Avery/GM: Welcome to Episode 19 of Beyond the Furthest Stars

(intro music plays, fades down, ambience fades in)

Avery/GM: Marty, you're on the bridge of this ship. This psychic person has awoken from their sleep and have been kind of sitting on the pod kind of upright, kind of breathing heavy. And after a, a couple minutes of this, they look up at you and you hear them speak that, that in, in their language. And, and she's just sort of like looking at you kind of in disbelief. How do, how does Marty react?

Jenine/Marty: So with my level one telepath feature, I can… I can talk with her question mark? I understand what she's saying?

Avery/GM: Totally

Jenine/Marty: Right?

Avery/GM: Okay.

Jenine/Marty: Okay. That's also my understanding of it. Just wanted to check.

Avery/GM: Yeah. So that's what you hear and then your brain translates it into, I can't believe they left me. They just left me here to die.

Jenine/Marty: Oof.

Avery/GM: That's the gist of it. Of, of what, of what she said.

Jenine/Marty: Cool. And I can communicate back and she will understand me.

Avery/GM: Yes.

Jenine/Marty: Okay, great. Cool. This is a fun little the, the language stuff. So Marty goes, oh , I know how to do this. Okay. Hello. I'm Marty, really nice to meet you. Are you okay? Also who, who left, left you? Are you okay?

Avery/GM: She hears your words in the common language that, that you speak kind of cocks her head, and then you feel sort of like a mental, a gentle like kind of mental probe and you get the image of a teacher. in a classroom.

Jenine/Marty: Mm-hmm.

Avery/GM: And this person appears to be either trying to teach you something or trying to learn something from you. Do you allow the mental probe or?

Jenine/Marty: I allow it.

Avery/GM: Okay. You feel this psychic probe into your mind and you get the sense of her sort of copying your language center of your brain to her, which you as a sci know, is a pretty advanced like psychic ability. Like not very many sci people in our galaxy here know how to do that, to just pull information out of people's heads like that. And after a few minutes of this she to do this, she's basically put her hands kind of on the side of your face and has like pressed the face plate of her vac suit to your head. And after a few minutes she steps back and she's like, This might be easier rather than mentally translating everything. Do you agree?

Jenine/Marty: Yes, that was so cool! Like there's like a big ass smile on Marty's face, which is like in awe of what just happened.

Avery/GM: Yeah. Oh gosh. I'm sorry. This is all, oh gosh, I haven't communicated like that in a while. Rho, Says anyway, the person I was talking about was Captain Alexio and his crew. They, they set the ship for warp and then just teleported away and left us and it was already too late. I couldn't abort the, the jump and, and we ended up here, I guess. Where, where is here anyway?

Jenine/Marty: so we're in the Moirae Galaxy. Also can I livestream on my communicator Wrist Watch question mark?

Avery/GM: You can livestream audio for sure.

Jenine/Marty: Cool. I start live streaming audio. Just, just so like people know so my friends know what's up. Cause I think I'm by myself with this person.

Avery/GM: You are.

Jenine/Marty: It's okay. Everything's fine. Writing can defend herself, but yeah. That's, that's where we're we, where we are right now. Where were you before?

Avery/GM: Well, that's not the name of, of my galaxy. How far did we travel? We were only supposed to go… Wow. My galaxy. Well we used to call it the Milky Way. And then it changed a bunch of different names based on who controlled most of it or all of it. I… I need a minute. Navi, can you open the. , can you open the colony pods and let them out?

Jenine/Marty: (stammers) So there wasn't, I don't know how to break this. Okay. Okay. Yeah. oh so you might wanna sit down. So the ship kinda lost power and the power was only rooted to this area. So opening the pods might be bad.

Avery/GM: Well, no, the, the pods are supposed to run on an independent power source just like mine. They should have lasted for 300 years. I, I, I need, I need to be alone. I'm sorry, we, we, we can talk later. And she starts heading out of the bridge.

Jenine/Marty: and I will, I will like start swimming and following her as well. Cause I don't want her by herself. Well I'll, I'll stay with you. You don't even have to talk. I'm just kinda here for like buddy system situations in a way, even though my buddies kind of left anyways… Buddy system!

Avery/GM: she has kind of stopped talking and is just kind of wandering through the ship.

Jenine/Marty: Is she also swimming or is it just me that's kind of swimming and she has boots that are

Avery/GM: No, she's also kind of swimming through the artificial gravity though. You do notice that the artificial gravity is starting to come back in. Or, or come back online as the systems have restored. So after a few moments, your swimming turns into actually being able to walk and kind of bounce

Zach/Zahn: The wading turns into actual walking.

Avery/GM: Yeah.

Bee/Polaris: question.

Avery/GM: Sure.

Bee/Polaris: What about the big holes in the ship?

Avery/GM: Yeah, so those… so Marty, when you come out of the bridge and into the, the room that had the sleep pods in it you do notice that the hole is still there, but there's kind of like an energy shield that's kind of like keeping the atmosphere…

Bee/Polaris: Sick.

Jenine/Marty: Nice.

Avery/GM: Contained? Yeah. That was a very good question, Bee. Thank you.

Zach/Zahn: Perfect place to put a window.

Avery/GM: Yeah.

Jenine/Marty: Mm-hmm.

Bee/Polaris: Yeah. I just wanted to know about the big holes and if it wouldn't get sucked out into the space, even though they have vaccines on.

Avery/GM: Yep. Not yet I mean…

Jenine/Marty: not yet.

Bee/Polaris: Wait, wait, wait.

Jenine/Marty: Not yet. Excuse you!

Chris/Ollie: DM mask off moment!

Avery/GM: Now we, so as, as Rho and Marty kind of wander through the ship a little bit, Marty, you, you notice Rho is kind of seems like she's making her way toward… actually, you haven't been on that part of the ship, so you wouldn't know where she's going, but she's going through like the Med Bay and stuff like that as well.

Zach/Zahn: Uh oh.

Avery/GM: we go to Zahn, Ollie and Polaris. Polaris, you were goofing around with your Tin Can boy.

Bee/Polaris: True.

Avery/GM: And I believe you were like laying on top of one of Ollie's drones.

Bee/Polaris: yeah. Yeah. also, Should I roll the D six?

Avery/GM: For?

Bee/Polaris: for the, cause I got shot.

Avery/GM: Oh, yes, I'm sorry. You're right. Thank you. Yes. Polaris, what did you get for your D six?

Bee/Polaris: four.

Avery/GM: Okay.

Zach/Zahn: Four is not bad on a D six.

Bee/Polaris: Yeah.

Avery/GM: Well each, so we, so based on Polaris's backstory, we had to. , I realized I hadn't come up with a thing or that should have been in place the whole time for Polaris. So essentially when Polaris took damage last session so your body recovers in one third of the time, it would normally take, so to heal one hp, normally it takes 10 minutes in game. It'll take three minutes in game. So yeah.

Bee/Polaris: Yeah. How many minutes have passed since I got shot ?

Avery/GM: I would say probably about 20.

Bee/Polaris: Okay.

Avery/GM: Or to round up 21. So make it a nice even number.

Chris/Ollie: But that's your natural healing. Didn't you also get. A heel over time buff from Marty?

Bee/Polaris: Yes.

Avery/GM: So the heal over time buff, that's when you use a med pack, it heals one HP over 10 minutes. So instead, because of this ability that Polaris has he’ll heal one hp…

Chris/Ollie: it's not, not natural healing. It's enhanced healing.

Zach/Zahn: Accelerated Healing.

Avery/GM: Exactly. Yeah.

Chris/Ollie: Yeah.

Bee/Polaris: This isn't normal Healing. This is advanced healing.

Avery/GM: Yeah. So Polaris, you are, you, you feel the gravity starting to come back slowly. Do you get off the drone or do you eventually let it come to the ground and you lay on it and crush it?

Bee/Polaris: How big is the drone? I thought it was a relatively big drone.

Avery/GM: I mean, it's big enough that you could lay across it, but like, I don't know.

Bee/Polaris: It wouldn't be able to fly with me on it.

Avery/GM: No

Bee/Polaris: Okay, Polaris will get off Drone.

Avery/GM: Okay. Zahn, you and Ollie have finished repairing these cables and you kind of realized that, okay, this job will do for now, but these things are eventually gonna need to be replaced later down the road. And Navi asked you to reactivate Segin so that they could complete the mission and blow up. And you said No?

Zach/Zahn: I did.

Avery/GM: And in the chat, Navi sends you an annoyed face emoji.

Bee/Polaris: Yay.

Zach/Zahn: I'm going to a, I haven't wrote a, a note to myself, Thankfully. I'm going to attempt mission override self-destruct by typing in the Milky-Wayan language that I know.

Avery/GM: Okay. Go ahead and roll Intelligence program. Or you can do wisdom program.

Zach/Zahn: Let's go… Oh, I have plus ones in neither, so it doesn't matter.

Avery/GM: Okay.

Zach/Zahn: I wish that was better.

Avery/GM: You do have your re-roll once per scene.

Zach/Zahn: I was about to say, I'm gonna go ahead…

Chris/Ollie: Well also you have the the hacker foci, right?

Zach/Zahn: I don't Oh, okay. I had debated on taking it and then

Bee/Polaris: yeah, we strong-armed you

Zach/Zahn: We… I was heavily convinced and to go in level two in tinkerer.

Chris/Ollie: Oh, okay.

Zach/Zahn: So I can mod the shit out of everything for like no cost.

Avery/GM: Yeah.

Chris/Ollie: I mean that is…

Bee/Polaris: We bullied you into it.

Zach/Zahn: I rolled the exact same with different numbers, but that's okay.

Avery/GM: Okay.

Zach/Zahn: So eight.

Avery/GM: Yeah, I mean the security on this is set up by an ai. An eight is not gonna do it. I did not think so. You hear Navi say over the speakers:

“I must complete my mission. Failure could result in this vessel's home port being discovered. That is not a risk we can take… Archid, Activate automated defenses.”

Bee/Polaris: Oh shit.

Avery/GM: There's a rumbling, like deep in the ship and another voice comes on that says, automated defenses destroyed, unable to comply.

Bee/Polaris: Yay.

Avery/GM: And you see an angry face emoji in the chat.

Bee/Polaris: Yay.

Zach/Zahn: Zahn's gonna say Navi simply purge home port data.

Bee/Polaris: Got ‘em!

Avery/GM: Oh, that's good.

Bee/Polaris: Yeah. Put it in a zip file, you know, put that in the recycling bin.

Avery/GM: Yeah, go ahead. I'll, I'll make this a lower.

Zach/Zahn: You want another program?

Avery/GM: I'll make this a lower no, I'll make this a lower check. I, I would like a Charisma connect.

Zach/Zahn: I'm taking a minus two because I have minus ones in both of those.

Jenine/Marty: RIP, Can’t Relate!

Bee/Polaris: We’re not charismatic.

Jenine/Marty: can't relate.

Bee/Polaris: We're not a charismatic…

Jenine/Marty: can't relate.

Zach/Zahn: Can't relate.

Bee/Polaris: Marty's the cool kid amongst a bunch of nerds.

Zach/Zahn: So I rolled a six and a one, so that's seven minus two. That's five!

Bee/Polaris: Hell yeah!

Avery/GM: By the way feel free anyone else to step in at some point. But you hear…

Bee/Polaris: Seeing Zahn not do great at that flare will say, what if we say, please smiley face.

Zach/Zahn: Smiley face.

Avery/GM: Okay. Polaris roll a Charisma connect Check.

Bee/Polaris: Wait, no! I'm terrible at that. A Charisma connect? Ok.

(untelligible laughter)

Chris/Ollie: Yeah. All three of us have charisma as a dump stat… so.

Bee/Polaris: I have, okay. I have a minus one in connect and I have a zero in charisma. So it's only a minus one.

Zach/Zahn:

So it's only a minus one for you.

Bee/Polaris: Six. I rolled a seven, so six.

Zach/Zahn: Woo.

Avery/GM: You see the, the emoji in chat where it's like the angry face, but it has like the, the white letters across the mouth, like to indicate like cussing.

Bee/Polaris: Yeah.

Avery/GM: And you hear over the intercom: “caph increase artificial gravity by 300%.” And then you hear in the background: “power requirements insufficient, unable to increase artificial gravity.”

Bee/Polaris: Nice.

Zach/Zahn: I'm gonna motion for Ollie to come over to the computer real quick.

Chris/Ollie: Yeah. No, I, I was just gonna say, while this is going on, Ollie is just doing his own thing. He's gonna message Hermes and ask for the translation package and just

Avery/GM: Sure.

Chris/Ollie: Start going to work on the console.

Bee/Polaris: The translation DLC?

Chris/Ollie: Yeah

Zach/Zahn: Oh I was about to like, yeah, I was about to have you, us teamwork dig, start like digging into the files for the port home and then delete it.

Avery/GM: Ollie, Hermes sends you over the package pretty quickly. It's not huge, you know, it's, it's space. Y'all have faster internet connections than

Chris/Ollie: I got my quantum state drive, so I

Avery/GM: Yeah.

Chris/Ollie: Unpacked it real quick

Avery/GM: And you can now understand anything in this database.

Chris/Ollie: Right on!

Zach/Zahn: Where I only understand bits and pieces.

Avery/GM: Yep… And Zahn I'll say that's probably part of it. Like, you know, a few words and you know, a few phrases and you tried typing those and it was just like, either the syntax was wrong or like, you know, some, yeah, some calibration of, of the way you coded it was just not working.

Bee/Polaris: Polaris raises his hand… like in a classroom. Can I try? Smiley Face? To do the hacky thingies?

Chris/Ollie: Oh… Umm…

Bee/Polaris: To type on the keyboard?

Chris/Ollie: I'm sure there's more than one keyboard lying around here

Bee/Polaris: Sweet.

Avery/GM: Okay.

Chris/Ollie: Because Ollie is just… self-absorbed with the thing. So he's gonna hack into the system and download everything.

Bee/Polaris: Oh…

Zach/Zahn: Uh Oh…

Avery/GM: Okay, So Ollie, because this security is set up by another AI, I don't believe your defeat security system will work.

Chris/Ollie: Okay. So I'm gonna have to actually roll

Avery/GM: Yep.

Chris/Ollie: And use the foci that I invested in hacking. Okay…

Avery/GM: That's right. So I'll need a… I'll need a hack roll from you using intelligence.

Chris/Ollie: Okay.

Avery/GM: And then I'll… Which I believe is program, right?

Chris/Ollie: Yes.

Avery/GM: Yeah. So we'll do intelligence program, check for both Polaris and Ollie.

Zach/Zahn: Can Ollie get assistance from Zahn since we're at the same terminal?

Avery/GM: Sure.

Chris/Ollie: Yeah.

Zach/Zahn: Hey!

Avery/GM: intelligence program.

Bee/Polaris: Okay. By the way, I have nothing in program.

Avery/GM: Okay.

Chris/Ollie: Okay. Well, I'm going to start using a lot of shit. So I'm gonna use augmented cognition, commit processing to up my intelligence to 18 for the rest of the day.

Bee/Polaris: Jesus tapped dancing Christ, dude.

Zach/Zahn: All right.

Chris/Ollie: so is that a plus? What is that plus two? Is that the max? Okay. And roll these, drop the lowest. So that’s 15.

Avery/GM: Zahn, what did… what did you roll for your help check?

Not that it's gonna matter, but…

Zach/Zahn: no. Yeah. I rolled a six.

Avery/GM: Okay. Yeah, you are, you are in the way.

Chris/Ollie: Yeah. You're reducing my roll.

Zach/Zahn: as I see Ollie's fingers just flying across this keyboard. And like the matrix has turned into his visor. Like Zahn just steps away.

Avery/GM: Like you, you go to like, reach for like one of the like, like a keyboard and you and Ollie's hand just like jets out and slaps it real quick.

Zach/Zahn: And he's like ow, fine. Jesus.

Avery/GM: What… what did you roll ?

Bee/Polaris: So I have nothing in program, but I have one in intelligence, so that negates the negative one. But I did roll a 12 .

Avery/GM: Okay. So, so it's almost like the dueling banjos or something over here, like . You were both just typing like crazy, typing like crazy. Ollie just barely gets to the information first. And Ollie, you start downloading everything you need from Navi.

Bee/Polaris: Oh, Polaris isn’t… Oh wait, what were we doing? Okay, so like mid, mid typing. Polar is like, wait, what's the goal?

Chris/Ollie: Ollie will just reply data acquisition.

Bee/Polaris: Oh, delete the home world thingy. Okay. Yeah.

Avery/GM: So, yeah. So I was under the impression that Ollie wanted to download all the data about the home world.

Zach/Zahn: Yes.

Chris/Ollie: Oh, not just the home world. Everything. Everything they've got on the ship.

Bee/Polaris: Yep. Okay. So Polaris is just gonna de delete the home world data. So once Allie is done downloading that, Polaris will just delete it.

Avery/GM: Sure. In, in the chat. Navi just says, “I can see everything you're doing in the system. Schedar, deactivate life support systems vent all oxygen from all sections of the ship.”

Bee/Polaris: Jokes on the, we have vac suits.

Chris/Ollie: There was no atmosphere when we got here.

Zach/Zahn: Just make sure you're not standing next to a hole.

Bee/Polaris: Yeah.

Avery/GM: But you hear another voice come over the intercom that just says “life support, still initializing, unable to deactivate until life support functions are fully restored, cannot deactivate life support functions while organic beings are present.”

Zach/Zahn: Ha.

Avery/GM: And then, and then there's just like three dots in the chat and Navi goes silent.

Zach/Zahn: Is Navi the only actual AI in the other like VI?

Avery/GM: Pretty much That's, that's kind of the, it's almost like the others are like subordinate functions.

Zach/Zahn: Got it.

Avery/GM: Of Navi.

Bee/Polaris: Mm-hmm. I see. Navi is the CEO and the rest are assistants.

Avery/GM: Yes.

Zach/Zahn: does that mean that Navi gets a $60 million bonus at the end of the year?

Avery/GM: Yeah, Navi's got a golden parachute out of here. Yeah.

Bee/Polaris: And everyone else gets a pizza party. Yeah.

Chris/Ollie: Yeah. The ship's gonna explode. Navi got a golden parachute.

Bee/Polaris: Polaris was just gonna send a gif of like a Fortnite dance at Navi

Zach/Zahn: Oh my God.

Bee/Polaris: By the way, Polaris can't read this language. So , he's, so, I don't know if the computer is like in the language.

Avery/GM: So it would, it would've been in, in the other language with a 12. What I'll, what I'll say is that basically is that basically like Polaris, you're wearing your helmet, right?

Bee/Polaris: Yeah.

Avery/GM: And so basically what Hermes does, cause Hermes is integrated into your helmet, is basically just like overlays the translation like on the inside of your visor so you can kind of see what, what's what.

Bee/Polaris: Sweet, Polaris sends a thumbs up to Hermes.

Avery/GM: So, Ollie, you have some information that I need to give you, and you don't have to investigate all this information right now, but essentially what you get from such a monster ass role is that the database indicates that this ship has traveled roughly 75,000 light years from its home, which is a further distance than anyone has traveled in the Moirae Galaxy because it's only 10,000 light years across… So.

Chris/Ollie: okay.

Avery/GM: Pretty, pretty dang far. It implies that the ship came from outside your galaxy, which has already been confirmed by Rho. And you rolled a 15?

Chris/Ollie: Yes.

Avery/GM: Okay. You also learned that this ship is part of a political entity called the Pan Solar Union, which appears to control most of the home galaxy that this ship is from. And you found some restricted files that you haven't quite gained access to yet.

Chris/Ollie: Right on. Hold on just writing this down. So after I download all this stuff Ali's gonna step away from the console and look up at Zahn and

Polaris and say oh, my apologies. I was preoccupied. Can I help with anything that's going on right now? as the AI's been yelling at us.

Zach/Zahn: Zahn's heads just tilts.

Bee/Polaris: Polaris looks at Ollie and says yes, can you please continue to taunt Navi?

Chris/Ollie: He's going to cock his head a bit at continue, but say, certainly!

Zach/Zahn: Ollie, you just finished doing what we already wanted you to do. And he just gives you like the shoulder pat.

Bee/Polaris: Oh wow. Oh my God. Dad is proud of you.

Chris/Ollie: Yeah, his eyes are gonna light up. I love it when a plan comes together.

Bee/Polaris: Navi’s like I would've blowed up the ship if it wasn't for you.

And you're meddling Robot

Avery/GM: essentially. So you're here. The ship has not blown up or been otherwise made inhospitable and Navi has gone silent on you, given you the cold shoulder, maybe trying to figure out how to circumvent some of these systems. But if, if Navi is doing that, Navi is doing that alone and silently Hermes comes on over everyone's audio device and Marty, you've been following Rho, and Rho has led you into the lab section of the ship. So Rho is kind of standing next to this ladder leading down when you hear Hermes come

through on everyone's comm system and just says, everyone, I feel you need to be involved in this transmission we are receiving from Bruce.

Caden/Bruce: Hermes, can you patch me through the rest of the crew? Hello, Polaris, Ollie, Marty, Zahn. Can… Can anyone hear me? Hello, it's Bruce. Chef Bruce. I'm talking from my blender.

Caden/Bruce: Yes, my blender… I know this is weird and this is unexpected, but I've been taken captive… Well, no, that's the thing. I don't need you guys to come and rescue me.

Caden/Bruce: I had to leave. I was approached by Agent Lazuli, the blue tiger, one of the Winstons, and they told me that they had all of our information. and unfortunately, I can confirm that that threat is true. They have our photos and they have our names, and they definitely know what our ship looks like.

Caden/Bruce: But the good news is that I have the data pad and I'm going to try and edit it and delete the original records. Obviously, I can't destroy the data pad and I don't think I can destroy absolutely everything on it, but I will try my best.

Caden/Bruce: They don't need to have our faces and they certainly don't need to be able to ruin our reputations or maybe it wouldn't ruin my reputation. But either ways I left in hopes of keeping everyone safe, and I would encourage us all to disguise ship as soon as possible.

Caden/Bruce: They warned me that the fate of the Winston's tracking us and finding us was well in their words, inevitable. But I have much more faith in you than they do. and I believe that that won't be the case. Anyways… I guess

I'm now embarking on this mission that well, they didn't tell me what I was going to do or where I'm going to go. All I know is that they didn't kill me right away. In fact they were impressed by my ability to hide in plain sight, me hiding in plain sight.

Caden/Bruce: But if it means that I'm here and that they haven't killed me, then at least that's one bonus. They also haven't tasted my meat pie yet, but I can assure you all that that is much more impressive talking of food, I implore you all to please eat properly. As much as I'm using the splendor for talking, you are more than welcome to use it and any other tools you may find to whip up food. I properly shouldn't say whip up food because Polaris might actually find a whip and try to whip up food not cook food.

Caden/Bruce: Hopefully one of you knows how to cook. I have prepared some dishes in the freezer that should last you at least a couple of days. There's frozen lasagna and a frozen casserole. There's multiple types of frozen soup. And if you check the upper cabinets, I do have a secret stash of Flies. They're dead flies, but you are more than welcome to have a few, or I guess all of them if you would like, I guess I'm no longer on the ship to stop you.

Caden/Bruce: And please someone encourage someone to eat real cheese, not just a simple singles. Anyways, I want to tell you all that I will be as safe as I can and that I hope you are all as safe as you can be. I trust Marty to take care of you all and to heal you when you need it, and Polaris to fly the ship and… Well, hopefully Zahn can craft away to disguise the ship so that the Winstons can't track us anymore, or I guess track you anymore.

Caden/Bruce: I promise to give regular status updates as I can. I'm not sure if you can talk back to me through the blender. Obviously, I do not have two

blenders, but I do have my communication device, and it might be two ways, but I'm not really a computer genius as all of you might know. I am after all a chef and hopefully they enjoy the meat pies that I have started to prepare for them and I will try to make time to give regular status updates. But as you can imagine, getting alone time is not as easy when you are held hostage. Well, not hostage. Again, I don't need you to come. I'm not saying that I don't need you to come and rescue me as code to come and rescue me. I'm saying it as give me this time to clear our names and our reputation.

Caden/Bruce: They promised me that if I can achieve whatever effort it is they want for their employer, whoever their employer might be, that they would indeed delete what they had of our records on the Winston. Now obviously I have the data pad. I can make fast work of that, but I am a frog of my word and I plan to do just that. I hope to talk to you all soon and that you all do take care.

Caden/Bruce: Polaris, Please do not eat your bars. Whatever you consider as food. It's not food. I trust you all to be able to make something that at least tastes half what decent in my absent. And I hope to see you all again soon. This is Bruce signing off. I hope to sign off. I'm not too sure how to turn this blender off.

Jenine/Marty: my heart!

Chris/Ollie: Bruce!

Jenine/Marty: King!

Bee/Polaris: My heart started hurting when Bruce offered to share his secret stash of flies!

Jenine/Marty: Yeah! Yep Yep Yep!

Avery/GM: And Hermes says, I'm sorry, but the transmission has cut out as the ship has now moved too far outside of the system to maintain connection.

Zach/Zahn: Hermes, are we in position to pursue?

Avery/GM: Not at this moment. The ship has been severely damaged by the automated defenses that were inside the hangar when I came in here.

Bee/Polaris: Oh yeah, we did do that.

Zach/Zahn: Zahn flies into a rage and he is like, what the fuck do you mean? And he like, as he is like throwing off a wave of curses, he suddenly bolts out of the engine room and starts heading for the hangar to check on the ship.

Bee/Polaris: Polaris immediately starts looking for Bruce on the ship.

Chris/Ollie: Ollie as well. He's going to… Bruce had the earpiece, right?

Avery/GM: Yes.

Chris/Ollie: Can I track like its most recent location?

Bee/Polaris: Oh, the watch?

Avery/GM: Yeah. The little communicator that you got from Alioth? Yeah.

Chris/Ollie: Yeah. I guess it was a watch.

Avery/GM: Yeah, it was like a watch slash earpiece. It's kind of just the vague whatever it needs to be.

Bee/Polaris: Yeah. For spy purposes.

Zach/Zahn: The super… Yeah, the spy either talking into the wristwatch or holding finger to ear to speak.

Bee/Polaris: Yeah, exactly.

Zach/Zahn: to boost Zahn’s speed, he's in such a flight that he actually activates his jet boots to like fly faster to the hangar.

Avery/GM: Okay, sure. You are in the hangar and you see that the ship has sustained pretty good damage. It is at 25% hp. In game mechanics.

Jenine/Marty: Yoinks! That’s bad y’all!

Avery/GM: you know, it has, it has five HP out of 20 so it's not doing

Zach/Zahn: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Zahn is going to go aboard and run a system diagnostic.

Avery/GM: Sure. Polaris and Ollie you start looking for, for Bruce?

Bee/Polaris: Yeah. Ollie is doing it the smart way. Polaris is doing it The “owner has left house and dog is wandering around house trying to find owner” way like legitimately like walking around the ship and looking for Bruce.

Avery/GM: Sure. So Ollie, you being a smart boy robot person.

Chris/Ollie: Yep, cognitive boost it's big brain time.

Avery/GM: Yeah. You head to the mess hall and you see that it's actually still kind of messy in here. It looks like Bruce didn't really touch anything but out of the doorway or, or next to roll, rolling out of the doorway that leads out of the, out of the mess hall and, and towards this way. You see a little bottle of bay leaves rolling out of that doorway and into the kitchen as the artificial gravity has settled back down to normal.

Chris/Ollie: Yeah. And Polaris hasn't made it in here.

Avery/GM: Polaris eventually come, comes in like, as you kind of like are looking down at this, this Bay Leaf bottle.

Bee/Polaris: I mean, Polaris probably would've gone to the kitchen first because that's where Bruce usually is.

Chris/Ollie: I mean, I probably didn't need to scan anyway. It's the natural place to look.

Bee/Polaris: Yeah.

Avery/GM: Okay. Fair enough. I was, I, sorry, sorry. Bee I was, I was taking the, looking around like a dog, like at its most literal of just like going in every single room first. Like…

Bee/Polaris: no, no, no, you, no, you're correct. He would go to the kitchen first and then check the rest of the ship.

Avery/GM: Gotcha. Okay. Cool. Yeah. Then yeah, so you both, you both see this. This little bottle of Bay leaves rolling out of this, this room that no one actually has gone in yet, except for Bruce and Ollie. I, I will say that you see a label on, on the doorway above, and since you have the language translator, you can see that it says vehicle storage,

Chris/Ollie: the doorway above? Oh, so the It's rolling outta the vehicle storage room.

Avery/GM: Yeah.

Chris/Ollie: Well, seeing it rolling out and thinking that may might mean whatever happened was like immediately recent. He's gonna rush in to see if he can see any, anything, anyone.

Bee/Polaris: Polaris will follow, but he'll pick up the, the thing of bay leaves.

Avery/GM: So inside you see the artificial gravity is kind of settled down and you see like the ships are kind of like, or the, the little vehicles in here are kind of just like everywhere cause they were floating.

Avery/GM: You see a control panel in the back that's all smashed cause the tire of one of these ATVs is just laying on it and you see this central teleporter pad. It has power now, but obviously it wouldn't have had power earlier when power wasn't restored. And you see a tiny little drained type a cell, kind of like hotwired into the, the teleportation pad and kind of putting two and two together, you realize that this is how Bruce sort of disappeared without anyone noticing.

Chris/Ollie: And the console is smashed, so I can’t get it… Hmm. Well I wanna… Ollie is gonna look around and see if there are any signs of struggle, blood, gunfire, laserblasts.

Avery/GM: Yeah. There's, there's no sign of any struggle or anything. You don't see any greenish yellow blood spattered anywhere.

Chris/Ollie: That's gonna take Ollie's panic level down a bit. Well, I guess all, all you can really do is try and work with this console to see if he can get any, any info about where this thing was used recently, if he can.

Avery/GM: Sure. Go ahead and roll an intelligence fix check.

Chris/Ollie: That is 11.

Avery/GM: 11. Okay, that's good enough. You realize that the damage is mostly superficial. Just to kind of the outer casing of this console, if you probably linked up like a portable data pad or something to it, you could probably access it just fine.

Chris/Ollie: He's gonna turn to Polaris and ask, I might be able to discern the teleportation location. I require your data pad.

Bee/Polaris: Polaris will take off his helmet and hand it to Ollie . He doesn't have a data pad.

Chris/Ollie: It's all in the helmet. All right. Ollie will take the helmet and put it on over his robo-face and interface through that

Bee/Polaris: We can't only just patch himself into Polaris’ helmet into the computer

Avery/GM: I mean, yes.

Bee/Polaris: so that if Navi manages to turn off the life support.

Chris/Ollie: Oh yeah. The life support . Well, she can’t turn it off

Bee/Polaris: That's true. Not yet Anyway.

Avery/GM: So you start hacking into this this console and or not even hacking in, you just access this console cause it's not secured or anything. You see that this, this transporter only has one log and that log is from about, it's now been about 30 minutes since Polaris got shot. So we'll say it's from about 15 minutes ago.

Avery/GM: And the location, like in like the sector map, that, that kind of projects out and shows where the transport went to. The projection is just in the middle of space and kind of putting two and two together, it must be that like there was a ship there at one point and that's where Bruce was teleported to.

Chris/Ollie: Damn. All right. Ollie's gonna transmit this to the rest of the team and if text could be mournful it would be a very mournful. He's gone dot, dot, dot in the chat.

Avery/GM: Oh.

Bee/Polaris: Polaris can't see that you have his helmet. . Polaris is currently pacing in a circle around this teleporter.

Avery/GM: Let's go back to Marty real quick. Marty, you, you hear the message from Bruce and Rose kind of standing at the top of this ladder and kind of looks at you and it's just like, I need to go down and say goodbye to some friends. Could you maybe not follow me?

Jenine/Marty: And like Marty just kinda like brushes a tear from her face as like she tries to brush a tear but can't because there's a helmet and she just goes, yeah, okay. Yeah. If you, I'm up here. If you need anything, if you need a hug, and like, does like a little kick to the ground.

Avery/GM: thanks. And she starts climbing down the ladder and is out of there and in the meantime you see Zahn just rocket boost through the room, behind you and like, Going somewhere followed by Ollie and Polaris, who are also like running around, like looking for Bruce. So you're having this very somber moment with, with this stranger and, and there's also other chaos going on around you.

Chris/Ollie: It's like Benny Hill in the background.

Avery/GM: a little bit.

Bee/Polaris: Yeah, It's like the Scooby Doo sequence where one of us opens the door and the other one comes out on the other side of the door and it doesn't make any sense.

Jenine/Marty: Yeah, here for it. Yeah. Marty just kinda like stands there and just like as people walk, as everyone like goes past her, she just goes, if anyone just wants a hug or anything, I'm right here!

Bee/Polaris: Is this after Ollie has sent the message in the chat that Bruce is gone or before?

Avery/GM: I think, I think that's before. I think it arrives like a couple minutes after, after Marty says that.

Bee/Polaris: Okay.

Jenine/Marty: She still, she still says it because of the message from Bruce.

Avery/GM: Yeah. So yeah. So we're about to cut forward a few days in time.

Is there anything anyone wants to do before we do the time Skip?

Jenine/Marty: Could, could I, Do, do I know anything about. Do I know anything about the Milky Way?

Avery/GM: You do not

Jenine/Marty: Could I try and Google through Hermes the Milky Way.

Avery/GM: Way? Yeah. You, you Google it and that phrase doesn't pop up anything locally. Are you also gonna like, try and search through anything on this ship or just or just Googling it through like local internet.

Jenine/Marty: Could I try using stuff on the ship to like figure out what that is? And then did I, did Ollie share what he discovered through his download of information, or was that not shared with the team?

Chris/Ollie: I would say he just threw it in a, you know, public Google drive on the ship.

Bee/Polaris: Sweet!

Avery/GM: Yeah, you could learn about it through there, but yeah, it's not like an inst… unlike Ollie, it's not an instant download for you.

Jenine/Marty: Oh yeah. No, No No. I guess as Marty's trying to like, distract herself from everything that's currently like going through, she's just trying to like figure out more things about this other planet and this other galaxy and trying to get all the information that she can while she's just watching her friends run around and is also trying to like, help this random person that they just found.

Bee/Polaris: I think after we went to the teleportation place, we stopped running around, right? We, Zahn went to the ship, we went to the teleportation place, and then Ollie found out what he found out right?

Jenine/Marty: That's it, that's what Marty’s doing.

Avery/GM: Yeah. So Marty, you do start kind of sifting through some of this data that, that Ollie has shared with everyone and, and you learn kind of the same stuff. You know, the Milky Way is apparently the name of a Galaxy or the former name of a Galaxy, and it's about 75,000 light years away from you. You do realize though, that part of your exchange with Rho has inadvertently taught you how to read some of this language actually to read this language completely and so you, you start being able to see some of translate some of these symbols

that are on, like, these like papers and you kind of understand the letters that are on these keyboards and stuff like that. So…

Jenine/Marty: So I, I now know the information on this like little data pad that I swooped earlier.

Avery/GM: You swooped a data pad earlier that's right from the Med Bay?

Jenine/Marty: Yes.

Avery/GM: Yeah. You would see that it is a medical report on. Test subject Rho. Oh. And it is essentially readings of like psionic brainwave patterns, blood pressure, all of her vitals basically and then a note that says subject ready for deployment.

Jenine/Marty: Mm-hmm.

Avery/GM: Overall though, medically speaking, this person is very healthy if they are exactly human like you are.

Bee/Polaris: Haha. Hee hee.

Jenine/Marty: Oh, so Rho is human based off of what I'm reading?

Avery/GM: Yeah.

Jenine/Marty: Okay, cool.

Avery/GM: Based off of what you're reading, Yeah.

Jenine/Marty: Okay. Cool. Cool, cool, cool. Marty goes: I can work with this. I can work with this. I mean, I can work with anything, but like, I can work with this. This is okay!

Avery/GM: Zahn, you are on the ship and or on, on your guys' ship and you see that like there's no holes. The structural integrity is not compromised, but like, There's some good chunks missing out of your armor. One of the barrels on your laser beam is like smoking and charred might need to be repaired, and Hermes kind of landed in the bay a little crooked. So not the best job compared to what a team of humans could have done landing in the bay, but it's not a complete disaster.

Bee/Polaris: That's kind of wild because wasn't Hermes like a, a ship AI specifically to be the ship's AI.

Avery/GM: Yeah.

Bee/Polaris: Someone should teach Hermes how to fly.

Avery/GM: Hermes is used to flying big ships that don't go in anything. They just go through space.

Bee/Polaris: That is true.

Chris/Ollie: Sure. All, Hermes knows is go and stop really.

Avery/GM: Go and stop and shoot.

Bee/Polaris: Yeah. I guess you don't have to avoid obstacles when you're big enough to just ram through them.

Avery/GM: Yeah.

Zach/Zahn: This is gonna get a little deep because Zahn is having an existential crisis at the loss of… loss of Bruce. Zahn hasn't let himself get close to or feel anything for anyone in a long time. And so he's like in panic mode. He rushes onto the ship to try and get like, Engines working thruster speed, like he wants to get the ship operating as quickly as humanly possible, which is not at all within any kind of reasonable timeline and as it as that, like revelation is setting in, he's just getting more and more angry and frustrated, and his work is like getting sloppy and like he's getting to a point where he is just like, oh no, he's, he's bottling and the the top is fizzling, kind of like…

Avery/GM: Hermes says Zahn, I am detecting several of your vital signs are elevated, Are you feeling okay?

Zach/Zahn: He just like, he snaps. He is like at Hermes. He's like, doesn't matter how I feel. Tell me the telemetry on the outward thruster’s capabilities and how much or how soon we'll be able to take off.

Avery/GM: Given the state of the ship, we should be able to take off in approximately three days of repairs.

Zach/Zahn: That’s unacceptable, I need 10 minutes.

Avery/GM: Calculating… 10 minutes is not enough time to repair the ship enough to safely pilot it into space. You should sit down. Your blood pressure is getting very high.

Zach/Zahn: run diagnostic on critical repairs that need to be done in sequential order to get shipped flying immediately.

Avery/GM: Calculating… and then a list pops up on like the computer that you're in front of and like the first thing that needs to be repaired is the spike drive, second thing would be armor, third thing would be weapons and fourth would be the landing ramp as the one of the hydraulic pieces is kind of loose from getting shot and so it won't seal properly.

Zach/Zahn: Zahn dives like headfirst into the, the spike drive and that's where he'll be for the next little bit

Avery/GM: Okay.

Zach/Zahn: Like working through tears and anger.

Bee/Polaris: Yeah… While Zahn's doing that, Polaris probably now, like now that, I don't know if, did Ollie say that out loud or just in the chat? Cause Ollie has Polaris’ Helmet.

Chris/Ollie: Yeah, he also said it out loud. Well, After Ollie said that he stood up and started walking out with the helmet on.

Bee/Polaris: Yeah. Okay, cool. Polaris will follow because like, now that we know that Bruce has gone, Polaris wants to make sure that all of teammates are

still here. So he's gonna go find Marty and kind of like knowing that Zahn's probably on the ship by now he's gonna hold out his hand to Marty.

Jenine/Marty: How, how, how are you doing?

Bee/Polaris: He's not gonna, he's not saying anything. And his, he doesn't have his helmet on, so his like, his face is blank. He's just holding out his hand to Marty.

Jenine/Marty: and she just goes, stands up and just gives a hug.

Bee/Polaris: He just puts his head on Marty's head for a little bit until she lets go. And then he, like he, he's, he holds out his hand again.

Jenine/Marty: Oh well. Rho is downstairs with. Her… I don't wait her. Yes… Wait… Well she didn't really spec… with their companions, so we should probably wait and check in with them to make sure they're doing okay. Cause they also got a lot of heavy information. Are you, and like Marty's trying to like read the situation with, with like all the friends and like, hello, this might not be my specialty, but a hello!

Bee/Polaris: Polaris like glances over Marty's shoulder at the, like, the hole down and then just kind of nods and says noted… She'll be okay, but you are needed elsewhere at the moment.

Jenine/Marty: And then like, Marty just like, goes above the hole and just goes, Hey, let me know if you still need any help. Just ah, and then just to, to Polaris. How, how do I connect like text messages with other people to make sure that like she's in chat with us. You know what I mean?

Avery/GM: Hermes overhears you and says, I can connect you if you would like.

Jenine/Marty: make sure you give a warn… We're gonna connect with each other just to like , to like stay in communication so we don't have to physically be here. But if you need anything.

Bee/Polaris: Polaris will pull Marty away cause like she's grieving and he probably doesn't wanna be yelled at from the top of the hole. Polaris will like gently pull Marty away.

Jenine/Marty: Yeah. Marty's not fighting.

Avery/GM: Oh goodness.

Bee/Polaris: He's gonna lead Marty towards the ship and he is gonna get on the ship and like look around for Zahn and probably see Zahn running back and forth and stuff and at one point he's probably gonna like stand in front of Zahn and like, block his way and just kind of look at him.

Zach/Zahn: Zahn is in a state where he doesn't see you. So either he, he walks around or just goes through. If you actually don't…

Bee/Polaris: If he starts to walk around, Polaris will readjust and put his hands on Zahn's shoulders and like, make him look at him.

Zach/Zahn: Zahn brushes off and, and his helmet's been on this whole time. Like you can't see him.

Bee/Polaris: Yeah.

Zach/Zahn: He doesn’t want to be seen.

Bee/Polaris: Polaris will keep stopping him and eventually like, try to lead him to Marty because Marty fixes things.

Jenine/Marty: Oh no! Oh, no!

Avery/GM: And actually Marty, when, when you're kind of standing here watching this Hermes' little hologram pops up next to and like, it's just like Marty, I believe Zahn is having a heart attack. His blood pressure is sky high and he is a bit manic.

Jenine/Marty: that that's not a Well, that's not okay. Well this is not it and then like Marty starts walking towards Zahn and just does like a Okay, okay. Wait, wait and like, tries to like do like the fun little, like when you keep stepping in front of someone when you're trying to exit, but it doesn't happen.

But like, Marty's purposely trying to like say in front of Zahn as much as she can.

Bee/Polaris: Yeah. Polaris is trying to hold him still for Marty.

Jenine/Marty: Hey (random mouth noises) Hey Zahn, Zahn (more mouth noises) down here, Hello! Hello!

Zach/Zahn: there will be like a split second where he actually like, looks down, acknowledges your presences, and then continues to try and push past towards the drive with a with like a re socket wrench of some kind.

Jenine/Marty: I pull the socket wrench out of your hand if able to.

Zach/Zahn: I've got a death grip on it.

Avery/GM: Contested strength.

Jenine/Marty: Oh no.

Avery/GM: or, yeah,

Bee/Polaris: I mean Polaris… Polaris is holding Zahn still for Marty. So like, he's probably gonna have to contest Polaris.

Avery/GM: Okay. A three…

Bee/Polaris: If he's trying to move away

Avery/GM: like a three-way contested strength… It's not punch, but like, that's the closest I can come to.

Zach/Zahn: I would say work,

Avery/GM: work, okay

Zach/Zahn: work, Maybe

Avery/GM: work is fine.

Jenine/Marty: Could I say it's a con connect strength contested, because I'm trying to connect in this way to Zahn?

Avery/GM: You know what, you know what,

Zach/Zahn: It’ll definitely be work for me.

Avery/GM: but yeah. Get it For work, for Zahn Connect for Marty, Polaris, Pick one or the two. One of the one or the other

Bee/Polaris: Am I being strong about it?

Avery/GM: I’m sorry?

Zach/Zahn: am I rolling two works or just one?

Avery/GM: Roll two cause you're gonna contest each one. And then…

Jenine/Marty: Oh narts! I roll 3D sixes and drop the lowest. But I rolled two threes and a one.

Avery/GM: Oh no!

Bee/Polaris: What am Wait what? What am I rolling? Can I argue for exert?

Avery/GM: Oh, exert I'm, sorry… yes. Exert would be, exert would be perfect for both you and Zahn.

Bee/Polaris: Sweet.

Avery/GM: I'm still gonna let Marty keep the connect, but yeah.

Bee/Polaris: Is it strength exert or

Avery/GM: Yeah, strength exert. Unless you're doing it Dexterously, but this sounds more like you're trying to hold him in place.

Zach/Zahn: Oh wow. I just went from minus one to plus one.

Bee/Polaris: Oh, fuck. We've made him stronger.

Chris/Ollie: You won't like him when he is angry.

Zach/Zahn: So for, I don't know what order you want to go in between, I guess. Pulling wrench will be seven plus one, so eight

Jenine/Marty: Narts

Zach/Zahn: and then breaking away from Polaris will be a seven.

Bee/Polaris: Aw, sick. I got an Eight.

Zach/Zahn: Oh man. I should have gone in another order.

Bee/Polaris: Polaris will just like hug him and dead weight like pull him into his lap and Crisscross applesauce.

Jenine/Marty: Yes!

Avery/GM: I love it.

Zach/Zahn: Now that he's like, stopped moving, you're actually able to hear him quietly, like muttering to himself.

Bee/Polaris: Mm-hmm.

Zach/Zahn: And it's like this almost chant over and over again. Never get close to someone. Never, never again, never gonna lose someone. Never again. It's just me against the world. It's me against the universe. It's just, it's like that over and over.

Bee/Polaris: Yeah. Polaris is like, essentially like he's dropped because Polaris doesn't know how to do things outside of combat. So he's trying to, he's trying to like turn something that you would do in close combat into a not lethal thing. So he essentially like pulled you like into his lap and is like holding you in place. So he is definitely hearing this and he just looks up at Marty.

Jenine/Marty: Marty, Marty sits down, crisscross across. Hey, hello. And like takes and just like holds her hands out.

Zach/Zahn: There is a button on the side of my helmet that'll make it go into my suit.

Jenine/Marty: Boop, She whoops the button.

Zach/Zahn: And you get the cool, you get the cool (mouth noises) as the, the helmet disconnects. And you see Zahn's face is like bright red and like tears are just like streaming down his face. But his facial features are contorted and just like frustration and anger as he is muttering this over and over.

Jenine/Marty: Marty holds her hands out. Yeah, Marty just like holds her hands out. Not like forcing it just goes and does, like the little doot doot! like, like, like, has it like motions to like handhold if needed.

Zach/Zahn: Zahn like blinks a few times, stops talking and then like slowly takes the hand.

Bee/Polaris: Meanwhile Polaris has his, like chin on Zahn's shoulder and is like leaning his head against Zahn's, against Zahn’s shoulder.

Chris/Ollie: While this is going on.

Bee/Polaris: Oh yeah. Ollie has my helmet.

Chris/Ollie: and Ollie didn't go with everyone. And I'm assuming Zahn isn't live streaming.

Zach/Zahn: He is not. He, he cut feed as soon as he got to the ship.

Jenine/Marty: I am still live streaming on my wristwatch. You're only getting audio and all you heard was a boop!

Chris/Ollie: Okay. So Ollie has some idea, but he's, Ollie is gonna run right back to the, was that just like a reactor room or was that like the actual control room where we…

Avery/GM: that was like the engine room. So that's where the main reactor is and stuff like that.

Chris/Ollie: Okay. Ollie is gonna run to wherever he thinks is Gonna be the best place to search the ship for robots. He's gonna hope that a ship of this size is gonna have a maintenance crew of robots aboard.

Bee/Polaris: Ollie is looting.

Avery/GM: Yeah. Ollie, you're well, okay. Yeah, you've, you've gone into the hangar. So I will give you this, you, when you zoomed across the this hallway here you were in the Hangar Bay, you noticed against this far wall that there was like a little, not quite doorway, but more like a… almost like a garage door looking structure and now that you have the translation package, you kind of go back through your memory feed and you see that it says maintenance.

Chris/Ollie: Excellent.

Avery/GM: But there's no, there's no like lock or anything on this door.

Chris/Ollie: Wait, Oh, you mean it's just not locked? Okay.

Avery/GM: Yeah, it, it, it's down. But you don't see like a handle or a lock or any way to open it manually.

Chris/Ollie: Oh, it's like air locked. Is there a co… a console nearby that I can yeah, because other than looking in there, I also like, you know, wanna scan through the console to see anything I, I can find think any robot in the ship, like drone maintenance bot, anything. Barring that, I'd also like to try and hack open that door.

Avery/GM: Sure. The only other robot that you've seen so far was that little tin can robot that Polaris was playing with in the reactor room, which Polaris, what did you end up doing with that?

Bee/Polaris: He is in my bag.

Avery/GM: Okay, cool. Perfect. So go ahead. Roll a hack intelligence program check for this.

Chris/Ollie: That is 15.

Avery/GM: You unlock it, it opens up or you unlock the console and there's three buttons. There's open door, run, maintenance cycle, or closed door. Hmm. And closed door is like grayed out. You can't choose it, obviously.

Chris/Ollie: Okay. Well, I'm just gonna hit the open. I don't know what the maintenance cycle will do.

Avery/GM: Okay. You open up, you see, like these robots aren't like, they don't look like anything you've seen from this galaxy, which makes sense. They're clearly robots and they have like a bunch of tools attached to their fingers, and they all have like, like treads for their feet, so they can kind of zip around

quickly and get into weird spots. But yeah, that is what these robots look like. But they are currently deactivated.

Chris/Ollie: How many are there?

Avery/GM: Four.

Chris/Ollie: Four. All right. I'd like to. Jack directly into them. Split my conscious and take personal control of them along with any other robot chassis I've got on the ship if I can hack into these robots.

Avery/GM: Yeah.

Chris/Ollie: Okay. And so I want to like, along with my body, the four in there, and I think other than the dog including the two, no, I think just one robot chassis now because we cannibalize the others. All of them will in, in unison walk. Oh well, however much unison they can considering the treads. Walk up to the rest of the crew and say at one as all, as one in Ollie's voice, may I be of assistance and immediately start repairing the ship.

Bee/Polaris: Polaris isn't letting go of on until it calms down . So Polaris is just kind of zoning out.

Avery/GM: Ollie, you get a transmission from Hermes that lists the repairs that are needed.

Chris/Ollie: Excellent and so as eight I think? No, it would be six Ollies.

Avery/GM: Yeah, six Ollies.

Chris/Ollie: Go to work.

Avery/GM: so Ollie, you start repairing the ship, it's still gonna take a while.

Chris/Ollie: Also full disclosure, that's also Ollie's way of helping is being like, let's go, bro. I got… I got six pairs of hands.

Bee/Polaris: Ollie is doing the shit repairs and we're coughing down on Oh yeah. Polaris hasn't let go of the, the thing of bay leaves. So he's still holding that as he's holding Zahn.

Jenine/Marty: Cool. As Marty's holding Zahn's hands, she just looks him in the eyes. Hey, hi. What's up? Do you wanna talk? Do you wanna talk about it? Do you wanna talk about we, you don't, you don't have to talk about it if you don't want to. We can just sit here, just take a couple breaths.

Zach/Zahn: He's like trying to calm down. His breathing, breathing. It's like, like it's the short, shallow shit of just being like super angry and it's slowly getting like more drawn out.

Jenine/Marty: Mm-hmm.

Zach/Zahn: And then after a little bit he's finally, like… after I lost my mom, before, went my entire past life, ran away from home, and promised I would never look back and then I came across you fuckers and somehow you guys managed to weasel into the ironclad rivets that I am placed around me. So this is not fun… we'll get him back. He starts nodding, like looking for agreement.

Jenine/Marty: Yeah.

Zach/Zahn: We'll get him back, right?

Jenine/Marty: Yes, we're gonna get him back. But based off of this transmission, it sounds like we just have to, and I hate to say this, we do have to wait a little bit for what he's doing, but I trust him significantly.

So right now we may, the best course of action is, oh my gosh, she's a kid, so she's just like scared…

Bee/Polaris: Polaris like sees Marty stuttering and he looks up over at her from over his on shoulder and says he left the bay leaves, he'll be back.

Jenine/Marty: He also left his favorite blender. He's gonna be back, so…

Zach/Zahn: Zahn just nods… and you like in, in your arms, Polaris. You feel him relax a little bit.

Bee/Polaris: and Hermes turns off the defibrillator.

Avery/GM: I was gonna say, Hermes does say, oh, Zahn's blood pressure is returning to normal. You must be a very skilled healer, Polaris.

Bee/Polaris: Polaris says… Oh speaking of, Polaris is back to full!

Jenine/Marty: yay.

Bee/Polaris: Polaris doesn't say anything to that.

Chris/Ollie: Yes. Polaris is a very good healer.

Jenine/Marty: I’m here. It's fine.

Avery/GM: no… and Herman's like, oh, Marty, yes, of course. You did, you, you did all the talking. So that was probably more helpful than, I'm, you know what? I am just going to not say anything. And then you see the hologram, like disappear.

Jenine/Marty: Hey Hermes, we appreciate you.

Bee/Polaris: Oh, where was the hologram?

Avery/GM:, like standing off to the side.

Bee/Polaris: Okay.

Avery/GM: Hermes has learned how to project his hologram all over the ship.

Bee/Polaris: Oh, great. Oh good.

Jenine/Marty: Oh I love that.

Avery/GM: I love that for him.

Jenine/Marty: Oh, a sweetie. . Yeah. After the little moment, Marty just like scoot, scoot, scoots in and just. Hugs, into a little group hug

Zach/Zahn: Aww.

Avery/GM: And as Ollie is repairing things outside the ship and in the ship our camera kind of zooms out on this group hug.

Yeah. Ollie came over for the hug too. just for the, just for the record.

Bee/Polaris: Yay! One Ollie. One Ollie walks over and then like sits in the group hug and then just powers down.

Chris/Ollie: Yeah. He notices the hug and joins you.

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