Weird Adventures In Space #6

Welcome everybody to a brand new episode of Weird Adventures in Space, SHU Podcast's very own superhero sci-fi, role-playing, real play podcast. It's kind of like a radio drama, except we roll dice sometimes, and I'm GM and, you know, anyway. My name's Jay, I'm the GM and I'm gonna be guiding this superhero team of alien refugees through the treacherous jungles of capitalism and crime. But anyway, I should probably let them introduce themselves first.

Hi, I'm Yungjizal and I'm here to play some games for you, especially. People call this B-Spoke. Hi, I'm Logan and this is now an Animal Crossing podcast. Woo hoo!

Hi, I'm Robert, I'm playing Charm and to everyone who is enjoying Animal Crossing. Uh, no, I'm going with that. I was like, I play Arlou and I guess my goof is just lost in time and space. Hi, I'm Bailey and I play Carrie, aka the Lotus.

This is Treacherous Terrain and it is certainly dangerous for our heroes. Once you enter, will you ever be able to leave? Episode 6 of Weird Adventures in Space. The Crime Jungles of Venus.

The episode begins with Greg, the newly elected King of Mars, sitting out at a relaxing Martian bistro in the city of Subterix. Greg and his Martian friend, Grog, has been acquainted for, I don't know, eight to ten hours, and in the time that you've been here in Subterix, Greg, you have seen just a completely new world, a completely different society. It doesn't really resemble anything you've seen on Earth, it's a society that exists without money, without formal power structures. Homes are plentiful and beautifully designed architecturally.

It's a very, very tidy and neat city nestled deep, deep below the soil of Mars. And right now you're just kicking back at this bistro, you're watching one of the Martians, a large eight-foot tall humanoid with four eyes and dark green skin. Chop up what looked to be a fungi on a grill as they're preparing some sort of scrambled for your breakfast. And Grog says, well, King, King of Mars, King Greg, I really hope you've been enjoying yourself in town here.

First contact with humans like this, it wasn't supposed to be this easy. Oh, well, I mean, thanks for having me. This is great. You don't have to keep calling me King.

I appreciate the honor and stuff, but it's a well, you know, I'm more of a people's kind of guy, so... Grog kind of leans back and points behind him and goes, I mean, Greg, that's fine with me, but you're thinking you have to tell this to all your adorant fans here, that these people can't keep your eyes off you. And you see, at least half of the people in the restaurant are just kind of like staring slack John at you. All right.

Well, I mean, everybody can calm down and enjoy your breakfast. You know, so I'm just just a regular guy like all these people. So I appreciate the appreciate you all thinking to me, but I ain't nothing special. One of the merchants is eating breakfast just kind of with half a mouthful of food says, Hey, King, King Greg.

Yeah, what's up there, bud? Is it true that humans just don't eat mushrooms? Oh, that's not true at all. I mean, there's humans eat mushrooms.

They can't eat certain kinds of candy. Some of them are poisonous. Some of them are safe to eat. I leave it up to the experts to decide.

You mean you got poison mushrooms or it's a fucked up place? There's a few up there. Again, I don't know exactly which ones they are. So usually if it's, if you could buy it in the grocery store, it gets served to you at a restaurant.

It's probably pretty safe. I think that people pretty much know what they're doing. There's some guys go out there hunt for their own because they know what they're doing, but I don't know much about that. So I stay away from that.

What used to be half of the restaurant staring at you is now turned into all the people restaurant staring at you? And after you finish your spiel about basically just being a normal guy or whatever, you can hear the kind, like what I would describe as a quiet rumble in the crowd, people whispering to each other, people talking to themselves. They're trying to keep it so low that you might not be able to hear, but it's kind of like happening ambiently. And Brog says to you, just, Greg, I hate to put you in this position.

I feel like it's really unfair. I mean, we're just trying to enjoy our breakfast and I mean, these people of course have questions, but maybe I'm not taking care of you. Maybe I'm putting you in a situation where you're uncomfortable. Well, no, I mean, I'm not uncomfortable.

I guess I'm not quite sure what you're getting at. You need something more from me right now? What are you asking me? I just feel like noticing all these people staring at you and thinking about myself and I'm thinking, well, I wouldn't feel very good.

Well, it's a little unnerving. I'm not really used to the attention from big crowds, you know, but it's flattering. I'll tell you that. Not necessary, really.

So I'm not holding it against you, you know? Well, no, no, not at all. I just feel like we've had such a good time down here. I would hate to come.

You know what? It's all going to go away when the food gets here anyway. You know, that's kind of the great equalizer. Everybody gets depressed.

And at that moment, a waiter brings a big plate to you, which kind of looks like an omelette. Like a bunch of vegetables chopped together with some sort of fatter protein mixed in. Grog says, this is just standard Martian breakfast scramble. We scat into what we can down here.

Sure, I take a big one by the back. Just full bore going in. I like it. How does it smell?

Does it smell good? It smells like garlic and cumin. All right. I like both of those things.

Almost like a breakfast burrito inside, but with a little bit stronger and more pungent smell because it's coming from these really floral and stinky fungi that are included in it. All right. So if you like a sort of a, you know, like a rich, iron-heavy sort of thing, it's right up your alley. All right.

Yeah, I take a big one by the back. It's really, really great. It's just kind of like if you had a really great omelette, a handful of richer flavors that they're not foreign to you or anything, but you can't really compare them to anything either. It's just comfy.

Mm-hmm. No, I mean, like a good breakfast. And Grog says to you, well, Greg, I got to ask, you got, I don't know, a Martian day to do whatever the heck you want. What do you want to do?

Well, if there's more of a city here to tour, I say, let's tour some more of that. I just like to talk to the people. I mean, everybody seems to be pretty happy, but I always like to check in and see, you know, maybe there's some ongoing issue that people haven't had a chance to voice as good as things might be. That could be better.

You know, it always helps to keep in touch with the people. You're one guy who's maybe a couple tables down for you. How can you even say that when you're trying to collapse our buildings, man? Well, it's a good point.

There was some damage. We didn't mean to do that. Sometimes accidents happen. Rest assured, but we're doing all weekend to make sure that never happens again.

And anything it takes to fix the damage we've already caused, we're already on that case. So all I can say at this point is apologize to you and say, we'll try to make it right by you. Then you're not making pathways to drag your war machines down here? There's no war machines I'm aware of.

I'm not in charge of any war machines. We're just setting up a community up there trying to expand, trying to make a nice place like you guys got down here. You see Grog kind of stand up from the table and go, damn it. This is about decency.

I don't need any conspiracy theories down here. Greg is our guest and we're going to treat him like a guest like a neighbor. I don't want to hear any more of this bullshit. Well, no, that's all right.

I mean, the guy's got concerns. He's free to express him. I mean, if I got answers to his questions, I'll answer them. I'm not trying to silence nobody.

If he's worried, you know, whether it's founded or just conjecture on his part, it's his right to do that. If he's got questions, I'm okay with it. I might not have the answers for him, but I'm going to try and be as honest as I can. That's all I can say to this guy.

So, don't be too hard on him. He's worried. I get it. We'll answer his questions if he's got him.

You're a reasonable man, Greg. I just, I think maybe you'll come to understand there's a certain subset of people here down in Mars, and I don't really, I can't really wrap my hands around them. I don't know. They're kind of just angry all the time.

And they see you and they see all those earthlings up there as a threat. And so all they want to do, the only thing they ever want to do is try to win some argument about why we need to go to war. Why we can't live next to each other. And that's why I get so pissed off.

He's not the only person. I've heard this for months and months and months. Well, I get that. I mean, I can't really say what I can do to ease his mind.

All I can say is I'm not really here to make any war. If he thinks we can't live next to each other, I guess only time will tell. I'm not going to argue with the guy. I'm not going to fight the guy.

We'll go with that too. That would just prove his point more. Rather magnanimous of you. I got to say, to be honest, I'm a bit embarrassed that I was ever skeptical about what you were doing up there, Greg.

You're a good man. Well, thanks. The episode starts on Mars, specifically at a hockey banquet on Mars. That's got to be a first, I have to admit.

The head coach of the Red Hill Sidonians hockey team is bleeding out on the ground at this gala. And, wayfarer, it's a bit of an issue because this guy's bleeding with around eight other hockey players. And you can see this weird pink dust falling from the sky at the same time. What are you going to do?

I think for starters, I'm going to try to make sure I don't get any of that weird pink dust on me. I will make a bubble around my body. Can you make me a little roll? That's a three.

You can see the pink stuff getting through the bubble. Okay. That seems bad. Arlo, you're in the air.

You just pulled this drone out, and the drone seems to be filled with the pink dust and with the arrows. What are you going to be doing with that? They're a drone. I'm going to take it down to the ground for now.

What would you like to do? It's trying to fly away and it's trying to escape you. I'm going to take a physique roll if you want to hold on to it. Otherwise, you can use your magic wheel.

I don't use a wheel. Plus five. Or you managed to contain it within a time bolt, and it is no longer venting the pink dust. Does the pink dust hit anybody like any civilians?

Oh, yeah. It's been falling through this down from the sky like snowflakes. It's on your jacket, too. Cool.

Can I try and figure out what it is? Because I don't know that I could know what it is. Go ahead and make me a will roll? That's a plus two.

You remember traveling with an archer a year or so ago? Who, after encountering a god, was also covered in some pink dust, and it made him act absolutely out of his damn mind. If Eda is going to yell at everybody to cover their noses and mouths, like whatever orifices they have. Oh, guys.

Basically do not inhale the dust. Can I see where it's coming from? It was coming from the sky, but you just saw Arlu sweep to the ground with what looks like a black drone trapped in this time bubble, and you can see it spewing the pink dust inside the bubble itself. Would I be able to look around, see if there's more?

Yeah, go ahead and make me a notice roll, I guess. Yeah, notice because you're going to the sky. You're not turning over. That is four glasses.

One of those. Plus one. You notice three things in the sky, actually. You notice one more drone, but it's far off in the distance, like over the desert.

It wouldn't be anywhere near you. It's like a little blint in the sky. You also notice like an irregularity on Phobos, one of Mars's moons. It's like a weird thing going on there.

But most importantly, you notice a spaceship coming in to the bay of... Is the drone leaving or is it coming towards? It seems to be so distant that you can barely tell. It's like as big as like a star in the sky might be.

You can just tell it's very far away. It doesn't seem to be rushing towards you though. He is just going to try and hurt people indoors, get them away from them. Into the hockey arena?

Yeah. He said the coach is bleeding out. Is he dead dead or is there a still chance? You would need to know how to stand.

I do have healing magic. That's possible. Go ahead and make me a... more roll.

So that's a seven. Okay, I'm going to hold onto that result for a minute. Go ahead and tell me what you can do. Her whole big thing is she's supposed to be saving lives.

To paying no attention to the dust itself, she walks from person to person. That's an arrow. Just slap your hand over the wind. Feeding magic into the wind.

In an attempt to heal it up. No, not today. You beat this. This is what your completely wild lower roll is for, okay?

Uh-huh. You put your hand on the open window on the coach's neck and you can see the flesh in the sinew start to reconstitute itself and sew itself back together. Like it always does when you heal somebody. Except this person has no bones in their neck.

Uh-huh. And their body seems to be consisting of several free-flirting organs in some kind of jelly around the neck. But this was human. Yeah, it's personal.

Is he conscious? No. Oh no. Oh no.

I'm going to make a mental note of that. I am on a planet full of aliens and men and humans do exist, so... So worry about the gentlemen. The ass-men.

It does look like I'm healing him, right? Yeah, the wound is closing up. It's just as soon as you start looking into it, you go like, oh, that doesn't look like a person's neck though. Uh-huh.

And this is also like a middle-aged, slightly balding, white guy. Every hockey coach ever. He doesn't look remarkable. He doesn't, you know, he's not sketchy in any way.

Just imagine whoever's eating it days right now. That's what this guy looks like. Can I try to, like, generate a breeze to blow some of this dust away? Ooh, I like that.

Go ahead and make me a lore roll. So understand how atmospheric pressure works. So how do I get a four? I mean, wind isn't that hard.

You figure it out. You manage to blow this dust off into the empty desert. Yeah. I'm doing it.

Or at least it's just that it was refluding in the air. You can tell it has been gathering on the ground and on people's clothes. And while your big dust does blow all the dust off of them, there's no way to tell if they've already been affected. Okay.

Probably go start checking on people then. How many civilians are left outside? Or are they? You'll get three to people here.

Yeah. They're all watching the exhibition game first, and then this is supposed to be like a party afterwards. Kid doesn't really have any way to like heal people or... Or at least got the drone.

So I guess he'll go over to... Or later in the drone. Maybe look at it, see if there's anything you can figure out about it. Like investigate, see where it maybe came from.

Maybe an investing arrow. There's a plus two. You're looking over this drone. And you notice that it does seem to say CC ink on the bottom of the drone, just like some of the materials in the talking bay did in the last episode.

You also notice something else, which is that spaceship you thought was flying into port is not actually flying into port. It seems to be flying into the desert to chase up the hot-y ring. The drone starts ticking really fast and says you're getting self-destruction sequence. The drone's in a time bubble.

Why is it moving? The time just moves differently on a time bubble. It doesn't go turn off. Can I try and like look with X-ray stuff into it?

See if I can see a way to turn it off. Oh, yeah, I like that. Go ahead and make a little roll. So use transparency magic.

Plus four. Do you look through the drone and you can see that the components seem to be super heated, like they're trying to overheat themselves and melt. Cool off. Make me a little roll.

I'm going to roll the Katy Perry. Only blistery. You manage to stop it from totally melting down, but it's still very much trying. But it's so intricate you're having to turn off individual pieces instead of just reasoning the entire thing.

It's making. Inside the bubble you smack the bubble. I smack the bubble. I'm not going to hit the bubble.

I'm going to hit the bubble and stop being an asshole. Smacking the time bubble actually bit speed up. I'm going to hit the time bubble to the kita and I'm going to roll it down to this and then I'm going to run away. Wow.

Are any of the other players saveable at this point? You can go and try to triage them. I want to see if the rest of them are weird people. So you actually do manage to save like four of the players who are all bundled next to each other?

Dang. So you knock four of them out. You rescue four of them. You do the opposite of knocking them out.

You're knocking them up. Nope. Nope. Nope.

Making a note of that. Does he share any physical resemblance to the coach? So you notice that three of them are human and one is the same sort of strange new person. Oh no, he's like a 20 year old college student.

Total Chad. So, Sean, I'm going to have you pull up in your dune buggy. Right all of this shit's happening. And Quiver goes, what happened here?

I'm not that way far. Hey. What's going on? What's happened?

A bunch of pink stuff fell down from the sky and then some arrows got shot too. And those guys got shot. I just managed to blow the dust away and I think we're going to be checking these guys out. Everyone else do because of the pink dust.

Do any of those millions look like they're being affected by dust in some way to the quiver? Yeah, actually. You can see the dust beginning to swirl around their eyes and their mouth, same way it does when he starts racking really unpredictable. If you're looking at them, Quiver will elbow you in the side of the arm and say, oh, look at their pupils.

That's how you can tell. Okay. I'll go have a look at what I see. When you look in their pupils, instead of just seeing the normal black dot that all humans have, it seems like you're looking through a tunnel, like this long, ever shifting tunnel with an end point within the foreground so much you can't even see it.

It just looks like a completely weird, strange, ever swirling shape. Can I recap to them and try to undo the effects of the drug? Sure. Same way to the quiver.

So go ahead and make me a little. Okay. That is a plus four. Okay.

Perfect. You are actually able to put your hand on them. As you lift your hand out, the pink dust kind of forms almost like a spider web or a net or something and you manage to pull it out entirely from their body. That's normal.

People look normal, they're breathing normally, they just kind of immediately sit up and go, what happened? This dust is affecting you. Go home, take cover, stay safe. Yeah.

Shit. Okay. And then he just kind of like wanders off. You can look up and see that like 300 people have been hit by the ship.

Do I think I could do this en masse? Could I try to reach out with my body, like more for my body out to reach everyone and do it all at once? Go ahead and make a little room? That is a plus two.

You're not sure. Okay. I'm going to try then. If I'm not sure, I'm just going to try it.

I am just reaching my arms out and as they come close to branches are reaching off and coming contact. Oh, so you're like extending your tendrils out and then it's growing trees and branches off of them? Yes. That's so cool.

You can make the wood that you're controlling move kind of effortlessly in and out of the crowd. Once you find one of these folks and you touch them, the energy is poured out of them and then your plants begin to flower. The tree branches start growing pink flowers. It seems like something about you is able to absorb this stuff without it actually affecting you.

You too have spent a couple hours touring around the city of Soterics, you know, just kind of seeing parks, schools, you know, more and stuff, but because you're beginning to city planning it kind of interesting, right? It's an interesting structure here. It's an architect's dream. It seems like they got to start with the blank slate and got to design it from scratch so a lot of the buildings are in the same style.

There's a lot of consistency and coherence in the city. But after all that fun touring around, Greg takes you back to his ranch on the outskirts of town and shows you all the enormous insects that he keeps his cat. Oh, well that's a bit unexpected. He says, you know, at the end of the day, sometimes all I like to do is just, you know, just just come out here and drive around and take it all in the nature and the, you know, the animals down here.

We're living underground, but that doesn't mean we got, you know, we don't have full lives. It's good down here. We're proud. Look at that.

That's great. That's fine here. You got these insects that's cattle like you. You eat these, you milk these, a little bit of both.

What's going on here? I just milk them. I don't eat any bucks. I just milk them myself.

The thing you made this morning was made out of what I milk out of them. Oh, I got you. It's like a cheese. It's pretty tasty.

It's not bad. I'll tell you that. I didn't go to hurt you. These things make good eating or you just don't eat it.

You know what I'm saying? I've always been around them since I was a kid. So I couldn't even think eating them. I got you.

I got you. Yeah. It ain't like that for me. But you know, there doesn't mean there ain't some people that do.

Went down to the market and bring a couple of things of fresh cheese. Maybe I bring one of my guys down there. We have some fun. I mean, what better way to pass it down?

Do something you love? I got you. You're in the middle of their talking and just hanging out in the field and you see what appears to be like some sort of a driving vehicle come up. I'm going to call it a car.

It's more closer to like an ATD. It has six wheels. And you got two or three martian guys that step off. And the two or three martian guys that step off say, Hey, Grog.

What's up guys? What the hell are you doing bringing the earthling down here? You're going to get us all killed. Grog looks up and goes, I don't need to take any of these.

You boys get the hell off my property. Who are these guys, Grog? Same guy at the restaurant. Same guy's been following me around all day and day.

They don't want you here, man. They don't. They think that we're down here. We're living here because of aliens.

We can't protect our own. So we got to put up the walls and put up the fences. It's no different here than it is on our. I got you.

I mean, why are you down here? Is that why you want to down here? We've been down here for hundreds of years, but our history tells us that so many beautiful Martian cities were flattened to dust when this faction decided to try to take it or this corporation set up a camp or this brave general formed a staging ground. We just couldn't live up there.

They wouldn't let us. We had to run away. So the story goes. The problem is we don't really run away from any of the things that gave us that stress in the first place.

It's still all here. And as much as I wish, I could have shown you the best of us today. It's very clearly you're getting less than that. I see.

Well, I mean, if there's anything we can do to help, we'll do our best to help. So I can't guarantee somebody else isn't going to show up here and try and ruin your day, but it's not us. Those three guys that stepped off the vehicle look at you and go, if you weren't king, I'd knock your fucking jaw off right now. You need to get to hell back to your home planet.

Well, I'm a guest of the ground here. I don't think you can tell me, you know, Grog goes. He's a king, you know, you know, they can do whatever he wants to you. You're rednecks.

Get the hell out of here. The Martians look real closely at you, Greg, and eventually turn around. Go away. Whoa.

You can see, Grog looking at you and going, what a fucking waste. What a waste, Greg. We had all this time and that's out. I'm not going to lose any sleep over it.

So you shouldn't either. Yeah. I get it. They're upset.

I can't change their mind. I'm not going to fight unless they fight me. So they're leaving. Yeah, but now they know they can go up there and meet you, you know.

What happens then? We weren't exactly being inconspicuous. I probably would have figured out eventually. He leans back and takes a deep sigh.

Yeah, I guess you're right about that. You got to face up to it eventually. A lot of this anti-earth people stuff is being kicked up by some new cults going around in town. Just saying that I don't know if those guys are involved, but they sure do talk like the rest of those guys.

This belief that the Martians need to go up top and build a new empire and rule. I mean, it's all bullshit. Look at that. Look what they're saying that you can't be here.

You don't belong here. They're saying you're home. Who the fuck are they? Well, I mean, I don't see any reason why you guys couldn't be up there with us.

Otherwise it got to be one or the other. I don't see why those guys don't realize that. If they come up top, we're going to welcome you. So why would you welcome us if you know that that's what we're bringing?

Well, I mean, if the majority of the people are being cool about it, then maybe they'll see that. And maybe they'll maybe they'll mellow out, you know. So you're not worried about that. You think you can like, I'm just want to make sure, Greg, if we go up there and we go and walk on that surface and we try to shake hands, that's not going to be a problem?

I wouldn't think so. I mean, I can do my best to, you know, convey to everybody up there as you're coming up there, just, you know, be friends, be neighborly. I don't see why we couldn't try it. I think a lot of people in this town are very wrong about you.

And I think maybe we should do that. I mean, you're king, right? So you do whatever the hell you want. Just bring us up there.

Well, I'm not king up there. I mean, I've got some power. I got some power. I know some people, but I'm not the king up there.

I can, you know, set things in motion. Well, that's what I'm saying. Why not? Let's try it.

I can go up there and talk to everybody. If you guys want to come up, check out what's going on. I mean, you're welcoming me down here. I let them know, hey, they're friendly folks down there.

They want to come check us out. We could arrange the same kind of deal. It's a tour. I'm all for it.

We got four hours left in the day. What better way to spend it? When we hand the crown off to someone else and you and I just go back to being normal ass guys. That sounds good.

Let's do it. From the spaceship, which is a good like half mile away, anyone paying attention would notice an android wearing a black leather jacket about cheek high all the way down to the ankle. They've got some sort of swirling silver energy around their mouth in their eyes. They're a really short, voice cut hairstyle, looking like a human but not quite resembling a human.

They're also flanked by what looks to be a computer tower but set inside of a robotic body. I literally let yourself be representative of the group. Danger! Where's grid?

If I don't see anyone in immediate danger of dying, I might just follow Arlie because I did see this child consume a lot of beer. So, then, let's take care of the war pressing issues first. Okay, you have a taking time on me here. I have one or two options I want to do.

I'm either going to run and try to chuck it as far as I can out into the desert or try to pour as much beer on it as I can. I'm sure it's not good at it. I'm going to say you pour a little beer on it and you watch the beer like waterfall off of the spear and you're just wasting the beer this way. I already fell.

He will run past Sean and um, clear. Go. Hey Sean, just run as fast as he can out to the desert to chuck the bomb. So, is your game plan running out with this or are you trying to toss it somewhere?

He's going to throw a javelin. Pretty much. He's going to like try and shot put it out as far as it can. Alright, we got to make a secret for doing shot put.

Still wash on the dice plus three. That's good enough to throw in an anemone object I'd say. So, yeah, you managed to chuck that thing out in the desert and it very quickly after landing explodes, turning all the sand around into glass. You're safe.

I do, really. Sean would tell Quiver to keep an eye on the guys just arrived, especially the robot. Quiver silently nods to you and then you see him pull an arrow out, break the arrow head, and he goes completely invisible. I'm going to go back to the congregation that was meeting the people in this spaceship.

So, you've got an android who looks like a normal human being and a black leather jacket and a computer tower inside of what looks like a robot body that you can set it into, almost like a server mount. So, it is Arlu. It is carry and it is way fair, right? All of you have basically arrived at the same time.

Arlu gives them a traditional almond greeting. It's just a middle thing. The more humanoid robot walks up to you and says, Hello, Efere. Hello.

You can't park there. My traveling companion and I need to apologize for the scene you see here today. We sincerely apologize for any damage done due to wide rounds. I'd like to point out the dead bodies.

Did you bring it in? I don't know for that. The loss of life is truly regrettable. You want to slap them?

You want to slap them? I would like to. Okay. Go ahead and make me a fight roll.

That was too. So, you're getting a hard metallic body. Now. And your hand reverberates off.

And then they're looking at you directly in the eyes and say, I say now, let's put the weapons down and stop fighting. You're very extremely compelled to stop fighting. I hate this. And then they dust their jack and go.

Now, pardon. As I was saying. It's a rapping star for us dust. It's an enhancement trope.

My companion here, who is terribly sorry for all this mess, who's responsible for introducing these drones to your community. I believe his AI may have gone rogue. He certainly do not intend to open sales on you in territory. That was almost sick.

That's make it right. I'm right. Let's pick up a sec. Who are you guys?

Well, you don't already know. My name's Tormine. And this is the plug. We all represented it.

When organizations tear it to only expense to Venus in the rest of the interior. We actually appreciate you the experiment here on Mars. I don't really believe that our computer friend here was malfunctioning. With that.

Oh, I apologize. I apologize on behalf of the cosmic Nepal. Are you a Trigar? Oh, no.

Not at all. In fact, we would like to repay the union for this inconvenience. With some information about the RIGR Corporation. But only if you're interested.

Oh, that's not. Our organization has internal knowledge of the RIGR Corporation. Document stolen from battle cruisers. And then on the inside.

I've been asked to extend the other branch reaction to this horrible tragedy. If you'd like to come along, I've been asked to introduce you to upper management. I think you'll find it with your time. Your predecessor's in the union certainly said.

I'm gonna put my hand over our always mouth. I'm not sure exactly what you're offering here, but it kind of sounds like you're not a white hat situation. The RIGR Corporation has a labor camp on one of its Milky waves to all planets. Would you like to get where it is?

Or would you like to know? If you're interested, please come with me. Please bring someone along to ensure you're security. But the trip to Venus still has to take a few days.

I mean, I'm not gonna talk to the others for a second. That's only reasonable. Will you allow my automaton to provide critical chaos to these people? They look over at the plug and go.

Fix it. I'm just hard eyeing Charmin. What I just saw Charmin do to Arlo's exact same thing my grandfather used to do. She's probably a little triggered right now and probably saying to herself, I want to stab you.

I wanna ask Qualia if she'll bite one of them. Not at all. I know. You already get us into any fights.

They kill people. So have you. Not lately. The key is fine.

Some of us measure time differently, Arlo. Did I just see you talking to your cloak? Can I hear Wally talking or is this a mental thing? I can hear Wally talking back.

Are you talking to your jacket? Uh oh. I bet she's mad that she just called the jacket. Go on, you're fine.

The cape will jump off of Arlo's body. It'll be rung into a twist and an unfurled. It does that by itself like the Medricarpened and the LEM. And after it's done spinning around, a nine foot long, enormous cat beast emerges.

Does she have the horns? I would talk about that sweet. Large horn out front as well. Like one?

And she says, well how many do you want? Oh, I always envision like a ram sorns. Okay, so this cat also has a pair of ram sorns on the head, right? The curly ones.

Yeah. Okay. So the cat says to you, I apologize, I haven't introduced myself. My name is Wally.

Who are you? Hi, my name is Carrie. Wait, I should use my hero name. My name is Lotus and then she just straight out sticks her arms out to the cat.

Okay, the cat will come in and give you a hug. Oh, I hug the cat back. And I scratch your ears. Not now.

It's a little, it's like bad timing. Uh, yep. Okay. Okay.

But you're so soft. And then Wally will jump back out and jump into a cape and jump back on Arlo's back and go. I mean, we got stuff to do. Please don't cheat on me.

I'm pretty lonely. Were you under the impression that this was a romantic relationship, Arlo? No, it's just, you know, that people don't like it when, you know, they're, they're, they're talking about your kind of dog, but you know, they're like it when they're petting out with other people. It was your own pet either, but still, you know, with other people.

Somebody is very insecure. Yes. All right. So wait for your holding comment here.

So those weird guys in the spaceship said that they're responsible for the dust. And the murder. Yeah, and the murder. And they are offering us some information on right goer as kind of a payback for murdering people.

I'm not excited about the idea, but if Gregor keeps showing up and doing shit, the idea of getting something telling them doesn't treat me, but I don't want to make that decision by myself. What do you guys think? Should I go with them and find out what they could tell me or? We should negotiate for a higher price.

I want a robot. If you go with them, you need to bring somebody who can do mental stuff. That charming person gives me the heebie-jeevies. Something's not right about them.

Yeah, I could agree. Are any of you good at mental stuff? I'm not bringing the drunk child with me, please. Probably a good idea.

It was really good at watching Arlo. She looks around and sees Akita. You! You take care of the drunken child.

Oh, that's right. He's got a baby. Amen. Yeah, now we have two.

Sounds good to me. Amen. Charming back into you over to the ship and wafer and carry you aboard the ship together. Sean, you've successfully cured these people of drug intoxication and your healing magic also seems to be healing any wounds they may have.

So if you feel comfortable, you basically have accomplished what you want to accomplish. I will reform back to normal. You look around and there are these like, androids very similar to the androids you saw in the The Plugs Factory last episode that are now handing out like food, antidotes, supplies, etc. Can I inspect the supplies that the robot's handing out?

The antidotes seem to be made out of some unfamiliar chemical compound. So I mean, it doesn't seem like it would be any different than a prescription would be, but you don't really know. The food looks completely legit. Lots of earth food.

Stuff that you're completely unfamiliar with, but they're sealed in packages. They're perfectly clean. It's like they were just pulled off the shelf at Costco or something. I'm happy to let the robots keep panning things happen.

She's gonna start writing up to the parking tickets for those guys. She don't write two of them out because she's gonna park there when they come back. Eventually the mankind folks come out and start like picking up the people that Shum and Carrie healed. And you can see Dr.

Dudad Gordon in the effort just like, I'll put all the people that were affected in the back, all the people that were wrong, check them, check the temperature, etc. I'm gonna walk out to her and I'm gonna hand her a kneecap. Where does this one go? Oh no, this has a plague in it.

Not good. But thank you. I also had that plague. It's bad.

I should probably get it fixed. Oh, it's your plague. Yeah, this guy was breathing it. And then I cut his knee out of his leg.

I was surprised to know I delighted. This should actually help a ton in trying to investigate what's going on with you and your people. As for what's going on here in front of us though, this is kind of a fucking mess. Can hardly just look at them and see if they have magic on them?

No, no, no magic. No magic. I'm gonna go see if there's any beer left. I'm gonna drink beer with the civilian.

Good stuff. Shama McDee, how about you? I'll just watch off the top to do that. And then wait to go get beer.

Shama's promo. Shama McDee, how about you? I'll just watch off the top to do that. And then wait to go get beer.

Shama's probably gonna work in support. Do that? Basically, she's just doing triage for like 40 injured people at the same time. She's doing her best and the extra set of hands is absolutely appreciated.

Once they get all of the people who are affected loaded into the transport trucks, do that looks so pretty even goes, I don't know how long this is gonna be. But apparently there's squishy ones. I'll look into the squishy ones. Yeah, thanks.

Shama, I really appreciate your help. But like I think right now, maybe the other people need you more than I do. I'm gonna be stuck in this lab for the next six weeks. Bit like your doc.