Session 12

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• Rusty Curiosity
  • Halrex Korr Immediately drops the gun and puts her hands up
  • Asper goes to Ayla
    • A: why did you do that?
  • “Give it a minute. People tend to not understand”
    • N: What happened?
  • “Ayla’s been shot. Everything will be fine
    • N: wdym Ayla’s been shot?
  • Asper examines the wound
    • Blood is coagulating, wound is closing up
    • A: How strange. Is this a common symptom?
  • “No it’s unique to me
    • A: unique to u?
  • “Whenever I kill something it goes back to the state it was 2 hours before death
    • WHAT THE FUCK
    • A: how did you discover this?
  • “I was a regular surgeon and then I had a child die on my operating table
    • A: yes as is fairly common
  • “Yes I was the one who cut his vein that led to his death. The issue is that the tools were still inside him
    • A: that would cause some complications yes. How long ater does this typically resolve?
  • “About a minute. Unless there’s tools inside in which case they die again, then come back, then die again. Limit seems to be 3 a day
    • A: is this the Vesentis child?
  • “Oh no, they hired me when they found out about this
    • A: oh ok. Well.
  • “Unfortunately the kid was suffering so I just killed him conventionally
    • A: i can understand why the family is upset with you
  • “What’s to be done?
    • A: I can’t picture much else. If the child is suffering and there’s nothing else to be done. I assume you tried to fix the child and were unsuccessful?
  • “Of course
    • Unsure if she’s lying or whatever
  • Helping Ayla get back up, she’s breathing
  • “You’re looking at about 3 days worth of recovery. 2 days before she starts talking, 3 days before she starts moving
    • A: she will find that very frustrating i’m sure but what is there to do?
  • “There’s one thing to do” sends a charge for her services
  • Almado starts haggling with her
  • Siryu is outside the door with a weapon trained when the door opens
    • A: she is alive. She was shot but she is alive
  • Siryu: then why the fucking shot?
    • A: she has an ability that I have never seen before
  • “People tend not to react good if you ask to shoot them in the head”
    • A: that does make sense yes
  • “Typically they won’t feel it either way. Typically better to face the other way in a sink or shower
    • N: so Ayla’s ok?
  • “Will be. 3 days till movement. If you’re gonna bring her to the field then wait 1 week
    • A: she should rest. I can’t imagine what’s been done to her body but I cant imaging the extended cryo time was good for her body
  • “Added to the damage. Now i’m for hire. If you get hurt then i can deal with it.”
  • Ayla is going to stay on the rusty curiosity
• The Blue Angel
  • Almado locks the door on Kalervo Turred in the break room
    • Hes watching a telenovella. Bantrid telenovella
      • Al: turred. Could u pause for a sec
    • “But we’re getting to the good part.”
      • Al: but- sure.
      • Al: regardless have u spoken with miku
    • “Yes! Shes been here since i goton the ship!:
      • Al: nothing different abt her since we got back from her repairs?
    • “Nothing different?”
      • Al: nothing at all?
    • “Rude to leer at women.”
      • Al: it IS. i need a favor. I need you in a respectful manner get a closer look at miku. In return-
    • “Is this men’s locker room talk? Am i finally in?”
      • Al: no
    • “Awww.”
      • Al: but i understand u have interests. I have- i can try to convince ripley that PDA will help inspire miku’s next song and thus he and nivaya-
    • “I don’t like men.”
    • “If i were gay id have sex with a gay man with a large penis for the spectacle. Ik what ur about to say. Wouldnt someone with a small penis-”
      • Al: also be a spectacle? Yeah
    • “Would be, yes, but i wont change the norms on my first try.”
      • Al: like women or?
    • “I know its not men. Do you prefer men?”
      • Al: no. but we’re getting sidetracked. What can i give or do for you?
    • “Can we have a locker room talk as boys?”
    • Puts both arms over shoulder. Al: of course bro
  • Turred goes and tries to stealth peer, really bad nat 1
    • As: is he watching u??
    • M: HIII DO U NEED ANYTHING?
  • “I’m supposed to leer!”
  • “Boys locker room i think?”
    • M: ive never been to one
  • “U want to go? Almados taking me later!”
    • Al: we were planning on playing Brutaris. Thats what he means (mentally) please dont leave me with him. He makes ME uncomfortable
  • Almado drags him back into the kitchen
    • “Ive been thinking abt ur point. I think taking the smallest penis is being the soldier with the least kills. Spectacular but not something people celebrate.”
      • Al: learn anything?
    • “Seems normal.”
      • Al: mind, soul, a-ok? Nothing wrong, nothing different
    • “Nothing different.”
      • Al: we’ll play some brutaris later
  • Sketchy credit time
    • They seem to be regular credits
    • Play the jingle, certain electronics around the ship play it back. But the credits dont react
    • Our tests dont come up with anything, but like. Not safe
  • There are still credicite remnants, but aylas body expelled them and now theyre in the sewage
    • Sinister shit bag
• Emmar
  • Planet that has rings and moons, very rare
  • Land of the lashunta, their homeplanet
  • Follow the coords, take us to a populated city of 1billion
  • Acoria
    • Aetherion Corporation presence, but not that bad. Mega corps but nowhere near as big
    • Land, service worker
    • “Your names please?”
      • 26: we are the 26 laws of power
    • “Great to meet you, you may pass. And you all?
      • M: Hatsune Miku the starlight idol
    • “That’s fine”
      • As: my name is asper
    • “Cleared.”
      • Al: almado alquinst, bodyguard to miku, future manager to MUSE
    • Almado trying to spend a lot of time, fails
    • Miku starts singing
    • Xep says rowwen
    • Nivaya says anashia
    • Ripley says fitz
    • Able to enter
    • Can go directly to the building the coords say
      • Google the building. Middle of the city appears to be a set of office buildings. The Lemdako Corporation, small 16 stories in the middle of the city. Rented out to multiple smaller companies
        • Oddity for landholding, diverse portfolio across multiple systems
        • Seem to invest in places where they think cities will grow, buy land there and airspace and sell it out to people
        • Decently successful, think the owner is someone who lives near a blackhole and just checks on things occasionally. In order to contact him directly it takes 80 years
        • Multiple small buildings rented out, contractor
        • 1 oddity. The businesses are business that go to you, and all are booked.
      • Automated security guards let everyone in, standing in lines to enter
      • 1 line that goes thru security gate
    • Xep & 26 wait in line
      • Hear the group of lashunta small talk, some make little noises of exclamation as they beam thoughts into each other’s heads. Otherwise silent
      • Eventually get to security, large construct that leans down
      • “Weapons?”
        • 26: no weapons here
      • “Empty pockets in there. Which business are you going to visit?”
        • X: Numenlan Accounting Firm
      • Robot hesitates
      • “You may go.” turns to 26 “they are fully booked. Please come another day.”
        • 26: are we still able to enter?
      • “No.”
        • X: theyre accompanying me to my appointment
      • “They are not on your itinerary.”
        • X: excellent point. I’ll be back.
        • 26: may we enter to use the restroom
      • Points at cafe across the street
    • Xep, alone
      • Eventually able to enter, make their way to the front desk
      • Robot handing out keys, sees xep, gives them a keycard to an elevator
      • “Tap this and go to your destination!”
        • X: what floor?
      • “The keycard will automatically correct it. There are no buttons to press.”
      • All of the ppl begin fading away past floor 3
      • Able to get off at an unknown floor
      • Door opens, for a second reveals an office filled w furniture and then it disappears
      • No doors really stand out
      • 2nd door, enters, has to will save?
      • Whatever it is clouds their head
      • Memories of where theyve been are pulled from their head. What appears to be a creature, or vague shape of lashunta, Xep's Boss
      • “Good work xep. Youre onto your next mission. Though unfortunately it seems like you failed an assassination. We’ll need you to correct that.”
        • X: oh, i see.
      • “If you could. The purple lashunta? Make sure he’s killed properly this time.”
        • X: why?
      • “Same reason as the others, same reason why you’re made. I dont want to have to make a new xep.”
        • X: i know there’s at least a 2nd
      • “It seems its time for the replacement.”
      • He unveils the invisibility around the 2nd one, fight to the death with the sibling????
      • Xep nonlethal beats him up
      • Hears a gunshot that finishes off the loser
        • X: you’ll agree i’m much more effective with experience in tact?
      • “Eh. you are much more effective, but it’s not what we need you to be. We just need you to kill, who cares how many it takes.”
        • X: i have a purple lashunta to get rid of then
      • “Naturally. We would hate for the video of you killing him to get out.”
        • X: we would indeed.
      • “Remember, if you think about not fulfilling it, this building is filled with a lot of energy.”
        • X: that doesnt seem ideal.
      • “It doesnt. Especially if you have any kind of humanity.”
      • (person is a hologram. Few parts seem physical. Notably a kind of hole in the spectral gun that can send guns here. The other parts appear to be the pupils, but could look anyway as long as the creature has eyes.)
        • AI lore: reasonably ask abt contracts so they do the job effectively. As far as this, the person doesnt seem to be AI.
        • X: can we review what my contracts are?
      • “You make sure that AI doesnt get formed. You kill anyone that makes any sort of research for it.”
        • X: report back in, or do i go execute the mission?
      • “You will report back in. we dont want to lose you again, do we?”
        • X: of course not. You dont happen to have any leads about where to go after the purple?
      • “One at a time. You kill this one and then the next, and then your contract is up. Youre free.”
      • (this man fully believes based on smth on his side that his memories are gone as per usual after the fight.)
      • Xep leaves hacking toolkit commercial, dumping out junk
      • Man begins flickering back and forth
      • Wormholes disappear, see that it says “administrative reset.” outloud thru the hologram
      • Right now security is down, can ask 1-2 questions from database
      • Why no ai?
        • “Two sharks in a pond grow less powerful individually than 1 shark in a pond.”
      • (query needs to be put out, but the thing doing this for us is doing it poetically. Doing its best to help him.)
      • Who is running this company?
        • “Persanare, the shadow CEO.”
        • (theoretically a cultivator of great power, tho his means of ascension are unknown, eventually died in aetherion space. But he was considered one of the fathers of androids.)
      • Goes down elevator, 3 stories down lashuntas appear again chatting
    • Outloud xep talking like meeting for the first time, but thru the bond
      • X: theyyy think theyve wiped my memories and want me to kill the purple lashunta. They have video of me and might be watching rn. I had to beat a clone of myself to death
    • Our ship is impounded
    • “Deepest apologies, it shown up with a flag in our system. It doesnt say, it only shows up with murder or higher charges. If its a false flag, it’ll be cleared up in a few days.”
      • Al: we have things to do??
    • “We can talk to the lawyer about this.”
      • X: hotel instead of lodging on the ship?
    • Almado asking turred to buy a room in a hotel
    • Go to hotel
      • X: they have a lot of me. A lot of extra xeps. They just throw as many that they need at the problem until one succeeds
      • M: is that not normal?
      • X: have you had to beat another miku to death?
      • M: no???
      • Al: there are no other mikus
      • X: i assume they wont let us leave until i kill him. I assume im company property
      • X: i think i killed you nivaya? Apparently i failed to assassinate you?
      • Nivaya shaking
      • 26: did anything else occur?
      • X: they said the building was full of energy as a threat if i werent going to do it?
      • (they have a backup nuclear reactor. If their secrets get out, they nuke the city.)
      • X: apparently the xeps mission is to eradicate an ai and anyone with it. And- so i may have suspected my kits were infected, i may have left it in the building.
      • Al: left a compromised device in a building with a nuclear reactor thats primed to explode?
      • X: and gave me admin access. The reason i need to kill them is bc 2 sharks dont grow as big as 1
      • (cultivators think abt the cultivator guy. 26 gets a weird headache, neither know)
      • N: xep do u know anything abt the killing?
      • X: no they wipe my memories. They tried to wipe me twice. It didnt work this time tho. Could be related to the chains? Idk
      • N: i need a moment
      • We talk abt planning
      • (Nivaya. A good assassin needs a reason to run away, but we have a guy with a machine gun here)
      • 26: nivaya. Perhaps itd be helpful if you are comfortable to discuss your ancestry with the others. It may help with your survival
      • Nivaya: true… regarding almado. What do you think would be the best way to go about that. I do have some concerns, he hasnt proven to be respectful of astrazoan bodies
      • (hatsune miku body double during show.)