Session 3

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• Thorne, The Dredge
  • Dwarf Korrim Vale shows up with 2 giant bottles of vodka
  • Hes gonna light up
  • He says that we are gonna be used as witnesses to Siryu doing this
  • “Im gonna go delete security footage.”
    • Al: how much insurance?
  • “Itll just go to his family, not me.”
    • Al: tell you what, we’ll look around and decide just how much
  • “Im just gonna go destroy the security footage and you think about it”
  • Ayla “we dont need to do that. Nivaya can just go back to their parents” (Aurora Camacho, Emilio Camacho)
  • “It would kill you too, and youre too much of an asset you could work for me, we could split the pay. Im sure Aetherion Corporation would love to have an in with a royal family. An iconoclast.”
    • What??????
    • AS: how much are you being paid to retrieve nivaya?
  • “Credits? 50k. And an in with a meeting with the Camacho Family.”
    • N: isnt there something we could work out? We help you, you help us out by letting me go?
  • “I work with the Hynarion Circle.”
    • Iconoclast are religious family that are scholars that go against the norm to create evolution in the empire, whatever the major party is they are trained to oppose it. Perma devils advocate. Argue in political sphere all go to nice colleges
    • Circle = Shrub Mob, druid mafia
      • Their leader has arranged with things that are impossible to arrange with, doing biodiversity before space travel was common. Dirt and plants if you blow them up, they help the ecosystem, incredibly hostile to people who hop on them without proper clearance. Shrub mob has somehow gotten that clearance
  • “So. why not go back to mom and pa?”
    • N: you mentioned you owe the hynarion circle, could we help?
    • (Theyre looking with an in with the Concord of Aedryn. You could very much help with that)
  • “Listen. Youre not gonna escape me. You can disguise yourself as much as you want and i’ll still find you. Youre going around with 2 neon blue haired… people?”
    • Al: im marked as equipment
    • Xep: oh same
  • “Then you understand this is just a job, i have to make a living out of it. Im just gonna follow you around, and should the guard drop, then i’ll get you. Ive already found the ones who are willing to kill you.”
  • “Do you think the aetherion corp will like the news of the assassination of an embassy leader’s child.”
    • (xep is playing minesweeper and has a gun to nivaya’s head)
  • Lights flicker, tv turns on, shows a bit of Kiliv-VI with the egg
  • Phones go off with salacious ads and porn
    • It is entirely possible we had a phantom message in that closet we opened. Those bots jammed signals until they were dead
    • (ads about The Serenade)
    • During the disappearance, many board members went missing and were lost. This was later created by the great uplifting that shows that people can always go up higher than they were.
  • She looks down at her own phone
  • “Ill leave you alone for now. Youre free to go over, the plants will whisper to me, and the fish.”
    • Xep: birds?
  • “I’ve never seen the birds.”
    • (this world is 0.1% too heavy for birds)
    • N: oh ok. Uh. lets go
  • ASPER sees an injured dog
    • Heals it
    • 26: GREETINGS MORTAL WE ARE THE 26 ALWS OF POWER
    • “I know jackass. Your companion is much kinder.”
    • 26: what should we call you?
    • “Ayla.”
  • 26: travelling companions. We have determined that this dog is the bounty hunter.
  • Miku maps lead us to the right place, approach a governmental building
• Gov building
  • Approach the clerk, veskian, has tusk
  • Asper registers as friend to visit siryu
  • Through a speaker, make contact with her
  • Smiles “ive finally been arrested for something I didn’t do”
    • A: that is not as reassuring as one would hope
  • “Then evidence will come up that i didn’t do it. That’s what ur god believes right?
    • A: what happened? We went to the dredge
  • “I went to find somewhere to get a drink with people like me. Instead i found a stage with a murdered body and the police had been called as soon as i arrived. I attempted to (and i swear) figure out what was wrong and my gun went off on its own
    • A: how does that happen?
  • “Idk, a policeman tackled me right after. They tased me and pepper sprayed me 5 times
    • A: that’s so cruel. Are you alright now? Beyond being contained?
  • “That’s a lot to go beyond but no immediate danger. Trial is slated for 1 revolution or 60 days
    • A: I shall do my best to ensure that nothing comes of this. I believe that there is a bigger conspiracy at hand
    • Cameras and people all around us. No weapons or implements
  • “If there’s a conspiracy I know one that could tell u about it. One Velu Shineleaf
    • A: velu shineleaf?
  • “A halfling, one of the moon people.”
    • Come from a humanoid moon
    • A: I will do my best to try and find out what this velu shineleaf might know. Is there anything that I can do while ur in there and im out here?
  • “Find evidence to free me, investigate the stage maybe?
    • A: where is this stage? I understand there’s a bar but there’s no stage
  • “Well i tried to go to the bar and wound up at the stage
    • A: maybe if we go to the bar we’ll wind up at the stage? Well I will do my best to find out the truth. May aeryn-vox guide me. And if i find anything i’ll come back as soon as possibly
  • Time is up and both are pulled away. We can come back tomorrow for 5 more minutes
• Ayla shows up with a car
  • “Nivaya would you like a ride to not be in the rain?”
    • N: no im good
  • Walking, the car slowly follows
  • Cars behind her the whole time, holding up traffic
• Heading to the stage
  • Incredibly drunk and less than reputable people stuck outside, confused
  • Entire area has already been recorded
  • Stage is right there, you arent allowed to use it before the murder has been solved or it was cleared
  • Cops here to stop people from going in, we’re allowed to go past, we’re the people on the venue ticket
  • Al: whos in charge here?
  • “That would be the Kalo (Kalo Cop).”
    • Weird aquatic man floating staring down
  • “He was murdered yesterday.”
    • 26: greetings we are the 26 laws of power
  • “You are the one that is friend of siryu?”
  • “That person you travel with is friend, murder, stage owner.”
    • Al: yeah idc abt her, it wont affect my impartiality
    • M: HIII!!
  • “You are much more likeable than the other one.”
    • M: ill take it as a compliment!
  • “Not big compliment.”
    • M: what happened here?
  • “Siryu seems to have murdered the owner. Corporate dispute.”
    • M: motive?
  • “It does seem that siryu had voucher from aetherion corp so they could take over certain assets. One death voucher for aetherion.”
    • (way to ensure smaller companies dont become part of the whole, let little wars break out to let the overall higher ups keep control)
    • M: how long ago was she given the voucher?
  • “Does not have date. She may have also killed another. One tech worker known by aetherion. Thrown into ocean. Body never recovered.”
    • 26: what was their name?
    • M: the ocean. Wow!
  • “Anongies. And one android Y493.
    • M: how did the murder happen?
  • “This one? Gunshot. Many. twice in back of head.”
  • “He was facing towards back. 2 bullets missing from siryu.”
  • “No footage. Siryu master hacker. Incompetence easy to fake.”
    • 26: there seems to be no reason for this to have happened
  • “Why here during murder?”
    • 26: we believe siryu had a similar problem. When attempting to input the address of this location in a mapping software, it brought up the address of a dive bar known as the dredge. To arrive here, we had to input the address of dive bar.
    • M: can we help with the investigation? Pleeease
  • “Investigative rights. But speak of it no one. And accept that siryu may be murderer.”
  • Looking around
    • Office with a contract that just needs 2 signatures
      • Ask xep to forgery
      • Almado signs it, thumb print
      • Could record entire videos here after for 2 whole days
    • Personal computer, dont seem security related
      • Various documents, various transactions most are above the board, some are not
      • This is dual authenticated. Banking system hosted offworld, you can add copies cannot remove. Kinda like the blockchain
      • Somehow, a few transactions are missing. Notes on the local computer are personal notes abt things hes agreed to sell. Removed, requires a master hacker or someone at all locations that was able to delete all of them at once in a coordinated effort
      • Would have to be within system, most likely Kiliv-vi or Voya
      • Level of skill achievable by humanoid? Lvl 20 tho or a 0 day kind of hack (built into the system)
    • Safe has been opened, police tape on it, uncloseable
      • Taken everything from the safe as evidence
    • (asper knows that siryu’s gun had a targeting system that would limit the kickback. Would still be hard to hack)
    • Need 2 days to clear their gun with the courts
    • Almado breaks into a room, aetherion corp property damage
      • 2 computers, security guard booth
      • Large screen that shows all the cameras in the area
      • Missing footage exactly around the time of the murder
      • Fantastic job
      • At one point, able to see slightly not fully scrubbed. Able to see the outline of a copaxi man (sentient coral reef), walking away during one of the cuts. Enough that if it were being hacked really fast, wouldve been missed
      • We download it rq
    • Ripley grabs the cop
      • He looks “copaxi. They live here, yes. Near ocean. But all is ocean.”
        • Xep: around time of murder
      • “Oh. anything else?”
        • Al: someone tried to remove them
        • Xep: we think. The level of soficistation has the level of hacks would make them galaxy known. Maybe that is not known.
      • “Good hacker not known to galaxy, good hacker known to few.”
        • Xep: this is approaching the limit of capability. It involved hacking into a banking system. And a gun.
      • “Not good. Serious business.”
        • Xep: someone at that level would
      • “Push back the trial then. 2 years? (120 days)”
      • “We’ll do request. Copaxi not enough to go on, plenty here.”
      • 26: is the afact that they are missing from all footage except this one suspicious
      • “Yes, but i cannot arrest ever copaxi that i see.”
      • “Computer underwater do not work so good.”
      • “Many live on shore to use computer, but some have vacuum tube.”
        • Xep: if you had a lot, would it be a noticeable amount of vaccuum tubes.
      • “Yes, but at that point, easier to live on land, no?”
        • Xep: perhaps more comfortable underwater
      • “Maybe,”
      • Al: miku. I need you to tell that cop that it is very important for us to see the world like the victim did so you can get on that goddamn stage. I need you on that stage for 15 seconds. 1 picture. Holoshop can do the rest.
      • M: do you mind if i stand on the stage to feel what the man felt before he died?
    • “Of course”
    • (internet was found not created. Credits are tiny computers. All planets had some form of credits of some density on them. Small cloud computing hardware, innately valuable)
    • Puts a hologram of the dead guy
      • The lividity seems fresh but the wound is old. Blood kept pumping despite him already being dead.
    • Hey whats with this
    • “We considered it a glitch with the system.”
  • Almado phone call
    • Mr Maikeru Sukkoto is in another system
    • Al: mr sakodol, things are going wrong. I recruited some interns. I got some decent photos, but the concert might not happen. I need insurance, stat.
• Going to Velu Shineleaf
  • Hes an infomation broker, if you kill one your secrets will be leaked
  • Hes simply here bc he likes the local liquor that is brewed here. He was a big shot in the aedryn but holds no love there
  • Ayla doesnt follow us in
    • N: do you want to come inside?
  • “No.”
  • Approach halfling man, sitting behind desk. Stops playing video game
  • “Might i help you?”
    • R: whatcha playing
    • (first person shooter, but when he disconnects, everyone pauses)
  • “Could i offer you anything? Cigar? Liquor?”
    • M: i dont think i can have that
  • “Of course, you want more cocaine, almado?”
    • Al: yeah.
  • “Im willing to work with you if youre going to work with me. What are you here for? The murder, or the stalkin’, nivaya?”
    • N: not the stalking
  • “Shes a real bitch, but she means well. Or is it about the ship?”
    • N: the ship?
  • “The unregistered one.”
  • “How might i help yall?”
    • As: we came at the advice of siryu
  • “Lovely lady
    • As: i believe so
  • “Shame about the accusation, especially since it’s false
    • As: i’m glad u believe that
  • “At least 20% false, 60% true but I’m a dreamer
    • As: i don’t think those numbers are true
  • “Do you have numbers to back it up?
    • As: no
  • “Then 40 and 60 it’ll be
    • E: Showing him the Copaxi “this might change your outlook
  • “That is someone that is around the time of the murder. Few hours before the murder at the earliest. He appeared at a few meetings following that. Not the murderer, maybe an accomplace. Siryu knows a few. I might be able to find out who that is”
    • A: what do you want in return?
  • “I have some performers that went missing. I could do with finding them, hopefully today. You have a ship?
    • A: we do, do you think we could find them within a day?
  • “If you try ur hardest i think u could find it within urself to find them in a day
    • Miku: we’ll try our best!
  • “I have their last known location and what they look like. Is that sufficient?
    • A: it should be
  • “1 question if found, 2 if getting info should they perish, none if killed for 2nd question.”
    • M: contact info?
  • “Do not call me. Meet me in person. Info online is able to be stolen. Information real life, well, theyd have to beat you up in an alley.”
    • Al: speaking of contact info, (to xep) whats your comm id?
    • Xep: you dont want to be in my phone contacts when they find this. I will give you my number, but if you text me, if they find this phone, they’ll find yours.
  • “Hopefully thisll clear up some of your questions, some of mine, we’ll keep this on the down low.”
    • 26: we would find this agreeable
  • “Even the one that worships that talkative bitch in the stars?
    • As: do you mean me or someone else?
  • “You’re the one that worships the goddess who cares about freedom of information right?
    • As: I am still coming to terms with how I face the world. I do not know if I can agree to this arrangement.
  • “Well, youll come back, see how you feel when you get the paycheck. There is no cash, only credit.”
  • “You could take that ship, say i sent you, if you want to abandon siryu, you can. Ayla wont bother you. Her master wont be pleased if she interrupts something for me.”
  • “Permanent breather from her if you leave nivaya and leave.”
• Go to spaceship
  • One of workers looks, “im sorry this ship doesnt have a name. Do you know what it is?”
  • The Blue Angel
  • Oh Kalervo Turred is still here
  • “I have good news! I dont know how i know it. You have been forgiven for your crime!”
  • “The dreams?”
    • Do you always have these dreams??
  • “No!”
    • (he does seem to have bumped his hand, it didnt scab, but splintered, and then healed up.)
  • “Its a good thing no?”
    • Its good to be forgiven?
  • “Forgiveness is good. Ill tell it to my dream. Is forgiveness paramount to vengeance?”
    • As: why do you ask such questions?
  • “Im trying to figure it out. Ive lived my entire life in that area.”
    • M: miku believes that everyone deserves a 2nd chance
    • Al: in a non-financial way. Wait i need that 2nd chance. Capitalism always gives 2nd chances
    • N: you mentioned that you were doing research on the ship for Zaera Allhaven, could you tell me more?
  • “About evolution of course. Its all vague to me now. I remember back then we were doing research on evolution chains on how beings became sentient.”
    • N: any progress?
  • “I have. But of course she took it. It is her right.”
    • N: on this ship?
  • “No, ive been experiencing things, enjoying things. Ive recently discovered that there are ways to find companions in this world.”
  • “Do you have trouble with a companion, nivaya?”
    • N: so. More about your research. Do you have a family?
  • “I was born there, i was adopted when i was quite young by m’lady.”
  • “No one remembers much about their birth.”
    • (26 remembers their birth, birthed from the brain)
    • N: she told you to come here and experience things?
  • “Yes”
    • N: what did she say
  • “To live my life a little, gave me a sum of credits, i did stuff, i learned many things, and i came back here because thats what im supposed to do.”
    • N: are you to be with us?
  • “If you’ll have me.” (drops something under nivayas sheets)
    • (its a book titled “Playing the Game - How to Drive Women Wild”)
    • Al: did she give you a comm unit?
  • “Of course.”
    • Al: how many credits?
  • “Not that many.”
    • Al: ballpark?
  • “30k?
    • Xep: how many did you start with?
  • “Before i met those nice ladies? 200k.”
    • Al: never spend more than 1k in one sitting. Ok kid?
  • “They charged me 10k per lady.”
    • Al: youre still standing?
  • “Of course, why wouldnt i be?”
    • As: what did you learn there?
  • “They gave me kisses, as adults do.”
  • (we look at our bank, we have Aethercoin now
    • Almado: Truth
    • Miku: Missing
    • Xep: Scene
    • ASPER: Voyage
    • 26: Oceans
    • Nivaya: wont say
      • Xep tries to hack in, it should be simpler but is an infinite void as theyre sucked across time and space. Back into reality. Similar to the circuitry
      • Xep: the fuck is wrong with your phone?
    • Ripley: Sacrifice)
• Flying, rainbow on the oceans below, prism-like effect
  • Unique geometric shapes, starships that didnt survive landing that fell below
  • Continue to myriad of jungles that make the greenery of planet, land
  • Find signal flares where the last group left, even if their comms unit broke
  • Takes a little bit
  • Crash investigators wave and smile at us “why are you here?”
    • Not cops, these are his men
  • “Found the ship.”
    • Al: heres the plan. Miku. (sets up a chair for her)
    • 26: we were passed by velu shineleaf to find your location.
  • “You found us. Can we go home? There is much to report.”
    • 26: we heard there were 3 of you.
  • “One fell into the ocean.”
    • (they believe this to be the ocean, and not just a pond. It appears to have a bottom and salty bc of the land, but isnt the ocean.)
    • Xep: what are you looking for when getting back to the city?
  • “Booze and sex.”
    • Xep: that bar you go to, whats the name?
  • “Sexico-6.”
    • (theres no sexico 6 on the planet)
    • (we know the guy whos been to the brothel. Nivaya texts him abt the name of it. He went to the starlace)
    • Al: have you been to The Starlace?
  • “We like booze and women, like you.”
  • (only ASPER can roll: they both seem to have what seems to be blood around the mouth slits of their breathing apparatus. Something crawled into their corpses and posessed their bodies. They want us to bring them back to civilization. One completely wiped it clean, one only partially.)
  • Xep gets a sneaky pic
  • “Why do you need photography?”
    • Xep: waht are you guys
  • “People who want to go home.”
    • Xep: you are possessing corpses. I do need to know why before letting you on the ship
  • “Circle of life. Had to do it.”
    • Xep: are you some sort of creature that lives in others?
  • “Yes.”
    • Xep: did you kill them?
  • “Not relevant. We found them.”
    • Xep: how often do you need new corpses?
  • “Often to propagate.”
  • “Make if need.”
    • Xep: that does have the connotation that it is something you enjoy doing
  • “Do you enjoy killing? Do you enjoy fucking?”
    • N: what did kill them?
  • “Circumstance kill all. Search this area, unlucky, we in area first. Trap, kill. We lay. One fall into deep reach, cannot reach, cannot breathe salt.”
    • Xep: did you make the trap?
  • “Does not matter. They are dead.”
    • Xep: what was the trap?
  • “Trap was simple. Shot through head. Spike.”
    • Xep: through the ship? Or they got out?
  • “They not part of ship. Ship part of them. Too old to eat. Too old to take. Came here, ate trap, be thankful.”
  • “Trap spectacular. Kill without blood. Soul ripped from body. Not from trap.”
    • Xep: what did you do with it?
  • “See soul escape body. They scream. Nothing we can do but take body. Only wish for more. Would it not bring comfort to see loved ones moving around as if alive?”
  • “You would not care, ripley, to have a loved one
  • “No name is ripley. Necrophiliac ripley. Wish could fuck other. Bad situation. Monster to us.”
    • R: no i just miss him???? I dont want to see him animated like a weird thing???
  • (might be reading akashic record, cntrl+f grief)
    • Aedrynic
    • Al: we’re not taking you back
  • Points their guns at almado
  • Combat:
    • Threllopex
    • Kassa-Raell