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Dec 5, 2017 1 hr 50 min

Nebulous Nights #3

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The Knights start the first of their tests. While at first it seems like a normal pre adult game turns into a little bit more. What does this test mean though? Why are they playing games rather than being Knights in the Sector? What does Quarl plan for them all? Listen and found out. Nebulous Nights is a FATE based real play podcast. This is a Patreon game, and the players are supporters to this podcasts. This Game Master for Nebulous Nights is Cody (@codedude3) Playing BONESTAR is Jae (@jaehighfive) Playing Mirage is Eli (@TheVikingBear__) Playing Morg Thrakka is Michael (@tokkan) Playing Zanthrop is Matthew (@matthewmmorris) Playing Sham is Robert (@cyberegg89) Made possible from support from: Tony, Trish, Eli, Mike, Matthew, Bailee, Nicole, Maddie, Phil, Ashleh, Steph, Zak, Jack, Pamela, Jan, Cody, Michael, Robert

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Greetings Space Cadets! Two Episode 3 of Nebula Snipes. I am your game mustard floating through space. Good booger.

And with us we have some amazing lovely people tonight. First off we have Jay Star. Jay Star. I'm a star now.

I mean you always worry about it. We also have our great patreons that support us on the S House Studio Patreon. We have first EU like. I don't really know what's going on.

I just kind of woke up from a nap not too long ago so see what happens. Okay good, you've opened up in space here in a single room. The airlock says opening. Again?

Damn it. We also have them in the Matthew. You know pond casting is a lot like Chinese food. About 15 minutes after you finish one.

You just want to record another one. We also have with us today is a hut. Mike. Hello.

Trying to make a football check. I'm Mike and I'm playing a morgue the hacker. You also work. They have a gordon.

We also have with us from over the pond. Cross the pond. Cross the pond. We also have a Robert.

Yeah. Hi. It's okay. I probably we should all probably try to start to be like Robert and have nothing to say.

That'd be a very boring podcast. You should shut the fuck up. You like it'd be the best podcast edit. Cody is like real like sultry and angry tonight.

And it's pretty sure I peeked at it several times. It's peeking everywhere because I'm so close to this microphone. It's so nice. You can bet that you need to be down.

No I'll back up. I'll be good from here. It's cool. All right.

So yeah. We're here. I at this one. I'm at Alex's house.

Say hi, Alex. Hi, Alex. Okay. Alex is here too.

He's gonna he's gonna do something. Thank you, Alex. Yeah. So does anyone remember what happened last time on Nebula Snites episode two?

The gang got together. Yeah. Yeah. Go.

Go. Go. Go. Go.

Go. Go. Go. Go.

Go. So after in episode one, as you all may remember, we had the character creation section and the characters of Morrage and Morgue were fleshed out and introduced to the Nebula Snites HQ on the Flingspace station. And then in the second episode, we introduced some extra people to the mix, namely Shum and Zenthrop. We are two teams, well one team, but split into two sub teams under bone star and Quarl Sugam.

And we're about to have some sort of competition to see what team is the best. Mainly because we didn't do the usual hazing slash initiation ritual of giant robots popping out of the walls and fucking with us. Which would have been a fun time and you guys can already do that. But you know, last episode.

Last episodes. Yeah. Look, like everything in space, something has to be lost at some point. And yeah, also like space, there's going to be a lot of time buggery because we keep on referring to something that never happened.

Time parabos. It's not too bad. Let's not do it because it just brings up more of my problems. Like not problems that way.

Like problems like losing audio and being very sad about all the things. Now I'll be fine. Yeah. There's welcome to this very special episode of Debbie this night's Cody's mental health edition.

We're all going to be doing Delilah voice for the rest of the night. To be there for Cody in this time with me. Opening up the bag now. You can hear it.

Just crinkle a little bit. That's going to be 50 episodes just to scratch the surface of this mental catastrophe. Anyway, so last time you guys kind of walked out there was this creepy weird voice thing. But you know, let's skip on that.

We don't have to do with that. You want to get to the main course. We want to get to the exercises. Yeah, the vast majority of us don't know about Sean's tree friend and his soil.

So it's fine. Everything's fine. How are you? Sean, everything's fine, right?

Yeah, everything's fine. Tree's not talking to you, right? That telling you to say these things. Well, right.

Okay. I like that. He's already got it. I love it.

Okay. So yeah, we're going to start off with lights slowly coming on in a very large room. People can use them. So they all kind of flip her on one after the other.

And you guys realize that you were in the main portion of the N.B. list nice HQ, which is this gigantic fucking room. It looks like it has a bunch of space, baseball, space, basketball courts in it, except in the very middle look dangerous. Room up here dangerous, not in any way.

It has like bleachers that can like pull out from the side unless you can get tried underneath the bleachers and pushed in. Is that dangerous? You don't get your shit pushed in. No, wait, which one of you are nerds.

Raise your hand if you're a nerd. We're doing a slide by actual clay podcast, Cody. Okay. So yeah, you guys are all you are very all afraid of this room because it is a gym.

You look around for bullies. There are none. However, there are other people in this room with you because in front of you, Corals who gone stands, it's good like you guys and Corals who gone on the side. And he points out for other people that are in this room as well.

So across the way, there are seems to be that these are the teams or these are the other people that survived last night's hazing. You see an octamine, which is sort of like a like a multi-tentical person that sort of like purples purple like tentacles with like a head with a singular or like multiple eyes, depending on like what type of their genus they are. They have like this sort of exoskeleton crown on and protecting the main part of their body. There's also what seems to be another robot in the robotics, except this one's a little bit like bigger downstairs, like not like their but whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, they sort of have a cockpit, if you will.

No, they're not. This one's actually not specifically a guard. This is actually a person in not a person, but ace, but they call it a Reese. Are you think that's like humanoid animal?

No, they're people, they're people, people, humans, because we're in space fucking humans. Okay, so it's like a it's a basically a mouse person in like a Master Chief style suit, but they have like the bigger bottoms because they have short feet. They're short feet like their feet are short? No, no, they got short legs.

Oh, okay. This is the thumb issue from last time. They have five opposable thumbs. We also have a very recognizable person from Morag and Maraj's view.

Hey guys, it's your good friend, the Victorian. Oh shit, he made it through. He ran out of the interview crying though. He's there acting very supposedly, like domineering, he's sort of like rubbing his sets of hands together, he's got forearms.

They sort of have like a darker kind of, like not a reddish, but more like a purple shan. And last but not least is, I'm not sure a race that anyone's actually entertained so far, but this person looks humanoid-ish. They sort of have like dark scaly skin in the back of their head. They sort of have this long like quills down their back and they have like pointy ears.

I basically described them as elven people with like quills on them. Eleph and sonic shanak chag. Gotcha. Yeah, Eleph and sonic the hedgehogs.

Just all the fetishes in one place. Yup, tentacles, multiple arms, mice, or... Oh, so they're the quillists. Each one of them sort of like decked out in Nebula's Night Scare.

Each one of them sort of has like a Nebula's Night, so like standard issue with salt rifle on their back. And of course, Gond kind of like points out for the rest of you guys and says, these are the teams last night that made it through the hazing well, appropriately enough. They got away from the situation at least or put down their attackers. So these are who you get to choose from, friends.

Um, yes, I have a question here. And so what exactly are we doing? I told you last night. I guess I'll have to.

Yeah, but we thought that I was going to be two on two, not four on four. Medu. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. I want to make things a little bit more interesting.

These are who you have to choose from. And we have three tests. The first is always going to be avoid the surgical object. The second is a game most of you know, Shesex, and a third special component that I will reveal later on.

Oh yeah, the interdimensional flittering, sorry, right. Hey Cody, just so Eli knows what Mirage knows. What is Shesex? So Shesex is like a chess style game.

It's a little bit different variation on it. There's not like, there's something according to pawns, but it's actually like a Quillist pastime. It's basically like chess with like kings and queens and whatnot. But instead there's like animals involved and it's like these are the hunting hounds.

These are the master swordsmen. This is the the Aegis defender. So Star Wars Hollow Test kind of thing. Basically, yeah.

Those are the three exercises that you guys are supposed to do. He just kind of like gestures and says, who's going first? I think Mirage would step forward. Okay.

And then I, Mirage wants to read their minds to figure out which one she thinks would be best suited for the three tasks. So this will be weird since you guys are picking against each other. But I'm going to say that I will give you some information. Let's instead of doing this, let's say that this is a little bit later during the day.

So why don't we, let's give you like a flashback. Like I'll give you a time in which somewhere earlier in the day, you guys had figured out like who had been past the hazing. And like let's say this is in the morning in the cafeteria. I'm really surprised that this is a society that hazing is still legal.

Yeah, I mean, it's it's illegal in many many societies right now. So they're not as progressive as some can't, yeah, some cultures. This is this is still a mercenary group. And these are like, so these are adults.

These aren't like kids. These are these are adults adults. Wait, wait, wait. Which one do you want to?

It's okay to haze adults Cody. I'm not saying it's okay to haze adults. I'm saying that this is a mercenary group full of very nebulous, morally ethical people. Oh, I get the name.

Molly, we have two questionable morals. That's why we're nebulous. Let's go over to Generation Justice and like, tire all their shoelaces together and give them wedges and shit. Yeah, well, I wear low first today.

Let's not let's not well, we're not going to do that yet. So Eli, which one of these people that Mirage going to go up to? I'm going to give you one. You can you can you can mind mind hacks one of them.

Which one do you want to go up to? There was the Victorian the coolest the the the Sorees and the Octomaine. I can give you more information about what they're wearing. Yes, I would like to know what each of them are wearing.

Okay, cool. The Octomaine seems to be naked, but that's kind of like how Octomaine's usually are. They usually have some filigree like hanging from their like like their exoskeleton crown on their quote unquote heads. From the most part, kind of like a badge on their like head area and an assault rifle on their chest.

That's all that they are wearing. The Sorees, the sort of like mouse like person seems to be in a fully like covering their entire body suit, mechanical suit, but there seems to be like pots and pans kind of like dangling off of them as well as like a band-a-lear of several like pouches across the chest. Oh, on the fly alchemist. Okay.

And then the Vigorian is basically saying he was wearing yesterday except the new shirt. It's not as torn up as his other shirt. He's just wearing like some regular cone of like blue jeans, space blue jeans. And he doesn't have anything as pockets.

He looks very intimidating at all of you and he actually has a necklace kind of like around his neck with a tooth at the end of it. Did you say space blue jeans? Space blue. How are they different than normal blue jeans?

The from space. Darker blue? They're from space. Quantum rivets.

Astral fly. Astral fly. That sounds like a rubber. Also the coolest at the end seems to be same thing.

Sure kind of like the nebulous nights like regular shirt. Except he's wearing like a pair of space khakis. Don't ask me. As well as like a like what almost seems to be goggles kind of like on his forehead.

And like you see actually a few designs like down like added to the khakis down his sides. And you actually see on one of his arms, it's just like tattoos, but it seems to be like an image of something and then it's like cross out. Okay. So as Maraj looks over them, when she looks at the Vigory and she's going to press on his mind to remind him of how he ran out of the room crying yesterday.

And then she's going to read the mind of the Quillis. Well the Vigory immediately stops like putting his hands against his input onto his side. And you're going to read the mind of the Quillis? You just like want surface thoughts or like?

Just just to see how confident they are in the three tasks and see if they would make a good teammate from Rush. Okay. You kind of hear from the Quillis is kind of like what the fuck these two mates doing. They think they can choose from one of us.

Fucking series. We don't want to go past the hazel last night. All the rest of these fucking pokes. I love the goody dogs.

I'm trying to do shit. I don't want to be I don't want to be Southern or Australian. I just want to be like different. Guy.

Guy. You want my night. These people fucking choosing from us. I fucking flew in the battalion.

Yeah. So Maraj will step forward to the Quillis and give them a look and say you. You fucking want me. Want to laugh you think out of it.

What makes you think that you can actually choose me home and kind of gets up in your face. Because Quarlesugan said that we got to choose. Be lucky that you're on our team. Yeah.

Who takes orders from Crosswugan? He isn't he's in my master. He's in my mentor. Can I so whenever the Quillis gets up in Maraj's face she will just like she's going to stare him down and kind of press on his mind a little bit to make her seem to him a little more to make her seem a little more big and imposing.

Okay. Go ahead. Go ahead. Roll it for me.

Is that deception or do you think empathy for that one? I think that's a good thing to see probably. Okay. That's a plus seven total.

He's sort of like staring at you for a little bit kind of like straight in the eyes and he didn't get that well but he seems to be kind of standing his ground a little bit and you see one of his eyebrows raise. He says all right. All right. I've just seen it if you knew how things worked around here.

I'm glad you don't scare easy. We will make a good team. He puts his hand out to shake. I will put my part out to shake.

He shakes your hand but then goes into like an intricate complicated like shaking motion that you apparently don't. Actually you do know. Let's say you pressed on his mind and you finish it and he looks at you and he smiles and he says I think the right pink team picked me then. Yeah.

But you hear Quarle on the side. It looks like one of us got chosen. Let's say each of you. You can pick one.

And out of game meta. Any of you except for bone star. Can pick one of these people. I will give you a flashback earlier to maybe discover something about them.

So it doesn't have to be something currently right now in this room. We can have like a flashback like cafeteria, walking in the halls. If you hacked into something or if you just walked up and talked to one of them. Could Morg have talked with the...

The reason? What's that? What would they recall? Sorry?

The cerise. Yeah. Yeah. What do you want to talk about?

Just find out their general business. Like Morg's first impression of them was that it looked like they were like pots of pans and a whole bunch of stuff around. Like gonna mix stuff up on the fly or anything like that or... So you find this a recent kind of the hallway, kind of clanking down the hallway, going to the cafeteria.

Just gonna stop and ask them some questions and they sort of like press the button and you see it flips back and it's basically just like a mouse in a mechanical suit. Oh hi. No. Yeah.

Just a little culinary expertise. You can use that thing in the field. Hi. Oh a chef.

Nice. I may be getting in touch with you later for trying to figure out how to help out with getting some of my food on the menu. Or at least hack together something that would be able to be close enough to something that I'd be able to eat. Is it you don't like what they have on the menu here?

A long story short, lost episode shit, all that kind of thing. A lot of my... A lot of my races dietary needs aren't exactly covered in the galactic standard yet. We're kind of newcomers on the scene.

So having an actual chef around, like knowing an actual chef may help figure out things that my body can process and how to make them taste good. Are you familiar with space routine? No. Is that something you hunt?

It's a byproduct of stuff that we hunt. Oh. And how big is it? How big is it?

Oh it's a mixed dish kind of thing. You take... They slowly start like going up into your face a little bit more and she says, how big is it? You can make it as big as you want.

You can make the thing a kill as big as you want. You... It can cater to a whole bunch of different culinary needs. Technically it's more like...

I don't have time for you if you're not going to answer my questions and she walks away. Okay, I guess you are big into the hunt and killing stuff to eat kind of thing rather than making cheese currants and cheese currants and cheese. She puts on a helmet and she waves to you as you slowly walks away. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

That's what you got at her. So flashback to the present, Morg turns to Mirage and says, okay, a mouse one, they're big into hunting. If they... If there's dodgeball...

Or I'll put up his hand. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, why don't we let night team pick next? I think it's only feather we take turns like adults. I guess Morg kind of taps a axe against a shoulder.

Corral turns to Zantrop and Sean and kind of like gestures out to the other three people still. Now that you guys know that the mouse isn't into hunting. Gotta make things something more balanced for everyone after a week. We know that the mouse isn't into hunting.

The mouse isn't into hunting. Because he's in hunting. Because Morg is inside of... Because he's in hunting.

Right, Morg, you actually get a message from Carl Svagan on your little heads up display. It says thanks and it sort of has a kiss emoji, space kiss emoji. Morg's... Chat is a fucking life.

Yeah, Morg's a bit of a diss. Just like without moving his hands. Like, oh, don't you worry about it. Because we know what's going to be going on in general.

Alright, so Sean and Zantrop, you guys can figure out what maybe... I give you guys a flashback to see if what the other three are up to. If you guys want to go up and talk to them specifically, you can like hack into their records. What do you want to do?

Sean would approach the Bigorian. Where you guys are, is like a cafeteria in the hallway? Uh, cafeteria. Cafeteria?

Okay, he's kind of like sitting there kind of by himself on a table. Uh, yeah, so walk up to the table. Is this it taken? Uh, he puts his hands down.

Yeah. Okay. Go to the other side. What do you want, Shorty?

I'll just sit down anyway. Oh, okay. He sort of looks back at his food. Yeah, I guess that's okay.

So while you're here... Yeah. My dad was the chief and... He said I needed more training.

So I'm here, is it kickass and eat space bubble gum. Roll me an empathy. Okay. That is plus five.

This guy's a big fucking scaredy cat and he tries to be like all up in your face or whatnot, but he's not. He's a big sensitive boy. Okay. I pat him on the shoulder and be like, just stick with me.

You'll be alright. Okay. Sort of like looking down at his food. He's like, alright.

I believe one of the lines that was said last one of the last sessions was four arms for how to do it. Oh shit. That's alright. I have to change his aspect real quick.

He gets an additional aspect. Okay. So he this guy seems very sensitive, but he's still very big and imposing. He's still one of the Vigorians, which are very like kind of big, four armed, very antagonistic species.

Can I read a lot of context to see if I know these people by any chance? You can go to a context as this thing's pointed out. I got a plus three. So context, you said three?

Matthew? Yeah. As you drink. So with a three, you get the feeling that you know, I give you this one for free.

The coolest that Mirage just picked, they used to be the white star battalion. In fact, they used to be a pilot. Okay. So do they have a as far as they would, they have a reputation?

Yes. They're a smart ass. Like a smart ass. They basically talk a big game, but they really can't back it up all too much.

They are an ace pilot though. So like they are probably one of the not the, you know, not the like new recruits, pilots, like he was used to be like a pilot that most people kind of went to, although he was tough to work with. So he was like, he went through space top gun. Yeah, he was based on that.

With the space volleyball. Yeah. Yeah. Playing playing with the space boys.

Space Maverick. Got it. Spapper. And I know that of the three challenges we have, one is dodge the spherical objects.

I'm sorry, avoid the spherical objects. My bad. And the other is what we humans would call chess or chess like. Right.

Okay. You, with the three contacts, you also get that the Octomaine, the eight technical person. They too are, they're an engineer actually from one of the corporations. You kind of could barely know this only because like one of the parts that you use in constructing your guys is not what is it called, your little pods for your robots.

Like a docking space. The docking space. Yeah, the docking stations. Sorry.

I don't know what words are. The docking station is one of the parts actually that has the connector for it. He helped make it. He's one of like the inventor's health inventors of it.

He invented a dongle. He invented a dongle basically. Basically, yes. Yeah.

So you guys, instead of like going in and plugging in, it's like a, it's like a little thing that's like, it's like a wireless charger. Like a wireless charger. Like a wireless charger. He uses magnets or some shit.

Yeah. Magnets. He's good at work. Adding another aspect.

No sound magnets work. Okay. Okay. And remind me, Shann is chatting up which one?

Shann chatted up the Vigorian that you saw in the cafeteria. Is that sort of the big forearm guy, beefy? So we've pretty much, we've gotten some info on three of them. Yeah.

Okay. But the quillist has already been taken. Oh, they've already, they've already decided to, yep, elope with the quillist. Got it.

Oh, so you have the Vigorian, the Sorese, and the Octamine right now. Okay. If I may, Shann, a moment of your time. Yeah.

What do you want? Um, so I can tell you a little bit about our tentacled and our, um, the mouse person. Uh, I can tell you a little bit about them, uh, based on their reputations. Um, now I can tell you a little bit about myself.

I may have a matter of science. And, uh, I'm quite good with things of mental acuity, but I lack in things of athletic prowess. And, uh, unfortunately, I don't believe that either of these individuals are, our best choice for such an event such as, uh, avoid the spherical object. No, I can see why they see your point that.

I say, I'll best bet at defeating our compatriots in this challenge is to put all of our, uh, space eggs into one space, two space baskets. It, it, uh, that way we have better chances of winning two out of the three companies. Sorry, I bought my mic, two out of the three competitions, your thoughts. We're, we're taking an E, we're in a rock talking, we're in a huddle.

All right, team. All right, Quirrell's team. What's, what's your, what's your final decision here? Uh, your thoughts?

Uh, well, the gr Yes, we choose the four arms gentlemen. All right, do you guys pick up a grime? Yeah. Uh, you see the going step forward sort of like, you know, could still hands down looking down all mopey.

He looks over at, uh, he looks over at Mirage for a second and comes his head back down, walks over your guys' side, he looks very sad. He stands next to Sean. Okay. Uh, Quirrell sort of like points to see the remaining two.

It's, uh, it seems to be your team's turn. Who else do you choose from? All right, more. Well, since I misunderstood the rules and thought each of us were choosing our own individual teammate, I'll let you have this choice.

Okay. And yeah, that, it's almost as if Quirrell is trying to fuck us over for his own benefit. It's all good, my dude. It's all good.

Okay. Uh, more kind of motions over to the Quillis and Mirage. Okay. I'll let you in.

You want to, you let me come in your little team here. Well, you're on the team, aren't you? I guess so. We want.

Okay. So the way I see this is that. Do you really trust this guy? He sort of points to a morgue at kind of points at morgue.

It looks at your Mirage. Trust has nothing to do with it. I was put with more. Kind of the same situation.

All right. Sorry. Sorry, Green Fella. Interesting.

Are you sorry? Are you actually sorry? No. Yeah, I thought not.

Anyway, what we have to do is we have to figure out a nice, well-balanced team for anything that we'll be able to have. How are you out of a race? I mean, I could probably beat you from here and across the gym and back. Okay.

Are you better than them? Yes. Okay. Good.

We have we have that potentially covered. If they're how are you and more kind of points at both of them, how are you guys at ranged combat? Say throwing spherical objects. The Quillis starts laughing.

I'm good at it, mate. Don't worry about it. Well, whoever you pick, I got you covered. Neither round.

You can stop talking now. If you're just going to say that your strengths are everything, then you're not even worth paying attention to right now. Mirage, how are you out of a scrap? I'm not the best, but I'm okay.

Okay. I'm much better at close range combat and work kind of racist acts than actual shooting stuff. But what I will tell you is that the Quillis takes off his back to the assault rifle and you notice there's been modification at the end of it where it looks like a big large container. He says, oh, it transforms into a to a melee mode.

And he sort of pokes about it on side and you see it like extend out. And you see like the very end, it looks to be like a hammer, but in the middle, it seems to be there's like something supposed to go in the very end of it. He says, this is where you put the ball. Okay.

That sounds great. Okay. Final question for you guys. How are you at nth dimensional physics?

I can fly through space. Okay. That's three dimensions covered. How are you at judging times in a, how are you at judging times when things are rotating and adapting over time in unre- unpredictable ways?

I fly through space, Nate. Yes. Three dimensions. You mentioned that.

He takes a 10-1-5. Raj, how are you at predicting things that aren't normally predictable? I mean, I don't really know how to answer that. I think we should just choose.

Okay. I'm leaning towards the octopus guy because we're all mammalian based as far as I know. It'd be good to have something that's more a cephalopod based because they don't think in conventional way or they don't think in ways that we normally find conventional. That way they'll be able to adapt to things that we may not be able to adapt to keep things a bit more covered.

If Spikey McGee over here is actually as good as they talk about, that way we should be able to have things pretty well covered for foot race, fighting, and being able to navigate mazes that may not be conventional. Sounds fine to me. Okay. Uh, Mora, motion's over to uh, bone-star and coral and kind of makes a headphone-back on motion to coral, like telling him to turn his chat back on.

How can you be perfectly fine? Oh, yeah. I wasn't sure if you had muted everything or just the chat. Anyway, uh, we choose the uh, be tentacle person over there.

Okay. Also, he sort of like takes it, you know, leads his hand to the other one and uh, he says, well, I guess the, what's left for you guys? And he sort of points to the series. Also, uh, what are your names?

Uh, they go around uh, the coolest looks at you. He goes, you can call me Dusty. Uh, and the Octamine comes up to you and sort of uh, mumbles out, hi, I am Centodyne. Okay.

He sort of puts out one tentacle up to you. Dusty, Spikey and Centodyne. Nice to meet ya. Great greetings to you both.

Uh, the, the eight tentacle guy kind of reaches over and touches your face. Works, but it's me. Touch your face. Uh, then this, the reese kind of like walks over to you guys and says, I guess I'm stuck with y'all.

It's, they sort of put out their hand, Darwin by the way. Uh, Sean, Sean, thanks. Where are you from, little one? They started talking to Sean as the eashick hands.

Uh, long way away, it doesn't really matter quite now. That sounds good with me. Uh, so Quarle sort of like gets in front of you guys and starts uh, pulling something in the middle of the ground, like a little lever comes up, and starts pulling on something and you see uh, behind you guys, the gym starts to transform and uh, there seems to be several like locations that sort of appear. There's like two play areas.

There are two like rectangular play areas. There's a right side and a blue side. And in the middle where they intersect is sort of like this purple area. Um, kind of inside the red, where the blue areas are, you see like five foot cubic, like five foot cubic black squares sort of like pointed up on their sides.

And uh, he says, this will be the play area. Oh, it's adorable, isn't it? It is. Thank you.

Chris, can I get the keys to this at night? Um, we will discuss that a little later. And he's gonna go over the wall and you see a rack of assault rifles that have been modified and he gives each one of you. This is what you'll be using to shoot the balls with.

You can't pick up the balls with your hands. There's no touching of any of the balls during this match or you will be out. Uh, quick question. Yes.

So what is the semantics question? Are we shooting at the balls or are we? Firing balls from these projectile shooting devices. Yes.

And yes. Right, right. Right. Yes.

And yes. So hit the balls with the other balls. Well, hit, no, hit your opponents with the balls. I know some space high schools play it differently, but no.

You'll each be on opposing signs and you'll be shooting them at one another. Space high school got it. Fascinating. Thank you.

I just was curious for science. Of course, of course, with you not being able to touch the balls, you're probably thinking, how do I put the ball inside of the gun itself? I'm gonna push the button on the side. It's vacuum can.

It transforms into a net. Oh, he says, as long as the ball is within the net, you catch it. You press the button and it transforms back into the gun and it's loaded for your entertainment. Well, wait, wait, wait.

Well, those of you who were saying that this was space dodgeball, not space lacrosse. For the spherical object, it's of course different for every race and space high school. We mean race. Species, sorry.

But yes, for those of you more inclined to fight, the purple area is actually within both fields, in which you two are able to directly approach. You can make steel shoots from the blue area from the purple area, but it is where both sides can coexist aggressively with one another. I've got a question. Yes.

Are we able to interact with the balls in any way as long as they're not touching us directly or our suits and work motions over to. Yes, no suits on us got kind of believe that this is an extension of ourselves. So this technically is us. It's like an exoskeleton.

Exactly. But if I were to say, not quite understanding your mean. If I were to say bat away a ball with my chain axe and work raises his axe and rolls it up. Oh, no, you want to be using that in the field.

You'd make a mess. I won't have it on. No, no, it needs it on. No.

You will leave all of your weapons outside of the area. Okay. So if we, you were saying for the purple area that we're able to close into close quarters and fight there, are we? With this.

And he puts another button and he says the ball goes in here and he gets one of the balls out and he sort of puts it at the very end of it. See, it sort of looks like your axe almost and he sort of waves it around in the air. It's sort of like a lacrosse stick. Only at the very end is the ball, sort of like stuck between two prongs.

Oh, so you turn the ball into a war hammer, highlight kind of situation. I gotcha. I gotcha. Exactly.

And if you happen to hit somebody and the ball flies out of the hammer and hit someone else, then they would both be out. Yes. Wait. Okay.

That's, that's, that's, that's a, sorry. One more question. Are there any penalties if we went to hit our opponents in the heads? Was that, is that authorized?

Yes, that is authorized. That brings up another good point. However, if you do succeed in catching the ball that he has been shot at you, the opponent will be out and you will be able to reclaim one of your teammates. Okay.

Okay. Okay. If we deflect a ball, mid-air with another ball. And that ball bounces back and hits one of the opponents.

Does that count as us hitting the opponent with a thrombole? Oh, no. You, you misunderstand. If a ball touches anyone, they are out.

You don't get points based on who you hit. The goal is to destroy your enemies. Okay. So balls are like spheres of annihilation in this.

Okay. Gotcha. Gotcha. Gotcha.

Yes. That's why it's called a void of sphere. I'd ask you what to catch it. You don't catch it with your hands.

You catch it with and you push the button and the net pops out. If you net the balls, you want that. Yes. Yes.

Yes. Yes. Okay. Everything clear enough?

Mark looks over at Dusty or Sennadime. I like, you guys have any questions? They both shrugged. Dusty's like, no, he told us all this before.

We didn't have as many questions. But I like your questions though. Those are good questions. I would have had that one, so.

Yeah, sure. You would. Oh, I got a question. I got a question.

Yes. Yes. More. How many of the launchers and catchers are we able to have at once?

Well, unless you wanted to take one from your teammates or from the opponent, I guess as many as you can hold. Mark holds out a fist to the Octomain for a fist-slash tentacle bump. Like, yeah, I'll be able to hook you up, man. He sort of like looks over at you and looks back and then looks over at you again.

He sort of puts up like five of his tentacles and tries to fist-talk you back. Yeah. It's very awkward. All right.

Anyone else? I have something. For my super senses, I would like to trigger it so that it is based on sites at the moment. All right.

Sounds good. So little pulls appear on the field itself and he says, go this way and we will start the games as soon as you're holding onto the poles. And when I say begin, you can let go. So Mirage will walk over to the red side and grab onto one of the poles?

Your little badge on your little suit kind of lights up and it lights up red. So you're another team. The rest of the teams kind of, do you guys just go over and grab the poles and are ready to fight? How many balls are associated with each pole?

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