Arise mianton, Welcome to this unmade gaming production. Join the crew of the
Defiant as they journey through the Third Horizon at the Mercy of the Icons,
trying to understand just what's happening to the mystics in this Coriolist campaign. Void,
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cameras as always. In the bottom ray head corner you will see the incorrectly
labeled corruption bar that'll get fixed too. Welcome to the show, Season four
dot Take us to space. Everything's fucked. The Third Horizon is a hard
place to be. It really is. For Mike and for the crew of
the defiant and big. Also very dark and dark, also very dark.
It was a very dark But right now, the Third Horizon is celebrating a
new cycle. The big annual celebration, a cyclicid as it is known,
is coming round and you're celebrating. But there's a special special celebration on the
special celebration because the crew of the Defiant has, oh, look at all
those gift subs. Because the crew of the Defiant is being honored for their
their their daring, brave down efforts in all the missions that they have accomplished
over the last cycle, including but not limited to, saving valid information from
a ship that was burning up in the atmosphere of the Hammer of the Hamura
Sun, braving a jump through a dark portal to the other side of Tawan
to retrieve information on what actually happened there, refueling on a station with some
stuff that didn't actually get reported, so I guess that's not really well known,
and then coming back to find out who took the missing imissary, and
then to make another daring trip to Uharu and to be the only soul survivors
from a mass attack of the First Horizon. On the Third Horizon, marking
the beginning of what could be a war. These heroes have returned home,
heroes of the Zanithian Way, blessed by the icons. What they failed to
mention to the general public is that they were also kind of shot into space
under cryosleep for two weeks, lots of cryosickness, and most of their bodies
had to be kind of rebuilt, so organically speaking, rebuilt, but rebuilt
nonetheless, and such daring efforts draw the attention of very important people. For
the crew of the Defiant have lots of information, They carry important information,
and they are being honored right now, actually in this very moment. Wow,
wow, that was salty for those listeners at home, for our podcast
friends that missed it. I got quotations from three or four players, three
corners of my tables, quotations around the word honored. I feel like prisoners
is the right word. They have been escorted by the great, smiling and
honored Charity, the best and brightest news reporter in all of the third Horizon,
and tonight she is covering the events of this ball, live, this
banquet, this celebration in honor of these four individuals, and she has escorted
them all the way here to find Malik and Lamara. Unfortunately, she is
needed on stage and is quickly motioned up. The room goes silent as she
takes the stage. There's like a little ting ting ting ting tink glass.
All of you sit kind of to her left. To the right is an
extended table with twelve people at it, which, if you are political in
any way, you know that that's probably representation of the factions. Okay,
individual per and there's their second person that came with them, whoever that is,
she says with a big smile. After she realizes the cameras rolling on
heard and distinguished guests, allow me to introduce the defiant explorers with toe to
toe with the Order's fearsome blockade, the survivors from Ujaru, the icons Chosen,
and the children of the mysteries of the Portals. There's like oh murmur
among the crowd. She puts her hand up and goes silent again. Thanks
to these brave heroes choices to stare evil in the face and say not today.
You are will soon be under righteous Zanithian rule. And there's a few
more murmurs before you stand, champions, Truly blessed by the nine, for
they were swallowed up by the void and spat back out again unharmed. Tonight
we dine and we celebrate Tomorrow we get to work for a brighter horizon together
and she raises a toast. People are like, oh oh, there's like
applause amongst the crown, and she says, so let us begin, and
she gestures to the band, and the band begins and starts kicking up music,
and you get this roar as people begin to enjoy themselves amongst this like
party. And she comes down, flourishing off the stage straight for Malik.
Mike, I don't know if that's you, are Malik looking terrified both,
she says too, a little terrified to be honest. She gestures of private
catering, rolls over to meet you, and she does the same thing.
She says, I have to say the two of you are a dashing couple.
Okay? Is that all you have to say? That would be outstanding?
She says, Well, as the first Horizon's cutest couple, I have
to say, we're gonna need a really, who's your date? My date?
You said? As the couple? Oh, she gestures to you and
Lamara, Oh, okay, what were you gonna say? She says,
once again, this is a private interview with the two of you, the
Third Horizons greatest couple. No, thank you? Prefer that maybe dashing No,
And she's like, what will work on that? And she gestures to
the person who's like scribbling in a pad. Uh, you have to contact
my agent. H Lamara like grabs her hand and she goes, no,
no, no, I'm not jealous, do it. Oh thank you.
You can move into my room if you say no. And Jarny's like,
look at the Third Horizon's cutest couple. Love them, and she says,
I'm coming back for the two of you. Please don't And she says,
now the rest of you enjoy yourselves and I'll come meet you at dessert because,
oh boy, have I got a speech for you. And she turns
and she says, come, let's go meet someone worth meeting. She says
to her assistant as she walks away, Got that one. I really wanted
to talk to her. Oh she's awful. All kind of leans around to
Mirrorns and looks at and says, you know, she's definitely coming back to
talk to you again, right, Yeah, Yeah, I'm trying to figure
trying to figure that one out. Good luck. Thanks. If you bomb
hard enough, she won't come back. Yeah, I got elected. Cutest
couple I saw your interview. But great advice unless I think, well,
some things I do really good and that's making people not want to talk to
Megan. Yeah, oh yeah, this is you know, this is a
complicated question, and I don't want you to be offended. Does your sister
do murder? Uh? As in like higher mercenary work. Yes, that's
in what well, whatever, whatever one you want to frame it as,
Ollie, you know, she considers herself a freelance artist artist, got it?
Uh Uh? I would say she considers herself as a well, someone
a bit more artistic. She can murder artistically. How can we afford that?
I stand up and say I'll be right back, And as I passed
by Lake's chair, I'm like, don't worry, my sister does nice.
I continue and I'm going to go to the bathroom real quick, until like
gets up and kind of leaves the table, and Lamor looks behind you,
like kind of makes eyes, but like, you know, you didn't ask
her to come with you, so she's like she's shoving her face full of
food shamelessly. She is shamelessly eating and enjoying the hell out of like this
spiced wine. And yeah, as is to how going to get fresh air?
Like what is the what is the motivation here? I'm interested? So
Tell is extremely nervous right now. She doesn't trust anyone, especially the people
who are interested in giving giving them deals. You know, life has kind
of taught her not to trust most people, especially if they want to give
you a deal for something. So she's gonna actually try to probably go get
away somewhere, probably somewhere she's already seen, like a quiet corner or something,
away from a bunch of people as as far away she can manage without
fully leaving the party. Okay, and you do. The crowd kind of
dies way as you enter a distanced space, still clean, beautiful corridors.
There are silks and draperies from every wall and ceiling. They cover windows,
which of course project fake outside that shifts every thirty minutes or so. And
right now it's showing the top of a beautiful mountain. You're looking out over
what we might consider the Alps here on earth, but it is just a
vast array of the biggest and largest. It's snowing, and it's beautiful,
and it's almost quiet in an eerie way, as it is the backdrop of
this stupendous party. But as you kind of cross to the bathroom, or
what we considered the bathroom, you enter and nobody is there, and there's
like a moment where the crowd is gone and you can breathe for a second.
You kind of look in the mirror and you hear two sets of feet
behind you, the sound of heels, like tall heels, but wooden heels,
I would say, and they click in and a woman's voice from behind
you speaks, and she simply says, tell Tuma, and she holds up
a finger if you've spin around to see her, to make sure that you
don't say anything. And she pulls something out of a pouch on her hip,
and you see she's in this beautiful crimson like robe. She's belted,
and she pulls it out and she hits a button and there's like a almost
like a radio that like pings out and you hear it and then it disappears,
and she speaks and tell in your ear you hear her in the earpiece.
Malik t mirror Alia all of you hear in your ear the sound of
a woman's voice. The earpiece like activates in some way, and when she
speaks, she says, oh, yes, now they cannot listen in on
our conversations. What the hell tell Tuma it is to meet you? I'm
sorry if I startled you. Oh, she says, my apologies. You
were you don't know who I am. Is there anyone else hearing this?
She says, Well, the rest of your crew should be at least in
on the fact that I am here. I suspect that they at least wore
the ear pieces I give to guess. So what should I call you?
She says, Well, you are seeing my actual face. Your friend met
me the other day, she puts now in to quotations. Met me the
other day. I offered you a chance to join a freelance organization when that
would keep your engineer safe. Mm hmm. We deal in goods and information
outside the constraints of the consortium and the politics of the Zanythians and the Pariah.
He met my best man, of course, good politician, better liar,
and he sure can say just about anything to anyone. Yes, you
seem troubled, well, frankly, I don't trust anyone, and for a
good reason, she says. I am Saudi batter and jesuys. I am
a friend of all, even the most degenerate of sorts. She says,
I see opportunity where others do not. My faction does. In fact,
you've acquired a very interesting team, Tau Tuma, just kind of happenstance.
I suppose some would call that fate depends on who you ask. If you're
asking me, it sounds like either you're a magnet for very talented people or
else. The fates really do have something in store for all of you.
In fact, you have all acquired and uncovered more information in the last cycle
than I have received in many, many moons. I don't want anything from
you other than your loyalty and your hard work. We deal in artifacts,
and has come to my attention that your engineer is sensitive to those kinds of
items. His brother a dealer of information. We could use someone like him
more importantly, I don't care what your brother carries in his head, and
I can promise that the woman and keep her safe. As for you,
tell Tuma, I don't know what it is that you would want tells eyes
narrow freedom. It's all my friend wants to do. What may I ask?
Honestly, I just want to live my life, to be quite frank,
I would like to explore. That's it. Oh no, you're muted
or I can't hear anymore. Check? Okay, weird? What if I
paid you to freely explore and to bring me everything that you find the well
informed who actually have control. I know something is going on, the rumors,
the whispers, and I know that your team can tell me what it
is. Well. Importantly, I've heard that you've also cut the eye of
some very powerful people. Unfortunately, your distaste pleases me. I found that
most of the people in power shouldn't be in power. Power attracts the wrong
sort of people. Some would say and agree with you on that matter,
that are hubrious as a people, species are great Coriolis in the sky.
That all we've done is called the darkness to us? Do you believe that
in a way? What do you want to do about it? I don't
know. Unfortunately, I think the issue is bigger than me. Maybe,
like I said, fate has a funny way of manifesting. When you're done
with this party and you make your decision one way or the other. If
you're interested, you can look for this. She hands you a small piece
of paper like hard paper, has the symbol on it. You can see
it matches one that she has tattooed like amongst her neck. It's also like
now maybe you notice it's imprinted on her belt. And she says, if
you make the choice, they'll lead you to safety and we'll help you get
your ship. Not too worried about getting my ship, you should be.
The man who's holding it hostage is cunning and powerful. Wow, if I
don't choose him, I might need help. She says, Well, one
can only hope, and she boops the button on the lake radio transmitter and
you can hear the like it rings out in all of your ears is it
shuts the ear pieces down, and she says, maybe I'll see you in
the future. Tell Tuma a pleasure, and she kind of nods and backs
out, and you have a moment to meet the head of basically the Dragon
Knights, this underground Persistence group. And she leaves toal nods back and she
leaves you with just a slip of paper. All of you over dinner here
this Lamara does not, and she spends the entirety of that conversation talking to
all of you. She goes, Malik, are you listening to me?
Yeah, you're very pretty. No, she goes, thank you, But
that's not what I was saying. I'm sorry, I get distracted by that.
Is something going on? No, okay, I don't know. You're
lying to her, aren't you. No, I don't know. Molie doesn't
know if something's actually going on. Nothing actually happen in that conversation, so
nothing being weird definitely did prefer it in that conversation. We do not have
confirmation. Why are you talking like that? Wait? What what's happening?
We're not doing a thing, are we? I just wanted to party.
We need to go stealer ship back, Lamara. The thing is the party
is the thing? Okay. All gets up and just kind of just hugs
it and sps with Saudie. I tried to tell you the party was a
setup, but we didn't even dance. We could dance on the ship that
we steal. Promise, will they get you on the ship maybe? Then?
Yes? Fine, fine, fine, And she says, but I'm
eating the rest of this food first. You know what, and he like
slides his plate over. She starts like shoveling it in. And about this
time tow when you return, I imagine to meet the party again. The
music is still going. People are now like deep into their meals, and
you see a crowd begins to immerse towards your table. People have been wanting
to get to you all night, but there is like a small roped off
area that's keeping people like they can see you, but they can't get to
you. But the crowd begins to part. This is where things get interesting
because a man that you have all seen before join us along with a woman
that you have met before. You met Captain Dinharrama, of course, the
woman who is in charge of the Air Force Fleet, the space fleet of
the Third Horizon, and she is walking alongside a Baron Kasar. You remember
his son, oh Kasar, the one who a jin sucked the life out
of basically and ate away at his dreams until he went crazy. Remember that
guy, remember him? Remember him? Cool? Cool? Cool? This
is his dad Cool. There's just a lot of gin incidences around us,
incidents are you of which are speaking? I'm speaking of the incident where remember
he got he was they thought he went mad or had gotten sickened. He
shipped down to cool before all of you. Remember he got in line first
and all that went down because his son had gotten ill. Because our dear
boys, I know, our dear boy little boys and little gin boy went
in there and just ate his dreams, just just supped right out. Really
good about that, Actually, I remember she was very happy, all right,
was so oh my god, that was taste. Don't have to eat
that later, okay, Oh yeah, oh my gosh, I wish someone
would past me a burger like that, right, look at that? Okay,
here we go, so uh yeah. He walks up with this kind
of crowd of people there's and he smiles. Now he's an older man,
he's beginning to get that like hunch that you get in in older age from
just gravity and and he smiles, and he says, I have been looking
forward to meeting all of you. And he like busts past these bouncers that
are keeping your space area cleane, and he moves like person moves the rope
for him. Do y'all say anything or do anything? Why is that?
He says, because I have yet to welcome you to my home. And
he gestures to this beautiful black marble domed space that's like, so there are
people starving on Koua and are on Coriolis, and like this is his home
that's built out of you know, leftovers from the brace that was here before,
species that was here before. And he's like, yes, hi,
I want to I want to gift you a knight. You you shan't soon
forget already done you you honor my name with your presence. If I've heard
great things about your your resourcefulness from my people. I'm gestures to like his
his crew, his crew. Who are you? Ah, he's choking,
it's choking. Well, I just it's not often that I get the funnies
in public. And he says, I am a Baron Cassan and everybody's like,
oh yeah, yeah, I'm sorry, Come again, Yeah, what
is that? What is that? You? Okay, here's the thing you
would all know he is. He's the man who literally owns the monolith that
you're standing in. He is. He's the He's the man. He's the
man. He's the man. More important? Sorry is that? I'm sorry?
Is that is that baron as in a name or as in the title
A baron A B, A R R E, and a baron. Yeah,
that's what I said. First, are you are you a a baron
or meaning you now I don't know who he is. He goes beside the
point, my esteemed commander, and he gestures over to this woman again.
She does not dressed in like a ball gown. She is in her uniform.
She has all of her like pens and flags and stuff like all across
here. She's got the big one at the top for the and and he
says, for the homogeny, it is my great honor to welcome you to
my home. If there is anything that I can get you you you do
not hesitate to ask. And about this time she steps up and she says,
yes, it is good to see you all again. I hope that
you have made a decision. And he says, ah, yes, I
imagine that you have said yes, of course to my offer of providing you
anything that you need, of course, that you work for us and bring
us some information. What sort of information? Well, this is I'm fully
aware of the information that you have on covered over the last cycle. It
has been important in more ways than one, and it is very helpful to
that Emogeny too, be ahead of the curve, especially if it is true
what the whispers say, what do they say? Well, at the first
Horizon is returning. I want our fleet to be prepared to protect the people
of the third Horizon. It is our duty as Synythians to stand strong and
to put our faith in the icons. You know, it's a hotly debated
topic. But isn't the Zelosian armada stronger than yours? To eat their own?
He says, they exploded. That's the reason why it's ever more important
that we stay that the second strongest armada should be Yeah, you know,
I get it, he says. So if you're interested, of course I
can sweeten the pot in any way necessary. But tonight you are my guests,
an honor that only few in the Third Horizon never get to. I
forget to say, well, you're welcome, He says, Oh, no,
no, no, you you are welcome. You said our being here
honored you, So then it wouldn't be also be an honor for us because
we didn't. Tamir just keeps showing his mouth. Malik, what is he
talking about? Who? So he thinks that we should be very excited to
be here because he's a fancy man. I am excited to be here.
One in five of us are excited to be here. Since you have a
beautiful home, she's very impressed. And your food, I don't know who
cooks it, but I'd like to shake their hand. And he says,
well, at least one of you has that Selothian spirit. Well, sir,
I'm not mistaken. You did say if you can make anything easier on
us, And she does want to meet the man who cooked this food.
So if you can make that happen so she can shake his hand. I
can do that. I can do that, I would hope. So,
yes, I can, I can do that. We can do that.
And he like he snaps, and some people like put her off, and
I mean not, but like a minute passes and you can hear like,
oh as a man who is sweaty, he's been cooking all day. He
has food all over him with an apron. He does not look like any
like, he's not dressed to fit the space in any way. And and
he says, ah, yes, our most esteemed cook. What is your
m hmm. I'm not sure that I assure you that we keep a full
inventory inventory of names of people. Do you do you view people as items?
He says, what of those believes that people are commodities? He says,
I brought you the cook, and the cook's like, sir, I
don't need to be rude, but the bread is burning. And then at
that moment, like at that moment that I just we're really sorry. My
crew is one that likes to make, you know, jokes and just kind
of light in the mood. This is all just your joy, is my
joy. And then if she kind of just nudges uh uh and goes,
we are kind of in the control all of many people here. It best
not to antagonize them before we head out, otherwise we might be stuck here
for quite a long time. You see. If they try to kill us,
then the other people who want us to work for them lose, So
it's in their best interest to not let us get killed or imprisoned. The
thing is that would mean that they would get to us to protect us before
they kill us, So you're banking on the fact that they won't hurt us.
Fly five regular people without a ship, five heroes of the Third Horizon,
five dead heroes after the ho Eyes. Well, it depends how is
a critical success for him to hear your whispering. He does, he absolutely
does, and he says, we might as well get back to the dance
floor, and he kind of gestures tell roll in observation, great, oh
no, all right, okay. As they move the cook back to the
space, you see on his neck a symbol that matches the same one that
she had in the bathroom. He's kind of pushed off towards back towards the
kitchen, and he moves a lot faster that direction than he did towards you,
that's for sure. And before Kasar goes to turn and you see that,
of course did Harrama, standing with him, does not, and she
says, sir, we must have an answer from them. We cannot leave
until we know for a fact that they are behind our efforts. For the
first time since this whole thing, Tal kind of breaks her like kind of
look of panic, and she's like to to be very respectful. I'd rather
just not Uh. There's a there's a kind of a quieting from the group.
He recognizes you as the commander of the vessel and this group the leader,
and he takes your word. He takes your word, and he his
face kind of drops for the first time. You see he wears this like
gaudy gold armor that's so unnecessary. And he says, well, enjoy your
time here at the monolith, and he turns and walks away, and Dinharrama
does not. She waits until most of them part. Jesus, you're certainly
this is the path that you choose. There is much to be gained from
the blessing of a man like that. I completely understand. But I really
rather just be my own person and do the things that I want to do
with my crew. We're not really looking to be entangled with government. She
raises her hand like no need to say anymore. She says, well,
rejecting our offer only leaves you alone during the dark days to come, and
that, my friends, is something you do not want to be. Well,
unfortunately, that's how we all have always operated. So the darkness,
actual darkness, the horizon is changing. Good evening, and enjoy the party.
She turns and walks away, and a rather kind of militaristic stance.
She does not bob to the beat of the music in any way, shape
or form. And courtesans come around and fill your glasses and kind of swirl
about giving you all a moment to breathe from the hubbub. They reconnect the
rope, blocking people off again. You can see some of the paparazzi trying
to get close, but the bouncers are really trying to give you a little
bit of privacy at this table. Kyle's got a death grip on Timir's hand
under the table. Well that went horribly compared to what Malik. You could
have at least acknowledged that you knew who he was. Yeah, but that
wasn't fun. Well, not only did I have to reject him, you
also made him look like a fool in front of everybody. So good job.
That's because he was a fool in front of everybody. I just pointed
out the obvious charity is here. Well there's a darkness point it's right,
No charity. Charity walks up and she like it. I will, I
will, I will. Charity walks up and she goes, Oh my god,
did you I have to say, I have spent a lot of time
around a lot of important people, and all of you just continue to surprise
me. I cannot believe you. Just did you see his face? His
face? Did you see it? Did you see it. Did you see
the part where he thought that the person was a commodity? Did you get
that on film? Do you film that? That's important for gem? No,
the cares bitch of course. Would you like to go dance me?
No stand up? She used to me while he was hurls. She goes,
oh my, this would be great footage. We just want to be
able to give you some time and some space so you can have a really
in depth interview with why are you doing this? The greatest o? I
love this idea, right, I think Samir just looks vacuately. It just
blows my kiss, leans look and then walks away. I'll make files.
Lamar's like like wiping her mouth. She's got this big piece of bread in
and she's like, she's gonna interview us. Let me say, I don't
know, it's not gonna be good. Please sit and she goes, oh
I will, and she sits down and she goes this side and this sign,
the side, this side, and she like she gets the camera person
where she wants someone and she goes okay, and we go live in a
three two and as the light turns red, you feel Lamara's like hand gripped
her leg and she like freezes, like tenses up and like like stage fright
type terror. And she goes, we're live here at the Banquet of the
Century where we are sitting with the couple of the Century. I have Malik
the finger clicking down a jet. Wow, he got them fastest fingers of
all the dynam really his dynamite. Gal Leamara a surgical doctor who escaped the
grass of them. That was a little bit better Jesus. And now she
goes, and now we're here to dive deep into their passionate relationship that is
thriving amongst the darkness in the stars. And she goes, Malik, tell
us, how did you meet your dear Lamara. Malik reaches over and grabs
I assume there's some kind of alcohol, wine perhaps, And yeah, there,
yeah, there's wine. He shoots the glass to make it a virgin
alcohol. He's shoots the wine back and then places it down. He says,
well, Charity, and he like looks over at the dance floor and
there's just like laser beabs are coming at Tamerror. Well, Charity. We
were on the Himura station and there was a little bit of crime afoot and
Lamara here got murdered, and well, as luck would happen, I kind
of stuffed her insides back on the inside and saved her life. You see,
Charity. So first off, something happens, I need to roll for
this turns out Malik's highest status like empathy and really fails. Something happens.
You've already succeeded in this, so you don't have to roll again. But
you A smell hits the air, Malik christ poignant, Okay, floral smell
one that is just it's like sunshine and fresh cut grass and springtime and it's
just so welcoming. And she goes, my, what a hero you are,
Lamara, and have like leans in on the table a little bit and
she comes up. She says, she's, uh, Maura, tell me,
how does it feel dating such a person? I he sayd the was
a psych ward I was. He came and got me. She's like,
wow, I would love to hear more about that. Maybe hell is happening
another time or place after to nice party? Do you are you hitting on
her? What? No, Malik, We're gonna take a question from the
audience. Sorry, Charity, are you trying to hate on my girlfriend?
Here live on TV. That's very uncoming of someone. Give me a question
for me. Are you getting this cameraman? This is quite rude. Well
we'll cut this part. It's live. She goes, nothing's ever live.
We'll see. She goes, yes, we will, uh and she gets
a question from now and she goes, oh, this is a good one,
Malik. How did you know Lamara was the one? I could feel
it in her heart as I squeezed it back to life. That is the
most romantic thing I have ever heard. Lamara tell me what is it like
to be squeezed? And the camera man goes, uh, Charity, I
think we should, uh broke my what's it like to be squeezed? Dot?
Are the words that just came out of your mouth live on the internet?
You pay me to fucking do this? Someone if that with words?
What's it like to be squeezed? Please? Is there any on it?
Yeah? Okay, Now Dot has embarrassed herself. Lamara goes I and he's
like, Charity, we should and she goes, right, yeah, of
course, I'll We'll be back a two part episode with the couple of the
Syndery can't wait, Dot? What you asked for this? You're right,
I did. But in exchange for whatever fuckery you just put me through,
I like to do more fuckery. Okay, what kind? I don't know
if I would need to use my icon talent for this, but I'm willing
to spend that I always have. I want to tattoo it across your forehead.
Well, so it doesn't really apply here, but I'm willing to waste
the usage of it. I always have my data pad on me. Can
I make sure that was live? All right? Under two conditions? Okay?
Three? Okay? Two editions? Okay, two conditions. You're gonna
have to roll for the data is in okay, to like turn it on
with looking at the screens, So you're gonna take a negative one to the
roll, okay. In addition, in addition, you have to tell us
all where you hide a data pad in this outfit? Oh, in this
outfit. This outfit is Hella flowy. It's like a huge, it's a
it's a yeah, there's plenty of space. There's like liner pockets inside of
this thing. KP. You're muted, but I'm sure you're confirming this because
you've those things have deep pockets. Yeah, okay, all right, this
is I needed confirmation. All right, let's see what someone's gonna have pockets,
Dada Jim. Trust me at eight Lamara, he has no bias.
I'm giving you a doctor's point because this is too funny to not fuck.
Yes. Criticule of sad motherfuckers. That was life as ship. Damn it
this game season four, motherfucker. I hate this game. Okay, what
are you attempting to achieve here? Just record that whole thing. No,
So there's like TVs, right, there's like the big jumbo TVs that were
on before. I want that to have been live, like live broadcast to
this dome. All right, So I believe that when one great things happen
happens, another horrible thing happens. And since I am sitting on another corruption
bar, Malik Malik Malik, you broadcast the like she's just like talking and
you can't You're just like seeing her lips move, but there's no sound.
You tap basically tap sound into it so that everybody can see because they're just
gonna cut b roll and it feeds into the room and we get to hear
her say that line. There are a few people that are like kind of
snicker and laugh, But then murmurs start to pass around. Charity thinks Lamara
is hot. Cherry thinks is hot. Lamar is like the hottest chicken the
Third Horizon. Yeah, yeah, yeah, Charity, she must be super
cool. And that Molak guy, yeah, he's dating her Jesus Christ.
And this rumor spreads like wildfire across the dance floor. In fact, on
the dance floor is talent mirror, and you start to hear it around you.
People are like Lamara, man, she's just she could do surgery on
me any day. Wow, Dot, Well this is Dot flustered about her
own characters and trying to flirt with her own fluster itself. And I can
always be the d M. I will always flirt with myself. I will
I will give her any number of darkness points to continue awkward Dot floing floor
flirting with awkward Dot. Yeah, she could slice me open any day.
So these things are like passing across the floor. So, yes, you
did send out Charity is embarrassing one liner, But what you also did was
seed your and Lumara's fame as a couple of the Third Horizon even deeper.
And now you're popular and everybody wants to be. But I'd rather be the
hottest guy in the court than the other three of you roll in observation.
Check what's it like to I have an idea? Oh, come on,
we're gonna have to save you from mobbage. Okay, uh, I'm man
need to have you do it for me, because well twenties f and uh
is it being a hot mess? I got you? I got you.
Let me pull up those are MPCs. Those are season one. Oh yeah,
Ally is gonna roll an observation, which is really just a flat wits
roller. There we go. Okay, it's coming up. Okay, so
you got a one? Okay, okay, and so did tell. Amongst
all of these rumors and whispers, both of you begin to notice people start
pulling their hair up in top knots. Wait wait wait wait wait my doctor's
park. What the fuck did you just say? You didn't hear it yet?
Yeah, ok doesn't see it. But for meta knowledge people, there
are a few people are like and they're pulling their hair up into like cool
top knots, like Tamir, where's he is? I mean, Milik,
where's he is? Oh? My god, doesn't Lamar have like a top
tony tail two that goes down like a really long one. Yeah. She
wears a big, big brain. Well I guess tonight she doesn't. She
wears like a full on, like fiery up dude, h because you know
she's got like orange black hair. Anyways, it's like a whole thing and
Lamara. As soon as she's gone, the Martins goes, we did such
a good job. You nailed it, thanks babe. She like kisses you
on the cheek. Okay, but was that wrong? We shouldn't do it.
People are like that. Paparassi's like clicking photos. It was just never
said those words in that order before. I don't know. I think stage
fright just brought it out of me. I don't even know how to.
I don't you don't you don't have to do you smell something? Yeah,
Malik's brain burning burnt coast. She's like, no, it's kind of florally.
That's so strange. No, I can't swand anything. Is it perfume?
Maybe? No? No. We he like motions to like have Tamir
come back, y'all like dance over. Yeah, so when he doesn't come
back, like, do you would you like to dance? Oh? Yes,
of course, and she gets up like very excited. She like there's
like clattering of silverware and stuff is really awkward, and she's like okay.
And as you go to like meet them on the dance floor, the crowd
split and Alia, where are you? What I've got to know first?
What is Alia up to? Because is Ali on the dance floor? Oh
god, no, Okay, Ali is just standing really awkwardly at the punch
bowl. Okay, okay, okay, this is what's this is? Okay.
You're standing next to this beautiful fountain. It is pouring this just elaborate
bits of wine. And you're standing kind off to the side, and a
small figure walks up to you. It's like a like a he's like a
ten year old boy and he's dressed to the nines. He's got it a
little like sash type thing and it's all like gold embroidered, and he looks
very handsome for a little ten year old boy. Can I just say it's
an why is it in your games? It's never a good sign when children
up here. It's like that's like an omen. I'm already like I'm on
the back, but like ready up here he comes from he goes, I
saw you on the big screen. Oh, hello, yeah, you're so
tall. You're taller than I thought you were tall. Tall you are?
Yeah, it's yeah. You know space does that too, I suppose wow.
He goes, you know they they said you were the most eligible bachelorette
in the whole third Horizon. Ah, well, when people meet me,
they might not have the same opinion. Well they're stupid. That's awfully nice
stuff. You. What's your name? I'm Alistair. Hello Alistair. My
name is Alia. My friend said that I was not brave enough to come
over here, but I said I was, so I'm here. I came
over here to ask you if you wanted to dance. And Ali's kind of
just taken up back for a second, and mind you, like halfway through
their conversation, she's actually kind of just like you see her like haunched down
to his eye level just so that as he didn't have to like crane his
neck back. And they've been talking, so he goes, well, I'm
not much of a dancer, so I'm not sure how cool it would be
to your friends to see me just stepping on your feet all the time.
But you will not step on my but you would like to you're gonna dance
with me? With you being so grave, I figured it's a proper would
you have the honest And then like she puts out her hand like this,
and he puts he puts a little hand in yours, and so innocently he
like leads you out to the dance floor and just on the outskirts, we
kind of see you and maybe you can all you can see, uh,
the other two of them. Yeah, yeah, like a little you know,
like a little like you dance with kids at weddings and stuff, and
like it's like a little dance on the dance floor. You scoot over maybe
closer to them so you can get it to keep eyes on the rest of
the crew. You see that Malia and Lamara are about to join the dance
floor. But I have to know tell him to me have been dancing for
a while. What else was that we're dancing? Yeah, swaying in hellis
here or yeah, we're mostly swaying in Unison, trying to kind of blend
in on the dance floor. More than anything, neither one of us is
very good at dancing or had any interest at all in learning. Dow To
dance. If you are wanting to be under the radar, I am going
to need an infiltration or I will take a dexterity to see if you're good
dancers. I could I could do a dexterity. Well, okay, okay,
let's see who's late in this this this dance train, it's we'll see.
I don't know. Come on, did you do it? Click the
button? Very yeah, tal's very clearly leading this, very clearly leading this.
It's it is actually not that bad. But the fact of the matter
is you're not very It's hard to be incognito when you are literally the guest
of the party. Yeah. And as you dance, do the two of
you have any kind of conversation? Yeah? At one point tells like,
you know, people are really starting to whisper about Lamar a lot. Might
be hard getting out of here. Yeah, I'm not liking any this at
all. Maybe that was a bad decision to put them in front of Probably
we're not very good at making decisions. No, we're not very good at
dancing either. You know what, if I just don't look down, I
can just avoid your feet, it's fine. Yeah, right, yeah,
oat right, Tamyr definitely just like steps on your toes just a little because
like he rolled a seer. Yeah. At one point I'm like, oh
no, that's my sorry. Uh. And then so cute. And then
you see Malik and it looks like Malik and Lamar are gonna join your shield.
It's very excited. And the moment she hits the dance floor, the
crowd parts alia. You see this as well as all of you are kind
of there in this moment. You've been hearing this kind of rumors and whispers
and face that you all know appears a man who is dressed to the like
nines in just this beautiful peacock like teal color, this like rich, richly
dyed silk. And he too smiles at all of you, different kind of
smile, a more less car salesman kind of smile. He seems to be
once again, very pleased to see all of you. You would know this
as the other possible patron. This is a man who is paying for the
fixings on your ship. His name because I is not on the top of
my top is what did I call him? Here? He is I see
Sedona, Yes, yes, that's him. I have it in my notes.
Thank you. He's right here. I have his picture but not his
name. So yeah, yes, he kind of walks up, and he
says, it seems that you're enjoying yourselves. I'm glad to see it.
It does the soul good to celebrate every once in a while, especially when
you do good work, like all of you. Is that like, by
the way, Alias, I'm assuming far enough away? Yeah, do you
want well, I guess that's that's up to you. Do you want to
be involved or do you want to say just out of like range of the
Honestly, I think you're like, she's letting the kid lead, so she's
not like forcing him closer to the dance floor. She's like, you're being
very respectful to is like, because he you know, so much courage,
you know. But uh, yeah, I think I think, uh,
I think I think she's probably not close enough to hear all of this.
So and but you see him, which and you know, if nothing else,
what he is there for, and maybe the kid's the perfect distraction.
It actually helps you blend a little bit better because like he's not going to
be looking at that child, and so he might not even see you there.
But he nonetheless says, I always hate to bring business into pleasure,
but I must know. Please tell me you're going to accept my gracious offer.
How kind of stops all pretensive chancing? Uh, and just kind of
looks extremely awkward. It's like, I appreciate the offer, but I'm gonna
have to say no. We're kind of free agents and would like to stay
that way. I much for fer scrapping than working for people. He says,
you are turning down via Sedona? Yes, I'm sorry. Did you
just refer to yourself on a third person? I did mollying Your name means
as much as mine does. You can do that, but I forget you
don't like your name being used too late? Now? Where were we?
And he turns back to town. He says, are you sure there's no
way I can sweeten the deal? Nope? Quick question? Is he the
one that's holding mar ship posted? Or yeah? Okay, yeah? He
goes his name via sidonna? Is this man's name? Via sidonna? And
he says uh. He says, I'm so very sad to hear that.
I guess we'll just have to impound the defiant from now. Have a good
evening, turns in my ship back. You accept my offer? He smiles,
and he turns and he walks away. Actually he also says, also,
I should let you know. The crowd defiant cleans up rather nicely when
they're fitted to size. He looks at it. He's like, yes,
very nice, well done, sir, choosing a thing. And they turn
and they walk off, And before any of you can even have a moment's
piece, a flutter of a bright red dress onto the stage. Burgundy velvet.
Charity takes the stage once more. Dessert is being passed out. The
tunes played by the band are shifting to a more evening number, and we
hear a thing ding tin. She checks that the camera's rolling, and she
says, my dear third horizon Zanythians, and first come, dear friends.
My name is Charity, but you already know that, and all of us,
all of us share a common fate and a great future. The clocks
of the cycle could strike the hour, and a new cycle begins while another
is laid to rest. Let us embrace what lies ahead, let us celebrate
hope and progress. A united council will lead us into the light, and
she says, please join me and welcoming to the stage. The survivors of
your horrum and she gestures down and there's like a spotlight that like gieves onto
all of you. But before that can even happen, she gestures for applause,
and it is not necessarily met. Instead, do you hear somebody throws
something? A glass bottle breaks, and somebody's like ah lars and a couple
of people are like ooh. And then another bottle is thrown and broken,
and she's like, please, please, welcome to the stage. These these
heroes. Seems that not everybody meets that idea, and she says, listen,
come after the blockades mission deep behind the orders, unsanctioned, we blockade.
Our heroes made it home again. It gets a lot. These heroes.
I find their value, their valor, to be a perfect example of
what a sacred principle that we as zan Athians hold and strive towards unity.
They choose to defy the oppressor's unjust accidents, to tear away the gag some
people would place over the mouths of progress. Another person's like, nah,
it's bullshit. The disaster that followed the icon's righteous striking down of the agents
of chaos glarly shows the way forward. Our heroes fought for the Zanythians ideals
and were delivered from evil because of it. Stalwart in the face of darkness,
children of the portal, and example for the future, and proof that
the mercy of the Icons comes only to those who follow the right leaders.
Strength and grace come from only Zanithian's light. And she goes to speak again,
and a bottle is tossed and smashes her right in the head. She
like temples backward. And this is when the room begins to rise. You
can hear the ah. This isn't garbage, you know, It's like,
uh, the order of the pry. I was done. People seem to
be starting a bit of a riot. So Ali immediately runs to charity and
is there any other bottles coming towards there? They are breaking, Bottles are
breaking everywhere. People are beginning to riot and break stuff, wanting slightly as
soon as the first bottle shatters, tow starts leaving. Are you doing it
openly? Are you trying to sneak out? Uh? Gonna try to sneak
out. I want absolutely none of this, Okay, all right, so
roll and infiltration. I don't have that, or that's just an agility.
Then just a straight agility role. Anybody else that would like to sneak uh
you dexterity, Uh dexterity would be like you're trying to dodge the bottles that
are coming, which you are definitely gonna get to roll. But this one's
just like, can I sneak out? Do it? Sneaky fail? There
are spot spotlights on you. It's kind of difficulty. They try to follow
you and you begin to walk, and Charity continues our heroes our heroes and
is trying to see this just dense propaganda. Yeah, Kyle's shaking her head.
She looks like she is having none of it. What about the rest
of you? Uh Alia? Uh? I would at this point, I
think I would like to make a mystic role to see if I can.
I mean, is there a way? I'm not sure if I have the
power. I need to double check and see this. Check check what powers
you have? Because if you don't have the power, you can't roll for
it? Mm hmm, God, why does it keep closing? There?
We go get hold up? I have it? Just says mystic powers is
premonition, blessing, Lady of Tears, talent and exorcism. Mmmm. I
think I would like to use premonitions to help Charity move out of harm's way
and like kind of just like avoiding any obstacles that might come in her way,
like use that to kind of get out of the interesting. Roll roll
roll the roll it I we'll see how this turns out, to see if
you succeed. Okay, it's a bit crazy right now in the room,
it's beginning. The attension is rising. Okay, Uh, just a mystic
powers roll right, Okay, can you concentrate with all the casts you help?
You're you're like you see almost in slow motion, the first bottle smashes
her head open. There's a piece of glass hanging out of it, and
she like kind of tumbles backward. It is caught by her assistant. Uh.
The camera's instantly hand up and chaos rises and ensues. And in that
moment, as things kind of slow down, you try to get a premonition
of what is to come, and you see it's a pretty horrific sight and
with a critical success, you not only see it, but you feel it
the pains of broken ribs and internal bleeding as you witness a mob out back
beating Charity and her assistant backstage, which is where he's currently dragging her.
I will stop them, and I will like Alia runs up to them literally
like lifts up Charity like kind of like a like, I'm assuming that's pretty
easy for our Oh yeah, Charity is like, you know, like a
sack of twigs. And then you know that's about it. She's like,
she's like you just like pick her up, no problem, she's tiny,
lady. Yeah, and then turns to goes follow me and then just like
goes to whatever the nearest exit or method of getting you start following Tow.
Basically you see Tow like kind of trying to get out the lights, like
following her as Charity finishes, and this whole instance rises to mirror Malik,
what do you do? T Meir? I feel like you're going to do
some ship. I don't know how I decided if I'm doing should or not?
I'll be honest, Well, you were you were? You were with
Taw when when I started walking away? Where are you? What are you
doing? Can I walking with her? Sorry? Just one thing that I
think all you would at this Moll moment do is just yell at whoever whichever
the Defiant crew is nearby just goes grab the children. People are already picking
up kids. So and this is Tamir is going to react before you even
get to charity, because how walks away? Do you walk away kids?
Yeah? I love kids so much. For her, it's just so big.
It's also sorry, but the rest of the defiance, I don't know.
Not to take children aboard is in order if you want to be part
of the defiant. No kids allowed, sorry, let them die? Okay,
So any time children you'll pick them up. You don't need to do
that. Children and anyone that Alia says this is my relative not allowed on
the wait? Do I still have a corruption bar? How many there?
Oh? I have a third one? Okay, Wait, this entire incident
isn't due to a corruption What are you doing? Yeah, Tamir, what
you do? What do you do? Do you follow Tow because she turns
before the everybody like the chaos rises. No, because Tamir has been in
riot situations before and knows that Tow will be okay. He is very much
trained to look for exits. I think Tamir is going to try to get
to the ship, okay. I think would be going, would be ready
to go, Okay, so two people with power or anyone with the dragon
knights, that's where Teal's headed. Okay, okay, I'm gonna have you
both roll an observation. Then this is important. Yeah, darkness to you
success. I'm going to give you one, but you can give you can
No, I'm racking up, I'm racking up. Okay, I'll say this.
I imagine that when Tao gooes, you kind of do too, and
you start looking for the near sexit. You're both trying to get out of
here, like you knew what was coming. And as you look around and
you look for the nearest exit, there's the main door that's big enough to
just like feed people out right, it's like the big ballroom spread. But
you know there's a kitchen, and that's actually probably the best way out,
because nobody's gonna go out that way, like through the kitchen, which is
gonna dump into like all of the back alleys behind the walls of this very
expensive monolith. And do you witness that the catering staff who's also running for
that exit all have a similar tattoo on their neck. You don't know what
the symbol is. TA mirror doesn't, but you see it and you start
noticing that they all have it. Malik, do you follow your brother?
Do you? What do you do? Before we cut back to just what's
gonna be chaos? I think dot I have a question for you. Since
Malik hacked the JumboTron earlier, would it be possible that he still has access
to the audio? You mean, like to be able to feed audio or
to just speak, Yeah, like put your own voice through it? Yeah?
Yes, Okay. Malik is doing his best to be less angry and
irritated about this entire situation. But the charity bullshit that just happened was too
much. So before you were a getting sassy Malik. But so he again
slides out his tablet and I think he's just talking into it. So whatever
that picks up, and in the like precursor to the ensuing chaos, he
holds this tablet up and he says, people of the Third Horizon, these
are lies. As a child, as a first come child of Algol,
we do not represent the Consortium. We represent this Anthians even less. These
are lies perpetrated by the hegemony. We were brought to her under armed guards
that turned on us, that turned their weapons on us, and brought us
here. Our ship is being held here. We are at this party against
our will. We do not represent these people. We represent the people of
the Third Horizon, not the government, not the corporations. We are not
heroes. We just want to be left alone. You put your dicking it
holding You put your fucking dick in it, holden. You're running. I
imagine like, no, he's standing in the middle of the fucking dance of
the chaos. The people are there's like bottles breaking, people are screaming.
Lamar is like what are you doing? But she, she stays with you
the whole time. While you make this like broadcast out to the third horizon.
You can see Tale and some mirror or headed towards the kitchen alia are
you also headed behind them with charity over your shoulders. You get to kind
of outside the dance war over to where the tables are, and all of
your like passing through tables and chairs, basically trying to get to the kitchen
area or to the mess area and alia. There's a tug at your your
your your dress or your you're whatever you're wearing, your yeah and yeah,
thank you. You turn around and uh, it's the little boy and he
looks up at you and he says, I have to go. You can
see his mom's like, come on, they're trying to like get out,
and she goes, he goes, I just want to say, you're my
hero. Come back, come back where wait? What like is he like?
He means like, come come back, be safe and and he hands
you uh something kind of like very quickly and he says, with you out
there, We're all safe. And and he turns around like me too.
She was like, you need to go, yeah, and he like he
like putters off and like dodges through a few people, and her mother like
scoops him up and they run out of the door. Hollia, as you
stand up, you know, bringing charity probably back onto your shoulder, and
you turn around, you see Talon tamrror in the distance. But something catches
your attention out of the corner of your eye and you look over and maybe
it was because you were just talking to a small child. But amidst people
running and chaos and glasses breaking, calm and cool as a cucumber, just
standing there in the background is a face you have not seen in many decades.
It is a boy. He's dressed much nicer than the last time you
saw him. He doesn't wear his silly little cap or his dirty clothes with
patches in the knees. He's dressed as if he's some dignitary son. But
you would know that face anywhere. You would know the dark, dense eyes
anywhere. And he stares at you from across the room. He sees you.
You know it's him. He knows it's you. And somebody runs up
and goes quickly this way, and you can see Alia because you were around
earlier. This is one of Kassar's men, like scoops the boy up and
moves him along, like into Kassar's family, and like the guards are like
around and like moving the family out. Mate, yep, exactly do you
do? You? Continue? Yeah? Yeah, I'm getting out. You
follow towel. It's me or Alia. You all make it to the kitchen,
Like hit the door. It's already swinging from where other people have been
like piling the other weight staff and the catering staff and the Cortesans have burst
through. Malik, what do you do after you make this broadcast? What's
happening? It's chaos. People are trying to exit the space. There's some
fighting that is going on. It seems between like mostly citizens, but clearly
citizens that are a bit far leaning on either side, like Zanythians or the
Praya or like people are. It's a it's a it's turned into a bit
of a mob mentality and people are just hurting each other trying to get out.
Uh so it's just it's just chaos and calamity. There's no kind of
order here. No, oh man, what does Maline do? He starts
to head towards the kitchens. Right, did I see them move towards the
kitchen? Yeah? I would. You're like up on the stage because that's
where you broadcast from, and you uh yeah, you see they all pit
her into the kitchen. He grabs like interlocked fingers. He grabs Lamar's hand,
and the last thing he says before he like tucks it back into it,
like turns it off and tucks it back in his pocket is uh free
the defy it free the third horizon click and then he tucks it in his
pocket. Propaganda. Propaganda. Okay, you hear you hear Lamar? I
go, wow, that was that was really cool. I don't we have
a dance oh right, She like putters along like behind you. As the
two of you trail into the kitchen, you see the cook how to me
or Alia? He stands there. He's moving people out the back, and
he looks over at you as if he's not sure what you're doing here or
why you're in this space. But he has a moment where he's a little
bit on guard. He doesn't have a weapon except for like a spoon,
but like he doesn't have a weapon. I uh lock eyes with him because
the main exit is that way. I say, I'm not looking for the
main exit. I'm looking for the same one as you prove it. I
uh, is there anybody in here? No, he's moved all the white
staff out. I hold up the piece of paper with the symbol on it.
You hold it up just as the door opens up for Malik and Lamar
to join you, and he sees the symbol. As soon as the door
starts moving, I start putting it away. Yeah that's all he saw it.
That's all he needed, he says. He says, Oh, I
see right, you're the crew. If I help you, you have to
say yes to her. Already planning on it, he smiles. Probably the
most genuine smile you've seen all night. You haven't gotten any genuine kindness from
a lot of people at this party. And he says, this way,
I'll show you. And he opens this back door that's like almost kind of
hid him behind like a freezer of some kind or some kind of large appliance,
and he he gestures all of you out down a very dark hole that's
lit pretty much by just like floor running lights. You can hear the sound
of all of you running. You can hear those ahead of you running.
He doesn't say anything, as all of you like run basically, and eventually
you could you go down a flight of stairs and kind of through some dark
corridors, and he opens up a door into the back of a shop,
a beautiful shop. The shelves are dust free and pristine. Everything set on
glass. These seem to be very expensive items, everything from like jewelry to
like usable everyday items like lamps and torches of different kinds. This place is
just like deck to the nines with household items, I guess you could say,
from chandeliers and standing there amongst the catering staff. And now the head
chef of this monolith is this woman and she smiles. Now this is the
first time anybody but Tell has actually seen her. She's also greeted with a
man you do know, Tamr. You know him to be the one who
posed is her when he first offered you and met you with your previous patron,
the kind of jolly fellow who met you from your previous patron. And
she smiles very brightly, and she says, I hope this means you've made
a choice. Rice was already made when we put in the earpieces. She
says, that wasn't entirely sure. And she looks to the rest of your
career. This beautiful woman, kind of clean shaven head and sides, and
she's in this just crimson red dress. To be honest, neither was I
until after we spoke. And she says, well, then let me put
you in the peddler's favor. And she says, for those of you that
don't know me, I'm Saddi Malik. You would already have looked her up.
You did that the first time that Tamir mentioned Saudi. Pretty high up
the food chain, uh, supporter of the Dragon Knights. Kind of very
rich, kind of like not kind of like like rich like real rich yeah,
and she says, well, this is probably not the best place for
us to talk. But if the answer is a yes, then I'd like
to show you home, she says. And you do. You feed down
slim alleyways, past the bustling and the You can hear people still screaming.
News other news places pull up on the different floors of the monoliths, trying
to cover the it. People seem in a tizzy that the cyclicated celebration was
interrupted by what is basically a mob that they started kind of their own mob,
right based on Charity's great speech. And then let's not even talk about
Malik's speech. We'll have to get to that next week. But she walks
you into a back door it almost pushes open, out of empty steel into
a place called the emporium. It seems a bit closed off. It doesn't
have like a front facing shop, if that makes sense. It seems to
be more like a private warehouse almost, And it is not small by any
means. Shelves and shelves and shelves of stuff to me or you can feel
the vibrations all over the place of artifacts that sit in crates unsold. This
place is teeming with ancient energies and knowledges, and like you can just feel
it in the air. You don't even have to roll for it. It's
just innate in your blood. I feel like if if there's like walls and
stuff, like he's literally just letting his fingers like roam across things as they're
walking through. And she says, this is one of many collections that we
have. We've spent many, many years collecting sciences and technologies that we didn't
can entirely understand artifacts and information. And she looks right at Maleik when she
says that. She says, we believe that is the best way to be
equipped. And the Consortium and the Order as Anythians, they all use that
information to control us and provide structure they call it. But we are freemasons.
I guess you could say we work outside their systems. We assure that
we have enough money and support and power that we can exist outside their systems.
And if we have the information first, then it assures that we can
always stay one step ahead of them, And she says, so, since
you have accepted my offer, it sounds like we need to take a moment
and discuss how we're going to get your ship back. Well, I'm sure
that's going to be fun, she says, don't worry. And as she
kind of rounds the corners from one of these like shelving units, it opens
up and taget like a shared common space. Pillows on the ground, rugs
that keep you off of like the dirty wooden floor of this hidden warehouse on
inside the monolith, and you see that there are people here, other people.
The caterers have changed clothes and are putting on makeshift armor and robes over
top of it to hide it. And she says, the dragon Knightes are
really good at what we do. We infiltrate from the inside out most of
the time. And she says, don't worry. We will provide you with
the whole team to get your ship back. And she gestures to all of
these people who nod very greatly. We're going to need something. Oh,
we need a reactor. Is that what he took? So petty, I
know, She says, don't worry, we'll get you a reactor if you
don't mind me saying, perhaps before we do anything else, we could probably
tend to this person. I hear she looks over your shoulder at Charity,
who's like, oh, of course, I'm trying to be a compassionate person.
KP regrets his decision. It exactly right. The news anchor, well,
we better give her back or someone's going to come looking for her,
and she kind of goes over. One of the newly changed agents comes over
and like checks her forehead. He kind of goes, this is going to
hurt, and he plucks the piece of glass from her foreard and she's like,
oh my god. And she says, listen, Charity, how about
I do you a favor. I recently came across a new piece of jewelry
made from the last of the rocks of you. Harum. You can wear
it out of here tonight if you will shut up and not talk about this
ever again. And Charity's like okay, and she says, remember, when
you make a deal with me, you have to keep it. Goes,
I'm good for it. I swear eyebrow raises and says why did you bring
her exactly? And then she turns to Alia and she says, I don't
even know how to thank you. You are all of you are real heroes,
not like the fake stuff, like real for real al right now,
run along. She says, how am I supposed to like repay you?
Just don't ever mention us or talk to us again. That doesn't seem right.
That's really the best payment you could give me. Please, she says.
But and then she looks to Leamara, I'm interested in seeing you again.
Yeah, I mean again, Charity. That scar is really big.
I hope that doesn't ruin your career. Oh my face, and she snatches
the bracelet or this necklace out of uh uh her hands and girlfriend, she
she runs away like holding her face as if to hide it. She may
be scarred who we don't know how long now she can afford the best medicine.
I'm not just it's not just external scarring at this point, it's not.
And so she says, let me put you up for the evening.
I imagine they've put you in some hotel they've paid for and they are desperately
watching you. Oh yeah, most definitely. She not. She says,
well, shall we seal the deal? And she leans over and she probably
starts with Tao and she does like the double kiss on the cheek, and
she goes around to each of you and places a kiss on the cheek and
she says. The dragon Kites may be vicious when it comes to our collection
of knowledge and artifacts and the freeing of the people of the Third Horizon,
but we also stand for a lot of other things, including love, and
she says, welcome to our family. We are honored to have the Heroes
of the Third Horizon on our side. Now, how would I give you
some food not paid for at the hands of a smoother? That would be
nice. Could we drop the whole Heroes of the Third Horizon title? It's
a little ring. I'll seem a bit yeah, upset about that. I'm
sorry to be quite frank with you. None of us actually want to be
well known. We just would like to go explore and have people leave us
alone. It's going to be hard for people to leave you alone for a
while. You have proven yourself important. But stay off the radar long enough,
something new will come along. No doubt we're good at that, she
says. Well, let us eat and share in a moment of peace instead
of lies and propaganda. I have to do, captain, she gestures,
And you join a table of drag and knightes. You get to meet them,
some of them the chef, and you meet the four people that are
going to escort you, uh to abscond with your own vessel. But we're
gonna have to learn about that next week and plot another little heist and get
the hell off Akua. Yeah, I get to steal my never coming back
to Kua forever ever, never ever. You couldn't pay towel to get anywhere
near made humid. It's you what there was the genocide taking place that says
stop points. I have three one from last time too from this time.
But you know, out of it, we got some really great criticals that
caused a lot of sheenanigans because let me tell you what, look between Lamara
and Malik, y'all about to be the hottest trottest item in the third Horizon
fashion set and standard. You know what I'm saying, Sometimes we don't make
the best de sense. Did you say I hate it? Mike? Because
I couldn't hear you said? Doesn't care? I did? I Did you
know what I said? You could read those lips? Yeah, we do,
guess he Listen. I just want to point out the fact that the
whole Malik and Lamara being the hottest item and the hacking of the thing that
allowed the Malik rebellion speech was all perpetrated based on Joey trying to or Tomir
trying to stick it to his brother. So if you hadn't put me in
front of the camera, none of this would have happened. So I take
no blame. Tamir is so proud of belief for actually standing for taking no
blame. He's gonna just plant a big one right in your face, my
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