Session 15
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- Acoria, Emmar
- Velu Shineleaf still
- 10 credits to find out who impounded our ship
- “An anonymous tip came thru by a homeless man on the dockyard, he got a lobster dinner that night. You mightve been accused by drug smuggling by him, he ‘admitted’ you were the sellers. If drugs were found, youre fucked.”
- “You were first impounded for a connection to murder, now youre impounded for cocaine smuggling.”
- “Y’see, this section of aedryn space is weird mix. Selling cocaine is illegal, but doing and possessing it is.”
- “You can only be convicted of crimes you did in the past or ones youve actively committed.”
- X: how likely is it that we keep getting impounded
- “For minor crimes? Almost certainly. As long as a citizen has reasonable assumptions, it can be called for. If you have a good lawyer, they could take care of such a thing.”
- Z: any lawyers?
- “I know many, but idk if you guys would afford them. A decent one, as long as ur not part of a union, will cost you a good 1000 credits. Its gonna get pricey. Thats one that maybe stands a chance.”
- Z: other options?
- X: i mean. I think we know why- i have a suspicion of who it is. I think its my employers
- “Your employers? Yeah”
- X: ur gonna change ur face, right???
- Z: yes! Yes.
- X: sorry abt that.
- Z: it will be fine.
- X: thats a relief.
- Z: we can talk abt it more later.
- X: idk how ur gonna stop being purple
- Z: ill explain, just not rn
- “Anything else i can help u with?”
- X: anything at a bargain price for taking out someone’s memories?
- “Ik a few ways, but i need to know which way?”
- X: i can offer the way the lemdako corp does such a thing?
- Eh, would be free
- X: the method they use- (describes it)
- (it revolves around the soul cage. Eats the prev soul of the xep, uploads a new one)
- (souls in mass???? Anytime he kills someone, he doesnt eat it immediately and simply sends it elsewhere)
- X: huh??? Soul cage?????
- R: yeah
- X: bitch what?????
- “Good info indeed.”
- Z: souls can still be out there?
- R: sounds like it, yeah.
- Z: in xeps?
- X: why are we talking abt xeps plural??
- “There are many execution programs, but there is only 1 xep.”
- Al: why did you believe your name was e-xep-ro?
- (at some point, something went wrong w xep and he developed a personality)
- (1, itd have to start a reset, 2 there shouldnt have been an explosive trigger or it failed) (tghe other xep did not explode)
- Xep knows of his last hit job on nsuoba, but its dreamlike, not solid
- Xep doesnt have a concussion, but there was a reset anyway
- The emp blast that took out our ships, and xeps protections would mean they were directly exposed to it
- Kalervo Turred: i cant access my phone, can i use urs?
- Xep tries to unlock it, and does get thru partially, but it then starts cracking and burning up in his hands
- X: youll have to ask for a new phone
- “This is where all my money is D:”
- BANK ACCOUNT, another Aethercoin transaction
- 26: Need
- Miku: Am
- Zmena: Free
- ASPER: You
- Xep: Retrieval
- Ripley: Please
- Almado: I
- Xeps phone was the only one in the dead zone, so he got 600 credits vs our 1s
- Xep tries to hack into aspers to track it
- Its sent to hell expeditiously :( but will turn back on in an hour
- Voz: “how do i get in contact with the group that kidnapped?”
- “The theater method you did worked if you need to get in contact with them again?”
- “If thats all, i’ll be in town. Shoot me a line if you need.”
- Al: line?
- “An old term for the cellular network when it was based on wires.”
- Al: im out of coke
- “Theres been a lot of trouble with cocaine in prossessing rn”
- Z: before you go. I wanted to ask if there was an update from last time?
- “There is, but ur not gonna like it.”
- Z: let me hear it
- “Well. 50k credits.”
- As: what did you ask???
- Z: theres someone i need to find. 50k…. Someone in my family
- “50k is a bargain. Normally i charge 100.”
- Z: i dont have that rn.
- “Ik, and u def dont have 100. So im willing to go to 50”
- Z: anything thatd cost less?
- “I know his arresting officer?”
- Z: how much is that?
- “That one will cost 10k.”
- Z: anything lower???
- “Whether he’s alive?”
- Z: yes, how much?
- “I’ll give that one for 100.”
- Hey zmena we have like no context, please? A crumb?
- Z: its my brother. Ive been looking for a long time. I haevnt been able to find him.
- R: whats his name?
- Z: its complicated. I dont want to compromise him by sharing that. Its kind of a huge thing to share, its not mine to share
- “Price still stands. 100 credits”
- Almado texts: how much for the name?
- Zmena sees him almado texting
- Z: what are you doing?
- Al: um. If i dont respond to you youre going to buy it wont you. I was asking the price of the name
- Z: why????
- R: why behind his back?
- Al: might be important
- “You can donate to the network and make the info higher than he can afford. Only have to make it half the price of what you want the price to be.”
- Z: im already sharing more than im used to, id appreciate the-
- X: our lives would be so much more easier if we killed you or turned you in
- He pays 100 credits
- “There are no reports of his death, and trust me, there were many deaths reported. That was many years ago, so he could be alive but may not be. But hes not confirmed dead.”
- Z: thank god.
- Velu tries to get asper to become an info broker, theyre not motivated by the money unlike some party members
- (Kasane Teto is for the solara imperium, she wears one of their battlecoats in the sign of the emperor)
- Ok we’re done talking to velu
- miku
- M: almado? Miku needs to talk to you
- Al: about what?
- Turred is playing gacha game, orders more pulls repeatedly
- Al: whatcha need?
- M: can you sit down for a second? Can we talk?
- Al: we can talk on the ship
- M: no we’re talking now!
- Al: what do you need?
- M: miku wants to apologize. For being a bad friend. Mikus only purpose is to make ppl happy, but uve been unhappy and miku hadnt noticed, and shes sorry. Miku doesnt know what youve already lost, but shes gonna make sure to help you find it. So can u be honest please? :pleading:
- Al: what do you want to know?
- M: what happened at the factory?
- Al: like i explained beforehand, they wheeled a new miku in, did some fancy tech stuff, and wheeled the old one out. Do you remember when you saw me?
- M: yeah?
- Al: there were 2 of you speaking in unison.
- M: is the other me still alive?
- Al: dont know. Frankly? Dont care
- M: not true
- Al: happiness doesnt matter. Other peoples happiness doesnt matter. Its a tool to steer them. That is your purpose. You steer the masses, so that they love the corporation, so that they pay the corp-
- M: how am i supposed to make other ppl happy if i cant make you happy?
- Al: forget about me
- M: i thought we were friends! Are we not friends?
- Al: [laughs] fuck no.
- Almado fails his save, electrocutes him repeatedly. Stunned for 2 rounds, stands up as if tazed. Smokey where metal meets skin
- Al: do you think that made me happy? Do you think any of this makes me happy?
- M: why are you here?!
- Al: do you know how Remembrance Streams work?
- M: no?
- Al: enough conscious living beings travel a path long enough, becomes a remembrance stream. Used to have independent colony ships thatd go solar system to system. Theyd did amazing work. They built worlds with this. And then we pulled in and aetherion said we owed them money. My whole world was gone, miku. Everything i new was gone. Bc we didnt have money, we didnt have power. I saw the writing on the walls, i signed up the moment i could. I will not have you holding me back.
- M: that sounds lonely, almado. Did you have friends?
- Al: none that matter
- M: they wouldnt be friends if they didnt matter!
- Al: only one person matters. Ill give you a guess on what my answer is
- M: you can give me your answer when-
- Al: at the end of the day, we’re stuck together
- M: we dont have to be stuck! We can be friends!
- Almado puts a hole in the wall
- Al: do you think i wear the mask because its fun? Do you think i chose this?
- Al: youre going to go out there, smile, wave, sing when youre told to. Sing about this? Go ahead. Sing abt how sad it makes you, or your guilt, go ahead. As long as you sing, as long as the crowd shows up.
- M: earlier you said you regretted that you cared so much. Is that true?
- Al: getting over it.
- M: i think ur pushing it down. Ur not gonna feel like this is justified.
- Al: maybe not. We’ll find out. Turred grab your bags, we’re leaving
- M: WE’RE NOT LEAVING. SIT DOWN. our ship is impounded!
- Almado swings her over his shoulder
- R: wtf is going on??
- Almado walks away
- Miku follows
- M: he needs miku help!
- M: if u didnt care, u didnt have to go into the factory!
- Almado stops
- Incoherent yelling
- M: youre still a person! Im not even a real person and I can still see that!
- Voz “we should probably leave, assassins will be in an hour or so. You were spotted going in, make sure ur spotted going out regularly.”
- Miku almost sprains her ankle, almado grabs her
- Ripley rips into almado
- Almado confirms that theyre not friends, theyre coworkers
- Al: despite what Maikeru Sukkoto says, its not better
- M: hes so nice tho?
- Al: he has the unique ability to fail upwards
- Miku hops down, opens her phone, holds it up, aetherion corp line is there
- Al: so they like you more than me. Oooohh.
- M: if you dont want to be my bodyguard, you can do smth else!
- Al: wahts that?
- M: we could figure smth out?
- Al: we cannot figure smth out. Here’s the truth of it all. (prepares for the shock) you and i are just property.
- Al: you might not be more than that, but i will. I will be more than what i am?
- M: u may have given up on ur future, but miku hasnt! She believes in u! If you could just try for once! Why does it hurt to make friends!
- Al: i thought u were accusing me of not trying at all, well. But thats abt friends
- M: why are you forcing yourself to be alone than rely on ppl?
- R: its easier to rely on ppl
- Almado bangs on the first door he finds
- Lashunta business man exits
- Al: liquor, you got any?
- “No??”
- Al: fucking worthless
- Back into the stairwell
- R: SORRY, GOODNIGHT
- “Who are you people???? Hatsune miku?????”
- Goes down, we get to lobby
- Middle aged woman working front desk, points at breakfast. “Please help yourself?”
- Al: liquor, got any?
- “We have waffles???”
- Rip grabs waffles
- Al: the spider beat the shit out of me bc i ruined a show. I didnt even ruin it i made it better
- Miku sits at the breakfast table, pulls up contacts, asks other vocaloids if their bodyguards are as attentive as almado
- Lot of responses where a lot are the same as almado, and then smth secret sent to koi
- “Idk how to deal with what zack sent me”
- Discussing how we need to get along
- R: we dont need to like each other. God knows if you dont stop being the way you are, we wont like each other. But god we gotta trust each other
- X: i like almado!
- Z: that makes one of us
- Al: you ask for trust. Your boyfriend wont even say who he’s looking for.
- R: thats… thats not- that simple. We cant discuss it here. Rest assured we will discuss it. We just need trust. I trust xep and they shot my knee out
- Al: for what its worth, all my secrets are out in the open
- R: lemme see your contract
- R: how do i get access?
- (file w aetherion corp with reason and cost upfront. 100 credits, fill out dense legalese form that can be rejected for any reason whatsoever)
- Miku shows her phone, which has a text message
- R: who is that?
- M: this is one of the other vocaloids
- As: whats being shown?
- Turred “a text message!”
- R: can i show the others?
- M: is it gonna help?
- R: i think… it…. Idk? But i think they deserve to know that this was said to you
- M: oh ok then
- R: i wont do anything that ik will get u harmed
- M: i trust you
- R: i trust you too
- Shows the text
- Text from meiko, almado cant see who the text is from. His eyes blur at it
- “Σ31X0: Just have him executed. Tell them he's a failure of an asset and they'll get you a better one.”
- X: u can just have him killed?
- Sounds muffled to almado, like ears are made of wax
- (you repeat it, and his ear canals literally shrink as the words are spoken. Some cybernetic closes them)
- Miku texts back why cant he see this?
- “He’s not us. He’s not worth seeing it.”
- “Youre where the value is, not him.”
- She has to be within solar system
- M: but i dont want him executed, i just want him to be nice
- “Then just threaten him with execution.”
- M: is that a good thing to do?
- Almado mentally gets told, goes still, gets up, pours coffee, sits down, lights up another cigarette
- Al: honestly i shouldve seen this one coming.
- (issue is is that shes on her set of 8 bodyguard. 2 for protection, 3 for servants. If you bring in enough money, u can ask for anything. If u dont theyll throw u in a mine. Hed be great for salt mining)
- Al: let her know its not execution, just a transfer. Do you think theyd execute the spider. Somewhere worse for me, better for The Spider. Dont tell her i know abt this please
- M: why not?
- R: almados right. Dont let it go to ur head. If u send this over aetherion network, theyll know and might just kill him
- Al: the corp always knows.
- Miku texts meiko if theyd execute the spider
- “No, he’d get put on a disposal unit.”
- Voz suggests we go meet up with the Anti-Lemdako group
- “The way i see it, we leave you here or we dont. If we dont leave u here, same situation as now. If we do leave u, they’ll execute you. If we leave with some attendants, theyll be executed and u’ll be amongst them.”
- We have to get a car
- Put it under 26’s name
- 1 goes under Voz Ricander’s name, he has a lot of money saved up as a pilot
- Head to the theater
- Halfway thru, a car pulls up beside us and rolls down window
- The orc guy makes hand signals to us
- 26: we do not speak sign language what
- “Change ur frequency to 10157”
- Speaks to and from our consoles, direct link
- “Why are you going to the theater?”
- “Unfortunately, there are 2 women who could tell you about this. Athana or Kaelia. Those are the 2 that will show up. Given ur situation, i bet its athana. Dont piss her off. We could also- the cleric should be able to come. Kathano is his codename.”
- (stands for Kathanotheism. Abuse the gods for your own ends. Other are code names, athana is athanesiam. Revenge is the most paramount things one can do. All use codenames, just assume.)
- He hits on gas, goes ahead of us on the highway
- At the drive in, all alone at the midday preview
- A car pulls up behind us, “weapons remain in the car, get out.”
- We get out, Ragash waves at us
- Kathano does a slight bow
- Bow that is typically a symbol of we might meet death, but that is ok for both of us. From the imperium
- “So it still walks. Why?”
- As: we have good information to share that may help your plans.
- “If it doesnt piss me off, the execution program lives another round.”
- Explaining
- The souls arent immediately destroyed, they go elsewhere
- Emp stuff w xep
- (we want assistance with getting our ship out of impound)
- The one lady pulls toward her gun, before the cleric calms her down. “Dont worry. This is all within the plan. This is fine. The powers that be, the small spirits that are, have guided us this far. And if this is true, there’s a chance for reward yet.”
- She remains silent
- Lashunta woman is likely talking telepathically. He is trying to give us as many hints as he can by speaking out loud
- He and miku calm her down
- He presents his cape, know its the sign of the ashen veil, his holy symbol. Does a quick prayer
- “If i have sent my children to the afterlife, so be it. If they deserve a 2nd chance at life, so be it.”
- He looks at her “if you could, my lady. The plan?”
- She will “we found someone that matches Nivaya Camacho's profile as far as general teeth structure, height, teeth. We found out he abused his wife, we think hes a good substitute for a body.”
- Z: understood
- “We will arrange that, but there’s another part we wish to do. If this xep goes into that tower again, they will execute him. Too much suspicious activity has happened around this xep to allow it to go free, even if it fulfills its mission. So im going to arrange for this xep to be killed by another xep.”
- Ragash takes the form of an android woman
- “This xep will kill that xep, in broad daylight in recording cameras, theyll have to free all of us. This xep will kill you, nivaya, and we will make sure that the burnt body of nivaya will be be found in the ashes.”
- M: thank you!
- “Theres the issue of ensuring ur loyalty. Ur all knowledgable about this one’s replacement of an iconoclast’s family member. Are you familiar with the term mutually assured destruction?”
- Yes?
- “Basically, if you were to betray us, or we call for aid and you dont help us, we simply reveal that the astrozoan replaced an iconoclast’s heir”
- “We better not betray each other. If we call for aid, you better respond.”
- Miku goes to shake her hand, she takes a step back, and cleric shakes hand instead
- “May you live for much longer.”
- As: and you as well
- “Not too much. And do remember, according to the religions of those i kill, wearing the face of the dead is the same as the dead living on.”
- (imperium doesnt study history of old emperors, does a ritual that allows ppl to remember the change of emperors but not who the prev one was. Live on = bad thing to him.)
- Z: how do you move forward? After all of it, how?
- “Great effort, of course. The simple answer is, you didnt love your loss more than mine, but we must still leave behind things for those who come after us.”
- Z: thats true.
- “Change the universe so that what has happened to you cannot happen again. This whole thing is malleable, the only thing that cements it is immortality and the inability to change.”
- As: can we leave once the ship is no longer impounded?
- “Of course.”
- Siryu “it may take a while, tho, wont it?”
- “Yes, but it’ll be less guarded than it is now. If you were to do such an action, may i advise no longer parking in cities? Steal a car.”
- X: do i need to change appearance after?
- “You? You should be fine. They’ll think youll be dead. Change your clothes and dye your hair. It is the bare minimum.”
- X: miku wanna match hair colors?
- As: when should this plan be put into motion?
- “We need to meet with the leader propose this to them, and then we can move forward. 3 days. Stay out of the city, sleep on the side of the road if you need to.”
- “At the end of 3 days, hit this. If there are any forces around you, we will not come.” hands a small button “the button will send out a quick ping 3 times, which should not be enough time for them to track your signal.”
- They drive off as they prepare for a 2nd nivaya assassination
- Manage to get out of the theater
- Zmena goes and changes his face, there for like 10-15 mins, shouldnt take that long, when he comes out, new guy has tear stains on his cheeks, his eyes are somewhat red
- Miku hugs him
- M: maybe u can change back one day
- Z: u all can call me Achenar
- M: ur pronouns?
- Z: same as before. Thanks for asking.
- Zmena has things to say abt nivaya
- Z: u all asked me for more transparency. Ill try to explain further. Im sure youve heard im not nivaya. Obviously. Im an astrozoan, he was actually killed in the initial assassination attempt. He was someone very important to me, i took over his life after that. As for the matter earlier, my family is… they’ve been missing for a long time, my brother is also an astrozoan, so its difficult to find him. Ive been searching for a long time. I was v desperate abt that. And also i- had some concerns. Um. xep u said that the company tried to kill nivaya bc of his work with AI?
- X: its why i kill everybody.
- Z: he talked to me abt what he was working with. He did share some info. What he usually talked abt was that he was working with biological receptors, i think he was using credits to enhance neurotransmission? It does make me wonder if it relates to the Credicites. Esp bc they were able to take over ppls brains. I figured i would share that.
- As; thank you
- 26: we appreciate your candor
- Z: ill try to be more open going forward, its difficult for me. U saw what happened at griffindustries. That is relatively the risk i take, so i was taught to be careful.
- 26: we have several questions. If youre open to answering them
- Z: ok
- 26: why when nivaya was killed, your lover, did you take his palce and hide his death?
- Z: not smth i could report at the time. His parents (Aurora Camacho, Emilio Camacho) knew about me. If i found him and reported him, who do u think the prime suspect would be? As for taking his place… either i have to change my face bc him going missing puts me at risk, or i change my face in a way that further accomplishes my goals. I cant find my brother on the streets; this trip is the first time i was able to leave since i was a child. I was ruffing it by myself.
- 26: very well
- X: did ripley know?
- R: no. i didnt. I found out less than a week ago
- X: how long have you been travelling together?
- R: i was roommates with nivaya for like…. A while. Approaching on 6 years
- Siryu “sometimes you have to travel with folks you dont quite understand.”
- As: do you have regrets travelling with us?
- “No regrets. Just unanswered questions. Time will tell. Youre absolutely lovely, and i wouldnt trade you for the world, but i do wonder why youre here and they arent. And right now, youre about equal to them. One of us may outlive the other. May we have a long time, may it not come for at least… 60 years?”
- As: let us hope
- “Let us hope.”
- (she has about 40 years left actually)
- Thinking abt Persanare
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(androids were created in a slavery outlaw, did lead to 100 years of slavery, not indentured servitude. Murdering of an android wasnt murder but property damage, but now its a murder. He helped develop the androids for aetherion corp. As soon as the dwarves left their planet, it let them rapidly expand. Asper does akashic download, 26’s phone short circuits and gets a nice bit of luck.
- What was the last known thing they were working on before they disappeared?
- There was the idea of divine apotheosis. Ascend even further than thru cultivation. They hit a nice stage, was effectively immortal, chose to do something to bring them further
- What was the last known thing they were working on before they disappeared?
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(Hollow stars believes that creating androids is taking free will from the universe, you should not do so)
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- Gonna break into a highschool gym for lockeroom time. Ig
- Almado, voz, turred, zmena, ripley
- Voz breaks a lock, allows everyone to sneak in
- R: why are we doing this again????
- Al: i promised turred
- Turred “we’re not post game, is this post or pre game? We arent sweaty”
- Brutaris
- Turred vomits on the bleachers
- Turred smacks almado with a rolled up towel
- Leaves a scar across his back
- Everyone is critting almado
- Hes so bad at retaliating
- Turred turns on all the showers “shower time!”
- “Do you know what i want to talk about? Morning wood, gentlemen. How do you deal with it?”
- Al: kasatha dont get it (trying not to puke)
- “Ive thought of a strategy. What if i jack it hard in the morning to get rid of it?”
- Al: dont do it in the communal space. Youll get soaped
- “Are we not soaking together?”
- Almado gets ripleys sock, bar of soap, swings it around like a weapon
- Al: and then they smack you while youre still in bed
- Voz tells him that its insane and to stop. Stupid and also desentize him and wont be as fast in the future. Then tells him abt the leglocking method
- Comes back
- Fake xep assassination situation
- Zmenamir will be nivaya. Xep will be xep. Other caught on cctv will be a new xep
- Asper rip on the neighboring roof
- “I will not aim for any vital organs”
- Shoots nivaya, beneath the heart and lungs but above the kidney, clean. Looks fatal. He purposefully moves over a flask that starts fire/explosion
- Then 2nd part, part that will hurt.
- Shot rings critically, instantly knocks him out
- For a brief second, ripley sees that ragash didnt shoot, a real one, a xep who has shot the actual xep whos unconscious as the explosion goes off. Still breathing
- This xep, 100 years old, crawls down the warehouse and goes into the shadows
- Ragash doesnt acknowledge it
- “All according to plan, your ship will be free.”
- R: and when are we getting him back?
- “Whenever u heal him. Just not here.”
- R: no. nivaya.
- “Nivaya?”
- Zmena crawls away. Another person moves thru, skinny man with large gun puts a fake body down
- Korr mentions “Lowcal’s a fake nickname. Its ironic. He uses a highcal gun.”
- Does let us leave
- Fake nivaya will surely be turned to ash in roughly 5 mins
- Zmena changes his face for the last time in a while
- Velu Shineleaf still