What's up? Everybody? Welcome to Table Story zero, Blue Oriyan Hello,
Hello, Hello, hello, hello, was welcome. Everybody. Welcome to
Table Story zero, Blue Oriyan Our Anime AF Mecca Lancer RPG show. I
don't want to try and explain what that means. You can figure it out
if you've never seen the show before. Oh wow, you're gonna be so
lost because so many things have happened. Oh seriously, there's I mean so
many things. There's it's going to be real confusing. I'm not gonna lie,
but we appreciate you being here anyway, so thank you for that.
There's just so much stuff that's going on and so many possible things that can
happen today that I kind of want to just jump into things and get intros
done and get started. Brad, if you could be so kind as to
start us off, please, Hey, it's made. There's a spotlight turn
on me. Then that was impressive. Wa wow, I've got one of
those hower of my thoughts. Yeah, that's what we've been spending all that
hard and she'll show money on. Is this a satellite that can attached spotlight
on? There's stuff? Hi, it's weird when Brad's in the bathroom and
I do it. Oh man, it's so fucking this is to be honest,
it's my ship. I like it. The uh character that I'm playing
today is whyat Slate, who is very very Can you not fucking interrupt me?
Every rude? Yeah, I don't know. I can't think I have
the same thing as Wag has with the show. I can't explain this fucking
character, the fucking backflips, the twists and turns that have led to this.
But as it stands, he's a good boy. He's just a good
boy who's trying to follow orders but also feels responsible for keeping all of these
people here alive. And those two things are conflicting, and that's that's just
that's the biggest thing conflicting for him right now. Yeah, that's all just
that, nothing more. Good boy. Thank you, Brad Fist. Hey,
I'm Fist, and I play Stu Flanagan, who has finally been reunited
with the spandex. So you snap back to reality and he's now trying to
figure out what's going on and also trying to figure out why he's in better
shape than he was before. But he's not complaining about that. Yeah,
A lot of crazy stuff is going on, and I'm both scared and excited
to know what's going to happen next. Somebody hold me, thank you fist.
Jay. Hi, I'm Jay. I get to play Peith mark A.
Brown. I must admit it's really weird. I'm very happy to be
back in his boots. Uh Like, I'm still on a spoiler in case
someone's like twenty episodes behind, but it was weird not being him watching the
episode now, Jay, at what point do you say, Yeahine, all
right, you watched like episode ten of a show that you've never seen before,
then Antony, So everyone, here's the end game. No, I
missed it. It was weird playing Michael. I'm very happy to be back
in heath shoes. Being Michael made me as uncomfortable as I think as it
made Heath. So I similarly have no idea what's going to happen. We
could all die, we could all live, we could all live happily ever
after in a house together and be this sitcom. I don't know, but
whatever we'll find out. I would be like full House, Spancer House Scuse,
where everybody knows your name exactly and people like ste just walks in Stow.
Hey, Brad is secretly ted dancing. Yeah, rings the bell,
everybody cheer. Yeah, it's great. That's the future I believe in for
us all definitely will happen that way. Uh, myth. Hello, Hi,
I'm myth or a court or a myth, a manic or whatever,
doesn't matter. But I will be playing what's what's his name, doctor Donovan
Zephyr today. He's like a research scientist who's been studying the firmament and such,
and he may be a good reason why we all now know what's going
on sort of maybe, But also he's a bit of a mystery because there's
some stuff that we still don't know about him that I actually don't even know.
But we'll see what happens when we get to it. I'm nervous.
Can you tell I talk a lot when I'm nervous. That's me? Thank
you Mith. Welcome p B. Hi, I'm Pumpkinberry and I am playing.
I'm actually not going to answer that. Well, I guess we'll find
out who I'm playing today. Nice. Thank you, Peb. I'm Stephen
and I will be your GM of Doom. I'll be dragging the players,
kicking and screaming through the adventure. Today. There have been a lot of
things happen, but one thing, there's just a couple things to touch on
before we actually get started with the episode. Today. We have the extremely
talented bron ak a Soote in the in the chat again, I want to
say hi and a big thank you for the amazing fan art that they've been
making. It's a there's some some comic book pages that they made on their
on their Twitter and I put them in the fan art channel on our discord
as well, and they're so good. They're so good, So thank you
so much for for working on that stuff. That was fantastic. Thanks Noodle
for the for for giving them a promotional link there. And just another shout
out to the players for last episode. I think you all did tremendously well.
Just just you had some really amazing performances last episode. So I just
wanted to just mention that and and and uh yeah, I just I was
rewatching stuff again just to you know, prepare for today's episode, and I
just I wanted to mention that I think you all did so well. Anyway,
let's get started. Time to play our anime intro get in the right
headspace for the show. Let's do it here. We got We don't even
know what that headspace is anymore. Yeah, the year is fifty sixteen U.
After many failures, humanity has reached new heights. Union is responsible for
all of it. It is the Tyrant, the Watcher, and the guiding
hand. The Third Committee watches over Humanity, but is stretched Things and gretzsloom
from the own ascendancy, overreaching corporal states, remnants of the Second Committee,
and other unknown dangers. Union scrambles to cope with the vast size of the
hegemony and these threats by relying on unorthodox means. On the last episode of
Zero Blue Orion, a lot of things happened. Uh. We had what
I like to call a breakthrough episode because a lot of characters, the player's
characters started to come back to themselves. Heath's persona returned to the group.
They ran into Lieutenant Commander Desorra, who was trying to I guess interrogate the
group to find out if there had been any further advancements made in the firmament
interaction, and specifically with doctor Zephyr. Some names were searched. Heath was
trying to do some searching and seemed like there were some red flags that were
sort of checked. After doing so, the group saw Tivious leave a holographic
message to Wyatt after finding a basically some sort of data device on on Wyatt,
Wyatt putting in the password the Picnic story as as the password. It's
aw a holographic message left from Tivious, who dropped some bombs on the player's
characters that that Second Committee was in fact sort of running things in their current
situation, and that there were a lot of a lot of things happening behind
the scenes, and that Tivious was at least at first unknowingly working for the
Second Committee as well, and apparently murdered. The admiral that was that was
sort of in charge of the whole thing was found to be left alive when
Wyat accessed his Firmament abilities, allowing him to sort of telport himself to a
different space. Stu had sort of come back to himself as well, and
the group had found out that Luca had died. Fie sort of started to
make appearances as well, and her slash Gabriella brought everyone into the Firmament in
a sort of shared space, a memory space, and showed them this unbelievably
amazing sort of gigantic mech, the Blue Orion an Ounich design. They saw
a memory representation of Luca that was created by Effie, and Effie and Gabriella
had a chance to talk to each other inside the firmament, and it was
a difficult moment for Effie. She was sort of struggling with her own identity,
I think, and leaving this place. When we ended the episode last
session, Effie slash Gabriella was remaining behind in the firmament. The rest of
the group had sort of been expelled from their and in the memories Stu sort
of forcefully so. And we start the session today with the four of you
back in doctor Zephyr's uh makeshift lab and f E slash Gabriella nowhere to be
seen. What do you do? Who is the last person out? Stu?
Why are we putting her in the tube? I think we were.
The doctor just said that the tube might give us access or someone access.
We were going to say, because he already had the nice suit on.
You both did technically, but if you're going to do it, do it
now. I've been in it too long? How does it work? Do
I just go in and that's it? Hey, yes, you go in
and ease your mind. There'll be a breather in there as well, and
he gestures to the tubing and the mouthpiece that's dangling from the top. Okay,
all right, I'll go in. I'll see if I can bring her
back. Wish me luck, good luck, good luck, thank you.
Stud's gonna head on over to the tank. Suit up. Okay. I
think Heath will just be avoiding eye contacts off because he doesn't want to go
in the tank, and half because he knows he probably should, given he's
the most experienced with tanks, because he just doesn't want to get in that
damn tank again. So he's just doing that thing where he's just looking looking
away. I think the doctor heads over to a to the probably a panel
on the side of the or like an arm on the side of the tube,
and he swings it out and he starts booting up and initiate initiating the
boot sequence for the for the tube and such. He begins trying to clear
his mind like he would for a role to play a character. He tries
to start with a blank slate he tries to close his eyes and he does
a breathing technique. He looked it up on the omni net one time.
So he does a weird pose as well. It's it's like very strange,
like almost a half yoga position, suppose. Okay, Yeah, it's just
Stew's way of like clearing his mind. So you see him and he's like
he's like doing this. He's got like one leg bent and he's just breathing
just like a like ah the dabbing on the sun post. Okay, alrighty,
So uh you get into the tube, uh, and you know it's
it's filled with liquid and it's meant to uh the liquid's oxygenated, so you're
meant to like breathe normally. And uh, I think there's a weird transition
there, like do you go in like holding your breath? You can hold
your breath for a long time in this sort of you know modified body that
you have, mm hmm. Let Stu know that you could breathe in the
water up to you, guys. Stu starts like he's freaks out a little
bit. He like looks at the dock and he starts like pounding on the
glass. Oh, everything should be fine. Go ahead and breathe normally.
You'll be fine. I'm ahead of a fish. Yes, the it's it's
oxidator. You should be fine in there. If you need any help,
all the mouthpiece there is for assistance has oxygen if you need. Already feel
I feel like I'm in a bag of jelly. Yes, it's quite a
sensation. All right, I'm gonna tried it. Relax now he goes back
into his pose. There's a few fart bubbles that you see, like travel
up behind him. Sorry, I'm nervous, all right, just trying to
relax. She's gonna completely relax. He's thinking of nothing, which isn't hard
for still, it's just default state pretty much. Alrighty, try to think
of nothing and rather easily for you as mentioned. All right, that's it,
Just like that, a pretty good reading here. Yeah, Stu's just
gonna fully relax. He's completely in zen. How the fuck do we know
if he's even in there? Is he gonna fall asleep? Is he gonna
disappear? Yes, he will slip unconscious. We would assume Stu goes to
his happy placed, like me to describe what Stu's happy place is, you
see a stage, very large stage, and like a talk show. There's
a there's a very well dressed older woman sitting in a chair with a couple
of couple of cards in her hand, and she's presumed to be the host
of this very popular show. And she says, now, I'd like to
introduce our next guest, the most famous actor in the world, Stu Flanagan,
author of The Galaxy's bestseller one hundred and one Ways to Seduce Your Ways
to Success. Stu erupts from this giant cloud of confetti and he struts his
way across the stage. People are going nuts. Everyone is what. It's
like a It's like a frenzy. And Stu just blowing kisses. He's got
a big poster of himself just lit up the backstage. He's thinking and taking
bows. He's a couple of people like trying to run up on stage,
but like security like pulls them back. Okay, fantastic. Yeah, people
like a freaking out, just like screaming there, like pulling it like your
clothes and stuff in the guards and like Stu sits down. Was it?
Oh yeah? Oh, Riah says to sue, Stu, you started from
nothing. An unknown actor that just suddenly blew up out of nowhere? How
did you do it? Wait? Well, I'd like to first of all,
I'd like to think my humble beginnings, because that's where I have gotten
most of my humility from. And let's be honest, I'm a pretty humble
guy. Yeah, you know, that's just what life is, just being
as humble as you possibly can and just being rewarded for your humbleness. I
guess I don't know if you want me to continue having a blast as long
as you want with this. I don't want to take up all the time.
But basically it just goes on and on, like basic trivia. They
do a couple of like fun like Ellen Degenero's style games, and you see
like you see like off in the corner, like a crying Blanson who is
now a pa working on stage covered in like acne. He's covered in acne.
It's like I guess he's like working like the lights and of it.
He's just like side of the camera like for us. The camera like zooms
in on his butt and he's just got the flattest butt, like it's just
a pancake. He does one of those things where it's like, oh,
come on, Blanton's just had a hard time, like one of those asshole
moves where it's like, look, how I like horriblest life is now I'm
taking pity on him. It just goes on like it ends in the best
way. Uh. He is given a Golden Key they give out these awards
on The Oriah Show, and he is awarded best Guest of the Century.
They gave it to him for that long and that's just kind of how it
concludes. Absolutely, while this is happening all of you outside the tube here
Stu doing those voices of the different people, it seems here that is readings
are off the charts. He's definitely in his happy place, right, hoping
levels are exceedingly high. Can we like, while he's in there, maybe
bring somebod the other one back? Was that dangerousa be? What the capable
one? Yeah? All right, I understand sometimes people just aren't as blessed
and as good looking as me. But if you try hard enough and you
buy my book, you just might you just might get there. Okay,
I think that this is the most capable of this is really is this the
stew you know and love? Oh, it's the stew I know right,
and trust me, he's perfectly capable. It would be best with this consciousness
that was the one access in the femament. I'm worried about ask being a
and it for too long? Heath? Is it? Yes? Why did's
ee? All right? How about yeah? First of all, you need
to work on your accent, all right? Can you talk more like,
Hey, what do you mean? This is my accent? Yeah, but
it's not Michael's accent? And you need to act less confident, all right.
I would have swaggered back by like one hundred. And you want me,
you expect me, after all of them, to become Michael again.
Yes, because we need to go to the armory. Fine, I'll play
along for now, right, Doc, Yes, I'm going to pop out.
Are you sure this is a good idea? But if we're sitting in
here, they're going to get suspicious and I want to go and see assurer.
That's a fair point, and maybe he can pretend to be Michael get
into the armory. A little bit concerned to the fact that the only thing
that we've got to defend ourselves right now, I point out Stu mumbling to
himself, is I mean he's our best. He's our best gun. Oh
no, I shouldn't know, Rayah. I already have three yachts, but
I'll be happy to take another one. So I might see if I can
smuggle a couple of pistols or something. So what's our actual plan? I
go to the armory, pretend to me Michael, and what smuggles and raffles
out in case we decide to make a break for it. That's exactly the
plan. And then we're gonna go and see if we can find Assurer since
she's in on this. Maybe if I let her know that we're in on
it too and can get some information, and we think we can trust her,
do we is because we slipped something in your pocket? Well we're fucking
staffd for information if we have a choice. Well, it sounds like a
plan that's going to end horribly. So I'm very much in in the tail
on the plants and what a fun game? A good luck dog? All
right? Quick slide question on a tangent? Yes, all right, very
well? Is the mumbling normal when someone goes in a tube? Just unrelated
reasons? You know? I am not that I remember I have not had
anybody mumble or talk this much. I do believe it is a part of
who he is, though, so I believe we will just continue to just
hope he's in his happy place. Like I said, he's off the charts,
so I will just continue. Good is anything out of the ordinary,
very unique to do? More? So I will Yes, I'll let you
know. All right, good luck out there. Back to beeping and booming
on his terminal, repeat after me. Yeah, Hello, I'm Michael.
Oh, hello, I'm Marcael. No, g take the gruff out.
Hello, I'm Michael. A lot, I'm confident. Yeah, hello,
I'm Michael. Yeah like that, gormless days off into the grind, okay,
gormless, right, all right, let me see, let me take
a good look at it, right, Okay, I'm just mapping your face.
Fuck off, wie, let's go okay once again, shrug off.
Why this guy fucking hates me? I have no idea, but I'll fucking
head out. Okay. I think I'll walk to the door as well,
and then just turn around and go bye, doc, and then just walk
out head to the ry. All right. So uh still, please make
a flat D twenty roll for me, please? Uh huh ah A nine
okay, uh, doctor Zephyr, You're watching his levels and you see them
spike for a bit. After a few minutes, they start to taper off
and return to normal levels. Is this normal? No? Typring off back
to just yeah? I mean you know you were expecting some kind of a
result and you didn't see anything. Okay, Stutu? Can you hear me
in there? No? I think it's fine if we fire Blanton out of
the cannon. I mean it's fine, he'll be fine. All right.
I need you to uh just uh, I need you to come back to
us here, Stu. What hey? I can imagine in like Stu's head,
here's like the voice of God like this, like omnipotent voice, like
come back ste what way? Wye Stu? You want me et it back
here? What's going on? It's like a producer and Stu's dream Like everyone
now thinks Stu is like a everyone thinks Stu is like some godly figure.
He's like being summoned by a higher power that you feeds into this and he's
like, yes, I'm sorry, everyone, I must go. I am
needed in a better place. What's yes? Still? Hello? Hi?
Don't hear me in there? Yeah? What's going on? All right?
I need you to try again. You we have I've lost a lot of
the levels that we had there. You were you're you're, you were in
the happy place, and then it tape it off of it. Are you
all right? How do you feel? I feel great? That was That
was the best thing I've ever done. I want to go back, all
right, Well, try to ease back into it, all right? Okay,
how is you breathing? Uh? Fantastic? Rather Hi? Are you?
Are you feeling all right? I was just very excited. I was.
I was it such a good time. I got to shoot plants and
out of a cannon onto a sticky wall made from like old glue. It
was amazing. He got all in his hair and half of it got torn
out. It was awesome. All right, that all sounds very good.
I do. I would like that autograph at some point. That is a
good reminder. But also, please just try to ease back into it.
Okay, I'm gonna pretend I didn't hear about that autograph, but yeah,
I'll try to ease back into it. What should I what should I do?
Like not think of having stuff trying trying those breathing exercises. We did
that, we used to practice, yes, okay, all right, and
then and then what you did before was nice, but from the top,
and I think that one probably resonates with you. All right, let's do
it from the top. Stuve's gonna add try it again, all right,
give me another flaty. So when you try and go back to your happy
place, it's not the the happy place that you were just in this time
you are recalling some of the events that happened on Mars, specifically the opposite
of your happy place, the place where Blantson basically destroyed you and the group
with a horrific prank. What's going on? All right? Who's ala Blason?
Why he looks so no way with the cameras, these alost are exceedingly
different and and snoop, You're snapped back into the into the like wide.
Stu's freaking out. He's like flailing his arms. Yeah, alright, Stow
stealing and I need no gre't you blood said? All right, hold on,
let's get you out of there. Let's come on. I'm gonna un,
I'm gonna gonna used to lift now the motion. Stu rips off all
the breathing devices, and starts like clawing his way out of the tube.
All right, there, we are all right, that's Stu. There you
are No. Stu books it the funk out. He books it out of
there, still in the wetsuit. Oh no, I think. Yeah,
I think I'm gonna calm over. Wyatt A whyatt? This is uh?
This is doctor Donovan Zephyr. Yeah, this is why I'm reading. Yes,
I seem to have lost Stu. He he had a bit of a
reaction and has run off, and I believe he went toward them or just
out. I know he's just running, like, I don't know where he's
He's just running. I saw him run, and I do not know which
way he went. If you see him, he will be soaking wet in
a wetsuit. Jesus fucking Christ. He may be flailing. He was he
we I had some results. I think I had some it's back. I'm
sorry. No, yes, so I guess that is no, we did
not see the results that we were looking for. But data has been has
been there procured. So yeah, if you could go ahead and find him
and bring him back, And I think we're going to need a separate subject
to try to get back. Okay, great, and then turned to to
Heath and relate the information to Heath. And I mean, I guess we
can't have gotten too far. It's it's been a few minutes. I mean,
if you're just if you're just kind of like walking normal pace. Yeah,
I mean we're trying to act normal, or at least I'm trying to
act normal and trying to have Heath act normal like Michael. So I'm probably
I mean, I want to do it. I can I see him or
hear him or anything. First of all, assume if I is he he's
not like running past me naked or whatever. Uh yep, please say yes.
So I rolled just to see how bad the situation was, and I
rolled a natural one. So I feel like the worst situation that can happen
is not that he went your way, but he went a different way.
So no, you don't see him? Oh fuck me? Oh well then
I'll call this off. Uh, I guess I'll go back. I guess
I'll just fucking one I and head back to the lab trying to act normal.
And uh, okay, do you go back with them? Heath?
Well, yeah, I I was gonna ask if we're had we gone the
same We're still walking the same the same direction. We'll say it was the
same direction up until like a certain point, but you hadn't split up yet.
Yeah, so, I mean, I guess I don't know if why
it has called through on comms to me to let me know what's happening.
Yeah, I'd have gone. I'd have gone back to I assumed that we
were together, like walking down. Yeah, you're skipping and looking into each
other's eyes. Yeah. Yeah, I'd absolutely go back to the I probably
roll my eyes like almost to death, and then head back to the doctor's
office. Okay, I'd probably question you actually on the way back. I'd
say, so, there's Stewart said, he's pretty good with a gun,
whether or not he means to be. Yeah, he's pretty damn effective.
And you point him in the right direction. Does he not realize the gravity
of the situation that we're in. Oh, no, he'll realize the gravity
of the situation. He'll just be we put it, slightly more concerned with
how his hair looks in the situation. But if the commanders of this ship
mind wiped on not figure out that he's regressed reverted back any of us,
they're gonna slam slam us in the brig. They're gonna wipe our minds again.
Yeah, here they are. So we've got to find him. If
we find him, it won't take much to convince him to play the part
of the dutiful soldier, because you don't know anything about him, do you?
Who he was? No? The only thing I've seen is way of
the fun he was doing in there. Stu Flannagan is a bull Man's Blendson.
You know Blendson. Do I know Blankson? Yeah, the Blendson.
Uh rob me fant twining to whack because I don't know what fucking information I
mean. I guess I have information from the four times I probably saw,
like potentially saw stuff with Blandton in five maybe not. No, you and
I was younger, I used to just watch, you know, like actually
like cartoons, like in the corridor as Stu is crazy, crazyly running,
do you feel like a heart palpitations for like a hot second stew as you're
running, Like it's just this intense like pain moments permanent, the yeah bad
review reverb going on. It's gone quickly, but it's a lasting pain that
I will never leave you. Do you reckon. You can find him?
What do I look like? A naked man trekker? I can find him
about as well as any of us. I don't know. Didn't you say
you were some sort of MRK. I didn't say it was a good mark.
But I'll take a look for him, all right, follow the dripping
water, I suppose. Yeah, I'm gonna go and see what the funk
quanta is gonna do. I quite know what we're supposed to do with that
gab or orfie. Ah. You see, if you can find him,
maybe I'll just see a shore by myself, all right, be careful,
I don't trust anyone on this ship. And then as I'm about to head
into the back into where we were, I say, oh no, no,
no, no, no, no. Second four? Can I open
the door? Wander in there? Yeah? With me, all three of
us? All right, we're not splitting up. Everyone needs to be with
someone all times. Now, make sure we ain't mind wiped or snatched up
or something. You know. Oh good, the buddy system. All right,
I'm tracking another naked wet man, very introspicuous. I like it.
We've got to put a lid on him first, and then we'll come back
and work out what we can do. Well, it's not, well,
I don't think it's that big of an issue, considering they know that I
am working with you all to try to get the get you all into the
firmament. But a depends on where and when we find him. Let me
just grab out of my things here and he grabs some of the some of
the tablets with him, and he runs and catch us up with you at
the door. Let's just see if we can find him. Yeah, bring
him back if you speak to him. He seems to be friends the friend
your friends? What is it? I'd say it's strange colleagues. Let's go
with that, all right, But do me a favor. I mean,
he might be an affable prick sometimes, but I don't mention the blends and
comment the right to break his little weird hummingbird heart. Okay, all right,
where do we go? Is he going to run off to? Who
were in? Where would you go? Well, speaking as a man who's
broken out of my fair share of tubes filled with ship, probably somewhere with
food or a bed, all right, And it's quite a stupid actually,
the appetite does it does accelerate after a session in the fermament. Thank you
don't come quite the scientist. If I do say so myself, very well,
let's go. Then we switched scenes. Mm hmm. Effie slash Gabriella,
you've been having a difficult time. I think in the for a moment,
a lot of your memories have started to resurface, especially the really sad
ones. You've sort of recreated Luca and you've been communicating with Effie slash Gabriella.
You've expressed some interests in not leaving. You sent everybody out, so
it's just kind of this memory of Luca, Effie and Gabriella in the space.
What are you doing? I think we see I think we see gab
standing off kind of in the background, watching what Effie might be doing in
her interaction with Luca. This is, you know, happened a lot.
This is why Gabriella was brought here. And I think I think probably after
the after Effie pushes out STO, I think the scene changes to the cafeteria,
the mess hall, and they are all probably sitting around everybody's there eighty
nine hundred two, and they're eating, joking about nut sauce, and I
think I think Gab probably knows that there's no use trying to talk to Effie
right now, but she'll probably just watch laughing, having a good time.
Luca's there, I should not so why it's doing that stupid thing with the
knife when he tried to figure out if he had superpowers. Yeah, yeah,
let me try and then if he feels happy and good and so she's
gonna lose yourself in that memory for a while. How does Gabriella feel watching
this sad? I think we all know kind of what that's like sometimes,
to just not want to face reality and go back to a nostalgic time when
everything was good and better. I have no idea what you're talking about.
It's like watching someone who has all of the tools to help themselves, but
they just refuse to do it. So it's probably a little bit frustrating,
but mostly just sad. And I don't know if I, as Gab know
how to wake up. I know I have tried before to ease Effie out
and wake her up and get her out of this place. She just doesn't
want to. Can I pilot? Can I wake up? Or do I
have to stay here and wait until Doc wakes me up that your Gabriella character
sheet has a trigger that's as Firmament. You gave me another character she thank
you. Okay. So, okay, what I'd like for you to do
is specifically tell me what you are trying to do right now. I think
I'm torn between. I think I'm torn between trying to help her or just
kind of taking the wheel again. But I don't really know what good that
will do. If I, you know, pilot or take control, it'll
just make it harder probably for her next time to come around. I feel
like this is the closest she's ever come to wanting to it again. Uh,
And it was when she was able to be with everybody in this space.
Can I what is Gabriella trying to do with the Firmament? Can I
pull because e Fie kicked them out? Can I pull them in? Can
you pull the rest of the group in? If you're asking, Oh,
I think so. But I'm going to say, you've got a difficulty of
two on this. Okay, so you can roll Firmament. But with the
difficulty of two, okay, yikesh, So what do you think happens when
you fail? Oh? Oh, I think Efie's aware of me when I
fail, because it's her space really that I've been inserted into. And yeah,
I'm piloting. And so far we've had a pretty decent relationship and understanding,
and I think I've tried to take a very compassionate and gentle approach with
her. I understand that she's broken and she doesn't ever want to leave this
place. But I thought if I waited long enough and I was just kind
and soft and gentle, that she would eventually come around. And this is
the first time I've ever kind of tried to oppose her and what she wanted,
and she feels that when I try to reach in and bring Stew back.
So I think the cafeteria just kind of like freezes. It does have
one of those freeze framed things, and FIE's kind of like looking around,
and she probably looks right at me. Yeah, what are you doing.
I'm just trying to help you. Help me. How you can't stay here
forever? This isn't where you belong. I don't belong out there, Yes
you do. This moment already happened. You'll never have any others if you
stay here. But if I go out there, I'll never see him again.
He's gone, so is Lisa. But you have a chance to see
Lisa again. And what's she going to think? You're just sitting here in
this space, never trying anything ever again. Won't she wonder where you went?
Doesn't that bother you? There's like a there's like a probably like one
of the little like gun plow figures or something that starts moving around on the
table like Effie was showing a Lisa or something, and it just kind of
like starts moving around, and Effie seems to like notice it for a second.
I hear there's a new model out It's Harrison. I know it's not
your favorite, but I hear it's a pretty pretty nice build. There's a
lot out here. It's new to me. I'm not from here or from
this time. It's all very very interesting. I'd hate to see you miss
it if I go. Yeah, we'll never all be together again, will
we. No, I'm sorry. I did make a promise to Lisa.
Yes you did. What was that promise? M Come on, I know
you can remember I had. I'll pull the figure out, uh lion,
gold lion figure, try to remember old lion. Yeah, you promised to
find somebody, somebody knew, somebody who's not here at this table, somebody
who will never be here. He's missing. Yeah, I have to find
the hive, don't I hive? That's where e Fie Prime is, Red
Star and Gold Lion. Okay, this is this is really good, Effie.
Where's the hive? I've seen it, I've seen it, but okay,
I can't. I can't feel where it is right now. When when
I think when Heath was here, I think I could feel it when Heath
was here. Do you want to let me try to bring them back?
Okay? Do you want to try it with me? Okay? Okay,
the cafe, the cafeteria starts to like dissolve, the black space starts to
return. Give me a regular firmament role, please, nineteen. Who are
you trying to bring into the firmament? Uh? Truthfully, whoever's at the
table? The people who I mean, I know the doc isn't really genetically
able to like he wasn't experimented on that I know of as strongly as the
rest of them. So I was thinking, whoever could replace the people at
the table. I'm hoping they'll just walk up and sit in their place.
Okay, everyone except doctor Zephyr. All right, Doc, I'll remember it
is pulled into the firmament. Once agains of Wyatt, stew Heath and Elisa
appear. Lisa's kind of looking around frantically. What's going on? Where am
i? Ah? I dream? Uh not quite. My name's scab and
uh I know you and I know you don't know me, but I'm hoping
you can help a mutual friend of ours. And then I gestured towards Effie
sitting at the table. Hey, yeah, do you know where we are?
The firmament? Do you know what that means? Yeah? Okay,
Well how do I know that this isn't This isn't another trick? I can't
help you with that, but Effie needs your help. If she stays here,
she's never gonna leave. She'll be trapped in this place forever. Ooh,
roll me a five D twenty please Gabriella thirteen? Where is she?
Just right over there at that table? Elisa sort of stomps off. You
can see each other floating about in the space again. Can they see themselves
at the table like the memory the cafeteria faded away? Oh? Okay,
okay, and I assume Effie's still at like a table then, like the
cafeteria table in the dark. Okay, the scene is gone, but the
table's still there. Uh, Stu Michael, I'm Keith. Sorry, whyatt
I can't get her to leave? How to fuck? Are weay back here?
We pulled you back. I don't know how you can just do that,
I guess so that's ridiculous. I remember screaming naked down the hallway,
not like thirty seconds ago. Yeah, honestly, this is a really good
thing to be honest. So but be careful because what you think here happens
here. So maybe you can think some clothes back on Stu. Oh,
he immediately thinks like the most fashionable garb has Luca gone? Ah most of
the time. Yeah good, it's kind of getting hard to see him.
Yeah. Well, she tends to talk to him a lot, so he
may pop up again. But I can't really stop that if I'm not needed,
can you send me back? Look, let's just get done whatever needs
to be done in here and get out. Okay, right, but I
don't know who the fuck if he is. Yeah, that's right, you
don't do you? But she said she she's trying to find the hives.
She's trying to locate the Blue Orion, and she said it was easier when
Stu was here. So I figured the more of us the better, or
the more of you might make her stronger. Yeah, but I'm concerned about
us blinking on and off the serif. All right, I'll just try to
send him back. Can I do that? Give me another firmament rule fifteen?
Yeah, if you don't resist Wyatt, then she sort of fuck no,
I don't want to be in there. In there, yeah, pushes
you back out. I didn't think either, and I think the moment he
brings that up and I realized that he doesn't know her, I remember her.
It's probably dangerous for him to be in there anyway. I don't want
to. I don't want to be the reason that you know, he has
a brutal awakening the way Michael slash Heath did so a link. So what
she needs all help to leave this place? Yeah, he's she lost a
friend and she can't she can't get out of it. From what happens to
you, I don't know. I was hoping you could tell me Michael's still
in there with you. Yeah, he's still there see able to talk,
or it won't be peaceful if we do this for you. We're traveling in
a car that you can't control. You don't get to decide where it goes.
If you're lucky, you may get the chance to drive. That's it.
It's not my car. If it helps. Effie's not as big as
an arson eyes as I am. Yeah, that does help. Actually,
just kind of an idiot, but I kind of like her. Okay,
well, let's just get this done. Good luck coming stew right behind you.
I think I'll give Gabriella like a lingering look and then head over to
the table and sit down with Effie. Kah. Elisa is there as well.
Oh hey did you did you bring some of the more extra nut sauce?
Hey, Stu, that's a nice outfit. Eggs with Alisa. Yeah,
huh, I haven't seen you in a bed. Huh. Let's me,
what's going on? What do you What do you mean we're having lunch?
No, we're don't we're not. Are we doing something else now?
Or we're in the firmament. This isn't now, Effie, this isn't real.
Felt like a dream, I guess because it's like a reality dream.
I'm sure that this isn't some kind of trick. No, it's one hundred
percent real. This is happening. This is the real me. You can
quiz me, it's really me. I could say something vaguely insulting if it
would help. Quiz you, like, ask you something from your book.
Yeah, I don't remember anything. Number sixty seven. I don't know what
that is. I never listened. I read the whole thing. Good read
what's number sixty seven? STU? Number sixty seven? Hold on a second,
it's been a while. Well, I know what number sixty nine is.
Yes, No, number sixty seventies always carry at least twelve head shots
on you at all times. That's idiotic. It's true. What could be
more authentic ste than something idiotic? No offense to I'm taking. Hey,
eh so this is real. Yep, this is my happy place. What's
the last thing you remember? Fie Luca calling me family? He was right.
I don't understand where is Luca. He's gone, Lisa, Do you
mean gone? He let it? He died. I'm sorry, No,
No, that's not possible. Happened shortly after lying happened shortly after he stayed
behind. He's dead. What how did he die? Union killed him?
Why? He was trying to protect us? There was so controlling and he
just wanted to help you, wanted to protect us. He attacked the guards
and he's not here anymore. He's gone. M he died protecting his family,
Elisa, That's what always happened. Where are you? Where did you
come here from? Hospital? You're in the hospital. Are you okay?
It's not that kind of hospital. Oh kah, oh right, are you
still with the USB they took you from us? Yeah, you're right,
you know, at least treating you well. Suppose have ween doing things like
what I've been able to h Well, she's like looking around at this place.
There's no there's no listening devices here. This is my happy place.
No. I can do things like what I can. If there were something
here, I couldn't I could turn it off, but I can disrupt communications.
My god, I just found out that I could shoot lasers out of
my fingers. That's not real, it is, Oh, that's very real.
No, yes, I'm not. I'm not kidding. Watch we'll even
be able to shoot lasers out of my fingers in the firmaent. Yeah,
if it's up to what Fie would like to imagine. Then yes, okay,
so here's what we're gonna say. E Fie, roll a firmament roll
Well, I guess as Gabriella sixteen. Okay check it out. Wow,
stud, that's incredible. Jesus crossed once when you point those things? Worst
I did. I didn't come up with it. What are you talking about?
I just found out I could do this. That's horrible. Have you
killed anyone? No? No, unless there were so many above us than
maybe, But now that I know of, when did you find that out?
Just today? That like it's crazy? Oh where have you been me?
Yeah? Well I've been on the Seraff. We all have, except
you know Lisa. Hm hmm, I'm there too. No, you're not.
You're here. You've stayed here, Effie, in this place. Gabriella
is with us on the Seraff. Oh yeah, who's Gabria? Is that
is that the woman over there? Oh? Yeah, that's that's Gabriella.
She's my well, she's me, I guess or that doesn't make any sense?
Yeah, I don't know. It's very confusing. I don't know.
But she's a tool. That's not Oh no, you see, I thought
I thought that too, but you know he was. What do you mean
it's complicated? It's complicated. Look, you want to know if this is
genuine? At Leasta, it's uncle Heath, Remember all right, Brude's kind
of my forte. She's she's fine, but she exists to control you,
Effie. What she doesn't control me. She didn't tell me what to do.
It's my place. Do you stay here? And she's out there with
us. We need you because Union Union did things to all of us after
that that day when they killed Luca, and they killed Luca, they wiped
their memories? Was it until recently when we rediscovered them? You got Gabriella.
I got some idiot named Michael. What did I get? Uh?
You've got a less interesting version of you? Huh? I mean he might
be more efficient, but my god, is he boring? How lame?
We need you, Effie out there, back with us to write the wrong
that Union has done to us. And you have to find him, find
who old Lion. I didn't forget my promise. I may have forgotten for
a short time, but I remember it now and I will I will find
him. Please? Can I try it now? So what I'd like is
for uh Heath to make a firmament role seventeen. When you picture gold Lion,
what happens e Fie Ah, Well is it? I guess I have
to ask am I is this like a homing thing where I am trying to
find where he is? Because I've never there's a personally met him, but
Efie Prime has, so so there's a there's a knowledge that you have.
Okay, you know that Heath can help you find gold Lion? What?
Okay, Yeah, I'm just gonna rp that out. Do you know who?
Do you know who that is? Do you know gold Lion? You
have no idea, Heath, But what do you think visual visually happens?
Elisa? Oh, oh, I was imagining like a because you said hive,
I was imagining like a honeycomb kind of. And then the lines in
the honeycomb light up and are kind of guiding a pathway. And then at
first it's like we are on top and the honeycomb is really really far below
us, and then we can see the line light up and lead the pathway,
and then it kind of rushes up to meet us, and then we
are standing on a pathway and we can't even really tell that we are on
that same honeycomb, because now it's just so big, so that visualization starts
to appear and heath as it starts to flesh itself out, you start to
feel a poll similar to what you experienced in doctor Zephyr's office. Is it
pulling me anyway? Specific? Like to me, are you fucking goldline?
We can use my ship while you're in the firmament. I think that,
uh, I think that you don't. It feels weird. It's hard to
feel like a direction, So I don't know really what it would feel like.
I think it's probably like I think it's probably like something in your in
your stomach, you know, like you have like a you know, like
if you have like a a really intense emotional feeling or something like that,
and it actually like affects your stomach. You kind of feel like that,
and the you know, like if you if you left the firmament, you'd
be able to like be able to tell at least a direction. Okay,
and we all see this honeycomb visualization right sort of appears in the firm moment,
so I think you'd see I'm trying to think how to describe it visually
so for Heath, at least he sees the honeycomb. But the stronger this
vision gets, and the more it appears, and the more definite it appears
in front of him, he feels that, Like you say that, Paul,
and that's that feeling in his cord. It's not a bad feeling,
almost like a feeling of strength. And for him, it's almost like the
honeycomb fades away and he sees some kind of representation of space, almost like
a like a very translucent overlay. Doesn't necessarily recognize any of the parts of
it, but he feels like the honeycomb he is seeing he can relate to
something outside of the firmament. He doesn't know how, he doesn't know even
where to begin doing it, but it means more to him than just a
honeycomb. It's an actual thing that is starting to grow in his brain.
Like get him in front of a star chart and he might be able to
pick a yeah, Like it's almost blind. He doesn't know what quadrant this
is, what line it's in, But I can point on a map and
just say start there. I think I might. I might know where this
gold lion is. How's that possible? How is any of this possible?
How are we inside your memories right now? How are you making a giant
fucking honeycomber pea? I don't know. Do I recognize him? Was he
part of FIE's Prime original group? Heath? Yeah, yeah, okay,
okay, Well where do we go? Gold Lion is said, when you
think about gold Lion, think about this, Honeycomb, what do you think
Fie sees in her head? Is gold Lion as gold Lion? I don't
actually ever see his face. I see the mac that he's and I think
i'd I'd have to double check because I don't want to misspeak, but I'm
pretty sure it was. It's read. I know that, and it's a
model I haven't really seen before. It's heavily modified, and it's an assault
mech and it's mostly what I has not been redacted from Fie Prime's memory of
him and what he used to And I can hear his voice on calm sometimes,
but that's it. I don't know what he looks like, Heath,
You recognize the mech? How strongly do I recognize it? Is it like
I recognize it? But roll me a flag D twenty please? Okay?
Uh you don't know where from. And is Effie just describing this to us
or is that appeared? It appears? Yeah, and I'll just point at
it and then look at Effie. Yeah, that's that's gold Line gold Line.
Yeah, it's the Baylor by the way for those listening. And if
you want to visualize that, that's what what he is in a modified version
of that. I know that Mac seen before. I can't quite put my
finger on it. It looks like something I don't know. It looks like
a like a Harrison line, but it's it's heavily modified. But I mean
that's e Fie. You know she was part of that weird unit. So
they probably all got special MAC set up. All right. Look, I
don't know what's going on in here. I don't know where the fuck we
need to go or why we even need Why do we even have to find
gold Lion? Well? Wait, where have you seen it? How do
you know it? How do you know it? I'm so confused, I'm
so ridiculous. Maybe we're all more connected than we thought. Wow, well
you know gold gold Lion, and I know Fie Prime who was with gold
Lion. He recognizes gold Lion. That's that's three of us. Maybe there
are more connections than we're realizing. Do have any connection whatsoever, like,
have any knowledge of gold Line? Nope? Why are you start king for
us to find him? Lisa does that thing where she just kind of like
looks really surprised for a second, and she she kind of like crosses her
crosses her arms across her chest. She gets in that like defensive position immediately,
and she says, mhm, it's just someone that Fie and I know
that's not true. I think we've passed the point for any of us to
be coy, don't you. We've learned that lives are literally on the line,
and sometimes it's ours with long bass secrets. It's important, Elisa,
h h. I didn't exactly have a normal life. I grew up in
a facility from when I was younger, old lions like my father, like
your father. It was like the only way I could get out of the
facility. It's your family. I think that's good enough for me. Who
was he other than your family? Well, he was a part of Fie
Prime's unit, which means we probably don't know too much about him. Probably
in the unit at sixteen seventeen, like fi Prime. Do you think we
could trust Fie Prime? I don't know. I've never thought about that.
And why do we think we could trust Goldlin? Of course you can trust
him. Why wouldn't we trust them to be honest? Well, this is
different you and d had. You know they have their end goals. This
is a person that's some big government. I'll forgive me for being careful.
Do you think they know where the blue Ryan is? What the blue orion
big giant mec? I don't know what that is materializes up? What is
that? I think this is what they're looking for? I I don't know.
I just I I feel like I have to hurry and I have to
get there before they do something bad will happen. That reminds me we've been
in here too long. We're going to get noticed. We need to go
coming, Effie. We need you. Yeah, maybe just for a little
while, that's good enough for me. We've really missed you, really,
of course we have. Well maybe not why, but it's because he doesn't
know. But I'm sure when he gets his memories back you, you'll really
miss you. He's always had a hard time expressing his feelings. Yeah,
he kind of has has any Well, it's okay. Maybe I can uh
have a fresh start, reintroduce myself, get a new first impression to mention
of Whyatt? By the way, Elisa like turns into a lobster like skin
flushes deep reds. Just where is Wyatt? Oh? He's uh, he's
not in here. He wanted to get back. Who's gonna like curdle back
in? Can I try to pull him back in? Uh? Yeah,
you can try so from the gab sheet. Yeah, yeah, okay,
Wyatt? Do you resist? Do I know what's happening? Uh, You've
been pulled into the firmament twice before. I think it's a familiar feeling,
like you go like all cold all of a sudden, it feels like you're
submerged in cold water, and you recognize it. I think the feeling,
Why do I need your help? I mean I would definitely go because I
assumed that they if they need me to go in there, there's a reason,
as much as I don't want to. Yeah, as me and Quanta
probably just got back to his office and then he with the door opens,
he like walks in, turns around, and I'm gone, all right,
So that's where I wait a minute were winding him up? Where is everyone
going? Suddenly? Why it shows up? Hey Wyatt? Bloody hell?
Oh thank god you're here. I was quick. I'm getting pretty good at
this right. Well, what is it? How did you do that?
I don't know? You a memory? No, I don't think so.
Why are you a memory? No? I don't think so. It's kind
of hard to tell sometimes though, because whatever I want to happen kind of
happens. So I would want him to be real, so he would tell
me he was real. What what's even happening? Then? Who's this one?
This is Alisa? Oh haha? Whyat I take it you know me
as well? Then? Unfortunately, what do you need Effie? Huh?
Well really, I was just trying to see if you could come in here
and maybe say hello to Elisa, who ah hasn't been around for a while.
I'm gonna look at fucking uh fuck me? Who's in here? Jesus
Christ? A bunch of people I don't know? Yeah? Really here?
Yeah, she's probably standing in the corner watching. Can I look at her?
Unvirtually? Yeah? What is her face doing here? Because I'm surrounded
by a bunch of people I don't know? And I don't know what what
is happening. I think she's kind of like on the outer edge of the
scene, kind of watching, and she'll probably just wave at you and then
nod like that, hello, or it's okay, because I know we're trying
to coax you back. But yeah, right, uh hello Elisa? What
yep? Okay? So what's the plan? Then? God, where do
we begin? You have a plan? Uh? No, do we?
God? We're looking for a thing, a zero blue onion. Yeah.
I was here for that part. Ryan, this right, Yes, I
recall, and you know where it is. Well, I think maybe if
we all try here in this place, I think we're connected. I don't
want to be connected with wired. What did I do to you people?
Oh? Please? Uh? Okay? Well is he acting this way?
I said? His mind was wiped? What? Yeah, like I said,
our minds were wiped. He hasn't come back. His mind was wiped.
I mean, if you just wanted to just yell it, fine,
we could do that too. My mind was wiped. My mind was wiped.
So if we know each other, I'm afraid I don't remember. Why
are you acting like a person now? Though? What does that mean?
They wiped his personality too well, Nita mission. The memories that made him
that way are gone really weird, Like watch this? Why what's your favorite?
Uh? One of those things? Animes? Animation? What's your favorite
animation? I don't know. I haven't watched one in a long time when
I was a kid. What see see see? What do you want to
do? You want to smoke? Uh? No, no, no,
I picked that habit a very long time ago. I think he's gonna like
just imagine a pack of cigarettes just flicking up to his mouth. There's nothing
there, just smoking's bad for you. Oh, come on, Effie,
little help. Effie, are you going to be joining us? We have
some things that we uh we we could use your help. I walk right
up to him, and I'm inspecting him. What did they do to you?
They wiped whatever memories I have of I suppose some time that I had
with all of you. As far as I'm aware, you were all involved
in some sort of strange corruption. It goes all the way up to the
top. Do you remember, Luca, No, I'm aware of what happened.
Very sorry for your loss. It's your lost two I don't remember yet.
Perhaps sorry, we're sort of the same in that way. I guess
I was just trying not to remember in here. Okay, I'll come with
you, Okay, so maybe we can discuss things back on the serif plan
out what we're gonna do, how we're gonna find this zero blue Ryan's a
real world intel like in the already just starting to do that. In the
background, I look over at Gab over my shoulder, and I remember her
saying that she wasn't sure what was going to happen if I decided to pilot
again. Uh, And then I think mid sentence, why it is still
speaking? We're just out of the firmament again. I mean it mightbe we
could maybe form up into groups of two, and that's uncomfortable. You're back
in doctor Zephyr's office, however, Uh, you don't see doctor Zephyr there
at first? Would I be wearing the clothes that I had in the firmaments?
You were wearing the stuff that you had before you went to the firmament,
which was nothing. Yeah, Oh okay, here, okay, I'm
assuming my clothes. Oh god, do I have it? Are there any
clothes? I'm standing in front of the door. You're in the office,
so you you took your clothes off before you you did your you did your
you know, uh clothing and ultra high speed like only Stu Flanagan can do,
as if everything we're attached by velcro I think I have, Like my
pants are fine, but my shirt has been ripped apart. All right,
Okay, did a Lisa not come with you? Re? Lisa's not here?
Yeah? Who does Alisa belong to? What do you mean? Which
one of you? What do you mean? Well, which one of you
does she did? Which one of you does she live inside? Which mind
is she from? No? No, no, she's a real person.
Oh well so are so? Are they right? So is Michael and gab
A? Well well yeah, well yeah, I stole. What I meant
to say was they are their own separate person somewhere else. That's why I
thought, yeah, this is I didn't use I thought that inside the tube
nearby, doctor Zephyr has sort of geared himself up and is inside the tube.
I'm going to go fucking crazy if you people don't all stay in reality
in the same room, I'm going to start. I'm gonna, I'm gonna,
I'm gonna lose it. Sorry, carry on, I then can I
can I eye twitch just visibly, like for the first time, like one
of those anime like just stay in the same room, let me take control
of the situation. Sure, oh good, let's poke. Why so he's
going to come back? So, uh, doctor Zephyr, you've gotten into
the tube. You're all sort of like hooked up. Everything's you know,
activated before you got in. How many sessions have you been inside the tube?
It's uh, it's hard to count. He has been. He has
been in the tube. Uh is It's almost a second nature to him.
This is the best and most comfortable way that he can access the firmament.
Okay, so as you start like floating around in there, what's your sort
of happy place that you go to? The happy place that he goes to
is not his. He has accepted this. The ccees that he the the
events that he has so much that he has also just accepted these memories as
his own. The happy place that he has is back on in a village
and he is sitting with three children and he's weaving something with them. One
of the children to get a get a splinter, and then he gestures over
to have them scoot closer towards him and he helps them pull out the splinter.
And the moment that the kid looks up at him and smiles and then
he smiles back, that's the moment that he goes to, Okay, please
roll a flat D twenty for me. Yeah. When you've accessed the firmament
in the past, and while you're in your mac, you've had sort of
this limited control of gravity around you. Everybody that's in doctor Zephyr's lab as
you're having this conversation and you see doctor Zephyr in the tube, a slight
smirk, soft smile, each of you starts to feel significantly lighter. Ah,
the turn off, the end grab the are they well, this is
new they normally announce it. We're not high again, are we again?
Oh yeah? Oh yeah, remember I don't want to remember. I had
a bad memory about that. My feet feel weird. Oh no, seven
for a second on you like suit like Stu's face like quickly sour if there
were actually an anime. One hundred percent every time we just zoom in on
his face with that song and then immediately caught back to him just standing there.
He's just breathing heavily. Yeah, all of you start to float.
Whoa, so do the objects in the lab? They just start like floating
around. I'm looking at the sign that says whether the official gravity is on
or off or whatever. If we have anything like that, it's it's uh.
I think the way that they do this is uh airplane light. It's
like floating. Well, yeah, there the ship is moving, so like
uh, backwards is basically like moving forward. So yeah, backwards is like
the ground, so like towards the back of the ship is floor. Are
there any wooden chairs I can grab onto? No? Unfortunately, now fuck
he will try and grab like a bit of desk or like a panel on
the wall, anything, just to steady himself. Mm hmm. Alright,
well, anyone know anything about any of these machines. I'm not sure if
it's the machine. All of a sudden, you all like hit the ground
hard, you get significantly heavier. Oh ship, is it you? It's
like hard to blink? All right, there's a lot of g okay,
god, he is this? I mean, is this like a vhoment thing?
Did you take that in? I didn't do this? Oh god,
yeah, gotta make the best of these situations. Stu starts doing push ups.
Oh god, it's like you've got it's like you've got three large people
on your back. Is that like is the tank activated if that makes sense,
Like is it on doing what the tank would normally do. I don't
know, if you know. There's just lots of like beeps and boops and
lights and stuff are on, and he's floating in there. I mean,
you can see doctor Zephyr floating in there with the smirk on his face.
He just got his eyes closed. Can I pull him back here? Pull
him back here? Here? Uh? I don't expect that I can,
but I want to try, honestly. I want to see how far this
rabbit hole goes through the firm and spit back here. Yeah? Yeah,
I think you try m hm, And it doesn't feel like there's anything grab
onto. Okay, I don't think I can flag game when you just missed
that's the firmament. I've been I've been thinking of something in one Giant Claw
game. I don't think I can. I can't bring him back because he
didn't go well that makes sense. It's not my happy place he went to.
He went to his own, so he's in charge. Does that mean?
I don't know? Okay? I mean should we just we each have
our own space inside the firmament. I guess that's where I was. I
was in mind, and it makes sense. He's in his so he's controlling
who's there. Right. It looks so weird now, Wyatt, thank you.
You're like not sweating or anything. Uh, all right, well it's
good to have you here. Can't say that the old team new team didn't
have the benefits. But yeah, okay, can we wake him up?
All that? Was that going to cause him to have like an embolism or
something. Knock knock on the tube, knock on the tube. Doctor Zephyr,
you're sort of taken out of your happy place and all the gravity starts
to return to normal, and that's where we're going to take our break.
Yeah. Sorry, we're way over. But there were a lot of good
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I got powers. You don't want to know what they are though? What
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zero Blue Oriyan. We returned. Sorry for the extended break, but everyone
had to peace so badly the whole time. Yeah, just the entire time.
We return as doctor Zephyr. Uh. You're sort of broken out of
your happy place and you're once again floating in the tube. You see Gabriella
on the outside, sort of like knocking on the on the glass or oc
Yeah, Debriella, every yeah, it's it's me, Affie. Do you
want to come out now? Right? All right? Is everyone is?
Everyone all right, I was. I tried to go and find you.
Yeah, no, we're here now. I think you must have been going
just as we were coming back. Oh right, like two starships in the
night. All right, give me one second, and he climbs out,
tells off. So where what happened? Uh? Well, I call here
and then you weren't. I'm glad you back by the way. Well,
it's nice to meet you again, to meet you, Yes again, I
think we've met I don't. It's hard to say, but yes, now
it's nice to formally meet you again. I think I didn't stick my hand
out awkwardly. So everyone, all right, Well where did you all head
off to? I mean, did you? Were you in the firmament?
You were here, and you weren't I assume that's where you went. Yes,
yeah, we were in my happy place sort of. We were in
my space, your happy place where where I've been. Yes, they came
to me. I had control over it. I brought them to me where
we were before? Uh huh your happy place? Uh huh right? Yes,
right, yes, okay, and you had full control. I'm sorry,
I'm guid you're right, and I'm glad you're all right. I just
never stopped working and he grabs one of his tablets. Everything's a mess,
by the way, it's not where you left it. He goes to grab
one of the tablets and then he kind of oh, and he like picks
up from under the chair. This happens. I just I misplaced some things.
So you are your happy place. This is this is where we were
before. Yeah, I think, I mean I think so what but what
was what? What is it? What is it? What does it consist
of the space? Yes? Uh, well whatever I wanted to She maybe
like looks around for a second, kind of a little embarrassed, and then
looks back to the dock. Uh. Sometimes we're at the mess hall all
having lunch, and you know, sometimes we are saving the world as a
team. And yeah, sometimes it's other stuff interesting all right, but I'm
glad you're here. And it kind of rushes it. Do you know you
could do that? Doc? Do what the gravity thing? Wait? You
think it was him? Oh yeah, yeah, didn't we think it was
him? I didn't know. I just uh, I am practicing the furmament.
If that's why I have the tank here. It is the best way
that we can well, we believe it's the focal point of the firmament,
and having all control is through the prismatic lenses and also the So you can
only do it in there, yes, because he can do it out of
there. He can do it out of there, and what the fuck he
can do? Yes, I have noticed that. It's been quite remarkable myself.
Yes, well, this is fucked. We need to come out of
a plan. Well, we supposed to be hunting some lion or lion.
Yeah, either red lion or blue oryon. That's weird. They kind of
rhyme. Well, they just rhyme, that's all that is interesting. Yes,
what's a lion? It's a mech. Another one. It's a call
sign. Actually, I'm a pilot in a mech. His call sign is
red Lion. Ah. Effie Prime was with him on a unit. E
Fie Prime. Yeah, I'm a clone right, okay, so all right,
e Fie Prime is all right. Her name's redacted. I don't know
what her name actually is. Her call sign though, is red Star.
The gold line is pilot in the zero blue Orion. No, no,
no, wait, what okay, let's get our information straight. Yeah,
okay, please, Fie Prime is red Star. That's her call sign call
sign of Redline is one of her partners, but a lot of that information
is redacted from my brain, so I can't actually recall it right now,
Like I can see his face, and then when I go to say his
name, then nothing comes out but its call sign's red Star, And then
I think they're connected to Blue Orion. But Blue Orion is the big giant
mech that I saw, And that's what you think we've got to find before
anyone else does. Yes, definitely have to find Blue Ryan before anybody else
does. I don't know what Red Star has to do with that, but
doesn't matter. Oh okay, does it wait other than your promise to release
it? As nice as that might be. Do we actually need Gold Lion?
Oh? Yeah, I don't know. I don't know. Maybe.
I mean, I'm all forget of anything across the galaxy on another pointless quest,
and it seems that I have some weird fucking link to this. But
it seems like zero Blue Rye might be our bigger problem. Okay, So
we've got to find someone with the code named Gold Lion, and then we've
got to find a mech called the Blue ry and we have no idea how
to do that, and we're not able to search anything because that's going to
flag. I think Heath was able to do it. Right here. I
think I know at least where we can start the gold line. Okay,
it's apparently my magic fucking wonder power. Any think here's me. I get
a I don't know, dog feeling that instinct, magical woo woo powers,
firmament, wonder, bloody skills, I don't know, likes to use finger
guns. Sure, yeah, oh hold no, no, yeah, they're
loaded. It's careful of that, like a cannon or something. I wonder
what happens if you put them together and then new pute. You think it'll
be stronger. I shouldn't do that now. Not not here? Please?
Is our only place if we could actually caller well secure? Okay, so
what's your magical girl power mine? Oh oh, I think I can find
ways that. Look, I don't fucking know why. All right, we
were in the weird black space. If he did a thing, there was
honey and fucking bees, and all of a sudden I thought I might know
where goldline was. All right, you point me to the star map,
I'll put my finger down. That's about it, right, so your center.
Sure, let's go with that. Well off to like the nearest screen
or whatever, or you know, the nearest taverner start pulling up star maps.
So if we know where it is, how are we going to get
there? I mean, one thing at a time. And I am all
fine with you all doing whatever it is you need to do. But as
long as you have the firmment blowing through you or whatever and interfacing with it,
I will be here to research it. Okay, all right, let's
be clear though, dog getting shipped done comes before getting shipped down on your
notepads, pew pew. Fine, good, And I'll still be slipping away
on the star charts to where we're going. Then we'll work out how we
get there. So do I I mean, do you want me to roll
for this? Is it just I can just tune into that feeling and absolutely
give me give me a roll, give me air mom role okay, sixteen?
What are you trying to search for right now? So? I think
all he's trying to do because I mean, he doesn't even know how this
works yet. He trying to just get back to that sense that he had
in the firmament. And I think, you know, he probably will once
he's up at the I'm imagining like a you know, a kind of a
console and he's got these star maps up, just sort of taking that second
to close his eyes and try and sense what he felt in the firmament and
like visualizes that honeycomb again that he saw and tries to get that sense of
the poll again, and then he'll basically just let his fingers like wander over.
It's like someone read like reading tea leaves or bones. Like, he
just lets the fingers move as they do with whatever he picks up. If
he wants to tap down on a specific system or a star group or whatever,
he'll just follow that feeling until he feels like he's arrived somewhere. So
you start to think about the honeycomb stuff. Yeah, okay, you point
to a spot further into Harrison Armory space, also known as the Purview.
It would indicate the yellow pin on the map, So I think his finger
will wander to there and I'll just yeah, space, how did you do
that? How does he shoot lasers from his fingers? I don't know,
but it's so cool, all right, Apparently we got something out of this
bullshit all right, well, per view, and what are you feeling now?
I'd give you confidence that this is it. Imagine that feeling, you
know when Jesus feels like a lifetime ago when you had a space you knew
his home, and you pull up to the drive and you walk in through
the door where your keys on the side, and the door closes behind you,
and your body just goes. It's that. It's the closest thing I
can tell you. It feels like, just feels like the right place where
I need to be accimating. So now all we need to do is,
well, I don't know, steal a spaceship, okay, ah, just
to confirm you don't live there? Right? No, why it's not Jesus,
it's not literal, right, yeah, I just I'm sure if you
remember everything. No, it's not Michael's house. He's not even real,
all right, It's just a place I thought we established they were they are
real. Look, I'm not going to speak for anybody else. Michael is
not real, right, He wasn't a person. He never was a person.
He is literally a construct of the U n D they made up.
How do you think that? Because he's been living in my head for the
last few fucking months. All right, that's why you find the archives.
There's nothing about him. It's why he couldn't remember much before he was stationed
on the Zephyr. It's why he's utterly unremarkable in every fucking way. You
don't have to be that harsh. We move on, yeah, I uh
yes, we need to maybe go and speak to the Avalanca pilots. TV
is trusted. They might trust them. It doesn't seem like they've been mind
or at least hasn't. What sorry trevious is my brother? He was?
I know? Yeah? Right? Yeah? Where is he? They get
on? Well, now, by the way, well I don't know where
he is exactly. Can you find him me? Yes, son, aren't
you? I can try. You got to give me that You still got
the stick? Yeah? From a sure, And I will just grab the
stick, catch you one handed, like I never do in real life because
I'm not a super soldier and you have to be a super soldier any sort
of I do whack. I'm a nerd, stereotypical nerve. So yeah,
I just grab the grab the stick and just you know, just run my
sort of fingers over it, just twiddle it over in my hands and just
close my eyes and see if I can do that same ship again. I
don't. I mean, I've got memories of Tivious, so I'll try and
cool up images of Tivious that I remember his voice, the great sense of
warmth I felt whenever he admonished Wyat for something, and just see if I
can get any kind of sense like I did with the honeycomb. Yeah,
go ahead, and uh give me a firmament role. Yeah eight. Uh.
I think when you try to do it, you realize there's like a
horrible gurgling in your stuff and you are super fucking hungry, Effie, so
are you. I'm also very angry at the mention of Tivious, so I'm
going to ignore the big gurgling sound that my stomach just made. No,
I'm just hungry and I just launched the stake back. Yes, that does
remind me. We should probably go eat something. I wanted to pass out
now I do feel kind of dizzy. Actually, okay, you get food,
but you have to remember that you're undercover, Effie, like a secret
mission. Well, yeah, you're going to have to pretend to Gabriella.
Do you think you can do that? Yes? No, I don't think
I can do that at all. Actually, well, if anyone asks you
any questions, just say that you're tired or you need to go to the
bathroom or something, and try and duck out. Okay, don't engage.
If any of the commanders speak to you, just salute, listen and try
and try not to speak. Okay, just let Quanta lead you around.
Oh yeah, I'm starving. God, we've been talking for so long and
going in and out of the firmament like I haven't eaten in Like, yeah,
you haven't eaten in a month. We need to get some food.
Yeah, but have a Teria is quite busy, you know, and you
lot on exactly yourselves or you are yourselves, but not the selves that the
people on this ship think you are. And if anybody sniffs that out,
it could be in a lot of trouble. There's a lot of people on
this ship. Why. I don't know if you know this. Well,
I'm an actor, So all you need to do is just tell me who
I was before, A very good one and I got this. Yeah,
just be you none of the f a essence, Yeah, just kind of
I don't even know what that word means. Don't be over the top.
You are a you're a good soldier, you're top gun. Give me a
little more. What's my motivation? Finger gun? Yeah? I don't use
them. My motivation, come out motivation is to just do what everyone says
and keep your head down. All right? Okay, what do I sound
like? Like that? But again less exuberant, less over just ahi,
god, how are you? Ah? Less? Here are you? Yeah?
Maybe not like a robot though? Yeah? Okay, so now like
a robot, so more like a hi, how are you? Yeah?
I guess like that again, trying not to maybe don't speak to anyone.
We're going to go to the cafeteria. We're going to get some food.
We're going to eat it quick. Then we're going to move out. I
don't think we should be moving around. Well didn't you mean? That's my
motivation? Same? All right, you're a good soul. You you'd make
a terrible director. Why the hell did I recommend you to be a director?
You need to give her some motivation. Well, you're a lancer pilot
you uh generally, I mean everyone just follows the rose. That's all you've
got to do. Just follow the rose. Don't do anything outside of the
rolls. If anyone asks you to do something, you do it, especially
if they're in command. And that's it, all right, simple as that.
Yeah, boring, be boring, that's your motivation. Boring, boring,
boring. Yeah, you've will be in a real hood, by the
way, to hang out with. Just just say you read People's magazine.
Me, yes, I read everyone. Yes, everyone will instantly know you're
boring. Okay, I read People's magazines. Yes, here we go,
got it. Then we're gonna get some food, and then we're gonna split
up. I am really hungry, like I could have maybe four trades quite
like people can't oh fuck me all right, keep you right down time space
like this, but then I can't really see where I'm going. Keep you
right down as a ton of fries. Just don't do anything. Just we're
gonna go straight to the cafeteria. If anyone speaks to you, just say
hi, Hi, I'm getting to keep hungry. I read People's magazine.
Hi, People's mag Hi, how are you? I like People's magazine?
And then they won't talk to you. I am hungry, got it,
I got it? Perfect? Ah? Okay, are you ready? Yeah?
All right, yes, sir, mister Watts, sir, that's it,
that's all right, correct, Okay, fun time laid on and uh,
I'll keep an eye out, make like a finger gun at Stew and
blow on it and wink at him. I'm also going to make a finger
gun, but I think I should have a role for it. I don't
think. I don't think I should be doing this all the time. I
think that, yeah, yeah, sure, go ahead and give me a
firmament roll. I will say that you've got uh, I think one difficulty?
All right? Fu yeah, fuck now, stop doing that. That
is so cool, dude, that's so cool. That's so cool. Can
you do it again? Can you do it? No? Do not do
it again? For fox sake, You're all gonna fucking die. Do you
want to fucking die? I know it is so cool, like the just
when you threw that knife in the cafeteria and it was like it was perfect.
I mean, that was like thousand times better that came out of his
finger. Well, it's it's cool, but it also sucks. I can't
do finger guns anymore. I'll kill someone finger pinkies. Maybe finger pinkies that
maybe that'll be fine. I think this is safe. You notice the way
that you're even more hungry. Now, stud can we go now? Question,
I'm very hungry. Do I have the ability to fucking lock doors?
Can I? Can I set something as as like a higher security level than
them tech on doors and ship because if it has if it just has a
basic lock, like you can just lock the door, like if it's if
it's your, you're you can't change any security levels basically, right, you'll
stay in here. I'm going to get you some food. Oh please hurry,
I'm so hungry. Can you also bring me some people magazines? I
want to get into character. Well, I'll see what I can do.
Thanks, Uh, hey, come with me? Is there anything to eat
here? I'm literally going to eat my own my own I usually have a
store here. But you have been just looking past? Can you maybe hurry?
Why? All right, I'm on the way. Have have come with
me. Listen. If anything happens, don't split up, okay, stick
together? Would you ask someone to bring me a new clock clock? Yes,
there's a hole and it's like sparking like, I mean, yeah,
do you need it? But I would be nice so I would know when
I would have to send my reports to Yes, I would need it.
Thank you to who are you sending reports to you? I still have to
do my job here on the on the sheriff, right, okay, fine,
yes, I'll say if I can get a clock and picks it up,
well, I mean, look on the bright side, it's a wristwatch.
Now, i'd literally please please be quick, please. I don't know
why I could, all right, have a good one. So why you
go by yourself? No, I'm taking haith. I don't go anywhere by
myself anymore, all right, di sife kids. As I leave the room,
okay, doing a finger again, just to say if I cause trouble,
I think as they're leaving, it almost does. But he's like,
hey, I'm holding the I'm holding the clock up like it's a watch shield.
And I'm just kind of definitely playing this two and very happy to be
back. And that's probably it. As you guys are walking out, we
probably played frisbee with the Yes, absolutely, I love how you imagine that
it's an analog like old school clock eleven thousand years from now. Got a
sun dial vintage and it was way overpriced. All right, So Heath and
Wyatt, you head off. I assume to the cafeteria, the messole,
okay, as soon as the vending machines on the ship anyway. Uh actually,
I mean that's kind of what the messhole is. I mean you kind
of like choose a uh like an order, and it'll print it out for
you horrifically. Like it's not good luck carrying all of that back. Boys,
Hey, this fundex stretches. Okay, so you head to the messole.
I think by now lunch would be over. It's probably not busy.
Good. I'll just start collecting like slabs of mate and just arranging them on
a tray or something to bring back or whatever. If we have those.
It's just grabbing one of everything. I don't know, just seeing stuff being
like one of them, one of them, one of them. Just trying
and I'm trying to get quick. There's probably like a couple people in here.
Let me see. Do either of you have a skill related to perception?
Oh I can't read a situation, but M don't think so in this
case, you can give me both of you can give me flat D twenties.
I am okay. You can hear that there's some people chattering about Uh
yeah, I saw that. Flannagan guy running around the hallway naked. Did
anybody else see that? Yeah? I was. I was switching my shift.
I was just about to uh come here, and I saw him.
He was running some kind of joke or a prank or something. I don't
know. That's not good. Let's just get off ship and get out of
here. I'm confused about new people. Really, if you want to discuss
this now, yeah, I do want to leave it now, all right,
what it's really not that complicated. One of your boys died. As
like Heath is pushing buttons on the machine like you can see the printer like
extruding the protein moist like protein slab like yeah, lands on like a receptacle
of some kind, and then it's just like sloughed off into a plate.
He thought of absolutely, by the way, grabbed Like if there was some
kind of bar on his way around, he would have grabbed it and be
eating one while he's also gathering up food for everyone else. It's like,
tell fool, Yeah, yeah, one of us was murdered. Really seems
like it fucked everyone up. I think would fucked us up more was what
the und decided to do with us afterwards. Right, And they're going to
do it again. How the fuck do we get their heads in the game?
What the UNDI or the rest of us, you're lot, they're fucking
around. This isn't some game, some fuck around, This isn't training,
This is it. You realize you're the odd one out now Why you're the
one whose head isn't in the game? What are you talking about? Well
me, Fi Stu, our brains are back to what they were before,
fucked up as they might have been. It worked, we survived, We've
fought together, We've survived together, We've come a long fucking way. You're
the one who isn't part of the team anymore, not the other way around.
And you have no idea how much this fucking pains me to say it.
But we need the prickback original wyat because that's the only fucking way we
work. And they fucked you up just as well they did the rest of
us. You dont stick out like a fucking sore fum. I've got green.
Yeah, he's running around naked shooting off finger guns. Quanta is more
interested in his fucking research. I don't even understand whoever he is. She
seems like a six year old. Yeah, She's a six year old with
a massive fucking rifle and knows how to point it right. But we don't
need that. We need him keep their heads down. We need them to
follow orders, We need them to look like they're oring normal. One of
these I point at everyone else in fucking und uniforms. It'd be surprised what
they capable of, you know, But it looks like they're going to get
themselves sucked up, all right, And whatever the fuck happened to you a
lot before, it looks like you already fucked up once. So maybe it
is good that I'm the odd one out. I guess time's gonna tell you
know, a little pissed, best angry you even know who you are?
I know who I am enough, Okay, you know what they want you
to know? What? Oh are you in fucking d They want me to
think I'm some sort of blanc a pilot, some ensign on this ship,
and I don't know what the fuck their goal is. We've got a new
one now, and it's break us the fuck off this ship, find this
thing, deal with it, and then I'm going to find my brother,
and then hopefully I'm going to fuck off into the outer reaches of space,
never see any of this again. That's my fucking plan. That's my goal.
I don't give a ship with the und want anymore. It's a sound
plan, right, we ain't going to do it. There's this bunch of
clowns. Evil Why as clowns have saved your life and my life, we
might be fucked up. Stew might be the biggest diva on the any planet
he finds himself on, and if he might be a toddler who's escaped.
But we work right. U and D could pick any of these fucking drones,
make them a lance, a pilot, send them after the fucking ascendancy,
whatever they want to do. But for some reason, they picked us
exactly the way we were. And the only reason they turned us into these
mindless, fucking idiots is because we started having some kind of autonomy that they
didn't like, that didn't serve their purpose. There is nothing wrong with us
exactly as we were. There's a reason prison picked us. Aldier even remember
him, Ah no, he wouldn't. He recruited us, He put us
together, and the anarctook him as well. You can't deny, but you
are wiat all right? You might enjoy who you currently are, it might
even feel better than the old white, but it's not you. It's fake.
It's false. And everything you do from this point on till the day
you wither away on your little backwater planet wherever you go to and you're all
happy and done, will be a lie. And if that's a right with
you, then you go ahead and do it. But don't expect any of
the rest of us to forget who you really are. I'm just trying to
keep you all alive, okay, lie or not. If you're dead,
I've got to live with that on my fucking conscience. And I don't fancy
that, all right, trust me, why, every single one of us
knows what we signed up for. Every single one of us should be dead
a thousand times ago. If any of us die, it's on us every
time we step into that mech. If we die, it's on us.
You worry too much about keeping us alive and not being who we need you
to be. That's what I'll get us killed. We need the prick who
jumps around in his mech between the firmament, stabbing anybody, the guy who
lies a cigarette while his mech's on fire. Because Aari, that crazy shit
works a fuck an idiot. Oh he is. He's a complete fucking idiot,
but we all are. It's kind of the point. Look, it's
not for me to tell you what to do wide or who to be.
I'm a miserable, bored, angry, pointless smirk who isn't even that good
at being a MRK. And I'm out of all of us. Should not
be here, nor do I particularly want to be. But you need to
be at peace with who you are. And you can't tell me there's not
a splinter in your brain that tells you this isn't right and you're not right.
You want to leave that in there, that's on you. Let's go
back, all right. If you say out and trust them, I'm gonna
trust them. You can trust all of us, whether you remember you can
or not. I think I just head on out. Yeah, And I
imagine i'd like take like a nearby spatchelor or a knife and just like the
end of whatever is slopping out currently and heap up on the plate. You
just have a button, you just like sever the sever the paste, whatever
the fuck it is, the slab, sever the slab. Yeah, and
uh, it just it just kind of, you know, flops onto the
plate you've got, you guys are loaded up with with different stuff, and
like you walk right past the sign that says please do not take food outside
of Yeah at this point, yeah, yeah, straight out little. I
feel like mine, Mine has like all these meat slabs, like arranged all
nicely with some extra things on it, and his is like all these like
all this random stuff. But the main difference is that his is all covered
in nuts sauce and mine isn't. Yeah, yeah, absolutely, I'm march
back with it though, Like on the way, I'd imagine like you might
even make a comment on exactly that, like you should get to log this
stuff. It'll ingratiate you to the team. I fucking hate that stuff.
Yeah, well get used to it. It's kind of a sponsor, right
who knows, but look some sins India. I don't say anything, Just
keep marching ahead, Okay, you head back to the to the group.
I think you come across what's the scene inside the the lab here you guys
playing like monkey in the middle. I think I would like to think that
I tried to get the doc to use his power the way STU can outside
of the tank, like to lift us up with the gravity because Sue can
do it. You can do and that's awesome and you should totally try to
do that. So I'm like ready for it. I'm like like in a
jumping position, like, let's do it. Doctor Zephyr, roll me a
flat ty twenty with one difficulty. Please, what do you decrease the gravity
or increase it? I think he tries to decrease it, but he increases
it. Okay, So yeah, as you walk in, Sue's like get
ready to jump up. Just squats all the way down like kind of hauled
the food up like just face plants. Yeah, the food starts to just
smear onto the plate. Yeah, I don't know. I'm not sure if
it's working. Yo, it's working. Yeah, that's real bad. I'm
sorry. I'm sorry. Really dizzy when it take out? Oh me,
hurry up. Oh god, I think I just walk over grab the tray
and I just drop my head into it. I'm picking out too, like
I'm so hungry, Like I don't care what it is. It's I'm just
clabbing it. By the way, doctor Zephyr, after you use your power,
you noticeably feel yourself get even more hungry as well. Yeah, he
goes and grabs this tablet, and then he goes, well, let me,
he chucks on the cot and then he comes over and sits next to
you wall and starts shoveling food into his face mechanically. Just so Chat knows
and so that the players know. Here, I've given each of these,
each of the players a special ability with the firmament. However, what you
are experiencing now is the limits of your powers. You can basically only use
them a certain amount of times per day. I'm not sure how many just
yet, but it's not that many. Sleep and food is required. You're
all who have used your powers today feeling extremely hungry and extremely tired. I
missed nutsauce. Ah, this is so good. I've missed you. Yeah,
just face plants, right. You have got to be fucking kidding me.
I think they were all being along, very kind of them though,
But didn't you a right of course? Dalli ship that would I'm gonna probably
pass out right here, Jesus Christ, Okay, you do that right?
Maybe just another one of these. I'll just stand here and I hope that
no one comes by. Uh, I don't have any of your who are
magical girl abilities? Oh right, this fish mills really weird. I'll eat
something though, m all right, wake me up if anything happens, all
right, sure. Also, maybe when we're asleep, you can go get
a clock because I forgot that You're right, I did, I'm sun I'm
sorry. Everyone just kind of passes out, like I reel like one of
those like just best chairs into the middle of the room. Just sit down,
cross my arms. You're kind of like left alone here with your thoughts
as everyone's passed out. There's like food that they've kind of spilled on themselves.
What are you thinking when right now? And why why? It is
super confused and he doesn't understand why what how these people they're the worst.
It's so confused. He seems to be the only capable one, but he
just doesn't seem to give a ship. Two of them are like crazy.
Quanta is kind of the only person who's the same as me. But also
he just doesn't seem to have the the the fire under his ass to escape,
which is crazy to me because he knows that, you know, they
all know what's going on, but whyatt is freaking out about it and doesn't
understand clearly something happened to them. They're not motivated by that. They just
want to fuck around, and he doesn't understand why they're not incredibly afraid of
everything that's happening around them. And he's also I think, very scared that
we're all gonna die or be re caught or whatever. You know, he
really wants to get on with this thing and try and get everyone out and
get them safe. He's got a looming and impending sense of a need to
get these people to safety that's stronger than he's had ever on a mission or
doing training and stuff like that. It's just that's it. I think it's
just this desperate need to try and get everyone to safety. And it's not
necessarily get on with the go find the Blue Oriyan. It's not necessarily like
escape or take the ship. It's just this singular focus and that's the motivation,
as opposed to the or the guns. But he's set aal bloody systems
so he can't go anywhere. So he's sitting down in the middle of the
room, and whoever wakes up first, he's gonna probably grab them. That's
all it is. I think he's just sitting there. Okay, you sit
down surrounded by these people that are seemingly incapable of completing anything or doing anything.
To your stand I do not believe that they are answer pilots at all.
Maybe Heath, okay, you're you're probably like just hearing their general sleep
sound and whatnot. Uh, Stu is talking about someone named Riah again.
Yeah, Stuve's got a sock in his mouth. He he hasn't got on
his right He at some point got a sock in his mouth. In sharp
contrast, Effie is Bryan, She's talking about this Luca person again. Luca,
I'm sorry, Oh no, wait, and it's a bit overwhelming with
all of this stuff that's going on with you and your current situation, you
just kind of want everything to be simple and you just want to do your
job and do it well. Do you think about Tivous at all? For
sure? I I think the thing that I'm most concerned about with Tivious is
that the sonar, which very quickly found someone who he didn't even know he
knew found them, but was unable to find Tivious, who he claims to
have met. Broll me a flat D twenty with two difficulty all right,
that's the difficulty. Hey, fifteen, some bleed starts to happen. You
start remembering bits and pieces of conversations with Tivious from the different mind wipes back
in Carracan space. Yeah, you called me in. I was the only
way you were going to get out of here and again inside the USB facility.
Look, just try and make everything go smooth, all right, private
Slight, Just remember the picnic story. Please remember the picnic story. You're
jolted back to reality as your communicator starts to have some weird feedback on it,
and you think you can hear the voice from inside the firmament that girl,
you know her, Elisa. H m hmm what what mm hmmm?
Uh yeah, who is this? Please? And that's where we're going to
end the session today. God damn emotional roller coaster. Good job, everybody,
Good job. Did you just put on the party blants over music for
me just as much? Oh no, I hate how that whole little mini
pilla fun arc was also a giant allegory for the entire thing that was coming
up that we didn't know. This was traumatizing for me. Yeah, every
time every time I play that, I think I imagine why it up on
top of the table. Luca is holding really really good. But yeah,
good, good, good session, everybody, good session. Let's do some
shout outs and wrap everything up. Uh and snuck up on us there because
we had such a late break. But yeah, it's it's time to call
it good on the episode today. So let's go around the room. Let's
do some shout outs. Peebe, would you be so kind of starts?
Yes, absolutely. Hi. I'm Pumpkinberry and I played Gabriella and Fi for
you today and you can find me over at twitch dot tv, slash Pumpkinberry
and Twitter at the same handle. I'm currently playing through Corona Trigger for the
first time ever and that has been quite the ride. I'm gonna be playing
more of that actually this evening, which normally I don't stream in the evening,
So if you've got some time you want to come hang out, be
super cool. Also, I see some new people in the chat today,
a lot of new people in the people to join this. I personally think
it's like one of the best times to join, so awesome. It's good
promotional material, but it's a very confusing promotional Welcome in, welcome in,
and uh, yeah, whack is amazing. So somebody's saying, like amazing
gaming there. Yes, he's great. Thank you for the sash whack was
it? That's all I got? Thank you? P me myth Hello,
I'm Mythmatic or myth or cord High. Good to see you all. I
played who almost said I'm playing? I played a Doctor Donovan Zephyr for you
today with the music everyone, there's the music that got me. But yeah,
it was tons of fun. Can't wait to play again. Thanks for
the sessh whack is good. I can't wait for next week. And yeah,
I stream over on my channel as well, Twitch dot tv slash Mythmatic.
You can call me on Twitter as well, where I'm doing a tweet
your Own Adventure where every day I do a little post thing and you all
vote on what goes on next. It's a cool little homebrew world I made
years ago. I'm excited to delve back into it. But thanks for having
me. Can't wait to play again next week, so welcome everybody who's new.
Thank you so much. Jay. Hello, I'm Jay Britain voice actor
and undoubtedly now I have to say a streamer, I'm thoroughly fucking enjoying it.
I can't. I can't. It's too much fun. You can find
me every on Twitch slash Jay Britain currently playing through the Witch to three This
Friday. For some stupid reason, I'm heading back into Alien Isolation VR again,
which just makes me sick to the stomach. It's awful and why I'm
doing it. Was it not bad enough, like now you have to do
VR? Yeah it was. I stupidly went because I was like so naive.
I was like, I'll tell you what, gang, if we hit
the donation goal for a chair that doesn't break my that was your first mistake
in VR. I was like, yeah, okay, great, and now
you're a streamer, they always want you to suffer. Yeah. I learned
that also the hard way. I've learned my mistake now, so I'm never
fundraising anything ever again. But yeah that's me. I'm doing that on Friday.
It comes to high or you know whatever, that's it. Yeah.
I played Oh yeah, I played Heath in case you didn't know, and
I just saw that so was like, love love, love, love love
to the episode. And now I'm just like, I'm going to be on
Twitter like art when when that's us all week though we are pressure them,
don't pressure don't seriously. Yes, they have lie, they have a life,
you know, like, come, it's live. We're just huge fans.
Yeah, just I'm just fumbling. I'm just saying, if Table Story
Community wanted to start a Kickstarter for a comic of Zbo or an animated series,
if Critical Role can do it week Netflix, I don't think that's how
it works. How that works. I think we like people call your people.
We need like three more zeros on our numbers for that. James Cameron
made a movie, so don't worry, guys. I'll call It'll be fine.
I'll talk to my agents. We'll call it People's Choice. I know
that was so good. Yeah, that's can happen now. But that's it.
That's me. Thanks for the great session as always. Way, Yeah,
thank you. Fist Hello, I'm Fist to the Watris and you can
catch me over to twitch in Twitter at Fist to the Waters. I played
Stu Flanagan for you. Really enjoyed this episode. It's so crazy. I
love like this is the only thing that makes me like mondays, Like this
is the only thing that's the only thing a ship. It's Monday, but
wait, oh, God, proven to turn your mondays into something you look
forward to. Always record exactly everyone. It depends on what kind of a
mood wax in if you whether or not it's going to be something you dread
making us feel emotion dooms exactly. But I always enjoy being on here looking
forward to the next episode. That's it. Oh yeah, and my stream
schedule is a little weird. I played g t A. I guess I'm
getting back into that. I might do some farming simulator. I'm all over
the place with my games, but I'm sure I'll get like some sort of
foundation here. Soon you are peeing in the farm simulator. Actually, that
was an idea. I have a character named Billy West and there you go.
I was thinking of doing a farming role kid Jordan farmer Billy whizzed Fields.
I know what you to do, have a cold, well called cold?
What was it cold? Like? Have a Russian farmer who lives next
door. Farm is so much better than farm. I don't hear my farm.
We'll get my It is grand. Oh God, Before before you switch
to I just want to say how cool it was to see stew old stew
back. I don't know if it. Don't know if anybody else thought that,
but it was. It was really wild. I didn't notice it when
you first switched, but having you switch back to Stew, it's very night
and day. Yeah, night and day. It's so amazing. I was
excited to bring old Stew back because I was like, I was, I
was really missing playing old Stew. I just I just really again, don't
tell Stu that that he's Old Stew. Yeah, I got cross feet out
comes back that he has of these everything's used. Man, you guys destroyed
that ship and the blant's over. Yeah, done by like a something space
for her. I'm also happy to see old student Bank, but not in
character at all, because he's like he's just pb TV the whole time during
this thing, they're going to die. The first thing he did was run
down the whole naked. You know, Yeah, it must be wild.
Actually I'm treating the whole thing like we're in prison, right, you know,
like and you cannot be caught by the guards. But everyone's guards except
for us. And the first thing he did was like, hey, I've
broken out. Yes, yeah, it's awful. So it's it's awful.
It's awful to be white, but it's so continues to be horrendous, and
now I feel like it is going to go super saying, we'll see.
I don't know what to say. I have nothing to say about anything.
I guess. Aren't you doing a cool thing tomorrow? Potentially? No,
okay, I think so I'm just gonna go and watch some crowd no trigger,
okay, and go played Noodle's game. Yes, please, Noodles game.
What's Noodle's game? Pumpkin Berry is going to tell you, yeah,
big way for Noodle's tabletop RPG. We can do that, right, that
makes sense. No, it's Falling Stars. It's amazing. It's a Hord
style fantasy game and it's dark and I love that ship. So you can
go to Tablestory dot tv slash Fallen Stars in the discord. Once you read
the little blurb read, actually read it, because there's an instruction of thing
that you have to do. Then once you do that thing, everything will
unlock and you can get all the ship and play test. Yes, remember
it's a playtest, so make sure you have that. Grab the group,
play a quick game with them, and remember the feedback and send it to
Noodle directly. I'll give you his address or just put it in the discord.
That's a joke, because he lives in my house. We have the
same address. Okay, never mind, he lives over there. Oh,
thank you where. I love you. Thank you, Brad. I'm wife
Stephen. I am the gmojoom. I have dragged the players kicking and screaming
through the adventure today. Thank you all for watching chat. We appreciate you
so much. Thanks for being here, Thanks for thanks for the fan arts.
You know who you people are you fin Arders, thank you so much.
And yeah, thank you, thank you so much for the support.
And I love guys. And uh, thank you to Brad, Thank you
Mith, thank you Fist, thank you Jay, thank you PB for being
awesome role players. I appreciate you. Tomorrow we've got Witchcraft and Wizardry same
time as this show. Wednesday, we are hosting a GM a new GM
month panel. I'm hosting that with several companies showing up Atlas Games, Chaossium,
Pelgram Press, Monte Cook Games are all bringing reps and we're gonna talk
about being a game master and how you can get started with a bunch of
different systems and and different memes. So Hopefully you'll check that out. That's
two pm on Wednesday this week, Eastern Sopelly. Hopefully you'll be there.
Otherwise, I don't think there's anything else come up. M H just by
stands bystanders on Thursday Sunday. Thank you everybody for watching. I hope you
have a wonderful rest of your Monday. Peace out, good night everybody.