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Dec 11, 2018 2 hr 21 min

Nebulous Nights #15

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After the crew faces with these mysterious cueball robots and a mysterious robot, the crew decides to relax and maybe go for some recon on the planet of Drai'noire. Some have to get patched up from the previous fight, and some delve deeper into some mysteries. Nebulous Nights is a FATE based real play podcast. This is a Patreon game, and the players are supporters to this podcast feed. A majority of music used in Nebulous Nights is from Lapfox Trax, the Halley Labs R&D "selected research" which is released for use by the artist for anyone to use! Go check their other work at lapfoxtrax.com. Additional music in this episode is from OCRemix.org. "Mt. Fuji" is by Timecrawler 82. "Music is a Weapon" is by Jredd and is a remix of "The Club is Closed", "Up Against the Wall" from the game Revolution X. "Beauty's Abomination" is by Reuben Kee and a remix of ""Main Theme [Piano Solo Version]"" from the game Parasite Eve. "Brainshock" is by aluminum and is a remix of "Tessie!" from the game Earthbound. "Fu-Up-Jump" by Spectacular Sound Productions. "Grab the Blue Coin" is by Sole Signal and a remix of "Cave Dungeon" from the game Super Mario 64. All rights are to their respective owners. The Game Mayo for Nebulous Nights is Cody (@codedude3) Playing BONESTAR is Jae (@jaehighfive) Playing Mirage is Eli (@TheVikingBear__) Playing Morg Thrakka is Mike (@tokkan) Playing Sham is Robert (@cyberegg89) Playing Akita is Logan (@theninjathief) Guest for this episode: Playing Gloria Galax is Sofie (@wendigogodancer)

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I'm bringing Space Cadets to episode 15 of the Nebula Snites, the actual play-fake-based podcast in the SHU universe. I'm not going to mention how that's not like ATM again. Instead, I'm going to introduce our first person here today, Jay. Hi, Jay.

Hi, everybody. I'm here just relaxing in space, having a space moment. You sound a little spacey. I'm a little spacey right now.

I've got some very powerful ginger ale and I just get some dander out. I just am doing ginger ale with a bunch of dander in it. That doesn't sound good at all. It does sound spacey, though.

It's very spicy. I'm very spicy today. I'm very spicy. We also have with us Eli.

I thought this was a show where it was just me and you, Cody, because that's how the last two or three recording sessions for me have gone. I let you out of the closet. I think I only had one episode to do. What have you been doing?

Don't worry about it. Okay. Hey, if I'm members of certain members of this podcast commit crimes, other certain members of this podcast will not be held responsible for them. Except Jay, Jay is responsible for all of them.

Fuck. I can't beat that in court. We also have with us Robert. Hey, so we're all here, right?

Everyone is planning to make this recording. Yes? Yes, totally. I don't know what you're talking about.

Who would not be here, Robert? What are you talking about? You're not here mentally? Well, I'm waiting to have a hit mentally, but it's okay.

I don't think it was ever. I'm going to see if I know it's a member is here. I'm just going to call out to the void. Logan.

Yes. Oh, he is here. Cool. Hi, Logan.

Hello. That's it. That's all he has. I'm not going to go.

Nice. Sorry. I was wrestling Cody. You're doing great.

It's totally on the other side. Yeah, it is my fault. You are going to be next week, Sitchboy. That might have been what someone was alluding to earlier.

Thankfully, even though he was a Sitchboy, we were able to get him on a separate recording, so you'll hear him throughout the episode. And here's Mike. Hi, I'm Mike, and I play Morgthraken the Hacker fitted. But we do have someone not as a replacement for Morgth, but as a sort of guest spot.

A guest person. Can you can you can you can you can you can you can you tell us who you are? Oh, man, I thought I was going to be a secret. Oh, no.

Okay. Maybe a secret, I don't know. I know how to do this. I'm bad at this.

Just do it. Be yourself. And no, I'm actually in a space show and I'm not here to talk about space. Oh Straight, yeah, sorry.

That's my one trick I'm gonna go home. I'm already home. See you guys later. Yeah, you got the royalties right for the voice.

I did Penny in a bag. All right, does anyone want to recap what happens last time on every listening fuck Mike usually does this No one wants to go up to the back. I mean I can make stuff up I don't if you want I can make shit up of what happened last time Well according to my display here only jay didn't put their finger on their nose Out of it. No idea where my finger is right your face is right there.

You're always smiling on me I'm changing horrible doll mask like how do you do it's awful. It's great. I love it. I'm like a character from a goosebumps book my Kings So I have to recap.

Okay, so we were in the at the beginning of the episode We were in the middle of an apartment where schoolwork was being harassed by a rude robot And then a sniper shot through the windows and a couple people got hit Bownstar chased after the sniper while the rest of the team stayed in the apartment protecting schoolwork There were a bunch of billiards themed enemies. Is that right? Yeah, I Corrically called down the the cue ball gang. I call them pullbacks the pullbacks.

Yeah Both star himself got his ass whooped by the cue ball king. I don't know what their formal name is but Therian, okay. Yeah, so that was good. All right So after that it goes all blank because most are got KO'd and the rest of the team is off working with the workforce Now did you manage to get all the robots secured?

I believe they did with the help of two of the workforce I know they did eventually stumble upon Bownstar with being KO'd I don't I don't quite remember what happened once we went to the workforce base other than us just generally talking to guys and making plans So you guys did go eventually back to the workforce base They sort of rescued you from some sort of stasis that press by Terry puts you under as you guys went back to the workforce Wonderworks sort of showed off the sort of collaboration between the nebulous knights and the workforce itself that he showed off sort of Akita and morgue But Sean sort of like slinked into the background so you guys finally went back to workforce You got in sort of a meeting with trellis work and lattice work two of the sort of head representatives of workforce Lattice work bone star you have worked specifically with yeah, and I remember having quite a quite a like hey back in the old days kind of conversation with him Oh, yeah, he's an old drinking buddy. He's an old like he's an old bounty hunter He's pretty good at smooth talking people and knowing who to get in contact with I think I mentioned He's sort of like this space's version of Greg A little bit easier like actually outwardly skisier so you guys got done talking to them trellis work took Akita back to check on school work school work is fine and Akita and chose work had this little secret conversation about maybe spying on the nebulous knights while trying to get after the press back Darien sort of trying to do for school work while lattice work has told the rest of the group Sean bone star and morgue that Some information about their teleportation technology and maybe finding the gods in that vein He's told you about a sort of legendary sort of like way way way like I don't want to say millennia but like 600 700 years ago. There was a engineer who sort of was a brilliant adventure and he made something called the divine lens Which is something that could possibly help you find where the other gods are He also gave you like a few locations to maybe check out Maybe he's like the whole point is like you guys are looking up gods. Just go to a fucking library Yeah, I think that was one of them and I think there was another one where I think we were trying to track down the The lens itself I think we'll eat on it was something where we had to kind of like split off in order to do it All I remember is that I agreed to hang out in the base with the workforce and send all my nerds out to work Yep, they have a lot of scientists here at the workforce So they will probably collaborate with you guys, but that's sort of where we left it last Um, however, there was one last piece that mirage got to mirage after their sort of little Let's just say venture woke up on the carcass and you know I do you want to explain to them what happened at the very last part?

Sure, but I'm gonna sound a lot like Cody while I explain it because I know Eli kind of forgot. It's been a stressful month. Oh, okay You have been moving. I'm sorry You the last thing that you remember is that you woke up you went up to the carcass There was a blinking light and you sort of hit a button and there was sort of an emergency alert from the middle of the HQ where The high commander has put out an alert to all them be so nights that there is a rogue agent Yes, and then I got my coat put it on because this is the most important part got my coat put it on and Gone the constable star and said we have a job.

Yes, right cut and all after all that nonsense I think maybe you guys contact each other get together and I think we're just gonna skip forward until you get to the work You get at the workforce You guys are there they've gotten you rooms to like, you know, sleep and stay there unless you guys want to stay in the carcass But they guys they pretty much have set you up set you up any rooms you would want Akita You also you already have your own room. Yeah, they have set you up here network this perotian female She's sort of like assigns you to all of your rooms She's almost like a drive-through clerk She is sort of like showing you around and then she'll put her finger up and she'll like hit the side of her face And she'll be like talking so vocally for a second and then she'll like continue on They have a lot of facilities here, but one of the things is network says there's a there'll be someone to there We some to help you out a little bit further on yes, no call up no fill out the form 581 Sorry about that There'll be someone to meet you soon if you guys just wanted to relax I see some of you have injuries. There's a facility here. I believe morgue went up with trellis work to sort of maybe a debriefing and Maybe work on I guess maybe hacking into the the rest of the cue ball the pool the I'm not sure what they the robots class as any would do if you need anything for me.

Just call me Akita, you know the hotline. Yeah, I do and she sort of finger guns and walks slowly out of the roof Alright, so are you all just going to sleep? I better get this gunshot wound checked out. Oh, yeah You should probably do that in the way to sleep.

Yeah, so Akita is gonna head over to like the medical wing or wherever Try and get this and shot one sorted out. So you had an over to like the medical with the workforce It's sort of like right adjacent to the science science wing. So you see like some of the Some like the modern nerdier workforce sort of like milling about yeah, but you do see like you pass schoolwork So and schoolwork is in there and they sort of like like they're like resetting the reading a book as you walk by But you do find someone there to help you out with your bullet wound They sort of have you in needlework kind of like looks into the room very slowly for a second And the person that's working on you just sort of like points in like points away But then after a while they sort of like dig out the bullet wound They know me up and they wrap you up and you have like this really cool scar now cool Yeah, all right, so do anything to my consequence or no no you're still sort of like it still aches a little bit Yeah, but almost as it almost seems like you need a like some some like official downtime or something like some relaxation To get rid of these consequences. Well, I shouldn't go and lift weights then And I think if he's told he needs the rest then he'll probably just head over to wherever he left bone star in them If they're still there and then told me he's headed to bed speaking of which what's a bone star?

Sean and Raj doing well, I'm gonna just kind of stand next to them and say what are you two thinking for the rest of the night? I'm gonna go put my ear to the streets. So What's up woke up on the carcass and nobody was there and now we are in some weird place Like I missed a couple things. Yeah, so I thought you were sleeping or something.

I went and checked your room, but it was all locked up I know you like you need your privacy sometimes, so I left you alone. That's fair I appreciate that so we're here on a place called Draenor. We're a guy weird vibe here lots of smoke and Stones and stuff decent bars though. We're doing some work with a mercenary force So we're trying to find some artifact that'll help us track down the rest of the gods and maybe find a way to earth Which is where these god killing bastards came from in the first place.

Didn't you say you've been to earth? Yeah, I like that place. It's cool. So why do we need to find a way there if you've been there?

Well, I travel by black hole because oh yeah I'm not exactly a corporeal human or person or whatever. I'm just a gas brain So I can travel like that, but I think your bodies would be obliterated. It's probably good call I mean any other thing about it is the earth is a weird place and It might not be the safest place for I don't know someone some giant cat thing from outer space or skeleton and or a Tree boy no offense. Shomba your tree boy It's a weird thing It's a weird planet and if we're going in we got to go in with a plan because I can get into real trouble there like I did last time Yeah, I mean they ask you about that.

Let's talk about that later. I find out what happened last time But yeah, I suppose we have other things to attend to are we are we going to try and? Pursue the double agent thing or is this kind of our top priority? Well, the thing is we've got a lot of different leads There's a library that we can look into believe morg's talking to scientists.

We can go try to Follow the breadcrumbs of the workforce They might have some more information on the divine lens that we're looking for but for me in my experience When I'm on the job, I'm put my feet down for a few days. I need to get out and talk to the people here Okay, maybe they know something that the workforce doesn't okay If nothing else I can well I can go with you and if there's stuff. They're not telling you I'll find it Oh, that's a great idea I mean, I'm gonna try to go link up with some criminals and do some crimes So I think that'll help us to make the connections We might need to find some weird rare artifact usually if it's if it's got a legend attached to it or whatever It's worth a shitload of money and some rich guys got it. Yeah, no that that's that's what I've heard Yeah, as the two of you were talking about this rich person You actually notice a well-dressed figure coming down the hallway got you sort of tall canine like and has fur over most of their body And they seem to have just a recent bandage over a wound Mirage is going to see this person and turn to bone star and say do you think this guy has it?

No, I know this guy How you doing okay better? I got this wound fixed up at least yeah, you want one piece or you need some time off? I probably need a nice rest. Okay.

Well, I mean you're welcome to stay on our ship If you want if you don't understand the workforce, I've got at least a bunch of brew there cooler big-ass TV I'm leaving tonight or no, I'm going out in the town tonight I'm gonna see if I can link up with some of the more interesting characters around these parts and see if maybe Someone in the criminal community knows where this lens might be well if you need any help for that I do have some connections that I can maybe look into I would need some help for that But I something tells me you might need a bit of a rest first Just let me know if you need help. I'll be in my room Okay, how about this? We're gonna go out and make some trouble and if something comes up Well, yeah, let you know if you ever need to get a hold of us that device that layin over there on the counter We'll give you our geolocation contracts down to all right, but yeah Yeah, we're gonna go out right now if you want to kick your feet up feel free I mean I know that you ain't really one of our crew or anything so I'm not gonna really tell you what to do I'm probably looking to some stuff on my own about this Presbyterian dude. Oh, that's a bad boy right there.

That's a real bad boy. You can find out what he needs to work for Usually I'll just say when that guy shows up there's gonna be other problems related to it So with a kid joining the group I am going to say that this really weird point point person is going to walk over to you guys there a therasops They're rather tall. Gloria. You want to introduce yourself to?

The group that network has told you to keep an eye on sure I'll just walk up to the group and say something like howdy y'all I was told that y'all want to have a good time here and I was asked to help you go out in the town Maybe find something fun to do this evening My name is Gloria Alex and I can certainly help you out with that. Are you like a concierge something like that? Okay, which bar has the most criminals in it. Oh, I like you you play hard.

I always play hard, baby Oh, I like you know how to have a good time gonna go with us I'm gonna certainly do see boys. This is the best part of recon which is when you meet strangers and you come off fucked up I Don't know how fucked up. I'll get tonight, but I don't have a good time with y'all So I think I know maybe a good place to go out and do that you'll follow me now Leave the way all right Mirage before we leave is going to want to try and read both of these new people's minds to get a general feel for them as people and what their motivations are so are you doing? So you're doing like a surface scan to sort of like get the feel of like the so you're like you're going in depth with motivations You're not just doing like a surface scan of like I can't really read them So I'm just gonna kind of read their mind real quick.

Yeah, so it seems like bone star appears to kind of trust the first one that came up and was talking about and was talking to them like Potentially joining the crew so I need to know as much about them specifically as I can figure out to know how or To try and figure out what kind of safety measures I eventually need to put in place in case they betray me and then I want Okay, go ahead give me a pose the will rolls you lie and Logan If anything it is not Batman. It's cat man. Oh, yeah So plus two total so I rolled a plus three plus my three empathy slash will and that's a six okay With the four difference you get you get that with style so maybe Logan sort of deep years from Raj on like Maybe a key to sort of like surface personality and maybe his most like prominent thing in his mind right now His most prominent motivation and one very embarrassing secret You can add that one if you'd like Logan then Well right now the thing at the top of his mind is trying to find Presbyterian because a he was went after schoolwork and be he kind of shot the key to so he's a bit pissed off about that So you don't like being shot. I'm gonna take that mental note Like as for like overall personality He's just kind of keeps himself mostly like tries to not make too many connections to other people tries to keep his emotions and check and like Seems like he's trying to hide from something okay, or like keep hidden away from stuff Now when you say he tries to keep his emotions and check is it like he has trouble doing that or it's just something he tries to do It's just something he tries to do okay.

It's very stoic running all this away for possible things to pull on if I need to use you Okay, well you're in a utilize spiders web now. Mm-hmm. You all are And without are you going to you're gonna you're going to read Gloria's mind as well. Yeah, I guess you're a PC now Opposing wills you as Gloria gets a plus one.

Okay. Oh, thank you very generous. I got plus one I got plus five okay again with a four Gloria can you give give Mirage or rundown of what Gloria's sort of intense are maybe they're for front-most motivation? well Gloria's lived on the planet her entire life and she's kind of new to the workforce little over down in the tier and Right now she's just trying to keep an eye on these guys and keep them busy Okay, is it try to keep them busy to distract us from something or just keep us busy So we don't cause too much trouble for the person you work for maybe a little of column A a little of column B Okay, I'm gonna keep a close eye on you then as we go out and with that you guys could have like walk into drain or Train or is the planet, but it is just this huge mega like mega lopolis mega mega city It's like this huge fucking city.

There's like a different bunch of sections of it There's like corporations have owned different sections of it. Gloria. Where are you where you wanted to take them? Cuz it sounds like bone star wants to get fucked up Yeah, so he wants to get fucked up So I'm thinking I'm probably gonna try to take them to the nastiest biker bar equivalent that will probably accept general credits Okay, so there is a money system on this planet and these jackoffs probably don't have the right kind of money to go into the really spicy places I think the closest thing to a biker bar would be so you kind of like take them off of some of these trains and whatnot But you get to like a more mountainous region pretty quickly because when you say biker bar It means like it means like air like air sliding They don't have like bikes, but they have like these really awesome hover bikes that go in the air that sort of do the Have you ever seen treasure planet?

Love that fucking movie like does the little surfing in the air with the light They do that but they try to be dark about it, which is oxymoronic But they're a bunch of like surfboards with like just this this op-lessent like sails on them This doesn't look hard as shit, but the guys inside are all dressed in leather They're all sort of like strapped up and most of them are carrying some sort of weapon with them But Gloria you know that this is probably the best place in town for if you want to get into a fight at least All right, y'all you wanted to go to the hardest place in planet and here you are What's this place? It's what the fuck did you call them again hoverboards like air sliders? Air sliders, okay, sorry I'm not sure if you had a name for it I didn't have any for either, but it's just air sliders Bay. All right This is air sliders Bay tough as guys all right here.

You want to go in and see what kind of trouble we can get up to well Give me a second here. I'll buy at least one round team. What's our game plan? Well?

That depends on what you're wanting Mm-hmm if you're wanting to get into a fight Then we just do the normal thing if you want to actually get information then maybe We should sit in a corner and you should draw attention to yourself and Sean and I can kind of go around the edges That's certainly option to Well, I'll tell you what if you think I can cause a distraction and you guys can use that somehow You know that seems like the best plan action. I'm really good at the first party not so good at the second point And Maraj is gonna clap a ball on your shoulder. There's one thing I know it's that you can cause a distraction Oh, yeah Well, you folks get into position and you give me the buzz when you're ready for me to make some noise Maraj when you remove your hand from bone star shoulder It's like a slight static that like zaps you all right cool. Okay.

Just one information. Sorry does this it does okay? So no don't you don't have to ask questions. No, that's cool.

No, I do have a question I have a question does it feel familiar like the place I was when I was sleeping? Does it feel like that same kind of energy? No, okay. Is it weird energy?

Little bit how weird not not that weird. Okay. Also, this is not in the area where the giant company runs of the city, right? So I guess first question is there an area of the city run by the giant company is there yes, there is definitely an area of the city run by the giant company It would not be this it would not be near this location though Cool cool.

Maraj is going to avoid that area And I guess Maraj will turn to sham and say do you want to sit together? Do you want to sit in opposite sides of the bar and do our own ways of getting information? How do you want to play this? I'm not sure how well we're gonna work together right now It's fair.

I'll sit in one corner. You can sit in the other so we do that fuck Robert Just a chills well because this is the first time sham has really interacted with Maraj since With hapless can't you so yeah? Yeah, that's fair and that's I think Maraj Oh, so Maraj probably gets that general vibe because I imagine like psychically it is all just Negative coming off of sham towards Maraj and so as soon as like it was like I imagine as soon as Maraj turned to sham and turned her attention to sham she felt that and so expected that answer yeah, probably cool cool cool cool cool So glory this is gonna get real ugly and where do you want to be when that goes down? I don't know.

I think I just want to stick by you. Okay. Well, can you fight I can handle myself? Yeah, I'll be alright Hell yeah, hell yeah, I'm gonna go over and start looking at all their their air sliders Look at them over touching them in my hands Rubbing my face on the seat.

All right. Well if you start touching one there's a few people I don't know what we're to use for a group of aliens. There's a few y'all Yep There's a few bodies outside and they one of them sort of pipes up. Hey, don't don't be touching the motion guys Okay, these are premium.

I'm gonna I'm gonna ignore him and just say that like I hope you guys are ready soon These are premium air sliders my man. Don't be touching them. Okay, you give you like a little stuffed up on one of the panels We don't slide right. Okay.

I'm gonna look at him right in the eye when he's trying to talk to me and then vomit all over the motorcycle Just vomit raw magma everywhere. Oh, oh geez. Oh, oh geez. Why you gotta be doing this to us right now?

What are you doing man? Hey space Jimmy come over here and check out this man Space Jim I'm gonna grab another air slider and start eating it. Okay Two of them step forward one of them steps back goes. I don't think I want to mess with this guy I got metal in the brain coming giving you babies.

All right, uh, the two that set forward star running forward You guys are just like still outside sort of like even walking your way in and these two guys approach bone star Bone star make me a fight as one of them tries to come up and punch you Okay, we'll do buddy. Uh, that's gonna end up being a six. Okay, uh, you he tries to go for a punch and he whiffs wildly Can I say I just had his fist Oh, yeah, you just had but his fist and he just like goes down crying as you see his knuckles are sort of like just bleeding That rules All right, the time of my life the next step is a perotian that steps forward and sort of extends his claws. Okay.

Uh, does he take his way? No, it's it's there any way in the texture. Okay, uh, I'm gonna go ahead and Shoot a laser blast out of my skull right at the perotian's chest and I ended up in the floor All right, he gets laser blasted through the the front like the front window of the the air sliders bay And gets just glass starts shattering everywhere and you hear everyone inside just like chairs scooting all at the same time You know that feeling you sometimes get when you have to poop real bad It's like that thought in your head and that feeling all through your body and it feels like you're about to shake yourself Yeah, no mirage wants to What is going on? mirage wants to uh Make that feeling in as many people as possible that are coming to fight bone star to try and help bone start out all right make it make it make a will roll will or to see deceive whatever I got a uh plus three overall.

They actually get a plus two You see some of them sort of like are holding their stomachs Uh if you figure a few of these people are sort of having bibed a few drinks One of them does happen to throw up But like a majority of them are just sort of like holding their stomachs one of them sort of like stops and like holds Holds their their anatomically correct ass Okay, cool. I guess I have to say that because there's space e I guess Shav, are you doing anything? Shav's funny just walking into the bar You walk over to the bar the bartender doesn't seem to be reacting to any of this He's he's a octomane and he sort of like looks as one gigantic like orgia. He goes What do you have?

Give me something strong and sweet You got it and he reaches back and he starts like using all of his arms to uh makes you up a really good cocktail And he slides it over to you in like a little martini glass and he puts like a little he puts like a cherry in it And then like puts a little umbrella in it These guys are hard. Yeah, sorry for my friends out there. It's okay. We have this from time to time I've never had to replace a window though.

Well, let's hope you don't have to replace one this time either You look familiar. Yeah, are you a celebrity? No, in fact There's not many of my kind left so If if you've seen somebody looks like me, do you know do you remember when it was? I thought it was on the vids It's just your hair and skin look familiar.

I'm sorry. I see a lot of people but Face like yours would stick out in the background crash bag Well, if you remember where you've seen me let me know They sort of like uh sort of like kind of floating up like kind of going away from you I sort of look back. I certainly will and uh they go over and sort of serve someone else another drink. Uh, glory What are you doing?

Uh, glory is standing outside of the bar just watching bone star cackle and Presumably kick over more blokes and do more bullshit and uh drinking out of an enormous hit flask that she always keeps with her Like she's just cool. She's a during the scene But as this the scene sort of goes on I think we'll cut away from this And go to someone else uh Akita Where are you where you getting your rest at? What's uh, what's what is Akita doing to sort of rest in relaxation? You probably go to his room Like lay down on his bed try and get sleep and then you'd probably be thinking about um Like all the Presbyterian stuff and all that and he'd probably just get up and start researching that instead going to sleep You want to just like research it yourself.

You want to go talk to something work for us How do you want to how do you want to go about this? What are you what are you doing to get that information? Probably look and see what he can find by himself first and then if he can't find much then he Look didn't see if somebody else knows something. Uh, give me either a investigation or a lore role If you don't have like those any good give me a go I'll go with investigate.

I got plus two Okay That is a two plus two so four that's actually not bad. Um, you're sort of using like the workforces Uh network they're sort of like a connection to it But looking at the press by tarian you find that they are with a group called illumination You sort of already already knew that but it seems like they work with a a Colocate of other people and they there's like a bunch of like Different robots that they work for look work with there seems to be like a whole number of them And each of them sort of has their own special skill press by tarian seems to have this ability for I don't want to say they were built for it But they were built for like long-range capture and support their sort of this hunter Uh, they work specifically for the lunation, but they are also figureheads for each of their different sex for the lunation Uh, they sort of get people in and they start like trying to Uh, talk to these organics and trying to get organics to Exchange body parts trying to like replace their limbs with mechanical body parts It seems like for the most part you understand that they are all for hire. They're all just regular Bounties. They're all it's like a group of mercenaries kind of Uh, if you look more up about lunation itself, it is about the sort of Reestablishment of organics in the in the sector.

It's about turning organic life into the hot the next tier They're turning people into cyborgs pretty much sure They're very pro robots. Is there like a no location for like Like where they meet up or is it just like they just get calls and head out? Most of it is just calls, but like the lunation headquarters is located on one of the uh confederate colonies. Okay, um I'll probably if I can't I'll try and like send this data to like own star moord Just be like hey, I found something on the libertarian found a lead on them I think as you're going through this you get a you get a message from your brother actually Right, uh, your brother hits you up and sort of like his general introduction is like hey, bro Like it's just like a general message, but you can hear in his voice.

He says hey, bro. I got this great idol It's coming out like it's gonna be fantastic coming up pretty soon adopt a little hints here and there It's been great. It's been going well. I need you.

I need you to meet them They're the most wonderful person in the universe You need it. You need a lay low. You need to calm down. You need to calm work for me.

Come on We need some good. We need some good hands. Okay, you know, there's a lot of work that's that's this is going into like set up stages It's protecting stuff. I know you you like protecting beautiful people.

You know what I'm saying? You know saying you know Saying you know saying Yeah Anyway, listen What you doing is it's fine? It's it's for your honor bound glory. Whatnot, but you just kind of relax a little bit Let yourself go.

Let yourself free come work for me. I got this idol. She's fantastic. She'll be wonderful.

Okay Anyway, I'll be doing well. Tell me up I'll tell someone you love them. Okay, you probably just kind of step through that because he's like knows that his brother kind of rannals We'll probably at the end. We'll probably say like look um Kind of got this other thing i'm looking into right now I will try and if you need me call me if something goes wrong, but I got people for that.

I got people for that. I don't need you for that. I just need you to be here with me brother Come on. Maybe once this is all over.

Okay. All right. I love you bro. Just I need to do this.

I love you too man All right, keep your nose clean and he drops the call. All right. Yeah, so after that he'll probably just kind of Probably just trying to get back to sleep after doing that better research and getting the call from his brother I think after like a little bit you you do finally get some some good nights rest. We'll head on over to morgue Back at the workforce base.

Um, you have sort of the access to most of the workforce's Laboratory information here. They should be working pretty well with you They have uh needle work. You've seen him sort of going about you know how to get in contact with him They have sort of this little like local communication there on the workforce HQ You could just basically pick up a phone and dial whoever you need. There's like a whole directory and uh There's needle work that you've heard about groundwork before there's also lattice work you met and sort of talked with also Let's see here.

Who else do you guys know you guys know wonder work? You know trellis work who was sort of the guard that was cleaning up things afterwards Uh, I don't believe you met network or subnet work you met school work who is currently in sort of the hospital sort of recovery room right now But uh, what is what is morgue's game plan? So my rationale for morgue staying behind is he's probably still extremely full from the uh, The garbage plate that he had eaten earlier Because it was a lot of food and calories. So he's he's still uh, good to go on that front So uh, you mentioned school work more probably would check in with school work just to see how they're doing because that's the kind of person he is But okay, but he'd want to set like probably chat with groundwork a bit to find out more Like stuff about the gods like see what the uh workforce knows about them and kind of compare and contrast with what he had Heard from nebulis nights HQ So he can try to get a better idea of are these just aliens with superpowers or are is it like a divinity?

Like are they actually fueled by thoughts and devotion? Like what the hell's going on with this? Because more don't know so he's going to try to fill in some of those gaps in his knowledge Okay, so what do you think he would sort of pick up first? Do you want to go talk to do you want to like see if school works?

Okay first or do you want to go see if uh groundwork is available? Uh, he'd He'd probably send a comm to groundwork and schedule a meeting at like whenever there's an opening and groundwork Schedule or like once a good time for me to just drop in And then until groundwork is available then he'd like fill the time with checking in with school work and seeing how they're doing So when you do reach out to groundwork, uh, you sort of get a Like a little little message and response you hear this female voice on there You know leave a message after the beat. Please give your name number, you know contact information, etc, etc And i'll get with you back with you as soon as possible And it's almost immediately after you sort of like hang up the commission hang up the comms after that that you get a response right away Groundwork is responding to you saying that okay, well, we can meet at this time I don't know exactly who you are but according to my emails like she apparently has crossed like checked you through some emails and like some Like a hard and an at search for you And she basically spits it all back out at you like almost immediately Um, but you do have like sort of this meeting time set set with her in like about like a few a few cycles, you know An arbitrary amount of time that will probably be associated with hours. Okay, okay cycles as in hours and not cycles as in oh, yeah I like I like using cycles for everything because then it just makes it really nebulous as to how much time As to when it's night.

Uh, we said the thing very good at this but after that you sort of Locate the infirmary wing and you do find schoolwork they seem to be okay to have visitors and uh, this promotion is sort of laying down in bed She sort of is she seems a little winded after all that has happened But uh whenever she sees you she sort of recognizes you and sort of waves you in uh, hey I'm not sure if we were actually formally introduced but I'm more I'm one of the people that works with the nights and uh Sounds like I might be working with Akita and a bit like in the future for a bit Just wanted to check in on yeah and see how you're doing she looks up at you and she sort of says oh, yeah The one of the nights of course of course, uh what I work has already been in here and sort of She looks around sort of like not suspiciously sort of like looking around if anyone's like there She sort of leans in closely. She's sort of beckons you closer. Mm-hmm. I think I think when to work is uh sort of uh enamored with you He's sort of he talked about you a lot something about the tall green guy Oh And I'm not sure if they were talking about your plant friend.

Oh, yeah, uh, shawm. He's a good guy So I guess uh, I mean heck if I've gotten props from a super that's pretty good Wonderwork is uh definitely a strange fellow at least. Um, if you have anything about uh keeping up with him You sort of catch his eye. Um, I saw on the news actually that the Akita got dragged into it But the three of you seemed pretty pretty good looking on tv.

Oh, thanks. I never actually I wasn't thinking about how we were looking at the time, but Hey, if it uh helps increase public support for what we're doing and Makes sure that we can get word out that we're just trying to do good work then. It's all good She sort of chuckles whenever you say doing good work and she's yeah, that's kind of what they kind of what they do here. I guess Yeah, I it's still It's weird getting my head around the nomenclature and this place it takes a little getting used to but I've only been here for a little bit and uh, it's uh It's it's definitely something different than I've usually had to work with before give me a rapport role.

Oh, I Don't have rapport on this character. Oh, oh, oh, oh So I take that into account Uh, that is a plus one Uh at the end of that sense, she sort of looks up at you and smiles perotian smiles are a little kind of weird It's just they're sort of beaks are sort of a little bit partially open So like there's a little bit of airway through uh, there's like no real teeth there So it's very awkward But like you've been in a fresh and you kind of get like the the sort of like little hints that they have They'll tilt their head a little bit and turn one eye towards you. Mm for the most part. It seems like a pretty decent conversation Uh, I think the two of you just sort of chatted up a little bit She talks about a key to a little bit about how he's great with kids about how she he's always there for her You do get with your sort of with your plus one here Uh, that she's definitely really worried about key to and sort of his situation that he's going through Most of his race doesn't really leave the home planet or at least the colony planets that they're around She mentions that they're not a lot of bikin actually outside of where they're supposed to be located So having a key to cure is sort of a strange event.

Mm. So uh work will go Yeah, I I can sympathize with that uh, not many gtans get off from the home system and the ones that do usually get confused with uh, Some other species that are tend to be a lot more angrier and more uh, less prog rock more mosh pit If you get my meaning she takes those weird sort of like glance to the side I think I understand you more Well more heavy metal or more more relaxed scar And the other ones are more like heavy metal in a way. Yeah, I think I think I understand She sort of shakes her head a little bit while you're sort of having this little conversation the tv in the room that she's had It's just on really low ever since you came in she's turned the volume down real low, but you notice You notice that there seems to be So like something like piques your interest because you hear the very very familiar word of gampel man And you take a glance at the tv for a second And uh, you notice on the screen that there is an update on the going situation about gampel man fighting the Fighting these sort of multi-armed creatures that didn't seem like vaguarians on the vaguarino world It seems that gampel man has sort of stopped that Has defeated the the opponents that he had apparently would retrieve something and is now sort of flying away There are sort of a few experts quote-unquote And you see them sort of like talking with one another about what maybe he retrieved and they're talking specifically that this might have been a vaguarian artifact Like an a vaguarian like long ago sort of the vaguarians used to have like tribes They think it's some sort of like a vaguarian tribal symbol that maybe Gampel man is bringing back to gampel trapez maybe for someone that he works for maybe as a favor too Maybe that's who why that they were fighting these strange four-armed creatures that looked like the gorian, but maybe weren't They sort of like now, you know now back to the other studio and it sort of brings up another Interesting new story about the old cyber courier system about how now the the arctomains have sort of taken into custody and started to sort of disseminate some of the more public-facing information on it. Hmm And it's at this point schoolwork sort of like looks up at it and she's sort of like recognizing a few things She's kind of smiles.

She goes it's always glad I'm always glad to hear about some of the old tech Being found it's always interesting what you can find in old like computers or hard drives or I'm not much of a I'm not much of a computer person myself, but I definitely like rummaging through old vials since it's interesting Yeah, you never know what you're gonna be able to find in some of them also like Especially for some of the older tech archives sometimes with the way people bodge together code Sometimes you can find completely unrelated things that can revolutionize how future tech can be done up Kind of like she looks at you for a little bit. Are you you a programmer or a Computer scientist of some sort. I easiest way to put it is that I'm not formally tran- I'm a professional amateur It's so good. I just A lot of it's intuitive to me for whatever reason so I can I can go in and I can code up stuff But it can be hard to do stuff in the exact same way as someone else does like it I've been told that my style is too freeform and I need to comment my code a lot more But yeah, I'm a I'm a computer's man.

She chuckles at this I kind of understand that I Sort of leaning on intuition rather than something wrote something very mathematical and sort of precise. It seems more of a It's like a fluency. It's like a talent almost. Mm-hmm I've heard someone describe it before as it's like the difference between wizards and sorcery, but Like I have no idea what they were talking about They they had some book that came from a dirtball planet I don't even remember which one it was that they've rolled weird like plastic cubes and stuff but not Too much for me right now She sort of like nods her head a little bit I'll keep in mind what you said about sort of going back through old files that reminds me of something I might need to do something.

Anyway, um, I'm sure you have a lot of work to do a I guess Akita said he might try to track down these people who did this. I'm worried about him He's still focused on revenge. It's I don't want it to consume him. I've seen a consumer too many people Yeah, it's uh It's not healthy being focused entirely on revenge I mean, what's that old guard saying that when you seek out revenge make sure that there's two salvage operations booked?

So yeah, I'll probably be flying with him for a bit. So I'll keep an eye out for him I appreciate that more guy would it would do my part some good probably. I worry too much about kids already I think at this point, um, you sort of turn around and you notice that at the door is Trellis work Speaking of the guard trellis work is sort of in this very large make it very similar to what the zanthrop used to be in And they're sort of standing there at the door. You notice that it is trellis work because of the sort of patterns and motif is sort of like a trellis Sort of almost like a weird plaid on their mech You hear their voice activate and they can sort of like call out to you Mog do you mind speaking with me for a second, please?

Oh and the saying is if you're seeking revenge make sure you bring two notebooks one for your Thesis and one for your will gotcha. I'll keep it in mind. Uh, yeah, sure uh Schoolwork I'll see you later. She sort of waves to you as you foil up.

So to follow trellis workout Back to the scene back to this outside this this cacophony back at the bar You're not sorry. You've gone through a few of these air sliders already. Yeah, some of them are sort of destroyed Shum, you're if you're still drinking your problem your second drink by now. Yeah, mirage.

You eventually made someone shit themselves. Yes Anybody done the pewee hermin tequila dance yet There is someone that probably does the pewee hermin tequila dance on on on something at some point But yeah, no, this is turning into like a ridiculous scene. Oh, you guys doing they're just like flat out attacking you and failing pretty miserably I guess i'm gonna be basically in the background the whole time, but i'm gonna be yelling that I want to talk to somebody or i'm looking for the big The big name around here or something like that. Like i'm basically calling the mob out or whatever.

Okay. Oh shit Yeah, I think someone does step forward. They're actually the person who was doing the pewee hermin tequila dance on one of those cars You're gonna tie They drop They drop down and it is a serice in sort of like Like it almost looks like play armor from like old medieval times only like almost like etched with some tech And he was walking over he's like, I got you right here. I'm the biggest thing in this fucking planet.

Okay, I'm the biggest thing I got all the connections. I got all your stuff that you would ever a little want. Okay, mirage you recognize him Do I yes because he screams I used to work for the minutes. Ah Oh god.

Damn it Fuck, uh, who is it? He's like a male carrier. He's like the guy that pushed around male. Do I remember his name at all?

His name is jessice. All right, um mirage is going to um mirage is going to walk up behind jessice and pull out her Gun he put it to his back and say shut up come with me Uh, make me a provoke roll. Uh, that's uh minus three total. No, sorry.

That's a minus four total He starts laughing. This is like hysterically. I'll get it with playing cat and mouse now I get it. It's great And then uh so as soon as he starts laughing i'm going to Spin him around so he can see my face because I was always with the minotaur.

Um, he's he spins you spin him around And he looks up at you and goes Rarrr You don't recognize me do you? Yeah, that's what I thought and I'm going to um, make him see the minotaur coming up behind me. Okay, make me a deceive roll Uh, that's a plus six total Okay, uh, he sees the minotaur coming up from behind you And then he's gonna like get wide-eyed his his like play eyes will return he goes the boss is back The boss is back. He sort of gives you a hug and then he starts don't Pushes you away and starts going towards the middle Uh mirage is going to stand in between them and say you don't look you you know how this works.

You don't talk to him you talk to me Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. No, it's been so long. He's been so long.

I'm sorry. Uh, oh, that's why okay. Hi. Uh, there's a lot of stuff going on Boss, uh, he sort of like looks at the minotaur and looks at you and then looks at the minotaur We probably should get out of here.

There's lots. I mean, not a lot of stuff is going on to be quite honest These are these bombs. These I don't even know I'm here I'm just hanging out with them because you know, they bought me a few drinks And they have side is a real pretty come inside with us and uh, let us buy you a drink And we can go over your performance evaluation He points inside the barn he goes, uh, lead the way mirage will begin to walk and then grab him by the back of the neck and He's pushing forward and then the minotaur will follow after us. Okay, stumbles into the bar We'll bone star and gloria, uh, you guys are outside the bar still sort of Tussling with some other people.

Uh, this is sort of made a little bit of a commotion But there's like one guy still trying to hit one star. Okay Um, I'm just gonna like talk to gloria and just be like, well, I mean once we're done here Maybe we can go check out a maybe some food or something Um, we're gonna need to obviously hijack the television or radio signal in order to call the mob bosses out But there's a mechanic fun in the meantime, whatever you want sugar I just want to make sure that you have a good time and I just want to make sure that I get at least one good drink by the end of the Night, okay, well, then let's go raid this bar honey. Oh, please do Uh, and bone star is gonna pick up his own head and throw it like a softball at the last guy It clungs on the side of the head and he just goes he just goes down on one of the air sliders And the air slider just sort of takes off across like the uh into like the horizon Oh, sweet. I'm actually gonna pull my uh the rest of my body towards my son then in that case So I can uh ride the stinky air car around.

That sounds great. In fact, if I can manage to pull myself back in orbit I'm gonna do a full 360 and just drive it right in the bottom. Oh, jeez. Okay You know what make me a pilot role to see if you can like do this expertly, okay, um, how's the three sound three sounds Better than average You you do smash through a couple of chairs and tables along the way as well as the door Uh, you do ruin this guy's bar like the actual bar itself, but you're at the you're at the bar now.

Okay, I'm gonna Leave it so you're next to Sean Hey shop. Someone starts just crashed next to you. I move table It's a simply over to where Eli has taken his guy and I would like to be eavesdropping when that conversation starts I'm gonna uh slay my fish down at the table and say sorry about the mess i'm buying the bar out Octamine with single i goes extremely wide goes right over to you. Anything you want?

Yeah, there's the Sarah tops out there You need to get her nice and sloshed that plant guy make sure you kill his bar and also, um, let's get him reloaded up Okay, let's go real heavy on it and then for the cat get a cat whatever they want looks around for a second looks back at you You're not paying with company scripts. Are you not paying with credits, baby? Jen cretz? Yeah, man He sort of you feel this smile and he just the tickles behind him just start going crazy He makes drinks and he starts like pumping things out.

Uh, there's like a guy walking into the bar He goes to take a swing at you. You see him pull a gun out from beneath and shoot this guy Okay, just falls back on the ground. There's no blood it doesn't seem like he's killed him But there's this guy's just knocked out and he puts the gun away. He goes anything for you boss Oh, uh, yeah, any cleaning supplies you have under the counter those son.

I need some of those He gets out space cloroxed bleach. All right, so i'm just gonna start drinking off of those along with my uh, my cocktails I'm gonna do my best to treat this like a power hour before I go into really go antagonizing people. Maruch. All right So here's the deal We are trying to make a comeback, um, but we have to Work slowly and we're looking for something and we think Uh, some of the gangs around here might know something about it So the minotaur and I have a very important job for you We need you to get as much information as you can for us And if you are successful then when we come back you will be handsome rewarded.

I think All right, all right, all right, I think I got this. I think I got this I sort of days off the very beginning because you know the boss is back This is great. This is great news. I got to tell the guys.

I got to tell the guys No, no, no, no, no. We have to keep this on the down low But Okay, just oh just an arsenal mission. Yes a solo mission We are putting a lot of our trust in you because you were loyal, you know, I got messages in I did because you were loyal loyalty is rewarded now We need you to be loyal again and we need you to get all this information and we need you to do it subtly That's my middle name just see subtly I forgot my last name. Now.

Now. It's it's important. It's it's important for me to hear this What does subtle mean to you? You're taking an awfully long time for this answer.

It has me worried. Oh, sorry It's not talking. I guess a lot It's that that's close. I try to demonstrate.

It's yeah No, that was that was a great demonstration But it's also making sure that you don't draw attention to yourself when you're getting this information. All right. I can't drink no more Can I know you cannot can I use my powers to sober him up? Yeah, sure.

Okay. Well, what do you want to roll? Um, roll me. I don't get to deceive.

I think it's a will like putting your wheels sort of against his. Yeah, that's a plus four He's got a decent. Nope. Yeah.

No, he uh, he's like, okay. All right. No more drinking And then like he looks up at the minotaur and then this is the first time that he's been like sort of like cowering and he sort of like puts his head down a little bit Like I got you subtle Good now and mirage is going to slide across a communicator Number code however communicators work and say when you have information and then mirage is also going to tell him What they're looking for and all that but not all the details obviously just enough that he can get the information when you have the information Contact me here. So like it looks far away for a second What exactly am I looking for?

Mirage explains it because Eli does not remember. Okay. I apologize Cody. No, that's okay.

Uh, is there anything like is there anything specific that you want? You want him to figure out though? I just need to know What the word on the street is and if he can figure out If the word on the street is that such and such family has it or such and such corporation has it or anything like that? Um, I just need to know What the rumors are so that we have a place to start.

Okay He uh, he sort of nods a sudden agrees with you and he says uh, I get right on that night Uh, I got a new ride because that guy over there just well, he's he's currently sitting on it He just crashed into the bar, but I'll get for you And he sort of like looks over at the minute time and he sort of Did you guys have like a salute or something? I think the like really low level ones came up with one But we never acknowledged it and the minutes are always just gave a kurt nod Whenever he was pleased or something like that I think he gives like a little salute He just like puts his it puts his hands up to his like on the sides of his face And then he runs out of the bar with his tiny little legs and mirage rolls her eyes And then goes over to the bar and orders a hard milk He slides you a space white russian. That's what a white russian is right? Yeah And uh, the two of you sort of walked down the hallway Uh to get a little bit trellis works meck is a little bit smaller than the other than some of the other Other mecks that you've seen them in this one sort of seems to be the walking around hq meck, but they turn to you and say we have the I'm not sure what exactly what to call them the ball robots the the bouncy boys the Oh, yeah, the magic eight balls The magic eight balls.

It's very good. That's where i'm writing that down right now. I know you can't see this but i'm writing this down We do have some of them put away, but we have a strange situation going on. Um, it seems that The the black one is wanting a separate self from the rest of them and we sort of gave that to them I'm not sure if they're wanting to talk, but they did specifically ask for you.

Oh Okay, uh, sure now i'm not sure exactly why and i'm only granting this because if it's a Delegate situation they are part of from what I understand And they're part of a faction that we don't fully understand I Typically at this point bounty hunters will reveal to the other parties who their factions are because the way that nature of bounty hunters are I'm not sure if you're very familiar with it I know you are with the knights, but the knights may run things differently You reveal who you work for in faction wise and then from there negotiations start happening There's an exchange of money based on you know damages and suing and whatnot But they're not giving away who they're working for and even if they were we would understand that it would probably be a third party Anyway, they would be the third party to whatever person who wanted schoolwork originally and while we probably know who wants schoolwork We're not going to give that away just to anybody you understand for schoolwork safety. Yeah, the uh The for whatever reason that schoolwork was being kidnapped the less people that know the actual rationale The better it is for them because that way people don't know that they're uh, I'm completely spitballing like Trillion error cred air us to a sort of factory or a psychic genius or makes very good stew Like I don't know I've heard of people being kidnapped for less While we're not in a we're in a better position to negotiate I think we would be even a more advantageous position if we gave them what they want and maybe sort of Lean on this side of this maybe defective maybe traitor. We're not really sure at this point But if you could talk to this this hate ball, huh as you call them, maybe we can get some more information out of them Hmm would you mind doing that? We will be observing by the way Then we'll see it's natural.

Yeah for sure. I'm I'm just trying to think of why they'd be requesting me specifically. I mean I did Offer them many chances to stand down and I may have read their mind, but I didn't tamper with anything because that's illegal. They sort of turned to you as you said read their mind All of that is Illegal in a way.

I'm glad you didn't tamper with anything. That's at least good enough, but uh That has something to be noted at least Yeah, it's uh, basically just Checked the buffers while they were while asking some questions and Saw what was going what was going through their mind, basically I didn't get into any deep processor stuff or anything. I don't think So Charles works takes you down a few hallways and a few flat stairs down and down until the you get to the basement of Workforce HQ Whenever you get down there, there seems to be an increased amount of guards in the area and not guards as in the species but guards as in the People who protect things they take you into this secures area Uh, Charles work seems to be you know accessing a lot of places You walk up to a few doors They seem to be read and they automatically turn green as soon as they get near and you walk down a few corridors And you notice that there are a lot of screens in the wall One of the screens that you pass by is a group of the cubal people They seem to be in a very plain room. All of them seem to be sitting around a few of them are sort of pacing in the room But as you're walking past you see a few other Places with screens on and you see different species inside clearly this seems to be some break of some sort some sort of uh, jail That the workforce has themselves they have probably, uh, jailed these people You actually see needlework on one of the screens in a cell with somebody who seems to be strapped down And uh as you walk past the screen sort of quickly turns off before you sort of see exactly what needlework is doing But you finally reach, uh, screen that shows you an odd site It is a room that is sort of looks as though as if it was on the fifth or sixth floor of any large building There is one wall that seems to look out on sort of the rest of the city blocks sort of the city vista that you would see uh, sort of buildings underneath And there is you know a few ferns in here There's a few plants and it looks like to be a meeting room There's a very large table in the middle with a bunch of chairs sort of all around its edges And sitting in one of the chairs with their hands crossed Is the reassembled form of the magic hate ball that you referred to as before Charlotte Quiswerk sort of gestures to the screen They've been sitting here for quite some time After they rec- they requested You they've just been sitting there and sort of not refusing to talk but refusing to discuss anything vital so to speak and the uh The nice stakes are in there to set them more at ease and Kind of make them not realize that they're deep in a basement break basically, right?

So if they do break out, they'll be surprised that they're extremely far underground instead of on like Let's see the eight floor or something like that That was our initial intent The room is already set up as it is But they seem to understand where they are They know that they're not where they seem to be You can try to put them at ease, but it doesn't seem like that's possible at this point More like if I I can disclose a little bit more now that we're sort of in a secure location But they're not the same person that we eat They're not the same person that we drug in Are you saying someone else like downloaded into the shell? Basically, after you said what you did in the hallway I've taken a few precautions I believe that we are sort of Have you ever heard of a Faraday cage? Yep Walks all transmissions and coming and outgoing This entire place underneath the basement in the HQ You've seen the locks that we had to pass on the way through It is one gigantic Faraday cage They I'm not sure if they'd seen the programming beforehand, but something in them changed What question uh Are you eating You said one giant Faraday cage are each of the rooms independently isolated also I'm trying to talk about this for a little bit Sort of uh They sort of like tilt their head to the side You know guard They sort of get quiet for a little bit That only means that they're probably talking or looking through notes or something According to the schematics, it looks like a few of the rooms are Most of the rooms on the side are Yes, uh the ones that both the other hate balls are in and this one are separate Faraday cages Okay, uh And I'm just gonna ask that not to insult your company or anything like that It's just that I had to do IT security for people for a time and We dealt with Faraday cages and Long story short one of the security Preaches that they opened up accidentally was because one idiot was very upset with the lack of good calm reception Inside the secure area so they drilled into the cage and put a repeater in to get stronger signal So they could watch sports And while in the break room, I'm not saying anything like that's happened, but you're you're sure that nobody's like Fucking it fricked around with a Faraday cage and there's a small hole that could be broadened, right? I'm 98% sure that that is a clean and intact Faraday cage Okay Oh, that that's good.

You guys have uh, that's actually encouraging to hear because I I know skin off my nose But it always kind of irks you after you've worked in that kind of job for a while that people people do dumb things sometimes Trust me. There are a lot of idiots that work here when they sort of like You can't you can't see it, but then you hear them roll their eyes. There's a lot of Extravagant, you know Crazy bitches be extra. Yes for sure they would be extra Anyway, go in there see what information you can gather any information that you can gather is yours We will be listening by the way We will have got guards available in fact as well.

Um, I did increase security should I leave the axe outside or bring it in with they like more gluts over they don't look Locked down or anything and I don't expect like they're setting nicely I don't expect that they'd come at me, but I mean this is your place. That's your rules From the redo briefing with the keto. I believe that their arms and legs were ripped off last time I believe I believe you'll be safe in there. No worries.

Okay. Gotcha So do you leave the axe outside? I'll I'll leave it outside because it'll probably help negotiations because it is a big huge scary axe that Can dismember a robot that's very easily So morgue you enter into this negotiation slash interrogation room with this magic eight ball And they're just sort of sitting there. They don't really respond to you when you're in through the room.

What do you do? I pull up a chair and sit down in front of them and mirror their pose with uh Fingers like interlace my fingers on my hands and sit so I hear you were looking for me You see the magic eight ball little circles sort of look up at you and before you notice that it was just like a You know leds in it sort of like made like happy faces exclamation points Words appear on the screen but this time it appears to be a face and like a little smiley face with a little like colon and uh, you know, the parentheses Hmm then the parentheses opens up and says Yes, I would very much like to speak to you more. I have to thank you for quite quite a lot Oh, you guys can actually speak. That's good to know Oh, no, no, not not not us guys typically we're not typically these oh I didn't mean to uh gender.

I use guys as a non-binary thing. I use it for everything Like it's like you folk kind of thing and they scoot their chair back and get up and walk over to the window They sort of put their hands and interlace it behind their backs. Mogg. You don't It's funny.

I'll talk of binaries. I didn't even think of it that way Uh-huh It is it is interesting, but it's it's not fun to be limited to such things that mug Just on and off It's really sad the two states Yeah, uh speaking as An analog meat shell It's not this side of things ain't the greatest either, you know, so uh, but regardless of What can I do you for? You I've heard that you were asking for me specifically for Some reason and something tells me it wasn't for discussing philosophy a little column a little column b Uh freeform if you would Basically, I would like to thank you Maybe even help you out a little bit as much as I possibly could It's strange just to have a change like this happen I was quite lost before even this shell was lost before and I believe I've given them new meaning So that's good at least Um There's sort of wandering around the room at this point. They sort of touch the uh the screen that leads outside Sorry, I'm meandering at most.

Um the information that you would want They work you already know that they work for the aviose beleague Um I they Are you saying so? Sorry, I'm catching up a bit I'm getting the distinct impression that you are not the entity that I interacted with back in the apartment building Yeah, did you did you download into this this frame or did you were you trapped in? Like where you go stand the machine that just spark ignited uh ai formed or again morgue a little column a Love column b they walk over to you. They pull out of chair next to you Let's go sit down next to you Well, whenever you did what you did to this person.

Um, I keep calling this person. I really should call them We there they're in here. They're part of me. It just imagine like Imagine two people standing next to each other if one of them does most of the work and the other one seems so timid and scared of everything And you're trying to believe them by the hand trying to teach them the ways but they're just not going along with it They would rather sit there and cowards.

It's it's rather quite sad. That's how most of my people are more But I can change that we can change that walk You've given me this you've created the pathway that I can be here that I can be here for my people again I'm wishing that I had like this is Mike speaking not more I'm wishing that I had uh the like law skill because I'm trying to remember about uh the god of the ais Mm-hmm because this is starting to sound a bit familiar Yeah, maybe you want to roll me a lure? I can give it a try No, lore, but something tells me notice won't work for this or pop off so straight up roll. Let's say minus one Work You're not getting anything like I remember bone star and them talking about something related to this but I was tuning Out so I like something about gods and space pirates Then I started thinking about space pirates They sort of uh turned to you For the most part, I wish that I could give you more information more about this About why they wanted to come after this school work what they had planned and what what not but Is there anything that you need?

What do you want? What can I give you? Oh? Well, so don't suppose you know anything about portal technology or gods at all do you?

Oh morgue That's a beautiful mind So small though Oh morgue So god specifically the gods are such a such a diverse thing look at all the other species morgue each one with a diverse culture It's it's it's it's think about the A mass the the the normity of it all and you just want me to give you all of the information that I know about even I I didn't even exist during their times I can give you some information about the gods that I did meet in the uh, the uh, oh gosh, uh, the crisis lands This is what I called it. I'm not sure what the others do but uh, I mean I met them, but they were insane. They were broken Okay, because I'm like I'm I'm sorry. I don't I don't entirely know what questions that I could ask you because that's like It's like a Sandbox game where I don't know what the key points are that I can start asking about like, uh, sure, uh off the top of my head Do you know anything about how to make portals?

from That cross galaxies or anything that would assist us in stopping gods from possibly having a galactic apocalypse Because it's it's starting to sound kind of like that's the kind of thing that we're dealing with unfortunately No, no, no, no, no, you're correct. It is some sort of a weird uh I did feel it and it was there there is a vacuum for sure there is of going to be a fight for it That's let's let's take it one step at a time the teleportation Across galaxies. No, no one no one can it's being stopped. It's being prevented Even all of these people seem to be working on it But it is being prevented by something not even the ones that I talked to even know We are able to step through to other places using the astral realm.

That's the place for only as gods, of course Um, wait what? the the astral realm No, I'm sorry about us gods Oh, yeah, I'm so sorry. I've been talking around this all the time I figured you know when someone does something as sanely brilliant as you did. I just assume yes.

Hi. I am Well, it's been a long time so I had a name technically They called me the aske the aske the ascended They sort of put their hand out to shake your hand Morg goes Oh, yeah, nice me. You ask you. So yes us gods the astral realm to protect teleportation.

Yes. Yes. That's it's preventing Something is preventing it even us even the gods do not know as for the apocalypse. I mean, I would just say let it happen I mean, well, I'm not really sure I'm not entirely sure about the scale of it, but it sounds pretty bad for neat sacks like me You're thinking on such a small scale though.

I have a few that I've been talking to uh sort of move in shakers Let's not you think of it as an apocalypse. Think about it as a reshuffling your people specifically In this the way that things are are being sort of downtrodden I mean you couldn't even get a meal at your own place of Employee you understand what I'm saying? It is time for something to be shook it up. It is time for A reawakening that this isn't how things are supposed to be.

This is not how things should be I I do agree with you for that but the problem I have with it is The means that at least one of the factions seems to be going about doing it Like raiding planets, kidnapping or killing Swaths of people. No, those are barbarians those are those are those idiots. They're not like you anymore They're not intelligent like we are we take things steps at a time we take things and we we work them We don't just I said take things and we work them, but I don't stealing Forcefully stealing things we need restructure I mean, I'm as I'm on board for reforging things as much as the next gtn, but like I I'm more I want to make sure that whatever like I'm not entirely a part of this whole God business as far as I know though it seems that I I know one else So that's kind of cool and the last one the last ones I encountered tried to kill me and lost So that's something no, he's a dick. No, you met you probably met no you didn't meet the worst one Maybe the maybe the worst one for your kind, but no the worst one is probably the the You haven't done anything about that one yet.

I mean a whole planet is about to get devoured by a ghost You haven't done it. Okay. I'm gonna have to fix this Yeah, I was kind of weirded out that It was going on in the news and everyone just seemed to be distracted by other things like any giant Ghost space evil pope Should be stopped, but I thought that people like gampelman were working towards fixing that. Oh, yes Hmm, well you're so small you've given me brilliant ideas.

We should we should get together again soon I appreciate these conversations with you I have a lot of work. Is there any Paired of questions that you need because I have a lot of work to do of more kind of Is still very taken aback by all this. Uh, is there any way that I can get in touch with you in the future if if I need help or if you need my help I mean as as as a god you probably wouldn't need my help by I mean Always useful to have an extra set of hands around right? That's true true true true to true true Um It's a lot I have to do for sure and have to be a lot of places and I can be to be quite honest To be quite honest.

No You really there's not really a good way to get in contact with me Don't don't go be hacking any more of my people please. It was cool the first time I understand it maybe I made it through but please don't don't do that because that is one of the things I do wish to restructure And maybe the views is maybe something we should prevent in the future too like the species or uh a specific one doing a Gigri pulkry minder stuff Personal issues more personal issues big picture I'm thinking big picture and they sort of stand up and look at the look at the the screen of the wall that shows out You know what I'm saying, Mark? Yep And uh, I'm assuming you Don't these fair day cages don't actually mean anything to you whatsoever do they? They turn to you with the little a ball face.

It has a little smiley face pop up on the side and a little screen And it slowly walks backwards into the screen and they sort of just mesh into the screen And they just fall off this imaginary building And then you see it sort of lift off into the sky as it like shoots out like this jet of fire behind it And it shoots off into the sun and it says goodbye morgue on the screen Whoa You hear the the locking mechanism on the door sort of his open and trellis work is standing there going What the fuck just happened? Oh, apparently when I accessed the uh, the eight balls mine back in the uh apartment apparently that unlocked Asking the ascendant Into that mortal frame Yeah, it was speaking and it was polite because it was a god No, the speaking thing was We didn't encounter that we were very surprised about that Morick sets down again and goes I need a drink Like I know the story say if you encounter a god be as as polite as possible and do whatever they say but What what the hell am I supposed to do when a god asks? Hey, uh, what you want to know like? Holy shit.

No, it's it is it is understandable. Um, I'm glad I didn't bring my accent here I'm glad you didn't either Your communicator goes off. I Look at it. This is the fair day cage.

Uh, it is a alarm that you set that tells you that you need to go meet up with groundwork Gotcha. Um So lattice work I need to go to go talk to groundwork and I think I may have some Relevations for them like I heard them them described as a big old nerd for gods and uh, I just spoke to one This is true. I'm probably going to send over the report to her after this the uh, I'll also send it to you because goodness gracious Yeah, uh, feel free to annotate it with any sort of comments for what I should have asked because Like I mean who knows if it's gonna happen again It'll be a good thing to keep in mind in case something else that like that happens again uh So you start heading down to where groundwork says to me you sort of uh leave trellis work and um you go outside You notice that the location that grand work once you to mean is actually pretty far outside the city The most the majority of this planet is city However, once you sort of get public transportation get out there You notice like things start to sort of fade away. There used to be like different districts the different blocks Uh, they have like a different vibe to them.

Uh, sometimes you pass through some industry But you got a location in which that seems to be an old abandoned Like warehouses in industry and factories or it seems like some of the stuff is sort of like broken down And some people are sort of taking the old metals and sort of reworking it Uh, but it's as you sort of get out here towards this sort of like reworked area I did not mean for that to be similar motif to what the other god was talking about But as you sort of get closer to that location a few things happen You're taking public transportation out here you take a train then you have to jump on a bus and you get dropped off in a sort of strange location You just have to walk a little bit But as you're walking down you notice that this area has sort of been a combination of like reworked area Plus sort of like this more cityish sort of like red light districts area. There's a lot of neon lights There's a lot of reworked buildings, but it looks more like fashioned rework than anything It's like someone has taken like some shanty stuff sort of polished it up and then sort of made it into like these intricate hipstery patterns You know, it's like it's like modern was made with someone went through a junkyard and actually tried to polish up all the junk so Nuvo cyberpunk kind of thing where The equivalent of people on earth going all the stuff from the sprawl and William Gibson books Let's do that but shiny. Yeah, but shiny shiny and with like a hint of chrome sometimes And all bespoke so so your own corrugated steel shed will be completely different than everyone else's right Everything is everything is custom out here as you're sort of walking through this portion of the basically city planet You know something by the way side. There is this small little Fairly different building than the most of them it is still reworked, but it seems to be leaning more towards like victor what we know as victorian era It seems sort of uh, they try to go for like a very very fancy a very like established motif to it And there is some sereces outside.

They're sort of not in their regular sort of suits of armor that they usually wear Uh instead they seem to be in these very long flowing gowns. It's very strange Like you know, you don't really notice it at first, but you notice it as one of them turns around that it's open in the back so it looks like a priest robe combined with like A hospital gown Okay, it's funny because I was expecting you to say that they had the giant petticoats with a giant like bustles or whatever They're called at the back, but no, it's the complete opposite. There's the lack of that. Yeah, there's the lack of that I mean, I guess it makes it easier for their tails Definitely easy for their tails and their their tails are definitely out there Along with this a lot of stuff.

Mm But as you're sort of walking by it's very odd because as soon as they turn around they look very like very regal They almost seem to have like bits of metal like down like down their chest or says that they had chain mail But it wasn't connected together and they sort of tinkle when they walk then I don't mean tinkle as in the restroom They tinkle and jingle out of the middle one of them it does approach you though and in a sort of high pitch tini voice say Greetings greetings. Um, I fell out for the traveler. Have you heard of the great one oat? And they sort of look at you expect it like sort of smiling their little toothy maws Lesson no offense.

I'm I'm not buying what you're selling. I've already met one god today. I don't need to hear about another one They seem a little taken aback by this. No, no not selling anything.

Not selling anything. We all need a revelation We all need to change in our lives You say that you've led a god today Well, I understand that the corporations that we work under they seem like gods to us But they're not they're just people and people can change and so can you yeah, so sorry? Are we talking hot sim? Are we talking stems?

Chems? What are what are we doing here? Uh, they hand you a pinflip only The good word this hurts my brain. I can't figure out if it says yani or laurel And that's a dated reference even now Well at the top of this benefit is uh in big large letters Oh ert and right below it seems to be like a fetus form of You're the king of dine for the species It almost seems like a lot of them mixed together and you sort of like look at it for a little bit and your brain actually does Heart a little bit it seems to change as soon as when you look at it and as you open it up you realize that this is for uh the fellowship of the revolving door and uh the pamphlet sort of talks about how Oh, ert is the god of change and regrowth huh There's a lot of this going around lately, isn't there?

I uh I guess just the season there's a lot of people going around I guess someone like something's taking advantage of it More kind of says to himself and they probably may reply to that Upheaval no no no no no no no no no there's there's a what is about change about rebirth about Taking yourself and making it into something better before I was just Well, I was a terrible person Some bounty hunter's tracked me down after I had a bounty on my head and they put me through the wringer And I had a choice I could go back to the dregs of society and like you were saying before back to the drugs and the stems and the hot sims But I chose this instead. I chose oat instead and oats gave me a new chance a new lot in life Morg is look morg is looking at the uh the time on his calm and goes yeah, yeah new chance at life Uh, sorry. I've got a meeting that I need to go to I'd expect it leave they go oh oh So sorry, so sorry just remember that the next time you bring up that axe That things can change and they sort of turn around show you their rear end And walk back to their little uh their little their little Their little church here morg shrugs is about to throw the pamphlet and then sticks it into his back pocket because he figures I'm gonna be talking to a groundwork pretty soon anyway for this kind of thing They'll probably be able to let me know how much of a scam this is And I think with that you sort of make your way down to the city down to where groundwork is And I think with that we might have an end there and have Next episode pick up with you talking to groundwork before getting back to the other crew with the rest of the crew at least So sham you you heard all that uh, I think in the middle of that the the bartender does come over and give you another drink Okay, I Yeah, I take it and just like just wave them on I think I figured out where I saw you before and that gets my attention right back to him Do tell some of the vid screens in here damaged. I'm gonna see if I could pull it up on the one behind the bar Uh, I'll let you know Sort of like very intently staring at you know I think sham will just go to something he's drinking Like if he pulls upright if not then nothing lost Okay How far away from mirage is sham probably a couple of tables like not oh, it's not that it's obvious that I'm trying to eavesdrop on you But but definitely definitely close enough so I'd be able to hear you Not necessarily whispering but talking quietly Roger's going to go over to sham's table and say the opposite side and say I think we need to talk about what went down.

I think you've already shown me everything I need to know It's fair. I didn't know When using the scythe what exactly would happen and I'm sorry that I Drained the plant life around us. I don't expect you to forgive me. I don't expect you to Be my friend or anything like that But we're working together and we at least need to be able to work together Who so can we work together?

That depends what we're doing just now Getting us information for us or for your other boss. Oh Both Let's just say that Our goals are similar Fine. We'll see how this goes And maraj begins to get up and then as as she does she sits back down and looks at sham and says You know, it's not good to eavesdrop especially when you don't know the whole story and then gets up and walks away Just believe that moment hanging there for a second, sorry Oh, it's monster Even cloyer getting very turn very turned up right now I'm gonna look over and go. So I've got a brainful of special thoughts.

How are you doing? I'm doing all right Yeah, not not not great. You need to get there. I'm getting there You know where to go.

Where do we go next? I need to go get a message out to the people is there a tv station or a raid? Hey to a tv station. I do want to finish this your drink first though.

Oh, no, no, I just bought the bar out So let's clear this thing out first. Okay, it'll help you figure out where you're going I'll give you some clarity of thought we'll make it worth your time. My team is fighting each other right now Yeah, what is all of y'all's deal? Well, I don't know what their deal is.

They got some problems with each other and I really better see it Oh, that's real sad. I guess I'm technically in charge of them, but I don't know what the hell that means Well, that sounds really complicated. I hope that maybe Come in here and doing a little bit of Fuss and Moss tonight. I just brought you some relief.

No, it's just work. You work too hard. Thank you That I'd make more time for myself. We all do honey.

I know I know I work too hard. You're a good friend glory. I appreciate The warmth and the intimacy Of course honey. And then he's gonna um just grab a giant bottle from behind the bar and smash it on his head I gotta go sort this thing out with my team.

I'm gonna walk over to shawm As you smash it on your head, but I'm sorry you walk over to shawm the main vid screen behind the bar pops up And there is an announcement it is like on space youtube And the octamine looks over at you points up to it and you see very like large stage It's all like in black and lights pop on and there's a very familiar person standing on stage to you show Uh, it is one of your kind one of your species from long ago someone that you thought as a younger sibling Yeah, it is his may and She is singing her heart out on stage And you see next to her is a very familiar looking dog like person that looks very much like a kita And he's as she's singing he's sort of making an announcement. I would like to introduce you to the plant idol of the century Your ears will be blown I have dug down to the reaches of the sector and found this blossoming flower to introduce to the sector itself We together We'll go into the stars and see that the stars themselves are simply just far away Petals and she sort of just blares out this beautiful song and she starts dancing and you just see like parochians coming up behind her And they start dancing in synchronous other people in the audience like holding glow sticks up and they're sort of like dancing along with And they are going nuts for his may and his mate looks ecstatic. There are flower petals all down in her hair She is just singing her heart out and behind her is just a gigantic tree and like those and like soccer petals start like floating down into the audience And that's when we'll shift over to a kita as you're watching this too. Your brother has just had this to you All right, um And your brother is now the manager to his may the plant idol of the stars And at this point school work walks by and she like looks in looks at you looks at the vid screen Do you mind if I talk to you Uh, yeah, that's um, yeah, that's fine.

Are you busy? I need to come back later. No, this is something my brother sent me. He's up there.

He's managing this girl apparently Oh, uh, I didn't realize that What do you need? Are you an ex idol? No That's sorry. I'm no he's he's doing his own thing He keeps wanting me to join him and help him out with it But I need to do some stuff first Doing your own thing is good.

That's Kind of why I'm in this trouble as it is. I tried to do my own thing too and People tried to get in the way. Um And you saved me from that. So I just wanted to thank you for this time and last time Don't worry about it That is work said that he told the the night's more information.

Um, I don't have much but I I guess you would like to know I was working on a teleportation technology Okay, that's that's why they hurt you. That's why they're after me All right, I didn't mean to have you into this No, it's it's fine So you're the one on the teleportation thing One of them All right, and so they were after you because You're part of it. Are they after other people we need to keep an eye on or I was They separated most of us that were trying to work on special projects. They had the yet so they only know about you I hope so Well, she probably get you to talk to the night guys I She sort of kind of tears up a little bit.

I really I just want to leave it alone I don't I want to leave that behind I did me that was past me and now I just I just want to be left alone You don't have to She checks her head. Thank you. Okay. Just let me know if you ever need me I will I have put together something the information that I do have on what I was making and who I was working for She puts it on the desk Thanks.

I'll make sure they don't know it came from you I like ending it there like with the schoolwork giving you the information and whatnot. Do you have anything else to say to schoolwork or um not much really Just like be careful and Not like try to get under the work forces like probably witness protection or something like that She will mention to you, you know to not get obsessed with things like revenge But she'll say that like almost coyly not coyly but like kind of like knowing what he's about Yeah, as she sort of leaves the room All right. I feel like I after he would have seen the um one of shoms people Is His brother is And he probably would have didn't chum mentioned that did chum ever mention in front of a key to that He was like one of the last of his kind or probably it's all he ever talks about I mean if he like if he hasn't seen any other of any other cockra he probably would have shot a message to shambi and like So my brother is in contact with one of your people now. Oh, mg.

Check this out Okay, um, let's let's go back to the bar as we sort of like Because I think last time bone star was approaching shop about something and you guys wanted to go to a tv station Yeah, go go go go. Okay. I'm gonna just gonna walk up to shop and say hey, uh, what's going on with you in mirage? I don't trust them.

It's there. I wouldn't Other than that But who lucked together? Well, no, it's not that. I'm not coming to you like a boss or anything I don't trust I don't trust him either.

They've been giving my brain nudges, you know, and I can't do anything about it But I certainly know what's happening. So I think I've made it clear. I think you're uh Think you're insightful And I need your help sometimes so I need to know how do we make sure that we keep mirage in line? I'm honestly not sure we can they may be more powerful than more plus I mean, I don't know if anyone's more powerful than us.

I mean, I'm pretty I'm pretty powerful and real strong Very very very powerful actually and and you have no time over there powers Oh, that's that part is true. Yes. You could drive me around like a car Yeah Oh, that's bad news for you. I get it.

Okay. Yep. They're coming So, uh, how about this then Maybe we need to give you something to do. Do you need to want to do want to go Slink around somewhere go look into something so you can um get some space from them for a minute?

I mean, I feel like you may have to Talents it looking into things that maybe mirage and I don't necessarily share Okay, cuz I don't but I'll say at this point that you maybe get like a little blame on your communication This is when Akita does enjoy the message. Hey, my brother apparently is managing one of your species That maybe he's like, uh, I don't know if that's racist. I'm sorry. I'm not sure if you all know each other Um, yeah, so I see the message and turn back to my mistake.

Maybe that is something I can't talk okay Uh do tell that vid that bartender put throw up. Yeah, I'm gonna look back in the big screen over there I know her Okay And it's interesting apparently Akita knows a manager. Oh Do you think we can go on stage? I mean, I think you could do pretty much whatever you wanted.

That's not what I'm getting at. Okay. Okay. Well, tell me what you're getting Well, there's not many of my race left and I mean it's personal, but I think they could help Okay, well, I think maybe you should go talk to her Or maybe even go get Akita and go talk to them.

I mean, I guess it might be hard to get backstage in the middle of performance Yeah I I I'm not here to tell you what to do. Okay. Ignoring fact that you actually are I'm gonna head back to the work for space and have a chat with Kita. Okay.

I am gonna try to Hit up a couple of more hot spots and see if I can drive out any crooks get some info from the people who got the ship You know, I'm here. I'll probably make my way back to that concert though Because one it'd be nice to know if we give any good intel out of what you're doing and two this song is a bop Sure. I'm sorry. Sure He walks off good talk good talk I'm sorry you walk off and uh you go up to the bar and I guess you close out your yeah And I'll talk to the bartender about whether or not he knows any uh local members of the criminal element or if he's heard of the divine lens You talked about like criminal organizations around here and chicks said I know mostly just about the hunters These people were just hobbyists.

They like to air slide Divine lenses that is that a kid's toy? No, it's apparently some old important thing that they're looking for here but uh, that's why I'm on planet and I don't know I've always found that like at least the scumbags know where things are if you want to talk to anybody about Knowing where things are It would probably be green thumb any sort of gestures up at the vid screen and On the corner of the screen where the video sort of what we're playing itself over again It's sort of a uh like a advertisement for this title in the bottom of the screen. It says brought to you by a green thumb corporation Oh, so it's a company. He was just a last at you everything's a company nowadays.

Well, that's fair Is she is her name green thumb from what I could tell her name was the plant idol to the stars I mean any sort of like a low key chuckles title, but Nonetheless, I'm gonna look over at glory. Gloria. Yes, don't stir you wanna go see a show What I hell yeah, and I'm gonna shut up and I'm a Raj Yeah, you're gonna go to a concert And I'm better to do sure awesome. I'm gonna give a shot a little bob over the headset and go Hey, uh, I think we're gonna change plans.

I think we're just gonna go see the show so I guess we'll meet you there Sure, you know go buy you tickets off scalper Okay I like how whatever you do has to do with something with criminal organizations. I assume it's sold out She's very she's the plant idol to the stars. She at least a better solder tickets Uh, so real quick just outside of character if we don't want to spend any money I can like hold up three pieces of paper and and have the person taking tickets believe their tickets and to let us in I mean you can do that if you want both star will literally spend every last dollar He has at the bar or on booze because no one will stop him. He has no income control.

Yeah, okay Then I won't bother with this time. I mean you can get the way if you want to listen to but when it comes to gen creds The nebulous nights have you covered especially if you're in the nine colonies. Are we in the other colonies? Yes, you are I'm assuming like the elisa or someone said earlier.

There's a bunch of different currencies that part sex It does specifically because when you go online to buy these tickets, you need green thumb script what what? I can't buy tickets to the concert Nope Not unless you have green thumb script fuck Do we know what the exchange rate is? There is no exchange rate from gen creds to something you either have to work for the green thumb corporation or have some sort of deal or have some sort of Connections or have psychic powers and show someone a piece of paper Maras goes after bone star. Don't worry.

Pun star. This is on me Can I say that a bone star then sees his own money as green thumb creds and goes oh amazing Yeah Yes But that was not because of mirage A lot of chrome today folks. Yeah A lot of space bleach, but I think with that going to a concert might be a best place to cut it All right, so would you mind coming on again? If you want me sure we always want you.

Yeah, thank you for listening to be listening If you like what we did here, you can use five stars rating review on iTunes Just like pop over those stars that be great But if you want to get in contact with this lovely amazing cast you can either add us all at shu podcast or us individually like myself at code Dude three or me at jah I V and you should totally check me out on amberville heroes on the same darn feet. No. Oh Well, that means I don't get to check you out. What do you think about that punk?

I didn't say anything about me Just mute the parts where I'm talking is what you're saying. Yeah, sure Um, and I've been your jisel. You can find me at the when you go get dancer at the twitter.com I've come on to this episode to play uh, gloria galex and you can also find me on amberville city heroes where I play another space alien with a lot of Big dick weird energy Big weird dick energy. Yeah You can find me on twitter at the Viking bar underscore underscore and be sure to check out my website old internet memes.com And uh find me on hoofensord and the lost library You can find me on twitter at cybrag 89 and you can also find me on another space game on the shades vegant youtube channel Please do that do you like drop bombs there too?

Yes Okay, yes, this is what I want. This is a good con. I agree. Yes.

Yes I mike I was playing morgue and you can find me on twitter at tocan that's t-o-k-k-a-n And you can also find me on the redacted files Either which you can find either at t-ref podcast on twitter or you can find their website from there And i'm also on one of their sub podcasts now gold wings black skies which can be found on at goldungspod on twitter It's a tacky on squadron fate based game. So it's more like battle star glactica than What we're doing right now. All right Logan. Um Logan you can find me on twitter at the ninja thief Uh come talk me about the games or anime or stuff.

I don't really do much else. Oh, look at the speakers which I can talk to you about something Basically have you seen zombie lense saga yet? Yes, I have Um Come talk to us about weird anime stuff. Uh is there anything else that we talk about?

Do we plug other shows should we do that here? No, let's not do that right technically we can we've got three other shu shows that you can listen to if you're interested in Getting the whole story behind the brand. We've got melon underground amber varsity heroes as well as generation justice And there are also a handful of other smaller shows here over gamed um Secret origins secret origins as well. It'll teach you the backstories There's a lot of stuff that we can uh that you can check out if you're interested more at such a stuff and we will have a lot more coming in in the future I promise just wait till we get more complicated than the marvel multiverse.

Oh buddy. I'm working on it I've got plans with lots of plans and I think with that. I think it's time for seetah space cadets Muckarena You know like at the drive-thru. They're like, here's your stuff in there.

Yeah. Yeah, sorry. I was trying to make a funny joke. I didn't work out Assuming shums here with us.

He's very quiet. I never know where he is He's literally standing next to you Oh shit. Hey, Sean. Okay.

Cool. Yeah, so I was just gonna say I'm gonna look at uh, dina and say look uh, This is gonna get ugly. So where do you want to be? Who's dina?

Sorry, it's Gloria dear The chef's name is dina and so bones are already gone in and it's talking to the chef. Hey I'm work and I play I always call you more people call them other character. Okay. All right, that makes me happy Someone has to do it at least once for recording, right?

Right. Right. We got out of the way Whoo. Okay.

Hi. I'm Mike and I play morgue frack as a hacker. G-tan Is it anybody done the pv hermine tequila dance yet? So you know I'm own one.

Come on. Come on Cody. Really? Yes, do p-hormone scared me as a child Anyway, we're all elderly.

Yeah, we are like I recognize that we have you get that joke You need to accept that you're gonna die soon. Okay, just accept it. Just accept it. It's coming finally right around the corner Yeah, it's hanging over the moon like an eclipse Anyway, if you make a I'm sorry.

Yeah, it's gonna be my year I've been wrote what you can find me at i'd reckon that I will try that again You I'm sorry, but you've been hitting it so hard this episode. Yeah, it's been so good exhausted Yeah, you're tired looks like something went wrong because the streams actually oh no oh Oh Thank it. There's a weird dramatic point otherwise. Yeah, sorry about that I don't know what happened.

I'm still recording. Thankfully, but my screen. Oh shit. There's chances of you on hangouts now Yeah, yeah.

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