Session 37

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• The Serenade
• Return to the bar
  • Guards stop Benalis at the door
  • “You go on ahead.”
  • A: why is he not allowed in?
  • “His money is no good here.”
  • A: we wanted to have a convo with him and Adma Heavenhands
  • Adma “is this a betrayal?”
  • Z: we wanted to see if we could have a collab
  • “You’d compromise our morals.”
  • X: if we’re setting up a situation vaguely- i mean, we’d like the most amt of ppl together as possible
  • “Even if that group starved ppl and refused to feed them.”
  • “The people outside the casino were eating bugs”
  • 26: perhaps a form of collab as a way of atonement
  • “Of course he could leave behind his money when i own the serenade, and then he can go free.”
  • Lots of discussion, we do agree that we dont need to be given money
• Go back to benalis
  • He waves
  • Smiles
  • “I assume she doesnt want to meet with me?”
  • No
  • “Shame”
  • Z: she does have a problem with you
  • “Did she give you the speech of how i starved ppl”
  • Yes
  • “We were going to devalue the casino. Target the shipbay etc its low amt of ppl but high value target”
  • Z: you mentioned that everyone else had just enough to eat. Why did ur group get more
  • “How many times did i gamble in a day? Abt 200. It would take roughly 500 years to get enough money, if i let them do it naturally in a high roller situation i wouldve gotten it in 18.”
  • “That pinky swear meant nothing?”
  • “People wont work together.”
  • Z: whats your plan, then?
  • “For one, we have the money. We are close to hollow stars, its easy to get in contact with freelancers to fix up this place. Many of The Benalis appear to be from Concord of Aedryn and Aetherion Corporation, alongside Solara Imperium. Assuming we dont ransom them back for money, many ppl in great places with debts to us.”
  • “Take your time.” tosses us the keys to the extra car
• Go back to team huddle
  • (zmena thinks abt space communism. They were near aetherion space and were quickly assimilated by larger forces.)
  • Vesp “while benalis is a good guy and very smart and has connections, you all have gotten exponentially stronger”
  • Bubbles doesnt have strong opinions on this
  • Ayla believes in the survival of the fittest, does mean benalis wins
• Ok adma
  • We would rather side with you in this scenario
  • R: i want to believe ppl can be goo to each other
  • “Then i’ll tell u the in we have. One is in the haunted district and one is hydroponics.”
  • O: ghost district?
  • “One of the inner trains that goes around the tower derailed when he turned off the gravity, crashed into a shopping mall. Has traditional defenses and ghosts.”
  • Hydroponics is unknown if we would all go to the same section
  • Z: how many would be- separate? Some can get rather small
  • “I imagine you could fit 4 people, 1 medium 2 small
• Tell adma abt the tower and the 13
  • OH GOD IF WE GO IN WITH OUR PHONES AND ACTIVATE THE TOWER ITLL CONTAIN OUR CREDICITES
  • Identify the credicite parts of our phones, put them all into 1 super infected phone, leave the phone here, bing bada boom
• Leave our box of Love with vespucciano
• Off to hydroponics
  • Ripley asper
    • We wind up in what smells like a rotting refuse heap
    • Also extra bad news. They put us at the bottom of the stack
    • Smells like rotting vegetation
    • 120meters from xep 26
    • 200meters from zmena obiado
  • Obiado zmena
    • Left in an unattended area
  • Xep 26
    • Can feel thoughts going around, ppl on the outside moving around
    • Can detect 2, raises to 4 occasionally given their range
  • Obiado zmena
    • Emerge unscathed in the kitchen
    • It hasnt been used in a while, dust covers most of the area in the kitchen
    • Only marks are from automated systems
      • No signs of human life
  • Ripley asper
    • Shoot thru the plastic
    • Does reveal that we are in a giant stack of crates in a storage room
    • Many of the plants that were brought into the area were left to rot, some continued to grow, many more became a compost heap
    • Bottom of the conveyer, goes sideways and then up
    • Abt 4 boxes on top of us
  • Xep 26
    • Xray vision
    • Ppl outside have broken arms, one is missing a hand
    • Digital diversion at range
    • Goes bad
    • Hears the 4 guys gather around, claw around for a few seconds
    • After a bit, they seem to move on
    • They go about the various parts of their room
  • Obiado zmena
    • Door to their north east and west
    • East is 26 and xep
    • Southeast is asper rip
    • West is locked, unoccupied
    • North is unoccupied, cold storage
    • Leads them to an overseer room, see workers moving boxes around. Vesk and halfling, mostly. A lot of them. 7 workers in the dark moving around. Lights are off, they move all the same
    • Still hard to see even with darkvision
    • Obiado sees partially rotting ppl with electronics in their veins, black liquid leaking out of their open wounds
    • Z: hey there are zombies here. Like the otad gang! Watch out
    • X: we’ll stay put, stab urself if u want us to jump out
    • X: 4 zombies surrounding us, stab urself bc u cant message us past 120 but we’ll know if u get slightly hurt
    • Talk to asper and rip thru them
    • South 2 silent, south 1 has noise
    • South 2, reveals alarm system room
      • No functional cameras
      • Could hack in tho
    • Go along a narrow hallway of backshoots, find the storage room
    • Has potatoes and the like growing along the refuse
    • Obiado moves the boxes off and gets the stinky rip and asper
  • Go back to 26 and xep
    • This form of zombification allows the surface thoughts to remain
    • Knock on door, distract zombies
    • Manage to escape
    • Go back to security, access cameras
    • Logs
      • Datalogs of notable events
      • Automatic system detects notable events
      • Logs are inconsequential up until the day that the serenade was taken over
      • The credits infected the entire base of it including but not limited to a giantess and a dwarf that were sneaking into the tower
        • They had the ambition of taking over the tower and becoming rich
• Enter the lobby
  • Thru one of the side entrances
  • Sound of heavy breathing and stomping
  • Barefoot giantess, infected and in a bit of pain
  • She is technically a cloud giant, tho she advertised herself as a moon giant
  • She has a painglave and rotolazer
  • We Could cure her if we got her unconscious
  • Combat
    • Reactive strike
    • She can make the cloud into a dense cloud, gives concealment to all creatures and she can see thru clouds
    • Ripley knocks her out
  • Lobby clears of the mist
  • 10 MINUTE ELEVATOR
  • Staticy crackle over the intercom, someone punched it
  • Something is trying to get in contact with us
  • “What do i need to offer to make you turn back?”
  • O: the serenade?
  • “You can have it when we’re done.”
  • 26: done with what
  • “Our plan”
  • A: who is we?
  • “We. those who you call credicites.”
  • A: speaking thru conrad at the moment?
  • “Would you like him to take over?”
  • A: is he coherent?
  • “Yes. he’s quite enraged you appear to have killed his lover.”
  • Z: what are you trying to do?
  • “Make sure this prison no longer exists.”
  • A: blow it up?
  • “No, if we wanted to we’d do it already”
  • “Youve gotten this far. It lets me give a 2nd wish. Conrad wished for the serenade. I gave it to him. What would you wish? We could do anything.”
  • Z: anything?
  • “I could split it into 4 parts. Wish for nivayas soul to be free, your body to made whole asper, your sect to be reformed.”
  • 26: how do u know of it?
  • “Ur quite famous. Just pause the elevator and we can talk”
  • Pause
  • How
  • “A soul transfer for asper. New body just like hatsune miku.”
  • A: is it really that simple?
  • “More complicated, but i can do it.”
  • Z: and nivaya? I thought his soul was lost
  • “His soul is simply with ms geltic. Id simply make a deal.”
  • R: what kind of deal??
  • “Id lose my leverage.”
  • “This one is one of my projects. A few…. Very minimal years in the making, but a project all the same.”
  • Z: how many years?
  • “This one? About 50. I got the primary thing i want.”
  • Theyre not here, theyre skyping in
  • “I am going to destroy the prison and of itself. The blackhole. I obviously see the predicament ur in. i offer full protection from the pest 13.”
  • A: how does persanare fit into this?
  • “He is like a student to me.”
  • Z: are you the aetherion ceo?
  • “In a sense.”
  • A: why did you toss out your love?
  • “So i could be impartial. Do you know what love is? Discrimination. Tell me this, there is a bus of 5 orphans about to explode or the person you love. The orphans have a longer life ahead of them, and there is five.”
  • “If i’m to rule as a god, i do need to remain impartial, no?”
  • x: did you have specific ppl u loved?
  • “Everyone does. I was quite fond of persanare. Are you not worthy? Or should i revert back to him?”
  • Z: why god?
  • “The cultivators can explain it better. Divine ruler, heavenly type.”
  • “(talking abt godhood) Divine sparks. It can be claimed.”
  • X: a solar system in mind that ur gonna anihillate?
  • “Of course.”
  • “I was thinking of providing a little shelter from the solaran empire. We crash it into another blackhole, create a nova, and free everyone from the remembrance streams to them”
  • The universe used to have remembrance streams across it 13.4 billion years ago and then they all got wiped
    • Precursor describing their precursor to us
  • X: who built the serenade?
  • “A group of zealots that wanted to stop the expansion of precursors. The last one was the big pit. They continue slightly thru legacy in the solaran empire. They were the inheritors of their will, their scene if you will. I was the first. At one point, he mightve been the strongest, but he is no more.”
  • X: is there a reason all the ppl need to stay on the serenade?
  • ‘It was conrads wish. I could free them all. U could even wish for her utopia while youre here.”
  • X: the tech could be replicated elsewhere?
  • “Not quite.”
  • “I could release the outer mechanisms. It would ruin the 3d construction tech, but without that it still has life support systems thanks to the hydroponics.”
  • A: velkrion?
  • “I could invite you upon it, but i cant tell you about it. Persanare forced me not to say.”
  • X: are u not worried abt that prison?
  • “It doesnt have the same capability of containing me.”
  • X: why did they contain you instead of killing you?
  • “Because they lacked the power to. Blackhole couldnt kill me.”
  • R: are you in charge of the trifecta program?
  • “I was in a sense.”
  • R: an aspect of you?
  • “Because i delegated it out.”
  • A: what is it?
  • “Is that one of your questions asper?”
  • A: no u know that it is not
  • “Someone who truly loved it would take it. Also i can give you 7 wishes.”
  • X: we saw a containment unit that would contain smth similar to u on persanares ship, was that you?
  • ‘No, if it was me i wouldve offered you a deal. But it was by persanare’s orders.”
  • X: are u in charge of the ‘Lemdako Corporation’?
  • “A solarian long ago punched the camera in there. The one you met was partially me.”
  • A: and what else?
  • “Its entirety was me, but was only a partial of me. Easy to divvy it up. Helps with the multitasking.”
  • Z: u can get us onto velkrion?
  • “Of course! Vip access, directly to anyone. There are many ppl there. I believe even a handsome contemplative was put on. Thankfully this would only cost you 1 wish.”
  • 20 mins yapping while asper automatic writings and gets no longer stupefied
    • Why should we not take this sort of deal
      • Would give exactly whatever you ask for.
  • A: what should we call you?
  • “What do you call the other half of me?”
  • Uhhhh we dont have one
  • “Youve been travelling for so long, u dont have a name for them?”
  • What does persanare call you?
  • “He calls me ambition.”
  • Obiado smashes the speaker
  • we go up the elevator
  • Power failures start around the area
  • combat