Nebulous Nights #17

Greeny Space Cadets to Nebula's Knights, the space portion of SHU. This is episode number 17 and I'm your game mayonnaise Cody and with me as always is Jay. Hi everybody, I am not a game mayonnaise because mayonnaise is gross, not you Cody just mayonnaise and no. There.

Oh I play Bunsar, he's an unkillable star skeleton bunny hunter. That's all right. It is very helpful. I should probably say something about that main show.

This is the old intro, I don't know what's going on anymore. Hey, we also have a special guest with us from another feed. Hi Sophie. Hello, it's me, you're Jisel.

Welcome to the show. And so we're here you playing with it for us today. I am playing a space pirate. I don't know if we ever established her name on the last episode.

I think I dropped it a few times but never actually in character. Fair, fair. We'll just say I'm Vishanen and I'm here to party. All right.

And with us as always is our amazing players. First up we have Robert. Hi, I'm Robert and I'm playing Charm who is a tree person, one of the very few left. Which it went from from only one.

You were from Tigger to I'm one of the. I've got a lot of people out. Yeah, I've got a state path which has really still plenty who I'm currently going through. But we'll see that later.

Hopefully some interesting places. We also have with us Logan. Hi, I'm Logan. I play Akita.

He is a dog person. Yeah. He's a he's a very good boy. Yeah, he's a good boy.

He's a bodyguard. So he's a very strong to. Oh my gosh, I forgot the name of your race that we came up with. Was it actually just a good boy?

No, it is like a. Thank you. God damn it. That is the worst part about doing space stuff is like, oh, well, there are a bunch of different species.

And we also have with us. Eli. So so far I have been chastised for my ideas. I have been told that I exert too much power and I've been relegated to last and introduction.

So who knows what I'm going to get into tonight, but I'm going to prove one of those points correct because it's expected of me. Which character do you play? Basically, all that Eli just said goes double from Maruch. Yeah, okay.

Pretty much. Listen, play what you know, right? Maruch is just me but a cat. So she has tobeens, which I do not have.

Prove it. No, no, no. You did say specifically tobeens, so I'm going to require you to take off your shoes and socks. Okay.

Say this with a Patreon feed. The feet picks for Patreon. We don't need to give the feet books away on Twitch. That's true.

We got to cut it somehow. I'll talk to you on that anyway. So let's get into what happened last time on Nabilisnights. So on last time, you guys were on Drain War.

You guys had just met up with the workforce. You were discussing a few things about teleportation, a little bit about gods. More kind of a very specific meeting with one god after you guys had fought these round ball-ish people, we call them murder balls or murder cue balls or something. And magic hate balls.

Magic hate balls. Thank you. See, look, if you guys aren't stumbling over the recap, I am. So, after fighting the magic hate balls, you more realize that one of them has ascended and is now a new god, not a new god, but an old god called Ascik the Ascended.

You guys specifically had a fight at a bar for a little bit. You guys met someone at the workforce, Gloria Galax. You guys just kind of chilled out for a little bit, sort of slowly gaining some information, some new contacts. And then you found out that there is a concert coming out here pretty soon with one of Shams species as the basically lead main idol.

And Akita's brother is actually the manager of that idol. So I'm deciding to go to the concert, trying to see what's going on there, what's happening there. You guys decided to go out. It's not going to happen until a few days.

You're going to have to figure out like tickets when you go into a meantime. You guys have found out that there is a bounty hunter from the Nebula Snights HQ that has defected. The high commander has called you guys out specifically to meet her at Gampletropolis and basically find this defector and see what's going on. Either put her down, capture her, see what exactly is going on.

As you guys left out, Akita joined you guys after Akita was working for the workforce, and you guys came across and was captured by Vishanian and her crew called the Soring Eagles. Vishanian and her crew are currently stealing or basically plundering a cruise ship known as the SS Golden Sulfid, and you all met up with them when the carcass sort of shut down and came back on the SS Golden Sulfid, and Vishanian was knocking at your door saying this is mine now. And more left out with Aski to go save Yaya June, the sort of dying world of the Quillis Homeworld. And we start off with all of you guys sort of in the carcass, still sort of like talking, chatting, partying.

Most of the Soring Eagles have come in, and I believe Bones star was sharing from his special stash. Yeah, I kick open my fridge and there's a bunch of weird drinks and stuff that anyone can grab, I'm just passing them out to the crew. I'm doing my best to be super gregarious and polite because my brain is a little weird right now from eating a bunch of radiation, so I'm just trying to be very genial. I do think one of their crew is still asleep outside.

I believe yeah. Let's see here. One of the crews sort of outside any wheelchair, if there is someone next to them sort of taking care of them, but the rest of them are in the side. Like watching over them.

They are still pirates like basically plundering a ship. They can't just have someone just sleeping. They could. I mean, they could.

I feel like that would be a little dangerous. I'm going to say that I'm going to try to work my way over to Shon if possible because there's a lot of pirates on the ship, right? On the ship itself, I would say with the two outside, there's probably only two other people in here. Oh, yeah.

The shiny and you know that Bones and let's see here. You know Bones and Hush are outside. Umbra and Queen are in here sort of just talking to people. Queen is a Sorese, sort of in like, Sorese are sort of these mouse type people in these large mechanical suits.

And they say Stella is an octamine sort of like going around a lot of drinks in our hands sort of taking it back. Okay. Are they all just kind of sitting at the table talking to each other? Are we all like in our own little groups?

I think they're trying to actively talk to you guys. Okay. I'll call everybody over to like a big ceremonial table then. Okay.

And throw a big bottle of booze on it and say we're going to pass this around and get to know each other right quick and see if they actually follow my invitation. Both Stella and Queen will look to look to the Shonion. I'm going to take a sip. A sip?

I can say it. We're sharing, right? You're a pirate. Okay.

What I'll do respect isn't taking things what you do. Come over here and take this liquor. He's going to start slamming it then. Okay.

Very impatiently. Just like punching the top of the bottle off and then just jamming it out his face. Ooh, but it's going to waste. I'll just watch.

Is Mirage actually there or is she still sort of in the background? No. Mirage is still in the background probably in another room. I think Bonsar came and like told her what's up, but she is trying to find an escape route because although Bonsar made it seem like everything was cool, these are fucking pirates and things aren't cool.

I think I think I think I think it is just kind of like staying kind of close to the parrot captain, Shonion, and just kind of keeping an eye on the others. Just making sure nothing happens. Make sure nobody tries anything. So does anyone actually take Bonsar's like is this a tense moment or is this like because Bonsar offered up drinks and no one said a damn thing.

Makes him upset. I'll tell you that. Can I see through Bonsar's quote unquote eyes to like get a lay of the situation in the room I'm not in? I think that's up to Bonsar.

You can, but you wouldn't see it in any way that your eyes can understand. So it's shapes and colors, waves. You can hear things. You can kind of get an idea of who's stalking, but it would be kind of looking at like an Ikiyiji or something.

He doesn't see people as people. So I would need to apply a filter. Yeah. Or the information you get might not be 100% reliable.

Okay. I'm not going to step chat. Can I try to cycle through the rest of the crew until I find someone who's like perception I can understand and try to view things through their eyes, not try to take over just like tap into the feet a little bit. I'm sure who are you going to just just ask them.

I'm not going to like I feel like if I tried with sham I would get instantly blocked. Yeah. So I'm going to try to go through a key to I don't think even knows that you can read minds yet you don't. Yeah, can you stand in mind but he didn't recognize it.

So I'm just going to like tap into that little feed. So hopefully without you noticing anything weird and as you go about your your things I'm just going to to watch and kind of piggyback a little bit. Don't need to roll anything to notice that I'm being seen through. I'd say like opposed to wheels or something.

Okay. Well plus two minus one so that's plus two total. I got a plus one on the dice plus three wheels plus four. Yeah.

Okay, that's noticed. All right. So you sort of have this camera into the situation through a key to size. And I think as the silence is sort of like just sort of hanging over a little bit the octomaine part of your crew there Vishanian stellar reaches over to the bottle grabs it and brings it over to her and starts dumping a little bit inside of her own mouth and she puts it down she sort of slams it and says well my name is Stella and part of the crew of the sewing Eagles.

I'm the engineer and it looks like this place could use a little shit polish. Wrong. Next. Okay.

Go ahead. Sorry. I guess I'm hearing that. Can I just kind of smile and ask Stella if she would be so kind as to go to my cabin and grab something from my personal stash to go around.

I like this. I swear to God if you bring cleaning solution in here I'm going to kick your ass. Then you are. No, I don't want.

Well, wait, are you guys deal for us or not? No, I think I like you. Okay, well because we got shit to do. So like either we're partying and having fun or we got to go to gamble trouble.

Let's go to gamble trouble lists. I think that I probably have enough that I can get there that will be fun and what do you need? That's the thing with pirates. We don't need anything.

It's just fun. Oh, all right. Well, suppose I should probably ask the team leader. Sean, what do you think should we do all the way to gamble trouble lists or?

Yeah, let's go to come to this. Okay. So what do we need to do to get this shit back up and running and I'll point to the lady with the squid. Hey, by the way, a good job on the drink.

I appreciate it. She gets you like, grabs a few tentacles and points it like gives you a thumbs up with a bunch of tentacles and starts leaving to go get what the show me and asked her to from her private cabin. I would like to impress upon Akita the desire to ask the question, if there's anything else worth stealing on this ship. I'm going to say I'm going to say this point.

It's up to you if you want. I mean, go ahead. I think yeah, I think that'd be fine. I didn't notice it earlier.

So he probably just think that's like a question that he has he came up with. So wait, you're asking if there's anything on our ship or the no, no, the the the overall big ship that we're on the cruise liner. Yeah. Something else worth stealing here.

So like, um, you guys think that there's anything else worth stealing off that ship? This thing, I'll kick the floor. No, the, um, the cruise liner thing. Hmm.

Well, a lot of rich people on there. So there are probably a bunch of bubbles and toys and maybe flip the ship itself. I'm not sure, but I'm not expecting anything too fancy if that's what you're asking. Yeah, no, I don't know.

It was just something I thought I'd ask. Hmm. No, we're just trying to have some fun in one way or another. If we're not going to fight, then I'll have a drink.

Go and start. Can you toss me something? Uh, yeah, I'll just start throwing bottles out. Okay.

Everybody gets bought up. Okay. I'm over now. Okay, let's take one and just start drinking.

Uh, at this point, uh, Sophie Vishani gets a, like a little message on the communicator that someone is waiting outside the carcass to asking to come in. Uh, this is somebody from the Golden Sifid asking to see you. Hmm. Okay.

I guess I'll pop out there. So you walk out there and there is a large robot that is just like, looks like a golden beetle and he looks to your sort of cucurmates out here. It looks like guns and still sleep and he looks to get us up. Yes.

There has been a formal invitation for you and the crew of this new ship that you brought aboard. Uh, we were wondering if you would please join us for the celebration. What celebration is that? He looks around sort of nervously.

The, uh, the lady of the tyrant. She, this is a day of Joyce occasion. There is a major occurrence in the sector when she's overseeing. We wanted you to come along.

We have had this relation for a while and you've sort of taken everything. Everything, every little knickknack that we have, but this is a, this is a Joyce occasion. Hmm. I ever heard of this.

Yeah. You've stolen from the Golden Sifid a few times. There's been a few like, it is a regular thing where they go out to Gampel-Tropolis and apparently like these big reach, these big rich assholes do a bunch of deals. Uh, you've come on stolen what they have, uh, fought with a few of their bounty hunters that they've sort of hired.

Uh, sometimes there's like a fight outside for you guys actually getting to the ship itself. Um, but. Okay. That just seems like a routine.

There's some fighting. There's some stealing. Both of those sound fun. So I guess.

They're mostly drinking and partying. Okay. I guess I'll go back inside and a letter new guest know that we got invited to a shindig that will be heading there. You gotta go to a party or something?

Yeah, you're welcome to come along. Sounds like it's going to be a good time, then a couple times and there's lots of booze. All right. So let me, uh, let me call in and make sure that, uh, you know, our, our boss is going to send people after us.

Uh, our ship went dark. But, uh, we can meet you up in there if you want. All right. Is that good?

Yeah, we go. I will collect my crew and, uh, go outside to see if we can wake up our buddy and go party on. Are you sure you don't want to rob us? I think so.

You've literally got like millions upon billions of credits from robbing these people like over and over again. Yeah. He's when he, when he says that he's going to look wistfully at his Green Bay Packers jersey that's not in the wall. Like he's feeling particularly nervous about it.

I can need to put my crew and get back here with you. That's no problem. Okay. I'm always done that.

I'm always done that time, especially with a fun pirate lady. Look, uh, are there pirate bars on Gampel Travelers? Are there pirate bars? Yes.

Gampel Travelers is, is lousy with just the most black market, the most underbelly, the most serious. There's, there's a terrible line that's high- votes coming villainy. Well, uh, I'll let bones start. No.

Then I will, uh, cover your tab when we go in. How about that? Just a sign of good faith from the nebulous knights. Well, you're doing me a favor.

I should probably do you a favor too. I'll have you did. You rescued us when we were in the black and you're going to help us get the hell out of here. I was going to help her offer to help fix that door that I just pulled.

Uh, don't worry about that. I break doors all the time. Okay. I got a whole room full of spares.

Windshields too. Uh, I think hearing this mirage is going to get like shot from the back room. Um, no, no, let's, let's have her fixed up so that we don't have to do it. We did lose our engineer.

Oh, we did? Yes. Oh, none of you are morgue. No, no, no, no, good to know.

Good to know. He has fun wherever the fuck he is. Do you know where he went? Um, I mean, he went up with one of those bullball guys.

What a freak. Well, let's, uh, let's get tidied up here, folks. You want to help these pirate folks either way? Maybe patch up a couple of doors.

I'm going to talk to Mirage a little bit and make a plan. All right. So, for Shawnee, do you head out to the party? Um, I'll split up my crew and ask if somebody could stay behind to take a look at the door.

But, uh, yeah. Still comes back, throws you what you asked from, uh, your, your cabin, your special sash, and she says she will start getting work on the door. I'll leave her a flask of the stuff that she just brought. Okay.

She thanks you for it. Good. Otherwise we are heading out. All right.

So, Vishanyan goes up to with the captain here to the party and, uh, another one of their, uh, none of the one of the story Eagles comes back and waits for you guys to have done with your deliberation, waiting to take you up to the party. So, what do you guys, what do you guys do? I'm going to go find Mirage in the reactor room. But before I leave, I'm going to ask, uh, Shawnee, Kita, I'm here to, I'm here to listen to you if you have any concerns.

What's, what's going on? Do you want to go to this party? You want to fuck off and go to the gamble planet? Doesn't it hurt me?

I mean, we've got a few cycles. The crew's line is heading to the gamble planet anyway. So what's the party between now and then? That's fair.

I was just thinking we might be able to like, um, well, I had an idea and now it's gone. So it's all good. It's all good. We're empty.

We're empty now. I just want to make sure we were all on the same page, you know? Anyway, I'm going to go talk to Mirage. Uh, if y'all want to go up there, that's fine.

I'll help this lady finish up the door and know me each other. Do you guys want to head out to, there's like, there's a crew member outside that walks inside and kind of like yells out to the two of you as on Star Wars. It's a detail in very large person. And they just say, do you guys want to go up to the party?

Sure. Yeah, why not? All right. So they lead you through this very large cruise ship and you guys see a bunch of like decorations everywhere and whatnot.

But before we get to that, let's go back to bone star Mirage. What are you guys up to? I mean, it's, it's, we're actually on the same reactor room that we're hiding out in. Yes.

Okay. Um, did we ever find a replacement for the power source that fell out? Because that's why the ship went black, right? We had the power source issues.

I don't believe we did. So you don't think we did? I could be wrong. I know that I sat in it to power it for a while, which is why I've got.

So, um, I'm going to look at Mirage and go, Hey, Mirage, I need to be happy to know my brain got all smart and I'll be a tricky. I'm going to sit back in that reactor, turn the ship back on and we're going to look at these pirate jimokes and take them for all their worth. Hell yeah, that sounds awesome. I'm going to steal their goddamn ship and I'm going to gamble with Tropyles because the rest of you don't know this, but I got fucking business.

I mean, that sounds like a lot better idea than what I thought was going on based on the conversation. Okay. What do you think was going on? Oh, that we were just going to do whatever the fuck these pirates wanted.

Oh. Yeah, no, I mean, yeah, no, I'm not here for that either. The only pirating I want to do is under my own banners. Sounds good.

So here's what I need from you. Can you go mind Jack some engineer and get our ship up and running? Sure. Do you want me to mind Jack there, engineer?

Oh, wait, no, because she's already at the party. We want to like one of these slugs from the cruise liner. Okay. Wait, is the engineer the one that's next to the door?

I think so. Yeah, she's kind of like fixing the door. Okay, cool. I guess yeah, you can try for her otherwise grab one of the slugs from the cruise ship because you know they ain't going to be putting up a fight.

But that is means you have to find one. That is also fair. And I can I can take a look at what else is on the ship. Also, out of character real quick, are we trying to get to GampleTropolis stealthily?

Do we not want them to know we're on our way or what's what's the deal there? It's been a while. I forgot. We're looking for a rogue agent and we don't know where they are.

So I think we're trying not to tip anyone off that we're coming after them. Okay. So Mirage, right. So Mirage knowing all this would as she's about to leave turn around and say, Oh, yeah.

If the cruise liner is going there anyway, but we don't want the pirates to stay around. What if we just get rid of the pirates, commandeer the cruise liner and use it to go to GampleTropolis? He's going to kind of look quizzical for a second and then go like, why would we kill a bunch of people we don't need to kill? Oh, no, I'm not saying to silly kill them.

Just strand them in space. Like not really die. Not necessarily. Okay.

And so I would recommend doing whatever is going to be easiest for everybody. Fair. Whatever that might be. Now, on the other hand, I am fully aware that you can mind control me and influence me and do whatever the hell you want to me.

So if you want me to mask her these jumps, there's not much I can do about. Timting, but I feel like laying low, at least for now is probably the better course of action. Understood. So I look, I feel myself getting dumber by the moment.

I need to go sit and bake my brain some more inside this heat reactor. Yeah. But I should be able to power the ship. So see if you can get it up and running, grab whatever you need from it in case we need to make a quick skip.

Cool. So are you come get me when you're done? Um, Marache is going to leave. Okay.

And I'm going to sit down in the beach chair that is in the middle of the reactor and just kind of like. And is going to use stealth to leave the ship so that the other members of the pirate crew don't see her leave. And then going to explore the ship trying to find an engineer of the ships crew. Okay.

Go ahead and give me, um, I believe the stealth check that you go have on this negligible like you can plainly lose. Like just sort of swipe over her mind. She seems occupied with rebuilding the door. Finding the finding the finding an engineer is going to take me a notice roll.

So go ahead and do that for me. Can it be a will role as I scan people's minds to figure out if their engineers are not? Uh, give me a notice roll first. So, um.

Good. The thing is, um, there are several sides you could get some better than others admittedly. Um, if you get three of a certain side and you only have a plus one, it's a very bad role. Um, I got a minus two overall.

For no. Okay. Yeah. Well, this is interesting.

I see a minus two overall and as you're sort of going through the ship, uh, I know you just got to fail this. You're noticing like the nice decor of this place. You're sort of in for all by a little bit. Um, but you don't notice something else.

We will get back to your will role in just a second. Uh, next we're going to show them in a key to you guys have been led up by this detail and up to this very large and imposing sort of. Ballroom, but it's like someone took a ballroom. Very fancy.

Like red velvet, like just walls are like plastered with like columns, this weird sort of like marble everywhere. Um, it is just like gigantic room with a ton of vids screens. There is gambling going on. There's a bunch of like tables.

There's a large vids screen sort of showing like a news broadcast. Uh, but this place is just packed with people and it is a whole variety of people. Vishani and you're also already here. So you sort of are you have mingled in with the crowd, but this is the weirdest combination of people you've ever seen.

It is like what would happen if a bunch of CEOs were just standing around with a bunch of bodyguards who are just standing around. The most ruthless looking people in the sector is like you see Avigorian. He's all suited up. He's got like a red suit on red tie and whatnot.

He's sort of gambling on a table right behind him is just this like small like this small seemingly unopposing person except for their just covered head to toe with guns knives. Um, like there is a large blaster on their back and everyone has someone next to them with like either just like this imposing look. There's like this blindfold like blindfolded Jitan who is just like kind of thumbing his katana every now and then. Uh, katana space katana apologies.

Uh, but this place is just ridiculous. Um, I would like both of you to give me a very strange role. Romeo rapport. So I'm minus one the dice so minus one.

Uh, I am also on the minus one. Okay. You don't really recognize anybody in this room. There's these people look like just high classios.

These bounty hunters here look like just the weirdest people. You do have a recognize two specific people in this room. First off, all of you recognize because you met him before. Wonder work is here.

He's actually standing. He's actually standing next to a very large Vigorian. Sort of, he's just sitting around this like round bar and the wearing sitting down drinking and right behind him is wonder work is sort of standing there in his pose. But the next person that you see that Sean probably doesn't recognize what Akita does is Fred's bike terrarium.

Oh, fun. He's standing there just next to somebody looking around tapping his toes. You also recognize someone else and this is from a picture that you just recently looked up Akita. You notice that the head CEO of the Avril Speed League is also here.

Sentient A.I. known as FTL. Okay, so I'm gonna point out these three to Sean. I'm gonna be like, I did not expect this, but there's the Presbyterian dude.

There's FTL. He's the CEO of the Avril Speed League. And of course, Wonder work. Yeah, I'm gonna do my best to avoid him at least.

Yeah, I'd recommend that. Should we contact Phone Star about Presbyterian? Yeah, come on, let's give him a heads up. So I'm gonna, Akita's gonna call or contact Phone Star and say, um, so good news.

Guy we're looking for is here. Which guy? Presbyterian. We're looking for him?

Yeah. Oh shit, we better get him. He was the dude that knocked you out and shot me. Oh, wait, that guy?

Yeah. Hmm. Feeling myself become too smart for petty grudges. But also driven by a really deep desire to dunk that guy.

Kind of, yeah. I kind of don't want to start something with this many people around, but... I mean, you're going somewhere where there's gonna be a lot more people. That's the only problem.

At least there's a lot less bodyguards and CEOs around. There's a lot of CEOs here? Yeah. Hold on.

What are we doing working for the Nebula's Knights when we get kidnapped? Look how much money there worth? Uh, have a pretty good idea. Okay.

Well, I mean, just gotta keep our options up. I think you should have now to see if you can figure out about that rogue agent. We're gonna have to check back with the next matter what we end up doing. What was the agent's name again?

Uh, yeah, the name is a fragmented desires. Alright. It's probably should be able to get a physical description and all that basic stuff if you're looking up on your data pad. Peter's gonna do that real quick.

So nobody notices. Okay. Uh, so you bring it up on your data pad and fragmented desires is a, um, is a perotian. They see, they're usually seeing wearing like a traditional sort of, um, uh, uh, uh, carbon, which, like whenever you go to a funeral, she's wearing a very long dress.

She's got a veil on and, um, on the, in the picture that they have, they're sort of like, ID. You're actually getting this from the Nebula's Knights records. On their ID, you can just see them just carrying a shit ton of guns sort of around the dress that they have, but they're just sort of like dressed in all black. Can I look around the room again, see if I can tell if they're actually here and I just didn't notice or know what they look like?

You look around. No, it doesn't actually look like they're here with your sort of, uh, like, just a quick glance. There's a lot of people wearing dresses and whatnot. A lot of people with guns.

There's just no good crossover that looks like her. So, Sean, I guess we're supposed to ask around for this fragmented desires, any info on that person? Sure, do you want to just split up and ask around? I don't know.

I guess we can, but let's not get too far away from each other in case something happens. Alright, try keeping an eye-line then. Um, Sean will walk off and start trying to do some smoothing. Uh, with that, can I get your stealth rolls from both of you?

Minus one? I don't think I have an aspect I can apply to this, so I'm gonna have to take it. Okay. Eyes minus two.

Okay. Okay, use the stunt, the cool as a husky one. Uh, yeah. We're entering a tent scene for the aspect.

So, is that like a plus two? Yeah, plus two. Can I use that? Yeah, that would be a plus one then.

Alright, Sophie, as Vishani and you sort of like see these two enter this very like, like, like I said, like he said, tent situation. Uh, they just like are walking in pretty nonchalantly. Akita seems to be blending in the crowd, but Sean just sticks out like a sore thumb. Hmm.

Uh, it looked like they're trying to have fun. I think that's what the dev to decide. Okay, I'm mostly worried about that. Uh, to minus two, I don't think so.

I like to think that Sean is like trying to dance, but is doing a very, very bad job at it. Oh, so let me know. Life then. Sure.

Yeah. Akita would probably like keep glancing over the Presbyterian and the Wonderwork just to make sure they don't notice him. Okay. Wonderwork looks directly at Sean and mixes way over there.

Uh, Presbyterian, however, like you make eye contact with him and Presbyterian lifts an arm and waves at you. Just sort of like, not like, hey, come over here, but he just acknowledges your existence. And then looks back at the person he's guarding. Okay.

Akita's gonna be very confused and just kind of think to himself, all right. Let's keep that on the back burners. So you guys said you were smoothing. Uh, I imagine Sean is dancing through like this very small area where music is being piped into.

He's sort of like doing small little dance. Are you guys going up to anybody and talking to anybody? Are you going up to like a CEO? You're going up to bounty hunters?

Cause everyone's sort of like talking about different stuff. You hear just like, if you go near a CEO, it's just like figures and like, oh, I had a great time on X and X planet. It was great. Most of the bounty hunters don't seem to be talking about it.

Okay. We'd probably try to look around and see if there's any bounty hunters that don't look like they'd want to immediately strangle him if he walked up and try and just kind of start up a conversation with one of them. Oh, fuck. Um, don't immediately want to strangle you.

That's very hard to find on this list. Um, there is another one of your species, a bikin. That seems to be guarding another bikin if you want to go talk to them, but that could be tense. I'm going to say that there is a guard you can't exactly read, but they're just sort of like standing next to the person.

And you know guards are usually in their own mix, but they have like an exterior like pad they're messing with. Yeah. I'm going to just wander on over and say, hey, how's it going? They turn to you.

Uh, hello. Uh, it is going well. This mission is been a cakewalk. Yeah.

I'm being paid very well for it. A lot of these. You're doing the same. Who are you guarding?

Uh, see that plant guy over there? The one doing the weird dance. Oh, yes. It's a strange dance.

Yeah, he's weird, but he's paying well. Interesting. What corporation is he part of? Yeah.

He's. He's part of this. He's like this weird representative of a planet. Not a lot of his people left.

So interesting. They just sort of like sitting there for a little bit. All right. I think with that, we'll go back to.

So if I'm starting to sit in the generator powering up the ship. Uh, yeah, I'm basically waiting until that lady's done fixing my door. Okay. Cause I don't want to be around.

I want to make my move. Okay. It seems to be still sort of messing with the door. You can see on the exterior cameras.

Uh, Mirage, we'll go to you as you're sort of walking through the ship. Uh, go ahead and make me a that will roll. Cody, I just realized that we were on a big corporate ship, which is basically, um, Roger's worst nightmare. So I think I know what the notice roller earlier was for and I'm excited to have that play out.

Cool. So you know how last time I got three minus is this time I got three pluses and a plus three will for a plus six total. Okay. Good.

Uh, that thing you didn't notice. Uh, you're right. There is a, this is a corporate ship. Secondly, uh, you didn't initially notice there's a very big presence on the ship.

There is a large mental presence on the ship as if there is someone very, very keen in, um, um, sort of the doing this very similar thing to you. Uh, as you're sort of like scanning the cruise ship, you do find an engineer. Exactly find that. You also find that there's someone following you in the mind space.

Cool. And also in the physical space. What do they feel like in the mental space and what do they look like in the physical space? Uh, they feel like an overwhelming presence that wants to dominate you at every single step you take.

With a plus six, you also probably do get the hints of like the Shawnian. She's also a very large presence in the mental space, but they're not focused as much as you turn around and you physically see this woman following you. It's a Therasops, uh, very old and she is just staring at the back of your head. Well, it was until you turned around.

Before I deal with the Therasops, can I basically control the engineer to go fix our ship? Yeah. Okay. So I'm going to direct the engineer to go do that and then turn around to face the Therasops.

Hi. Hello. Can I help you with something? Yes, you're doing something.

She's really like a narrow surprise at you. What are you doing here? Why aren't you in the celebration room? Maraj is going to narrow her eyes at the Therasops.

Why aren't you in the celebration room? Because I was preparing for the joys of Cajun. I am after all the master of ceremonies. Same.

Besides the master of ceremonies part. She reaches out of hand to you like an old like now be not like knobbly hand. This is weird like their soft, scaly skin. What do you like to accompany me?

Um, before I do anything, um, I'm going to put up the brick wall of mental defenses as best I can since I kind of got a lay of how powerful this individual is. And then say, I'll meet you there. I'm trying to find people to help fix my ship. But that's next on my agenda.

She stares at you for a good long while just keeping you in sight. She just shrugs. Um, you feel like a knock at the brick wall of defenses that you put up with your mind. And then she just turns around says, make sure you don't miss it.

As she leaves, I'm going to call out what's your name? She turns around smiles. I am the witch known as Tabitha. And she turns around and starts making her way off down the corridor.

Okay. Um, do we have a direct line to the ship? Like, can I have the ship start processing information and doing searches while I'm away? You did it with the code, but it's currently E impede.

Right. That does pose a problem. All nonessential functions are shut down currently. Cool.

You have an injury going to fix it. Since I completed that mission, do I do something stupid or not? No, please. Who's this decision?

I mean, it's up to you. Yeah. It sounded like you're asking Cody. No.

No, no, no. This is me asking myself, trying to think. Um, I want to do a scan of her to figure out what her surface level thoughts are. Well, not surface level because like me, she probably has like defenses in place.

So like try to sneak just below the surface. Okay. Go ahead and roll me a deceive. I feel like that's good infiltration of mine.

Cool. So can I do something to be cute to help with this? No. Damn.

I'm going to use that that stuck one day. Okay. So I got a plus four on the dice plus four to see for a plus eight. And that's pretty good.

Can I tap an aspect single minded or telepathy is no cure for paranoia? One of those two telepathy is no cure for paranoia. Cool. I'm going to tap that suspect and a fake point and that brings it up to a plus.

Okay. That's very good. So yes, I'm going to give you the surface level thoughts of Tabitha with a little bit extra. First off, Tabitha is thinking about the preparation plans she needs to in order to properly celebrate the lady tyrant and the destruction of Yai Jun.

She's going to the party. She's going to do a few rituals and everyone there is going to join in the rituals of the lady tyrant and then she's basically going to go back to wandering the galaxy trying or wandering not viscalacy, all the sector trying to basically proclaim the the Lord and the savior of the lady tyrant. And you get the image of the lady tyrant and it's a very familiar image. It's a very familiar feeling as you feel this overwhelming presence start draining down on you.

Goddamn it. It is a very large woman in a skin type black suit with like tendrils down her face red and she seems to be putting a lot of pressure on you. Except something feels different. Something feels off like something re-white writes in your brain in which the past one didn't seem like the genuine article.

This one does. Okay. So question for Eli because I don't remember. Was this was this what I saw in quarrels you got on the brain?

Yes. Cool. I'm not going to ask one of the questions. Okay.

I think with that revelation we'll leave you standing there in silence for a little bit of a chamois. You're in the party room. You see the two others just kind of hanging out. You're talking to a few of the bounty hunters a few of them you fought like outside like outside of this place specifically a few of them you fought like inside this place like you've taken down them to the boxing ring and beaten the shit out of a few of them.

Okay. But you're just kind of sitting here partying have a good time and you look over at Sean he's dancing terribly and a key to seems to be chatting it up with one of the one of the other guards. Okay. So they seem like they're maybe having a good time.

Am I having a good time? Do I have something good to drink? You do have something good to drink. There seems to be someone's telling you from the actual ship itself.

You notice Umbra is standing in one of the corners sort of looking out and body kind of body guarding for you. Okay. I do want my crew to have something of a good time too. Are they having a good time?

Yeah. You look around and you see the rest of the crew. They seem to be having a good time. The engineer is staying back to fix the door that you broke.

Right. All right. I'll just keep filtering around the room and seeing who I can rub elbows with, seeing who's sore about what I stole and who's forgetting. If you're like kind of going around the room, most of the people here, the CEOs, you've taken like wristwatches and like some of the gold from their rooms and stuff like that.

They don't seem to mind at all. In fact, if you ever bring it up to something they just say, oh, just the way that business is. You take from us, you give it to the people, the people give it back to us. It's just a cycle of life.

It's understandable. It's fun to see you sort of hanging around most of the time. Sure sure. I'll make sure that their drinks are refreshed.