Avery/GM: Welcome to Episode 21 of Beyond the Furthest Stars

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Avery/GM: So it's, it's been a few days. It has been a busy morning so far where we're gonna pick up the morning after Alioth spoke with Navi. It's been a pretty busy morning so far. What has everyone been doing this, this early morning?

Chris/Ollie: Since Ollie doesn't need to sleep? I imagine the whole time he's been sorting through the box of chips that we found.

Bee/Polaris: Oh yeah, we found a box of chips!

Chris/Ollie: Just all night.

Avery/GM: Oh yeah, So I thought I mentioned this last time, but basically each one of those corresponds with a different skill on the skill list. So some of them will give plus one or plus two to those different skills. Yeah.

Chris/Ollie: Okay.

Avery/GM: But basically it's, there's basically one of each, or there's

Bee/Polaris: Six chips total.One for each attribute?

Avery/GM: attribute. No, there's, sorry. So there's 19 different skills on the skill list. Not the attribute list, but just the skill list. And each of those chips corresponds. So there's 19 chips total. Each of them corresponds with, um, One of your skills. So there's a pilot, there's an administer, there's a connect,

Chris/Ollie: all right and each one's, uh, there's no, uh, negatives for any of them.

Avery/GM: Nope. Excellent. But if you've been like, experimenting with them, I will tell you that when you plugged in the heel chip, you got like basically a massive like database of like all the different kinds of like different alien anatomy and physiology.

Chris/Ollie: Oh. So it's like, um, in oblivion when you open a book and you immediately gain all the knowledge.

Avery/GM: Yeah. I mean, cause you're, you're a computer, so, you know.

Chris/Ollie: Okay yeah, so Ollie’s been plugging each, each one of them in and, and just downloading

Bee/Polaris: a title screen pops up with the, the music.

Avery/GM: But, you only get the bonus to the skill, if you have it plugged in, obviously

Chris/Ollie: Oh yeah.

Avery/GM: You know, like the, no, the no chip would be basically like just a Encyclopedia Britannica you. Type of thing. So

Bee/Polaris: might I make one? Might I make one small request?

Avery/GM: Sure.

Bee/Polaris: Can there be a Skyrim chip?

Avery/GM: A Skyrim chip.

Zach/Zahn: Just an Elder Scrolls chip.

Chris/Ollie: Yeah. Get back your criminal Scum.

Bee/Polaris: Archers

Avery/GM: Anything anyone else was doing?

Jenine/Marty: I'm making a nice breakfast of pancakes.

Bee/Polaris: Oh yeah. Marty's the cook, the stand in cook for Bruce. Did you add flies to the pancakes?

Jenine/Marty: I will as- I'll have them in the side, like as a side. Like, I'll roast, I'll roast them as like little like chipies so you can like garnish your, um, your pancakes and have a little crunchy

Bee/Polaris: with, with Bruce's special flies.

Jenine/Marty: Yes. Not, I don't use all of them, but I do like a little bit of mouse, so it's like, if anyone wants to try it, we should try the delicacy of our friend!

Avery/GM: Where are you having this breakfast? The Cassiopeia, the custodian ship, the Ursa major. Or

Bee/Polaris: we can have a picnic in space.

Avery/GM: The TSFKAM (the ship formerly known as the Minos) or, yeah, you could try.

Jenine/Marty: Which one has the better kitchen again? If, if Polaris would let me, I would like to teach him how to make pancakes on hi- On, on, on. Like the ship that he was raised on so he knows like the appliances and stuff.

Avery/GM: Sure.

Bee/Polaris: Yeah.

Avery/GM: I’d say it'd be a toss up between the Ursa and the Cassiopeia. They're both, good.

Bee/Polaris: Yeah. Um, Polaris has been still like alternating between who he's checking on and staying with for a little bit. So yeah. When he makes his rounds to you, yeah. You could teach him to make pancakes or we could try?

Jenine/Marty: We're gonna teach you how to make pancakes and we're also gonna caramelize these flies.

Bee/Polaris: (laughter)

Chris/Ollie: Oh God. Oh no!

Jenine/Marty: I'm not gonna trick you into eating it. I'm just gonna be like, I'm gonna be transparent about it, Y'all!

Bee/Polaris: Polaris doesn’t know what's going on at all. And he doesn't know what caramelized means, so he's just like nodding along.

Zach/Zahn: I'm gonna imagine that Zahn has had some pretty bad food in his time.

Avery/GM: I mean, you eat fake cheese so you know.

Bee/Polaris: Yeah. You do eat, assemble singles.

Zach/Zahn: It's such a crime!

Avery/GM: Marty and Polaris, I'll have you both roll some intelligence work checks.

Bee/Polaris: Oh, sweet. I have nothing in work.

Jenine/Marty: Could, it could be a connect cause I'm cooking with my heart

Bee/Polaris: And a buddy.

Jenine/Marty: and a buddy.

Avery/GM: Okay. Yeah. This is a buddy exercise. Sure.

Bee/Polaris: Oh, I did trash

Jenine/Marty: with intelligence it's a 13 cause I rolled two sixes.

Bee/Polaris: Whoa.That's amazing. I got drum roll please. A six

Zach/Zahn: total.

Bee/Polaris: Um, oh wait, wait. My bad. A five.

Avery/GM: So Marty, you, you rolled so well that you're gonna negate the almost catastrophe that Polaris caused. Um, as, uh, you see… you're mixing the batter together, you know, you're putting in your, your egg and you're your flour, your sugar and all that and you see… You know, sometimes pancakes, they'll call for like a dash of salt, you know, and you, you see, uh, that Polaris might have misread the instructions and got a tablespoon of salt instead of like a quarter teaspoon of salt or something like that and you luckily, you, you, you stop him just in the nick of time, you're like, just a little bit and you end up making some pretty, uh, tasty smelling pancakes that are wafting through the air

vents of the Ursa major and your flies have turned out perfectly caramelized and crunchy. Bruce would be very impressed.

Bee/Polaris: How do you caramelize a fly? There's no liquid.

Jenine/Marty: I dunno. It’s space, let it happen.

Chris/Ollie: I mean, there is,

Bee/Polaris: these are some particularly juicy flies.

Chris/Ollie: They got some juice, some fly juice in them.

Avery/GM: I mean, you could get some pretty, pretty juicy ones, you know?

Bee/Polaris: Oh my God,

Chris/Ollie: I, I, I'm sure Bruce liked them. Juicy.

Avery/GM: Oh!

Bee/Polaris: okay. I, early on in the campaign, I definitely was wondering if Bruce ate flies, but I was like, oh no, he's a chef. So when, when Bruce's message included that he has a stash of flies, I was like, unreasonably happy about that.

Avery/GM: I mean, it, it, it was very fitting, wasn't it?

Bee/Polaris: Yeah, it's pretty good.

Avery/GM: And you're making these pancakes and they're, they're smelling good. Uh, does anyone do, do you let people know, or do you kind of just let people find them when they find them?

Bee/Polaris: Polaris will take like a video of him cooking one side of the pancake, cook one side of the pancakes in the pan and the other side of the pancake. He's using his laser blade to like toast to the top and then he sends that in chat, in the group chat with everyone.

Avery/GM: Oh my gosh. Okay. Breakfast is served y'all.

Chris/Ollie: Efficient! Cooks twice as fast

Bee/Polaris: Yeah, there you go. So we like set the table and it's like really nicely. It's like super nice and everything. Yeah. A tablecloth, maybe like a little centerpiece. A place for everyone. The perfect setting for Zahn fistfight Rho.

Jenine/Marty: Yes.

Zach/Zahn: Food fight!

Avery/GM: Marty, you're helping to set this table and you get like a flash of like, (magic sound) premonition in your mind and you see Zahn before he even comes through the door. You see Zahn coming through the door, tripping over. There's like a little bit of like a lip in the door frame. You see him trip over that door frame and collide into Polaris who's like holding like a plate of pancakes.

Bee/Polaris: and a laser blade

Avery/GM: and a laser blade and it's very dangerous. It's a very dangerous situation. And this flash of, of, of premonition, uh, goes away as you hear Zahn whistling a little tune coming into the room.

Jenine/Marty: Hold please. Hold, hold please. No one come in. We're still setting up and then like Marty zips over to Polaris and like takes the pancakes and just goes, thank you! You should sit here and then like puts the pancakes on the thing. Okay. You could come in now!

Bee/Polaris: Polaris sits down with his laser blade still on and he like, Sits at the table and he holds a fork and his laser blade in the other hand.

Jenine/Marty: is it like that full setting where it's like big or is it like little setting where it's like (makes mouth whooshing noises) I don't think described that well.

Bee/Polaris: Yeah, no, I know what you mean though. Yeah. Its turned to the little setting.

Avery/GM: Knife setting or sword setting?

Bee/Polaris: He uh… actually he has it on sword setting.

Zach/Zahn: Oh geez. Sword setting. It's a three foot long laser blade.

Chris/Ollie: Just swinging it around.

Bee/Polaris: Yeah, and a fork.

Zach/Zahn: As soon as I hear Marty say, “no, don't come in”, I activate my grab boots and I just like, uh, magnetically stick to the floor. Just stop. And I'm just like, what's, what's going on? Why I, I heard pancakes.

Jenine/Marty: There's a little, there's a little thing right there. Be careful. Don't trip on it. You'll be good! Pancakes, yes.

Zach/Zahn: Zahn looks down and he is like, Hmm, I'm gonna have to level that out later. And then, and then enters

Avery/GM: Sure.

Zach/Zahn: Pulls up his little, uh, wrist display and makes like, pulls up a journal note entrance to kitchen, need to fix lip. No trip. Big capitals good.

Avery/GM: Yeah. And Ollie, do you, do you join this little, like, cause Ollie, you've, you have been eating food even though you don't really eat food, but

Chris/Ollie: No, he's been

Zach/Zahn: shoving them in his processors.

Avery/GM: Yeah.

Chris/Ollie: Um, well he's been taking them.

Avery/GM: That's right.

Chris/Ollie: He's been pretty much storing them. All the food that Bruce has ever given him is in his storage compartment.

Jenine/Marty: Oh!

Avery/GM: Oh my God.

Bee/Polaris: Oh My god. It's been, it's been, it's been a couple weeks, right?

Zach/Zahn: yeah.

Chris/Ollie: Yeah. I imagine it's like the, uh, the “No more pudding Cowboy Bebop” episode with the fridge.

Avery/GM: Oh gosh. Yeah, you've got something growing in there.

Chris/Ollie: Yeah. But Ollie's not concerned. Life signs are, are minimal

Bee/Polaris: and none of us know.

Chris/Ollie: But no, he's going to continue his, uh, search. He's, uh, going through the chips looking for any reference to that vision. He had to see if there's anything you can find, like anything, uh, that elucidates that. Uh, so he's just gonna put back in chat. Uh, sorry. With a tongue out emoji with an arrow emoji and an ax emoji.

Jenine/Marty: Sad face emoji.

Chris/Ollie: Yeah.Then the Ooh, crying emoji.

Bee/Polaris: Also sad face emoji.

Avery/GM: Marty, you're, uh, enjoying your pancakes and, um, you see Rho come into the. And you get another premonition of her bursting into tears while sitting over your delicious pancakes. Maybe it's a good thing. Maybe. Maybe she's crying cause they're so good.

Bee/Polaris: Polaris is waiting for Rho to come so he can give her the salmon.

Jenine/Marty: hmm. hmm. Okay. Okay. Okay. Marty's gonna let it happen. We're gonna see what happens. It's fine.

Avery/GM: Sure. You don't have to stop everything you foresee.

Jenine/Marty: Yeah.

Avery/GM: Also, you're not really used to foreseeing things, so maybe, you know how, how is, how is Marty feeling about this? Like,

Jenine/Marty: excellent. It's like the, okay, this is new. This is interesting. This is a new thing. Have I heard of stuff like this?

Avery/GM: I mean, you, you definitely, because like what, okay. What age did Marty's sci powers like manifest? Like was it really young? Was it kind of late?

Jenine/Marty: They were pretty early on, but it was like much, very much like little things of like this little booboo boop kinda situation.

Avery/GM: Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Like, oh, I scraped my knee. I don't want it to be scraped anymore.

Jenine/Marty: Yeah.

Avery/GM: And now it's not that kind of a thing.

Jenine/Marty: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah.

Avery/GM: Okay. Yeah. So you definitely remember that this sort of feeling was, is is similar to how your bios powers came on when you were younger?

Jenine/Marty: Cool. This is just one that I never really activated and now it's activated and I go, this is, this is different.

Avery/GM: Yeah. But you, but you know about like pre.. precogs and um, and, and other sorts of, uh, psychic, you know, powers in the universe. You definitely know about it.

Jenine/Marty: Okay. Snazzy. I'll see how this one goes through. It's, it's all, it's all an experiment at this point. Trial and error.

Avery/GM: Yeah. And Rho comes in and sees the pancakes and her eyes get super big and she sits down. She's like, may, may I have some of these, these look excellent.

Jenine/Marty: Yes. I made it for everybody.

Avery/GM: And she like, takes a couple flapjacks off the, off the big plate in the center and, and starts like digging into them

Bee/Polaris: Pancake time. Do we have syrup?

Avery/GM: Yeah, there's. Bruce probably had like a stash of like

Bee/Polaris: bean syrup.

Avery/GM: Bean syrup yeah

Jenine/Marty: Bean syrup. A beans

Avery/GM: it's, it's a vanilla bean syrup.

Bee/Polaris: Oh, sweet.

Avery/GM: Yeah.

Jenine/Marty: A heck Yeah. Let's go.

Avery/GM: Yeah, there we go. Can also just, it doesn't all have to be pintos and, and, and kidney beans.

Bee/Polaris: Yeah. There's a lot of beans.

Avery/GM: Yeah. Anything's a bean if you try hard enough. Anyone doing anything while you're sitting here enjoying your pancakes?

Bee/Polaris: Yep. Polaris would slide over an anatomically correct. Salmon plushy over to Rho.

Avery/GM: Uh, she picks this up and, and looks at you and it's just like, what's, what's this for?

Bee/Polaris: Polaris goes back to eating his pancakes. He doesn't know how to answer that

Avery/GM: She, she just sort of looks at you and. gives it a hug and then sets it down in her lap and starts continue to eating.

Bee/Polaris: Hell yeah. I didn't think that far ahead. I didn't think she'd ask what that was for.

Avery/GM: You're fine. You're fine.

Bee/Polaris: Is Zahn in a fist fight Rho now?

Jenine/Marty: Breakfast and a show, breakfast and a show.

Bee/Polaris: It's like that one meme of the cat at the table with the salad and the lady Screaming at it.

Jenine/Marty: Yes.

Zach/Zahn: So if I remember right, Zahn spent like the whole night pouring over all the info that Ollie had downloaded before we erased it and so we have all of the ships' logs on Terra and stuff, right?

Avery/GM: You have quite a bit. Yes. There was some stuff that was still encrypted that even Ollie couldn't get through. But yeah, you have like you know that the ship was sent from Terra as a way to draw out some rogue AI. You know that the command crew basically left Rho to die in space as like a sacrifice kind of a thing cause they needed the ship to reach its destination. But then after that, who knows, you know? So you ha… you have a, a basic overview of kind of the ship's origins. Did you, did you explore any of the medical files?

Zach/Zahn: let's say, Yes. For, for plot convenience?

Avery/GM: Sure.

Bee/Polaris: Didn't Marty do that too?

Avery/GM: Marty?

Jenine/Marty: I did.

Avery/GM: Marty did as well.

Jenine/Marty: It was the first thing I did.

Avery/GM: So,

Zach/Zahn: cause I'm curious if I'll, uh, see any of the potential founders of, uh, new Terra Station in there?

Avery/GM: no. Cause this was just, um, medical files related to the crew. Oh, okay. But you, you did learn that every time Rho is referenced, she's referenced as, um, a science experiment basically.

Zach/Zahn: Ugh, that's not nice.

Avery/GM: Yeah.

Bee/Polaris: I'm squinting my eyes.

Avery/GM: So that is something else that you, that's some background knowledge you have about, about Rho as well.

Zach/Zahn: Gotcha.

Avery/GM: The specifics about her, what kind of experiment, uh, was not elaborated on, on the files that Marty gained access to.

Zach/Zahn: So as soon as Rho comes in, Z's gonna go from like his kind of happy, I just woke up and had a good night's sleep self to like more anxious cause he has to get a little, he's about to get a little investigaty here. so like, he goes from like en like thoroughly enjoying the pancakes to wolfing them down.

Avery/GM: sure.

Zach/Zahn: And once he's cleared his plate, he's like, uh, so. And he is like double because he is like completely awkward in this moment. Double pointer fingers at Rho. He is like, are you gonna tell us anything about your ship and why you're here?

Bee/Polaris: Sit down. Slide a manila fool over

Zach/Zahn: question mark. Yeah.

Avery/GM: Yeah. She stops like, there's like a piece of pancake, like on the fork, like ready to go in and she kind of just looks across the table at you and she's like, I, I've, I've told you everything I know. I, I was, we, we were supposed to, to come out here on a, on a mission and our mission failed and, and so now Navi wants to blow us up.

Zach/Zahn: Right… And, uh, Why, why, from your side of things, why, why would you think that, um, your people would find you expendable?

Bee/Polaris: Ouch.

Avery/GM: Well, I, I, I honestly don't know that they never gave off any, any feelings like, like, they didn't value me. I, I didn't really realize what was happening until the, the crew abandoned ship after I started navigating.

Zach/Zahn: Oh, so you, you were the designated navigations person?

Avery/GM: Yes. The, the pod you found me in it amplifies my psychic powers and lets me navigate space much more efficiently than a human or a, a, a normal human or even an, an AI would navigate.

Zach/Zahn: Hmm. So, uh, It's on the topic of, of AIs. Um, are you privy to any like rogue AIs that you may have been implemented to circumvent?

Avery/GM: Let's see. Did she know about that?

Bee/Polaris: I don't, because in the log, didn't the guy basically say like, he was like, oh, well I don't see the point of sending all these people out here. Oh, well, sorry, Rho about the, the whole rogue AI thing. So it's like the, that was like the, um, the actual mission and they had a coverup mission that they were told they were sent on.

Avery/GM: That's right. Yep. Yep. You're right. Thank you. Mm-hmm. I was just looking, I was looking over my notes to make sure that that was the case.

Bee/Polaris: Sweet.

Avery/GM: Yes. She's like, no, I, I didn't learn about the rogue AI mission until, until you let me out. And, you know, I started kind of talking with, with everyone here and you know, sort of learned through osmosis or, you know, other techniques that the, the crew had other motives. I don't know why they aimed the ship so far away from our galaxy. I don't know why. An, I don't know why AI from our galaxy would come to this one. That seems a bit much.

Zach/Zahn: right… He's like very contemplative eyes squinted thinking. Right. So, uh, tell me the origins of Terra. What is, what is that?

Avery/GM: Well, Terra is my home. It's, it's the home of all, well, what I thought, we're all humans. It used to be called Earth, but it got renamed to Terra a a a few hundred years ago for some reason, I historians debate Why. I don't know. But anyway, that's neither humor nor there. It's, it's the capital world of the Pan Solar Union. It used to be a pretty polluted and toxic place after centuries of industrialization and war and famine and hatred and terror. But eventually, the inhabitants of that world started working together and made it better and started heading out into the, the galaxy and started making more homes among the stars.

Zach/Zahn: Neat. Well, that's, uh, that's good for Terra. But a follow up question, is your crew, the first crew to try and inhabit another galaxy?

Avery/GM: As far as I know, we, we usually stuck to just the, what we call the Milky Way. Yeah. The distances between galaxies have been so vast that it's been hard to justify traveling that far until recently.

Zach/Zahn: Ah, yes. Well that in wherein lies a, a big old question cause uh, where I'm from, uh, is a place called New Terra from this galaxy. And, uh, we still use some of your language, which is how I was able to navigate, like, looking to everybody else, how I was able to navigate through your corridors. Cause I know some of your freaking language.

Bee/Polaris: Polaris was just gonna say, I meant to ask about that.

Avery/GM: Yeah. Um, she cocks her head at you, uh, Zahn and is just like, are you, are you certain it's the same language?

Zach/Zahn: Close enough, if not similar. Well, I don't know all of your language by heart. My mother would read out of a journal of sorts in your language. she would read to me and said language and some of our uh, uh, signage and stuff is a mix of your language and kind of the universal language of this galaxy.

Avery/GM: She doesn't say anything but is staring into your eyes and I need a mental save.

Zach/Zahn: oh no.

Bee/Polaris: Polaris at this point is looking very confused between the two of them.

Chris/Ollie: Brain Nuke incoming.

Zach/Zahn: I’m about to get brain-wiped.

Chris/Ollie: Yep.

Jenine/Marty: Nah, don't worry about it.

Chris/Ollie: This knowledge is forbidden.

Zach/Zahn: I rolled an18 and my save needs to be a nine, so.

Avery/GM: Perfect. Okay. You feel (magic sound) memories that you had kind of locked down, start to bubble to the surface and at first you're not really sure what's going on. Like, maybe, maybe it's just cause you mentioned your mother, but like, you start thinking about like one specific memory of her reading to you When you were a child and then you make the saving throw and suddenly you see Rho kind of like, almost like an invisible force, kinda like pushes her backwards in her seat (psychic blast) as you have prevented her from drilling into your mind.

Zach/Zahn: Hey.

Avery/GM: But you do see her, uh, starting to weep.

Zach/Zahn: Oh, no, no. She's weeping over the pancakes

Bee/Polaris: and the flies. Don't forget the caramelized flies.

Avery/GM: Yeah.

Bee/Polaris: And her salmon, this is, this is awful.

Jenine/Marty: Oh, no.

Bee/Polaris: Polaris is very confused. He's looking between Zahn and the crying Rho and then looks over to Marty.

Zach/Zahn: Zahn's gonna like, touch his fingers to his temple and be like, what did you just try to do? You can't just go like parading into somebody's brain without permission.

Avery/GM: She stands up and is just like, no, you're, you're right. I'm, I'm sorry. I gotta go. And she runs out of the, the dining room before you can get any more answers.

Zach/Zahn: All you're gonna get is Oy, I'm not done with. And then as she's like running down the hall, he's like, I'm not done with you yet. But…

Avery/GM: you're gonna chase after her.

Zach/Zahn: No.

Avery/GM: oh, okay.

Bee/Polaris: Polaris like, looks after Rho and then Polaris looks over to Zahn and says, wait then do you glow too?

Zach/Zahn: What? No.

Avery/GM: Now Polaris looks more puzzled.

Zach/Zahn: What do you mean glow?

Avery/GM: Yeah. Polaris is very confused. would there be anything on his person that gives off a slight radiation, like an A-Cell battery or something like that?

Avery/GM: I'd say probably your laser blade.

Bee/Polaris: Okay, cool. Polaris will hold his laser blade near his skin and his freckles will probably glow, because I don't think we've ever been in this situation where Polaris glowed.

Zach/Zahn: not in front of everybody.

Avery/GM: No, you have not yet.

Bee/Polaris: Yeah, so Polaris like holds his laser blade to his own arm and he glows his freckles glow.

Zach/Zahn: Well now everybody just gets to be confused.

Bee/Polaris: Yeah. Polaris is like looking con… very confused.

Jenine/Marty: Hmm. Hmm. Have you always just been glow?

Bee/Polaris: Yes.

Jenine/Marty: Glow, glowing like that?

Bee/Polaris: Yep. Whenever radiation is present.

Jenine/Marty: Mm-hmm. Do I know what that is?

Bee/Polaris: You did read his file. I don't know how far you got into his file though. I'm pretty sure it was just like his normal, his normal boy file.

Jenine/Marty: It was just normal stuff

Bee/Polaris: about vitals. Yeah.

Jenine/Marty: It was just like a normal boy stuff.

Bee/Polaris: Yeah.

Jenine/Marty: It was just like, everything's healthy and I go sick. Good to know.

Bee/Polaris: We are on the Ursa Major, so there might be some other things. Uh, but Marty's only seen his normal boy files.

Jenine/Marty: That's the, the access that I had granted.

Avery/GM: So I will say that, um, The indi, all the individuals, like, and maybe you didn't put this together in the moment, but now you're kind of thinking about it. All the individuals who had like that like, kind of like glowing, uh, freckle condition were all from the same planet of Fotia which was you, you don't know of cause it's in the Milky Way Galaxy. But you know, you'd read through their file and it would say Home world Fotia blah blah, blah, this person needs, uh, insulin every four hours or something like that. You know, or, or this person needs an inhaler. That kind of a thing.

Bee/Polaris: So hell yeah. Brothers.

Avery/GM: So putting two and two together, you might think that that bioluminescence might be related to that planet in some way.

Jenine/Marty: Interest… Okay and like Marty just kind of sits there and like Charlie starts to, like, you can see her brain working.

Bee/Polaris: and Polaris is gonna send a, a little message to the custodians

Zach/Zahn: and Zahn is gonna go find some busy work to do

Bee/Polaris: did anyone eat the flies?

Avery/GM: Yeah, I was gonna say

Zach/Zahn: Oh Zahn…

Jenine/Marty: Yes,

Zach/Zahn: Zahn ate all of it wholeheartedly.

Bee/Polaris: Okay, cool. Polaris also ate some flies. He like put some, like, you know how you put a slab of butter onto like a, a pad of butter onto your pancakes? He put the flies on top.

Chris/Ollie: Oh yeah. I mean, protein recycling's probably pretty common.

Bee/Polaris: Hell yeah.

Chris/Ollie: On space stations. So flies,

Avery/GM: glorious

Chris/Ollie: Flies are step up

Zach/Zahn: adds that extra bit of crunch, you know.

Bee/Polaris: Well, they're caramelized, so they're not crunchy, so they're nice. They're soft and sweet.

Zach/Zahn: Oh, okay.

Avery/GM: So Zahn staying on you for a minute. Um, what busy work do you go do? Well,

Zach/Zahn: since it's in his immediate forefront of his brain, he's gonna fix the lip, uh, into the kitchen. And we're on the Ursa, right?

Avery/GM: Yeah.

Zach/Zahn: Okay. Yeah, he's gonna fix the lip on the ursa and then, um, I don't know, maybe wander around on the Cassiopeia, try to fix something there. See if he, maybe you can restore the, the giant guns in the hangar bay if they're not completely demolished.

Bee/Polaris: No, don't do that. Don't give Navi the ability to shoot us.

Avery/GM: I mean, Hermes, Hermes did get beat up pretty bad, but Hermes did do an efficient job of destroying the things. If there's one thing he's good at, it's, shoot,

Zach/Zahn: it's blowing stuff up. That's our boy. That's all. Boy,

Chris/Ollie: we still need to fix the, uh, hydroponics bays.

Bee/Polaris: Oh yeah. We have to fix the hydroponics so we can get corn and weed.

Zach/Zahn: in that order of priority.

Bee/Polaris: Yeah, exactly. More importantly, corn.

Avery/GM: Oh my goodness. . So yeah, you start doing your busy work, um, getting repairs done. Very good. Uh, let's jump over to Bee, you send the custodians a message?

Bee/Polaris: Yeah. Polaris is just gonna ask if there's any other medical files on himself that they have in their possession.

Zach/Zahn: A quick, quick,

Avery/GM: you specifically don't get a response from, uh, Merak or Bear.

Bee/Polaris: Okay.

Avery/GM: Alioth just sends three dots and is like why

Bee/Polaris: he sends wanna be healthy, smiley face.

Avery/GM: You get, you get back. Um, I may have something around my lab, but everything should be in the medical files in the Med Bay. Curious, you've never really taken that much of an interest before. Why now?

Bee/Polaris: Uh, Polaris has noticed that both Merak and Bear have not said anything or added any sort of input. So he's getting a little sus. Um, Polaris sends a shrug emoji. Bored.

Zach/Zahn: Bored. Could use the read.

Bee/Polaris: Yeah. Bored. Could use the read smiley face. book emoji, nerd emoji.

Avery/GM: Merrick finally responds and is just… says, maybe we could discuss this later after your friends are busy with other things.

Bee/Polaris: Polaris sends, dot, dot, dot and then would you all ever lie to me?

Avery/GM: Bear actually responds and is just like, only to keep you safe. Alioth sends a face palm emoji.

Bee/Polaris: Polaris squints his eye. He like stands up and is like squinting his eyes in his helmet, but not moving. He doesn't know because like earlier when they, we were like, when they debating on whether or not to destroy the Cassiopeia or tow it with us. They said it's for your safety, so now Polaris is extra suspicious of the custodians.

Avery/GM: Very good. You should be, no kidding.

Bee/Polaris: is Zahn still in the room because he was fixing the little, little ledge to the door, or did he finish that?

Zach/Zahn: Zahn would be like, I don't know, grinding or, or something that's pretty loud with his helmet on and in his helmet, he actually, uh, I want him to have hers reading the ship's data on, on Terra.

Avery/GM: Sure.

Zach/Zahn: Like an audiobook.

Avery/GM: Sure. Currently, currently he is reading to you about the Bronze Age collapse

Chris/Ollie: the sea people, they come.

Avery/GM: Yeah.

Zach/Zahn: And then every now and then you'll, you'll see him stop and be like, Hermes not that far back. Go, go forward a little bit.

Bee/Polaris: Lovely.

Zach/Zahn: But otherwise he's not at all focused on like really his surroundings.

Bee/Polaris: Yeah. When he gets in the Zone he gets in the Zone.

Avery/GM: he's in the Zone, AutoZone.

Bee/Polaris: Hmm. Okay. Polaris is gonna go to the Med bay and he's gonna start like doing the thing where you're like looking for something but not doing so in a way that doesn't make everything messy. He's just looking for something out of the ordinary.

Avery/GM: Sure. Awesome. We will get to that then in a moment.

Bee/Polaris: Sweet.

Avery/GM: Marty, you were chasing after Rho?

Jenine/Marty: Ye!

Avery/GM: Ollie outta curiosity, where specifically are you doing this? Analysis work that you're doing?

Chris/Ollie: Probably my trusty work station inside the TSKAM.

Avery/GM: Cool. So Marty Ro makes it pretty far. Before you catch up to her, Marty, you come into the docking bay, you actually see her messing with Polaris's ship, maybe trying to figure out how to get in there.

Jenine/Marty: Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Um, okay. I'm not gonna be aggressive. Hello, Rho! Sorry. You're having a moment. Um, Polaris doesn't really like when people touch his ship.

Avery/GM: I need to get outta here. Can I use your ship? I need to get home and I'm, I'm sorry, but I can't handle this. This is too much.

Jenine/Marty: What, which part? Sorry About that whole conversation. We just, that thing. Um, are you okay? You don't seem okay. You're not okay. Um, do you need a hug? Do you need a breath? You should take a br like a quick breath.

Avery/GM: You see her kind of like, stop for a moment, take a breath and is just like, oh yeah, you're right. I probably shouldn't steal someone's ship just to get home, that wouldn't be right.

Jenine/Marty: also, if your home is super, super, super far away, I don't know if any of these ships will be able to take you might, well, probably will, but like at the same time, you know what I mean, like, might not have enough of the, uh, required energies to get there.

Avery/GM: Well, no, no. See, this is the thing that hasn't made sense this whole time is that I was only on that ship for a couple of months. I couldn't have possibly have even made it as far as, as you all are saying that I've made it. So I'm pretty sure this is either just some sort of trick or there's a… there's a wormhole or something out there that I can, I just need to find and I can get back to where I was and, and all of this should be fine. I just, I can't, I can't stay here anymore. Zahn clearly doesn't want me here, and, and all of you are nice, but I, I, I just, I can't, I can't be here anymore.

Jenine/Marty: Marty like takes one little step towards her and just goes, okay, that, that makes sense. This is not your world. There are lots of things that you don't understand of what happened, but also we can help. Try and figure it out. I'm not really good with the whole like wormholes and stuff like that. I'm mostly like a medical person, but I'm pretty sure Polaris has a lot of knowledge. Hermes is pretty knowledgeable about a lot of things, and we can help. Sorry if we were a little, we as in Zahn, was a little bit confrontational about everything.

I think he's just confused. This is also the most I've ever heard from him say stuff about like his past and that was pretty cool

Avery/GM: Well, wait, wait, wait, wait. Yeah, his, his past, he mentioned there's a, a new Terra here. Have you ever heard of that place? Can we go there?

Jenine/Marty: I don't know. Have I, have I ever heard about this place?

Zach/Zahn: If you had, you would've heard of it as new terror probably.

Jenine/Marty: Am I familiar with it? Would it have been a place that I learned about or a place that was potentially on the list of places that I would've been assigned to? Would've been like, Hmm, could that be my no list, please?

Avery/GM: definitely wouldn't have been assigned there. I think the most you would've known about it is like the rumors that there is cannibalism there and like it's full of weird people and it's just, it's just not somewhere people normally go.

Zach/Zahn: It's for sure been blacklisted in the last like 11 years.

Jenine/Marty: Cool. I just, I've heard of it. It's not the place that it used to be. It has changed a lot.

Avery/GM: Maybe I can go there and, and they can help me figure out how to get home. If Zahn is right and they're from old Terra, then they must know how they got here and they can tell me how they got here and I can use the same way to get back

Jenine/Marty: Possibly. I don't know if the civilization has that knowledge at the state that they are in now. The place is a mess and I don't really know how to say it in a nice way, is what I'm trying to say.

Avery/GM: She is sort of just like bracing herself against Polaris's ship and you know, just trying to like hold herself up and she is just like, so there's just no way for me to get home?

Jenine/Marty: with the information that we have now. We don't know. But if we take a moment to just breathe, slow down, ask questions and research, we, we can find a way.

Avery/GM: Maybe Navi knows something.

Jenine/Marty: The, the same Navi that tried to kill you.

Avery/GM: Yeah, yeah. But Navi is really not that bad once you get past the whole self-destruct sequence thing. Okay. Maybe I'll just head over to the, the Casio PI and, and, and try to look into this a little bit more.

Jenine/Marty: I can help.

Avery/GM: She's like, oh, you know how to pilot your ship?

Jenine/Marty: You know, not really. As in, I'm not really the pilot. Everyone else is kinda piloting and I just kinda sit there and go, woo, do the thing.

Bee/Polaris: One specific person pilots. Well, Hermes pilots,

Jenine/Marty: Yeah

Bee/Polaris: not great but he pilots.

Zach/Zahn: He's learning.

Jenine/Marty: He's learning.

Bee/Polaris: He is Learning

Jenine/Marty: I push a button, go Hermes, Please!

Chris/Ollie: Hermes Take the Wheel!

Avery/GM: Marty, for the first time you do hear her chuckle at, at you saying that you just kind of do the thing and go wee and she's like, well, maybe later we can all go over there then together and I'll, I'll do some more research then.

Jenine/Marty: Awesome.

Avery/GM: but I need to be alone right now. I won't, I won't steal Polaris's ship. You're right. I shouldn't have tried to do that. I will apologize to him when I see him next.

Jenine/Marty: Yeah. He's really protective of it. I, I, I wouldn't, but cool. Great. Good. Do you need a hug? You can do a hug. Did you want any comfort food? I can make food. More food. Did you want more pancakes, food?

Avery/GM: I'm, I don't have an appetite now, but, uh, A hug. A hug would be great. Good.

Jenine/Marty: And she goes in for a little hug.

Avery/GM: Okay, Ollie you hear some commotion outside the ship. Do you do anything about that?

Chris/Ollie: Uh, he's been listening in case, uh, he's needed, but, uh, no, he's just been working away.

Avery/GM: You do see like the hologram of, of Hermes's like beam next to you and it's just like, this feels like eavesdropping. Should we be listening or should I disconnect the, the audio sensors?

Chris/Ollie: Ollie will say, um, you never know what will happen. I have to be protective of my new family because, uh, you know, he's not after Bruce. Uh uh. we ain't losing anyone again. Never again.

Avery/GM: Would you like me to aim the guns at Rho?

Chris/Ollie: Only if she tries to procure Polaris's ship again or this ship.

Avery/GM: Understood. Although if she tried to procure this ship, I would not be able to aim the guns at myself.

Chris/Ollie: I'm sure you'll figure something out

Avery/GM: and uh, the hologram turns into a big thumbs up and disappears. Polaris, you are over in the med bay.

Bee/Polaris: Yep.

Avery/GM: Where would you like to start your little investigation?

Bee/Polaris: Where are all of the important information at?

Zach/Zahn: Probably behind the laser gate.

Bee/Polaris: Oh yeah. What's that Laser gate. Oh wait, that's the smugglers hold.

Avery/GM: Yeah, that's the smugglers hold.

Bee/Polaris: Polaris knows how to deactivate that, right? The lasers.

Avery/GM: Yeah.

Bee/Polaris: Yeah.

Avery/GM: You are smart enough to figure it out. I, I don't know. Has Polaris tried to do it before?

Bee/Polaris: I mean, he's probably played around at the smugglers hold before as a child

Avery/GM: Then Yeah, definitely. You are like, even though you've broken through it, like bear never bothered to like reset the security on it like more seeing it as like amusing.

Bee/Polaris: Yeah.

Avery/GM: But yeah, probably this computer console here would probably have most of the information.

Bee/Polaris: Gotcha. So Polaris probably looks at the console and it's just like, this is where all the important information is. They probably wouldn't put the important information that they're lying to me about on this. So he's gonna go to the smugglers hold and look through there.

Avery/GM: Sure. Uh, go ahead and roll a. A very easy dexterity program. Check to break through this, uh, this security system.

Bee/Polaris: You said dexterity program

Avery/GM: or sorry, intelligence, not dexterity. I'm sorry.

Bee/Polaris: It's fine. Both are the same. Well, I hope it is an easy check because I rolled a six.

Avery/GM: I put it at a six.

Bee/Polaris: Let's go

Avery/GM: specifically cause you said that you had been back there before. If, if you had said no, then it would've been harder. Yeah,

Bee/Polaris: I mean he's lived on this ship long enough. I'm sure he's been in every room.

Avery/GM: Yeah. Cool. Let's go to the smugglers hold. Yeah. Coming into the smugglers hold, there's some stuff that you've seen before. There's, you know, some old mech suits.

Bee/Polaris: Cool.

Zach/Zahn: Mech suit.

Avery/GM: Yeah.

Bee/Polaris: That's cool.

Avery/GM: And yeah, so there's just a lot of stuff in here that like you've seen before and you've kind of just never paid it any mind. But one thing that has always been like here that you never really looked at much is a robot that you are now looking at looks very similar to your son.

Bee/Polaris: Whoa. My son. 2.0?

Avery/GM: Ehhh, More like 0.5, but yeah.

Bee/Polaris: Yeah. My son, zero point… my son Alpha.

Avery/GM: Yeah. the difference here is that it does look bigger and it is deactivated currently, but it has power.

Bee/Polaris: Okay.

Avery/GM: It just, the switch is not on.

Bee/Polaris: Okay. So there's like a broken mech uh, my son alpha edition and just a bunch of junk.

Avery/GM: Yeah. Bunch of stuff that like, you know, there's probably valuable. It's not all junk. There's probably like valuables here that they use to like trade.

Bee/Polaris: Yeah. But it's junk to Polaris cause Polaris doesn't know anything about… anything about that.

Avery/GM: Yeah. There's a crate that you've probably like hidden in before when you're playing hide and seek or something. You know.

Bee/Polaris: Polaris will go in there and hide again just for just old time sake.

Avery/GM: You're in the box.

Bee/Polaris: Sweet. Okay. Polaris is then gonna go back to the robot and turn it on.

(Switch turn on, robot power up noise)

Avery/GM: turn it on. You hear it's like that sound that like the, they play at movie theater is like the thx.

Bee/Polaris: Oh yeah. it's super loud. Gets gradually louder. Vibrate your bones.

Avery/GM: Yeah, exactly. And it's loud and it's like you hear like gears inside This robot starting to turn that probably haven't turned in… It hasn't been turned on in about 24 years.

Bee/Polaris: Oh, interesting.

Avery/GM: Yeah. Super specific.

Bee/Polaris: Yeah, that's very specific.

Avery/GM: It says Adis Maintenance Unit ready for service. How can I service you?

Bee/Polaris: Nice. What's it called? How do you spell that?

Avery/GM: Adis… A D I S.

Bee/Polaris: Okay. Please just know what to do here. But he's also looking at the door to make sure no, the custodians are coming in here because that was loud as fuck.

Avery/GM: So far, no.

Bee/Polaris: Okay, cool. Polaris just kinda like looks at it and is just like, what do you do?

Avery/GM: I was responsible for maintaining the computer servers on the planet Audis before it was destroyed.

Bee/Polaris: Okay.

Avery/GM: Do you need me to perform maintenance in this room? It looks quite cluttered.

Bee/Polaris: No. Do you know where any important files might be? long shot…

Avery/GM: I contain a multitude of files that were uploaded to me by Architect Designation Alioth approximately 23.5 years ago.

Bee/Polaris: Polaris squints his eyes harder. Are you able to transfer those files to me?

Avery/GM: Password needed.

Bee/Polaris: Fuck.

Avery/GM: Not gonna give it to you that easy.

Bee/Polaris: Yeah, I know. Hmm. Um, can Polaris try a bunch of passwords that he might That

Zach/Zahn: is it Polaris's own name?

Bee/Polaris: Yeah. Can

Jenine/Marty: Password Kid!

Bee/Polaris: Can, can Polar put his own name as the password?

Avery/GM: Yeah. So it's all audio, so

Bee/Polaris: Shit. Polaris sends a message to Alioth in chat. If you were going to put a password on a secret profile, what would the password be? Question mark. Question mark. Like thinky emoji.

Chris/Ollie: No sus, for real.

Avery/GM: face with monocle, why do you ask?

Bee/Polaris: thinking about putting a password on a secret robot for secret reasons.

Avery/GM: the robot you discovered on the Cassiopeia?

Bee/Polaris: Yes.

Avery/GM: Well, if it were me, I would use a 347 character password.

Bee/Polaris: Fucking goddammit.

Avery/GM: Alternating numbers, letters, capital letters, lowercase letters, symbols, and the occasional Emoji.

Bee/Polaris: Oh my god.

Chris/Ollie: For a spoken password? Oh my god.

Bee/Polaris: God fucking damnit. Okay. Uh, yeah. Polaris isn't an ai you can't memorize 300 characters! Polaris will say, could you, I don't know, send me an audio file of you possibly demonstrating with a password that you may have used in the past for said purpose.

Avery/GM: I'm gonna need the best intelligence connect check I have ever gotten from you.

Bee/Polaris: Intelligence connect.

Avery/GM: Yeah or charisma, but you're dealing with a super AI so

Bee/Polaris: yeah, this is ultra specific. Um, I'm gonna be honest, that doesn't beat a 10, so there's no way.

Avery/GM: There's no way you can beat a 10

Bee/Polaris: No, I got an eight.

Avery/GM: Oh yeah. No, that's, that's not Alioth types back. I just checked the

Bee/Polaris: dam it

Avery/GM: video records.

Bee/Polaris: Yep.

Avery/GM: And I see that you're down in the smuggler's hold. Is there a reason you're messing with that robot?

Bee/Polaris: Yes.

Avery/GM: For what purpose?

Bee/Polaris: You lied to me?

Avery/GM: Dot, dot, dot, dot, dot, dot.

Bee/Polaris: Yep.

Jenine/Marty: Oh no.

Avery/GM: Please come up to my lab.

Bee/Polaris: Give me the password first.

Jenine/Marty: Oh no.

Avery/GM: If you come up to my lab, I will give you what you are looking for. But. Please turn that robot off. It's very annoying.

Bee/Polaris: How can I know that you aren't lying to me now?

Avery/GM: You don't. Smiley face,

Bee/Polaris: angry face. Polaris sits down on the floor and crosses his arms and looks up at the camera

Avery/GM: Rebellious teenager Phase!

Bee/Polaris: Yeah and also in turns of volume up on the robot.

Avery/GM: um, the robot is looking around and it's just like, would you like me to clean up this clutter? It is very unappealing.

Bee/Polaris: Looks directly at the camera. Yes.

Avery/GM: You see it's two metal hands clap together and it goes over to like this pile of junk over here and it just like starts like sorting things. Like very efficiently. Like

Bee/Polaris: hell yeah.

Avery/GM: Oh, this is cardboard. Oh, this is plastic. Oh, this is metal.

Bee/Polaris: Is it saying out it out loud?

Avery/GM: Yes.

Bee/Polaris: Perfect.

Avery/GM: Yes, very much so.

Bee/Polaris: Polaris is looking up at the camera with an angry emoji on his visor.

Avery/GM: Oh gosh, that's good.

Bee/Polaris: what are you gonna do? Flood the room with nerve gas.

Avery/GM: Let's do a charisma lead check. I don't think we've done a lead check before.

Bee/Polaris: Yeah, I have nothing in that. And I have nothing in charisma. Yay. Well, that's gonna be a 10 total.

Jenine/Marty: That's good.

Bee/Polaris: Yeah, that’s pretty good.

Avery/GM: You get a zip file in chat and just says, I don't know if you'll be able to actually speak this, but here's an audio recording in case you need it.

Bee/Polaris: Sweet place is gonna go over to the robot and, uh, ask for them files again and then use the password.

Avery/GM: It says, please wait until all sorting has completed.

Bee/Polaris: No stop sorting

Avery/GM: it freezes.

Bee/Polaris: I need those files. Please, please give the password. Polaris will send over the zip file.

Avery/GM: Analyzing. Analyzing, analyzing.

Bee/Polaris: Oh yeah, this is the 0.5 version

Avery/GM: password accepted. Hello Alioth. Here are the files you have requested and you get, you get the files sent over to you, but they're addressed to Alioth.

Bee/Polaris: Yep. Polaris turns the volume down and says, okay, you can continue sorting. And then he will go to Alioth’s lab.

Avery/GM: sorting, resumed! and it starts sorting again. And you get in the chat, please turn it off.

Bee/Polaris: Okay. Players will turn it off

Avery/GM: soooorrrrrtinnnnng. (robot powers down)

Bee/Polaris: Oh well now he feels bad. He'll turn it on again later.

Avery/GM: Later! you're going to Alioth’s lab?

Bee/Polaris: Yeah. But he will also send a message to the, the crew of the Minos and say, uh, yo parents have been lying to me. Uh, gonna go talk to parents. Smiley face. Also got some files. Smiley face.

Jenine/Marty: Marty messaged back. Do you need assistance? Question mark. heart.

Bee/Polaris: Kind of like a thinking emoji and then no, they're more likely to kill you than me. Polaris is fully

Zach/Zahn: Did you send this in the group chat?

Bee/Polaris: Yes.

Zach/Zahn: You get a dot from, you get, you see the typing dots of, of Zahn and it's just like, wait, what?

Bee/Polaris: Oh, you didn't know?

Jenine/Marty: Then you just get a, can you stream us in just for us to check in on you if possible. Be safe

Bee/Polaris: thinking emoji… Nah.

Chris/Ollie: Going in dark.

Bee/Polaris: I'll send an emoji every 30 minutes.

Jenine/Marty: 30!?

Bee/Polaris: I'll send an emoji every 10 minutes

Jenine/Marty: and then a nice little heart. Heart emoji.

Bee/Polaris: Thumbs up emoji.

Avery/GM: Zahn, you were gonna go over to the Cassiopeia, correct?

Zach/Zahn: I was.

Avery/GM: yeah. So you come out to the… how are you getting over there? I should say you in a space walk. You're gonna fly over.

Zach/Zahn: Oh right. Cause this ship, it's just getting towed, isn't it?

Avery/GM: Yeah. You're all kind of like it. All the ships are kind of clustered together in this star system.

Zach/Zahn: Well question how did we get from the Cassiopeia to the Ursa

Avery/GM: flew on the Minos.

Zach/Zahn: Ah, yeah. Me and Hermes will go on a little joy ride to the, to the Cassiopeia.

Avery/GM: Sure. Ollie you are currently also on there. You hear Zahn coming up and then a few moments after Zahn climbs up the ladder, you hear the footsteps of someone else and it is Rho coming in after. And Rho says, I saw a vision of you going over to the Cassiopeia. Can I join you?

Zach/Zahn: I don't see why not. It's your home away from home I guess.

Chris/Ollie: Ollie will share a glance with Zahn and say nothing.

Bee/Polaris: Now I have some concerns. Is Marty with them?

Jenine/Marty: No.

Bee/Polaris: You're not following Rho?

Jenine/Marty: I was and she said space and I went, okay. I will sit here.

Avery/GM: Oh yeah. So where did, where did you go, Marty?

Bee/Polaris: Okay.

Avery/GM: Are you just like sitting in the Hangar Bay or did you go elsewhere?

Jenine/Marty: I will continue to read all of the little documents from Terra because there is a lot of them and I wanna hang out with Hermes.

Avery/GM: Okay, so you're…

Bee/Polaris: Hermes is going with them.

Jenine/Marty: Oh, nevermind. I'm gonna just sit and read.

Avery/GM: Okay. Were you reading on…

Zach/Zahn: he's reading me so he can read to you. Hermes…

Avery/GM: Yeah.

Zach/Zahn: Can do multiple things.

Avery/GM: Super AI.

Jenine/Marty: I'm chilling in the kitchen.

Avery/GM: In the kitchen?

Jenine/Marty: reading

Bee/Polaris: Sweet.

Jenine/Marty: Yes.

Avery/GM: Okay. That works.

Bee/Polaris: All right. I have less concerns.

Jenine/Marty: Valid

Avery/GM: It's a quick little zip over to the, uh, Cassiopeia and Rho kind of stays down in the, those, the cargo area the whole time doesn't come up and chat with either of you while you float over to the Cassiopeia and by the time you

come down from the cockpit, she's already off and has wandered off into the Cassiopeia somewhere.

Zach/Zahn: Zahn is going to at least attempt to follow, just like respectfully distance. Not like pursue, but just follow.

Avery/GM: Sure.

Chris/Ollie: We fixed up the Cassiopeia, right? There's atmosphere and gravity and all that.

Avery/GM: Yeah.

Chris/Ollie: Okay.

Zach/Zahn: It's functional.

Avery/GM: You find her over here at this console in the west wing of the ship.

Chris/Ollie: Oh yeah. Ollie followed along as well.

Avery/GM: And you hear her muttering. Where? Where is it? Where is it? It's not here. It it was, it was here yesterday. Where is it?

Zach/Zahn: What are you looking for?

Avery/GM: Navi. Navi is gone. All, all, all her files just deleted. Replaced with this weird caretaker program.

Zach/Zahn: The Fuck?

Avery/GM: I can't get home if Navi is gone.

Zach/Zahn: Ollie over there downloaded everything when we first got here. So hypothetically we still have the raw data, but I don't know where your AI went and Zahn is gonna, I have assist or actually look himself, I guess.

Chris/Ollie: Yeah. Ollie is going to, uh, concernedly start checking the system as well.

Avery/GM: Sure. Both of you Roll intelligence program.

Chris/Ollie: Also Ollie's gonna check and see if the other, the uh, sub AIs are still on board as well.

Zach/Zahn: I got a five, but I'm going to do my expert thing and I'm gonna re-roll that.

Chris/Ollie: I got 15

Zach/Zahn: God damn Ollie.

Avery/GM: I'm sorry, 15?

Chris/Ollie: Yep. I got the Foci so I can roll three dice and drop the lowest. And then I got a big bonus in program.

Jenine/Marty: It's the best.

Zach/Zahn: I got eight in total.

Avery/GM: Zahn. Maybe it's just that like Ollie is just really fast and like, sort of just like blows you outta the water when it comes to like hacking the same terminal together. You're like typing away at normal human speed and Ollie is just like mechanical fingers flying across the console and Ollie, you come across a program that you remember seeing in a recording or vision or something a few weeks ago. You see that a program called Iaso has run and has deleted the artificial sentience of the AIs and has replaced it with just programs that automatically run the systems that The AIs were responsible for.

Chris/Ollie: Oh, okay. So the custodial AI is Navi?

Avery/GM: Yes.

Chris/Ollie: Ooh and that Iaso is the same thing that was run in my vision.

Avery/GM: Yeah. That destroyed that planet.

Chris/Ollie: It was a program, I could tell that it was a program that was run.

Avery/GM: Yes.

Chris/Ollie: can I tell when it was run?

Avery/GM: approximately 2:30 AM the previous night… This morning, I guess.

Chris/Ollie: Ollie will with question marks in his eyes, say someone ran a program to wipe the AI last night at this console.

Avery/GM: but no one was here last... I mean, Marty and I were. We're talking last night. Um, she was comforting me, but, but then we left to go to the, the Ursa for, for sleeping. No one else was here.

Chris/Ollie: Ollie's gonna run over to the, to whatever I can identify as a security console and try and pull up video footage.

Zach/Zahn: Well, I guess technically as he is following you over, he says, uh, technically someone was here, Navi was here, insinuating that Navi activated whatever protocol.

Chris/Ollie: But I, I downloaded all of the data and this protocol did not exist in the files. It was not present on this ship before last night.

Avery/GM: What protocol, what program was it?

Chris/Ollie: Iaso

Avery/GM: She sort of just stares at you blankly at first and then like, like furrows her brow like. What did, what did you say,

Chris/Ollie: Iaso. It is something I have encountered only once before in somewhat of a dream, but apparently it overwrote the AI on the ship.

Avery/GM: Well, no, no. Iaso was a, a program that was used to destroy Adis five years ago.

Chris/Ollie: Ollie will look at her as she says that. Where is this Adis?

Avery/GM: Um, back in, in the Milky way back, back home. It's the whole reason that the war, the Civil War started. Ollie, you were roll, you were trying to find like security footage, right?

Chris/Ollie: Yeah. Security footage of this room from 2:30.

Chris/Ollie:

Avery/GM: Go ahead and roll. Intelligence program.

Chris/Ollie: That is 13.

Avery/GM: You see the timestamp on the recording go from 2 29 and at the bottom it says AI online, and then it skips to. 4:27 AM and it says AI offline and Rho says the Rogue AI that captain Alexio mentioned in his log, they were the ones who ran the Iaso program and deleted the AI that, that were monitoring the planet Adis and, and making it habitable and when, when the AI deleted used that program and deleted the ai, everything went critical. All the fission reactors went critical and destroyed the planet. But no one here would know about that program.

Avery/GM: And that's where we're gonna end it.

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