Avery: Welcome to Episode 3 of Beyond the Furthest Stars!
(Intro Music Starts and then fades out)
Avery: Our camera pans to a distant planet on the edge of the galaxy. It's a planet covered in storms and sand. We zoom in on a solid black tower That's rising out of the desert on this planet and the camera pans up the length of the tower to the top and through an open window and into a chamber. And there are 12 beings sitting around this table. And one of them says,
Rhea: “What news do we have of the Eos, Crius?”
Avery: and Crius responds
Crius: “nothing good, Rhea. It seems the independent systems moved faster than anticipated and entire Armada ambushed them outside the Ptochea system.”
Avery: and Rhea responds
Rhea: “Were there any survivors?”
Avery: And Crius says
Crius: “Only two and they're on their way here.”
Rhea: Excellent.
Avery: Rhea says
Rhea: “We’ll interrogate them when they arrive. Where is the AI?”
Avery: Crius says,
Crius: “Well, I assume it was destroyed with the ship.”
Avery: And Rhea says,
Rhea: “no, it wasn't. If it had been the backup would've reloaded and it hasn't. So where is the AI?”
Avery: And Crius says,
Crius: “I'm not sure, but perhaps the survivors will know when they return.”
Avery: And the camera flashes back to the, this little vessel with a failed hyperdrive in this star system. It's been about six hours since you picked up the SOS signal Hermes has just finished a diagnostic of what exactly went wrong. With the hyperdrive, apparently the power regulators have gone out and yeah.
Avery: What have y'all been doing to fill this time?
Bee/Polaris: Well, first of all, I'd just like to say a cosmic oops for taking that A.I. I didn't realize it would get us this much hot water
Avery: Oh, you're fine!
Zach/Zahn: Oops. Well, Zahn has been diligently trying to get the compensators working.
Avery: Oh, the power regulators.
Zach/Zahn: That's it. Power Regulators working.
Avery: Okay.
Bee/Polaris: Polaris would probably try and go back there to help with that.
Avery: Sure. So, let's have Zahn roll, an intelligence, fix check and Polaris, you can roll to help.
Bee/Polaris: Okay. Should I roll the same thing? Intelligence fix.?
Avery: Yes.
Bee/Polaris: Okay.
Zach/Zahn: That'd be a 9
Avery: Mm-hmm
Bee/Polaris: I got, uh sorry, I'm trying to do math.
Zach/Zahn: Mental math is hard.
Bee/Polaris: Math is so hard, dude. 12
Avery: 12. Okay. Yeah. Zahn you're pretty good with machines, but melted power. Regulators are a little bit beyond your skills. you crack open the, the casings for one of these regulators and you see that it's just turned to goo in this little drive.
Zach/Zahn: You hear a very long stream of vile curses in many different alien languages.
Bee/Polaris: a question mark just pops up on Polaris's Visor.
Zach/Zahn: “The power regulators turned to goo” and I say, I say as I like, and like brushing my hands off, wiping my, or wiping my hands off on my, on my, uh, jumpsuit.
Bee/Polaris: Polaris pulls out a handkerchief from their pocket and offers it to you.
Zach/Zahn: Visible confusion is on Zahn's face as he shakes his head not wanting it. That's that's that's not gonna do me any good
Avery: That’s what the Jumpsuits for!
Chris/Ollie: Yeah, he just wipes his his hands on his jumpsuit and looks at, at the handkerchief
Bee/Polaris: Polaris slowly puts it back in his pocket.
Chris/Ollie: What Ollie's been doing is, uh, fixing himself, uh, familiarizing himself with the ship's, uh, systems and working with Hermes in order to like integrate Hermes into the, the ship systems.
Avery: Oh, interesting! Okay.
Chris/Ollie: I'm assuming we got a bunch of spare parts on the ship because I need spare parts to fix myself.
Bee/Polaris: Oh, I have some spare parts on me!
Chris/Ollie: Yeah, I think I have some too!
Zach/Zahn: I do as well.
Avery: Yeah, you probably dig around in the cargo, hold a little bit and you find some, some extra circuit boards and, and such to, uh, to repair yourself with that's fine. Were you at low health?
Chris/Ollie: Oh no, I was just, uh, you know, four points of damage. So
Avery: Oh yeah, you did. I forgot about that.
Chris/Ollie: I, I can't remember. Oh yeah. I got hit by the AOE attack in the hallway.
Avery: Yeah. When the, the electricity, uh, short circuited that's right, you're fine. It'll be okay.
Chris/Ollie: Good as new, right as rain.
Avery: You were saying you were gonna help Hermes's integrate into the.
Chris/Ollie: Yeah. If like, you know, just working alongside him to see if there's there's anything he needs to be, uh, you know, secure and have full access and control of the ship.
Avery: Okay. Yeah. There’s, nothing that’s necessary for that. The ship is meant to have an AI in it, so it just takes a little bit of time to integrate and it's there. So, Hermes is right as rain. Go ahead though. And roll a, um, go ahead and roll a notice check. We'll go. Let's see. because you're look, cause you're, you're poking around for parts to repair yourself, so we'll go dexterity
Chris/Ollie: Uh, 11.
Avery: 11. Okay. Yeah, that's good. As you're kind of looking, looking through a bunch of crates, you end up finding another robot chassis. It's nothing special. It's just a, uh, it's a janitor bot type of, uh, robot, but it's powered down. Doesn't look like it's been used, but it might make for a good backup body, later on if this one bites the dust.
Chris/Ollie: Excellent, uh, you know, better than the, uh, like this, the base level, uh, like microwave intelligent microwave that they've got in this universe right on. Uh that's excellent. And so other than that, he is just gonna be, uh, exploring the ships systems himself.
Avery: Anyone else doing anything during these six hours taking a nap? Plugging in a blender?
Caden/Bruce: Bruce is, um, not plugging in his blender. No. Um, he's trying to take inventory of if there is any food around or what could be used as food as any usual chef would do. He's thinking with his stomach.
Avery: Excellent. Yeah, you head… you head downstairs into the cargo hold and you see Ollie down there Kind of just poking around boxes and like. Shoving new components like into his body and like ripping old components out. Um, and, uh, go ahead and, and roll a, um, either intelligence or dexterity notice check.
Caden/Bruce: That's a six right in the middle.
Avery: Yeah. You find about three days’ worth of food supplies in these crates, but some of these crates are like bolted shut and kind of hard to like really crack open without like special kind of tools or something. So, it's hard to tell if there might be more food in, in there or not, but the crates you are able to open, you find about three days’ worth of food based on the four humanoid people that need to.
Caden/Bruce: Bruce will take a variety of some of the food that he found and bring it back up to the workshop and plug in his lender and start making stuff.
Avery: Sure. Um, tell me about some of this food you find
Caden/Bruce: Um, I think it'll be the kind of basic ship food that probably doesn't expire. Um, so maybe like some canned good beans that look questionable, um, some form of protein that he's not too sure what it is, but it's looks edible, uh, you know, like the random cans of Space spam. And he goes to, and he goes to work, making some form of, I guess, he's trying to make some form of like meat pie, but the type of meat and the type of vegetables in this pie are questionable, but it's it, it smells good.
Avery: Sure. Okay.
Bee/Polaris: I think it's magical that Bruce can make a beat pie out of a blender in just some ship rations.
Jenine/Marty: Yeah, that sparks joy.
Avery: well, you see the way he heats it up is he goes and puts it like on top of the, the glowy, uh, engine part. Heats it up.
Avery: Go ahead and roll a wisdom and work check for me then let's see how good this pie turns out. And we'll add two to your role since you’re a chef.
Caden/Bruce: Oh, well, uh, that's an 11.
Avery: Oh, hey, look at that. That's great. Yeah, actually, everyone who has a nose can smell this wonderful smell wafting from the workshop. Marty, anything you do during this time?
Jenine/Marty: Marty's just kinda like walking around, seeing if like anyone needs help. And she just like pokes her head and like, oh, well they got it. And just like continues to like, do that in like circles and just checks on everybody every so often. just peeking in. Hello. Anyone need help? Hello assistance? In any way?
Avery: Marty is great.
Bee/Polaris: That’s very sweet.
Avery: I love her. yeah.
Jenine/Marty: you just see a head peeking at the doorway. Hello?
Avery: the moral support we all need.
Bee/Polaris: and Marty is how tall?
Jenine/Marty: Four eleven? Nope. Wait, wait, wait. I think I said Four ten. Four Ten. I'm sorry. She's four ten.
Bee/Polaris: That's adorable. That's great.
Avery: Four Eleven with shoes.
Jenine/Marty: yeah. the one inch is like extra character.
Avery: yeah. uh, great. Um, yeah, so after the, the six hours is up, um, uh, Hermes's voice throughout the ship, and it just says, uh,
Avery/Hermes: I have determined the location of the distress signal, as well as the location of the potential missing parts that we need. They are both conveniently located on a planet in this system.
Zach/Zahn: I like it when convenience is on our side.
Jenine/Marty: Which planet?
Avery: Hold on. Let me, let me bring you all over to the little star map here. You've drifted further into this system because the way spike drives work is that they, when they pull you out of liminal or the extra dimensional space back into normal space, uh, you're typically pulled out as far away from a gravitational body as possible.
Avery: So, you're pulled out to the edge of the system and you've been drifting inward during these last six hours. And you finally see what this system is made of. There is a black hole that is emitting this, these two beams of energy out of the top of it. Um, the top and bottom, which I believe is Hawking radiation if I'm remembering correctly, but they wouldn't call that Hawking radiation here, cuz they don't know Steven Hawking. There are three planets in this system.
Avery: There is a gas giant that is very close to the black hole. And is orbiting very quickly and getting kind of stretched and squeezed and torn apart. There is a small forested planet that is a safe distance from the black hole’s gravity, just enough to be influenced by it, but not enough to really be torn apart yet.
Avery: And then there is a further out gas giant, um, that is super safe and not at all in any danger at all. And that was not me being that wasn't me being, um, suspiciously, facetious. That was, that was actually me saying it's not in danger.
Bee/Polaris: I sure hope the distress signal is not coming from the planet that's being torn apart slowly.
Avery: It is not
Bee/Polaris: Okay, cool.
Avery: Hermes says, uh,
Avery/Hermes: the distress signal and the parts you need. I have identified as being on that forested planet in the system, I've pinpointed the distress signal to the Northern continent.
Avery: Are any of you back in the cock pit?
Bee/Polaris: Yeah, probably, uh, Polaris is probably back in the pilot seat. How
Jenine/Marty: I think with my rounds, I ended up there.
Caden/Bruce: I feel like Bruce walks into the cockpit holding like in his hands, like four dishes of this meat pie and like hands them out and then like slowly looks at Ollie and is like, I made you some, but I'm not sure. And I don't wanna sound offensive if you eat food?
Chris/Ollie: I am quite Unsure myself, actually, I guess, uh, there's the first time for everything and, uh, Ollie will accept the meat pie.
Bee/Polaris: how polite.
Jenine/Marty: Mood.
Chris/Ollie: Um, yeah. Oh yeah. I should have mentioned Ollie is in the cockpit at this point. Fiddling with the, uh, computers.
Avery: Sure. Okay. Cool. Are you gonna eat the meat pie? Ollie?
Chris/Ollie: um, he's going to put it down and then devote a part of his processing into trying to interpret how to do that.
Jenine/Marty: Mood.
Avery: Okay, devoting processing, that’s a, that's an actual thing that robot characters do, right?
Chris/Ollie: it is a thing, but I I'm not meaning to like invoke any of the abilities.
Avery: okay.
Chris/Ollie: like an in world, like as a robot, Part of him is thinking about that.
Avery: Okay. Cool. So, since you're all in the cockpit, Hermes displays like a map of this world and kind of like, it starts like zooming in like, uh, like in those shows where they're like “computer enhance” and it zooms in, um, it's doing that. And it zooms in onto a stretch of forest, uh, that, that is pretty thick and pretty crowded, but there are the signs of like a small fire, some wreckage that can clearly be seen from this angle and it's next to a river.
Otherwise, it would be a very lovely place.
Zach/Zahn: Very Scenic!
Avery: Hermes says:
Avery/Hermes: unfortunately, there is nowhere that I can land that is close to that location. We could, of course, hover above the tree line and drop you all out. But I only think one of you would survive. And the one of you that would survive is probably Ollie
Bee/Polaris: Yeah. Yeah. Ollie. Yeah. Unfortunately, we all have shin bones.
Jenine/Marty: yep. Yep. Yep. I am squishy human
Avery: Femurs are very breakable calculating,
Bee/Polaris: indeed
Chris/Ollie: Ollie’s gonna pipe up and say, “I certainly volunteer for an away mission if that’s What we need.”
Zach/Zahn: Zahn is gonna pipe up and say “I saw, um, there was a, there was a lifeboat in the, in the holding bay. It could potentially take that down. It's much smaller.”
Avery/Hermes: Calculating.
Bee/Polaris: What is
Avery: Go Ahead.
Bee/Polaris: What is Hermes calculating?
Avery: The probability of that working. Which is…
Bee/Polaris: Yeah, Okay.
Chris/Ollie: yeah, Calculating 7% chance of survival.
Bee/Polaris: Yeah. Polaris just looks up at Zahn and says “Confusion. How would we get it back onto the ship?”
Zach/Zahn: “Fly it? It looked like a shuttle kind of craft.”
Bee/Polaris: Is that what it is? The lifeboat.
Avery: Yeah, the lifeboat would,
Zach/Zahn: It looked like a lifeboat or a different kind. Uh, if I remember correctly, we had pictured that it looked like the same shuttle craft from star Trek now.
Bee/Polaris: oh, I thought it, I thought it was like a legit boat boat.
Avery: Oh, no, I just, that's just the only, that was the sticker I had to use, um, for, uh,
Bee/Polaris: Gotcha. Okay.
Chris/Ollie: Oh, that's right. It was a literal row boat.
Avery: let me just drop this super high-res JPEG into the discord.
Bee/Polaris: Yeah, I thought we were like, I thought we were like gonna be mattress surfing off the ship down onto the forest in like an inflatable raft, which is why I was confused.
Zach/Zahn: This is straight outta Indiana Jones two, bro.
Jenine/Marty: Oh, I was thinking Princess Diaries two.
Bee/Polaris: oh yeah.
Jenine/Marty: You know what I mean? The scene, the sleepover.
Avery/Hermes: “I have finished my calculations and there is a 25% chance that you will all crash and burn, but there is a 75% chance that you will survive.”
Avery: And then there's a big like thumb, like L E D thumbs up that, that flashes over the screen.
Zach/Zahn: thanks. Thanks for the vote of confidence, Hermes.
Bee/Polaris: Polaris’ visor just has like a, like a, a mad, like colon back slash face. Yeah,
Avery/Hermes: “There is a clearing that is perfectly suitable for this ship to land on near the forest edge. It would take you approximately one in one quarter day to hike to the crash site. Further scans show that there is a compound located roughly 20 miles from the edge of this forest. There may be signs of life there.”
Zach/Zahn: uh, any communication radio waves?
Avery/Hermes: “The only communication is the SOS coming from the crash site”
Avery: which may or may not be suspicious. You know,
Bee/Polaris: Yeah
Chris/Ollie: that's that's, that's pretty sus.
Zach/Zahn: Yeah, pretty sus. “This is me being pessimistic here, but, uh, assuming that there's nobody left on the crew, they probably crashed and burned and died. shit happens if we're gonna be salvaging this ship for parts so that we can get the hell outta here. Um, I don't wanna hike a day and a half to and from that's just me.”
Bee/Polaris: Polaris points to Zahn in agreement.
Jenine/Marty: Question. Do we know how long this signal has been going out? Would we be able to figure that out?
Avery/Hermes: Excellent Question! This signal has been going for approximately FIVE years.
Bee/Polaris: Whoa.
Chris/Ollie: Okay. That checks out.
Zach/Zahn: So, my initial guess sounds correct.
Chris/Ollie: So, the village is the survivors
Avery: Oh, it's not even a village. It's a compound.
Chris/Ollie: Compound. yeah. The, uh, place or could be, um, yeah, I'm not a fan of walking. 25% chance is Okay. Ollie's fully prepared to, um, yeet himself out of an airlock onto the, the planet anyway. So he's like, yeah, whatever.
Bee/Polaris: We'll just tie a rope to you.
Chris/Ollie: I mean, we got the janitor body. I mean, I got a back up already. Let's just, uh, you. know, toss that one out.
Bee/Polaris: we'll tie a rope to you and then we'll just reel you in when you come, wanna come back up.
Avery: All right, is the plan to, to hover your ship above the tree line and have Ollie jump down then
Zach/Zahn: Nah I was thinking, we'd take the lifeboat. take the lifeboat down.
Bee/Polaris: yeah, I was have to say, are we like gonna be dangling Ollie below us? Like a pinata
(Laughter)
Chris/Ollie: Just imagine like a scene or like flying through the trees. Like it dip me low enough that I'm just like hit all the branches. Uh, Yeah. we should realistically We should go for the lifeboat probably.
Jenine/Marty: Yeah.
Bee/Polaris: did Herme establish that the, um, where we would get the parts is from the. The ship that's sending out the SOS.
Avery: Oh, yes. I'm sorry. I didn't, I probably was not clear, but yes, the, the crash site, uh, he has found that the spike drive is still intact. So
Bee/Polaris: Gotcha. Okay. So we need to go to that ship regardless.
Zach/Zahn: Yeah it'd be easier to load. Spike drive parts onto the lifeboat right there. Instead of having to drag it through the forest for a day and a half.
Bee/Polaris: Yeah that would suck.
Zach/Zahn: That sucks so hard.
Chris/Ollie: Yeah. I'd like to be able to loot more than we can carry as well.
Bee/Polaris: true. Um, how many, uh, the lifeboat can fit all of us, right. Is there any like extra room for all of the extra loot that we would yank?
Avery: let's see here. Uh, Polaris,
Zach/Zahn: not a whole lot, but.
Bee/Polaris: Yeah. Cuz I was gonna say like maybe. , I don't know how we would go about, uh, maybe we could take a second trip.
Avery: Polaris, since you asked, um, go ahead and roll a D10.
Bee/Polaris: Eight
Avery: eight. So the, the five of you would take up 80% of the room in the shuttle craft.
Bee/Polaris: oh, sweet.
Avery: So. There would be roughly enough space to occupy like one person's worth of stuff.
Bee/Polaris: and how much would the spike drive stuff take up?
Avery: Uh, that's a good question. Let's see.
Jenine/Marty: and is this 80% or is it 75% with me not being as tall as everybody else?
Chris/Ollie: Yeah. Well, is this…
Bee/Polaris: Well, I, I mean, Bruce could probably cuz Bruce is like, what? Seven feet tall.
Chris/Ollie: Yeah, but are
Zach/Zahn: Yeah, Bruce balances it out between the
Chris/Ollie: Are we talking about the weight capacity of the shuttle or the inventory capacity? Because we could just like, get something into space and then jump out. I could jump out and just push it into the ship or whatever.
Bee/Polaris: well, I was thinking like, we could have someone on the main ship. We could have a couple people on the shuttle ship and Ollie also there and then, you know, lower you down and just pull the stuff up, go back to the main ship. It's like a Matryoshka doll.
Jenine/Marty: So claw machine. Claw machine method.
Bee/Polaris: yeah. Yeah.
Avery: I was going by weight. Um, You
Chris/Ollie: that's good.
Jenine/Marty: ah, valid.
Chris/Ollie: That's good. Because then I , I get too, uh, min/Maxy, otherwise I dunno, Ollie, probably should go to have an AI on the ground.
Zach/Zahn: Well, here's the other question. Does everybody want to go down? Does anyone want to stay with the ship
Bee/Polaris: Uh, I imagine I have to go cuz I have to fly it, right?
Zach/Zahn: and Zahn has to go, cuz he'd be the guy who'd be able to actually take this stuff out without breaking it.
Avery: you could always split the party and half of you investigate the crash site and half of you investigate the compound.
Zach/Zahn: yeah, that sounds like a great idea.
Jenine/Marty: Splitting the party is terrifying. That's that's that's terrifying.
Bee/Polaris: no to the compound.
Chris/Ollie: I even wanna, like, can we scan to see if they've like noticed us at all or?
Bee/Polaris: oh, true!
Avery: y'all have the emission stampers. So I'm gonna say, especially, cuz they're probably not actively looking for anybody. I'm gonna say no, they have not noticed you.
Bee/Polaris: So we're stealth. Do we have any bombs on board? Nevermind. Sorry. That was a dumb question.
Avery: You Just have your plasma beam.
Bee/Polaris: even better.
Chris/Ollie: okay. Evil play through, go. sneak it back in the compound.
Zach/Zahn: Yeah. All we got is a plasma beam for offense.
Bee/Polaris: How big is the ship sending the SOS?
Avery: the part of the ship that you can see would probably be about the size of a fighter
Bee/Polaris: Okay. Uh, the reason why I asked how big the SOS ship is, is because what if we just tie a rope to it and just take it out into the, into space, you know? We can get multiple. How many ropes do we have? Can we, can we roll for
Jenine/Marty: Yeah. we should each have 50, 50 feet of rope. Right? We should each have that in our starting packs.
Bee/Polaris: Yeah. We should all each have 50 feet of hemp rope, right?
Avery: hemp can survive atmospheric Entry and, and exit, right?
Zach/Zahn: reentry.
Bee/Polaris: we’ll Just go slow. We'll cover it in water and go slow.
Chris/Ollie: Yeah. It'll, it'll totally be fine.
Avery: So probably rope wouldn't work, but, um, let's see. So I've had Ollie and Bruce roll for notice. So someone other than them could roll, um, intelligence notice and go down to the cargo bay and search. If
Zach/Zahn: we do have the vehicle transport fittings, potentially. We just like land on top of it and pick it up and go
Bee/Polaris: Oh, my gosh. Yeah, we could just…
Avery: you are correct.
Chris/Ollie: just dock it
Bee/Polaris: swoop down and Pelican it.
Chris/Ollie: let's go. And hey, we, we got ourselves a pilot, so let's do it.
Avery: but, but the problem was is that there's nowhere safe for this size ship to land.
Zach/Zahn: we're technically not landing.
Chris/Ollie: just gotta, yeah, we do it mid flight.
Zach/Zahn: dropping on top of
Bee/Polaris: yeah. Okay, go ahead.
Avery: go for it. I'm I'm, I'm very amused by this thought process.
Bee/Polaris: uh, well, if the trees are a problem, we have a plasma beam.
Chris/Ollie: Yeah. I mean, like, okay. To keep the drifting theme, it's just kinda like hitching a tow truck while drifting it. You know, you just gotta get the right angle at
Bee/Polaris: oh, I could do that. I can.
Chris/Ollie: Yeah.
Avery: Okay. Fast in the furious four!
Bee/Polaris: I can thread that needle, dude!
Jenine/Marty: Could I make a notice? What, what are we noticing in the, in the cargo bay? Right.
Avery: um, to see if you could find any like. Cables or something to attach to the, uh, shuttle to tow it out. Um, although I did forget about the transport fitting, so that could technically work if you guys instead try to
Jenine/Marty: Ha sick, sick sick sick sick.
Bee/Polaris: yeah. Well, the compound hasn't noticed us yet. If the trees are an issue, we can plasma beam in them and then just drop down, take the ship and leave
Jenine/Marty: No,
Bee/Polaris: Yeah, that's probably fair.
Avery: No, it's, I'm, I'm fine with it. You know, you want to destroy some wildlife and just place some animals. That's cool.
Bee/Polaris: Heck. Yeah, dude.
Jenine/Marty: Oh, my goodness.
Bee/Polaris: well question has this planet discovered oil yet.
Avery: no,
Bee/Polaris: Okay, cool. Then we're ahead of the curve.
Zach/Zahn: Yeah. We probably don't even have to worry about them Nuking us.
Bee/Polaris: Exactly. The ozone layer is fine. It can miss a couple trees.
Avery: And fire's good for…
Jenine/Marty: I've been laughing so hard I’m crying.
Bee/Polaris: yeah.
Chris/Ollie: I mean, okay. This planet is, is slowly entering a dark, a black hole anyway. So come on.
Zach/Zahn: yeah.
Bee/Polaris: Wow. We… Yeah, my character's morally gray, so he's not concerned with the environment.
Chris/Ollie: Yeah, Ollie hasn't quite lived long enough to have established morals. So…
Bee/Polaris: Also Polaris has never been on a planet.
Zach/Zahn: At the present time, Zahn thinks about saving his own hide as opposed to really worrying over other people. So Hey man,
Bee/Polaris: wow. We are just a rag tag group of some upstanding citizens,Huh?
Avery: As, as Bruce is just standing there eating his, his pie.
Caden/Bruce: Definitely. Bruce is just, Bruce is just slow, blinking, listening to all this going on. And like eventually goes, “I would like to go in the compound. They might have spices” and he’ll just like somewhat smile. You're not too sure if it's a smile or a smirk, but his face changes.
Bee/Polaris: Dang. Uh, mm
Avery: I mean, you could also check out both.
Zach/Zahn: Zahn gives like a… Zahn gives an emphatic eye roll sigh of like, “we could see if there's any survivors at this compound. Maybe that, you know, they're the SOS people. It's not the worst idea. ”
Bee/Polaris: uh, do we know how old the compound is? Like, is this like an ancient structure or is this something that was like built recently?
Jenine/Marty: In like five years
Bee/Polaris: yeah.
Jenine/Marty: this is like a five year old building.
Bee/Polaris: Yeah, Can we check the zoning
Avery: The zoning records. Yeah. Yeah. I need to see your…
Zach/Zahn: I wanna, I wanna pull up the blueprints
Avery: So are you, do you ask Hermes that?
Bee/Polaris: Oh, yeah. Okay. Let me do that in character. Sorry. uh, yeah. Polaris will turn to Hermes and say “curious, how old is this compound?”
Avery/Hermes: “analyzing.” Based on the geological features. I would say that this compound is no more than two years old.
Zach/Zahn: that checks out.
Bee/Polaris: it's probably, that's a pretty good assumption. Um Hmm.
Zach/Zahn: If you're, if you've been stuck here for five years, it's probably gonna take, especially if you're only like four people at most,
Bee/Polaris: Yeah.
Zach/Zahn: uh, cuz you said it's a Starship, it's a star fighter size. Right?
Avery: Yeah.
Bee/Polaris: Well, the part that we need is right?
Chris/Ollie: the part we can see.
Avery: the part that you can see is about the size of a fighter.
Bee/Polaris: Uh, okay. Okay.
Zach/Zahn: So yeah, it's gonna take you more than a year to build a compound
Bee/Polaris: Yeah,
Zach/Zahn: so it checks out.
Bee/Polaris: that's fair.
Avery: Like I said, you could go to the crash site first. You could go split the party. You could go to the compound first, whatever you'd like to do.
Bee/Polaris: So whenever the GM suggests splitting the party as an option, that is never the option that I vote for. Just sayin.
Jenine/Marty: I agree.
Zach/Zahn: I've seen enough stories of splitting the party to know you that you should never split the party.
Avery: Oh. But it'll be funny.
Bee/Polaris: it would be funny, but also, uh, you know, life is…
Zach/Zahn: Yeah, let's do it for the meme
Bee/Polaris: being alive is cool.
Avery: Do it for the meme!
Zach/Zahn: I like being alive.
Bee/Polaris: I mean, okay. You know what worst case scenario, if, uh, we do split the party and half the party goes through the compound and they get trapped by some sort of Eldritch horror and it goes badly for them. We can just plasma beam the compound.
Zach/Zahn: With them in it.
Bee/Polaris: Well, if they're already gone
Zach/Zahn: if we've already written them as a loss.
Jenine/Marty: but also I, if we're in a hundred meters of each other, I can heal. I have remote repair for a hundred meters!
Bee/Polaris: That is true.
Jenine/Marty: Oh, wait, do I have to be able to see you?
Avery: I think you have to have line of sight.
Bee/Polaris: I think it is line of sight. That is true. Wait, wait.
Zach/Zahn: hell of a distance though. 400 meters dang.
Bee/Polaris: Yeah, that is.
Chris/Ollie: Yes,
Jenine/Marty: yes, 100, 101 not 400.
Zach/Zahn: 100.
Bee/Polaris: Okay, wait, wait the vehicle transport. How exactly does that work? And what does it constitute as a vehicle? cause if we just sit in a box, can we be beam people up?
Avery: I don't think there's beaming involved, but, um, no, I think, I think the vehicle
Zach/Zahn: unfortunately this isn't full star Trek. Yeah.
Avery: I think the vehicle transport fittings would be basically like a set of clamps that like clamp onto it and then can…
Zach/Zahn: That was what I thought was it was, yeah, it was literally just like magnet clamps of some kind.
Jenine/Marty: Claw machine
Avery: Yeah. The claw.
Chris/Ollie: lower down the ship and claw machine.
Zach/Zahn: was thinking magnets, cuz that way it makes it universal.
Avery: essentially. Yeah.
Bee/Polaris: unless your ship is made out of wood,
Zach/Zahn: Well then it's definitely not breaking atmo.
Avery: if you can fly a wooden ship through space I'll I'll I'll okay. We'll figure it out.
Caden/Bruce: I feel like Bruce will, Bruce will stand up and he'll be like, “I have an idea. If we go and check out the call for help. Um, and we bring the blender, I have leftover pie. Um, that way, if it is a trap, we can offer them Good pie and maybe not die. Food is good for friends, yes?”
Bee/Polaris: Polaris puts his hand on the bottom of his helmet in contemplation.
Zach/Zahn: like the chin hold
Bee/Polaris: Yeah. Like, Hmm. And like a, a little loading wheel
Chris/Ollie: Yeah, buffering.
Bee/Polaris: Yeah,
Chris/Ollie: Yeah, Ollie's gonna agree to go to the compound. That'd make the most sense to check out for survivors.
Zach/Zahn: Zahn’s gonna kinda like half, not like full dramatic throw his hands up, but like that, like slight whatever hand throw, just like “sure. We can go to the damn compound.”
Bee/Polaris: “agreed. Uh, we should probably check out the SOS system first and possibly get that part. We need just in case we need to escape the compound,”
Zach/Zahn: “I like your thinking!”
Bee/Polaris: thumbs up on the visor.
Avery: Two for going to the compound right away. Two for checking out the crash site first and then going to the compound. Marty, I think you're the only one…
Zach/Zahn: You're the tiebreaker.
Jenine/Marty: Oh,
Bee/Polaris: everyone turns to Marty.
Jenine/Marty: “So, how do we know the distress signal is not a trap if it's been here for five years? Cause that's what my brain is trying to wrap around. And what is the nicer way for us to like, meet with these people? Cuz what it'll look bad. If we're trying to steal something for my distressed ship, that's been like down for five years.”
Zach/Zahn: “I mean its been five years”
Caden/Bruce: “This is why”
Zach/Zahn: “it’s free.”
Caden/Bruce: “this is why we bring pie.”
Jenine/Marty: “This is true.”
Bee/Polaris: “I feel if the distress signal is a trap, why would we care about the feelings of individuals trying to trap us?”
Jenine/Marty: “true. ”
Jenine/Marty: I'm gonna roll a dice now. cause now Marty's Marty's too..*trails off*, “okay. I think we, we should go to compound first, cuz I think we can also get more information about the area that we are in from the Beings that are in the compound.” And then Marty sits down.
Zach/Zahn: All right.
Bee/Polaris: Polaris looks at Zahn.
Zach/Zahn: “Looks like we've been outvoted Polaris.”
Avery: Zahn you can go… You can go by yourself to the crash site.
Zach/Zahn: I am not going by myself.
Bee/Polaris: I mean, Polaris is also team crash site just in case. Like, if these people are bad people, we do need this part regardless. And you know, if they do still need the ship, but they don't need the, the part that we need, cuz it's non flyable. They can still use the distress signal if they want to and then we can go talk to them.
Avery: you can use this to lure other unsuspecting people here.
Bee/Polaris: exactly. We'll just take this part and leave. Uh, polar will just say “I am unsure of the motivation to make friends with beings that we will likely not be spending much time with, but I will go with the majority vote.”
Zach/Zahn: Zahn says, uh, “same. Um, I'll be back with the broken shit, trying to figure this. Crap out” and he just starts muttering obscenities to himself as he leaves the cockpit.
Avery: and goes back to the engine room?
Zach/Zahn: Yeah.
Avery/Hermes: “very well, I will begin landing procedures.”
Bee/Polaris: oh sweet. I don't have to fly
Avery: I mean, unless you want to, I mean, I don't know how much trust in AI to.. No? Okay.
Bee/Polaris: well, I mean, he was, you know, the AI of a big old ship.
Zach/Zahn: A big old ship that probably never had to do atmospheric reentry.
Bee/Polaris: You're right… uhh.
Avery: Do you wanna know what he rolled for his pilot skill before you, uh, decide on whether to take over?
Bee/Polaris: yeah.
Avery: He rolled an eight,
Zach/Zahn: I don't know.
Avery: Which is a mixed, which is essentially a mixed success. I mean,
Bee/Polaris: if he's struggling, can I just take the reins?
Avery: so the ship begins to enter the atmosphere and you're kind of just like you glance at like the, the controls a little bit. And you notice that the angle of reentry is just slightly off and just not, not quite what it should be.
Avery: So if you want, you can go ahead and make a pilot check.
Bee/Polaris: Yeah, yoink! okay. That's not bad. Um, is that pilot plus anything?
Avery: Oh, sorry, pilot plus, uh, intelligence or dexterity. Your pick.
Bee/Polaris: Uh, they're both the same. So that will be a, oh my gosh. 10
Avery: Perfect, Okay. Uh, yeah, then you avert disaster and
Bee/Polaris: sweet.
Avery: you, you you're just like, uh, Hey, Hermes, and just kinda adjust the angle slightly. Um, and the sh…
Bee/Polaris: Yeah, polaris just like, as, as Hermes is trying to like enter the atmosphere, Polaris will just slightly push one of the like dials up to correct it.
Avery: and you are heading towards this clearing with the compound in it. Uh, how close do you land to this place?
Zach/Zahn: Cool.
Bee/Polaris: on it. No, I'm kidding. how close?
Zach/Zahn: What's the compound made of?
Bee/Polaris: how close do we wanna land y'all yeah, what is it made of?
Avery: as you're, so as you're getting closer, uh, you see that the walls are made of a dark brown stone of some kind there's…
Bee/Polaris: so we can't blast through it.
Avery: well, I don't know. It's just, it's just brown stone. It's fine. Um, but you do see that there is a single gate with a force field emitter
Bee/Polaris: Oh, they're oh, they're technologically advanced.
Avery: and the wall itself has a force field above it.
Bee/Polaris: Oh, this changes a few things.
Zach/Zahn: Before landing, you should try hailing them on comms.
Bee/Polaris: that's not my job.
Jenine/Marty: Oh, is that me? Are I comms?
Avery: I mean, that's where you sat down last time
Zach/Zahn: you don't be. That's just where you sat down.
Avery: You don’t have to be.
Bee/Polaris: my job is pilot. I'm bad at talking to people. Someone else should probably handle that.
Jenine/Marty: I’m good at talking with people.
Chris/Ollie: Same. Ollie technically has a diplomacy chip.
Bee/Polaris: shit. Yeah.
Jenine/Marty: Oh Yeah. Huh.
Zach/Zahn: Oh yeah. I'm still sitting on assassination or three or four other chips.
Avery: Yep.
Chris/Ollie: Oh, you’ve got more chips too. I forgot.
Zach/Zahn: Thankfully, I wrote that down as other equipment
Bee/Polaris: it's weird that they had an assassination chip
Zach/Zahn: Thrown into a big bucket of other chips.
Bee/Polaris: Yeah.
Chris/Ollie: Just random chip bucket. Oh, you got-
Avery: Yeah. Who knows? If it's defective!
Chris/Ollie: -assassination. How about nuclear codes?
Avery: nuclear code.
Zach/Zahn: HK47 defectives?
Avery: we'll find out!
Bee/Polaris: Oh no.
Chris/Ollie: sure. So, Ollie will attempt to hail them on coms
Avery: Okay.
Chris/Ollie: Unless the party is opposed to that. You're gonna have to stop 'em soon.
Zach/Zahn: Zahn's not present. So.
Bee/Polaris: My job is to fly the ship. You do what you want.
Avery: yeah, go ahead and roll a, intelligence talk check and add one for your, diplomacy chip.
Chris/Ollie: excellent. okay, there we go. So that is, okay it would be just be five.
Zach/Zahn: Why you rule one D12. Is this supposed to be two D6,
Chris/Ollie: Oh, oh yeah, my bad wrong one. there we go.
Zach/Zahn: still five!
Chris/Ollie: same role.
Zach/Zahn: damn it.
Chris/Ollie: It was meant to be.
Zach/Zahn: so six.
Avery: Okay, Caden-
Chris/Ollie: -Oh I get a minus one from my charisma score, so it's just five.
Zach/Zahn: Oh shit.
Bee/Polaris: Sweet.
Avery: Caden, can you give me the name of a fancy lad?
Caden/Bruce: a fancy lad. Oh my goodness. Winston.
Avery: Winston. I love it.
Bee/Polaris: Ooh, that is a fancy lad name.
Chris/Ollie: Perfect.
Avery: So Ollie, give me this opening line, as you're hailing this compound.
Chris/Ollie: He’s going to start in with a pretty bright and chipper.
“Greetings hailing, unidentified compound. We are approaching your location to assist with your SOS. Please respond.”
Avery(Unidentified Character): And there's a moment of silence after this moment of silence. The comm pings and says,
“Oye, this here's the compound of Winston Lord Winston, who you calling unidentified punk. You are the one unidentified. Now what's this about some SOS going on here?”
Chris/Ollie: “We are reading the SOS, from the downed vessel 20 miles away from your compound. Is this not you asking for assistance?”
Avery(Unidentified Character): There's another pause, “unidentified ship. Why don't you land and come on in and you can talk to Lord Winston yourself. He, uh, he may have, uh, something he, uh, can, can use you for, but no weapons.”
Zach/Zahn: Yeah, no.
Bee/Polaris: we all hear this?
Avery: Yeah.
Chris/Ollie: I, yeah. I assume so. it, it's not like onscreen star Trek. We're not like seeing him or anything.
Avery: it's just audio.
Bee/Polaris: okay, cool. yeah, Polaris's visor, just throws up a yikes emoji.
Chris/Ollie: Uh, yeah. Ali's going to, metaphorically put his hand over the, the microphone, and look over at whoever's in the room. Is it just me and Polaris at this point.
Caden/Bruce: Oh, I think, Bruce as well.
Jenine/Marty: I’m there.
Avery: I think Zahn's the only one who left.
Jenine/Marty: Yeah.
Chris/Ollie: And Bruce. Okay, so yeah, everyone's here. So I'm gonna kinda look at you and, and see kinda your guys' reactions.
Bee/Polaris: yeah well you see the yikes emoji from Polaris.
Chris/Ollie: Yeah.
Jenine/Marty: Yoinks.
Caden/Bruce: Bruce just kind of holds the blender closer to his chest.
Avery: I love Bruce.
Jenine/Marty: Marty just gives a shrug.
Avery(Unidentified Character): “Oye, are you still there unidentified ship?”
Chris/Ollie: Ollie's going to respond,
“Well, if you're not sending a distress signal and you are perfectly fine, we're sorry to disturb you. Please have a nice day.”
And he is gonna cut comms
Bee/Polaris: and we leave!
Chris/Ollie: because, I'm hoping that the, the comm, the conversation didn't reveal our location.
Bee/Polaris: we do have that dampener
Chris/Ollie: Yeah.
Avery: so you were close. You, you flew in close enough to see the compound.
Chris/Ollie: Okay.
Bee/Polaris: close enough to get hailed, or well to hail them.
Avery: Yeah. So I'm yeah. So I'm gonna say that they could definitely see your ship at this point.
Bee/Polaris: Sweet. We do a sick U-turn. We do a sick three point turn.
Chris/Ollie: we need them parts. though.
Bee/Polaris: yeah, we do need them-
Chris/Ollie: But how long will it take them to get to the, to the down ship?
Avery: How long would it take them?
Chris/Ollie: Yeah. Well, I mean, I, I don't guess we would know.
Zach/Zahn: far as we can see, they don't have, any aircraft of their own. So take them at least a day and a half to get to us, hypothetically.
Bee/Polaris: Polaris, who is bad at reading people, turns to ollie and says,
“Can you ask them if they are evil?”
Chris/Ollie: one moment and he's going to, hail them again.
Avery(Unidentified Character): They reestablish comms and say, “Oye why'd you hang up on us. We just want you to land.”
Chris/Ollie: Oh, yeah. “We previously had no business with you, but now we are curious, are you evil?”
Avery(Unidentified Character): “Seems a bit reductive, don't it? I mean, you know, everyone's, everyone's got a villain, everyone's got a hero. Lots of people see themselves as the hero of their own story. I mean, I could, I could go on and on about this. I've got my PhD in, uh, you know, philosophy of evil and good and all that stuff.”
Chris/Ollie: “oh really? I was literally born yesterday. I would honestly like to have that conversation.”
Avery: to be fair, Chris, like Ollie was like,
Chris/Ollie: Oh yeah, I would. Yeah, I was. I literally attained sentience yesterday.
Zach/Zahn: Actually it's technically still today.
Chris/Ollie: It's it is today.
Bee/Polaris: I'm just, I'm just thinking how wild of a, a conversation that would be for that guy to be talking to someone who just like outrights says. Yeah. I was born today.
Chris/Ollie: so, yeah, right now Ollie's like, oh, I wanna go land and talk to this guy, but out of character, I'm assuming, you know, we're locked in at this point. We're either gonna have to like make a hostile action, go for the ship or just land and go for the interaction.
Avery: I mean locked in is, is I, I wouldn't say that you could do whatever you want.
Chris/Ollie: Oh yeah
Bee/Polaris: We're still hoverin’.
Avery: You could try blasting this place to smithereens and see how far it gets yuh.
Bee/Polaris: Polaris glances at the plasma beam button. no kidding. I'm kidding. Ooo, this is a toughie because like, if we land and we go in with no weapons and they're like, we just want you to land. Then they can like come in with like 20 guys and like take our ship and take us. And then we'll be part of the compound.
Chris/Ollie: Oh, hold on. Wait a second. Zahn is based on Isaac Clark. Do you have plasma cutters?
Zach/Zahn: I do. I have one, I have my pla- I have my laser pistol. Yeah.
Chris/Ollie: specifically. They are not weapons. They are tools.
Bee/Polaris: Okay. Question. Would you say that a knife is considered a weapon?
Zach/Zahn: I mean, it's a small advanced weapon.
Chris/Ollie: you could, you could debate that. I think these guys would think it's a weapon.
Avery: also depends on how well you roll some dexterity, sneak checks to maybe, you know, hide some weapons on you.
Bee/Polaris: what if I give it to Bruce? Because Bruce has an obvious chef hat on.
Chris/Ollie: Bake a cake with the knife in it. We do a prison cake.
Bee/Polaris: Well, I mean like a chef, like, you know, chefs have their own knife sets.
Avery: Chef is going to have their own knife set- yeah.
Bee/Polaris:Yeah, exactly. It makes occupational sense, especially if he comes in with a pie.
Avery: The pie is a lie.
Caden/Bruce: “Do you want me to hold your knife?”
Bee/Polaris: I mean, Polaris, isn't saying this out loud. This is all outta character. Sorry.
Caden/Bruce: Oh ok. That's right.
Bee/Polaris: Thoughts everyone. Do we wanna go into this possible, very bad trap?
Chris/Ollie: yeah I think we should probably just go for it and.-
Zach/Zahn: Sadly Zahn isn't present.
Avery: I mean, you could,
Bee/Polaris: I mean, you can hear this though, over the loudspeaker.
Avery: yeah, you could totally come in and put in your two cents.
Zach/Zahn: Zahn's going to fucking bum rush in here and be like,
“Do not fucking go down there!”
He's got his helmet on and it's like covered in grease as well as the rest of his fucking jumpsuit. And he is like,
“that shit screams. We're all gonna die.”
Bee/Polaris: “Conflicted. They did say that they weren't necessarily evil.”
Avery: oh, and this whole time, like in the background, like, like Ollie's probably turning the, the volume down a little bit, but this guy is just rambling on about like his thesis.
Jenine/Marty: Mood.
Chris/Ollie: Ollie's listening intently.
Bee/Polaris: “He seems to be some sort of scholar. And in my experience, scholars aren't necessarily the murdering type?”
Jenine/Marty: “Thank you!”
Bee/Polaris: thumbs up.
Caden/Bruce: “I have never had royalty eat my food would be an experience”
And Bruce will just slow, blink and look around at everyone.
Zach/Zahn: “Nah, man, I got, I got the, the biggest, heeby-jeeby vibes coming from this place. Y'all do what you want, but I'll, I'll, I'll be-”
he's like pointing at the back.
“I'll be in the back then.”
Bee/Polaris: “Would you like me to stay on the ship with you?”
Jenine/Marty: Question. Does this Lord Winston name sound familiar?
Bee/Polaris: Ooh,
Chris/Ollie: Good Idea.
Avery: See I'm just waiting for y'all to ask the right questions and I'll give you the answers.
Bee/Polaris: sweet!
Avery: let's go with a intelligence, know check or knowledge or whatever
Bee/Polaris: could we ask Hermes to like run through, I don't know,
Avery: you can also. Yeah,
Chris/Ollie: or maybe we could get an assist from Hermes?
Bee/Polaris: look at the galactic census or something like that.
Zach/Zahn: galactic census!
Avery: You could ask Hermes to look it up or, or you could try and see if your character would know it
Jenine/Marty: I’m smart! (sound of rolling dice) That was terrifying. Cause I saw the dice almost line on, I saw the dice almost land on two ones. It was terrifying.
Zach/Zahn: almost snake eyes.
Jenine/Marty: you know, like the, yeah. That's gonna be a nine.
Avery: A nine?
Bee/Polaris: Ooh.
Avery: Okay. Yeah.
Jenine/Marty: I'm a smart boy.
Bee/Polaris: Mmm.
Jenine/Marty: yeah. Well,
Avery: So the Winstons are a family from Olympia that, which is the capital planet of the Republic. And they are known for their eccentricness and their love for all things thrilling and entertaining. Not known to be evil, but definitely willing to push the envelope as to what is considered good.
Bee/Polaris: okay. Cause when you said all things eccentric and entertaining, my first thought was the book, the most dangerous game. So-
Chris/Ollie: The most dangerous game. Yeah.
Avery: I was not. Nope, Nope. Nope. Mm-hmm
Chris/Ollie: Immediately.
Avery: Nope, nothing like that going on here.
Jenine/Marty: Marty just kind of goes,
“Okay. So if I remember correctly, the, the Winstons are kind of like this big family from, from Olympia, which is the capital of the Republic. If anyone didn't know that. Anyways, they really like, they like to go above and beyond in things. So the line of like, What's good and bad. Just a little, hmm?”
And then she just gives two thumbs up. Well, not that, I mean, like not the two thumbs up. Wait, I didn't mean, okay, wait, and then she just one thumb up and then one thumb down like that. Yeah.
Bee/Polaris: Gotcha. Okay. Like a neutral sort of deal.
Zach/Zahn: thumb up one thumb neutral
Jenine/Marty: Yes.
Zach/Zahn: zahn points at Marty is like, “That's that's, that's the kind of shit I'm talking about right. There is just that, that gray area of”
Avery: Zahn, you're so paranoid.
Zach/Zahn: self-preservation and all that man.
Jenine/Marty: Mood.
Caden/Bruce: “I have another idea that is not as good as first idea. But if they like things that are different and eccentric, nothing is more different than me and my pie. Very good pie. I know we were talking briefly about maybe going to crash site, but I mean, I like to think that I can be a big distraction if we wanted to, get the part we need and then leave.”
Bee/Polaris: Polaris does the thinking motion again with the little, the buffering wheel on his visor.
Caden/Bruce: And I know we just talked about not splitting up
Bee/Polaris: Yeah.
Caden/Bruce: the party, but
Bee/Polaris: Polaris will turn to Ollie and say, “can you mention that we have a chef on board and ask if they are allowed to bring their weapon or their tools?”
Chris/Ollie: yes. Good idea. Did the guy on comms, gimme his name?
Avery: He has not given his name yet.
Chris/Ollie: Unidentified compound? Our chef is wondering if their tools are subject to your ban.
Avery(Unidentified Character): “Oy, you got a chef on there. Oh, why don't you say so sooner? Yeah. Have him bring down anything he's got or she's got whoever it is. I don't know.”
Bee/Polaris: Does a thumbs up, but in real life, instead of on his visor.
Avery: “Been a long time since we've had a chef down here. Do you have to say myself? I could go for a nice meat pie.”
Bee/Polaris: how convenient!
Chris/Ollie: sounds perfectly inviting. Like a friend chap.
Zach/Zahn: Perfectly, perfectly inviting.
Bee/Polaris: does Zahn think that we are going to become the meat pie?
Zach/Zahn: He's definitely. Yeah.
Jenine/Marty: Very Sweeney Todd.
Zach/Zahn: Yeah, Zahn sighs
Jenine/Marty: Okay-
Zach/Zahn: “Okay let me go try and get some of the grease out of this fucking jumpsuit, fucking socialite.”
Bee/Polaris: Polaris offers-
Jenine/Marty: before we go,
Zach/Zahn: “ass fucking people in their stupid ideas about trying to get.”
Avery: mumbling down the hallway.
Jenine/Marty: Marty turns to Hermis, “Hermis you wouldn't happen to have any, like know, or could you find any articles about the Winston, Winstons in the past five years? Possibly. Anything, any papers? Cool.
Avery(Hermes): “Calibrating”
Jenine/Marty: Cool. Cool. Cool.
Avery(Hermes): and like he, he gives it a good, like minute. “I have found one article dated three years ago, a Lord Winston was said to have set out on a hunting expedition and did not disclose his location or where he was going. It is possible that this is his hunting compound.”
Bee/Polaris: hmm.
Jenine/Marty: uh huh…
Bee/Polaris: that could be extra bad.
Avery: I forgot-
Chris/Ollie: Yeah. Okay. This down ship is starting to look real fucked up.
Avery: Marty. One other thing you know about the Winstons. Is that they are, or they could best be described as well. We humans would describe them as anthropomorphic tigers.
Jenine/Marty: Oh!
Bee/Polaris: Ooooooh, so they're tiger furries!
Avery: Yeah.
Chris/Ollie: Okay. That settles it, lets go. Zach/Zahn: My first thought is DnD and I'm like, oh shit its a rakshasa, we’re fucked. Jenine/Marty: Yeah, that's what I was also thinking. I don't wanna deal with a rakshasa you know, that, that, that messed up some stuff in other campaigns.
Bee/Polaris: Hm, I talk too way too many furries then.
Avery: I mean, essentially that, I mean, essentially that is what it is, but, I just, wasn't trying to use a DnD term, you know.
Jenine/Marty: That’s DnD we're in space.
Bee/Polaris: yeah we're in space. DnD doesn't exist in space.
Jenine/Marty: Okay. A hunting exp. Okay. Now I don't like that.
Bee/Polaris: Yeah.
Jenine/Marty: is, this is reading some, this is reading some Up right now. Up Pixar's Up right now. This is what I'm reading. I don't like it.
Bee/Polaris: Yeah. Polaris throws up a, a colon back slash emote. Very unsure of this.
Chris/Ollie: well, we could have Ollie go down as a decoy. I could use the backup body go down below and-
Bee/Polaris: Yeah but we would have to recover your chaos emerald.
Chris/Ollie: not necessarily.
Bee/Polaris: oh?
Jenine/Marty: Do we put you in the cloud? Is that how this works?
Bee/Polaris: yeah. Can we download you to the cloud?
Chris/Ollie: So the way that chaos emeralds work is you can cut them in half and they will both be valid in their, what is it? Quantum entangled. So if one is destroyed, my
consciousness will go to the other and it will, when it's singular, it'll regrow over time. And then I can cut it again.
Bee/Polaris: Oh! sick!
Chris/Ollie: But at this point I don't have any backups and I have a second body, so I could, go down in the janitor body-
Zach/Zahn: That’s really fucking cool!
Chris/Ollie: rig myself with a bomb-
Bee/Polaris: yeah do you want us-
Chris/Ollie: and just be like, Hey, are you guys gonna trap me? Oh, you are. Oh, that sucks. Bye. Boom.
Bee/Polaris: oh, well, I mean, I'm sure that Zahn and Polaris could, you know, Jerry rig bomb of some sort that you can carry on you
Chris/Ollie: yeah between the two of us.
Bee/Polaris: Yeah.
Zach/Zahn: Jerry rig a bomb!
Jenine/Marty: Put it in the pie!
Zach/Zahn: Hell. Yeah.
Bee/Polaris: oh my gosh. It's like that SpongeBob episode with a pie is gonna explode.
Chris/Ollie: For ins, in character though, Ollie will, after cutting coms get up and be like,
“I have an idea!”
and walk up to Zahn and his chest opens up, revealing his glowing blue chaos emerald, and he is gonna like, pull it out and it's like attached at the bottom and the, and he's gonna be like,
“please cut this”
And he is gonna, detach it and hold it out, like shutting himself off. To zahn.
Avery: I was gonna say, yeah, you, you, you like, you'd detach it from the, the cables that were holding it in.
Chris/Ollie: Yeah. After, after I say, please cut this, it jerk the cable And, it, it shuts me off. So I'm, I'm just a, I'm no longer that body anymore.
Avery: Yeah. And, and you see, you see all these robot figure, like almost look like it's gonna fall over, but then like, Like breaks in its, like hydraulics, like stop it. And it's just like, it's like kind of bent slightly forward, holding out this crystal to, to you Zahn
Chris/Ollie: I mean, you got all those plasma cutters and whatnot, so.
Bee/Polaris: that's crazy.
Zach/Zahn: To the workbench!
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