Session 28

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• We go past Brijka System
• 89 hours of downtime on The Blue Angel
  • Almado gets chrome
  • Halrex Korr “when’s the last time you got a physical?”
  • Al: uhhhhh basic training. Been a couple years
  • Korr asks if anyone’s not had a physical within the past year. Party says yeag
    • Ayla bubbles Luka Kalervo Turred and vespucciano also get one
      • Luka’s references mikus
        • Sternally implanted explosive device identical in design and neural integration to that observed in Hatsune Miku.
        • Neurological testing demonstrates pronounced subliminal responses to specific stimuli, suggestive of incomplete memory suppression or erasure procedures.
      • Turred
        • Bilateral poly-lenticular ocular structures present.
        • Evidence of markedly accelerated biological aging.
        • Multichamber gastric anatomy identified.
        • Congenital inability to produce terminal hair follicles.
        • Persistent anomalous perceptual phenomena observed; differential diagnosis includes extrasensory cognition or psychotic-spectrum disorder.
        • Dermal and subdermal tissues demonstrate pressure-induced hyperkeratinization and rapid hardening response.
      • No Voz Ricander
    • Hatsune Miku
      • Mild cognitive impairment with episodic memory deficits.
      • Explosive device integrated within the sternum and directly interfaced with the central nervous system. Remote administration interface detected but remains unidentified. Device classified as highly unstable; further invasive investigation contraindicated.
      • No anatomical or cybernetic mechanism responsible for reported immortality could be identified. Integration may occur at a non-observable or distributed level
    • 26
      • Severe generalized muscular atrophy
    • ASPER
      • Structural fissuring observed within synthetic dermal layers.
      • Progressive periarticular tissue accumulation may result in reduced joint mobility.
        • Android arthritis
      • Isolated biological cardiac valve detected within an otherwise synthetic cardiovascular system; morphology consistent with human origin, origin undetermined
    • Zmena looks at the paper, looks at korr
      • Z: what does this mean?
      • “Where gloves when you wear poison, its starting to affect the nerves on the edge of your limbs”
      • Z: got it
      • “Are you planning on poison fist technique?”
      • Z: no?
      • “Wear gloves. Its not too serious but could lead to loss of mobility.”
    • Korr to miku
      • “Why did they give you a golden core?”
      • M: mikus not entirely sure, she just learned she had one yesterday!
      • “If the goal was to make you an idol, why not give to one of their existing idols? You wish for a shot, hatsune miku?”
      • M: miku would prefer not to be shot in the head but ty for the offer!
    • Rip: can i ask?
      • “Of course”
      • R: how often should i be getting tested. Yearly or every 2 years?
      • “If you think u have a sign, immediately, then every year, and when you hit 40 every 2 years.”
    • Almado asks for basic antibiotics
    • Almado
      • Elevated physiological stress markers identified on hematological analysis.
      • Peripheral neuropathy noted within the cervical region.
      • Clinical indicators consistent with chronic sleep deprivation.
      • Facial dermal contamination presents a potential biohazard risk.
    • E-Xep-Ro
      • Command-and-control implant irreparably damaged.
      • Multiple metallic foreign-body fragments surgically removed and replaced with silicon lattice scaffolding pending autonomous integration.
      • Somatic nervous system exhibits continuous activation state. Neural architecture demonstrates closer similarity to felid physiology than baseline human patterns.
        • bullet time and high reflexes at the cost of battery life
    • Rip
      • No significant acute or chronic pathological findings.
      • Genetic screening indicates elevated susceptibility to THS.
• Aminti System
  • One of the birth places of androids!
  • Receive a message
    • Play over our intercoms
    • “Might i know what ship this is? Seems to be of aedryn design. Do you happen to be ambassadors?”
    • Almado gives aetherion id, identity us as the blue angels, a MUSE vessel
    • “Might i board to engage in negotiations?”
    • Al: please identify yourself
    • “Of course. Lolvax. A self-made man.”
      • His dad is a humble CFO
    • Al: sparking still or beer on your arrival?
    • “Beer. how many stairs does your vessel have?”
    • He enters in the docking zone
    • THE BANTRID LOOKS AT THE PARTY
    • Al: how can we help you!
    • “My understanding is that your company is about to go under”
    • Al: im trying to do steps to stop that
    • “What about an angel investor? Like the one who first started it?”
    • Muse is public knowledge
    • “Everyone has seen them perform at least once.”
    • “It’s good to stay informed about these things. There’s talk of one of my father’s sponsor company, a disposal unit that was said to be wiping you out. Consider this a diversity of the portfolio.”
    • Al: wise investment!
    • “I’m willing to give 20k up front for miku and luka to wear our logo?”
    • Al: of course sir itd have to be smth more subtle, a badge, or a symbol for your branch we could incorporate into their motifs?
    • (did u know blackwater has sponsored concerts before?)
    • Zooms by and gives a sweeping ball design thats like the nike logo
    • Al: may i make a suggestion? (duplicate, flips it, holds them up to either one) (magnet but bantrid)
    • “If you wish, i could let you into the aetherion capital! Where we can show our new found allegiance to each other :)”
    • Al: wouldnt it be better if an angel investor remains unseen, to not put a risk on an investment since we do tend to… walk a bit more dangerous path than most idols.
    • “I know! Thats why im investing in you!”
    • Al: an open show of allegiance could bring danger to you,
    • “More dangerous than the Disposal Corp?”
    • Al: i hate to say it but that was a bad night for us, but one we survived
    • “You did! So you are the ones that killed The Spider? Ill let the family know if you dont return an investment, but you’ll return ur investment, right?”
    • Al: of course sir. Its been the most profitable time of my life
    • “Thats good. Did you know the spider has an older brother?”
    • As: an elder brother??
    • “Yes!”
    • Al: i simply hope hes picked a life of pacifism for his safety
    • “Oh no, The Scorpion is a dangerous man. So long as ur under my protection, the scorpion wont hurt you”
    • Almado kowtows, more ramplike so he can roll him over
  • Scorpion is stronger than the spider
    • Has a tail, alternative machine gun tail that he can detach and use as a turret
• Thru space
  • Turred reading IA3 fics abt miku and luka, but most seem to be almado based
• Miku making an album with luka
  • Perception: as she works with her, luka seems to do worse at creating anything as long as almado is around
  • Luka has dreams abt rushing waters and Blue
  • “I think im just afraid of swimming!”
  • M: it feels like theyre putting me back together so they might be friends
  • Turred’s input on weird dreams
  • “Yeah i remember being frozen and reborn as you do. Yknow how they do to sperm”
  • M: no i dont know!
  • “Oh that’s cause ur created! Anyone who’s born remembers being a sperm. Or maybe i was the egg?”
  • M: which was it?
  • “One or the other! One got the memories!”
  • Talks abt how he has dreams about miku?
  • “Kinda like drawn on giant cave walls?”
  • M: wahts drawn on them?
  • “Well its… you presiding over a bunch of ppl as they kill each other.”
  • M: miku doesnt know what to do abt that info!
  • “I assume its almado of course.”
  • M: ohhhh almado.
  • “Watching over ppl as they die.”
  • M: sounds scary!
  • “I also had dreams about nsuoba. And all the other places we’ve been. I liked it better when we had unlimited money. We should go somewhere nice when we have money”
  • M: true! What have you been dreaming about? Just what happens there?
  • “No uh… i have a dream where i like to bury myself in the sand but its not sand but dirt fields, i get to pretend im a cabbage or turnip.”
  • Miku gets asper “I heard doctors are supposed to know when you have weird dreams and stuff is that true?”
  • As: i will listen to the dreams? You are having… dreams turred?
  • “Oh many of them! Whenever im having the planet dream i imagine myself digging down. Some of my dreams are in space in weird space stations
  • As: have you had any repeating dreams?
  • “Those are the two i have besides the one of almado presiding over death
  • As: what do you see when you are in space?
  • “When im in space? Well mostly the stars. Sometimes i can go flying around in these little ships (describes a loveseater). I see black holes and the like, bending the light around us
    • Rail system that involves going through a long tunnel and holds about 2 people
  • As: interesting. Have these dreams evoked any emotions in you?
  • “Fear mostly! Sometimes pleasure
  • As: pleasure?
  • “Yeah! Have you ever seen the big lights light up in ur dream and know everything is gonna be alright?
  • M: yeah i just dreamt about rats putting me back together and luka dreamt about drowning
  • As: idk what that means for y’all
  • “The space dreams are haunted by 2 lights: the red one of fear and the bright white one that washes away all fear
  • As: i cannot say i had such a dream
  • “I told them to my little asper whenever i had them.
  • As: i still dk what that means. I can’t see the little aspers.
  • points at miku
  • As: no that’s miku
  • “No. shoulder
  • As: do u,,, wish to speak to ur little asper again?
  • “Ofc! I love my little asper. I’d often give it pets whenever i could.
  • As: you are able to touch ur asper?
  • “Not really but it reacts
  • As: reacts how?
  • “It moves out of the way. It doesn’t seem to like getting pet but it’s kinda cute in its own way
  • As: ok. Well while we’re traveling i can add u to the network if u would enjoy that
  • He immediately starts petting the air before turning around to follow the little asper “i just think it’s kinda cute cause it almost looks like a baby u
  • As: baby me?
  • “Small. No legs though. Just floating around
  • As: just the head and torso?
  • “Sort of. The legs disappear. Well i can’t see them but maybe u can
  • As: i can’t see them
  • “Can u put mine in a suit?
  • As: i can try but idk if i can do anything about that since i didn’t know they existed before u. In my meditations ill think v hard about urs being in a suit
  • “Can i see a mirror to see if it’s in a suit?
  • As: i haven’t meditated
  • “Oh i thought it just needed u to think
  • As: i can attempt?
    • Thinking real hard about putting the little asper in a suit
    • It does not work
  • As: turred, what is ur asper wearing?
  • “Robes kinda like urs.
  • As: and what does miku’s wear?
  • “Robes kind like urs and kinda like mine but not quite.
  • Basically all the robes are distinct but similar.
    • Different symbols on the robes, all unique
    • Turred draws the symbols out for us
  • They don’t have the cracks that asper has
  • Asper tries to touch the little asper and is able to feel a pocket of positive energy
  • “What if we get korr to switch out one of our eyes and i get one of ur hands so we can see and touch it each?
  • As: i don’t think that’ll work
  • Asper detects magic and can detect some magic
• Vespucciano learning cultivation
  • 26: can u feel the qi flowing thru ur core?
  • “Not really no!”
  • 26: focus inwards vespucciano!
  • Nat 20 right here!!!!
  • “I think i feel it!”
  • 26: good! Focus on that feeling! It guides you!
  • “Do i need a name like urs when i become a cultivator?”
  • 26: no thats a contemplative name. It would be racist
• Sejaada System - Able to see many war ships getting ready by the border for some reason due to an unknown catastrophe happening
  • Xep gets in, but gets V-team 3 talking abt needing more cord bc they can’t get thru the ducts. The janitor team
  • They arent talking abt their stuff
  • If war was to break out, theyre able to go to Kiliv System as backup. They would be able to then stay in kiliv, holding it effectively, which would give them access to 3 other systems in the war
  • The power cuts out from the ship for abt 10 seconds before turning back on
• Kiliv System after 99 more hours
  • Get to nsuoba, setting down
  • The traffic controller looks “oh youve upgraded. Where’s the fellow that was with you last time?”
    • Al: died. Ill sign
    • “No-” almado takes it regardless, signs
    • Al: we didnt know he had a bounty on him. And when u made him sign, someone came and collected
    • “Tragic, what’d he do to get a bounty on him?”
    • Al: he helped the wrong refugee.
    • “Ohh. tragic. What else. Did he stop a burning building on this planet too?”
    • Al: no nothing like that
    • “Nothing unbelievable like that.”
    • Al: he did die tho
    • “Oh. tragic.”
    • Al: the Otad Gang gunned him down
    • “Ah. is that why you have one of the members on your crew?”
    • 26: yes we like them better
    • Al: pretty much why
    • “Is she the one that shot him?”
    • Al: …..no. she really wishes she was
    • “What sort of stupid shit did he do to make his murderer your favorite?”
    • “Dirty harddrive type?”
    • “We’ll look into any known convictions. What was his name again?”
  • Go to Velu Shineleaf’s home home
    • He is there. Playing his games, pauses and turns
    • “Now what a surprise. I didnt expect to see you in person so soon!”
    • As: hello velu.
    • “Hello asper!” he hugs them, gives everyone else a handshake except miku who hugs
    • He offers dinner for us
    • “Look at it this way! There will be no need for that sorta worry i imagine that the convo will more than pay whatever u can eat.”
    • “What are you in the mood for? Seafood i presume?”
    • Luka “ive never had seafood!”
    • M: perfect!
    • “Would you like fermented whale?”
    • R: thatd be fire
    • “Of course. Youve never seen a ribbon whale have ya?”
    • M: ribbon whale?
    • ‘Its like if a whale and an eel had a baby. Its tongues are a delicacy!”
    • M: several tongue?
    • “It has several across its body.”
    • Al: bc its between friends, i assume miku eating this wouldnt be for sale? The knowledge?
    • ‘I cant do that, u know it. Its how much ur willing to pay”
    • He considers all of us friends. And invites the rest of the crew as well
    • We arrive, see the nice ocean side view
    • See luka begin to have a panic attack, eyes like saucers
    • Al: step away from the water.
    • M: why are u so angry???
    • Al: she’s in distress. Luka, what do we do with emotions?
    • “Sing about them!”
    • Al: yes, bottle them up and save them for later.
    • We close the curtains
    • Velu “my apologies! I didnt realize those rumors were true!”
    • “I presume you didnt just come for the oysters, though id be mighty flattered if you did.”
    • As: we are wanting information on the otad gang
    • “Of course. What do you want to know?”
    • Al: how much to know who gave the assassination mission to the otad gang?
    • “5k.”
    • Al: how much for whatever they’d locked out?
    • “They’ve made no deal with us. Theyre a relatively sturdy organization. The answers simple: it’s that with which you’ve led me to. You call them the credicites. Idk what they call themselves.”
    • As: they are an organization?
    • “In a sense. I couldnt say theyre a swarm of credits, u’d figure that out on your own.”
    • X: how much to know abt any other killings they’ve ordered?
    • “An extra 1k. That group, that thing, only killed him and then left.”
    • X: info on the status on anyone else that have left kiliv-vi after the serenade crashed?
    • “Ur gonna have to be specific. Kiliv-vi is not locked down.”
    • As: do you know how the credicites got in contact with the otad gang?
    • “I might.”
    • 26: how much?
    • “100.”
    • “Well you see, as digital beings, i believe they used the internet and a cellphone to contact them.”
    • “I have been nothin but helpful to you. I answer the question and i put a price.”
    • 26: we are frustrated at our own mistakes. But this is the way to improve. Acknowledging one’s mistakes.
    • X: how much to get a good question to ask?
    • “I need a price range for that.”
    • X: 3000?
    • “Ill take half up front, take the other half if you choose to ask it.”
    • “How about what the man found on kiliv that i was willing to pay for that i paid you 100 credits for?”
    • Yeah sure
    • “Good news and bad news. Location of the serenade that he found. He burned that source, but he also heard of other sources of the serenade around. They were buried deeper in kiliv, some bug systems, deep in their tunnels.”
    • X: like turnips?
    • “I believe u could phrase it like that. Little heads poppin out of their fields and playing projectors. I do believe that there is another question worth askin. A bit…. Important for ya. That one will cost a measly… 6million.”
    • X: need it now or add to almado’s debt?
    • “I need to be paid now, i cant take a colony ship’s debt.”
    • (persanare money, this could be related to him but not worth putting a full investment in. not directly him and it isnt worth him locking it down.)
    • As: any more credicite activity on nsuoba?
    • “No”
    • X: of the ppl that visited, whats the most expensive one cost to know their identity?
    • “I’ll see thats hard. I dont think you’ll like the answer.”
    • R: billion?
    • “No. trillion. Some people are very rich and want their identities hidden.”
    • (Solaran Emperor of the Solaran Imperium.)
    • As: what about the visitors of zaera allhaven?
    • “The answer to that one will be too expensive.”
    • Al: ive got 2 questions. The first… has anybody- whats the cost for info ppl have hidden about us.
    • “Define that?”
    • Al: someone putting info aside on our behalf.
    • “On your behalf?”
    • Al: if anybody.
    • “I understand what youre goin for. But it is an odd request if you dont mind me enjoying my meal and sending it upward, ill see waht the price would be. Its just not one ive accommodated before.”
    • Al: of course. How much to know who’s asked abt us?
    • “That one i can’t do. An info broker can’t sell out their sources. Can’t say who told me info and can’t say who asked what question.
    • Al: what’s being asked about us?
    • “In the general or the specific?”
    • Al: general, work our way in
    • “General is 100. Specific is at least abt 50k.”
    • 100
    • “The usual. Personal weaknesses antithesis, who u are, where ur from, any surviving family members.”
    • Al: where The Scorpions been?
    • “I believe only 100.”
    • 100
    • “Oh! Do you want his last movements, or how do u want it dealt out?”
    • Al: last known location?
    • “On aedryn, payin respects to his little brother. He has professionally asked for those who wish to kill him can seek him out.”
    • Single credit
    • Al: u have our number, right?
    • “Of course.”
    • Al: how much to know his next confirmed location once he’s moved?
    • “How will i define if he’s in transit or there?”
    • Al: when he leaves his current system and i expect projected destination.
    • “When he hops on the next Remembrance Streams then? We’ll see what we can do, but that’s a bit hard for us. Im sure u understand.”
    • 1k
    • “Its still 100, but the info is hard to verify”
    • Al: if ur not confident, put it toward store credit
    • 26: anything about Sirra?
    • “8 billion!”
    • Talking abt selling info and then having asper share the info afterward
      • Hes willing to do 2 years
    • “There are certain pieces of info that id ask to have for a longer period of time. Like the mining rights, i would like to have that for at least a decade.
      • He keeps info for 2 years, then after u can release
      • If he doesnt pay for it, its free and u can release
        • If u tell him smth and he hasnt yet paid but realize it needs to be out, u can say no deal and release it
      • Pay 5x the price to release early
      • He is willing to make provisions should there be an honest mistake with time conversion (but he doubts we’ll mistake 24 hours for 2 years)
    • R: velu, this might be asking abt a price. How much for everything u know abt the development of the cure for THS?
    • “Everything?”
    • R: everything thats not public knowledge
    • “Outside of urs but technically plausible. 300k. Ur asking for everything.”
    • Al: for 8?
    • “The cure?”
    • R: 10k, actually.
    • “There is… the only known cure that has worked is the transference of the soul into another person’s body and suppressing the latent soul. If ur not willing to do that, there is no cure. Id tell u abt the mechanisms and who’s done it and how, but that’s outside ur price range.”
    • R: thanks
    • “Of course. Could i ask a small favor? Check in on the Otad Gang and their base? After i got their ship i felt odd and scared to go. If you go id pay handsomely. 20 credits. Id even provide the car. Asper is blacklisted from renting.”
    • “Thisll be the first bit of our contract together of course.”
  • Asper agrees to take the deal