Session 13

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• Acoria, Emmar
  • Almado asks abt how to do disguise kits
  • Zmena is like :grimace: i dont need that-
  • Almado immediately goes to leave
  • Z: i’m an astrazoan
  • Al: ok? (almado so doesnt know what those are) thanks for coming out? We’ll pick you up a pride flag?
  • Z: i can shapeshift.
  • Al: huh????
  • Z: i didnt want to tell everyone, it puts me in a bad spot, but i can shapeshift- OK BEFORE YOU PULL OUT YOUR GUN GIMME AMOMENT
  • M: i think hes genderfluid?
  • Z: i mean no harm, i could even be a boon! I can help pretend to be miku when people try to attack her!
  • M: people want to hurt miku?
  • Z: nonono
  • Al: i’m going to have to do SO much extra paperwork. I filed under lashunta.
  • R: if things go correctly, youll file for a new person. Bc nivaya is going to die.
  • Al: RIIIIGHT
  • M: nivaya is going to die????
  • Al: DONT WORRY.
  • Ripley gives him the page on astrazoans
  • Al: hes a shapeshifting starfish piece of shit???
  • Miku learns about “kinkshaming”
  • Sleep, xep outta the network
  • Getting an abandoned warehouse
    • Setting up a fake meth lab, jamming a door so that one is locked and there’s no exit
    • “Sleeping” almado, nivaya “doesn’t notice” xep inside
    • X: there’s something you need to know
    • x: youre the target of an assassination. You need to make yourself scarce. If you disappear, we both win, no problems.
    • Z: really???
    • X: you’ll have to change this identity. But i am glad that you have accepted this warning. Don’t let me catch you around town again
    • Z: i’ll send someone to pickup a disguise. So don’t worry.
    • He heads towards the door??
    • X: i’m-
    • Z: yes?
    • X: i’m sorry for my betrayal.
    • Z: wdym?
    • X: that um. That i was sent to assassinate you.
    • Z: you??? no!
    • X: i’ve been hunting you this whole time. As long as i don’t catch you, it’ll be fine. Make sure that’s absolutely the case
    • Xep leaves on his motorcycle??????
  • We are tracking xep, what the fuck is going on
  • Follow until eventually ppl stop being able to talk abt someone riding that cycle, at some point ppl stopped seeing the assassin
  • Miku calls xeps phone
    • There is the sound, just on the other side is a garbled noise, first in lashunta then standard common “who is this?”
  • Asper fails to track, no fresh tracks
  • Appears to be a black v-x-9, with n-e-n-13
  • Person is similar build to xep, but its a half-orcish man?
  • Track that person
  • Eventually stop seeing this person, as they went into the city briefly and then turned around to go to the outskirts in another part of town
  • Almado calls Kalervo Turred/Voz Ricander, to see if ship is still impounded
  • Voz “yes”
  • We go back to the motel bc fuck. We can’t find them
  • Asking if the ppl on the ship if they’ve seen xep
  • Voz “did you lose xep?”
  • Yeah….
  • “Anything else, or are you good to handle it on your own then?”
  • We’re still trying to figure out a plan
  • “How did xep get lost?”
  • Al: he told nivaya to disguise himself, said goodbye, and we’re still impounded
  • “If he left, why are you hunting him?”
  • Telling him abt the assassination situation
  • “If you want to get him out of hiding, then we just reveal that nivaya is alive in front of the corporate tower.”
  • Almado makes a reservation at a nearby restaurant to the tower
  • Asper automatic writing abt the company xep works for
    • They intercepted your phone call. They’re going to meet you.
  • Rooms:
    • miku almado nivaya
    • Asper 26 ripley
  • Automated vehicles are unloading boxes into the parking lot. The crates will open, but theyre full of assassination robots. Along with 1 xep
  • Combat
    • Our xep is helping, but casted spells????
    • Miku goes down, feels odd feeling of people taking apart her hands and reassembling, inspecting whats going on
    • Almado hears the chirping. 60 seconds for him to save miku.
  • Vanquish them, theres a countdown
  • Xep begins to leave on his bike, almado fucking tackles him
  • As: e-xep-ro. What is going on
  • X: i was sent to kill one of our group, you have to get off world or else youre in danger
  • Our fucking ship????
  • As: you have not hurt anyone??
  • X: i’m not a good person. We have to go our separate ways..
  • R: neither is almado
  • X: i kill people for money
  • 26: almado also does it
  • Trying to convince xep to leave with us bc he hates his job. And is regretting having to hurt innocent people
  • X: we should go our separate ways, you cannot trust that i’m me and havent been replaced with someone else. An identical one of me is right there
  • 26: are you a different e-xep-ro than the one we know?
  • Al: are you a shapeshifter piece of shit?
  • X: wtf????
  • X: silent. Does it really matter?
  • Not really
  • X: did you guys ever really even know a xep?
  • Miku gives xep a friendship bracelet :sob:
  • X: kink is ok??? What does this mean…
  • M: its ok to be a different person, miku still loves you
  • Almado suggests bomb in one of our hearts?????
  • Al: to ensure that xep knows they cannot betray us
  • As: are they not going to kill us regardless bc we are witnesses?
  • 26 beaming at xep: where is our xep? It is not you. Do you know where they are?
  • X: no. i don’t know where they are.
  • 26: then why do you care so much wrt our safety? This seems unusual. Esp given how annoyed you are with us.
  • X: basic decency
  • 26: you joined a firefight with us, thats more than basic decency
  • X: repay the favor, let us go.
  • 26: if we leave, what are you planning to do? The Lemdako Corporation corp likely won’t allow your running around like this
  • X: i mean- i’m gonna warn people as i can and disappear. Don’t worry about it.
  • Z: who? Other targets?
  • X: yeah. They kill a lot of people. You think you’re unique?
  • Z: what about you leaving is going to save us?
  • X: i dont wanna go with you. You leave, and they won’t target you if you change your face. They’ll target me. I change my face. Ripperdocs. You guys- they don’t usually care about tertiary targets. They have a lot of people.
  • As: are you actually part of them? Or are you trying to prevent them from existing?
  • X: trying to prevent them from existing.
  • There’s an illusion, and also a secondary disguise over it. Orc changeling
• Meanwhile, the actual xep is hanging from the ceiling
  • “What’s inside the building?”
  • X: it’s holograms.
  • “Forces. Numbers. What they look like.”
  • X: thing by the gate, thing by the desk, elevator, holograms disappear, then theres 1 lashunta in a room with a pistol
  • She shocks their kidneys, turns to someone else
  • “Verify.” talk telepathically
  • “Alright, let’s go again. What’s the last contract you remember completing.”
  • X: completing? 2 bodies on nsuoba. (keeping xep up for 24-25 hours)
  • Nice voice in their head “hmm, if you talk to us, we can ensure they give you good treatment before.”
  • Go through again, these are the family members of people he’s killed. A few teeth pulled out, a few diodes, a few mindreading devices
  • “And what’s in the building?” (goal is to get them thinking enough for inconsistencies. Various spikes with voice in the head)
  • “We could make it all better. We just need you to be honest. We could free you from the corporation.”
  • X: i dont think youre going to do that. Youre not even looking for answers. We still have- you cant tell me how long, that negates the point of torture
• Not xep is on the motorcycle, held back by almado
  • X?: my motorcycle :(
  • Al: youre not going anywhere
  • As: where is our xep?
  • X?: idk???? Why would they tell me?
  • He does know meeting place. The person won’t show up if they see all of us
  • X?: he eats souls. Thats not a companion you want. Why else do none of the families try to revive? Whatever he kills stays dead.
  • (it goes nicely w 1 thing. About the lich ceo. Somehow he couldve turned xep into a walking soul cage. But the sentient soul cage, unsure of how it works, could go around killing people, and the assassination target stays dead. It would also mean the original Nivaya Camacho soul is eaten and in the abyss.)
  • X?: if 1 xep needs to die to stop that, then that’s the price to pay
  • Al: this one was already turning
  • X?: doesn’t matter if they can extract from anywhere!
  • 26: our xep did not lose their memories. Our xep did not forget.
  • X?: i’m sure you believe that. It could change things. I can arrange for one of you, but you’re going to turn off your mystic bond.
  • R: i’ll go.
  • Z: by yourself?
  • X?: someone has to go by themself. I’m barely allowed in. i’m going to put my neck on the line on you telling the truth. Maybe we’ll have an end card. But if youre lying, theyll beat me and knock me out, and whoever is sent there will execute.
  • R: i’m going. I’ll do it.
  • Z: dont go where i cant follow
  • X?: someone has to.
  • X?: you should change hotels before the police arrive.
  • Turred voz and siryu are drinking at a bar
  • He lets us rest for an hour
  • X?: They want to meet now. You turned off your bond, right?
  • Ripley severs the bond
  • As: i dont like it severed. It is lonely
  • X?: its how normal people are. Its how you initiate into this group. everyone in this group has someone missing.
  • X?: nivaya, change your face. It is an honest suggestion.
• He drives off with ripley. Rides for 2 hours
  • Stop at a dingy drive in. far enough away that even the internet doesn’t fully access here.
  • Wind up at the drive in, he asks for 2 tickets for the Grav Superstar Show, a movie from 120 years ago. Its a cult classic, a tale of revenge. Drive to a certain section, a quarter of the way thru the movie, a 2nd car drives up next to them.