Arise Minionton, Welcome to this Unmade Gaming production. Join the crew of the
Defiant as they journey through the Third Horizon at the Mercy of the Icons,
trying to understand just what's happening to the mystics in this Coriolist campaign. Void,
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Unmade Gaming. We are here for the episode of Void Season fifteen, episode
twenty six. We are here. There's something going on. There was a
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That bar serves two purposes one is when that bar fills, uh,
Dot gets through the hell she wants to us. It's usually terrible. And
to every single dollar that goes into that goes back to these wonderful, amazing
faces that you see here before you, and some of the faces you don't
see here before you. That being said, the loveliest of the faces Dot
there it is take us to space space. All right, Well well I
think that Well, well okay, so what happened was uh for friends in
space become famous overnight. That's what happened last episode. Uh. They are
guests of honor at the largest, most influential and important event of a cycle
in the third Horizon. And as guests of honor, you know they're gonna
be honored at a dinner and what have you. But but but they have
also caught the eye of a three very very important people and they were all
given a choice, and the crew of the Defiant have to choose. Uh,
and they did last episode between a midst of strange interviews, dancing,
there was some dancing. We had a cameo from our dear dear baby jim
Boy, and uh, you know, like every good ball, Uh,
it can't really end until there's a fight, and so based on some propaganda,
that charity was given. I'm gonna say given because she didn't write it.
Yeah, that charity was given kind of turned the crew of the Defiant
into these poster children for the Zanythian cause. Uh. They didn't like that
so much, and neither did about seventy five percent of the room who represented
other interests, political interests, including the Order of the Pariah, the Astorban.
Well, there's quite a few. And chaos ensued, which was the
perfect escape for all of them to take up one of three patron options.
Uh, and they did. They picked one. Damn you, Mike,
Damn you, Mike. Uh, I hate you. Charity is a sweet,
dear girl, and she we compared her to Tommy learned, you know,
dot if I could, if I could borrow a southernism about charity,
A bless her heart. Yeah, bless charity is really well, really worry
y'all know that Charity girl. But her heart. Don't you worry because all
of your saved Charity, No, no, not all of us. Definitely
one person saved spam Laren, Uh, I don't know what you're talking about.
One one person was feeling chaos. Actions have consequences. Sometimes even positive
actions have consequences because cause and effect. And as our crew uh was ready
for cover, they found it and were pretty much escorted down after releasing Charity
and helping her, which she was greatly appreciative of. And our crew stands
dressed in some of the most fashionable and expensive attire that you can purchase.
In the third horizon. They look great except there panting and sweating because you're
being led by two of these Well, really they just look like rather normal
people, not quite as impoverished as the seller, but you can tell that
they work here. They're working class. Remember it was the chef, of
course, and the catering crew who led you out of the chaos that was
the events at the palace at the Palace of Homogeny. Yeah, and as
you cut down some areas and you are led into a room and a woman
that has already greeted you does so once again, this time in a less
public place. It's not in her a shop or store. This seems to
be a rather I don't know, y'all may not know where it is.
You don't know this place, like you know, Corioliss. Somebody can roll
a survival if they'd like to see if you can figure out, like how
deep into the monolith you are. Where you're at. The monolith is a
massive, massive structure. It's broken down into seven sections starting from the bottom
up, which includes if you don't include the city around it, it includes
the plaza, the fort itself of the Astorban, the Flower Palace, the
Zenith Aviation Academy, the Spaceport, the main spaceport here, the Espinanda of
Thousands, which is kind of this lavish boulevard, and then of course the
extravagant castle that's at the top, which is the palace that you are exiting.
So basically you have at least three major sections to go to get to
the spaceport, but you don't know where you are unless somebody wants to roll
a survival. Oh and it looks like you've got two so a one and
a two you are deep, Okay, So I would tell you this.
Malik immediately knows you have gone very deep inside the monolith. You've got to
be somewhere between the Flower Palace and the Aviation Academy, because you've dropped below
the sounds of incoming transportation of the spaceport alia. I don't know that you
ever, I don't know in your history if you've ever been inside the monolith,
but with a too limited success, you are pretty sure you're in some
kind of internal wall system of the monolith itself, like secret hallways and such.
Based on the lack of noise, you imagine that you're definitely at least
in the in near and around the level of the flower palace itself, because
you can smell. Your wits have allowed you to smell the like the water
in the air, the plants and the flowers here, because this whole thing
is like a massive greenhouse basically, so you've got to be near that level
of moisture and that atmosphere that they've created to make a botanical garden of a
such grow inside of this like shell of a tower. And as you round
the corner there she sits, the same woman. She wears the same velvet
red dress, beautiful gold paint on her face, very stoic, not at
all surprised to see you, clearly, and she gestures, you know,
if you would like to have a seat, there are plenty of places to
stand, though this is a makeshift meeting room. Oh and She once again
pulls that machine out like clicks the button. Yeah. She turns off any
radio signals immediately, and she says, it is going to be difficult getting
your vessel back, but not impossible. Any idea where it's being held.
I wish I could say it's here on Kua, but that's not the case.
Oh, of course not. That would be far too convenient. He
has it locked up in the net on Coriolis. We have a shuttle,
a private one that will take you here to there, along with two of
our best men who she gestures to the jehu gentleman that you like ran behind
this whole way, who danver stopped running down these like sliding down these hallways
and stuff. And there are two rather normal looking men. One of them
is the chef that you already met, and he got a smiles. He's
middle aged, looks a bit worn around the edges, he's starting to get
wrinkles in his face, laugh lines, and such a fatherly figure, more
than likely just based on his his stance and his presence. The other one
is a bit sterner, a face very square, jagged. He has a
scar down one side which is actually mostly covered by a series of piercings that
he has inlaid into the scar to like turn it into a beautiful thing and
not a flawed thing. You don't know what he does, but he very
clearly is also here undercover in whatever way inside of the and gestures to these
two men tout very obviously looks them both up and down, just nods.
She's she definitely is trying to make sure she commits anything that is telling about
them to memory, okay, in case she's been betrayed before. Yeah,
yeah, I guess, Yeah, where's that gonna pop up? Are you
trying to hide the fact that you are? You know, she's very obviously
looking them up and down like okay, So I imagine that she would pick
up on that, then, SADDI would, And she says, if we
are going to work together, you're going to have to trust us. I
know, I know you've been betrayed and I can't imagine what you've actually been
through, but part of the deal is that you're all in. Yeah,
she says, I promise they will make sure that you get your ship,
and we have an agent of our own, docks of the net Man that
I recruited. Okay, did they have a name, It's Joey. She
looks over at the lak. She nods, and she says, how did
you know? Fuck you dot Blik looks through space and time and says you
dot. She says, how did you encountered? Yes, this is why
I recruited him. It was my understanding that he had a very personal knowledge
of the ship itself, and I thought, mine, if we really want
to recruit them, ought to recruit the man who knows how to keep the
ship together. So I put him under cover, pulled him from that horrid
station and the Hamura system, and brought him Coriolis. He's been taking care
of your ship, reporting to me about everything that the judge has been or
the whatever his name was, has been up to. I can't remember his
name, the one that's holding your ship hostage. Oh, there is the
consortium one No, yes, yes, leadership about yes because we said we
don't want to date you. So yes, that's going to yes. She
goes, that is going to cause you some problems here and there. I'm
going to suggest that you avoid Coriolists for a while. There are a certain
amount of things that my influence, our influence can handle. In fact,
all of you now have a new patron, which means you also get a
new talent for the group at large. And I believe that one is called
I'm going to give it to you. Want to make sure you're right.
Talent has come in handy level multiple. Does this replace the talent we already
have or is it just an addition? It's a new talent called well connected.
So when visiting new locations, you always find lucrative contacts willing to help
you out. In this case, it's going to be her contacts, right,
it will be her contacts. It can be used once per visit to
a station or a city. Your new contact can supply you with business opportunities
or protection, or introduce you to local rulers or influential people. And she
says, but my name carries weight, as does now your place with us?
Is it? Is it public knowledge that we are joining you? Will
it be made public knowledge? I would suggests not. She kind of smiles,
and she says, but if you wanted to make it known, I
guess it would sure make for interesting politics. I just I just wanted to
know if if it's something that's open already. Okay, Well, our organization
is well known I meaning, she's meaning like who she works for, right,
the Itians like emporium, the big emporium. That's they're all like a
part of. And she's like, we are a well known faction and fair
enough whole power, So choosing to work for us is nothing that's going to
land do in a prison. She looks at Samir when she says that word,
because you know, and she says, we have handled your records.
They've been wiped clean of any medical knowledge of anything suspicious. Thank you,
thank you. Now you have to make it worth our while. I am
a businesswoman after all, of course, do you need us to find I
want to know what you know. We are traders. I trade in information
and rare items, artifacts and bits of knowledge that others would find unbelievable.
We use this knowledge to balance the third horizon, to be something other than
the homogeny, than the pariah. We make our own system rules. Those
who handle trade and money hold as much power, if not more, than
those who flaun their politics. We expect you to tell us what you know,
to bring us more information, and to work as agents for the emporium.
Dot where we are? Is there a computer or something? Nope?
This is like a literal, like small nugget of space that's opened up in
a hallway, like a wall hallway. He looks Malik looks at her and
says, do you have a data pad? I can get one, though
at the moment, I'm blocking all signals to and from so security reasons.
I don't need to send a signal. I just ask me if you have
one on you. She reaches like in like under the wrapped dress that she
wears and a gold piece that ties it around her waist, and she pulls
out a data pad and she hands it to you. He takes his own
and plugs them in together, and you see him like hit a few things,
like take across the thing and just a bar, several bars just start
loading. He says, here's everything that should cover this much at least.
Wow. She says, well that is a mighty start, though it would
take us time. You cannot stay here, you cannot go to Coriolis.
What is your plan? We were hoping that you could help us with that.
I mean, we can't go to our ship. You tell us we
can't be here, we can't go to Coriolis. It's not leaving us with
many options. I don't actually know what it is. You know, I've
heard rumors and whispers since the messenger emissaries death. The flight of the other
emissaries is troubling, regardless of whether or not you believe in the icons.
People missing, disappearing out of nowhere, misdicides maybe. But then all of
you came back and for whatever reason, they sent you back out into space.
They said you back out on another mission. For what are you?
Is that rhetorical? No, it is not, she says, very plainly.
She says, I don't know what you know. She says, everything
that you have been feeding has been going straight to the Consortium, and of
course they keep it under lock and key. The other half of a Gazali,
the ship, the lost one. No, you mean the appear that's
right, yeah, yeah, the other half of the severe It popped out
in horror on the other side of the blockade. Well there wasn't a blockade
when it popped out. What he's on one who could run a blockade?
And well you're looking at him, I see, So you passed through the
blockade, you locate this vessel and what oh, well, there turns out
that in most of Coriolis and all of the factions we can think of.
They have members of the UH the Nazarim Sacrifice are secretly embedded everywhere. Everybody
in the room that is an EmPATH of any kind, like has empathy.
Well, immediately see her face change when he says Nazarene sacrifice and she says,
I'm sorry, no, you heard me right, And then they tried
to kill us, and then we has been sacrificed. Has not existed for
sixty years, and we're telling you that they're back. Well, when someone
says something something something, I'm Nazarene sacrifice that tries to kill you, try
to believe what they say. You're telling me the Nazarene Sacrifice already has agents
out in the third Horizon. Yes, I don't think they have for a
long time. Yeah, I don't think they disappeared. She stands, I
must go, okay, before you go, there's something else cool, Okay,
And that's when I don't know if actually Alia had the chance to discuss
the ships or with the vision she had about the ships with the rest of
the crew, just because everything's going going on now, okay, I don't
think so we blew up and that. Yeah, so this is the moment
where she stands, ups and goes before we all left. And I haven't
had the chance to discuss this with anybody yet. But when I took that
moment to just figure out what I could do to help, I went into
it a sort of a meditative state, and somehow I was able to connect
with the ship. They're alive, every single one of them. I don't
know how they did it. I don't know how it works, but those
ships are not just some inanimate objects. Ship. What ship? The white
butterfly? The white butterflies. Yes, and it's not the only one of
the first horizon. Yes, one of them made it through. One of
them made it through, and is it crashed. Its entire purpose was to
stop the information getting out, and it tried to destroy the Ghazali by self
destroying, destructing itself. And there's hundreds of thousands more waiting between the first
and the third horizon. She seems troubled, her face is weary. She
once the data pad's kind of beep and or done. She removes hers and
quickly puts it back in, and she says, I have much information that
I must deliver, and clearly things I must go through. I will be
in touch within the next twenty four hours regarding your next mission. I have
a feeling with this kind of information, I may be able to suss out
some options. I am gonna do some rolling. I'm gonna roll off a
table from the book based on a few while while you're rolling. God before
she leaves molekal exer and says, listen, not to overstep or sound bosetful
here, but you should probably have whatever makes for your above top and he
like looks at the chef guys work on that. There's footage of between jumps.
There is astrological calculations never attempted before twice in there, and that's just
the first tab. If you are suggesting that I'm incapable of sorting the data,
no, I appreciate your concern, but I'm suggesting that people are incapable
of understanding the data. We barely understand it and we did it, yes,
but you are not us understand yet. Maliek. You've been on my
radar for a long time, since the three months that you spent hacking and
using the energy of coriola is to do whatever it was that you were busy
doing. That's on there too. Then you went off the grid. That
being said, you are very good at collecting information, we are very good
at deciphering it. Let's hope so. And she boops you on the nose.
Fucking of course she does that. She says, now I must get
back to business and give this to the right people. These two are yours
for the next twenty four hours. They have a vessel. I suggest you
get to Coriolis, and you get there quickly. The events of this evening
will spread very quickly. And I have a bad feeling about tomorrow morning's news.
And she says, oh, Malik, the next time you feel that
you should go on a political rent live in front of the third horizon,
should think about your family, She gestures to the people in this room,
because that's the only family she knows you have. Yeah, I think before
she gestures belief starts to say something. Yeah, she you know. She
like she gestured your family. She says, I say that because we've all
had our rats, and it's always those that we love that suffer. Until
next time, And she nods to the two agents she has lived with you,
and she walks back the way you came in, and the chef gentlemen
goes, we should go this way, Okay, is there any way to
get a change of clothes on the way, and how like kind of gestures
down to the green floor length gown that she has on, like this is
really not the best thing to steal a ship in. Like we didn't really
we didn't account for the time necessary to change clothing. I mean literally,
if you just have an extra never mind whatever. Okay, Laura goes,
but I want to keep the dress. It looks great on you, Lamara,
let's go, let's go, and and so much so practical and you
are you having to fly down these corridors in this dress. I used to
wearing skirts or dresses or anything long and flowing and dangly. She's like tripping
over herself and like holding it up and blink up here and stuff, trying
to like make sure she doesn't fall. It's it's very bad looking as they're
going through them, and he says, maybe we can find you something.
We're gonna have to hit a safe house for the night. Anyways, the
port is far too busy for us to try to escape this evening. We'll
do it at first daylight tomorrow while the net is at its slowest. Joey
is going to be meeting us with the reactor core needed. If you're speaking,
I can't. He great, great, wonderful. He leads you down
and around and eventually to a more public area. You can hear people.
Now there's still a little bit of that late night muttering after a party where
people are still trying to find something that's open, but everybody's definitely a last
call. And he leads you into the back of this shop quite to the
naked eye, but he pushes like a back wall open. It has like
some things hanging from it, and when he does, you can feel like
warmth and light from the other side, and there's some cots and the walls
are covered in I've basically been repurposed and are housing tons of artifacts. And
he says, I guess if you're looking for clothes, you can try that,
and he just just to a chest. He says, most of this
in here is lost and found or changed. We keep it here. It's
a safe house. Works for me. Someone's got a pretty dress later,
uh, and I will go through and essentially find any pair of pants and
regular shirt that covers most of me. Fine, something okay, pockets please
Okay, let's see what would you find, because this is all like really
bizarre. Okay, you find a pair of well, you find a pair
of pants, no problem. There's literally nothing special about these pants. They
are just like bare minimum, they're pants. They're probably too large because they're
definitely men's pants, so you're gonna have to tighten them down with like whatever
belt or sash you may have on you. There's nothing special about these pants.
All goes bless they're no blessed pants. And I would say you find
what's say? Oh no, even better, you don't find pants, you
find a jumpsuit. Somebody has come through here that probably was posed as like
a mechanic or like a day worker of some kind and clearly needed a change,
and this is what they left behind. I feel bad for whoever's coming
and looking for clothes. Actually yeah, at that point, like Alia comes
up behind and actually like starts folding it up and like rolling it up into
a small bund because she really likes it. She could tell that is actually
like AARs enjoyed the dress while she wore Sorry, yeah tell tell enjoyed the
dress. Yeah, okay, you want to make sure. I just want
to make it. I I remember you saying that she sounds really uncomfortable in
finery. Okay, has no want for she she got to wear a stewelry.
She didn't even wear jewelry with this, like she only wore the clothes
that she was given because it would be rude to say, no, got
it, got it, got it. I just wanted to make sure because
I thought I remember something like that, but I was mistaken. Lamara likes
hers, Lamara nods a ghost all. He kind of just hands it to
Lamar because she's Lamar. Lamara like tucks it somewhere, maybe tightens it under
her sash, like Lamar, No, we're not. Lamara's gonna make sure
we keep it. We never know who we're gonna need it again. Anyways.
Here's a jump soling up the bottoms of the jump suit. Yeah,
exactly, it's a little big. You you try to like build it down
in the center. It's it's a little oversized, but it's it's not the
dress. And uh yeah, all of you basically spend the night. It's
already really late. You're gonna only get a few hours of sleep. If
any of you had damage. I don't think any of you've taken damage,
because I know you took damage in the combat, right, no great or
in the in the in the great Escape, in the Greatest party Escape.
Okay, great? So Uh it is actually uh the chef. He he
never tells you his name, U. He is the other guy also calls
him the chef, and uh the chef is the one that wakes you all
with the sound of radio static uh as he kind of like tunes in a
local station and or maybe it's like a small like one of those tiny monitors,
like uh, so you can get the TV, but it's like real
tiny. It'sund like a special hut deck or anything. Cause you're in like
a safe house. And the first voice that you're all greeted with is you
wake this morning, early early early is the ever familiar and comforting Charity.
And her voice comes through though there is a if you're attuned to it,
one might call it a shift, and she says, Third Horizon, have
I got a story for you? It's me Charity here with your Monday morning
news. And there is a shake up here in the Third Horizon. Last
night's party ended in devastation. Nothing but chaos ensued, and I Charity was
injured on the scene, and she like pulls her hair back to show you
like a small set of stitches, and she says, but once again,
the heroes of the Third Horizon, the Defiant, rose up in our time
of need, and they rescued me, carried me from I'm so sorry,
I'm not laughing at Charity. They carried me from the jaws of death into
the next phase of my life. Today is Charity's last day as a news
anchor. I've decided that moving forward, I'm going to dedicate my life to
showing honor to those on the Defiant who have worked so hard to keep the
people of the Third Horizon safe. As of next week, Charity is going
full time producer. We will now have full time programming here in the Third
Horizon dedicated to those we love the most. Based on some things, I'm
going to spend some Darkness points here to set up as or a TV station
that now broadcasts Charity produced Defiant Obsessed content. Oh no, we have a
fan cam. You did this. This is an announcement from Mike the producer.
Thank you ever one who has of Void. This is the last episode
and we appreciate all you've done. And we've had a blast. Goodbye,
and she says, uh uh. And the first show that I can promise
you, it's gonna be called what I need a really bad name for a
sitcom. It needs to be called like Space is Big, It's gonna be
called Spaces Big. It's called it's called Big Spaces, and it's going to
tell the actual story of the crew of the Defiant. It starts airing next
week. Tune in and don't miss it. I'll beep, she goes,
Even I Charity will be acting in this afternoon drama reprise or because you can't
reprise starring in the role of Lamara. There you go. I have notes
moving forward every week. Based on the decisions that all of you make,
we will get I will do a broadcast of shows. I will channel flip
and let don't know, I've got no regrets. There will be a news
replacement. There will be a news replacement, but I haven't figured out what
that's gonna be yet. I think there's so you know, I hit the
discord. Y'all give me, give me ideas for defiant driven TV shows.
I've got The Bachelorette, which is gonna have a Bachelorette that looks a lot
like Alia, So there'll be like a bachelorette TV show. There's definitely gonna
be like an e R style TV show that features Lamara. I've got a
skip stitcom TV show that's like Friends, but it's all of you now called
big spaces. Uh so, Uh, anybody want to fill a corruption bar?
I can keep going. I just love you so much, so much.
Oh my, I'm cringing internally, but uh, you're what kind of
a savant mind do you have? Yo? This is last week. Remember
in the after show last week and you were like blah blah blah, I
can't wait blah blah blah. And we see that. I was like,
oh, I just had an idea. Yeah, that was it, fresh
off the shuttle. Oh god. And Charity continues, he says, but
as my last day is news anchor, it would not bode well if I,
the Great Charity did not bring you one final news broadcast rocket. I
have I broke. I broke this show. I broke us. Sorry,
I have to read the news to all of you, and I can't keep
a straight face at the moment. Uh. And Charity basically continues and she
begins recounting last night's event. She does the basic stuff, and then she
says, but I must tell you this morning, or no, you don't.
She gets the and she goes, oh, this just in after last
night's events, political change happens across the consortium. Let's see, you want
to make trade it straight? No, yeah, she says. She kind
of accounts a few things happening. Most importantly, the person that was in
charge kind of gets de factoid removed, which is kind of a big deal.
The Order has been asked to remove their military power, basically that they
are going to alleviate their military power and leave that to the homogeny, which
is kind of like unheard of. I guess you could say, yeah,
and when charity is all done, shrink get all of that for you.
Yeah, when events are all done, she simply says. It is a
strange day. Last night I spoke of new horizons and the dawning of a
new cycle, one where we could all come together. I see now that
things are different, not as they seem. Something is wrong in the third
horizon. I do not know what it is, but I can feel it,
can't you. And for the first time last night carried in the big
strong arms of Alia. I. I didn't feel like we were so lost,
like somebody was there. I leave my broadcast today with a rather impromptu
recording of the final broadcast of last night's banquet, brought to you by one
of the Defiant themselves, a proper rebel, a son of Algol, and
she hits play on Malak's message. Before the message finishes. You can hear
the like, O they cut it. They cut the line, and you
can hear like if you're listening to radio, it would be like, you
know, we're having technical difficulties, please tune in, you know, kind
of a thing. And then on the screen you can see it. It
gives you, like the bars as if it's having technical difficulties. But you
know they cut the feed before Malik's message was played out in Charity's morning News.
Your chef just looks at all of you. Yeah. Yeah, basically
the chef looks at all of you, like, what the fuck have you
done? So, Alia, this is why we don't save people. I
can't say anything, uh, because you saving Charity last night just made our
job way harder. I can't. She did what she thought was right.
Well, we've saved that. I understand things may be more difficult, but
if I see someone who just because they have wrong opinions or is a little
bit annoying, doesn't doesn't put them in the place to be hurt like that.
And yesterday I had a vision where if I had left her, it
wouldn't have just been a simple scot on our forehead. She would have died
last night. And I couldn't have had that on my conscience. So if
it means because of this I will have a difficult path, or more difficult
path than already, I'm willing to accept that. But I do apologize for
putting you on it as well. Marcus. They're going to make a show
about me. That's cool, right, that's cool. I mean, that's
really cool. That's great, that's absolutely phenomenal. I'm very happy for you.
Y'all does not look happy at all. You don't want to show.
No, I don't want to be famous. I specifically have tried not to
be famous or well known or anything. I say no to big jobs and
try to just go on simple things. And I don't want anything like this.
I don't want people to know who I am. But but you're like
a total babe and a badass by all technical definitions, and you fly a
ship and are a captain and people find that I don't know. And Lamar
kind of like tucks her toes and she's like, sometimes we need people to
look up to, and there are a lot of bad people out there that
we're tricked into looking up too, and that that's like, you know,
and she says, but you're actually who you say you are. You're the
real deal, Tautoma, And at that point, Alia kind of puts her
hand on Lamara's shoulder and kind of gives her like a comforting squeeze, like
a affirmation, and goes she looks at both Tamir and Tao and goes,
I know things are difficult, and I know that suddenly having this level of
visibility and responsibility and pressure is not something anybody chooses or asks for. But
it's always the good people who are the ones who don't want it but yet
are faced with it and rise up to the challenge. It's only the ones
who seek out power who use it and abuse it. And you and I
have been given a power that we need to know how to control and use
and portray in the right light. We have a level of responsibility that no
one else does. You are mystics like me, and until now we have
already been placed in the wrong light, whether we choose to or not.
So we can definitely choose to recede and hide, and no one's going to
blame you for it. I won't. I know how that feels. But
when so much is at stake and we have the capability to do something about
it, may it could be just a drop in the entire ocean. I
feel that that is a responsibility that we need to take up. Now,
what you choose to do with your power is up to you. But know
that no, we no longer and you as well, Malik, longer are
At least I think at this point we are no longer just affecting our own
when we make decisions. I won't drive into the galaxies. Huh, don't
drive me into that. Oh no, it's not at this one. It's
not even about the mystic hours we have. We have been put in the
lime light, and whether we want to or not, we've been elevated to
a position where people are watching and our decisions, the way we act,
what we do, will affect more people than we can ever imagine. And
I hope you have a time or a chance to think about that. Oh
yeah, I fleully appreciate this concept. Okay. The thing is is that
everybody knowing what we're, what our faces are, what we look like,
what our names are, just makes it harder for us to do the things
that we need to do because now we have people reporting every movement to everybody,
so it's easy to attract us. Now you know how hard it is
going to be to steal our ship. Now that Mulik's message has been heard
by everybody. The chef says, I don't mean to interrupt, but out
there and he you know, he gestures meaning out in the third horizon.
He says, most people don't even get TV. Well, thank the icons.
He says, I don't know find comfort in the fact that those that
are going to harbor you won't look at you that way. Good, And
he says, and now I have to ask all of you, even as
famous as you are, to get in these boxes. And he walks over
to a wall that looks pretty solid. It was like steel, and he
actually hits like a hole in the wall that puts his finger in a hole
on the wall. And you can hear him click a button and that whole
thing rises up like a garage door, and on the other side you can
see a van has been backed up into it. There are a series of
crates, only you're each gonna have to fit in one crate. And he
said, who's first, Lamar goes, I love this game. She like
hikes the dress up like plops in a box and gets inside and you see
him like and put it down, and on the side of the crate it
says laundry. You can see it's a laundry truck. And two very boisterous
men dressed in like laundry uniforms white these like white jumpsuits come over and pick
it up and slide it into the truck. And you can hear Lamorrow like
giggle from inside the crate. At least I get my own, and he
walks over to the next one. It's a little heavier because and they push
Maleik in. You can hear Cherry, yeah, this is kind of fun,
so fun. Go ahead, tell I go ahead and get in a
box. They let you in and they slide you down. Just as you
hear Cherry say, this is fun. I mean, Lumar is like this
is fun. Is there a box pick enough for all you? Uh?
Yeah, I mean it's all the same size box, so, uh,
you're it's gonna be h, you'll be able to fit in. It's just
gonna be a smitch tiger. I'm sorry. Okay, Okay, that's how
it has much more room than you do. Yeah, the shelf helps them
with that box. Uh, just to make sure it doesn't you know,
and all basically unless somebody doesn't get in a box, does nobody get in
a crate? A laundry crate. Great, all of you can hear,
like feel it hovering this this laundry it's really more like a it's like the
way old motrips are. It's like open in the back, but it's like
a speeder in the front, and it levitates, and uh, they move
you along with all of this, these laundry bags and laundry crates through the
spire and eventually you get to where you're going because you can hear it come
to like a stop as the whole thing powers down and you're moved into another
location. You can feel the crates mar giggles the whole time, and you
know the sound of a ship leaving. You could hear it. You're on
a vessel headed straight for Coriolis. Hahi, y'all like that? I saw
it? Yeah, your house or I was like, whoa, what for
its timing for that guy to race by your house? Uh? And you
hear colms, you know, say, uh, this is you know Coriolis,
this is Coriolist state your purpose approved docking station one nine nine or niner
calen, there's the docking station. She commits that to memories. Yeah,
You're like, okay, okay, And you would know, you would know
this is a lower level of the net that is going to be closest to
the cellar. Right, they're probably delivering laundry to be done, and then
laundry is going to go back. Like there's like a whole thing right,
and all of your lids are like cracked and popped open. You're met with
the face of the chef now in a matching laundry jumpsuit, as well as
the kind of gruff stoneface man who said very little to you in over the
last like eight hours. You're back on Coriolists. You can smell it,
you could feel it, the hot, recycled air from inside this massive space.
Station. If you call Coriolis home, you're home, and you see
they say something, they do rolling observation. I'm gonna need two successes.
But if you get two successes, oh okay, all right, anybody else,
Yeah, one second observation that I don't have an observation, but I
can do a wits roll. Yeah, you can just do a fine wits
roll. That's find success. Whoa okay, all right, all right,
all okay, okay, town. I love this towel and Ali witness as
they leave the two men who originally loaded all the crazy and like the big
burly men delivering laundry that definitely look like they're not supposed to re delivery laundry.
They they do a handshake with the chef to like complete this deal.
I'm gonna say, tew, you notice the handshake and pick up on it
somewhat. I'll you memorize it almost immediately, so it would be something that
you could teach the crew. It seems to be some kind of sign of
transaction. Right. Remember they're the dragt Knights, right, we are all
about transaction and trade, and so this they're not actually passing anything, but
there is this very delicate and specific handshake that's done between them. You can
see it's almost like a secret handshake, and it's done very quickly and privately,
and then they pull each other close and like kind of hug each other
on the back, and the two men depart, and that vessel takes off
to exit, and the chef turns back around to all of you. Do
we know where my ship is? He nods. He says, we believe
so if it is where we think it is, and based on our intel,
we will be able to get there. But we're going to need to
stay a bit on the down low. So we've reached out to friends some
and that you hear the like from the the gorilla sized man next to him,
and he says, allies. The chef corrects himself and there's a bit
more of an agreement there, and he says, uh, I've been told
you may know her. Hm hm oh great, come on. Tim Beer
is literally just shaking his head like the fuck is literally everybody who care about
is actually we have damn about us is on the ship except for Shorely,
like everybody else hates our guts, Like why couldn't we find soul? But
if we found soul, each people to help us find a place to hide.
Why does it have to be? A silhouette comes into the doorway,
a very familiar one, and Lamar goes, oh, hey, look it's
her. As like the line. She steps into the light and it pans
across her face. She doesn't wear like her makeup or anything, because she's
not like in dancer attire right now. She wears her hair tight and like
a very tight butN slipped back and she kind of smiles and she says,
ah, what did it surprise you? Not at all? She says,
such hostility. Actually kind of just walks up and kind of just immediately like
cups her cheeks and then just like does like a big sister kind of a
check over kind of a thing, like just to see if she's okay.
She's completely ruining her entire swab. Look. She says, I'm fine,
I'm fine. Stop it. She says, I'm fine. I heard that
we were working for the same people. Funny, isn't it how far we've
come? What I happy? She looks past her sister to all of you.
Do you look happy? Tell's got a bit of a smirk on her
face, like, yeah, if I can knew it, but she doesn't
actually look that amused. You see, all this time you thought I was
some syndicate toy. It's really you think of that shallow better use all of
this for the syndicate. They don't pay me even half of what the dragon
Kites do. I'm an information broker. I have my way of getting what
I need. Some people call me a pirate or a Corsair. Well,
you put the name on your ship, so yeah, of course they're gonna
call you that. Well, it's a good cover. Plus, all of
you thought I was working for the syndicate. So it's because I've literally seen
you work for the syndicate. Ye you mean I'm undercover in the syndicate.
Uh huh oh, Malique, what the way I do business? You have
your ways and I have mine. Well, it looks like our ways are
now the same. I'm going to escort you to your ship. We've been
keeping an eye on it for you. Sure you have after you She she
kind of nods and she smiles at the shift. He smiles back at her.
He's gonna they're going to to put put themselves behind you, right.
Their job is to keep y'all safe. Uh So they're they put themselves behind
the four of you, kind of sandwiching you between her and them as you
kind of push through parts of the cellar, uh slide between walls, and
you'll come out in certain areas and you may uh run amuck and then head
into another alley way. But you seem to be working your way through a
non uh non normal fashion through coriolis to the net. Sorry, want to
oh you're good? Does anybody say anything? Or do you just follow her?
To mere wants to try to sense any artifact is nearby. Go ahead,
particularly his friend one particular his friend of fact, his art of friend,
his art of friend. Yeah, all right, go ahead, up
and roll your mystic ability. Okay, you try to reach out and see
if you can feel to bits presence. You do not to its presence is
as an arts somebody that can tune into artifacts. It doesn't mean you don't
tune into other things. So you pick up the slight vibes that there may
be some like minor artifacts floating about some of the stands here in the cellar,
which is normal, Like it's almost like uh the haze past you,
right, you kind of see them, but they're not important they're not important.
They're they're not important. Artifact artifact artifact. H you see that she
has something on her. You can feel it radiating off of a mirror.
Uh, and you but you don't know what it is. It's definitely on
her person. It's kind of like radio waves, right, like you can
see it emanating, but you can't pinpoint a location. Just feel it on
her. She has, she has an artifact of import on her. You
also feel the scabs in your pocket or like on your bag or whatever you're
carrying. Okay, no, did if nobody says anything, she does successfully
lead you down and you canna say, oh no, go ahead, Yeah,
if you got something to say, because she's basically leading you in silence,
like down and around, cut, across an alley, you hit a
place here, She's slowly moving you towards the net, but doing it out
of the eye of the general populace. Yeah. I think like the entire
time, Ali is just kind of like checking her over and and basically asking
like the it's been a while, how long has it been since she's seen
Samira or Amira Amira? What you saw her on your I think the last
was a shock, like after yeah, and then you saw her after the
after we rescued Seoul, right, Uh, you saw her. She appeared
at last season. I gotta think back, she appeared once last season.
It's been it was at the cafe, like we all, you haven't seen
her since you came from the other side of the third horizon. Remember you
left her when you broke school out. Yeah, so it's been it's been
a few weeks, easy, easy, Oh more? Yeah, yeah,
I think like months. So then, yeah, I think like Ali,
it does your It was a two month journey back from the autocon system too,
there you go. So it's been Corios and then however long it was
from Coriolis to her and then we've been dead for a month, right,
right, so it's been for two weeks. So so yeah, it's been
at least maybe two too and a half months, got it? Yeah,
I think like Allia, just kind of looking in to see, like asking
like the typical big sister questions like have you been eating? Well, what
have you been doing? Have you been are you have you been getting into
any new trouble kind of being like the annoying older sister kind of a thing
that gets do you ask her all of those things at once. I think,
like, just like, you know what, Yeah, I'm going to
fucking annoy her. Okay, are you purposely trying to annoy her? Because
I can Oh no, no, no for that, Okay, oh no,
Like she's not trying. She's just been like hasn't seen her in a
while, I mean, regardless of how like, because I think Alia knew
from the very beginning that you know, Samirra wasn't isn't really a bad person
in the sense of like she knows that she's been doing things for the right
causes, just in a bad way, and she's kind of happy that finally,
like their back there. She feels like this is they're finally on the
same side. Kind of as deluded that as that might be. Probably,
Yeah, so she goes, I imagine that Shirley would be very upset if
she knew we were working together. Never I I'm definitely like a broken record,
so I'm not going to repeat it. But you still have a long
way to go before figuring out the situation. So I think let's just give
it the rest, right, but know that I'm happy to see you.
She goes, Yes, I was rather surprised to see that it was your
name on the list that I was picking up today. I'm usually surprised that
it was all of your names, she says, loud enough for all of
you to hear. It's not like she's trying to be quiet about this conversation,
it seems. And she says, now, as much as I'd like
to catch up and chat about dearest Showley should be quiet. I think somebody's
watching us. And you can see like her senses kick in, like you
watch her go from guide to predator like in an instant, and she like
puts her hand up to stop all of you, and she kind of looks
around. You're kind of you're headed through like an alleyway that's made of like
stacks and different metal structures that have been built here inside of this made of
old ship parts and pieces and steel. And she looks up and uh,
duh, oh no, no, no, I'm sorry, that's not what
I want to draw. Ignore that. She I don't know if she's gonna
see it or not. Uh she does not there, oh she does.
She looks up and she catches something. She says, we have to move
quickly now, and she picks up pace and begins a run down this alleyway,
Do I follow? Yes? Yeah? Great? Uh you see the
uh you see the chef and the other man also take up point. The
chef you didn't know he is Uh, pulls out from his jumpsuit two knives,
chef's knives that he kind of like spins around uh and holds like daggers.
Uh. And he begins looking around, seeing that she saw something,
though he's not sure what it is yet. The big man behind him kind
of starts cracking his knuckles as if he's gearing up. He knows that a
fight is coming. And as all of you like round a corner and emmerasis
were almost there there, and you all can see like out the end of
this tiny alleyway is your ship. Now it's on the far side of like
a docking station, and you can see there's like some people mulling about.
And I'm gonna have you all roll an observation here in just a second.
As you kind of come to a stopping point, but you hear it behind
you, the sound of like right, big man, something drops an agent
of some kind of drops all out and down the alleyway and hits this man
and he begins there they're tussling. He's like slamming him against this wall,
slamming him against that wall. You can see that. The chef turns and
he says, oh, keep rolling when the one observation this is definiely defiant.
It looks very clean. And you see Joey, he is in his
little jumpsuit. He looks like everybody else, and he's like standing near the
ship trying to look busy, like he keeps like and then pulling the bolt
out and then putting it back in, just trying to like look busy standing
here, because clearly he's not supposed to be here. If I love Joey
and all of you kind of stopped. There's a stack of crates like cargo
crates in front of you, and all of you are basically crouched, and
mirror like gets you to crouch and you can see you're that close to the
ship. And she says, he has your reactor whatever, and the ship
goes, we have to move now, and she goes. But now you
see that there are three Coriolis guards with guns like security on the docks right
now. If you made a run for the ship, if you made a
run for the ship, they're gonna see you. That is what you see
with two observation. You see Joey and you see there are there a lot
of people around. There's probably ten or twelve people like in this area.
One of them is like working a thing, like moving big crates, like
right, like a piece of machinery. It's like a it's a work area.
There's some parts around that you can see that they oh towl because I
am that person. You can see the piece of metal that was on the
outside of a ship that had the original lettering of the Defiant on it.
It like lays in a pile a trash heap off to the right. Is
it close enough that I can get to it without like being super obvious.
You can roll a stealth to see if you're obvious if you want to get
over there. But yes, you could. You could sneak over there if
you wanted to try to sneak over to that piece. Also, no,
I'm had a question. Oh yeah, I'm sorry, I missed the question.
Uh so is this like a bluetooth thing? Like if they get closer
to the ship, just two mirrors comms reconnect to Sally. We can turn
that bad boy on now. You don't know because you don't know what's been
done to it. How about this? Uh, what actions want to be
taking? So tow may I want to sneak over and check out this piece
of the original piece of the Defiant, This, this and this jump keep
Oh if the connections not there, Tamer wants to just go blow something up
as a distraction, get that fire suppressant system working in the attention away from
something way more important than the Defiant itself. Okay you know, okay,
I mean you would know that this is Yes, this is a dock.
Right, there's a big door to your right where the ship leaves. When
this area gets vented into space, because that's how space works, but it
has to go inside. Right, They relieve the atmosphere and then they let
space in, and then you egged it and they close it back off and
they they put air back in it. A great way to just solve this
problem would be to get on your ship and vent this whole garage. You
know who's great at venting shit into space? Week there's a history of venting
shit into space. There are a few different ways that you can do it.
God, how bad do I want to beat to them? Y'all,
we haven't used the corruption barsiya Anon is given us another one and there's like
a mirror puts out a whistle and you can see the big guy comes around
the corner. He's injured. Now, he's holding his side. He's bleeding.
He comes out and he goes way better hurry, they're gonna send more.
And he holds up a symbol like a necklace that was around the neck
of whoever this person was that he's left, probably incapacitated in this thing that
she slipped out of a mirror. Looks at that and tries to reach for
it and grab it, and he pulls it back. He says, uh
uh, they're gonna want to see this, and he pockets it. The
chef goes. He looks at his big friend and he says, maybe it's
time for a distraction question. Was that the same symbol from the h the
butterfly ship, No, from Dara whatever he is, Yeah, the agents
that tried to kill us shit, oh, oh you mean the ones that
came in on Lumara. No, No, the ones that the ones that
Oh yes, that's the exact same symbol. Yes, these are these,
it's Nazarine agents. They were a nazarye age. That's that's the word I
was. Yes, I got you. Yes, they are Nazarene agents,
or at least that is the same symbol, same necklace. And you see
the chef go because I'm gonna spin some darkness points. Uh, you see
the chef go. I tell you to hang on, but that kind of
defeats the purpose. And he takes one of his chef knives and he slings
and he tosses it across the way and it flies like a bullet and it
sticks into a box. Uh that's like attached to the wall that has a
lot of cabling and stuff. Probably both of the brothers here are and well
though you might all know, that's the gravity box. That's artificial gravity box.
And pretty much immediately everything in the lights go right, yellow caution lights
start going off, and you hear that voice, no, yes, please
evacuate the deck immediately, Please evacuate the deck immediately. I had to the
ship. So you're all floating because there's no gravity. So what we're gonna
do is a series of dexterity text horgility checks at a negative two for no
gravity. You're not in the soups they're still air, but you have to
mitigate this and immediately the chef like he goes, I hope, he goes,
I hope you can move quickly, and he kind of pushes off of
a wall and out in the middle and he goes. He kind of yells
hey. His big friend follows him, and you can see the three guards
kind of turn their focus. They're kind of floating with their guns trying to
like whoo as they're trying to get themselves righted. Can I can I use
my uh because negative two to my two agility puts me to zero, but
Tamir is used to being in zero grave because of his work. I don't,
okay, And I'd also like to go ahead and use the gear head
and and kind of quickly rig like as they were floating, like, oh
look, there just happens to be like an oxygen tank of some sort,
just enough to give him a little propulsion and just kind of rig it as
a temporary I don't imagine mirror right on top of Well, Okay, here's
what here's what I'll let you do. You can take a negative one instead
of the two to start, but I will let you make a science check.
Oh, okay, to go along with this, which is for the
use of this to know to basically to know to look for fire extinguisher,
which is what yeah, you know what I mean, like like a hair
spray bottle. Like all you need is a puff of wind. Anything that's
gonna put you emotional, puts you in motion. So boom, we'll take
it. Okay with a three critical success. Everybody else, well, the
guards are like whoo, and the chef is like swimming in gravity, and
you see him throw one of the knives and the gun goes off up into
the air. People scream, chaos begins to ensue, but it's like slow
chaos because there's gravity. Yes, I made mouth noises, Mike, I
love them. I just love that. And then but to mirror, you
see it just out of the corner of your eyes in distance, and you
reach and grab it, and you over as fast as you can. You
see immediately that you're headed straight for the door, and there is your good
friend Joey, and Joey goes, hey, it's so good to see you.
Hey, what it goes? There's no gravity? Uh, this is
a bit of our cover. Julie, can you please get the ship started?
I like, now we need to leave. Now it's ready to go.
He hands you over the like piece that needs to insert into the reactor
to start the actual like reactor core. He hands it over to I.
He goes, I can't stay here. I got it sparkl basically the sparklug.
Yeah, that's what he hands you as a spark plug. He goes
like, yeah, I gotta go, kid. He goes, but I
can promise you the ship's clean. I you know, I pulls. Thank
you, Sorry, you are the best. It is really good to actually
see somebody we can genuinely trust for once, And I feel like Tamir's just
going to reach it like kisses forehead because it just feels good to just for
once something. Oh okay, okay, all right, big boy. And
then the camera cuts back over to everybody else, and you get what is
everybody else doing in this moment, like basically gravity let's go? People start
screaming. Some people are trying to get out. You can hear them like
leaving and exiting with the warning that came over the calms. Uh. Well,
as we know since we saw it live about two weeks ago, Malik
is the best swimmer in the group and he much like when they were forced
underwater, he grabs onto like whatever. It's like a pole or something nearby,
and he like grabs and like puts his feet on it and kicks off
and just kicks in the in the general direction of the ship. Okay,
so you're using an object. I'm still gonna make you make the dexterity check,
but this time I'll let you make it a negative one instead of a
negative two. Because uh Alio was definitely thinking of like assisting them and like
grabbing and it's just like spinning and chucking them across because she's like a big
lady and she gets she's got the stress for it them. Do hang on,
let's see Okay, so let's get your roll. Give me your roll,
mate, Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. What you wait on?
Zero? Okay? Okay, okay, you are moving, but it's
not terribly successful, like you're it's like a slow push, but it is
a push. I'm gonna go ahead and say this. You see a mirah
laugh and she says I was built for this, and she jumps and kind
of takes off. She rolls the one and she kind of like spins in
the air like she's dancing. She's having far too much fun with this,
and she she pulls knives as well. I mean it's slinging knives that these
two guys that are and we'll get to them here in a second. Alia
tew, what do you do? Oh? You mean it? Well?
Alia is gonna turn to do you need a boost? Uh? House already
like using the crate that they were hiding behind to try to launch yourself.
Uh, seeing that everybody else seemed to be doing that, it seems to
be working ish, So yeah, give a good push. Yeah, I'm
gonna use it to to just try to launch myself just really as forcefully as
I can, knowing that it's not going to do very much in zero.
So again an agility start there, and we'll say if Alia helps you,
you can take a negative one as well instead of a negative too, Like
yeah, okay, uh no, So you and Malik are neck and neck.
You get the push, but like once you hit empty gravity, it's
still like the momentum only ride you so far, and Malik's trying to like
row his way over with the stick to you got a boost and you've kind
of caught up that you're slow moving towards the vessel, Alia, are you
actually doing? No? Wait, no, wait one second. I hate
your brain. I hate your whole brain. I hate your whole fucking brain.
I'm looking at my think about what I have to use, and I
was like, oh, you know, Malik has a giant, rusty spear
that he could use to throw his way over it. And then you were
like Malik's rolling over with a giant stick, and I was like, what
the fuck? Did I say it out loud? No, get out of
my head. He's psycho. Okay, yeah, what do you do on
your turn? You've helped everybody else? Okay, yeah, I think that's
just quiet. Is there a wall or something? Like much more? A
little bit more like, yeah, there's a wall behind you? Oh yeah?
Then yeah at this point, like that's all you can think of doing.
I wish I had like horse bush or something. I'm like, why
am I not a Jedi? But uh yeah, I think that's all she
can do is just like use her massive thighs and then just like push off.
Okay, roll uh rollo, dexterity, you're gonna take a negative too,
because you don't have anybody helping you. Okay, our crap. Oh,
this is gonna be bad, so negative too, and then I have
a zero in dexterity, so that's all. Yeah, you can't roll it
if you can't even roll it, so you're moving to agility. You should
just roll it. Have that yeah, which is a two, so that
puts me You just can't roll if it's an advanced skill z your land.
Okay, agility, Yeah, just roll the agility. It's just going to
fail. What invalid left hand? Yeah, because you don't have enough diet
you have to die. Minus two puts you as your so you don't even
have enough, so that's okay. You push off your You're very slow moving,
but you are getting there. Like. This is not a check on
whether or not you can get across to the ship. This is more of
a check of how quickly and how gracefully you all do it. And the
chef really really screwed us up. Ye do do do do do DoD do
did do. Lamara is gonna try uh because she has to do it as
well to get across. I don't think that she has anything special. She
may just have far too much fun with this wish. I come on,
Lamara, she's still in the box. She uh, well, okay,
she can make this role. It'll be a miracle if she actually makes it.
But she can oop, so I'm sorry. So she should have been
one dialste So she failed. No two die lasts, So yes, she
failed. Lamara is with you, Alia, just kind of like, aha,
this is great. Her dress is like floating, she's spinning. She's
making her way over there, but with no sense of the fact that there's
mass danger around her. Uh. The three agents are in direct combat with
these other well, the two agents and your sister are indirect combat with these
agents. They are firing. Uh okay, a shot rings out and pings
in the shoulder the large man, and you can see his blood like splatters
and stays kind of congealeder and like droplets in the air as he holds his
shoulder. They continue to throw like knives and such. It's kind of a
messy event because the gravity is off. She's gonna succeed. He's gonna fail,
actually, and he's gonna also fail. So she's the only one you
see, your sister, and she's a badass. She's like using them against
one another, and she slings a bunch of uh like throwing knives from her
the pockets on the side of her pants and slams into one of the guys.
Ah, and he like misfires up to up his friend, and he
kind of puts a couple shots into the of the guard. You won't make
it, and catch ta mirror planting a kiss on Joey's forehead to mirror,
Now is not the time for making out with Joeyday. It's so good to
see you. You should get out of here. This is not looking so
good. Yeah, I'm trying. He goes, hey, I don't know
you. Hello him, he says as he like looks up because he's a
he's kind of a short, uh, well built, kind of stocky gentleman.
Uh what my mama would sa pure Irish. He pure Irish. He
looks like a little Irish man. And he goes, uh, you new
to the crew. Nice to meet you. Yes, my name is Alia.
He goes, well, I'm i uh oh, you gotta takes your
head and he kisses. He goes I'm uh I'm Joey. There's gunfire.
But yeah, well wait, you should get out of here. Is already
like pulling his way through the ship to immediately go I thought he was like
following guns but okay, hes not stop. He seems a bit enamored with
Alia at the moment. But all of you scamper off and you oh,
he goes, wait, wait, wait, you're gonna need this, and
he hands over a new key card because there's like new keys basically right,
because they they changed all the locks on you. So he hands you like
a new set of keys towel. He goes, the old ones ain't gonna
work. Thanks, and Doug don't have him anyways, He says, you
better get going before you know, they lock us down. He says,
but you know you could, you could, you could find me if you
ever wanted to just you know, have a drink or something. We could.
I'm a you should. Uh, I'll see you around. Yeah,
like winks kind of awkwardly. Sorry bye, and I closed the door,
Like come on, everybody, let's go. We gotta get moving. Maura
is last, in no doubt runs to the cockpit and he slides into the
com seat. That's a lot of rolls. That's why for them, well,
because they're still fighting one too and a melee combat attack. Okay,
uh, the big man takes a shot to the head right as do you
hear the door like closed. The chef you hear him go no, he
kind of screams out as he throws a knife and one of the guards.
It's so much forced even against the gravity, that he pins him by the
neck to the all behind him. You hear your sister crack a neck and
finish one of them off, and the gunfire kind of rapidly dissipates as all
of you have finally had your feet inside the doors of the Defiant. Okay,
you know not to be me, but what's the plan? Uh?
Towel is still running straight to the cockpit. Sally, mm hmm, Sorry,
my head's hurting. Sally start to start all the chip fun welcome back.
We're gonna have to change that. I don't like that voice. How
can I be? Uh? I am the new and Sally here for all
of your computing and fasting and navigating and research. Geese. That's that's like,
that's like half of my job. Yeah, we can just erase that
partracing cool anyways, that's no for launch. Now for launch and you hear
like, uh, the ship kind of starts that process. You hear a
steam release happen. Uh, that moment of the ship like booting up to
mirror. You know that the ship should have booed up before the reactor course
and that so can you make me a quick science role to go slip that
instance. You don't like a nuclear reactor and OLOGI yeah, also take technology,
but science apartment your money. And you hear you hear overtop. He's
just like you here ta mirror or tew talent run head go start the ship
and goes the raftor course on it and you're like running. You're like sliding
down. You know these metal poles and you perfectly slide it in and click
it into place. Right as you hear Sally go starting ship and the ship
boots up. We hear that process start. I'm so mean, aren't I?
Yes, please don't be You have a choice there. I only use
one corruption bar though, and we only got eighteen minutes left running towards the
ship is charity. Don't leave me. Lock the doors. I'm so bad,
So the doors lock. You hear everything boot up, the reactor chord
clicks into place, everything goes to start up, and then you hear it
what do we hear? Dot hear? Oh did y'all not hear it?
No, no mount noises, Yes, y'all didn't hear it my power down?
No, No, that's very sad. I have a power down sound,
but it may just be too soft. Oh I think put the volume
t lo on it. I don't think so it was very loud. Let's
try again. No nope, okay, never mind. Oh I know why.
It's because it's not in string deck. It's it's because it's okay,
it's fine, it's fine. So the noises, yeah, you hear you
hear the ship? Go, is it like powers down and something is wrong
to mirror? I didn't do it. Everybody, give me like five more
minutes and figure out what is going on. This isn't there ship anymore?
Yeah, towld's gonna start running diagnostics. Try to find anything that's not in
this system that or anything in the system that wasn't before. Okay, uh,
you start running diagnostics for like, everything looks fine, everything's new.
All the buttons had the letterings on them, like you can see what the
like, everything is brands banking new, but it's exactly as it was in
almost this eerie kind of Stepford wife way. You know what I mean like
Stepford. Uh, I will give a bonus to Ta Mirror, who needs
to diagnose this, because you're doing it with him basically, So I'll give
you a plus from Tale to t Mir. T Mir, you need to
make the technology roll. Okay, take it too. Okay, they clearly
did not put something to like back together. This ship is yours. Well,
you know the ketner workings of this vessel better than anyone. You and
Tal do. What is wrong with the ship? Why I want to start?
Oh? Wow, okay, answer that question? What's wrong question?
The ship won't start? Uh? Well, like all good ships, there's
a rat on it, like a literal actual space rat in it, even
though it is brand new. We're in the cellar, yes, in the
net of the cellar, and we've got a little rodent infestation. Oh okay.
You open up like a panel and you see it a like a nest
of a mother rat and a bunch of baby rats. You guys know what
the best treatment for space rats is, right, HET's a space cat.
Yeah. Lamar goes no, you can't hurt them, and she like throws
her body over them. Outside you can hear there is more gunfire happening there's
some maybe more guards I have shown up. You're not entirely sure. She
goes, we have to keep them safe. We have to we have to
go pull them out of there, okay, And Lamar like scoop scoops them
up and takes this. She goes, Oh it's okay, I will be
okay, and she takes them to the med lab. Conger rats, Lamar,
you have pets. Don't let them chew my ship. I promise,
I promise, I'll take care of my promise. Motherly instincts are just triggering
off. And just like she pitters off and after there see they have kind
of gnawed away at just one wire that wasn't touched and you you quickly like
it's just that one small, tiny ass little thing and you tighten it right,
but it's just enough. It is just enough. And the ship boots
up and it's sure enough. Oh get this out of here, just to
be U the doors and I look at Malak. What can't leave without a
door? Open? Everyone? Belt up? You are on lockdown? Actually
yeah, yeah, can I open here? The they is locked down?
Uncritical, They are sending more units. You sure can try. You can
roll as the datas in I try to hack our way up, I guess,
so, uh yeah, to open the door by the way, while
this is happening, like I'm assuming this is because they they retrofited and then
ft with the ship. Are the blessings still intact that Sholi and I gave
the show? Damn it. You needed to make that at a negative too.
Okay, it is still a critical success. So it's only a two
critical success because I'm gonna take your You needed to do that at a minus
two, so I'm gonna take your last to die off, but still get
a critical a critical success. Don't hurt yourself because to two D six is
it's a critical is limited. Three is a critical three plus. I'm still
count critical outside. But two's fine. Yeah, it is a success,
basically, you do. It's gonna take you a second, Alia, I'm
so sorry. Ask me again what your question was. I was just wondering
if the two blessings that and I gave the ship one that was on the
outside of the ship. Yeah, that left. Note that one is long
long gone because it was part of that panel on the ship. Tew.
If I remember correctly, you were sneaking over to that panel, would you
you know what would you like to roll to have grabbed it? Yes,
please truactively I really blessed panel. Please will say that you get over there
and you don't get the whole the big piece that said the defiant on the
side of it because it's just too large. But you can see a chunk
of burned off chunk where they probably took like ah, like a torch to
it, like cut it out of a side of something her blessing, and
you are able to pull it out, we'll say that you got it.
This is why darkness points can be used for kind things. You can thank
a non for our final darkness point that allows how to bring Sholi's blessing back
onto it as for all, I also have ability to bless so like so
your the blessed that you're talking about is the one you get for having a
chapel on the board. The chapel is still here so it never leaves,
so it's like part of having a blessed chapel just on board the ship.
Scholi's is like an extra benefit that Dot kind of gave. And then if
you pray, if Ali prays, then you get any other blessing. While
things are going on, but yes, you maybe you run. The chapel
is there. It's all brand new. It feels unused. It doesn't even
smell like incense or anything. It's like fresh car smell. It's just like
not, yeah, where's the orb dot question? It's not there, fuck,
because that's where like Ali like when she goes into the chapel, the
first thing she does is like she goes to it like a hidden panel that's
back there like in this basically kind of like in a milk in a corner,
and kind of opens it up because that was when she put that ORB
and it's not there. Yeah, it's so she kind of like stares at
it for a second and then she goes she kind of just like uh,
shakes her head and then kind of just sits down and then starts praying.
The prayers begin. Malik, you very successfully hack in no problem. The
Consortium definitely put a like boat lock, like there were like these big crane
hands that lock your ship down. They put it's kind of like a boot
space ship space boot a spoot. Uh you you undo the spoot and the
boots release and the main door. You can hear it starts to as it's
like opening up. U begins to empty out into space and because you over
like roade the whole thing, people start big guards start being sucked out.
Your body like smashed into the side of the Defiant as it bangs and then
is like gone into space. So Malik didn't quite think because tal just said
we can't go with the doors closed. He's like, oh, they went
on autopilot. And then as soon as this is critical success. As soon
as he sees the first thing gets sucked out of the thing, you see
him unbuckle and quickly move to like what makes for the windshield because space space
has windshield, no reason, and he and he looks out and he's like
smart, smart, smart, like what hoping that she fucking concerned? Oh
you're looking for a mirrah amrah. You look, you look, you look.
You do not see signs of semina. Uh. You do see the
chef holding on for dear life. He's like clinging to a pole. Things
are like sucked past him, and crates are like banging and stuff. You
do not see a mirror. Uh. He like goes there like like a
kid at the zoo, right, and then he like on sticks his face
and turns back to twel and just shakes his head and walks back to his
seat and buckles back in mettanwhill. Kyle's gonna try to get this ship out
the fucking place as Chil's doing that though, Can it can to mirror with
the I mean it's a Bread and Research special with the the crane arm?
Can he try to grab uh quick the chef? I mean, okay,
hang on, let's see, I'll roll for him. It's not a smart
thing to do. But like, man, they already just lost wine,
not just leave behind. She got placed, she got she got stuff all
over the place. You know that it's their whole thing, right, he
would have a bit more so, Hey, he is like successfully hanging on.
He doesn't look like he's going to die. I have a better idea.
I have a better idea. Look, we're back on the ship.
Timar's jumping in his freaking exo shell. Yes you can do that. Yeah,
great, wiggle giggled into your Yeah, he knows how he's dance before
the emergency situation. That's maybe not even all parts are on right, But
we're guy keep leaving bodies by. Well, like I said, he doesn't
look like he he he rolled two sixes to hang on to that uh,
to hang on to that pole. So it doesn't look like he's getting sucked
out. It just looks like, uh, you know, it's like hanging
on in the middle of a tornado at the moment while the ship is going
to have to take off. How I imagine you're not making another blind jump
or are you? Oh? Okay, you're just gonna try to get out
of here. We just need to get out of here, out of you,
and we can worry about jumping later. Great, all right, Uh,
let's get your piloting roll Suley's blessing back on. You have a chapel
on board. Uh Alia is currently praying for you. In addition, this
is a maneuverability and because the vessel does have its maneuver hovers put back on,
you still get the plus two I believe for this. It's like it
helps you drive the ship. So that would be five holy canoe. Wow,
Okay, to limited success is enough. You don't even care that the
door is not entirely open. Tao boots this ship up and begins to take
off. It is slow moving at first, and you can hear the sound
of the metal like almost like eking on the top and bottoms where the garage
door is being like crunched at the moment as you get free, but sure
enough you have no problem. Now you got it, and the ship blasts
out from behind it. You can hear the doors like almost break a little
bit and they quickly slam back shut, leaving you behind, and the vessel
shoots off into empty space. You can see Coriolis from here. You can
see Coop from here. I actually have a really great picture of Coua I
shall share with all of you. It's rather beautiful. And this side of
space you know pretty well now and to me or specifically because you've traveled it
quite a lot over the last little bit. And as Coriolis gets smaller and
smaller and smaller, there's the first sign of like silence on the ship,
no gunshots, no panic, and uh, you hear the you know you
hear your dear dear dear sister. I'm sorry, not sister, ha,
I'm not your sister. You hear Sally, come over, Captain tal Tema.
We are free of Couriols. What is our Definitely I'm gonna manually fly
Sally, stop tracking me, stopping all tracking and navigation systems lying in manual
Love and Tal is going to manually go out to one of the places that
we went before when we were mining. Okay, you're headed for or the
asteroid belt that's on the other side before you reach the rest of KOUA smart,
very very smart. I'll actually bring you all over to that so you
can see it, intending to hide out an asteroid belt for at least a
little bit so that we can cool off and figure out what the next step
is. It'll take you two days to get to the asteroid belt proper.
You would know that this is Kua here, and you know the asfrooid belt
separates most of the Kua system from Zene, which is where the emissaries were
said to arise or awaken from. And as you kind of slowly head towards
that, you hear something over the intercom sound of music. I would say
ballroom music, but kind of quaint. Jaunty toon and you hear Lamara.
She says, I'm not sure if I know how these coms work, but
I'm pretty sure we all promised a dance. And you can hear her feet
as she comes out. She is not trying to James down for dress why
would she? And you can hear the music plays over the calm system throughout
the whole vessel, And how you're able to set a trajectory is a straight
shot. You just have to make like put put the vessel on basically stealth
mode, an auto course, which is what you do. No problem with
the two successes. And Lamar goes to Malik first, and she says,
you promised me a dance. Yeah I did, I did I promise you
a dance? Okay, okay, all right, okay. She looks very
excited that you've relented and she doesn't have to fight you on it, and
she kind of all but snatches you out of your chair. And you see,
if you come into mess, you'll see LaMura and the Leak dancing like
slow dancing to this ballroom music. Anybody else want to join them? I'm
pretty sure I think Alist still in the chapel. You pray, yeah,
although I think at this point, like based on just like I'm assuming at
this point, because she feels like the ship is in like this basically cruise
control mode, like you could probably feel that that we're not in like any
danger or anything anymore. So yes, I think I think she would come
back to the front ship and like, yeah, she'd be there, And
I don't think she'd specifically joined, but you could just see her like just
like swaying. Maybe you're making tea, yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah,
that's like they stopped the cabinets tea. Stop the cabinets with food,
y'all and tea. The like armory or the area where you would keep like
tools and weapons is all restocked. Sool's room is not Soul's room anymore.
All of your personal items are A lot of them are gone. A lot
of them are gone. You will see that in each of your rooms there's
a small box that they've left of what items they could recover, I would
say, of yours, but there's not necessarily a lot. Like I said,
it's kind of like a clean retroversion. But what about Talon Tamir After
flying out and Chal probably just sits in the captain's chair for a little while,
just like looking at the fresh everything around her. It's all new,
it's weird. Kl's never seen this ship new. It's all been old for
as long as she can remember. I think I think Tamir still kind of,
you know, at least partially said up. Maybe these guys the helmet
off in his uh in his arm just kind of like rests a hand on
Tel's shoulder and says, huh, welcome home. I'm uh I'll go start
the inspection external first. Can we just sit for a minute, sure,
And he'll like clunk down with this, He'll just Colleen's unto him for a
minute and says, this is definitely weird. It's like it's the same thing,
but it's not at all the same thing. Kind of pat the piece
of metal that I dragged with me to the pilot's chair, like this is
my ship, this is not. So maybe it needs a new name,
something to honor what it once was, but to celebrate what it will become,
like what symbol of hope and the home we and he kind of just
like like hold on to her a little tighter, right, we are the
defiant. It does not matter with the vessel we drive. We probably got
a could have gotten a new one a lot easier than this. I probably
could. Yeah, yeah, but I mean Joey was here, and I
actually feel pretty good about what Joey did. I mean, we still have
to completely there's so much inventory to run and the rats we have time correct
pet rats? Yeah, even worse. You know, at least I made
Lamar responsible for them. You know that was actually a very captain thing of
you to do responsibility. And you know everyone always acts like she's a child.
Give her somebody else to take care of for once. What will you
call the ship tea? The annoyance not quite the symbol of hope I was.
You know, did you have something in mind? Because all I can
think of is how annoyed I am that I have to rename the damn thing.
Maybe it's something that we all can discuss over tea at that point,
like Alio's like walks in with the tray. Anybody for some tea? Absolutely?
Yes, please. We see a moment where tea is passed out and
sipped very quietly out the front of the Defiant as all of you stare into
empty space as you head a two day trip towards the towards the asteroid belt.
The camera cuts to the sound of classical music in the mess hall.
Lamara and Malik dance. Malik, do you say anything? No, I
wrote it in chat. The song that's playing is Once upon a dream and
Malik is hum singing it. Lamara looks very happy, like a genuine smile,
like a real smile, as the two of you dance, and she
says, you know, it's kind of hot when you do rebellious things like
tell the entire third horizon about what's going on. Like he pauses, like
humming the line, and he goes, I know, m And she's,
you know, I'm pretty great at doing rebellious things. I know, so
we could like do them together. We are m hmm. She smiles again
to that as you keep dancing, and she she simmers on that, and
she actually stops you, stops you from dancing for a second. She goes,
but I mean it, like we could blow stuff up or kill some
more, okay, Nazarine agents or for the record, I'm not a fan
of killing people in general. It's not something I seek out. It's just
something that happens. Sometimes I should kill them so you don't have to.
No, I would rather we didn't. That's why I work on a keyboard
keyboard warriors. I've seen enough death and destruction. I don't really want to
be the cause of more. She goes out, at least not on purpose.
Okay, she says, but you know that your speech is going to
inspire so many people to do just that, right, yeah, but they
were doing it already. Now they just have someone to rally behind. Yeah.
You well, he just leaves it it well, okay. She plays
nothing to say to that, and she she like plants a kiss on your
cheek when you don't have anything to say. She's like, I guess what
I'm saying is we're kind of like a dashing team or whatever. And I
will if you know you need to do that. I appreciate it. But
like, last resort, okay, right, last resort? Yeah, do
you want to pet the rats? I'll watch you pet them. I mean
there, we could just start the song over, perfect, okay, and
he'll she just clicks an starts a song over, and she picks back up
dancing, and y'all dance for quite a while as that sound of beautiful music
kind of fades into the distance and the sound of kind of the crackling of
a radio broadcast picks up. That same song blares through this radio, but
it kind of dwindles to the close of the song, and you hear a
new voice on the radio. New voice, male voice kind of big and
bolstrous, might be the kind of voice you'd hear on maybe like an NPR
station. And his voice comes through and he says, Third Horizon. It
is my great honor, as writer Turlington, to join you as the new
voice of this show. I will be Charity's replacement moving forward. And I
have news for you. It has come to our attention that changes have taken
place amongst the Counciled Faction. Sister Almes has been suspended because of her actions
during the banquet and thanks to the false accusations of war crimes in Uharu made
against the Order. She will be suspended for many many months, if not
replaced entirely. In addition, the destruction of the Order's blockade in Juharu leaves
the factions at a considerable loss, both military and diplomatically speaking. The restriction
is placed on Zalo as we speak. They are now openly challenged in the
councils and there is even talk of punitive action. Governor Dargosian's fit finesse to
remain in office is now also questioned, and the homogeny will launch a propaganda
or will launch a campaign to have him fully replaced. This begins tomorrow.
They seek a new leader, preferably someone with stricter policies. That is the
news of the Third Horizon. This has been writer Turlington. As the radio
clicks off, you see a hand covered in a kind of black glove and
meets the black leather body suit or jacket that's here, and it follows all
the way up to helmet under a arm and the face of someone the last
time we saw was supposed to be dead. Kasha sits here listening to the
radio. Around her sits a slew of soldiers, all of them around their
neck where a symbol necklace, same one representing the current rise of the Nazarene.
She doesn't say a whole lot, but she just set her helmet to
the side. She stands, and she lifts her shirt to show like her
stomach, and you can see there is a scar about ya, big around
through the center, just under her rib cage. And she simply says,
we have all bled, We've all sacrificed for this war, but it is
just beginning. The crew of the Defiant has escaped corious. They are spreading
word of our plans to every year that will listen. The Consortium is already
hot on our heels, and more importantly, they are now working with a
different patron. You're going to hunt them down. You have to kill them
all. Dismissed, she puts her shirt down, hiding that wound once again
from the piece of rebar that punctured her stomach way back on Coua. They
all stand, They nod their hands, They all tuck the necklace underneath,
and they walk out into the cellar, hiding amongst the people flowing to and
fro. And eventually they all become lost, mixed into the crowd, and
our camera will pan out on the agents of the Nazarene dispersing themselves amongst the
people on Coriolis and now amongst the Third Horizon, to begin the hunt for
our dear dragon Kites, the ones who seek to find the information necessary to
out them to all the Third Rizon. But our crew has a home again,
even if it may not be the same home, and they are all
back together safely. Got a pit, you said, and babies, Yes,
pat you know how many babies rat can have? Uh? Huh said
rat? You said rats? Joy, So you said rats, And I
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