Arise Minions, and welcome to this Unmade gaming production. Join the crew of
the Defiant as they journey through the Third Horizon at the Mercy of the Icons,
trying to understand just what's happening to the mystics in this Coriolist campaign.
Void, the show you were about to listen to, was originally a livestream
actual play on twitch dot tv slash on Made Gaming. Arise Midian said,
Welcome to season four, episode one of Void. This is the last season,
This is the last Hurrah. This episode is called the Last Dance.
What could that mean? Who the hell knows, least of all me mostly
Dot. That being said, if you guys like we do here and you
want to you want to support the channel, and you want to see more
cool things, and you want to actually see KP's face, that's actually bonus
content that you can see over on our Patreon link for that down below.
While you're down there, join us on the discord, be a part of
the conversation, be a part of the community, and as always you'll see
the bottom right hand corner the corruption bar. That bar serves two purposes.
One is when that bar fills Dot gets through the hell she wants to us,
it's almost always terrible. And two, every single Dot that goes into
that jar goes back to these wonderful, amazing faces that you see here before
you. And with that, I turned things over to Dot to take us
into Jariff's ball. Okay, well, we are starting a new season,
so it's only proper to begin with a little bit of a recap because our
crew has a big decision to make tonight, and I feel like the setup
for that decision is important. Last season on Void, the Defiant crew broke
school out of prison. Y'all remember that seems like a real long time ago,
don't it. You broke Souol out of prison and brought the crew back
together along with the new member Alia, who joined you upon the request of
somebody very near and dear. Showley requested as the mentor of Alia, that
she take care of the crew of the Defiant, that they may in fact
need it before this grand adventure is over. Though they may have interest in
continuing to find the missing Emissaries, their journey did not take them on that
path. In fact, they were requested from the tail end after some shenanigans
with some junk in space. I know Shenanigans who would have thought to return.
They have been requested by a pretty important voice, in fact, the
Judge, the one who has sent them on missions in the past. They
picked up a mission, one that only the crew of the Defiant could finish
because their daft efforts in season one, well, they impressed quite a few
people. And when you impress people, well they noticed you. And they
were sent into Uharu, where the other half of the ship of the Sphir,
remember that one, the one with all the radiation and the scary scary
dogs. Oh no, no, no, that was the Ghazali. The
Gazali was traveling with the Zephir, which you found on the other end of
Tawan, actually half of it. A year later, the other half comes
spitting out in Uharu, flying straight across the system and landing, as a
consortium believes, on the dark side of a moon on one of these planets.
Problem is over the last year, Uharu has fallen into the hands of
the Order of the Parya, which, to our crew's knowledge at the time,
is the Big Bad the one who may be involved in helping the White
Butterfly, as well as the First Horizon back into the third HMM. Now
our crew goes to retrieve this disc, and what they learn along the way
is that is in fact not true. That it seems that there is an
older group, an older order, who has been framing the Order of the
Paria. O dinners here, thank you, has been framing the Order of
the Paria. But they retrieve the disc unfortunately, because you, Harru,
is a bit of a war zone where the Order is kind of holding it
and the opposite side is kind of being held by the Consortium, and they're
kind of sneaking around because they're working for the Consortium. Well, they kind
of met a being a crack white butterfly under the cold oceans of this moon,
and why that being let out a cry to the first horizon, who
in return sent a very large pulse kind of like an emp across and through
the portal, breaking it down. And our crew made a critical success,
if I remember correctly, a critical success blind jump. A critical success blind
jump back anywhere to get out of a system. Good news too, because
all of you, Haru, that entire system was pretty much wiped clean.
There are or were no survivors. But a jump like that could land you
anywhere at any time, and about two weeks pass before our crew wakes up
on Koua and a high, high end medical facility best probably in the Third
Horizon, unfortunately high medical care. The damage done to the vessel, and
the fact Meir's kind of hiding some tech in his head, kind kind of
hiding some really important tech in his head, the crew is going to have
to make a decision a patron. The crew of the Defiant has seen and
done what nobody else has. Whether they want to call themselves heroes or not,
they are being honored as such today on our premiere episode three. Patrons
are very interested in them. The Consort would love to continue to hire them
to do research and assure that the Consortium stays on the forefront knowledge of whatever
is going on, and they in fact know them most considering the fact they
have the Blue disc now. In addition, some other faces came around head
of the Fighter Pilots or fleet for the Third Horizon, who hinted at the
fact that she may also work for the astorban It's fine, golf cough.
She might just kind of have coff be working for the bad guy. It's
fine. As Mike said backstage, they're kind of the SS of the Third
Horizon kind of, and they might kind of be being funded kind of by
the military fleet that she runs kind of. And then, of course,
the final offer, the most obscure and maybe even poignant, is the one
that offered safety for Tamir. The kind of tech Timir has in his head
shouldn't be had, at least not legally anyways. And even though Aurora is
hiding deep down in there, if they have the chance, they will find
her and learn everything there is to know. But this group, they're free
agents. They are guilt more than anything of very very wealthy merchants who seek
artifacts and knowledge information, So they have to make a choice, all of
which have requested an answer to their patronage at tonight's big extravaganza. Now,
Kua, for those of you that don't know, is kind of a swampy
planet except for the area around what is known as the Monolith. It is
a building that is so large that you can see it from space. You
can actually see it jutting up and into the atmosphere. It's massive. I
actually have a side perspective view of it that is so telling. It's here
in Roll twenty. Do I have y'all on that page. I do,
I don't, I do, I don't. There you go there to the
right, you can see how big it is in comparison to the city below.
Now, the monolith itself was not built by our hands. It was
left here and has been repurposed by us, as most of the artifacts in
the Third Horizon. But it is the hustle and bustle. If you are
not on Coriolis, if you are of the upper crust and elite, you
probably live here. A lot of law jurisdiction takes place here, and well,
the highest medical facility, the highest quality media medical care in all of
the Third Horizon. We'll be found here and all of you are way up
at the top and a private suite. You've been given your own private like
living quarters that share this common area space. It's cleaner than you even after
showering on the defiant. It is uh yeah, it is pristine. The
furniture is made of some material you could just wipe a spill off of minimal
plant life of flowers. But it overlooks, or so you think, a
series of windows, a beautiful landscape that absolutely could not be inside of this
building, like a Koi pond, and a bunch of other things, which
you know is probably an illusion of some kind or projection. You have roughly
about eight hours before you all need to be called to dress and to dinner,
or you'll be picked up. Anyways, all starts off before anything else.
Inspecting the room to see if she can find anything that monitoring them.
She's tal is paranoid. Okay, okay, that's really interesting. So that
would probably be infiltration to like find other things. But I would also give
you what is it? An observation, observation, set a perspect What is
it? I can't remember. Let me pull my character sheet. Oh it's
been a whole week my brain. Observation. It is observation. I'll take
observation or infiltration. You'll get different information for both. I don't have infiltration,
so I'm gonna have to do observation. Let's do it then. Okay,
you look around, you pick up the small pieces maybe of furniture,
vases, lamps around. You don't see any bugged devices. This place seems
clean to your knowledge. Yeah, how is everybody? Why are we doing
this again? Well, we can't really go back to my ship since it's
being held hostage for repairs. So would you rather go find somewhere else to
stay. I mean, we flew it through a portal with broken parts because
it can eaten by space vampires, so I'm pretty sure we could doe it
back. I feel like you are making comparisons that don't really match it.
Those seem like two completely different skill sets. No. No, we flew
through a broken portal that eaten by space vampires. We stole random metal and
basically glued it to the ship and jumped back through a portal. I'm pretty
sure we can steal it from here. I don't do you know, well,
you know, welding is kind of like gluing pieces of metal together.
Yeah, that we stole from a mining facility, So I'm pretty sure if
we can fight space vampires and like barely welded metal in the vacuum of space,
I'm pretty sure we could steal it from a couple of videots with guns,
one of those hedgem on full of fighter pilots. When isn't someone trying
a gun for us? We did? You? Hear Lamara's voice from a
room behind you, She goes, we're on TV. Oh no, And
probably because of that, I don't think we can just go without being noticed,
even from this building. Like Malik looks incredulously at Alia, who he
only recently learned was a criminal. Okay, yeah, I'm sure we couldn't
be unseen. Then you hear it again. Oh my, oh gosh,
she's gonna keep and she runs into the room. She has definitely made herself
at home. She is wearing a white, cushy bathrobe that she probably found
here. She's wearing little matching slippers that are far too big verfy because they're
like a one size fits all kind of a thing. And she goes,
look, look, look, and she reaches up on the wall and kind
of slides her hand in a hud comes down and it's playing whatever was in
this other room she was in, and she she points and goes, look,
and all of your faces are on the morning news, identified by name,
and uh, the woman, uh, the woman behind the desk is
talking about, you know, tonight's festivity should be of significance considering the fact
that the Consortium is quickly losing power here in the third Horizon. And she's
kind of talking political stuff. She says, but in lieu of dark times,
we have faces like thieves, and she gestures to empty space, where
of course all your faces are projected, and then Mark goes, that's me.
Chal just turns into Tamyr's chest and like hides her head. No,
and she goes, oh, this is this is the best part. This
is what they were talking about. And the woman goes and tonight we'll get
to learn so much more about our fair adventurers. In fact, they are
to be interviewed by the biggest and best of the news. They'll be personally
escorted throughout the evening by Charity. Uh. And the camera pans over and
you see this woman with big hair, a big personality. She wears velvet
because she can, and she is well put together, and she holds a
mic and she is already smiling when the camera gets to her. There is
not even a missed beat. And she says, thank you so much.
It's me Charity. And tonight's ball is gonna be one of a kind.
And she says, I can't wait to spend more time with these adventurers,
to hear about what it's like in the fastness of space outside the walls of
us here on Kula and in Coriolis. If you've got questions, make sure
to use the hash questions dot us, which is funny because you can't use
dot hashtag and will make sure yeah, and will make sure I wish do
couldn't use hashtags, and we'll make sure to get your questions answered straight from
the mouths of the bravest folks. In the third Horizon, Charity signing up
to Mirror has his arms complete covering towels ears just and U Sie Lamargo.
I love Charity's talk show. She always asked the best questions. We're going
to be interviewed by her live. I'm nervous. Malik has like sunk in
into what I assumed to be a very plush armchair, and you never saw
him take it out. But he has out his tablet and he's just scrolling
and anyone close enough can see that he typed in his own name and he's
just scrolling through like the spoogel results of his name, and he's like,
fuck, fuck fuck. Lamara is very excited. She turns, she goes,
I don't have anything to wear. I'm in a bathroobe. Oh my
god, and she comes up with, we all have one in the closet.
Look, our names are on it. And they've already embroidered your name.
She lays down and kisses you on the cheek, and she says,
tonight is gonna be so much fun. And she like pitters off back into
the bedroom to like get ready, and then they say very oh yeah,
go ahead on. Alia turns to Malik and says, so about that plan
now or in or now? Yes? See very muffled, I sucond this
idea. See first it was like, Molik, that's crazy space vampires whatever,
two different whatever? Now to me here, how do we steal that
ship? Can you rebuild it? And how okay, how much of the
ship needs to be operational for you to steal it? And how much can
you rebuild while it's flying? Just because I've met an icon does not mean
I am in icon. But I feel like if the cockpit is sealed and
the reactor is connected to the drive tubes, I don't know, man,
it'll go right. Tal tilts her head back and she says, I think
you're iconic, but I don't think you can repair a ship while I'm flying
it. Hear that, she says, you can't do it? Sounds like
a challenge to me, and not at your door? Does that happen.
She says it would be easier for us to steal a new one. Okay,
Alia gets up and walks through the door and goes, who is this
uh delivery? This this kind of a young a boy? Is there a
is there what? I like? I'm assuming there's like some kind of a
screen. Again, there's like a screen, yeah, you boop it on.
And there's there's a very frail he's a teenager, campy, more than
about fifteen. He's standing there holding a large kind of package. It's like
hanging and he says, uh, it's a delivery. Oh. One moment,
who's from what the uh? There's a boy, like I said,
he's about fifty, he's not very tall, he's clearly just barely hit puberty.
He's kind of trust kids. I know drug. Okay, you're as
bad at a criminalized t meir Is, he's a child. Several people might
want to kill us. What did you do with the children to one killed?
I'm not having Okay, one moment, I'm just here to give this
to you. And he like hands the whole He hands it over to you
and like he goes, I don't want to tell run runs runs from your
front door. Is it ticking? Alia turns around and goes, we need
to work on your trust issues. Actually, most bombs don't tick. Is
it vibrating? Does it smell funny? Alia throws it right at buddy.
He hits it with the tablet. It bats to the floor. It's rather
heavy actually, like kind of smacks when the face is right by your feet.
It looks like a grouping of garment bags. You idiots. Oh,
I can't be damned. It could have been anything. It could have been
a pipe bomb. You don't know. To me, he's a terrorist.
Anyone could try to kill us. You are apparently a secret criminal the whole
time. I've just been spoogled like anyone could be anyone. I kind of
tried to say arms and say Alia, we've had people actually break into my
ship while we were asleep once and literally try to kill us. Have good
reason to be paranoid. Also, the last kid we loved on our ship
ended up being that Jin who also tried to kill us. So KP Yes,
I would like for Alia to make a roll. They just said two
words in the same sentence, first role Jin and kid. Don't fuck this
up. It hasn't been since your childhood, since you have even thought or
tried to think about those two things together. Okay, what do you want
me to roll? I don't want you. This is a will. This
is like it's gonna it's basically which pleasure empathy? So your empathy? Oh
oh, okay, empathy? Roll it is. Come on, be a
good boy. Yeah, you succeed. There's a strange uh not, maybe
I don't know how it manifest but there's an uneasiness that can't probably help but
wash over you. When she says gin and kid in the same sentence,
I'm assuming that, but I do. I'm assuming Ali already knows about this
history with the gin. Unless y'all have told Alia, this would be the
first time you've heard of it. The only gin they told you about one
that was possessing Lamara. That's true. Oh that's why I think for the
first time, you're like, wait a second, I thought the old was
the Succubis. Basically all right, so I'll it just freezes for a second
and goes, what did you say about the assassins? They? No,
no, reverse? Well did a hole in the shoe? No genus?
What kind of gin? Kid? How did he look like like a kid.
I don't know. They look the same to me. We found him
after we fought the space vampires. He was about this tall, and Tile
proceeds to describe him as much detail as she can. Remember. Hell's not
an extremely descriptive person, so it's it's still kind of vague. She doesn't
really have She's not very verbose, so her words are the description. The
description could be yeah, and we found him. Uh, it was.
It was really interesting. You'll get a kick out of this because you like
weird shit. So we went through a broken portal thought, turns around and
goes, I'm going to go take a bath, and then walks in and
then this in the part where everyone was dead in the book. Okay,
all right, I guess you don't want to hear about space obvis. Are
we really going to this? It's really happening. No, okay, we
don't captain's orders. We don't have to go. I would really not like
to go, but I would also really not like the entire horizon to know
my name. But that's not something that's happening today. So great. I
don't know how to get out of this. People. I vote we steal
a ship, like you said, it'd be easier to steal a ship,
and I agree, like, could it would be easier to steal a ship?
I said, it would be easier to steal a ship than it would
be to steal my ship and repair it while flying. I agree, we
could steal a ship, and he like points to to mirror. You wouldn't
know that your ship should be done today final repairs or will be done today
on your vessel. You were told that there's an absolute vote of confidence and
that we could steal a ship. Well, then I mean, if if
my ship's supposed to be done today, then I mean we could just pick
up my ship and leave. I could just imagine like you're holding to and
you just feel a concerned shrug of like we could steal a ship, like
you now you're gonna go fuck it? Deal shp. We said, we
said, we said, dot it would be a fun episode if we had
a ball, and she said, no problem, and then she gave it
to me, like, oh, we don't want that ball. That that
ball is yuckie. I wanted a private ball for just the five of us,
and then this is too much. This is too much ball and I
don't want that much. Oh, God, poor Dot, I have I
have no feelings either way. I have in store said. I just wanted
a reason to dress up. Somebody could have gotten married that wasn't talent to
mirror. Still a good reason to dress up. We can all dress up.
It's not as it's not as good as this one. Charity would not
be invited to the wedding. Charity's not invited anywhere ever. Again, Charity,
Charity should be locked up somewhere. We thought the last news person you
put on was awful. This person's worse. Okay, then you hear it.
Oh no, hey, welcome. Then you hear it again, Lamara
for the third time. Oh my god, look are you gonna keep doing
that? Yes, she runs it. She's very clearly was like was in
the tub and is now like dripping and has SuDS and she's wrapped in like
a you know, the same room and look, look it's Charity once again.
Guess who's getting a private tour of your vessel? Oh my fucking god,
Now, Dot, you ebo person. She's like, this is what
we get for corruption. Chat. Y'all can skip the ball if you want
to, but Charity's on your ship right now. And She's like, I'm
getting a first person look at what it's like living there out on the rim
for the third horizon. Look at this, This must be tal Tuma's room.
And she like the camera like pans around and she says, what it
must be like to be a captain of such a brave crew? Can you
imagine? I look forward to asking her some questions. If you would like
your questions answered, make sure to use the hashtag ask questions dart r Us
Is this alive? And she goes, oh, this way, look a
probab bridge and she like The door slides open and she goes, get the
shot. Is this this is guy? I think? So I don't want
to be Oh my God, give me the control of sue spot all right,
I hand over my U my me. You got it. It's very
far this is this is very far from where you are right now. So
you're gonna need to good Dada's enroll perfect. Well, I'll let me open
my character she as as uh as uh starts starts stud I'm like, come
on, gizmo, Oh okay, okay, all right, uh you It
takes a second. It takes it a minute. And while while you're like,
come on. She's going like space displace and she goes, and now
I am in the medical bay. Can you imagine how many of the crew
have been healed here? She looks over and you could see like some of
Lamara's stuff is hanging near like the bunk, the on site bunk for the
doctor or whatever. And she goes, that jacket is so last season.
And Lamara goes, I will kill her and what is that? Uh?
And she turned around in the camera like pans kind of like a horror movie
and are you doing it like near the floor? What's the plan here?
By controller dot? Uh? You know what, it's the it's the season
premiere, h Dot. I'm gonna give you a darkness point. I'm gonna
give you a darkness point right off the bat because I'm gonna use my icon
talent, which is the faceless one, and it gives me the benefit of
changing a single concrete detail and a scene towards my favor. In comes gizmo
hovering probably three feet off the ground, and uh, maybe a famous maybe
not famous, maybe quite identical grenade sits on top of his little room behead.
No, it just is it's not a library. I don't have I
don't have hands to pull a pin dot. But it's it's just floating with
the grenade towards the camera crew, and anytime they try to move it just
it just moves higher out of reach. And the she turns around, she
goes, oh my god, and attack droan, are you getting this on
camera? How does on it? Don't worry about it. That is that
is I can't that detail. That's the rule. She goes, look at
it prepared for battle. If I moved this way, it goes just like
the strategy of those that must ald horizon. Mhm. And she goes,
she goes in t minus six and a half hours like they're already repairing the
ship. What happens, it's like, blow up the whole ship. Now
you just you you can actually see that there's at least one grenade on this
ship. I would imagine they would assume there's a lot more. We have
seven guns on a science vessel. The ship. If now, maybe if
you can get past her drowning voice that just keeps talking about this, this
attack droning employee is all of you see behind her, and you can see
everything looks brand new. It looks exactly like your ship, except everything's brand
new. It's of course, like missing a lot of the personal effects and
things that probably burned up. Uh. But uh, they've replaced everything,
shiny metal is clean. They even put they put your crawler back. Uh.
Tell, I have bad news for you. What We're gonna have to
scrap the whole ship. The whole place is bugged. They replaced the ship
from top to bottom. I'd bug it, I would, yeah, yeah,
I was just going to replace the ship. So planned stealer ship.
I'm on board for plan stealership by inventory. What inventory? It exploded?
And you did you did until it exploded and they put all news crews in.
We can't use the ship tyal too much. I named all the screws,
I named every bolt. Oh it's so sad. It's not even the
same ship anymore. They replaced everything. This is the second most emotional scene
with Timir is the when he realizes the ship has been replaced. I didn't
say that, right. We don't have to technically, like you know,
replace the whole ship. So one of the things that I learned, you
know, while I was doing that really cool well all of you were in
Colma. Uh, I learned that one of the things that sometimes that they
do to reset people with uh uh technology in their heads, and she kind
of looks right at t mirror. You know, if they if they if
they, if they want to remove it, you have to kill the tech
and and so they just kind of put you through an MP pulse like they
just uh you know, it shuts you down, but not the body because
you know you're organic and it's not. So then you just remove the dead
metal, nonfunctioning technology. So I'm just saying you could run the you could
emp the ship. Yeah, but that only works for bugs. What if
it's on the software keylger that's what you do. That's I don't it's easier
to steal a ship. I have to go through lines and lines of code.
That's as to somebody else. That's what stealing is. Yeah, well,
I mean I wouldn't want anybody to steal my ship. They did just
keep this ship this technically, I mean, you know what, what steal
my ship the new one. It's ceiling. They're just going to give it
to us, you know what. We'll break in and take it before they
can give us the keys. That was my original plan. Why is it
a guy idea now and then I do you hear like from uh from the
back because because uh sorry having a brain burn up because Towel's the one who
said it, I hate the screw maddening. Let's see, Uh you see
Alia come out and she's I think this might be the first time you see
her out of her roads and she's not wearing one of the bathrooms isn't isn't
her size? Uh, they would have had multiple sizes. You know.
Here's the thing. None of y'all checked the package that was sitting that's lying
on the floor. But Alie, it's very clear to you that they made
this robe to fit you, which means somebody has sized you up the same
thing like Lamar's robe with her name on it fits her. I mean it
makes sense. They rebuild our entire bodies. They should know how big we
are like that. Either that didn't make it better first time, like like
her hairs like slipped back and like the first time like loosened up, like
it's not up in the the like the braid that she normally has it like
just down and just like well that was refreshing. Uh well, okay,
Delika is making this actual face at you yeah, immediately like she first turns
to towel and to me and goes, ah, when you get the chance,
we need to talk, maybe you two, and then turns to Malik
as well, that's important now, just something I need to get off my
chest. Hey, Malily, what's wrong with your face? It's like it
was, you know when you see some I fight you. You know,
when you see someone with glasses only, and then you see them take their
glasses off and they look like a different person. That's silly. It doesn't
work that way. Medically speaking. Your face is still the same with or
without glasses. Thank you. Wait wait, hang it, No his is
better without them. Oh really, well I kind of liked it, all
right. I'm glad they replaced every bolt. Then there is another. I
hope your bed is just too soft. At the door, a dick room
service more but I'm hungry. Just leave the food. No one ordered room
service, but they're treating us. We're special. That's the problem. Up
her silver Lamar goes, I'm gonna go get the food, and she goes
to the door. She's still dripping, She's still in this road. She's
mute at the TV. You can see that chastity. Our charity is still
uh charity is uh trying to get past Gizmo, who's definitely like not letting
her pass. You can tell the camera guys trying to like help her.
It's it's kind of weird. They keep trying to go around there in the
medical bay, so they keep trying to like go around the table. It's
a disaster. Lamara mutes it. Uh. She goes to the door.
There's a cart there with a bunch of like cloishes and stuff on it,
and she pulls the cart in and removes the cloish to reveal a vast array
of very tasty foods. I hate that giggle of being that it's it's because
coal, said, Oh my god, coal, And it's because of freaking
mic Oh wow, bring in the food because smells it's hot. Yeah,
it's it's a it's a little before lunch. So you've got everything from like
like fruits and cheeses and breads of sorts to like and like real fruit,
not that fake stuff that you just add water to. Like the real stuff.
You've got, yeah, freshly toasted bread, and then there's an array
of like fresh hot sausages and it looks like maybe some kind of leg maybe
venison of a sort. You're not really sure, but there's like there's a
beast ray of like foods, and uh there's a wine bottle at the bottom,
fully like a decanter full of wine and a little note on top.
What does the note say before before I take anything to eat? You pick
the table card up and you flip it open, and it simply says,
uh, eat to your film. We welcome you as guests tonight's we look
forward to your answer. And it is signed by our dear dear hang on.
What's her name? I gotta remember why people's names party, the one
who works the flight Uh commander h yes, yes, that one. I
took notes? Thank you. I have my notes, I just don't actually
have them up at the moment, which is silly of me. There we
go. Yes, so, uh is she commander? Uh the commander here?
Yeah? Didn't Harama? That's what I call her commanded did harama?
Commander didn't? Harama? Is how it is signed? She has very clearly
like stamped, uh, the same emblem, the like crescent star right that
she wears wears on her clothing. And yeah, is this eat to your
piel. We look forward to your answer tonight. Well, we haven't given
them our answer yet, so they have no reason to poison us. And
I go ahead and and just start eating. I say, you know,
if we're gonna if we're gonna dip out of this ball early and steal my
ship, we're gonna need fuel. That's nuts. Jimmeyre wastes no time in
eating. Yeah, Lamar is there too. She's like bread, Is this
like what it's like to be famous? All the sweets? He's just like
stocking up while while we're in the middle of this feast alia. It's suddenly
like she's been really quiet until now, like most of the time, and
then finally pipes up. So, uh, you know that that Gin you
were talking about? Uh? Yeah, that was my brother, just like
just kind of nonchalant, almost like forced nonchalance in the way that she says
that I could you would like literally well more I suppose adopted. We've it's
a long story, and I have not seen him in over a decade.
Yes, we don't like Gin, right, Like that's a yeah, we
don't. Well, at least the ones that we've met so far. You're
not a Gin, are you your siblings, Like I said, he was
adopted. What I'm sorry, how how old are you old? AMaGA think
in my twenties? I forget my agents? What was my agent ties?
Twenties? Yeah, No, there's no way, there's no what, there's
no way. If you saw that kid a decade ago, the kid was
like ten, he was ten, Like when we saw him, he was
like ten. Yeah, he's a gin. Was Yeah, he was a
voice in the computer system instead of Sally for a while. So he was
a gin when you knew him. Do you just fuck what? Technically he
was a gin when we knew him too. That was the problem. I
just assumed he became a gin like that. Never mind? How like?
What Malik? How many gin do you know? And he just continues to
talk over Do you just casually no gin all the time? You've met two
of them as well? So it's been feels like we had an great Yeah,
it wasn't very great. I was the one who had to seal it.
Well, now surely was the one who sealed him in Fronot. Well
he just found him walking around with corpses and ship Well, I don't know
how he got there, I do you know? I don't even know where
he's at. Now, do you know where he's he is? No,
he let him loose on Coriolas. You let I mean to be fair.
He stole our ship and then tried to kill us, and then he said,
I won't kill you if you bring me to Coriolas. We're like,
well, we like not being dead, so that's sort sorry that what's the
first time? Tell him, yeah, that's what And then you just see
Alia just kind of lean back and then just start eating. She's like I
basically thinking that's just one. It just never ends. It's just one thing
after the other, just adding on of things to do. Well, do
you have any other Gin siblings that we should know about before we try to
fight them? Because first you dropped that Semina was your sister, and then
you dropped that from the Gin kid was your brother, So like you have
an assassin for a dad? Is Zuli your dad? What other secrets you're
hide in? Seel was old enough to be I don't know how it works.
Alia like for the first time, just like I don't I don't know.
I'm sorry. My entire family is such a nuisance and gets up and
just like, hey, try to kill lee everyone that we know him.
His family has tried to kill us. Tell throws the random piece of bread
that she was eating at Maleak and follows Aliya out how by the back.
His sister stabbed you her? That's the right, Her sister stabbed thank you.
I was just a minor stab wood. It's it's just a mound of
flesh wound. How am I the bad guy to beer all of his families
trying to kill us? Malik, I think the point is that none of
us are the bad guys. And he just sinks back into the couch again,
and you see him pull out like a tube of wire, and he's
snaking it towards the door. He's slowly, he's slowly using his fifty feet
of fibroscope to just monitor, to monitor the door. The big foot,
it's just gonna step on the very end of it. Come on, I
take back what I said about the bolts. I want to know if someone's
coming. We'll figure out when they come. Everybody keeps knocking and everybody's opening
the damn door. It's really easy to hide explosives. He like looks at
He looks at you for a second. He's so goddamn paranoid. He's so
wid that's clear. It's I just I don't. I don't this. I
don't like any of this. Oh what choice do we have? You know,
we can't go and steal a ship steel ship run well, Blays of
Glory have eyes everywhere. If we are bugged, they still know where we're
at. It's not going to matter. I don't understand what's wrong. I
don't want to be looks at the both of you with a dead pants stare.
I don't I don't like the spotlight. Well, sometimes things happen that
we don't like, Malik and and and you know what, this is the
first time and what like a year, a whole year, a whole year
that any of us have have been able to just sit down and be appreciated
for doing all of this stuff, for having a gin living in my body,
and you go into a jump planet to have to live and Tew and
Sue and Alia and everybody's done so much Tamyr and everybody has done so much
stuff, and and and now these people are trying to appreciate us. I
know you'll be concerned with is you're faced on the TV. I'm pretty sure
no one around us wants to be on the TV. It'll be over,
It'll be over in a few days. No, it won't, because our
face is on the damn TV and now it's always there, so now everyone
knows who we are. This guy on the TV, he did this thing
and I can't even remember exactly what it was. And he was famous for
like a day. Yep, we'd heroes of Coriolis of the Third Horizon that
doesn't go away in a day. Then act like one. I don't want
to be one, but I didn't ask for the title. It was stupid.
I just want to fuck off on the ship. Really, I just
wanted to fuck off. And then I got it's not on the ship.
And now that's where I'm sucking off on the ship, which is better than
nowhere, definitely better than here. And he points to the TV with Charity
on it. Yeah, yeah, here the place for food, free food.
There was free food on Township and Central. Yeah. It was noodles
and paste and past in a can. I'd rather have it, give me
pasting a can over fine, fine, fine, fine, Get off my
cord. Oh my bad, I'm sorry, Yes, and he starts to
push it towards the door. I don't understand stupid, what TV not?
Everything is bad. Lamar looks right at to me when she says that sometimes
apartment. Yeah, do you miss your junk planet too? And your girlfriend
in a jar? And she walks off. That's what got you out of
the jar? No, no, no, no whatever. And she she
snatches the clothing bag up, and she says, you know, and if
any of you are interested, they bought us something to wear. And she
sorts through and grabs hers and slops all of y'all's on the floor. She
walks into her bedroom and she can't slam the door, but she bits it
shut. If you quietly stand there with that lamb any longer, I swear
to God, I'm gonna shove it in your mouth. What say? What
are you gonna say? Say it? Do you need to work on your
communicy? Oh? I hate you. I hate you so much, hate
your stupid lamb's stupid, stupid lamby and ass brooding guessing. The camera cuts
to Tell and Alia as the brothers sit in silence, listening to me or
munch on a lamb. The lamb chop literally lambs like a lamb kebab Yeah,
so where did Alia go, because that would have just been only a
couple steps behind her. Yeah, Alliot's went straight to her. I'm assuming
there's multiple rooms. Where are we? Like, are there share rooms in
this everybody has a separate room. Yes, so Alia definitely just like kind
of saunch, not sounding like like sulks into her room and you see her
like sitting on her bed, kind of just like hunched over, just staring
at her hands. Alia. Yes, So, I know you're normally the
one, uh who does all the like insightful talking, but I think I
know something that you might need to hear. Yeah, I'm sorry, it's
just it's it's it's been a lot to process and uh yeah, what is
it? Do you mind if I come in towels just kind of standing respectfully
on the outside of the door. Yeah, of course please. And then
you her like tap the side of the bed, I walk up and I'll
h almost sit down, but then kind of think better of it. And
and you can you can tell from our body language, tell's really really nervous
right now. She's she's kind of pacing a little bit, walking around in
circles. Almost in your previous interactions, she's always kind of treated you very
much as a mentor someone who's like always looked up to you in a very
literal and figuratively sense, just trying to learn from you as much as possible.
But she she kind of puts on a very nervous but different air.
Now. She says, you know, I know you're really nervous about well,
not nervous, that's the wrong word. I'm We're not our family.
The things that your family do does, that's that's not you. You make
your own choices, and whoever happened to be part of your life at one
point or another their choices or their own and they do the things that they're
going to do, and that doesn't necessarily that's not you. And Ayia just
kind of stares at her hands toill and it goes, did you know I
lost my mother when I was twelve. She was my only, I guess,
true family. And then afterwards, one by one those that I have
called family have either left me or turned out to be something different. And
then I've still accepted that. But then to see that come back and my
past come back to try and possibly hurt my new family, I don't know
what to do. It's not me that I'm afraid of. I'm afraid of
hurting all of you because of my past, because of who I call family.
My so called brother turned out to be a gin that I had to
seel away, and now turns out that he came back and could have potentially
killed all of you before I ever met you. My sister did try to
kill several of you, stabbed one of them, and there's nowhere to be
found. So it seems I don't know if I who I can place my
trust and who whether my word my trust is worth anything. Yeah, and
I don't like seeing my my family hurt, especially by those others that I
care about or cared about. There's once again, you can't You can't control
other people. Being responsible for something that somebody else does is there's no way
to live. You can only control how you respond to it, and sometimes
you can't even control that. Can be every time we go into the market,
a wreck off ta Miror is not next to me. It's unfortunately part
of your past, but that doesn't mean that you have to stay there.
I'm I'm just scared. I don't like what I don't want to lose you
all like I lost them. And hearing How my how that that was almost
a possibility scared me. But you're right, There's there's nothing I could have
done, and none of it is, I guess truly my fault. But
I'm still scared. How finally sits down next to you and kind of uh
puts puts her hand between you, palm up to kind of offer hers uh
and and says, you know, I'm scared too, But we're all in
this together, and I can assure you I'm pretty sure that all of us
would die for each other, and probably would have several times if it wasn't
for the fact that we care so much about each other. Not sure why,
but we do. And then you see Alia like turn her head and
like put her hand in your in your hand as well and kind of give
a light squeeze. Well, it's because we care and we're family, and
I'm grateful that you are, and I will do my level best to make
sure that I keep you all safe. Beat from my past or some some
pranas trying to eat away at us, or out there in the media,
or just some damn ball. Oh I think tonight we're gonna have to go
to that damn ball. But we can put on a front and not say
very much of anything. Let's all beat. Let's be mysterious that I can
do and hey, uh if nothing else, well fuck it. We're gonna
steal my ship anyways and leave. So I don't think we could do it
any other way. It wouldn't be the defined if we did. M hm,
very touching moment between the two of you. As one more. Knock
on your door, gents, you're outside eating in silence? You hear it?
There is If you call out, there's no response. Nobody comes over
the intercom. Can I see who it is? On my yes? A
man very kind of simply dressed like package carrier. He wears a dark blue
jumpsuit, has a small box in his hand. He comes up, you
see him, like tap tap tap on the door. He drops the box
and walks away. Okay, that one that was legit suspicious miracle to the
door. I'm just like okay, manually like man really like slowly hold the
window button and you and you pull the box in. Mm hmm. It's
unmarked as a small ribbon around it and a tag on it. It does
look like a gift. Why do you do it? He sniffs? It
like, does he smell any like chemical ingredients that, No, you don't.
In fact, it's Aurora that goes, Hey, I know it's in
that box. Yeah, no, it is in that box. Is their
earpieces? Hello? H you do that thing again? Yes, I can,
I can hear. I can hear the radio waves. Thank you for
the explanation of the You're welcome. It's not a bomb or anything. Just
as sure, Malik, you're the best. Yep. Just the voice in
your head to remind you that's not always trying to kill you can't by you
might not try to kill them, trying to kill them. It's space dot.
Everything's trying to kill us. Everything death. Yeah, donking to himself.
We'll just go ahead and get casually up like the wind. Oh.
I will also say, did you did you check the card? Did you
check the card? Oh? You said there was nothing on it. If
there was something on it, he would check the card. Oh, I'm
sorry, that's my fault. Yes, there is something on it. It's
it's very it's handwritten and it simply says so we can stay in touch tonight.
And it is signed Sadie, don't care. It is from uh Saadi.
The auctioneer Ice friends with our patron, and Tom will go ahead and
open the package. You open it up and there are four shiny earpieces that
like slip into your ear. He wants to stay in communication with us.
Who is this person? Uh? This would be Saudi. No, No,
he's asking Tim. I'm sorry. Uh, he's a friend of our
patrons. Why did they just leave them? No, you went to go
tell the leak, You went to go, You don't tell you told?
Okay, So why do they just leave a package outside like a creep?
Mm hmmm yeah, Sadi is he runs the Ashan's Imporium. I think I
wrote that down. Ah, yes, to some degree. Yes, everyone
seems to want something from us. But right now he's kind of keeping me
safe. Uh huh, what's in my head? How is the auction guy
keeping you safe? There? Artifact hunters and collectors and dealers. I'm probably
more if you if you thought our patron was rich Sadi, I guess that's
the least awful. It seems like. Why does he want to keep in
communication? Hm, I'm not sure. I don't know. Huh. You
also owe Saudi response as to whether or not you're gonna choose their patronage.
So yeah, maybe this is their reminder. Does anybody check the clothing on
the floor eventually, yes, all right, after conversing with Alia, tow
would go, yeah to check it. So I don't know if this is
about the same time. Yeah, you would see he has his box with
these little earpieces in it. We don't know where that came from. But
you pick up on the end of this conversation where you can tell that he's
informing the leak of what he told you about teal about this this third patronage.
I would imagine Alia picks up on the end of that conversation as well.
If you pick up the clothing bags off the floor, you each have
been gifted an outfit to where if it is not what you want, you
have also been gifted like a VIP card to a local boutique where they will
fit you before the end of the day. This card is signed from Varon
Sedona himself. He looks forward to your steamed company tonight is what it says.
May you look the part of Heroes? Signed Varona Sdona. Oh just
for fine, there's a PS. Because I'm so bad it's PS. I'll
return the reactor core to the vessel. Once you've accepted my offer, Tamir,
you would know that the ship cannot fly without it. Technically doesn't mean
you can't get a core from somewhere else, but it means he's got the
one that was in the Defiant. It's kind of like missing the starter plug
or yeah, or the spark plug. Mar. This is why they're just
pawn pieces. All of you have been gifted very fine clothing, probably the
finest clothing you've had in a long long time. And some time is going
to pass as three hours or so. Maybe you eat some, y'all can
nap some, you can go shopping if you want to. You would note
that there are four guards outside of your door. They are there for your
protection. And who ask who is the company that hired them? This is
this is Kua, this is Coua, So this is gonna be consortium.
These are consortium guards, prop like proper judicators that probably work here. You've
got four of them. If anybody tries to go anywhere, they will escort
you. And about three or four hours time, Lamara emerges from her bedroom.
She is wearing red and white, the colors of of course medical.
But this beautiful red dress with this white piece draped over top that has golden
broidery around it, and it fits her perfectly. She has her hair tight
up and in a bun, and she's added like a comb to it that
matches the red and white. She looks fantastic and she does not hesitate.
As she leaves the room, she says, I will see you all at
the party or I guess you can leave cool without me. You look great,
Lamara. She turns around and looks over her shoulder and she says,
thanks tow. Maybe somebody else will think that too, and then she cuts
eyes it the leak. She leaps. Then she leaves. She goes,
oh, I know so, and as she leaves, just because I got
corruption bars and my first dot point to spend this season, Lamara is,
well, let's see. I think you all have to roll a wit.
Let me double check that. I've got to double check the rule on this,
but I'm pretty sure you have to roll the wits. Yeah. Oh,
I love this feature so much. This is gonna be one of those
things. I'm gonna have to look it up. I wonder if it's the
intendeds. Probably I will just see who succeeds start with a whitzrol Oh okay,
okay, okay, okay, okay, Okay's mirror Oh no, okay,
perfect, okay, this is great. So she leaves the door,
slides shut behind her, tell and maleik. Something hits your nose, like
the smell of fresh flowers in a room. It almost wafts with the closing
of the door back and into your nostrils, and as you take a whiff
of but there's a moment where your heart starts to beat faster, you feel
lighter. The smell of the flowers draws you in, and you may find,
just for a second, you might want to take a step towards the
door, as if you were going to follow. This looming smell draws you
in, But both of you are able to stop yourself, or at least
recognize that something's happening to mirror Alia. The same smell hits your nose,
and immediately you both see Lamar's smiling face in your mind's eye, so happy
and full of joy. The smell is that of fresh flowers and sunshine.
It wafts all around you and the both of you. I can't tell you
how you react to it, but there's a want there right and urge as
your heart begins to beat faster and your her blood begins to pump through your
veins a little bit more. There's an enamored noss and you already miss her?
Do we should hurry follow Lamar? Make sure she's okay? Do you
mean with an armed guard? Yeah? You don't know who she's going to
talk to? KP I muted. Alia is gonna go and grab that dress
without talking and just goes straight to her room. I don't tell are we
not? Are we going to the what the well? I would go to
the ball? You get ready? I think Lamar can take care of herself.
And to mirror, you should get dressed. I'm going to grab my
bag and go to my room. What is happening? And you get dressed?
You're left? Oh wait ta mirror, I don't you better go?
Yeah? Yeah? What better? Go? Go go? You just gotta
look. Yeah, look that she wants to not be anywhere around? Did
I I don't know what? How would I know? That's look I get
all the time. You're terrible at this. Yeah, his bag and kind
of like you better apologize? Why am I supposed to apologize or something?
I don't know what I say. You're sorry for upsetting her or something.
I don't know how it works. That doesn't order flowers here, Hold on
order they'll bring it room service or whatever. Just hit go pick the colors.
I don't know what she likes. Okay, okay, wait what take
your own advice. I broke her out of a mental hospital. She'll fucking
figure it out, man. I don't even know what's up and down with
her half the time. I'm pretty sure flowers won't cut it like killing somebody
might so a little bit complicated. Huh yeah, sure, she killed a
guy. Order the flowers. We'll discuss the murder later. That is the
first you are hearing of that. Yeah, m listen, we'll have secrets
any like, tap his head. Order the flowers, you know I we
have much bigger fish now right, We will talk later. I'm sure.
Okay, go get dressed or something. Not five flowers. I don't need
them. Clean cow doesn't like flowers. Well, what are a bunch of
a bouquet of screws? I don't know, man, figure it out.
Okay, screws. I'm cutting you off, Mike. That's it. You're
not allowed to talk in the scene anymore. I'm surprised you let it go
that long. Dot. I tried, I really talk you wrap it up,
but that's no. I'm taking this. We can go forever. Don't
let Joy and I talk you uh you uh. The conversation is cut short
as two mirror pinners off to try to go figure out what's what's up with
tow and uh again. Time passes. We maybe see a series of images
and montages. Everybody gets dressed, showering and then makeup. If anybody wears
any hair going up, pins, zippers, boots, shiny things, face
washing, teeth, brushing, the whole nine yards as everyone gets prepared for
tonight's festivities. You only have about two hours. Does everybody wear their earpiece
to me? Or will? Yes? Okay, okay, you all gather.
Malik never turns up. His room is empty. Malik. You know
if you leave, the guard is going with you, right, yep?
Okay. One of these judicators follows you, leaving the other three at the
door, one for each of you. Where are you going? He goes
where he's supposed to go on the stupid fucking ball. Dot, Oh you
go to the ball. Yeah, I'm so proud of you shut up,
take the show. It does look like he put his outfit on those,
so you can rightfully assume he's gone to the ball. If you open the
door, the three guards stand there, and so does a very big smiling
face, along with a gentleman with a camera and like a boom operator.
And she goes, oh my gosh, I am so honored to meet all
of you. I'm Charity, but you probably already know that. It's so
nice to meet and she puts a hand out alia just awkward stairs. Yeah,
I think everybody's just staring at her like no, okay, I understand
sometimes they had a few people and they don't like to be touched. That's
all right, she says. Now on to more important business. The broadcast
starts in t minus twenty minutes. We're gonna go live and walk all the
way there. We'll make sure to get the grand entrance as well as the
opening speech. And I want to introduce you to a few people. And
let's not forget we're gonna have questions from the audience. I've got those all
lined up. You've got those lined up. There's like a woman who's vigorously
writing on a data pad who's clearly her assistant. Excuse me, I have
a question. Yes, Tal is currently wearing a very green and gold outfit,
but it's actually kind of more muted, a little bit daring and green,
not traditional color for fancy garb, but very very good with her hair.
She says, do we have to do what this? Uh? If
by this, uh you mean the interview? Yes, if by this you
mean the ball, I have a duty to drop you off as you got
of gestures to the three gentlemen they're escorting us. Great, that's what I
thought. Cool, she goes, it really is an honor. Let me
guess, tau tuma, you got it and you're Alia, and you're you're
one of the brothers. Uh to mirror the glasses. The glasses gave it
away. Okay, okay, where's everybody else? They said, they meet
us. We'll get him at the party. Yes, she was, no
worries. We'll get about the party, but we really should get going.
We've got t minus and she kind of begins walking and she talks the whole
time. She talks the whole time, and she's like, is this your
first time on kola? Oh? No, of course not. I already
knew that, but I bet this is your first time in the monolith.
Have you ever been up this high? Do you know how long it took
them? And she's just like le La la. Her assistant has very clearly
like tuned her out. The cameraman is clearly used to this, and she
walks all of you like down to a point where it opens up and there's
kind of a balcony that overlooks this section of the monolith and it's beautiful coy
pond uh, gazebos, fake sunlight, and she kind of turns around and
frames all of you. She says, this is perfect, and she says,
my microphone can I assistant like slings it in her hand. She alredy
feels better, very clear, and she goes, okay, are you ready
now? Wonderful uh and you can see her she like gets ready with the
mic in her hand. The cameraman gives the and she goes, welcome back
Third Horizon. It's Charity here with your evening news, and boy, have
we got a show for you tonight. I'm here with some of the heroes
of the Defiant as we walk our way to the Grand Ball for the Sickly
Clip I'm not gonna be able to say the word sickl kid dance here it
is right, yes, she says, but we'll be taking your questions live
here on the air, and they're going to answer them all for you.
These heroes have come all the way from you. Haru made a daring jump
across the third ride, and we're picked up two weeks later in cryo stations
now here they are having brought back important information about what could be an oncoming
war. I'm standing here with the pilot tal Tuma. They're religious rock Alia
and they're engineer to me, and she says, tell us, all,
whose clothing are you wearing tonight? And she says, and she points to
to mer first might to you. The camera pans up and down to show
your attire. What are you wearing? Like he knows the name of it?
Yeah, yeah, you tell us what you're wearing. It's it's very
simple and it actually kind of matches talls, so it's green and golden coloring,
but very plain, very simple, with kind of like some sort of
like cloth much like his like shamagh wood kind of wrapped around him a bit,
but incredibly plain, elegant. Yeah, plan, she like looks up
down and she says, I see you're going for a simpler touch. Is
that, don'l say? And Gobana, I think it is. They sure
are a spicy crew to just have come from the opposite end of the third
horizon. Now, tell us Alia a true true hero of those spiritual ways.
What is it that you adorn tonight? What is Alia wearing? Uh?
First off, why are you so good at this? Why are you
so good at being so terrible? I told y'all, earl, I told
child's like, they're gonna hate this episode before this is over with. So
Alya is wearing a very flowy looking dress, a solo archemies like a very
Indian style. It's very pale, almost like pale peachish. The words and
colors are not my forte even though I'm a photographer, clearly this should be
that. But like the like it does. The you see like the arms,
like the sleeves are kind of flowy, kind of comes up to here
near near the wrist. There's a long shawl like like thin cloth that's draped
over similar in color, and you see like this gold pattern that comes across
the chest down and then across the waist a little bit on like underneath the
skirt, you see like pants not pants is that the right word? Uh?
Anyways, something like similar, same and similar material and color, and
it just goes down to design. And then she's wearing a like high heels
for the first time, or maybe not the first time, like to but
at least the first time the crew has seen it. But clearly she doesn't
so like like she doesn't seem like she's out of it, Like she knows
how to walk in these, which is a first. And you know,
the camera hits the heels and like comes back up, getting the full picture.
And she says, because she's like holding the mic up, you're a
tall woman, and she's a rather petite lady, and she says, you
look great. Who needs babe when you've got booboo? Can I say that
again? Yes? And she's really just hyping herself up. I guess booboo
is the line of the Booboo is the line of the season, and she
says, and last, but certainly not least, is our daring, dashing,
totally amazing fighter pilot Captain Tell Tuma, Tell Tuma, who's clothing do
you adorn tonight? It's what they put in our rooms. And tal Tala
is wearing a sleeveless gold, glittering chollieh with nice emerald green the hanga am
I saying that correctly? Okay, I read it everywhere. I wasn't sure
how it was pronounced, with a bit of gold detailing, very very toned
down from what would normally be worn. She is wrapped kind of awkwardly because
she's not used to wearing them, and a matching green silk. Sorry,
yeah, and she says, not look at all. She says, you
look like the captain that we all need. Now you're wearing green. You're
wearing green. She points it to mirror. His hand is already like this
whole time, has been holding onto hers like very like discreetly. Yeah,
I'm so sorry, I'm and she goes, oh love in the third horizon
from the other side of the darkness? Is there anything third horizon that is
more inspiring than pure love? And the camera like zooms in on y'all's hands.
White knuckle hurts. She's pretty strong, and and she says, now
that we've been introduced to part of our crew, let's make our way through
this area. All the way down. Now, let's not forget. We've
got political leaders, fashion gurus, and spiritual people from all over the Third
Horizon, and bloy, does charity have a show for you, because it's
time for the It's time for the charity case. Thank you, Mike,
And she looks right, don't don't drag me to this dot. She says,
tonight on the charity and she like loses all in the camera like zooms
and on her face and she says, tonight on the charity case. We
look at the cellar of the Third Horizon, plagued trying not to laugh right
now. I'm so sorry, it's so funny. I'm just watching all of
your faces makes it funny. What's what's that lady's name that does I don't
remember her name. Do somebody please assassinate this reporter tonight so he's not here
right now to the cellar where the people have been plagued by the mysticides,
leaky Spickett's, unworking water and uh water factories and food. These people,
these people sure know what it's like to suffer. Tonight, maybe in the
wake of a new year, those all of us on Coriolis, not just
us in the one hundreds and you can see it's playing b roll footage of
the cellar, like one of those cheesy charity ads to like get your pennies
for the dollar to like go to African stuff. That's like, yeah,
that's what's playing, yeah, in the background, and she says, if
you feel like giving tonight, the charity case is on the case. We're
taking your donations to support those in need in the cellar. You can call
the number below and use the hashtag your Questions dot us and we'll make sure
to answer those questions and take your burr and put it where it's most needed.
And it like plays out and she like cuts back and she's like,
now where were we? Oh right, and she continues walking. You reach
the Grand Ballroom and you can see it. There's a red carpet. There
are people there are flashing like cameras and such. There are reporters, and
you can see that she has the VIP pass. People are parting for the
guards that are with you, the judicators. But as we reach the red
carpet, somebody else is already here. Malak you said you were going to
the ball right, Oh yeah, yeah, he's trying to find Lamara he's
trying to find Lamara. Okay, you arrive. I imagine that the camera
actually zooms over y'all shoulder looking down on the ballroom space, and you can
see at the door out front is Lamara. She is surrounded by reporters and
cameras. She is talking and smiling and she laughs. There are a few
people nearby, Some kids ask for her autograph as you kind of walk up,
and as you do, she looks over one of their shoulders and makes
direct eye contact to you, and she goes, oh, look some of
the rest of the crew and everybody turns to look at you. Malik.
What's on the other side of Lamara The entrance into the actual ballroom like a
door. Yeah, it's like a big archway. Yeah. If they all
turn, he says nothing and just like pushes his way Papaazzi style through the
cameras, and before Lamara has a chance to say anything either awful or sassy,
he like plants one on her and then puts an arm around her and
walks through the door. She does not see that coming, though she does
not fight it. The cameras snap a lot of photographs while this happens publicly.
A few men look really sad, and a few of the photographers continue
to follow you in, though they maintain their red carpet because they're waiting on
the rest of you. And the two of you kind of break into the
room. Music is playing. There are fountains full of all kinds of drinks
and liquids. There's food tables, and you can see the guard that was
with you, of course, is following you. And as you enter,
whoever this party planner is, whoever seems to be in charge here goes,
yes, welcome in. He's a very regal man. He's wearing like a
full black and white kind of wrap that very clearly tells you that he is
matching all the other catering that is here. He wears white gloves and he
speaks to you from underneath a very thin mustache, not thin as if it
hasn't grown in, but like like you know, one of the little Price
mustaches. It's Vincent Price. My sage is well groomed. It's just it's
just thin. And he says, we have been expecting you, miss Lamara
and malikue am I correct, Yeah, we've been on TV for the last
forty eight hours. He says, we have been unable to watch a broadcast,
though I hope to catch it in a rerun tomorrow. Great, And
he says, your table, and he gestures to a very long table near
the front, where like the band and the main table is you can see
like all all of the representatives of all of the factions are sitting next like
to all of you, like two tables. And he says here and it
says the crew of the Defiant, and it's got a little nameplates for each
of you. Her mark goes, look where at the front, I know,
And he has a hand on like the small of her back, like
to lead her towards the table, and he leans in like very like,
very like almost romantically close to her ear and whispers, we have to be
very careful about what we say. We didn't tell everyone everything, so if
they're asking questions, they want to know things we haven't told them. And
we have secrets, just like you have secrets. She ponders this for a
second, still like maintaining the closeness, and she turns almost like putting her
cheek to your cheek, and she says, what do you think I can't
keep secrets? No, I'm just telling you because you've said other secrets before,
just in case that means they weren't secrets, they were right until you
said them. She kind of struggle. She says, I made it this
far, didn't I we did. There's like a second or Malik hesitates to
answer, and then he says you look very pretty and continues towards the table
with her. She loves that. She smiles real big. She she loves
the whole like kit and kaboodle of it. She's like, oh the man,
oh people if a missphold. There's like the cameras, there's a big
chandelier. It's beautiful, right, and then the camera cuts back outside cameras
wait on you and Charity and your guards and the crowd of paparazzi parts though
the cameras don't stop flashing. Charity stops at one point like poses and let's
like she says, come, cru come, I'd love a photo. Well,
smile, everyone has probably the same mess that Pal has, just like
dead pan face, like yeah, there is no smiling from Demir. Yeah,
I think gives like an awkward just like a subtle like like a does
a smile, a slight like She's definitely not still used to this at all,
like at all, and it's probably it's not awkward for her, but
maybe awkward for all of you. And she says, you can see her.
Producer goes two minutes still, we're live again, and she says,
come, come, come, enough red carpet time skin her paparazzi and a
couple of them very clearly have like personal distastes, like hey, thanks time
for her. It's very clear. And she's like ah and clicks her mic
back on and he begins the like process. She starts walking backwards, like
leading you towards the main doors, and he counts you in again and she's
like, and we're back. It's me Charity, and welcome Third Horizon to
the Archway of Wonders. Tonight on the other side of this door, these
three heroes, along with their doctor Lamara and I can't remember her last name
and Malik Alasade, will be honored tonight for their extreme bravery at returning vital
information from the other side of the Third Horizon. Their daft jumped through time
and space, left them stranded, but they found their way home and here
we are today. Here they are today under the grace of the icons and
the camera pans to all three of you standing under this arch where you can
see the ball behind, you can hear the music. What do you have
to say? Really glad we're alive right now? What a fine sentiment?
She pans to the other two. It sounds like they silently agree. Now
we're gonna take some questions from the audience. We have some of these prepared.
Remember those of you at home, you can use the hashtag questions dot
us and we'll get those questions answered us. And she says, our first
question from home, Our first question from home comes straight from the audience from
someone named Lightning Invoker. Lightning Invoker wants to know, when you're out there
in the deep dark of space, how dark is it? Pretty dark?
Space? Is dark? Is it? How dark? How dark? Is
it just just dark? Another one from a fine answer my answer Crow of
the Defiant. Oh, this one's coming in straight from the audience. Uh,
our dear, our dear, fine cold Drake wants to know, and
this is for our engineer. When the going gets tough, and the tough
gets going, how do you deal with the pressure raining. I'm sorry,
you're gonna have to speak up. My mind didn't quick be that how do
you deal with the pressure training? Oh oh, for all you mean heads
out there, it looks like you've got an idol to look up to tell
us to Mir, I must know what does your workout routine look like?
For those of us at home that want a physique like yours. He's beat
red. He's the one that's white knuckle hold tail's hand right now, She
goes, looks like that's a secret for another day. Listen, all you
energy protein companies out there, looks like you've got a sponsorship in the making.
Huh, And she goes. Last question for the evening. It sounds
like the band is ending, and are fair fair guests must begin what will
be the most regal event of the year, She says, straight from she
goes straight straight from the audience, Straight from the audience. This one comes
from the dear Trooper SJP wants to know are any of you dating celebrities?
What a great question. Do you have any celebrity names? And this adorable
couple between the two of you, what do you call yourselves? Well,
I'm tal and he's Tamir, So I call him Tamir and he calls me
tal, So tal Mir No, that sounds awful, wonderful. Anybody else?
What about you? Yes? Yes? Did she speak up? She
puts a magrot in your face. No. Well, it seems Third Horizon
that at least one of the crew of the Defiant is single and joy Yeah,
and oh boy, does she have the style, the pizazz, the
hear it to match everything that you could want. Would you like to join?
Come on? I have a Monday night dating show. I know so
much for this. This the musing changes, Third Horizon. This is our
queue. Soon these doors will be closing, this crew will be honored,
and the Third Horizon will move into a new cycle, one that will bring
joy and peace across the Third Horizon. The mysticides are coming to an end,
and it seems that we may have more to worry about than just petty
politics. Until next time. I've been Charity, and you've been well you
good night, Third Horizon. She gives you all the mic say good night.
Hi. Cut, she says, and she she puts the mic down,
and she says, really and this is not our forte. Yeah,
we will not prepped or prepared for this. Did you expect It's fine,
we'll edit it all out it's fine. We'll dub over it. I yeah,
no, no, for one take. We'll just add some sound effects
and maybe a little music. It'll posts. We will add effects, we'll
have some mouth noises. It'll be fine. It'll be fine. I really
appreciate all of your time, and as much as I'd like to stand here
and continue doing whatever it is, I have a seat and a meal and
possibly a politician to smooth until next time. If you'd like another interview,
you let me know. I'd like first did okay? Yes, all right,
okay, bye bye? Did she really want another interview after that disaster?
Yeah, it's just been nice. There's no way she wants to interview
us again. Oh thank god we did it right. Then we're good.
We're in the clear. It's all in the legal l Laura. Yeah.
You know. If one thing I learned is if you screw something up bad
enough, nobody asks you to do it again. Should I have punched it.
I would pay money to see that. I'd give some real good burd
for that. It's a bit aggressive. I mean that probably would have just
I mean, maybe could have gotten you arrested. What's new. I'm trying
to not get us arrested. We should go in find Maleak. He might
have already stolen this sh As you walk in, the same gentleman, hands
folded, says welcome. We've been expecting you. You are almost late.
Your table, and he gestures off along the right. There. This room
is massive. It has tons of people. Everybody's dressed to the nines.
Photos are being snapped. There's a lot of like chattering and talking and clanking
of China food. You can smell it in the air. But near the
front there is a table for five. You can see that Lamara and the
Leak are already sitting. We make our way there. Yeah, take a
seat next to Lamara and I say, well, you were lucky enough to
miss the interview. Oh shit, it's weird timing. How was that?
Yeah, I don't think the one. Yeah, I don't think the one
interview us again. Oh it was live. You see that above you Now
there's a massive screen on the wall. Great, why did you ask?
I just wanted to see how you guys thought it went from your perspective.
I really hope they never interview us again. I don't think that's gonna be
a problem. That's good, you said, space is dark, and then
you said and then you said dark, and then you said, yeah,
I don't think they're gonna Yeah, yeah, I don't think they're gonna interview
you ever, which I mean, no complaints. But you guys nailed it.
You know they still have anything that viewed you. Oh, don't worry,
it'll plan a loop, Marcus, don't worry. I signed us up
for an interview later. Son of a bitch. That is so thoughtful of
you, so kind. The whole crew right clearly doesn't feel like he's being
hurt enough, so I wanted to make sure that that he got his chance.
Yeah, you are so wonderful, La, And she puts her on
on on your leg very tenderly. Malik. I was like, oh,
yeah, I think there's one. All three of us are probably just like
staring at Maleak and just smiling. He has the most like plastered on like
and he like just pecks her on the cheek. Thank you. Oh you're
welcome. Do you know what? Well, I didn't tell him anything you
said. I couldn't, so I didn't. Oh yeah, tell them as
little as possible, please, that's that's a request. I wonder all kinds
of stuff. I know, that's the problem. You can tell him all
about how you just big love birds though, just straight just focus on that.
Well that was why. And awkward silence and this time the music comes
down, the lights dim and like pan over to the stage and a figure
h takes the stage to begin to make a speech. Camera's role. You
can see that if somebody isn't here a shooting live, it's feeding out and
this person goes to open their mouth and we'll find out what they have to
say next week. Because we're a little over time. I know we started
late, but this ball just got started, y'all. Oh shit, it
three hours too. I fucking missed the three hours same already stuck but yeah.
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