Session 3

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• Suimin, Denpakant
• News
  • BREAKING: Civilians are told to not participate in the Dead Yield AR. All profits gotten from it will be taxed at 100% says local officials.
  • TRAFFIC: The hijacking of ETePeV's is ill advised. Numerous groups have used them in order to go into the dark and sun sides but without proper maintenance and use they are no more effective than a normal car.
  • ENTERTAINMENT: Streaming services are now being paid for as a reward for avoiding murder! If you haven't killed anyone since your scar activated you are entitled to one free movie from a select list per month.
  • BREAKING: We have confirmation that those on either of the two moons did not contract the scars. They are still legally required to stay planetside.
  • PUBLIC SAFETY: Quanverium University has gone silent following a riot there. Locals fear an experiment has broken free amongst the rubble.
  • ENTERTAINMENT: Groff the Crime Vlaka and his sidekick Puggsy the Shoony celebrate their 10th year of running.
  • MEDICINE: Medivax to continue service for select clientele interfering with a medivax is still considered a felony.
• Floor 17
  • Patch calling Vossk Irontether
    • Goes to voicemail
    • Patch leaves voicemail: hi vossk i gave u ur leg. We have a predicament, please call back. Its about the serial killer, we need you as soon as possible
  • We lock up the grocery store, drag him to the back
  • Sacrament calls her manager
    • S: hi Crinz Griftol
    • “Sacrament report”
    • S: in my megablock we have experienced a rash of serial killings, identified the culprit, forced to murder. We believe there maybe more. Continuing investigation. Allied with other residents, able to confirm alibies. Im reportin in, will update further later
    • “Understood. How many more will you expect?”
    • S: could be 3, possibly more
    • “Youre allowed to take whatever action you deem necessary, aetherion will cover expenses unless you act rashly”
  • Sacrament is in training to be a Hellknight for aetherion under the order of the compliance engine.
  • We have sacrament stand infront of the butcher freezer while we investigate his house at Ogar Butchery and Produce
    • Incredibly boring
    • The only thing of interest in the dad’s room being an empathnid
    • Haven knows if theyre w stable ppl, they stay normal. This one was on its way to be a dread empathnid
      • Butcher’s pet
    • Son’s room is as generic as imaginable, really boring
      • Repulsion spell, ~6th level
        • Disinterest repulsion, makes people lose interest in it and keeps them away from it
        • Covers the entire apartment. Curves around walls and doors
    • Ithax takes the spider down to sacrament
    • We have konbini stand at the edge of the wall and bringing items in and out of the room to her
      • We do son’s room first
    • There’s a vent also that connects the rooms
      • Into the vents u go ithax
      • Doesnt see anything. Nothing hidden
    • Basic living room + kitchen area
      • Clear out kitchen cabinets
    • Remove his laptop and stuff
    • Only those in the main room are affected when the vents are also blocked off
    • Start covering smaller objects with a metal pot to check but it’s ineffective
    • We bring sacrament in. she immediately sees it on top of the meat fridge
      • Meat fridge is full of The Organs
      • A few of them have gone missing, probably spoiled
      • Marked for organ transplant if needed
    • Konbini looks thru his browser history
      • Locked out
    • This man was on the up and up at one point
      • Able to find some knowledge, he did make his money in, tho never spoke of it, he was part of a black ops team at some point
      • Ithax is able to find, in the post of his son’s bed, someone has left a usb drive there. Recently placed, likely not from his young years
        • Asui model
        • This is what you put ur files in when you really want it safe. Can’t be accessed by magic or most computers, needs a full server room
      • But we know where the servers are. 16th. Right below this floor
    • Text al abt when hes off work. In 1 hour
• Go down a level to 16
  • Able to see electric eel-like things flying thru the air???
  • Electro vore
    • Consuming local electricity, incredibly territorial
    • Invasive pest
      • Not supposed to be here
    • More than likely ate some wires, may hinder access to the farm
  • Ithax goes to investigate emergency access hatch
  • Drone drops down onto ithax
  • This area is super hot and humid cause it’s the heat sinks and liquid deposits for the server room
    • Also lets species who prefer warmer climates have a more comfortable place
• Go back to floor 37
  • Hey Al. sorry abt that
  • “I didnt think that guy was serious. There was a guy who said he’d become the god of the internet and went down there. He was kinda bald.”
  • Ko: did u get his information
  • “He called himself the Stringfinder i think??”
  • Konbini googles him
    • She gets sent to hardcore porn sites, redirects from google
• Check on the body again
  • Its missing. Yeah.
• Sacrament and konbini shower together
  • It’s very unsexy and kind of like washing a cat
  • Al is awkward in the other room
• Haven goes to take food from ithax’s fridge
  • Ithax is so awkward, haven is trying to get him to chill
  • H: you fucking got kidnapped today man
  • I: i got my neck snapped
  • H: You got your neck snapped! You need to crash
  • I: (pathetically) aha u need to stay with me
  • H: can you put in a bit more effort?
  • I: please?
  • H: ok sure. Yeah man i can crash on your couch and watch the door
  • I: oh i was gonna be on the couch
  • H: go sleep on the bed
  • I: but I just turns into a little dog shaped alien
• Kaspar checks her sister’s journal, nothing there
• We reconvene in the morning
  • Konbini makes awesome coffee
  • Ithax tells konbini to check out hiyori chan (herself)
• Break open the door
  • Smell of viscera from the bathroom, kaspar can barely smell it. Faint remains
  • Seems to come from the shower area
  • Open the sink cabinets, not a whole lot. Cleaning supplies. Bleaches
  • Smells vaguely like the viscera was cleaned up with chemicals
  • Sulphuric acid (cleaning up bones), also bone saws hidden deep in the back. Used for surgical procedures usually
  • Check the drains, find tough collagen that coats the drain
• To the windows at 17th floor
  • To the apartment, all of which are locked
  • Knock, no response
  • A person leaves their apartment nearby, skittermander “they’re dead. Been dead.”
    • S: how long?
    • Klutch (owner of gun shop Dying Light) “idk. Prob 3 weeks now it feels? I didnt put it in my calendar.”
    • Notice any noises yesterday from this apartment
    • “Must be seein things. Light have been taken off. Rook-9 turned them off for more room for their server. (person in charge of computer repairs. Not a server administrator, repair guy)
    • H: where could we find him?
    • “I presume Petaslice Repairs”
    • I: just needs the electricity?
    • “I think he just turned off the breakers, yeah.”
    • Konbini texts al abt the eels (were they pests that stringfinder was complaining abt)
      • “No they were his pets”
    • Klutch is licensed to sell to aetherion personnel
    • I: i got my neck snapped yesterday!
    • “WELL. i cant help with that. Maybe i can order in custom armor, a neck brace?”
  • Break into apartment
    • Nothing but old memories remain
    • Lights dont flick on
    • Someone did step foot, smth abt them singed the bottom of a rug, but not the top
    • Ithax thinks theres smth odd with the lightbulbs
    • Vintovka sees that the lightbulb is cracked with spiral patterns. They should be broken, but are still held together
    • We take pictures of it
    • Sacrament touches it
      • SHE DISAPPEARS? AND THE LIGHTBULB SHATTERS
      • Flash for a half second
    • She’s now standing alone on the roof of the megabuilding????
  • Next apartment, we flip the breaker
    • Flip the light switch
    • Able to see swirling patterns go across the walls
    • Oddly move like a discobulb, tho cracks create reflections
    • Grasping fingers goes to shadows
    • The second they touch, the shadow disappears and then reappear after a second
    • We send konbini
• They fly down to 65th floor
  • We go to meet
  • Can find the access to the skybay, tho under shutdown
  • Door is a bit odd tho
  • One is a hologram, put in place bc the original was destroyed. Someone at some point during the scarring came at it with a breachcutter
• Floor 16 - Fight outside the server room
  • We do it and all level up
  • Empty desk where there once was a greeting robot
  • Go way down
  • Deep deep underground
  • Takes 7 mins to go down
  • Man exits wearing a tank top and underwear
  • “You approach the stringmaster?”
  • Ko: we have some files we need to do but they only work if they hook up to servers. Can we do that
  • “The only one who can use our servers is me. But i would happily share if you gave it to me.”
  • Ko: sureeeee. Can i ask how u got the name stringmaster
  • “Stringmaster or stringfinder”:
  • Ko: which re u
  • “I started off as the humble stringfinder and now im the stringmaster”
  • Ko: what strings did you find
  • “Its pretty obvious. This will get me back into the good graces of the Signal Saints.”
  • (group that believe theyre creating a god w the spilled blood and computing power of senaria
  • Technically classified as a gang???
  • Also weird gray area. Not really religion. Structured as a gang but thats the higher up initiative
  • “Would u like to see some of my data? In return ill show u what the system has on all of you all.”
  • Sacrament says shed have to kill him if he revealed aetherion info
  • “U wouldnt have to do such a thing. We’re all held by aeryn-vox to tell the truth.”
  • Haven
    • Various stream chats abt him. Rumors that float out abt gang activity
    • I: this is slander! I mean, you would’ve told me right?
    • H: not the time Ithax
    • I: it’s just these people on the internet lying right?
    • H: how much to wipe it?
    • “Nothing can be wiped once it’s added to the strings
    • H: strings can be cut
  • Sacrament
    • Aetherion secrets
    • Sacrament performs some of her reckonings, rule one onward
  • Patch
    • They play the video of him intentionally botching a surgery
    • P: but there were no cameras!
    • “There’s always a camera”
    • He shots at stringmaster
    • Pulls out gun, starts combat