Flight of the Icaron: Episode 2 - Shots Fired

mid, wearing ill-fitting, GEC service member uniforms stand with their side arms drawn. Nobody

“moves, nobody gets hurt. In this moment of bullet time, as these things are happening”

around you, I'd like you to make perception checks. And as we make these checks, how are you reacting in this moment? I've rolled a natural one on my perception check. Oh no. I have a sinking feeling in my stomach because so much of my family is here and as the guns go off, I think make real in my own head on that one, that the reason I haven't seen Sophia, she's already dead. With a 12, I think it's the split focus of danger and things kind of breaking

bad and popping off happened all the time in gray space. And even though Kiki screams with

the alarm when the first shot is fired, her hand reflexively moves to where she would keep

her side arm at her head. And that moment of distraction, which is why it's only a 12, is

“her beginning to spin up and remember that she had to hand off her weapons when coming”

aboard the Icaron. And all of the little things she had to give up and give away in order to walk through polite civilization here. And she's now in the mixture of like something crazy happening. And I feel defying to just being in this room. With that 12, I'll also say that you are able to spot that eight men have their side arms drawn. There are another four who you see are scanning the room ready in the height and

state that you're in, having been in moments like this. These are the guys who then if anyone thinks they can get away with taking out the obvious ones. They're there

“to let you know you've made a huge mistake. Fishcakes. I think that the second does”

the side arms left their holsters. Fishcakes had gathered the children that were around them and whispered situation echo. And with a 19th reception has attempted to usher them into a hidden or somewhat safe position, if not an exit. You can go ahead and give me a check if you'd like to I would say you're moving five kids through this space effectively. They know situation echo. They know that means that there are people here

who want to hurt them. They are paying attention. But I think I think even fishcakes knows that the closest hiding space would be under the table from what you've been eating cheese at to make it all the way to one of the staircases you ascended to reach this place. Doing so stealthily would be incredibly difficult. Got it. So I moved fast and I activate bad feeling. I mean,

we're not in an issue of order, but basically what happens is I move before an issue of order

is determined. So doing that and then I'll do a stealth 13 plus nine 22 stealth for getting the kids to safety of some sort. In this moment you are able to move within credible speed and decisiveness attempting to wrangle all five kids move and move them effectively toward the staircase that you came up from using the larger human bodies around you to move through the space. Kiki, you see one of the men who is not revealed his sidearm. See these children moving

and grab the team home by the back of his neck. Lift him up, go, stop. I freeze. On the ground, now. I'm of slowly to do as he instructs. He throws

I'm not. Nobody moves. Nobody gets hurt. You see at the front of the room,

“still standing on the stage. Dr. Hermione Cortes, hands up. Gentlemen, please, there's no need.”

You see the man closest to the stage fires two shots into a Monty's chest. Shut up bitch! Anybody else want to talk? You watch a Monty Cortes fall to the ground. Burn holes in your chest.

Andre, you see the general Reagan Manhole Secretary of Defense for the GEC. Instinctively

goes for his sidearm after seeing a Monty fall. He gets it out of its whole circle and aimed at one of the men when two men behind him fire into his back and he falls down.

“Lifeless. Question. The two that fired. Are they two of the four non-revealed?”

Except. To now three of our four non-revealed. Yes. There's just one left. There's just one left. Where's the one? That's my fucking huckleberry. He is across the room for you. There are nine guns

drawn at this time. You see that a man steps forward, broad shoulder, shaved head, heavy set jaw,

olive-toned skin, sharp features, tattoo creeping up his neck. Everybody in black and gold is going to stand up, put their hands behind their heads and follow me. Everyone else is going to stay here, staring at the floor. I think I haven't gotten down yet. Unless I'm the only one still standing in which case I will drop to my knees. You spend your whole life hearing and reading about moments like this and some part of me is going, oh, I'm not doing anything heroic. I'm

getting on the floor. Oh no, I'm putting my hands on my head. Oh no, but there's another part of me that's going, how can you, I can't make myself act because what's happening is so surprising. I keep going, well, wait a minute, what's going on really? There's some part of me that's looking at my lifeless friend's body going, well, hold on, that can't, but that would mean and just feeling the needle skip on my own mind. I just get on the ground and stare at the floor. Slowly, attendees of the

party are raised to their feet. Some of them needing to be lifted and aligned of most of those in attendance are led toward the exit. The vast majority of the room is lifted to their feet and escorted out by about eight of these men dressed in uniform. I'm looking out and as they suddenly black and gold away, now that I'm on the floor and something is happening, I'm looking at a money, look where her body is and then I go black and gold and I look up our Stella or Nisha

blocking out of the room right now. Nisha continues to remain by your side. You see that Stella is hoisted up by her collar and put in line with other members of the global executive council. I go insane in my own mind and I'm in hell.

“Looking over here because I think Kiki on the ground doesn't have allies, doesn't have anyone to”

coordinate with. Other than just sort of being close enough to Timo to make sure he was okay as he got on to the ground. She's tried not to lose eyeliner on the last hidden, the last hidden bad guy who hasn't pulled his weapon out. But if I glance over at Andre, do I see how bad a time you're like, is it right on your face at all? Oh yeah, I'm I'm a slacked odd staring at my daughter beat the cart of the way and I'm looking around to see if there's anyone else I can see holding a gun.

But I also am aware that I don't want to shift my head when you're on your stomach. You don't you can't easily turn your head to the other way and I don't know if there's someone right behind

little bit to like put on a little more panic because I switched my LEDs to yellow. I'm technically

“wearing black and gold now. So I'm going to start panicking where I am and try to make eye contact”

with the guy that was mean to Timo and she's just now muttering like, do I get up? Do I say down or are they going to come get me? Just so I'm trying to pull attention to get hold up. Your attempts to be noticed work. One of the men closest to you picks you up and goes, "No, do we bring her?" "I know, I don't where, where are we going? Where are you taking us?" "You see the man at the front goes." They said they just want council members.

"Yeah, I'm not that, where are you taking them? I don't want to go where they want." "You see that he pushes you back to your knees." And says, "Thrasch, look, you stay here. The rest of us are going to take them down." You see that the line of people is

led out of the room and down the staircase. As you are able to stand for a second,

you see that remaining here are Talia, Ogo, a man in a cowboy hat, Andre, a woman laying next to him, and yourself are remaining in this space, along with the five children. Five kids, and four guards. You see that the one who was addressed as rook steps up and goes, "I want adults over here. I want kids over here." "That's to the room of us." "Yes. Do I see people starting to get up?" You see that Nisha sniffling raises herself up on her four arms

and stands and begins to move across the room. "I would like to make an investigation

check if I can about exactly how many combatants are left. And if there are any secret combatants,

“I think that Andre is already doing the math of brewers didn't get on this ship alone.”

Right. Gunslingers did not get on this ship alone. So as immediate thought is there are more enemies than we can see. I'd like to make an investigation check to see if I can ascertain how many enemies there are, including ones not holding guns if there's some way I can do that. Please. "Can I make a perception check to see if there's a way I can help him with, like, giving information that I did my weird little faint to get?" "Of course."

"Forty now?" "You can do your best to communicate with your eyes." "If it's eyes, but it's also, like, slowly getting up and making sure that my hand for whatever reason, the hand that is closest that, like, Andre can see, I'll talk to my thumb, try to show, like, for, like, just trying to give numbers and see if I can help point out by, like, where I'm looking and slowly signal. If he's trying to, if it looks like he's trying to do the same thing, I just did. Give

him the information I just got without having to say any of it." "What did you make on your

“investigation check?" "Uh, should I roll with advantage or no?" "I think you should. I think that you”

notice that Kiki sees you attempting to understand information about the space and is going to already indicate her Huckleberry, the man who has not drawn a sidearm, but still, I think, is of a build and a size that would communicate that he is more like the man who have taken over the space, than those under there." "Hand, gotcha." "Thanks for letting me touch the natural one." "Wow, that is going to be 18 plus nine is 27." "Under a, you begin to do the math on your head. You

spent three months in this station. You know it inside and out. That kid asked about events earlier. You could rattle off all of them in your head undeniably. These people had help. You are short of that. The level of tech required. The level of information required. You met a lot of spacers. You've met plenty of people from all walks of life in your travels with your son on tranquility, the university, your like the early stages of shipbuilding before you met tubes. Guys like this can't

break into a station of this magnitude with this level of secrecy without somebody spilling the beans. There are four shore for combatants in this space. Everyone else here looks too scared or too caught unaware. However, you are sure that someone on this ship helped these men to do what they've

side area of like are we being sent against a wall essentially? Yes, you were being moved to a

“essentially a section of seating and just a hard separation. I think one side kind of closer to the”

canopy's table and the children being asked to stay closer to where they were caught when fish cakes was attempting to lead them out. Fish cakes is coming with us or with the other children. Fish cakes is with the other children. The children aren't being asked to leave. You are not being asked to leave the space you're just being separated from the adult and you see that three of the guards

are going with the adults and one is staying with you. Good. Looking over, I had been next to Kiki when I

noticed everything went down. She reached for a side arm that wasn't there. I saw her looking, eyeballing her huckleberry. I saw her look to Andre. I saw Andre look around at the other combatants. I'm going to let them go but before I do, I make eye contact with Kiki who I see is still looking around and I sort of do the same motion slowly of inclining my head and then looking up words that I had

“done on the stage. The quickest glance upward in the direction. Were you signaling something?”

No, I'm not looking at a particular point in the room but just in the idea of the subterfuge. Kiki glances up and then you watch her like blink and like shake her head a little bit realizing that was not a signal. It was signaling a similar intent. I'm going to nod at you as we are separated and make sure that you move to where there's only one guard left and I'll just signal one. What's my huckleberry doing? Your huckleberry has at this point stopped hiding. The two

guards were leading the adults. He moves to join them. Andre, as you and Nisha are walking, you're here under her breath. Nisha go. So if he's downstairs, she wasn't feeling well. Okay, okay, okay, good. I thought she would know better than to you. You know who these people are or

“know. No. They're doing them on the ship with us. They said anything. Did anything on the ship with you?”

No. Okay. When we get up against the wall, what are the odds that the only rats are the ones that were wearing black and gold? I don't know. Are there others around? I'm going to look to get my back against the wall. How big is the crowd of people surrounding us that are squeezed in back here? Talia, Bogo, Nisha, and Kiki. I am going to look around behind me and just check for event would be a miracle, but I'll take anything. I'll take a panel. There's no solid Earth here.

We've the whole things artificial. The whole thing comes apart, but event would be amazing, but I'll take

anything here that I can look at as a means of opening any way to get down to Sophie. Give me a luck check with advantage. Anything over a 12 will do it. That's 16. While you are investigating, you see that one of the bad guys crosses the room, leaving the adults to stand with the kids. Fish kicks. You hear a man come over to the person who was addressed as Rook says, "What time are they getting here? How long do we have to hold it down?"

I mean, they said that they would just be on the sonar, so they should be here any minute. All right. All right. Cool. Cool. I mean, that would be pretty well. That would be pretty well. Yeah. Yeah. Just stay for us. All right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And he moves back over two Garpy adults. There is event there. Looking. Amani Cortez. I don't know where Stella is.

My friend is dead. General is dead. I don't know where Stella is. Oh, for an over and over again in

my head. And I just start in my head going 1, 8, 27, 64. And I am going to slide down against the wall like I see. Like almost like I'm redoing the instructions to get on the floor again to get down behind the legs of the people standing around me and begin to open the vent. All right. Kiki, give me a perception check and Andre give me a stuff check. Five. Five.

“I think you'll get the sense that Andre is moving. However, I think there's part of you that”

feels like if you were to turn around and look, it might draw unnecessary attention. For stealth, that is going to be a 16, but I'm going to add defiant. All right. There's a 19, 19 total for stealth. These guards add a plus one to perception.

They need an 18 on the die to see you. That's a four. Two more guards. A second four.

No man, come on man, come on man, come on man. Come on man. And a nine. It's not actually okay that people do that. Do you like that?

“You know what, that's a field you're best friend. Well, that's a table top.”

Yeah, now I'm holding your daughter hostage and me rolling ever so slowly to see if you could be effective in preventing it as difficult. It's difficult for you. I didn't know that the cost of being a prospective character was total powerlessness. At times, at times, for the story to feel good, I just got it. Oh, it's in my expense, the pathos. No. Oh, welcome, brother. You were able to do this stealthily. Described to me, what it is, Andre does.

This time, I will ever so slightly tap Kiki's foot with my foot. Showing you that

“under my stealth, I have slid down onto my butt on the floor and I have a small, uh,”

essentially ceremonial multi-tool. Look at the thing that you have on your formal engineers thing. This is like there's no handling and this thing at all. But it is a small single handle

power tool. It's basically a power, a multifunction power tool in what looks like an analog

screwdriver, essentially. And I am going to tap your foot and make this thing make a little noise to indicate that some help covering that noise would be great and try to elicit a help action from Kiki in this moment. I would love to help. My help is weird and bad. There's rules in gray space about how long you're allowed to be by yourself. Limits before they send you back, but I don't get sent back.

We just stay weird and space is much stranger than they give a credit for. As a bother me much. I want to find something a little table where there are like hand-a-pays and like an ice-cold, just a decorous table about 30 feet away. On the other side of the guards watching us and clear of the kids that no one else could get to. This couldn't be pinned on us. It is hard to explain why it's suddenly shot.

As I use break a force ability. Kiki, in this moment, as you tap into this ability, you have spent countless days, months, and sometimes years in space. This, according to government regulation, is deeply unadvisable. The ways in which your body has changed and at times the technology you have needed to use to feel even somewhat comfortable in spaces, even with artificial

In this moment, as you are using this ability, you are manipulating gravitons. Correct?

Yes, gravitons, of course, being the atom-sized particles that govern and define gravity in this world. The gravity drive on the agaron is at all times constantly making small artificial gravitons that are then moved throughout the space to create that artificial sense of weight. In this moment, you are able to use those powers yourself, giving just the amount of time you have spent out here and the technology you have invested in, which allows you to manipulate gravitons

in this way. This is what? I've changed myself, but it's all under my jumpsuit, no one sees it,

and I can feel it like a metronome. Every time a new little artificial graviton is made,

“and I think it's just her heel tapping on the ground, and she's trying her best to play it off,”

like a very rich, very worried woman, being anxious, and then she's eventually going to just turn her shoulder, so she's not even looking at the table that she's picked. And she sends all of that energy all of that force, the weight that in our understanding of space time weighs down the blanket of reality, she like leans into the heaviness, in the distance between her and the object she needs to not exist anymore, and blows it up. I'm hoping that the three guards watching us are all within

five feet of it, because they need to make a dexterity saving throw, as this thing doesn't just explode, it shatters outward and makes a very loud noise to cover anything anyone needs to get done exactly

“right now. Fantastic. I'm going to roll three D20 every one over ten is a person who is standing”

within five feet of the table you are exploding. 17 16 and six, two of the men you will watch, go flying. What is the DC they need to do? 16. They both succeed. This force rockets from table shatters can a pace lifted to the air and hold there if only for a moment floating in space. You see these two men merge forward, do they take damage? No, because you made the same if there's no damage. Okay, these two men merge forward guns immediately pointed out. I scream so they focus on

me I'm trying to buy you time. So I'm going to leap away from you and pull focus, freaking out like I also don't know what just happened. Go ahead and give me a performance check with advantage. 24. The two men caught within this blast also screech. As they turn, look at you, look

around. There is chaos for a moment. Andre. First of all, Andre is going to take the help action,

but it's it strains his brain to the maximum to not focus on what the fuck is happening. This is like this is like hey man, I'm it's like being in a high school and being like I'm going to sneak into the bathroom and drop a cherry bomb in the toilet. You watch the door carry and see what

“he uses mind. You're like not like that. What the fuck? So like okay Jesus. So I think I am”

going to work as I hear the rather than like tapping her foot or something that the table explodes. But I'm doing my little cube numbers in my head so we're focusing up. I'm sorry we didn't have a chance to discuss our strategy for a tinkerers tool that is going to be a 19. You unscrew each one of these keeping the rhythm of the numbers in your head. You move through the four corners of this vent with ease. It is popped off and everyone is still looking at the screaming woman and the broken table.

There are five of us here. There's chaos in this moment. The vent is off. Nisha is here. Nisha is counting on me to get to Sophie. I think in this moment, I am not mission impossible. All that my thought is is get out. So I'm not going to like get in and close the great behind me or anything like that or like cover my tracks. I'm going to dirt in. Use my climbing

out comfortably sliding down fish cakes in this moment of chaos. You see that the guards standing over

“the children moves away as he takes a few steps toward the kerfuffle that has appeared in this moment.”

You see the children all kind of screech and have all kind of crouching a corner in our whole

to each other. The second that I hear the sound of breaking glass. On the floor, I crawl over to where

the guard is walking away from me. I slide out a blade from a bracelet underneath my jumper and I slice his Achilles tendon. Jesus Christ, let's roll initiative. And you will be moving in a surprise round. All right, my initiative is 922. Andre, would you like to be included in an initiative or you want a separate measure? I hear shit popping off up there. I have to get Sophie. I have to get Sophie. 100%. I genuinely feel bad about Nisha. That's the thing

“that I'm genuinely feeling bad about, but I also know I have a bond with Nisha even across”

fact that we are no longer husband or wife that I know she would hate me forever and be right to

if I did not focus on Sophie. Fantastic. We still roll initiative for me. That is a 12. Fishcakes in the surprise round. As you move to strike at this man, go ahead and give me your attack rules and do so with the advantage. Oh, whoa. Okay, 19 plus. 19 plus five. 19 hits. Yeah, you right now, you're using a vibrato knife. So yeah, 14 plus I bleep two or three these six. 26. So for total of 16. 16 points of damage. Oh my god. What does it look like as you bring

this man down? What begins as the cutting of attendance is going to end up with him fully incapacitated. So I stab at his Achilles 10 days. He goes he crumbles to the ground and I slice my blade across his throat, not necessarily even to make sure he's dead, but so that he can't scream just in case the chaos dies down. She's as fishcakes. Kiki, you are next in initiative, so you know they go next or after Andre. On their turn, they will be making perception checks to even see what fishcakes

has done. Right now, you control all the attention in the room. Okay, I'm actually going if they, if I see that they're still up and looking around, I'm going to use a bonus action to hide, but specifically the body. I'm going to try and stuff him drag him behind the bar. Give me a high check.

48 Jesus. Why? Fishcakes. There's always been something about you. Did in moments of

tension, it was something bogo constantly had to deal with. If you got into a scuffle with another kid, you have a physicality about you. When you get revved up, when you get angry, when you get active, that you move incredibly quickly and with an amount of strength that has never suited your size and age, you move strike this man twice, bringing him blow and then across the neck, then grab the center of his chest and slide his body underneath the bar table next to you.

I say scatter. You see the children. I'm going to roll initiative for them. You see the children look to you, not and prepare to move. Kiki, where once there was a man, there no longer is one. Question before I decide what I want to do with this, my Huckleberry. He's no longer like trying to hide

“what side he's on, but has he made any like, is he holding or brandishing his weapon?”

Everyone has pulled their weapons out since that table exploded. Sure. He's looking. He's been focused on the adults, but he is the one who didn't scream. He's attempted to control his breathing and understand what the hell is going on. He's the scariest, not him. The most jitter, so out of the two that got like pushed, who was the one that walked and walked back? That's like trying to like stay frosty. You see guy shaved head, big gold hoop earrings, like thick heavy, like not with

like door knock or earrings, kind of geometric tattoo up the side of his neck, a big scar underneath his right eye. Perfect. That's my target. Then I'm going to look over and kids are scattering.

point in the corner and in that time. I don't think I've ever thought of it as

an ability with gravitons, but I am now next to that weakling, phase shift. As a bonus action and then for my action, did they take every weapon off of me? I'm fine if it's yes. The children were escorted to like a side passage because of the expediency with which you needed to be on the stage. What weapon would you like to have attempted to

“conceal? I think it just would have been like a utility knife. It wasn't even a thought like she”

under she was grumpy but understood like they're walking with a weapon, but there's something about a like that's a blade, but I don't think of it as a weapon. Just like a little three inch pry a thing, cut a thing, nasty little guy. Give me a luck check, DC seven. Exactly seven on the die. It's a box cutter. It's a box cutter. You're able to get this small, something that was truly written off like a Swiss army knife in the same way that Andre carries tools around. A similar

lenience was given to you, especially given the actual weaponry that was removed from you.

Well, let's hope we survive this. I never looked back to see what Andre was doing.

I hope he's still here. We're going to fight now. I slide out the blade and I want to plunge it into the weaklinks knife. All right. I'm using a power. We'll talk about it in a second. Oh no, I roll bad. Does it 12 it? 12 does not hit. This is gonna suck. Describe for me what happens. She is suddenly next to her. And again, she reaches for where she would keep something terrible. And all she's got is that stupid little utility knife that she didn't even think was a

weapon. And grabs it. And is beginning to lose the immediacy of the moment. And like fumbles it, it's not a thing that she has ever wielded like a weapon. And these guys are much taller than I expected.

“So sliding and trying to hit him in the neck, I think at best, she glances off of his crap and”

just gives herself away as the problem arms up fully exposed. Like it's just one of those things where you're like, you're caught doing a thing that didn't drop him. And now, literally I'm just like belly up, blade in hand, ultra vulnerable. You move to strike. As you said, the size and length of your weapon is just not what you would normally use. You are easily deflected and fully exposed. On initiative 20, the children moving half their movement are going to inch towards the stairs,

doing their best to stay hidden. Andre, sliding down, reaching the bottom. You see,

there's a second vent ahead of you to pop out onto the lower level of the zenith hat. There is

“a commotion above you. I hear the commotion. I know what I have to do. I know how to get to”

Sophie's quarters as I'm sliding down hitting the bottom. Immediately, I'm like, I'm a 57-year-old engineer. I am not a fucking commando. In my head, I'm like, you didn't see a vent because maybe Nisha wanted escape, but she don't have gloves. So what she's going to do, fall, you stupid. Okay, but then I realized, okay, they're not going to have gloves either. And I want to get out in z-hab through a vent that you could only access with the climbing gloves that I had. In other words,

if they jumped at these fucking goons, jumped down the vent after me, I want them to not be able to go the direction I went. I want to find some way out that only the gloves can get you through. 100% there is a vent immediately in front of you. You do not take that one. You bang a right and are able to move yourself up 10 feet to another vent that kind of lets you out a little bit higher. There'll be a small leap down to the ground floor, but it would not be the easiest

path of egress out of the ventilation system you found yourself in. I am going to pop out of that ventilation system as I'm going to suddenly realize like you don't know how many goons. And I'm going to undo the vent as fast as I can and I'm going to counter measures tech power on myself. For the next 10 minutes, I am immune to the homing rocket's tech power. Me and objects I am

area or frequency scan, unless the classroom makes a successful intelligent savings for

“against my DC which is 15 and creatures have disadvantage on wisdom survival checks to track me.”

Great, so I'm just going into my wrist pad and I'm going anything that geotags my location is offline, anything that is like an ISB or whatever or whatever is dead. All of my stuff is encrypted and actually any message or comms from me is coming from multiple different locations on the ship at the same time and any heat signature on me is going to get logged as a faulty reading in-store. And I'm going to pop out into the hallway and just start walking and I'm like

oh my my friend is dead among he is dead and I'm just my breathing is fucked up, but that just happened upstairs. Anyone not at that gala could be walking down a hallway

“and that wouldn't be weird so don't run. Just walk to where Sophie is. Just walk.”

Go ahead and get me an investigation check. That is going to be a 27 investigation check. The room's here have been organized in alphabetical order. You see just be on where you can make it to on this term the name dawca s dawca on room 714. I walk up to room 714 shaking shaking and I don't know why but I just I can see is I'm going to open the door and and something horrible will have happened. But I go up and I'm going to knock on the door which feels insane in this moment

but I'm gonna knock on the door. We will get back to that on your next turn in initiative. Why are you heading away from me my daughter? Six seconds mother fucker. Welcome to tension.

“Kiki, you watch as the man you attempted to stab, we also just got on you.”

What the fuck are you doing? From the ground you watch as the man in the cowboy hat rushes up and barrels this guy and pushes him into the vent hole created by Andre. You watch as the guy

you attempted to stab falls head first 20 feet straight down with a sickening crack.

The other two men are going to wheel around. They're two men left. One is going to shoot at you. One is going to shoot at Bogo that each have two attacks. Sure. What is your AC? 15 for now. Let me know. One shot will miss and one shot will hit. The one that would hit. You see the bullet slow down and slow down and slow down like it's Xenos paradox of getting halfway between the world and me and it slows down again and again using a force ability. My new armor class is 21. Does it still

hit? It does not. You watch as this beam of laser holds and shakes in the particle field in front of you and fizzles. The person who shot at you, you see the countenance on their face turn to fear. What are you? One of the shots on Bogo will hit. You see a Bogo take a bolt to the abdomen. As he struggles to kind of regain ground after having pushed this man into the vent, we now return to fishcakes. One of the three men is down the shaft and there are still two.

Guns aimed at Kiki and Bogo. The guard who I had dispatched did he ever weapon that he dropped? He did. All right. So I grab that. I run over and using my knife. I fully jump the man that I had noticed Kiki staring at. I jump on him using my knife to slash his neck and I toss the weapon to Kiki. I love you. Go ahead and give me that attack roll. With sneak. I guess you have an ally within five feet. 22. 22 hits. 15. 15 points of damage.

The strange girl who smells of fishcakes sprints across the room almost on all force. Out of the ground, leaps up and rides this man to the ground, tossing you a weapon on the

way. You dispatch a second person fishcakes. Let's go. I take him down to the ground, pull out my

It's a light. Kiki is your turn in an initiative. So Kiki's killed two.

“Cowboy hat killed one and we just have the one left. There's one left. Perfect.”

Oh, guns. Fun though. I love gun. How far away from me is the last guy? 10 feet. You toss me the side arm. She catches it easily. And while making eye contact with you as she watches you, end a man's life, just points to the side of the one left. It's a conversation or you join your friends. You've me an intimidation check with advantage.

Like a rubber talker. How old nine on both? Damn. 15. You see that he drops his gun to the ground.

Yeah, come take a seat. Go, are you okay? Oh, kid, I'll be fine. I've had worse. I've had much worse. What? In what capacity? Oh, you didn't know me before. Well, this is happening. X wife. Take that gun. You see Nisha reaches out and doesn't point the gun at anyone, but grabs it. Okay. Cowboy hat, what's your deal? Bogogos, I'm the ward for the children of the stars. Oh, okay. Well, thank you for that. All right. And you, sir, who is going to be so good and

cooperative because you want to live through this? What's your name? Oh, quickly. I know you're scared. We will come back to this moment. Yeah. Andre, you knock on the door. Strange as it is. No, don't roll. I'm so proud of you. The door doesn't open. However, your daughter's voice comes through from the other side. Hello, hello, Sophie. Dad, he's pop. You got to open a door right now. Okay. Okay. The door slides open. Your daughter is standing there in pajamas. I'm going to slide

into the door, close the door behind me and wrap my arms around her so tightly that I am attempting to weld us into one unit that can projectile out of your back to earth. Dude, what's going on? Okay. There's attack on ship from inside, Martian, terrorist criminal, something. Dr. Cortez shot and killed. We, they have stellar right now. Your mother upstairs is very bad.

“You need to stay hidden. What we're going to do is this. What are we going to do?”

And I'm going to look at her. I'm going to say, you're really sick. Or you don't want to go party. I'm really sick. I'm somebody brought one of the earlier guest brought some food up that I don't think made it. It didn't make the journey. I met us and check on my daughter. Go ahead. Natural one. Bubble good. Yeah, she's she's shooting herself for all and she just doesn't want to see she's shooting herself for trying a natural one. Your daughter's fucked up. You know,

yeah, she's genuinely sick though. I think you maybe think it's worse than it is. On in that one, I look at her. I got radiation. What? What? No. You in the car? No, I just know what? What? No, I just really wanted some sushi. Earth sushi? Oh, okay. I'm going to look around to she have her side arm in here. Go ahead and give me an investigation check. 13. She has a side arm. It's a military facility. She was given a side arm. There is only one

“clip looking around on 13. I'm like, you need to clean your room. What? You need to clean your room.”

Dad, did you? You said they were terrorists? Why? You're yelling at me about my room because exactly why I said to workbench stay clean. Everything organized because there is show up. Yeah, the stop. Uh, I'm freaking out. If I look, this is a general habitat space and I look around and say, hot, this is your mom's job for their life supports. Um, and hey, I remember like, can I weld her in a bathroom in a way that terrorists can't get to her? You likely could. An incredible

peak into Brennan's future. Don't wish that on me. I'll never have to weld any of my children

anything. Uh, I don't want to. I don't want to. I hope, but I hope that if I do, I do it with the, with the

I actually know that Sophie is sick, which means that she can't run. And I also know that no one's

“plan is to come. I'm going to sit on her bed and start to go, plan is not to come and wipe”

out engineer staff of vessel, plan is to hijack vessel. So Sophie is momentarily safer in here, but we gotta get message out. We gotta get to comms. We gotta get to comms. We gotta get to comms. And I'm going to look at her and I'm just going to look on any of the screens in here that I, if there's anything that she, she have better tech than my risk slate in her have. Very much so. She can essentially direct message other parts of the station, other staff. Anyone who's extension, you would have or she

would have, you can reach from this room. While I'm under the effects of counter measures,

I'm going to log in on a more powerful server from her hat room. In fact, I'll cast a full counter

measures again just to just to cover my trail and blast out a full bullets in the cross the ship that there's been a hostile takeover of the ship that there are criminals on board. Dangerous violent people. This is a multi-kilometer long vessel and every corner of it. It's going to be, uh, fuck at alarms, clack songs, uh, the whole nine yards. The message is going out to everybody. Fantastic. We will now pivot back from the space. I have to piece out back because I'm scared to

realize that. Back up at the top of the scene at the top. I've shot him in the knee for hesitating.

“You're going to run out of limbs quickly. So we're going to, uh, speed is up. Yeah. Who the fuck are you?”

We're. No, I do. Okay. My name's Rourke. Okay. Rourke. Thank you. Rourke. Why are you here? And what are y'all doing? We. They give us. Who's that? Start with that. I'm, uh, I don't need it. Hey, Rourke. Do you see this very pretty dress somewhere? And I'm going to start undoing the sorry while keeping the gun like still leveled at him in a very weird like dexterous set of actions.

This is worth. Let's call it a million. It's very expensive. You can have it.

What? Take it with you. But I'd need all the information because I don't die here. So who is they? Okay. All right. Um, someone, protect or related. I don't know. Okay. That was, that was thrash and brought. They sent it up. They said they would, they said they would get us in. They said they would have uniforms for us. They said no one would ask questions. Yeah, you're at.

“They were at so far. Where are you taking the GEC people?”

Commandbridge. For what purpose? I don't know. That's, they said we just had to hold the command bridge until what until they got here. So they're coming here. Are they taking the GEC around? Are they going to destroy it? I don't know. Best guess, Rock. I don't know. Oh, Mr. Davis. Oh, you got me, Kiki. Uh, uh, I saw a lot loading giant cargo with this symbol and I traced it in the air with my finger. Oh, going to be a Lordtrap. Yeah. Yeah. I don't be way, oh no, I'm stupid. 16. 16 you would know it. That is

one of the nine Mars protectra. Sure. That is their logo, a rising sun. Have I ever done business with this protector it? On a 16 you have not. Okay. Stingy bastards. Okay. We got to see that cargo. And then the kid. Huh? The kid. Look at it. I don't know one of the kids. We're supposed to keep one of the kids. Why? No. Any guesses? Do you know which kid? No, they said just keep the kids. I mean, that's pretty good guess, right? That's pretty good guess. It could be better though.

Okay. Big questions, Rock. What are you going to do next? If we get up and leave, what do you gonna do? Sit here. No, you're not. What? You're not. I mean, I shot you in the knee. So our problem is

gonna get killed by your people for sort of shit in the bed in here? Probably if they find me. Okay.

And I'm going to push that like again 10 meters of fabric into his hand. Probably don't go follow your friend because he died that way. You run, hide. If I see you, ever again, ever again, in my eyes or everywhere, Rock. We're gonna have long, slow, painful words,

“okay? Are you sure? Are you sure we want to let him go run around? I think so.”

It's important to understand mercy besides maybe in a moment of crisis. And I'm hoping at this point our attention has moved and he's getting up and like going away. I'm nodding. He's slowly backing

away. As some point, maybe in like a moment of crisis where he could like turn on us, he'll understand

the mercy. Is that not working for you? I just don't know that I've ever seen it be that effective, but that's fair. I was hoping today will be different in a shoot. Fair. Sorry. I just figured, you know, better be safe than sorry. No, I know. I feel the same way dang. All right. But well done. Fishcakes. Is this a maternal instinct? Oh shit. Where are your little, where are your kids? Uh, you see the bogo is with the, the, the five younger kids. And

has sat them down and is getting some water from the bartender station and making sure that they're

hydrated. Uh, you also see that Nisha, who you requested hold the gun, has kind of stepped forward.

“I think my husband has downstairs with my daughter. Is your husband the apricot man?”

Uh, the fuck did he leave for? I, I'm assuming to find our daughter. Okay. Well, I thought he would maybe help us deal with this. I get why you left him. Go for you. Okay. I'm going to go. Wait, where are you going to go? I'll just be downstairs. To find your daughter. Yeah. We, uh, she's on the app level. Okay. But, isn't your other, you got two? Yes. So I'm focusing on the one that I can help. And then I'm going to figure out what I can do for the one that I can't at this moment.

Okay, cannot, cannot counter pitch you. Sure. Here's five whole last children who do need you and you have a gun and their primary guardian has been shot. Well, who's going to help my daughter?

“I think your ex has been the apricot man's going for one and I'm going to go for the other.”

Uh, you see that all you, who's here and has been covering her head stands up. Like, you're watching the kids. Oh, sure. David handled a, uh, a sidearm before her. Yes, of course. Look, worst case scenario. She can talk about her very beige house. Okay. All right. You stay. Uh, you see these shifts for it. I'm going to go talk to Andre. Okay. Should we go with him? I have a feeling that he would know a lot of the

workings of this ship. Okay. We, um, the last person that went down there had like peaking to the vet died falling. So how the fuck did your ex has been not died? He's, he built the ship. I'm sure he has some sort of tools or okay. So where are we going to do? Are we just walking? We're going there. We're going to go down the stairs. Oh, oh, great. Okay. I've also the weapon. Start walking. Andre, message is going out across the ship. You see collections, uh, alarm sounds. You

guys, descending the stairs. Alarm sounds begin to ring out, um, red lights. You see that the illuminations along the floor start to flick a red in the directions of exits. Andre, you receive a ping on a back channel from tubes. But I think with your counter measures going on, it, in no way can tubes directly interact with you or open a channel with it. This is me getting a normal email on my phone. Yes. Gotcha. Right. Um, okay. I'm going to do that. Uh, I'm going to open that up.

As I'm opening up that up. I'm sitting on the bed, like next to Sophie. Uh, and I am going through it and I'm like, they're going to make it easy. They're going to make it easy easy. And I'm going to try to override the ship's calm center remotely with only an engineer class classification to send a message to Earth that everything bad has happened. DC30. Oh my god. All right. I'm going to

password load for me. And I'm going to attempt to, essentially get a try to get a help action

from her. I will allow. I don't know if she had a potent attitude. She can throw my way. She does not. That's going to be a dirty 20. You open your slate. Enter the conference profile. Again, using your counter measures, you are able to mask your movements. You go to use communications, long wave communication systems through your slate to send a message to Earth. And there's just a number of requests and suggestions that you don't have the classification to be doing this on a slate.

If you were in the comms room, this Michael very differently, but from your personal slate,

the ability to fully be sending messages from the Icaron at this time, access, you hit access

“denied attempting to enter it about four different ways. I think I am greeting my teeth and polling”

at my little widows peak of mostly salt and a little pepper hair. As I'm pulling it the widows peak, I just am going like, well, I shut down my ability to do this four days ago because they were worried about security. Uh, and I even in my head, I'm like, yeah, maybe an engineer in the fucking reactor core shouldn't be able to alert Earth high command with an email. I like, I understand why they did that would be a really useful right now. I knock at the door. I literally am like,

I'm like, oh, we're about to be kills. We're meeting, you know, sweetie, it's Nisha. It's mom. That's right. I forgot about the flesh software. And I'm going to, like, let's write there was a, there's a security breach in the person who told me what was going on. And I'm going to open the door and call me. Get it, it's a, as let's see the other people who are here. Shish, get it, I get it, I get it, I get it, I get it, I get it, I get it, I get it, we're fine. Thanks for

asking. Who else know? Who else know did Sophie in here? No one? I look at Nisha just to be like, anyone in room here that Sophie is here? I mean, I told Stella that Sophie was sick, but I don't think, okay, we can't stay, so we can't stay. Respectfully nobody cares. Yeah, sorry. This is a little bit bigger than, like, you're, you think maybe the guy who got out and just alert the whole ship that they look for him with the same last name as person with this room?

Well, let's be clear. You see, all of us kind of just traps and down here, yeah? I don't think anybody else got out. Who the fuck do you think is reporting? Fishcakes. Woo! We have no idea how many enemies are on the ship. We have no idea how many are moving. We need to understand that some of the people whose job it is to protect the ship, they already

have betrayed, otherwise they don't work. So, the second tell, the eight, the other eight are a

scorton, RGC people to the command bridge, in order to signal and wait for reinforcements.

“Skeleton crew, more coming. You say eight because that's how many leave from Gala. Yeah.”

There's probably more. Yeah. Not many. Okay, they're on the bridge. I'm going to take out the map of the echeron. Yeah. Yeah. Andre produces in hologram and beautiful space, a map of the echeron, a sector-like space station floating in space orbiting the sun, available now by the fireside. I'm sure it does must be in must be. We're in the Zine at Habitat. Combs is actually closer than the command deck. So, we are only

one sector away from Combs. Okay, I can't send word to Earth command to G-Sek, but we can do from Combs, so we need to go there physically in space. We'll our proximity to this and be at all a problem. You can give me a technology term. That's a 11. 11. It will not. In addition to traditional forms of communication, the echeron is equipped with a Z-wave communicator, which uses gravity on particles to pass messages as long and incredibly expensive and incredibly high tech. Yet,

“for the echeron, no expense for spare. No. And I think I think I actually am about to explain”

and then I realize I don't know Kiki Davis and I don't know fishkicks. So, I don't explain. I say,

charisma check from me. No, can't be that with a 14. I think you see a rattled husband and father

who has been put through the ringer in the last 15 to 25 minutes, desperately trying to figure out what to do and who to trust. Yeah, we don't, we don't put it by the sign if we can't talk from this on, it doesn't work. Good. Well, I suppose I'll go along and help you. Boco took care of me for so many years and so before we left, I said, "Boco, you've taken care of me for so many years and now it's my turn to take care of you." So, if this will help, I'll go with you. I can be helpful.

You are very helpful. Okay. We follow you. I'm going to look at Misha who's holding a gun by your side. Uh, can I see this? Of course. I am going to hold it and I'm going to quickly

infuse item which makes this an enhanced weapon. Basically, I'm going to take a few will sell out,

attach it to the side of the pistol, uh, get a quick work around and put a little thermo plastic core on the side of it. Oh, you remind me of, we'll talk about that later. I love you like this. Great. Wow. Okay. We go and I'm going to look at Misha and Sophie

“and go, "Suffy, you seek for real, actually." Yes, dear. Oh, no, it's wrong. Is everything okay?”

Do you need anything? No, I'll be fine. I just, I want to stay dead using Misha's. We will be fine, Andre. I'm going to look at her and I'm going to give my potent aptitude die to Sophie,

and pass over. I have, I have engineers tools, but I also have tanker tools. I'm going to pass

the tanker tools over to Sophie. Unless she has some of her own. She does have, she has her own. She has a equipment. So I'm going to get her put and have to do it and I say, getting the bathroom welded door shut from the inside. All right, yeah. And I'm going to go in. And I say, if you pop the back panel off the toilet, you can wrap around the plumbing and you can slide down like fireman pole. And I'm going to give her a kiss on the cheek. I'm going to hug Nisha

and I'm going to say, "All right, we go." Kiki's going to raise her hand. Oh, you have a question like we are in class. Yeah, just in the event that maybe the goal from the sort of Martian faction that's here to do. Sounds sort of cool. It's to blow up the ship. Maybe don't like weld it good. Okay. Well, I'm quite good at what I do. Okay. I can keep myself saying that. Also, it seems like they were looking for a child and I don't know. I feel like I'm probably the

most famous child we've used to do. But just in case, we're about the same age. Maybe stay out of sight. Wait, how old are you? 23? How old are you? 19. Damn, I don't know what a child looks like.

“Okay, we're going to go. You see that as you go, Nisha steps out, grabs your hand. What about Stella?”

We're going to get a message to Earth. We hear back. They give us instructions. We save Stella. We know here back. I'm going to figure something out. Okay. You stay in bathroom. Martian going to blow up this place. Then they're going to blow it up. Whether we in a bathroom, whether we in a hallway, whether we anywhere. But I know this Martian run by business man, business man, love to steal. Yes, we do. And do I hear it? Yes, we do. I'm going to look at you

with a look of unmistakable venom and walk off down the hallway. You begin to walk down the hallway. Fish kicks as you walk after Andre. You see the bogo and the kids look over the railing

“of the xenotub at the top and wave down. You could be all right, kid. Yes, I think that I thrive under”

this kind of a pressure actually. But you all stay out of sight. Okay. And you guys, listen, all of you do everything that bogo tells you to do. This is again, cannot stress enough, situation echo. Understood. Good. And I salute them. Hey, salute you back. You all move. Down the hallway towards the left that would take you down to comms. As you do, I need a perception check.

Fish kicks you notice as you're looking up a bogo and the kids walking off. You notice glints of

“light passing above, catching the light as they pass over the glass dome above.”

But fish kicks know what those are. You would know what those are.

Martian chips, entering the order of the aircraft.

“That was Erica Ishii as Vera Fishcakes lamb, a pre-eingar as Kiki Davis,”

Brennan Lee Mulligan as Andre Delca and me, Lou Wilson as everyone and everything else.

Flight of the Ecaron is produced by Fortune at Horse and World's Beyond Number,

“edit and sound designed by Brian Flarity of many-sided media and score by Will Savino.”

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