[SPEAKER_08]: Welcome to the Darkstar Adventurecast, where the stars are cold.
[SPEAKER_08]: The void is endless, and dangers lurk in every shadow.
[SPEAKER_08]: Out here, trust is a gamble, and survival is never guaranteed.
[SPEAKER_08]: On tonight's Adventurecast.
[SPEAKER_06]: Did you just try to hack off a piece of my Afro?
[SPEAKER_06]: Stop being so aggressive with our future compatriots.
[SPEAKER_06]: Brother Nest, please!
[SPEAKER_07]: No, I don't think she's going to wake up for a while.
[SPEAKER_07]: I do check her pulse a little bit to make her handle an accidentally killer.
[SPEAKER_03]: We're not serial killers.
[SPEAKER_03]: We're getting the drop done.
[SPEAKER_08]: So sit back and enjoy.
[SPEAKER_08]: This is the Dark Star adventure cast.
[SPEAKER_08]: Hey everyone, welcome back to Darkstar Adventurecast.
[SPEAKER_08]: We are continuing our journey at Scrap and Jack's truck stop out on the far reaches of the sector as the crew of the scapegoat is starting to make their way towards the hidden Prometheon base to exact their revenge for Dr. Voss and as we're now finding out for Felix as well.
[SPEAKER_08]: where we last left off ScrapJacks had been taken over by a group of void cultists, and they were setting up some weird science device in the main lobby.
[SPEAKER_08]: The group was split, Thorn, underwatch out in the lobby by these void cultists, and the rest of the crew hiding in the medical bay with an extremely cranky doctor.
[SPEAKER_08]: So now that I've refreshed your memory, let's get back into it.
[SPEAKER_08]: So back in the lounge, Thorn, you're currently talking to Brother Nesso Thorn.
[SPEAKER_08]: Thorn sounds a lot like Thorn, so I think I'm just gonna call him Brother Nesso.
[SPEAKER_05]: That's fair, I was thinking the same thing.
[SPEAKER_08]: And as you're going back and forth with brother Nessa and you're trying to keep his attention like he would said before, I know there are brother Pokes' bald head and he has these wares his his model to grey in black to anic turtle net combo and he says brother Nessa and brother Nessa turns around and says
[SPEAKER_08]: Ah, brother Vox, how can I help you?
[SPEAKER_08]: Brother Nesso, I have one more for you.
[SPEAKER_08]: And he pushes into the room, Yana 7, the admin of the truck stop.
[SPEAKER_08]: The one that you had a brief romantic charge with earlier in the session.
[SPEAKER_06]: It wasn't exactly romantic.
[SPEAKER_06]: It was more, uh, carnal.
[SPEAKER_08]: There was an animal-listic like Urge, she comes into the room, stumbles and more like it as you kind of pushes her in, and you can see that she has a bloodied nose and her left sleeve is ripped off of her shoulder.
[SPEAKER_08]: She's obviously even beaten up, but you notice that Vox also is quite bruised up on his neck.
[SPEAKER_08]: It looks like someone was strangling him, not too long ago.
[SPEAKER_08]: She stumbles into the room, turns around, and spits on brother Vox's face.
[SPEAKER_08]: He just smiles, not even wiping away the spit, and he says, Brother Nesso, may I borrow you for a moment?
[SPEAKER_08]: Yes, of course brother Vox.
[SPEAKER_08]: And I feel like things should hold hands, so the two of them hold hands and they leave the room.
[SPEAKER_08]: Yana looks at the three towering other survivors in the room.
[SPEAKER_08]: They don't say anything.
[SPEAKER_08]: They're other truck stop, patrons, non-employees, and then she sees you, Thorn.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_08]: Walks over and she sits down on the floor next to you.
[SPEAKER_06]: So now we're just, both of those guys left.
[SPEAKER_06]: So there's nobody guarding us anymore.
[SPEAKER_08]: There are plenty of cultists out in the main lobby, so it's not like you can just stroll out.
[SPEAKER_06]: Okay, so this would, if I, like this is a good time to call my friends, is what you're saying.
[SPEAKER_06]: If I wanted to.
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, yeah, you couldn't really use your walkie-talkie before, but guys are limit now.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, yeah, so, uh, shit, once she sits down, I kind of just, uh, give a, concerned nod, because it's seeing, you know, her physical state, but I don't have time to chat, because I don't know how long those guys are going to be gone.
[SPEAKER_06]: So I couldn't quickly get on the comms.
[SPEAKER_08]: Before you say anything, you're, you had turned your walkie-talkie off, because they were trying to chat with you.
[SPEAKER_08]: So you turn your walkie-talkie on and you're immediately assaulted by you assume it's Robert Ross holding down the comms button while the three of them argue with like a doctor and an AI.
[SPEAKER_07]: Doc, I told you we're trying to figure out what to do here.
[SPEAKER_07]: You see this down and be quiet.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm untethered.
[SPEAKER_03]: What's his untethered meme, untethered meme?
[SPEAKER_06]: I don't know if it's in my alcohol storage.
[SPEAKER_06]: Guys, listen to me, this is Gavin Dorn.
[SPEAKER_06]: Stop talking.
[SPEAKER_06]: Listen, where are you all?
[SPEAKER_06]: We're locked down in the lounge.
[SPEAKER_06]: We've got him in a little bit.
[SPEAKER_06]: We need to come over the plane right now.
[SPEAKER_06]: Where are you?
[SPEAKER_02]: Medday.
[SPEAKER_06]: Perfect.
[SPEAKER_06]: Dorn.
[SPEAKER_06]: I'm glad you're okay.
[SPEAKER_07]: for now.
[SPEAKER_07]: Who is that?
[SPEAKER_07]: Be quiet, Doc.
[SPEAKER_07]: Who's that?
[SPEAKER_07]: It's some annoying vocal doctor.
[SPEAKER_07]: I don't even think she has a medical license.
[SPEAKER_08]: I have a medical license.
[SPEAKER_08]: I went to cook college.
[SPEAKER_06]: I don't care.
[SPEAKER_06]: Don't tell her are you.
[SPEAKER_06]: We're in the lounge.
[SPEAKER_06]: There's five of us here including me.
[SPEAKER_07]: So Thor, and we just took out Robert and Haley, just took out two cultists in here.
[SPEAKER_07]: So we're trying to figure out what our next move is.
[SPEAKER_07]: We've got disguises in opportunity to go somewhere, but we're not quite sure where to go.
[SPEAKER_07]: My thought is, we've got access to a limited station AI.
[SPEAKER_07]: It can't access to security systems.
[SPEAKER_07]: We need to find a way to get into this security systems in this place.
[SPEAKER_07]: Have you heard anything or know anything about how we get into security cameras or rather, like, surveillance systems, so we can keep an eye on where everybody is?
[SPEAKER_06]: So when Felix asks me that, I guess I kind of like glance over at Yanna because she's like the administrator of this place, right?
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, is it?
[SPEAKER_08]: Is your walkie-talkie loud enough for her to hear or you're keeping it really, really low?
[SPEAKER_06]: Really, really low, so I would have to reiterate, but she's just sitting right there, right?
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, she's kind of just tearing off into space.
[SPEAKER_08]: Every so often she wipes the blood from her nose as more flows out.
[SPEAKER_06]: Okay, so I'm just gonna like, you know, tap her on the shoulder.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yanna, listen.
[SPEAKER_06]: My friends have taken out some of the cultists.
[SPEAKER_06]: We have a plan, we might be able to take this place back, but we need access to the security systems.
[SPEAKER_06]: Do you know how they can get access to the security systems?
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, my office, security office, utility room.
[SPEAKER_08]: Those are the only three places you can get a security feed.
[SPEAKER_06]: I don't think they can get into your office, is the cultists are right there.
[SPEAKER_06]: Where's this utility room or the security room?
[SPEAKER_06]: The utility rooms in the southeast corner of the cafeteria.
[SPEAKER_06]: I turn back to my walkie-talkie and whisper back to Felix and company.
[SPEAKER_06]: There's the utility room in the southeast corner of the station.
[SPEAKER_06]: Maybe you could sneak through the cafeteria and get there.
[SPEAKER_06]: That's a long way to go, Thorne, and I got a robot leg that doesn't- You know, it's actually like, I don't want to hear this right now, but they're going to tether us to them.
[SPEAKER_06]: I don't even know what they're going to do.
[SPEAKER_06]: I've been trying to get them to explain it to me for the past 10 minutes, and they just keep using the same words.
[SPEAKER_06]: And they hurt anybody yet.
[SPEAKER_06]: What's going on out there?
[SPEAKER_06]: What even what?
[SPEAKER_06]: People are bloodied in there.
[SPEAKER_06]: bleeding and beaten out here.
[SPEAKER_06]: They are hurting people.
[SPEAKER_07]: Alright, so let's say we get to do you tell me, like to this, you tell me we're wrong with the security feeds.
[SPEAKER_07]: How are you gonna get to us?
[SPEAKER_07]: We gotta get back together, Thorne.
[SPEAKER_06]: We need you.
[SPEAKER_06]: These guys are really chummy.
[SPEAKER_06]: Well, I'll just, I don't know, we'll figure something out.
[SPEAKER_06]: It's not very encouraging, but I trust you.
[SPEAKER_03]: Figure something out?
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I mean, I think this is our opportunity.
[SPEAKER_02]: We gotta figure something out now.
[SPEAKER_02]: We need to get back together or we're cooked.
[SPEAKER_06]: I mean, trust me, I don't want to be here, so I'd rather be where you all are, behind Hailey, preferably.
[SPEAKER_07]: I think we got to trust Thorne's skills of negotiation and improvisation to convince somebody to help him out.
[SPEAKER_07]: But, Thorne, we pulled a trick at all here, pulled some people in, knocked him out, maybe that could work again.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm saying, I think we need to take this onesy Tuesday.
[SPEAKER_02]: I do not think we have an ability to just fight off what will be Mark 20, 15, maybe Colton.
[SPEAKER_07]: There's too many.
[SPEAKER_07]: And there's too many.
[SPEAKER_03]: We're far outnumbered here.
[SPEAKER_07]: What are we going to do with her?
[SPEAKER_07]: And to Robert Hayway, where you've my thumb of the doctor?
[SPEAKER_08]: Unty me, give me my booze.
[SPEAKER_08]: I'll be fine.
[SPEAKER_08]: I'll lock the door.
[SPEAKER_03]: Man.
[SPEAKER_08]: Mama won her booze.
[SPEAKER_02]: Is there any way Felix that we can did bolt the door while still maintaining communication with buddy?
[SPEAKER_07]: Well, I got Buddy hooked into the calm so he'll be able to when I boot him back up because I turned it off because he was being annoying You know, we'll be able to talk to him, but I don't think he's gonna be much more to use on us So he's a pretty limited AI.
[SPEAKER_07]: Well, we could do I mean the door locks for me inside or And I kind of point to a drawer full of what appear to be sedatives
[SPEAKER_08]: Listen, I, I gotta apologize to you, Falix.
[SPEAKER_08]: I know you wanted to buy a moon rock.
[SPEAKER_08]: I'm not being very nice to you.
[SPEAKER_08]: It's because I'm high, okay?
[SPEAKER_08]: I'm high, take away my license, ah, okay?
[SPEAKER_08]: But here's the thing.
[SPEAKER_08]: I know a lot that could help you.
[SPEAKER_08]: And me, I don't wanna be here.
[SPEAKER_08]: I don't wanna die, I can help you.
[SPEAKER_08]: How can you help us?
[SPEAKER_08]: I don't, I don't fucking know, kid.
[SPEAKER_07]: You tell me, what do you mean, nice?
[SPEAKER_07]: I don't know, guys.
[SPEAKER_07]: I think she's the liability.
[SPEAKER_07]: I think if they come in here, she's gonna tell them where we went.
[SPEAKER_03]: Ma'am.
[SPEAKER_03]: If Felix find understand correctly, we're gonna hook buddy up to the comms and he might be a bit muros, but if the doc stays in here, she can talk to us through fun.
[SPEAKER_08]: I can be quiet as a mouse.
[SPEAKER_08]: Guess what?
[SPEAKER_08]: I lock that door and pretend like I'm not here all the time.
[SPEAKER_08]: It's more and more awesome.
[SPEAKER_08]: He poor knocking.
[SPEAKER_08]: I'm bleeding.
[SPEAKER_08]: I am a tummy ache.
[SPEAKER_08]: And a doctor is out.
[SPEAKER_02]: And it does it does give me a like she's not going to want mess with the cultists not but at the same time she might just like forget and stumble harass out there.
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't love a child.
[SPEAKER_07]: All right, we wasted it enough time with this.
[SPEAKER_08]: I think we just, we don't know, I have an idea.
[SPEAKER_08]: I won't stumble out if I have snacks.
[SPEAKER_08]: That's the only reason I would leave.
[SPEAKER_08]: I'm already high, that's already happened, okay?
[SPEAKER_08]: Make your peace with it.
[SPEAKER_08]: I was high before all this started.
[SPEAKER_08]: And due to the nature of Moon Rocks, I am getting higher every minute.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, but, so Felix is very done with this.
[SPEAKER_07]: So while she's doing this, it goes over and looks forward.
[SPEAKER_04]: I'm not going to stop.
[SPEAKER_07]: I'm going to stop.
[SPEAKER_07]: I'm going to, I'm going to look for a sentence.
[SPEAKER_05]: And Hayway knocks her out.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, he really turns around with a syringe.
[SPEAKER_05]: Hayway just knocks her in the back of the head.
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, she just, you hit her off, but then she just, she's tied up, so she slumped down over her dad.
[SPEAKER_08]: She just hits her forehead into the desk, tied to her chair.
[SPEAKER_08]: Hey, Lily.
[SPEAKER_03]: Does anyone have a snack that we can leave on the counter?
[SPEAKER_02]: Of course.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I take out a pocket full of meatloaf and leave it on her.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's like a little kid in your pocket.
[SPEAKER_07]: Now, I don't think she's going to wake up for a while.
[SPEAKER_07]: I do check her pulse a little bit to make her hailed an accidentally killer.
[SPEAKER_07]: I'm a professional.
[SPEAKER_02]: Um, maybe, hailing, if you wouldn't, uh, what do you think about just stuff in some of these bodies and like the medical drawers?
[SPEAKER_07]: There's not enough space for bodies.
[SPEAKER_03]: I might be able to fold them up that tight.
[SPEAKER_07]: But yeah, I think we just leave them.
[SPEAKER_02]: And at least put them onto the stank or something.
[SPEAKER_07]: Mr. Big Boys, Robert, this is a small medsby on a small space station.
[SPEAKER_07]: I think we need to take their clothes, though.
[SPEAKER_02]: I definitely like taking their clothes because I am, I don't know, I'm just heard this, but I am master of disguise.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, Robert is a master of disguise.
[SPEAKER_07]: There are two of them, and three of us, though.
[SPEAKER_07]: So, I think we can either try to sneak through the cafeteria unnoticed, or two of you dressed, two of us dressed as the coldest, and pretend that we're taking the other one somewhere else.
[SPEAKER_07]: Let me help you out with this.
[SPEAKER_08]: Haley's too big for both sets of clothes.
[SPEAKER_08]: Sweet, okay.
[SPEAKER_08]: And Felix is too small for both sets of clothes.
[SPEAKER_08]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_08]: Robert is just right.
[SPEAKER_08]: All right, so.
[SPEAKER_08]: Am I still on this phone call?
[SPEAKER_08]: And Thorne, yes, you're listening to all of this.
[SPEAKER_08]: Because Robert never let's go of the walkie-talkie button.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm still listening to as your yelling.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like sitting like like, Am I still on this call?
[SPEAKER_08]: My hand is just in my hands.
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_08]: You're throwing your waiting for your turn to talk, but Robert has not let up off of the button for like five minutes.
[SPEAKER_07]: Okay, so Robert, I mean, you can put this on and then we can think through and if we get caught, I guess you could say that you were just escorting this.
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, that's, I think we have to go as quick and quiet as we can, but if we're not at a time.
[SPEAKER_02]: If that's a, if that's our plan B, let's, let's do it.
[SPEAKER_02]: Hope they won't come to it though.
[SPEAKER_06]: All right.
[SPEAKER_06]: If anybody catches you, just tell them that people you captured are showing you where other captives are.
[SPEAKER_02]: What, where do you want to meet us just for final confirmation?
[SPEAKER_06]: Oak to the utility room in the southeast corner of the station will be there perfect Roger We got to go dark on cops now.
[SPEAKER_07]: We don't any extra noise coming through y'all ready.
[SPEAKER_02]: We're gonna do this.
[SPEAKER_07]: I get this.
[SPEAKER_08]: I mean, this is the least sneaky group The Robert you're dressed up and cult is gear
[SPEAKER_02]: Yep, head to toe.
[SPEAKER_02]: I take the least bloodied cultist robe and get that on and then we make like really crappy like they look like handcuffs but they're basically another like toilet paper so that we can run and try to sneak and then potentially bust out instantly if we need to.
[SPEAKER_02]: What do you guys think about that plan?
[SPEAKER_07]: I mean, I don't, I haven't seen anybody else wearing handcuffs.
[SPEAKER_08]: But what about toilet paper?
[SPEAKER_08]: Have you seen anyone wearing toilet paper?
[SPEAKER_07]: I mean, I haven't covered in grease.
[SPEAKER_07]: So as Robert suggests this, I will say, Robert, it's going to be hard enough for me to sneak as it is.
[SPEAKER_07]: I'm going to need my hands free to balance.
[SPEAKER_07]: So I'm, I'm not going to put these on, but thank you for the, for the, for the craftsmanship.
[SPEAKER_02]: I spent, like, serious way more time than I needed to on these than fun.
[SPEAKER_07]: I know, we don't, we don't, we don't wait for you to go.
[SPEAKER_07]: I think we should just go.
[SPEAKER_08]: Okay, so are you trying to blend or are you trying to sneak sneak, right?
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, I'm thinking sneak because I honestly trust that more than our subterfuge can fill these, but that's fine.
[SPEAKER_07]: I don't want to get into a situation where we have to talk our way out of something.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think that's a perfect plan B.
[SPEAKER_02]: We don't have our face, uh, we, we go in sneak formation, sorry, we sneak, but go in, we can just pop up and pretend like we're, you know, fall back on the other plane as a plan B. I get to pay so many notices.
[SPEAKER_07]: That's what we're back.
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, yeah, we're just going over here.
[SPEAKER_08]: Okay, so having heard how you want to sneak, it sounds like you're trying to not attract attention, but you can't really like, you're not trying to like shuffle from shadow to shadow.
[SPEAKER_08]: You're trying to not attract attention, and if you do, you're trying to like, make it seem like you belong and you're doing what you need to be doing.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_07]: So, so, hey, yeah, we'll be staying kind of like in front of Robert because he's like the authority figure.
[SPEAKER_08]: I need all three of you to roll sneak charisma.
[SPEAKER_04]: Don't make me do that.
[SPEAKER_08]: This is the one that carries Vatican.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, he's he is.
[SPEAKER_08]: Oh yeah.
[SPEAKER_08]: While they're doing that role, Thorne, you're in the lounge.
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_08]: And your arm, your shoulder is kind of like touching you on a seven's shoulder.
[SPEAKER_08]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_08]: And I roll a floor.
[SPEAKER_03]: I roll the fire.
[SPEAKER_08]: I don't know what, I'm just, I'm just telling you that.
[SPEAKER_08]: I'm just telling you that your character finds that arousing.
[SPEAKER_08]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_08]: Oh, you're telling me what arouses my character.
[SPEAKER_08]: I don't know about this.
[SPEAKER_08]: Hey, you know, you don't get a choice.
[SPEAKER_08]: You're born the way you're born and so the rubbing is won't get to you there Just don't rub his lobes He's a low guy So freaking cute God yeah, I got an eight a crush.
[SPEAKER_07]: I crush that roll like feels freshly oiled his his leg He's his sneaky.
[SPEAKER_08]: He's never been yeah, okay.
[SPEAKER_08]: We got a five a four and a eight so
[SPEAKER_08]: The three of you make your way out of the med bay, and when you walk out of the med bay, you look over, like Robert, you look over into the main lobby, because you're dressed up like a cultist, you feel like you're able to do that.
[SPEAKER_08]: And you see that there's this rip in space in the middle of the lobby.
[SPEAKER_08]: There's a odd black and purple antenna with lots of spikes and lots of like little satellite dishes attached to it, and it's been rooted to the ground.
[SPEAKER_08]: This rip is appearing between two forked prongs that are at the top of the antenna, and around it arranged in like a three-meter radius around it are several captives.
[SPEAKER_08]: You count eight cultists in that room, and one is working the controls on this odd antenna.
[SPEAKER_08]: Within the rip, you see something move.
[SPEAKER_08]: You're not sure exactly what it is, you're not sure if it's alive or simply an artifact of the undulations of this portal, but it fills your stomach with a queezyness, a strange fear that you haven't felt in decades.
[SPEAKER_02]: and after really a fuller on my sneak.
[SPEAKER_02]: I look over and squeal.
[SPEAKER_02]: Sweet baby Jesus, that's a lot of technicals.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh God, keep walking.
[SPEAKER_02]: Keep walking, Robert.
[SPEAKER_02]: Guys, we got to get maybe.
[SPEAKER_08]: All the cultures look over it.
[SPEAKER_08]: You just as you move behind the wall that separates the main lobby in the cafeteria.
[SPEAKER_08]: Guys, we got to get out of here.
[SPEAKER_02]: We got eight on the other side.
[SPEAKER_02]: It leans eight hot sauce and then so many fucking tentacles, so many tentacles.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's not your level stand.
[SPEAKER_08]: Thorne, in the lounge, you heard sweet babages in your car, my head is already in my hands I don't know if there's anything more I can do but does it seem like anybody in the main lobby is going over there You peek it on the corner and the first thing you see is your three friends in the southeast corner ducking into a southern door
[SPEAKER_05]: Okay, great.
[SPEAKER_08]: As that door shuts behind them, a cultist goes around the south side of the dividing wall between the main lobby in the cafeteria and notices that that door shut.
[SPEAKER_08]: They walk over to that door.
[SPEAKER_06]: Okay, just one lone cultist goes to that door.
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, brother Vox.
[SPEAKER_06]: I don't feel like I need to do anything about that.
[SPEAKER_08]: So, after walking through the southern door, Haley, Robert and Felix, you find yourself in a long hallway, it runs west east, and you're at the far eastern end.
[SPEAKER_08]: There's a door to yourself, labeled freight storage, there's a door to your east, labeled utility room, and there are several other doors to the west, but you cannot read the labels on the doors because you're several meters away.
[SPEAKER_08]: Go east!
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, but um, I do really want to make sure that we can check on day in the man grand, maybe he's still over in the security room that most knocked him out.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, Robert, that's not really what we're doing right now right now.
[SPEAKER_07]: We've got to get in this room that we're right next to so we can get to the cameras and then maybe the cameras can show us where this dawn is.
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, uh, it was, was still there.
[SPEAKER_08]: Let's get, can you get in?
[SPEAKER_08]: Is it open?
[SPEAKER_08]: The utility room in freight storage that are right next to you, both have key pads on them.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, I think they just give me a minute.
[SPEAKER_07]: So I'm gonna, I'm gonna take out my data slab and hook into the key pad to hide open the door to the utility room.
[SPEAKER_08]: Great roll, so no sooner does your ribbon cable touch the pad that it shivers in the door opens Good you are Maybe shivers Yeah, yeah, even cable he touched its shoulder.
[SPEAKER_05]: Oh Now I get it.
[SPEAKER_08]: You put it in context, but I can understand Yeah, I mean shoulder and you're like, oh, I say no more say no more
[SPEAKER_08]: The door opens into the utility room, and here you see it's a lot of like cabling, a few terminals, and a locked cage in the southeast corner that's labeled comms array.
[SPEAKER_08]: This cage has a bunch of high-tech equipment in it, and there is a like plunger gasket that goes through the ceiling, with a big rotating gyroscope underneath it.
[SPEAKER_08]: He likes to have seen things like this before.
[SPEAKER_08]: You know that you're underneath the comms array, and if they were going to do maintenance on it, they would lower that plunger and the whole comms array would come down into the station for them to do maintenance.
[SPEAKER_08]: There's like a built-in airlock in that system, but that's not what you need.
[SPEAKER_08]: What you need is one of these terminals here in the utility room.
[SPEAKER_08]: I move in and I start looking for, uh, for the right terminal.
[SPEAKER_08]: I just got a little too interested in explaining cool comms array mini airlock technology.
[SPEAKER_08]: This doesn't deep world, guys.
[SPEAKER_08]: Has anyone ever wondered how they do maintenance on comms of risk?
[SPEAKER_08]: And just specific station.
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, it's pretty specific to this station, so don't feel like you're going to go.
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't really don't have a lot of faith in the most of scrap track given the quality of their doctors, so.
[SPEAKER_07]: Well, I think it's interesting as technology gets more advanced.
[SPEAKER_07]: They try to find ways to avoid EVAs were possible, so they would absolutely have something like that, or come inside.
[SPEAKER_08]: So, like you said, you move up to a terminal and there is a security lock on it.
[SPEAKER_07]: Okay, so I will move up.
[SPEAKER_07]: I moved up to the terminal and there's this security lock, so I'm gonna scoff and begin bypassing this security lock.
[SPEAKER_07]: Okay, same roll.
[SPEAKER_07]: Look at this man.
[SPEAKER_07]: There's a 14.
[SPEAKER_07]: Pretty.
[SPEAKER_07]: What the heck?
[SPEAKER_07]: That is great.
[SPEAKER_07]: What a cheater.
[SPEAKER_07]: Okay, that's a 10-year-old.
[SPEAKER_07]: That's two sixes with my bonuses.
[SPEAKER_07]: That's a 10-year-old.
[SPEAKER_08]: Mm-hmm.
[SPEAKER_08]: So you do a little tippy tap on the keyboard and you do a little bit of like, oh, you're like, oh, this is like super, like, I've seen this type of security at my time.
[SPEAKER_08]: Remember to pop up about my description of you hacking is taking longer than it took your character to hack this thing.
[SPEAKER_08]: That's how one you did it.
[SPEAKER_08]: So while you're doing that, I just wanna get a little bit of a gut check on where everyone is.
[SPEAKER_08]: So obviously Thor's in the lounge.
[SPEAKER_08]: Haley and Robert, are you both in the utility room?
[SPEAKER_03]: I am in the utility room.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh yeah, totally agree.
[SPEAKER_02]: We sneak on right behind.
[SPEAKER_02]: We see Doris open and Felix is doing his magic.
[SPEAKER_02]: We'll tip it atop and we are just right behind.
[SPEAKER_08]: Okay, so you guys are both in the utility room.
[SPEAKER_08]: And I need the two of you, we're gonna do a notice with them.
[SPEAKER_08]: You guys both got me you both think you hear something from the hallway.
[SPEAKER_03]: It sounds like a door shutting After hearing this I'm gonna just move up to
[SPEAKER_03]: the doorway in case someone comes in.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I flank right behind her and see if I can get catch any shadow, basically using her as my shadow.
[SPEAKER_08]: Okay, and Felix, you're tipping, but you're almost done.
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, I'm focused.
[SPEAKER_08]: The door is shut to the utility room.
[SPEAKER_08]: Would you guys leave it open?
[SPEAKER_03]: I left it open.
[SPEAKER_03]: I didn't even think about it honestly.
[SPEAKER_08]: That's a huge problem.
[SPEAKER_03]: I came in first.
[SPEAKER_03]: I know it's about on my part.
[SPEAKER_03]: I think I'm a little just overwhelmed, reeling from, you know, Robert screaming about tentacles.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm apparently something called untethered like it's been a day.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, it's been a day and the only Victor I've had is getting to take a shower.
[SPEAKER_08]: You took a shower and your price for that is Robert will not stop farting out meat low farts.
[SPEAKER_08]: He will not stop.
[SPEAKER_07]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_03]: And I didn't even get the heat.
[SPEAKER_07]: I know.
[SPEAKER_07]: It just really stood me low farts.
[SPEAKER_07]: And it's meatloaf because it's still in his pockets, I assume.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, right?
[SPEAKER_07]: He's still got chunks of it in there.
[SPEAKER_08]: So, you have to understand that it's not going to be hard to find you.
[SPEAKER_08]: The doors open one side of the hallway versus the other.
[SPEAKER_08]: Smells reeks of meatloaf farts.
[SPEAKER_08]: Which isn't very abnormal.
[SPEAKER_08]: So you are not surprised at all in the least.
[SPEAKER_08]: Here from the hallway.
[SPEAKER_08]: Nobody answers though.
[SPEAKER_08]: You guys are too good.
[SPEAKER_08]: I think you guys would agree with that.
[SPEAKER_03]: Normally, Hayley would, but she's been having a day.
[SPEAKER_08]: And you hear that it's a female voice.
[SPEAKER_08]: My name is Mother Cresz, but we're also awfully happy to be here on your station visiting you lovely people.
[SPEAKER_08]: And we're just trying to make sure that everyone here is safe and can come and join us in the main lobby.
[SPEAKER_08]: I know you're there.
[SPEAKER_08]: I can smell you.
[SPEAKER_08]: Because of the farts.
[SPEAKER_08]: Oh, right.
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_08]: I can smell you eating meat loaf in there.
[SPEAKER_02]: I squeeze Hayley's shoulder and then take a big ol' batting meatloaf.
[SPEAKER_08]: What the fuck?
[SPEAKER_08]: Let out of your pocket.
[SPEAKER_08]: Just cover it alone.
[SPEAKER_03]: Robert, you're the only one dressed in the cult robes.
[SPEAKER_02]: I wait as long as possible to get her as close to the door as possible.
[SPEAKER_08]: Okay, you can see her shadow creeping into the room from the light in the hallway.
[SPEAKER_08]: And then step out.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm sorry.
[SPEAKER_02]: Hello.
[SPEAKER_02]: What did you say your name was?
[SPEAKER_02]: Sister Wooden now.
[SPEAKER_08]: You see an older woman.
[SPEAKER_08]: I don't want to say what her ages in case I don't want to say older woman and then say an age and then people that are listening to your life.
[SPEAKER_08]: You see an older woman ancient really 40 years old.
[SPEAKER_03]: I just thought it was Hannah Waddingham, and she was the captain or whatever.
[SPEAKER_08]: I'd be used to picture.
[SPEAKER_08]: Do you see Finn Game of Thrones?
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, exactly.
[SPEAKER_08]: She's the Bell Lady.
[SPEAKER_08]: That's where you see the picture is Bell Lady from Game of Thrones.
[SPEAKER_08]: Older, younger, take it however you want, and she's in her...
[SPEAKER_08]: model gray and black robes.
[SPEAKER_08]: Her head is not shorn.
[SPEAKER_08]: Several of the cultists you've seen are bald, but she is not, but she still does have the distinctive tattoos that are on her face and her neck.
[SPEAKER_08]: The light is behind her, casting her in shadow, and making you feel extremely exposed, Robert, because the light's fully hitting on you.
[SPEAKER_08]: He says, not sister, mother.
[SPEAKER_08]: And who are you that is dressed in the robes of our people?
[SPEAKER_02]: My I'm so sorry mother of I think I have found one who is untethered.
[SPEAKER_08]: Please please Can you help me can you verify for me she looks puzzle then she says But I know everyone in our group that came upon this station and she puts a hand into her robes And she says, please tell me who are you and she smiles very toothily Can I punch her?
[SPEAKER_08]: Only if you're trying to punch through a wall, because she's on the other side of the wall.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yes, okay.
[SPEAKER_03]: I cannot, that's, that's too disruptive, fuck.
[SPEAKER_08]: You can step in front of Robert and Hayah.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh yeah, I'm, I'm gonna do that.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, no, I'm gonna do that.
[SPEAKER_03]: I am, I am absolutely happy to be here on a rock.
[SPEAKER_08]: Hold on, wait, one at a time, you excited children.
[SPEAKER_08]: So, once, don't first.
[SPEAKER_08]: But there we go.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I'm going.
[SPEAKER_03]: I am most certainly stepping in front of Robert and taking care of this problem.
[SPEAKER_08]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_03]: And I'll actually get the motion that I want to do is I want to grab her by the front of her ropes and pull her into the room.
[SPEAKER_08]: Oh my god, you have like a whole M-O-N-O-N. A Tallahassee handshake.
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, you're like you're becoming a serious end of the doctor.
[SPEAKER_08]: You know, before you slaughter them.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I can't leave her body out there.
[SPEAKER_03]: This is like corporate warfare.
[SPEAKER_03]: What I want if you're in tight spaces.
[SPEAKER_08]: What is it about role playing that turns you into such a murderer's Stephanie?
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_03]: I just need to be in control of the situation.
[SPEAKER_03]: And if I can't keep track of the bodies, like what else do you have to stop waiting behind me to go bad?
[SPEAKER_08]: That's just a serial killer 101.
[SPEAKER_08]: You've got to keep track of the bodies.
[SPEAKER_08]: There are only people.
[SPEAKER_08]: That is just part of it.
[SPEAKER_08]: Okay, so we're doing, we're doing serial killer accounting now.
[SPEAKER_03]: So, yeah, Bobney Tech is going to put me through the assassin program one year.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like, just look, you know, just a quarter, just one, one credit, one class.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm, there's a few things, I'll remember.
[SPEAKER_08]: You know, you took one credit of on the tech assassination.
[SPEAKER_08]: And all they taught you was pull people into a room before you kill them.
[SPEAKER_05]: And keep them.
[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, the bodies, yeah.
[SPEAKER_08]: Okay, so Haley, with two wise, could you please roll your attack?
[SPEAKER_08]: And this is gonna be for pulling them.
[SPEAKER_08]: Oh, I'm sorry, yeah, roll your attack.
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, let's see if you can hit her.
[SPEAKER_08]: Let's see if you can even hit this elderly lady.
[SPEAKER_08]: Let's see if it's even possible.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh God, but yeah, that's fine.
[SPEAKER_03]: Right, 13.
[SPEAKER_08]: 13 gets her.
[SPEAKER_08]: So you grab onto her, roll your strength now.
[SPEAKER_08]: It's gonna be an opposed strength.
[SPEAKER_08]: Bell woman.
[SPEAKER_08]: It feels like a misdirect.
[SPEAKER_08]: Okay, you beat by seven, so you beat her.
[SPEAKER_08]: She is a little stronger than you thought she would be, and you yank her into the utility closet, and Roberts claims the door.
[SPEAKER_08]: Or, shut the quietly, up to you, Robert.
[SPEAKER_08]: Oh yeah, I don't deal with doors.
[SPEAKER_07]: That's a feel, it's problem.
[SPEAKER_07]: How did those become a phenox problem?
[SPEAKER_07]: This, I don't understand this.
[SPEAKER_03]: You know, I will shut the door behind this calamity.
[SPEAKER_03]: Felix, what is our status update?
[SPEAKER_07]: I don't mean work.
[SPEAKER_07]: I'm almost in.
[SPEAKER_08]: Okay, so while you're doing that, you're completely hacked in now, Felix.
[SPEAKER_08]: All right, you've actually already completed it.
[SPEAKER_08]: So as you said that, you just wanted like a moment to yourself.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, I just like this is just, I hear all the commotion.
[SPEAKER_07]: I know something's happening, and I just don't want to engage with it.
[SPEAKER_08]: You're watching the elderly woman get thrown to your feet and you kind of just look down and go back to work.
[SPEAKER_08]: This is unusual.
[SPEAKER_08]: Jesus.
[SPEAKER_08]: So you're flipping through the different cameras.
[SPEAKER_08]: There is a camera in every room of this place.
[SPEAKER_08]: But it doesn't cover every inch of this place.
[SPEAKER_08]: Some rooms have multiple cameras.
[SPEAKER_08]: You do get multiple viewpoints like in the main lobby in the cafeteria.
[SPEAKER_08]: But you find out that there's a mechanics bay.
[SPEAKER_08]: There's a crew and staff storage.
[SPEAKER_08]: There's a freight storage.
[SPEAKER_08]: There's food storage that's right off of the kitchen, all those types of places of one camera and blind spots.
[SPEAKER_08]: But flipping through them real quickly, you get a bead on every cult that's in the place, and you count a total of 15.
[SPEAKER_08]: There are five in the main lobby.
[SPEAKER_08]: There's one in the shower with a captive, and he is currently torturing the captive.
[SPEAKER_08]: There are two unconscious in the Medbe.
[SPEAKER_08]: There's one in the kitchen, having a snack looks like a side salad.
[SPEAKER_08]: There's one insecurity, watching the front door, there's one in the fuel control room, trying to work the controls, probably trying to refuel their ship, but looking very frustrated, and there's two in the crew and staff storage area.
[SPEAKER_08]: Meanwhile, back in the lounge, Thorn, you're sitting there with Yana, and Yana says to you, what are your friends doing?
[SPEAKER_08]: Are we getting out of this place?
[SPEAKER_06]: Well, it's not going to be easy.
[SPEAKER_06]: There's a lot more of these cultists than there are of us.
[SPEAKER_06]: So right now, we got to think of a way to get to where my friends are.
[SPEAKER_06]: They're in the utility room.
[SPEAKER_06]: I don't think sneaking's really an option.
[SPEAKER_06]: So I was hoping we could convince one of the more pliable cultists to escort us.
[SPEAKER_06]: Not exactly sure how that's going to play out, but only one way to find out.
[SPEAKER_08]: At that moment, Brother Nesto walks back in.
[SPEAKER_08]: Well, hello!
[SPEAKER_08]: Future Brother Thorne!
[SPEAKER_08]: Good to see you again!
[SPEAKER_08]: I wanted to come back and continue our mission.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yes, Brother Nesto!
[SPEAKER_06]: Yes, I'm so glad to see you again.
[SPEAKER_08]: He walks over to Yuanyana and he just kind of puts a hand on her face and just pushes her away and pushes her down to the ground.
[SPEAKER_08]: weirdo and like as he's looking at you in smiling he doesn't seem to like register that he's doing anything wrong at all won't you come sit over here so I can focus on just you okay sure where's he is he gesturing for me to sit somewhere yeah just like the opposite wall yeah okay
[SPEAKER_06]: Uh, try to get him to stop doing that whole thing.
[SPEAKER_06]: So I move over to the wall.
[SPEAKER_06]: He stops doing that.
[SPEAKER_08]: And it's sort of like he's moving a curtain out of the way or just like shuffling a piece of furniture.
[SPEAKER_08]: There's no like disdain in the movement.
[SPEAKER_08]: He just lets her go and walks over to you.
[SPEAKER_08]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_06]: So listen, brother, uh, listen, I know you got like a big big plans here, but uh, and I heard that there might be other people still in the station, you know, potential people for your, for your untethering, unhinging process.
[SPEAKER_08]: That would be excellent.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, well, some of the other people were talking, and I guess there's some folks hiding, I don't know exactly where, but uh, maybe they'll look for them.
[SPEAKER_08]: Oh, we have patrols out searching every nookin cranny.
[SPEAKER_08]: Thank you for your concern.
[SPEAKER_06]: All the nooks, every cranny.
[SPEAKER_08]: Every nookin cranny we can find.
[SPEAKER_06]: That you can find.
[SPEAKER_06]: Hmm, I hope you don't miss anybody.
[SPEAKER_08]: From behind brother Nesso, Yannas says, hey, fuckface.
[SPEAKER_08]: I know where there are some.
[SPEAKER_08]: Brother Nesso turns to her.
[SPEAKER_08]: I see.
[SPEAKER_08]: And he walks over and slaps her across the face.
[SPEAKER_08]: Ah, I don't like this guy.
[SPEAKER_03]: Not friendly.
[SPEAKER_08]: Not yet.
[SPEAKER_08]: So, the likeness is of the most important.
[SPEAKER_03]: That was not, but sorry, I'm not in the other room.
[SPEAKER_08]: It wasn't though, you're right.
[SPEAKER_03]: No, no, we're watching, aren't we watching this?
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, you're, you're watching this on security camps.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh yeah, no, no, no, I don't support, but yeah, no, I thought we were trying to avoid us shoot out, but does security camps have audio?
[SPEAKER_08]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_08]: Nice.
[SPEAKER_08]: So, brother Nessa says it, if you feel like you can continue now in a more polite tone, I'm happy to hear.
[SPEAKER_08]: Yes, of course, he says the secretive teeth.
[SPEAKER_08]: I saw on the security cameras that there were survivors.
[SPEAKER_08]: I'm sorry, potential cult group members.
[SPEAKER_08]: She shrinks away from his upraised hand for a moment.
[SPEAKER_08]: Group members, in the utility room, I can show you where it is.
[SPEAKER_08]: He grabs her by the hair and kind of like makes her get to her feet.
[SPEAKER_08]: And she says, but I need him, and she points it thorn.
[SPEAKER_08]: He's one of our administrators.
[SPEAKER_08]: He has the code to open the door.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yes, I'd be happy.
[SPEAKER_06]: As long as you stop being so aggressive with our future compatriots, brother Nestle, please!
[SPEAKER_08]: Oh, oh, he looks at the tangle of hair and his chin is clenched fist, and she wins his and pain as he likes jerks or head around.
[SPEAKER_08]: This is not a future compatriot, you most likely are, and that's why you are afforded the utmost respect.
[SPEAKER_08]: You will be untethered, she, obviously, will be unhaled, she is, but a husk, she is a tool.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yayly is watching all this shit, she is, she's not a boxing champion, but she's certainly warming up.
[SPEAKER_08]: He drags her out of the room with a hand on your shoulder, though, and he looks over at the, there's a very light of build cultist with a bald head, very pale, very dark eyes, with an extremely busy tattoo covering his bald head creeping down to a round his eyes, and creating like a vortex type effect.
[SPEAKER_08]: of all these different colors of blacks and purples and reds and blues, and he looks over and he says, Brother Haylick, I heard that there may be willing devotees nearby.
[SPEAKER_08]: I'm taking this one and he jerks Yanna's head to the side, and a potential future brother with me.
[SPEAKER_08]: I'm requesting the assistance of Brother Box as well.
[SPEAKER_08]: Brother Hayelik looks at him and says, of course, brother Nesso.
[SPEAKER_08]: As is your right, please, brother Vox.
[SPEAKER_08]: Vox leaps to his feet off of the ground where you thorn.
[SPEAKER_08]: Now see, he was crouched amongst the actors.
[SPEAKER_08]: And seemed to have been playing some sort of game with one of them.
[SPEAKER_08]: And you can't really see from the angle where you were, but an involved drawing something on the ground.
[SPEAKER_08]: the survivor the captive looks relieved that Vox is leaving him alone.
[SPEAKER_08]: Vox rushes over and sort of like grabs a not full of your hair, Thorne, and Nessu says no, brother.
[SPEAKER_08]: I believe that he will be untethered.
[SPEAKER_08]: Vox forces you to look at him and he goes nose to nose with you and he says, I don't see it.
[SPEAKER_08]: I wink.
[SPEAKER_08]: Now I see it!
[SPEAKER_08]: Keep robbing your shoulder.
[SPEAKER_08]: Oh my.
[SPEAKER_08]: Uh, no, no, no.
[SPEAKER_08]: So yeah, uh, you do a little wink and he sneers at you and he says, I don't know if you say so, Nesno and he just puts a hand on your shoulder and Nesno, let's go up your shoulder and the four of you march off to the south, the eastern area of the cafeteria through the door into the hallway.
[SPEAKER_08]: Now, back in the utility room, you guys see this all happening.
[SPEAKER_08]: The door from the utility room to the hallway is now closed.
[SPEAKER_08]: So you have Mother Cresz here on the floor, but she's conscious.
[SPEAKER_08]: So you've pulled her in and you're seeing this scene unfold before you in the lounge in the main lobby.
[SPEAKER_08]: What do you want to do with Mother Cresz during that time?
[SPEAKER_02]: I'll look over at Hayley.
[SPEAKER_02]: Hayley?
[SPEAKER_02]: After watching that, do you have any questions for our dear Mother Hair?
[SPEAKER_03]: Honestly, not really.
[SPEAKER_03]: It was a little upsetting.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm kind of stuck on what I just saw.
[SPEAKER_07]: Mmm.
[SPEAKER_07]: All right.
[SPEAKER_08]: You're on their way and we can't afford her to give us a way.
[SPEAKER_08]: He pulls the gun out of her to Nick.
[SPEAKER_08]: It was grasping.
[SPEAKER_08]: Hold on.
[SPEAKER_08]: It's not whoever talks that.
[SPEAKER_08]: We're going to do an initiative.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yep.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm not damn it.
[SPEAKER_08]: Okay, so you've all rolled your initiative and it looks like mother crezed one the initiative.
[SPEAKER_08]: Which sucks.
[SPEAKER_08]: That's not good for us.
[SPEAKER_08]: She pulls out a small laser pistol and shoots up from the floor at Haley, who is the one that is directly over her.
[SPEAKER_08]: It's gonna make some noise.
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_08]: Thankfully, it is a laser pistol, so it will not make much noise.
[SPEAKER_08]: So it'll make a cooler noise.
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, give me a.
[SPEAKER_08]: There's 13 hit here.
[SPEAKER_08]: Nope.
[SPEAKER_08]: She leaves a scorched mark on your armor that Rick stays off and hits into the wall.
[SPEAKER_08]: She just flops on to the floor and drops the pistol and says I am ready to meet the void then Robert or do you guys want to end combat because now I just three of you against her so you guys have the yeah So we'll step out of combat the initiative is just to see if she even got an action Robert Haley Felix, what do you want to do with her now that she's dropped her gun?
[SPEAKER_08]: She's just a defenseless old lady.
[SPEAKER_08]: I'm leaving to Haley
[SPEAKER_02]: I put her in a full Nelson and I look at Hayley again and go, do you have any questions for our dear mother before she departs us?
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh.
[SPEAKER_08]: So you stood her up and you put her in a full Nelson?
[SPEAKER_08]: Yep.
[SPEAKER_08]: She's like 100 years old.
[SPEAKER_08]: So she's like, how are we?
[SPEAKER_08]: My joints.
[SPEAKER_03]: I think you just keep making her older.
[SPEAKER_08]: No, she's a young 100 and 15 years old, literally the cropped keeper.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's to be quite honest, Ailey's a little bit stumped on what she might want to ask this woman, you know, she's seen the stuff over the cameras that Felix has been flipping through.
[SPEAKER_03]: We know the two guys are coming, so honestly, I just want this woman to stay quiet.
[SPEAKER_03]: And I want to be prepared for these guys to come through the door.
[SPEAKER_02]: Snapper Nick let's get ready for it.
[SPEAKER_02]: Do you have anything to do with me because of her osteoporosis.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm kind of ignoring that right now to be honest You just know the woman.
[SPEAKER_07]: So Hayley Hayley says no no question Robert and then Robert interprestated I'm going to snap her neck.
[SPEAKER_07]: Robert you snap her neck.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, absolutely.
[SPEAKER_02]: I've snapped her like his Spent here.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh my do be sure.
[SPEAKER_03]: I have said it makes the ample for
[SPEAKER_08]: So, like I said before, she's a little stronger than you might think, so her neck is actually corded with muscle.
[SPEAKER_08]: So, I mean, underneath that room, you know, she's, she's doing a hundred pushups a day.
[SPEAKER_08]: So, I'm not gonna have you roll, but you kind of go to Snapper neck and you're like, what the hell?
[SPEAKER_08]: Like, what is going on here?
[SPEAKER_08]: It's like trying to snap a horse's neck, and then you like, ugh, and she slums to the ground dead.
[SPEAKER_03]: Took a little bit more effort than I expected, Robert.
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, no kidding.
[SPEAKER_08]: You guys are serial killers.
[SPEAKER_03]: We're not serial killers.
[SPEAKER_03]: We're getting the drop done.
[SPEAKER_08]: You've serial killed multiple people in this one truck stop.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's in these people invaded and they're not even only people that coldest.
[SPEAKER_07]: True, you're doing a die hard.
[SPEAKER_07]: That's the self defense.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, it is.
[SPEAKER_02]: We just snapped super old grandma Hans Grootler's neck.
[SPEAKER_02]: We're good here.
[SPEAKER_08]: To Thorne Yu Yana and the two brothers, Voss and Nesso, are now in a long hallway on the east side of it, and directly in front of you is a door that says utility room.
[SPEAKER_06]: Okay, great.
[SPEAKER_06]: Well, all the wild that they've been walking us down here, I'm just really hoping that the crew is watching and is waiting and is ready.
[SPEAKER_06]: So Thorne is just fully assuming.
[SPEAKER_06]: That they're just right there ready to go.
[SPEAKER_06]: So once I see the door labeled Utilium.
[SPEAKER_06]: I just say Yes, this is the room here.
[SPEAKER_06]: I'll just open it up for you then, but you better be ready because I who knows what they could be doing in there So you two stand by the door and I'll get to the side and when I give the signal the door will open, right?
[SPEAKER_06]: Okay, and I'm hoping that they're listening to me
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, they can hear you, so there's a keypad on the door.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, I don't know how to open it though, so I'm hoping they can just open it from the inside.
[SPEAKER_08]: That's my plan.
[SPEAKER_08]: So, Yana did say that you're the one with the code.
[SPEAKER_05]: Right, so I'm going to pretend to type something and I'm going to go, okay, open it.
[SPEAKER_01]: And then I hope page 3.
[SPEAKER_06]: Okay, that's what that's just what it says.
[SPEAKER_06]: It's to fool outsiders, so the doors should know shouldn't be opening an email I push the over right button on the terminal to over at the door for him.
[SPEAKER_08]: It turns green and the door on locks But does not open itself.
[SPEAKER_08]: It's not a door that opens itself.
[SPEAKER_06]: Right.
[SPEAKER_06]: I'm gonna open it I assume by pushing the button or is it like a pole door?
[SPEAKER_08]: Nessos says you see quite unfamiliar with how your doors and security system work for one of the administrators of this station
[SPEAKER_06]: It's all a ruse.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, there's always somebody watching, brother.
[SPEAKER_08]: Mark, you pushed the door open.
[SPEAKER_08]: I'm like, who's opening this door?
[SPEAKER_08]: I need to know the mechanics of this.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, I also just need to know, like, how the door opens.
[SPEAKER_06]: Do I push a button in it opens?
[SPEAKER_06]: Or do they have to physically open it?
[SPEAKER_06]: Or like, what kind of door we talking about?
[SPEAKER_06]: It's like it has a door handle.
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, you've opened and closed it.
[SPEAKER_03]: Well, it's like, it's like, it's like a door.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's a we opened and closed it without Okay, being a problem.
[SPEAKER_08]: Hold on.
[SPEAKER_08]: Wait, you guys didn't want to hear about the plunger comms array mini airlock system.
[SPEAKER_08]: How did you maintenance?
[SPEAKER_08]: when now you want to know about the intricate mechanics.
[SPEAKER_08]: Okay, so this is how the door.
[SPEAKER_03]: If I had enough time to shove mother-cres into that freaking comms-ray mini airlock, I would have that it would have mattered.
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't because these guys walk real fast.
[SPEAKER_08]: That would have been pretty sick.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: but they walk really fast.
[SPEAKER_08]: It's a door with a handle that you swing open and close.
[SPEAKER_08]: It opens into the hallway and it's locked with a keypad that's on the right side of the door and the handle is also on the right side of the door.
[SPEAKER_06]: So I'm hoping that they're watching and listening to me.
[SPEAKER_06]: I just assume someone in there is going to open the door.
[SPEAKER_06]: If that doesn't happen, it's going to be another awkward conversation between me and Nessa.
[SPEAKER_08]: Okay, so you yell that out.
[SPEAKER_08]: Hey, it goes crazy.
[SPEAKER_08]: And then you yell out that it's open now, and then it turns green, and then... Yep, okay, so I'm going to jump out.
[SPEAKER_06]: And so I fully expecting a towel has the handshake, by the way.
[SPEAKER_06]: I hope that you guys are thinking that this is anything other than a towel has the handshake.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, I use that to get real close to him.
[SPEAKER_02]: I use my robes to say good evening brother.
[SPEAKER_08]: It's so nice to see you tell me Nessos says oh, I haven't met you before.
[SPEAKER_08]: Oh, I need to get pulled in so go ahead and roll your strength
[SPEAKER_08]: I can't believe this might be the end of Nest though, wouldn't that be a shame.
[SPEAKER_08]: It's only the end of Nest though, if, oh, and I roll a twelfth.
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, so you beat by one, because you have to be 13 straight, right?
[SPEAKER_02]: I do have a 13 straight.
[SPEAKER_08]: E beat by way more.
[SPEAKER_08]: So you grab him and you try to pull him in, but this tall gangly pale brother, brother Nest though, barely moves, and then he just looks, how tall is your character?
[SPEAKER_08]: I think he might look down at you.
[SPEAKER_02]: He's 65, 64, he's actual Bob Ross hat, which is 163.
[SPEAKER_08]: He was a tall man, so he looks down at you very slightly.
[SPEAKER_08]: And he just grins his, you know, with too many teeth.
[SPEAKER_08]: And he says, oh, I haven't met you before.
[SPEAKER_08]: And then he yanks on.
[SPEAKER_08]: Oh, and then we're gonna start combat because everyone's aware of everyone.
[SPEAKER_08]: And I'm pretty sure we're about to have a combat.
[SPEAKER_00]: Very nice to meet you brother.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't like that.
[SPEAKER_08]: Oh boy, telly has the handshake was the way to go.
[SPEAKER_08]: You just assume.
[SPEAKER_03]: We have a skill.
[SPEAKER_08]: We have a very particular set of skills.
[SPEAKER_08]: Telly has the handshake.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's plenty pulling to room.
[SPEAKER_08]: It's been working.
[SPEAKER_08]: Pulling him.
[SPEAKER_08]: Okay, so all the initiatives are in.
[SPEAKER_08]: Ali, you are first.
[SPEAKER_08]: You are currently standing.
[SPEAKER_08]: at the door of the utility room?
[SPEAKER_08]: Well actually no, you're standing next to Robert Ross, who is blocking the door of the utility room and a brotherly handshake with brother Nessau.
[SPEAKER_08]: But you actually can't even like, you can't reach the punch or anything because big dumb Roberts in a way.
[SPEAKER_03]: Big dumb Roberts holding the guy I want to punch, like still like I would honestly argue that this is, you know, Nessau is now at a severe disadvantage.
[SPEAKER_03]: for the throw.
[SPEAKER_03]: I am about to send his way.
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, could you imagine Haley coming over the top of somebody getting a Tallyhouse handshake?
[SPEAKER_08]: You're on one side of the door and this guy is on the other side of the door, so Hayley can't hit this guy because you're in the way, you know what I'm saying?
[SPEAKER_08]: 100%.
[SPEAKER_08]: So if you could have pulled this guy in, then that would be a different door.
[SPEAKER_08]: Hayley, it's your turn, but you can't reach this guy.
[SPEAKER_03]: So can't I move back and shoot over Robert's shoulder?
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, you can shoot for sure.
[SPEAKER_03]: With my laser pistol?
[SPEAKER_08]: Yes, yeah, you can shoot for doing that.
[SPEAKER_08]: If you missed though, you might hit Robert.
[SPEAKER_07]: There is a move action you could take called hold an action, which is where you do a taking the rest of your actions No later in the round activated in the MZ instant action So like you could say I'm waiting until I'm waiting until somebody comes into the room or wait until I can get to the door But you can't move as well.
[SPEAKER_07]: So basically you have to take your place Be stationary and say like when somebody comes into the room I'm gonna punch them and then when that thing occurs your action triggers.
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh my gosh.
[SPEAKER_06]: Does it move your individual?
[SPEAKER_06]: No, it's like you get to do it.
[SPEAKER_06]: It's like a ready-up.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, you get to do with things that it's not your turn.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, actually, yeah, I'm gonna do that.
[SPEAKER_03]: Thank you so much.
[SPEAKER_03]: I am going to hold myself the moment this guy comes into the room.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm gonna punch him in his face.
[SPEAKER_08]: Nice.
[SPEAKER_08]: Okay, so, love when you guys work together.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, that's super helpful.
[SPEAKER_03]: Thank you.
[SPEAKER_03]: I will remember that.
[SPEAKER_08]: This first guy is Brother Nessa.
[SPEAKER_08]: He releases your hand, like, you lost the strength check.
[SPEAKER_08]: So, he throws your arm away like what I'm doing because there's no grapple.
[SPEAKER_08]: He pulls his sword out, which you now see is a three-foot long bastard sword with a chainsaw blade wrapping around the inner steel blade.
[SPEAKER_06]: You guys will see this and just say hell yeah.
[SPEAKER_08]: No.
[SPEAKER_08]: And he blicks a switch on it as a free action, activating the chainsaw blade.
[SPEAKER_08]: And he says, well, brother.
[SPEAKER_08]: And you feel that he's putting air quotes around that?
[SPEAKER_08]: Well, brother, prepare to meet the boys.
[SPEAKER_08]: A splash is down on you.
[SPEAKER_03]: Who's the enter of the room for that?
[SPEAKER_08]: No, because Roberts, Robert and he are just right in front of the door.
[SPEAKER_08]: Does 15 hit you?
[SPEAKER_02]: Not even close, buddy.
[SPEAKER_02]: A.C. 17.
[SPEAKER_03]: What?
[SPEAKER_03]: Hey, I'm jealous.
[SPEAKER_02]: Dang, man.
[SPEAKER_02]: What are you wearing?
[SPEAKER_02]: Uh, yeah, what, what are you wearing?
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm wearing it all.
[SPEAKER_06]: I got my shoulders exposed, so.
[SPEAKER_08]: It's your, you're a rogeness zone, you always have it exposed.
[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, yes.
[SPEAKER_08]: So he takes out his broad sword and flicks on the chainsaw blade and he wipes down onto Robert Ross, who raises an armored gauntlet and lets the stop blade stew into it.
[SPEAKER_08]: And from under your arm, under your forearm, you lock eyes with brother Nestle.
[SPEAKER_08]: Brother, do you just try to tank off the piece of my afro?
[SPEAKER_08]: He grits his teeth and presses down harder against your gauntlet.
[SPEAKER_08]: You're both trying to avoid it.
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, make you a happy little accident.
[SPEAKER_02]: You're next.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm going to fall to a knee and roll the way and attempt if I'm able to have him fall into the room and let Hayley do her magic.
[SPEAKER_08]: So, Robert, I need you to roll a deck's dessert and we're gonna do a contested roll with brother Nessau.
[SPEAKER_08]: Perfect.
[SPEAKER_02]: I ruled and alive.
[SPEAKER_02]: He got a seven.
[SPEAKER_02]: So I like to fall backwards while maintaining a certain defense as he's trying to eat into my armor to have him kind of fall on top of me.
[SPEAKER_08]: into the wall.
[SPEAKER_08]: Like, he's gonna stumble into the room after you.
[SPEAKER_08]: Yep.
[SPEAKER_08]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_08]: So you fall to the side and roll backwards.
[SPEAKER_08]: With your arm out of the way and his full body weight bearing down on it, he stumbles into the room, exposing the back of his skull to Haley's waiting, ready action.
[SPEAKER_08]: Go ahead and op it off, Haley.
[SPEAKER_08]: By that, I mean, his head, I'm assuming.
[SPEAKER_03]: Was it 15 hit?
[SPEAKER_08]: Does it 15 hit?
[SPEAKER_03]: Yes, it does.
[SPEAKER_08]: Yes, it does.
[SPEAKER_08]: It does.
[SPEAKER_03]: It does.
[SPEAKER_08]: It's all right.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's all right.
[SPEAKER_08]: It's all right.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's all right.
[SPEAKER_08]: Well, I mean, everyone probably hears the chainsaw.
[SPEAKER_08]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_08]: It's like, uh, it's probably one of those electric chainsaw.
[SPEAKER_08]: It's not that loud.
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_08]: It's not gas powered.
[SPEAKER_08]: This is the future.
[SPEAKER_08]: Come on.
[SPEAKER_08]: There we go.
[SPEAKER_08]: chainsaw.
[SPEAKER_08]: So, Hayley Roars, very quietly.
[SPEAKER_03]: Roars quietly, like, a small life.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I can't.
[SPEAKER_03]: I really can't.
[SPEAKER_03]: That was a great role.
[SPEAKER_03]: Robert, thank you.
[SPEAKER_08]: It was a genius plan.
[SPEAKER_03]: Thank you for making that happen.
[SPEAKER_03]: Thanks for the team for pointing out the reminding me of the whole action.
[SPEAKER_06]: Mm-hmm.
[SPEAKER_03]: It was a group effort.
[SPEAKER_06]: No harm.
[SPEAKER_06]: Your turn.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, so Thorne is not a man who is comfortable in a fight.
[SPEAKER_06]: Nor is he armed in any way.
[SPEAKER_06]: But I am standing behind brother.
[SPEAKER_06]: What's this
[SPEAKER_06]: Fox.
[SPEAKER_06]: So I could just try to punch him in the back of the head, I guess.
[SPEAKER_06]: Like it would not be effective, but it would be something.
[SPEAKER_06]: So here's what I'm thinking.
[SPEAKER_06]: I am going to grab Yana by the arm and like move a little bit down the hall and just take a total defense action.
[SPEAKER_06]: And just let's just let them handle it.
[SPEAKER_08]: You start to pull Yana down the hallway and you jerks her arm away from you and walks herself.
[SPEAKER_08]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_08]: You're just like, okay.
[SPEAKER_08]: It's fine.
[SPEAKER_08]: You grab her arm again and you like rub her shoulder against your shoulder I might be a bit much considering the circumstances I don't know what you want to do with your combat turn So you take a total defense you turtle up.
[SPEAKER_07]: You feel like I'm gonna do this thing I'm gonna kind of spin like drop behind the chair that I'm in.
[SPEAKER_07]: I'm like spinning or you know getting down out of the chair I'm like kind of spinning around I'm gonna fucking mind it get into the closet as far as I can and just total defense in it up
[SPEAKER_08]: Robert, when you stand up, you look and you see that Felix has disappeared, but you do hear soft-stopping behind the chair.
[SPEAKER_08]: Uh, so brother Vox has turned.
[SPEAKER_08]: He says brother Nessau and he raises his shotgun and he shoots it Robert how close is he to Robert right now?
[SPEAKER_08]: 10 feet 15 feet.
[SPEAKER_08]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_03]: What's it?
[SPEAKER_08]: It's gonna be a toast.
[SPEAKER_02]: Love it.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's gonna be very loud.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know, I mean, we're already at a were good funnel though.
[SPEAKER_02]: This keeps coming in.
[SPEAKER_08]: Oh yeah.
[SPEAKER_08]: What's going on in here?
[SPEAKER_08]: Hey guys, what's up?
[SPEAKER_08]: Seven misses you, but it does reverberate throughout the small hallway, especially for Thorn and Yana, your ears are ringing.
[SPEAKER_08]: Hey Leigh.
[SPEAKER_03]: She goes up to Brother Vox, who is trying to murder her friends, who is part of this group that is traumatizing these people, being mean to Yana, who I didn't know before, I saw her on camera, but now I do.
[SPEAKER_03]: And yeah, she's gonna punch him.
[SPEAKER_08]: Oh, that's a mess.
[SPEAKER_03]: Well, at least she's still terrifying.
[SPEAKER_08]: But you did hit his shock, actually.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, we got three shock damage.
[SPEAKER_08]: Yep.
[SPEAKER_08]: So you punch him in the chest, and you crumple in his street armor, which is like, he has like this thick tunic, and it's like cobbled together pieces of leather and steel plating, and stuff like that, and he just goes, oh, and he kind of doubles over.
[SPEAKER_08]: As you take away what is most likely half of his hit points in one hit, after missing?
[SPEAKER_08]: Robert, your turn.
[SPEAKER_08]: Hey, Lee is currently in front of you in the hallway blocking your melee access to Brother Box.
[SPEAKER_08]: Brother Box just got punched in the gut, taking the wind out of him.
[SPEAKER_08]: But it seems like he's probably about to raise the alarm.
[SPEAKER_08]: He looks like he's ready to run.
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, it sounds like he heard the so-called some type of firearm that might have raised some alarm.
[SPEAKER_02]: Now, is there currently a laser pistol in the dear departed mother's hands that I'm
[SPEAKER_02]: acquire.
[SPEAKER_08]: It is on the ground next to her dead body.
[SPEAKER_02]: If there's any, it wouldn't be possible using my gunslinger ability to quick draw her pistol off of her body and take a potshot around Haley at Brother Vox.
[SPEAKER_08]: Yes, as long as you do it as part of a stylish kip up because you're also
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, I was going to grab the gun and just do a full, uh, kip up a little kung fu move, but then just basically shoot him in the face.
[SPEAKER_08]: So I'm not going to ask you to roll for anything.
[SPEAKER_08]: It's ever to hit.
[SPEAKER_08]: So you grab the gun and you twirl your legs above your head and like break down your way to your feet and then you shoot over a haily shoulder with this guy.
[SPEAKER_08]: So if you missed though, you might commit just to my day daily.
[SPEAKER_08]: uh... that would be a twenty eight to hold uh... with four damage so robber you twist your way to your feet grabbing the laser pistol on the way up and you expertly safe and shoot over the shoulder of haily into the face of brother vox a twenty eight let me check the ac of his nose eyes mouth and chin yes it is lower than twenty eight so you hit his face
[SPEAKER_08]: Completely opening it up and splattering his brains of all over Thorne and Yana just a few feet away after dealing massive damage His body crumples to the ground in front of you, Haley, and you are just covered in blood.
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah, sorry about that y'all.
[SPEAKER_02]: We need to to grab this so
[SPEAKER_03]: Back where I started when I walked into this place, just covered in...
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm... Yeah, why'd you even take the shower?
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, right.
[SPEAKER_07]: I peek out from behind the chair, I'm kind of like stand up.
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, nice job guys, but uh, that was pretty loud.
[SPEAKER_07]: I think there might be onto us.
[SPEAKER_07]: So I, I used to back in the chair the right way.
[SPEAKER_07]: And I look at the, uh, the screens and page through with the cameras to see if there's any motion coming towards us.
[SPEAKER_08]: There is some activity in the main lobby that seems to be, seems to have been triggered by the shock on blast.
[SPEAKER_08]: One cultist, well, I want to cultist for like looking over in this direction, and one of them kind of starts to walk over, and then you hear, brother, hey, like say, do not worry about it.
[SPEAKER_08]: They are doing the voids of work.
[SPEAKER_08]: If there are any who are resistant to our cause, we all know that by the text they must be put down in the other cultist nods and goes back to the main lobby.
[SPEAKER_06]: Alright, crew.
[SPEAKER_06]: Nice work.
[SPEAKER_06]: We've made it this far, but if we're actually going to pull this thing off, we need to put our heads together and come up with some kind of a plan.
[SPEAKER_06]: So what do you got?
[SPEAKER_08]: And I hate to say it, but I think that's going to have to be a plan for another time.
[SPEAKER_07]: You know, when we first got to this station, I was really looking forward to spending some time apart from the crew.
[SPEAKER_07]: But now here we are, all crammed into a tiny room with three dead bodies and a woman I've never met before who Thor won't stop making Google eyes at.
[SPEAKER_07]: You know, hopefully he has a good plan to get us all out of this alive.
[SPEAKER_07]: Because at this point, we are lucky to not have the cultists all over us thanks to Robert and Haley raising hell with his last tussel.
[SPEAKER_07]: Wait, uh.
[SPEAKER_07]: Tussle, Felix, come on.
[SPEAKER_07]: That's a Robert word.
[SPEAKER_07]: Ugh, I really need to break from these lunatics.
[SPEAKER_06]: These gagging cultists are really something else.
[SPEAKER_06]: I'm glad to see the crew coming together when it matters.
[SPEAKER_06]: The people on the station are helpless if we don't deal with this problem.
[SPEAKER_06]: Poor Yana seems like she's still quite shaken after dealing with that Neso creep may he rot in the abyss.
[SPEAKER_06]: Now that we're all back together, and we manage to get some weapons, it's time to take back scrap jacks and put an end to whatever horrible plot these void lickers are putting together.
[SPEAKER_02]: The day started off so simple, refuel the ship, repair the ship, take a little alarm on, eaten obscene amount of meatloaf.
[SPEAKER_02]: Simple, right?
[SPEAKER_02]: That seems like not a damn thing simple with this crew.
[SPEAKER_02]: We attract weird shit like flies to a cop.
[SPEAKER_01]: I thought Phil's pick up some drugs, usually does, we have a chill time, then boom, cultists, and they're all like Robert, type this drunk doctor, Robert, Tallahassee handshake half the cult, Robert, snap this old lady's neck.
[SPEAKER_02]: Now, normally killing a couple of cultists would make for a pretty fun weekend, but it was creepy stuff happening here.
[SPEAKER_02]: I've stared into the void before.
[SPEAKER_02]: I've done things I can't ever forget, but this is the first time the voids started back between you and me, I've been dreaming about it ever since.