Session 1

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Denpakant, Suimin
Abt 6 weeks ago The Scarring began
2 weeks ago it mysteriously stopped
No one has an excuse to murder. But murder they have inside the megablock
A series of occult killings have taken place, each of us have our own knowledge
As we’re going abt our apartments, we’ll just go clockwise describing us
Starting with Ithax
- Right now, he is a beautiful trustworthy looking twink. Machine crafted to be so beautiful. If you heard him hes always muttering shit in a different voice. When he speaks hes so dude bro
- Rn he’s sort of. Playing sad breakup music emanating within apartment. Does frequently wander about, investigating, taking witness statements. Not always abt murders. Missing vending machine stock has come up multiple times
- Clothes Never match, always wildly different bright colors. Slightly offputting
- Breakup music abruptly stops changing radio stations
Haven
- Across the hall from Ithax
- Seen him around Ithax or just kinda there and then gone once u hear a door shut
- 6’7 kasatha
- Phone in one hand, openly wielding a gun in the other since the scarring
  - Ready and willing
- Rn just pacing his apartment, glancing at the TV, trash everywhere. Not taking care of his space
- Not the most friendly when talking to him, but he’ll chat if someone else opens it up. Picked up sign language with Kaspar!
- In the evenings, if ur in the hallway, u can hear him screaming through the walls
- His radio turns on and picks up Ithax’s breakup music
Patch
- 3’ tired rat with big eyebags
- Usually out of the apartment working too much at his clinic
- Always seems like he has too much shit on his shoulders, sounds suuuper tired
- Knocked out, maybe stitching in his apartment. Might bring back mechanical shit from the street
  - Gun, credit card, no idea where it came from
- All his tools turn on simultaneously, including the bonesaw
Vintovka
- Before scarring didnt know if her apartment was lived in
- She spent most of her time at the broken standard barracks
- This is where her more personal stuff is
- Little taller than haven, tries not to talk to people. Very heavily scarred
- Briefcase, gives mean looks
- Apartment is semi-nice. Messier since scarring. Pad by window to snipe out of
- Old military effects. Bunch of files she’s collected
- Unfortunately, her window lights flicker on and off, giving off a signal
Kaspar Stars in Water
- Shorter than tall ppl but very enthusiastic
- Real big in terms of physical but enthusiastic
- Have seen sister and mom, if kaspar sees u they’ll talk even if they dont fully understand what ur saying. Talking very loudly at you
- Have seen them at brutaris team, some sort of scarring before. But known as sportsballer. Kinda dumb but ur friend.
- Has not been going out much. No one has seen sister or mom at all recently
- Shes the only one seen, and if seen shes quiet and nervous in a way they werent before
- Rn cleaning kitchen unnecessarily, 3rd time this week, listening to the radio, mostly housekeeping
- Sisters room is the one to light up repeatedly and glitch
Sacrament
- 15’3” tall
- Jay missed a lot
- Doesnt fit her apartment
- Or hallway
- Polite
- If shes in apartment, trying to work out (not going well)
- Vending machine starts charging her card rapidly, dispensing many drinks
- Processing payments faster than robotic voice can speak
Konbini-chan
- No one has seen her too often. Stays in her room all the time
- Seen at convenience store a lot tho (Save Point Convenience)
- Hear rage streams in apartment if ur nearby
- Party knows her as kitsune, but in human form all the time. So unless ur ithax u prob dont know
- On computer looking at discourse
- Computer fully glitches and shut down
Can take control of characters now
Sacrament punches the vending machine
“Charges, damage to aetherion property!” keeps going
Haven tries to call ithax, doesnt go thru
Sacrament sees tax collection robot, she doesnt owe anything to the irs
Kaspar goes to room, door doesnt recognize them. Fingerprints dont match
Reluctantly leaves
Ka: are u good with the robot??
S: yeah i dont owe anything. In taxes
Ka: thats very specific. Ok
S: have u had any tech actin funny?
Ka: uhhh… maybe?
S: ok. Um. my vendin machine wont stop goin
Ka: what
S: i have a vendin machine….
S: my employer provided me within a vendin machine in my domicile
Can smell coffee and burritos blending together
Ka: thats gonna get gross, if u need help?
S: i tried to get it to stop, it charged me more cause i punched it
Ka: oof. I can clean it up?
S: i dont. Fit well. It would be appreciated
Konbini swears at computer, checks fridge for Hero energy
- Turns off, but there are some
Ithax gets a Hero Energy Drink, goes to haven’s
Sees patch’s bonesaw acting up
Patch is so tired
Ithax gets distracted by irs robot
Ithax: (goes on an adhd rant about talking to konbini)
H: is this like the vending machine thing?
I: do you want your radio back?
H: i can hear ur fuckin music btw, what’s up with that?
I: hits vape as a distraction
Vintovka leaves apartment
- Wifebeater, bottle of vodka
- V: who the fuck is making the righteous nasty noise
- Sees sacrament
- V: ah that fuckin one. Is ur shit also fucked
- Ka: thats rude
- S: yes…
- V: light not normal
- S: tech havin some issues in my apartment
- V: lights not normal. I paid the rent on time. Should be no issue
- S: my vending machine is sending me into debt. Further debt
Smells awful here, not as bad as scarring
I: YOOO KONBINI IS UR SHIT ALSO BROKEN
Ko: im sorry can i help u
H: is ur shit broken too?
Ko: yeah is urs?
I: everyone’s is and i think the tax robot is involved. Come help?
Ko: leave the apartment?
H: is that a problem? Have u showered
Ko: do you want to know
H: no
She comes with
Everyone is so awkward
Patch thinks the lack of drugs is the issue. Everyone is weird
Sacrament lets us go check out her apartment
- Vending machine is now empty
- 1 fake plant.
- Aetherion branded calendar
- 1 picture of 2 dragonkin
- Quite simple, she has a botnib infestestation
- Botnib is a gremlin that infests tech objects
Go to the tax robot
- Konbini hacks it, opens compartment that has a floating gun that shoots sacrament
Combat
- Konbini summons a convenience store with popup ads
We beg konbini to shower
Konbini is flirting…? With sacrament?
Go down to 17th floor to get ithax’s gun that was thrown over the side
The only current stores are Dying Light (gun shop), Circuit Lab (also known as patch and pray), Second Earth Ramen, Save Point Convenience, Ogar Butchery and Produce, Petaslice Repairs
Go down and see that currently investigating the fallen robot is one of the shirren, the owner of the Grocer, Onmagakar
- “This yours?
- I: yeah,,,
- “Careful, dangerous time to lose a gun”
- I: we ran into an infestation of gubbins and botnibs
- Kas: hows it been goin?
- “Oh gubbins and botnibs? Besides the raid? We’ve been better. HBU?”
- Ka: damn. Well i just got to hit a ton of little things. Which was fun. That guy put us in a convenience store? I got glitched. Not fun
- “Seems a bit… yeah idk why 17th. U dont have a lot of tech right?”
- H: As much as any
- “Servers are on the 16?”
- H: could be going from other floors
- “Could be, but servers being down wouldve been noticed.”
- S: idk if related
- “Surely, but divining such things is beyond me.”
- “Have you talked to Vossk lately? The security guard?”
- S: i dont think so?
- “There are murders apparently. Hes locked down the entire building.”
- Ithax tries to clue in patch abt the brood pod
- Hard to gain measure, just odd feeling. Not whole lot more. Nice man hands over gun
- Hands other parts of machine, he works as a parttime butcher
S: speakin of oddities, i… i’ll share that there are a couple odd things that ive noticed. 1 we know there’ve been the murders. There’s the one that’s taken organs and replaced them with rocks
- This was on the 19th floor
- Right now there are 7 bodies
V: i can ascertain abt 5 of the 7. They were all killed in close quarters but not using the front door. A little out of the ordinary
H: there were runes draining life maybe since the people
S: raiders killed with acid-coated knives ritualistically
H: they were mercenaries tho? And killed their own guys
Vossk has gone a little Very Protective of ppl after the attack on the 19th
She has access to the bodies, but locked them up
Thankfully, someone has fired at the building and shes left to protect it, but she’s effectively locked us in like cats in a car
Most of the main entrances are blocked by blast doors
We plan on going to to check out the bodies, Vossk is going to be gone for 2 days
Sacrament partner bonds with kaspar
- S: i did this bc i cant sign so i figured itd be easier
- Ka: u have an accent?????
- S: i do
- Ka: u sound weird. Thanks?
- S: its ok itll go away after a day
- Ka: the accent???
- S: the bond. I think im stuck with the accent for life
We go back to kaspar’s place
- Sacrament showers
- Put on ONN
  - The main one hasnt replied back to ithax
- We think kaspar is married to sacrament
  - She explains its just a day to them
- We talk abt the murders
- Datapad says that the bot was going to find a high value computer
- 2 sets of killings:
  - raiders that raided floors 1-10
    - Sacrament: thinks its cultists, used guns but made a point to kill ppl with acid coated knives
    - Konbini: rapidly decayed
    - Haven: believes it was a mercenary group that executed their own men if wounded
    - Vintovka: only moved in groups of 4, 8, 12, or 24 specifically
    - Ithax: no one knows who disabled security. Took weeks to clean it up. Despite that, very little surviving security footage, hints that someone in our apartment accessed the network to let the raiders in.
    - Kaspar: could lip read what was being said, was different than what ppl said they heard
  - Serial killer replacing organs with rocks
    - Sacrament: was 7 ppl, 5 of which were killed on floor 19.
    - Haven: runes were on the rocks to drain their life
    - Kaspar: needs to be 6ft tall and Big to do so w/o equipment
    - Konbini: weirdly good at cutting up the ppl. Had knife skills, cooking knife skills
    - Vintovka: had to be close quarters, front door not used due to sight lines
- Sacrament’s next door neighbor hasnt been seen since the scarring
- Ithax wants to break into kaspar’s sibling’s room
  - They dont want to. 1.5month since they were gone
  - Pick the lock, seems like a normal room
  - Pick up the journal, open it, there are dates entered that dont match kaspar’s remembrance when their sister left
  - I: there’s a discrepancy
  - Also the handwriting seems to look slowly but surely look like their sister. Initially odd and handscratchy
  - Latest entry date talks abt walks to the park
  - The days going thru dont happen here, we live on a tidally locked planet
  - These things can have cloud saves
  - Kaspar and their mom get mentioned a few times recently
  - Ithax leaves and comes back with extra corkboards
  - Looking at the scratchy handwriting
    - This is the handwriting of someone relearning motor functions
    - Normally takes up to 3 months before handwriting comes back, but we only have a page worth
  - Vintovka asking anything abt 4 days ago
    - She saw a vlaka up on another roof, far away
      - She tried to look, but then woke up in her bed after
    - There’s one abt swimming
- A man has been knocking ppl out with anesthetics
  - No one knows who he works for, may be a shirren
- Konbini is locked out of her phone
  - Vintovka: what’s the name of guy at convenience store?
  - Ko: Al. that’s my bestie
  - V: HES WEIRD
  - Ko: nooooo. Just anti-social
  - Ko: he gives me free discounts
  - V: he gives me them too ur not special
  - I: do u know abt the turrets
  - V: he actively tried to flirt with me
  - Ko: did you let him down. He doesnt take those things well
- Patch says a gang is holding/creating medical supplies
- Kaspar’s sister’s computer is locked
- Patch knows Vossk
  - Has his number, gave him a synthetic leg
We go down to 19th
- Would be nice if it wasnt for the dead woman on the floor
- Most ppl are cremated here, tho there are ritualistic ways to die.
- Without dying by sun or cold exposure, u have to wait to be cremated
- Bodies were glued shut
- Bottom screws of vents are loose, look down and it goes to a 20ft drop down below
  - Vent is industrial sized, 3x3ft
- Patch texts Vossk abt getting a vent layout, will have to wait for results
- Woman is human
  - The killing blow wasnt anything immediately noticiable, exact hit to spinal cord. Followed by poison to entire body while organs were replaced
  - Unfortunately cant tell which killed, poison couldve been numbing agent
  - Synthetic based poison, using basic chemistry. Hydrochloric acid base (NOT NATURE)
  - Also dont go to 63rd floor, they have Poison Plants
- Rocks
  - Cultish in nature, they were implanted in the place of them. The final taken was the heart. All drain creature’s vitality in a different order. Sight, ears, motion, breath, heartbeat
- Game forum
  - Haven: Theyre doxxing and recruiting ppl to cults
  - Konbini: theres a lich. Dw we doxxed him
    - Lives 3 districts away
  - Sacrament: has to kill a cult leader to get a promotion
A killer lives in our megablock, killed 5 times during lockdown. If they were strong enough to get past lockdown they wouldnt worry abt stealth. No biotraces found in the sewers. Either had 7 different plastic outfits, or returned to their apartment. Likely live between floor 15-18, midpoint. The complex shut down water to inhabited apartments. There are only 30 apartments that the killer could live in
A guy lives in the sewers with squirrel foxes as an army
So many monsters
- They are not native
- Seen: bargheist, hydra, griffin
  - Griffin are extinct from elven homeplanet, Aedryn. They dont exist
We spend time going thru our rumors