Session 8

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• News
  • BREAKING: An Aetherion Peace vessel was lost on route to the system with pirates being the main suspect. Both Aetherion and Solaran leadership are claiming a lack of security from the joint forces of Aedryn and Hollow Stars are to blame.
  • CRIME: Economist Lanua claims the amount of money Dead Yield has lost should have bankrupted suspected owner former Aetherion Exec Zhenae.
  • ECONOMICS: An exclusive Senaria Stock Market has opened up allowing stockbrokers to continue their work. Those with more than one million credits in stocks at time of scarring will be allowed priority for the purchasing of deceased stock owners shares.
  • BREAKING: Aetherion is offering rewards for anyone who finds fragments of the lost Peace Vessel. Astral Navigators confirm they will likely land on the dark
  • INFRASTRUCTURE: Engineers begin reinforcing several bridges after routine inspections identified accelerated structural fatigue. Chrono-Investigators are investigating potential sources.
  • MILITARY: The forces in Tihaeash base in Denpakant were overrun by an unknown force. Those attempting to flee were shot by forces surrounding the buildings.
  • PUBLIC SAFETY: Recovery teams operating in abandoned sections of Vanatir report repeated encounters with unidentified creatures exhibiting unusual magical characteristics. No casualties have been reported.
• Reappear in public garden Denpakant
  • We were on a spinning planet and then it stopped, then black void, now back in the center of the city again
• Back home, Suimin
• Contacting ppl
  • sell info to Havkai
• Konbini
  • Announcement stream for in a week time
• Ithax
  • News stuff, getting Tiffany
    • Local news reporter
    • Boisterous voice “you have something for me?”
    • I: uh! Yes! I have. The truth. And then also probably your opinion on what should be reported of it? So. um. Ik ive sent you- some of the articles of all time but im not kidding. Im so for real. The most important thing is the next scarring is gonna be in a week, anyone in here will be immune from participating
    • “Proof??”
    • I: have the reports filed with the hellknights. Also the boards. I can show you?
    • She takes hellknight reports
    • “You do realize this makes you seem like a madman?”
    • I: i do yes!
    • “Are you certain?”
    • I: the entity said ‘your home will be sparred from future culling, those in ur pillar will be spared’. I’m pretty sure thats what that means!
    • “We can’t run this, but the news room is unguarded for abt 4 hours a day when mr tundy takes his break.”
    • I: okok. Do you think- i mean. Surely i want ppl to know the truth which is why i told you, anything i could lie abt i couldnt come up with anything good enough.
    • “Who do you want to come to the building?”
    • I: save as many ppl as possible without it immediately being taken over by broken standard? Aetherion? The list. Make sure that normal people don’t have to do the scarring. And that our building isnt abt the be taken over and gatekept from regular people
    • She thinks for a sec “the Tihaesh base has an sos system for the area.”
    • I: shelter in place at this building?
    • “Itd be hard to convince them to stay a week.”
    • “I’ll tell mr tundy what you said. He’ll reject it bc you sound like a madman. Then either ur right and i get a promotion, or ur wrong i sell you out and i get a promotion.”
    • I: this is why ur the best!
    • She leaves to prepare for her promotion
• Haven
  • Texting
  • Setting up impromptu meet and greet
• Patch
  • Calling
  • Able to get patients in with free medicines/medical help
  • He takes floor 10
• Kaspar
  • Denpakant Chasers
• Sound of loud music blaring throughout the entirety of our floor
  • SKELETON EXITS????? LOOKING FOR US???
  • Playing cul-de-sac music
  • Announces “WHERE IS HIYORI-CHAN”
  • I: the streamer??
  • “The streamer and future minion!”
  • H: why do you think she’s here
  • He holds up his phone, has a crusty photo of his computer screen where hiyori has been doxxed
  • Konbini comes out
  • He’s talking to the spirits in the murder drain
  • “Gravesend. One of the originals. An original immortal of humanity.”
  • Tried to enslave humanity before the solaran uprising
  • Ko: why are you here?
  • “I was summoned by one named hiyori-chan”
  • Ko: i thought her meet and greet wasnt for another week
  • “No it isnt. But that means if she succeeded at the summoning there will be many minions!”
  • Konbini orders a pizza to the guy, just pineapple. No cheese.
  • He screams at seeing the bot, disintegrates it
  • “Are you interested in joining a cult?”
  • Konbini does
  • “Are you the first new member?”
  • Ko: sure whatever man what’s the deal.
  • “I should find a new thing that cults should be about. Haruspex! What is our cult about?”
  • Ko: what about. Here me out. A cult abt eviscerating other cults
  • “That’s the plan”
  • Ko: we want a theme?
  • “Dont worry we’re going to kill anotehr cult”
  • Ko: ooookay. You like anime girls?
  • “Not really.”
  • Ko: skeleton anime girls?
  • “You do know i was into human women when i still had a penis?”
  • Ko: anti-pizza? What food do you like. We could be sushi cult? You like sushi
  • “I havent eaten in 600 years????”
  • Ko: book cult? Reading? There’s this thing called manga, i think we could really publicize it to modern day youth, i think u could get some kids to join your cult
  • “Why dont i do the old classic and make some warlocks”
  • Ko: that works too. Cool hats tho? They dig cool hats
  • “I own a tophat?”
  • Ko: perfect. Love it. We can put weird symbols to let others know, easily identifiable to other cult members.
  • “Im not feeling it, we’ll think abt it another day”
  • Ko: we can workshop this. What about a name?
  • “The Gravesends!”
  • Ko: is that bc ur name is gravesend. Great.
  • “Could do old classic, cult of the grave!”
  • Ko: beautiful mind, ur brain mustve been huge
  • “I succeeded at becoming a lich dont talk down to me! I talked to the drain and they told me secrets!”
  • Ko: what ritual do i need to do to join. Swear loyalty?
  • “For now until we figure out a theme yeah”
  • Ko: ok. Also why are u here to see hiyori?
  • “Cause i found her successfully!”
  • Ko: sooo. Thats it? Bc someone doxxed her? Not that thats not a totally cool reason. But anything more? U watch her streams?
  • “Do u know how much freetime you get when youre immortal?”
  • Ko: a lot?
  • “Yeah. a lot.”
  • Top 3 cults he hates
    • The Ecstatic Caress
      • Dedicate themselves to lust
    • The Atlas Cult
      • Group that names themselves where they killed someone at.
      • Idiots
      • Keep doxxing him
    • The Bloom
      • He doesnt like their vibe
      • Ran by druids
  • The spirits in the drain talking abt their murderer
  • “I believe they were a cannibal.
  • Patch adds him to the network????
  • “Itll be good to keep track of you all.”
  • Patch and him talk about taking it up the ass and dildos with flared bases
• Senaria was discovered at the beginning of spaceflight abt 400 years ago
  • (undead still need to kill to survive the scarring, but dont count for it)
• Kaspar is nervous abt the team showing up, abt Mac specifically
  • Looking forward to various ppl hes gonna see
  • Empathnid no longer poisoned from her distress
  • Around that night, knock on the door
  • Undead woman goes to hug Kaspar
  • K: hi hello Shiori! I missed you!
  • Decrepit woman with glowing eyes
  • K: im so glad to see you!
  • “Glad to see you! How have you been?”
  • K: well. Uh. a lot of ppl have died. And now im following these gamers around?
  • “Gamers as in? Basketball players?”
  • K: no! Surprisingly! These guys who stream their farming game on the internet? Theyre nice but im confused. Im so glad to see someone i know
  • “I should be able to visit more often. The Broken Standard has seemed to pull out entirely.”
  • K: some of my friends who play games on the internet and other ppl dont like them much. We’re kinda interacting with them? I hope we did that, its nice they havent been able to get to you. I hope we’re not causing problems somewhere else.
  • “You arent causing problems dont worry. I doubt it was you.”
  • She talks abt how shes been, leaving out uncomfy parts, but rather places she’s visited (shanty towns that have thrived), many homeless have moved into other houses, so buildings are being used.
  • K: meet my friends? Ive tried not to talk abt u much to them.
  • “If theyre not with the broken standard i dont see why not.”
  • K: only one that has any real thing going on? I dont think she likes them but
  • “Shes apart of them?”
  • K: yeah
  • “And she wasnt called for the retrograde?”
  • K: huh.
  • “If shes a spy, she mightve got burned.”
  • K: idk. Ill take u to meet the video gamers. This is my spider i named Baseball. We took him from someone’s house
  • Calls us over to talk
  • “Nice to meet you all. Youre the ones keeping kaspar safe?”
  • H: pretty good batwork
  • K: ive been doing it!
  • (she was in charge of taking over this area, failed in a gang fight, executed, but still survived. Unfortunately did make her immortal, so even tho she survived. oof. Abt 100 people under her)
  • Asks generally about our adventures, and smth abt a cure
  • “A cure for the scarring?”
  • K: so basically, we went inside a pillar? And while we wer einside, a part of the sun asked us where our home was, i said its where my family is, it said cool, anyone in the megabuilding is safe from the scarring
  • Gravesend “its true, necrotic energies don’t reach here.”
  • He didnt buy into Crypt-o-Currency
  • Shiori “youre friends with a lich kaspar?”
  • K: no thats new. We met him yesterday
  • Ko: hes here to do a streamer meet and greet
  • K: hes invited ig. More the merrier
  • Gravesend “I dont need to be im not a vampire”
  • “Ok.”
  • H: new situation for all of us
  • K: i killed 3 guys :( ppl ppl. Scary
  • “I’m sorry you had to do it. But im sure you had a good reason.”
  • “We could lock down the building again? Most ppl couldnt enter or escape without a dedicated raid
  • “Temporary, but would ensure we dont have to kill unnecessarily.”
  • (we will need to get food and water)
• Patch + co to floor 10
  • Mother Cinder
  • Monitor turns on “great treasure awaits you at the end if you can survive.”
  • I: can you hear us?
  • P: the scarrings over! You dont need to murder!
  • “The scarring can happen again.”
  • I: this building should be exempt
  • H: we’ve made a safe haven.
  • “The babies should’ve already been in a safe haven already.”:
  • We just did it
  • “Why didnt you do it earlier?”
  • We just figured out how to do it!
  • “Then just tell no one to come to the floor. But if theyre affected by the scarring, i’ll bring the floor to you.”
  • P: if we do have more babies, would you be willing to take them?
  • “Its in my nature.”
  • P: im running a ward 9th floor, med ward. If thats ok for u to take babies
  • “Will there be adults down there?”
  • P: yeah
  • ‘Then that works perfectly for both our goals.”
• Konbini hacking the elevator ads to warn ppl to not go to 10th floor
• At one point, 1 man approaches “is this where the safety will be set up?”
  • Man in just a loincloth??? Goes to shake haven’s hand
  • “Famac Trumilbu. I’m an artist.”
  • “I neither jerk nor bust to the art. Merely a scion.”
  • Ko: perhaps part of a cult
  • “No i merely live live an alternative lifestyle”
  • I: where’d you hear it
  • “Thru the gaming channel. Many gamers come to me and spread rumors.”
  • I: are you one of hiyori chan’s 7 subscribers
  • “No”
  • he was inspired by haven somewhat?
  • (patch knows he hasnt had a vasectomy. Mostly sleep deprived.)
  • “Are any of you familiar with my work?”
  • Ko: i am
  • He shows his animatic of men and women kissing and sex etc
  • “A haiku. Tall mommies. Fat big tits. A form chosen by my brush. I am a vessel.”
  • “I can attract people. But first i need a suspension cable of the building”
  • (he’s gonna draw boobs on our building) oiled up naked man drawing on our building
  • (gravesend is excited bc itll bring out the cult of lust)
• A ysoki to see haven
  • She immediately tries psychoanalyzing him
  • Kaspar trying to lead toward therapy
  • Ithax is evading things
  • She writes notes down about everyone
  • “Do you normally associate rewards with food konbini?”
  • Ko: kinda ya! Its what im good at. Good cake right? Doesnt it help with how tasty it is
  • “I think ill just move in to monitor haven’s- the groups psychological conditions
  • “If youre looking for an ancient cult and you have a lich here….”
• Pizzalich ancient cult?
  • Ko: youre like old. Any ancient cults?
  • “Many. i was there when the solaran imperium was but a cult!”
  • Ko: any tied to the pillars of senaria?
  • “A few, but they died out.”
  • Showing him pictures of the lightbulbs
  • “Well. that belongs to the Ecstatic Caress! Id recognize it anywhere, trust me.”
  • “All we have to do is kill them. And all will be revealed!”
  • (Good questions for investigators:
    • How do you know this?
    • What are implications of what you said? (requires solid foundation)
    • When will it happen?
    • Who do we hunt first?
    • Who do I go to for info?)
  • I: How do you know this?
  • “I know their leader. She kicked me out of the cult.”
  • H: how long ago?
  • “2 months ago!”
  • I: did they start it?
  • “I wasnt in on it, i was her minion.”
  • I: what’s she like?
  • “Beautiful. Kept her form after all these years. Achieved a perfect immortality, i had to settle with this.”
  • I: what kind? Cultivation?
  • “Immortal that lets you keep all the bits. Do you know what its like to be in a cult of lust and the first thing that rotted off was your PENIS”
  • Ko: why would a lust cult start the scarring?
  • “There were others they were working. WE need to kill the lust one, the others i dont give a shit.”
  • “Wanna play a round of Beat'em Sisters?” (konbini won)
• Kasper has a skittermander knocking at the door
  • “Are you ready to play?”
  • K: hey man. I dont really have a field here
  • “No no. we can go bigtime.” Mackzipip
  • K: the point was to stay here?
  • “Yeah, but dont you want to make it big?”
  • K: i wanna make it normal first. Make it alive.”
  • “If there’s another scarring, the recruits for the Squeli Squoxes are going.”
  • K: ????
  • “We join them. They have 100k credits signing bonus.”
  • K: bro! What are you spending your credits on! Everybody is dying!
  • “And they wont be forever????”
  • K: bad news i fear
  • “Nono, whenever we get back and we are part of the squoxes, then we’ll be aprt of the best team on senaria, we can go interstellar”
  • K: are you saying the chasers arent best?
  • “It was 2-7 last season! Its been an off season for 20 years!”
  • “Do you not wanna be a squox?”
  • K: i dunno man. I know theyre a cult right? Ur gonna get culted up in there
  • “Is it one if im getting paid. It just sounds like a job.” (post scarring cult)
  • K: im not down to join a cult. We’ve got teammates are you just gonna- im not leaving them behind. If theres anyone else left after this. I want them to be safe. We gotta stick together. Ik u dont think that
  • “Well imagine its like a draft.”
  • K: the point is that ur not choosin it no???
  • “Ehhh ur not choosing it, but its choosing me now.”
  • K: if you dont care abt the team- i thought i knew u better than to jump ship bc you got a signing bonus, but cmon. Im not coming with you. I want you to be safe, but im not following, yknow?
  • K: my mom is dead, my sister’s missing. Living my life without them didnt work???
  • (he clearly thought this would work) “ok.”
  • K: what were you gonna say, man?
  • “Youve already sacrificed enough. U might as well have it all.”
  • K: fuck all the way off.
  • He leaves
• Hiyori
  • Knock on her door during a stream
  • “Cecilia!”
  • Ko: 1 minute mom!
  • Konbini frantically taking stuff off
  • Katherine Vayne “Can i come in?”
  • Ko: yeah of course. Something to talk abt?
  • “Im sorry with how it ended with your dad.”
  • Ko: he attacked you first right?
  • “Yeah but… you were always a daddys girl.”
  • Ko: i forgive u mom, im glad ur ok
  • “Your brother’s doing fine!”
  • Ko: really? What’s he doing?
  • “He’s still off planet thankfully.”
  • Ko: ig i havent talked to him lately. Have you told him abt dad?
  • “No he’s… he’s out of system. We can’t reach him, but we can still see him on tv occasionally.”
  • Ko: thats good, im glad he’s doing alright
  • “Ur still using the model he gave you?”
  • “Its um. Sorry i got worried, u seem to have gotten a lot more angry recently. Im still ur first subscriber?”
  • Ko: thanks mom. Things have been rough, yknow? Ur not too mad, are you?
  • “No i… im happy ur here, and im happy u changed ur mind.”
  • Ko: …me too mom.
  • She awkwardly sits there
  • Ko: yknow ive got a spare bed if you wanna stay for a while? Apparently um. There’s another scarring that’s gonna happen.
  • “I’d believe it.”
  • Ko: within a week? But we have reason to believe it’ll be safe here. So if u wanna stick around. U can.
  • “Of course.”
  • She stays around for the week following konbini
  • Konbini has been reading House of Leaves
  • Konbini’s mom outs konbini as a vtuber
  • Convince konbini to collab with haven + ithax bc they now know shes hiyori-chan