Session 25

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• Warehouse Aedryn
  • Combat
    • Rinaldo Arcassio Fiamolin HAS REACTIVE STRIKE
    • Fort and Will are lowest
    • He can bring ppl into a blackhole (30ft) and deal dmg based on fort save
    • Has solar shot, but also has specific graviton one (100ft range)
    • Scan
      • Get his stellar rush
    • Asper gets the kill
    • Convince the last goon to stay. Via hatsune miku’s
  • Korr comes to, hung over
  • “Oh you’re here. What happened?”
  • M: u got kidnapped! We came to ur rescue!
  • 26: by the vesentis family. But not the entire family. Not a made man
  • “Its a good thing they didn’t”
  • 26: yes we wouldnt like to you to be tortured
  • Man “she’d be in a 1000s pieces! You ever seen what happens to people when they go into the hole!”
  • M: miku doesnt know!
  • “Ever been on the dark web?”
  • Al: ill shoot your brains out
  • Korr confirms the credicite
  • Man “do you want to know where the boss keeps his stuff? Ik he has 1000 credits stashed away”
  • As: did you see him conversing with a creature?
  • “I heard him conversing with something. He doesn’t let us in on those meetings
  • Al: where did those meetings happen
  • points around “here. Boss says to leave i leave. I heard his side of the conversation, figured he was talking to a lashunta. Would’ve noticed if one of them was around pointing at 26 didn’t hear everything they were talking about but mentioned becoming a made man. Boss offered to pay, apparently thing said no”
    • Meaning telepathy
  • As: and you did not see where they went?
  • “We got a secret entrance here. reveals a secret tunnel leads to the sewers. We don’t like to use it. Don’t get me wrong the side down there is protected by a hologram, but it’s still the general sewers.”
  • As: where might we find his effects?
  • “His apartment. I’ve got the door code if you need
  • As: you are being awfully helpful
  • “And if im not what then?
  • As: probably get shot
  • “I like living. And now i present my own conundrum. I presume that’s kor who the boss has put out a hit on. If i go home to the boss and tell her, you fine folk will kill me. If i don’t and she finds out kor’s alive, that’s worse than death
  • Xep: do u wanna come with us and we drop u off on the next planet?
  • “Now that’s a good offer i can get behind
  • R: what’s ur name?
  • “Vespucciano.
  • We distract him so we can holographic memory
  • Rinaldo succeeds. Alas.
  • Vespucciano leads us to his apartment, we take it
  • We all get a message from an unknown number
    • “Your presence is required at 61 Zano Street. For dinner of course, dress appropriately and your finest attire. - S. Alboresi” (Salvi Alboresi)
    • Considered a chosen one of Kelyx, but bc of bad deals he was taken out and joined Vesentis family. He was considered a prodigy
    • If they have our numbers, they know other things. Including our families. If we don’t come then our family will be in danger
• Drop people off at the ship
• We get dressed up
  • Gonz the Orb is there
  • Man in front bows to us
  • “The ma’am would like to speak with you. Is there anything you want to know?”
  • Groupchat to gonz abt wtf is going on
  • “Whats going on is that you’re invited to meet with the godmother.”
  • Al: why has the godmother graced us with an invitation?
  • “One of your friends is the daughter of one of her friends.”
  • Notices miku chugging “that only lasts a minute, would you like a blessing instead?”
  • He gives miku guidance (RANK 8)
  • “Whenever you begin singing ill be sure to cast it at the right moment”
  • Hiiiii ayla. Jesus fuck im scared.
  • Miku bows its great to make ur acquaintance!
  • She smiles “youre almost as charming as the other one!”
  • M: ty maam im working as hard as i can!
  • “Why did they make her blue? Aetherion colors are green.”
  • (theyre not meant to be playing in aetherion space, but outside)
  • Al: theyre expanding power outside aetherion-
  • M: we’re making friends with everyone!
  • “You dont happen to be recording are you?”
  • Passes our drone to Alboresi, he leaves
  • M: miku doesnt mean to pry but why are we here?
  • “Ayla said you were a great help to her. And…”
  • M: that’s very kind of you!
  • “Now that i can see upon my eyes that ayla spoke true, i owe her a reward.”
  • As: what did she speak true about?
  • Ayla “i promised them info about the camacho family in exchange for credicite info.”
  • As: what info was passed on to you?
  • “About nivaya’s death. We figured it out cause the information brokers were selling something about it. At a high price ofc. While it is true that we are working with one such credicite, we ask u not to pursue it now. It is very helpful for what we are doing
  • M: can miku ask what it’s helping with?
  • “It’s related to halrex korr and her sin against the family. Depending on how it goes we might consider merely executing her if she steps foot in aedryn space again
    • Ayla hasn’t ratted out Korr. also not her first time being outclassed in gang negotiations
  • “We know one that would be easy for you to pursue. In the Rona System.
    • (Solara Imperium space. Kasane Teto time)
  • As: how might u have come across this info?
  • “Through our own credicite. They don’t work perfectly in harmony. after their departure from nsuoba there was disagreement amongst them and they went their separate ways to pursue their own goals
  • M: did u need something from us?
  • “Nope. just to make the exchange complete
  • “Ayla stated that you were her travelling companions.”
  • M: we are!
  • “Then for all that she’s given us, i don’t suppose it would be wrong for my family to help with the concert in a few days.” (OUR concert, not LUKA’s concert)
  • “We could easily remove the pesky manager of luka, if you need. Tho we should warn you almado that the spider is stalking you.
  • R to almado: why would we need to get rid of luka’s manager?
  • Al: can i smoke in here?
  • “You may”
  • Almado smokes
  • Al: bc he’s the fucking COMPETITION. Business is a zero sum game, in order for us to win, somebody else must lose
  • M: nothing will happen to Luka?
  • Al: nope just her manager
  • Ripley threatening almado
  • Al: if miku wants to lie, she can lie. Its call advertisement
  • R: we’re a team and team works best when we don’t keep secrets
  • As: he does have a point
  • He goes to take ripleys tome, writes “dont tell miku, she’ll tell everyone. I believe lucas halo wants to kill Meiko.” returns it
  • M: is this like passing notes in class?
  • Al: it is! (writes a note abt miku being his best friend and passes it to her)
  • (this is blackmail against us. But a great deal. If we succeed in getting higher up, she has a guy on a leash)
  • Almado takes the deal
  • Guy jumps down “does it need to be wet?”
  • Al: as clean as possible
  • “Ma, we make an example outta him?”
  • Her “no.”
  • “Then consider it done.”
  • (shes sending her own son to kill someone)
  • Almado full body kowtows
  • 26: we would like to ask if it is not too presumptuous, what is the credicite getting from ur relationship in turn?
  • “Its home.”
  • 26: is this all its wishing for?
  • “Are you saying that my home is not enough?”
  • 26: many beings have a number of desires, a home being merely one
  • A few walk closer to the balcony, at 26’s insinuation
  • 26 gets quandary’d by Gaia Sortino for the convo (1 in 400 chance they escape)
  • Miku performs
  • She hears the melody “excuse me, i have somewhere to be.”
  • The daughter “its wonderful. If you could leave?”
  • Al: of course maam. Cmon miku
  • We stare, the piano covered in dust likely belonged to the son that died.
  • We’re escorted out yet again
• Back to the ship
  • Intercom to meet up
  • Al: for those who dont know my new promotion comes with new responsibilities but also more power. I promise i wont let it get to my head. For those who havent met, our newest crew member introduce urself
  • “Im vespucciano i was born in Moskateli, first got in trouble at 12. For those who arent elves, like an infant. Like 5”
  • Al: time to address the oliphant in the room. Ayla what the fuck?
  • “What?”
  • Al: as much as i appreciate the assistance with things. As happy as i am with what i agreed upon. You gotta give us some warning.
  • “Why?”
  • Al: so that we can go in with a plan?
  • “You wouldn’t form a plan even if i warned you.”
  • As: it would have been appreciated had you responded to our attempts to get in touch with you
  • “I wouldnt need the help of a family to kill elmira. If i wanted him dead hed be dead”
  • M: his pronouns are she/her rn
  • “If i wanted her dead, she’d be dead right now. Besides its a good thing i did.”
  • As: why?
  • “Do you think gonz arrived before she found out abt her capture?”
  • As: you intercepted that?
  • “Of course. They had a house phone. I picked it up before it went to voicemail.”
  • “All it required of us was letting them know that nivaya camacho is truly dead”
  • M: it may cause problems
  • Z: that info would get back to them anyway
  • “They already knew. Did you think the most powerful military families wouldnt cast pinpoint on their own son?”
  • Asper adds ayla to the network
  • “I dont have any bonds. I just heard about them from my father and figured there would be connections.”
  • 26: speaking of the Hynarion Circle, we wish to ask, we noticed that there were members present when our friend elmira was kidnapped. Do you have any ideas why that may be the case on Arkari?
  • “Our ships can pass through without any radar signaling. They fly by biology, not rocket science.”
  • Z: do you think they were working on a larger scale? Or contract situation?
  • “How would I know?
  • As: do u know what they were doing there? It was the trafficking of astrazoans
  • “Probably getting paid. I doubt they were doing it for free. It’s not ideological, but if people would do it for money, and druids are people…
  • (she doesnt care abt zmena rn)
  • Turred “while we’re all here, can i go back home to get my phone fixed?”
  • (potentially not too bad of a detour, but also potentially a lot. In the auver system, contact in remembrance streams has been cut off entirely. If we wish to go back to kiliv, we go thru Voquari Ascendancy space or go all the way down thru Aetherion Corporation space or go thru solaran space. This solaran space is the opposite side of the solaran space we need to visit. Auver system locked off by voquari, aetherion, Concord of Aedryn, solaran, Hollow Stars)
  • We explain we cant rn but once we’re finished here in aedryn space
  • Vespucciano sells almado coke
  • He then leaves to his room
  • Al: Kalervo Turred you mentioned a kindergarten and rebirthing tubes??? Elaborate???
  • “Well yknow sometimes your mom freezes you and then has to thaw you so she creates an artificial womb that you come out of. After the kindergarten.”
  • As: what is the kindergarten???
  • “Do you remember being a sperm asper?
  • As: i am an android. I was not birthed.
  • Looks at ayla “no of course not. No one remembers it”
  • Turred “i do! That was the kindergarten!”
  • R: what????
  • X: what was it like being a sperm?
  • “The usual, u were in a pod and fed info and then you come out.”
  • As: what information?
  • “About the world and politics. I have the equivalent of a hs diploma.”
  • 26: we received a degree
  • Al: surely asper doesn’t have one
  • As: no
  • Z: do you remember anything before that?
  • “No it was just the kindergarten, learning in our tubes, seeing the other sperms get removed.”
  • As: others?
  • “Yeah. they werent born so good. Some crawled on the ceiling and some couldnt answer questions so well”
  • As: were there any others who werent removed?
  • “Only me. Im the sperm that one, thats how my mom explained it. I learned sperm were like tadpoles but they didnt look like that.”
  • 26: what did they look like?
  • “Normal with brown hair and brown eyes?”
  • 26: like yourself
  • “No, i have almond hair.”
  • Z: names?
  • “Sperm dont get names. Mom told me.”
  • R: u got a name when u won?
  • Z: did your mother explain why you were born?
  • “No i dont like to think abt it. I mean, you know the birds and the bees right?”
  • X: no?
  • “So someone with sperm implants them within someone with an egg. I assume she had an egg?”
  • Almado destroys his phone
  • X: have u had any dreams since the one with coins?
  • “Yeah i write them in my dream diary”
  • X: read it for us?
  • He reveals his dream diary hidden behind conditioners
  • Like a serial killer journal
  • But its abt a god of death according to the dreams he had. It has mikus head and 6 limbs killing the bugs
  • (almado killing the bugs and became a god of death)
  • Doesnt drawn in with malice, but odd reverence of the miku headed one but scarier than what almado looks like
  • Z: do u find these dreams scary?
  • “No they just are. They arent like the coin dream. Does asper find dreams of aeryn-vox scary?”
  • As: i dont dream but i wouldnt
  • Turred was very much born within the bubble
  • Z: turred do you know how many years old you are?
  • “1.” (2:1 to earth years, 2 earth years = 1 Kiliv-VI year)
  • Al: when was the first time u heard the term sexico-6?
  • “I think in the kindergarten?”
  • As: what did you learn?
  • “That its the ultimate pleasure!” (general ad sentiment)
  • Z: before you met us, did you know anyone besides your mom?
  • “Holograms! They taught me how to talk to people, and since ur my friends ive been doing a good job!”
  • 26 mindlinks with him showing the egg and hardlight construct area
  • 26: was this similar to the kindergarten?
  • He looks at us and then passes out, emergency cushion catching him
  • Seems fine?
    • But last 5 mins are being erased from his mind
    • Being replaced with something else, images of him being oddly tired
    • He has to do a fort save, but we can shine a spotlight on him and also holographic memory
  • Go back
    • Hey voz korr wtf is up
    • Voz “that’s simple. I’m the one who gave her THS.”
    • Huh????
    • “We have the ability to overwrite parts of dna.”
    • R: you changed her dna?
    • “Of course, and her infant powers. Despite her white hair, she’s 29. When she revives them, she sets them back 2 hours. Before, she could do it a year. Thus, if she wanted to kill me, i would let her.”
    • As: we?
    • “Me and my partner. Who left me in the state that you found me. He was the muscle, i was the pilot. Who drove him there to do that to korr.”
    • As: do you not have a grudge for taking out your implants?
    • Korr: “What would i do? His ideology would kill him eventually. Look at him, he went from a high pilot in solaran space and then to piloting u all.”
    • Al: were you acquainted before this?
    • “No.”
    • “We met in a bar shortly after. He admitted it after. Said that secrecy is not his thing. Said if he was to kill someone, he’d rather look them in the eye.”
    • As: and Voz Ricander? You dont have a grudge? He left you to die
    • “How many people do you think I’ve left to die?
    • Al: how many were ur friends though?
    • “3. Do you know what the most common cause of death in a starship fight is?
    • Al: aspixyation
    • “Yes, if no one retrieves you youre stuck until the oxygen runs out.”
    • Z: if thats the case, why did you ask us to save Halrex Korr?
    • “She’ll still get a relatively normal lifespan out of this. The estimates are 15 years. Be a shame for her to die before that. I only took eternity from her. She wont be grateful, but it’s right. Besides, you needed a doctor to save you from the credicites. Have you met anyone else who fits the bill?”
    • As: no
    • “Neither have i. Then maybe the orders from the emperor (she/her) weren’t wrong. We normally shoot them in the back of the head.”
    • As: got directly from emperor?
    • “All are done in the name of the emperor.”
    • As; and how does Velu Shineleaf fit in?
    • “In what way?”
    • As: he sent us to you
    • “I’ve never met the man.”
    • (voz is a terrible liar. He is telling the truth. He never lies outright.)
    • Al: have you met any of the info brokers?
    • “My own of course. One in solaran that helped us a bit.”
    • Al: if you dont mind us asking, is he-
    • As: in the top 100?
    • “I doubt so. He went by the name of Faust.”