Speaker 1: Hello travelers. PB Here, i'd like to welcome you again
to the world of Gone. Earlier this summer, we did
an off line patron one shot that turned into a
three shot that I had running in tandem with Gone.
With everyone's blessing or releasing the episodes for you now
to enjoy. The events took place just after Reckin and
Blake reached Nataku, and I'd like to note that the
decisions these characters made directly affected the events in Gone.
I'd like to give a special thanks to send Her
TV for the rendition of Mother's theme that you're hearing
now and you can find it at SoundCloud dot com,
Slash send Her TV. And that's x E N T
I I R t v ah In for creating some
of the tracks heard in these sessions from their Blade
Runner remaster album off World, which you can find at
table story dot tv, Slash off World, and last, but
certainly not least to Zygotochus for editing these episodes for us.
And without further ado, let's return to Naberu. I'd like
to begin by asking what each of you was doing
today before you arrived at your destination. So we're going
to start at the local bar or refuge for vagabonds
where you actually meet up the group of you meet up,
but I want to know a little bit about what
happens to each of you before you got here, or
what your day was like. We'll start with temple.
Speaker 2: Okay, So I think there's a spot that I have.
It's not exactly on our roof, but it's got an
overlook over a square that usually a bunch of people
walk by. It's not hidden. If people look up, they
can see me, and I'm just kind of sitting there.
It's where you're good at think my head quite frequently,
and one of the things that I like to do
is just explore some of the memories that I've acquired
over time, and so I just use the people walking
by essentially below me as a sort of backdrop for that.
And I probably spent actually a couple hours doing that.
I've been doing it a little bit more frequently lately.
Speaker 1: So when you meditate over these memories, what are you doing?
Are you exploring them or are you cataloging them?
Speaker 3: Or are you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it depends on what the memories are. Very often,
what I'll do is I'll kind of choose some of
them that I want to feel again. Okay, but in
this particular instance, I'm trying to figure some things out,
like an underlying meaning. So I'm going through one memory
and rather than kind of like immersing myself into it
to get that feeling all over my soul, so to speak,
what I'm doing now is trying to see what connects them.
Why did I choose these memories or why did they
why were they they the ones that that stuck with me?
And they are all other people's memories too, okay.
Speaker 1: So kind of like watching a movie almost, Yeah, we
voyeuristic appeal to it, like you're just kind.
Speaker 2: Of yes, but a little more scientific than that, okay.
Speaker 1: So like studying it okay, interesting, yeah, okay.
Speaker 2: In a metaway. Rather than like depending too much time
on one memory, I'm sort of like this one, then
the next, and then just doing a different combination and
then doing the second and third one side by side,
so to speak.
Speaker 1: Okay, And what does Temple look like?
Speaker 2: So he is he's not particularly tall, but he's not
particularly short, So assuming that I hate about the same
Inniberia or in Taku, rather, he would be about like
five eight.
Speaker 1: Five nine, so that's actually quite tall. Most that's okay,
scale down to appropriate height. Well, that's an interesting, interesting tidbit,
because I believe you're lake born, right, yes, so then
five eight is okay. But most of the people who
grew up and were born in the Umbra are a
lot shorter, more stout because of gravity. It's two g here,
so you're actually quite.
Speaker 2: Tall, okay. Yeah, and so he usually punches a little bit.
He wears a cloak to kind of cover the fact
that he's deliberately using bad posture, okay, but he doesn't
like to showcase that he is that height. And so
he's got relatively pale skin due to the lack of
sun good hanging around, and his hair is blonde like
bordering on white, but it's definitely not always the most clean.
So he probably looks a little bit rough in terms
of how his physical appearance looks. But he's at height.
He's you know, not as stocky as the normal normal folks,
but he's not tremendously slender either, So decent average build.
Speaker 1: And for me, what memory are you looking at right
now before you realize you're going to be late for
your meeting?
Speaker 2: Yeah, So the one that I'm looking at right now
it's one that actually have come back to because I
don't think it makes much sense to me necessarily, but
i'm i'm.
Speaker 1: Can you describe it to us?
Speaker 2: Yeah? So I'm sitting in on like a wooden bench
or something, but they're also like a number of other
benches around, and I can smell some and it smells strange.
It smells clean, but also kind of otherworldly. And then
there are at least a dozen voices singing something and
I can't understand it. Even the person's memory. They can't
understand what it is, Okay. And there's like kneeling and
then sitting and then standing and kneeling again. And I
look up and I see, you know, my father there,
and there's such a feeling of comfort and warmth and safety,
and I see him look down and he smiles and
it feels it feels good.
Speaker 1: Okay, next up? Who would like to go next? Let's
actually go down the list. Shadow. Where are you right
before this meeting?
Speaker 4: So I'm standing underneath a shaded tree just across the street.
Speaker 1: Okay, so we don't technically have trees in Naburu, but
we can say that you call one of the tall
structures because this happens often with vagabonds. They'll use language
from the lake when it really doesn't exist in Naburu,
but they'll call certain objects trees or bark. Laura has
done this several times where she's referencing something but it's
not technically that thing. But they do have They have
erected tall pillar like statues that look like very similar
to trees, very reminiscent of trees. So you're standing underneath
one of those. Everything's metallic. What do you look like?
Speaker 4: So you see Shadow wearing sort of a long black cloak.
It has a hood that almost is reminiscent of a cowl,
some tatterings.
Speaker 5: To the edge.
Speaker 4: It looks a bit rough, and on particular days, well
the ground is a bit warm and the sky is weeping,
and you begin to see some of the mists sort
of coming up from the ground, almost looks shaded like smoke.
You see him wearing a dark, almost charcoal gray shirt,
a pair of jeans. He's toying with his collar right now,
just before he flips it up, you catch that he
has flowing, side parted dark hair and a little more
than five o' clock shit, maybe a very tightly trimmed beard.
Speaker 1: Okay, and what is he doing standing underneath this metallic tree?
Speaker 4: He's also recalling a memory, just kind of standing in
deep contemplation as he's staring across the way. But he's
recalling the scent of the sky weeping as water beats
against the pavement because it's calming to him and sort
of helps ground him in his focus and intent. He's
trying to do it, not nervous, just trying to become determined.
Speaker 1: And when when he listens or experiences these memories to
ground himself, is he familiar with is he good at
understanding when it's not his.
Speaker 6: Or do.
Speaker 5: That?
Speaker 1: Okay?
Speaker 4: I think he does. I don't think shadow because he's
very specific in his sort of day to day purpose.
I don't think he would have any memories that aren't
his own experiences. Okay. And if there were any, I
don't think he'd be aware of it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he wouldn't know it right away. Interesting shift. Where
are you just before this meeting?
Speaker 7: I am likely at the pilgrim at chapel.
Speaker 6: Mmm.
Speaker 7: I'm sat down, my elbows resting on my knees, my
hands clasped and my head bowed, eyes closed, made look
like him, sitting in prayer. But I'm listening just to
the other people there, just shifting my focus from conversation
to conversation, trying to pick out anything that's that's interesting
or new, any rumors, any sort of troubles people are having,
any of that kind of thing.
Speaker 1: Okay, are you religious? Shift?
Speaker 7: I would say no, okay, but I'm very hum Some
people would say I'm somewhat of a zale it. I guess, okay,
And my pursuit of well answers to a question I'm
not even sure I know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So as you as you listen to people talking
and praying in the pilgrim's chapel, I'm going to have
our first role of the day. All right, we'll come
back to this role. It's determining what information you're picking up,
if any, while you're here. But in the meantime, let's
switch to Finch. Finch, where are you before this very
important meeting?
Speaker 6: Uh? Finch, I am rushing around my place with a
dirty mug of coffee or the closest substance to coffee,
probably trying to get my shoes on. I forgot where
my bag was. I'm also pulling my hair into a
side braid, trying to have some semblance of a functioning person.
And I'm I have a journal in one hand that
I'm also between all of these frantically getting ready things
that I'm doing. I'm also shoving it in between a mattress,
running over to grab a shoe, grabbing it from the
mattress and thinking, wait, maybe it would be better here,
putting it in a drawer, trying to figure out a
place that I feel like it wouldn't be found when
I'm out.
Speaker 1: Okay, what do you?
Speaker 3: What does it?
Speaker 6: So?
Speaker 1: I guess what does your apartment where your flat look like?
Speaker 8: Oh?
Speaker 6: Boy, it is very small, probably not even close to
a modern a studio apartment. It's just very small. It's
like a startine starting game. It's not dirty, just very cluttered.
But Finch knows where everything is. It's all in its
right place and don't touch it, even though it looks
not like that at all.
Speaker 1: Okay, And what does Finch look like?
Speaker 6: Finch is probably five six. She has very long, naturally
wavy brown hair that has just natural highlights in it,
and it's it's not frizzy, but you can tell that
she doesn't take care of it. It's there's a lot
of breakage and a lot of little baby hairs, which
she always uses a bandana to just wrap around and
not for style, just to keep the baby hairs out
of her face, because she can't outstand the feeling of
hair in her face. She's probably just wearing very simple clothes,
not very nice looking. Probably she did a smell test
on the armpit to see if that was an acceptable
shirt today.
Speaker 1: Okay, and let's go back to Let's go back to
Shiv in the Temple. Everyone should be able to go
to the macro section of the the collection tab in
roll twenty underneath macros, just make sure to put roll
and plus one in bar, and then you should be
able to hit roll in plus one until I can
fix this spot. It should work for now.
Speaker 7: Hopefully I just started adding my own when it didn't work.
I've got one now.
Speaker 1: Okay, everybody might need to refresh real quick. Sorry about that.
I think I know what it is actually, so I'm
gonna try to fix it right now.
Speaker 7: I'll do a plus one.
Speaker 2: I refresh the page. I don't see either of those.
Speaker 1: Yet, okay, so in the collections tab, yes, okay, yeah,
I don't see your entitled Oh my god, that's why,
because it's not visible to flick players.
Speaker 7: Okay, oh, I see plus one.
Speaker 1: You should see the plus one now, and now you
should see the role as well. Okay, okay, and then
just click in bar and that way you guys can
make the roles for now until I can fix the
character sheets. Okay, go ahead and make our first role
of the day shift. Oh so plus one will just
be bonus future you can, so that's your plus one
and then you would just also hit your regular role. Yep. Okay,
so you succeeded. So you happened to overhear someone. You've
got two women that are kind of kneeling next to
each other, and there are two rows ahead of you,
and they are whispering and you, I'm assuming you're here
pretending to pray only to get information since you're not religious,
So you overhear them talking about someone in town. In
the market yesterday there was quite a commotion where a
stranger had come in and supposedly not introduce themselves to
the council, and so they were they were chased down,
and that's what you overhear.
Speaker 7: Mm hmm.
Speaker 1: And this strikes you as odd because you you were
one of the first to know if anybody has not
registered with the council and you hadn't heard anything of
the sort.
Speaker 7: Yeah, how much time do I have we have to
meet up? Do I have enough to stop by the
council or we'll have to put that on hold.
Speaker 1: You'll have to put that on hold. I think if
you don't want to be late, you all would head
to your meeting place, which is the Tin And it's
a little local bar that is supposed to be a
safe haven for vagabonds.
Speaker 7: So well, yeah, Nancy, I had something as well, So
I guess I'll just make my way to the ten.
Just stand up quietly, slip out, Okay, make my way into.
Speaker 1: So when you all arrive, are you posing as vagabonds
in the community or are you posing as locals?
Speaker 7: I don't think I can hate the fact. Yeah, I
stand out quite a bit taller, great bag, rough looking,
so like most people would maybe think I'm you know,
from not from here, and it came from elsewhere because
of maybe something happened. So I'm out in the umber
trying to keep low. But I think most vagamonds recognize
me for what I am.
Speaker 1: Okay, what about the rest of you Inch and Shadow.
Speaker 6: I would say that I don't even know if Finch
has made that decision. I think she's just trying to
stay low in general. I don't think she's so much
putting on an act. Either way, people might probably assume
that she's a vagabond. If you said that people are
short naturally shorter here because of gravity, and she's five six,
I don't know if that would make her stand out.
Speaker 1: But well, there are other folks that travel from other
areas of the Umbra, so it's not completely uncommon to see,
you know, different builds here, but people sometimes will stop
and go I wonder if that is someone from the
lake or not. But there is also culturally a silence
around that where people don't really out someone that they
think might potentially be a vagabond. There's kind of this
unspoken these people come from somewhere, from the unknown, and
we must protect them, and that's culturally what they think here.
So the reason I ask is because when you enter
into this, you know this bar, I'd like to know
if they recognize you and if they immediately usher you
into one of the lower levels, which is where vagabonds
can go to speak, or if you are going to
be propping yourselves up somewhere in the main level, like
in a corner or something like that.
Speaker 6: I do like the idea that we walk in and
they bring us down. Yeah, okay, I like that imagery.
Speaker 1: Okay, So if that is the case, then you're either
if you're not out as a vagabond, then you're probably
close friends with Shift. It's totally up to you if
you all decide to be well known in the vagabond community.
It just means that your job is you have to
work harder to keep what you do very secret.
Speaker 2: Is it possible that Temples establish himself as, you know,
someone that some vagabonds recognize as at least friendly towards them,
and you might speculate he's also a vagabond, but have
him come out with it.
Speaker 1: Yes, absolutely, I think I think that's wonderful.
Speaker 2: And what about that's what he's cultivated.
Speaker 1: Okay, And what about you Shadow.
Speaker 4: I think Shadow would try to be understood as a
vagabon but not known by name. I think his closest
association would likely be uh Finch and Temple just because
of their history.
Speaker 1: Okay, So I think I think then Shift, since you're
pretty well known, and you're the one of the older ones.
I'm going to say that you don't even need to
be ushered in when you go into this place. You
know exactly where to go. There's a door on the back,
so it's kind of like your typical front bar. There
are lots of little tables. It's not necessarily run down,
but everything in this area is not necessarily the greatest,
most beautiful. There are lots of neon lights. There's probably
about two or three staff members right now. You've got
somebody behind the bar, and then you've got two servers,
and it's fairly busy, but it's not rowdy. It's like
a pub that people go to to wind down after
a long shift or a long day fishing or doing trade.
But it's not necessarily a club or you know, something
where people go to blow off, you know, dancing steam.
It's more a little bit laid back. So I think,
based on how you've all described your characters, this is
probably one of your more favorite places to go because
it's it's a bit quieter. So you had shive well
will lead you down right into the back where it
looks like the staff in the kitchen might be, and
there is a there is a hidden door that he
has to hit three times with his fist for it
to actually pop open, and then he just moves it
to the side. Everybody doesn't look around to make sure
nobody's looking, and then you just slide right down in
to the underground of the tin. Now under here is
what you might expect for a basement. It's kind of
like they're growing fungus down here by the way, so
there's got quite a smell down here. So you pass
by rows and rows of stacks of growing beds for
this fungus. And behind all of that there are four places,
four separate rooms where you can go and sit and
have a private conversation. You just close the door behind you,
flip the lock, and it shows like a occupied kind
of little symbol in maybe writing that we don't recognize,
not English, that's for sure, symbols and scratches on the door.
So Shiv will go ahead and guide you there and
you all will sit down to have this conversation. I
think the most important thing is that each of you
has received information that there are rumors that someone with
memories from the lake from their time before waking up
has washed up, and that's what you are planning to
discuss here today. I will turn it over to you.
Speaker 6: Would this be the first time this has ever happened
for us? No?
Speaker 1: I think you're a pretty well established crew from what
I understood, like you had at least been I don't know,
it's up to you. I assumed that you had decided
that you were trying to find out the truth together
already before. Yeah?
Speaker 6: Have have there been other dagabonds wash up? Who we've
heard of that also remember? Or is this like, okay, that's.
Speaker 1: Never happened before. No one remembers anything when they wake up.
Sometimes you might get glimpses of who you thought you were,
or you know, memories from a place you don't remember,
but it's not the same as fully remembering. And that's
the rumor. Can everybody go ahead and roll a one
D three for me?
Speaker 6: No?
Speaker 1: Okay? So whatever you rolled, how many you heard washed
up with us?
Speaker 2: I imagine posture wise as well? As soon as we
get into the in the room, are there seats as well?
Are we sitting?
Speaker 1: Yep? So there are kind of like steel barrels that
have been placed here so that you can say it's
not super comfortable, but it is private. The walls are
padded so that the sound will not reverberate against the
metal plating, so that you can listen in on the
person next to you in the next room. And then
you also have a small steel table in front of you. Round.
Speaker 7: Okay, I lean up against the wall, wait for someone
to say something.
Speaker 4: Let me sit down at the small steel table.
Speaker 2: Yeah, says Temple. Sits as well. It's posture changes, so
you know sits upright actually, and it's much better posture.
So he's clearly displaying his actual height at this point,
and so he looks at each of you and ends
looking on. Chiv says, I suppose you've heard the same.
Speaker 7: I've heard a few things.
Speaker 5: Oh lethered one thing? Please share.
Speaker 7: Well mm hmm rd tample.
Speaker 2: Seems there's something different going on. I've heard news there
are people will shaping up and they.
Speaker 8: Were two people keep two people.
Speaker 6: That's what I heard, m M one. Well one of
us heard.
Speaker 7: Wrong, hand wrong? I heard three.
Speaker 6: Three directed a different number or we even are we
sure that this is real?
Speaker 1: Think at this point we see Shiv put a electronic
device on the table. It kind of beeps and light
lights up, and it's just making sure no one has
any listening devices near you. You're all familiar with this device.
You probably all have one, but yeah, I didn't. I
didn't ask if you were making sure we were on
us mostly. Yes, I think you each also have a
weapon as well, so you can choose either an electric
spidder or a splinter spidder, one that does damage or
one that has the capability to stun.
Speaker 6: You.
Speaker 1: Also all can decide if you have a memory extractor
on your person. You definitely all have one, but I
don't know if you carry it with you. It's kind
of a dead giveaway. If someone catches it.
Speaker 6: When he pulls it out, I'll pull I'll just look
at him and shake my head and kind of smirk,
and I'll just pull mine out and sit it down to.
Speaker 4: PB. Quick question, Ye, would I know if it's possible
to extract memories from someone who's died, like if they're
no longer living, could we still get their memories?
Speaker 1: Yes? Okay, you have heard that. Yeah, some vagabonds also
you have heard, and I think you've all heard this,
that there was a there was a skybearer at one
point that could raise the dead.
Speaker 7: Okay, huh, yeah, I'm pretty sure it's probably three.
Speaker 5: One, two or three, but we have to assume for
the most At this point, it makes no difference. It's
here for the same cause. We just now need to overplay.
If it's only one, well then we are extra prepared.
But it is three, then well we've taken the right
course of action.
Speaker 2: Hm hmm, what does it Well, we're not the only
ones who have heard of them.
Speaker 7: Muh did any of you hear about the uh commotion?
Speaker 5: Commotion?
Speaker 7: Then introduce themselves.
Speaker 6: I haven't heard of it, but that sounds like a
dead giveaway.
Speaker 5: Let's say, so someone who has no fucking clue where
they are.
Speaker 7: Yeah, good place to thought.
Speaker 2: Maybe as I heard something like that.
Speaker 5: Again, that's only one three?
Speaker 7: Yeah, well I'll guarantee that they washed up together or
stayed together, you know. Sure.
Speaker 2: Nevertheless, they must be connected somehow for three to arrive one,
two or three. There's something that's driven them all here.
I think we must find them.
Speaker 7: Might be worth uh checking out with the council.
Speaker 5: We can finding them, is the obvious. Do we have
any idea where they potentially have been spotted. I've only
heard that one came up remembering the time before, but
doesn't give me a starting point. Have they found a
savior yet? I mean, that's that's where we need to start.
We need to start, like from the beginning. If we
were here with no familiarity, where would you go? Who
would you meet with?
Speaker 7: Well, if you're shown up here with a receivior, you're
not gonna last long, my bait. Someone find them. But
you know, all I've heard is that there's these three
magical people.
Speaker 6: Shive. What's your opinion? I mean, what are the odds
that there's not one but three? Who remember? Is it? No,
it's not even possible.
Speaker 7: I would say, now, but normally bullshit like this. Well,
the smell doesn't stare and for long, you know, But
that's or long enough that we all heard it in
some form. There's some trith too, it's worth looking into.
And then added to the emotion, is that coincidence?
Speaker 6: Can you imagine what it means? If it's true?
Speaker 7: Means they're in trouble, not that much.
Speaker 6: What's our plan if we get them? I think we
should all agree before we head out and before we
start looking for them. Possibly what we're going to do
if we reach them.
Speaker 7: Wow hmm, I think set them down, introduce ourselves and
just listen. I feel like if it means something, they'll
know something without knowing it. You know something that they know.
I know, crazy. I guess.
Speaker 2: There's more than one way to see what they remember.
Speaker 7: Yeah, well it's uh sounds an option, but easier. I
think we just give them to talk a little bit.
Speaker 6: As I think we should keep it quiet in my opinion.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we have to be careful though, being quiet as good.
But if we've heard the rumors, and if they don't
know how to move about this world, they'll make noise
enough whether we have them or not.
Speaker 7: I agree, Well, in that case, we follow the noise.
And the noise right now is well they're around, yestermd
I'm not far. So what do we want to start, Well,
not evening happens the council hears.
Speaker 5: Well, maybe we hit the council. Then if they're unknown,
it's not likely they'll be at any traditional safe haven.
Speaker 2: Might not be suspicious that the four of us together
show up at the council asking after these people. I
wonder if there's something else that some of us can handle.
Speaker 7: At the same time, Well, I was going to stop,
buy the council home, drop off a couple of scraps
to stay in a good books So mated there, I
guess anyway.
Speaker 2: Thinks you have a good instinct for finding interesting people.
Where do you think we might else go.
Speaker 6: Interesting? I have experience with this. I do not imagine
if you were a scared mouse and you were dropped
into another universe, what would you do? That's what you're
asking me.
Speaker 7: Yeah, fagned a hole and hating it.
Speaker 6: What are we telling the council. I'm wondering how much
of this we should.
Speaker 7: Well, I heard about the commotion. I'm just telling I
heard about the commotion. See if there's anything I can
do to help? You know, it's not unusual for people
to help out here, Eh, it's the comment and all that. Yeah,
community mhm.
Speaker 4: When you say that, well ship, I think do you.
Speaker 5: You're a mouse? You don't know where you're looking for
a hole, which means anywhere that's not established, So check
low points areas that are a bit more concealed. May've
got the opportunity to claim a small patch of area
as your own because you assume that no one else
is there. I think it's time we walk the streets
a bit and keep our ears and eyes open.
Speaker 7: As long as a good bit.
Speaker 6: Are we aware of other people like us who do
what we do and who might know something more than
we do.
Speaker 1: Yes, so you all have a network of skybearers that
you can reach out to. You know, everybody uses a
code name. I don't know if you meet in person
too much. I think technically you lot are maybe breaking
a little bit of the rules by meeting together, which
is why you're probably going to such links to hide it.
So if another skybearer saw you grouping together, you might
be in a little bit of trouble. But again, the
only way usually to identify another skybearer is either with
the tattoo, which you know isn't visible unless under certain light,
or if you have the emblem on you at any point,
which I guess is a great point to ask, does
anybody have the skybearer emblem or excuse me, not the
skybearer emblem, but the anky emblem on you mm think
of think of it like a police badge. You don't
need to have it on you. In fact, if you were,
if you were discovered as a vagabond with it on you,
it would be very bad So I imagine a lot
of you don't even have this on you, your skybearer tattoo.
Essentially if the ankye summoned you or captured you, because
sometimes the ankie don't even know who's working for them.
So if an ankie were to capture you, you could
show your form or wherever your tattoo is and they'd
see that you were a skybearer and they'd release you.
But having this badge would be helpful in other areas,
but it would be also very harmful if you're trying
to pass off as a vagabond. Yeah, So does anybody
have this on them? Or I would not?
Speaker 7: Okay, would not?
Speaker 1: Okay, what about you shift?
Speaker 7: No, I'll get other ways to convince people.
Speaker 1: Okay, wonderful. Okay, So you do you have a network
that you could reach out to only two people that
you would know finch in the area in the Umbra
that aren't at this at this group that you've worked
with before past kind of information along like your your
main hunting ground is Nataku correct. Yeah, Okay, so I'm
going to say that you know someone in Murna and
you know someone at the Taurus.
Speaker 6: Okay, would it be worth reaching out to others, see
if anyone else has heard anything. What if somebody else
already has them.
Speaker 8: We don't know.
Speaker 2: Possible.
Speaker 7: I'm gonna get people, let into the loop. I know
why we want this.
Speaker 2: At the same time, the other half of that scuffle
may have some information as well, and they may prove
easier to find.
Speaker 6: I'll follow your lead, not at Finch.
Speaker 2: And then look to Shive.
Speaker 6: I'll follow your lead, Shive.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Well I'm gonna go with the Temple. Yeah, well, go
to the council a right, don't all see what they know.
If you guys want to just take a walk around,
maybe just even listening at the bar so you can
hear anyone talking about it, you know, someone can tack along.
Speaker 6: With me, like okay, I could use a drink anyone,
and I'll just stand up and ready to go when
you are, who's coming with me?
Speaker 5: Out our minds?
Speaker 7: Winning tim shift, you know, then shadow.
Speaker 1: Shadow Shive, and then we've got Temple and Finch staying
behind at the bar. So yeah, okay, So as you're exiting, everybody,
go ahead and roll for me.
Speaker 9: O mm hmm, okay, oh mm hmmm, wow, okay, wow, okay,
So both things pretty much.
Speaker 1: Yeah, pretty much. That's wild. So both Finch and Shive notice,
so you see someone you recognize Shiv and he is
with someone else. He's kind of short, he's short for
a for a vagabond, and you do know that he
is a vagabond. He is five five, and he's got
round spectacles normally that he's wearing, but he does not
have those with him. He's got a scarf and very
very short hair. And you see this too, Finch, but
you don't recognize them, but you maybe clock that. You
maybe clock them as you're leaving there, heading to where
you were going. And the second individual is wearing what
looks like super local Nataku clothing, long flowy clothing and
spectacles and has grown a little bit of a beard
and brown short hair. So you see these two people
as you're leaving, well, as you are going to go
sit down for a drink, and Shit is leaving.
Speaker 2: Mhm's.
Speaker 6: I think I'm not gonna yell. I'm not going to
make it obvious that I want to talk to Shiv
about that. So I'm just gonna take a mental note
and sit at the bar.
Speaker 7: Okay, Yeah, I don't want to draw attention to them,
so they just make my little note of it.
Speaker 1: Okay, hm, and you guys go out, So we're going
to follow. I believe we're going to follow shive and
shadow first, as you the moment you walk out of
the tin, you get a notification on your communication device
for the yanky. Now, I'd like to know what where
you hide yours? Shiveh I keep it.
Speaker 7: And talk. Then look to my belt okay, in my
names Okay.
Speaker 1: It can also be embedded in your skin and you
just touch a spot in your skin.
Speaker 7: Oh that's great, Yeah, lenya, I probably have it on
my forearm, the same place my tattoo would be.
Speaker 1: Okay, and what about your shadow?
Speaker 4: That would be the other side where my tattoo is
on the underside of my forearm, going towards my palm,
might would be on the top.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, So you get a message, do you check
it now?
Speaker 6: No?
Speaker 1: What about your shadow?
Speaker 4: Would I know it to be like listening to a
voicemail or looking at a text message.
Speaker 1: It'll be like looking at a text message, but you
all have implants that'll let you see. No one can
see what you're looking at.
Speaker 8: We've just walked out like.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's almost like you just got it at the
same time that you had signal.
Speaker 4: Yeah, there's no way I would check it if I'm
like out where anyone else can.
Speaker 5: Look at me.
Speaker 1: Okay, well they can't see that you're looking at a message,
although you do look like you're staring off into nothing.
I don't think you can really walk very well.
Speaker 3: Well, maybe you can.
Speaker 4: I think that would be my point, though, I don't
think I would want it to be like okay, yeah,
all right.
Speaker 1: So you two are heading to the wise Folk Cancel,
which is not too far from here. It's a couple
of blocks, so I'm going to say that you travel
without much incident, although you do hear. You do hear
people are kind of maybe shouting a little bit in
the distance, like maybe somebody has stolen a fish from
the market. It's kind of that kind of shouting. It's
aggress but not screaming, like you know, there's a Godzilla
in the park or anything like that. It's it's more
just like something has happened not too far from here.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I nod my head towards detail. No, yeah, check
it out, all right.
Speaker 1: So when you get there, it's the main main marketplace.
Both of you roll for me. Okay, So as you arrive, Yeah,
there is a huge ruckus. What do you do to
try to figure out what's going on? And you're just
talking to the locals. Were you east rushing?
Speaker 7: Yeah, I read at the edge of it.
Speaker 4: And just watch, try to find somewhere veiled, okay, and
just listen.
Speaker 1: You overhear one of the merchants at the stall talking
about how a man with a cane was running through
the streets and then grabbed someone else and they ran away,
and Anky came out and chased them down. This person
does not seem to favor the Yanky, so they're saying
things like, well, you know, I hope they got away.
Yanky wants to be a part of everybody's business. It's
awful if you ask me, well.
Speaker 5: We may already be behind the eight ball there. Yeah,
they can still go to the console and see if
you can learn anything. Was making a quick visit, right, Yeah,
we need to move expeditiously. Sure do you think it's
worth while stopping in the way back telling Finch and.
Speaker 7: Temple, Yeah, we want to get back with them, and.
Speaker 5: And maybe we take the maybe we take the long
way around. If by chance they got away.
Speaker 7: I want to cancel. Can wait? Do you want to
head back? Fell and Finch and Temple So they've got
their ears open.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but.
Speaker 8: How far a walk?
Speaker 6: Was it?
Speaker 1: Not too far? Maybe five ten minutes to get to
the center of the market. M.
Speaker 5: We we could rush back, or we can take a detour.
Speaker 1: You can also send them a message. You have that ability.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we can send them message from our forearm communication
with M.
Speaker 7: Yeah, you go ahead and fire off a message.
Speaker 4: Sure, and I'll yeah, duck back and send one out.
Speaker 1: What are you sending? Text or voice?
Speaker 6: Uh?
Speaker 8: Text?
Speaker 7: And it would just read.
Speaker 4: Emotion at the marketplace potentially a.
Speaker 5: Theft. Sounds like Yankee was chasing the potential thief down.
Keep your eyes field, we want to get to them first.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 4: I would also take this moment to also check my
own message from monkey.
Speaker 1: Okay, it is a private your eyes only.
Speaker 3: Okay, let me see.
Speaker 1: Go ahead and roll for me. Actually you can have
a plus one, so go ahead and roll the extra
plus one.
Speaker 8: Oh my god, yep, that's.
Speaker 1: A critical failure. Okay, So it's for your eyes only. However,
the image is blurred.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 1: It is a description of a six foot tall individual
in Nataku. See last scene around Nataku that the Yankee
wants apprehended immediately, And that's literally all the info there.
Everything else is redacted.
Speaker 5: Gave me a height. There's a lot of going to
go on, given how much it'll stand out otherwise fucking worthless,
and I'll just.
Speaker 4: Walk back towards shive.
Speaker 1: Okay, we're actually gonna switch back into the tin. So
Finch and Temple, did you both pick up like a
table kind of to listen in and try to eavesdrop
on love? Okay, so why don't you both go ahead
and roll for me? Does anybody have bullshit for eavesdropping?
Speaker 6: Uh? I actually think I do.
Speaker 1: I think you do too.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, I definitely do have something for eaves dropping.
Speaker 1: Would you like to use it?
Speaker 6: Sure?
Speaker 1: Okay, you can share the memory with us.
Speaker 6: Okay. I remember holding my breath and staying as still
as I could. I knew what I should have done,
but I couldn't bring myself to turn them in. Should
I share the rest of it? Yeah? Yeah, okay, you
can leave names out if you like. But yeah, yeah,
I knew Temple was going to let him go, and
on some level I wanted him to be free.
Speaker 1: To oh, okay, you can have a plus two to
your role.
Speaker 6: Oh, Billy, So do I just click plus one twice?
Speaker 1: Yep, hopefully you get a four? Yes, okay, okay, So
you both over here, ooh, you overhear two vagabonds, and
I think that you both recognize them as vagabonds because
you've seen them around this bar a lot, and maybe
even you might recognize one of their names. But I
think you both think it's something different than what it is.
Like you're like, oh, I think I know that person.
It's this person, but it's different, So you can make
up whatever name you want whenever you think that that
person is. But you've definitely seen them around enough to know. Okay,
they've been seen around vagabonds that maybe even you've apprehended before.
But they are talking about catching some conversation at the
Taurus before they got off their stop here at Nataku,
and the conversation that they overheard was about someone very
special trying to meet up with other people that were special.
Speaker 6: Hmm, what these people know me as well? Kind of them?
Speaker 1: Well, they might because I think you said you tried
to not out yourself as either vagabonds. Yeah, or so
they might not entirely trust you, but they see you
around enough to maybe think, okay, well maybe you're maybe
you're friendly, but they kind of have a mutual disposition
towards you if you did recognize them, I'm sure they
recognize you.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm going to try and just make kind of
give Temple a look like did you hear that?
Speaker 2: So I'm sort of like bent over my drink a
little bit. And so I look up side eye and
you say you asked if I heard that, and I nod.
I say, perhaps then there might be some worth in
checking to see if we have any messages at the Taurus.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think suddenly I feel like there's probably a
message there that I need.
Speaker 2: To check or in business perhaps yepe.
Speaker 6: I just forgot about it until this moment.
Speaker 2: How strange, isn't it?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 1: So as you both are you so you're leaving then
to head out, go to the doors. Okay, yeah, okay,
So the moment you walk outside, both of you get
a message paying on your thanky device. Where is it?
Where do you have it? It's usually embedded in your
skin somewhere.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I would have it just on my left wrist.
Speaker 2: I would have mind on the back of my neck,
like right above the hairline.
Speaker 1: Yeah, like it scratch rub in your neck? Yeah, okay, okay,
do you both check it? You say, sorry, I do?
Speaker 6: Okay, Yeah I do.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, so both of you roll one more time.
I believe. I believe Finch. Actually I think you have
a plus one on this. Let me just look at
your your bullshit. Yeah you do? Oh god, and that
gives us a critical failure. Okay, so this is super weird.
It happens sometimes some of you have different clearances than others.
So sometimes you'll get a random message like a bolo
or something that comes out abb and everything's redacted, and
that's what's happened. It's literally like, please apprehend this individual,
but everything has been removed, so you have no clue
as to what. But it does list it as classified
for your eyes only. You're not supposed to talk about
it with any other skybearers. And Temple yours has a
photo on it it and I don't think you saw
this person. You didn't it as a photo on it.
Man with glasses, short brown hair, very slender face, high
cheekbones pronounced jawline, and green eyes. He's about six foot
and he's very very wanted by the inky immediately apprehend
h accent.
Speaker 2: Okay, so that would certainly I get the feeling. Then
I might, oh yeah, it might stir a memory. Or
now it's sort of like I tilt my head and
I think about something and it's on the sort of
like it's on the tip of my tongue, and I
just feel very unsettled for a moment, and I just
sort of shake my head and then never moved my
hand from the communicator.
Speaker 1: Thing when you have when you have a memory or
when you have that feeling like you've forgotten, you know,
did I leave the oven on?
Speaker 6: Do you do?
Speaker 1: Do you recognize that that is, hey, I need that's
a missing memory, or do you just feel like you
maybe left the oven on?
Speaker 7: I feel like I have a a.
Speaker 2: Like were it'say a year or two ago, I probably
would have just dismissed his left the oven on. But
it's happened enough in recent like cycles that I recognize
it's it's probably from something that's actively not there.
Speaker 1: Okay. I'm ever curious about that, because I imagine a
lot of you have spent most of your waking life
feeling like you left the oven on? And you can't
quite place what's missing or where it went, but you
know something's missing, and.
Speaker 2: So it makes me suspicious of that.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, So I'm going to say that you two,
the group of you, actually will cross paths on your way.
You are heading to the doors, they are heading back here.
I'm not gonna say that you stop or speak to
each other, but you do make you do see each other.
Speaker 6: Mm hmm, yeah. I think I would just see them
maybe first split second, stop and look at them and
see if they want to join up or if we're
just going to continue on our own paths for now.
Speaker 1: So I think let's just I need to know this
actually for me. Can everybody go ahead and roll one three?
Speaker 5: Okay?
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna guess that Shiv is a bit more
well known among the other skybearers that might be around,
just because he's one of the older ones, unless he's
gone out of his way to make that hide his identity.
So I'd like to know how well known you guys
are among other skybearers or if you are trying, like
really trying to hide it, because if you are, there's
no problem with you all standing in a group together.
The issue becomes when the well known among the skybearers
Shiv is talking to another well known skybearer, that might
draw attention. But if you are all undercover, there's nothing
wrong with you stopping and speaking to each other.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think you would be undercover basically.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 7: I'm probably known to not work with people all that often.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so you're a loner, so to see you with
people would be a bit weird. Okay, unless they think, oh,
he's working a job.
Speaker 7: Yeah, okay, even then that would be a person probably.
Speaker 1: Right, Okay. And then what about Temple.
Speaker 2: Also kind of surreptitious about that. Like I said, he
tries to cultivate someone that's friendly to vagabonds, but not
necessarily one himself. To a degree, it's a similar thing
with the skybearers, Like he tries to stay out of
their way, and he tries to know who they are
without letting them know who he is.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, all right? And then how far out of
your way do you go to make sure other people
who are doing exactly what you're doing trying to figure
out who the skybears are without knowing how far out
of your way do you go to erase that information?
Speaker 6: Like Are you.
Speaker 1: Hiring somebody to describe your data? Are you using credits?
Are you not using credits the credit system?
Speaker 2: Right, I try to avoid using credits whenever possible, And
so I've spent time like doing other work, protection work
and that kind of thing that's above the table. And
then on top of that, I do have for you know,
like my data and that kind of thing. I have
someone that I go to to help me with memories
and that kind of thing for memory training, and you know,
if I need something extracted for my own safety or whatever,
that would the person I would go to. And I
imagine they probably also either have a connection or are
a good person to go to for data scrubbing and
that kind of thing.
Speaker 1: Okay, Finch, you rolled really well. I'm gonna just say
you have contacts or you yourself know how to scrub,
so you're you're not using credits. You're good. You're undercover.
Skybears don't recognize you.
Speaker 6: Nice.
Speaker 1: You don't even know the name Finch. So if you
were to give the name Finch to somebody who happened
to be a skybearer, I think you're fairly confident that
you're all right. What about you, shadow.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's interesting because I don't know really like I
feel like I would try to. I feel like Shadows
probably tries to be a loner more than possible thorize
possible as he can. Yeah, I don't really even know
like how much in the way of actually being able
to utilize credits and things he would have access to
because he doesn't collect and trade memories. Essentially, up until
like the very recent history for him, he's just sort
of been like Jason Bourne in the sense of this
is what I do, Like this is all I know.
Speaker 5: This is what I do.
Speaker 2: Just go up and bring people.
Speaker 6: That's it.
Speaker 1: You each have an account with the Yankee, and the
Yankee gives you kind of a payment every month or
every lapse.
Speaker 4: I should say, sure, I guess he would probably go
through the lengths of like I guess, yeah, there would
be maybe a couple selected people that maybe he's trusted
at this point and almost utilize them just to like
in for ways that in which he can like help
protect himself. But he I don't think has a wide
network of okay, like people that are that familiar with them.
But I think it's because he intentionally tries to keep
it that way.
Speaker 1: Okay. It's also it's also widely known here that people
don't want to be targeted by the Yankee. They don't
like the Yankee coming in trying to rule the umbra.
So these scrubbing practices, they're they're common for non vagabonds
as well, just anybody who's kind of maybe working under
the radar or who doesn't want to pay the tax man.
So it's not like you if you go and get
a scrubbing service, it's not like you're immediately outing yourself
as as a skybearer. Everything contacts, So essentially you all
have a bank account that you don't touch, is what
I'm also asking. You've never you put your thumb on
a thing?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think Temple's managed to avoid that.
Speaker 7: Okay, mare's the way to go.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 1: Now, I have a very serious question for you all,
and I know you don't know exactly what it entails,
but did any of you register at the council like
there's you know, the typical rule here is that you
go and you introduce yourself, but you are not required
to register in the Yankees database.
Speaker 4: Was I giving it choice?
Speaker 6: No?
Speaker 1: Originally you are all entered into the database, but you
could have scrubbed yourself from Yankees database. So essentially, that's
another thing that I would like to know. Did you
pay to remove yourself because the chances that you have
your tattoo, so if you get captured, you know, they'll
look and see that you are, but they'll have no
record of you, which is fine, but it also protects
you in case there's any double agents here that might
reveal like leak the information and then here you are,
your name's on a list of in your data's on
a list of people who are hunting vagabonds, and then
they just you know, string you up and kill you
the vagabonds.
Speaker 7: I mean, i'd been my best and not be I
want to use the inking. I don't want that to
be used against me.
Speaker 1: Okay, so you've scrubbed what about Temple? Is Temple scrubbed?
Speaker 6: No? Not that?
Speaker 1: No, okay, shout out. I don't Based on how you've
described your character, I don't know if you would have
or if you would have just left yourself in the database.
Speaker 4: I probably would have still just left myself in the database.
I think I would be more concerned a little bit now,
but at the same time, my entire interest is just
now trying to learn what I haven't known before or
what I don't even know, but now I'm aware of
that I don't know something, and I think knowing that
it would be related, I would probably still just try
to use that to my benefit at that time being,
even though I'm a little uncomfortable with it.
Speaker 1: Okay, and then what about Finch.
Speaker 6: I think Finch would not want to be in the database,
so I think she would probably probably learned maybe from
Shiv just kind of doing what he's doing, because she
thinks he seems like he knows what he's doing when
it comes to everything like this.
Speaker 7: Okay, yeah, follow up to that. If I scrub myself,
does that mean I get messages from them? Can I
scrub to a point with the like, I'm on a
contact list, but I'm not like a face and a
name that's correct.
Speaker 1: So it's it's somewhat common for people who want to
go deep undercover essentially to scrub. You'll still get a message. Basically,
the implant itself has an ID with a clearance level,
so there is also the potential that someone can take
yours for a higher clearance, or you can take somebody
else's for a higher clearance level.
Speaker 7: Okay then yeah, all right, okay, I'm.
Speaker 1: Gonna take turn it over for the role play now. Sorry,
lots of questions for me, but serious shit happening. Okay,
So you all meet and I think you're stopping to
talk or.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I see finish.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think we've established that it's not going to
kill you to stand and talk in the same group together.
Speaker 4: So you're okay, Okay, it's only because I sent I'm sorry.
Speaker 7: I'd probably head off to the said try and direct
us to somewhere out of sight. You know, some shadows
that anale or some less somewhere we wouldn't be easily seen.
So if we are seeing, people won't want to look
too much. Just in case.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So, for the sake of role play, anytime you
guys stop, or anytime you guys go anywhere, I'm going
to assume that you're taking the sneaking route. I'm going
to assume that you are all trying to hide. I'm
only going to ask you to roll for it if
something's actively has the potential to catch you in the act.
So don't worry about needing to clarify with that. I
know you guys are are heightening alley ways and being
discreet as possible.
Speaker 7: So okay, give me a second. I checked my massive droqua.
Speaker 3: From the on mikemmunicanta, Okay, you get oh yeah, so
you have you get the full.
Speaker 1: APB essentially on accent, and you recognize him as the
one next to the individual you recognized in the tin
asking to be apprehended by the Yankee immediately. But I
also think you might assume that that has just happened,
since that individual you know you recognize works for the Yankee.
Speaker 7: Uh shit, kah uh? Where you headed? Finch, Tempa.
Speaker 6: The tours?
Speaker 7: All right, I'm gonna head back to the ten.
Speaker 6: Did you find anything?
Speaker 7: The uh shadow fell yen, I aid, we'll fall in later.
I'll send you a message shadow you working with?
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's fine, I sent one year. Well already fins.
Speaker 6: Mm hmm.
Speaker 5: Do not see any anything run by here? Any commotion?
Speaker 6: We heard overheard something about someone very special trying to
meet up with other people who are very special at
the Taurus.
Speaker 7: Good to know you got ahead and the let's go.
Speaker 4: Nod towards Finch and Temple, then the walk with Shiv.
Speaker 1: Okay and the parties. Let's again We're going to follow
Finch and Temple as they head to the Taurus. Are
you heading immediately to the tourist port here?
Speaker 6: That's my plan?
Speaker 2: Okay, Yeah, we've got a sense of urgency.
Speaker 1: Yep. Okay, So it's actually not too far. There's a stop.
There's a tourist tunnel that leads right to it, kind
of right attached to the edge of Nataku. You do
have to go by boat, though, because everything surrounding Ninataku
is flooded. So you guys hop on a boat, are
you Are you just grabbing an available boat? Or you
ask are you waiting for somebody to fare you?
Speaker 6: Mm hmmm. I'll just whatever's quickest, okay, So it's.
Speaker 1: Probably quicker to grab an empty, available boat. Do either
of you know how to handle a boat?
Speaker 6: I imagine I would if I've been.
Speaker 1: Around a taku. You travel a lot by water.
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, same here with the work that they've done
over the table.
Speaker 1: Okay, do either of you fish?
Speaker 6: Fishing is huge here, by the way, Yeah, I probably
would like for hobby. Is that a thing here? Is?
Speaker 1: Absolutely?
Speaker 6: No?
Speaker 1: Absolutely you can fish for a hobby if you want,
but it's alone. One of the biggest markets here, So
most of most of most of Nibiu is vegetarian, not
necessarily by my choice or any moral reasons or anything
like that, but just because of food that's available. However,
fish issue is widely available here, so it's very very popular.
Almost every meal will have fish in it or you know,
be around fish. So yeah, it's very very popular. Okay,
So you take your tunnel or you take the rowboat
kind of essentially all the way to the tourist port.
What do you do when you reach the tourist port.
Speaker 6: I am just immediately as soon as we can see anything.
I'm just keeping an eye out, trying to see if
if I can see anyone that might fit the bill
of someone special. I don't really know what I'm looking for,
but just any maybe commotion or somebody walking too quickly
or running, or somebody with their head down or something
suspicious like that.
Speaker 1: Okay, go ahead and roll for me. Okay, Yeah, you
don't see anyone here, although you do recall that the
individual had said that they got off at Nataku, but
they heard this at an earlier report, okay, and they
didn't get off at Nataku, so you might have to
get on and ride it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, is there a usual way that we might try
to overhear any messages that you know transit through the
taurus and the songs?
Speaker 1: You meditate? Yeah, you meditate so you can go to
there are like there's a whole escarpment of peers that
are they split off into individual little walkways and then
circular plates that are just empty except for kind of
a meditation stool that you can sit on and you
can meditate on the tour and see if you can
understand and comprehend anything inside.
Speaker 2: I look to finch an essay, I think it's may
be worth a listen. I'll be back in a moment, okay,
don't take too much time. I not, and then I
proceed there and I try to meditate briefly.
Speaker 1: Okay. So meditation is actually a huge practice among the anky,
so I think you're all a little bit familiar with
this as well. They often will encourage you to meditate
around points of power sources so that you can listen
to the hum of the electronics and it's supposed to
clear your mind and it's supposed to help you concentrate
and think. So I think you're all familiar with that practice.
So Finch, Are you also going to meditate or is
it only Temple.
Speaker 6: I don't think Finch is going to meditate because I
think she's kind of on edge.
Speaker 2: Yep, makes sense, making sure no one, you know, comes
up on me or something like that.
Speaker 6: Yeah, she's just probably standing there baby tapping her foot
and patiently with her arms crossed.
Speaker 2: Okay, so the opposite of meditation, yeah, pretty much.
Speaker 1: Literally, Yes, Temple, you walk. You walk along the area
where it's kind of this long sidewalk that spins and
ropes around and out into an edge of the torus
where most people aren't walking, so that you can do
this meditation. Go ahead and roll for me. You can
have a plus one unless you have any other special
bullshit that will help you decipher. Your plus one is
for being a skybearer and you constantly have to You
have to sift through through memory all the time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, I think.
Speaker 7: Let's see.
Speaker 2: I think so I have a memory about like trying
to prepare myself for something important. Would the potentially apply?
Speaker 1: Yeah, let's share with the class. I'm ready.
Speaker 2: Yes, it's another memory that's not mine, but so so
I'm standing it's a we would recognize it very much
as a classroom. And there's a blackboard in it, and
I've written my name, the class's name, you know, and
it's a it's a history class the date on there,
and then you know, it didn't look quite right, so
I raced again. Then I rewrote it, and then I
took the time to write again, like a couple of
the subjects that we're going to be going over, sort
of running through in my head how it's going to be.
I'm very nervous because it's like the first class that
I'm teaching at this place, a new job, and I
want to make sure that I get everything right, and
so I just keep, you know, sort of compulsively like
writing in and then erasing it again. And at this point,
there's like so much chalk dust that's gotten into the air,
and it's just getting into my nostrils a little bit,
and I sneeze once or twice, and that's when the
memory fades out.
Speaker 1: Okay, and is this memory so this memory isn't yours
or it is yours?
Speaker 2: Correct?
Speaker 5: Okay?
Speaker 1: Not yours? Okay, Okay, go ahead and roll for me,
and you can have a plus two.
Speaker 7: That's that one and.
Speaker 1: Two figure at least got one, so that you did it.
Speaker 2: Okay, a memory.
Speaker 1: So as you are focusing on all the sounds that
you're hearing inside the taurus, the music starts to fade
out until you only hear the sound of the taurus.
It's the wind, the weird mechanical hum and beating of Nabiu,
and then you hear hello, Adam, your friend, I would
like to meet you because a friend of mine, all right.
Speaker 6: And.
Speaker 1: Something in you says that that's the one.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So externally, I'm sitting on the school sort of rocking
back and forth slightly, uh, head down, trying to listen intently.
And then as soon as the chime kicks in there,
uh you know, we see his eyes dart open and
straight up, his back a little bit, nods sort of
to himself, and then stands up and turns back to Finch.
Did I have any sense of perhaps a from where
and to where that message may have been going?
Speaker 1: Or is it just the contents, just the contents, because
it very much sounds like actually, I'll say it's it's recorded,
so that conversation did not happen here in this tunnel,
Because I think you can tell the difference between voices
that have been picked up in the tunnel and carried around,
versus a message that was played while standing in the
tunnel and then it got picked up and taken away.
Somebody listened to this while they were standing in the tunnel, Okay,
but it did not take place here, so it was
a pre recorded message.
Speaker 2: Okay. Yeah, So I got back to to Finch and
I say, I heard something interesting in there. I have
some names, they feel different, what names or are their name?
And I look, are there any like barges coming in
or available or anything for transit?
Speaker 1: Small ships are moving through? You do the biggest barge
would have just left for transit, the one that makes
a loop all the way around through the core. You
might have some smaller ships that you could book passage
on to the next next couple of spaces over in
the umbra. But the big one that is leaving all
the way through to the core has left already and
won't be back for another like a couple of lapses.
Actually it takes quite a while to go all the
way around.
Speaker 2: That makes sense. Would I know whether or not those
smaller ships would give us privacy to speak?
Speaker 1: Not here, not in the Taurus, like information is power here,
so i'd be very careful anything that you said here. Yeah,
I think you all know that pretty well the way.
Speaker 2: Right, And so in response to the question, then Finch,
I look at you, and there's a significant delay, and
I sort of lean forward and essay, trying not to
leave too many echoes myself at the moment.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I got excited. I didn't think about it.
Speaker 2: And then I nod and say, perhaps there wasn't anything
important at all. Shall we head back?
Speaker 6: Sure?
Speaker 2: And then I think as we're walking, I might intend
to No, I wouldn't never mind, Finch.
Speaker 1: Are you doing anything else here in the tourists before
you leave?
Speaker 8: Uh?
Speaker 6: No, I think I'm just just looking around. I just
want I don't know what it is that I'm hoping
to find, but for some reason in my head, I'm like, oh,
maybe i'll just look and I'll see the group of
them and it will be obvious and somehow I'll know
who they are. She doesn't make sense, but I just
I'm keeping an eye out for anything.
Speaker 1: Go ahead and roll you know a plus one ooh ooh, savvy, savvy. Okay,
for some reason, you think you're gonna look and you're
gonna see them. And I think you turn and look
over your shoulder for a second and you think you
see someone with red hair. But then when you when
you really look and focus, you don't see anybody with
red hair. But your heart will pick up its pace.
It's beating faster. And I think when you look around,
you know that feeling you get when you think you
see something. So then you turn and you look and
you're like, did I just see that? But then you don't,
and then your immediate reaction is to then turn around
and look around you to make sure you're safe. Okay,
so you do that. Finch does that, And when you
turn to look and see if you're safe, someone who
was looking at you looks away and avoids eye contact.
And it is a cybernetic individual. Both of their legs
are made with it looks like mix matched parts, and
then they have a left arm that is also cybernetic,
and half of their chest is cybernetic as well machine parts.
And they look away from you very quickly.
Speaker 6: Mm hmm.
Speaker 1: I think it's safe to say they were watching you.
Speaker 6: Yeah. I think when I realized that, I'm like pissed
off by it, and I'll just continue walking and just
kind of note it in my head. And also I'm
gonna keep looking back like I don't care if they
know that I know.
Speaker 1: Okay, and you both are heading back to Nataku then
like temple and then finish your plane is to head back, okay, yeah, yeah,
so we're gonna switch then as you're heading back, Shive
and Shive and Shadow, remind me where you were headed
and uh, that's right, Okay, I.
Speaker 7: Was walking with authority, I guess should say, Okay, I
was not taking my time, trying not to look like
I wasn't taking my time.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 1: So when you get into the tin, uh, what is
your first what are you doing? Are you looking for
someone in particular? Are you looking for them? Or are
you going to talk to somebody?
Speaker 7: The first thing I do is just a quick school
brand to see if I see them up here? Okay,
and if I don't, then I'm gonna head to the bar.
Speaker 1: Take a seat, go ahead and roll for me, Shadow YouTube.
You don't see anybody up here. You don't see who
you're looking for? Shive up here, Shadow.
Speaker 4: I don't think Shadow knows who he's looking for.
Speaker 8: You're not.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you feel something in your stomach I guess your
stomach has flipped over when you walk in here.
Speaker 7: Okay, I take a seat. Uh not for Shadow to
sit next to me.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'll sit. I'm looking around a little bit more
now because of how uncomfortable I feel, and I'm trying
to see if I can find a source of what's
making me uncomfortable.
Speaker 1: Okay, go ahead and roll more time? No clue.
Speaker 7: An okay, Shadow, look at it. Jittery findness.
Speaker 4: The feeling in here.
Speaker 5: Seem afty different than when we were here before.
Speaker 7: Yeah, e lean over a little bit closer. I think
I saw a mouse in here earlier.
Speaker 5: Oh I'm sorry.
Speaker 7: I think I saw a mouse and here earlier.
Speaker 5: So potentially it's found at all.
Speaker 7: Yeah, let's have a drink. Poked his nose.
Speaker 1: No, the song playing in the bar. You all recognize
that melody is usually played in bars in a taku
to signal that a new vagabond has arrived and there
will be an initiation.
Speaker 7: Huh, looks like we're hedger just in time.
Speaker 5: Yeah, thank your efficiency was must needed. I suppose we
sit and watch and went on the show.
Speaker 7: There might be a problem.
Speaker 5: Mhmm.
Speaker 7: Mercy me have been in the Jaws and my cat.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 5: That is a fucking problem.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 5: And are you so sure? I mean, as far as
I am aware as if what an hour ago we
knew there were between one and three and that was it?
Speaker 1: Just giving me elder, I'm sorry I missed what you
said there? Did you say?
Speaker 7: I just give them a look? Okay, okay, let's uh
grab a drink.
Speaker 1: Sure, what do you order?
Speaker 7: I don't order anything alcoholic, just whatever they've gone, even
if it's just water.
Speaker 4: Okay.
Speaker 1: They actually have a lot of flavored non alcoholic drinks.
It's not really a kraje is probably more of the
recreational drug or I would say that's more what they're
gunning for here in the Umbrella locals. So I think
you would know not to order anything else outside of
that if you're trying to fit in. But they have
a lot of cool, uniquely flavored fungi drinks, so it'll
be like either water or something that will kind of
make you feel strong or increase your senses. They have
lots of cool drinks like that, usually to help with
fishing or anything like that. They have they have nailed
the art of enhancing the human sense for vision and
for smell. So if you'd like you can partake in
one of those.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I think, uh, keep my eye sharp, it's a
good idea.
Speaker 1: Okay, what about your shadow eyes or smell?
Speaker 3: Smell smell?
Speaker 1: Okay, So you have you two worked together before?
Speaker 7: In general?
Speaker 1: So yeah, have you two worked together before?
Speaker 7: You don't go out of my way. But if someone
comes to me for help, most of that time, I'll
help them.
Speaker 4: Was he in included in my.
Speaker 7: Like initial mix up?
Speaker 4: Maybe? Or would that Jeff justpin Temple and Finch.
Speaker 1: I think that would just be Temple and Finch.
Speaker 7: Okay.
Speaker 6: But he is a.
Speaker 1: He's a bit more of a I want to say,
not well known because he's kind of scrubbed himself from everything.
But I think when you all first decided something was
fucked up with the Yankee and you wanted to figure
out what it was, Shiv's name might have come up once.
And so he's the highest ranked out of all of you.
I think he's the most experienced, So you may have
come to him at some point. It's totally up to you.
I'll leave that up to you.
Speaker 7: But that's fine.
Speaker 4: I think it would have been along with Finch because
there's that sense of guilt and responsibility.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, and Finch also looks up would have been
brought and okay, so this isn't the first time you
all have tried to you know, you've all tried to
decide you're going to figure out what's going on with Yankee.
You want to find out what they're up to. They're
up to no good. So perhaps individually you have helped
each other before, but maybe not on a traditional hunting
mission as it were. But I think you would both
notice that you instinctively ordered the opposite of each other.
So someone will have good scent, someone will have good vision.
And I think that that's kind of I think that's
kind of neat that we see that you're in sync
in that way. You just immediately go, okay, I'm going
for smell and I'm going for sight. So okay, you
both can take a plus one in addition to anything
else that you're adding going forward on rules that require
your site and or sent respectively. Yep, okay, And what
do you do here? You continue watching and waiting.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I saw that they passed by us head downstairs earlier. Okay,
so I've sat where I can see the door.
Speaker 1: Oh, okay, okay, So you're waiting to see when they leave? Yeah,
and how long will you wait?
Speaker 7: Well, I know that the trip to the market and
back in a short chat will probably wasted like twenty five.
Speaker 1: Minutes, so you will wait, you'll wait another twenty five
I mean how long will you willingly wait here if
you don't see them?
Speaker 7: Yeah? I think if they were going down there the shell,
get theirselves together, if they were being chased, and then leave,
they'll be waiting for the heat to die and sa. Yeah.
Maybe maybe wait half an hour to see if they
pop up. Okay, I don't want to give them too
much of a lead. If I've already left.
Speaker 1: You know, you don't see anything in that half hour?
Wait longer.
Speaker 4: Mhm.
Speaker 7: Shadow of the shadow?
Speaker 6: The uh.
Speaker 7: They were here as we were leaving. It's almost an.
Speaker 5: Nowhere I go now, which is why we came back.
But that what appears we may be well an hour behind.
Speaker 7: Yeah, but the you feel it might be the initiator,
he's just don't be here.
Speaker 3: Huh.
Speaker 5: Oh, you're saying if right, right, right, right? So who
you saw before may not even have been who we're
looking for. He said that the mouse is here and
residentially in the mouth of the cat. But if he's left,
there's still another new person who may be showing up.
Speaker 7: Yeah, but and it does another new and we're looking
for three another way.
Speaker 4: It's good, right, it's a place to start at least
fund some answers.
Speaker 7: Let me eat checks you and the initiation is gonna have.
Speaker 1: Okay, do you go talk to someone?
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, I know this place fairly well.
Speaker 6: Right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so Melish is working, so you would recognize her,
dark skin, lavender hair. She dyes it with fung guy.
It's really really cute, short, kind of in a bob
She's she's a local, not a vagabond, but she firmly
supports the vagabonds.
Speaker 7: Okay, uh, I'll call it over to us now, okay, Hey.
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh hey Shive. Sorry, I don't think I know
your name Shadow, Shadow. Nice, nice to meet you.
Speaker 3: Call me.
Speaker 1: You can call me mel Yeah.
Speaker 7: Uh, I have some stuff to take care of later.
Speaker 1: Oh okay.
Speaker 7: I just wanted to do and I don't want to
I want to be around for the initiation, you know, I.
Speaker 1: Think yeah, I think uh. I think Reckon wants to
keep it private for some weird reason.
Speaker 7: But I'll ask Yeah, you know, we're he knows me,
so just let them know, okay, shove their own Yeah, yeah,
uh do.
Speaker 1: You do you have everything that you need for the initiation,
like kind of an offering or whatever.
Speaker 7: I'll always keep some things on me. Uh perfect, I've
got a bag over me. I can rustle through it.
Speaker 1: It's usually fungus. Usually give like some sort of exotic fungus.
It's an offering.
Speaker 7: Yeah, also good with a fun guy. I think this
one's good.
Speaker 1: Okay, it's great.
Speaker 6: Do you want me to I mean, you want.
Speaker 7: To take it down and if he wants to keep
it private, then you can, uh, you can just hand
it on over.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, sure, chev yeah, I can do that for you.
Speaker 7: Great. Hair looks wonderful.
Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you. She blushes, and then she will
she will take your bag of the fun guy that
you're offering, and she disappears for a bit.
Speaker 7: Yeah, it looks fucking stupid China each other own right.
Speaker 5: Suppose that accounts, but that was important.
Speaker 7: Yeah. You gotta say what you want to hear and
not say what you mean. Sometimes you know.
Speaker 1: Exactly so you do notice that she like she leaves,
so they are still here. I think you'd safe for
you to assume.
Speaker 7: Yeah, not a good spot to cosh tambo here, but
we know they're here.
Speaker 5: Indeed, Okay, you could always sit in a more private
area and just trying to listen.
Speaker 7: Uh, well, we can enjoy a drink or two, will
not have any plans for today?
Speaker 3: Yeah, listen, and now we switch scenes.
Speaker 2: All right, So Finch, I think on the way out
I was rowing and you got to take a break,
and so on the way back, also you're a bit
more agitated. So maybe you're like getting some of that
agitation out.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah for sure.
Speaker 1: But yeah, growing you.
Speaker 2: See me, without saying anything, I take out that device
that sort of blocks the recording and anyone listening in
and whatnot. And so once I have it turned on
and set up, I say I need to check something
just one moment, and you see me reach into my
pocket and like if it were a show, maybe you'll
get a shot of the interior of the pocket. And
you see me just sort of like rotating this little
like golden ring between my fingers as I as I
try to go into a memory that's contained within.
Speaker 1: Okay, so that means that you might not be able
to access this memory right now. Maybe you get a
feeling when you rub the ring, but you would need
a I think you're gonna need a memory device to
do it. If this role fails, so go ahead and
make a.
Speaker 8: Roll for me.
Speaker 2: I will certainly roll, and I definitely have a suspicion.
It's related to that, you know, like missing tooth feeling
that I have.
Speaker 1: Yeah, which also relates to this revelation of the seeker.
So past moment are littered with clues, clues one may
follow back to see the full picture unfold. So when
you create a new memory, you may leave an empty
journal before it. That entry is only to be filled
later on with a memory depicting what happened immediately before
the one that follows. Once you create this prequel memory,
you may choose to either earn a memory point or
an influence point, which I can do that for you.
But yeah, it's fucking awesome. Okay, so go ahead and roll.
Speaker 2: I'm just seeing rolling the dice.
Speaker 1: It's not coming up yet, okay, okay, Yeah, you are
able to relive and relive and access this memory. Would
you like to describe it for us?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 5: So it was.
Speaker 2: It wasn't actually very far from here, it was in
or just outside of Nataku, and.
Speaker 6: There it was.
Speaker 2: It was it's after dinner, after we might have you know,
going to sleep, so to speak. Finch, you were in
a in a different room there, and there was a
fellow who was a little bit disoriented when we first
got a hold of him. But I wound up having
a conversation with him, and I was a bit thrown off.
There was something inside that I'm you know, Temple is
a guy who who respects strength and he has a
lot of disdain for for weakness. And so it's something
that even though he felt bad sort of about, you know,
capturing vagabonds, if they got captured, it was sort of
their own fault because they let it happen. But with
this guy, there was something different, like the way that
he looked, the way that his eyes were there, and
I remember the eyes distinctly, like these green eyes that
just didn't yield to the situation when obviously he was captured.
You know, we had him, and yet it didn't feel
like we were necessarily the ones in charge. And so
something spoke to me about that, and you know, I
wound up releasing any bonds that he was in any
and opening the door. And I didn't understand exactly why
I was taking that action at the time, but it
felt like the thing to do. I knew that I
had to do it, and I knew it was important,
and I knew that it was dangerous, and so I
had it. After after he walks out the door, I
wound up. You know, the memory kind of fades away
from there, and then we catched me. As I opened
my eyes again, I let go of the ring and
I say, shit, finished. What do you remember when we
both received that message earlier? Did you get an APB?
Speaker 6: It was minimal, not helpful.
Speaker 3: Why do you.
Speaker 2: Remember someone who escaped from us last year?
Speaker 5: Yes?
Speaker 2: I remember, and so I just looked her dead in the.
Speaker 6: Eyes, escape from us. Let's keep back clear.
Speaker 2: There's there's a moment where I was about to say
something and continue, and you say that, and I sort
of like pull my head back. There's another moment of
pause and silence, and I say, hmm, yes, it's true.
But nevertheless, it's him. That was the message. They're looking
for him. He's back. I don't know why he's back.
Why would he come back?
Speaker 8: Who knows?
Speaker 6: Wait, he's he's one of the special ones you're saying.
Speaker 2: I don't know. It felt different, strange when we had
him before. Did you feel that?
Speaker 8: I don't know, But well.
Speaker 2: What I heard in the Taurus seems not to have
anything to do with him. But I heard two strange
names in a voice I felt I recognized, but I
couldn't place. A woman she said, the names Adam and
Dex sounds like vagabonds to me. Sounds strange names. Maybe
they're the special ones too.
Speaker 6: That wasn't his name. His name wasn't Adam, right? No?
Speaker 8: It was?
Speaker 6: It was?
Speaker 2: And then uh, pb do I is the memory still
like fresh to me that I can remember the details
about it?
Speaker 1: Yeah, but it'll fade probably within five minutes.
Speaker 2: Okay, Yeah, so I'm already struggling a little bit to
like recall the name exactly. And I was like, no,
it was accent. Accent was his name, yes, and so accent.
If he's won, And then if this Dex and this
Adam are two others, that maybe the three. But then
the woman she said she was a friend of decks.
Maybe there's more, Maybe there's four of them. Very confusing.
Speaker 6: Someone was watching me at the Taurus.
Speaker 2: Did they follow us?
Speaker 6: Did they follow us go ahead and roll for me.
Speaker 1: Oh, oh, you don't see anyone.
Speaker 6: I didn't see anyone, but I can't say for sure.
Speaker 2: Hmm. What did I say when we were at the Taurus?
I said, strange names? I heard some names, So if
someone was listening, they may know that much, and also
they would know to listen there as well.
Speaker 6: Well, I mean we caught him once. It can't be
too hard to do it again.
Speaker 1: Sorry.
Speaker 2: Temple also chuckles at that too, and he says, well,
we'll see about that.
Speaker 6: I wonder, keep you think is the problem?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I nod. And do you think Shadow and do
you think Shive that they got the same message, and
maybe that's why they went back to the bar.
Speaker 6: I'm not sure. Maybe we should meet back up with them,
I think so.
Speaker 2: It seems perhaps we each have a different piece together.
Maybe we have the puzzle.
Speaker 6: But if it's him, you're real if he sees us,
I know.
Speaker 2: I wonder if we don't have much time where we
are anyway, things have been getting agitated.
Speaker 6: All I know is that I want to get them
as soon as possible.
Speaker 1: I want to get them.
Speaker 6: I want to get them first, and I want to
have them, and I don't want anyone else to have
that opportunity. So whatever we're doing, we need to keep
that in mind and do it quickly.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and it's a temple nods and then he starts
like he grabs a device again and turns it off
and he reads for us to make it across.
Speaker 1: We see kind of a determination on Finch's face as
she says, I don't want anyone else to have that opportunity,
and we see her start to row faster and you
pull into the port in Nataku. You leave the boat
there again. It's the locals here are very very kind
in that you know, there are a bunch of boats
that you can leave, and usually you would just leave
some of your catch in like a bucket or something
as thanks for letting us use the boat. So I
don't think we see you put anything in here because
you didn't go fishing, or unless you want to offer
some sort of tribute that you already have on your person.
Speaker 2: Is it reasonable to leave a little like krajh.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's totally reasonable to leave either Kraj or Fung
guy anything like that.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, so I'm just going to say that
you leave enough for the two of you, and unless
Finch specifically wants to leave something.
Speaker 6: Mmm, I don't think so. I think she's not even
thinking about us.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think you're focused on something else. Okay, so
the two of you head back, and I'm gonna have
you roll both of you one more time for me. Okay, Okay,
you both notice cloaked figures, aanky cloaked figures, so they're
not even hiding the fact that they're anky. Are looking
around this port area. There are three of them, thanky.
Speaker 2: Should we split?
Speaker 6: We should hurry, is what we should do. I don't know.
Should we tell them? Should we tell them that we
saw something at the tours? Throw them off? Or is
it not even worth the risk?
Speaker 2: If they don't know to expect us yet, then that
may help sides. They would already have that information, so
that would work well. But if whoever, some of them
here at our descriptions and they may be expecting us
in particular, and it would serve the opposite. There's a risk.
There's always a risk.
Speaker 6: I'll put your head down and let's go. And I
just put my head down and I start walking, trying
to be not noticeable.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so you two blend in. We see Temple and
Finch blend in with the crowd a bit here, and
the cloaked Tankee figures are looking in particular. Their eyes
kind of pass over the crowd here at the docks,
and they glance over past Fynch and Temple don't even
notice them as they walk by. It's common for the
locals to avoid the ANKI they're not really well liked,
they're just tolerated. And Finch and Temple slip away into
the dark and head back towards the tin. Once you arrive,
I think you see right away your two co workers,
I guess is a good way to put it, rather
than friends at a table in the back in the dark.
You may join them if you wish.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I'll head that way. Yeah, yeah, anything guys, any news?
Do you have them in your pocket?
Speaker 1: You will also both recognize the song that's playing isn't
necessarily particularly a song that you hear all the time,
but the melody that is hidden within the song, you
recognize it as a signal that a new vagabond has
arrived in town and there's just shelter happening here, and
that everyone is essentially it's a new vagabond. Is in town.
Everybody kind of keep an eye out that someone might
need help.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I don't answer you, but I just scratched my
ear a little bit well, looking you right in the eyes.
Speaker 6: Mm hmm.
Speaker 7: I think.
Speaker 2: To the song is like coming from speakers or something
like that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it's like the music that's playing in the bar.
Speaker 2: Okay. Yeah, So Temple looks up vaguely to me in
the atmosphere and then says to Shive, M a lot
happening at once.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I'm pretty sure I have some squeaking.
Speaker 2: Earlier, I raised an eyebrow.
Speaker 1: Trying so fucking hard to get this mouse metaphor to
to work.
Speaker 3: I love it, he thinks, So Mark Man, I know,
so oh chills.
Speaker 6: I should probably mention there was a cybernetic gentleman watching me.
Speaker 1: Sorry. I was asking you all who which one of
you turned your device on to make sure the sound
was blocked from this table?
Speaker 3: Yeah, i'd have had my ok yeah, from earlier.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so I think it's just safe to to say
we see Finch kind of like, look that that look
that you exchanged with Shiv was you know, is it
fucking on? Shiv nodded. You've got it on, so your
sound will only travel as far as this table and
it won't travel any further, so no one can overhear you.
Speaker 6: Okay, so you're good. At the Taurus. I looked up
and someone was staring at me, and they averted their
gaze when I maade eye contact.
Speaker 7: Yeah, what it is? I tell you? And you saw
him looking?
Speaker 6: What was it.
Speaker 7: Interested?
Speaker 6: Or was it you know? Oh? Well, I'm not the
best at determining that, shanker.
Speaker 7: I know, well, I good bed as did they have
the right parts or whether there is it a too much.
Speaker 6: Cybernetics cybernetic.
Speaker 7: Oh that's less good.
Speaker 6: It felt like he knew something I could be reading
into it.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I'll go with your gut. It's always good.
Speaker 2: Coupled with a few of our companions looking for people
when we returned by both you wonder if it's connection there.
Speaker 7: Did you know them? Oh?
Speaker 2: Not friendly companions?
Speaker 7: So they were being obvious.
Speaker 2: Yes, they made no attempt to hide themselves.
Speaker 6: We have to find them.
Speaker 7: Probably number one here.
Speaker 2: I heard something in the Taurus. I heard a couple
more names. Do either of you recognize or have you
heard the names Adam or dex.
Speaker 6: No?
Speaker 7: Assuming, Yeah, neither of them. No, No, I don't. I
don't know either of those.
Speaker 2: I going with God believe that they may be related
to this, They may be special ones themselves.
Speaker 7: Yeah, that's a good bad. Well, I think we should
stick with a guarantee. F hm hmmm. I'm pretty sure
the one we have here. I can't say they're safe
for sure, they're worth one of us. Oh, I don't
think you know them, but I know them, So that's
good enough. Rather than they be with someone I know,
than some guys are in the open, being reckless and greedy.
They mean to do something stupid.
Speaker 5: So can we trust them?
Speaker 7: I don't know if I can trust them, but I'm
pretty sure I could. I could make them not a problem.
Speaker 2: Much better to be in a position where we don't
have to trust anyone.
Speaker 7: Yeah, so if we can at least keep our target
safe with him, then we can.
Speaker 8: Uh.
Speaker 7: That's an easier job than trying to get out off
Everyboddy's at the doc. What do we know so far, Shiv, Well,
we know the guy they're looking for is here. We know, yeah,
they're looking for him. We know he's with one of us,
and he hasn't handed them in, and he got them
away from them at the market.
Speaker 2: How do you know that the one they're looking for
is here? I's all, And you have any image of
the one that they're looking for.
Speaker 7: I saw him before he left, and then I got
a message after we left. That's why I rushed back
here while you guys went off in your little date
to the Taurus.
Speaker 2: So yeah, as he says that, also, I look at
Finch slightly raised my eyes a little bit, but I
don't say anything.
Speaker 6: She just rolls her eyes and shakes her head. You
saw them, you saw one, and what did you do?
Speaker 7: I didn't know he was one of them at the time.
He was with the old friend of mine.
Speaker 6: Where does your friend live? Perhaps we should pay him
a visit.
Speaker 7: I haven't seen him in a long time. I don't
really keep not close TIBs on him. I don't think.
I mean, if you need to find them, I could,
but it means sticking my naked a little but probably.
But we know where he is right now. He's downstairs.
Speaker 6: He's downstairs. Yeah on, why aren't we downstairs?
Speaker 7: Because we don't want to make trouble, don't attract too
much attention.
Speaker 1: I need everyone to roll for him. As the cotticus.
You can have or excuse me, ship, you can have
a plus one.
Speaker 6: Oh my god, Bill wakes up in the d MP.
Speaker 7: Okay, my plus one first s eight? Also get at it?
Speaker 1: Or yes, so add that on top? Yep, so an
extra one? Okay. I think though something is going to
happen to shadow here. Your nose starts to bleed. Uh,
and I think that you you smell something. You smell
that salt water, ocean water, and it does not smell
like the ocean or the lake smells here with the
artificial sand and the fun guy and the the I
guess everything that you're used to smelling here at the lake.
This smells like when you're inside the lake and you're
visiting the ocean. That's what this smells like.
Speaker 7: You sick. Fu's nose.
Speaker 5: Fucking bleeding?
Speaker 6: Okay, what allergies?
Speaker 5: Yes, I get nose bleeds from allergies.
Speaker 6: Just know your medical history.
Speaker 5: There's what do you smell?
Speaker 2: Shut and pull yourself together.
Speaker 4: He's covering like his he's got his cloak up against
the nostril. That's that's bleeding. And he's just kind of
talking while he's doing this.
Speaker 7: I build a ragged on my satchel and chuck in
a shadow.
Speaker 4: Yeah, start taking it, kind of rolling it up, and
I shove it to plug my nostril. Interesting coming from
a man with one block nostril.
Speaker 5: But do you smell that?
Speaker 4: My god, it's so strong I can almost taste it.
Speaker 7: Man, it's doesn't work too good, as you can probably
tell smell what.
Speaker 4: Salt and water, but not like here, like like you're
in the lake in the ocean.
Speaker 7: Do you know what the smell of blood smells like? Sure,
it's not just that.
Speaker 5: I know that it's more closely related to iron, okay,
and not ocean water.
Speaker 7: Does this happen often?
Speaker 6: What? No? No? And I.
Speaker 5: Fuck.
Speaker 7: I'm gonna take a delivery look around just to see
if there's any go ahead. And my instinct is that
something's happening.
Speaker 1: Something, somebody did something to him. Yeah, you do see,
you do see something? You see the man you knew
walking out? Nice okay, walk with your mouse with who
you would recognize, I guess from your sheet or from
your info info deck. That accent. He looks different. His
hair is a little bit uh shorter, but it's him,
no mistaking it.
Speaker 7: Hey, squeak sweak. We're on to maybe let's go where
I get up from the day one, start hitting act.
Speaker 6: I'll following.
Speaker 5: I'll start moving.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna sort of pull my cowl over and duck
my head just so I don't obviously look like I'm
running out with a yeah, tissue or something shoved in
my mouse.
Speaker 2: Okay, I'll also head out. I think I can't help
help my curiosity, but by this point the memory is
already faded, and so I only recognize like the face
from the abb and I go, okay, now I understand.
Speaker 1: Okay, so you are tailing. So then I guess I
guess this is pretty shocking to both of you too,
because you recognize accent. So I don't know. I think
shadows pre occupied. I want to say shifts also preoccupied.
But if anybody wants to lawyer me to see if
Finch or Temple have a reaction and recognize this man,
you can. You can do it. But my gut says
you're both focused on something else right.
Speaker 7: Now, pop ahead of them, So I wouldn't have noticed.
Speaker 6: I don't think I would have. Uh, I don't know
if I would have even seen, because I was too
into the conversation. So maybe Okay, you can perspective. She
just was like they just said, hey, we're on the move,
let's go, and she was like, oh shit where and
like is looking around but didn't really see.
Speaker 1: Okay, go ahead and uh, go ahead and roll for me.
Ooh nice, Okay, yeah you do yep, both of you
really shit, that's bizarre. Oh my god. Okay, I am
gonna say you are in sync. So remind me because
I might forget that. The next time you guys do
something together. You can have a plus one. Okay, So yeah,
you both you both recognize him. When as soon as
he's like, we're on the move, let's go, and he
taps the counter and gets up or the table and
gets up, you both recognize accent. He his eyes move
over the table, but he doesn't seem to recognize either
of you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I meet your gaze.
Speaker 8: Can I say.
Speaker 2: Smart? Maybe he did the same thing I did.
Speaker 6: Let someone go. I'm just gonna walk ahead.
Speaker 7: Yeah, did you guys like way behind to have the conversational?
You're doing that as you're moving with us.
Speaker 6: I would have been a little bit behind so that
I wouldn't have said that if it was an earshadow.
Speaker 1: You guys, well, So here's here's the tricky thing. Here's
the tricky thing about this is that I think you
might not think it's within earshot. But he actually had
a drink to enhance his hearing. Or no, he didn't know,
he didn't, he did, sight shadow did, So you don't
the never mind, nobody took hearing never mind, okay, never mind.
Then you're good. Yeah, you're very lucky. So yeah, nobody
overhears this conversation. So yeah, you head out when you
exit the bar, I think at first, you glance around
and you don't see what's the what's the walking order?
I guess I should say I know shives first, but yeah,
who's after?
Speaker 4: I'd say i'd be behind okay.
Speaker 1: And are you traveling as a group or are you
kind of leaving a little bit of distance between each person.
Speaker 7: I think we're paired off.
Speaker 6: Yeah okay, and Temple, yeah okay, and then see you
and Temple.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 1: So someone grabs you shive and pulls you around the
corner behind by the side of the tin. And the
person who pulls you he recognizes reckon.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I got a knife in my hand, and I
recognize huh chiz Okay, good to see you again.
Speaker 8: I wish I could say the same, What are you
doing here? Really? Truly, what are you doing here?
Speaker 7: I'm uh looking for your friend?
Speaker 1: He gestures to.
Speaker 3: Blake.
Speaker 1: How do I says to what he his accent?
Speaker 7: I guess yeah, he's popular right there. Are you aware
of that? Well? I think you're aware of that, aware
or not?
Speaker 8: Do you know that your men jump to me as well?
Speaker 7: Eh, hey no it's not me, it's not my man.
Speaker 8: And yet I motioned to the table. Here you are,
you individuals, all working together. That's well, that's odd, willing
to share the glory.
Speaker 7: I just have some questions, that's all. You must feel
like answers.
Speaker 8: You know this place is sacred, right.
Speaker 7: Yep.
Speaker 10: But I've never really considered myself much of a religious man. Reckon,
I suppose not. I may have answers for you, depending
on what the questions are.
Speaker 1: I think at this point, Reckon, you do see an
assuming shadow kind of joins in, and then you see
a woman approach. She's wearing a bandana and keeping her
hair back. And then you see another man join with her.
Quite tall. You are outnumbered. There are four of them
here now within earshot.
Speaker 8: Still in the bar.
Speaker 1: No, you're outside, so you pulled him. You left with
Blake outside the bar, and then when you as soon
as you saw him turn the corner, you grabbed him
and pulled him into the alleyway to be like the
fuck are you up to?
Speaker 8: Oh? Shift? Okay?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, you and shift. Sorry I should
have pulled you in before that, but I was like surprises, no.
Speaker 8: Worries, no worries, just wanted to make sure I thought
I was still in the bar. All right, fair enough? Yeah,
remember the trap and there's your friends. So you are
here to cause problems?
Speaker 5: Great?
Speaker 7: No, I wouldn't say problems because then why don't we
go for a walk? Maybe?
Speaker 6: Uh?
Speaker 7: Maybe? Gary said he is he to say it's a
little bit.
Speaker 5: What do you think?
Speaker 8: There is no violence here? I would suggest you take
well to that.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I agree.
Speaker 8: You also know my position.
Speaker 5: M You do that right?
Speaker 8: You know if I stop communicating there will be hell
to pay.
Speaker 7: Yeah, why don't we don't over? Okay? I reckon being
a while, do you? Yes?
Speaker 8: A trade depends on what we're trading HIV.
Speaker 7: Stories information, Yeah, that kind of thing.
Speaker 8: Why, well, maybe I would like to notice who your
friends are first, chief before I trade anything.
Speaker 7: Well, unless you see, my friends are more friendly to
you than the fellows done by the dog right now?
Speaker 8: Mm, those are the ones that tried to jump me
or is it one of you? And I look at
them to see if I recognize any of these three
that walked up.
Speaker 6: Go ahead.
Speaker 1: Oh I was gonna say, go ahead and roll, I'll
roll for you.
Speaker 8: I can't, I can roll, Okay, I'm gonna second roll,
but yeah, oh yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, if you can roll, go for it. I don't
have that particular roll twenty open.
Speaker 5: Do you have it?
Speaker 8: H no, I only have ourn't made one.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, go for so go ahead and just tell
me what you were, what you got? Go ahead and
roll in the main one.
Speaker 8: That's fine, one one and a four, So I got
a success, just a normal okay.
Speaker 1: So you don't actually recognize any of them except for Shive, okay,
but I will say that you can commit them their
faces to memory if you want, because absolute, yeah, it's
pretty rare to run into. It's pretty rare to run
into the sky bears. They hunt their own kind. So
I think you'd probably be like trying to remember their faces. Yeah, yeah,
so you can do that.
Speaker 6: Yeah, okay, if I had jumped to you'd remember me.
Speaker 4: Mm wow, breath.
Speaker 7: If you would.
Speaker 8: If you had jumped me, you wouldn't be here. But
that is neither here nor there?
Speaker 6: Is it?
Speaker 2: A breath? Yes, a breath?
Speaker 8: You know it's always good to try to be kind
when you are. I don't know tracking people.
Speaker 7: Kinslayer and your buddy don't want to be here, right?
How about me and my friends here? Treat you and
escort and uh wellward escorting you? You just talk? Tell
us what you know?
Speaker 8: Who are you looking for? Because again you have not
answered any questions of mine, and I don't really feel
like trading without knowing what you want.
Speaker 6: Who is this person ship?
Speaker 8: Mm hmm? You didn't tell them, didn't you? Why Why
would you pull in your friends into this deal without
giving them who I was or the authority I have
with an end.
Speaker 7: Key, I guess, said French. An old friend?
Speaker 8: Mmmm, an old friend? That was really it?
Speaker 6: All right? I'm looking at you now and I just say,
and why don't you tell me who you are?
Speaker 8: My name is Reckon. I am a direct uh employee
and a part of the n key.
Speaker 1: You show them you're badge, I do, okay? So he
he is carrying it.
Speaker 6: So from why the hostility.
Speaker 8: The hostility from me or from you?
Speaker 6: From you?
Speaker 8: I don't like being followed. I'd rather be people have
people be upfront.
Speaker 7: Well, we're being up run there, M.
Speaker 8: Past deeds are still in place, but you are being
upfront now. So why don't you tell me what you
want before I agree to anything. That's usually how trades work,
isn't it.
Speaker 7: Shift? Okay, I want to know about uh, the skinny
fellow there and his two friends. Why, I'm a curious mind, reckon,
and Uh, I got some answers I want for me
personally for the inky.
Speaker 6: So there are more three total? Kind of look around,
she got you there, Reckon?
Speaker 1: Sorry sorry, Oh.
Speaker 8: I didn't confirm or deny that, but that's fair. She
can make assumptions if she wants hmmm, not for the
inky but for you. Interesting? And what about for them?
What do they get out of this? Are they just
being very kind and friendly with you and somehow working
with you for this? For no gay?
Speaker 7: Look, they're looking for their own answers for their own things.
M M. Maybe you can answer some of those yourself, Reckons. Perhaps,
and you're such a direct employee.
Speaker 8: Ask away. We'll see if I answer, why don't.
Speaker 7: You be into what I'd say to study? You're not
safe here.
Speaker 8: From you or someone else, or both.
Speaker 7: From someone else. If I give you my word that
you're safe with me, is I good enough for you?
Speaker 8: I need a little more proof than ravcation for that.
But perhaps what can you offer me?
Speaker 7: You want much better?
Speaker 8: No, if you would have used it, you would have
used it by now. You have at least that much
going for you. Can you guarantee them? Now? Look at
the other three? Studying them different? Mmm? Not any different?
You say, so, you vouched for them.
Speaker 7: I virtu for them right now. Look back at the
rest of them.
Speaker 2: If we were a danger to you, we probably would
have taken the same approach as the last an key
that visited you.
Speaker 5: Mm hmm.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 7: They're foolish, very rich, fairy obvious Reckon. That means they
don't care.
Speaker 8: They cared for just a second when they saw my badge.
I saw the doubt they have.
Speaker 1: But everyone except for Reckon gets a beep on your
communication device.
Speaker 3: Right now?
Speaker 7: Is that audible to Reckon?
Speaker 8: That's what I was wondering.
Speaker 1: Now, I think Reckon knows exactly what it looks like
when it's received that kind of like gloss over on
your eyes real quick when you know you've gotten something.
I think only another undercover anky individual would be able
to discern that. So reckon if you want a roll
to see if you recognize this sure kind of important?
Speaker 8: Yeah, any modifiers plus one?
Speaker 7: Okay?
Speaker 1: Do you have an implant.
Speaker 8: Yourself savvy success?
Speaker 1: Okay?
Speaker 8: Nothing and without revealing anything, well her bb yes, I do.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, all right, so yours does not go off,
but you recognize that all of them kind of have
that quick, instantaneous gloss over. They've all just received communication
from the AGA.
Speaker 8: Yeah. Ah, employer is talking to you.
Speaker 2: I see.
Speaker 7: You want me to check it, go for it.
Speaker 8: I don't mind. We've got some time.
Speaker 1: Uh it's another kind of apb reckon.
Speaker 7: Yeah, that badge isn't gonna count for shit. Reckon. Oh yeah,
you have my word. You want You're and your friend
there out of Nataka or well heading in Nataka. But
who knows how long that last?
Speaker 8: I mean I was trying to leave and then nah
you were here, okay, and why you let us help?
Speaker 1: And that's we're gonna have a session. Oh my god,
no good, holy shit, okay. So, but also I forgot
to tell everybody that we can we're going to be
doing two more sessions after this of y'all are still game, yes, yeah, okay, yeah,
So I didn't want you to think that, like I
forgot to tell you at the beginning of the session,
and then I was like, we're doing I decided to
do a slower burn then, and I was like, man,
I hope they don't think there's not enough action, but
we get we get two more sessions, so yeah, sure,
we've got more more common Thank you Dan. By the way,
I was messaging Dan what he would be doing, and
then eventually I was just like, can you just hop
in and have this conversation with him? So yeah, it
was great. It was great. So thanks man for coming
in to do that.
Speaker 6: I did not know about that or expect it, and
when I heard your voice, I got chills.
Speaker 1: So I was like, yeah, oh gosh. So it's also
neat too because we get to hear, you know, two
yanky kind of talking to each other, which we haven't
really had so far, you know, in the show. So
that's that's really really cool. And what's also interesting too
is that you know some people unwillingly work for the yanky.
Some people are working to get what they, you know,
want out of it, and it's like, even among the Yankee,
you can't really trust each other, which is wild to
think about. So yeah, yeah, thank you everybody. You're well,
let's do some shout outs. Let's start from the top
of our sheet. We're gonna go with Finch.
Speaker 6: Hi, I played Finch today. I'm brutal bree and you
can find me brutal bree everywhere. I stream every day
except for Sunday at three pm Eastern Standard Time and
Thursdays when I have D and E on the Kipling
Sunpie channel six pm Eastern Standard time.
Speaker 1: Dan, you're up. You're literally next on the list of the.
Speaker 8: Hey, I'm domestic Dan. I was here for five minutes.
They know it's still reckoned. Hi, all right, moving on.
Speaker 1: Next up Shadow.
Speaker 4: Him Phil's Gaming. I played Shadow for you today, a Dan,
I like you much more as a dwarf than I
have control over. There's this situation. You can follow me
on Twitter at Phill's Underscore Gaming, and you can find
me at two pm Eastern Standard time every Saturday over
on brutal Breeze channel, where I run a five E campaign.
Speaker 1: Amazing. Thank you Temple.
Speaker 2: All right, my name is Christopher. I played Temple for you.
A huge fan of Table Story, not a streamer myself.
I'm a freelance writer, editor and translator, so if you
happen to have any need of that, you can visit
me at said in other words dot com, and I'm
happy to help people out.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 7: I played chev who is entirely different from my other
character Alexander Peppin that you can find on Tuesdays on
Table Story where it's a we play in Hogwarts. I'm
a second year students there and that's really sweet and
wholesome and nice and light hearted. To check that out
and then you can faint me He's got to kiss
and all the places on the internet amazing.
Speaker 1: I will also put links in the show notes for
everybody where you can find them on Twitter and their
twitch and orth dot com. Thank you everybody for listening
to this special patron one shot, which is going to
be a three shot now for Gone and I'm PB
and you know that by now okay, so by
Speaker 6: Hi