Arise midianton Welcome to this Unmade Gaming production. Join the crew of the Defiant
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that goes into that that bar goes back to these wonderful, amazing faces that
you see here before you. With that, I turn things over to Dot
to take us into the safety of space before we hop into our recap.
I'm going to preface something now that I've already prefaced to my cast, because
I think y'all are going to really like this. I see that corruption bar,
and I raise you the thirteen darkness points, and I'm currently sitting on
my plan from now until the end of the season. So tonight plus two
more episodes, I am dumping the entire pool of darkness points to assure that
a certain series of events kind of take place. I've got three major events
that are happening under that. Instead of kind of spending them throughout and trying
to do this kind of cost system in the book, I just decided that
I'm sitting on a lot, so I'm dumping them. This is not good
for them. Everyone, This is not good for them. So your corruption
bars are helping right now because I'm going to be running out of darkness point.
So if we want things like cards played, if you want extra stuff
to happen to them, they're going to need your help because I am spending
all thirteen darkness points. I repeat, Okay, prefaced, how we feeling
chat you already, how we're feeling cast Yeah, after that intro, we're
feeling great. Everybody feeling good? Okay, where was I when I was
muted? Oh? Yes, Once upon a time there was a crew called
the Defiant. They decided to go to space. Space is big and scary
and full of darkness, and their travels have led them over a couple seasons,
uh to and fro amongst the third Horizon. But today they find themselves.
I did not move. I did not move about. I'm sitting right
here. Okay. Sorry, this is why I can't read the green room
chatter while I'm trying to give you all things. Well, don't turn it
off, Dot, I can't turn it off in a little box. Put
it behind something, Dot. Guys. You know I'm such a professional that
I'm reading chat and GMing motherfucker are you uncle Mike? Okay? Where was
I? Oh? Yes, far and wide across the Third Horizon. But
tonight, tonight, we find these same adventurers after having traveled to and fro
amongst the Third Horizon, deep on an icy moon, two miles under a
frozen surface where they've been sent by the Consortium. They have snuck in past
the barricade of the Order of the Paria, who is currently being framed by
who we've recently learned is the Nazarene Sacrifice, a cult of the First Horizon
that has been sleeping amongst the Third Horizon since the Portal Wars ended, and
they are slowly awakening, and they are the reason that the White Butterfly smashed
through or so of you believe, into Tawan way back in season one.
But that same incident came spitting back out the other end of the Tawan portal
into Yuharu. It has crash landed in these same icy waters, and they
have found themselves deep, deep, deep into this moon. And last we
saw them, they had successfully made it to the sunken vessel, this massive
freighter ship that was spat back out the other side. But something else seems
to have crashed into it. Now, I'm gonna set us up for some
little clarification. You are currently deep underwater. You're standing in basically a pocketed
bubble of air inside of the larger sunken freight front end of this freighter ship.
Okay, the thing that has crashed into it clearly came from like the
side. It's been sealed off by a thin layer of ice. That is
what's keeping you from the outside pressure of the world. Is a small thin
layer of ice that's kind of sealed around the end of this ship that has
crashed into a much larger vessel. The much larger vessel has you sealed off
by doors, so when you open the other door, there's probably water on
the other side. This just is a small pocket, okay, all right,
now in front of you, you're pretty sure you can see this ship,
but your eyes wander in and out as if there is this black darkness
that surrounds it. The four of you plus a single legionnaire and the Nadina
was her name. I can't remember what her rank is anyways, it doesn't
matter. They're there agent, special agent, thank you, ye, just
a special agent. Along with the single legionaire we don't have to talk about
what happened to the other one because he's perfectly fine. He's perfectly fine,
perfectly fine in the ground, I mean technically and tactically, perfectly fine.
And he was so it was kind of put down. Yeah, he's probably
what's he was put down. He's dissolved like a dog was put down.
He was a dog. He uh, he was. He was kind of
washed down. Uh and into the biohazard uh uh Like there will be like
a container for bio hazard material on this ship, and that's probably where his
remains are. But that's not important because right now you're staring at this this
this thing that has crashed into this much larger vessel that you came here.
Now you were set here, and I'll remind you of your your mission to
recover the blue disc from the larger freighter. You're almost to like the bridge
where this would be housed. What are there any in in the room that
we're in. Are there any compartments labeled or anything like equipment that could be
handy like lying around? Uh, there's not. I mean this, this
this whole ship is like ruined. It's the it's a quarter of the entire
vessel because you got like half of the half of the front end of the
ship. So there's not a lot here. What's here is really really damaged.
A lot of it has like been blown out into the water. You
saw a lot of it like floating around. I would say there might be
some like crates here, but again it's not. It's like at an angle,
so the ground's not even really level where you're you're standing, yeah,
now, but in front of you is another ship, the one that kind
of crashed into this, and something about it seems rather familiar. I am
going to have all of you if you have a mystic ability you can roll
a mystic ability check make sure. But yeah, I'm pretty sure that's right.
There seems to be some kind of unnatural surrounding darkness. You can't quite
penetrate it or see through it, but you can roll a mystic ability check
to see if you can what any of us are anybody that has the mystic
power because you're all standing here staring at it. I was definitely logged into
roll twenty right now, totally of course. Okay, it is only two
mirror and to me or maybe it's your glasses not wearing them great. Maybe
absolutely not, absolutely not, but as you stare at it, there's definitely
something unnerving. It seems to be some kind of phenomenon darkness. It's like
it's like the way gravity pulls at something. There's like this dark It's like
it's pulling the darkness out of the ether and using it as a shield for
what is actually here, which is a white butterfly vessel. You're pretty sure
that's what this is. The white butterfly. You've only seen once, you've
heard of it. You're pretty sure that's what came through. But you saw
it when it took off from Kua as you were all escaping, like blowing
up that medical facility last season. So yeah, it looks as if the
door to the vessel is like open, because it's it's very clearly crashed.
I'm gonna say on a two now that you're here and you can penetrate through
this darkness like shield, it's missing a wing the actual vessel, and it
literally looks like a giant insect. In fact, you're not entirely sure it's
not somewhat organic like looking at it, it's not just like metal plating on
the outside like you think. Maybe if you were to touch it, it
would be soft. It's an organic material, and it's missing one of its
wings, very clearly missing one of its wings, and it you can see
it's like long and narrow. This is the ship. It's built kind of
like a torpedo. So it's missing this wing here right there, but it's
got you can see it's got the other one. Okay. But there's like
a hole or a breeze or a door that's kind of open. So it
seems as if if you can see in you can find possibly a way into
this white butterfly if you wanted to. Yeah, I think to me,
you're kind of recognizing how just I mean enchanting a vehicle like this is he
he will he's going to go just touch it at first, especially the panels
that just don't seem normal or of material that they would even possess. Here
in the there's horizon. I think it's Aurora probably that speaks up to you,
like as you get closed and you kind of go to touch it,
aurors is don't and he stops like right before you touch it. It could
be an illusion. And then the first horizon and she kind of like you
see like all this information, like like across a kind of your mind's eyes.
She like pulls data and she's like, if it's true that they can
wield the darkness, they can make you believe anything. How would we be
able to distinguish what we are seeing with our own eyesis an mug because I
don't know, but if it's an illusion, there has to be a power
source or somebody making it happen. And you can see there's like a real
seriousness to Aurora's Voric's voice as she says that the darkness is not doing this
to itself. Something is d something is shielding the ship from you being able
to see it completely. And to correct Melik, last time did bring this
down? Uh So basically I imagine we see Tamr sees that kind of steps
up to it. Malik is clicking away at as data pad, and about
this time you can kind of like see it gets dropped. Right. The
energy though, doesn't dissipate out. It's not like flipping a light on or
off and the darkness just goes away. It draws into itself as if it
rips into the ship, deep into this white butterfly. So he pulls it
back in under guidance. He still doesn't quite know how to explain and not
explain, Aurora, two people, we should not do not touch this yet.
It could be some sort of illusion formed of darkness, which means an
unknown consequence there perhaps maybe Malik, how are you able to power down the
shield first? Because there is another source of energy that is being utilized right
now? I cannot quite make sense of it. Uh, you know,
man, I'm not really sure there's a There was like a the connection,
like a wireless connection. Are you able to find another? Is there another
signal? Another energy source? That's the only one that you'd have to do
it from inside the ship. You'd have to like connect less remotely if you
wanted more information. That's the only one that I saw, Okay, Aurora,
Uh, yes, I know you are familiar with significantly older technology,
But does any of this seem more familiar to you? Or yes? I'm
the running system for the White Butterfly ship, the prototype. Anyways, they
developed me too run this advanced organic system many years ago. Two Bit found
me, took me. They redeveloped my original programming into something else. But
yes, what an incredible gift of our guess what do you guess, well,
because I was designed to run a very powerful weapon. So the White
Butterfly is a weapon of a sort. It's more of what it's supposed to
do. And what is that wait for? What? For the opportune time
to come through to the third horizon? She goes. Ships deteriorate, they
don't hold up the test of time. But the first horizon, they took
their time, and they developed in somewhat organic vessel. It grows and changes,
but it can wait for a very long time. To me or I
don't think they broke through from the first horizon to the third horizon. I
think that they were waiting in a space in between. In fact, I
know they are. They developed this ship and my running system to wait in
a space between portals. Shift were not for the numbers that we saw back
in Hamurah with thea Shir. I don't believe any of this aura. But
Tamirror kind of looks to the others, clearly having a conversation with himself.
Yeah, I imagine the two that are with you are kind of looking at
Tamyr a little funny, okay, squinting their brow a little bit, just
a wee bit, a little bit, just a little. Uh. This
restle it is semi organic in nature, and their intention was to wait in
a space between the portals. That's ridiculous. You can't do that. There's
no space between portals. It's like a door. Yes, but there are
obstructions and doorways. There are doorways in doorways. You also have doorsteps.
That's not how the portals work. We've been using the portals for years.
You don't wait in between. You go from point A to point b.
But that is how quantum physics works at point A to point B. I
don't know the last time I jumped through. Yeah, no, you get
to stop. You have no idea how portals work. Look, I've done
enough jumping through portals to know that. Never have I been stationary and in
between. And I've been on this ship for over a year and I don't
know how to pilot it. So what there are like more of these just
wading in between portals? Yes? Probably? Well, then I say we
recover that blue disc and find out if that's actually the truth. That makes
no sense at all, Yes it does. She was if I'm correct,
My deep brief told me that all of you reported something shot at the ships
that came through. It's a fear. She gestured to the massive ship around
you, and the ghazally correct it was a vessel of similar description. Uh
huh. Okay, So if their blue disc that you retrieved the first time
around had information on it, I imagine that this vessel's blue disc which we
were sent to recover. She does not gesture to the white butterflies. She
gestures to this A fear is going to have information on when this vessel struck
it. The blue disc should report all of that. Okay, was rewind
for a second. How would this ship crashing into this ship retrieving the blue
disc? How would that tell us if there were more white butterflies? I
don't know, but it want needs to start it wouldn't I know there are
more white butterflies. Either way, our mission is to retrieve the disc.
No, your mission is to protect us. My mission is to assure that
the blue disc makes it back as well as all of you. We are
all on the same mission. What I mean is, if you want to
know if there are more white butterflies, perhaps there is something similar to a
blue disc on it, But that's not my mission. So be my guest.
We have a short period of time and a limit amount of oxygen.
You would like to suggest that instead of completing the mission we were sent for,
we delve into a vessel we do not understand. And she points to
the kind of crack the crevicent. You can see into the ship now that
you have kind of brought this barrier down, and you can see it's got
these kind of oxagonal or like hexagonal kind of shapes on the inside. Nothing
seems anything like any technology you've ever witnessed before, at least not in the
third horizon, since all of you have been in your living lives. Other
turns to uh to uh, I keep wanting to tell, and goes captain,
it's your call, what do you think we should do? Look,
my oxygen tank is already obviously correct a little bit leaking somewhere. We are
here for one thing. I'd really rather not die on a ship. I
don't know. Let's get the blue the blue disk here. If it looks
like we still have plenty of oxygen left in tail does not look at all
hopeful that this is going to be the case, then we'll think about coming
the White Butterfly for more information. Fair enough, I would also like to
report this to my my mentor and hopefully maybe get a better understanding on what
we can do next. I feel like we're all a bit in over our
heads with this. Just with us here ort to the people who hired us,
and how gives Alia a look like stop talking. Yep. They kind
of like like brows furrow and they kind of like nod. But she looks
to you. I mean she she has to follow your lead, the lagienaires
following her, right, so uh how uh just starts looking around for other
ways to get out of this room. There's another door that basically is going
to lead you to kind of the main core area of the larger ship,
and you'll be right before you hit the bridge. You would know because this
is similar to the vessel that you were that you've been on before. You
kind of know the layout. I remember y'all rolled for that last time.
So you have a general idea. You need to pry the door open,
and there's gonna be a lot of pressure because there's water on the other side.
This chamber is gonna flood. Okay, sorry, say everybody ready for
a flood because this is Once I open this door, then uh, we're
all back to breathing mechanisms. Well, you'll have to be careful with yours.
You won't have enough to come back. Maybe there's oxygen on this ship.
Tell Kaya looks around at like the destruction around them, and it is
like, yeah, maybe I it'll be fine. We're just gonna We're gonna
get this blue desk as quickly as possible and get up. That's all we
can do. Then I said, yes, we are the way, captain.
How would you like to open the door? You're gonna pry it open?
Are you going to try to like security breach it out? There doesn't
really any powers, so uh yeah, does anybody have a battery pack on
them or something you could like short short circuit the door. If not,
you're gonna have to pry it open. Which will I can use gear head
to tinker with whatever we can find and kind of mash it together to create
some sort of create something. Yeah, pressurized device that will almost like a
like a jaw of life thing that basically rank or something. And okay,
I'll take science or technology whichever you want to roll. If necessary, you
can try and like help help pull the door open. Okay, that's enough.
It's definitely janky, and it's only with what little bit that you have
been able to find, Uh break right away, and it's gonna break people.
And you can feel it like creek is the door like slids open and
water begins to pour in. It slowly begins to fill up at all of
your feet, and by the time the door is fully open, uh,
water is just rushing in, and before you know it, it's above all
of your heads and you're floating once again and open uh like water. And
you make yours one by one through the door, swimming kind of forward,
and you make it to the main. You can tell this is the main
shaft of the sphere, and there's a few things that you see. Most
of the bottom of the vessel is gone. It's been replaced by almost a
rather beautiful layer of ice, as if it has kind of stuck here.
And below it you can see those light balls, the ones from Kua,
remember the ones that float around. I actually believe y'all brought one back.
There's a whole bunch of the sugar Yeah, the sugar ball there. They
floated up from the bottom of the kind of planet or the sea bottom,
and they're hitting the ice bottom below you making it look like stars and as
you kind of use this natural light, you're kind of floating and swimming.
I need mmm, I need a check from I think I have to take
it from all of you. You can all very much tell that there was
a mass explosion here. I will take a science roll or maybe a survival
check. I might even take a pilot check for this. This is kind
of an information on the damage of what happened, like can you tell by
the mangled metal and the explosive explosions? Like can you tell what went on
here? One? Okay? I also have on one one great, So
it's pretty clear that what's left of this has kind of been reduced to kind
of a twisted bits of what was left with the skeleton form the centralized area
where like the hanger is and everything seems to be a little less damaged.
But you can see there was definitely torpedo. It's something attacked the ship with
with an explosive that melted the metal, because it's like mangled and like blown
away. But there seems to as maybe even you pass by the hanger,
you can see the floating dead corpses everywhere in these hangars where they were clearly
trying to like evacuate the ship or fight, and the hangar with all the
like missiles or like the load bay there clearly went off from the inside,
so they knew exactly where on the ship to attack, and it exploded from
the inside outwards. More than likely the piece that broke this vessel in half
to begin with, sending and leaving half of it in Toowan and then the
other in the spaces that eventually got spat back out here into Yuharu. It's
a rather eerie feeling. It's quiet except for you know, kind of deafening
sound of water as you swim through kind of this mess of debris and bodies.
As we're swimming, Cow finds just a sharp piece of metal that broke
off of something and kind of grabs that as a makeshift knife. Mm hmm.
Continue swimming on. Yeah, you kind of find a piece is like
right in front. You're gonna reach out and grab It's nice and sharp on
the edge. The natural like burning ha has actually sharpened it and made it
stronger from the explosion. I heard that I did it shall let the water
cool there were und you kind of come to this port hangar and as you
enter. You all begin to feel this kind of heavy pressure pushing down on
you, and then before you know it, there's kind of this high pitched
shrill, a shriek almost that begins to kind of almost deafen you. I
need all of you to pass an empathy test. Empathy or manipulation empathy.
You needed at least it. Yeah, okay, they see we also have
a success as it almost like blocks. Oh you know what, I need
a quick girl for them to don't know. I only have three die man,
they have not I have five. Irolled zero fail failed. Okay,
so the two of them fail. Anybody that failed you you can't do anything
but like grab your head. You can't get to it because you're wearing a
helmet. But this, this this pressure, in this ringing you almost can't
see. It's like a migraine in a way. I guess in that regard,
those of you that succeeded are able to kind of push this feeling down
a beer past this pain. You all yawned, is what happened. You
just beyonned, and then you had a little exactly happened at just the right
moment. We yawned just the right time. But you can see that the
outward gate of the port hanger has been kind of violently flung across and fused,
probably due to the heat to the back wall. The two of you
that passed will immediately notice that you can only see know that there is I
don't do. I want to do this to y'all. Do it? Do
it? You got darkness? Pull? I know I do. Okay,
let's go make a show. Okay, So anybody that didn't pass suffers two
points of stress and suddenly becomes feel filled with this strong feeling of lust.
I'm just double checking that I'm reading this correctly. What's up. It'srmaids.
It's mermaids. We got mermaids. Same thing I said, space mermaids.
There were those? Do not exist? Start to get this feeling stresses?
Mind yeah, stresses mind points? Yes, God, yep? Correct.
Do I click the boxes? You should You should have a number that you
say two to my points. You should have like a total number that will
be in a you know, the box under modify, but you can check
off up to that mini before. Okay, there's like some repercussions. I
just hit my six. Oh wait, no, I shouldn't have any right
way way I shouldn't have anybody. You shouldn't have any No, nobody don't
have any right now. That's why it's probably from a previous session. Okay,
So and you said two write plus two mm hmm. Okay, yeah,
so too. So those of you that failed, So those of you
that see pastor like push it down. You feel okay, and you realize
there's something going on here, but you can't quite place it. But you
can see the ridge that door blasted and flung open, you can see the
centralizedation where you need to pull the disc from. You're almost there, those
of you that failed, I just want to remind you I'm a priestess.
That's like telling a nun that they're horny. Now correct, Okay, just
say two points of stress. Okay, okay, let me read it in
its entirety. So suddenly being filled with a strong feeling of lust, love,
or longing for someone or something somewhere else, such as potentially back on
the ship cough cough, I passed. The mission seems pointless and lost,
as there are far more important things waiting somewhere else, anywhere else, and
as this deep feeling of maybe it's lust or it is longing. Maybe it
feels like melancholy right so deep and just extremely tied to memory. You begin
to hear a smooth, caressing song. So who raised your hand? If
you're affected? I just want to know who? Who did? Who?
Who? Who? So I did question? Yeah, Tamir and Teal's minds
are connected. So oh took the mind points even though she passed. Oh,
okay, so she still has She definitely still has a headache. So
you know, so how about this you take You're like, ah, you
take it and push it down. But you realize that something's going on with
Alia and Tamir okay, which I would say Malik has no idea because Malik
it is not being affected the same way at this point. But you can
see that there's like their faces changed under the mask. The same thing for
the two uh your your bodyguards. Basically they also uh kind of stop and
like float there for a second, as if they're longing for something in this
weird, melodramatic way. And those of you that failed to begin to hear
this soft song, this caress in your and I will say, eris you
hear this song without the pain of the headache necessarily? Oh? No,
I still have the headache, tells just not horny. It's fine. Great,
so you don't get any of the benefit. Here we go headache and
horny, you know. Yeah. And you hear the words of this song
and they don't come through very clean at first. I wouldn't call it static
as much as like words being passed through water. But eventually it becomes clearer
and clearer. Seeker, surrender to my warm embrace. Let true love in.
Take what you need. Open your eyes, demand true desire. Listen
to your deepest emotions, let them flow through you. Fill the darkness with
life and love. Demand true happiness. And oh, oh okay, that's
it. Malik, Are you headed towards the blue disc? Yeah, I
imagine you are. He does get up there, he doesn't know shit's going
on. He's just like Malik, you kind of swim forward. You can
see him as he gets farther away to he doesn't get too far where you
lose sight of him. You just seem like go into the bridge, like
open up into the bridge up, maybe even push a floating body to the
side and began like trying to to dadage in his way through pulling the blue
disc. Yeah, as as towel, feels the headache come on, and
she kind of stops, holds her head for a moment and pushes the feelings
down and sees Malik continuous says, bleak, don't go too far. There's
something's going on. It's weird. I did to know. What is it
that Tamir and Alia long for home? Well, it just wants home,
just a place, and she feels like she found it. But maybe this
is where it's like. Still there's something in her, deep within her that
thinks that everything is still going to be temporary, that even this in her
current place, among this crew that's now her family, is temporary, that
something's going to happen that will take it away, or she will have to
let go and move on again like she's always done all her life. You
long for the ship, the defiant, this home that too refused to give
up, that has become home to so many pouring tea, laughing. You
just want to go back and turn around. Alia, Tamir, what is
it that you lust love or long for fortal for a long life together?
That he is so certain with the path that they're on, m they'll never
obtain. The fear is if you go any farther you'll lose that thing that
you so long for. All you and Tao have to do is turn around
and go back to the ship. That's all you have to do. Willik
rollo dadashin as you get there to try to retreat this blue disc u dot.
I have a question for you. We're underwater. Mm hmmm, how
do computer underwater? You don't is there is there? It would be nice
to have somebody that wants to roll technology or science for you, because they're
gonna have to take apart the console to pull it out. I mean,
hold on, let me just go ahead and roll technology because I'm trained in
it. Hey, oh okay, it's gonna take you a minute. And
you get up there and you're like, oh fuck, I'm underwater, and
you realize that you're gonna have to break open the console, pull the whole
like computer piece out and actually break into like pull the CD out of the
rom drive basically right like you're gonna have to go in and pull the blue
disc out manually. And this is gonna take you some time. And in
the background we can kind of see underwater with great effort as a leak try
to like break this piece open, try the metal back and begins that process.
You will successfully get the blue disc without damaging it. This is uh,
this is gonna take a it's gonna take a minute. Sounds why you
can't hack a computer underwater? Hey, so you know, just yeah,
what is everybody else doing? Or the the Legionaires? The Legionaires are they're
like they're they also seem like they're in a trance because they both failed.
Okay, so but something happens. Oh, actually, okay, have time
to do anything that you do. Of course, I'm gonna let you act
first, but then i can tell you what they're up to, because they've
not just been floating there. How about that? Okay? Because uh,
how like after after feeling the headache and telling me not to go too far,
she just kind of turns around to see what everybody else looks like,
and seeing them just kind of stopped and staring, she first goes to ta
mirror and like starts trying to just like get him just respond a command,
a command, try to break him out of whatever is going on. She
just kind of starts shaking him to mirror. Hey, hey, failure,
Yeah, no, look what if we do why do we have to do
this mission. What if we just go back? I agree? Can we
just go back home? No, we can't just go back home. If
we just go back home, and we won't have a home for very long.
But we have to define that's yes, we can't keep it if we
don't keep doing this mission. There are other missions we can do. What
what has gotten in? What? What is wrong with you too? Just
concerned? You don't even have a full tank of oxygen. Well, Malik
is trying to get the disc right now, so we just need to be
vigilant and make sure that he doesn't get attacked. Maybe you could help him
make it go faster. You're muted. Oh you're muted now. I was
about saying you don't actually want to do that to me, or you just
no, Milik would be fine. You'll hold your brother and we'll do this
faster and then we can get out of here. No, it's too dangerous.
We should just turn back now. No, it's fine. I'm also
engineer. Apparently, do you let them know when you've pulled the blue disc?
Do you let me know when I pulled it down? Yeah? Yeah,
you it takes you. It takes you two or three minutes to like
break this thing down underwater and like pull this piece off and get into the
inside, like slip the blue disc out without damaging it. But you have
it in your hand, do you let them know? I think he like
will like grab onto the torn off piece of like you know, hole in
the wall and sort of kick off back towards them and kind of floating like
either two or or past them. Okay, let's go. And then yeah,
okay, Alia was gonna say before, like before he gets there,
he was like, or she was like, I don't want to lose any
of you. I've already lost so much, so please let's all go home.
Let's get away from here. I feel like the longer we stay here,
the more we the more likely it is that I won't be able to
have any stay with me. And then and then Molie kind of flutters over,
and the blue disc you can see the beautiful balls of light kind of
pick up and glimmer through this deep dark water and pang off of the reflective
surface of this small disc, and as it does, it pans across the
eyes of the legionnaire and the branch agent, and if you're the audience,
you could see them both cut over to the blue disc. Nope, it
was Dolla, that's who's left. No, Dolla died, which one is
a very kind word. He accidentally tripped onto Lamar's scalpel whoops, correct,
and then broke his body down one acid part of okay, So Dala.
You see Dalla remove her pistol and point it right at her captain's like head,
like right at the the shield, and you hear over the calms.
Uh, Dala say Trader, Trader, she's working for them, and pulls
the trigger and you watch underwater as this massive blast it kind of explodes inside
the helmet and then in this kind of almost anti climactic way, begins to
slowly ooze out the back of a hole in this helmet. Underwater, Dolla
turns with the gun in the air like kicking and floating and swimming, and
it's like, I swear, look look around her neck and and and Dolla
points to an amulet that's kind of floating that has come out from the shirt
or whatever the wetsuit. Everybody can roll, I will take a culture roll
and an observation roll from anybody that can give it. Culture observation one total
Alia I'm gonna give you all. I'm going to give you some information around
felt doesn't it around her neck? Critic Well, how about this, I'll
say this floating in the water between them, I'm not gonna say around her
neck. Floating in the water between them is an amulet. It is carved
of white ivory. It seems to be a figure. At first your instincts
say that's a dancer figurine, and then as it floats in this open emptiness,
as is this like white hand carved amulet, It doesn't. It looks
like a looks like the dancer, but a corrupted version of her. It's
like consuming itself, this figurine, eating its flesh in an odd way.
It seems beasts you. And you don't know much about the Nazarene, but
you did a lot of research on the way over hair as you floated through
empty space to get hair over a period of two days. You know this
symbol to be the symbol of the beast, which of course is a like
a branch, and is the figure now that the Nazarene sacrifice worships. It
kind of floats in the water between the two of them, her body like
limp as it kind of floats there and you can still see the skull matter
kind of seeping out of the single hole in the back of her uh her
die gear and that definitely came out of you don't know. You all see
this amlet if you rolled for observation and got a one one two, Yeah,
I don't even think the leak sees it. Maybe from the shop,
but I rolled. I rolled culture. But if you want, if you
want to, oh you wrote culture. Yeah, you don't know. This
is some kind of holy figurine on a chain. I have a question,
dot does it look like No, it would I just say, does it
look like the one that we push off the ship? No? Okay,
not at all? This actually no, this looks more like a hand carved
religious figurine ta mirror. Now you see it. This, this thing floating
between the two bodies and Dolla again has like hands kind of up but maybe
has even holster the pistol like is like hands free now so that there's no
danger, but but points at that this this thing is like look look at
it. Look. She was wearing the symbol, the symbol of the nasery.
You can hear it over all of your calms for clarification, I asked
in chat. I'm sorry, that's great the beast, don't we don't we
aren't we okay with it? Because Melissa and Solar part of that. So
it's just like any icon, the beast can be worshiped by many people.
Yeah, it just happens to also be worshiped by and last time I checked,
she killed the beast. Yes, so actually, uh. Hearing that
and realizing that the ah the was it? The pistol does work underwater,
tal unholsters her and points it at Dolla doll. Now, tell me how
does a random mercenary know what that symbol is? We were looking at it
on the ship were we did? We look at it with her? Though
from from I I don't know. As a player, I can't remember.
Tal would remember. Did y'all work with them or y'all do it by yourself?
You did it without them, didn't you? I think? So Talent
trust them, you can roll. There's not really an insight check here,
so you know, the only the only time we've been in the same room
as was when we played gat So yeah, so remembering that all of the
all of the research that Tell did with with her crew was not including Dolla.
Dolla's saying that, oh, we researched it on the ship. Tal
doesn't believe her. I'm just gonna say from from what that, I'm not
I'm not even making an check. Tal doesn't believe her. Okay, does
not does not shoot her. Yeah, okay, Oh gosh, make a
Oh what is this race? Combat attack? Uh they're going to get to
roll with a little bit of She's gonna get a dexterity check. I'll give
her that. Uh no, she gets an armor check. What was I
gonna say? Uh, Eric, you have a bonus. Don't forget your
eye. Oh yeahh I do have my eye on your eye read and lights
this whole area. Oh you know what, I gotta I got a thing
for this. There we go. Oh no, come on, what what?
No? I press my eyes tells I turned into a and it's like
stop and I just want red red damn it. Stop up creating my eye
while I'm sleeping. I was trying to make it cooler. I'm doing this
point. Okay, you guys the darkest point. Okay, yep, go
for it. I really want this to happen. Girl a limited success.
All right, you did it. You shot okay, so one off,
let's roll there. Their total would be this. They fail, they take
all the damage. So how much uh that is my accelerate a crystal so
to damage two? Okay, you see it like takes a chunk out side.
They're like, ah, now they're like, blood is all like purple
and floating through this dark ember. I was going for. I was going
for the the face area. Oh, then you have to reroll because if
you call the shot shot, yeah, you're gonna it's gonna be yeah.
Okay, well never mind because he's right, and they're like, and now
they're exposed, right, you can see water begins to slowly fill up in
their helmet. You can see they kind of grab their side, grab their
pistol and point back. And you hear Dolla kind of say over the commet,
you're gonna spats and you see blood hit the glass shielding of her like
tank helmet or her water helmet. She what does she say? She says,
there's a laugh. The vest is here. You'll never make it back.
It's too late, and she pushes the dead body towards all of you,
and it's going to take an aimed shot at the tank on the back
of the body. If we miss, we will go into a proper initiative.
They are really good at this, but my luck is sucky. Boom
hey, single success telesis? Does anybody have telesis? Does anybody have teleone?
Do you hear telecas? I don't? I have premonition? And how
did she do? Okay, Unfortunately you can't exercise this demon. She just
a bad bitch. Ain't no demon to exercise. That being said, she
did get a bunch of ones. So the single shot pings off of the
uh the canister and it kind of explodes. So I'm going to need all
of you to make a dexterity check to not be in the way, like
to to write yourself bastically and I to mere wid a minute success attempt to
body check to protect toll Oh okay, because she she came right up to
him, so they're right next to each other. Yeah, let's do you
still make a dexterity for me? Okay? Uh? Don I have a
question? What what where am I? So every group of them this kind
of a big open space. Tal stepped forward to I say, stepped swam
forward just a little bit away from you. You're going to be right behind
her with a disc in hand. Okay, okay, because I say I
was in motion when this started happening. You got roll over and then it
was like pew, dead person. You're like, what, I just got
the disc and now tank explosion? Basically okay, okay, brothers, the
brothers. It's the brothers. But how you kind of deftly pushed backwards and
as you do two mere steps in front of the like swims right in front
of the explosion, which is why you don't take any damage at all.
I'm going to this is kind of weird because it's not really fire, it's
pressure, right, So Malik some mirror, Uh, this explosion goes off
and you feel the pressure like smash into your body. How mean do I
want to be? There's only two episodes left. Back, you see a
crack up your helmet. It is not leaking water, but it is the
It is weakened, the glasses weakened from the pressure point or all of us.
Yep, yes, both of you, I would say, the both
of you. And Tow's gotta well. Town no longer has a leak in
her air. She's just low on air. And you see Dala is going
to make use this as a distraction to make a daft get away. She
also is going to roll a dexterity for a double success. You can see
the explosion is enough as you all like right yourself. How Alia, neither
of you take any kind of damage. You don't take any damage from this.
You managed to like stay clear of it, though you kind of probably
go spiraling through the water when you you can see she is swimming back towards
the white butterfly and the exit to your ship. How will take this moment
to do an aimed shot? Do I get the feeling from the last take
explosion that she's far enough away at this point that it's not going to Nope,
if you hit it dead eye spot on, all you need is success,
it'll explode. Okay, yes, but will that explosion from what I
just felt, will that explosion hurt us further? No, it's not.
She's not that close. Okay? Uh so then yes, tal will take
a moment to uh to aim that shot and she's going straight for that that
canister. Palady has your gun out and your eye on. Don't get the
plus one for the eye but the negative two for the shot called so negative
one Okay? And she's farther away. It like cuts through the water right
past her. Y'all every darkness point you give me, I'm just dumping into
the ongoing series of events. That's why I would carriage ticket. Ah,
I'm evil. You are a monster. You are a monster. Jesus Mike
changed my name to say an actual monster. Yeah, he should have thought
that to Joey instead. Oh gosh, I'm gonna just keep trying. How
tal is mad? Now? How about this? Does anybody else want to
take a shot on Dolla? Who she's She's trying to escape, so yeah,
to do anything, I'm I'm swimming full force forward. Okay, you
can try to catch her by rolling an agility check or dexterity check. I
will do that, but I mean that's a secondary goal. There's a crack
in my face, there's a crack in my helmet. I gotta out of
god dam water. We're trying to get the hell out of here. Ya.
Anybody have some gaffer tape? Why don't you roll an observation? Malik's
basically you know what, I'm just going to keep adding dropples to the table
for all of them. I'm going to give you a dexterity first, so
I can see if I can catch up one success you start gaining on her,
and then an observation and zero successes. You don't see it. To
mirror Alia, you can roll an observation. Actually it doesn't really affect Alia
because you don't have a crack in your helmet. To mirror, you can
roll an observation alike. You're catching you're like gaining on her. So Malik
takes off Alia. Tamir, what do you do? Uh? Your question?
Does did Alia feel anything else from that amulet or whatever the one of
the beasts that came off is it? Is it just some object or is
it there? Is there anything like to take it? If there is any
Yes, actually yes, yes, yeah. You see it off to the
side, and you kind of swim over from the explosion, like you know,
push it outwards. You grab the amulet from the water. It's it's
about ya tall, right about this big round hand carved of some kind of
white stone or ivory, rather detailed. And you see now that the figure
is consuming its own hand, the beast, and from its like from another
part on its body, it grows another limb. I'll say that much.
It just grows another limb. It's kind of this disgusting deformed concept of of
of of the dancer. Right, it wears a acceleratory crown on its brow
because the back eye there's a lot of kind of strange, it's naked.
There's a lot of strange, mixed signals coming from this beast. Okay,
it's a whole mood and a half. And on top of that, is
is Alia still affected by the uh, the strange pressure that happens. Yes,
you still feel this pressure, You still feel this like longing. The
thing is is everybody seems to be going back. So your fulfillment is that
you may actually fulfill that that want to go back to the vessel. So
Alia, then yeah, I definitely once when she grabs that starts like heading
over towards the ship, and if like she feels that Tamir and pal are
not going fast enough to literally try to like start like grabbing, like doing
her best to like take them along with her if she can. Okay,
if they're not already mer what you won't do? Tamir wants to go after
Dalla, Okay, so you take you like shoot off after your brother.
Yeah, Okay, so neither of you observed the fact that the helmet that
was on the Special Branch agent was not damaged. Oh, yes, it
is because it has a whole ing. I'm sorry, Well, is it
gonna matter? She would? I mean it round zero for the explore?
Is she still a whole by? Okay? Maybe maybe? Right? No,
you can't. Yeah, you can't use that helmet dot. She was
shot right through the You know, a big deal. That's why Tal tried
to go for a helmet shot. You don't observe anything else weird because you're
focused on them taking off. Tamir, Tamir. If you also want to
catch up with your brother, you can roll a dexterity because that or an
agility check of some kind. Could I could I argue using force instead because
he wants to just power kick through to get there. Yes, sure,
I'll take force. Okay, it just gives me a little straight gives an
electric boost, a little extra bruiset. We're gonna say, Okay, it
is not great. The faster you swim in, the more force you put
you can see the crack is like slowing down is your only option. If
you were going to make Alia grabs your hands towel. It is your turn.
Yeah, everybody's moving towards and you can still move and take a shot.
Okay, I'll try to move and I am gonna try to shoot,
but I'm going to attempt to not get the tank because now my crew is
catching up and I do not want to hurt them. Okay, that makes
sense. So I am going to attempt to not shoot the tank any anywhere,
but the tank, hopefully for the head Tell really just wants to go
for you. Yeah, so that's still gonna be a negative one. Yep.
Yeah, fail again. It's so close. It literally your dead eye
puts the shot between the mirror between the leak, and it like cuts through
the water and zooms right past her head. You almost got her, and
she kind of barrel rolls the way like a gator mite and you know the
water. Don't look at me like that, KP. Yes, I made
a gator reference. Yes it's relevant. What George a gator roll a barrel
roll by you whatever? Dot I would like to perform bullshit. I would
like to roll for bullshit. Well, she's barrel rolling to the right to
miss this shot, and you you see, I would say Malik first sees
that she darts out that like in the entry way you came in and like
out back towards the White Butterfly ship. You've now lost sight of her.
I'm guessing everybody's now just trying to catch up. Yeah I can't. And
as the furthest person up, can I see her? I would say,
you you see her, like round the corner and go out, so you've
got like the end of her fin like leave? Do I know how far
from that hole is the entrance that is the door into the main place where
the White Butterfly crash landed. And you know what I imagine over your colms
because y'all had open comms, you can hear dollars, she's like, I
come for you, Vessel, I'm coming for you. And yeah, she's
kind of like losing it and it seems to be heading for something that all
of you don't entirely know. Is there any chance oh sorry, sorry,
so no, go ahead. Is there any chance Alia can fight or or
you know, whatever influence is on her? Because I feel like, does
she hear this is this happening over the comms? The calms you all heard
her say that, because I just feel like her personality and who she is
is the chest to see if you can break free of whatever's going on here.
Okay, okay, okay, come empathy failure today, y'all? Okay,
thank god. It takes you a second, but slowly but surely when
she says vestal, you hear her voice is what actually kind of breaks you
out of this, this pained anguish of a of a coultest seeking, desperately
seeking. And it's the word vestal that rings true to your ear alia like
slapping you free of this. First off, you're like, I've never felt
any of these feelings before this, like weird lust, feeling like oh this
is wrong. So you're able to like shake that off, to hear the
word vestal. It's been a long time and she didn't talk much about it,
but Sholey once told you that, Okay, how do I want to
put this? Sholey told you that there are rumors that at one point there
the first Horizon, could they could take on the gifts of the icon by
becoming a vessel for them, a vestal literally, If if that word is
true, there's a possibility that what is actually here is some kind of God
manifestation, which is real bad and more than likely this is a cult person
going towards it. That's probably super fucking true. Alia just shakes her head
like this and then instantly like turns to Towel and says, we need to
stop her now. So I'm society for draging you, but we need to
at any point or at any cost, stop hood. Now how swiming along?
I'm trying. I'm trying. What do you think I'm shooting at?
You can roll a force or a agility check here to see if that's the
case. Actually, I'm sorry. If I can one thing, since at
this point, Alia was technically grabbing on to toll Can I if T's okay
with this, if airs is okay with this, can I use force to
just like launch her towards her like it would push you backwards, it would
push you farther away, but under the influence anymore so, So I will.
Here's how we can do this one in two ways. Alia. You
can make the role and then tow does not have to make an agility check
or a dexterity role. Or you can add a plus to her check.
I say plus, okay, what is your force forces forces to? Okay,
then I'm going to let you add to die to this this dexterity check.
That's uh yeah, dexterity is perfectly fine with me. All right,
I'll take an agility to Oh yeah yeah, decks aiity. Okay, get
those two backwards, okay, perfects. It's exactly what happens. You feel
this force through the water, Allia kind of goes farther back, but how
it launches you forward. Between that and the kicking, the very dexterous kicking
of your feet, you kind of shoot past to mirror and Maleak and actually
kind of get to where Malik is and you get just to the entrance that
door, and you can see Tao Dolla round the corner and enter that like
crack in the side of the hull of the white butterfly. Can I I
want to I want to shoot her. Yeah, you can try to take
a shot. That's all I got. I'm going for literally anything. She
just penalty, just make a make a range attack to die. Still got
my eye on m hm. I'm giving you darkness point No. Two instant
and you see as it doesn't hit Dolla, it doesn't, but it nicks
the end of her like fins her. You know what are those things called
flippers? It just defends the flippers that are on her feet, and it
kind of singees the end of when she rounds the corner into the White Butterfly.
I'm gonna say you're out of combat at the moment because you can't actually
see Dalla. What do you all do? Are we? Are we all
out of the water? Now? There is no out of the water.
You opened this door and flooded this chamber. Oh, you're right, that's
right. I forget about that question. I mean, I'm sure that we
had did we have open comms going before? Okay? So I want to
I would think that Malik and Tamir heard me yelling that we need to stop
her at all costs. Do you all have something to shoot her? Yes?
You guys were close to Yeah I am everybody else want to take a
shot and take a shot? I haven't. Are we through the hole back?
Take a shot like Towel did. Like as she rounds a corner,
like Towels taking a shot, one of you could also take a shot.
You would be like, she's trying to get inside the White Butterfly, you
gotta shoot her before she gets in the door. Yeah, there's there's no
catching up to her to stop her. We have to shoot her. Uh
good, Mike, Mike. Is a question because I don't know how the
physics of this works. Does a frag grenade work underwater? I mean,
in theory, most of the weapons were firing underwater shouldn't work. But it's
space magic, so uh but yeah, a frag grenade should work underwater.
Actually, they are completely encapsulated. You gotta throw it though, yes,
which you cannot do. You can't. You can't, you can't. So
you're gonna toss it. It's gonna go ooh. So you gotta put it
where you want to get the fuck out before you. Pragrenade is an option.
I had an idea, but it's a stupid idea. Do you take
a shot, Malik? I want to roll for bullshit? Still, tal
has the cleanest shot. Correct or is the closest to the white butterfly thing?
Right? Yeah? I would say she kind of thrown by Ali and
she kind of reaches where you are at Malik watching. Okay, cool,
cool. I would like to continue swimming forward, and as I'm doing so,
I take out my cricket that I used just maybe twenty minutes ago that
has four remaining rounds of a very specific kind of ammunition in it, and
I'm going to just shoot. You see, like Malik will like adjust something
on like the the fuse, the fuse, the cell, the cell on
his on his Bulkan cricket, and fire. I'll let you figure out what
this role is going to be. Dot. I'm firing a ballistic cartograph round.
So I just set a timer on it, and so when it gets
to the white butterfly, that's when it will explode and spread a cloud of
nano things around there. You remember that Alien movie where the guy had the
little orbit he threw it down the hallway. It's like it's like that,
but it explodes into nanits and maps an area. So I see what you're
up to. Yeah, so I roll for bullshit. I don't know what
that I would say, that doesn't require you're not really rolling against anything that
she can't be like, no, you can't scan me, So she can't
do that. So you see Molik pull his gun and maybe all of you
think for a second Malik is gonna fire second round He does as Dollar rounds
the corner into the white butterfly. But as this round kind of blots out
into the water and it touches the white butterfly nan nights and kind of sprinkled
down on this ship. Where does it feed this data like your wrist?
Uh? Yeah what at that point? Yeah, I would say then all
of you because you're all kind of tapped in kind of see this this reading
come through on your very cool waterproof wrist hood space terms and uh, you
can kind of see it map. You see exactly what I showed earlier,
the missing wings. This is kind of what is put on your right your
hood, so you see the kind of map and layout of it. It's
really not that big of a vessel. It's smaller than Defiant, but still
could carry a few people. But what's most interesting to all of you is
even with the nanite mapping inside of the inside of the main part of the
ship. So I'm going to guess that's probably the bridge. Yes, the
bridge. Something weird is going on because it's it can't map it. You
keep getting this like flashing error over this one section as if the darkness that
you dissipated pulled in to this spot. And I guess the nanites probably map
the body on the inside. You can see the red dot of Dala swimming
ever closer towards the centralized portion of the bridge. And then yeah, he
continues kicking forward. Okayne, you're gonna take a shot. Yeah, I
mean, to be fair, you do now know that she is inside the
middle of the ship. Well, this would be going on while you were
shooting your round, so this would be before she got right. Each of
you are getting this like momentary turn. So yeah, I just looked at
my thing, and I do have a weapon. You could do it.
Take a you can take a ranged combat attack. I mean, what's the
worst that could happen? God, so far nobody's hit her. That's what
I have no do. So we get two shots from Toul too few,
one shot from t mir Phew Malik's books out because it's like a canister and
it takes it to the side of them. You're welcome. Mouth noises,
is it? Thank you? One day we're gonna just playing for that.
We're for sure gonna have you sit in the studio just boom and just record
your voice noise, your mouth noises dot sound board, got it, Yeah,
hashtag mouth noises. Uh so, uh, all of this happens kind
of in this instant you see around the corner, and the nan nights spread
out and feed all of you within five or six seconds. The readout of
this vessel, it's not like anything you've ever seen, literally for the scientists
out there, which is probably just t mir you don't know a lot about
biology at l thing uh necessarily and definitely not like water biology, right or
animal biology. But this seems to be built like an insect, a giant
butterfly. It has this kind of massive thorax piece like in the middle and
the wings, and you can see that that it's technology like part of the
wings or solar panels that capture like radioactive energy or radio waves and those kinds
of things. Like each piece is its own part of the ship, but
it is partially organic and actually seems to have this kind of fleshy insect build
to it. Dolla gets ever closer, you see the little red dot boo
as she draws nearer, this darned out black spot on the hud that just
the nanits can't read. Yeah, still swimming forward, still trying to shoot
her, right you swim forward. Okay, I'm gonna I'm gonna have to
take another decksterity to see if you catch up. She has she got one
success. Nope, she's gaining on you. You you belie anybody else,
anybody else roll me that dexterity or force. Sorry, well, Ali is
a little behind Ali. You're gonna need a lot of force to get there.
You're definitely muted. But I bet it's beautiful what you're saying. I
just said, let's do it. Beautiful, go ahead and roll the force,
chick. Okay, fucking what is you're You're you're moving right, You're
moving, but you're not moving very fast. You're kind of behind everybody.
Malik twa, Mir You're able to both kind of pull forward. I would
say, how you're right behind them now? Like hot on their trails?
Is there? Y'all are swimming as fast as you can. So the order
is basically Malik t mer tw alia as you all pass into the white butterfly
ship actually after cross into its threshold, if you want to get her dot.
We have a little map going on here. How far are Tamir and
I from where she is? Approximately? All right, the critical damage is
here, so I mean she's she's she has she didn't fail, so I
mean she's ahead of you, like what are you trying to do, Mike?
More bullshit? Dot. This is what I do here. Fucking tell
me what it is so I can do what I would like to do.
Is I holster my weapon and I reach into like I assume we have aquatic
backpacks because it's we have scuba suits, right, So you have hip pouches.
Perfect. He pulls out into his aquatic hip pouch, waterproof fanny packs.
Perfect, even better as a wet war. I've heard you're welcome,
You're well wait wait, hang on, I got you fucking perfect. Nobody
takes his fucking stream seriously, Why do you keep This is a very serious
space game. This is dramatic. We're here for drama, little brother,
I have a very bad idea. Let's go okay. He reaches in.
He reaches into his aquatic side pouch and pulls out some inordinate amount of hyper
rope because it gives you so many goddamn feet of it, and he begins
to tie it to himself and around Tamere, and he like motions to Tamir's
belt like underwater to the grenade, and then pulls up to Tameir and puts
his feet on his and kicks Tamir into the White butterfly further. Okay,
roll a force check. Oh right, O, I have so many points
in force, I have all of them. There's so there's just an incredible
amount of them. Uh, you know what, I haven't done it yet.
Tell I haven't done it yet. This time, I'm going to give
you a darkness point. What's the worst that can happen? They have dumped
four darkness points tonight alone on top of thirteen, so seventeen total seventy and
I still have three darkness You push your brother. First off, you don't
remember him being that muscular Tamir's been maybe possibly turning into a growing boy.
He's looking good in that skin tight suits, looking good in that diving suit.
He's a little thick girl. Then you remember him. You kind of
grab hold of the either side of this crack. As you kick your brother
forward like forward, it does speed you up to mirror. You like press
and you're you're kind of gaining on her. First off, ta mir as
you kind of entered this white butterfly, There's gonna be some things that happen.
Who else enters the White butterfly? Anybody else behind the mirror? I
mean, technically where the furthest one's up. Great tow was tal is going
to try to go behind him, but apparently the well two is gonna just
keep swimming. But you know, okay, So into the White Butterfly,
towel goes. You kind of swim past malikause he braces himself and pushes to
mirror like in after her. You see that for some reason, Malik has
tied a rope to mirror. T mirror. Yeah, you, as you
move forward, you can follow her blood trail from the wound in her side.
It's hitting the glass on your your cracked glass of your thing, your
helmet. That's the word. Don't give me that look, mike, um,
because I'll just start making them up. Um. Tao, you're right
behind to mirror. He's moving a lot faster because he had all that push.
Alia. You come around the corner to see de mirr. You're Malik
braced here wrote from his belt, and A two kind of scoots behind Tao
to mirror. Searing pain shoots through your body as you enter the White Butterfly.
I'm gonna read it to you as it is written. Searing pain shoots
between your temples and your heart begins to pound violently, uh petrifying, blood
chilling, blanket of fear and panic envelops you. You can feel an intruding
force or entity inside of yourself. Something is trying to break you. You
want to cry for help, but you cannot. You feel infarior, unworthy,
sullied inside of here. Do we take physical damage? It does not
say that you actually take any damage, but I'm gonna imagine pain. Yeah,
you've got central pain, which means I'm gonna say neither of you can
necessarily do a whole lot. The good news is you're being thrown in underwater,
so like you don't really have to do anything. You're still moving forward
to mirror, but how you kind of have to stop to catch yourself.
It's just this unnerving feeling of something like slithering its way into your body and
trying to take you over. Alia, you are outside, but you can
see down this chamber, so can to mirror. It is like a canister.
It's round, right, or it's cylindrical. The entire body of it
is like cylindrical and narrow to mirror, how Alia Molik, you all see
that this whole has been breached into what is probably a chapel of some kind,
but no chapel like you've ever seen the white butterflies. Actually kind of
upside down and on its side. That's where the broken wing is, as
it kind of crashed nosed first. And at the far end of this room
actually up and in the ceiling because it's upside down, is a massive statue
that hangs, well, I say hangs. It's connected to the floor technically,
but it does hang in this case upside down, and it is fear
inducing almost to some degree. It's I'm going to read it to you because
it's it's a whole mood and Ali, you would probably notice it very quickly
because it reminds you of the amulet currently in your hand. The entire temple
seems to be made of Okay, right here, I'm just gonna ride three
curved cylinders that spiral into a large chamber, which is kind of what you're
standing in. The floors are coarse and porous, that's what's kind of actually
on the ceiling right pricked with tiny holes in irregularities. It appeared to be
made from stan sandstone or some kind of fossilized something. Smooth tiles raised slightly
above the rest of the floor. There are some fats and some other things.
There is a statue. This is what you see. The statue is
cut from a single piece of rock and depicts an orgy of countless humans merging
estatically into a unified single person chewing, clawing, kissing, biting, and
embracing. The statue such as this one is a central part of every butterfly
ship. Guy can get a quick culture test from Alia. Okay, it's
rather disturbing. Yeah, it's rather disturbing not to come down a single success.
Okay, it's a weird human reveals that simple statues and depictions are often
referenced in ancient texts of the mirror texts and hymns about the Dancer. But
you're realizing that it's referenced in tandem with the dancer, because this is the
beast, which is like a part of the dancer icon. I can't give
you any more than that because you didn't roll a critical success. So there
it is. You see her use a card to swipe the door open to
the bridge, and as she does, and it kind of bubbles, and
the little bit of air that might have been there's escapes in the door.
Slide open. Also underwater is the bridge. But well, how about this.
You can't tell she slips in. What do all of you do?
I'm just following her, trying to kill her. Go ahead, go ahead,
take a shot. Anybody else want to take a shot? Tw You're
gonna be at a next Okay, I was gonna say you're gonna be at
a negative here because you're still under the pain. You did not succeed against
The last last one was one again, so I still guilty as he did.
I'll give it to you a shot rings out. What are you?
You didn't do a call shot? You just wanted to hit her. So
tal's trying just so hard just to just to stop her. How much damage
does it usually do? Uh? To too? So it does? Another
single? Point you maybe you hit her foot. She kind of goes tumbling
and slams into whatever console is at the center of the white butterflies on like
any tech you've seen, and she kind of like, oh blood, kind
of like squeezes out the way you might a sponge in water, and she
kind of floats off to the side. Two mears pushing through to great,
are you gonna keep going? Yeah? Okay? Uh you keep moving as
you reach this central chamber. Oh, this is gonna be a whole mood
and a half. Okay, y'all don't need any of that. Who has
an empathy score of at least four, Okay, those of you with an
empathy score four. As she rounds and goes into the like space, something
happens, I would say, as you're like watching the ship, which was
this beautiful white butterfly, begins to almost like flicker, like bad static on
a TV. And and this illusion goes down, and now you realize that
you're standing on the inside of a corpse. Basically, this is an organic
ship. It is dead, and the walls turn this kind of blackish,
disgusting color of a corpse that's been floating in the water far too long and
decaying. Yeah. Hm, I'm just gonna let y'all have that because I
spent the darkness point to make that happen. All of you are gonna make
that. Can see that change? How you're still you're like hot on her
trail. You don't see this illusion shift. You're just like, yeah,
only one he doesn't notice. He doesn't notice. Yeah, the rest of
you see this kind of flicker happen and it's like it's almost like a horror
movie, and then the illusion comes back up and it's not what it was.
I'm gonna have all three of you roll something called a terror check.
This is something new that has been put into this module as a new mechanism
for coriolists. At the sight of something truly horrendous, you may choose to
have the PCs make a terror check. Guess what I choose? Uh yeah.
It says that if you've seen already okay, I already did that up.
I'm gonna have you actually make an empathy test. Every success yet,
just roll for empathy every success dot yeah. Uh. Malik was this roughly
the same place as where he tied the rope to Tamere. Would he have
also seen that? I would say, all of you, the three of
you looking in notice inside of this chapel that things begin to like flicker all
of the only person that doesn't see it is Tao. Okay, great,
uh Alia Malik, you take one point, you suffer one point of stress.
Okay, Tamir, you suffer two. Tale is you're swimming and shooting.
You failed, so you suffered? Are these mind points? These are
great? Two mind points, Tale and tameir tell you feel to mirror like
suffer. You suffer because you are connected. Yeah, it's getting it's getting
hot in here, y'all. Is it just me or a space big You're
a space big in here, space big in here. It's so anybody thirsty?
No, because you're underwater. Okay, actual monster, actual monster tew
As you reached the door where she kind of you you shot her. Maybe
you even lean on this open doorway that's like kind of slid open, and
as you enter you see the bridge. This is not like any ship bridge
that you have ever seen. You've been on a lot of ships, You've
been a lot of places, you've been on a lot a lot of bridges.
You've never seen one like this. It's highly advanced technology that you've just
I know. I'm sorry, Chad, I'm the worst that you've never seen
before. But the pod that is always there for the captain to sleep in,
right like the place, there is something there, a body maybe in
the water. It rises. Let's see. I'm going to read this to
you because it's pretty pretty cool. I think, well, I think it's
cool. Okay, this creature rises and yeah, I don't want to make
sure I give you the right description. Okay, sh I won't call it
a she. They you're unsure, don't look human, but clearly are otherworldly
in a way. They kind of float through the water, and as they
gain their hands move as if they are like dancing in an odd and kind
of weird way. The description given is they seem to be in constant motion,
hovering and moving your its limbs to the beat of some unseen drum.
Its motions appear to gently caress reality itself, whereas a white robe its skin
is extremely pale, its eyes almost wided to that of blindness. And they
speak to you, I am the light of our Daha love me. You
can see that Dala, though bleeding and heavily injured, is very much worshiping
them. Oh so it's talent to You're in this room with Dolla, and
the thing I would say to me or you at this point you also see
this like you're still connected to your brother, but you and Taw have made
it to the door. Basically at the far far end. The rope is
almost like taunt with how far it'll actually go, this hyper rope, and
that both of you look into this bridge and see this creature rise from the
captain's chair. Bodies float in the water all around you of the crew that
was, and you can see that Dalla is like crunched over, like holding
themselves, but also very clearly like praying or worshiping this creature. The two
of you start to feel something in your throat, this overcoming of emotion.
I'm gonna have you both rolled me at one D six. The last time
we did that, that was not good. Yeah, this is great,
this is I gotta run three. I got a one three in a one.
How an emotion that I don't think you may ever have really felt with
this kind of vigor. It rises from the pit of your stomach up as
you look at this beautiful vestal floating here like a like a like a perfect
creature of light in front of you, and it says love me jealousy in
your belly. Why did you ever share this creature with your crew with the
horrible likes of someone like Dalla. You deserve this icon to yourself. You
will do whatever it takes to hurt or humiliate them so says this, or
reveal a secret flaw of theirs to make them less attractive. Three Tamir,
you feel shame rise from the back of your head, this vestal of emotion
from this woman. Shame. She's too beautiful. You are vile and repulsive
in her presence, and the two of you have to stop in the doorway
a moment and sit in these emotions. They overcome you as she speaks to
you and says, love me. Does Alia notice that? Yeah? You
see them, like, stop in the door and you can swim over.
They seem enamored with something. Do you say anything to them, I grat
or anything over the calms? Yes, I say, I tell them,
why do you stop being? We need to go stop her make a command
check. Okay, so that is an empathy, then, because what empathy?
That's fine. Success both of you. Hear Alia's voice. It's kind
of far away, and she says, we have to get out of here.
We have to get out of here, and her voice overcomes the love
me, love me. It is the calming voice of Alia, like hot
tea when you need it most. That quelches that jealousy, that subsides that
shame just long enough to break you from the trance. And then Alia,
you see her or it They are beautiful, This whole room, in fact,
is strange as it may be. Tamir, As you break from this,
just just wrote me a mystic check. You gotta you've got a special
little artifact love, don't you? You got a little love for the art
facts? I do? You do? I just I want to As you
break from it, you look past this crazy thing and see along the wall
these embedded artifacts. That's what I'm gonna say. They seem at first they
look like bugs or scaups in some way, which seems rather appropriate to the
kind of theme of this ship. Every one of them seems to have an
artifact like presence. I can't I what I'm looking for. That's gonna show
you. Uh yeah, there, they're like these little they're like embedded in
the wall of the ship, and they're all around the bridge, like on
the walls, and they're giving off this. You can feel it, the
presence, the ember of an artifact. Every one of them seem to have
some kind of important power. Oh. I found it. As she stands
there staring at all of you, even though you broke her trance, perfect
symmetry wrapped in flowing white silk that moves and shifts like feathers of an impossible
bird. The Vestal's eyes are covered with a silk blindfold, and their hands
and arms move in an enthralling dance. They float freely in the air,
just below the ceiling. That's the description I was looking for. What do
you all do? There's a moment where they look down at you. How
far away are these scarbs? They're all along the wall. So you could
just like go righter left and you'd have to enter the room proper, But
you could go right left and try to do something, try to pry them
off. If the vestal doesn't stop you, you're not really sure it's it's
not It's not the time for that. And his main concern is Tall's safety.
So with that split second of Alia's voice like echoing in his head,
he is going to just like reach out for tal, wrap his arm tightly
around her waist and tug on the string as he drops and just lets float
in both frag grenades and starts pushing them out of the room. Okay,
you push back, Okay, make a forced check. Ali is in your
way too, So Ali is going with you. I imagine Ali ice,
you could see this. You can either great, you take the both of
them with you, even if you tumble over Alli, you toss them in.
Guess what, Yeah, you're gonna add to it. Well, he's
he tugged the rope. Yeah, so you're pulling like braced against a wall
and he's just yanking on this hyperope. Okay, everything, everybody starts piling
backwards. These two canisters go off into the room. Dala is gonna get
to make a check. Dala just gave their life subserviently to the white icon
that you all stood face to face with. Dala's going to try to sacrifice
their life for the White Icon by throwing their body on these. Um.
I mean I don't I don't think that works in zero gravity unless they grab
it and like hug them to their chest. This is going to be so
weird for underwater. Dala was injured and kind of go like you can see
her like swim and try to like lock around these or like grab them away
like probably hand grabs one and then their body shield the other her body mint
the explosion, there's a moment where you're all pushed back bubbles, uh,
waves things to like block your vision. Uh. This is a force explosion
of double magnitude and Malik into me or your helmets were already cracked. Dot,
I'd like to make this worse if I can, Okay for everyone involved.
Ka she has what is likely a metal oxygen tank on her back.
She does, which if that exploded, would also be shrapnel. And and
they're a force explosion, so double force explosion. I'm gonna give you all
in agility check uh dexterity to not be hit by shrapnel forced beams that are
going to try to fall or crumble in and then I'll tell you what happens.
Holy shit takes takes. Uh tell like we are getting out of here,
wrapped around, he just starts like barrel rolling with him through the water,
trying to get away. To come on, Alia and the leak.
Okay, agility, right, I don't know. I guess Malik, you
I guess you don't. You're You're far enough. Even if I wasn't,
I'm braced against well, I don't know if I can move anywhere, all
right? So Alia, God, fine, goddamn it, Okay, it's
fine, it's fine, all right, Alia, Do you have any armor
on? Uh? I think we can with these suits. I was about
saying, I don't think you can't unless you're in like okay, no armor,
So you're gonna take two points of physical damage, not mental stress,
but like physical damage as shrapnel like rips your suit open here and there.
You are now leaking water very slowly into your helmet. You can feel it
as it begins. Something cold begins, very cold begins to rick is right
up next to your throat. It's deceit. Where's what do I change to?
There's the hit points, points and mind points. So you're gonna take
two hit points against Okay, sin, y'all didn't want to stop and talk
to her. I guess we'll just skip these pages. I'm sorry we didn't
want to stop and talk to the crazy cultist who us trying to I don't
know, do psychotic things. We weren't stopping to talk to the icon.
I'm great, I'm perfect. Seen enough icons right now? Cool? Is
this one number three that we're meeting. We've met a few icons before.
As you are, as you all reached the door, this is going to
be so much fun. As you all reached the door, and maybe you
turn to look back, if any of you do, you see that the
bubbles and the explosion has subsided. You push the door frame wide open.
Everything in the bridge is completely destroyed pretty much to mirror, Oh, I'm
so bad, I'm so mean. Okay, we'll get to that in a
second. Most of it seems destroyed there with the with the console, the
center console now exploded open. There seems to be something glowing like it almost
looks like an egg. It's about yea big and it kind of sits glowing
in the centralized portion of this computer. Uh malik. If you were looking
for a blue disc, that would probably be it. To mirror, the
explosion of the wall knocked free all of these artifacts. They're now floating in
the water inside of the vessel that you're trying to exit, and the white
icon hang on. The white icon is still floating there. They see all
of you at the end. You see her like a like a like a
little ball of light at the end of a dark and dangerous tunnel. The
white illusion is now gone, and you stand in the center of the corpse
of this ship. Bodies floating around. You can see the death and destruction,
and the white icon cannot let you leave the icon, this vestal cannot
let you get back to the third horizon and tell them what you were doing.
So she hits the big red self destruct button basically, and you see
she begins to pray. They bring her their hands up to their face and
maybe through the water you can hear a prayer. You Hiah, You are
truth, the truth of the self, your freedom, freedom to shed the
yoke of society. You are devotion to the now, breaking the confines of
expectation. You are the one with the eye. You are the beast and
the dance. You are the now and the all. And as she does,
they use something called collapse and the right embering energy and light it was
beaming from her pulls in much darker now, as does the warping of the
world around her. She begins to suck like a drain everything towards them as
she pulls and begins to like contort time and space in front of you.
Yes, is there any opportunity to use exorcism? Is that ap applicable at
all? Or any either exorcism blessing or you can't really exercise you can roll
a premonition? What all? Right? That's true? That is just mystic
powers, right, that is a mystic ability check. Come on, come
on, come on, fucking darkness points. Okay, that makes it eighteen
eighteen. Okay, she hasn't even spent them. We should It doesn't matter.
You know what nother really ending up? I thought she was using that
fourteen eighteen at this point doesn't really matter. Fucked at the point when she
had like four See y'all think she's the worst I can do? Okay,
God fuck it just keeps getting worse. It's fine. You're gonna do what
you're gonna do, no matter if it's darkness points or corruption bars or you're
just gonna be like, you know what, I want this to happen.
You're still just gonna do whatever the fuck you want. So fuck it.
True, give you darkens point. It's true. Okay, here's what happened.
Premonition. You have to stop. You can't swim, you can't do
anything. You have to take a moment to center yourself. Alia. You
see her begin to pull the world in to collapse time and space around you,
consuming it like a black hole. But you take a moment to not
let fear overtake. You have to know more. This is an icon after
all, and for a second, that kind of ship that's around you your
friends that all fades away. Instead, you are enveloped in a dense isolation
and loneliness, maybe much like you felt when you were in that container that
held Tomorrow and the gin. But then a feeling of hope belonging passes over
you. You are one with the others, and they are one with you.
You float through perfect darkness. The ripples in the surrounding space time,
they tug at your mind. You exert control by submitting to this stream like
a river. You embrace this chaos. You merge with the dance and the
darkness between portals. Months and years pass in this single instant in your mind.
Many have come before, Many will take your place should you fall,
but they are all with you at all times. Suddenly there's life blood flowing
through the portal. Will it be enough? You move, and, after
what feels like an eternity, your wings come alive again. You realize in
this moment you are in a sentient shared moment with this dead ship, a
premonition of what was an awakened vessel that was left waiting for fifty years in
the space in between portals, waiting with its brethren, the other sentient ships
that held these vestals. It was awaken. The word spear rings out in
your mind and what feels like in eternally eternity. Your wings finally come to
life again. Light and energy flows through you into the core of this ship.
You breach Tawan, the loss star blind you as the walls around the
first horizon finally crumble. Others have reached out, but the system's now yours.
Anxious bliss is swirling in the flow of the Dancer. You can feel
it, a shared collective consciousness. We are ready. The portals ignite.
The ancient enemy is here, a black destroyer carrying frail cargo, warriors on
ice, frozen meat, awaiting death. The wings they light up, locking
onto a critical system, launching torpedoes rows of light, bending time and space
around you. And then the enemy doesn't yield. Instead, the portal collapses,
but she presses on. If the torpedo's on he enough. There's only
one solution, self sacrifice, And you feel this ship, its vestal sacrifice
themselves and smash into the side of this massive destroyer. And now in the
corpse of that vessel. As your mind comes back to you, you relived
the moments of what happened when it's aphere and the Ghazali passed through that portal,
but you lived it as this ship connected to the vessel that you're trying
so desperately to destroy. Can you explain that in terms? I can understand
what the functions happened. You just witnessed what happened inside of the portal from
the mind of this vessel was the ship, okay, right right, w
so hey, we got our we got our answers. Basically, what happened
is you woke up as this ship in your premis to see your brethren more
white butterfly vessels waiting rya in staces. Basically in the space between portals,
the sphere and the Gazali passed through. You are awakened. Is your time
and your duty and you try to destroy them. Okay, Sophear, the
one you're standing on is going to make it through to the other side.
You can't let that happen. You couldn't the ship couldn't let that happen.
And you feel the ship self sacrifice itself as it smashes Kamakazi style into the
front end of the severe Sefar and gets lost in time and space until it
was spat out about a week ago. I guess my question mainly is is
that what Alia felt as the ship and what Alia now understands is it a
is it she knows that now. The ship obviously was trying to stop the
Gazali from going through and doing its best. But I think I heard you
say like the ship represented like a sort of light and positive energy. And
I specifically heard you say positive energy, I said, I said dancer and
form of beast. Okay, okay, sorry, I'll fill you in both
of those. Never said it was a positive light. I said it was
a light. Okay, technically this thing was imbering light. Don't make it
good, Okay, That's why I was. I didn't say you're fighting.
I just said you are witnessing the same elements that happened from the perspective of
the ship. Yeah, no one, no one thinks they're the bad guy,
KP Right. Right from the ship's perspective, they were. They were
fighting the bad guy, right, that's what. Okay. Basically, the
ships woke up and go, oh, this is our chance, this is
what we've been waiting on, right, and they started They basically were awakened.
Now, why they were awake actually you would know this. The ship
was awakened by their sleeping gods. The beast woke somewhere out there in the
universe, right, the icons woke up and let this happen, and let
this come through, and let all of this take place. Also, Alia
would know at this point just by living on Coriolis, the Zaphir and the
Gazali. The reason they were going through the portal at all was because we
lost contact with the system on the other side. So the Zafir was just
an escort in case something bad was happening over there. So this wasn't like
an attacking mission. We were going to figure out what right You weren't attacking
anything. You were going to figure out what had happened in this system that
had gone kind of radio silent, basically, And they didn't want you to
because the answer was the white butterflies. What happened. They broke through and
they were trying to wake up the Nazarene sacrifice that has been silently kind of
simmering here in the third Horizon. So they didn't want those ships going back
and reporting that. They didn't want the mining colony reporting that. So everything
that happened in Tawan was a cover to keep it quiet long enough for the
white butterflies to get out into the third hur and wake up the Nazarene sacrifice,
which is exactly what happened. It actually bid that time. You as
the ship which you just kind of saw and as confusing through the eyes over
the perspective of were woken up by the first horizon, by the vestal,
this creature at the end of the hallway, by this vestal. To stop
the spear and to stop the Gazalie from getting that information, you had to
destroy them or the entire plan was ruined. Okay, at this point,
because I don't think Alia is close enough to stop anything by herself, She's
going to pray to her icon. We're about to have a fucking pray off,
and let's see what happens. Okay, I'm gonna pause for a second.
You come out of this, y'all. Calia goes, I don't want
to say limp, but like stoic for just a second, floating here in
the water, as Alia kind of woofs out talent samere, you would probably
know some kind of mystic ability is being used at the moment. Okay,
let me even see if you can roll off against this. Okay, DoD
I gotta ask, since Malik was so far back, m how much of
this do I see? All of it? Okay? Every ounce of it?
Because it basically it's a long Narra ship. So as the doors open,
you can see from one end where you're at all the way down.
If you are like at the doorway and lean and they've reached you at this
point, because you like right next to you, They're right next to you.
So I'm going to yeah, as you all come, and maybe what
if you try to wake Alia out of it? You can see she begins
pulling it in. The room starts caving in around her walls and ceiling,
melting and bubbling. As a series of flickering bursts of lights begin to feel
the chamber that she's in at the far end of the hallway. It begins
to expand slowly outward, and the effects of this implosion begin to spread,
sucking everything in its path towards this glowing orb of melted steel that she now
levitates between her hands. The surrounding water, you actually, all of you
on your suit see the water temperature begin to rise. It's hot. Tal's
trying to just swim up back to the ship. At this point, I'm
gonna grab Alia by like the scruf of her neck and start trying to pull
her. Seeing that she's not not responding, she's obviously doing something to mirror.
All of these artifacts are just Yeah, I wasn't so close. I
wasn't going to ignore that's so close. Yeah, now you are able to
grab Alia and pull her like outside of the ship just through their crack to
mirror, you're still touched or Malik, you're still touched to your brother,
but you feel the hyperope tug may be in the wrong direction towards like,
are you going to go back in and get some yeah, tells on our
way to safety. He is, as long as they're within ree cheek and
grab at least one Yeah, close seeking gay, I'm going to let you
make Well, here's the thing. It's not a very hard agility check.
I'm gonna still have you make one. I have It's okay, it's hard.
You're going to be pulled in anyways. Basically you start to get pulled
into this energy. So she is creating Oh yeah, that's right. She's
like slowly like sucking everything and so you're like, it's so cloy, but
you're on the string and you can see them. They're starting to pull closer
to her, and you have to swim a little bit. So just give
me that quick agility. Okay, snap, it's not I'm good. You
get rollod six. Okay five, You reach out and like swipe like jacks,
and you get five of them in your hands. Malik, the hyper
rope at your belt tugs you forward. Ta Mirror is now in the pull
of her like radius of whatever she's pulling in. He's basically being sucked down
the drain Jumanji style, right into the board game. I'm the weak brother.
Just so we're clear here, you greedy little fuck like everybody's wait.
First off, he's not greedy. He is. There's a different force,
man, it's these things are waitless. Doesn't matter when you're being sucked in
by a pseudo black hole. Okay, god, t Mirror. You get
these five things in your hand, and then all of a sudden something happens.
It's not just that you're being pulled in, it's like life is being
pulled and forced from you air. You can feel it even in your suit.
Something it draws it you, it pulls to me or or to Malik.
Would you like to try to save your brother? I would I would
like to do that, But Dot I would like to go ahead and do
more bullshit hit the reshpe guys. Okay, uh, Dot, I would
like to use my icon talent. What does your icon talent do? Whatever
I want? Which is great? That's why I picked it. The words
uh. Actually, FAD is on your side, giving you the benefit of
getting to change a single concrete detail and a scene more to your favor.
It must be something that has a cosmetic or indirectly helpful effect. You cannot
make an enemy disappear, but you can decide there's a knife within reach,
or that a window has been left open. The GM has final say on
what is possible to accomplish the talent, and I can only use it once
procession. I would like to, while attempting to reel in my giant fish
of a brother, I would like for him to have forgotten the third grenade
that comes loose as I yank him forward. Great, Okay, I will
accept that this grenade kind of pitters off of his belt and floats forward and
is being pulled into this It looks like a liquid ball of hot metal as
she's literally ripping time and space in the ship, and it's just feeding this
ball that's getting bigger and bigger and slowly like consume and looks like it's going
to basically explain Samir. You feel a tug at your waist is maybe you
even try to reach for one more, but you only get five and your
brother pulls you out. You look back and you seem a leak struggling to
pull to mirror free of this and another explosion goes off from the inside of
the ship. This time it ruptures the White Butterfly ship, cracking it in
half. You see the back end that was touching the ice at the top,
it was kind of holding it in place. It breaks free. Ice
chunks begin floating down kind of on all of you. A water pressure,
so everything kind of takes a moment to like resettle. I'm going to accept
a single agility check from everybody or force check to get the fuck out of
here. One success for me, baboo. I just need us success.
There's a more free yourself of the White Butterfly. You are dodging chunks of
ice that fall from the icy ceiling that was holding the end of the ship
in place. It cracks free like the Titanic and breaks into kind of right
in front of you. One piece hits things kind of shift and mutter.
But y'all don't stop. You know the way back to your ship. You
get out of the larger ship proper right, this kind of destroyed freighter vessel
or battleship, and you have to make it to the surface. Here's what
I think I'm gonna do. We've got three corruption bars. Alia tow to
mirror your suits and your oh no, and Malik, who do I want
it to be? Tw You're not leaking air anymore. You just have a
little bit of air. The rest of them. The rest of them have
damage suits, which is way worse. So tell you're fine. It's gonna
be a real type push. You're at like fifteen percent. You're gonna have
to really kick it to the surface. But you're gonna be okay, Alia,
t mere Malik, Ali. You can feel the water bridging your chin.
Now it's leaking. It's gonna be up to your mouth very very soon,
and you have a two mile climb to the surface. Okay, this
would be like I'm gonna go big breath. Yeah to Mer, you and
your brother's helmet is cracked. There's a part of me, Malik, You're
even to mirror. You're odd? Who is even Malik? Tamir? Did
I say Tamir? Was even? Milik was on? I said it out
loud and then forgot I was not paying it. I think I said Malik
to Mer. I think I said Malik to Mer, Malik. Uh,
you're all like swimming towards the surface and doing a pretty damn good job to
get the hell out of here from this place. And you can see like
the ship itself that now is sitting on this kind of surface floor of this
moon under the water is kind of collapsing in on itself, and it's beginning
to just like right, the change in pressure as you move towards the surface
is making your helmet crack. It too is beginning to gain water. It
begins to actually leak. You can see it start to drip inside. I
am a very kind gem. All of you have been through so much tonight,
so very very much. And as all of you swim towards the surface,
you all got a success to escape. You think you're not going to
make it alia the water, it moves up towards your mouth. You have
to keep it closed. It's like splashing your nose as you're swimming towards the
surface. Maleak, If you swim any faster, it's going to break your
face shield open. And you've got at least another mile to go? Is
there it? Then you yeah, gonna say, I feel like decompression is
going to be a thing. Oh, it's gonna be a super We can
deal We can deal with decompression sickness later, Okay. And as you are
all swimming as fast as you can and y'all are trying to make it to
the surface, you've got a long way to go and a lot of stamina
to put behind this. I'd say you're still quite a ways down, maybe
three quarters of a mile or so, as you like bridge the halfway point,
and you can actually see lights above the surface of the water. Very
small, little tiny. I'm gonna make a roll. I'm gonna make a
roll. Hang on, This is fun, This is going to be interesting.
It could be bad, but it's gonna happen. Uh, It's gonna
happen because this is this is the way it is. Oh, I'm sorry,
I can't do that. I can do this. I only needed the
one. You see lights like the bottom of a ship floating just above the
water surface. You can see the water like rippling and vibrating, and as
you get closer you all see something. It drops into the water and is
slowly sinking down. It seems to be the like the drop piece to your
ship, the piece that goes into the cargo bay. But you would like
load things on and then back up. You've got to swim to it.
But it seems that Lamara has managed to pilot the vessel. You were on
calms the whole time. So I will use our final corruption point, our
corruption bar for the night to not be terribly mean. Lamar welled a one
to pilot the ship. She doesn't know shit about it, but she's got
off the ground. She tried, I imagine with Sally. They're doing okay,
and she's managed to lower down like the cargo drop into the water for
all of you to grab a hold of on it sits a very pristine,
beautiful Uh. What is the little drivy thing y'all have? The crawler?
Yeah, the crawler. She moved a crawler over and it sits there because
the crawler is entirely waterproof. Y'all see it, It's like it goes like
it comes out of the sky light behind it, as Lamara drops down the
crawler and something to save you. Y'all can hop in the crawler if you
like. Yeah, the crawler was waterproof this whole time. I was gonna
save the water. The crawler was waterproof this whole time. We would have
taken here's the here's the thing, y'all. Oh, yeah, it was
totally I mean, you could point of getting it, but that that was
like, no, but here's the thing. It doesn't swim. It doesn't.
It doesn't. So basically, you guys could have just floated to the
bottom. I've been able to ride the bottom, but you can't swim with
it. It's not an actual quant thing. It just happens to be air
tight. Okay. It's it's more like a last ditch effort versus a really
great idea to ride a tons worth of metal to the bottom of the ocean,
because the crawler may not have been able to necessarily pull you back out
this far down. If that makes sense, Okay, cool, all right,
So yeah, we get in the crawler just like so we're gonna get
a submarine that will never use next time, right, Yeah, totally just
calling just like a crawler we also never used. Hey, this is where
you're using the crawler right now? Damn remembered and did? You'll crawl into
this perfectly pristine crawler. As you come in, you like there's like a
small chamber you all squeeze in, close it off, you dump the water
you go in, you and a little bit of water like spill into the
back of this open it's kind of built like a tank, but you don't
enter from the top. You enter from like the back end of it exactly
exactly, and there's you know, I believe there's six seats on it,
three on either side, and then like a pilot seat that can like drive,
but it is like latched down to the platform that's dropped from the bottom
of the ship. And as all of you kind of maybe catch your breath
for the first time, having like a solid moment, you can feel the
motion of like as it starts to rise you and drag you out of the
water below you is a very quiet explosion. It takes you about two minutes
to get to the surface. As you kind of bridge the surface, you
can hear the water, like off the side, there's a very quaint voices
like hello, did you live? Hello. As soon as we get in
the crawler, I take my helmet off the bar, You're the best?
Did you live? Did we win? Yeah? We won? Oh good?
And you can kind of hear the licks, and you hear Sally voices,
welcome back to the Defiant. Let's get the fuck out of here.
The back door of this clatters open into the Defiant proper. You all stand
there and these shiny wet suits, and Lamara is kind of smiling at you,
and she's she kind of stands at the at the end and looks at
all of you. Rag tag cracks in your helmet, tears in your suit.
Ali, maybe you let open your you know, your hood, water
spills out, you know, because you've been collecting it. Alia takes her
helmet off and just walks over and gives the biggest bear hug to Lamara.
Just lift up and just like her, that's a hug for you. Chat.
You did this. You did this with your corruption bar. How you
see that you were down to like three percent oxygen as you reach the surface.
Basically, you were very close to being out, and there's kind of
a moment as Lamar goes, I learned how to put the ship the ship
in hover, but I don't. Actually, we're just kind of floating here.
Sally's like, Captain, it may be a good idea for you to
come to check on her, you know, blah blah, and so she
goes, but I did it. I got it off the ground. You
did good. I scraped the paint. There's paint. Yeah. Uh,
do any of you say or do anything? Are we back on? You
were properly on the front, properly, And it's kind of like it's like
hovering above the water and all of you can I'd say, you feel probably
there's like you know how when you drop a missile, there's like a depth
charge inside the water and it like it consumes and then it outward. It
is kind of like that. You can even look outside and as the ship
hovers above the water, it swirls like something's drawing it in and then there's
going to be a massive explosion. So maybe getting the fuck off of this
planets that earned his moon's a good idea. Olia Actually, oh sorry,
no, no, go ahead, go ahead. Two mirror just like as
soon as like they're on there, like he fastens his helmet and just like
throws it to the ground, in turns Tatal, placing both hands on her
face and just pulls her in for a deep, almost desperate kiss that he's
probably soaked in water and sweats and just like his hands you know, like
running through her hair and just he does not want to let her go.
So should I fly the ship? Or almost as if to contrast how how
dissimilar the brothers are. This is happening while the Leak is walking towards the
bathroom, where he is like unzipping and water is falling out of his suit,
the helmets off, the tank falls almost soul like as you hear I
fucking hate moons. As he walks into the bathroom, the mar seems real
shell shocked. She looks at Alia who's nearby, because Alia, you were
hugging her, and she looks up at Alia it is like, are we
gonna go? And about this time there's a okay, so yeah, so
when when Lamar says something, yeah, you tell what kind of like come
up for air so to speak, right, okay, and just start running
to the captain's chair like before anything has a chance to go wrong, tow
runs Tao, just make a piloting check. You're just gonna get your normal
basic bonuses for this. Do use your maneuver. The you get the plus
two from the maneuver, the one for the and one for the chapel blessing.
Yeah, the blessing on the chapel in the ship. Yeah, get
to pray. You didn't get to pray before this one, so you don't
get any bonus there, just the sunt run. I'm just like, oh
God, I was gonna say that. Alia what makes her way to towards
the chapel to give a prayer? Like maybe everybody needs their space and Lamar's
kind of left standing. Like as how you kind of take off from the
planet surface, all of you can feel that juttering that happens as you break
atmosphere into empty space. And uh, you can see as you look back
behind you. If you do it all, a massive depth charge goes off.
There is kind of an eruption and a cracking that happens on this Moon's
surface. It is violent and eruptive. And you know what, Alia,
you said you were going to the chapel. You connected with this ship and
the Vestal that called it home. You can roll a mystic ability check for
me. O, uh, tell me more options. That kiss three ain't
gonna be enough. What is today? Come on? Okay, No,
something is wrong. You can't put your finger on it. But as you
reach your chap one, maybe you hit your knees to say a prayer.
As you're trying to get off this planet, you can feel it. Something's
not right. You don't know what it is, and you can't put your
finger on it. But we see tow as as fast as she can get
the hell out of here. The ship bridges into space and Sally goes Captain,
we are clear of atmosphere. And then there is like a wave that
ripples across the ship. It rocks everything. There's like a boo, almost
like an alarm that goes off, and Sally says, Captain, a strange
amount of radioactivity has blast itself across this entire sector. A screen pulls up
tow and you can kind of see it. Maybe you're in your wetsuit.
Maybe you're doing the same thing Malika's doing, like unzipping and trying to like
get dry, and oh Noal's still Heal's still wets in the wet suit.
Here. We are just getting the fuck out of here. Once we're safe,
I can worry about what I'm wearing. She goes, Captain, I
have bad news. Great, let me have it. It seems that there
is an on natural stability to the portal around the Sun. And how you
have this thing. It's like fast as it can go. And as you
draw closer, like out of these planets, and you're getting ever closer,
more and more information's coming in. And maybe all of you officially gather at
some point. It's going to take you about twenty or twenty five minutes to
like settle everybody comes together. Sally keeps giving you these readouts, these readouts,
these readouts, She says, Captain, it is very strange. There
is a vast amount of electronic force that is coming from this area. It's
rather unnatural. And as you draw closer tow you begin to all of you
out the front of the ship begin to see very strange things. All of
those ships that were manning a blockade now lie in a bit of ruin.
Some of them float empty through space, dumping bodies out into the area.
Some of them are floating towards the nearest planets being sucked into atmosphere and pulled
down like asteroids to a never ending death. And as you draw near the
portal, I will tame. Or you're a specialist on this, so I'm
gonna give you a chance. I was gonna I have a I have a
theory I will give Actually, I'll give both of you a chance. You
can roll a science or you can roll a datagen check add a negative two.
Anybody that wants to properly try to roll the data gin. I don't
have a datagen I can do a datagian. Okay, I'll do it.
You and Malik are welcome to click any clack up and see what you know.
So that's science with a negative town as well. I got a tune.
Okay, okay, tu there is like it's like, why did I
not roll? Yeah? No, it's a syntax air. Is that because
you're clicking a skill you don't have? No, I have science syntax air
give us. I would refresh for me at all. I'd refresh refreshed plates.
Is your modifier accurate? Maybe that's mhmm. Okay? Is your modifier
negative? Mm hmmm? Don't put a negative yeah, don't put a negative.
Let's just okay, then that's that is what it's doing. Oh no,
but I'm just clicking the number and it automatically puts the negative. Yeah,
put it putty pretty positive to pative in the negative side. That's not
good. There you go. Wow. So y'all are looking at these redoubts
to get and a critical success. Here's what I'm going to give you.
Also, I have a and this is exactly. Something is coming through the
portal outs. And I don't mean a ship. It is like it's not
an EMP explosion necessarily, but it is a four space like it's like a
wave of energy that's blasting out. It's pushing ships. They can't seem to
fight it. And as you all draw nearer and your readouts are giving you
more information, you watch as like one monastery cruiser hits another, their reactors
explode off in the distance. They start falling to a nearby planet. Tell
what did you roll in your pilot? You rolled it two, So I'm
gonna give you a success on this. You see incoming debris and towels kind
of dodging left and white right to kind of get past pieces of the ship
that are being exploded. Every time one of these pulses comes out across space,
it pushes that debris closer to You can feel it like rock the ship
a little bit as towels hanging on. The Only way out of this is
through that portal. And you know that to mer. But what you also
know based on the data, the two data is in role and this critical
success on science. Oh it is Aurora that you hear. She goes to
mir I have bad news. Yes, talk to me a that that portal's
real active, but it's rapidly destabilizing. She's a child. It's also a
library. It's rapidly destabilizing. We have about ten minutes to make a jump
or it's gonna shut down and explode this whole sector. Is it stable enough
for us to go through it? Though? Right now it is? I
understood. You know that ten minutes is not enough time for you to prep
anything to mirror. Your crew is going to have to make a blind jump.
Good, we can do it, and we've talked, we've done it
before, or right please made You have not ever made a flat blind jump
without the help you have not you have not without you, You've never made
just a flat blind jump without the help of actually writing the algorithm. Through
the portal. Aroor says Scratch that you have seven minutes, that is seven
minutes to put everybody in a cryopod and to make a blind jump. Everybody.
I needs you in the crao pots. Now. Now whatever you're doing
gets into and now we have seven minutes or we're all going to die.
What are we doing? Tal, you and I We're going to work as
fast and as long as we can to get us to the portal. I
need you to get us through the portal. We have to get through the
portal. Now, blind jump, blind jump, all right, everybody in
the pods go and to use that as a command to make everybody move faster.
Everybody move. I don't care what you're wearing, Mike, I can
see you want to say something. I was laughing because of Tell, because
of Arrius. Yeah, I would like to I would like to run to
the pods for reference as to why everyone's laughing in chats because I'm in a
towel. I would like to run to the pods. I would like to
get in a pod and leave it open and slide over one of the like
the the computers on the arm thing that we have keep referencing over and over
again. Yeah yeah, And while I'm here, I'm going to like slay
in the pod and have this thing on here, and I'm going to do
my damnedest to attempt to assist ta Mer. I'm essentially I'm re routing processing
power like I'm deactivating non like everything is like baseline systems. Whatever we need
the minimal so that he can use as much processing's power as he possibly can.
What did you do with the blue dis I mean, technically it would
have been on the floor with all my clothes, but I think Malik is
the kind of person that would have picked that up. Yeah. I mean
you had some time before you actually made it to this world, like you
had some travel time basically, uh yeah, so he would probably have it
on him, honestly, Okay, like in your pocket, like you maybe
even check it it's there and you're clacking away. You're gonna help to mirror
to me, what are you doing? Oh? Math, lots of math,
as much math as he can. Sally needs to run is like the
prioritize specific details. He's probably even just like talking to Odora, like okay,
what do we already wait, we already we have we know, we
know, we we have the access, we we have information previous that he's
spent studying about weird things that happened in the portals. So I think he's
almost formulating a backup plan just in case. Okay, you did roll a
critical success on all of this, like to just like understand what the hell
is happening. So I'm gonna say, Aurora tells you. She goes,
I don't mean to be the bearer of bad news, but I told you
that the white butterflies were weapons, right, Yes, she says, those
those pulses, they're they're meant to be destabilizing pulses. She says, we
have to get through before another one comes with the ship may not make it.
I understand, aur is there any way that we could, But you
would know, how can we defend ourselves from such a weapon? How can
we? Well? They know She goes, well, they don't know you're
here, And she's like, I'm gonna guess that you really upset the pretty
lady in white and she probably let her friends. Now they're coming for us,
and we have to get out of this system. It doesn't matter where
we end up Tamr Okay, okay, thankfully, Aurora, we have the
best damp pilot of all the third horizons. And I think that's throw out.
I trust you she was. I'm not nervous. She's not. You
are so nervous. What kind of calculations are you trying to run here?
Ta mirror or Malik tmir What are y'all trying to actually accomplish? Quick?
Get get there as fast as possible, right, Because we're on a limited
time, so we had to adjust energy. We had a divert energy so
that we could get there in time. So I will take a technology roll
to divert energy to get you to the portal in time. Tel will end
up making one more piloting check just to like dodge all of the debris.
Honestly my thought, and Tamir our engineer, correct if I'm wrong. Uh,
some calculations towards the algorithm are better than zero calculations towards the algorithm,
and so that's why he's he wants to do a little bit of math,
like hmm. We definitely have to come at it from this angle. We
can only use this amount of speed. We can only have this amount of
power going or as we go, kaboom. I also want to say,
for for some sweet, sweet cinematic effect here, Okay, we have we
have like open comms because this is an emergency, right, yes, Like
there's claxons and and shit like that. And like, as Tamir is like
saying things about like you know, because I assume, I assume when you're
trying to do math, you're kind of talking out loud. But as Tamir
is talking out loud and trying to work through the algorithm, the notes,
the coordinates, et cetera, Malik is in the pod, same thing,
screen up, and he is sending like, because Malik has access to the
original blue disc, all this stuff we pulled off Ham and he categorized,
he organized it. So he's sending snippets of code two to Mir to like
just piecemeal together and throw at this portal and hope for the best. So
as he's thinking, like, as he's like thinking out loud, oh I
could try this, boom, it appears on his screen. One more D
six to mere for your help from Malik, I'm gonna just get added like
an extra. So here's what a blind jump actually does. Usually a blind
jump is a negative three to the piloting role. What this means is it's
a negative two because Tamer managed to put something in versus nothing. Tell Oli,
are you doing anything in the midst of all this you're getting in?
What are you doing? Well? She was, she heard over the intercom,
running and get into the Yeah you got into one. Okay, yeah,
I mean that's all she can do is get into pray. Yeah.
Tell probably one point was like, Alia, pray as far as you can
all yeah, uh you at a plus one then, so now it's because
you're praying, right, I'm your blessing the ship because Towl's not going to
have time to pray like she usually does because she's trying to pilot the sucker
as hol As Towl's doing everything, She's like, please travel or Alaska,
but that it's not like an effective prayer. But she's she's doing it,
and yeah, can I can I hear real quick? Because this is definitely
something I definitely it's a great time to get it out before to me Or
has to go to his cryopod because he still has to go run all the
way over there. Uh, he's gonna come up to twel and like pry
her hand, I'm assuming off of the one of her hands off of the
the council you know, controls, and then just leaves a small metal h
talisman in her hand, and then just kiss her hand and say, I
believe you. I believe in Utah. Wherever we go, you will get
this there safely. All just puts the puts her other hand around the back
of Timar's neck and pulls him in for one more kiss before she pushes him
away and gets back to work. You can see that the proximity like,
uh, they're not really a grenades or like missiles right anything that gets close
to the whole of the ship, and they're going off like and they're taking
off pieces of debris that would otherwise be hitting your vessel. And they're they're
working as hard as they can to keep things off of you. Ships are
crashing into other ships. Is basically like somebody let off an emp here and
none of the vessels can control themselves. You miss the first blash because you
were far enough out, so you're dodging and weaving through what are just people
and ships of the order that are just dying by mass right now in space.
Tell I need you to make a piloting check. You're going to take
a negative two to the Actually I usually have a plus maneuver. You usually
have a plus three. But that's maneuvering. That's not actually gonna be very
helpful here because you're going through the portal. There's no it's keeping you.
It's maneuvering you away from debris, but not through the portal. So you're
gonna get the plus one for the chapel, the plus one from Alia preying
like a mofo. So your negative two is now a zero. So you
have no negatives to this role. It is just a flat piloting check.
Okay, success, Okay, As we round out our evening, this is
what happens a four critical success. How you hear Sally tell you captain.
The crew are in their cryopods. The camera cuts to a round chamber.
Alia still praying, pulls it kind of you know, hydraulics down to mirror.
Your hand is empty, you left it with tow. You know she
can do this, she can do this. As you close your pod,
Malik Lamar crawls in the pod with you, pulls it closed. Why pushes
your computer away, pulls the pod closes like box date. She smiles.
As the both of you go into cryosleep. Yeah, as the both of
you go into cryosleep, tow you know that you are alone. I don't
know what you're saying. I said, there's a creepy Lamara smile and then
it very confused clid, it frosts over said, both of you like you
freeze in this moment and town you're all by yourself. You know they are
in sleep. You have minutes. There is a there's a timer as you
set it, and you have to hope that this is going to work.
You hear it. Come over, Captain, you must get in your pod.
You have thirty seconds. Maybe the talisman in your hand a reminder that
no matter what, no matter how many portals you go through, no matter
what end of the third Horizon you are in or what you face, you
have somebody that loves you. And you crawl on the portal as you watch
the timer as it freezes you. Ten nine, hey, als men,
right above my heart. Seven six. We hear that door close four three
two. The portal consumes you and pulls you in like it always does,
as you fall and drift into a sleep. Towel. Another pulse rings out.
Moments after the Defiant pins through the portal. Anyone that was in Uharu
is now ravaged by a second wave of an attack by the first horizon.
Darkness consumes our party. A blind jump like this is dangerous. A blind
jump through a space that is being inhabited by white butterfly ships waiting twice as
dangerous. Our crew lies in cryo sleep, a stasis. The ship takes
pretty extreme damage as it comes out the other side, and we see some
portal somewhere in the third horizon spit the Defiant out. It doesn't travel straight.
It tumbles like a kid tossing a rock down concrete, no lights,
no hydraulics. It floats empty in space, like a ship lost at sea
without power. None of you wake up, and there's an eerie silence as
the camera follows a small singular ship as it floats empty through space, lost
its sea in essence. With small fade to black Tao, You're not awoken
by the sound of hydraulics, or of sally, or of the emptiness of
space, but by the sound of medical instruments boop boop boop. Your eyes
might come to just a little bit for you to look over. You're attached
to a medical machine. There's ivs in your arms, and you're rather groggy.
Somebody you don't know puts their hand on your forehead and she says,
shh, rest. You've been floating in space for almost two months. Tao
takes your brain a moment, and it's almost too much for you to handle
under this much sedation, she says, But you're out of coma now.
Let's hope the rest of your career joins you. And the camera fights to
black and we will pick up next week with the lost crew of the Defiant.
Well, shit, that's amazing. That was great. Uhe I am
so happy right now. You don't even know. I'm so glad you are
happy because I was really I mean, Mike changed my name to an actual
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