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 Onmade Gaming. Arise, minions and welcome
to Unmade Gaming. We are here for the fifty first Annual No the fifty
first episode of Void. This is the finale season four. Two years in
the making, Space Jesus is here. We're ready to go. We're ready
to do stuff. We're ready to do things and stuff. I have a
speech. Uh Dot, you guys know what to do. Find the things
in the description, go to the stuff dot go space. All right,
all right, all right. As always, we are far too limited on
time to tell the stories that we always want to but to it must come
to an end. And last week, as you saw, our crew is
making a last and very daft effort to reach the monolith on the planet of
Koua. The monoliths sitting directly below their home of coriolis. The Crawler is
your means of transportation, and it cuts through dense everglades wetlands. You can
hear the squoshing of the mud on the outside of this dense metal tank that
is basically air tight, as all of you are a strap to the wall
if you're sitting. If you're not, you're hanging on to like something,
and it's rattling as it roars through, leaving big track marks. You have
chosen, if I remember correctly, to cut through the most direct path possible,
which actually does not take you through the city, but through this kind
of swampy, unestablished area. You can hear trees cypresses breaking down to the
side as you crunch through, and acually you see the first sign of like
taller buildings out the front. Who's driving? That would be me? No'll
just give us before we jump into our travel montage a quick piloting check.
Okay, do I get anything for the crawler? I don't think I do
my normal just my normal piloting check. Yeah, so I think this is
just a regular piloting check because there's nothing special here for this, So just
a flat roll. No, okay, all right, all right, that
says zero. All right, let's go first roll tonight. Okay, I
was gonna use our first corruption bar to cause a little bit of problem with
travel, but out of four so uh, you break out of the swampy
area and you hit kind of solid gravel, is what I'm going to say.
It's probably packed sand and rock from at least as far out, and
you can see Tao as you have made a very clear cut path through the
swamp to the city. When you get to this civilized area what should be
residential, there are very few people here. In fact, you don't see
anyone. Some of these buildings burn a little bit from the inside and still
smoke where maybe there has been some conflicts or fighting in this area, but
you don't see like dead bodies later on, But you also don't see are
any people whatsoever. And the crawler takes to the streets with ease as it
tears through are are which is on the out direct outskirts of Covenant City.
As I go through the streets, I look briefly, very briefly, back
over my shoulder, and I say, hey, Malik, now's probably a
good time to start working on that speed, don't you think, Yeah,
yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, and the Crawler continues with no problems.
So travel is not going to be an issue. I'll give you that
town nailed that role. So we will, in fact, go into a
series of montages of what everybody else is doing along the way. It isn't
quite a bit of travel. You're gonna look at about an hour because some
of the city is a bit disheveled. Areas are blockaded, more and more
rubble as you get closer where buildings have been bombed or destroyed. But Malik,
you had a message you wanted to get out to the people. You
have kind of the back of the crawler. There's no table here, so
you're building or putting together whatever radio broadcasts you're doing, probably on the floor
or on your lap if you're sitting on the floor. Let's get that datagen
role and then we will get what you have to say. Uh, okay,
let's see here. Let's let's uh final final fuckery, final care down
boot. I'll take two successes. Uh, did you have anything you wanted
to add to that? Don't you have an ability? Uh? Oh you
know it? Die shit? I do? Uh well, no, sorry,
So I have an ability for manipulate so the data gen roll will be
to get the signal out. Okay, manipulation, manipulation after your speak.
As with previous speeches, my goal would be to get this out as far
as it can go, not just this. See how wide the broadcast can
get, I would say at a limited success. With the amount of down
towers issues inside of the city. You tap into one of the only radio
broadcast towers and it's being used a lot for military chatter. Uh, you
break through that, so you're able to broadcast to the monolith and to coreness.
Yeah, great, they'll figure it out. Cool. So yeah,
he does this and hits the button and through like the grinding of rubble underneath
the wheels of this thing. Ah, People of the Third Horizon, Brothers,
sisters, I come to you again, though not as a son of
al Goal, not as the man the media has portrayed me to be,
but as one of you. This message maybe the final broadcast of the Defiant,
and an even doing so puts us out a great risk to what we
are trying to accomplish. But as the people on board this ship have all
found common purpose as a crew, so too must we find common purpose as
people. As survivors. The first horizon is here. They mean to destroy
our way of life, and this war is but the first piece on the
board. As I speak, the emissaries are moving to counter. Each one
is poised to make their stand at the monoliths throughout the horizon, and they
must make it to the monoliths. If you kindle even the smallest spark for
the change we e in the third horizon, then you must do everything in
your power to ensure the emissary survive until their task is accomplished. This is
the defiant signing off icons be with you. He gets the blind. The
leak's broadcast goes out across to all of Kua. Let's get a manipulation check,
coulck col Cool. So my talent dot is contingent on the amount of
people who heard me. Oh that's a lot, a lot of people.
It's a lot of people. Cool. So one hundred plus people equals a
plus four. Okay, we're gonna say that this broadcast was successful because you
broadcasted out to more like five hundred thousand people. Cool. Let's see what
I let's see what I get here. Jesus Christ, I'm gonna give you
a point for that. No, wait, he doesn't know. Mike doesn't
know the world tonight. There are no additions for darkness points. You cannot
rule, well, ship that the fates decide. Here we are. So
that was with your addition. That was with the additional bonus of like four
yeah, oh my gosh, okay, okay, that is so many dice
once you're three, four, five, so many, so many failures too.
It's okay, you know what, critical Mike critical failed this r.
It's taken two fucking seasons, but we four four seasons that, I kid,
It's okay. The broadcast still goes out. The question is just how
does it affect the people? We'll come back around to that. We don't
we don't actually know. Our montage will cut to another member, another member
of the defiant Alia. What does Ali? What is Alia doing? Now?
Remember two Bit is in here with you as well as Lamara as well.
They're just kind of Labora's like right in along for the ride. Two
Bit is very stoic holding you know, do you see Alia? How big
is this crawler? Like? Is there enough like it sits? It's supposed
to seat six three minivan with spider legs gotcha. Yeah, And it kind
of crawls along controls and it's got a lot of controls. On the inside.
The seats are against the walls and it's open on the interior. You
can see straight up to where Tal is like navigating this this thing. Gotcha,
it's kind of like a tank. Gotcha. Gotcha. Side note,
Tal looks absolutely stoic and determined. But anybody who's witnessed her for a very
long time, Alia would definitely notice. She is so fucking excited. She's
like on the edge of her seat. Her eyes look right, she looks
alive right now, beautiful, beautiful. You actually see then, Alia is
in the very back of the crawler, and she's not sitting in the seat,
I would imagine, just like any Humby or like this sort of thing
with a middle aisle like that with the seeds on the side, there's floor
space, and you see Alia actually like sitting down crisscross on the floor and
she's praying. And normally you would see Alia either on her knees or like
in a much more diminutive position, but this time you just see her straight,
very focused and what you guys, until very recently, didn't even know
she had. She actually has taken out her dewer sword and she's holding it
in her hands, and in that process she's praying to the Lady of the
Tears, hoping if possible, to communicate directly with her, but as asking
for her blessing, for her strength in all of this, in what we
are trying to achieve and what and hopefully get a strong outcome. But yeah,
if possible, she would like to talk to the Lady of Tears directly.
Okay, I'm gonna I am gonna have you roll a mystic ability check
if you want to try to talk to her directly. And then before that,
actually the first thing she has done so she has the new talent.
I forget what it's called, but essentially I would be able to provide everybody
an extra dice, I believe, right blessing. Yes, isn't the same
blessing. I thought mass blessing, which will add and die. So if
you do mass blessing, there's not really a role for that. It just
happened my roll another dice and then for mystic right, Okay, what other
critical success? Well, I was going to say, you can only speak
with her if it's a critical success but Alia, it is a it is
a critical success. So who am I to? Who am I to stop
you? And so you say a blessing upon everybody on the ship as you
as as Malik's voice as he begins this speech kind of fades out, and
you become really attuned to your breath and the prayer, and you reach out
to the Lady of Tears, and in this moment of extreme and necessary care,
the Lady of Tears answers you. M Alia tingles and I think Alia,
like she's still in that sitting position, eyes closed, but I would
imagine like everything around her has is gone, Like she's not in the crawler
right now, doesn't feel like she's in the crowd. It's like an open
space. And she opens her eyes and for the first time, you see
a sense of peace. There's still there's still like that focus, there's still
a sense of wanting to do what's right, but there's a sense of peace
within her and who she is. And she looks up at the Lady your
Tears and she goes, it's good to see you, my lady. Honestly,
at this point, I have nothing to really ask, just I want
to thank you for being there. For me throughout this journey, and for
being by my side. Whether I knew it or not, I know I
can't even imagine how easy or hard it must be for you to do what
you do. But I'm who I am today because of what you helped me
become and who you let me meet, and who you brought together into my
life. I guess I just have one last request. Please give me the
strength to do what I must to protect what I love, and in that
process, she holds the sword in her hand. And I've always ran away
from what I believed to be violence and what I believed to be the wrong
path. But sometimes I realized along the way that to protect what you love
and what is right and what is pure, you, yourself and me need
to You may need to walk down a path of tones, and I just
asked for the courage and capability to do so. I can feel the darkness
coming. Oh yeah, it grows near. I assure you no matter how
far you go, no matter to what distance star, I will always be
there as long as you allow me to be your blessings, your family.
These are not gifts from me, These are your gifts to me. I
cans do not exist to be worshiped. We exist because you allow us to.
Your gifts are our gifts. I bless this sword with my tears.
May it serve you as you protect our blessings. Thank you. Also,
I don't know, but probably probably already know that I I don't know if
I've messed up or if I did the right thing even but if you saw,
I dealt with the Jim and I hope it was the right decision.
But perhaps you can tell me if that's the course I should have taken.
The right decision has consequences are but I have never distrusted you. You are
good of heart. And whoever is taken by this sword, remember then it
is your job, as an acolyte or the lady of tears, to cry
for them when no one else will, even if it's you who has to
take their life. Thank you, I just thought I have I really wanted
to just thank you for everything. And as you begin to say I just
wanted to thank you, and you begin to kind of remind her of how
grateful you are, You're kind of snapped out of it, and the end
of Malik's speech catches your ear, drawing you back to the rattle. Of
the metal as it continues across these streets, drawing you ever ever closer.
Everybody can take a plus one to the next round of rules or your montash.
I think the camera is going to cut to t mirror what is to
mirror? I think Tomato is going to take this time to get to bit
up to date, up to speed, like, here's the information we have,
here's the blueprint, like old, but blueprints that may help. And
I think he wants to let her know, like I think he turns to
her and just kind of says, uh, I may have made the mistake
with Aurora. She is grown up. You mean change updated? Yes,
why do you feel this? There may be continuous change. There are protocols
I don't know or understand or would recognize. Yet if it is just changed,
Aurora, it is still Aurora. Do you need her back? To
be said nowhere? I gave her to you because I know that in the
end you will need her more than I do. Thank you, Thank you.
She's been there, the greatest gift anyone has ever given me. I
imagine it will stay that way. You and her have a much larger part
to play, and everything that is about to happen, and what about you?
Now, I will play my part, and when it is all done,
you will know what I mean when I say, you and your friends,
let's do everything that you can to leave when you can. I understand.
Is there anything anything unfinished for you, anything that you still desire.
I'd like to see how this all ends. But what I want isn't really
important, not anymore. These blue rents, they are misleading and with way.
It is no surprise that you thought it was in fact a weapon.
The centralized hole that runs through the middle seems that it might be a barrel
of some kind. Yes, they have a large power supply here the core,
which could generate enough to cause annihilation. This is the power, but
not the control. This this is the control. She points to the base
like of the monolith, the bottom level kind of flips back a bunch of
pages for you, and points kind of into the bowels under the ground and
removes a few in between layers that she feels may not be necessary, and
then re lays the rice paper down on top of each other. And you
see something strange to me or for the first time, I'm gonna have you
roll a science or actually a technology check okay, to see if you figure
it out before she tells you. And then this is with the plus one
from the blessing. Yes, because it's got to be on the first role.
Okay, okay, you see it. It does make out a shape,
but you cannot figure it out. And two Bits simply says, kind
of it kind of draws with a metal fingertip. This holds a weapon or
a shield, whatever you call it. This is a massive sword. It
seems as if it may rise up the center shaft. What it does from
there, I am not sure. We have been wrong in our assessment.
And with this new information, whatever you need, we are here and we
will support you. Your mission is priority number one. Just remember, no
matter what happens, no matter where you end up, your path will lead
you back here. So far, it's always ass and it always will.
I must concentrate. I need to mesitate before we enter the monolith. Please.
And you see she kind of you hear the whirling of some kind of
hydraulic as her eyes kind of closed, and she kind of goes into this
meditative state. As you draw closer. You have gained the benefit of knowing
that if you go up to the battery pack. There's not any way to
control it from there. Two Bit will be headed into this kind of basement
level, which may change your plans. It may not change your plans.
I just you know you may still want to blow up the battery pack.
Who knows, but you just know that two Bit is going to be headed
down to this control panel. And last, but certainly not least, the
camera pans to how town you have. You are navigating the city with great
ease, and you can see as you draw closer to Covenant City and the
monolith itself, it is the streets are getting denser with people. Uh.
It seems that everybody is being drawn towards the base of the monolith. For
what reason you don't entirely know, but people are on the streets moving.
Covenant City seems to be full of activity, and you can tell a lot
of the buildings here have been destroyed. This has been the main point of
activity for whatever ground warfare is happening. So I'm starting to see people now
right. Yes, yes, it's not dense enough that you can't move.
Some people are like oohing and awing a little bit as you come through,
but nobody seems really concerned. They all seem very focused on headed heading it
towards the monolith base. I think that this is when I'm going to enact
the Traveler's talent to get uh what is it? Uh? Uh? I
can ask you a question with two options, uh, and you have to
show me which one is more beneficial to me as a truth? Would it
be wiser to continue in the crawler now or to get out and try to
go through the streets on foot? Because the biggest the biggest concern for talent
right now is being unnoticed by anyone who will actually stop them from getting to
the monolith. Do you do you speak to anyone along the way? Do
you like stop and roll the window down? Or do you just try to
deduce this on your own? I would try to deduce this on my own.
Toll wouldn't think to ask some person walking down the street. She's not
a social person. She's used to making decisions on her own. She might
sit in the background and like out loud. Uh. Can you imagine though?
Excuse you want some candy? Do you know? Pony? Excuse me,
sir? How are you going to the model? He is there somewhere
to stop for a bathrooms. All you say, model is now y'all can't
get there from here, all right, so you try to. You get
the idea that within a few blocks the streets, at the rate that you're
seeing people now and the way they're kind of piling in, you're gonna get
to a point where there's no way you can get it through without stepping on
people. You've only got a few you're only a few blocks out at this
point. It may be better to go on foot. Yeah, So in
that case, I'm going to, uh start looking for a place to park
this that's not immediately noticeable, Like I'll give it to you in that yard
or something where they have like well a playground or something like that parking out
like someone built the leg someone built the space in their Okay, Uh,
what do you find? Well, I'll tell you this. There's very little
here other than cityscape. It's like dirt and metal buildings built in kind of
multi story plateau style buildings, and they get taller as you get towards the
monolith. You don't see a lot of playgrounds, but you do catch a
shelled out building. From the street side. You can't see it, but
you definitely can like kind of squeeze the crawler into this space and with your
incredible piloting check from earlier from the outside, this kind of spider like tank
I imagine, just like a spider in a hole, goes in on its
like sideways right some legs first, and then pulls itself in. Tell does
an incredible job with kind of the maneuvering of this of this this tank,
and all of you hear it as it kind of like comes to a food
and how finally cracks the spouts. This man, this baby handles like a
dream. All right, have to walk from here. I can't get any
further without starting to step on people. And this was possibly the best place
I could have parked it, so we can get back to it later if
we need it. And then I will go in under the dash and start
doing the thing where I take a part that's completely needed to wright, so
I can't go anywhere nobody else can take it, and I put that in
my little pocket. Yep. Does everybody suit up in the climbing gear?
When is the well, I guess what's the plan? Actually, some of
you you already are suited up. You're all wearing them. You wore you
put them on. You put them on on the defiance suits. Yeah,
so you're already in suits, Maxy suits, spider suits. Well, sex
is not required. I did say sex, said sex. See, Okay,
so it's the difference. One thing that I swore that I would do
was spend a darkness point for each one of your montages, because I have
them to spend. I'm saving my corruption. Unfortunately, the broadcast does go
out and it's heard by a lot of people, but there's a lot of
varied opinions here in the city at the moment, a lot of refugees,
a lot of open mystics, which is something that's not often seen, and
Malique's rebellious speech does, in fact work. It incites a bit of chaos
as varying sides of what should be done in this moment, the homogeny and
those that support it here in this city stand up against those who attempt to
rebel to the mystics, and the streets are beginning to break out in open
fighting. People are beating each other one darkness point. That's better than fighting
us, I guess, yeah. I mean, it's just like it's a
little volatile. The streets are super volatile. Right now, and a lot
of people are looking for a fight, specifically those supporting the homogeny. Alia.
Yes, you reached out to the Lady of Tears. She felt just
as she would with her great and deep empathy. The strain that is on
every person in the Third Horizon right now, not just here on Coua,
but every planet that holds a monolith of all that the First Horizon are trying
to stop from being protected by these shields. And it breaks her heart,
the icon the Lady of Tears, and she begins to cry, and the
great clouds over Kua begin to rain. The sky opens up, and you
hear a great thunder in the distance, as there is now rain to contend
with along with the chaos outside. I bless the rains, Darlin koz two
bit uh with our our great seat to moment with Tamir. Tamir, I
swear I'd use a corruption bar and I don't know how I want to do
it. You know what I love. You know, Tamir knows without a
shadow of a doubt that Tu b It is not coming back, and there
is maybe a great sadness I don't know that overtakes you. I don't exactly
know how Timir might feel in this moment, or a great want to save
them perhaps, But you know in your heart of hearts that two Bit this
is a this is a suicide run for two Bit from start to finish.
But there was something that two Bit said that also strikes you with some unease.
She said, no matter where you are, no matter what time or
place, as if she knew something that you did not, as if this
will not be your last mission. How you know what I'm gonna save that
one, that one's gonna get saved. We're just I have to narration speaking,
I have to save it. So uh, I'm so nervous. Now
y'all are able to get out of the crawler at the pace that you would
like once you arrived, two Bits like on her feet, ready to move,
though she stands with great stoicness. Unless there's any hesitation, I will
say, y'all take to the streets. Yeah, we go through the streets.
I think like as they're getting out to me or kind of updates the
crew on the revised plan, letting them know that they need to go down
and not up to the power celves. The control is where they need to
be all right down it is. I guess we got these seats for nothing.
I mean, you look good in it, getting me my ass looks
great? Ah. Thanks you all walk away and you can begin to see
kind of the violence on the street. Two guys are just beating each other.
And there's some guy down the street that yells a slur at a mystic
as he throws rocks at this woman who is desperately trying to march towards I
need everyone this close that can, that can make a mystic ability check,
to make one O great. Okay, okay, all success is this close.
You absolutely can hear the song. It pulls at this invisible string in
your chest, as if as if you have to make it to the monolist,
as if it draws you into it. It is a marching song.
It is a lullaby to draw you into whatever is about to take place?
Is do we get any sense of why? Or is there any sense of
malice? Or it's getting it's getting louder, which means maybe it's because more
and more mystics are here. It's strengthening the song. Okay, I mean
it does it give us like a level of confidence or peace? Or is
it just some sort No, it's a call, it's a drawing. It
is pulling you towards it, as if calling for all of you to to
to recede upon it. And as you kind of march to the people,
and maybe you have to dug through some some grumpy people that are marching.
Maybe some people throw some slurs at you. Who knows, but people are
kind of Some people hold signs, some people hold weapons, homemade weapons out
of pipes and metal, anything that can really be found. I guess children
are kind of hiding and running behind to pre seeking shelter. What you don't
see as you all walk away is the decrepit building that you parked the Crawler
in collapses just a little bit, burying the entrance to the Crawler under heavy
rumble, distracting point. Oh, I already did that. Okay, so
I have that was that was for me, That was that was for Taos.
Yeah. The talisman, yes, should be for Roles. Do you
remember what talisman it was? I can't remember, just says talisman plus one.
It's about my exo suit. So it's the first thing I got.
Perfect. Sure, Yeah, I would say maybe you have some kind of
blessed talisman. Maybe Julie gave it to you. Who knows I've had a
Yeah, darn, that's okay, keep it. We're not done rolling yet.
And all of you begin to march through the crowd. It gets very
dense. This is this is There are picketing lines, There are groups of
people and women sobbing. Uh. There are people screaming in unison kind of
yelling on the streets. You can tell that it is getting very, very
tense. It seems that Malik's message did exactly what it needed to, and
the rain has not helped with the large amount of a disgruntled people that are
now convening along the monolith. Well, what's the plan here? Avoid getting
cube? Yeah, get the monoliths, try not to die and uh yeah,
we gotta go down if we get separated, go down. Yeah.
Uh. I put my hand in my pocket and wrap my fingers through my
brass knuckles and just have them ready for anybody that comes up if anybody tries
to come at me. Tu bid is now? Yeah? Yeah? How
crowded? Is it? Very? Y'all are like shoulder to shoulder with people.
Okay, cool, Okay, that's it. Just curious. I'm going
to need an infiltration check to get through these people without upsetting anyone or making
it worse. This is like pushing through a mosh pit at a really drunk
Molly Hatchet concert. This is like the worst possible scenario. But you but
you know exactly what I'm talking about, you know what I mean? No
question, yeah, good question. Who she is? This really large lady.
She's you know, she's never had chance to be sneaky or or you
know, someone who can't stand out. I mean she tries, and she
sometimes, but at some point she realized that her best effective method is pretending
to be someone they shouldn't approach. To intimidate. Yeah, essentially to intimidate,
I would I would imagine that you see her not holding the sword out
in front of her, but like clearly grasping it at her hilt, like
on the side, and you see her like rise up to her full height,
like really just stand tall. Make a manipulation chick, I don't have
any anything in that room, then just make the flat. Let me see
manipulation. Yeah I don't have that. I mean you can you can still
make a manipulation check the advanced skills, I know, I know, Ah,
come on. As you stand up, some people kind of cower back.
Lamara giggles a little bit from behind you, Uh, thinking this is
just a blast, this is great. She gives candy to a couple kids
next to you. But as you stand up, people do kind of part
and it begins that process of like, uh, if you've ever been to
a concert with a tall friend, you follow them through the crowd of people,
you follow them right behind her. Yeah, and just anybody goes to
grab Mosa trying to part the seal of people. So you start kind of
weaving through this crowd of people a lot easier, and all of you kind
of grab a piece of clothing or a belt or a hand as you stay
stick together or able to stick together, and you kind of make it to
what is considered the front and you can see it. There's a mass barricade
and the homogeny stands on the other sides with guns and it's like man by
man, like just person person shoulders to shoulder shoulder. They line the entire
base of the monolith. They have these kind of shields that keep people out
as they're kind of pushing and shoving and people are throwing things at them.
And because we have a corruption bar and I just can't help myself in the
rain. The pouring rain is now just like coming down on top of you,
thunder and lightning in the distance. As you all get to where you
are, you look to your left and there stands Charity. She has a
microphone in hand, and she's wearing this kind of hat that keeps the rain
off of her faces. It drips away from her body. And she was
clearly in the middle of the broadcast. And then she stops and she looks,
and she lets out a squeal. Oh my gosh, it's the crew
of the Defiant. And she turns and the camera immediately clicks right to all
of you standing here on the front line. It's Charity here on the front
lines of Kua, where things are in a riot. I can't believe,
of course, I believe that the heroes you can blame chat for this,
that the heroes of the Third Horizon have shown up on the front lines.
Tell us, how are you all feeling, dot, I'd like to do
fuckery and give you a darkness point by way of my talent that just gives
you darkness points. Okay, so my faceless One's talent lets me kind of
do shit. I would like to reach over to Lamara, who I'm sure
has some sort of doctoral bag, and I'd like to reach my hand into
it, rummage around for a second in this Mary Poppins purse, and produce
what we all know is in the bottom of the bag. One grenade.
Please, all right, I will allow that because it is not a reroll
darkness point, and it is one I can use that talent once per session.
Okay, you reach in to Lamar's bag, and of course at the
very bottom past a syringe, and you know, a scalpel can opening the
top comes off the lift tube whenever she's got in here. You reach in
and you pull out, from of course a very bottom a grenade. And
as the camera pans and the mic turns to all of you, MALEIK reveals
a grenade and I just want to I want to hit the button on it,
because I imagine space graades have buttons, and I want to roll it
under the barricade. Are you do you want all this caught on film?
Don't give it. I just made seven speeches that I'm fucking the star of
rebellion. Everybody this broadcast right now, watches as this grenade, like almost
slow motion, rolls under and it is going to explode. I need everybody,
I guess I need to roll for this grenade. Does the barricade to
protect us? It will give you some, Yes, it will give you
some. Everybody's gonna get it. I'm gonna tell you. You get a
chance to react. How would you like to react? Uh? I grab
anyone that is near me and just act as a shell to act as try
to push them away, like I use my arms like yeah. It's looking
at Malik who had just said as Charity was like turning like tow goes.
Uh. Talo said new plan where the distraction? And then Malik does that.
So she looks at the lake and everybody sees Talis face like like I'm
looking to kill you. You said the same thing. You just said it
out loud. Charity goes because she's an idiot, she goes, oh my
god, bomb. The mom goes into a full please. The mom goes
into a full panic. Uh. People begin running and pushing. It becomes
full chaos. Two bit is gone. You do not see her any longer.
The grenade goes off. Uh it do you know how many grenade does
I think it's like fifty six, right, I don't remember, but yeah,
let's go on. I think it's five D six Okay, no success.
When she yields bomb and it rolls between the legs of the guard that's
standing there, kind of with this this riot shield, they all turn,
which means between the barricade, and now their riot shields turn the wrong direction
because they're idiots. It goes off and shields you all but blows their bodies
backwards your direction, exploding the barricade. It moves to the side. One
of them kind of dumps over and moves to the side. What does everybody
do? You know? We probably all are hearing that ringing noise that happens
have been a explosion goes off. I think I think we're just I'm in
shock and I'm just kind of yeah. Initially and then as being settled,
the first thing I do is like ask the people that I'm nearby, are
you ok? How do you find that? Are Yeah? You don't have
time for that because as soon as the explosion finishes, Al grabs you where
you were covering her and starts to shove you towards the barricade. We're going
come on, and you can't hear that because you know ringing. But we've
been through several explosions, tells like mission as the Malik does the same.
Whether Tamir needs it or not, he just flails and gram his shockstack at
me. So anybody that gets in their way, it's just gonna get cattle
prodded. Wow, okay, pushing who's going first? Is an Alia?
I need a forced check from somebody to make path. Oh that will probably
be me because I'm the one pushing Alia right, trying to help people.
Then take a plus one for Alia, okay? As shield, I'm sorry,
like and then like you see town the back like people pull those of
the failure. Okay, it is. It is chaos. And as the
bomb goes off, or as this explosion goes off, I should say the
bomb quote unquote, I'm gonna seeze. Sorry, y'all. People panic and
fighting once again begins to break out. People are pushing and screaming. The
mystics rush the monolith. That's what the that's what they've been trying to get,
and the homogeny uh begins to shoot. Chaos breaks out. People are
going down all over the place, it is very difficult to get in the
door. Right now, it's like a single double entry way that all of
these people are trying to file through, and you are kind of locked in
the center of this is your people screaming and gunfire going off behind you.
I need somebody else to make a forced check, uh to get you through.
You need to like push through. Basically, I have anywhere uh roll
a perception check if you want to try to spot tubit in the meantime.
I guess at this point Alia, I mean she realized you can't say with
these people and you do anything in the primary thing is that can solve all
this is going to that modeling, and so he uh, she will start
following people out of the way, almost like swimming, and like move,
move, please move move, and you begin pushing people and as Alia starts
to kind of clear the way, how you look up two bit is now
close to the second floor. She has climbed the building up and over the
crowd and has gone in the second story window. All you got to do
is get to the wall. You don't have to go to the door.
And so uh, if you let Alia know this, she'll be able to
clear a path for you. Okay, I say, Alia, wall not
door, and then uh, I'm assuming you she sees you see that?
Yeah, you see like the window and just the tail end of to it's
foot. I don't point directly at two bit because I don't want anybody else
looking at tu bit, but I point but subly so you push basically to
the wall Alia, and all of you will be able to make this climb.
Check with this suit, with the cover, You're going to get some
bonuses here. But this is going to be a check for everybody. And
I still believe it's a I think it's a dexterity check. I mean,
let me look at a sheet here to assure you that's what I wanted.
Yeah, this is gonna be a dexterity check. If you are for this
climb, if you are in the suit, you take a plus two tow
you have a yes, and you have a how you have a talisman.
You're all in climb suits? Uh? Uh, because I have zero?
Right now? How do I add plus two again? Just you can do
it? Uh. The best way to do it is just to roll.
When it prompts you to say how many extra you can put into extra?
I believe it doesn't let me. I click it and then it just roll,
then just roll two more D six. Well, uh slash is it
our slash or slash our slash our space to D six? Although I already
got one success, which is fantastic. Yeah, I never heard you don't
know single single Nope, that's this together, so single success. Everybody succeeded,
that's a plus. Let me see if Lamara succeeds. Because she's with
you, I say that I have too far too many character sheets, and
heario, It's like we've been playing this game forever. She could make it.
Yeah, she's in the soo too, so she gets a Okay,
she makes it too. So all of you you watch as you get close
to the wall. You know that you kind of tap in it, and
you can feel they're kind of your hands can't stick together, they're kind of
anti magnetized. But as they get close to the wall, they and then
your feet kind of you tap your heels think, think same thing, and
all of you begin scaling the wall up to the second story of the monolith.
You all make it in the window lakety split, no problem. But
Tubad is currently nowhere to be found, and you can see on this floor.
It's kind of like an open balcony that has a staircase that goes down
to the first floor, and you can see and hear the first floor is
packed with people at echoes in the chambers of the high ceilings of this monolith.
Yeah, we spent a very long time studying this between the time that
we got it initially and now. So essentially, TAL is going to make
for the most direct route. Since we don't have to worrybustairs, we can
just climb the fucking walls. Uh. Tal's going to look for the most
direct route to the place we actually need to be. Nat Originally you thought
you were gonna need to go up and you were going to climb from the
outside, But you know that the center shaft has had an elevator attached to
it. You all could climb the elevator shaft down and buy pass the stairs
and people all together. Then that's where we're going, so I won't make
you make another check. You all begin to kind of spider climb. I
mean, it's very it's very cool as you all begin to kind of like,
you know, dig big deep bi depend and you kind of crawl on
the ceilings down and around and you hit the elevator shaft. You. Oh
yeah. When we start this, I say, uh, crawl close to
this line, uh because if a if the elevator comes through, you want
to be able to get into one of these notches really quickly. And as
you crawl, oh is it? Let me take that down? Boop ah
better? Nice? Sorry about that. Uh. You kind of up and
around the ceiling, you crawl down. You kind of go around this corner
and you can see the elevator shaft. Do you actually manage to pry and
open? It's not currently working, it's like on its caution or like stopped
process. And you are able to pry the elevator doors open pretty easily and
climb down the elevator shaft as all of you kind of begin to scale down,
and as you do the sound of gunfire and screaming dissipates, and as
you get to the bottom, you again pry the doors open, and as
you do, it's quite a sight to behold. People have poured already poured
into the space down the stairs and have filled it, and two bid stands
in front of this column. This like very ancient and kind of special looking
console in front of her, and she looks up and sees all of you
across the way. A few people shout at her, but most everybody in
here are mystics, and they're all holding hands and they're swaying. Two bits
shout up kind of up and over the crowd a little bit, and she
looks up and makes eye contact with you, and she begins to kind of
press these plates on this console in a certain order as she begins to like
activate it or do whatever she's going to do. I'm going to spend our
last corruption bar. I still have four darkness points, but I will spend
our last corruption bar. The broadcast, the original broadcast as well as Charities
broadcast, has informed the second or the first Horizon that you have you have
moved the plans up. They weren't going to attack until tomorrow, and they
now know that you're here. And if you were outside through the thunder,
you'd hear the sounds of aircrafts entering atmosphere. As they break through the sound
barrier, they dive down and the first explosion happens near the mouth of the
monolith, and then another on the other side of Covenant City. They begin
to bomb the people outside, and you can hear a crow as the is
happening above you, and the ceiling kind of crumbles a little bit down.
Some people shield themselves. Some of the mystics don't even move. They stay
in their trance holding hands. I think we need to go. You were
supposed to get her here, she's here now she needs to activate. Okay,
Well we need to do something about the planes, and I can't do
anything from here. What are we going to do out there? Shoot them
with our pistol? Do you see? Oh? Go ahead? Oh no,
you see two bit kind of finish whatever they're going to put in,
and they kind of uh they put both hands on this like center piece and
press it and you see it begins like woo, and it stops and Tuba
looks over and shouts over the crowd, there's not enough power, kPr muted.
How can we How can we give you more power? What do we
do? KP? We got keep? Yeah, we gotta go up.
You do in fact to me or know exactly where the battery packs are.
We got to go up. I guess we're going up. Boo yo.
This is all the way up. And you climb and you climb you know,
it's actually for floor like uh like twenty eight or twenty nine for y'all.
So you all climb up this empty elevator shaft. Uh. The elevator
is almost like thirty floors even above where you are now. And as you
kind of pry it open and you'll all get off, you can see it,
this massive kind of generator, and it looks like it's taken some damage.
There's a hole in the wall nearby from the recent explosion, and a
large piece of debris has kind of bashed one of the sides and the reactor.
This large battery is unstable. I think some of you's going to immediately
rush over to it, and with whatever knowledge he has of reactors, I
think he's going to a use gear head so he can rig up and tinker
something that can work once, as well as plug in to the power console
with ARI. This is old technology. They need to harness the old technology.
Huh okay, modern stuff. I need a technology role from you.
What would you like to do, brother dearest? I well, I was
going to have another sweaty engine room scene, but now that he's you plug
it into the matrix? Is there a console here? A second it's there's
like maybe a small one on. So what it looks like is the original
power source has been revamped with new power sources, so they've kind of like
augmented it. So they might have a console for the pieces that they put
in, but it seems to be attached to a large or more ancient piece
of technology. Cool. I just had a fucking image in my head.
No, Tamir has a port right, yeah, and his neck great?
Yeah, Malik's Malik' seen it. I had to hack your brain. I
remember, I remember this, Malik, Like, I feel like there's some
synergy. And Malik understands what Tamir is about to do, and he reaches
into his bag and pulls out a nineteen ninety two game Boy attachment cable that
connects multiple game boys and he's going to play his data pat in, plug
one into, We'll give one to t Mir and then plug one into the
machine. Uh so the three of them of a t connection so he can
assist to mirror in the mind space. Oh my god, this is so
kind of weird. Okay, so this is a weird ass threesome good thing,
Aurora matured. Oh god, I'm just saying it is a good thing.
That being said, you this cable goes from here to there and there
to there, and everybody quickly plugs in. You can see that the debris
is still smashing one half of the reactor. It's going to be a very
heavy piece of rock. Would you like to try to move it? Alia?
And Kyle will probably work on that. Yeah, I need the force
check and then one of you can help the other. Uh, where's what
I lose? This hold up? Force? How much do you have in
force? One? Okay, I have two, so I help you.
So you take the plus one? Alia? Okay, shoot, hope that
let me? Why does it not let me? Okay? One? This
is without the plus one? So are Oh? I know why if you
go to the top of your character sheet says modifiers, you should check the
box says ad prompt in roll so I can prompt you each time for the
additional modifier. Uh. Yeah, I didn't get it. Okay. You
try to move it, and it's simply too heavy and it's kind of sparking,
which is as hard on like the eyes in the in the skin as
you to try to move it, but to no avail h Lumara is going
to come help. I don't know that she will be much help, but
she can sure try. I don't think she has any force. She does
not, so she's just gonna to give it all she's got. Hey,
Lamar comes over the third hand and the three ladies like, oh, and
lift this massive rock off and it smashes to the side into kind of dusty,
smaller pieces, and you can see the damage that's now actually done to
it. We flip back to the brothers. Uh, Tamir is hacking into
his brother's head, who is hacking into this reactor core? Or other way
round? Great? Oh right, because yeah, duh okay that is correct?
Okay, great, yeah the other way around. Malik's the top rights
as I need. You know what I don't need to know. I just
need a data en roll from a leak and a science roll from Tamir.
That's what I need. Do I get anything with I'm gonna let you each
Oh yes, you'll get go ahead and take a plus one bonus like everybody
else, with the help of Aria. I'll take it one. Uh data
Jane, Well, I forgot how my shoe works, so I get a
plus one from Ari. Is that what Judge has heard? Uh, yeah,
I guess you're plugged into right. Fuck you back. So here's what's
up. You get in there and ARII very quickly tells you that the issue
that is going on right now is uh obviously this damage and what can possibly
be done these reactors. You can move the power from the broke one over
to the other two, but it may cause them to overcharge, but it
will be enough for two bit to do what tubit needs to do. Blak.
You actually end up helping write you can if that's what you choose to
do, you can write the code to make that happen. Your critical success
will make that happen. But no matter what, because you're kind of overloading
the other two, it will eventually explode it sometime. With your critical success,
I will be able to let you set a little bit more of a
timer. It might explode in five minutes and more like ten minutes I've overclocked.
Yeah, basically, And so now you're kind of like quick writing this
code and always trying to to try to reroute power, and you'll be able
to tell with your critical success how much time you have before these reactors well
do what they do. Yeah, I'm basically trying to dump as much time
as we possibly can. I'd say with the critical success of a four,
the most you'd get is ten minutes. Okay, from the point of like
setting it, and I can set it to like start now, yes,
okay, cool, Yeah, so I would set it for like, I
don't know, we've climbed up and down this thing a couple of times.
I'm gonna whatever the time it takes us to climb, that's when it will
start, like once we hit the bottom. Okay, cool, it is
set and you hear the like boop as the kind of timer that you have
set maybe on a watch or your dad a pad begins right, but to
take your brother out safely. And you uh you uh, you see that
the reactor kind of glows. The two of three pods go brighter as you
give fifty more to one and fifty more to the other, and they're like
and they kind of blow outwards. And then you hear it the sound of
the weapon as it begins to activate. And I will read you from the
book what this says the book. We're actually going to the module, We're
actually going to the model for this piece. Look at us, and you
know what just because I have it here, it goes okay somewhere interior right
there's who lends flare to top it off. The interior of the monolith shakes
and pulsates. Crackling discharge shoots out from the planet. The artifact's protective shell
of coral metal breaks apart and is pulverized in rain of dust and falling rock.
The mist sinks to reveal the dark core, a sword measuring four kilometers
in height and three hundred meters in width made from perfectly cut hexagonal metal columns
fuse together and gleaming in the sunlight. I should say wet in the rain.
The conglomerate is covered in glittering mineral dust, and the rivers and the
delta turned black. As the shells fall, Sky City and the capital of
Homogity falls with it, rippling outward from the fall the Zyannithian leadership. New
quake opens up the earth, and new plateaus begin to rise among the equator.
Deep wounds in the ground lead the rivers to form new lakes and enormous
dams that protect districts of the city from flooding. Stand firm. Perhaps they
are gifts from earlier generations. Who experience the power of the monolith for themselves
once before. Across the conglomerate low lands, valleys are flooded and underwater caves
drain, exposing ancient ruins and hidden treasures. The monoliths discharge travels upward through
the atmosphere and strikes the Coriolis Station high above the city with a lance thrust
of fire. The ring is torn from its spokes and it crashes into the
tip of the spire. The waters and forests of Lake Apara freeze in the
vacuum as it fleets of Legion and the homogene burn and disappear in the bright
flashes of light like a swarm of fireflies. The station hangs in silence for
a second and not on hope seems lost. But then the lights go out
section by section, and the enormous grave protectors of the cellar they give up.
The station. Coriolis, now spinning, starts falling into the atmosphere as
it hull catches fire. The reactors explode, and a blinding light flashes across
the jungle, Zazina's dying breath as bright as a star. The explosion turns
the rest of the station into a rain of burning meteorites. Parts of the
core crash into the Guried sea and bring it to a boil. The rest
is shattered over the woods of the valley and the plateaus. The bombardment of
leave forest leaves forest fires, earthquakes, and level cities in its wake,
wounds that given time, might heal, but that will scar the third horizon
long after the end of the last cycle. And you watch this devastation and
the sword as it juts out the center of this building and rushes past all
of you. The countdown continues, but outside people are crushed by the falling
COREO I will spend darkness points right now. The dams hold saving a large
part of the city from flooding. A helpful darkness point. Because of the
work that you did leading up to this and solving the mystery, Coriolis did
its best to reposition itself, which means only half of the space station broke
off and fell into the atmosphere. The other half has been knocked into space
off course and floats without any kind of power or support. With two darkness
points left, the countdown continues to boop hooop boop. Debris falls around you.
The monolith that you stand in is beginning to collapse. Ye, we
should oh, we should go out to get tu Bit. Okay, okay,
where is tu bit here? We see you tube? Tu Bit is
in the basement about twenty something floors down. How long do we have?
Eight minutes? Not enough time to get in and get out? We got
we gotta go all these people that do we know out of our QoS character
did we know that would be the result of this at all? Okay?
And okay, now that being said, you don't hear Homogeny ships or First
Horizon ships bombing anymore. They have all been fried out of the sky.
It did that thing exactly what it was supposed to do, a shield.
But now this is crumbling and Coriolis was basically in its wake. Right,
It was just aimed at Coriolis. And now Coriolis is falling down around you,
literally burning through the atmosphere like meteorites as they land. Uh. It's
to the point and it's such great devastation that the physical landscape of Kua is
changing. Yeah, we need to get to the ship now before it's no
longer existent. This this being the second time tal has said that Malik still
has his data pat out and he's furiously punching at things on his screen.
From season two throwback. I have a remote control module in the Crawler.
I am remote piloting the Crawler as best I can to get to us.
All right, you are under some debris right now, so I am going
to have you make I get is it a data gin check? You're you're
you know, hacking it. See if you can get it to you.
That's pretty brilliant. Love it makescess. Okay, a single success is enough.
It takes a lot, and you you only realize when you boot it
up. Then it's like whoohoo woo, and it's under something and you're able
to like whip its legs around and it lifts the debris off itself with this
spider limbs and it crawls out of the debris and begins. It's kind of
spider walked down the streets. It is chaos. People are screaming and yelling.
Some people beat on the whole but they can't quite get in there.
You go, but it is on the way. It's going to be a
little bit before it gets there, a couple minutes probably. Okay, our
ride's coming. We gotta go give me a minute, just a minute,
don't have even one minute. We have seven minutes and thirty two seconds.
All right, let's go. Come on. I want to make sure that
Tuba is doing what Tubat is supposed to be doing. We don't know if
this was the right the reaction that was supposed to happen. It's true,
roll a mind walking, So go ahead and roll because tow's gonna do it.
We used gonna get a plus one for towel because you don't have a
choice. Basically, towels connected to your mind walking. Uh, towels connected
with the plus one your mystic ability check. Okay, a single success if
you take a second, you really try to concentrate, and how as much
as you try not to, your head juts back, as so does to
me. Rors Alia. You see this as is this the first time you
see them do it together? Uh? I mean, isn't this what the
No? You knew that's right, that's right, you knew there because it
was kind of that's right, right, that's right. And that was the
reason I came on is because they have well, they make it look very
easy. You can tell that they are getting stronger as they immediately drop into
the trance, and you're both met with the what you would consider the ringing
of light, that like pinging like it's so bright you can barely see.
And in this light you see the silhouette, the silhouette of two bit.
Their arms are outstretched, their legs outstretched. You can see that their head
is tipped back. Light pours from what little bit you can tell their orifices,
but mostly their body seems in descript just in silhouette of all of this
light. You have only seconds to be yes, is this it for you?
This is only the beginning. How much longer do you need it?
Not long? Now? The weapon had the shield has already been activated.
My time is limited. You must you must go to near I will see
you among the stars. Wow. Thank you for everything, and take care
of Aurora. You're going to lead her on your next journey. Does a
promise I will keep until I can no longer journey will to near amissary for
the machine. The light kind of gets more viran. Her body disappears in
a vast span of whiteness, and both of you like come to They might
have been out ten twelve seconds used to doing this. I immediately grabbed ta
mirror and like clutch his hand and say we have to go. He's crying,
but he doesn't hesitate God, and everybody grabs hands. You feel Lamara's
gripears very tightly. As you all begin to run to try to get out
of here, to make it to the crawler. You can see the crawler
is almost there. And as you round a corner to go downstairs to maybe
find a way out, in the hallway stands a woman. She looks like
Lamara, a jinn. We hear the sound of all of your feet in
these suits kind of come to a squeaking halt on marble floor at least what's
left of it, and dustin rubble around you. People screaming and crying and
chaos outside. And she smiles this corrupt smile for our last two darkness points.
She says, what kind of gin would I be if I didn't grant
your wish? Happy traveling Alia, And she claps twice. All of your
vision is blacked for a moment, the sound of death and chaos, of
great ruin, of children crying, of blood being spilled, and of a
great space station falling from the sky. It all disappears, and you find
yourself, all of you, Lamara included in your clothes. Your feet come
beneath you, you're on the Defiant. How you feel your steering wheel beneath
your hands, and you feel the Defiant almost come out of light speed in
some ways if it was going fast and it stopped, and as it does.
In front of you is a planet you've never seen before, really a
corruption bar. I was going to do something, but I think now I'm
going to I'm going to make it. I'm going to change that, and
I'll tell you at the end what I change. You hear Sally, come
over the inner Captain. Something has happened. My connection to the main computer
on Coriolis has it seems we are on no map that I have in record.
Uh well, good thing. This chip was made to discover new places.
This is in fact CAPA. It doesn't even matter for current started.
From what I can tell, we've problem the fifty years into the future as
pass. Huh what my account is correct? Plan you see in front of
you, it's planet Earth, that's true, and we have pr aversation uh
TMR. I think we need some of your data, yes, of course,
as soon as alia because everybody heard this right uh huh. As soon
as Alia hears that, you see her just collapse on the floor, on
the ground, and then desperately tries to reach out to the Lady of the
tears. Okay, let's get a mystic check. Oh okay, come on,
baby, been rolling good? H Wait the blessing I have you're also
on the ship. You're also on the ship, so I can do a
plus one. Yeah. Well, if there's no icons, there's no blessing.
You don't know yet. I mean I already blessed like the crew.
I forget if that the mass blessing includes me in it, or she blessed
your sword, maybe you could hold that and take the blessing from it.
Okay, okay, I'll do plus one for that. Come on, baby,
Oh thank god? Okay, what is your role? A? Okay,
the same experience once again. She stands before you, looking down on
you. You see Alia like tense up, and then as soon as he
sees the Lady of Tears, she she calms down. She goes, I
thought I thought I may have lost you. You are very far away now,
Aliah, I am weak in fading. I cannot see you. Is
it true? I don't know what happened. But we if it's true,
we're in the First Horizon where it's it's ridiculous, it's there's no way there's
they don't have that much power. They can't find your way home. Oh
yeah, find your way home? What do I What can we do next?
And she's gone, And as you come out of the transfer, team
stands before you once again. We are alone and far and icons can't reach
as well. Here. We don't need the icons right now, right now,
we need ourselves. Tamyr plugs in a h All right, Tamir,
Hey, it's been so long, longer than you may think. Strange,
something seems familiar. That's what I wanted to know. Supposedly we are back
in the First Horizon, in a place called Earth. That's impossible, isn't
it. So many things are impossible. I will update Sally's dad maps to
include the star systems in the First Horizon? Thank you, Anti. Is
it true we have fifty years in the past. I don't know if that
is true, but I have no way to verify. Do you know what
this means? No, Please tell me. It means that we have time
to stop the First Horizon, rememver cross into the third horizon. We have
time to stop their plans, and I think that like really dawns on to
mirror to be the right you are gift and a blessing. I'll send another
location to Sally's computer. It's a nearby space station. You want to lie
low. I don't think any of you look like first horizons. Y're probably
right, thank you. And as you come back to the yeah and you
unplug, you see that there's kind of a moment as this comes through.
And since we got an extra corruption for right here at the end, because
you've gone back in time, there's another wish that has not been fulfilled.
The mysticides have not been stopped yet. And so in one of the doorways,
maybe at the very back of the mess hall, staring down the hallway
at all of you trying to figure out what's going on, is a small
face of a child who has hitched a ride. He'll stay here as long
as he can hide out here. But he is not out of his wish
yet, and he must follow you until the end. The camera sees the
crew of the Defiant floating in an entirely new system. The first horizon sent
back by a simple wish that her family and friends would not be harmed during
the oncoming war. Right correction, she said the Third Horizon shouldn't the people
at the Third Horizon the people of the Third hr doesn't matter, They're still
sent back to save them all because she may not do the job for you,
but she has set you up so that this crew, the pilot,
a scientist, a code breaker, a priestess, and a doctor are lost
to another time and place. The story for the crew of that Defiant does
not end here. It simply begins again, as a wish has granted them
a second chance of saving those that they love the most and keeping the darkness
and the Void at bay. What they choose to do now is entirely their
own. They may have to find a new home and new friends, But
in fifty years time, they know the icons. They send emissaries, and
those emissaries activate an ancient piece of technology that breaks apart the world as you
know it. What will the crew of the Defiant do given the opportunity to
rewrite time? But this is not the story that this game has told,
And as that story comes to a close, I'd like for all of you
to go around and tell me what is going through each of your characters' heads
as you stare off at a burnt earth, at a sky full of space
stations and ships that are unknown to you, with only the four people around
you as the only known family or friends that at the moment you have left.
And we will start with our pilot, our captain. Well inner monologue
of Towel sounds something along the lines of fuck. Fuck, I don't know
anybody, I don't know anything about this place. Fuck. I haven't even
been born yet. Fuck that's it. Yeah, just fuck fucks is the
subtitle across the screen. I haven't even been born yet. She's trying to
wrap her head around time travel and also the fact that she's in a place
that she has never even imagined being. Yep. Fuck And the camera pans
quickly over to your right, which stands to mere tamer What runs through your
head as you stare out at a burnt earth and a first horizon. There
are so many probabilities, but I think as Tamir reaches out to his brother
and takes his hand as if you are a little boy, there's that spark
of hope of something so suppressed for so long they could save their parents the
camera cuts down to your hand and then back up to the person holding it,
your brother, Malik. You're muted a moment ago. There was no
internal monologue. There was fragments of words and sentences as both of you as
the only sound in the ship is that of fingers typing on the screen here
as Malik realized that we have fifty years in the future tech and fifty years
in the future knowledge, how do I best utilize that? And then one
hand gets taken and there's that like look without words from from ta mirror and
the like. There's like a quizzical look back from Malik, and then he
realizes it as well, and his other hand swipes a few things straight,
just a few things, uh and you see a h a timeline of Algal
on the screen as your brother begins to plot and from the screen to Alia,
thank you, muty. I was just thinking, I think Aliah's just
blank, and trying to process the repercussion of her wish about how and trying
to understand because I had did she realize that she didn't hear the conversation between
obviously between uh Timir and what was too bid no, not too bod,
the one just now about we could save She just knows that sorry, sorry,
yeah right, but yeah, so she just knows that they've been sent
back fifty years and into the first Horizon and being the only person that has
ever connected directly with the ship and seen the malice and the the the intent
and actually seeing the result after all that. You see her initially panicking at
her decision, like what what has she done? But then as that realization
dawns and the fact that she's basically behind enemy lines, you see her calm
down, take a deep breath, and then she just thinks, whatever whatever
may come, and then looks at the rest of the crew from the from
back there like I'm assuming there in front of her in the near the cockpit,
and then she goes and then she nods and kind of just smiles,
and then goes to the kitchen to make some child for everybody. It's out
of the pot and the kettle begins, and the camera pans to the last
person on the crew of Lamara, and a single tear rolls down her face
of sadness. It's like she knew she'd seen it before the fall of Kua
and a prophecy, and the camera pans out of the cockpit of the Defiant,
kind of looking back at the ship in the darkness of space. Stars
here seem much dimmer, a little sadder. The darkness has taken hold,
much bigger here, the spaces between the stars are larger. But the lights
on the Defiant still shine bright against the empty darkness of space, shining like
a star and in itself brighter than any of the other ones in the sky.
The Defiant speaking of light and hope, star that fights against the darkness,
the light that will stop the void. And this story comes to a
close as the crew of the Defiant floats endlessly in a new place and time,
plotting their next move to save those that they love the most. We've
come to the end, everybody, how are we feeling? I feel amazing,
Well done done, there's well done, beautiful, unforgettable, and who
knows what will happen for this crew? Well done? Oh well, we've
got ten minutes, y'all before I have to like, like maybe skidadal,
don't fret. I bet a lot of you have questions. I have promised
Mike that I will do a GM talk to answer all your unanswered questions and
bit some pieces. But you know. Yeah, don't we do the after
show live this time? Yeah? I guess. So we have ten minutes.
Let's let's get let's swing it around town, guys, let's seat of
outros. We're gonna do uh. We're gonna do our stars and wishes uh.
And then we're gonna do a GM and cast and crew post mortem after
today, some time we've all had time to process. I'm gonna start with
uh, with Nome, what are your stars and wishes? You're always prepared
to go first. I'm definitely always prepared to go first. I mean,
come on, there's there's only one star, like of all the stars that
are here, like that said that made this happen. Oh, thank you,
thank you all years two years. Yeah, we came together at the
most unexpected expected time too. Yeah. I was kind of beautiful about our
systemic and you let us tell this wild story and go off the rails and
still bring in like official stuff, in our own stuff, in your own
stuff. There is no one out there that GM's like you. That no
one thank you. What's your wish? There's no wish to end, there's
no wish. That's it. It might not be the end. I mean
maybe what what you would wish that happened? But technically in that case,
Aris, what about you? What are your what are your stars? And
possible wishes half wishes? Because this is the finale, all right, A
star a stars. So I'm gonna say, uh, I'm gonna I'm gonna
like cheap out on here and say the star is all of you, because
this story would not be the same without every single person on this stream.
And yes, Paul, I mean you too, yep, because you might
not be here because of work obligations, but you are one hundred percent still
part of this crew and a big star to everybody because it was from first
to last, it was an extremely beautiful story. And they're oh hot,
diggity dog, I'm going to I'm gonna have some grief over this. I'm
probably going to grief the story just because it's yeah, it's it's in there,
It's in my heart. Yeah, okay, kp oh boy. I
mean not to follow in the same footsteps as theirs, but I mean I
have a specific reason why I want to give this, but I my star
goes to all of you, not just because of how amazing of players you
guys are and how amazing of a story this was, and how well you
guys went through all of it from start to finish. And I've said this
before, but as someone who started out as a viewer that got a chance
to binge watch the entire three seasons before be having the absolute privilege of joining
you all in as a cast memory on this, I can't. I can't.
I cannot even begin to tell you how happy, how lucky I am
that I got to be a part of all this. And I can't thank
you guys enough for having me on to go on this journe, because it's
not easy to bring someone on midway through a campaign, and especially after you
lose someone who you started with, who a fellow crew member, and to
have someone brand new, not know whether or not they will gel, not
know how it's gonna go. And you guys made me feel well welcome from
the start, and I made some of my closest friends through this. You
guys have are truly the best crew I could have ever imagined. To have
ever played this and have been able to tell the story with and to see
this get completed with all of you is the greatest privilege that I can ever
ever ever ask for and I'm just so over the moon that it's not the
end that's the thing. It's maybe the end of this specific story, whether
or not we have another season, whatever happens later on, I know for
a fact that we are going to tell more stories together. We have so
many more things that we wanted to share with the world, so many more
ideas and characters, and I'm just excited. And I guess that's my wish
is to see what that next story we tell together is, because I know
it's just going to be just as glorious, just as beautiful and heartfelt and
epic as this one was. Because it's it's with you guys at the table,
and I just wanted to let you all know that how truly amazed I
am by all of you. So thank you, thuck you next night.
So I am going to echo what everyone said, so I agree. So
I'm gonna do a different star, which is you, audience. This show
was amazing for all the reasons everyone already said. I one hundred percent agree
with every sentiment there. The demand for a Sea two is why there was
a season two. Dot and I planned this show and we had no intention
of multi season. We were just like everyone likes this, you just want
to keep going and everyone's on board. Season three literally wouldn't exist without you.
We crowdfunded season three, and if we didn't hit our goal, which
I think we hit in like an hour, we weren't going to do with
season three, and then season four just sort of fell into our lap.
The stars aligned literally or figuratively in this case, and and it just it
just so happened the book. The book came out and we were like,
look, you guys want to keep keep rocking and rolling, and that's what
it was. But if it weren't for you guys, watching you guys talking
about the show, the fan art, the the watch throughs. Someone live
tweeted forty episodes of this on Twitter, we wouldn't we wouldn't be here,
we wouldn't be having this episode, we wouldn't be having this. This show
would have ended a year ago. So my stars, you guys is everything
every said and you guys, and my wish is uh is a new story.
Well you might just get that, Mike, Okay, my star,
Uh, I'm going to give it to well, I'm gonna do that thing
and give it to the players as well. Because Honestly, this is the
first long term campaign. This is the longest campaign I've ever closed out playing
with people in terms of, like I think, hours spent. I'm sure
down the road i'll close out some of the other long term stuff I'm a
part of. But as a GM, this was and and as a story
I think I wanted to tell, Uh, I appreciate you all trusting me
to like come to the table to tell a story that that that is like
this, that is a little bit heavier, that that does, uh pull
deeply on our humanity and our empathy and what it means to like negate the
darknesses of space, and these were some of the things I wanted to play
with and all of you trusted me to bring that to the table and let
me, trusted me to let you do that for four fucking seasons nonetheless,
So I really really appreciate that. And as KP said, you know,
along the way, I made some of my absolute best friends in the whole
world. And that's kind of just makes me lucky. Really, that's not
even us. That's like a gold star for me. That's a gold star
for me. So yeah, it yeah, it's very Uh. This has
been a very personal campaign. I knew from the moment I picked Coriol this
stuff, I wanted to run it. And when I brought it to Mike,
there was I would say hesitation, but he was like, Okay,
are you sure, And I was like, yes, this is the one
I want to run. Like I have this thing, I want to do,
the story I want to tell, and I want the right people and
finding the right people along the way have been half the joy of this campaign.
So thank y'all for making it a space that I could I could do
that and I could cut my GM teeth in a new way. Hell freaking
yeah. The last thing I'm gonna say, I'm gonna close this out with.
UH, We're not doing outro. We're just gonna say bye. But
the next story may not be a Coriola story. But we can officially announce
as if you're if you're a fan of Hot Dice Daddies, you already got
a snack peak. But we are officially announcing a long term campaign. Uh.
There's no scheduled end DAPE, there is no scheduled seasons. Uh.
It will run until either we get bored or it concludes. We will be
playing the One Ring second edition I will be hopping over into the game master
seat and we'll be running into the Third Age of Middle Earth. Uh And
it'll be a good time. It'll be a good time. I think Dot
has a mustache. It's gonna be it's gonna be great. It's gonna be
great. Uh So, we're gonna be slinging some dice. We're gonna be
going on some journeys. We're gonna be finding some artifacts. We're gonna be
fighting back the darkness, uh as we are wont to do here on this
channel. Uh So, if you you are a fan of Lord of the
Rings, fan of the Hobbit, it's not gonna be that, but you'll
enjoy the ride in the less. So come hang out. We're coming back
soon. I don't have exact dates because my mind is a pile of mush
right now, but we are absolutely gonna be running some One Ring second edition,
and I cannot wait to jo Then what better way I think for us
to go? As as the famous quote says, and the road goes ever
on and on song, It's true, down from the door where it began.
And that's it. Friends, We're out of here. We'll see you
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