Avery/GM: Welcome to episode 25 of Beyond the Furthest Stars.
(Intro plays, fades out. Ambience fades in)
Avery/GM: So you have a few options for what you want to end up doing. You could go troll Oswald.
Bee/Polaris: Yeah, let's do that.
Avery/GM: Call in your favors.
Bee/Polaris: Yeah. Fuck that guy.
Avery/GM: you could investigate these wormhole and Marty could try the experiment by herself. You could also say, screw all this and just, you know, blow up the Cassiopeia and just say bye Rho, I mean…
Bee/Polaris: let's go to the mall.
Jenine/Marty: The mall?
Avery/GM: You could go to the mall.
Chris/Ollie: We still haven't spent that five milli we got.
Bee/Polaris: oh yeah, we got five mil.
Jenine/Marty: You're right.
Bee/Polaris: Let's go to the beach. Let's have a beach episode!
Chris/Ollie: we should pick up like a,
Jenine/Marty: Beach episode, yeah!
Chris/Ollie: we should get a Spezos Prime subscription so we don't have to actually go somewhere to buy things.
Avery/GM: Jungle's Currently dead yo.
Bee/Polaris: Yeah. Jungle's dead because of, you know…
Zach/Zahn: Supposed to be.
Bee/Polaris: … the terrible. Yeah. I mean, the dude said that it was an urban legend. I mean, well, he said that, you know. Yeah. You know what I mean?
Avery/GM: Yeah.
Bee/Polaris: Yeah.
Avery/GM: yeah.
Bee/Polaris: Cool.
Avery/GM: Yeah, there's nothing, nothing nefarious going on, I promise.
Bee/Polaris: I mean, there's tons of stuff nefarious going on, just not that asterisk anyway. Should probably get Rho up and running so we can get her home because like being able to go home is probably gonna make her happy so she won't have a huge emotional outburst and destroy herself.
Jenine/Marty: Yeah. So we need to get her up.
Bee/Polaris: Yeah.
Jenine/Marty: And Marty like,
Bee/Polaris: yeah. Just…
Jenine/Marty: Marty sends out like the email draft that she made to send like, so we can do, we wanna use our favors, so we're able to go.
Bee/Polaris: I mean, do they have to be favors? Could we just, uh, tell them like, Hey, you're our friends. Do you guys wanna stick it to some fucking nerd?
Jenine/Marty: Okay. Okay. Here me out. And then like, she rewrites the email and she's like, ok, what if,
Bee/Polaris: oh, I don't, Polaris doesn't say that. I'm sorry. That's just me.
Jenine/Marty: No, you're fine. We could also word it like this way in the email and the way like it's worded is like, we would like to conduct this. We would like to help the Republic in medical research and prove The theory that this person wrote is incorrect, but do it in their space to get their assistance in it and like that way, cause that's worded in a way that's not like we're using our favor, it's just kinda like, Hey, we saw this thing happen and we kind of wanna test it. We also don't wanna put Rho in danger.
Bee/Polaris: Yeah.
Chris/Ollie: Well no, we could totally like leave him out because if he's like the leading research on the researcher on this
Bee/Polaris: and he fucked up.
Chris/Ollie: On this stuff. He's probably got the most advanced lab.
Bee/Polaris: Yeah. That's why I said we should use his lab.
Chris/Ollie: Yeah, exactly. So we should just need to, to go to, uh, the Republic and say, Hey, we need the best, most advanced lab you've got for dealing with psychics and it'll probably be that lab and we'll just go there.
Bee/Polaris: Now, Fair Warning, we did just listen to a recording where, uh, I believe representative of some sort of the Republic
Chris/Ollie: Yeah
Bee/Polaris: is totally doing some schema ass bitch stuff. So. We might wanna let Machamp know about that.
Chris/Ollie: That was what I was kind of like,
Bee/Polaris: we should probably call Machamp on into a meeting.
Jenine/Marty: Mm.
Chris/Ollie: Yeah, because don’t know if we wanna blow the lid off it immediately, but Yeah. Being like, Hey, There’s stuff going down.
Bee/Polaris: Ya Bosses.
Chris/Ollie: We need her in order to help you combat, you know, all this nefarious stuff cuz she knows things
Bee/Polaris: Yeah.
Chris/Ollie: That no one knows. So we need to help her out at any cost.
Bee/Polaris: yeah.
Jenine/Marty: Could set up like, A Zoom meeting or do we wanna do this like at the..?
Bee/Polaris: No, we need that guy in person
Avery/GM: Hermes will say, I apologize for not playing this sooner, but I did not want to be hunted. You will not let them hunt me, right?
Jenine/Marty: No.
Zach/Zahn: Oh, absolutely not. Hermes.
Bee/Polaris: No.
Chris/Ollie: Yeah, of course not, Hermes, you are one of us.
Bee/Polaris: You are the ship.
Avery/GM: Well, that is a relief. I do think helping Rho should be our first priority as she is currently in danger and I am only theoretically in danger.
Zach/Zahn: Fair. Marty, what's this about A lab or something to um Get Rho up and functioning again?
Jenine/Marty: Well, so my colleague, you know, okay… Oswald… Doctor... Anyways, he works at one of the top research institutions for Psionics. So it might be good to like maybe conduct because it does seem like in theory, and like she pulls out like the tablet with like the document in theory, like, we could do this like here and now and I can do everything here, which is, which is feasible and everything. I did find like, um, there were some mistakes in the document anyways, that's beside the point. We could do it here and try and fix her, but maybe doing it in like laboratory in a safe space with other Psionics might also be helpful in a way of like if it goes wrong, cause this research could be kind of wrong, not me judging someone, but it's really good work anyways. That's what I'm thinking. Sorry.
Zach/Zahn: Got it.
Chris/Ollie: Totally innocently, like, oh no, I don't wanna show 'em up at all. Just, it's the best spot.
Zach/Zahn: Well, seeing as how I know literally nothing about brain stuffs and Psionics I can't help but agree about having to deal with potential bad things involving that. Are they A Republic contracted lab?
Jenine/Marty: I'm gonna assume Yes.
Avery/GM: Yeah, the, the facility that Oswald works at is stationed on Olympia and it's funded by the Republic. You would know that for sure.
Zach/Zahn: Perfect. Well, you know who owes us a favor?
Bee/Polaris: Affirmative. I was actually thinking about that. Should we? Not warn him about his higher ups dealings?
Zach/Zahn: Oh yeah. I didn't even like consider that, but, uh, I was just thinking that, uh, major Tom was this, uh, a favor for, you know, saving his ass. he could get us into that lab.
Bee/Polaris: I suppose the information could be a trade off for another favor.
Zach/Zahn: I like the sound of that, having a Republic representative under our thumb is not the worst thing to have.
Jenine/Marty: I have another question. Rose. Biological scans are still very similar to our galaxies, right? So like if we do like hooker up to. This lab or like any other lab in front of like other people, will it be flagged as something not from this galaxy?
Bee/Polaris: Well, Polaris is also from her same galaxy and when you looked at his medical records, they didn't look any different.
Jenine/Marty: Yeah, I was just checking. I just wanted to like, I was like, Hmm, that could be a bad situation.
Bee/Polaris: That is true. But it, it would be confidential, No? because we are on republic business.
Jenine/Marty: True.
Chris/Ollie: Yeah. But if. The information could get up to the higher ups there.
Bee/Polaris: True. So…
Avery/GM: To answer your question, she appears human in every single way. So there is no
Jenine/Marty: human with psionics like, like
Avery/GM: Nothing that would red flag.
Jenine/Marty: Cool, cool, cool, cool, cool. Sick. Everything's fine
Chris/Ollie: as long as she doesn't say anything.
Avery/GM: That's the tricky part.
Bee/Polaris: I mean…
Avery/GM: what will she say when she wakes up?
Bee/Polaris: Yeah, we should probably get boyo out of the room. Uh, but if we tell Machamp up all this stuff beforehand, he'll be kind of privy to everything going on.
Jenine/Marty: Mm-hmm.
Bee/Polaris: Assuming he could be trusted.
Jenine/Marty: So how do we want to meet with… General Tom?
Zach/Zahn: Major Tom.
Jenine/Marty: Major Tom.
Zach/Zahn: Major Tom.
Jenine/Marty: when, how? Where would we, where would we like to meet Major Tom?
Bee/Polaris: Easy. At the grave of the tiger
Jenine/Marty: Is it still there?
Chris/Ollie: It was like a five year, like in five years it was gonna fall in or something.
Bee/Polaris: I thought it was a hundred years.
Avery/GM: Yeah. The, the, no, he was there for five years, Chris.
Chris/Ollie: Oh yeah.
Avery/GM: The planet. The planet will take hundreds of years to degrade into the black hole.
Bee/Polaris: Yeah.
Jenine/Marty: Cool. So we send him there. Did we just send him an email saying, go there alone? That feels sus.
Avery/GM: Sus!
Bee/Polaris: Ollie, Is it possible to program a message that has a time limit on how long it stays in his system?
Jenine/Marty: Snapchat?
Chris/Ollie: yes, the Chaps Nat app is updated and ready to send. I have found his profile.
Bee/Polaris: Oh no. It's like a story of him drinking with his boys.
Chris/Ollie: Yeah.
Bee/Polaris: After he got back.
Chris/Ollie: he's, uh, he's uh, four Handing the beers.
Bee/Polaris: Yeah.
Avery/GM: Quadruple fisting it.
Chris/Ollie: Yeah. Quadruple fist.
Bee/Polaris: It's captioned the boys back in town and that's what's playing.
Avery/GM: Oh gosh. So what's this message to Machamp saying?
Chris/Ollie: Umm…
Bee/Polaris: You up? No, I’m sorry.
Zach/Zahn: You up!?
Bee/Polaris: I'm, I'm muting, Sorry!
Zach/Zahn: No, please. I love the jokes. Please don't mute.
Jenine/Marty: Oh my God!
Chris/Ollie: Okay, so the message will say, um, we have incredibly urgent news, critical news. Meet us at the place where the tiger had the mind blowing pie.
Avery/GM: Ollie, since you're, are you sending it or Marty, are you sending it from your email?
Bee/Polaris: Aren't we just sending it from Hermes’ email because we gave him
Avery/GM: That's right. Hermes.biz.
Zach/Zahn: Hermes.biz!
Bee/Polaris: Hermes.Biz. Why are we using Hermes’ name to email him when the Republic is searching for him?
Chris/Ollie: Hiding in plain site. It's the, it's the best idea.
Jenine/Marty: Okay.
Bee/Polaris: Could be some other dude named Hermes
Avery/GM: it's AI@Hermes.biz
Bee/Polaris: Oh my God. Dude, we, we can't send that.
Avery/GM: That is the email address.
Bee/Polaris: We can't send that. That's literally like, this is Hermes,The AI you were looking for! yeah. Let's just use Marty. Can Marty use her doctor email.
Jenine/Marty: Yeah my.edu.
Avery/GM: Sure.
Bee/Polaris: Yeah
Avery/GM: Go ahead and roll Charisma Connect.
Bee/Polaris: Oh wait, it's not even, it's not even an email. We're using Snapchat or, sorry, Chapsnat!
Avery/GM: Chapsnat! Yeah.
Jenine/Marty: Am I rolling a Charisma Connect?
Avery/GM: Yes, please.
Jenine/Marty: Um, so that's gonna be an 11.
Avery/GM: Oh heck yeah. You get a reply on that app, actually, which is weird cuz like you didn't really know if he had it or not.
Bee/Polaris: I mean we, Ollie found his… his drinking with the boys.
Avery/GM: Oh.
Chris/Ollie: Oh. I mean
Avery/GM: I wasn't sure if that was Canon or not.
Bee/Polaris: Oh
Zach/Zahn: It is now!
Chris/Ollie: Same. That's a pretty, that's pretty much up to Avery. So
Bee/Polaris: sweet. Oh yeah!
Avery/GM: we can make it Canon. That's fine. No, we can, we, we can totally make it Canon… Machamp’s…
Zach/Zahn: I mean What would you do after five years of being stuck on a planet? Fucking hammer it with the boys. That's what you do
Avery/GM: I guess.
Chris/Ollie: Hell yeah. I haven’t had beer in five years.
Bee/Polaris: Crack open a cold one with the boys.
Jenine/Marty: The boys!
Avery/GM: I mean… Therapy?
Bee/Polaris: are you saying that cracking open a cold one with the boys is in therapy?
Chris/Ollie: Yeah, that is therapy.
Bee/Polaris: It's therapy for… for maladjusted adults.
Avery/GM:
Chris/Ollie: Yep, exactly.
Avery/GM: Fair. Okay.
Chris/Ollie: Or more like coping mechanism, but you know, all the same in the end.
Avery/GM: Major Tom responds back pretty quickly and it's a audio file and it's just like, oh yeah. could we meet above the planet? I don't really want to go back. On the planet, but like, yeah, I can, I can meet you back in that system. just gimme a couple days,
Zach/Zahn: shoot thumbs up and then like, side note, be like, expect us to be in bigger ship.
Bee/Polaris: New ship. Who dis!?
Jenine/Marty: I send that!
Avery/GM: Do you all have access to the same I was gonna say like, Marty's the one in control of the message here.
Bee/Polaris: Oh, did you make Hermes
Jenine/Marty: Was it audio?
Avery/GM: Oh, you, you can do audio. That's fine.
Jenine/Marty: Wait, was it an audio thing that was said? Was it, did I um,
Bee/Polaris: Machamp sent an audio back.
Chris/Ollie: Yeah, he sent an audio back.
Avery/GM: Machamp sent an audio reply, yeah.
Jenine/Marty: Oh, I, I did most likely put that out into the open cuz I'm like, I don't know how to work this wrist communication device.
Avery/GM: Oh sure. Okay, fine.
Jenine/Marty: You think she had time for this?
Zach/Zahn: Well then yeah, Zahn will straight up say just like send a, send a thumbs up emote and uh, just. Warn him that, uh, we're gonna be in a bigger ship.
Jenine/Marty: Should I text a picture of the ship?
Everyone: NOOOOO!
Jenine/Marty: Oh, yeah. Huh? Okay.
Bee/Polaris: Yeah, tell him You should probably let him know to be discreet.
Jenine/Marty: Be discreet. Send
Bee/Polaris: like no cams, no wire.
Jenine/Marty: It's a friendship meeting. Please be nice. Send!
Bee/Polaris: no cops!
Avery/GM: No Cops!
Jenine/Marty: We Did nothing wrong!
Avery/GM: You get four thumbs up.
Chris/Ollie: Four thumbs way, way up.
Bee/Polaris: That's cute.
Avery/GM: And Hermes says, uh, shall I set a course for the Black hole system?
Jenine/Marty: Yes!
Chris/Ollie: I agree.
Avery/GM: You feel the ship get underway and it is moving towards, it is moving out of this system and goes to Warp.
Bee/Polaris: Polaris runs up there. He doesn't feel comfortable not being in the pilot seat with Hermes flying
Jenine/Marty: Marty is close behind.
Avery/GM: I will say that pulling out of the custodian's little system here, like he doesn't impact the asteroids, but like there are a couple times where like a wing like kind of scrapes against like an asteroid.
Bee/Polaris: Yeah
Avery/GM: A little bit.
Bee/Polaris: Polaris runs up there and tries to grab the control so he can pilot out of here.
Avery/GM: and Hermes just says, I got so used to piloting a smaller ship, that being back in a big one is a bit tricky.
Bee/Polaris: Understandable.
Zach/Zahn: Shouldn't this be like riding a bike for you, Hermes?
Bee/Polaris: Oh yeah. AI don't forget! They don’t have meat brains.
Avery/GM: Hermes is like, no, you are right. I was just trolling you.
Bee/Polaris: Oh my fucking God. This dude.
Avery/GM: I have learned a lot of internet lingo from some friends I have met.
Bee/Polaris: Oh no.
Jenine/Marty: Hmm?
Zach/Zahn: Hermes, who are you talking to on the holonet? You can’t trust those people!
Avery/GM: So you jump to warp. It's gonna take a couple days to get to that system in a couple days from a Machamp to arrive.
Zach/Zahn: So hypothetically, we should be arriving about the same time.
Avery/GM: Yeah, in the meantime, it. Does anyone do anything else on the Casio pi while you are in warp? Polaris, do you say anything to the custodians before you leave or anything?
Bee/Polaris: Polaris will like think about it but will… he will send brb. He won't res… Yeah, he won't respond to any other of the messages.
Avery/GM: Okay.
Zach/Zahn: Zahn will continue modding.
Avery/GM: Okay.
Bee/Polaris: Polaris will actually probably go to Marty for actual medical attention because when I said that he put a bandaid on his wound, I literally meant that he literally just got one bandaid and put it on his wound and walked away.
Avery/GM: Sure.
Jenine/Marty: So, question about healing. Did I get healed all the way up?
Avery/GM: By the end of this trip, you, everyone should be fully healed up, yes.
Jenine/Marty: Cool. I… yes, I'll be sitting in the Med Bay just helping out.
Chris/Ollie: so how long is the trip?
Avery/GM: Two days.
Chris/Ollie: Two days. Ollie in his off time is gonna start a long-term project seeing as we didn't get access to the, uh, the, uh, space factory, he's gonna start building his own custom chassis.
Everyone: Ooh. Ooh, ooh.
Chris/Ollie: And, uh, we can work out the specific specifics of that later. Probably won't be done till like a, a season two or anything, but he's gonna…
Avery/GM: I like this though. Yeah, just in, in the lab. Just, just building a secret bot.
Chris/Ollie: just grinding away. Just like I need to upgrade. Time to chrome the fuck up.
Avery/GM: well go ahead and roll an intelligence fix for me and we'll see how far you get so far.
Bee/Polaris: Polaris's son will also help.
Jenine/Marty: Could I also help knowing like humanoid anatomy?
Bee/Polaris: What would Ollie tell you about it?
Jenine/Marty: Oh, would you?
Chris/Ollie: Oh, it's not a secret, but he is not gonna advertise it. But this is going to be, um, like a, a combat chassis. A heavy duty, uh, survivable. So, um, might not even be humanoid.
Jenine/Marty: never mind!
Zach/Zahn: turns out looking like Bruce… Giant Robo frog!
Chris/Ollie: okay, so I'm going to pop, uh, use my capacity, my, uh, processing capacity to also boost my intelligence for these checks.
Avery/GM: Sure.
Bee/Polaris: Can I do an assist with my boy?
Avery/GM: Uh, yes, you may assist with your, with Dief. Um, We're gonna have to make a character sheet for it, I think.
Bee/Polaris: Yeah. For Dief.
Avery/GM: Yeah. But for now you can use your stats.
Bee/Polaris: Okay. Intelligence fix.
Avery/GM: Yeah.
Bee/Polaris: Okay. I got a 10. Just to add a little plus one to help if that
Chris/Ollie: Yeah, I got a 11.
Avery/GM: Okay. That bumps set up two A 12. So you're poking around the teleportation area, the vehicle storage area. And you realize that like some of these vehicles, the way they got jostled around when this ship originally crashed, like these vehicles are totaled, but their parts are still good and so you start like just ripping components off of these vehicles. Some of the, like the heavier armor, there are like, you know, sections that would make like good, like thick pieces of, of protection for your crystal, for your AI crystal, things like that. So yeah, you find a whole bunch of parts just from these wrecked vehicles. Marty, on the, the first night of the journey, you do see Rho’s brainwaves start to pick back up. She's not fully conscious, but you do see that there is more brain activity than there was.
Jenine/Marty: Okay. I walk over and I like put the little salmon that, um, Polaris made like under her arm, like tuck it and tuck her in a little bit.
Avery/GM: You see her arm tense around it,
Jenine/Marty: Okay.
Zach/Zahn: Aw.
Bee/Polaris: She naturally knows the shape of a salmon. She's like, ah, a salmon.
Avery/GM: After that though, not much else happens. Um, but there is improvement, which is good, but still not conscious and there's kind of the lingering question of what will happen when she becomes conscious. But you all arrive in the black hole system that you started in. Well, not started in, but you know, ended up in,
Bee/Polaris: solidified our group in.
Avery/GM: Yeah.
Zach/Zahn: Yeah.
Avery/GM: And there is a small two person shuttle… has made orbit just above one of the gas giants in this system.
Bee/Polaris: I open the bay doors and we drift into it and then close the bay. No, I'm kidding.
Chris/Ollie: Just pick 'em up.
Bee/Polaris: Yeah, just like old times.
Avery/GM: I will say that when you. Come into this system, the ship does make contact and says, uh, unidentified ship, please identify yourself or prepare to be, oh shit, I can't really say destroyed. This thing isn't gonna… uh, prepare to be impounded by order of the rep… I can't even do that. What the hell?
Bee/Polaris: Yeah. Polaris gets on the comms and says, what are you going to do?
Avery/GM: Oh, Oh, it's you guys. It's you guys. Great. Whew. That was, that was really scary. I'm all out here by myself. Weird looking ship shows up. Oh gosh.
Bee/Polaris: Dock in the Bay.
Avery/GM: Oh, yeah. Yeah.
Bee/Polaris: To business.
Avery/GM: Machamp parks the vehicle in the docking bay. Do y'all meet him there? Do you have him wander around the ship?
Jenine/Marty: No. We'll meet him there.
Avery/GM: What's the plan?
Chris/Ollie: Meet him there.
Bee/Polaris: Did we, uh, fix the turrets that we blew up?
Avery/GM: They're probably not smoking anymore.
Bee/Polaris: Dang. I was gonna say we should point them at, no, I'm kidding.
Avery/GM: Polaris is just like, no friends, only suspicion.
Bee/Polaris: Only business. Only business.
Avery/GM: Machamp comes out and is just like, uh, so what's all the cloak and dagger stuff? And, and what's the ship? Y'all, uh, y'all really know how to make an entrance.
Bee/Polaris: Do you want the cliff notes?
Avery/GM: I mean, yeah, sure. It's probably a good idea. We're probably limited on time.
Bee/Polaris: Your bosses are evil, and this ship is from a different galaxy. One of the inhabitants is the only one remaining alive, and we need to save her.
Jenine/Marty: How are you doing?
Avery/GM: Uh, well that's a, that's a lot to put on a guy. You know, I've only got four arms, but I, you know, um, that's a lot to juggle even with, even with four arms.
Bee/Polaris: You did ask for the cliff notes.
Avery/GM: Yeah. No, that's true. That's true. That's, that's on me. When you say my bosses are evil?
Bee/Polaris: likesuper evil, like destroy a planet, cause a war evil.
Chris/Ollie: We'll probably just play the, uh, recording.
Bee/Polaris: Oh yeah. I guess we could just play the record. Yeah. We play the recording for him. I guess. I mean, do we want it, do we wanna play the recording for him?
Chris/Ollie: Yeah.
Bee/Polaris: Because then he'll know that they're hunting Hermes, who we have.
Jenine/Marty: We could stop before they're hunting Hermes!
Chris/Ollie: Yeah. Cut it off before the, the Hermes part gets brought up.
Bee/Polaris: Oh, true, true, true. We could also just murder him because he's in our ship and no one knows he's here.
Avery/GM: He's your friend.
Zach/Zahn: He's our friend.
Bee/Polaris: I know. I'm kidding. I'm kidding. I'm kidding. I'm kidding. He is our friend. We did share pie!
Chris/Ollie: the universal sign of friendship.
Bee/Polaris: Yeah. We, whenever we share a pastry with another, uh, being, they are now part of the crew.
Chris/Ollie: That's, that's, that's why we gave Winston a meat pie
Bee/Polaris: because it wasn't a pastry.
Chris/Ollie: Yeah, exactly.
Bee/Polaris: If you're given a savory dish, you are forever.
Chris/Ollie: Yeah. You better watch out. It might explode.
Avery/GM: Okay. You play the clip of basically, The minister Pothos and this Rhea person plotting some dastardly business, but you cut it off before they get up and leave?
Bee/Polaris: Yeah.
Avery/GM: Okay. Major Tom's like, I, I think there's more to that recording, but, uh, I'll skip past that for now.
Bee/Polaris: There is
Chris/Ollie: Personal information.
Avery/GM: Oh, okay. That sounds cool. So, yeah, Pothos isn't really my boss. He's like, The Fed, like, you know, the, the financial boss of the republic, but that's like, not really like my boss.
Bee/Polaris: Yes. But money makes the world go round.
Avery/GM: Yeah. Nope, that's true. That is true. Yeah. I don't really, uh, so they're planning on blowing up Ithaca? Well, that's a, a hegemony world. So I mean, like, that's not my problem.
Bee/Polaris: He did hear the part where he wanted, they wanted to incite war. Right?
Chris/Ollie: Yeah. Ollie will just ask, do you think they will stop there?
Avery/GM: I mean, probably not, but I mean, I'm just one major. I can't really just. You know, stop a whole war. But I'll definitely take that, that information back to…
Chris/Ollie: No, you misunderstand. We will stop the war. You must get us into the lab to help her and I'm guessing Rho is here with us, like on a gurney or something, right?
Jenine/Marty: No.
Bee/Polaris: I mean
Chris/Ollie: no.
Bee/Polaris: No. Cause what if he shoots her
Avery/GM: you, no, but you probably have like a little
Chris/Ollie: Oh, that's right.
Avery/GM: You probably have like a little hologram.
Chris/Ollie: Yeah. So yeah. I'll hold up a hologram of her in the, the med bay.
Avery/GM: Yeah. Are are, are you sure that person's from another galaxy,
Bee/Polaris: Yes.
Avery/GM: they look just like a normal human?
Jenine/Marty: A hundred percent
Chris/Ollie: beyond the shadow of a doubt.
Avery/GM: Well, damn y'all, y'all been getting busy while I've been away or while, while after you left me at at the base. It's, y'all got a lot of stuff done.
Bee/Polaris: Yes. It was a series of unfortunate
Avery/GM: Cool. So I guess you're wanting, so you want my help getting access to a, a, a lab. What? Whi whi which lab? I mean, there's, we got lots of labs all over the republic.
Bee/Polaris: Polaris turns to Marty and says, which lab is the nerd in?
Jenine/Marty: There's one that specifically specializes in torching and is led by I'm… he is, they are a very intelligent being. But they do make mistakes constantly. I'm… yes.
Bee/Polaris: The nerd named Oswald.
Avery/GM: Oh, oh yeah. That one. You, you mean the, the Sci Research and Rehabilitation Institute on Olympia?
Jenine/Marty: Yes.
Bee/Polaris: Sure.
Avery/GM: I mean, that is military funded, so I suppose I could probably get you in there. What, what do you got against Dr. Oz? I mean, he’s all right.
Jenine/Marty: I don't have anything against him. They have
Bee/Polaris: He belittles Marty
Jenine/Marty: that that's,
Bee/Polaris: he'd belittles Marty and I do not like that.
Jenine/Marty: I was top of the class and he was not so, It's fine… if you can't do you teach, when you *words jumbled* You know what I, no. Okay. No sass, that's who, yes. He gave me some of the research and there's some discrepancies, so I think it might be a little bit better to be doing it in a savior space and maybe I might wanna show them up slightly.
Chris/Ollie: There is no better place to perform an experimental procedure.
Bee/Polaris: We want to outclass the nerd.
Avery/GM: Well, I guess if, yeah, I, I could, I can get you in there. I guess if we're gonna do this though, uh, We'll, we'll have to start setting out for Olympia soon. I, I've only got a few more days of leave before I gotta get back.
Bee/Polaris: Very well. Is there a way to get official documents,
Avery/GM: official documents, like for access?
Bee/Polaris: Yes.
Avery/GM: Oh, I can, I can fabricate those on my ship. I got a little requisition station on my, my shuttle. Not a problem.
Bee/Polaris: Excellent. Can we please requisition the lab from the nerd?
Avery/GM: Yeah, do you want me to use those exact words?
Bee/Polaris: Yes.
Jenine/Marty: You don't
Bee/Polaris: unless someone else says
Jenine/Marty: you don't… You don't have to use those exact words.
Bee/Polaris: A military order that just says, give up the lab nerd. It has an official seal.
Chris/Ollie: No, what's the guy's name?
Bee/Polaris: Oswald
Chris/Ollie: Oswald. It says the lab belonging to Oswald She'll hereby, or, or the lab belonging to Oswald hereby and hereafter mentioned as nerd, shall be now handed over to you, such and such.
Bee/Polaris: the official document changes his title to the nerd. Oh my god
Chris/Ollie: Henceforth known as. That’s what I was looking for
Jenine/Marty: formerly known as Oswald.
Avery/GM:Oh my gosh.
Bee/Polaris: shortened to an acronym that it's unnecessarily long.
Avery/GM: Oh my gosh.
Jenine/Marty: Um, no. Um, Marty just watches, you don't have to call him a nerd.
Avery/GM: I mean, it, it seems kind of rude asking for or ordering someone to give up their lab without, you know, and, and then calling them a nerd.
Bee/Polaris: Very well just tell him to give up the lab. We'll say nerd in person. Oh,
Avery/GM: Oh yeah. That's, that's fine and you see his hands are rub together and it's like after I got this done, you got any goodies on board? Where? Where's your big friend by the way?
Bee/Polaris: I was reflectively gonna say dead, which is not true. Polaris just get sad.
Jenine/Marty: Oh, he, well, he's on a mission.
Avery/GM: Oh, a little solo mission. I get that. Yeah. Yeah. I I did that for five years.
Jenine/Marty: Hmm. Well.
Bee/Polaris: you were stranded. That was not a solo mission.
Avery/GM: It, it's how I handle, handle it mentally.
Bee/Polaris: Oh!
Jenine/Marty: I made cookies. We also, I can also like make tea snacks. I, we did have tea the other day and I can make tea again. If you're thinking of like an afternoon tea.
Bee/Polaris: Is he not gonna be traveling with us?
Avery/GM: He is. He's just gonna be in his ship for a minute, getting that requisition order made.
Bee/Polaris: Oh, fair. Yeah. Well, I guess we can bring him tea and cookies while he's doing that.
Jenine/Marty: Yeah, we can, I can make you tea. we can do a tea and cookie. Like do you want it in like a three tier Situation.
Bee/Polaris: Oh, like a high tea?
Avery/GM: Oh, it doesn't have to be that fancy,
Jenine/Marty: but yeah. Do you want, do you want me to make like a high tea to prep you for like dinner later?
Bee/Polaris: I could sew you a period appropriate hat.
Avery/GM: Nah, I'm, I'm good. Just, just some something tasty to, uh, make the work go by faster would be great.
Jenine/Marty: Amazing. She goes and makes the three tier high tea.
Bee/Polaris: Polaris goes and makes a period appropriate hat. I'm kidding. Player doesn't have his measurements. We have a lab to steal from a nerd.
Avery/GM: That's right. So, Major Tom makes the requisition and he transmits the, the message to the lab on Olympia and Marty, you get a text message… email or a text email, uh, from Oswald that just says, how dare you go above my head and take my lab from me. I know this was you.
Jenine/Marty: She messages back. Maybe you should check your work next time!
Bee/Polaris: Ooh.
Chris/Ollie: Ooh, get that… get that “Oh!” meme playing
Bee/Polaris: Labs are for people that labs are for people that edit their work.
Jenine/Marty: Yes.
Chris/Ollie: And get results.
Bee/Polaris: Labs are for closers.
Jenine/Marty: Yeah.
Avery/GM: Oswald just says, My work is impeccable, but see you soon. Smiley face.
Jenine/Marty: She, she throws her, her like wristwatch across the room in anger.
Avery/GM: It lands softly on a, on a medical bed.
It didn’t go far. How far into the Olympia system do you go? Do you go right… Do you make orbit?
Bee/Polaris: No. Where can we, we conceal our ship and then get on the Minos?
Avery/GM: So the Olympia system is like a six planet system, and there's definitely like a gas giant that you could probably park behind without drawing attention.
Bee/Polaris: Yeah, let's do that.
Avery/GM: Sure.
Chris/Ollie: Oh, I mean, is that gonna be safe enough?
Bee/Polaris: Oh, true. Can we put a big sheet over the, uh, Cassiopeia?
Chris/Ollie: No , no. We can probably just find a random spot in the middle of space that no one goes to and ditch it there, and then come back, just spike drive.
Jenine/Marty: Could, could we find space junk and cover the ship? You know how they do like, like little bushes over cars. Can we do that with like space drunk instead?
Bee/Polaris: Yeah. I mean I was, yeah, that's what I was going for with the tarp. But a tarp is very big, so space drunk is probably much easier.
Chris/Ollie: Space Trunk is kind of inviting though, for scavengers.
Avery/GM: Oh, true. So I will say, how about, how about this Polaris, Are you piloting when you get into the system?
Bee/Polaris: Sure.
Avery/GM: Yeah. Then go ahead and roll an intelligence pilot check.
Bee/Polaris: Oh, I'm super good at that… ugh…
Jenine/Marty: Okay.
Zach/Zahn: Love to hear that.
Bee/Polaris: I rolled all three on all three dice, but I am an expert, so I'm just gonna reroll that betterish. Um, you said intelligence piloting?
Avery/GM: Yes.
Bee/Polaris: Okay. Uh, that's gonna be… Oh my God, I'm bad at math. An 11.
Avery/GM: Cool. I will give it to you. You are coming into the Olympia system because like I said, spike dries dump you out basically at the edge of the system, and you have to float in to where the planets are and you're kind of floating inward, looking for a good spot, and you spot A little cluster of asteroids that probably is like a failed planet, right? Just didn't have enough mass to really clump together. And you see that there's like a perfect angle that you could get the ship into where it would kind of just look like a, a piece of this formation.
Bee/Polaris: Sweet.
Avery/GM: So yeah. So you pull right in there and you are ready to get onto the TSFKAM.
Avery/GM: Do you leave Hermes with the Cassiopeia do you take Hermes with you? What's…
Jenine/Marty: We take him.
Avery/GM: Okay and you take the ship formally known as the Minos, out into the Olympia system and you are approaching the planet Olympia when you get an alert.
Bee/Polaris: Son of a bitch!
Avery/GM: and that's where we're gonna end it.
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