you see too much? There is no such thing to mirror,
she says a scientist, we must be specific. Okay. So the portal
um from Kua to the commerce system, Um was that was the That was
the That was the first jump. You made it, but you jumped you
you made it, but you jumped into the debris field the correct. Yeah,
it send us to the appropriate Yeah, so correct. So you came
out kind of in a mess. And then it was the jump from Hamura
too, and that was the pro correct Okay. So he'll relay that information
in technical detail, which is interesting. But you made the jump. Yes,
we did how by blotting the gord and that's in jumping. But I
thought it was broken. Do you explain to her that there was a Yeah,
there was like this little thing like we had a plot around it.
Okay, she goes, so there's there's more multiple Uh, portals openings inside
of the single one. I thought, this is what are the peers?
Honestly, because there's more than one, like a tear in time? Perhaps
interesting? Did you dare I say record it? Uh? We attempted to,
but the recordings came out static. Makes sense. We don't usually have
good footage going from one jump to another. And that's right. Oh,
she says, I'm just interested in what you can remember. And what did
you find in talent Darkness? She says, no, to me, really,
what did you find there? No, Professor, darkness? They were
real stars. No way that that is possible, Professor, Have I ever
given you a report with doubting Okay, let's say this is all true.
Why is tal in danger? I haven't had the opportunity to discuss it with
her, but I think that I think that she may be a mystic.
The instances things that have happened I have no n tell a very long time
to be her. You're her mother. She came from me, and I
can tell you as much as I love my daughter, and as how brilliant
and brave as she is, she's no mystic. I disagree with your assessment.
What makes you think that that she used this? Are these your fears
coming back to correl as there's much talk right now of such horrible things?
What do they mean? Horrible things? Well? The disappearances, of course,
and the fact that the mystics are all behind this. How did the
mystics did this? She says, I don't know. I'm just relaying some
of the things that I've heard. The students tend to whisper. So the
mystics uttered, the ones who are responsible for the Miss de side with the
disappearance of it, and Miss Sadie that mm hmm, I see, I
am if what you say is truth and tell she'll not be here. And
more importantly, I I'm worried about what what this means for our family.
When did this intuition of such things? What prompted it? What has she
done? The um, you know, it's it's it's getting late and I
actually should probably go check on her anyways, just you know, she's alone
right down the ship. Um to where are you? Okay, Yeah,
I'm fine. Um, it's it's been a very long two weeks. We
haven't really had the time to sleep. I'm very hungry. You're a bad
liar. I mean, it's been two weeks, she says. I'm not
talking. I'm very tiny. I believe that I need to leave. Please.
Oh, she says, I won't stop you, but you know that
you can tell me right. I have supported you for a long time,
and I believe a lot in your capabilities. I wouldn't have put you on
a ship with my daughter if I did it. I'm very grateful that you
do. She's the best damn pilot and all of the th horizon. You
know. Thank you, and Tobias gonna like awkwardly get up and going to
leave me or profess your final report. It's still due, of course,
in full detail. Good. I look forward to reading it. I think
you will enjoy it. I hope so. And she says, Um kind
of waves and kind of pigs out her door as you leave. Um,
yeah, yeah, he'll he'll eventually head back to the ship. He's gonna
get back to the fucking ship. Okay, you got a long way to
go. Yeah, it's a long long trip. But our camera doesn't follow
you all the way back to the vessel and goes to Malik, Malik,
what have you been up to? Crimes? Um? I believe that?
Okay. So Malik boarded the Defiant, retrieved his compact or his computer device
uh, and left, took the elevator back down to the central core and
began to peruse the various stalls looking for I don't have his name, but
I'm looking for my contact in the area the Okay, which contact, the
guy that gave the one who gave me the data stick. Yeah, so
you're talking about oh, what was his name? Marez? No? No,
that's no, that's his dad you're talking about. No, Yeah,
you're that's right, Berez Marez. I'll cam yep. I'm looking for his
stall. I mean I know where it is. So I'm heading for his
stall. Okay. Uh? Yeah, you head over to his stall,
and he's there sitting there leaning back, says well, I can not expect
to see your shitty face again. Wow, really, when have I not
returned? He says, Well, you weren't really supposed to return from this
one. That's why I'm clearly the best that there ever was. Well,
you keep telling yourself that, kid, what can I do for you?
I mean, the job's done? So oh right, you want the money?
Right, that would be great? Did you deliver the goods? Where
is the delivery point? You just gave me the contract and where to get
it? I assumed you knew where the drop off was. This is Hang
on a second and he walks to hit the back of his shop and you
hear him like bustle muscle around, um, and yeah you wait? Can
you wait? Can you wait? And he finally comes back out and he
says, I contacted the right people. He says, you have a rendezvous
outstanding ten minutes here, and he gives you a location. He says,
good luck with that. By the way, oh says, I hope you're
good at making friends. Why whereas you're going to meet the biggest drug dealer
on coreole is of course great? Don't need that today? Okay? Cool?
Great? Um? Any other shit you want to dropping me? Uh,
genry money to spend, buy something for your trash. Great day.
And he starts to walk towards as whole he shouts, and it leans out
of the stall as you walk off. Yeah, uh and uh you've been
given the location of um of a location in the cellar, a shady cantina,
m and off your head when you arrive. The general people are really
upset. It me, really upset it made by players. Did you see
that? They're pointing and shouting? Um? Um? Do I recognize this
cantina at all? Perhaps three years ago? Do you you usually? Um?
Um? One second, I have to send a text message to my
boss, who just text me you can sit in this simier in this shady
bar for a second. I'm assuming it's the one from three years ago.
And Belie hasn't been back here since that moment. And so he walks in
with like not trepidation to meet the biggest drug dealer in Coriolis, but more
so he never planned on being back in this bar whatsoever. So he kind
of walks in and there's that weird Sepia tone, din of like he sees
it as if it was three years ago, and steps further in and that
kind of fades away and he sees it as it is now, and it
looks pretty much the same, shitty Cantina's go didn't change a whole lot.
And he begins to walk through and looking for what looks to be the biggest
drug dealer in Coriolis, because you kind of stand out when you have that
kind of title. So he's looking for either a guy surrounded by guards or
knowing his contact, a huge fat dude. It could have been literal,
it could have been figurative. In off my head, I was gonna say
he was a big fat dude. Now I'm not going to say that anymore
because you've called it. Wait, it's too late. You got to do
it. I know who my contact is. All right. You walk into
this shady bar. It is exactly what you expect. This is a place
where people can drink, can drink, but maybe not where do you want
to write. All heads and eyes turn to you. It's very clear who
is here to drink and who works here, because everybody that works here is
male, female, scantily clad to say the least. There's a big figure
off in a corner booth. He takes up most of it, stands for
the four figures that sit around him. One of them pets his beard.
Gross. I think, Malik just there's a lot. It's it's a long
day, it's a long two weeks. He just kind of walks up to
the table. You gotta clicks his teeth, and he says, are you
looking for a job, because I'm full up. He points to the scantily
clad people around him. God, no, I I drop off. He
squints his eyes. He says, oh, interesting, okay, were you
not expecting to drop off? He said, well, I've already had one
today. Uh, don't remind me again what that guy's name was, Mike
rish Uhrez um Marez. He looks at the four on either side of miss
scatter of business to attend to. He obviously can't get up on his own,
so he doesn't. He said, just just for you to sit down.
I don't think that. Malik sits down, sit down alright as you
do, a very beautiful woman, and then pulls a curtain closed around you
in this like circular corner um. There's a shimmer like a blue chene,
as if maybe it sound prooved in some mechanical way. And he says,
it's interesting that you show up talking about the completion of a contract that I
was already delivered for. I didn't say any of those words as drop off.
He says, we'll drop it off. Is there payment? You said
you are received it? M hm. He uh, kind of slides a
curtain, oises go get her and closes it back. I assume you've got
the dust from Hamara. See, I knew you were lying to me.
And sure enough, as the curtain parts back, a figure you know so
well, great, tall, beautiful, But this time she doesn't wear a
dancer's outfit. That's not how I expected at all. This time she wears
a very tight black suit. It fits her body like oils. She smiles,
and she says, I beat you to it. I don't think you
did. And Malik puts like one hand up like a like a I'm not
calling the trick, and then reaches in and doc, you can have your
darkness point as I'm using my ability the dark the faceless one's power. And
you hear like the oh you see a WinCE and the painful sound of tape
being removed as he rips off a bandolier from behind him, says the contract
was raw umbra and he places it all the vials on the table. The
big Man smiles. He looks up at her. She's now joined you on
the opposite side of him, and this kind of half moon booth, and
he says, are you trying to steal from a woman? She doesn't flinch,
of course not. I delivered what I had thought she might be interested.
And he says, well, we're in a pickle because I only had
enough money for one delivery and both of you delivered beautifully. Molik attempts to
continue to play the cocky card, and he like places a hand on the
table and like one on the back of the booth, like he's about to
get up, and he says, I'll take favors, as if he's going
to leave the conversation. The fat man says, I don't deal in favors.
He says, ideal in burr and drugs. Well, I don't want
drugs. So he looks at your processed umbrah and he looks at the woman
who says he's right. You know, the contract was to return this,
and he like slides it across the table into his face and he reaches down
under the table. You don't know where this comes from, but he pulls
out the package, the kind of bagging of all of the red powder,
and he slams it on the table and he says, I have no use
for that. It's unprocessed. She looks perturbed, her eyes squint. He
laughs a hearty laugh. I'm just both of you look so serious. He
says, I'll take both. Your payment will be delivered two you when slides
the curtain again with like a big chunky finger and he says, crosses payment
please on contract nine. Then I think we're done here. I guess we
are. I'll be going and he goes to read for the curtain. Nobody's
stopping you. He says, well, bye bye. I hope to never
see you again, and he looks towards the dancer good luck, and he
slides the curtain back and slides out of the booth. She follows. Malik
does his best, like you know when you when you say goodbye to someone
and you're going in the same direction. He does that like I'm just pretending
to not notice you that you're here two feet behind me, click clacking on
your stupid heels. As he is doing his best to just continue on and
pretend she's not following him, and he's going to head back towards He's actually
probably going to head back towards the um. I mean knowing the little bit
about what he's he's kind of figured about her and what Sewel has hinted at.
He's going to head back to the plaza and wander through some crowds a
couple times, three or four, do a circle or two figure eights,
and then make his way back towards the elevator. You're trying to lose her,
wearing my best to be cautious of my travels. I'm going to have
you roll and infiltration. Okay, she will do the same, Okay,
cool, cool, Well she may roll to front. Okay, um,
okay, what does she have. She's actually gonna just try to keep eyes
on you. She's gonna roll against your limited success or your infiltration with observation.
Great, you twist and you turn. You try to lose her in
the siller and just when you think you have, you kind of round a
corner, take a moment, you're like, yeah, I definitely lost her.
You turn to leave, and she's standing there and she says, you
don't think you're getting away that easy, do you? I have business,
So if you don't have any other, she says, She puts a finger
on her. Just, she says, I wanting to speak with you.
Do you mind very much? She's as well, too bad? Can I
buy you drink? No? Just we're here, you're talking just, she
says. The man you just spoke to names, She says, you should
know who you work for. I try to know as little as possible.
It's called plausible deniability. You have an interesting set of skills. You into
a team. Just the drugs that you so deftly returned. How you got
them I don't know, but it has come to my attention that the consortium
is running them for him, or was back into tawin delivering completed drugs in
exchange for unprocessed ones. Huh as somebody that has say, visited Tawan.
That's I mean, that's a rumor, she says. I only deal in
the numbers. Clearly, I'd like to know can the plant still process the
umbrella? Meaning can they bring it to the surface? What's it worth to
you? A lot? If it's true, I'm interested in, say,
plotting a new course for my vessel. Of course, to the talent system.
No, of course, to say intercept the next batch. Talk numbers
are talk favors, She says, Well, you and I both know we
just got paid, so I know you don't need the money. I mean,
what kind of favor can I do for you? Oh? Shit?
You in her stand far too close an alleyway Okay, So from perspective wise,
based on what I've seen of her before and I know what she's doing
kind of now, do I feel like she's more spy or more soul?
Right? Like? Does she feel like an assassin or does she feel like
a like an intelligence gatherer? She's a pirate? M Okay, I don't
she's a pirate Based on what she's talking about and everything that you know about
her, she has some similar skilled skills, right. She clearly worked her
way in and stole what she needed these kinds of things. But she was
clearly posing aboard the space station made her way back here after you all left.
However, she managed to do that with the powder in hand, which
is interesting because when the powder went missing, you saw her dancing before you
left, which means she had a team of people helping her out. And
yeah, he says, I need information and I'm too busy to get it
myself. She says, I'm so good at working information out of people.
Great, you have your data pad, she says, Why would I need
such a item? Do you just want to trust my information? She goes,
Do you not trust me with your information? I don't trust you as
far as I could throw you. Good when your instinct she says, well,
at least your instincts are worth it. Okay, great? What kind
of information find on the mysticide? Everything you can find on the mystic side,
and why with a little? That's not part of the To be interested
in such vulgar information not part of the deal. If you want information on
the mining colony, I want information on the mysticide. She leans in and
kind of whispers in your ear. I can tell you that the guards are
not what they seem. More importantly, it is not the order of the
Parah who plagues Coriolis. Ask for information on the mystics? Do you seek
names? I didn't think you dealt in people. Oh shit, um hmm,
what exactly did the judge asked us to do? Remind me the judge
asked. All the judge asked you to do was to take up his offer,
which simply was he hasn't given you the actual mission yet, to do
some kind of mission for him. And return the emmissary. They believe that
the majority that there is unrest and some infiltration that has happened in the security
aboard Coriolas. So they are taking it into their own hands to find a
team of people that can find out further who's infiltrating and why people are going
missing, and they believe it's all connected to the missing emissary. That's about
all he gave you for now. He's going to give you a proper mission,
which obviously will be to go to the jungles of Kua, but that
hasn't come through. It not for you anyways, She says, you seem
less. I understand. I wasn't ready for names of mystics. I know.
She kind of puts her finger and she says, how about this.
She flicks something out of her sleeve. Seems to be a calling card of
sorts. It's shimmers in her hands. Call me m like, here's where
you can find me. When you decide whatever information it is that you need,
come let me know. Like I'm picking up some kind of infectious thing,
I like reach out and grab the card and I kind of like flick
it and then I put it in my jacket. And say the talent system
is offline. Everyone in the Minding colony is dead. There is no more
Umbria coming from there. You'll need a new source. Interesting, but that
might return back to ham and he like motions back towards the bar. Please
stop following me, at least to us nicely like steps around her and as
she kind of leans against a wall, kind of watching you leave, and
she says, oh, tell soul no, his father would like to speak
with him. Okay, is that it okay? Great? And he starts
to head back towards the ship. A few people i you as you leave
the alleyway with what is very clearly a beautiful seductive assassin, if pirate.
If Malik notices, he winks at all of them, A couple of parents
again like eyes away. This is it's the seller. This kind of shit
happens in alleyways all the time. But who you speak with? Everything?
So you said, the guards are not what they seem, and the order
of the pariah is what now, order of the para is not. It
is not them who is doing this. The order of the para are not
the people who are killing or making the mystics go missing. There is a
lot. As you walk around, and maybe now that you're really like not
on a mission, you're beginning to notice malik security has been upped. There's
a lot of it. They're everywhere. Propaganda and news related propaganda is posted
all over the place, missing person's reports, specifically in this area. And
as you walk towards what is basically the trend back to your vessel, you
realize there's an area that has been blocked off crime scene very recent. Guards
stand in a massive line blocking most of the vision and sight of this area.
You can see the chalk lines where people have died, a woman's sobs
in the corner, relatively fresh within the last few hours. Maybe um,
and one of the security officers says, go another way, this is blocked.
He's gonna go another way, but he's gonna definitely like rubber neck like
anyone does at a crime scene, and see what he can see in like
a three seconds observation. Okay, two cases, you kind of peer there
was a firefight here. You can see the like blaster burns along the walls,
sketches of bodies that no longer are there, which means they've had a
chance to kind of clean all of this up. Um. Yeah, m
that's about all you can see. Okay, that's about what you can see.
I mean, it's just a it's just a general crime scene. There
are eight eight security officers standing guard on You said it looked like bodies had
been moved. Bodies four okay, four dead bodies were traced on the ground.
No longer there. And as you kind of look at all of this
and take it in, there's a ping, of course on your data pad.
Uh. He's gonna walk away and then look at it. Okay,
Yeah, you walk off and you kind of swipe it to open it,
and it's a message from somebody you've not heard from in a while, a
doctor. The message simply says, I hope you get this when you return
to Coriolis. They have moved me to the main station as I heal,
Hiles says, XO XO. Of course it does, doesn't it Dot.
It's definitely uh doctor the doctor. Yeah yeah, Um, I don't like
how things were left with Tamir. But also he's being a shiite. I'm
gonna go see the doctor. Yeah yeah, because we get healed up.
We need one on our ship. I love that does not because you like
her, but because the ship needs a new asset. Listen, listen.
Healing still believe has strong points. They just happen to mostly be bad.
Okay. For the sake of time, you make your way down to the
medical end of Coriolis, which is part of the core, so most people
can be served. There's some private hospitals, but those are reserved for people
in the spire, and you will arrive at what is basically a front desk.
A quaint older woman says, how can I help you? Yeah,
I'm here to see um Lamara. Oh yes, of course. She kind
of looks at you her eyes. She says, She'll be on the third
floor. How was that looker? Nothing at all. I don't believe you.
How's your situation? She's healing up nicely, but she would be a
lot easier if she would stop telling the doctors how to do their jobs.
Well, she is a chief metaicurge, so I mean, when can she
be released? As soon as somebody signs her out? Oh how convenient?
Thank you? A third floor? Yes okay, she nods and kind of
watches you leave. You hit the elevators, you go to hit the button
that leads you to the third floor. You know, what is this look
that she's giving me? A look of like nobody's visited this woman. You're
the first person. Um, is it like a nasty look? Give me
its not it's not nasty. It's not it's not a nasty look. It's
like it's like it's like gossip. It's like gossip girl. She like leans
over one at one to like note that you're going to see her. But
two, there's a there's a high level of interest in your exit. But
not, it's not a nasty look. And as you paying the elevator button
to the third floor, drama right now, as you hit the button to
the third floor, it's a psych ward great then in that case, so
I think he gets in and hits the button. Right, he gets in,
he's about to say something and then hit the button and sees it and
then they just close. You hear that like snap of his mouth clothes as
he swallows his words and hits the button. It opens up to a open
lobby floor and another desk. A gentleman once again says, how can I
help you? I'm here for meta courage. Lamara, Right, that's the
second look I've gotten that way, He points no elaboration. Huh. Room
twenty six great, and he like lingers and looks at the guy for like
an extra second and then walks off the room twenty eight, twenty six.
You open twenty eight and it's definitely a dude that's chewing on his own tongue,
and you quickly close the door and realized the wrong one and moved to
twenty six. Where do you knock? Do you just open the door?
I opened the door. You just swing the door open. There she is.
Her hair is a little unkept, it stands on ends in certain places.
She's without makeup because they probably don't allow her to have any here.
She wears basic scrubs, like issued white scrubs for everybody that's in here.
Um, and she sits attached to an ivy. There's still pumping heart with
some fluids and stuff. And as you open the door, her eyes get
wide and she says, Malik and you'd come back. Oh, of course
I heard you were here on the station. I told them I told them
my boyfriend would be back. Oh that's a strong term we're using. She
says, I'm so glad you're here. And she stands up and you can
tell she's still holding her her side a little bit. She moves a little
slower um and she says, please come in. I've been waiting for you.
I'm gonna you look like you're a little tied up. I'm gonna what's
She says, No, No, they took me out of the strait jacket
last week. M what's the what's that about? He's still in the doorway.
I'm not entirely sure the doctor or say that something about I'm not well
in what way? What happened after the whole I don't know. I told
them if they used, you know, two week stitches instead of one week
stitches, so we heal up so much faster. But they didn't really want
to listen to me. And then when I started talking nonsense about you know,
well, since I started talking nonsense, they they put me in a
jacket and said I was, well, maybe a harm to myself and others.
So can we just let's go boom, let's rewind that tape real quick.
Oh nonsense about what? Oh? Nothing? Sometimes I I just sometimes
I just like to talk, you know that, but about what though?
What? Different things like you? Nobody believed you existed? Okay, and
other things. Yeah, things, No, No, what are they do?
We have to talk about that right now. How are you? I
have some follow up questions, but I would like to know. Well,
she says, well, the ghost, of course, the I'm sorry,
the ghosts. I see them all over the place. What do they look
like? Ghosts? Yeah, but like white sheet ooh, or like you
know, why would they wear a sheet? I don't know. I don't
see them, she says. No, something happened, you know, as
I was bleeding out on that sterile floor on the side of the remember,
remember, I know, I really appreciate that. And she kisses you on
the sheet. Ok, and um, and she says, but you know,
I told them, I told them my boyfriend's in my life, and
nobody wanted to leave me. They all said that I was crazy and that
you didn't exist. But now now I can, I can prove it to
them. But about the ghost, as I was leaning out on that floor,
I remember seeing this this darkness. It kind of crept in and and
and and for a second, I'm pretty sure I actually died. And then
when I came back, you know, when you resuscitated me and all of
that. Oh yeah, when I woke up. I just kind of well,
I could see things. Oh oh oh, how do you feel about
space travel? Boom? I mean they shipped me to the station and then
they shipped me back here. That's about as much as I've ever gone through.
Do you know where you are currently? Well? Yeah, what the
third floor is? I'm an ICU. No, that's the second floor.
I am on the second floor. You're on the third floor. I just
took the elevator. That's silly. The doctors told me that I was resting
and I see you, um, you're not well. What do you mean?
They don't really put straight jackets on people in the ICU and put them
on the third floor, which is the other I see. You know,
come on, you're a great doctor. What goes on straight jackets? I
mean, I don't know. I'm I'm a trauma and surgical doctor. You
know. They told me that as soon as I'm Coriolis because there's no schools
on Amura. So what's on the third floor? She gotta sits down and
thinks, um, I don't know. Maybe I don't know. She knows
great. Um, so being on the third floor, chances are they're probably
not going to send you back to Harmora to be chief medicach right, No,
they told me I could have a job here when I was better.
Great, how about a job not here? Like ships? Ships, Ships
don't have jobs. I work on a ship as of forty five minutes ago.
Well, I thought, okay, are you asking me to come be
on your ship? It's not my ship, and I'm we need a doctor
on it, and you're as close as we're gonna get for free, So
you're inviting me to come live on your ship. He stands there for a
second. You're rethinking, Malie, he's staying there for a second that there's
only four rooms on the ships. He's like, yes, like we we
almost died. Oh I know I did die. Do you know that there's
nothing on the other side? Um m mmm, let's mum and so like
Malik has this like there's like and there's the aggressive gin and the like the
bright white gin. And he's like, everyone almost died, like half your
chrome must died, and no one can use any kind of technology in the
medical bait. I don't even know why they have the medical bait. I
mean either she is a doctor. Only four rooms. This goes back and
forth as he's trying to wag whether because he like, there's no way she's
gonna sleep in any other room or let him sleep anywhere but his own room.
But we also need a doctor, and we have no idea what judge
crazy pants on the fucking seventy fifth floor is going to have us do.
Uh so, I think, Malik? He yeah, well, I'm if
you're open to being the doctor on the ship that I work on, we
could possibly use a doctor. Do you think to let me out of here?
They said that I have to have somebody sign for release. They did
say that, and I could sign, probably my hand works, she would
get me out of here. Yeah, but you got to sleep in the
cryo tubes? Is that? Isn't that where most people sleep all ships.
That's the only place I've ever slept as we done space travel. Yes,
yes, it is where most people sleep. Do you have a cryo hut?
They're only one person, so you can't get too in there. Oh
that's unfortunate, you're telling me. Maybe we could get an upgrade. We'll
have to look into that, but for now, we have we have an
important thing. She goes, okay, let me get my stuff, and
she looks around. She has nothing. Yeah, maybe for the first time
a lague. You're looking around is she tries to like gather her stuff,
um, and you realize that she has drawn and colored and written some things
along the wall. Oh yeah, there's like a section of her like personal
bulletin board. It might be considered a vision board. Gross vision hate that
or um as you you know, you go over to her and and she
says, well, I think I got everything, And the only thing she
has is a medical bag and a scalpel. Good enough, Malik walks to
the center of the room real quick, and he has a personal holograph.
Um, so he's going to hit that and like make a little whoop kind
of come up and then take like a digital picture of the room as a
holograph and then great, back down so he can kind of recreate the crazy
doodles that doctor crazy Vance has made. Okay, And as she she said,
their scalpel, medical bag, it's probably empty. I doubt that they
daven though she has this scalpel. Yeah, there's no telling where she hid
it. And as you turn, you realize on her bedside table is a
framed picture a drawing of you. Great that she did that she has been
keeping on her beds. We're gonna leave that one right there, and and
she says, okay, I'm ready. Oh, she goes weight weight.
She puts the scalpel in this empty bag and he watches. She pulls her
own ivy from her arm. She goes, okay, now I'm ready of
blood. A drop of blood plunks to the floor. Good. Um.
Yes, she goes okay. She looks her arm in your size and puts
his arm out. She looks so happy, and she squeezes you tight,
as tight as a She've been going to sing your prom as you walk her
in her white crazy scrubs down the hallway to sign her out of the silic
orange. I see the orderly who gave me a look, and I say,
I'd like to sign out this patient please. I was told that.
The man goes, we didn't think you existed. Well, I'm glad you
came to claim her. Thank you. That's a weird way to talk about
She goes, I told you I had a boyfriend, and now we're going
to share a cryo chamber. We're not going to do that. And the
man says, of course you are, and he slides you kind of like
a data board an essence that requires your signature at the bottom. He signs
it. Do you read it? Yeah? Actually, you know what does
it say? It says that you take full responsibility as now a legal guardian
of an insane mental patient. You were checking her out of the correol Is
Insane Asylum, and if she causes any problems, illegal or not, you
are responsible. He looks at it and signs it. She says, I
can't wait for him to sign our marriage certificate one day. Who boy anyway,
says, come on, show me the ship any He opens the door
like he's like click click clickickick click click click click clickick and the two of
you, she doesn't even change clothes. You walk her across Coriolis and her
white crazy scrubs all the way back to the ship. Yeah, and no
one stops us to talk because there's a quick Everybody looks at you a lot,
and the four of you, over the course of probably six to eight
hours, reconvene back at your vessel in the spire. The two guards still
wait outside. They do not stop any any of you from entering, except
for the doctor. Do do we see her approach? Well, they stop
her. The guards step in and she tries to enter, and they say,
we don't know of your fifth new crewmate. Just hired the doctor.
We needed a crew doctor, right, And they step apart, not questioning
that at all. They just needed an explanation. And then you walk and
when you enter the main area of the vessel, you see your three crewmates,
possibly just recently having arrived, and there is the Doles fresh from the
shower. Molik puts a hand up and says, the second room on the
right, just get familiar with the space. And you mean our cryo chamber.
Nope, that's the medical bay, oh, Mike, of course.
And she kind of bops away down the hallway. You hear the door like,
and she enters, and all you hear before the door closes is oh,
okay, let me explain. Are you fucking out of your mind?
First of all, several of you almost died. First of all of us,
what is she wearing? It's just it's new, I'll explain. First
of all, most of you almost died. None of us can use that
entire room. Okay, we barely know how to use. I don't know
what Tom or did I think? There's a crash of glass looks okay,
So she died a little bit when we saved her. Also judging faces,
I think and he like makes So the door of the ship closes. I'm
pretty sure she's a mystic. So if we leave her here, doctor crazy
Pants is probably gonna get murdered in the psych ward soonibility either we have no
doctor and one of us probably dies, or we have couco for cocoa puffs
and we you know, we might still fucking die. At least we have
there's the door. So all you see, Malik, this is so much
better than I could have ever asked her. When she opens the door,
I can imagine all three of us doing like argument and then she opens the
door and were like, exactly, you all hit poses as the door she
goes. I love you quickly. I can't explain that part. How long
were we here, um, like a couple of hours. I found it.
I got a text message someone's phone. I don't know what happened here.
Either way, we needed a doctor because we have no idea what we're
doing. I can't pay her. Nope, she's a crazy pants and now
she doesn't need money, so she just lives here now. Also, she
sleeps on a cryod chamber, so buil for to lock her inlik, I
think you just did a very good thing. I don't know what you know.
I'll take it at this point done founded. He's just like all of
you stand as I really really wish you would stop as acting like you're the
captain of the ship. And I look at like how I mean, no,
he's not. She is a doctor, yes, but he needs to
stop making decisions for me. This is my ship, and I decide who
comes in here. That the doorbell rings, the intercom pops up, and
you hear the dude, Dodd, yes you you swipe it and it comes
on. It's not a face that any of you know except for school.
Oh, your father stands at the door, and we'll find out what he
wants next week because we're way over time. We is sover time. Oh
my god, my gosh, fuck souls, dandy blues hands on similar line,
just be like the face pops up and molikos, Oh, your dad
wanted to see you exactly. Oh, by the way, your dad wanted
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