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Is there Danny Roadblocks? Yeah, Danny Roadblocks? Is he Actually he actually
sponsors the podcast in Roadblocks bucks. So we all built a roadblock server together
where we actually play void offline and he pays us in roadblock coins. Yeah,
Void Blocks. The servers called Void Blocks and the past it is Daddy
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it that being said, we've already hit one corruption bar. So you guys
suck. Uh And with that information, I will turn things over to chat
you think we're kidding with that, I will turn things over a dot to
take us back into space. Dot. How you doing? I hate all
of you. I love you gold On, I was muting you are guilty
by association at this point. Hold on? You bade me to this ball
can h it's too hot, y'all. I'm sorry. Okay, So,
uh, we're in a space now, so we had obviously, um some
time off, so a recap seems inevitable. Um, well, I'm already
cools off. Um since Daddy Daddy's cash is so hot? Uh so uh
uh so let's see. Finally, our brave crew of the Defiant left uh
both their ship and the docks of a little Algal proper, only after they
managed to escape a burning building. Um witnessed lamar Wait was that last time
or the time before when Lumara kissed the dead body? That was before?
Okay, so you they you managed to grab a vessel and head out,
and last episode was spent mostly mitigating the swamps on the exterior kind of parameter
of the city. That sits at the base of the monolith here on Kua.
Let's see, do I have a do I have a role? Twenty
I do? They found themselves coming out of little Algol down or up really
a river called the majan Uh, and their travels, quite a few things
happened. There was a lot of talking kind of amongst them. They did,
in fact have some interesting dreams um I guess you could say um Malik
and Lumara did. They met a rather large cat who unfortunately fell prey to
the swamp itself, which seemed to swallow it hole in a black ikey stickiness,
though they have not completely identified what that is. And after a rather
I don't know, they met some local natives who said, don't come back
this way, and kind of came out of this dense swamp area into the
souldier swamps proper, where they actually found this old piece of the town that
has sunken or was swallowed whole by the swamps. And here they decided to
rest, since it was a rather emotional journey, since their daft escape from
the burning building and Lumara raising someone from the dead and you know, unrequited
love and the works. So here they sit, so we held hands.
Okay, yeah, here they sit in a sticky swamp. They have found
an outcropping which was probably once the top or an upper layer of building that
is almost entirely gone by the dark water itself. You have pulled the boat
up, and all of you have found some flat stone ground for the first
time in a few quite a few hours. Actually it's rather quiet, and
often the distance across the entirety of this sunken city you see the kind of
pyramid style top cigarette piece that stands kind of coming out of where the palace
and this temple kind of are conjoint, but they are on the other side
of this town. And all of you seem to need a moment. So
I'm gonna give it to you. Gon't sit there, high crate. Look
how generous you are. You are so generous. Kind the kind goal smash
repeat. I set the goal of letting all of you are peak smashed,
and I'm going to repeat that by muting myself now and letting you get I
don't like this version of dot so I I'm going to actually just sit on
the boat some more, because I assume that's probably the highest part here.
Um it actually pilot. Oh yes, from the pilots seat, correct.
Yeah, that would be the highest point for all of this if you were,
if you were on the lookout. Okay, yeah, So I'm gonna
sit in the pilot's seat and just keep an eye out for anything moving at
all, at least for a little while after we settled down and stop.
I just want to make sure nothing's like following us or coming closer. Okay,
Um, then I'm going to actually have you properly rolled for that.
So let's get that observation role. Yeah, limited takes us well. You
can see it way on the other side of this sunken city, and you
begin keeping your eye out, but nothing is at the moment. It seems
rather still water. It's rather quiet other than the sounds of kind of the
natural wildlife that surrounds you. But you do notice two additional things. One,
the sun is going down, just going to get dark soon. Two
there's a storm rolling in great mic space. Somebody clipped that. Shit,
h that's a good one. It's a very good face that is see from
here. I oh sorry. After taking a few moments to just gather all
that, I will climb down unless someone comes out and grabs me first.
So you do realize that Dot is giving us the space to talk, and
none of us want to approach each other. I think I would or Soul
would set up his drone and he's going to launch it up to kind of
scan the area. Okay, Um, you didn't, don't. So one
of you has like an area scanner, some kind of biometric scanner to leave,
I have a I have an environmental scanner, an environmental a proximity scan
a sensor. Okay, So the drone kind of goes up in the air
and you get a nice like overhead view. How far out do you want
this drone to go? I would say, like not too far because I
don't want him to be seen. So we're in what like an think nothing
in case, but like a sort of like the ruins. Yeah, it's
literally like you took this this massive kind of um what we might consider like
an Aztec style, say, kind of clay style buildings and stuff that has
sunken below the water and only the tops of the tallest buildings remain, and
so it kind of creates this unnatural labyrinth with water around it. Is there
like a opening at the top or um the one that you sit on.
No, um, the place that you are going, if that's where you're
sending the drone, Like you want to go scout the temple you're headed too,
or the palace you're headed too. How far is that from where we
are? It's pretty far? Yeah, okay, I don't think I would
send them off that far. Maybe just do a sweep around a perimeter,
I'd say, maybe, like maybe like a twenty foot radius, yeah,
just to kind of scout. You don't see anything currently, I'm gonna have
them like patrol and the moment something approaches, if it breaks the perimeter,
okay, none, great, you kind of hear just like and then I
would like to walk up to Heale's on the boat or get as close as
I can to talent wanting Are you wanting privacy? No, not really,
I'm just I'm just trying to go up on her seat that sits kind of
higher than everybody, the pilot's seat. I'll use my rifle tip just to
kind of like tap out her foot together. Attention, that's up. So,
so what is the plan? I don't know. And we're supposed to
go and I guess infiltrate that temple and get as many people out as possible.
But have you seen to mirror? Like his legs are seriously burned.
I look over to ta mirror. Could I assess just based off of look,
how I guess fucked up he is? You might say that he is
sucked up the chameleon suit. All you can see from the chameleon suit is
that it's not working. Okay, right, it's not it's not doing its
job. It's not actually camouflaging him to the surrounding area. Would be like,
if it's not working to an extent, then it's probably really messed up,
which you can only mean that he's probably also heard, but you can't
see his skin underneath, right, But I know communists aren't that like like
protected, right not, They're not really protective. It's probably grafted itself partially
to his skin. You okay, Um, Well, he's gonna either have
to tough it out or we're going to need to delay the assault and possibly
do what you can for him. But if I'm going to be honest,
at this point, it's either he moves forward or he goes back. There's
really no truly helping his situation with whatever I mean. The suit doesn't even
seem functional. At this point, I am a doctor. Yeah, I
was gonna say. I jumped down, um, and I completely forgot you,
just like I figured I am a doctor. Oh right, I figured
they were still inside because they were having the conversation about the thing. Okay,
that is true, Lamara and tom Or, we're having a weird stand
offish. This was yeah, this was happening, happening simultaneously because Lamar was
saying that they're the thing in his bag. Don't start open the thing.
This is at the same time. No, no, no, we're good.
We're good. No record, we're good. I got you. So
that point, I jumped down and I look up at you and I say,
look, supposedly there's thirteen people that we could save there. But if
that means that I lose anybody that's out here with us right now, it's
not worth it to me. I look at the boat. Can this boat
house thirteen additional people. No. Part of the thing that we have to
do while we're there is to steal another vehicle, if there is one,
and that's just praying to the icons that's going to happen. So we are
going into this temple with no true plan, no concept of what's inside or
outside, no concept of whether or not we can even leave with let's say
our objective even if we get that far, and a possible chance that we
might have another ship or vehicle to leave that objective. Kind of patch you
on the shoulder. Yeah, you got the gist of it. Is this
usually how you operate? Look, I don't do important shit. You know
what we've been doing. We've been taking people on joy rides about around the
monolith. We've been studying close up planets for silly things because the consortium wants
something done there. We've been going through and shipping supplies down to Correolis to
the monolith. It's not we don't do anything like this. This is out.
I've been out of my element since I left the ship. How I
don't know if you've noticed. I understand this is probably something new. However,
we are here. Yeah, we have to do it, So do
we? Though? Do we have to? Well? I mean to me,
it seems like you, the majority wants to I mean, is that
not why we are here anyway? Or why have we come this far?
If you don't agree with what's going to happen. I mean listen. I
I'm fine with whatever. Whether we save them or not, it's not really
that relevant to me. I'm only asking because if we are going to do
it, perhaps we should start having some form of plan, and you,
being you might you know, create said plan because I don't. Malik's not
going to listen to me, to me or it's pretty big? What is
with you people thinking I'm doing something special? I'm not. I've been flying
on a ship since I was a kid. That's that's my special tak The
Soul is like looking around like that's all literally all I have. Are you
not? Have I been following the wrong person? Are you not the captain
of the Defiant when we were hired? Were we not assigned to you to
follow? Your life here is at a risk. Lumara's life is at a
risk. The two brothers Deir life is at a risk. I'm following you
because I believe that you are the leader. So tell me what to do.
I don't know what to do, Soul, That's it, That's all
I got, And the camera cuts perfect spot to inside this piece of ruin
where Seul and Lumara sand I'm sorry, Soul and Tail stand on the top
lue Mara and Tamir and was Malika with them. No, are kind of
inside a piece of this ruin that I imagine has an outcropping that hasn't crumbled,
a dry, dry spot covered in some kind of sticky, eky moss.
And she still stares at you with an unwavering glare, a seriousness about
her. She meant what she said. When she says it gives her an
uneasy feeling. She doesn't like whatever it is you carry in your bag.
She can feel it and sense it. That's just too bad. I don't
like what you did to my brother, but I didn't do anything to your
brother. You took something from him, Lamara. We all saw it.
I didn't take anything from him. And he'll s I'll take the glasses off
and kind of hold up to her and less do you understand what this is?
Um? I'm going to assume that it is some kind of advance.
I'm going to assume you nerd that it is some kind of advanced a spectacle
unit that allows you to see beyond general twenty twenty vision. I mean,
you're not wrong, but it is further beyond twenty twenty vision, almost between
a point of existence that should not be. And I could see what you
did to my brother. I can see what is inside of you with these
I'm sorry, I don't understand. You can see inside me like an X
ray machine. Yes, what's inside me? I don't know what's inside Maleak.
I am not a medical professional, but you'll stay here and accuse me.
You put something inside him or took something out, and it's I don't
know what you mean. It's it's black. When when you I did whatever
you did to the woman, you look too, Maleak. And I don't
even know why or how, but you started I taking essence maybe and it
is permanent. I don't I didn't mean too. Can you fix it?
I don't know the doctor. I don't even know what I did. I
can look. I didn't know there was anything wrong with him. There wasn't
until you did something. Look, I don't I don't understand what is inside
you. I do understand that there is some sort of power and you have
a certain level of control over it. You activated something with tal, you
did something with that woman, and you did something to my brother. I
didn't do any of those things. They just happened. It was an accident.
I mean the woman wasn't I had this feeling, it just had the
urge. Yeah, I just said that urge to kiss her. But by
the other ones where accidents. I swear that's okay, but maybe accidentally go
fix my brother before something worse happens. That is, the thing is not
going to go away out of his head. It's in his head. It
looks like a tumor of some sort, something malignant. That's silly. I
can't give a person a tumor. I don't think you gave it to him.
I think it's what's in place of when you took from him. I
don't I don't know how to reverse it. I don't know what you want
me to do to mirror she gotta look at She go's like, that's not
that's not a doctor thing. I don't even know what's inside me. How
am I supo to fix if I don't even know what it is or how
it works. I didn't want this. I didn't ask for this, none
of us did, Mara. But maybe if you at all at all did
this. She sat down and she focused, and she was able to activate
her gift. I believe you that there was no mal intent, and I
want to believe that you're going to be able to fix this though, because
of this, and he gestures to this, right, if this doesn't kill
my brother, that will okay. Well, you have to know that I'm
not going to let him die. If I can stop it, I do.
That's why I wanted to let you know. And if I can help
in any way, I can smell your flesh, I should help you.
I'm fine, No, you're not. You have third degree burns on your
skin or lower torso I can smell it. Fun thing about third degree burns,
so they don't feel it. It doesn't mean we shouldn't do something.
What can we do now? We are in the middle of a swamp.
We have to go save thirteen people. And how do you expect to do
that when your flesh is currently grafted to the suit that you wear. My
legs still work. I'll keep moving forward. I think that you should let
me treat you. I would prefer not. You want me to secure your
brother, you want me to fix him, but you won't even let me
help you. Tao hired me as well. Reli saved me and then brought
me to the ship and convinced all of you to let me be your medic,
and so I have to convince you to let me be a medic to
you. Look, nobody's around. I'm a medical professional. I can handle
it. All you need to do is take the suit off, let me
treat you and wrap your wounds, and then we can put the soup back
on, and nobody else has to know. I get it. You don't
want him to worry. Okay, Okay, she kind of turns around to
give you a moment of privacy so you can attempt to peel the suit off.
I'm gonna need you to roll a will. Oh my god, this
is a will roll to pull the suit from off of you. Little big
yankes, big big, big, big old yikes Rooney's I was telling Ris
earlier like this. This brings back so many memories. They used to transport
burn victims to special units. My cousin had bad body, full body third
degree burns when I was a child, and I yeah, m hmm,
it's real bad. Help my cousin. I know exactly what this is.
Like, Yes, it is real bad. Yeah, it is real bad.
Okay, you get about, you get the top half off, and
you get down to your legs where the burns are the worst and um lumar
can hear you struggling, the sound of tearing flesh, um, and you
just don't have it in you to finish. And she doesn't turn around,
but she just speak over her shoulder and she says, can I help you?
I don't think I can get the rest off. It's okay. She
comes over. The first thing she does is going to dose you with something
to help with the paint, because this is about to get serious, as
she's going to probably have to scalpel the rest off, more than likely cut
it away. So she's going to just make a role. Mike, would
you like to make Lamar's ard? You want to do? Yeah? So,
Joey, real quick, you have a medicit Is that a plus two
to medicare g rolls? She also has one right right? Yeah, yeah,
that's why I'm just clarifying. It's a plus two, right, Okay.
She also has field MEDICAREAG, which is an additional plus one. I
believe, so I will will someo medicura gee hereicurreg to successes. Well,
that wasn't a terribly great role, you know what. I'm sitting on a
sluid darkness points Yes, I am nine of them. In fact, I'm
going to yeah, I'm gonna find I have nine. I have nine.
I'm going to let you reroll that micro okay, us successes critical mic.
Maybe it has gotten quiet, or maybe it's the whimpering sounds, probably unknowingly
eking out of Tamir's body as Lumara begins to scalpel off the rest of this
suit. It probably takes you to your feet, and if the three of
you peer into this structure, you'll see this happening. As Lumara finishes helping
get the suit off of Tamir. Uh, this smell is pungent even to
just a basic human nose and Uh. Lumara begins binding Tamir's body from his
feet all the way up to his torso probably chest high I assume is mostly
us down is where most of the burns are. She binds him how quietly,
comes in, doesn't say anything, and starts helping. And I would
follow behind, but I would kind of like keep my distance just to respect
his privacy. And it's kind of just like lean and look away. As
a medical professional, she has all of the tools that she needed, as
well as the know how to begin healing you. The pain medicine is helpful.
That's one, so it's not as painful at least what you can feel.
And two, you're in a state of recovery. The scars will never
go away, but the burns will heal over time. But actually, in
fact, the binding and the compression help a lot in allowing you to put
the suit back on and continue about your way. It's actually a bit of
a relief for the first time in a since this has happened to me,
or all the way down. Really the her thank you, don't thank me
yet. I still oh you remember, and she kind of looks right at
you. Anybody else need to be back patched up? And she kind of
looks around. Now that we've drawn a little bit of an audience. I
can't remember it was I heard, how are you? I think the only
person Tamir had the burns And I'm good. I'm good. I don't think
anybody else was damage. Yeah, I'm good. I had hope that dislocated.
But yeah, I but in the past twenty four hours, um didn't
Lamara treat that immediately and pop it back in for you? Yeah, but
I'm sure it's still not feeling that great. No, I would say at
this point, though it is beginning to heal, the dislocation is really the
bad thing. It's gonna be sore and like tender, and the rotation maybe
a little less than um for a little bit, but all in all,
it's still it's a usable shoulder, especially now that it's back into place.
Okay, cool Um, I don't know if any hit point I don't.
You didn't say I had any hit points taken from that, so I'm assuming
I'm still who hp okay uh okay um? Well are you? Where is
where is Malik? Where is leek? Uhdeed? I think in all of
this, Malik took a wander around small island, not far, not anywhere
uh dangerous, but he just wandered off a little bit um And at this
point he's I assume there's there's a clear path that you'd have to get from
the boat to where this like little ruined building is. He is uh on
the path just off of it, on a flat surface. Um. He's
still relatively quiet, but mostly because there's no one around. And when people
begin to filter out of this area, you would see Malik in a very
different position than anyone has ever seen Malik. I think he's actually on the
ground, knelt down, and he has his schimag off and he has it
on the ground folded out, and it's probably like a good three foot by
three foot, which is pretty freaking big for what this thing is seeing it
usually as a scarf. And you can see that there's a corner piece several
inches long that is torn from it, and in the center of it,
there are two strips of fabric that are a similar pattern but two different colors,
that are stitched into the inner part of the schumag, the part that
is folded on and like on him. Beside those two rips, he has
placed a small pitch black stone and a small like pure white stone on either
side of those, and he like pulls out a knife and he takes the
leftmost fabric and he begins to cut the long side of it, separating just
a section of it from the she mug. And from that he reaches into
like a little pocket that he's made and he pulls out a red string that
has been tied in a circle, and he places that there and he just
sits there on his knees, hands on his lap, and he's looking down
at this, Lamar looks to Tamor at this point maybe should talk to him
to solve He's right, guys, I kind of spin you round and point
out your brother. I imagine you're actually on like a different it's nearby,
but it's mostly the building probably tipped over in your like the side of a
building now that once was, and um, he's isolated it alone, and
Lamar kind of points at him and she goes, okay, okay, Um,
he just Mary will make his way over to try to go find brother.
Let's have an awkward family conversation. Got sorry too much talking? Uh
yeah, I mean seeing Malik, especially with the shimag off and um having
it laid out the way that it is. Uh. Tamara will go and
just kind of uh kneel down next to him. Um, not really saying
anything just yet, but eventually we'll go how are you hold? So the
closer Tamir gets, the more he sees the presentation that is kind of here,
and it becomes obvious that Malik, for the first time in years and
definitely for the first time on screen, is knelt in prayer over the Schumak.
The white and black stone are physical representations of the faithless one, which
is the icon that he favors, and Tamir, and only Tamir would have
the unique understanding of the two scraps of fabric that are sewn there, because
two matching ones are sewn in his chumak. They are fragments of a schumag
that belong to our mother and belong to our father. And he just sort
of reaches over and grabs Tamir's like wrist, but gently and sort of pulls
it towards the center, kind of without saying anything, towards the center of
this whatever it is. If there's no resistance, he takes the red cord
and undoes the small knot on it and ties the knot onto Tamor's wrist,
and he places it back on his hand, and he kind of he waits
for a second, and there's just like this this heavy pause in the air,
and he kind of looks at him and he says, this is uh,
this has been a it's been a ship showed kid. Huh might say
something like that, this is everything's uh, everything's different now. I don't
know if it's better or worse, but it's it's different now. When when
is the last time that you, and he kind of just nods over to
the He reaches forward and slides the two rocks onto the two scraps, and
he says, before kind of indicating before the loss of their parents, why
why are you looking for guidance? Now? I'm looking to to give guidance.
And he kind of reaches over again and takes the same wrist and he
kind of holds him. He holds him in his hand between both of his
and he says, this is this is appice, and he kind of points
to the red string. He says, he told me something. He said
that a person should be willing and Willie starts to immediately cry should be willing
to give up all of his tomorrows for one today, so that he doesn't
end up wasting all of his today's on one tomorrow. You need to give
what you have and do what you think is right, because a man is
a sum of all of his actions. And he just kind of holds Tamir's
hand. I think at that Tamir is just gonna sob just free fall tears
and just reach out and just hold his brother, and probably in a way
that they haven't held each other in a very long time and Lee, I
have done things I am that would think I was so unhappy, so displeased,
I am worth nothing. I have seen these things. How you are
not alone. I was there, and the facade of the accent that Bulik
has stripped away kind of falls back into place. I have seen these things,
and I was with you. Like I said, it is the sum
of your actions and not a single one that defines who you are. It
is all of them, from what you have done, from the moment you
took your first step to the moment you take your last, that define who
you are as a man. You know that today's probably are less step than
Yes, it could very well be, and this is why you need to
do what you think is right for you and for no one else. Leap.
We've tried, We've done everything that we can. We've tried so hard
to do the right thing. And look at where we're at, look at
everything that has been taken from us. We can only go where fate guides
us, where the icons bring us. We all wanted here for a reason.
I don't know why, but we're here nonetheless, and it is not
my place to decide for what purpose we are brought in here. Everything you
have and everything I have is on the ship. Everything you need to release,
if that is your wish, is on the ship, and more.
Everything from how Mora, the portal, your report, everything. But if
we don't go to this place in the swamp, if we leave them behind,
these thirteen people, then we have killed them. If you can save
one, that is all that matters. You know. I think you're wrong
when you say that everything that I need is on this ship. That's not
true. Everything we need us already hear. I feel like there's another tight
embrace, and I think like that's the perfect spot to leave that scene.
We see that silhouette of two brothers embracing one another against a dense swampy for
us, as the sun kind of begins to set and this cool reddish pink
spills across the sky in a rather unnatural coloring and way, and maybe as
the other three witness this moment, Paul, I'm sorry, not Paul.
So your wrist begins going who my wrist? Oh shit, oh right,
my drone. I did look at it. Yeah, there's actually one where's
like, oh shit, fuck the drone and you kind of whoop it open
and you see it's actually not within the twenty foot radius. It's a bit
farther out. But the camera on the drone is picking up two individuals and
playing a card. Two individuals crossing the swamp rather nearby. They don't seem
to have noticed you. They seem to be on trajectory and they're moving quickly
and efficiently. They know exactly where to step there. They're running across these
like pieces and darting directly for the temple down. You see the same thing
on kind of the arm camera he has or the wrist cam U Are we
like in their path? No, they are, uh, they're out from
you, running north towards this uh so basically you're all right, you're down
here on this end. They're running north towards the large uh large island to
be there anywhere to get a little bit closer to see if we can see
who they are without trying to run them down, well with without stealthily,
I mean, they're they're moving very fast. No, this is me asking
Soul. Oh oh oh so excuse me, GM. Sorry, sorry,
mommy, I misunderstood. Okay, let this is Soul's head GM. Am
I able to do that? Am I able to if I, if I
stealth around you can cry, um am I even close enough to like I
feel because you said they're like they're they're they're much further out. They're probably
one hundred one hundred and fifty feet out from you if they've not noticed you
at all. The it's rather hidden than kind of the debris of this this
uh these ruins, um it is. And the only reason that you can
see them at all is because of the cam. So you're gonna be blind
running trying to catch them. That's what I meant, like, is there
any way for the cam the drone to follow and get think might drop that
arrange as a radius effect. It'll stop feeding Cama. It could follow him
all the way if he gave him that order. But I don't know that
he could feed the camera back. Yeah, that far out I can.
I can try to scout it out the scope. I was about to say,
don't you have a very high powered rifle with a lovely little brand new
scope. I do. I thought he did, soul make a We're gonna
make some kind of check for you to climb the building and get up to
you know, as a cniper, you're gonna need to get up higher.
You need you need to be as high as possible, so you pick a
nearby space. It's actually much taller than where you currently are. Um,
so what is that an athletic check? I can't remember? And so long,
y'all, I gotta go back to my sheet. Um. Yeah,
no, let's do a dexterity check to climb and get perfect. Yeah you
work, Soul, Uh not nod and like in yeah, because I don't
want to just leave. Uh yeah, sure you you acknowledge that you're gonna
go deal with something or whatever. We probably see you grab your sniper out
of the boat. Um, and as you begin running click click click click,
pieces are folding out, and um, Soul is at his finest tal
doing what he does best. And you watch as he scales a building rather
dexterously up to the top. Maybe a couple pieces crumble behind him, but
he slings up to the top and disappears over the lip um and the camera
follows Soul down on his belly as he crawls all the way to the edge
and puts the scope down range and tries to site these men. The scope
is mint for this. You see them. It takes a second to kind
of scout them across the landscape. But you come across them there they are
moving like little ants as fast as they can, running for the temple or
the palace at the end of the city, the second city, and I
see what they look Can I tell what they look like? Are they just
too far? Both of them are wearing kind of helmet pieces. One of
them is like a half helmet and the other words more of kind of like
a full helmet. DoD They're rather armored. They do resemble some of the
martyr commandos that you may have seen previously involved in all of this, so
you can recognize them as working with whatever's happening. Okay, So I acknowledge
the connection, Okay, yeah, that they are for whatever reason they're headed
in. We all have calms, right or is that Okay? I'm gonna
click on the colms and I don't know how they work still, so I'm
just gonna do all calms for everybody, and I'm gonna be like you figured
it out. Well, No, I click on it and I go like,
I have sights on both. I can confirm shot. If that's what
you want. They might be expected. They're on anybody to think their outfits
match the previous and they're going towards the objective. Use your best judgment,
So I don't know someone might how is our objective to sneak in or to
notice? All right, want them to know when we leave? Maybe that
case, I would suggest we do not fire. Yeah, however, I
will maintain visual and see if perhaps we can figure out where they're going and
maybe get an entry point. That way, good idea, And with that,
I will turn off calm yea, and I'm going to get up and
try to get closer as fast as I can. I'm not like, I'm
not trying to catch up to them. I'm just trying to not lose sight
of them. Okay, I need you to make another agility role, a
dexterity check as you nat try to navigate across these high buildings. Okay,
yeah, don't fall back inside the building. I look at Lamara and I
say keep an eye on Tamir, and I sit in the corner and I
will try to look through Julius's eyes. Um. Okay. She looks overt
Tamir and at Malik, who are embracing awkwardly. Now in the background,
she kind of watches and does exactly as her captain asks her to do.
Um, it's kind of weird, Taw. You are going to use your
mystic ability to try to see through Julius's eyes. Yeah, I want to.
I want to stay in her head as long as possible to see if
I can get any kind of a layout of the inside of wherever she is,
or see where she is, or get any information at all from her.
Really cool. Let's get the role to see how if the power it's
okay, a limited success. Um, I'm gonna say you probably don't hang
on as long as you want. But your body, again, your head
juts back. You don't see's necessarily, but your body does freeze up in
tenses with the power that kind of runs through you. And as your mind
reaches out you, you reach your reaching, you reach for your sister.
She's out there somewhere. And when your eyes come to you, hear the
heavy like of somebody in a mask, like a large like helmet. She's
clearly wearing one. You're seeing out kind of attented eye frame piece. She
seems to be walking out potentially the backside of the palace, and she's up
rather high on the kind of zigarette piece that that pokes up along the top
and the stairs down on the opposite side. Look at a medical scillity lost
in the jungle below or the swamp below. She can see it. And
then there's a moment as the sun goes down, a flare, a lens
flare kind of comes up over the trees. It flashes across her tinted kind
of goggle piece, and she sees her own reflection. But it's not her
reflection, it's you. You hear her gasp in the mask, and it
juts you out of it and tosses you backwards against the wall. Lamar is
at your side rather quickly. The camera cuts to Sewel, Sewel, You
are kind of darting across, trying to get a better angle. You want
to watch them the whole way once you're in this position, rolland observation because
they're getting farther and farther out. But it's not going to be too terribly
difficult because you also have the scope. So people, okay, that's enough
with the scope, that's all you need. Um. You kind of again,
you're panning across or following them. You see they do eventually make it
to this rather solid kind of island piece where what's left of this palace that
is above the water level is there. They struggle a little bit climbing it.
It does look like the entry point requires a climb of in some way,
shape or form. What once I can confirm that, can I also
look around the rest of it and see if there's maybe an exhaust or some
sort of If this is all grounded with the water, I assume that there
has to be some sort of like canal that can so that the water seems
to be moving throughout this building. There are natural kind of waterfalls that have
sprung up in and around land pieces in the area that probably when the palace
sunk, land rose right right, So now you've got that kind of got
these odds and ends, these pieces of waterfalls and things. Some of the
windows of the palace are now serving as waterfalls. They're venting its own water
as the thing is probably over time, slowly just sinking. Um. This
is a literal ruin. There is no proper exhaustment. This is an old
but there are windows that are now Yeah, you see you see them enter
the building at the very top. They basically come off, they jump over.
There's a landing area and what's left of the palace that pokes out of
the water. They're like climbing. Think of it like a pyramid, almost
the top of a pyramid that pokes out the top. Is there only one
entry point that I see? Or yeah, they enter the one entry point
at the top and disappear into darkness around it. Is there any scouts,
outposts or guards or anything. I'm gonna have you rule another observation, but
okay, okay, god you kind of begin looking around, Um, you
see a ship more than likely the ship that is moving in the pods if
this is where they're bringing them, like an actual vessel, not a boat,
a ship, an atmospheric ship, meaning that it's probably meant for like
travel on planet side, not really space travel. But um, most ships
can still be used for space travel. Does it look like a big ship.
It looks like a ship. A transport vessel. It's a ground based
transport vessel. Okay, cool. You would know that these can be used
to move a multitude of things, in this case, coffins with people in
them. It is empty, The cargo base stands open. Whatever was in
it is no longer in it. Can I do the calm, clickie button,
clickie clack, um tew. I've approached the objective. I found an
entryway. It seems like there's only way you weren't supposed to approach. I
mean, I'm pretty I'm far away. Still, I'm good. It's okay,
um saying anyway, I found I found a ship that we can possibly
use. I assume you can probably do whatever you did to that boat to
this ship to get us started. It's a pretty easy thing to do.
How big? Is it fairly large enough with a cargo to carry those things
that we're looking for? Although it does seem fairly empty, so my assumption
is whatever was being transported may have already been moved. Parameter doesn't seem too
secure, though, I can't locate any other outposts or ex soldiers or anything
just looking around. It's kind of weird. But tying up loose threads,
I is, what's your shirt ripped? Don't no? They said that,
someone said earlier. They're tying up loose threads. Oh right, Oh?
I see when that means that you kill the people that are working for you,
or you get rid of them, or you reassign them or something,
right, I see, oh, okay, Um, yeah, well,
what would you like me to do? Come back? Are you? Okay?
Okay? The comms click, Okay, you get the okay, the
double okay, Um, the comms clicks and sewel eventually does make it back.
Um. I like to memorize, um, the route that they took
to go in, because you said they were like, that's a very different
role. I need you to roll infiltration to see if sure rise the way
that they ran in from this distance, because you're not in an aerial view
is sure Well yeah, okay, I just want to clarify. My objective
is to see their path, yes, okay, cool, okay, not
to actually infiltrate, but to figure out what their infiltration method was. I
got that limited, you know, Okay, I'm going to give you a
benefit to that because your drone also captured footage of them running. Yeahs,
anymore, you have a rough idea, okay, not you don't know the
exact path. This is not a map, but you think that if you've
got on foot, you could the group, or at least you could take
the boat to a point in which you could go on foot. Right,
Oh okay, I was gonna see is there a way if I could find
like a place for us the dock. I mean, you're you're, you're
there is no doc. There's no doc like a safe place to like,
you know, technically the boats safe here is kind of hidden amongst the ruins
half a mile out from this thing, like it's not necessarily um in the
open, all right, cool, Yeah, I just returned to that.
That's all you needed. Um. But Lumara checks on tow and um,
she says, are you okay? I'm sorry I disobeyed. I took my
eyes off of them. It's it's okay. He didn't like faint or anything,
right, I don't think so. They're just hugging a long time.
It's a long hug. You know. Somebody hugged me like that. Do
you want to hug huh No, I'm no, no, it's I mean
I kind of opened my arms like yeah, she sausages in like her arms
down. Yeah. I give her a big old hug. Thanks. No,
your turn? Are you okay? I'm I'm okay. Um. It's
a kind of a rough bang. Your head took there against the wall,
you know, in your body randomly slung you against it. You know it
happens sometimes. Um it's it's okay, um I Julius is on the top
of that zigguratte there. Oh, well that's not too far, I guess,
and that's what we're headed. So that's a good thing. Right,
You're gonna get to see her, you know. This is the closest I've
been to her in a while, and I don't even know if I want
to see her or not. Okay, it's bad that sister, oh.
I mean, she's always been greedy and a bit selfish. But I know
a lot of people that are fall victim to all of those things. Doesn't
mean that they're bad, right, and that doesn't mean that they do bad
things intentionally, also true. I don't know. It's funny how people can
change really quickly, especially if you take your eye off them. Um.
Well, we got to Coriolis, Chilissa said, I'm done, and we
see each other when our parents make us. So don't know. I don't
know who she is anymore. Well, maybe you could ask her when you
get to see her. I don't think i'll have time, Lumara. I
I've been thinking about that that vision that I had where Julissa was killing Shorely.
Uh, Huh. At the end of the vision, someone burst into
the room. I couldn't see who it was. But what if that was
us? Why would it be us? Well it I mean, it obviously
hadn't happened yet. What if it was like a prepnition? How do you
know that it's just feeling? I mean, I guess it could be a
premonition. Uh. Cognitively speaking, people have premonitions all the time. Sometimes
dreaming can in state a period of shared energy. Some theorists believe across people
so that we share in each other's special timelines. Technically, I'm not sure
what that means. But sure, um uh, it's it's okay, you're
smarter than I am. It's it's fine. Um, But I mean,
what if we're right on time? What if what if we just open a
door and there she is? There's no time to say, hey, Jesus,
I haven't seen you in a while. Now, um are hey?
Are you evil? Are you torturing and killing people for fun? Now?
Is that like a new hobby of yours? I'm not sure. If that's
a really great icebreaker, you might uh, you know, on the trip
over, you could free you might want to recraft just the approach really on
that um. But that's just mymar You're far too nice to me. Well,
I believe that you put out in the world what you want to receive
back. So it's not that I'm far too nice, I hope not,
but I do want to You know, you live a lot in what ifs
tw you know, what what what what if? Uh? Your sister Julissa
does this thing? What if? Um? What if? What if?
UM? When I was in medical school, they told us that a doctor's
um greatest asset is living in the now. If if I was worried about
what if I have to peel that suit off of Tamir's legs, then well
I might not have done it. But in the now, all I could
think was right now, Tamirs in pain and suffering, and right now the
decisions that I'm making are more important than a what if? Why has everybody
got gotta be hitting me with wisdom bricks today? That sounds so painful?
Yeah, well, welcome to my head. You hit yourself with wisdom bricks
in your head? Oh are you here at the light all right? Really?
Yeah you are? Really? I imagine there are two feet that like
down. They're heavy boots of soul. As he's finished his scouting and has
come back a rather long and pregnant hug has probably subsided between the two brothers.
Just I'm guessing, Malik, do you clean your things up? Yeah?
Yeah, like obviously once we can hear the conversation, because Seul kind
of put the combs on everything. I think that's kind of when like the
cleaning up begins and like like as soon as Seuls I have two of my
sides, I can take the shot. We're like, oh shit, and
he starts like putting his stuff back on. Okay, cool. I'm guessing
the party reconvenes. But I did play the soldier cards, so I need
Seul to draw a judge card. Who draw? Oh no, draw click
and drago. I don't know what that is. Where did it go?
Punishment? Where'd it go? Oh? I see it? Okay, punishment,
Okay, I will take that. Okay. So, um, the
group reconvenes. Does anybody need to do anything? Same thing? Well,
I first let everyone know what I gather, just verbally and uh kind of
draw out what I can on the sand or like whatever, like dirt with
the little you know, how people like do thet Yeah, you take you
take the end of you know your gun and like kind of quickly draw into
the dirt the kind of layout you're like, we're gonna hit this one,
we gotta hit this one. And they hit this one and ran and it
isn't And I'm going to point out like where the ship is blah blah blah
blah, and I yeah, well, I guess I can go ahead and
essentially draw right there next to the other boat. That way, it's all
in one place. I like, look at all everyone like e this time
in infiltrations, you're fourte a man. Yeah. About this time, the
sun completes its descent and it becomes very dark. Stars come out, maybe
even just a little bit of a breath of fresh air to see stars,
considering the fact that you've seen what it's like to be without them. The
wildlife kicks up in a different way. After the sun goes down. Here
in the swamp, the water turns from kind of a dark gray to black.
It is so still that you think you could walk on it. Nobody
tests that place place, nobody at all. I able to like kind of
I guess I'm gonna I guess I convey a like. What my suggestion would
be was to like, we can. Odds are they're not gonna have everyone
there one spot. So when we get the first group, perhaps how you
should take them and prep ship so that we can get the rest. And
by the time and we get whoever's left, we'll have to ship ready to
just kind of ship off as soon as possible. So we're gonna split up
more like peel off. That's splitting up. And none of us are good
at this. We're not like, we're not commandos like you. So you're
the only one who's ever done anything like this before. All of us are
looking for you for guidance. Not exactly true, tom Oh. I look
at Tamir, not surprised. All the heads turn something you'd like to share
it to mirror a lot of pretty foliage, sort of looks weak. You
smell guilty. What's wrong? I mean you look guilty. I mean you
do also smell, but I know you can't see guilts splitting up as probably
advisable. In this circumstance we are going. We are entering a place that
we have no concept of the layout, We have no concept of who is
there, what sort of armaments that they have, what sort of defenses that
they have. We don't know if that there is some form of advanced technology
or a primitive technology, and either way both are deadly. So to split
up leads. If we are caught or are planning some sort of infiltration of
any type, it at least makes it appear that we are not just for
people, but we are significantly more attacking from four different sides, so at
least one of us has the chance of being successful. The fuck all the
information we got off that tablet and that lady didn't have any sort of layout
or employee roster or anything like that. Quite her job. Yeah, she
seemed to be more of a administrative from shipping. But the word names on
there that were recognizable. Oh, I'm not suggesting we sp on there,
and Tamer kind of like looks to the league like a deer in headlights sipping
that teath. Your father is on here. He's the one who appointed Kasha
to us, and the points that he's very much in the know of what
is going on. He is part of the group that is attempting to frame
the order of the Prayah. More importantly, his job actually is he is
not involved with the order. He is the man taking the people that don't
get marked, the people that are being sold into slavery are being signed back
off to him. Holy shit. Wait wait, that's Taal's dad, not
Soul's dad. That's no, that is Suel's dad. Okay, I'm talking.
We're talking yea. Holy ok. I was about to say wow,
yeah that wait, hold on, dad, I'm complete. Daddy issues which
which dad is doing this? So to Tal's dad is dad is? How
about this? The connection here is Kasha who has been assigned to you um
and was assigned to you by Tal's father. And you know, oh you
know that Kasha is and has been assigned to keep you off the trail and
to make you think that it was the Order, which means if Tal's dad
is working for anyone, it's not the Order because they're trying to frame them
right there. Yeah, they're working He's working for somebody and the other part
will get to win. Samir decides to tell everyone I mean and if we're
on the topic of fathers right now, and he Tamir sincerely has this just
like I'm sorry look on his face as he kind of shifts from Tal i
just kind of take a thing out of my pocket game and see what it
is before I throw it against the wall and it shatters. So before Tamir
even says anything, I think Seuel just feels a very deep dread in his
gut and he kind of looks at Tamir like a child anticipating like a bad
report card. I I need you to be very honest with me. Okay,
do you know what your father does? Are you part of it?
Is? This? Is this something that you have set up all of us
together here now? Suel tilts his head and in his eyes. I don't
know if the American pick it up, but something breaks and he's kind of
like the puzzle pieces fall together. You never really ask exactly what your dad
did for the syndicate. Silence is safety and the kind of job that you
worked. You did what you were asked to do, and anything more well
could get you in some serious trouble. What the shipping log that Tamir shows
you seems to hint at is that your father is the head of the shipping
company that is moving people into slavery on and off Kua from Coriolis to Kua
and sold as the puzzle pieces begin to fall into place. Memories rust pass
you a job here, a job there, small hints and clues in the
way that your dossiers were written, avoiding the true purpose of the facts of
a package being moved, or securing away for a package to make it where
it needs to go. The night of your brother's death when you took his
life, the fact you were supposed to secure a route for a train moving
out of Algal. You realize now the containers are roughly people sized. You
didn't want those people, but you assured that they could be moved. And
you've done this over the years, over and over, and now your father
seems to have his hand in a rather deep business that is part of the
mystic sides. Soul looks very offended. He has like a very angry yet
death tone to his face, and with like kind of like a breaking voice,
he asks, what are you implying on unfazed by souls shift in demeanor,
because Tamir has nothing to lose by confronting Soul. Everything you have done,
Soul, mhm, has it all been connected doing the bidding of your
father, taking these people and selling them. Do you know how many people
from my home have gone missing? How how? How where else? From
straight from Coriolis, a place that was supposed to be a refuge. Why
why did you say yes every time? Why did you say yes this last
time? I thought you were supposed to be retired? So why are we
here? So? Fuck you? Do I know why? I can't answer
that question. I don't know what you are assuming that I know. However,
whatever you think I was a part of, I can promise you that
we all have baggage to carry, and I am doing what I can.
I Soul starts like kind of like not twitching, but he's kind of like
drifting. His eyes are like just like drifting in like just averting various locations.
And maybe it's the answers to the many questions that to me are asking.
You know, the answers. You didn't know that your father trafficking in
people. You didn't know that your job was to assist in this. You
expected that this was your last job so you could free yourself from his clutches.
Why do you do it? Because you know he'd kill you if you
didn't. But these answers maybe don't even seem sufficient enough. No soul is
at this moment more hurt. And he doesn't know that though, because he
doesn't understand internal pain. So he's kind of trying to comprehend him self while
trying to defend against Tamir's words, and he doesn't even realize why. So
he just kind of like looks back at Malik, Tamir and Tal and just
keep saying, I don't know what you want from me, soul. Do
you trust this crew? Yes? Do you trust? He kind of says,
for like the first time, with a bit of relief. Do you
trust that we have your back? No? I do? Okay, thank
you, Lamara. But let me tell you this, whether you have my
back or not, you all have something that I cannot pull away from.
So Tamir, if you have something you want to say, And with that,
I slowly pull out my pistol, but then reverse like not like pointed
at it, like put it the other way, like as if I'm handing
it to Tamir and I and I like hand it to Tamir if you truly
think we came this far and I would be a part of whatever you think
I'm a part of. This is your opportunity. And then I pushed,
not push, but like have the gun handle pointed to Tamir, Jamir,
we'll take it and keep it pointed. I stopped between them. WHOA,
yeah, No, I don't like this, facing tamiror and the gun,
and I say, Tamir, we are here because I made us come here.
We are here because we have thirteen people who we have the chance of
saving. I know. And he kind of looks past tall just slightly to
see soul as he lives his hand. I match his eyesight. You don't
have to turn your head. She's sure that's right over her. Okay,
I'm sorry, let me rephrase. I don't like six foot right, great,
like he's like five to seven. He's not that he's yeah, he's
not that tall. I don't um can we many lower? The guns were
supposed to be working together, right, We were hugging, hugging, working
together. And I look at Lamara that's right, but clearly, and I
look at tam Or. There are some things that aren't fully bridged. If
you want to survive this, you all need to understand that we are in
this together. So either take your shot, say what you want, or
trust that I was not a part of whatever that so cold father of mine
was doing. I did what I need to, just as you and your
brother do what you need to survive. Unlike you, though, I had
to remove my support, I had to remove my backup. So you want
to pull that trigger? What do you want to do? One needs to
be done either way, standing between them. Either way, make your decision
or shut up. Lamara pats Leak, please do something. My decision is
made, so I'm not going to shoot you here, but I swear upon
the deck hand and the icons of buff if you so once indicate any form
of betrayal that would put my brother Tal Lumara in the harm's way, I
will not hesitate. Good. I welcome it was starting. No, you're
good, you say it, you welcome it. But the deck Hand's name
was spoken, nicon was called upon on What does that mean again? Yeah?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, So another card has been played. Deck
Hand, Star and Tamir as you point down through chest of Tal, aiming
and seeing straight to the man that you have this strange distaste for at the
moment, but something catches your eye. It is behind the backs of the
rest of your party is of course you stand with the gun pointed their direction,
but you see it. It looks like a shooting star. It comes
down out of the sky with great density in comparison to the rest of them.
And as I get closer it gets closer, you realize it's not a
star. It's a ship, a white ship. It looks like a butterfly
cutting through the black night balls, lands on the far side of the cigarette
top and disappears. LaVar goes, look at shooting star. Malik, do
you want to know what I wished were to me? I mean too,
I mean, you're not all these people that aren't actually Malik, Milik,
do you want to know what I wish for? No? Not right now,
Lamar. We and he like motions. He motions to everything. I'm
right, sorry, it's okay. I wish for them to not be Maddy,
Okay, thank you for telling me. Somebody's got zoomies Nome's house.
I also, I also, I take a moment. Wait wait wait,
wait wait wait, what are your whispers? What are you wait? What
are your whispers? Blake? I said? I I also too, Yeah,
me too. Okay, here can we hear that they're whispering? No,
and you have a ba point a gun count it at you. So
absolutely not. This is this is there little like, what do we do?
I don't know. We're gonna stand here and figure out whatever. Um
So Lamara wishes on a shooting star, not really a star at all,
but the white butterfly that descends out of the sky and hides itself deep in
this swamp, I think, in the distraction of this shooting star, so
to speak. And when Tamir calls Malik's attention, Malik takes a step forward
and he just like he just places a hand like on the top of the
gun and just sort of leaves it there as like as it's time, it's
time to put this away kind of thing. He doesn't force it down,
he just puts it there. And in the other hand, he kind of
reaches around and rummages in his bag and he pulls out a two devices and
he hands one over towards Seoul, and seeing how tense this situation is and
what the hell's going on here and that we need to stop this, he
hands one to Seuel and says, Seul, do you know what this is?
This is a fiber scope. You can attach it to any number of
things. This will let you see around corners, underdoors, through vents,
you're the point and he hands that to him without losing eyesight on Tamir.
I accept the scope. I do a little nod towards Malik. He takes
the other one and sort of puts it between the barrel and towel and says,
Twel, this the fuck is the fires. It's literally like you know
those like in movies where you see a little bendy camera go around doors the
plumber or the plumber cane around the corner so you can see in some other
I think. He holds up this device to to Tale, like in between
the gun and twel and it looks like a small data bad and he says,
Tale, you're the exit. This controls the vehicle. I installed it.
You can drive it from here, from the ship to wherever we need
to go. The range is massive on this planet. That's how we get
thirteen people out of here. You go in last. You come out first
to Mary lowered them. Got it? Do you understand how I look between
the two of them. Yeah, and you kind of snatch it. Put
it in my pocket. We have five points. Lamara stays with Twel to
mirror arms the incendiary device. We move away from the incendiary device. We
move in as a group and then we split soil. You find where they're
keeping people, You get them to Twel to mirror and I will be distractions.
You get them out, you get them to Lamara, and then we
all leave. Let's go. Are you going on foots or are you taking
the boat their land to get there? You would be hot skipping and jumping
across the way that the commandos took that sel Uh scouted for you. Or
you can take the boat. I was thinking that we would take the boat
over to where the other boat was parked perfect and park basically right there,
so I can get an idea of what that boat looks like before we're doing
that running great real plus. Swel sees the problem with that real quick.
I don't think they depending on where the How how loud was this boat our
boat? It's an air boat. It has a massive propeller, so it's
pretty out of the water. I didn't grow up in the swamp. I
don't know how loud it is. Well, yeah it loud, okay,
so maybe not. Um I didn't grow up in the swamp. I would
like to he is very sassy today an I cried on camera. I'll be
sassy. If I want to be sad, I assume like prepping to leave.
That seems to be the vibe as we're prepping. Um, am I
able to walk over to Tamir suck if one allows you to. Yeah,
yeah, I'm just gonna slowly, like cautiously walk over to Tamir. He's
prepping, also probably frustrated that there's no pockets, like how do you put
a gun in a we suit? You've got holsters, you were belts.
Welcome to my everyday problems. That's perfect, actually, because I'm going to
you see you see him trying to figure out like how to suit up in
this, and you realize that he has no holsters onto him and as an
assassin, you recognize that you're you are only as good as what you can
carry on your physical person. Um, and he has no belts, So
I don't need my holsters since he has my gun. So I'm going to
walk over to Tamir and kind of like awkwardly loom over him and hand like
pass my holster to him and attached to that, I'm going to give him
two grenades that I have been carrying, and I'm gonna just say, what
did you learn about my dad. It's in the datahah, And he will
politely nod as a silent thank you for the holster and start to put it
on your father is responsible for the trafficking, and I would assume torment and
suffering of thousands of people for many years. Some of that is true and
some of that is subjective souls. As everything is clicking, he starts to
feel very very guilty. He questions, did I kill my brother so that
others would be enslaved? Did I watch my older brother die and accept that
knowing that his death was to further accelerate this? And he kind of pulls
his hoot down a little bit, feeling very shooken, as the young kids
say, and he clenches his fists, and I'm assuming, like, to
me, it is probably like kneeling down, like just prepping stuff. So
he shakes his fist and in a very broken voice like it's very involuntary,
Suel just mutters thank you for the clarification, and he immediately just turns away
and starts walking towards his pack. And I'm assuming no one's going to be
able to see this, but I figured it'd be a nice little visual for
everyone else. Uncontrollably, Suel has a very strong tear that rolls down as
he finally accepts what he is and what he did. What he was he
doesn't know that though he can't accept that, so as of right now he
does not feel like he's let go of the past properly. And he leaves
the conversation with a broken heart. And as he's prepping, he's going to
say a silent prayer to his icon, praying that they live that who lives
that? Like the crew, and a prayer rings out to the judge.
The icon that passes judgment. Judgment is not good or bad, not necessarily,
but his righteous and it's supposed to bring with it proper justice. How
long has it been since you prayed to your icon? Soul? Oh Man,
probably way before his first His older brother passed after witnessing that. He's
kind of given up on judgment. Though there is a judge card of punishment
and play today, you're not punished the icon. Instead, here's your cry,
the literal tear that pings off of your cheek and maybe splashes into the
top of the swampy water and this black void of nothing on a space overrun
with life and vegetation, and the judge instead gives you a different kind of
judgment, passes a different sentence upon you, one of a blessing for one
role. Before this game is done, you can choose to take a blessing,
which usually adds a dye to a roll of your choosing when you call
upon the judge beforehand, I just get I get one extra dice. Basically,
yeah, you get to choose. You basically say I'm calling upon the
blessing from the judge for this role, and you're going to add a die
to it. He waits to pass his judgment of punishment for what you've done
in the past for later. Oh yeah, and if the team has nothing
left to say, gear is packed. Bodies are sorted back into a rather
small air swamp boat like fan boat, and you hover your way across the
top of the water, navigating through tal I'm gonna need a pilot roll from
you. It is dark and this is a rather difficult terrain, will call
it as you kind of dodge through what is debris and ruin of an old
city. Fucking told you, No, I told you, I told you,
I told you. Uh yeah, no, uh keeps messaging we need
to talk seriously, but things keep happening, all right, Well, and
then you're like, if nobody has anything, ill say it. I'm like,
well, just like and then you has something to say, let's say
it. And then he didn't say anything, and then you're like, okay,
have that. You have to wait for the moment. I waited episodes
for that right moment. I just thought it was funny because I was like,
it's not happening, no, uh darkness, yeah, oh shit,
damn, holy shit. I was about to say the last thing. I
want to like this boat and have to swim your way. Fuck what another
ship years at five sixes town is violent a concentration thing. Maybe she's just
really in the zone. Maybe she's got a lot on her mind. Maybe
she just needs to rape her sister. Jolissa. Man, that's five ow
drifts all of you through this ancient city at an ungodly speed. With the
help of Seoul, who tells her kind of which direction they were headed,
you make it to uh kind of the shores of where the cigarette appears above
the water line in half the time it would have taken you. Because of
this role, I'm going to mitigate both combat encounters that possibly could have arisen
during your travel, and we will skip directly to the shoreline. You pull
up next to this boat town. As you get closer, you two recognize
that this is um This actual airship is a cargo ship. It's really meant
to haul things. It's like a two person shuttle that hauls stuff. It
technically can hold more people than that without stuff in it, and it currently
stands empty. It's not really meant for atmosphike leaving planet though. This is
a planet side ship meant for transport. Okay, but it does fly.
It does fly perfect. I mean you could try to break atmosphere with it.
No, no, but I just I just want to get back to
my ship. It's very casphere with my show. They would have flowned the
ship in like it would have come from the monolith over or wherever they were
moving people, probably little Algal. So as soon as I drive up,
I cut the engine and I hop over to make sure I know exactly how
to wire this thing, because I don't want to have to take the time
time for it. Later. Tell you've been flying ships a long ass time.
If you can roll a five at navigating a damn water boat. You
can definitely know how to hot wire this gustle. This is a potential great
out off of this place if it is still here when you leave. Okay,
Um, do I know of any way of making it so that nobody
else can take it, Like grab a spark plug or something and keep it
in my pocket so that no one else will be able to use the ship
without this part. Something that's really easy, something that people aren't gonna It's
gonna be a technology role to know exactly the like piece to pull. You
could make it, or you could ask to me or to make it.
I'll leave it up to you. I do it, do it? Do
yes? Does any weapons on it? No, that's not the purpose of
this vessel, at least it doesn't seem like it and whatever weapons were on
it problem or being carried by Hoover fluid in a limited success. I'm going
to say, because you're a pilot and you know ships, Yes, there's
like us. Something that you could remove or you clip a wire that you
know needs to will have to be like hot wired back when you're ready to
go, but it will assure It's like putting a potato in the exhaust pipe
or you know, pulling the spark plug. It's like one thing that causes
the whole thing not to function. Yeah, so that when I come back,
I can just pop that sucker right back in there and we're good to
go. You put it in your pocket again. This kind of like piece
that you've removed from underneath the front dash that keeps the electronic system from actually
functioning, which means the machine doesn't function. I put that in the pocket
with the chip that I got from Malik, and I say, well,
now, this mood will be here when we get back. Before you stare
at a rather tall, like I said, top of kind of a pyramid
or zigarette of some kind that was attached to a palace. Uh. The
larger kind of pillars or I hate to call them columns because that's not really
what they are, but they are the kind of round building pieces lie at
the back of this. You can see them on the far side of the
cigarettes. And up this rather steep incline, now covered in moss and green
and sloshy grossness from the swamp, is the doorway into this place, at
least the only one that remains. Everything else around you is mostly water and
swamp, Like I said, waterfalls pour out of a ground that has risen
when the city sunk, and kind of new natural formations of rather beautiful wildlife.
But it is dark and it is quiet. I was needed, um,
Malik, I do. I guess. I don't know, but I
would see it on its gun um seul? Yes, is that a night
sight or is it just a regular scope? Do you mind? I unscrew
it? And and he's and he's going to like look around, um.
And what what Malik is looking for specifically, is you said, there's these
pillars, there's these towers around this place. Yeah, they're there. Yeah,
but they're on like the backs either at the far end, but yes,
right the furthest away from this ship where you currently stand. Correct.
He wants to get a look and find out which one of these is the
most in in in in bad shape, the one that looks the worst off.
Yeah, you kind of you pan across. Um. It's a it's
a little difficult to see, only because it is on the other side of
a massive structure that's kind of between you and it, literally the far side
where the white butterfly landed. Well, I guess only Tamir nos tho,
I would like to screw in the sculpt that he ate me. Yeah,
you kind of put it on. It goes around corners and you can detach
it like put it underdoors and stuff. Yeah, you would see that.
One of them is like leaning as if just like the proper wind would like
knock it over in no time. The other seems a lot more structural than
that, but but it is disheveled more on the outside, as if something
has hit it, maybe a vessel or a ship. At one point,
it's got a chunk missing out, if that makes sense. The one that's
leaning, is it leaning towards the cigarette or away from the cigarette? It's
leaning like away, like it leans out away from it, like if somebody
were on the inside the central area and pushed it would fall away from the
cigarette. And the one that has a chunk out of it, it's like
out of the side of it. But that one would, if say exploded,
would fall down or could be rigged to fall whichever direction you wanted it
to. Okay, that's what he's looking for. He's looking for that that
perfect point. He walks over to Tamir and he kind of like looks in
and then positions it so that tamer can look through. He says, if
if you put it on the back side there, you set the timer for
sixty seconds, that should give you enough time to get down of the tower.
Okay, should fall and hit the ziggurat, the people won't be at
the top. That makes no sense, agreed, What happens if we can't
get out in sixty seconds. We're not going in the tower. It only
takes one person to place a bomb. Tell you're the only one that knows
that the medical facility is on the far side of the zigarette, not inside
of it. So I looked through Jealous's eyes today and she was standing on
the zigarette. The medical centers on the other side. That's where they're going
to have the people. I'm I'm sorry. Did you do you not think
this would have been vital information prior to us coming to this, to this
temple? Yeah? I know, Well, everybody else seems to be withholding
vital information, so why the hell not not? I'll tell you anything,
thanks, Lamara. Anyways, So the people we need to get are not
in this temple. Is that what you're saying. No, you're saying we
have to pass through the temple. Yeah, yeah, well that just go
around it. Yeah, just around the medical centers on the other side.
You can see it from the side of the Zigaratte. There is no going
around to climbate would be significantly more dangerous from the issue you're gonna have to
go through. Oh okay, That's what I'm saying. Is like it is
like overgrown and slippery and like it is. It is just this one hole.
That is why the two men went in it and down through the other
side. It is the way to the opposite side of this sunken temple.
That makes sense. Now, okay, we're just filling bars left and right
tonight, y'all we're not. We're not. I wasn't. Yes the hell
we are. Um okay, with this new revelation, Malik size, with
this patent pended Malik side, uh tal do we need this? An emotions
towards the airboat, I mean we're gonna need to get out out of what
any points to the ship. Well, yeah, no, we don't need
the airboat. I mean, it's always nice to have it back up.
But what are you thinking, Malik, that's full of fuel right, crash
the airboat into all these trees. Well, we go into the temple.
That could cause a bit of alarm. We could make a bigger who was
the role? Science? Roll? Not me? Do it me? I
don't have science. It's cool, that's fine. No, you know what
I'm talking. Look, Lamara has science. Does she want to roll?
She could roll science than reducer shit real quick one success. I don't mean
to you know, I'm not a doctor at all, but um, this
ground and she kind of touches it. You can see it is slippery here,
like the wet mossy overgrowth that grows on stone in a swamp is super
duper slippery, and it's all over everything here. Um, and she goes,
You know, I don't mean to know. I'm just a doctor,
but I'm pretty sure that that whole is big enough. We could just use
the swamp boat and drive up in like a slide. Huh huh huh.
I mean, does anybody I think this is a bad idea? I don't
feel like it's very stealthy. Oh that's probably true. Driving a boat into
somebody's building is not stealthy. However, it might be neither distraction. We
need to distraction. How fast does this thing go? Tell vary it's a
bit of a lug with everything you've got in it. Yeah, if you
unloaded the whole thing, you rebbed it up, it might be able to
get up to what we consider to be thirty forty miles an hour max.
I think that's what about what about normal with everything in it? Not with
everything in it, you might tap out at thirty miles an hour? What
about some bullshit gearhead? Jerry, No, no, no, no,
I'm not so so with that question, and with tal saying not not very
fast, he says, well, if you can rig it to just go
straight, we hop in, we blast through the temple, and then at
one at a time we jump off while it's going you rig it to go
straight, then it goes right into whatever it goes into. They will be
focused on the boat, not what was off the boat. That's true.
We'll want to make sure everything's off the boat and into this other other ship
first. And you say that the also, that's assuming all of us can
make it safely from the boat without hurting ourselves or falling in the water.
Oh no, it's gonna hurt. Yeah. From this point on, most
of the things that we're going to be doing, there is a high probability
chance that you will get hurt so great. I would suggest you remove that
hindrance from all obstacles, okay, and just do what we can sure,
but we will need this to be somehow set up where it just goes straight.
So wait, we're rigging the boat to explode. No, we're rigging
the boat to go straight and then crash into whatever it crashes into. Do
we know what that is on the other side. Nope, but we can
see it once we get there. And if we need to pull a brake,
we can pull the brake here. How about this, Allah, I
like, let me get one of those grenades to mer He'll hand you one.
I'll go last. I'll jump off last, which will allow which will
put me further into the direction we need to go. And if I think
the wherever the boat is going towards needs to blow up, I'll drop one
of these grenades in it and jump off. If not, then we can
just not the grenade and the crap the boat and just crash and not blow
up. I don't have a face to stop it. No, I don't
have a better idea. You have a lovely face that thanks. So I
have a question, um from what I remember is the is the medical center,
like right on the other side of the the tunnel, Like that's what's
when you look out over the cigarette, it looks like probably you're coming out
and if this is a palace, you were coming out of one of the
higher tiers. There's like a balcony. That's what she walked down on.
There's been a makeshift shift scaffolding down the opposite side of the zigarette, which
has had a significant more damage, and you can see an embankment. That's
like like you go down into the jungle and you can see the top the
top of the medical facility. You don't know how wide this palace, this
top of this thing is. You don't know how far you're gonna have to
cross in the boat to get it out the other side. And when it
breaks free out the other side, it's breaking free into free air and it's
going to fall hundreds of feet down, but not on to the medical center.
Probably not. You're gonna have to launch. It's like get it that
far out, but it will fall and potentially break the scaffolding down to the
medical facility. It's between you. You have to take that scaffoling down to
the jungle cross through and get to what's left of the medical facility. If
you shoot it out and it touches anything that's not it's gonna be a mess.
The tower, I would say, it's how you would know looking out
over like you look down at the medical facility. The towers that Malik was
kind of looking at and seeing is even farther back. It's on the far
side of the medical facility. Those would be like what was left over from
possibly the original town or structure of some kind maybe yeah, used for lookout
or something like that. But it's even farther back and could fall forward and
hit the medical facility and part of the cigarette. That's for sure. I
really this information. Well, do we want the distraction of the boat flying
through the air or do we want guaranteed scaffolding? How far down? Is
it hard to tell? Two hundred feet? I mean any kind of If
that's the only way down and we take it out, that will be more
good enough of an alert for whoever is down there to swarm. Yeah,
we don't want them to know we're coming at all. It's going to be
hard to get down that scaffolding without being noticed either though, because there are
balconies and windows when you connected with whoever um were you? Is there anything
else you could have possibly seen? Or was that the only way down?
What is Kasha? Do you think that she would be here? We didn't
see where she went? Lamar, Wait, will we have a tracking bam?
Oh shit, we do? Uh? Yeah? What? What?
What? What? What? I'm sorry? Lamara looked rather distracted. Huh
that track you know? Yeah? That would be Malik? Yeah, Malik,
yeah, Malik? What about me? How where's the trash? I
didn't make that? But you you have the data pad? Silly? Oh
it's yeah, we programmed it's to your desk. You pull it up.
Sorry, guess what she's here? Thanks? Yeah, guess she probably took
this vessel in. Guess who's coming back to claim it when they're done and
they're not gonna be So what does it? What does it says that Kasha
is on the other side, probably have the cigarette inside of a medical facility.
Yeah, she falls, she's where we're going. That beacon? How
far is that beacon from the cigarette? Altitude wise? Just distance? I
mean I don't know, a quarter not even a quarter mile. Okay,
it looks that probably this medical facility was part of this palace that it's set
on the grounds proper before all of this sank down, Does that make sense?
And wildlife like took it all back over, So it was part of
this facility. Um. It just so happens that the palace who the guy
who kind of did ran all of this without getting into too much lower um
historically speaking libert here this was like his governor's house. Um. And this
is what's left of it that's above the waterline. Everything else behind it,
which might have been a small who knows, you know, housing facilities,
a medical facility. Uh, you know, all of that's now taken over
by the swamp. Well, either way, we need to figure out what
we're doing here. Either were going quiet and try to sneak past and down
the scaffoling, or we make it a loud entrance with the boat like granting
distraction yet possibly destroying our only way down. Either way, we're losing nightlight
here. We gotta try to sneak in. Yeah, we have eyes on
the inside though. If you help me, we can do what we did
before. And he'll like kind of hold his hand out to her. Whose
eyes are you seeing through right now? Yeah, you're gonna try to look
through, cautions us. We know she's here, it's just it's the closest
to a security camera we have. It's true. Yeah, we all right,
yeah, uh do you we should sit down this time? Can Can
they know that you're doing whatever it is you're doing. Will they know?
Um hasn't appeared so so far, I thought the other character did it.
Did I'll say that she communicated with jist the U shurely sorry shurely yeh sholy.
There's no communication. It's like, um, you know, it's like
wearing their skin, basically just looking through their eyes. It's being John Malkovich.
You're just looking through their eyes. Um okay, But when when you
start asking a towel starts looking very uncomfortable and says, I'm I'm not sure
when when I looked through Julissa's eyes earlier, she was wearing a helmet and
it was reflective and a light shone and I saw me huh, and I
think it scared her. I don't know if she saw it or not.
I mean if, and well, I also don't know if maybe she might
be a mystic. So if she's a mystic and we have such a close
connection. Then maybe she realized it, or maybe that I don't know.
He became rather close with her. Didn't know her as Julissa. You knew
her by a different name. Mm hmmm. They called her the dark Chameleons.
Okay, you only called her by her code name. She only called
you by yours, Polaris. You would know that she's not a mystic,
at least not the last time that you saw her. Now it has been
many years, but Julissa is not a mystic. But she is a well
trained and very good spy. She earned her name proper. She's good at
what she did before we go into this. I think it's best if we
if you all knew till your sister. Um. I don't believe she is
a mystic. How do you know? Oh boy? I think man sorry
Suel Malik, seeing Sewel struggle, I think he just like looks to him
and says, does this help with what we're about to do? Yes,
there are beating really fast. I mean I can hear it anyways, so
we can't waste time. Okay, I knew your sister. She I didn't
know her name, but she was on a task with me when I worked
for my father. I knew nothing more of other than her code name,
which was dark Dark Chameleon, which implied that she was more of an infiltration
like I was. However, I don't think she was more of the frontline.
But last time I saw her, which was X years ago, I
don't remember the other character. I don't know how many ears, So I'm
just saying X, sorry, it's been it's been a while, ten twelve
maybe maybe actually probably not that long, because your brother you're yeah, no,
that seems about right, ten years or less, give or take.
More importantly, soul, you would know that she was really good at her
job, because you don't know how. But it was said that the Dark
Chameleon was able to actually change their face who they were, become new people
if needed. All I know her true face. All I know is she
was very good at what she did, and that was not If she didn't
want to be seen, she wouldn't be seen. And I don't think she's
a mystic, so I don't think your theory of her being a mystic is
what may have allowed her to see you. This is a very large risk,
but I leave it in your discretion if you wish to continue I have
a question, Yes, lemur Um, do all of you know each other
before this? Apparently? So? H No, So you you're telling me
that you know Tell's sister by a code name called the Dark Chameleon, and
you used to do assassiny type things together. Well, I mean, I
sheep. Our partnership ended very abruptly. Oh, let's just say we didn't
work well together and the result of that made me lose something. Hey,
Mike, real empathy insight for me on soul because it's from Laura. Um.
It's not insight over her'd be manipulation. Manipulation. Yeah, why do
I feel like my wounds are being ripped open? She goes, they are?
She goes, Okay, so partnership. She can see your heartbeating,
she can watch the blood pumping through your veins. She knows that you're um
kind of metabolism is changing, and that you're She knows what it is to
watch a heartbeat, not out of fear, but out of love. I
look at Lamar's m either way, Uh, I can turn a fan on.
So we kill her on the site. I don't know what we're supposed
to do here. I'm not saying what your decision for her is. I'm
just saying that your theory of her being a mystic, Mike is what you
may think allowed her to connect with you, But I don't believe that it's
true. I mean, she's your sister and so clearly very has big feelings
for us. I feel like talk about it. So M sorry, Um,
we could just you could just talk to her. You said she's a
spy, right, maybe she's here doing spy things. She's from what Tamir
told me and from who she worked for previously. It doesn't really make sense
for her to spy against the syndicate, but it does talk. That was
my initial hunch. What I mean, what's your said of your sister and
what we saw? It didn't I did not believe that your sister was intending
harm GM question. In my previous working with how sister, would I have
seen any malin tent or personal traits that may make me believe that she is
a psycho crazy. She was not an assassin. That was not her job.
She dealt an information. She was a spy. You were paired together
because each of you had a set of skills necessary. She could for however,
and whatever way you don't understand change her face and you were capable of
killing people. I would think I would think that one of the reasons that
maybe you had feelings for her or fell in love with her is because she
was not like anybody else that you worked with God to your father and she
did not. This is also important. She was a freelance hire. She
was not part of the syndicate. She worked with you on jobs, and
you met her through the syndicate on the job that eventually got your brother killed.
When would she have known that her actions caused her and my actions caused
my brother to die? To you? Fuck? What is that story?
I don't know? Fuck? I just know that she was involved in that
day. Okay, um, I just need to know what she feel bad
for me? I don't want to It did not end well, correct with
Jolissa? Is that my understanding? Yeah, but it's more on me than
her. You left, Yeah, yeah, yeah, then you spoke her
heart motherfuck? Okay, all right, look guys, I'm sorry, but
how does this help. I'm just saying I don't know. If I don't
know, if they can't, I feel like knowing whether or not if the
Dark Chamleon is working with us or against us? Is important information leak,
especially if she can change her face. That's a trick. I didn't know
if she could do the reasons that you come to Chorealis and don't always see
her. Oh shit, so a little time. What if? What if
you try to communicate with her? I don't even know what to say to
her. I don't even know if I want to run into her when we
when we go, are we going to look through cautious eyes or not?
We're wasting daylight? Two mirrors, gonna hold your hand, Yes, let's
do this. We need to know what's going on inside the first. The
more information that we have, the more prepared we can actually be, the
higher the chance of success. Okay, we want to save those thirteen people.
We need eyes on the inside. I pick somewhere that looks okay to
sit and I sit down, and I make two mirrors sit down too.
I know, but we I keep falling over. That's the last thing we
need right now. It's true, Um, when she sees you holding hands,
she holds Malik's hand and watches me, and I'm gonna have both of
you roll your mystic ability, um dot before all my own hand before they
have appropriate visions nice um while they're like enter whatever, um, Malik,
let's go of of Lamara like he like he like gives a squeeze and let's
go okay, and then he like walks over like a like a let go
of my hand. He walks over to Seul and sort of like he like
Seul, and he rolls his eyes and grabs Seul's hand and like puts it
up to his head and he like this one everyone, this one one person.
This one cycles between people. It shouldn't make noises todicate who it is.
Oh shit, he starts correcting you on proper etiquette for using your calms
unit as it only took his what twenty twenty one episode, we've only jus
we've only needed it right now, Zoe feels his headset and it's like,
oh shit, there is another book. Yeah, you're liked school. As
you and Malik stand there sharing this moment, but we watch as the intertwined
towel and mirror sit and it don't sound a lot more intimate than it really
is. Spicy, Okay, it is spicy, for the record, It's
spicy. You you you're sitting shore criss cross Apple sauce together holding hands.
But your mind. What is so funny? You should so much? Please
Contiuey love you. Yes, please don't mind us. We're just children.
Sorry, we're all so well here. Well you see Chris cross anple sauce
and hold each other's hands. And it is rather into make sending the fact
that you're sharing a mind with another person. You're mutually sharing a mind.
And your vision cuts successfully to Kasha, the same breathing of somebody in a
helmet. Kasha always wears a helmet, dark black visor. You see that
Kausha is not inside the medical facility. Well, I say that Kasha is
inside the medical facility, but is um like down on the ground floor of
the swamp jungle like on the other side. Proper they stand out front.
Uh. You see them communicate with two men. You would have seen the
footage that Seul provided, so possibly the same two men that ran in.
They nod and run back towards like the scaffolding, like they're going to head
back into the cigarette to deal with something. And Kausha begins to walk in
and creaks the door open to the medical facility. You can see Costa kind
of look around. You see repurpose spaces. It's hard to call it medical
tables because it feels more like torture chambers. It's very clear that they are
doing experimentations here, especially if their plan is to say, cure the mystic
virus, the mystic sickness. This is a cleansing facility. Somewhere off in
the distance. You might pick up on somebody's screaming through Causha's ear, which
seems distant and far off, like you're underwater her. But at the end
of this long hallway that feels like it may never end, passing these horrord
rooms that have done and had done who knows what in it. Where the
hallway t bones, where it meets the end of another A figure walks past
your sister. She makes eye contact with Kasha, a nod from Kasha,
a nod from your sister, and she goes left, and she kind of
continues across the empty path. Kasha stops at one particular room before reaching the
end and looks in a window. It's covered by blinds and they simply pull
they flip open and you can see inside. An individual lays on a steel
table. They are strapped down. They seem to be unconscious. The machines
hint at the fact that they are breathing and alive, but the individuals that
work in the room seem to be drawing blood as well as putting things into
their body. Sometimes the body will jerk or flinch here and there, but
in the unconscious state. And I would say it's to mirror. Even though
you share eyes, it's to mirror that really picks up on this one,
which is one of the nurses. This figure kind of maybe begins to wake
or their eyes kind of quake open. The nurses go over and they pull
a VISal that they put into a syringe. You know this liquid. It
is red and orange umber in nature, the byproduct of umber. Yeah,
the same material your brother moved out of Tawan or I'm sorry, yeah,
out of Tawan and back to Coriolis. It's finished version, the one that
was supposed to obviously be shipped back, refined and shipped back. Seems to
be being used to drug these people into a cummittal state so they can be
experimented on. Yes, lightning a re education facility. And as Kasha the
blinds closed, it goes to blackness and both of you pop out of that
head and back into yourselves. But the camera then cuts back to Malik.
So Malik is still looking at Seoul, and he kind of like puts a
hand like after he like Malik's are souls like fidgeting with a thing. He
like puts a hand like on on Seul's shoulder in like a friendly capacity,
and he says quietly, hey, um, I need a second. Can
you scout the path? And he like points to the cigarette. Yeah,
in a very much like Seul go away for a second kind of tone.
Okay, And he's just like awkwardly like like looks around and he looks over
to Towel and tam or like ared. He still into a little chance thing.
Yeah, and he's like, um, the only place is an empty
ship. Just just scout, get your with your drone to scout them.
I'm just gonna go all right, I just leave drone scouts ahead, maybe
even like up the cigarette as a Seul takes place a silent moment. Yeah,
in the Samet vessel. I'll give you some information in a second as
to what you see him enter the cigarette. Yeah, Malik walks over to
Lamara, who I assume is just standing there confused. She is standing there,
though not confute. Her head tip to the side in not in confusion,
as if she's listening to something. She stares out over the kind of
swamp and looks around as if she sees or hears something that you do not.
I think he's too distracted about stuff to really notice her. And he
like takes the shumag off and just says lamar and like kind of like puts
it in her hands, and then he and then he like takes his shirt
off, okay, and then unzips the body armor that he's wearing under it
and just sort of puts the armor around her, takes the shirt back on
and puts the shamag back on, and then like helps her adjust the armor
and zips it up, and he kind of like he's like, I need
you to understand something. I need you to promise me that you'll get Twe
and anyone she has with her out of here and to that ship. No
matter what I'll try, no matter what, no matter what, no matter
what happens, no matter who does and doesn't make it, you get Tale
and whoever she has with her and the ship and to Mirror and Tale and
Tal and Soul to the ship. Just Tale, all of you. I
need you to promise me, why just Talent in case anything happens, get
Tal and whoever she has with her back to the ship. Okay, but
you're coming back, right. I need you to say you promise. Only
if you say you promised her coming too. That's not how this works,
says who. I need you to promise to get Tal back to the ship,
and I will do my best to get back as well. No,
I promise to get Tale back to the ship if you promise that you're coming
too. But if I can't, you still need to get her back to
the ship. Okay, okay, okay, promise, thank you, And
like he like looks quickly down at the the intertwined to mirror and Tale,
and then like he like looks around for Saul, and like again he kind
of sighs and just like the quickest he just like leaves in and like kisses
her and then just all right, Soul, she is rather shocked. Yeah,
she's rather shocked. Uh uh. She still has her shumak and and
and she she was wait wait wait, and she kind of puts it over
your head and like wraps around and like tucks the edges in like puts it
back just so okay, okay, okay, and she kind of walks off
the opposite direction. It's a little awkward and soul. Uh. It's definitely
awkward for you because the drone's picking up all of it as you fly up.
It's actually into the cigarette. I ain't gone. Yeah, you mute
it until it gets out of range, and the drone enters a rather dark
place. This once was a palace, which means when you actually get into
it, you realize it's rather open, though in a disheveled state, the
architecture rather crumbling. This was probably some kind of gathering or meeting room of
some kinds. You're not sure, but what catches your eye immediately, and
maybe a good thing you didn't drive a boat up here, is the center
of the room has a massive hole in it, cavern crevice, and if
the drone just happens to tip down to look into it, you see about
twenty white empty pods. Water kind of pours in from crevices in the walls
and space and dirt around it, as if there's these kind of like natural
springs that are coming in from the swamp um and and kind of pouring in
and pooling in certain areas. But these all are marked with the same black
mark that Tal talked about, signifying them as mystics. This seems to be
where they dump the pods before moving the bodies to the medical facility. Uh,
you know how many do I want to be? Not? That mean?
We have three corruption virus so you peek No, I've used one.
I've used one, and you've got twenty minutes left. So you have you
have twenty minutes to use too. Apparently, why are you guys doing this
to me? I'm alone in a damn zig or not? Yeah, see
the zig or knut is the one thing that it's fine. So the no
no, the drone begins you you maybe you want to get a closer look.
The drone begins to drop down kind of into this hole and begins looking
about and as it spins around, Um, something happens. It goes rather
dark. My drone goes darker. Yes, this is still fun. And
then you get this kind of like the damn it did I lose my drunk
again? Like is it isn't? Not? Wrone is not working or responding.
That's all. You know. Something in the hole got it? Corruption
bar number two. Oh fuck, I gave my my damn fucking school.
Uh you know what's in there now? He would have given that back to
you. Done with it? Yeah, okay, I'm gonna use a sculpt
to look down to look where I drone went. Your drone is inside of
it. You're not in with You're down on the ground in the and the
vessel like looking at the camera. Your drone went up and in unless you
wanted to go in, which is a hell of different story. I'm gonna
have to have you make some rolls. No, no, I'm gonna go
back. I'm yeah, I'm gonna fucking dumb mess. So I'm gonna try
the climate. You're without anybody while everybody else is busy. Yeah, ok
roll, roll the k Okay, it's still going to be a dexterity role,
U Paul. Before you roll, you have a plus one because we
all have hyper rope. Very true. Okay, Oh and I have my
U icon priority right. I think that's for a krit on an attack.
Oh yeah, no, no, no, it's a chrit on anything you
want to use. No, no, no, he's he's talking about the
blessing. Yea blessing. You have to call upon the icon before you make
the role to use it, so you would be like, dear judge,
let me make it to the top of this damn thing, and then you
would get to use that to Okay, and I when you use that on
this episode, right, I can't like see you can it is? It
is a banked Oh oh okay, that's the hell of a Southern prayer.
Dear God, let me do this, damp shit. I'm gonna I'm just
gonna climb and I'll use the hyper rope bonus. So okay, So the
plus one so ada plus one in the modifire box and then just one.
I don't think get a data plus. Uh, it's gonna be your dexterity.
Dexterity. Okay, so that is four six seven to come up?
Please? What you mother flapjacks? Okay, well you unless you darkness to
spend the darkness pointing to me. I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry,
I'm sorry. I'm gonna have to okay, limited limited success. It
is so slippery, even with the rope, which is the only thing at
this point that is probably keeping you like in there, your feet constantly slip.
It's like walking up a wet slide, but you do eventually make it
to the top, just in time to see some Malik and Lumara be weird.
They have not noticed you get to the top, and they kind of
part as a towel and tamere break out of their trance that they are in,
and you watch both of them kind of breathe life into themselves, and
you stand at the top staring down at them. You look around. Your
drone is nowhere to be seen. It did fly into the hole. Um.
It's dark in here, and you can see the kind of broken open
crevice. I'm gonna use my rifle as a point and also use a skill
and then like look in the dark open kind of around. From what you
can tell, there's nobody here, okay, at least not in this room
in particular. You can see that there are some kind of like uh,
I don't want to call them makeshift their proper stairs, but they look a
little jankie that might go down to another level of some kind. But in
this room, it seems that it's relatively closed off except for a small hallway
that goes into a more darkness and this pit. Oh god, this is
spooky, Okay, Uh, can I crawl, not crawl like like sneakily
come up, go up to the hole and just kind of look down on
the hole with my Yeah, you kind of look down in the hole.
You peer in green. Basically it's all green because you're looking through night vision
and you see your drone sitting there at the bottom of this pit. Does
he look hurt, Like does it look like anything scratched it up or it
has some kind of strained black viscus on it? Oh? Yep, fuck
that. I'm gonna turn around and can I somehow like secure the hyper rope
to the top as I go back down, so that like it might be
easier for everyone else to climate. Yeah, I'll do that. I'll use
whatever hyper rope I have to. Yeah, you fastened it off. Yeah,
you fastened it off, so it becomes a structural thing that people can
use to make it easier for their climb. So everybody will get a plus
one with that hyper roupe. And then I'll before before I go down,
can I go look at the staircase m and then cautiously, like if it's
clear, go down the staircase. Roll another if you're wanting to do it
with stealth roll another dexterity because you were not very stealthy the first time.
Okay, okay, okay, yeah, boss, okay, I'll take it.
Okay, you're just gonna take the failure. Yeah, I don't give
another darkness point. Okay, Mum, I'm so sorry. This staircase was
once made of marble. Vines and thorns kind of stick out of it,
creating this kind of dark facade around it, along with the kind of stickys
of the swamp and the mold and the grossness. Little glowing mushrooms line along
the staircase, and this natural way that allow you to see a little bit
better as you create down at the air thickens with dust and soot um.
As you come down to this next kind of layer and you peer around,
you think that you see, um, you see a couple of things.
You see a room full of Okay, it's really dark. Roll and observation.
Okay, I think you have a plus something for nightscope too, a
coup plus two. Okay, so I just do plus two. Yeah on
the top, Okay. As you pan across, you see silhouettes of would
look like figures, but you're unsure what are they real? Figures or are
they statues? They seem to have like a dark uh, completely like black
finish on them. Um, and they are rather old. Um. Actually,
no, you probably don't see them as old. You just see these
kinds of silhouettes of all these figures as if they are like ten or twelve
of them in this space. And at the far end of this room there
is another doorway that leads to a better well lit area. Now, okay,
I don't I don't if I if I can't tell what those figures are,
I don't think so would approach. So I think at this point,
I know that there is another door that goes to a lower level, to
this tempting yeah, to to this lower level, and that looks like light
is coming out through this other space, which may be the uh the exterior
balcony area that Taal was talking about where her sister stood that looked out over
that is probably the exit. Is that direction? Okay, I think I
would I'm fuck no, yeah, he would turn on there's no reason for
him to going on this alone. Yeah, I think I would turn onund
because I can't confirm what those figures are, and if I seem like the
back with stealth. Yeah, okay, roll another agility, a dexterity,
thanksterity. Um. Actually I could take an infiltration, whichever is better for
you. Okay, I'll do infiltration. Does he have one plus one for
the rope? Great? This is not about the rope. So you turn
to leave. Oh Jesus, okay. You've been doing this a long time,
sinking in and out of places. The dark is your friend, unless
there is something that uses the dark better than you do. Uh huh.
You turn to leave and you get that feeling, but you might be being
watched. Uh huh. You turn back behind you to see what it could
possibly be, and you're not sure. But the dark figures these charcoal like
statues. You think that they're not the same. Maybe a couple of them
have moved, and out of the corner of your eye, you're swear the
shadows dart from one area of darkness to another, but you cannot prove it
because every time you turn everything is still and quiet. But the lingering feeling
of being watched does not leave you or dissipate. As you exit the cigarette
and come back down to solid ground where you meet the rest of your party,
you all see sewel almost. I imagine there's like a you kind of
skate down because you can. It's all slip raised you kind of like slide
out and hit a baseline. So I may have done a thing. Uh
yeah, where sho you go? So I sent my drone up. He
went in there is a large hole with the pods, and then he turned
off or something turned my drone off. So I went to go take a
look. Wait, something hit your drone and turned it off or killed it.
So you decided that was a good idea to go alone to go see
what it was. Well, I, well, you held very important information.
I think this is fair. What did you find? I don't know,
but they were figures, dark figures. I couldn't really make out what
it was. However, I believe even they may know of my existence.
It's about this time you hear as his drone comes like wigglewobbing, like you
know, the room book comes wiggle wobbling out of the darkness, and it
like crashes on the ground and it slides like a hockey puck down. Look
again and it comes and it slides down hockey like somebody kicked a hockey puck
and it as it crashed lands and slides um and it comes to kind of
a resting halt at all of your feet as it hits the ground, and
you can hear it trying to like get flight again. It's like but it
seems weighted and clogged with a black viscus that covers the exterior of it.
But how is that is that? Everybody would have been there, would have
seen it, except for Malik, of course, who has taken a nap.
But this is a similar type blackie ooze that seeped from your ship.
The darkness it's here, that's darkness. That's what does that mean? I'm
sorry what that's It's like darkness made into a physical form. Lamaras, don't
touch that. I don't know what that means. Don't touch that. As
she's saying that Tamir is like popping open his it's not what you think he
is. Don't touch that? What, Lamara? What is second? See
it? It's alive? What it's um? It's alive. The goog the
viscousness, it's um. It's a series of bacteria of molecule. It seems
to be alive, moving, uh changing What what do we do with it?
Don't touch him. I powered down my drone fully the drone. She
says, whatever's in there, it is biologically connected to this. There's a
probability if you touch it. M don't know what. Okay, Well listen
windows, can we get around that hole? Um? Yeah, I believe
so. However, I would say another important thing. When I was down
there, there was another doorway that was lit and it kind of resembled what
you were talking about. How what do you mean with your sister when you
guys connected your overlook what she was. He's found the way to the other
side where where she was when you guys connected. I believe that's where this
doorway leads. So it might be another way down. Well, let's go
and I pointed to a black goot is it the same hole? Yeah?
Yes, no, it's not no hole that was gonna say the whole the
droll drown it down and the staircase you sit down to the same floor and
not the same Okay, I honestly don't know. That's okay, that's what
I'm here for. Oh great, then let's go on that. Then it's
not the same hole. Yeah, let's go. What not? Nothing is
not okay, Like, don't touch any black oot or any thing, or
it's something. There was definitely shifting. I couldn't get a good glimpse,
but it was always It's like when you you kind of see it, but
then when you go to look at it, it's not there. So you're
just gonna pull out his spectacles and put them on. I'm awful, I'm
all for for going. I just want you guys to be aware of what
you're going into. Hate outside the layers of your glasses as you do so,
you find the one that allows you to see through um non organic matter
structures basically, and you kind of peer through. Samir, you're the only
one that sees it. Your stomach drops out all the way into your feet.
As you pan through the cigarette, you'll see these kind of destructed places.
You can see where the water is passing through. Which power are you
rolling? Oh for the glasses, for the glasses to activate them correct and
you it all looks relatively normal. You see a couple bodies, You see
a room that seems to have some kind of statues in it. You see
this hole. You see the pods at the bottom, but it is where
the whole leads that makes your stomach drop because at the bottom, when you
look under the ground, the foundation of this palace does not sleep. It
is an unrest with darkness and whatever creatures and vast quantity crawl and gnarl their
way across the base, and the deep depths of this temple or this palace
are no longer sleeping. They are because of what you're looking at. You're
not seeing like a clear picture of them. They amalgamate together in this kind
of unnatural way, but they are awake. You do not have to necessarily
go past them. But you are walking on their grave, the grave of
all of the people of this town that's sunk their massive grave site. I
guess you could say, at the heart this swamp of darkness. They know
that you're here and they want you to come into their temple. But we'll
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