Session 5

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• Thorne, Nsuoba
• Asper signs for the car we’re renting
• Truck, follow nivaya a few miles behind to destination
• Ayla drives slowly bc its rainy
• Drives from sun rise to sun set
• Nivaya gets there first
• Hard to go over 30mph before hydroplaning
• Ayla rolls up windows
  • “Stay” reaches her hand under the wheel, undoes wires for the battery
  • Takes out keys and wires
  • Walks into a baylike contraption, steel wall, no roof, hear sound of ship being slapped with waves
  • Opens up one of the doors, walks on in
  • Hear gun shots, goes silent again
  • Nivaya looking around, then gunshot toward him. Car lurches forward a few feet, then turns off again
  • Wires she disconnected went to the batteries, the car Shouldnt be moving
  • Nivaya trying to get to the building, peeks in
  • Slum city built into a wharf, neon lights still on, smell of food, some fresh some slightly burnt. No sound or movement, except for a ship rocked by waves
• Xep and co arrive
  • Everyone jumps out of the car
  • Fuck the car gets blown up
  • These are not traditional soldiers, these are military software units to guard the road for military installation. They probably have maybe 3 more bullets let
  • Scurry inside the building
• Otad Base (Otad Gang)
  • Ayla is inside writhing on the ground
  • Combat
    • Ayla was shot from the ship itself
    • Elasalor Thara breaths out and fires
      • Druid using a sniper
      • Navigational spellshape, allows them to use jetpack and increase reach of spell while casting at the same time
    • Lashunta, body heavily frayed with blood replaced with blackened sludge
    • Other one, shirren, has fused slightly with surroundings
    • Things seem autonomous, have Some tactics despite being mindless. Having basic orders given to them
    • Sniper fighting against something in its neck, fires
    • Old timey Music
    • K'zamko - second sniper
      • Can use
    • Original is trying to resist something
    • The thing in ayla is absorbing healing given to her, but would require a lot of surgery
      • Nature as a shapechanger is helping her resist
    • Xep jumps down in the ship, there are burnt out super computers, something was doing heavy computations so much so that the processors burnt out
      • Main guns on the ship
    • IM SO STRESSED OUT
    • Xep blows up k’zamko and he smiles, holding out his arms. Eviscerates him
    • Asper kills elasalor
    • In the ship: Various people molded with circuitry, some use pistons as lungs. Hopefully unthinking
    • Ayla is still transforming
    • Xep finds a stasis pod for her
  • See large geometric objects under the water
    • Some thought, tho never reported on this planet, hollowed water planet
    • Certain gas giants, signatures of geometric shapes at center = ppl living there, or lost civilizations. Shouldnt be latter bc of gravity + water
  • This looks to be a normal gang prior, incredibly functional until a few days ago. Whatever happened, happened rapidly. Around the same time that they were killed
    • Food still remains, moldy but low sign of decomp
  • All of the computers are completely wiped, perfectly so
    • 1 thing that cant be hacked, written down things
    • Asper is able to find 1 Cortan Hulack, appears to be almost a quartermaster for the gang, lack of guns except body
    • Able to match pictures of him to one of the ppl shot, large veskian person
    • Ledger talks of income, including a statement of massive windfall from K'zamko, shirren psychic, was able to make lucrative money (wetwork), he get into contact w person offering job for assassination through psychic networks. Last bit mentions the amt of money was staggering, they were going to disperse it amongst the ppl as is tradition for the network
  • Not quite credits, nanotech that looks like credits
    • Fused to the nerve systems slowly took over their nervous system, started discarding part of the flesh that was irrelevant. Only 20 bodies found, 10 androids in the crew and none are present
    • (never went after us androids)
  • Inside has communications array set up, though, again, most has been removed
    • Pointed back toward aetherion space, at least through the sector, would also pass through aedryn space first (but edge)
    • 2 options, 1: they have an insider in aetherion tech, 2: they are looking for aetherion research, using this as a way to ping aetherion signal
  • This thing doubles as a signal jammer
  • Able to see odd barrels filled with nanite gel, stasis gel meant for containing nanites or mechanic disassembly and transportation
    • Used by aetherion special ops etc, used to cool down and contain stuff
    • 5 empty ones
    • Degrades when left in the rain, 2 days at this point it would go away
  • The amount on the bodies is missing
    • Ayla has a huge chunk of the gel in her
    • There is none in elasalor
  • Signal jammer turned off, 2 things happen when turned off immediately, almado is shocked
    • Messages from manager, pictures of his cat “what? Call me” pictures of his cat again
    • Al: can talk now, whats up?
  • Miku almado thinking abt the music
    • Not popular at all
    • Sounded very similar to the song of the original aetherion corp founder, Abrunda Aetherforge, when he brought his ppl to space. From his humble company came the corporation
    • Not quite right, the notes are off and there are parts of it missing, song itself meant to have parts of silence. This is an accompanying piece to fill in the silence of the original song
  • Play both at the same time, sparks come from the computers nearby. Doesnt destroy them, shuts down and restart including phones
    • Only to things that the thing that did this touched. Aylas car wont do it, just keep churning
  • We have miku + ripley recreate it
    • The tech doesnt flicker
  • We play the recordings again
    • The tech still doesn’t flicker
  • Go to the other side, miku sings to the constructs
    • Nothing happens
  • Almado combines the 2 songs and makes it his ringtone