Session 20

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• Arkari, Data-Temple
  • Down the elevator following the cocaine hallway
  • Blue murky liquid below us
    • We stare at it
    • Preservation gel for credits, mostly
    • Some of the blacky inky spots in normally blue white is swarms of credits
    • Same stuff as the barrels, but more refined
    • Moving around, tho unsure if its something with intelligence
    • 26 goes to touch the liquid - nope bc it’ll bring the credits to us and try to drag us down
    • Theyre very expensive, almado does not need to know this
  • Text on the door is completely alien, and booming voice is alien
  • Its not a language, its encoded. In whatever the homeplanet for whoever is hearing it is in
  • Truespeech but code
  • It is asking a simple question: what is the nature of data?
  • Almado: to fuel profit
  • Door opens, creature immediately blasts almado
  • “You know to answer, but know not the answer?”
  • Odd lashunta-like automaton, or at least like the old depictions of heroes
  • Speaks, oddly, common
  • 26: mm asper is this related to aeryn-vox?
  • As: it is memory
  • “You know but you do not speak? Why?”
  • As: i did not have a chance. My companion is very quick
  • “Then you know what happens next.
    • If we ask some questions or go past the door we will have to fight
  • Gestures at the sphere “Your companion waits for you”
  • As: Will you return if we fight?
  • “Yes
  • As: unfortunately you know what awaits and we know what awaits. We must enter
  • Combat
    • Equivalent of antivirus software. Can cause glitching in tech creatures
    • Creatures are trying to shove us in goo
    • Asper calls almado’s phone, stunning the tech creatures
    • 
      • Erm
    • Special ability
      • The construct armor has hardness that reduces damage. If its exposed to crit hit/half hp, loses armor and ac goes down and loses hardness
    • Miku kills the imperfect automaton, the soul goes down into the goo
  • The orb with our Credicites
    • 2 answer
      • Purified knowledge
      • Unimprinted upon credits. Pure and incredibly sellable
    • Within appears our ship
    • Asper reaches out across the bond
      • As: hello we have arrived. Are you ready for transport?
      • Whole facility blinks twice (No)
    • 26: do you simply need time?
      • Blinks no slightly dimmer
      • Purely power saving method. It has smth it wants to save its power for
  • Over the course of an hour we can analyze
    • Miku is able to find it out! Its saving its voice, what little it can to communicate with us safely. Its saving to answer 1 word questions, 3 of them
    • Also has been trying to gain a gift for us from deep within the vault
      • The depths where people normally go, they die
      • Words You Gifted Me: Copy messages from the air using a religion/computers/occultism check equal to the DC of the technology sending/receiving it (whichever is higher)
        • xep
      • Awake Eternal: You’re constantly considered both awake and unconscious at your choosing for the sake of effects. You still need to sleep. You’re immune to the unconscious condition. If you would be rendered unconscious due to being at zero hitpoints the only action you can take is to stride or stand.
        • zmena
      • Through Ages Scar: When you touch an broken object made using credits you can hear the last minute before it was broken
        • miku
      • Mirrors of Laws: Once per day when you’re exposed to an effect you can instead be exposed to its opposite and equal. Clumsy <-> Drained. Enfeebled <-> Stupefied. High Gravity <-> Low Gravity.
        • ripley
      • Ancient Roots Decree: You’re immune to difficult terrain due to root/wires. Once per day you can touch a root/wire and follow it to its end and sense through this. You use your normal senses if it’s a root and a static impression of the nearby area if it’s a wire.
        • 26
      • Heart’s Core: Once per day as a reaction, you can attempt a diplomacy / computers / religion / occultism vs the creature’s will DC, if you succeed you force the creature to choose a different action this turn. It is then immune to the effect for 24 hours or 1 year, whichever is shorter. It can still try it again as per usual next turn.
        • asper
      • Final Steps Again: Once per day as a free action, when you or someone you see would need to make a save against an obstacle/hazard if you succeed, you can rewind time to right before you activated this. You can also use this charge to impose disadvantage on a creature attacking you that you’re unaware of.
        • Almado
    • Questions
      • Who killed 26’s sect?
        • Speaks in our speaker phones
        • “Persanare.”
        • sounds like the voice of asper’s god coming from the temple, vaguely feminine voice
      • Who were you?
        • “Noetic.”
        • A term for seeker of knowledge, also known as the followers of aeryn-vox, or at least one of the people who created the data-temples. Theoretically the ones who helped smith these things
      • Where is Zmena's Brother?
        • “Velkrion”
        • Does not exist?
        • No character would reasonably know about it
  • Other questions we wanted to ask
    • Where can we find more information about Persanare?
    • Where can we find more information about Greying Twilight?
    • Why did almado’s colony ship divert course?
    • What’s your relation to the ones that want to break our chains?
    • Why are you sending us the words?
  • Estimated by scientists, 2 data temples per planet not counting moons/planetoids
  • Takes abt 1 year for someone opening the first chamber for the 2nd chamber to open
  • Selling unopened data is 10k credits, opened data is 1k
    • Selling data is also anathema to ASPER
    • ASPER threatens to leave if almado sells this data
  • Orb 1
    • This one isnt worth a lot
    • Does seem to be farming techniques, the ones doing them appear to be the ones within the temple
  • Orb 2
    • Appears to be a map of ore deposits, actually very valuable info
    • Projections based on geologic activity where ores will become more plentiful. It was created a few million years ago
    • Almado takes a picture secretly of this
  • Orb 3
    • Appears to be a town with all of us together
    • Then we see asper fall to the ground. Then miku. Then xep. Before rising as zombie-like creatures and attacking the others
    • Doesnt seem to be a whole lot, this one has a title at the end. “Deviation Minimization”
    • Asper tries to automatic writing this, fails. No answers
  • Party leaves to our ship, The Blue Angel
  • Almado tries to throw the first 2 orbs in the goo
    • Falls into the goo, the party is mad
    • 2 arms get in, black credits grabbing at him trying to pull him down
    • THE ORBS ARE BOUYANT, theyre like bubbles of knowledge
    • He manages to get back up, but oh my god. He almost died
  • Almado has a moment bc he almost just died for nothing, Kalervo Turred offers him a small roasted weenie
  • Ayla and Voz Ricander are fishing, Bubbles and Dakine are also there
  • Halrex Korr is passed out from cocaine and alcohol
  • Turred roasting sausages on a portable stove