Nebulous Nights #10

Greetings Space Cadets! To episode 10 of the Nebula Snites, our actual play-fate-based thing in spoons! We have some amazing people with us here today, such as Mike. Hello, I'm Mike and I play Mark the Hacker Gherkin.

Cool cool cool. What about Eli? Cody, you said there were amazing people. I don't think I included in that.

Also, I don't remember who I play, so I'm going to make up a new character as we go along. We'll see how it goes, name forthcoming. I mean, there was a crocodile smile like we did before the recording. Hey, I'm Matthew.

Hey, I'm here. I play Xanthrop, who's a guard? Not a guard, he's a guard. Not a guard, but a guard.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. A guard, not a guard. A guard? A guard?

A guard? Don't change our entire show to be us playing the characters from War. Hell yes. Yes.

I would need to do a little bit of research, but why not? I'd like to explain to him. Hey, you do some voice training. Rubber, are you okay with that, right?

No, I'm lost. Oh no. Well, here, let's abandon that idea. Let's go back to the other one.

Rubber, what are you playing? Yeah, I'm Robert and I'm playing Sean for Tree Person. And so we can treat people, treat people and need some people. What about Jay?

Hi, everybody. I play Bone Star and I also play Miriam the Librarian in the Broadway production of The Music Man. Nice. That's not that's not that's not on Broadway.

I'm lying folks. Okay. How about to say we now have a Broadway star on our show? Right.

No, I'm moving up in the world. I'm glad it's the community theater and I'm technically not allowed in that building anymore. I was back to really upset because I was like, damn it, Jay, plug at the end of the episode. I'm just going to buy my Broadway show.

He's not a Broadway star but he does play a star. Yeah, there you are. Finger guns. So without all being said, does anyone tell me what happened last time?

Uh, Nebula Snites. Mirage went to therapy. I mean, that's your 30,000 foot view of what I did last time. Well, there was a funeral.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. There was a funeral for mentor Kwahal Sagon. Oh, right. That's your.

There was a funeral and then Bone Star went off with the corpse when they shouted out to space and emulated it crying and then found a letter from Morg from Kwahal that once they're read, but then gave to Morg where I guess their own is bad, is more accurate. I can't remember what y'all hooligans were up to when I was defiling a corpse. Yeah, everyone had their own kind of a little issue, plotline side story thinking again. What did everyone else do?

What was the more go up to? Morg's visor was glitching the hell out due to its time in the spiral galaxy. And some of us noticed weird readings and stuff happening in the, in some of the consoles and wall units and stuff in the, in the place where we were holding the funeral. It was in the docking bay.

Yeah, there were some power surges that couldn't quite figure out what was going on with. We also had like some weird like ritual ceremonial stuff that we did with quarrels stuff. Oh, yeah. Oh, we had the guards ceremonial scavenging.

Yeah. The rest of the eyes, they were doing it. I don't know what Morg did. I had on my notes that there is some ritual ceremonial stuff sand drop in Morg do.

I think Morg had a thing where like he did something to his arm and then he like, oh, yeah, I himself or tried to. Morg did some like cut into his arm, like some like a representation of Carl and he had someone witness him as he used his like he focused to make his fast healing kick in. And if the if the scar, if the wound turned into a scar that meant that Carl had an impact on Morg's life and if it healed clean, then it was like, oh, well, I guess he didn't mean that much to me in the long run anyway. And because Hackerdorkans are very happy, go lucky, I suppose.

And if I remember right, it left a scar, but it wasn't a huge deep one. So I was like, yeah, middling. Of course. That's your body's Yelp review of your friend.

It was fine. Three stars. And then what's up, Shamblup is something? I believe I was up to some major stuff, I thought.

Yes, the plant life form from way back when has been investing the ship, the space station further and up to the prison level. And I think I brought Morg up to help because the bounty hunters that were prisoners were getting attacked by it. The prison guards didn't believe us at first. They thought that we were just being weirdos and Morg went like, Shamblup said it's right behind this wall and Morg said, got it and repped open a panel.

Just Morg was able to see that it was starting to slither away before they saw it. So Morg chopped through one of the walls with his axe, severing one of the the routine limbs and pulled it out and threw it on the ground in front of the guards. And they went, Oh shit, you weren't kidding. And there was a bit of a sports situation going on inside of the bounty cells.

Yeah, the two bounty hunters that attacked Mirage and the rest of your group technically were kind of like found passed out in their cells. Do we really care about them though? I mean, it's up to you. I mean, we're not monsters.

Well, let's actually probably answer that in game because Morg, you've just been left alone because the therosops here has taken Shamblup to go talk to the high commander and you have been left alone with the two people that attacked your crew. What do you do? The was it theresops? Yeah.

The theresops guard was able to go in there without the spores actually doing anything to them. So Morg's going to go into the cell and I guess do what he can to check for vitals, like see if they're okay or breathing or whatever. Oh, no, he has dragged them out of the cell. So they're sort of like on the ground right now outside of the cells.

Gotcha, gotcha. Morg's going to check around to see if there's any like cabinets for Lenin change and stuff like that for the cells like fresh pillows and blankets and stuff like that. Yeah, you find it. Okay, I'm going to make sure that there's something resting underneath their respective heads and that they're covered because floor hard gold.

Okay. You don't you don't do anything else with them. You're staring it down at their helpless bodies. I mean, one of my aspects is the hacker with a heart of gold to go to you.

If you try to, I'm basically self compelling to be a good Canadian boy. I think that was a couple, but okay. Well, it's not a compel. It's just what work would do.

Okay. All right. But now you know you can't compel him to be Canadian when you need to. Yes.

I know. It's gonna be great. Can't wait till we get to the Canadian planet. Yep.

It's a tradition for all of my characters on S.H.U. where my troubles slowly start to be like whatever it was before and then comma is Canadian. All right. So with you sort of taking care of the two unconscious people, what let's not get to the show yet?

What is the anthrop up to you? I think last time we sort of went to the anthrop, he was checking on a few things because sort of looking at the docking bay to see what the electrical surges were. Yeah. He was working to try and localize what was causing power surges that would cause the barrier in the docking bay to flicker like a force field.

And he had been able to get to maintenance and they had found something, but he couldn't figure it out. It was kind of like consuming him mentally trying to figure out what the heck is going on. There is plenty of ways you can go about this. Maybe you can go talk to Kirk, a collective burden who is the guy who is the kind of the main sort of like engineer around here.

You can go to HR, you can go find the rest of your crew. The whole ship's up to you. I think he would go to the engineer to try and figure out what's going on with this. Because they, I mean, at this point, they know they've detected the power surge.

They know when it happened, what it affected, but they don't know what was causing that to happen. Okay. So they have to do like analysis. Right.

You're going to like send him another message or you're just going to try to his office. I would probably send a message to his office and then head back towards our quarters because that's where at least his equipment is. Okay. So as you sort of head back to your quarters, I think that's probably when Bones star you were still in the quarters.

Yeah, I dropped a corals off to a letter off to more rather through it on his bed. That's what I was heading back to the base to do. So Bones star, you see is anthropor good. My man.

Hello, Bones star. How are you? I'm doing good, man. What are you?

All things considered. Oh, all things considered. You got some tiny problems? Oh, I, is that a joke?

I get it. It's a nice small spatula. Yes. It was more referring to maybe problems of the specialized nature duty or size, but I understand that.

What am I talking about? You're the fucking man. You're like an equal to me now. We can just hang out and shit.

I don't have to like pretend to do stuff to you anymore. Bones star, are you all right? You sound a little bit copyrighted? Yeah.

A little work to up, man. A little work to. Do you need to talk about it? Okay, sure.

Yeah. I ate quarrels brain and I'm feeling really smart. That's definitely a, that's a duly noted on the brain. So does your, is it normal for your species type of person, individual to do that sort of thing?

And also does it actually make you smarter? Well, I'm going to say this as a newly smart person. I think so. Maybe not sure.

All I know is that if you respect somebody and they die and eat them, then like their stuff becomes your stuff. And your brain gets bigger. So I will say that I understand from a sharing of knowledge standpoint, the cultural aspects are maybe beyond me, I will say them. Oh, okay.

Well, it's kind of like this. When you grow up in the galaxy where I came from, you got nothing. And all you do is find stuff and then that stuff orbits you and surrounds you because you don't have any other way to feel comfortable. You need something to push against with your gravity.

So all my stuff is just like, you know, you're like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, what's wrong with you? understand what you are saying. I'm conflicted but at the same time I really feel like we're building a connection here. Maybe ponder this alone for just a moment.

You can do whatever you want alone but like can we go do stuff now that we have to go have homework? I've you won't start now that you mention it I feel like there's a lot going on on the station that we are not privy to or at least that's gone beyond us. Oh what do you want to know? Well how are you with electrical engineering?

I'm really good with it. I can see electricity and know what it is. I will I will pull out my data pad and I will forward him the data that we had collected on the anomaly. We'll call it an anomaly.

I like that. I'm gonna look at it for a second and go, can you just show me what you're looking at? Like point it out to me? Well the thing is it already happened so I mean I'm not I'm not versed in time travel.

I believe that it's incredibly almost impossible. Oh scientifically. Yeah well that makes sense. I mean I've never time traveled so I don't believe it.

All we know is that during the funeral there was a power surge and it almost well it caused the force field barrier in the docking bay to almost flicker you know just for a moment and that's where this anomaly came into place and so we know it happened. We see the power surge but we just don't know what's causing it. Okay well how about this? Does anyone go down to the docking bay?

If that's what's going on? Oh yes I went down there but I couldn't find anything. You couldn't find anything. You want me to come with you and I'll just yell at people until they show you what you need to see?

So that's the thing is we don't we don't know what we need to see. Okay we don't know that we don't know. We don't know what we don't know. That's confusing.

Okay well how about this? I don't get the data at all. I thought maybe if I saw the electricity I could tell you something about it but I think maybe maybe we should leave this shit to the janitors and play hooky. Well I've kind of passed it off to the chief engineer and he's going to kind of wreck his brain on it.

I was going to do a little analysis myself but honestly I'm still a little affected by the quarrel situation so I feel like I'm trying to put my efforts into something else to distract me. Perhaps we need an adventure. I agree. He's going to put his hand on your robot shoulder and then you can kind of feel him awkwardly trying to massage it.

Okay you guys it's been a tough couple days. You need a you need I think some to switch it up. If we want an adventure I can go ask for an adventure. I'll go talk to the admiral now.

Give me an adventure I think. You need an adventure. Your shoulders are really stiff. I think it's strong.

I'll tell you what I want to go round up the crew and see if we can go do an adventure. Where do you want to go? Um really it's either like somewhere remote where we can kind of just you know get maybe get to know each other better or somewhere that's exciting. Oh really the two polar opposites of what another.

Something to distract me or something where I could get to know my my compatriots better. Okay cool well I'm gonna go and credit him up and and then you and me we get to know each other. You drink stuff? I do imbibe on the necessary fluids to keep me alive.

Okay that makes a bar weird. I'll be back. Very small where I come from. Okay tiny drinks.

The bar is low as they say. That's my time to get it. Hopefully you get it. Yes.

I'll tell you what, I want the same goddamn thing and I am sick and tired of being cooped up in this place. I'm bouncing off the walls. I'm gonna take me and my smart brain and get us into a place where you have a little bit of fun. Yeah it sounds like a good time and I am all for it.

Okay he walks away out of the room and instead of opening the door he just kicks it. Uh Zantrop will go into his room and he'll start taking notes about uh both on culture and reactions to consumption of guard brains and maybe not letting uh Boone sorry I have access to his corpse when he's dead for science. For science. Oh can I say that as Boone star walks out of the room he yells back to Zantrop and goes by the way if you wanted to raid coral study here's the passcode.

Ooh and at that uh you know Zantrop will start like scratching at his wrist like With that let's uh let's uh let's figure the rest of the crew. Let's go to Mirage for a second. What's what's what's Mirage doing? What's Mirage doing?

If uh let's say you were let out of your uh session there and what else do you do? Um it's a great question Cody uh you know the entire entire HQ available to you. Mirage wants to find out some secrets. I don't know where Mirage would go to find out secrets.

Um well you're already been to the library. Yeah I want like deeper secrets. Deepest secrets. You want to let the cat out of the bag?

God damn it Mike. Let's see here. Yeah cafeteria library is gym systems rooms uh offices additional systems rooms research laboratories have been there. Uh have I been there?

Yeah you looked at it. You notice they were like named different like based off of different star systems. Yeah um hmm so okay so has has an alarm been raised for the stuff Sean is doing yet? No no okay um actually I want to go talk to the director.

The director is like the high commander herself? Yes high commander herself. Okay uh well you start making your way to the high commander's uh office and I think that'll just go directly into you probably bumping into this their stops and Sean walking down uh Sean this their stops is sort of asked you to kind of come with him or come with them to the high commander's office. He's they sort of like are scratching their head sort of like trying to figure out like what is going on but like they like keep turning around to you looking at you and kind of like looking back and finally they turn around and go so all right so there's a plant but it's in the walls.

Yep right okay um and you know about it why do you know about it? It's been communicating with me uh oh which is not normal just to point that out. Right right because the whole like you're already sort of like plant like yes I didn't I'm sorry I'm not sure that's vicious. I get it a lot.

It's fine. Okay. The plant's all looked the same to me I didn't realize that was a bad thing. So does it want to do things?

I mean I saw what happened in the thing but it suddenly seems to be damaging the station and yeah I don't know what his actual intent is. She's not gonna she's not gonna like that okay and um Maraj at this point I think you sort of see the two of them walking down the hallway. Do I get a psychic impression that something's going on or can I use empathy to like read either their psychic auras or their body language to see that something's wrong? I think at this point you sort of get like uh viewers have like different sort of like body language but like you have this overview of like I've used it enough I kind of understand like what stuff means um from the Therapot stops you very specifically kind of get this sort of um nervous feeling uh but I'm not sure from Sean.

Sean unless you want to resist this I guess you can kind of tell Eli like sort of not surface thoughts but like emotion what do you feel when I know uh Sean's very anxious he's you can tell that he's hiding something like whatever he's been discussing there's something he's holding back in that. Okay um Maraj will stop and um seeing Sean will say great greeting Sean what is troubling you and there's a plant in the walls and it seems to be causing problems for the station but it just attacked the uh bounty hunters up in the uh prison up on the prison deck. Uh Maraj will turn to the um Therapot and say is it not normal to have plants in the walls? No no it's not that's uh a similar thing that usually happens we usually keep all plants sort of located in the arboretum.

Ah and Maraj will actually how much does Maraj know about Sean's people? What should I roll to find that out? Robert I will let you I will let you handle that DC because I think uh what we discussed I don't think anyone really knows about your people right? Well except that the veers kind of sort of maybe um have more knowledge about them?

True. Because I guess it depends on how recently how recently you've been in contact with the veers. Right um I'll you know I'll let you guys discuss it. I'm not gonna like put you down to a thing unless you guys are back story.

Robert how long ago do you think uh your plant kind of got destroyed and attacked? How old is Sean? I think about everything that's happened since then it's probably been about for about 12 to 15 years. Okay yeah uh Maraj was definitely still in the military at that point in time.

Oh okay um so give me maybe like a lore rule? Does this involve being cute in any way? No it does not. Damn.

So I don't get a plus five um I got a minus one. You were not privy to that information while you were on the military not because you weren't high enough rank because it wasn't your sort of it wasn't like sort of like in your mission this was sort of a large scale military operation rather than the kind of like smaller units that you kind of dealt with. Okay I will just give you uh one thing that probably you sort of get like a understanding. It's like oh I sort of seen someone like them maybe their thing was like set to harvest but that's about it.

Okay so Maraj feeling pretty good after the therapy session doesn't go to her go to thing of like pro people's thoughts uh and instead says is there anything with which I could help? I think the theirself is sort of like taking a step back so that you two could talk. And I'm what what does Chana actually know about what Maraj can do? So I would say after the the final test where Maraj linked everyone's minds together and like pulled them through probably has a pretty good idea that it's something mental and something psychic.

And there's the uh manifestation of the Minotaur in the final fight also. That too. So you at least know that hey maybe Maraj's power isn't transformation like they let on but maybe it's something more psychically based. Right okay just wanted to double check that.

So um okay so the plant's been communicating with me. It started off seeming passive and quite sincere in its desires. It's but if you could try and like reach out reach out and pinpoint its consciousness because it's sentient. Mm-hmm.

Direct me to one of its stocks or roots. I'll tell you that it's roots are it's got some roots down in the algorithm. Then I will head to the arboretum. Uh Chana is going to, er no no no sorry the the Thera stops here is gonna like look back between the two of you.

Um do you just do you think you can handle it from there? I can go get the high commander and you guys can deal with that. Do you think you too can handle it? I would certainly hope so.

Sean. Yeah. And then he's sort of like all right uh we'll be down there in a second and he takes off down the hallway. Oh um good sir could you contact bone star and have him meet us in the arboretum please.

Yeah yeah you know he doesn't get memos though right? I'm sure you have other ways of reaching out to him after all this time. The High Commander going and he's going to turn around and take off down the hallway. And you guys gonna go towards the arboretum?

Yes. Yeah. Oh right. Bone star after a bit you actually get um I don't know if you actually wear your uh like do you have like a thing that people can communicate with you?

Yeah when I'm on the ship I do my best to uh be proper. So yeah I'm probably even dressed in a uniform and everything. Uh you do get a pain that uh there is that you're needed in the arboretum. In the arboretum?

Yeah. I'm late on fire. Great. He's on the way.

That's why I wanted to call him bone star. Just in case. Also morgue you also get a notification on your uh tablet or whatever device that there is someone coming to take over and after a bit you see walk in a robot in AI uh they sort of look like what your stereotypical like World War II uh nurse outfit would look like but put it on a robot and like not make it like linens make it like metal and it's all painted white with like not a red cross but space crosses or something. I don't know and she kind of comes in she bows to you.

Greetings. I will take care of them from here. Is this nurses um like designation J dash three in one? No it's uh J zero.

Why? I don't know. Oh that's nurse joy. Gotcha.

Yeah my joke got them confused. So I saw where you were going with it. Yeah. All right.

Morgue you gonna uh yeah uh thank you. That's good timing because I just got a ping so I have somewhere else I need to go anyway. Oh okay bye. Okay bye.

And they sort of wave to you as you as you leave. Is Antrop. Uh but are you actually collecting the rest of you? You know where is Antrop is?

Yeah I know where is Antrop is if he's if I'm close enough to go like knock on the door or whatever yeah for sure but um if not I can like give him a ping too and ask if he wants to be involved. Uh yeah he would he would join you guys. So we're heading down to the Arboretum. We're at adventure.

Moragian Shum you're sort of like the first ones to arrive at the Arboretum um but as you sort of like enter it it looks just as normal as what it did the first time you went. I think Shum you visited it one time. I don't think any of you have visited it um but Shum please for me to notice. That is uh flat zero.

Has anyone else been to the Arboretum before? Negative. Is it en route to the cafeteria? Uh it is on the same uh forms of cafeteria.

Morag probably would have wandered around a bit but uh he wouldn't have stopped and sat and stared. He uh he probably would have just did a quick walk through and see like do I recognize any of these plants? Shum and Moragian you guys walk in. You don't really notice anything.

There's nothing else like physically wrong uh but as you're sort of like empathetic uh powers towards you feel that they are just everywhere in here. They're underneath the soil as you look up to the ceiling where like the sort of fake sun is. They're uh in that and uh there's like a very foreboding presence and there are some people in here just sort of hanging out chilling out. Some of them are eating lunch.

Some of them are playing like uh intense frisbee like where people are attacking each other before they grab the frisbee. Like people are having like a great time in here. Think about a bunch of bounty hunters but then like put them in a park outside and like what would they be doing? Some of them are doing ski shoots like some of them are larping but all the swords are real.

Uh fighting. We're doing intense frisbee in the parking lot of de-clic on this year. Oh yeah okay I'll make up the rules. So just just so we're clear this episode is going to be titled Sean's Big Fuck Up right?

Sean's Wild Right? I'm sure there too so the two of you are standing at the entrance of the Arboretum. Right no no but this whole situation is Sean's Big Fuck Up right? Uh fuck up as much as Cody literally dropping plot seeds that got planted.

In soil that was genetically altered to support Sean's play for him. It's like Sean's Big Fuck Up and more Sean's Big Adventure. I'll up to you. Yep I'm not really seeing the difference between those two but okay uh Maraj will be the sequels going to be Big Top Sean so it's uh it's gonna be great.

Maraj is going to turn to Sean and um actually Cody do I get the same sense? Yes okay uh so Maraj is going to uh try to focus in and find where that feeling is strongest like where it feels more centered or where it feels like it's it's emanating from initially. Uh Sean do you want to do the same sort of like trying to locate? Yep I would like both of you to roll the respective psionic abilities that you have whichever leader is both entity.

Unless I can argue that it's a deceive somehow but um Maraj out of four uh plus six. Oh sure. All right and one. So as you guys sort of entered what uh Maraj you sort of like look around it's kind of everywhere emanating from everywhere uh Sean you notice it first but after a while Maraj also does and Sean probably notices it first because that's exactly where you planted it.

There's just like a like a very larger than average flower that you figure would have been stepped on by now but it's just kind of sitting there it's got what that got yellow petals white interior to it but like this is the most menacing flower you've ever seen. To be fair Sean didn't have to fight against his people so Maraj is probably seeing some pretty menacing flowers in her time. Maybe is this the flower from Undertale? No what are you talking about?

Hahahaha. Alright so I guess um Maraj will head over towards it and as Sean do you think that it would be better to try and interface with its roots directly or is the flower all right to interface with? Gotta buy dinner first. Yep.

Don't pollinate on the first eight kids. Oh god it's bad end it Ryan. I don't know where its consciousness is so. Right but if I can interact more directly with the source I can trace the consciousness back from there.

I just don't know if it would be better to interact with the roots or the flower. I'm not sure how plant physiology works really. I'm much more of a burn and churn. I do apologize for that but.

Everyone roll a notice and I mean everyone. Aye. Oh because something's happening to the entire area isn't it because the words burn and churn root said. Plus four zero minus one.

I got plus one plus four. Alright Zantrop as you and BoneStar are walking down towards the Arboretum your sensors go a little a little haywire because you just noticed that there was an earthquake but you go in space and more I think as you sort of space quick as you sort of like walk down the hallway you see BoneStar and Zantrop like walking towards somewhere and you too also feel this space quick. Is there a way I'd be able to kind of localize the direction that it came from? Maybe like because I have two feet I could measure the time difference between the foot and another foot so that I could get a direction.

I mean robot feet would have sensors in them. I'd apparently ruin. I think I know how to do this. Your foot closest to the center does not it's one that lags behind.

Your first your foot that is the one closest to the outside is the one that gets it first as if the outside of the spaceship shook. Oh no it's going to bloom. BoneStar I'm picking something strange up. This is not related to the other strange thing that I picked up early.

I'm going to check this out real quick if you don't mind. What you doing? Work runs up and goes how the hell was there an earthquake in space? Did something hit the earth?

You know what? You know what? My experience as an incredibly smart man the urnip universe is always moving and it just depends on the direction. Well you see it could have been some sort of fluxes and gravitational waves but I'm thinking more like something might have hit the station.

I'm gone buddy. Let's go. I don't want to go to the plant room. Okay.

I guess we go this way. Follow the way. We go that as you sort of turn you see the high commander running down the hallway towards the ubereum. She does that like arm out kind of like getting around the corner and running and running and right.

Ninja run right. Yeah. She needs to run to the ubereum. She arms out behind her as she runs past him.

Can you tell us what's happening right now? What do you yell at her as she runs past him and yell at her. Hey means that's not for going outside. That's not exactly what I said but okay.

We can go outside if you need to but don't stock it a little fresh vacuum. Well you've only felt this a few times but your entire being starts to shake as she tries to put a thought in your head. Okay. Please roll me a will.

Oh I'm not going to do well. That's a negative two. Yeah she got a eight. So that thought is bad.

It's not an influence roll. It's not anything else. It just screams in your head son. If we don't stop this we're all going to be outside soon and she'll find me quicker.

Oh she's telling us all to go outside and throw up. We better get there first. And she books it down the whole time. But she didn't say anything.

No she influenced my brain. Is this an effect of the other brain the one you ate? No. It's just something that I think more it's just going to run after her.

I guess yeah. Zantrop is still moving. He's like stopped at in his tracks. Then we're doing the old West Wing Walk-and-Talk.

So your brain no this is a anyone can do that. I have an incredibly weak brain. Undist, yeah it's all making sense now. Yes.

Since we're moving quickly instead of a walk-and-talk would it be a jog and draw? It'd be a running gun. Mmm. So, Maury your head down to the Arboretum, bone star, and Zantrop you guys just want to get outside and go somewhere else.

Let's talk about outside. Let's go back to Mirage and Charm. You guys are just kind of like sitting there. Guys haven't felt anything and that flower is just sitting there and you guys are talking about connecting with it, interfacing with it.

Does the head of the flower like turn back and forth instead of we talk? No. Oh man. Mirage is still waiting for Charm to answer a question.

If you go for the roots that should, like the center of roots where the seed started, that should be the best point. Understood. And Mirage will make her way over and begin digging into the soil very gingerly so as not to disturb the roots more just to get access to them. Okay.

Rolling athletics because vines will start growing up from where you're digging to try to grab your arms. This is the worst litter box ever. Okay, roll the three BT-dubs. Okay.

Mirage rolled a three as well. Can I do something to try and placate it using my finger beans to out the cuteness? No. To get it to not.

No. You've already had it with this cuteness thing. Because it's one of my stunts. It's one of my stunts.

No. You can't be in the bean. But Cody, I'm so cute. So is Mirage.

Would Mirage be able to use their claws as aviers to kind of help dig and claw the vines away a bit? I'm trying to think of a way to break the tie here. Yeah, I like it. I like that if you use your claws, you can break, like sort of like scratch the vines and break the hole on it.

Okay. Yeah. I do that. And it's slip back down into the earth.

And once I get to the roots, I'm going to place a paw and I'm going to reach out with empathy to try and map the cognitive network. If that's something I can try to do. Okay. You roll me an empathy and shout, roll me a notice.

Another one. I've got a minus one. Okay. Mirage.

I roll all pluses. So I have a plus seven. Nice. You get this feeling of being everywhere and massive.

You are the space station, basically. And you hear a voice in your head say, you want to burn in chat? Why are you threatening us? No, that was more of a metaphor.

I'm not saying that would be what I do now. But that is more my MO. Just jump in, do what needs to be done, and ask questions later. Should I emulate someone such as yourself?

How egotistic is Mirage? That's your character choice. I know that's in this particular instance, I would argue not. Because you're the character on safety.

And at that, Sean, you hear a few like, think about like dude, bros, be like, Oh, hey, what's out? And you turn around, you see a frisbee flying right towards your head. No, heads. And that's when vines start popping out of the ground and covering or covering Sean and protecting you from this frisbee attack.

And at this point, Mirage, it tries to push you out. Throw me another mind roll. What do you do for the signing thing? Okay, so roll this and see if I want to burn a big one.

Turn and burn, baby. Okay, so that's a plus two on the dice and a plus three empathy. Okay, so that's a plus five tries to it tries to push you out, but it cannot. Okay.

And you hear a very, very, very deep voice say, must protect Sean, just the last one. I am I am all about protecting Sean. Yes, but in order to do so, you must protect everyone in the space station as well. It just screams at you.

No, that's when Borg and a high commander get to the entrance of the doorway. You see a big old thing in the same vines, sort of like domed around, you see Mirage sitting next to a plant. I can wait here, like looks around, shit, shit, shit, shit, Morg. Yes, I'm.

I need you to get everyone out of here. Got it. Morg is going to bellow at the top of his lungs using provoke. Everyone out now.

Okay. I mean, it's not even say you roll it. You're also saying next to my commander. Everyone just starts like running out.

I kind of like to imagine that as soon as he does that, the high commander turns and says, I could have done that. Yeah, when I got the pipes for it, she's running over to where you guys are at right now. Work is also going to be quick, like loop around the arbor item to make sure that there isn't anyone that is lagging behind or asleep or is being grabbed by vines or anything like that. Okay.

Like he did the bellowing to get the people that could get out out, but then he's going to actually check to make sure everyone is getting out. Sean, what are you doing? You're sort of like covered in all of these vines. Yeah, so am I, I'm covered in them?

Are they actually trapping me at all or they're like, like a maybe like two foot away from you? So it's like a big old dome around you. They're not like trapping you, but you haven't like as soon as you saw the frisbee, like popped up to like grab, like grab it and throw it away and then protect you. I'm going to try and communicate with plant and tell it to like stop this like what it's doing needs to stop.

This is coming to you. Okay. I want you to roll your and your plant empathy. Yeah, and I will do the same.

Plus five. I got six. I need some new dikes. No, it rolled really well.

I didn't roll well against Mirage, but it ruled as you sort of like tell to stand down. It sort of tells you know, as an enthalpy and bone star, we'll go to you guys. You guys are just walking towards like the docking base where the ships are. You guys won't go outside.

Yeah, we're moving at a pace. I would say it's faster than walking. Hell yeah. I would say we're running to try to figure out where the, where the earthquakes might be coming from.

Yeah. Space quake. So you guys go to the farthest edges of the HQ and as you sort of get there, you notice everything sort of shaking sort of like you hear the metallic like the metal sort of like shaking where maybe there's like spaces missing. And then you see some of the plates come off between where the ship is and the rest of the ship is.

So the very outside plate, you just see sort of like next to an airlock just kind of pop off. It's like a shielding or something like like it is if you took a boat and you just like took an arc welder to the side of it and like made a little plate in it and push it off into the water. So what you're saying is that there is a piece of the ship at a station that is exposed to space. Yes.

And it's not very glad you've been in it. Okay. It's probably like maybe 12 feet by 12 feet as it pops off. So like as it pops off you sort of see like the floor and the ceiling kind of go to nowhere as it pops off entirely and you see a vine kind of holding on to it.

Is he sorry? Is this particular compartment of the ship is it able to be closed off so that doesn't suck everything out into space? No, it's like if all of the all of the connections that were there have been removed somehow and just easily kind of plopped off like if you were building the ship in like layers all of the layers kind of came off at once. I don't know we were allowed to have windows.

You say this as the vacuum of space or just tries to suck everyone else out. You see a few of your crew mates get sucked out. Work is very happy all of a sudden that he did the armor. The armor was like exposed to the outside.

Oh, I thought you guys were into the docking bay. Are you guys going to where the earthquake came from? We're going to go from the epicenter to the earthquake. Oh, the epicenter earthquake was the outside.

Yeah, that's where we were going. Yeah. So as soon as you reach like the outside of the ship that's when one of the sides pop off and like some people start getting sucked out. Okay.

And you hear alarm start blaring. Very glad it's you too because you guys can breathe in space because please throw physique to not fly into space. I'll go grab the two, I guess that are flying off. Okay.

Do something. Yeah. Tell me what you do. I don't think I any weird.

Oh, here we go. Yeah, this is not required pure strength. So I don't like that counts. So I got a plus four on physique.

Okay. You are able to sort of like grab a hold of the sides and whatnot. But I'm sorry, you want to grab the other two? Can you roll me an athletics?

I feel like that would be well, what was it? You're doing that. You wanted to try and grab the people that are flying outwards, right? Yeah.

What do you want me to roll? Athletics. Athletics. Okay.

Or physique, whatever's better. And Cody, while he's doing that, I would like to roll a shoot and I have a grappling hand. So I'm going to shoot that and see if I can try and grab someone. I'm assuming I'm like, I've got my one of my hands like dug into one of the bulkheads and the other one I'm going to try and just shoot it to try and grab someone and reel him back in.

Yes. And yes, I ended up with a one on mine. You were unfortunately only able to grab one of the people that were flying out of the spaceship. I got a plus two on my shoot.

That was fortunate enough to grab one of the people, same thing here, one of the people that were flying out, but that's about it. Yeah, I don't think with that particular what I was trying to do. I don't think I'd be able to try and get more than one unless somebody could grab on to like the line, the tether. So if I grab the one person, I'll just start reeling them in.

Okay, you start reeling this person in. And as you do, you sort of see other parts of the ship sort of like are being taken apart and like a vine is sort of attached to it as you can see it's sort of like floating there. I told Quarle that they needed to put an anti-organist layer somewhere in the ship so that nothing could break through from the inside. He didn't listen to me.

I'm gonna hear that by his own pitad. I'm gonna hear that and just yell out from the vacuum of space. Yeah, man. He was a dumbass.

I can't hear you in space. I know. I'm going to say that to the guy who's sitting next to me though that I'm rescuing. It depends on how good comms are in space.

I guess we have radios or something. That's a good point. Yeah. That's up to bone star whether he has his calm with him.

Yeah, probably. Just because it's work to take it off and he's lazy. How many people are still flirting out in the void? Several.

Okay. Can I take the guy I rescued and tie his shoelaces to Zantrop's grappling hook? I think. Yeah, you can do that.

Yes. I'm just gonna say yes. Yes, okay. So I'm just gonna like grab each one, put the belt loop on there and I'll get the shoes.

I'm just gonna try to rescue as many as possible while he's reeling people in like a fisherman. Okay. You see some of the robotic AI sort of that got like separated kind of do the same thing that Zantrop did. They get back to the ship and they're trying to sort of collect some as well.

Going back to the arbor rhythm, things happen very quickly from here. Yeah. Uh, morgue. Oh, boom.

You see the high commander drop to like the floor and like she's like convulsing. You see all like a plates on her armor start convulsing. Ooh. Mirage.

You sort of see this like dome. But then from, I'm gonna say you're on the notice. All of you rolling notice except for sham. Wait, including the ones that are not there?

No, no, sorry. Zantrop, bone star. Me and notice a ship. Sham, you roll me a plant empathy again.

My plus star. I also got a plus three. Hey, Cody. What?

What do you say that morgue running around trying to find people will have gotten his heart pumping enough that I can use adrenaline junkie for a reroll? Because of the situation, I'm going to say yes. Okay, good. Cause otherwise that would be a negative two.

Give you a reroll. That's better than just using a plus two for the fate point. So that is a plus two. Okay.

Sham, you get this feeling from absolute control. Like it feels powerful. It feels control the situation. But as soon as you kind of like said, you know, stand down, let's, let's figure this out.

It switches. You feel like this sort of rumbling and then it switches. And then it puts a wall of vines not from like all around you, but between you and a different thing and mirage before the vines get between you and this other thing, you see a blue portal sort of appear in the upper read them and stepping out are two people with multiple limbs, which is not like a, it's a regular thing for you guys. One of them is blue and one of them is a large looking woman with a sword.

Or you also see this and you see a wall of vines. Huh. Do I recognize their species at all? You think that they're probably mutated the gorians?

The lady has a lot of arms though. Where the hell did you guys come from? You see one of them sort of like turn to you, shake their head and then one of them points over to where the walls of vines are and you see the woman sort of like run towards that direction sort of brandishing several sorts at this point. And you see the blue looking the gorians sort of clap his hands and like put his hands onto the ground and at this point, Zantra, you see a force field sort of appear outside between all the people floating in space and the spaceship itself.

Essentially like the one from the docking bay? No, different. It doesn't register as a force field on your sensors. Do we see it?

You see it. Yeah. It's definitely, it's like a shimmer, but it is a different sort of shimmer than what was there before. Oh right.

This isn't the same universe as HZQ, so there are supers. I am going to roll a ball. They will to not focus on that rather than the people I'm trying to rescue. I like it.

I got a plus five, so I will continue to deal with the situation at hand with the two people on the grappling tether slash book, noting that that is the force field is there, but I will continue to reel them in so I can try and get them back. Is there like an atmosphere now? You were detecting sort of on your sensors. Yes, there is.

Okay. I would still reel them in to try and get them at least somewhere where they'd be able to get safe before I would try and do more analysis. I know you just won't wear it, but oh man, can I just can I just tempt you with a fake like hold it and just put it out to you? Can I just be like, is this going to be the aspect for science?