Solari: Episode 3 - Parley

And in this way, no era of the 40 Suns can be comprehensively understood to a floor's

absent the guiding vision of those half-score familial factions. Just as the intrinsic intrepidness of human nature sent us among the stars, so does the "Bosers" histories. Scrum captain, Keer Allen, and his five gemis octavo associates, are escorting Zidavin Ivarax, Chitanka, and Xelsiel to the canner, a lightweight lean ship headed back to the

loaded system to treat with exult gemis as her faction takes Genopar by force. Eradale, a single ominous message sent over cons. You have no idea how many people he spoke to, you have no idea the full nature and extent of the forces, flooding, G, your home, your project, your livelihood, but you are under guns

that have no intention of firing on you yet.

So what are you all going to do? Do you allow yourself to be a scoring division? I look to Zidavin and follow his lead.

“Zidavin, I think, giving his parting words to Miss Tanka, has dressed and is, I think,”

very much, like, in line with Keer. The poll is occurring. I am playing my role, which is to let myself be taken, and I have pretended to employ a robot who will seemingly be joining. Can I use the auger ability?

Interesting.

Why don't you go and read that out for us?

I burn an amount of grit equal to 10 minus a roll of my reason dice. It's asked to be a minimum of two grit and one health. So this is a very taxing endeavor. I ask any answerable part of this short question at the end of the round after everyone else in an initiative has acted, the nameless things whom you contacted reply with the answer.

This answer may be vague depending on the question, but will not be malicious a lie or incomplete. Okay. You spent a lot of grit today. I have spent a lot of grit. This might actually burn me out of grit.

Hmm. Fine. Consequences. Consequences. Consequences.

And for folks listening, my grit and health are kind of pools of points based on my stats.

“I think my grit comes from a combination of my reasons, stat, and my will stat, which”

are both very high. So normally I have 22 grit points. My health, which I think is just my combat and movement, is a meager 12. Okay. Let me in to auger.

All right. Let's see. Let's see how impact that roll. See, I burn five grit and I have five grit left. Oh, okay.

And I burn one health, so I'm at 11 health. All right. Before we get into the question and how that looks and sounds and what that is like,

“do we see anything externally as you tap into this power?”

I am standing up, my auger is the term air out is so ominous and I can only assume that a mass casualty event is on the verge of happening and those are bad. They're not only bad in the way that any thinking being would cluster them as bad, I have a personal faith-based and religious aversion to what I suspect is about to occur. So I would like to reach out to the assembled intellectual and values-based memory of any

electronic consciousness that I can reach out to from this point in time, even recording just memory states of other arena that have passed through this place. My auger is effectively crowdsourcing intuition from minor recorded memory files, stowed

through before.

And the augery that I would like to command in this moment is looking at Chitanka.

I would like to ask that dispersed consciousness will it be bad if I abandon this person to the fate that awaits her in this place? You lean out and ask a question in your mind and of all of the electronics of this place of which there are almost it's almost beyond number, the amount of things needed for humans to exist anywhere they please.

They require so much and it's so electronic, it bristles, it's like trying to ask every particle of air, a question, but you do so, but it takes a little time.

So as you turn your eye and attention and world inward on your question, you fall in

mind behind Zedavin and begin to walk, so we're going to move to Chi and then I'll give you the answer to your question. I'm not a combatant. I cannot fight my way out of this or strong arm or in any way brute force solution here.

“I think I have to rely on the only thing that has kept myself and Genopar and everything else”

alive and going that is to finesse it and where can I get to when one finesse is something

you have to start at the top otherwise you're spending all your time finessing all the way

up there. So perhaps going long and finessing is the easiest way to deal with this. But that's very convenient since it's literally the only thing I can do right now. You are moving yourself into that conclusion and moving yourself physically into the line as dictated by these assailants.

You cannot help but think that there is something inside of the momentum of someone who has no allegiance to this place beyond his occasional enjoyment of it and excelsiall who what an interesting little blank of a personality. You are the only one that could in this group care about the phrase "air it out" as far as you know.

“Maybe it's okay to finesse from the top but I think even without a role you know that”

whatever is about to happen is about to happen quickly. Is there anything even as you scramble to figure out what could I do like brute forcing is nothing in this moment? What do your instincts wish you could do or have done as you are like leaving Genopar? Contacting my people is off the table that has been made very clear.

If I could minimize, if I could minimize the impact of what is happening, what do you think is happening? I think that's the question. What do you think here meant when he said air it out? Now, do would I have context for what that actually means? No, it's clearly like it's a go it's a go sign but it's not a thing that's used so

frequently. You're like, "Ah, it means this thing" because everyone says I assumed it with some sort

“of space marine who Ross called sign. You know what? Sometimes the best thing is the”

direct thing. Mr. Kira, what precisely do you mean by air it out? Yeah, Kira's going to stop and kind of around on you. All of this tactical gear is back on so again, very few visible features voice distorted but he turns back to you again. Giant, black, messy unnecessarily heavy rifle still held

at the ready but again not pointing at you. Miss, Genka, oh, Genka, we read your brief on the way in. I do know who you are.

ever have to deal with being on-world the problems of bugs and rodents extermination.

We need to take Genapar as per our orders and need to make sure that there aren't any rats aboard the ship. If you're part in how are you determining who are the passengers and crew and who are the rats? Now, I have tried to be as civil as my orders have dictated but I do know the importance

and not giving potentially sensitive intel to someone with a vested interest in not allowing me to do my job.

“Oh, sir, I think you misunderstand. I have no interest in making sure you don't do your”

job. I have vested interest in ensuring the safety of these assets that you are sent to

secure. Everyone we have on a manifest that works here will be sequestered, questioned those with disproportionate loyalties towards the former owners of this establishment will be sent off-world and all of the patrons will be given a voucher to return when this place re-opens under new management. Many of the proprietors are in fact part owners of this so I believe it might be a bit

difficult. Do you need me to tell you that we're going to shoot anyone that gives us a problem? With your permission, I'd like to- No, no, all right.

What permission do you think I'm going to give you in this moment?

“To make it so that you have to shoot less people.”

One of part is no good to you for simply its land. It is its people that is valuable to the ecosystem. And what do you think you will do that thousands of years of the forces of power that I operate behind haven't figured out. Miss how to safely and civilly corral these people to better serve you?

Go ahead and give me, yeah, let's make it a will role. We're going to say the difficulty is a 9. 6 plus 1 for a 7. Can I help? Ooh, yeah, how would you- how would you go about doing that? I think it's- it's perhaps not even from like a deeply good place.

“I don't think I'm like- I think I'm very familiar with what is happening to G- right now.”

In fact, I've likely ordered or been in rooms where takeovers like this have been approved or initiated. And I think that there is something that like my pole is being interrupted by this conflict. Yeah. And I think I'm interested in- I think I'm interested in helping G- kind of get through

for the selfish reason of getting myself on this ship and office world and to the place. Like this- this medium, this like transitory period is not- this is not comfortable. Yeah. I'm eager to be back in a place of comfort and I would like this- I would like to help get this over the hump.

Okay. Yeah. Describe an action for me and that's going to add a plus 1 to your role, which will still put you one under, but then I want to come back around to this auger and see if we can get the full parties wait behind G-'s actions.

I'm going to be forward. I'm going to put a hand on your shoulder very gently. Sure. She's very persuasive. And as far as I understand, it helped build Genopar.

If there's someone who can make your life easier, she's in your capture right now. And I think that's just enough that you- you felt him like stiffen with felt like hit the soft hand on the shoulder and he looks back over and you hear that again that distorted growl and the little like sucking of teeth, but he is re-evaluating in you in

On a way, let's go over to Excelsiel. You ask this question of everything around you of everything that you've known and all

the electronics in this place, collective memory, but it always begins with your own and

your people and the vestiges of sort of memory and londy of all of the arena when you were one before. And humanity showed up and made of you from their fear, from their greed, a sacrifice.

“And you remember that in your history and in your songs and in your understanding as”

a hymn to martyrdom and you see it again, this place is an altar and she, as you look at her now, she looks like what you think or remember or wonder, those final few, the oldest of you that remembered from the breaking of your world and your collective mind. The ones damned to remember what it was before, the ones who mourn the martyr, hear it out.

This place is being offered up in the same way that your son and your system were offered

to humanity's growing ambitions. This place will be turned like Kima was turned into schema the Dyson swarm around your son that is devouring it. All they do is devour. You sing, but they use their mouths to heat.

There it out. This is just the same story told again and again, they will take and consume and she, if not helped, will be the one left to remember.

It looks like she is being taken with us now.

Yes. Great. And even as you think that your mind can process both your inner world and the outer one, even in that augury and the like cryptic strange understanding of cheese placing this world and what's about to happen to her and her home, you still heard all of that.

Not a glimmer of that reaches my face or any outward expression of what I am perceiving or feeling, but I can sense that she is trying to save as many of her people as possible. 100%. I can sense some factor of arena valuation of cheese memory of this place as being significant. Yes.

And you've seen that Zidavin has also moved to inter pose himself and use his position of power. You feel that gravity well being turned in aid to her. I'm going to turn to Zidavin and speak, but I also, I don't want to interrupt if it feels like we're making progress out of here.

“I think that if there's no need for intercession, I don't think I want to, I engage.”

So here's the thing. In this specific moment, we've got Erica, one sort of help action away from being able to hit the difficulty. So if there's something you think as you see this like breaking out that you can do to help turn the tide and convince here, then Erica will hit the difficulty class and be able

to move forward with. I'm going to turn to Zidavin and go, my Lord of Eurics. She tanka was present for the trans-mittance of proprietary of Eurics technology somewhere on Genopar. I've just become aware of an energy signature.

Your families belongings are present here in Genopar, Unaccounted Four. The name is tanka may be aware of some of the clues leading to the recovery of that stolen data. Zidavin receives that. Is that?

“I guess how true is that and how like what is, I think, in the communication of that.”

As I am speaking out loud, we're here, can hear on your glasses, the text appears. This sincere apologies, making all this up, L-O-L, hope okay, part, a heart, a little, a little, a little less like three, less than three.

Let's keep it clean.

“And I think with that, there's just a little glance over at you.”

Almost imperceptible, nod. And now, here, has like fully halted the group, and looks at you. Gee. Thank you. What do you intend, Ms. Tinka?

Well, of course, asset retrieval is of the utmost importance. We want to make sure that all of the very delicate web around the five families remains intact. And for the more, hopefully, I can do a lot to smooth the transition.

This is not our first time being occupied, Mr. Kier.

What do you suggest?

“I would suggest, if I may, that you allow Genopar to continue on with its operations uninterrupted,”

the best turnover in management allows the things about the establishment to remain. It will simply be transferred in ownership to Gemma's Octavo, no need for any enforcement. And he's going to sit and consider this. I like that the original role was will to resist like being escorted off this, but this is absolutely a term role.

I'm going to say that this will remain very difficult, because this isn't you negotiating on behalf of your people to, like, engage in a peaceful transfer. This is a much bigger flex, but you can do it. It's going to be very difficult, so difficulty of nine, role-time. I'm going to have you roll with a advantage.

My first individual, nine, perfect.

Oh, okay. The amount of time it takes for a little space marine to process massive negotiations and, like, this level of tactical switching.

“I think all of you can swear you can smell rubber burning, like, this man is grinding gears”

to see if there is something much above his can he can do to make this even easier for his people and potentially raise himself in his esteem within his cohort. So you all are standing here just in the middle of a hallway for seconds that drag on and feel like minutes.

I think you begin to feel that panic that he hasn't given a belay order yet.

Something bad might be happening and him trapped in the reverie of having to make one big boy choice might be costing people's lives. And I think as that anxiety, like, sort of hits a fevered pitch, he reaches towards his calm, and this one's going to be, like, garbled, so you can't understand it again. But I think there's something in, like, the cadence of it and then it's very calm.

A much longer order is given. Everyone that wants to go ahead and give me a will roll difficulty of five to see what you can see off of the other soldiers who are hearing that command also. Only a two nine eight four, all right, you are so locked in on this moment and what you couldn't understand from the captain, you into it from his subordinates as they all seem

to relax a little bit too. Everything gets a little calmer and that fear you feel for the things beyond, like your hewn walls, just abates enough for you to feel like you can breathe all the way again. Okay, relaxing body language, the placating smooth smile on my face still remains in a weakness, okay, we need to resolve the data missing.

You can tell he is not a technical boy and is doing his best to understand whatever you too communicated about, we need to retrieve the data. Oh, not this time, I can have associate sort of, some data retrieval specialists. Easily take care of that. Okay, but we need to handle the transfer paperwork before. Oh, no, my people will follow up with your people. Jesus, cure all due respect sir.

If we are not going to handle this the way that my mistress dictated, it has to happen now. All right, okay, I'm going to pull out a data pad and I think just fuss with it, I kind

stop you from a date. Do you want the papers handled or not? You said it had to be handled

“right now. Yeah, but I don't, what? So it's being handled. Okay, I got it, you're not”

handled. You're getting your way, this is you winning. You're stressed. All right, transfer is initiated. We should probably get on the flight, and they said it's good. Oh, fantastic. phenomenal. What? Data. Take us to your leader. Okay. I don't, I, what don't you understand here? What just happened sir? The proprietary data of the Averex family that was being housed on Gena Park has been transferred off. Oh, okay. So now we can initiate the change of

ownership that was has been coordinated by Cheetanker. All right. Now, thank you. You

will be lucky in my report to result if, if I, if I even give a hit that you were on board

and didn't resist at every turn. So for the love of God, let's get on the God damn ship

“here. Okay. Oh, God. And you see he's going to turn and whisper to a couple of his”

subordinates. I'm going to take, I'm going to take them and put them on the ship, but I need you to escort Cheetanker. We need those people at least we have to hold the deets. I don't know, I'm not a lawyer. I don't, just fucking do it. He's yelling. I don't want to be. And two people are going to splinter off and a flank U.G. And the others will look both at U.Z. and XLZL. Right this way to the ship. Thank you. So I'm too charged. I hate that

this has been inconvenient. Of course. Do you have Buckley water on the ship? Yes, sir. Thank you. Yes. Sorry. Preferred flavors, because maybe we should restock while we're here. No. Pure is fine. Okay. Okay. And at this point, we're going to do just a minor split as you two are escorted towards this like light ship. And there are two soldiers who are at each of your shoulders. Again, guns down but at the ready, who are just kind of looking

“at each other over how tall are you? I believe I'm five nine. Okay. Okay. They're sort”

of insanely tall. So they're looking at each other over your head and kind of trying to do, though, like, get paperwork. Okay. And then look at you and go, we got to go to your office to get the deed. There's a deed. We need paperwork. We're not going to leave until there's paperwork. And if Kier gets Y'all that, it's going to be a problem. Sorry. There's no actual paper. That can't be true. Physical papers. This is something that should

really be signed in person. Then you're going to, yeah, you're going to bring whatever documents and then you're going to handle them with this old. No, it's okay. I think in this, like, they're just like, we're trying to figure this out, too. I can, if you need physical papers, I'm sure we can print up a copy when we get there. Yeah, but no, we just want to bring whatever you've got now because of the transfer. Yes. Sorry, above the table.

This is, uh, we're going to my office to retrieve the paper. You basically said, like, we're

just going to transfer owners to transfer ownership. They need some sort of proof that that has happened and not just your word. Okay. Um, what do I have? There's no deed. I mean, I suppose is there a paper deed to the place? Hey, dog, that's on you. Okay. They're not that smart. Right. They come from, like, world where there's still deeds, like, everything you know about, like, especially like the five families, the fact that they are able

to trace their history longer. That's been a part of the thing that can do. There's sort of antiquities around, like, these families and their systems. So the idea that there's a deed at all is I, I look, I have no idea what they are talking about, but I say, yes, let's go to my office and let's take the things that I need to go have this meeting. Right. Phenomenal. And so let's, we can, head to my office. I'm going to get some things,

sort of leave some notes for, for how things should go, letting people know where I am. Uh, go ahead and give me, let's make this a charm roll. And whatever you roll, there's not a difficulty here. That's just going to be how much time you are afforded sort of unattended in your office to write any, like, leave any orders or notes. Try to get any communications

And you don't know when you're going to be back. Okay, I'll take GoBag B. I got a 10. So I

“think I have enough time to send out a couple of missives. No direct comms to anybody since”

they're being monitored, but just through various other analog methods, just leaving notes for my different lutenants, for my heads of security, and informing everybody that they are too act as if nothing is a miss and to smooth the way for our glorious conquerors. You explain the deal to everyone that's, like, in your exit. That's right. Great. Anything else you want to say or do or grab? Do you grab any paperwork? There's no paperwork.

It's all on data pad now, but I make a show of shuffling in and out box papers. Alright, papers are shuffled. You grab GoBag B. You leave missives and take a data pad and nothing else. Ten minutes goes by and you re-emerge at the door of your office. Like a nice little corner where the hallways are well-appointed, but the rooms themselves lack that overly labored decor, because they're just for you and the others from television,

that groups together to buy this place. Yours is at the end of the hall. Not to facto. The leader deeply in fact, a majority stake owner. This is your home. And you are leaving now to defend it. You say goodbye. And you are escorted to the far end of your little spit of rock that you've put time and energy and blood and sweat so much blood. And years of your life into you.

You're at this dock. It is bustling. It's a full parking lot of light ships, some with warm capabilities, some that are just little jump boats that will get to the nearest planet that will allow them to access bigger and better ships to make much longer journeys across this big galaxy. I don't think you've ever been so far from home before. Even the home has been so many places to achieve. You spot it along the same row as the canner, believe he said.

He spot the airbask parked at, frankly, a disrespectful angle. You could get like three ships and

“is she there? Can I see? Is the light on? Is she in the ship?”

The light is not on in the ship. I think you know that it's been several hours since she docked. You were going to meet up but then had to deal with like the breakout lighting. Right, right, we were supposed to meet. All right, um, you know, I'm going to, I'm going to leave her a little message. It's a form of a parking ticket with a scroll on it of sort of an explanation of what's happening. How she might be able to help and find me and to learn to goddamn park the ship.

Yeah, I think you're too escort. Kind of watch you and they're looking at like this is the first time

they've been over your shoulder enough to like watch the note that you're leaving. They were incredulous that you're trying to send off some like secret message and they see that you have mildly cussed out. This person that even they recognize did a terrible job parking across

“the free spots. Tara and pilots at my right. You get it. You should see how cute. I'm sorry.”

And then you see interesting note that this person says here, but the other person on the like on your left shoulder turns and reacts with the like, why are you talking about me like that? To imply that this is the same thing. Just as a reminder that here is essentially John. Yeah.

You have a second key in your group though you know very little about any of the other people

and they relax and this is like at this point by the time you like rejoin the group who is

sad. Like they are boarded on this like little scuttle of a ship. Your two attendants are just sort of walking beside you their guns are like chilling at their side. They're not even really at attention or like like ready. Just something about your countenance and the ability for you to make people feel easy in your proximity has lowered their guard significantly. Can we get you some bubble water please. Yes. I love some of that. We've got okay so we've got pure and some of it is also fine.

Okay I'm not that picky. Yeah I've got like a little kind of citrus one if you want one of mine.

“I don't mind if I do. Okay if you want to just go wait in there with that. Sorry about that.”

And you have all the stuff you need. Yes. Okay I'm all prepared to thank you. Thank you so much Miss

Tanka. And you see the like the one that talks more like kind of runs off to the corner. And you have been presented with a bubble water. I don't know if Excel ZL has any need for refreshments but like a light fruit platter has been like put out in front of you. Some like delineates and like sort of crackers things that can handle travel. A little sharkutary board and then you are offered a little glass of vial of some lightly citrusy bubble water. This is nice.

I'm helping myself to some of the sharkutary. Can you eat? No.

“And I think I close my mouth and you hear. Where does that go?”

Where does that go? I have a release valve in my throat. A release valve in your throat. Yeah. I'm going to open the front of my neck and pull a little sort of latex cylinder out and it has a bunch of reduced blanched crackers and fruit and sharkutary in it that I take out in a little compressed cube and deposit in a waste paper basket and close my throat again. Can you taste it? I have a database of sensory experiences that is based on a short chemical

survey of what is available in the food. It's not dissimilar from the gustatory senses of in a biological organism. Mm. Fundamentally, the taste buds in your tongue are able to detect the presence of chemical compounds in the food that are able to register if the food is well prepared, if it is nutritious, if it is bland or otherwise uninteresting and there's a informational recreation of that same sensibility within my processors. Got it. So for you, you like you like

to eat the cracker or the sharkutary because you want to know about this cracker or this sharkutary versus if you were just to go taste sharkutary, which you can also do? My understanding is it's blight as a guest to have some of the spread. I mean, they kind of do it at an obligation if they're going to kidnap you at least they should do it's feed you. Do you enjoy this spread? Or would you say how many times have you been kidnapped? Uh, this is four. That's high. I mean, it's not bad. Relative

across statistics for kidnapping across the galaxy that is quite high. Most people that are kidnapped are kidnapped by a single time. Well, I mean, it's I've been kidnapped a solid

“amount of times, but I think as I get older, I mean, I'll continue to be quite an influential”

target. So is there prestige or status in being kidnapped? A little bit. I mean, it's not something to be proud of, but it does, it's a reminder of that I'm part of an important family. Yes,

and that not only in that family, that I'm important. This is my first intentional kidnapping.

So is the septumality the arbiter of the taste? I'm sorry for your taste buds. Oh, the septum will choir? Yes. I suppose our gucitori sense is slightly more refined than several of our brethren choirs, which is only to say that we are given to devote more processing to experiential information. I see, and savor your sweet. The cranberries were quite sweet. See, and that's a problem. I like my tart. Oh, is that a personal taste, or would you say that

of the cranberry, the more likely they're using sugar because the tartness is in balance. Do you

think we'll be killed today? No, no, no, no, this is a poll. You know, when you're of my status, generally two different types of kidnapping, polls, calls, polls, family, family, everything's good. It's kind of like going to visit your cousins. I'm going to look to Chi and go. I'm very sorry. Oh, thank you. I was not expecting that. We were having a just small talk that isn't people are not usually. Thank you. I know you didn't do that stuff, I said.

I assume, I'm assuming we're in private right now. I'm going to go and say, I made up that lie because you seemed in jeopardy. Oh, thank you. I don't know what your, I assumed that you were

“speaking truthfully, and I, uh, you thought I might be right about a crime you did?”

I went, did I get something right, shooting into the dark? That's a metaphor. I wink at him and, and, and I say, yes, wait, no, I don't, I don't know if, I don't know if he knows winking. I close the iris of my eye. Oh, I good, I see, I see. Yes, it was a very convenient truth that you were telling. I wink again. Um, gestural asterix. I'm going to turn into Z and say, I also lied about working for you. You don't have to associate with me if you don't like. I just

wanted to get out of that room. No, it was, that was a cute play. Is that, uh, is there a reason you stuck your neck out for me? I saw something when we were on that hallucinogenic experience together

that I have never seen before. It indicated a depth of feeling that attracted me to your experience

of this world. It was an indication of a depth of feeling that is often not present.

“Do you often see those things you saw when you experience those hallucinogenic drugs?”

I'm a physics. I kind of have a rotation. That's where lyrics has a quite a diversity of experiences, but I'm glad to hear that this one was especially compelling. Astrid is good when she's focused. Before we get back into you all chatting amongst yourselves, can I get just give me a reason role? We'll call the difficulty. We'll make it a basic difficulty. Difficulty six.

Six. Let's go. Five. All right. Uh, 12. Amazing. Was it that on the D12? Uh, 11 plus one. Oh, great. Okay.

The three of you sit in this little cabin is absolutely two specific of a word. You are in a little room. None of the other half dozen that pulled you Z are here with you. You know, two are flying the ship and the other four are making themselves busy and other parts of this

“small fleater. Gee, I think you are beginning to spin on other things, but for Z and Excelsiel,”

I think what you're able to glean especially because you spent a little more time looking at the counter on the way in. This is not the kind of ship that does big orm flights and remembering that you were part of a pull that was a secondary objective to whatever the coup of Genopar was going to be. There had to have been more troops brought in some other way. This is going to be a little like puggle jumper to get to the bigger ship for you to get back to uh, results home system.

Here's a thing that I'll say is like the slight difference between you. Z, you were able to take a orm cable ship directly into Genopar. Excelsiel, you probably had to do the pit stop at the closest planet that would allow you to like fly up to Genopar. It's about a four hour non-FTL flight. The planet is called Karueta and it's the seventh of a 10 planet system around like a small nasty little red dwarf of a sun. So it's pretty dark and industrial but it's the easiest stopping point for people who want

to make that like last big trek out to space Vegas. The barco stove of this part of the galaxy

to a bigger ship. I'll look at that and I'll look at Zadovyn and Chi as we're sort of

“seated here. I just had this moment of apology for what Chi is going through and I think I understand”

what is happening here and I'm waiting for the sound of gunfire or mass death that we maybe have averted or maybe not. I hope that many people are not killed here. That is also my sincere hope and thank you to both of you for your quick thinking and calm demeanors and hopefully helping to avoid that. It is a much more minor sorrow but I found out

today after believing that I had one that I actually don't have a job. You thought you had a job?

Yes, on Jennifer? Yes. Doing menial tasks, cleaning, sorting, rearranging pleasure rooms after they had been used by our patrons. Goodness so you've been doing that for no charge then.

“I was being remunerated in terms of electrical recharging and I also had the benefit of using”

the facilities to wash myself but I don't have any monetary remuneration but I also don't seek any truth be told. My designation is one of service which I'm happy to provide but given that I am currently unemployed I would love to if either of you are hiring make a pitch for myself and see if you have any openings or availabilities. Sure, let's hear it. Hello, I am XLZL. You stay any you're sitting down. I'm sitting down right now. Okay. Should I sit in? You're not going to stay.

No. Hold on, I have crumbs on me and I'm going to blow a fan out of my hand to sort of blast the shark eatery crumbs off my face. I'm going to let you continue with your pitch but already that's quite a lot of points for you. Blow in the crumbs off my face? Oh yes. Oh good. Wait, do you also think I should stand? Well, in my line of work frequently asked to stand and do a little turn so I perhaps it would be beneficial for hiring purposes. All right, I've changed my mind. I'm going to stand.

All right. I'm going to stand out and walk away from the table and turn back around and go, is here good? Do you think it's good? I'll go farther and I go walk towards the doorway.

“Does this feel appropriate? Do you think it feels appropriate?”

No. I've entered a state of dramatic unease intention. Oh, that's, that's, that's fine over there. Thank you. I feel as though a set of boundaries and obstacles has been created in psychic space past what I can perceive and that more failure options have been present than I previously predicted. I'm engaged in a state of panic, anxiety, and fear. Oh, there's no need for that to be honest with you. I think a lot of the five houses have quite a lot of those psychic rules and barriers and hoops.

I am a septemality, one of the arena member of the septemal choir. I am engaged in all manner of communications and positive physician work. I am able to heal and apply medicine both biological and technological organisms. I also have a suite of abilities that make me an effective communicator and I'm possessed of electronic intuition. I am able to piece together through ambient missiles and can even take data from encrypted messages without actually bypassing

the encrypted nature of those messages, but merely into it based on a diffused consciousness, what might be the best course of action at any given point in time. I also am a good listener.

Master of the Erex, of course, it is only right and proper that I give you first right of refusal,

but I would like to make use of these services of our compatriot here. Of course, of course, beautiful suite, well presented. Would you like one space malo now or two space malos in one hour? I do not require space malos. I will give my space malos to those that need more. I'm so sorry, Qi. You're hired. Oh. Oh, wow. Oh, wow. Pray. I mean, you are already hired,

contract. Great. I'll look at the contract and scan it against a database of approved contract terms for my choir to see if it lines up with a broad template of a range of possible accepted

“offers. I think this is a real fun moment where the sort of like knowledge of these alliances”

becomes important because, yeah, a standard, like a boilerplate one-year contract for people that you're sort of bringing in as consultants into your service is easy. It's an afterthought you're ready to go. But you know that pairing within arena usually comes with a lot of extra to do. It's not just an expense thing. This becomes like a companion. They want an expect land to be offered on their behalf for the use like by use by any one of the arena. Like this is you're essentially

like bringing someone into the fold or you can try to get away with just hiring him as a contractor. But like the normal pairing off of like an arena offering their service to someone in the five families is usually a much bigger like that's like booing someone up. So I could be offered him something much more casual. Yeah. 100%. Great. So it's an extremely casual offer and there's no there's no like the arena will be allowed to erect like a techno shrine somewhere. 100%. All right. You are offered

the most basic like consultant. I noticed that we have a mutual option to terminate with 30 minutes

“notice. That's great. Okay. I accept. Thank you. You know, I think I found a good one.”

Did you know that the study with the space mallows was actually a problem of sample size. They used a culture from a planet where space mallows were actually toxic to them. I didn't. I mean, it's just a fun question. And he gave me a fun answer. It seems like a fun guy. Excelsior. Did you countersign the document that was given to you? Or is this a verbal agreement? If it seems super I know it is not a deeply rewarding one in terms of the like ideal

contractor of an arena as long as it doesn't break any of our internal codes because the whole

thing is it seems pretty casual. It seems like it's basically some paperwork saying let's see.

“And I think for that, I don't think that would contradict any of our arrangements. It's like”

it's an open door to maybe get a better agreement later. So I will look at it and go I accept what some celebration be in order. I mean, why not lasers erupt from lights on my body. As I begin to, as I begin to, really giant. They're all for show. They're not hot lasers. They're just, and I begin to sort of do jealous. Are you jealous? My eyes are music. My eyes are just like, oh, there's music. It's awesome, awesome music playing. My pelvis is going crazy. The amount of

like gears and joints that the ch-it chassis as this like dance begins to move throughout this base. I have found gainful employment. I have found gainful employment. Without breaking, I contact

with this wildly jyrating robot. I lean over to Z and I say, well, while I did give you first

right over the fusel, would you allow me to perhaps make an offer that he could choose between Chi. What kind of business may or what I'd be if I did allow you to do that? I just successfully employed this incredible, and when we call it robots, good. Robots, good. I just successfully employed this incredible robot and now you're trying to go in. You're trying to split seas with me? Well, I think you would be the kind of business man that relied a lot on the large

dress of those who consider his name, but, you know, you're right, there's fair. I mean, hey, you want to make me an offer, make me an offer. I turned to Chi as my

little sort of dancing light show stops, and I go, a compelling offer would always be considered.

After all, we have a mutual option with 30 minutes notice to terminate the agreement. That's true. Well, I think that my offer would be one a little more bespoke. To you and to what the Settomo choir might desire in a contract. But again, I don't want to step on master if lyrics is toast here. Hey, the robots is on robot. How about you get to

the Gemma Settomo? Can I calculate the odds of? Can I calculate the odds of Chi successfully

resting back control of Genopar from Gemma Settomo? Just give me, yeah, 100% give me a reason role. I'm not going to set the difficulty. The accuracy will be determined by your role. Okay. That is a 11. Okay. You are reaching for as many variables as you can to try to make this calculation as accurate as it can be. This is a complex set of variables to consider.

“I think there is maybe a 20% chance of that happening in the next year with things as they are.”

There are some pretty big signs around with what army and what's the proposed timeline for any

of this? How long will it take us to even have an initial conversation? The 20% comes from how charming you've actually seen Chi is in a room. But you know, you have no data on result or Gemma Settomo writ large. I actually am going to take this, I think you see that Excel Settomo takes this very seriously knowing that the paperwork he just got from Z is like getting the business version of getting a text being like, yeah, we can hang out. You know, like it's very, it's very, very low key.

This is we can get married and have a great pre-nup for 20% probably. I'm going to look at Chi very seriously and say you are an extremely gifted orator and leader, a short experience with you has confirmed that for me. There is a possibility of your success in this endeavor, even without my aid, but it is an improbability for you to be successful in this endeavor. I do not say that because I wish that to be true. I say it based on an analysis of the

factors that are within my view. What I can say is it is not an appropriate remuneration for the level of risk involved in taking the side of someone who has come into the crosshairs a metaphor of the large families for this up to more quiet to only receive a shrine in the town square for a larger endowment and the ability to render future services specifically to manage some of the data and electronic defenses of a genopar under your control in the future. I would be more than happy to

dedicate myself to you and your cause. How about a parlor that is dedicated to your choir and

“their data gathering of experiences that may come through those doors on genopar?”

Oh, access to the experiences of those on genopar is an extremely worthy remuneration.

And I think I'll forward a little technical contract to achieve to observe which would basically be a

if this can be non-exclusive to my arrangement with. It is literally an offer of me sacrificing my life on behalf of your cause. It is like a full ride thing and I think what is being offered in that is if we have access to the experiential memory logs of your internal systems on genopar for the pleasure rooms and people that come in through here and have the ability to set up a dedicated shrine on genopar that would be central and that we would have the ability to administer ourselves.

You have my full service guaranteed. The moment this pops up in front of you, we're just going to really push in on you here because I don't know if you have ever known someone that wasn't a high-end client that has had a dedicated arena with them and for them. This is something that is so wildly outside of the class that even you with all of your monetary

“wealth. This is punching way above your weight and it's right there. I think there's that moment in”

you that sees a good thing and would run at it but you want to make sure you check all the angles. This is what has kept you alive for so very, very long. Give me, I'll let you decide if you want it to be reason or will difficulty of seven. I'll do a will role. Otherwise I will sign this immediately. I'll also, can I make a reasonable to see what happens to her odds of getting genopar back

for your quibble consequence. The exact same. 10. Okay. What you have been asked for in return,

that's nothing to you. It's just data. It is just information loose in the world. He would find it fascinating. It's not useful to you but he is part of a larger collective and then you think back to what you know of the arena. A hive mind, forcibly shattered apart with specific

“directives to not rebuild that level of unity again with a 10. Correct. I think there's a little”

flag at the back of your mind that offering up that much data from your patrons of all walks of life might put you on the radar, not of the arena, but those around you in power whose interests are

vested in making sure the arena never are able to rebuild their former glory. I don't say this

to stop you. His enthusiasm for that is just enough to give you a little bit of pause. But you make your own choices and who would find out. 10. What happens to cheese odds if I'm helping? If you lend yourself to cheese service and you are able to maintain your access to the information and potentially resources of one of the five families through Zadov and VRX. Cheese odds go to about 67%. On your data pad, you just get a comment on the legal document that says, "By the way,

if good practice, such an require never includes odds of satisfactory result within its legal documents,

“the only thing after all we can promise is our honest effort. I will say casually if someone were to”

ask me to place odds in a betting book, a practice that I know is offered on the wonderful asteroid of Genopar. I'd put the increased odds of a successful return of ownership at about two and three with my services. Gee, you know the head of your game rooms. Telling set would take those odds every day in twice on Sunday. Hmm. I do like knowing the odds. I make some notes on my own data pad. Sort of astrusking in a sort of NDA because it's all right if the choir has that data and it's not necessarily

attached any specific names. Should it get into the hands of truly any other political faction, I would not be good for Genopar and it would not be worth it. Clause comes back faster than the speed of light as a mutual NDA to not disclose our administrative services.

“I think as this back and forth is happening, lightning fast though it is, I am very curious,”

Zidavin, where's your attention? I think Zidavin has laid back and closed his house. Oh, you think? It's a robot and a woman, I guess, you know, it's space Vegas or runs this, I think Zidavin truly lays back and is like, I think now just like waiting for the hours to pass as they kind of banter back and forth. I think from the place of having heard a thousand times about how the little people will rise up and take back what's theirs and push off each, you know,

push off their masters and I know she has done it before and that's very impressive. But I think this, even this discussion of of, I think there's almost like a, like there's a soft smile on Zidavin's face. I think knowing is old and knowing Gemisaktovo and knowing that they don't fuck around and if when they air it out, they are it out. But this, you know, I like the robot and when he scribbles on my sunglasses, that's helpful to me. And I think, and I don't know if I'm going

Sharkoo to replay. As I'm laying back and trying to do that thing where you drink water while

you're laying down. As soon as like the tone in the candor of G taking back, Genopar came up,

“I think it was kind of a like, let's not get in the middle of this one. Amazing, noted.”

And as annotations are going back and forth, you know, at the speed of light, a little amused chuckles come from me. Oh, oh, they're very good. The important question here is, is a contract like, signed encounter signed before long? Yes. Yes. Okay. And there is no signed encounter signed document between. The offer was so light that I think I affirmed to it. And I asked for non-exclusivity in the, in the, in the earlier, right. I'm not in the business of the exclusivity

specifically when it's something so casual on the side. Think confirm. Counter signed? Sure. Perfect. I just have to decide who knows what a little bit about what as documents get signed. Perfect. I think it is a, it is a consulting agreement as an outside informer. I don't think there is the idea that there is like a mutual, this is, you work for a

“Vierks Enterprise. We will tap you when we meet you. Yeah. Perfect. It. Great. So I think there”

is no world in which you working for somebody else is like, oh, no, no, no. Like, yeah. Yeah.

Incredible. As the, as the other agreements get counter signed, I immediately put out an encrypted

missive to this optimal choir to let them just know that these arrangements should be archived in the event of my destruction. And as soon as I, and I have a moment where I classed my hands together, my irises glow very white as a direct, like, sort of anti-satellite. Like, a pure missive across the stars shoots out and then to job day, it's a, to job day, double job day. Yeah. Yeah. It's a testament to how much trust there is for Z specifically that whatever room you're in is so

soundproofed that the laser disco show of two job day and the previous banger, I got a job,

“did not bleed through and cause anyone to come in and take on you. I think I go into like a”

three point push-up, like one hand two legs and just try rating lasers on the ground to job day, nothing better than a job. It's quite catchy as you, like, kind of like throw it back along a Z, you get a like quick little notification on your data pad that a signing bonus, something to the order of $40,000 has been offered to you for making a connection with an arena and it's signed from your mother that's just well done, sweetie. Hope you're having a good time.

And turn off my phone. So yeah, that idea that you are always monitored even in your, like,

most casual agreements. Of course. I mean, it's all, it's all in the family business. Hunter, Chris, that you have a few hours left before you reach Caruita. Is there anything that holds your attention or are you just resting? I think once that's signed and I see that Z, this lying back, I'll look at you and say, my Lord, might I fan you? Can we change the dynamic? Yes, can we bring it down to, like friends, partners? Sure. My man, you want to get fan,

are you good? My man, I'm good on fan. You got it. I'll turn and sit next to Chi and I'll put my hands on my knees. Sorry, I'm leasing my mind. It's okay. I'm so neutral. I'm the most unusual, yeah, and there's ever been. I will, I'll turn to Chi and I'll sit, put my hands on my knees, everything's right angles, but it looks except for my neck, which kind of does this little curve of, like, a Mr. Rogersy, like, check in as I go like, Ms. Tanka, I would love to know as much

information as you would be willing to share about the nature of Genopar, its history, its needs, its wants, its struggles, and the benefit of its people to issue are their primary care taker and leader. Everything that you tell me will be kept in strictest confidence, but will be information that I can use in the execution of my tasks and responsibilities to your service. I want to know your fight and how we might win it. So especially in front of Zadalin, I give him all of the

basic things that you might be able to find on any public forum about Genopar, about its population,

intelligent park, and of the glorious uprising of the people. As you are giving me public information,

“I think after a while I'm able to put an algorithm together that I'm being given what is obvious,”

but I will say, do you make the joke to me specifically that your export is sin? Yes. I go, of course we know that's not true. Really? No. Nothing that is offered on Genopar is sinful. Right. Well, here's a little something between you and me, is that if everything is allowed, then it's not as fun. I heard that. I don't share that perspective, but I can

clean through cultural information. Why that would be so? Regressive and reactionary human forces

have often sought to impede those urges which are healthy and primal. And in so doing a transgressive adaptive response might blossom in those who understand how best to satisfy their own needs. That being said, whenever I have engaged in activities of a pleasurable nature, it has been my heart's greatest desire to know that somewhere for a distant, I am doing what I should and something knows it. Something, the rest of your choir? Yes.

“That's nice. I think so. Put plainly, I think it is part of a divine plan to get off.”

I would like to explore any pamphlets you might have about the choir and their teachings. No. We are not an evangelical or prostlatory organization. There is no need for you to feel that there is any persuasion coming from me. I'm merely meant to grow closer by sharing some of my internal life with you. I only meant to react to using that your export was sin to say that I think the only sinful thing in this world is extremity by which I mean

distance, moving away from others. You know, that was a bit tongue-in-cheek my expression there.

“Nothing really is forbidden. You know, it's on a long enough timeline. What is transgressive changes?”

But yes, I think that everything that we do in Genopar does, it's best to bring everyone closer together, closer to one another closer to some sort of a spiritual feeling that I think others get from other activities. I feel the exact same way and would be delighted to be as close as you'd like. And may I say, by way of compliment, I found the people of Genopar to be very adept at putting tongues and cheeks. Thank you. Another subset of our export.

You continue along. You know, you have a few more hours of flight. Is there anything beyond

getting to know each other? I think I would roll over and I'll ask you first. Yeah. You spoke about

result as being like a cousin or someone I see at parties and such. What's my overall vibe on her? Yes, no role required. Isult is, it's less of a like cousin situation and more of a, again, add this scale of caste system. You are one of thousands that carry your last name. You are one of only a couple hundred trints within your family. There is something about the like very specialness of you and your importance within your family that makes you important to all five

families. And within that cohort, everyone that is of an age, which is again, maybe a high school's worth of people in any given time that are within plus or minus two or three years of everyone's age, that maybe you will be used down the line for like political alliances and the joining and bridging of families in the same way that you are pulled constantly for political gain. The fact that you were sort of forced into this cohort means that like all of the nastiness and maybe you'll

in the next couple decades. So you're all meant to know each other quite well and isult specifically. And this was from such a young age that you cannot imagine that like she was too conniving as a like a younger child that she just took a shine to you early and you guys were like sort of fast like play friends. So whenever there was like a big party and you were all dropped off and like the kids wing of this like a great manner she would be the first one to like find

“you grab you, start a game that would rally everyone else. Yeah. So I think she's got like”

older sister older cousin vibes in that way. But the actual placement of you all is

never gonna be enemies or really close like all of our political machinations will be smoothed

by your pre-existing relationship. So she's just one of the closest inside of like your age cohort across these five families. Okay, got it. Personality wise, in our most recent interactions, where is she on the spectrum of like conniving to like, you know, yeah, no one's soft, but it's but I think a little bit more straight forward. Where does she land? There's definitely like soft and kind and like she's blunt to everyone. But goes out of her way to like preserve

when the when enough doors are closed, like still kind of treats you like her little brother and like the person that rallies people. But you know that her personality outside of those doors is increasingly cold and sharp that she is grooming herself for like heavy leadership and in doing so is beginning to isolate herself away from your like a couple thousand people cohort as you're going to follow me. We're not all peers anymore. Got it. And you're beginning to like

see that pull away. But the idea that she would be a part of pulling off this kind of coup and go

“out of her way to go like, "Go get my boy out." Yes. I think I'm going to while laying back. I think”

just kind of roll over on my stomach. I look over at Chi. Have you met Isol? I have never had the pleasure

know. Yeah, she doesn't really do the fun stuff. That's a shame. Hey, I've tried. I've invited her. She just doesn't want to cut. Well, then one interest as she haven't done a part if she's not interested in our lifestyle. I mean, if I had to guess it's it's probably for what's to comment about moving things around what she could get for Genopara. I mean, I speak very highly of it. So, I'm sure she sees it as valuable.

Ah, yes. But I don't know. Just word to the wise. Be straight with her. She doesn't like the dance. Oh, well, that's somewhat refreshing. Yeah. Is that why you two get on?

“No, we just kind of grew up together. And I don't know. I think we were just fast friends.”

She was my first kiss. Oh, congratulations. Oh, I mean, a while. A while ago. Oh, yeah. Congratulations belatedly. That won't steal things.

Once first kiss is always worth celebrating. You also strike me as someone who is not fond of the dance.

No, I actually, I like it a lot. I mean, even this part, in getting pulled. Like, I don't know. I'm looking forward to a few days. I mean, Genopara was a blast and I was having a good time. But it'll be nice to be kind of around people again. You have an instinct that Genopara is likely being taken by the Gemisotava or not for their own edification, but for being flipped used as currency. Probably fascinating. I wonder if they're aware of a buyer.

I would know about the deraulay. Yes. This whole deraulay thing has got people really, I think, starting to set their pieces up on the board. It's interesting. I wonder if the Gemisotava are interested in Genopara as currency because they have a buyer or not. Good question. Is there anything that I can research wise to see? Because it's an interesting point, right? Basically, all the little fish are getting gobbled up by big fish because a new stage

of the great dance of galactic politics is opening up. So, I'm wondering because seizing an asset is something you either do because you know immediately how you're going to put it into play or because it's like a loose pawn hanging on a board and somebody should

if this play or even reaching out to a broader arena network to be like does this feel like bigger?

You've seen a listing for Genopara? Yeah. Or is there something where Gemisotava is going to grab it because something they are interested in is being held by a faction that would like a pleasure asteroid? Yeah. Let's make it a will role instead of reason. I think this isn't a fact to know but something to intuit from political moves that have been happening and we'll say the difficulty is a seven. Great. Seven. Perfect. Yeah, in the sort of setting up of the great game,

everyone is beginning to move to a table that's being set. It's called the deraulie.

It's made of a Dyson swarm around your star specifically. Yeah. Everyone's about to come to the

table to declare that peace and the maintenance of boundaries is of utmost import for

“peace and prosperity across the galaxy. That means you have to walk in with your bag full already.”

So you don't fight once the meeting starts. Genopara is a pawn and a corner that's hanging at the edge of the board because it was to be a little thing at the edge of the board that no one would bother with but it's just important enough, just lucrative enough, just fun enough that it would make a lovely little gem in the die of them of one of the five families to have it under their control. So when they walk into that meeting and also, if you want, I can do sex stuff at your pleasure house.

Delightful. Yes. In the middle. You think you're about sensible. Yeah, as I'm going like galactic politics. Oh, one more thing. I can do sex stuff. I don't even put that in, but that's absolutely on the table. And if you like on the table, hello. Please use that when you're pitching yourself. Humor is part of my service. So yeah, you are aware of the idea that Genopara is easy to snap up and everyone with the resources to do a bit of light imperialism

on the way to the meeting is doing so. I fold my arms and look over it, Qi, and say, "Of benefit and utility is the information that given the movements across public broadcast, of various military actions taken by the five families in the lead up to the opening of the Darali, I do believe that Genopara has been caught up in metaphorically speaking, a deep, ocean, trowler, rather than spearfishing." The trick is to become successful enough that you

have agency and freedom and no more because then you can get caught up in the net. And as we're

“discussing this, I think Gobag B has everything that might be needed for the diplomatic”

sort of meetings that I've been having lately. Suit, a suit, yes, my power, a sensible heel. Are you a sensible heel? Everything that would be proper, I think that there are capsules with a different outfit that would be appropriate for each family should it come to that. Fascinating. I love that. Amazing. As you're sort of mentally going over your Gobag and figuring out what you want to do and say and how best to, I think I am popping open the capsule with the

Gemma Soptavo capsule set and starting to put it on. Oh yeah, I guess if you were not aware that you're not on your way specifically to his old right now, the jumper. So you are changing. And I think by the time you finish changing, you notice something that everyone has noticed. It's been

close to five hours and though there was never a lot of like system noise for the ship,

you are all aware that the thumb under your feet has stopped. You're no longer a motion. But no one comes to the door. Also, do you just change in front of everyone? Yeah, like I. It's fine. We've been in space Vegas for a last couple of days.

“Ah, fair. I'm naked all the time, but if you want to dress me, you can.”

I hate the air can I make the same face at the same fucking time. I'm going to notice that the system's geared down appropriate amount of time for us to have arrived.

some kind of vaporizing device, a lot of massive cloud. Oh, I think we should be there.

“I'm going to bang on the door. Can I come and go freely from this space or can I always”

it more appropriate to knock? I don't think you have any sense of you were not like you were offered a room. You were not stuck in a room. Great. I'll even say though, as you like release that cloud from your vape, the like air circulation system is off. This ship is off. Oh. I'm going to pop open the door. Stick a head out. You stick your head out and see. It's a little you have a better like straight shot into the like pilot like the cockpit.

And you see blood splattered across the window. Let's close the door again.

Are we here? Oh, something's going horribly wrong. Oh, great. I would like to look at different vents or other areas of egress from this room other than the door that was just opened. Okay. Go ahead and give me a reason role. We'll call the difficulty six. Quibble. Yeah, there are like this is not a particularly like customized ship. There are vents over and around that can get you like back towards storage areas where you would maybe be able

to like pry open where they would load in. Yeah, you don't have to you don't have to interact

with the like main doors if you don't want to. It will be uncomfortable and moderately physically

difficult. I am going to look around. Look up at one of those vents that has now kind of gone quiet. And I'm going to look up. By the way, I wrote this in earlier episode. I said I had metal bottles of my feet. That's crazy. I have rubber. They're rubber. They're like they're like built in sneakers. The crazy to have metal bottles of your feet. I'm going to look around and go like producing alternative egress options. I'm leap up. Grab the air vent and produce a wrench.

I have advantage on roles for the mechanic. I'm a wrench, which is my hustle, so like making or repairing things. And I would just like to screw driver off the air vent. Great opening for us to be able to make an egress from this place. While he's doing that, I sigh and start changing out of my sensible heel and back into my utilitarian clothes. Are you all right? That's where it works. Yeah. I'm fine. It's just, you know, have to reset and reframe. We supposed to climb in there.

“I'm producing egress options. Is that mode of is the door not open to us?”

There's just blood all over the cockpit. I'm going to look around. Do we have a shower in this little waiting room in here? Not in here, but you would know that wherever, like if there was a little shower area or a cleanup area, this might not be a ship that has a bunch of like overnight capabilities, but there's probably one farther back. Okay. So I'm saying no shower. So we can't escape through plumbing, but we can get through this air vent, or I can go out there and sacrifice

my life for you to make a run for it. Did you see what caused the blood? No. Then I don't know that either of those will be necessary. I'd pop up in the door and I'd poop my head out again. I'm going to, as you do that, I'm going to grab your shoulder and say, I want to raise a possible risk profile for popping our head out. In general, popping one's head out, let me pop my head out.

“It's very important that you survive and I'm going to give you a pat on the shoulder.”

Thank you. I'm going to pop my head out. You pop your head out. You see what Z saw, which is no movement in the cockpit. It is covered in blood. I'm going to pop my head out as well. See, blood everywhere. My man, please don't pop your head out. My head can be blown off and everything will be okay. You don't tell me what to do. I'm going to walk out. I'm going to walk towards the cockpit. Yep. You walk towards the cockpit. My man, you're head. I also popped my head out.

Okay. See, where are you going? Beautiful little heads. I'm going just to establish the pecking order. The robot said, I couldn't leave the room. I'm leaving the goddamn room. I'm going to walk up and look at the bodies. 100% you walk up and again, head on a swivel.

Yeah. You haven't heard a sound other than you all quibbling about the robot

“allowing people to go in and out on a squibbling. All right. Fair enough. And you get to the cockpit.”

Two dead bodies. Shot cleanly in the head and chest. Professional double tap from behind

from through the view screen. Are you like right up there with Z? I'm following behind him and I

“can see at least into the cockpit. I'm not examining them. Well, before it takes, it takes a little”

bit of CSI ability to figure out trajectories and the lining up of a kill shot. So right now,

what you see is two dead soldiers and what's maybe taking a little more of your mental bandwidth

“instead of putting together like the death of these two is that written in finger across blood on the”

window is lean in. There's a fucking mole. Good luck. That was Eric the E.C.E. as G tanker runninley Mulligan as Excellency Elf, Lou Wilson as Siddavana Vyrex and a Bria Iangar as everyone and everything else. Solari is produced by worlds beyond number. It didn't sound designed by big giant head productions and score by Will Savino. For even more stories like this, join us on our Patreon. We'll see you by the fireside.