Session 2

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• Storm's Eye
  • Bubble creates a whistle as it attempts to take the brunt of the approaching storm
  • Mechanisms settle down in our mind
  • Enter a drill-bore like structure in the earth
  • Inside is mechanical, houses built inside
  • Kalervo Turred Leads us to the center
  • “Please take off your shoes upon entering.”
  • woman whos augments make her roughly 7ft tall, extends a hand
  • Zaera allhaven “Welcome. I hope the ride here wasnt too bad. The winds can be rough.”
    • N: what a fascinating place, are you responsible for the bugs?
  • “No, they’re natural here. What do you think is happening- im here to oversee their evolution.”
    • N: oh i understand. You wanted to meet us?
  • “Youre the first survivors. I wanted to know how it was. I have a proposal. Do you want to live on Kiliv-VI for the rest of your lives?”
    • No
  • “Ill repair your ship if you get bug corpses. More than 2, less than 10.”
    • 26: why put an upper limit? Not that we want to go kill all.
  • “Ill be happy no matter what number.”
    • Al: how many corpses do we have to bring in to get you to repair a specific other ship?
  • “Is it repairable?”
    • Al: yeah it is
  • “Give me the location, ill send out a vehicle to rescue it.”
    • As: what are you wanting the corpses for?
  • “To help evolution. Theres been no successful retrieval up until now. You managed to survive.”
    • (it seems like they lost their leader, lost contact with itself. Tactics are normally used to there being another one they could scurry to. In war, you go to the next leader)
    • As: when would you like this retrieval by?
  • “Midday. I doubt the corpse would survive the heat.”
  • “I have a cargo truck, if you need. I understand the spaceship you got is of great quality, but i could start repairing it while you go out and retrieve the bodies?”
    • Al: if possible- (gets paint chip out of miku-themed blue)
  • “I have a close fit. If you wish, you could stay here. Aetherion Corporation won’t collect debts on kiliv-vi.”
    • Al: its important to get miku to her next performance. My manager- that buffoon will- he’ll kill somebody.
  • (signal jammer is controlled by her. Could become a slave for her)
  • (all lines are blocked, but our phone are working. She also doesnt want aetherion observants in case almado’s passive signal has a recorder.)
• Driving across 10 hour by land vehicle
• The Long Mile
  • The bodies are gone
  • Sands reveal no secrets
  • Burying the dead wouldnt make sense, the only reason to do so would be symbolic
    • Maybe eat their dead? But they are herbivores
  • Soft dunes make us go 10ft slower
  • Almado is able to find the hole that leads into the colony, hole in the sands, rises a good 5ft up above the sands rn, done so so that if the sands are higher they dont immediately get buried
  • Begin the repel down
  • Go down into the lower reaches
  • Instantly the branches begin to form (tunnel branches out)
    • 2 lefts, 1 right
  • We go left, see scratches and blood as we go
  • Thoughtsense kicks up, 2 of them
  • Appears theyve added some form of filigree around the side, sides are soft earth
  • Antechamber has no tunnel that leads from it, if the bodies were brought here, they would be beneath our feet
  • Silk spun by the insects to bury their dead in
  • The 2 that buried them are hiding underneath their dead, afraid of
  • It appears they are worshipping a light god, filigree shows a sun and an egg it hatches from. Sun does appear to be on the north facing sun, moon on the top of the ceiling
    • Worshipping the egg in the cave to the north
  • One recognizes divine lance
  • They arent killing each other, if nivaya had to guess, the most likely is that there is a migration going on
  • Creature was about to evolve and change its form, nivaya shot it
  • 2 we didnt kill were burned
  • Our crashed ships: Looking at a chaff based thing, no emergency signals went out, no heat signatures
    • Low energy bomb hit us, caused all of our engines to fail, but does cause us to crash
    • Uncommon, very expensive for militaries to have and only hit important targets
    • If allhaven had enough money, she could get it
  • Attempt to head out
• Go back
  • 10 more hours
  • Getting back is easier, she gives a signal that lets us know if we’re closer or further from her
  • Various workers and robots begin offloading
  • She meets us outside her house
  • “I heard you got more than enough. Could i offer you a drink?”
    • Xep: alcohol? Soda?
  • “We have various non-named juices.”
    • R: milk?
  • “What kind?”
  • Almado gets Dr. Vesk (meat flavored soda)
  • E-xep-ro gets ‘normal beverage for human’
  • “Now obviously, there was 1 issue. I will request another favor, of course.”
  • “It appears the vehicle was not salvageable. We were able to take some of the insignias off of it, if you wish.”
    • Al: were you able to salvage the uh. (motions to the mask)
  • “The thing is. It was skewered through and eaten by the local braueri.”
    • N: was it made of plant material?
  • “No, it appears they spit their digestive juices on it in passing.”
    • N: you mentioned you wanted to ask another favor?
  • “Of course. If i could ask, are you going to Nsuoba soon?”
    • Yes
  • “Could you bring the doctoral student Turid with you?”
    • 26: for what purpose?
  • “He needs to go there. I won’t ask where you’re going or why you have a ship that was registered under an aetherion official’s title, and had to scrub, and you wont ask why he needs to go.”
    • N: do we have to bring him back?
  • “No. He will find his own way back or travel with u. Once he’s there he will do his task.”
    • N: i dont see why there would be an issue. Unless there’s someone else who has an issue?
  • (miku is 3 hours late to her performance.)
  • Nivaya pulls zeraph aside for a moment
    • N: i know this seems like a lot to ask, i was very interested in your research, im a student of biology myself, i did come here to seek out that sort of thing. I was wondering if there was any info from your research youd be iwlling to share, i could share what i have so far. I was able to get some information about the bugs we encountered
    • “The bugs are my research, theyre a pinochle of evolution, theyre able to evolve midlife cycle to fit their group. If those 2 survived they mightve been leaders.
      • N: do you know where theyre migrating?
    • “Theyre migrating???”
      • N: there are signs of migration
    • “Thats unfortunate. We’ll have to move. We picked this location bc it was close.”
      • N; theyre moving. (shows her pictures of the filigree and what was seen with the other 2)
    • “They’ve evolved!” looks outside “this is most unprecedented. I wanted to experiment on the vesk, but they were sentient fully by the time we learned of them. This might become the next vesk.”
      • N: have they always been like this?
    • “They were much more violent. (abt to say something)”
      • N: able to adapt as well
    • “Of course. Why else would you come out here?”
      • N: can we stay in contact?
    • “Of course you can contact me at any time.”
      • N: ill be sure to contact if i have anything to share
    • She writes down something, waves us goodbye
  • Turred waits outside “did you have a nice talk?”
    • N: i did!
  • “How was it!”
    • N: it was fiiiine?
  • “Ill be setting myself up in the cargo. If thats alright with you?”
    • N: if thats what you prefer.
  • “I need a lot of room. And the experiments get implosive.”
• Able to go to newly refurbished vehicle, 300ft, The Blue Angel
  • Despite its size, handles like a dream
  • Rumbles upon takeoff, able to leave atmosphere, free to go to amongst the
  • Turred takes off for the first time in his life
  • Almado texts manager
    • Overhears ASPER conversation, punches wall and starts texting manager more
      • Contact dead, asset fine
  • ASPER texts Siryu
    • Get in contact with text, get a call back
    • “Hello, youve reached the impound. Who is calling?
    • “My designation is ASPER. Is siryu there?
    • “Siryu cannot talk. Are you calling to pay the fine? Do u represent Siryu’s company?
      • A: I do
    • Siryu is currently in holding for murder of Arroyo Cemsor
      • The man who was going to give Miku her first gig
      • A: IDK what this is about
    • “5000 credit fine. Will go to auction if Siryu is held in contempt of court, if you wish to buy the ship back.”
      • As: this seems out of character for her??
    • “Murder is out of character for most people.”
  • E-xep-ro checks for messages, none
  • Almado is PISSED, making Asper help hatsune miku
• Approach Nsuoba
  • Lower part made of underwater caves, various unique fruits
  • Able to make wine-like Nsuobier
  • Begin landing in Thorne, have to pass by rusty curiosity that is currently impounded
    • Looks like it underwent surgery, standard practice to prevent invisible creatures/holdouts
    • Warn abt venting the air out, you may show yourself and be arrested normally
  • Siryu is planetside, mildly injured, conscious
    • She may have punched someone when they attempted to arrest her
  • Land the ship on the raining planet, central city itself. Traffic controller boards, looks at nivaya “could you sign here please?”
  • Almado tries to look “not you please, this is a free city”
    • Corp has tried to incorporate the planet, have failed
  • “Could you sign?”
    • N: what?
  • “The ship landing. To say that this is your ship.”
    • N: well it is ours
  • “So could you sign?”
    • (this isnt a contract, but it will be signaled out in case we’re wanted. More a check to see if we are a pirate. Odd legalese of the planet (cant sleep in ship if parked))
    • Nivaya signs
  • “Welcome to nsuoba. Is there anywhere you wish to go, if you lack signal for some reason?”
    • Al: we dont lack signal
  • “Good my job is done” leaves
  • Miku and co goes to the studio
  • Odd looking building, not quite a studio but it is labeled clearly on the map as such
  • The Dredge
    • Al: ripley open the door youre the first fan here. I wont charge you!
    • Drying room bc of the rain
    • Dive bar, dwarven gentleman Korrim Vale
    • “You’re not supposed to be here!”
      • M: SORRY WE’RE LATE
      • Al: we got hung up
    • “Are you here to stock the shelves…?”
      • Al: here for the show
    • “This is a bar. This is a non-live music bar. We had to tear out the karaoke machine with the sailors.”
      • Al: we were supposed to meet arroyo
    • “My boss? He’s dead. Gutless pig got what was coming to him.”
      • Al: there will be a performance.
    • “Theres no one here but me and you.”
    • Almado checking texts with Maikeru
    • “Youre not allowed back there, send me the files.”
    • He disappears for a bit, comes back
    • “I should offload this before the cops come. Would you be interested in buying any cocaine by chance?”
    • “Do try to ignore everything else back here.” guns, ammo, sniper rifle, payphone
      • (the pin is correct, this is supposed to be a venue but the picture is entirely different))
    • “Hes a fan of the old world.” hands over a dollar bill with coke on it
    • Ripley gets miku’s signature
    • “Would you like any of the hard money? I took the credits out of the safes.”
    • “Take as much as you want. We ran out of toilet paper weeks ago. Ive been using this for less savory business.”
      • Al: so arroyo
    • “The bastard. Worked for aetherion. Youre just working the job. You wouldnt be here if you werent working it.”
      • Al: gotta do what you gotta do
    • “Its a shit company. I should know, family comes from there.”
      • Al: the company’s not bad, pretty good gig
    • “Well, he wanted to open up the planet. Probably why he got murked.”
      • Al: any idea? I heard it was a cultivator
    • “No? Pilot. Pahtra.”
    • Hands over a datapad, shows she was at the scene of the crime with a gun
      • 26: reasonable to be nervous when people are to be murdered
      • Al: i havent been able to contact my manager, means im next
    • “Youre next?”
      • Al: yeah for promotion
      • Al: 26 another bump on me
      • 26: please call me the 26 laws of power
      • Al: we have a murder to solve
      • 26: we supposed we can leverage our understanding of the universe to leverage such matters
      • Al: it would be a karmically good thing to solve a murder, yes?
      • 26: itd aid in our heavenly tribulation, yes!
      • Al: hey where’d you get that coke
    • “IDK. same place he gets his weapons.”
    • Most of the weapons are incendiary
    • “I wouldnt open that one. Theres currently security on the other side. Itll shoot even me. Probably his personal stash.”
    • Electronic and normal lock
    • 6 bots explode, combat
    • Invisible creature (Ayla) who throws xep around
    • “Cmon, mommy and daddy want you nivaya. It’s time to go home.”
      • Al: are you just here for the kid?
    • “Yeah ill take him and leave.”
      • N: do you think now is the time for me to be immobilized?
    • “Its fine, ill protect you. I just need to bring you back and if you suffer a bit on the way it’s fine”
      • N: are they here??
    • “No, they have better things to do than chase after a (smth) son”
    • Woman doesnt move like a typical elf
    • Restrains nivaya
      • Al: nivaya is a contracted employee of the aetherion corporation. This WILL be reported
      • N: im in the middle of a very important research project. Are they trying to get in the way of my research?
    • “IDK”
      • N: i thought they wanted me to pursue this
    • “IDK. they just want you back alive.”
      • N: could we all go? Im sure my parents would love to meet all my friends
    • “Theyre a bad influence.”
      • N: ill go without struggle!
    • “Youre barely struggling”
      • N: if they cant support me, ill just kill myself
    • “Here, i’ll make sure i cant” points gun at hands
      • R: if you move, ill shoot him in the head
    • “Go ahead and try. You dont have it in you. I could threaten to shoot everyone else in the room and you still wouldnt shoot him.”
      • Xep, gun to nivaya’s head: this is a person who would rather die than be in captivity.
    • She drops the leash
    • She walks out and waits, gun still to the back of the head of 26
      • 26: we dont enjoy guns at the back of our brain
    • “No one does jackass.”
    • Combat ends
    • There was so much cocaine and personal weapons and a cracked open safe
      • Stuff is missing, datasticks and the like were stolen from the safe
  • Guy who died was trying to turn the area into a monopoly, only parts he doesnt own are public sector parts
  • Owns his own vineyards, (sailing) ports, has a real concert hall, sports arenas. All on the up and up beyond having to engage in some shady business
  • The white angels emerge victorious once more