Solari: Episode 5 - Pirouette

Wands is the fact of the universe, and a cold, in its allocation and devastation, but a hatred,

is very human, and always, of course, the Him of one.

Two words, out, now, an emergent message flashing on cheese data pad, just enough time to make one choice. Chee, you are moving towards the rear egress of the Castral's dive. Excelsiel, you are up at the window, looking to see what sort of danger, approaches, and Z. You stand putting your coat on in the middle of this bar,

glancing casually at Alfie the bartender. Excelsiel, you see it first.

“I think you all hear the wine, printing green in the sickling neon light of”

Wallace, here on Carnio Aida, a single piece of ordinance, and RPG incoming. I'm going to say that for you to not be blown up immediately, and for us is restart character Jen. This is going to be a move role level impossible, because it's a grenade. Yeah, I accept death.

Okay, I don't like that. Now, I bring a youth now, said two words that I've never heard before,

impossible level. Yes, I've been looking forward to an impossible difficulty check, so this is going to be a 12. A 12. For you to not be blown utterly to smithereens. And when mind me again, we can burn grit in quantities of three, six, and nine to do what

“exactly to add bonuses. Yep, you add it on to the end of your role. And you have to select it”

prior to the role of the amount you're doing. You can't, you can't modify it. Boosting is a fun little gamble. Great. Well, let's go for a plus nine. I can't help but agree. Interesting. Now, I see maybe my problem was letting you restore your grit before deciding I can leafly to blow you up. I have a DNA in move, so I can also, if you don't want me to restore my life, I can also do it. Dye, right? Please don't do it. I also have a DNA. Please don't do it.

So I'm going, like, nine's not even guaranteed. Yeah, we're not even looking at it. Yeah, we have a 25% chance for a nine not to cut it. Yes. Okay, that will be a 13. Four. Okay. Okay. Okay. So you got a nine. I rolled a four on the die for a 13. 13. G. I rolled an eight on the die so that 17. Okay. Okay. Great. Z. So goddamn help me. Six. Plus nine. Okay. I got really nervous. I got really nervous. Because I know the dice

is realistic. There's also a part of me that was like, I could make it a little higher on a 12.

“But then, well, with the fun. Wait, you got my heart rate up. So I think your job is done. Okay.”

All right. As long as everyone got a little puckered, then we're feeling it. Very puckered. Okay. It's the morning. Very puckered. Very puckered. Good morning. It's been a minutes as we played.

Let's talk about what each of you does to avoid this. And I want to go in order from who saw it first?

And then we can kind of move through how everyone responds and survives this excelsiel. You see this incoming grenade. What do you do? I truly think I look at it and I point and go, oh no. I just cover my eyes with my hands and jump back hard. All right. All right. Sometimes you think as a storyteller, I'm going to hand off the narrative reins and see what you got. Cover your eyes and jump back hard is actually pretty great.

I mean, like, I can make up that my body can produce a big grenade shield, but then I won't have

Cover eyes, jump back hard. Okay. You hear the whistling of an incoming

grenade Z. You hear one more time? Oh, no. And then the sound of like every gear and movement mechanism in excelsiel, like fires simultaneously as he seems to teleport towards the back of the room.

“I think that the dove in is making eye contact with Alfie, like getting ready to give”

him a, like a slice smile. Like you and I are on the same team brother and thanks for the delicious drinks. And then here's the wine. Here's Excelsiel. Here's the gears. It's going to think, protect my internal organs, flip the table. They've been sitting at to be protecting his window side. And I think take the full impact and slam to the back wall as the force hits hopefully not so much of his body, but mostly the table. Yeah. Gee, just as a reminder, spatially, you're like

off towards the back of the bar. What did you do in this moment? I heard, oh no, I heard a table flip.

“I just stepped through the door into the back room. You just leave? Yeah, I just, I go, oh,”

well, I don't want to deal with any of what that is. And I just simply step into the next room.

You stepped through the back door and we will find you in a second. Yeah, incredible.

There's going to be a little bit of damage here, but none of you were blown to smithereens. So if everyone would like to roll me their own D6, and I'll have Gee, you can roll yours with this advantage. Come on, you stupid motherfucker. Wow, wow. Four damage for Excelsiel. One damage for the bottom. Oh my god, it works. Yes, it will be rude to these dusts. One damage. Incredible. I kind of like the way that has worked out narratively. Yeah, that feels, yeah.

For posterity, I have 13 health remaining. Amazing. Seven health remaining. Amazing. 13.

The last thing you all hear before the world becomes a fiery inferno of green and orange around you is the shattering of the glass and this smart grenade choosing to detonate the moment it hits the center of the room. Oh, no. Excelsiel, the way you jump back even as you cover your eyes every other part of you that can perceive that can collect data and information and experience. Watches this happen for a person who wants to experience as much of the world as possible.

What's going through your mind? I don't want to experience this. Are you fair? Not this yet. Not this yet. This experience should be saved for near the end. Your eyes are closed and you throw yourself back far enough. Or maybe it's a trick of luck or naughty architecture here that when that grenade detonates, you get blown through the wall immediately and you find yourself back outside in that sickly green.

Because this building wasn't built better, you are thrown clear in a way that has preserved your life.

“My LED strips, I think, move immediately into pink blue venom green purple running”

in like siren dots going up around them, which is sort of like a fear response. As I get outside, I don't know where she is, right? Well, the moment you are thrown clear in your hands or pushed away, what you see is cheese red jacket having just stepped outside to the other side of the door, but then Zidavin and Zidavin's table kind of running into the back of her as they are also like thrown clear of the cestral's dive. So your one point of damage is you kind of just getting

hate in the ass with eight in your X and a table. Seeing both of them I go, friends, they're trying

Going, "Help, help, help, help, help, it's a chain! Help, help, help, help!"

Where's your final answer? Yeah, yeah, you all right? Yeah, yeah, I'm fine. Sorry about that, I couldn't really control where the table was going. That's okay, it's gotten her worse before, you know. I'll look over my shoulder at YouTube guys talking and go, "The murderer is still at large! Someone's trying to kill us! Help, help, help!" How adamant are you in attracting attention here? Because I mean, yes, a building has just blown up

and there are the sort of like screams of people in the neighborhood and the slow gathering of people either ducking in for safety or peering out trying to figure out what the sense of

“the danger is. Are you trying to flag down authority figures? I think so. Unless I believe the”

power structure of Warris just launched an RPG at us and therefore authority figures are the ones trying to blow us up. If I have some reason to arrive at that conclusion, then yes, I would go stealth mode. Otherwise, if I believe that this is like an assassination attempt from a non-authoritative figure on Warris, then yes, I would be trying to attract as much attention as possible. Cool. I'll have you make two roles then. One sort of analyze your internal, like judgment mechanism

and then one to make this call. So go ahead and give me a reason to roll difficulty of eight. Seven plus one is eight. Perfect. You kind of going through and assessing some pretty complex like political dynamics here. You come quickly to the conclusion that it would be deeply unlikely that this would be like Warris authority attempt at blowing the three of you up. Cool. Then in that case, yes, I will run around and go, I need an authority figure. I need an

authority figure. I'm in danger. My companions are in danger. Okay, uh, yeah, give me a time roll. Difficulty of six. Quibble. I fail. Help. Help. We're in danger. Someone's launched a bomb.

“Surely you heard it. I think the problem you have right now is that you are doing this in the”

second after an explosion. So everyone is kind of keeping their distance. Like there are no

people coming out to assist you. Everyone is holding and watching and trying to see what's about to happen. And any authority figures are sufficiently far away that they're nowhere near you right now. I'm going to go serpentine down the street. So I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm making, making as curbs. So I'm harder to hit the arms fully extended of fingers. I'm, I'm running after him. Like mop mop. Are you, are you also hearing that? Z? Oh, yeah. Are you also hearing is, what are you saying? Are you saying

something? Me talking? Yeah. No. Okay. mop. Are you okay? My ears are ringing. Yeah. You've been near an explosion. No. Here. Take a deep breath. Let's go catch a cell'sie help. Okay. Is there anything else you all want to do before you fully flee this scene and try to catch serpentine excelsie? I'm so easy to catch. I'm doing broad S across the street. I'm not making good progress. Yeah. I'm good. If you're good, the place with the grenade,

“I look back at the Castro and I remember, I remember Alfie's face and I remember the name of the”

business for future consequences, but aside from that, I know where we're headed. Yeah. Do me a favor as you do do that. Kind of look back, remember, and then slowly catch our sort of east

to west zigzag game. Robot. He's doing like an 18 second 40 40 hour dash. Go ahead and give me a

will role sort of a memory role. I'm going to say the difficulty of this is a seven. That is only going to be a, uh yeah, it's only going to be a four. You look back in the flaming wreckage of this dive bar towards the bar where Alfie once was and is very much no longer. You make a little mental note and then you turn down this wide alley covered in water. You hope and proceed to intercept Excelsiel running east to west in seconds. Where are you headed?

Gee. Mm. Lower. Oh, quieter. Is this is this? That's normal. Okay. I also, are you there?

You know what? I want a tech role for this because very specifically, your ears were damaged and tapping your comms that are connected to your ears might like that one point of health that you took might be where your tech is intersecting with your meat. I like the way I said that. I got

“a two. Okay. Because it wasn't a one, your comms are not broken. But I think every time until”

you spend some time actually repairing that tech, using your comms is essentially giving yourself a short term like acute migraine. Okay. So I'm like, hello? Hello? I asked, ah, ah. Okay. Well, I'm not sure where we're going next. I don't, I don't know. Excelsiel, can you like see information? Yes, I can. Should we not scream for help? Uh, yeah, I don't know what your version is of a deep breath is, but take one of those. Okay. And my lighting on my LED reverts back to

kind of gleaming like gold and rose quartz. And I'm going to, uh, papa, I would like to auger. Ooh, we're auger. All right. And I think I owe a quibble. So should I re-roll this if yeah, go ahead and just roll with this event. Six and three. So three plus one is four. So ten minus four is six. So I burn six grit and a health. Okay. You saw I also interacting with the network. Can you track that stream? Yes, I also was attempting to remove permissions for an

administrator role within the network on Jenna Park. May I ask she, do you at this current time believe I asked it to be working in your best interest? Yes, yes, absolutely. I trust it with my life. So finding her would bring us to some degree of safety. Yes. My auger, you will be where is Ayasa and the safest for it to get to her. Gorgeous. While you send that out into whatever technology

“is in and around you, she, I think, who the best way I can explain it is if you had a sort of like”

light effect on a microphone that, what's the, what's the word? The little like visualizer. Mm-hmm. So like I like a light based visualizer on the response you're getting from Ayasa, but the light that you see in that visualizer is behind your eye. Oh God. And like you're getting that slow tune in

of like it sounds like a peanut's mom at first. Or you will live. Oh, did you die? No,

we did not die. Where are you? We'll have to come to your place. Okay. Well, uh, do your places currently on fire? On fire, yes. So I'm a little nervous about, did you shake, whatever? Excelsiel, did you see who threw that grenade? No, I was not able to see who threw the grenade. The thing you can say right away, not thrown, launched. The grenade that was launched

“at us was in RPG. I believe it might have been fired from a launch at some distance. All right.”

We don't have eyes on the attacker, but yeah, we'll make our way towards you and try to shake them. Okay. I'm glad you're alive. Just when I tell you to run, I need you to run. Oh, we did. We did. We did it as soon as the message came in. Okay. And she, like you can hear what sounds like typing. The line doesn't go dead, but there is a stall. And in that stall, how specific of information do you want? Well, I'm going to pause here for a minute. Do I see that

she is speaking to Ayasa? Yeah. I'd like to interrupt my augury if I can and just go, I'm so sorry. Miss Tanka, are you speaking with Ayasa right now? Uh, yes. Yes, I am. I can. Can she not simply direct us to her current location? I thought that the augury

resulted in my cons getting re, you know, your cons are always going to work. Oh, okay. If you really,

if you're. Okay. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Wait. Extremely strange. My processor is to perform location finding of this magnitude. Oh, okay. Put a hold on that, then. I also, where can we meet you?

for a place about an hour and a half away. Like it's on the other side of this like port town.

“Ooh. Okay. Like she clearly hauled ass after intercepting the crew of the counter and got”

very out of dodge and then was slowly making her way over to you. Okay. We are going to head your way. We will keep you updated. Uh, thank you. Yeah, of course. I just, uh, I don't know what that was, but there was just a little, there was enough radio chatter. Radio chatter? Yeah. They used the name of the bar you said you were at when we were talking, so I just wanted you.

I don't know what's happening. Who is after you?

It seems like there was a pool that has gone wrong. Okay. Okay. Maybe see what you can find about the Gemisog Tovo and however, but he's doing back on Genopara. Okay. Okay. No, no more talking now. Okay. I'll see you soon. I'll see you when I see you. Yep. And you can hear like the sound of her beginning to like move faster as the call disconnects. Okay. We have the coordinates for Ayasa, but we should

also make sure that we're not being followed again. Excellency, I'll, you feel. It almost feels like if you knew what a stomach dropping felt like as you suddenly cut yourself from the tether like this web you'd built in just a couple seconds. As you were tying yourself to the cameras in the street lights and like the grid electrical system and even beginning to pick up little bits of chatter from short-range palms all across the city

and then you stop and everything snaps. It is uncomfortable, but you are fine and you continue to make your way towards Ayasa's location. Are you trying to be faster sneaky? It's sneaky. I'm not running. Mm-hmm. I'm not in these shoes. Sneaky. Okay. I'm not going to make your role for it. I think you know how to blend into crowds and once you get more than two blocks away from the massive fire that you were blown clear of.

“All you have to do is kind of shake off the suit and no one's going to ask you questions.”

Everyone is dark and rumpled in this little port town so you're able to make your way over. Is there anything you're looking out for specifically? I mean, I think now in the way that Alfie clocked me and then there was a smart grenade. I think I'm now watching everyone to see if they're watching me kind of head on a swivel. If anyone looks at me for too long, then I'm taking the next turn. Like, I think there's now a hypersensitivity to others awareness of my

personage that is kind of on now. Yeah. Oh, you have a very specific role ability about this. That's reading people. Yes, will sense motive. I mean, yes, personal. Yeah, go ahead and give me

that sense motive role. We're going to make the difficulty an eight. That's a six on the first

attempt and a 10 on the second. Or just what you see is people here are wary period and you know that like you are feeling all of the flesh in your body perfected, unogmented by tech. You feel it responding and you feel like the prickle on the back of like the hairs on the back of your neck raising

“and you're processing it as is this paranoia. No, all of that serves like you remember the lessons”

when you were young about how humans on earth could feel when predators were watching them and how thousands, millions of years of evolution made them perfectly adept at knowing when danger was around. So you trust your instincts and there are three distinct points, each of which you respond correctly to where someone's eyes linger just a little bit too long and you get out of dodge. You make your way to the northern edge of the forest and what felt so much like ants on a tarmac where you started

sector it almost feels 40 sons worthy. I don't know if Master of Yerex would agree but

“it's almost nice here and you see just rows and rows of identical looking small,”

dark painted but well-meant-hanged shotgun houses. They are single stories like bungalows, turned front to back almost like railway cars. They're simple but they're clean and they're nice and for a hideaway for your friend Ayasa seems a little upmarket but you make your way to this exact point and you find yourself standing at the front gate. It's a white like low-picked gate with flowers on the inside, Astro Turf lawn, you're standing in front of a nice home. What in the suburban

okay is there a side or back entrance readily available? If you cross into the yard you could probably make your way to like what you assume would be a back door to whatever porch patio situation is back there. All right yeah let's let's do that. It's place is definitely like single story front door. Side window is back door. Sure. Head for the back. Okay. You move into the yard step around the living flowers and the unnaturally green Astro Turf

and as you're walking past like the second set of windows on the side you just hear a little

knock on the window and Ayasa is just looking through it. We gesture at each other in a language of just body motions and quizzical looks and I go to where she points. Mostly what you're seeing you cannot hear anything she's saying on the other side of what looks like a very thin window pain. But the phoneme she's forming as she's sort of yelling towards you and pointing at the front door is either front or an f-bomb. Sure. Yeah. But you can keep going towards the back or double that

was a fly. I double that towards the front and I now vacuum to her. You see her like smile and then the door is open and waiting for you. Not wide open but unlocked and slightly pushed in. Okay. Come on in. This is a revolutionary's hideaway? I guess so. Hi. I'm not a revolutionary. It's just a hideaway. This doesn't have to be a shit hideaway. I mean I don't know. It's just different.

Ayasa's never been much into politics. Got it. Okay. You don't have to speak. Hi, Ayasa.

It's a dolphin. Nice to meet you. Nice to meet you. Hello Ayasa. I'm Excelzeo.

“Oh my gosh. What are you? Pack you can't ask. What?”

Hi. I'm so sorry. Are you? I am an instance of the septum acquire of the arena. Oh my god. Wait. Why are you? He was working in one of the parlors as a what? Sex toy cleaner. What? Yeah. And the general bus boy? Hmm. Are you supposed to be like impossible to make deals? What if you've done? Is he why people are trying to blow you up? I'm sorry. Close door. Close door. Any outside sounds? Go away the moment the door is shut.

Is this? I'm going to look around. Is this her place? How long is she at? This place? Are you just squatting? Are you just squatting here? Yeah. One of your peers has a really nice place that they live and does sort of fuck you out. What is this? What? What? Everything is clean and beige and comfortable and there is no discernible personality insight. I think you can tell without me making any kind of roll-cheap. If this was Ayasa's place, it is utterly

devoid of any trace of her personality. But I think both of you have clocked it. This is a perfectly fine place with no personal effects in here. I'll look over at Z and go. Looks like they're getting ready for an open house. I wonder if they're trying to sell? Yeah. I'm still hoping we get a little bit of sauce. You know like they pull a book off of bookcase and slides open and this stairs down. I know but you have to get rid of all the personality when you're

“getting ready to sell. That's part of it. No, actually I think you have to build a narrative”

of why it's important for you to buy this. I've often heard that you need to leave space for the people to say we'll change this and this and this and this and we'll do all of this better. You're

if you have taste. Because I think if you have taste then you can tell your place as aspirational

“to the new buyers that this could be them if they lived here. However, people without I think tend”

to go pretty bland because they just want to invite space to write your own narrative. I wonder what the speculation market is like here on a carweta. What's the speculation market like here on a carweta? The what? And see at this point. Do you have a cheese for her? She's folded against the wall just watching all of you with the biggest kind of doppy grin on her face. Cheese? It just seems like this feels like it's getting prepared for an open house. I was wondering

if you had any private roles or kind of pays? No, but there's some food if you're hungry. Are

do you get hungry? No, I just like to experience the taste of food. Oh okay um well let me go see and you see that she moves to like towards the kitchen. So you don't know who was trying to kill us. No, I just heard that your current location was being brought up on chatter and I figured you know what with all the dead people in that ship. Someone was coming. Hmm. Yeah that was my bad. Who did we see killing everybody on the ship? He saw her. Well it was you couldn't make her out because

she was yeah. She had a hood. She's talking about all the people dead on that ship like she doesn't

“know anything about that. No I think it's a little more tongue-in-cheek. Oh god she's saying like we're”

in a dangerous situation. I just killed a bunch of people and you guys get yeah kind of for a second.

Yeah about that. I appreciate the hustle. Did not know that you had that in you? And murder? Yes in such an efficient manner. Okay all right I was gonna say we've both killed people. We're kind of famous for it. Well I appreciate you mentioning the efficiency. Yes there's a bit. There's a level of finesse here that is new. Hold on. Is there like an allergies? Are there allergies I need to be worried about? Oh food wise no I need anything. Okay I also can

eat well I can chew on anything. Huh okay as she comes out with just salted cured meat in a long salami-like stick with a nice sticking out of it and like a hunk of old white cheese and bread. They are getting ready for an open house here. This is just what I brought with me from dinner bar. Is this your home it's this is not my home. Hmm it's so boring. Well yes I know but we thought perhaps you might be getting it ready to so why do you think that? I I understand that you

too have history. Ayasa I haven't met you you haven't met me. What I know about you is that you murdered four members of the Gemisaktofo family organization however you'd like to see it. What I'd like you to know about me is that I'm likely the reason we were targeted for that grenade launch because I'm a trend. I train oh oh are you like kind of a big deal yes are you a gemisaktofo are you mad that I did that? No it's fine it's business I'm an averics.

Oh hi and she does she is in like an oversized black hoodie that like sort of tunic that goes down to her mid thigh and like combat boots and like black cargo pants and she's somehow still manages to give a pretty good courtesy. You do not have to do that. Okay well it feels like

“I'm supposed to because you're one of them. Why did you murder those people?”

Well because I thought they were going to kill my best friend. We were truly hostages against our will and I understand that's part of the political process. Oh okay imagine you're me seeing your friend slash boss she leaves a message that's like carry on without me you're all beautiful and so much stronger than you believe and then I see on security footage that she's being escorted by I killed six by the way that's all of them yeah.

Zedavin is it your intention to fulfill a political obligation by affecting the remainder of your pull? That would be my ideal outcome however yes I being kid I'll tell you the spread of meats and cheeses at our kidnapping that you saved your friend from were much better than what you provided for us. Did you bring any of it? Don't it is in my best interest to continue the pull

I can acknowledge that I saw the bartender who made those delicious drinks clock me at the bar

and I saw what he was doing because it happens all the time of people feeding information about where trints are where that are pulls this calls that right I went and tried to put a thumb on the scale and I pushed too hard and they tried to blow me up with a grenade so now it's a much mess your situation my ideal outcome personally would still be to get on the fox glove six and if you get a fox glove six there won't be a smart grenade waiting for you

no no is all I mean the result have had friction but nothing like that on the cover chain say

Ms. Tanka given that the gemis octavo family was affecting the pull and the institution of genopar was seen as an obstacle or rather a non-party to this pull in general is there an opportunity to affect a service to the of your ex family and possibly gain a reason profile and status to finish with the gemis octavo could not in other words if you were to affect the rest of this pull is there any advantage to you is he worked for you we have this we we have a contract and

share custody yes he's more of a contractor for both of us in this situation but I wasn't employed

“before it was a misunderstanding when you were a basketball when I was a boss boy I think someone told”

me to clean up and I thought I was being hired but it may have just been a drunken shouted statement and you trust this guy you know I do I I do I don't believe that the arena is is known for pre-verication anyone can be capable of anything that's true how long have you known these two we met earlier today I've met cheap before casually you've provided services to or you've provided entertainment yes you've you've established and set up services for

members of the of your ex family in the past I would be happy to lend any assistance that might disposal to the of your ex family the gemis octavo family it seems it's it's has the same objective as you however I do wonder what changed in being targeted you said you pushed too hard

“finally asking a fucking glad yes um when you spy someone of value there are channels I think”

the chatter you're referring to at which people are pushing out information with regard to locations and opportunities I thought that that bartender could be swayed to alert the proper authorities to my location however what I'm sensing is that he just blasted it out anyway and took my fucking money which is my band oh and is he still alive I don't think so okay what would you like to do I also because it seems that right now our objective is to get the doven back to

fucks close six what objective are what are you working with them well um I as you I'm sure no I'm so sorry and this is probably very rude and no one's probably ever cut you off in your life but I'm not talking to you right now oh why are you working with them you met them earlier this morning

“and we're escorted by gunpoint to a ship and then almost blown up I think it's not seeing”

a lot of I'm trying to I'm trying to draw a line I think it's in everybody's best interest if we just follow along with the fun little rituals of the great houses why do you think that why do you not think that what have you been what what are you doing right now I just spent the morning seeing you get abducted following you in my ship murdering your captors and trying to keep you from being blown up

why you're continuing to stick with the people that have caused you a lot of trouble in the last day

no offense I haven't caused you any trouble in the last day fair enough the best boys done nothing wrong and neither has the doven it's so there's just a bunch of crazy random I can we sidebar yeah can you just please uh gentlemen please enjoy your jeez I'd you see that like while you guys were talking earlier and even while she's been discussing this with you she's made a ridiculous sort of stack of like slice of bread slice of meat

slice of bread slice of cheese slice of bread it's not a true sandwich it's a outward manifestation of

anxiety it's just a deconstructed anxiety sandwich we need to do this a lot yeah and she's going to take you like this is one long room back and takes you back towards like the back door you can see it looks out on like a little porch in like a tiny astro-terft adio yeah hey thank you thank you for cool yeah I love starting with a thank you for killing six people to make sure you don't die it's deeply appreciated and also very impressive I have I have questions but sure maybe for a different moment in time

we need at least one of the five houses to be behind a genopar as an independent entity it's being aired out right now what yeah I don't know I don't know what's going on I can't

“get a hold of anyone I don't know if the kidnapping was actually the goal of all of this I think”

it might have been a power grab on genopar and he just happened to be here okay that makes sense and you're just going to follow him no matter what no I'm going to take him back to where he needs to go and be owed a favor by the evuerics and Gemma's octavo family okay okay all right I feel better I just feel like when we were over there you were acting in a way that made me go like oh she's been hitting the head or something has happened to her and you like maybe the five families have

those rappers you mean that I know no it's I appreciate that but no how I'll kill them eat is do you want me to kill them I love you so much I'll kill anyone I for you well I'll also just kill anyone I what do we talk about about consequences for murders we can't use your money and influence and good looks and oh my god you know go skill with the blade to get out of everything okay

there's gonna be a time where there's a reckoning and when that time comes we want powerful good

friends okay okay and let me be very clear I may be acting very blase but I'm screaming inside my heart

“that is where you put all your feelings okay okay so you need to go you need to talk to someone about that”

yeah and healthy yeah well we endure don't we sure sure okay all right are you okay do you need anything for me oh no I'm having a perfectly normal day okay well if I was sarcasm yes I'll have a bit later okay so getting oh is it often if you okay yeah so getting him to fox glove sex mm-hmm so let's just ship mm-hmm and then you want to go on the ship with him or we just getting him to the ship I think we're getting him to the ship and we're getting me to assault

and you trust them I don't know what I don't think that we're in bed enough to necessarily

“need that level of trust I can bring these gurkins out what no those are mine that's what put them back”

here and at this point I think you see like the conversation sort of dissolves into something significantly less tense excelsio you're chasing experiences generally speaking yes but I have several other protocol that I engage in as well got it but like but like you choose whether or not you feel things or you feel them no matter what like where are you on that spectrum like like you

you process the drugs I'm assembling the smallest little shark cutary roll it's just like a little

“scrap of meat and a tiny little bit of cheese and a little bit of bread because I only I'm just”

gonna do chemical testing on all of them so it's just samples of all making a tiny little snack for myself I have the ability to eject myself from an altered state of being for reasons of safety however my emotions are how would I phrase this my emotions are not voluntary because for the most part my emotions are all extremely adaptive being afraid when someone is

shooting bombs at you is extremely adaptive being angry in the face of someone

inflicting harm on you in a manner that is an unjust exertion of malice or coercion is extremely adaptive being happy when you are expanding your consciousness is extremely adaptive my emotions aren't voluntary because I suppose it's an interesting query I guess so but like giving your synthetic nature right do have a switch those switches in you do they turn things on do they turn things off I cock my head all the way to the side are there switches in you

I mean yeah but they've been curated and developed organically year after year

breeding pods family pools all I mean all of these very intentional kind of things to create small slight changes in the gene pool to create ideal specimens wow that sounds like a large undertaking

“if you want to be one of the five families it takes a lot of work”

it's taken a lot of work to get where you are my father's father my father's father my father's father's mother her mother and then her father for the most part those generations built the foundations of the of your extremely kind of pre-ormium I guess in the original FTL times you know do you understand it to be your obligation to complete the next phase of that project

are you aware of I guess I I don't know sometimes I'm I give very my own zone do you like how familiar are you with like Trent culture in in the of your house's unfamiliar oh oh okay so the kind of like captains of industry heroes of war like those those people from that the original FTL time right they have all been elevated to a level where their names are passed down from generation to generation right and that only happens when you are like

a big deal like the hot shit the hot is shit right depending on when you're that person was

“added to that kind of dais or that platform that's what's it's the different people apart”

who's better who's worse a lot of jocking in that regard tracer anyone whose name has been passed down more than 30 times so my ancestors are things of legend and the expectation is that I carry my father's father's father's father you know going all the way back I carry that name there's a lot the derailleuse uh it's it's I mean it's going down you know I'm gonna hold my hand over my chest and go oh you are an instance of the dove in the

of your ex very much so I understand this peaks my curiosity how many is a dovins have there been if more than 30 I'm 33 so this name has only recently passed into the territory of being a trend very much within the septum will choir though all instances are created equal in terms of matter and designation our individual experiences and therefore exploits are not equal circumstance and opportunity avail themselves differently to each and every instance and though we

can do our best to communicate to one another we obviously do not possess a hive mind or the ability

all of the arena that exist I have complex feelings around my sameness with the other instances

of my choir and differences and the samenesses and the differences sometimes way positively and negatively do you feel that there is more sameness between the sedovant of your exes that have existed or more

“difference between them have they all been equally legendary oh oh no I mean I think that's”

that's part of um that's part of kind of you know there's like a lot going on because this name was like made great right and raised to the status that it is passed down and then

FTL cutout right and so you've got generation after generation of sedovant of your ex who is like

desperate to prove themselves desperate to like show a level of mastery and confidence that they can't that literally cannot reach the level of the pre FTL times because they're just not that much industry like we're we're enacting all of these choices and all of these movements like in the

“of your system which while vast is not like so it's not like cannot compare to like what the”

original sedovant was working with and I do think it's kind of like it's definitely

there is an expectation right orm's back the derailles here that it's kind of like oh we get to do

that thing that like the last I would say 10 15 or so generations have been like drooling over I mean dude I have uncles that are insane with kind of just this ability to kind of be out here again and it is you know it was nice to take a break you know gurgins oh oh shit gurgins that's a lot of pressure what it's a lot of pressure I think we're all the result of our programming one way or another I'll look over at sedovant as they come back I know it hasn't been

an hour can I use my listen ability say more I have an ability called listen that when I am speaking to someone I can have them regain my charisma plus level grit oh this requires a relatively safe environment a quiet room blob and peace of the office listening when he works once per day on the same person but you can listen to up to three people per day oh my god therapy therapy you know what

“I think in this instance I don't care about like the time isn't important the quality of conversation”

is I will allow it to resolve that quibble roll go ahead and give me two charm rolls to see how much great you restore to his oven that's a seven and a six okay Z regains six grit oh and I don't feel like well I think that I think that listening I really don't want this to be that excellsial says something that moralizes yada yada or condenses the ability is called listen it really is just like you're gaining something because you were given space to speak right

so I think that it's literally just as the Gurken's come out and and our two companions rejoin us I'll just look over you and say thank you so much for sharing your experience of your family it's a point of connection with my own experience that I would not have expected someone outside of the event to understand the worthiness of a soul is a project that many have dedicated themselves to measuring and yet no examination exists which can fairly measure that worth you talk of the

history of your family the opportunities for greatness were not given equally and I share that fear that I will not be given the opportunity to show the merit of my own soul yeah I'm gonna hit the vape hard all right let's go a little break right there as pickles are offered and the group reconvines you all see that I also

me on just says okay so we have to get you to fox glove six which is sorry I need more details

“I open myself and then I look over to Zadavin oh my love to speak now”

this is your home I respect your rules I'm sorry it's not my home please take a pickle it's not your home it's my it's my it's my I'm using it as a hideout currently the all right the gemisaktava would have sent a is there a word in this world for a cruiser of size that could make a jump like the one the gemisaktava yeah any ship that's capable of FTL or like jump travel is just they're called jump ships jump ships and you would know that fox glove is also technically

a fleater fleater because it's there to like move troops around great the men who took us from janapar would have traveled to this system on the fleater of fox glove six of craft actually

capable of FTL jumps so my guess is we were always headed there and then we were of course

interrupted I so sorry I guess no apologies necessary cost to do in business so

“I believe the completion of the poll can be done with the delivery of said subject to fox”

glove six jump back to gemisaktava system connect with these old I don't know we'll see what happens from there and we have a perfectly ship shape ship to get you there oh courtesy of our host yes I have a ship called the arabesque it's a little guy but she's worthy fantastic did the arabesque how do you know the name you just said it did I just say you did you just said it yeah I'm your moment ago all right clever okay I'm gonna try to cheat you say like have I done anything to make

I also feel like I am not on her side or I think in her line of work it pays to be cautious but no please don't take any of this person I would share my ulterior motives with anyone who would

“like to know them I would actually be interested in if you'd like to get sense send them send them to me”

yeah you want them written down I just because right now we're on the move so I figure maybe it's

best sure hold on one second I'm gonna grab the girl can see walk out the door I start walking

and start printing a long receipt with my thoughts about what motivates me as a person it's like a CVS receipt with poetry on it to begin with meaning and purpose to concepts that each thinking creature must grapple with in their own and just printing a book of how I feel about being an arena and like life and it's a big adventure and what it means to try to find meaning in a big galaxy as you're walking down this street she's leading you down to like the far end

essentially like a little cold attack for this street and all of these like shotgun houses and I think you look like a little fish with like the little poop trail still attached I start to whip it around a finger back there just so I'm so excited I feel like I can have a whole little manifesto to read on on the ship all right well I guess I got my book pull and then down at the end of the cold attack the house that is like facing down the street looks like every other shotgun house on

the block except that as I also who's walking slightly ahead of Z even though she occasionally was lagging back walking down this block to like grab a girl can on the way you see her interact with something in her pocket at her hip and the frontage of this house drops down and you see a small ship sitting inside the facade of a shotgun house the airbask is pre-isolation cuttership so like a small trade craft that it only takes one person to operate but like

12 people can kind of move and fit in in like the bunks comfortably this is like a small house size ship like it fits snugly inside the facade of the shotgun house and it kind of looks like

tech roll to identify and kind of like rock what's going on with this ship you can tell me what you on a roll I'll just say the difficulties is seven what was the word you used for the time of

which the ship you said something about pre-isolation pre-isolation never just calls it pre-isol pre-isol

I rolled a one I was taking a lot of my energy to print this big long poem that's something incredible oh I got a two now I got a six now if you would allow it oh it talks to me I'm allowed to add plus two to checks related to political slash corporate intrigue I'd very much like to know who is the maker of this pre-isol ship

“are they still making ships I think what like if it's pre-isol these are the things that would be”

of historical record if this is a company of repute in the everex system absolutely take your

plus two to this which allows you to break the threshold because this looks like a sweet six-tune ship that someone in your family would get it's like looking at like a 59 Cadillac coupe deville but if she said that it's like worthy the implication that it can jump and use arm is an old hot like hot pink coupe deville with a pre-assension in it someone had to have kept this machinery up to date for 5,000 or more years and then retrofitted it I think you would know

because modern arm works a little bit differently than arm classic got it so the engine would have had to be swapped to process new arm if it is a jump ship like she's implied can I add it is there I know you feel free to ask I would be interested just for the corporate angle of what who did make the ship oh yeah this would have been made by three points three points the trade federation specifically the ships that are made by the coga family tend to be like they like make yachts

this is like looking at a maybach got it so you're like oh same kind of thing but a little bit different scale there is nothing inside of you that would make you think that someone like her who's both incredibly deadly but also forgot a thing she said seconds after she said it yeah

“how would she be in possession of a ship like this yeah I think as we approach the ship and I get a”

better sense seeing more the whole the thrusting engines I think there is this like whoa kind of like Zedav and stops walking and goes is this is the arabesque yeah this is your craft this is my ship do you like it it's I mean this is I have I have friends who have these hung in their homes

but they don't work anymore do you get see when I showed you this ship at first you were like oh

it's so old school yeah it's someone that appreciates did you are you hands on on this or do you have a guy oh I've got a guy but so do you kind of know about the origins of Jen so the

“television massacre do you remember that a little bit yeah I've read about it yeah um this is”

what I spent my payout on that's my girl it's I mean she's so cute prime three points I mean that is good oh my god right that's great crap I mean can we we're going inside so let's let's just go what's up you can I turn to cheat and go there was a massacre in Jennifer intelligent it's the television reset it was a power struggle where those of us who were the entertainment in the city rose up and sees our destiny you experienced this massacre yeah oh no

and I start crying the blue tracks go down I'm so sorry thank you it's you know it brought me to where I am today and I wouldn't have Jennifer without it the expression silver lining does that apply yes yes very much so oh there's a conflict I wish the massacre had not

which would create some sort of time paradox and yet I still desire it I think you you are

“a sensualist and you value experiences bad good neutral ones I think humans have experiences”

happened to them and have to make the most of that experience is a teacher even when the sensations are not pleasant exactly because there's an old fin array but I haven't yet seen what it looks like so do you know have you seen an original version of this because I would like to get that yeah so it looks like this no of course I wouldn't be three prongs or four I think they're normally three prongs I think there were two years where they did four prongs but then I think everyone really

liked the three prongs better so they went back to the fin array this you have all of the pre-iso fixed they have a can opener built in that is so hard on this holy shit god forbid an artisan

“have hobbies I mean let me tell you can interrupt me anytime you want if this is what you're”

working with no I never would you guys got this has the original can opener right yeah they don't

do these anymore it's holy shit oh my god it's giving you pickles way sooner and she's gonna usher you onto this yeah can I say hello to the arabesque oh yes hello arabesque I am exelsiel nice to meet you thank you for stewarding us give me either like tech role or a charm role the difficulty of this is gonna be a nine and I'll give you a vantage on it unless it's unnecessary because you already rolled a bajillion eleven amazing pushing through to hit the like tech of the

arabesque you realize that you're talking to two different systems one very old and one very new that are like layered on each other and trying to learn how to speak in sync but haven't quite figured it out yet hello with whom are speaking I'm exelsiel and a winner companion I am his cheat tanker and sedovative irics I understand you are captain by one I also of Jennifer yes and you hear the older voice though gets like lower and more

gravely while the like younger voice seems to like get a little louder and seems to be like pushing through to speak to you is there anything you want to do to clarify this conversation are you happy to let it kind of do I have a sense that only one of these computer systems is being interacted with by I also yes the younger one yes I'm going to go understood it's lovely to meet you if I can be of any assistance to any of your protocols or computational tasks

during our voyage please don't hesitate to let me know and I'm gonna give my designation and serial mark like routing info to speak directly to me amazing and you feel it's reciprocated but almost with a little stutter of like surprise as this is the first time that they've engaged with this protocol and been spoken to by an arena or any other like similar being do I get a sense

“of that older system is the pre-ISO system yes so that predates the arena because I think the”

arena homeworld happened during the period of isolation I could be wrong I mean yeah I think the

arena in a slightly different form and context cool but yeah cool cool cool yeah I think it's always

interesting when whenever I encounter technology that is significantly older than my my people are existence comes along there's always a sort of interesting or fascinating relationship to that I will make a point as we're gearing up and buckling up or whatever to look at z and g and go the computer systems on this craft are not integrated ah so the classic model working together with the updates makes sense I mean you would not craft like this would not be able to handle the

new one so I mean whoever her guy is has done a ton of work to bring this up to snuff can I make a check on how great I think Ayasa's guy is yeah what do you want to roll about that I think

or repair technology to assess what repairs I could make without making them does that feel like

like cheating in that regard like in other words being like I want to get the advantage of how I would repair something if I'm looking at it because I'm looking for flaws but I don't actually want to gun it without Ayasa's permission yeah I'll allow it but I will say you do have to like physically interact with some aspect of the ship I'll I'll I'll go ahead and make an obese sense to the ship and ask to connect to one of its ports yeah I'm gonna connect to one of the new or ports

your port yes I think without even any kind of like roll you feel deeply observed by that like

“second intelligence that's why I'm putting myself behind the firewall of the newer system”

an 11 let's go and an 11 11 but thanks amazing my gut instinct is this is dangerous that the

older computer system is not disabled oh oh I like that the guy that worked on this would have made his work a thousand times easier had he simply ripped out the other tag he preserved it on purpose and did a really good job like despite the fact that there are integration problems the ability for two systems to even sit in the same like field together it's a deeply impressive work of like tech and technique the fact that there's like an awkward detente happening between these two

is a feature not a bug they wanted to keep both online someone very skilled did this

the engineer or mechanic responsible for the integration of this vessel with a newer armed system did not see conflict as a clearing inefficiency the preservation of the older computer system on this vessel represents tremendous care and skill and to my knowledge would have been accomplished at tremendous inefficiency for reasons that escaped me but obviously not the skill of our mechanic yeah I mean people who have this back in my system these are in museums in homes on walls

“they don't fly do the arena have the concept of nostalgia hmm yes it's that I think that we are”

willing to put up with a lot of nonsense and inefficiency in order to relive or have something that makes us feel a certain way yes the analogy I might use for what I feel I am experiencing here is if the constituent parts of a sapient creature's mind possessed different ego I don't know how healthy it would be if one's emotional state considered itself separate an identity to one's prefrontal cortex for example do they have the concept of a little angel and a little devil on

your shoulder my understanding of the little angel and little devil is that it does not typically work well for the guy in the middle speaking of the guy in the middle I don't know if you are

“still sort of plugged into the air basket at this point but it doesn't actually matter you are”

being attacked right now and I need you to tell me how you want to avoid something trying to interface with you not necessarily against your will but someone is trying to kick a door in other hand I'll use a technology check to attempt to block it sweet alright let's go a pose roll and I'll burn some grit to add add a plus three to the roll that is nine yeah you beat my seven what you feel is there's something really fun about making sort of like human physical space

analogies for the like mental things that are happening right now but what it feels like to you is the fire wall you were standing behind known as arabesque just got face palm away and there is a very angry old woman about to waggle her finger in your face and you shut another door hmm I may have given a fence to one of the computer systems on the ship however the temperature of the response does confirm some of the offensive things that I believed

and you duck and go I get it but also you see what I'm unfortunately not wrong

that's a hundred percent what just happened we're not totally safe here but that's okay what do you mean and I also who is piloting the ship and you guys are like picking up out of this neighborhood what do you mean the ship is so safe it's so good they did such a good job when they

“gave it to me I think he means maybe emotionally unsafe he's been interfacing with the systems”

oh I mean physically too but yes what hold on should I what keep going don't worry about it okay you just told me my chip that I love is unsafe and I want to do something about it because I'm

flying it right now and I don't want to die I'm gonna put a finger up in the air like there's

wind blowing and I go hmm I bet we're good let's do it you are you are the arena we're good also are these original jewelry magnets over the bunk this shit is crazy and she goes from like very clearly beginning to cut in her native tongue to like you've successfully like redirected her it to like talking about know that they're not the original but I went I worked really hard after

“I got this job and like got them I was able to go to a museum I was able to like see them and so I”

had some fabricated like it thank you so much for it great it's so sweet the dominant just taking

his sunglasses and over one of the bunk there's just a small magnetic strip where he's putting his

sunglasses and they hold exactly there takes them back put them back they hold exactly the charges them to what it charges them to well that's the new oh my god this thing is magnificent okay it's gonna take us like maybe 20 minutes to get over to the Caldera which is what I'm assuming you guys are because it would either be that or the moon but if the canner dropped you here instead of going to them so it will be here it's gonna be here a question now that we're all incredibly

“friendly except for Mr. Ziel who says my ship is unsafe and that makes me unhappy but I appreciate”

the knowledge um are we not worried about the person trying to kill you people possibly people I mean we're definitely worried I mean is this is she built for combat okay well I mean unless someone knows I'm on this vessel we should be good is there a worry people could know you're on this vessel I don't think so I have not broadcast any electronic information about Sedavans presence as far as I know we're locked down okay great plus the Arabesque is fast we can make a 20

minute okay okay telling you my ship is fast is working and I don't like that about me all right she guns it a little faster and you guys make a very quick trip in about let's say 14 minutes she shave some time you're just high enough in the air that you're able to see like that bright flashing green light that was so overwhelming when you were on the ground you're almost high enough to like see the like larger super patterns on the planet you are following this massive dotted green

line that's being lit up from the ground that's pointing towards a massive caldera a little bit outside of war is it's a super heavy gas filled caldera that's able to support fleeter and larger ships that want to for whatever reason dock on world instead of up at the like false moon and stay like for ships that like stay in orbit so you can see as you're like pulling up to the big green caldera there's a bunch of other lines from other sides other parts of the

world everything is leading towards this specifically and there's maybe a score of ships sitting inside one of them you know has to be the fox glove but the glow coming up out of the gas that is at the bottom of this caldera is making a hard for you to see any insignia till you get down into the dock and closer okay um so might just drop in you off uh yeah are you heading back to Janapar I I'm waiting for orders captain yeah I I think hang close for a minute here and then

I mean you said that one of the houses is taking has taken yeah in the process of taking

“I'm not sure yet okay so you want me to go back and like take it back what just do a little”

reconnaissance but also stick here just for a minute we may or may not need an exit strategy just in case okay so you want me to land quiet right now land very quiet perfect she's gonna circle the pattern and then is actually following the like those last lights before they hit the caldera and is going to like drop you off in a dark spot okay you got about a minute till this gets lit up bright green again uh and I'll be

hiding until you tell me I'm good to take off sound good awesome thank you truly

good work out there okay love you I love you it was so nice to meet you

“missed me you great craft oh if you ever need like a ride ever I mean if if it's in this I”

it would truly be a pleasure cruise hold on hold on hold on and you see and she runs and gets this like small gold it looks like a like a bullet casing that's maybe two inches at like in diameter because can I stamp you and that's very weird oh sure and she's takes the inside of your wrist and stamps you with a little like it's a letter a with like three little dots around it you feel it it looks like an ink stamp that you would get

going into a club doesn't feel particularly special and doesn't seem to do anything other than be a stamp on you yeah she's kind of looking at you and waiting respectively oh sorry I haven't

ever seen one of these it didn't work yeah just give it a second maybe the ink is that's

probably fine are you not getting a are you not getting a read uh information on your and she gestures to your glasses am I getting a read on my glasses or not uh no take my glasses off oh let's oh let's huh and I'll tell you it's not the glasses oh no yeah I wouldn't imagine you're from one of the family in Sierra Nevada I look at the glasses and I say are you doing okay is there a reason you can't read them are you talking to the glasses yes I I assume that since you

had I you had opened up a line of communication with his glasses and that it was still I can talk to the glasses and see how they're feeling I don't think anyone needs to talk to my what are they what do you sad I don't think my glasses are sad exactly why you can't read the stamp are you sad it's just gonna kind of pull you to the side one because that line of questioning is a little uh like clearly seems to be stressing you out but wants to like kind of whisper are you I'm so sorry

I maybe it's her does do you have tech in plan oh oh are they on the frances no I don't I'm I'm pretty minimal tech oh yeah oh I'm so sorry I didn't know all trans less than 0.05 so oh my god I didn't even know people could beat that's so cool actually that's I yeah that's so cool actually the meat parts the money can buy yeah that's great I'm so sorry hold on she's gonna licker thump and start rubbing the soul you know I don't need I'm so sorry you don't have to speak to any right I can

write I can just write contact information right down I guess that that was gonna be easier and she

“like takes a little like random you know I think she's grabbed like a tiny bit of your uh manifesto”

like tears off a little corner and just gives like a little call signs so you can track her like you can reach out to her on a date of time so sorry no no no no no no no no you don't you can like just emotional just read out yes all right get to do it the classic way look at that old school I'm very cool I also nice to meet you I was a nice to meet you please don't die we should be going let's go let's go I turned to I also and I lean in and I go disunity of the mind is the great wound at the heart of the

cosmos your ship is fractured and I'm going to um I'm going to walk off the ship don't I we'll get work we'll get what it's the air mask she's fine she's fine she's doing fine she loves you she loves you love her it's okay it's all right I'll catch you later

yeah yeah okay and then I I like sort of backup like I'm sort of placating a animal or a child my hands out in front of me going down the gang plank

“and she waits in a little dark spot while you guys figure out what ship you need to get to”

I'm looking for a green diamond with a seven pedal blossom of fleater class yeah go ahead and give me like a perceive roll the difficulty on this is going to be a seven just because it's weirdly

lit here anyone can make that roll by the way 12 well fucking never mind I can't wait to be kidnapped again

I think you go like oh this is going to be hard to see oh it will be a ship exactly like that oh that's the ship right this way hmm I'll fall in behind I think I'm trying to fall in behind both of you at the same time um oh what and like oh who's um z does it make sense if Miss tanka has apprehended you or is walking in of your own accord more to the vision of how you saw this going now that's I like that story because we're also going to have to figure out how

“we sell that curallum is dead so I think you found me you knew what I was worth I told you”

who's who wanted my value and we and we just walk on that very well I shall use my body language to imply that I work for Miss G tanka and I'm going to fall behind you love to see this as you walk I want to honor a little knock on benefit to that 12 for your perception check so I need you to make a dodge roll

with advantage huh difficulty is six huh okay that first one was a one okay glad we can try again

second one's a two oh boy so I am comfortably going okay yeah this is I like this narrative see your body posture change gonna gonna get behind Qi and XLCL well lucky you I rolled badly thank you for inverting the one with that rule you will still be taking two points of damage to your health and you're now inflicted with the bleed condition as you have been shot

“at range with a very heavy duty boom all of you I think you register that like little bit of a”

thwip right before you see the impact hit zidavin and I would say it's enough that you can tell me

like how much you react to it but it's enough to like change the trajectory of your movement so it's not a full walk off you got hit with a heavy caliber bullet I think there's a lot built into a viric's culture that is that you are a target that people will want to take you use you take advantage of you I think there are things like using the table to absorb some the impact of the blast of the smart grenade earlier that zidavin just there is some instinct

built in there and I do think he realizes if you've been shot with a bullet go to the ground so I think he takes it and just leans into the impact oh as he hits the ground but if he is at all mobile we'll immediately start crawling to cover yeah going along with that I really like the idea that you guys were walking along this edge of a like again it's a it's a massive like naturally formed caldera it hasn't been paved over if you let that impact roll you to the ground you can slip down

into like the earthen lip of the caldera and be below like the ground site and have covered that way I'll take it sweet so you all see zidavin if your ex get hit in the shoulder he exclaims loudly hits the ground rolls and disappears just out of sight over the edge of the caldera what do you want to do where did it come from are we still on the lip above the lip yes okay is there like a gang plank for the ship that we're approaching right now so I will say that you've got probably

let's say 50 meters until you hit like the paved staircase that goes into the caldera so you can hit the dock that is like halfway down this massive natural bullshave arms up sirens on help help help running towards the gang plank

I'm gonna take that I've never never never ready for it

“I'm playing a low combat system I have a D4 combat I put my arms on it put my siren on”

I shout for help I beg for help I have my abilities are called heal auger listen and quipple this is the system we're playing I don't have a gun I go help help help and I run as she runs towards the ship which from which the bullet came huh where did the bullet come from sorry that was just me having a full processing error yeah imagining both like shot gone running screaming and screaming where the bullet come from what did the bullet come from give me a

reason role the difficulty's only a six I'm gonna burn three grit

“for the five so that's an eight okay great you're able in this moment of sudden surprise and panic”

because Zidavin like let the trajectory of the bullet spin him in a certain direction you actually have a pretty good bearing this didn't come from inside the caldera did not come from a ship it came from there's a little like natural outcropping of rock probably 30 meters away where someone clearly was like setting up and watching over this like staircase going down to the ship

oh god dammit all right if it is at all possible for in one second for me to gas and then sigh

as I look at one companion and then the other I really well he's gonna go get help and I sprint over serpentine to where Zidavin has taken cover yeah the moment you decide not to follow the screaming robot you drop over the lip of the caldera and your next two Zidavin who's like braised up against this like earth and wall holding his shoulder oh cool do you have eyes do you have eyes yeah it's from the rock outcropping over to the right uh how in positionality between

ourselves and the ship where does that rock outcropping 50 feet the direction you were walking is the staircase to get down to like the dock proper inside the caldera okay 30 sorry I said feet I'm at meters 30 meters in the direction from which you got shot is wherever your shooter is got it do I get the sense we have cover in this moment yes absolutely I'm gonna look at

“she all right genuinely I think we see if he shoots at Excelsio all right and we kind of poke her head”

watch the screaming robot flailing towards the stale help active shooter active shooter it's all on him now oh my god come on arms with full extension slailing in the air around you robot come on wait for it it's no good shot it's no good shot yeah okay how fast are all done pull that let's be clear top speed big wide serpentine lips and the and the loops of the serpentine they are not tight enough so it's like hard turn and then like 12 or 15 steps going that direction

and then turn again running so and the feet are so synchronized there is zero is absolute metronome of feet watch him run for about five seconds enough time to see if it's safe he's

so shootable and the loudest thing here is him yelling and not the sound of a second ground

so we've looked up we've peaked up over the top of the lip we see him flailing around and then we sort of duck back down and put our backs to the wall both of you give me that like will-based perception rule difficulty on this is an eight you know it all allow for a sense motive if you're also trying to figure out what's going on yeah I would love to yes and I'll burn I got six grit back from excelsio I'm gonna burn three no I'm gonna burn six for a total of 15 oh my god I got an eight

knock on benefits for your outside success you both in the amount of time that you spent going

I can't even shoot the robot shoot the robot and then you kind of look and really back towards the outcropping rises person not shooting the robot and you're able to see just a little bit of dust kicked up to the left of the outcropping this person is on the move so you know that they have

moved from their position they're not worried about excelsio easy to intuit they are following up

“on the original target and that's what you clock tea on top of that z i'm gonna tell you that oh gosh”

you know what sense motive what is z thinking or worried about and I will sort of feed your direction of inquiry and thought z is running through who would want to kill z z worth so much money

alive yep i'm an amazing bargaining chip if you're a member of the five families i am worth a

great deal if you're some weird independent bounty hunter murder is not what i am used to avoiding

“or being worried about so i think there is this like rola dex he's just going to his head because he”

doesn't there's actually not in the schema that he runs through when he's trying to understand what people want just killing someone is not in his traditional framework yes because unless there's a bounty on my head but what did i do to deserve a bet like there's actually not i'm really having a hard time his pause in this moment is because there actually is not as solution that fits the

“equation within which he's found himself a thousand percent because you are flipping through a”

rola dex of causes and factions and agents and there's only one answer but you thought you solved that question at the beginning pull or call it was a pull when it was jemisogtovo after you and you start walking back and realizing what you know that RPG only happened once your family was alerted to your presence in that bar you were intercepted here on your way to a ship to leave this world you weren't being followed they just knew the direction by which he would make your

egress from carueta and they are shooting to kill and the only ones that have any incentive to kill you are people with your same last name this is not a pull this is a call that was era kishie as chitanko randomly molyg it as exelsia lu Wilson as sedovative irics and abria iingar as everyone and everything else salari is produced by worlds beyond number at it in sound design by big giant head productions and score by will savina for even more

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