Session 22
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- Arkari
- WE BUY Kalervo Turred A PHONE
- Sending the cat
- Turred enjoys his new phone
- It doesnt let him text Zaera Allhaven, “at least not yet”.
- We get a chunk of the quarry thing
- Take out a stranded part, held together with wires
- Can be studied later
- We steal a truck from the dock
- WE BUY Kalervo Turred A PHONE
- The Blue Angel
- Its fucking bonding time. I guess
- Its a few hours after we got off planet. Decently in space
- Miku hands us each a box that came from Meiko, asks us to change
- In the box is a tshirt that says ‘i heart my friends’, holographic booty shorts or a holographic skirt
- Elaborate pillow fort set up, have to sit in a circle in specific seats
- R: so. Ik we arent the closest. I feel thats not conducive to traveling together thru the vacuum of space. W miku’s help we’ll change that. Get to know each other a little better.
- M: we brought board games and nail polish. Even sparkly!
- R: we’re going to have a sleepover
- Cultivator confusion
- 26 and almado have a bump of coke. And also xep
- Almado gets his emergency pack of dr. vesk
- Painting nails
- Xep has sparkle teal
- Zmena black
- 26 arms yellow
- Asper blue
- Almado yellow?
- Rip miku blue
- Miku neon pink, also every color
- First game is team building exercise, everyone goes around the circle, say smth nice abt the person to our left and right
- M: miku thinks turred is very smart, and miku thinks ripley has nice and shiny fur
- R: miku i admire ur positive personality, asper i appreciate how you never let much stuff get under your skin, you have a comp
- As: ripley you have lots of knowledge and i appreciate that. Ayla you haven’t turned in our friend and ur quite kind
- Ayla: “asper thanks for healing us without killing us. Xep i appreciate that time u almost shot “zmena” im sorry for stopping you”
- Xep: ayla i appreciate that time u threw me across the table, a coked up table, while invisible. That was cool. You there.
- Z: elmira
- X: elmira! The mutagens. Theyre pretty good
- Z: xep i appreciate that ur good in a battle. You shoot well. Almado i appreciate that ur good in a battle. You shoot well
- Al: ach- elmira. U have less of an identity than me but u still know who u are, no matter what. 26, you can fuckin hang
- 26: almado we appreciate ur dedication to smth greater than yourself. Sometimes. Turred we appreciate ur approach to new things and new knowledge
- Turred “i appreciate that u appreciate my approach, miku i appreciate that u called me smart that 1 time”
- Truth or dare, go in circle and do truth or dare
- Round 1
- Al: ive played truth or debt
- M: ripley truth or dare
- R: truth!
- M: ummmm. Ripley what is your favorite color?
- R: i really like purple but im a big fan of orange
- R: asper truth or dare
- A: truth?
- R: what’s a secret you’ve never told anyone?
- A: I do not have any secrets
- R: new question. What’s your greatest fear?
- A: I do not have those. This seems like a problem, I will change my answer to dare.
- R: I dare you to empty your pockets and show us what you’ve got
- Asper pulls out a frag grenade
- Z: asper why is that in ur pocket?
- A: just in case
- M: miku thinks you’re doing great!
- A: thanks, ayla, truth or dare?
- Ayla: dare
- A: I dare you to do something you have been wishing to do
- Ayla pulls her gun and shoots zmena
- Ripley aims his gun at miku
- R: UR GOING TO GET ALONG OR WE DONT GET OFF THIS SHIP
- A: I dare you to drink a full can of Dr. Vesk
- Ayla looks sad, puts her gun away, and chugs it
- Ayla: xep truth or dare
- X: im an amnesiac, dare
- Ayla: i dare u to disarm ripley when i do this (pulls out her gun again and shoots zmena)
- She sits down and is happy to play
- Xep: truth or dare
- Z: mmm. Truth
- X: whats your actual name??
- Z: zmenamir. Ideally dont call me that in front of anyone im not close to. Its a big thing for astrazoans
- Z: truth or dare
- Al: truth
- Z: whats ur fave thiong abt miku
- Al: shes my single greatest opportunity
- Z: sure???
- M: ????
- Al: that means ur my best friend! 26, truth or dare
- 26: we will accept a dare since we are always willing to tell the truth
- Al: wire me 30 credits
- 26: we do not have 30 credits on our person
- Al: ill take an IOU
- 26: turred truth or dareee
- Turred: truth
- 26: what is the first thing u remember from being on kiliv-vi
- Turred: the kindergarten! Hatsune miku, truth or dare
- M: miku picks dare!
- Turred: give almado a kiss on the cheek
- M: almado is that ok?
- Al: im not allowed to check, i dont think so???
- R: how abt a hug?
- Al: would you accept an IOU of 30 credits?
- R: no
- Turred: is making love so forbidden??
- Al: im sure i can do a short side hug
- X: at all or specifically with miku
- Miku gives him a big hug
- Round 2
- Miku pulls out a piece of paper and starts reading off questions
- M: zmena whats ur greatest fear?
- Z: probably…. Something terrible happening to my brother
- M: what happened to your brother?
- Z: rn hes being shapeshifter trafficked???
- M: whats trafficking?
- R: we can have that lesson later
- Z: scary ppl took him and are not being nice to him
- M: aww….
- R: ayla, truth or dare
- Ayla: dare
- R: i dare u to eat turreds cooking
- Ayla: sure
- Asper: almado truth or dare?
- Al: truth
- Asper: what needs to be done for you to respect any of us
- Al: ……i dont know…..
- Ayla: ripley, truth or dare?
- R: truth
- Ayla: why dont you have enough respect to allow him to lead you on for 3 years?
- R: im terrified to lose someone i care about again
- Ayla: have fun preying on someone’s emotional vulnerabilities
- R: i will
- Ayla: not you, youre lovely.
- X: zmena, truth or dare
- Z: truth
- X: why are you ok with doing that to ripley? Whats the reason?
- Z: im not ok with hurting them.
- Ayla: thats why you did it for a measly 3 years
- Z: almado, truth or dare?
- Al: dare
- Z: i dare u to make miku a friendship bracelet
- Al: when does it have to be done by
- Z: today
- Al: sighs. Ok
- Al: zmena, truth or dare
- Z: dare
- Almado gets up, puts the instrumental to miku’s most recent single
- Al: i dare you to turn into miku and do your best
- Good karaoke tbh
- 26: mmm. Hatsune miku the starlight idol, truth or dare
- M: truth!
- 26: miku, what is something you do not like about almado?
- M: i wish almado treated miku more like a person and less like an object sometimes
- Turred: which of the mini-yous is your favorite?
- Asper: i do not know what they look like or how they act. But almado’s is not my favorite. Maybe Miku’s.
- Round 3
- M: turred, whats a moment in ur life ud give anything to forget?
- Turred: the rebirthing tubes?
- M: whats one thing you regret in life?
- 26: we do not regret much, but we wish we had ventured away from our home sooner. We would have found our inheritance more quickly
- M: inheritance???
- 26: the inheritance to our sect. We have inherited the final will of the LianHua Sect, thats why we’re a cultivator
- M: miku is proud??
- 26: all of our sect is dead except for us
- M: sowwy?
- 26: its ok we never knew them. We merely found the ruins of our sect
- M: whats the last thing you said to your parents?
- Z: goodnight, i love you.
- M: whats one thing u regret in life?
- Ayla: not getting to be there with my family at the end
- M: whats the last thing you said to your parents?
- Al: with this, you wont lose the house.
- (lying)
- 26: why are u lying
- Al: that obvious?
- 26: quite
- Al: fine. Fine. smell ya later. I was SIX it wasnt exactly profound.
- M: whats a moment in ur life u never want to forget?
- R: when my mom gave me my dad’s old journals for my birthday. My cousins and i took the fragments of songs in the journals and wrote our first EP.
- M: wow! This is the most we’ve learned abt you!
- Al: we’ve had a lyricist on the ship the entire time????
- R: im a musician ive told you this??? Ive offered to miku some of my unused lyrics
- M: idk if you feel jealousy, but who are you jealous of
- Asper jealous of miku for being nice and bubbly and having friends
- The party reassures them that we love Asper
- M: tell us something youve never told someone else
- X: i think i found 2 more emotions, theyre jealousy and loneliness
- M: when did u feel those??
- X: yeah idk when i first noticed, but i cant stop noticing it
- R: do u want a hug???
- M: miku thinks u should
- X: they said u shouldnt hug in the HR training
- Xep gets hugged by miku and ripley
- 26: how many emotions do you feel?
- X: i think we’re up to 3 total. Fear being the other
- M: no positive emotions???
- X: claires was pretty good. Maybe at claires, i gotta think. NO i was upset they didnt wanna bring me.
- m: whats a moment in life u’d give to forget?
- R: 1 single moment? Or a concept? Having to watch my father deteriorate the way he did. It was… ugly.
- M: miku is sorry!
- As: what happened to him?
- R: he… got really sick. Very very suddenly. It went after his memories and his general nererological functions, until he wasnt him anymore. And then we lost him. He was one of the most important ppl in my life. It breaks my heart to remember him like that
- M: thank you for confiding in us like that
- R: of course. I havent really talked abt that with anyone
- Almado offers him some coke
- (very high possibility he had THS, a lot of basic diseases are easily cured in the future. Genetic disease, but can be brought on by certain radiation or magics)
- Asper: ripley are you aware of what this disease sounds like?
- R: yeah and i know it’s mostly genetic
- As: have any other family members experienced this?
- R: not as far as i know. If i start to develop symptoms, put me out of my misery
- Aura sight:
- Upset, friendly with 26
- Currently not suffering from ths. Usually appears in the stage of 40s in human terms
- Asper disagrees with ripley abt Killing Them If They Get Symptoms, death isnt so scary
- Round 1
- Hacking Peltragow Shipping Company’s captain’s phone
- Will take a while
- Its fucking bonding time. I guess
- Aedryn
- After several days of travel, get the contents of the phone. Communication of health conditions and credites recieved. 2k credits upfront for him
- Not enough to morally justify, but what can u do
- “Its a capital planet, theyre going to scan our ship no matter what we do”
- Coke is fairly illegal
- By the time we land, we do manage to be met with fanfare of what appears to be Aetherion Corporation groups alongside Zebufera's Last Doctrine who received our message
- 26: greetings….
- “Our good friends!”
- Luka IS ON PLANET! There are 2 other idols walking with a group we’ve met before, Kagamine Rin, Kagamine Len, The Spider, and the ohm between moments
- Miku beelines it for the twins
- “You travel with a large crowd.”
- 26: yes we do. Each of us have our own capabilities. Working together we can accomplish many things
- “Youre wise to do so.”
- 26: yes yes. We see u appear to have a large entourage as well
- “We’re not as wise as you. These are students, not peer.”
- 26: to have students to train, is that not a symbol of your own wisdom?
- “Its a sign of their belief in me, nothing more!”
- 26: sruely that belief is wellplaced
- “We’d like to believe so, but we cant be sure! Time has already proven you right.”
- 26: what way\
- “Your companions have kept you safe”
- 26: true
- 26: we have no doubt your wisdom will be right. Having students reach great heights.
- “Our uh good friend, float with us for a second?”
- 26: very well, what is the matter?
- “Nothing. There seems to be a lot on your mind and in it. We detect errant thoughts.”
- 26: we do have… several things that concern us. Have you heard of the trifecta program?
- “We’ve been introduced. The idea is to cultivate a perfect mind.”
- 26: we believe that to be only one portion of it. A perfect mind is one, a perfect body is another. We are unaware of what we believe to be the third section of it. We are somewhat concerned that there may be, mmm, less than savory motivations behind such a thing.
- “We’ve had our own doubts working with aetherion. But the chance to do good should outweigh our caution.”
- 26: truly an admiral stance
- “If you wish, we could arrange to have a meeting witht eh head of r&d” Corvin Rusic
- 26: we would appreciate that, especially if we could bring some of our companions along
- “We dont see why not. We could guarantee at least three, but hopefully we can achieve all. For the betterment of us all”
- 26: then this is a fortuitous meeting. Unfortunately its not the only thing weighing on our mind
- “Are the other matters pressing?”
- 26: perhaps not as pressing as this
- “Then perhaps we confront him immediately it’ll surprise him before he knows ur on planet?”
- 26: very well then, we will communicate this to our party members
- Almado is so excited abt meeting the head of r&d
- Miku to rin and len, the spider and the ohm between moments Stare at almado
- Luka is heading the vocaloid concert here, in 2 days
- The spider makes a show of tearing off one of his own arms to scare almado, holding it up and point at him
- M: miku is so excited for ur upcoming concert! Shed love to join if she could!
- “I think luka decides that one?”
- Miku texts luka, hi luka i heard ur on aedryn! Id love to come hang out! Id love to join ur concert too but id be happy to watch!
- She texts back: I’ll work it with my manager. Make sure your manager contacts mine.
- Miku asks for the private inside contact to him
- She sends it over
- Almado trying to get across that luka is better than the twins, miku and almado would never dare to try to outstage luka
- Sent back 10 mins later, a dinner reservation for later tonight for 4 total seats. 2 are already reserved for him and luka
- Average course can ask an upwards of 1k credits
- We go with ZLD to meet with head of R&D
- Everyone is asked to remove any implements for spellcasting, use of weapons, etc.
- They do a very thorough search for everyone thats not miku, ask everyone to take off clothes
- Send a Small Intern to scrounge around in almado’s mask
- Almado gets shocked bc. Coke falls out of the miku mask
- He also shocks the intern via loony tunes logic
- We’re allowed upward
- Many armed guards that could blast our heads smoooove off if we do anything
- Hes with his laptop at the private corpo bar
- M: its an honor to meet you!!
- “Youre from the tournament.”
- 26: yes we were present at that tournament
- “And im assuming zld has a good reason, you spending time after not succeeding at said tournament?”
- “Sitll, im sure theres a reason. Leave us for a bit zld?”
- Zld “we will give some privacy”
- 26: many thanks for setting this up
- “Could i offer you any drinks?”
- 26: no ty, we appreciate the gesture
- Almado gets dwarven ale
- “Is there’s a reason you’ve called this reason, or did you just want a taste of higher aetherion life?”
- Beer tastes like how gold might
- 26: we were mmmm hoping to ask questions regarding the perfect mind program
- “Zld told you abt it then?”
- 26: mmm not quite. We were independently researching the serenade, the ship that was destroyed, we found the term perfect mind and were reminded of the name of the tournament. Therefore, we asked zld to set up this meeting
- “That’s kind. How did those two connections form? In what circumstance?”
- Al: unfortunately sir- actually, you’re a high ranking member, can you authorize me to speak normal! (he does) unfortunately, that price is steep.
- “Half of your colony ship’s current debt cleared.”
- Al: um. It was while researching the perfect body that we came across this info. Hints at the trifecta program.
- “I assume bc of the shapechanger amongst you that you were researching the perfect body.”
- Al: we had a run in with the perfect body program.
- “Wouldn’t happen to be ms, maybe mrs venn? She did send a message abt smth big that came up and requested funds.”
- Al: good u didnt send the money
- “True. sadly she works for the boss directly.”
- Al: the debt’s been paid?
- He kneels, put a chip in his head. Personality construct, this has part of a soul in it. See it insert, take over his body, his pupils go black to green.
- Aura sight
- The person is very indifferent, what we’ve done is kill one of his associates
- Nervous
- Currently hes about to be possessed, will be under the effects of possession
- The man convulses, throws up part of the beer he just drank, his own hand unconsciously waves it away from reality
- (cue hez and jay panicking. It’s persanare. Get him back on the seesaw)
- He stands, sits back down calmly
- Almado pours him a beer
- “Good that at least someone knows their place.”
- Looks at us, the kind of look a kid gives a toy that he didnt expect it could do.
- 26: greetings, we are the 26 laws of power
- “Laws of power you say? And why are you that?”
- 26: we have chosen this name based on the cultivation technique we practice
- “You need 26 to do whatever you do?”
- 26: that is the intent. Perhaps this will change. Are you familiar with our technique?
- “Partially. But i’ve been ensured that you aren’t the one i’m looking for.”
- As: apologies, i dont believe we know who we are talking to.
- “I am just a nameless cultivator. The difference is that i just need 1 law to get what i want, while you need 26. Do you want to hear the truth of this world?”
- “My will is the truth. Whatever i wish you will share in.”
- As: wdym?
- “I can show you.”
- As: i would appreciate a demonstration
- Sends us to dimensions where Its Hell. all talking to the same guy, unchanged who moves evenly throughout all of them
- Asper’s network shows that everyone has disconnected willingly
- Turns to 26, tho we all hear it, him staring at the middle distance
- “I thought you studied laws of power. Which one will let you survive this?”
- 26: at the present, none that we are able to use.
- “Then i’ll ask you a question you wont remember either way. Are you the contemplative with the most potential? Who visited the Lianhua Sect?”
- (zld mentioned visiting once)
- 26: we are not.
- He casts modify memory, its struck from their memory, the rest of us dont hear
- As: how have you done such a thing?
- “Its an essence of cultivation and witch warping. The stronger you are, the stronger it becomes. U can even banish someone to other realities where they dont exist.”
- Asper does know, against all odds: there’s a look in his eyes. He’s irrevocably bored that everything has gone according to plan. We could be just a little harmless thing to spice things up. (in his mind, we are weak enough that he could just leave us here. But we are interesting, and he’s bored.)
- Asper tries to attack
- “Why?”
- As: ur strong. Isn’t it entertaining to have a couple gnats fly around?
- “You remind me of a companion i used to have. Let’s hope you don’t meet the same fate.” he claps his hands and we return to the bar
- “Are you familiar with the Vostari?
- Same root word as Voquari Ascendancy
- Maybe connected to Velkrion?
- He mind wipes that as well
- Its been 600 years since the sect was killed, he hasnt had to take a single active action since
- He doesnt move like pudgy bald ceo man, moves eloquently
- The next question, 26 knows, semi important:
- “Do you know where Sirra is, one of my companion androids?”
- 26: we do not.
- He moves on.
- “What is the true nature of the Aetherion CEO?”
- Asper automatic writing, gets clear “AI Credicite”
- As: we’ve been calling them credicites
- “Based on ur prev answers, you were on nsuoba. You saw the aftermath of our split ceo. They were imprisoned on the Serenade. Where are they?”
- Dont know, but tracking them down
- Smiles. “I’ll let you live then.”
- He writes down on a napkin “you will forget this, so read the back of this. Hand this to my inferior after this.”
- Says “promote Almado for his helpfulness.”
- Persanare reaches for his head, takes out the chip which explodes. Head slumps on the couch, returns back to consciousness in a minute.
- Corvin “youre promoted to a music manager.”
- Almado SOBS.
- After several days of travel, get the contents of the phone. Communication of health conditions and credites recieved. 2k credits upfront for him