Session 30
Prev: Session 29
Next: Session 31
- Dr. Vesk tasting notes, cold and carbonated
- He took 4 sips. It was scary
- It was bad but not throw up bad
- Ship, The Blue Angel
- We’re on the ship in the Remembrance Streams, isolated from the outside world for 4 hours minimum
- Aetherion Corporation Soldiers will be collecting themselves a bit, only one has a weapon on him
- They flop on our ship, hold up their weapon, vaguely pointing in our direction
- As; we are not going to harm you
- “Why did you attack our ship?”
- Zem: we didnt attack it
- As: we had business to be done with the trifecta program
- Shirren “so you’re allies then?”
- As: we have been travelling with hatsune miku and Luka
- “See men? We’re going to be paid.”
- (their ship was forcefully boarded, get bonuses)
- As: where was your ship headed?
- “Thru the auver system to the capital. Could i ask what rank your captain is?”
- Xep: he was a middle manager
- Gives a salute one gives to middle managers in a time of crisis
- Z: our middle manager, he got exploded before we could figure out the next steps. Do u have any idea what we’re supposed to be doing?
- “Next steps? We didnt even know ur vessel was a registered vessel”
- Z: it is
- “Yes, we’ve established this.”
- They lounge abt, ayla goes up to Korr
- Ayla “miku died, almado betrayed us.” goes to kitchen to get wasted
- Xep bugs their phones
- Korr “are you- i’m used to doing this. Do you need me to tell luka?”
- Yeahhhh
- Z in the groupchat: wtf happened? I understand, but i dont understand. Did u all see?
- Explain persanare was there, Kalervo Turred exploded it
- Luka does Not take miku’s death well
- Nothing happened on the ship while we were gone
- Ripley goes and gets drunk
- R: ayla
- “Ripley.”
- R: you saved zmena there
- “We already lost 2.”
- Z: thank you
- R: thanks
- “Dont be thanking me. If i couldve saved miku instead of you i wouldve.”
- R: still. You… couldve left him behind. Thank you. I dont think i could ever repay you for this
- “Good. maybe youll start listening to me then in an attempt to.”
- Xep looks at the data we got from the ship
- Right there in the nav data is their destination: the serenade
- Asper goes and stares in the mirror, punches it
- Party members Concerned. ASPER is frazzled
- Serenade seems to be somewhere in the Hollow Stars systems
- Eventually korr leaves with “does anyone know how to dye hair?”
- Z: yeah?
- “Do we even have blue hair dye on the ship?”
- Z: i can make some
- X: miku said i have to touch my roots up
- Luka has been crying heavily, also reeks of alcohol. She waves
- “Hi elmira.”
- Z: korr mentioned you wanted to dye your hair?
- “Yeah to remember her.”
- Z: alright. Come with me.
- Have to go thru turreds stuff in the bathroom, zmena stops
- Z: why dont we go to our bathroom?
- Ripley cleans up the broken glass
- Zmena tells her happy stories abt miku, purposefully leaving out almado
- Mikus first concert
- When she tried 50 bobas in a day
- Talks abt claires
- Ripley tells abt the sleepover
- “Do you think ill ever be as good as her?”
- Z: u shouldnt be like miku, be urself. Ur an amazing singer, artist, person. Just like her. She’d want u to know that.
- Able to get the dye job started, as ayla and korr drink in the kitchen
- Xep watching the soldiers
- Asper tries to meditate
- Their heart seems to ache, unable to meditate
- They find their consciousness slipping
- Will be back after the remembrance stream
- Wakes up with vespucciano watching over them, says they slipped
- Vespucciano is 60
- “Voz is older than me. 400”
- Hear the soft rumble of the ship going thru
- Voz “everyone strap down, we’re exiting the remembrance stream.”
- Exit it to another person in the network, hatsune miku at full hp. MANY lightyears away
- Able to guess where she is, direction and where miku once was: the istitiver system
- Several days of travel
- During: Obiado’s Hideout
- Abandoned department store, a small ratfolk is able to, with an emergency life support system, is able to get the android alive
- Got most of her pieces, but cant find her left eye, which is missing
- O: how many fingers am i holding up?
- Miku screams and crawls backwards
- Other androids he failed to save nearby
- O: calm down! Are you hatsune miku the starlight idol?
- M: y… yes?
- O: very good! Im sorry i did not expect this to work! Ehhh…. (gestures around to them) i uhh. I just kinda hoped it would. Hopes and prayers come true
- M: are u the friendly rat from my dreams?
- O: ehhh isuppose? Yes? I need u to stop screaming and moving, so i can give u a once over, make sure ur not abt to croak. Any drinks? I dont have any cold drinks, but i can get a hot drink!
- M: ….ok
- He goes and gets a misprinted reddy cup, pours boiling water and mystery leaves into it. Sips it. Chokes. Pours it out. Gets others.
- O: ok i think its mint
- M: i dont want anything rn?
- M: are we dead???
- O: ehhh no. ur innnn the new world
- M: where???
- O: Utsaka
- O: welcome to my humble abode!
- M: thank you!
- O: now that ive helped you. You help me?
- M: sure? What do u need help with
- O: we’ll get to that. First once over!
- (rn, she is not combat ready rn. Needs to heal. Her body was a lifeless husk that had a soul shunted back into it)
- O: how do u feel abt the aetherions?
- M: what? Why?
- O: how do i put it. This is a garbage dump? Aetherion garbage dump. Ur aetherion garbage, im aetherion garbage..
- M: well idk if i still am, but i was one of their idols? I think i did bad
- O: if they said u were doing bad, u were doing great!
- M: u think so?
- O: sons of bitches, they think everything good is bad, bad is great. So we kill them!
- M: i dont do that!
- M: funny words!
- O: i havent said anything wrong, i just have a bit of an accent
- M: thats ok. I think miku did smth wrong
- O: what did u do wrong? Anything that would jepardize ur clearance?
- M: um… well my best friend just killed me i think
- O: ah. Ehh. there there? (pats her back) now u want to kill all aetherions?
- M: no! Of course not! It was probably something wrong with me! I was supposed to perform well, io dont think i was
- O: theres nothing wrong with u. U.. maybe u take a nap, feel better when u wake up? Then we go kill aetherion dogs
- M: i dont want to kill dogs! I dont want to kill people!
- O: eh rats then
- M: i dont want to kill anyone, why do u want to kill people?
- O: we dont have to kill them. Makes it easier. If u prefer we try not doing, but if things go wrong we kill them.
- M: ok.. Miku doesnt feel like fighting yet tho
- O: ok you take a nap, let me know when ur ready kill?
- He ripped up soft things and ptu it into a pile for her
- Around the time miku is abt to drift off, she can feel asper and the others emerging out of a remembrance stream
- She shoots back up, looks like miku is having a form of a medical episode, some seizure overtaking her. Incredibly dangerous
- O: oh no it is broken.
- M: i think my friends are still out there!
- O: the ones that killed u?
- M: not that one… i hope theyre not mad at me too. But i hope i can talk to them…
- O: know where they’ll be going? And do they like aetherions
- M: well i can feel them from that way (points vaguely into the ground)]
- O: ah. Gone to hell. Do they like aetherions then?
- M: idk anymore?
- O: ill put them down as a may?
- M: ok that’s fine
- O: but do u know where they were planning on going?
- M: [lists out destination planet, far as fuck]
- O: can they feel where u are at?
- M: they should be able to. We’re under a mystic bond
- O: ah! Ehhh.
- (she’ll be mobile in 4 days, in a week she can hold a gun and not slow him down)
- He goes to look for food and anything that would help her get back on her feet
- He gets poptarts, dr vesk, giant mantis meat
- M: thank u mr rat!
- He makes a shitty stew/soup
- O: obiado
- M: ok obi!
- He doesnt ask Any important questions
- 4 days of hospital till she can leave rat’s nest
- We get closer and closer
- Miku
- By the end of 4 days, she can feel that we are getting closer to her
- M: maybe they still wanna be my friend! Theyre getting closer!
- O: oh! Eh.. haha. So eh. They hate aetherion? Or love aetherion?
- M: miku doesnt know!
- Obiado wants to start heading towards the compound
- Continue toward the compound™
- Scans in thru the back access taht doesnt have death turret
- This thing is stacked like a city, made almost out of discarded materials aetherion uses to keep itself running
- Nearby area shows signs of once having life for a small group of ppl, but no more
- Manage to find back entrance to hidden lab, time to finally see wahts on the other side
- Miku hand to scanner, acknowledges her as aetherion asset and lets her in
- Numerous hallways
- He goes thru warrens, the door is a generator for the top area
- Miku having a little trouble now bc she’s had to hike thru a junkyard
- He gives her Crochelp
- Can hear soldiers on the other side of the door
- O: ready to kill?
- M: no! Talk???
- O: oh yeah.
- Soldiers turn and look, see aetherion asset
- “It seems an escaped subject and ysoki are on the loose” one radios
- M: im hatsune miku the starlight idol!
- Obiado immediately shoots
- Soldiers shoot at her and obiado, and miku Is Terrified. Flees
- Obiado closes the door, cuts the cable that raises it and runs out
- Miku heals them both up
- O: that wasnt great!
- M: sorry i got scared…
- O: u suuuure did!
- M: they were using the same kind of weapons that i got killed with….
- O: oh. Ah…..
- He goes and makes another shitty tea
- M: ty mr obi….
- O: ur friends. U said u dont know if theyre pro or anti aetherion. How good are they at killing aetherions?
- M: one is aetherion manager, but hes not in the network so idk?
- M: none of the rest are aetherion tho
- O: do u think they like u more or less than him?
- M: idk…
- O: hostage is more or less off the table….
- He stresses himself out and then takes a nap
- O: i got it! We’ll ambush them! So u’ll stand where they can find u, i’ll.. Hide in the trash. If they get mad, i’ll shoot them!
- M: please dont shoot my friends?
- O: what if they shoot u first?
- M: i dont know! (sits and starts crying again)
- Obiado sets up an ‘ambush spot’
- Others begin passing thru, we will get an encrypted message from ragash
- Eventually arrive in the system, able to see muse corp still standing but clearly undergoing some sort of renovations with odd ships surrounding it. Only 100 miles away is miku on the lower part of the system, where the natural waterfalls flow downward. The heap.
- Take blue angel v1 down
- We go find her, see miku standing there in the middle of the trash heap
- M: is almado with you guys?
- NO
- M: this is mr obi, he found me in the trash heap
- Obiado asks xep if they hate aetherion, yeah
- X: did they do smth to you?
- O: masomenos. Everyone living within aetherion has been fucked by them.
- Miku is functioning, but likely was disassembled and reassembled
- Add him to the network
- Go to the Aetherion base
- Combat, soldiers are ready for us
- Priests of Maelgrin Thelvas here
- Intercom plays, sooo tired “can i ask who’s raiding my lab?”
- “Are you part of the 302 group?”
- O: we had plenty of agreements with aetherion!
- “Yes! And they still hold!”
- “Bring back one of your warren leaders if you have a dispute.”
- As: what
- O: its technically not my turf. Its technically my warren’s and theyre teeechnically not here
- Z: then why are we here
- O: i wanted to know what they were up to, its aetherion
- NANITE TRIFECTA PROGRAM
- Trox like creature with chitin removed and soft jelly flesh suspended, diodes connected to its head
- NDA blocks our view
- He wants us to sign
- M: can i ask who we’re speaking to?
- “Dr. Arisept. And who are the 302’s companions?”
- M: hatsune miku the starlight idol sir!
- “Oh. you survived?”
- M: survived is a way to put it but im still here yeah
- “So the 302 is what has been stealing things from our incinerator”
- X: did you incinerate miku
- “We clearly failed”
- “Youre a representative of the warren. Thus we’re sending the bill to the warren”
- O: ah. Ah. uh.
- Combat, soldiers are ready for us