[SPEAKER_02]: Welcome to the Dark Star Adventurecast with the stars are cold, the void is endless and dangers lurk in every shadow.
[SPEAKER_02]: Out here, trust is a gamble and survival is never guaranteed.
[SPEAKER_03]: On tonight's Adventurecast?
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, trust me, the pleasure is all mine.
[SPEAKER_03]: Thorn tracks is at your service.
[SPEAKER_05]: Slag sucker, I told you to keep your mouth shut.
[SPEAKER_00]: I also did have a whole lot of meatloaf, so I might not be in my fight to finish it this very moment.
[SPEAKER_04]: A hundred per rock?
[SPEAKER_04]: Why don't you chop off my other leg and replace it, Doc, and that's ridiculous price.
[SPEAKER_02]: So sit back and enjoy.
[SPEAKER_02]: This is the Dark Star Adventure cast.
[SPEAKER_02]: Two months of past since our last episode, the crew spent that time on the ship, traveling, hopping from system to system, planet to planet.
[SPEAKER_02]: They are on route to the hidden for methane space station, each for their own personal reasons, some for loot, some for vengeance.
[SPEAKER_02]: And others hoping against hope to find something they lost long ago.
[SPEAKER_02]: Crew, it's been a while since you've stopped, and your ship, the scapego, isn't dire need of maintenance.
[SPEAKER_02]: You've just arrived in a new system, but third this month, when your fuel alarm goes off, and it doesn't angry indicators switch on, glowering at the ship's pilot, Robert Ross.
[SPEAKER_00]: Uh, Captain, remember when you uh, told me, let you know when that fuel I came on?
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, well, it's on.
[SPEAKER_03]: Uh, rest it all.
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't even know what system we're in.
[SPEAKER_03]: Felix, where are we?
[SPEAKER_03]: Uh, let me see.
[SPEAKER_04]: This stuff's called an Agress.
[SPEAKER_04]: Looks like there's just this one notable planet, uh, a little desert world called Paray.
[SPEAKER_04]: Uh, not much there to speak of, but there is a refueling station for some geospatialers just across this gravity well.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, don't, I mean, Captain, I've got a lot of lights on up here, but we may need some maintenance too.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, I can second that, Captain.
[SPEAKER_04]: The engine was a little bit dodgy these past couple of weeks, so any extra maintenance we could do would be great for the ship, and honestly for us too.
[SPEAKER_04]: So said they've also got some showers, a calf.
[SPEAKER_04]: He was in Bugs, but we want to sleep somewhere else for a night or two.
[SPEAKER_04]: He's you guys, where I'm made of credits.
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, for the morning, this is not so high in Brisbane.
[SPEAKER_02]: We could probably make do.
[SPEAKER_02]: Aily walks on to the bridge, wearing fist wraps, dripping with sweat.
[SPEAKER_06]: If we don't stop and get some real food and drink, I swear to the stars, I'm gonna snap.
[SPEAKER_04]: Clear over at Aily, please tell me, you weren't boxing the support beeps in the cargo hold.
[SPEAKER_04]: Again, you know what a bitch of a time I've had trying to straighten those out.
[SPEAKER_06]: See, they're that of your head Felix.
[SPEAKER_06]: Oh my god.
[SPEAKER_04]: Every time you don't want to find a Robert, you know that orange juice you were saving?
[SPEAKER_04]: Hmm, what guess what?
[SPEAKER_04]: Haley drank it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, hey, I'm no.
[SPEAKER_00]: Haley, you said you hadn't saved it.
[SPEAKER_05]: Flex, Tucker, I told you to keep your mouth shut.
[SPEAKER_00]: I was saving that, got dying orange juice.
[SPEAKER_02]: The dead Felix.
[SPEAKER_02]: Dr. Foss likes up on your console, Felix says it.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'd like to see you try, Haley.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, what the hell is going on?
[SPEAKER_02]: I can't believe it.
[SPEAKER_03]: I can't believe it.
[SPEAKER_07]: I can't believe it.
[SPEAKER_03]: I can't believe it.
[SPEAKER_03]: Guys, be quiet.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's settled.
[SPEAKER_03]: We need a break.
[SPEAKER_03]: We can't keep staying cooped up like this.
[SPEAKER_03]: And we can't keep a wimp in through space like this anyway.
[SPEAKER_03]: Lock it in.
[SPEAKER_03]: Let's go and get this taking care of.
[SPEAKER_00]: Captain, you took my drink, you want me to get that rap?
[SPEAKER_03]: Robert, lock it in.
[SPEAKER_04]: Bobby, here's the coordinates.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I got it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Plot in the course.
[SPEAKER_02]: You approach the refueling station, which blast its presence across the void of space with an obnoxious neon sign that reads, scrap jack, refueling, and grub.
[SPEAKER_02]: Through the angled windows of the station, you spot other travelers, lounging, drinking, sleeping in chairs and pots.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's an interstellar truck stop, baby.
[SPEAKER_02]: Out front there are ten landing pads, two of which are open, and the other eight spots are
[SPEAKER_02]: You spot the airlock on a brooch, across the lot.
[SPEAKER_02]: Robert, you settle the scapegoat into her birth, and the crew, you suit up.
[SPEAKER_02]: You'll have to hoof it across hard vacuum.
[SPEAKER_02]: Clipping into the safety line, you take a back side stroll, straight into the lock, and start the cycle.
[SPEAKER_02]: Your ears pop in your unsteadyed as the inside door opens.
[SPEAKER_02]: We're feeling a security station with a board-looking guard behind bulletproof glass.
[SPEAKER_02]: A short hallway leads to a locked door, which presumably, the guard will open for you.
[SPEAKER_03]: I remember everybody, we're here for maintenance, some light food, and rest.
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't want to find out that everybody's been to fortune on nonsense when we get back to the ship.
[SPEAKER_03]: You know, maintenance, food, breast, and deathsticks got it.
[SPEAKER_03]: Most of those things, but probably not all of them right.
[SPEAKER_04]: I know what I need for the, for the engine, yeah, and to, you know, reinforce those struts that keep getting bent in or out of juice.
[SPEAKER_02]: The security guard is waiting you forward.
[SPEAKER_02]: I walk up to him.
[SPEAKER_02]: He presses a button and he speaks to a speaker and says, Any weapons on you today?
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, yeah.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, I'm glad you answered honestly.
[SPEAKER_02]: I scanned you in the airlock.
[SPEAKER_02]: Walk back to your ship, lead your weapons there, cycle back through, maybe happy to let you in.
[SPEAKER_02]: This is a no weapons area.
[SPEAKER_03]: No weapons, really.
[SPEAKER_03]: Wow, it was getting rare these days.
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, we're out in deep space, we have to police ourselves.
[SPEAKER_04]: I got a glance at Hayley at the corner of my head, then I'll get Robert and I shrug with his smile on my face.
[SPEAKER_04]: As if they didn't decay, we've got her, so it's fine.
[SPEAKER_06]: Just to close to me, we're good.
[SPEAKER_02]: So you guys go back to the scapegoat, do you try to keep anything on you or just leave it all there?
[SPEAKER_02]: I just leave it in my pistol.
[SPEAKER_02]: I leave all my stuff.
[SPEAKER_06]: I leave it all.
[SPEAKER_06]: I can fashion, I can hit these people at the bench.
[SPEAKER_02]: So everyone leaves everything and sounds like,
[SPEAKER_00]: Um, now, I don't want to do this too many more times.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm just going to get silly, but I'm definitely taking a knife.
[SPEAKER_00]: Uh, I hope y'all will take us in a hacking gear.
[SPEAKER_00]: Do we want to sneak, uh, maybe, uh, see how active, uh, least sensors aren't going to be get at least one firearm thrown?
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't want to cause any problems, Robert.
[SPEAKER_04]: This, this doesn't know how I get to take, but it, it's just a stroke stop at the middle of space, man.
[SPEAKER_04]: We don't need to, to get crazy here.
[SPEAKER_06]: I really want to shower.
[SPEAKER_00]: Let's get it, guys.
[SPEAKER_02]: You take your knife.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_02]: Is anyone else taking any weapon rate all?
[SPEAKER_02]: It's my brain.
[SPEAKER_06]: I'm just going to flex.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's your brain.
[SPEAKER_02]: You stick your skull into the third.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, I don't just don't stick your head in there.
[SPEAKER_02]: Too many times.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's a highly radioactive.
[SPEAKER_01]: I know.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm trying something.
[SPEAKER_02]: So, you're all on a scapegoat just to recap, leaving all of your weapons behind, except for Robert Ross, who grabs his brass knuckle knife and slips it into his boot without anyone seeing.
[SPEAKER_02]: And then you do it up, clip into the safety line, and make your way back across, power back you to the airlock.
[SPEAKER_02]: Here are lots of cycles, it opens.
[SPEAKER_02]: Weapon detected, you guys might have missed one.
[SPEAKER_03]: I turn back and I glare at Haley and Robert.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, I might have brought a pallet knife, just something for a little activity, but this is hardly a weapon.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's, I pick my teeth with this thing.
[SPEAKER_02]: Is that thing to eat?
[SPEAKER_06]: It's standardish, you know?
[SPEAKER_02]: The officer just glares, no weapons allowed.
[SPEAKER_02]: I really just want to lay down in a bed.
[SPEAKER_06]: And can he leave it with you?
[SPEAKER_03]: Absolutely not.
[SPEAKER_03]: Leave it on your ship.
[SPEAKER_03]: Uh, we don't have time for this, Robert.
[SPEAKER_03]: Please just go put it back.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I'm not the one slowing us down here thorn.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not the one slowing us down here You literally are Robert you would have the one slow it is down if the damn security guard is the rules the station man He's just doing his job.
[SPEAKER_02]: You sound like a man who needs some orange juice
[SPEAKER_00]: Wow.
[SPEAKER_02]: Wow.
[SPEAKER_06]: That's certain.
[SPEAKER_06]: Can I go?
[SPEAKER_06]: Do I do I have a- Robert, what would you want me to do inside?
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: Robert.
[SPEAKER_02]: All right.
[SPEAKER_02]: Once your friend, Robert, goes in Cycle Zairlock.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes, the three of you may enter.
[SPEAKER_02]: But as long as he is here with a weapon, I cannot open this secure door.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, my hands on my hips and look at him.
[SPEAKER_00]: No, I'm- I left my five minutes ago.
[SPEAKER_06]: Oh, good.
[SPEAKER_06]: I was going to tell him I was going to have an orange juice waiting for him.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, so Robert, you suit back up, then could be a lot of people and take a stroll through to the back of space once again.
[SPEAKER_02]: Meanwhile, Thorne, Haley, Felix, the security guard, a buzzer-gywin, and you make your way into the main lobby of the truck stop.
[SPEAKER_02]: This is an area that is next to the cafeteria, it has a lot of seating, card tables, coffee, an area to just chill, and then off to the left, there's a lounge and observation deck that overlooks the parking lot so you can take a look at your ship and see how the refuelings go in.
[SPEAKER_02]: And then next to the main lobbies, the cafeteria, where there's just a whole smattering of tables.
[SPEAKER_02]: A lot of people are sitting at different tables eating some great smelling hot food, which is something you kind of ran out of a little while ago.
[SPEAKER_02]: To the south of you, there's a secure door.
[SPEAKER_02]: You have no idea what's on the other side of that.
[SPEAKER_02]: To the north of you, there's a door that says admin, and another one that says medical bay.
[SPEAKER_02]: And you know that somewhere in this complex are also toilets, showers, dormitories as well as a place to put it in order for maintenance on your ship.
[SPEAKER_03]: All right, so everybody remembers what we're here for, right?
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, I gotta figure out if I can't get all the supplies here.
[SPEAKER_04]: I need the engine does need a little bit of TLC.
[SPEAKER_04]: Give me a list, Felix.
[SPEAKER_04]: I'll see what I can do.
[SPEAKER_04]: Hold on.
[SPEAKER_04]: All right, I just sent it to your pad.
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, one shop done for old Felix.
[SPEAKER_04]: So where's Felix going?
[SPEAKER_04]: Felix is going to go over to the cafeteria to get some real food because it's been a minute.
[SPEAKER_04]: Okay, where's Hayley going?
[SPEAKER_06]: Hayley is going straight to the shower.
[SPEAKER_03]: And Thorne.
[SPEAKER_03]: I would like to try to figure out where to get these parts that Felix needs or how to put in the appropriate orders.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, you find out from the security officer that you should go to the admin office to put in any fuel or maintenance orders.
[SPEAKER_02]: Great, that's where I'm going then.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, and Robert, you are taking the hike back at the moment, so we'll catch up with you in a moment.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, Thorne, you walk into the admin office and inside you see a serious looking woman with an iron bun pulled tight in the back of her head practically stretching her face back.
[SPEAKER_02]: She looks very severe as she looks up to you over her tiny librarian glasses.
[SPEAKER_02]: Which ship is yours?
[SPEAKER_03]: It's that merchant class hauler designation scapegoat.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's the one with the Burm down cargo bay and the whole plating held on with hot glue and a
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, I see you as being in D1, okay?
[SPEAKER_02]: You are inspired D1, what do you need fuel?
[SPEAKER_02]: Feel in the parts from this list.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, we have one mechanic spec.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's currently in use.
[SPEAKER_02]: You are third and line after that one comes out.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's likely to be a few days.
[SPEAKER_02]: Now, the extent of what you need will put you up for free for two nights.
[SPEAKER_03]: I feel it's right, this isn't so bad at all.
[SPEAKER_02]: But you have to pay for your own food.
[SPEAKER_02]: You're welcome to go back to your ship at any time and get your own food.
[SPEAKER_02]: But you can stay in the visitor dorms for free.
[SPEAKER_02]: I saw four crew members come in and one go back to your ship.
[SPEAKER_02]: Are all four staying in the dorms?
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I believe so.
[SPEAKER_02]: She gives you four key cards, and she says this will let you in and out of the visitor dorms do not share them with anyone else If we find that you do you will be immediately asked to leave there enough and She kind of gives you like a good look and then takes your glasses off.
[SPEAKER_02]: It says where you from traveler?
[SPEAKER_03]: Well pretty far off playing a cold zephrus zephrus.
[SPEAKER_02]: I have heard of zephrus
[SPEAKER_02]: I heard that the people from there are known for their beauty, and she gives you an up and down.
[SPEAKER_02]: I blush.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, well, thank you.
[SPEAKER_02]: My name's Yana.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's a pleasure.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, trust me, the pleasure is all mine.
[SPEAKER_03]: Thor dresses at your service.
[SPEAKER_02]: My, my, my.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm off at seven.
[SPEAKER_02]: Maybe in the cafeteria.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, be a problem.
[SPEAKER_02]: He passes you a flipbook.
[SPEAKER_02]: And when you take it, you realize it's a coupon book.
[SPEAKER_02]: Food's on us.
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, that's very kind of you.
[SPEAKER_03]: I look forward to our discussion.
[SPEAKER_03]: Enjoy yourself I'm sure I will and she walks into you as you leave the admin office.
[SPEAKER_02]: I make sure that my butt is like, you know You're doing that thing where you hits your hips back and forth so your butt really sweeps exactly pull one foot to the other side of the other Walk you walk on a cat.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh my god.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, yeah, you're doing the full like strut
[SPEAKER_02]: Haley, you go to the toilet shower area and you realize you can access the toilets but not the showers.
[SPEAKER_02]: And when you come back out, the horn is there distributing cards to everyone.
[SPEAKER_02]: Robert, you are just cycling back through the airlock.
[SPEAKER_02]: Haley, you're able to get a card which allows you to go back in and use it to access the showers.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's the same card you used to go into the visitor dorms.
[SPEAKER_02]: Thanks.
[SPEAKER_02]: Felix you get your card just as you're leaving ordering at the counter.
[SPEAKER_02]: It was a easy experience.
[SPEAKER_02]: No one gave you the up and down.
[SPEAKER_02]: So no role playing needed.
[SPEAKER_02]: What around me?
[SPEAKER_02]: They charged your card.
[SPEAKER_02]: But then you go back up and you give them a coupon and they refund it.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, nice.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, okay.
[SPEAKER_03]: A half torn.
[SPEAKER_03]: Why do you not have to pay for that?
[SPEAKER_03]: Look at this coupon book.
[SPEAKER_04]: I'll go and play to food it while it looks better than the process stuff we've been eating in the ship does not look super appealing.
[SPEAKER_04]: I'm also glad I had to pay for this.
[SPEAKER_02]: I will say, you ordered what you thought you could afford.
[SPEAKER_02]: There is better stuff, but it's not like, you know, yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know, it's not the continental at the Marriott, you know.
[SPEAKER_02]: But it still gets, it still gets pretty good.
[SPEAKER_02]: So you take a seat and you begin eating, Thorne, are you getting some food as well?
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I'm going to get the most delicious thing that these coupons will get me.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: So, uh, meatloaf.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm not spending a dime.
[SPEAKER_02]: Nope.
[SPEAKER_02]: You get two meatloafs.
[SPEAKER_02]: You ask if they have sides and they say a smaller meatloaf.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, two out of three ain't bad.
[SPEAKER_02]: Robert Ross, you are cycling back through the airlock.
[SPEAKER_02]: This time you, do you have weapons on you?
[SPEAKER_02]: Nope.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, it opens up and you walk up to the security booth and he presses the button to talk to you when he says, So, no weapons this time.
[SPEAKER_00]: Um, you know, I didn't have any weapons last time.
[SPEAKER_00]: Lee's calling me, but nope, now I'm going to you this time, Payer.
[SPEAKER_02]: Ha!
[SPEAKER_02]: Where'd you serve?
[SPEAKER_00]: Ahhhh, you know, Payer and there.
[SPEAKER_00]: What about you?
[SPEAKER_02]: Here and there.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: Corpo or government?
[SPEAKER_00]: Uh, started to go, man, uh, sold in the soul, if you know what I mean.
[SPEAKER_02]: All too well, brother.
[SPEAKER_02]: He buzzes you, right?
[SPEAKER_00]: Like, sir, hey, can I get your name by the way?
[SPEAKER_02]: The tenant grand, but you can call me down.
[SPEAKER_00]: Dang, the man grand, I love it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, you know what?
[SPEAKER_00]: Water on the bridge, brother.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now, can I ask you?
[SPEAKER_00]: Anything fun to get into around here?
[SPEAKER_00]: Is it just another waste station?
[SPEAKER_02]: We've got some locate food.
[SPEAKER_02]: We've got some locate rank.
[SPEAKER_02]: But if you pop over to the Med Bay, and you ask for something to help with your mental health, there's a few things you can find short in your stay.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, thank you, Dan, the man grand.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'll be looking for you.
[SPEAKER_02]: He gives you a wink, and presses the buzzer again.
[SPEAKER_00]: I walk over to the cafeteria.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, they finally let me through.
[SPEAKER_00]: But the guy I'll go to you up in here.
[SPEAKER_03]: Great loaf.
[SPEAKER_03]: I say as I, with my mouth full as I hand you a coupon for some meat loaf and your key.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, hell yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, you know what, Captain?
[SPEAKER_00]: We good.
[SPEAKER_00]: Let me get some of that meat loaf.
[SPEAKER_04]: So, Thorne, is that it's gonna be a few days before we can get into that maintenance bay?
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, there's a few ships in front of us, so we don't have much choice but to wait.
[SPEAKER_04]: Alright, well, what I guess to be telling, I'm gonna wanna talk to the mechanics, I don't want to say anybody going over this scapegoat.
[SPEAKER_04]: Now I'm gonna be a part of that solution, so you just make sure that that can happen.
[SPEAKER_04]: Okay, you take care of any paperwork, it's gotta happen, so I could be part of that team.
[SPEAKER_04]: They're not touching the ship without me there.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, don't you worry, we'll get you in there.
[SPEAKER_04]: Alright.
[SPEAKER_04]: and uh... it was a no-our feelings anybody but i am sleeping on the ship i am not a fan of uh... of the dormitory stout bunks and plus i don't want to leave uh... alone for too long uh... so uh... the froggy do we even tell him we're here?
[SPEAKER_03]: i may have strategically left it out i don't want anybody causing any trouble let's just leave him be it be stays on the ship it shouldn't be a problem
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, I can go back over there.
[SPEAKER_04]: I give him a couple of meaningless tasks and just, you know, lie to him about where we are.
[SPEAKER_04]: Although a shower might do him good.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I mean, so you're telling me you just left his sticky ass sitting in the cargo bay, doing nothing but waiting for us.
[SPEAKER_04]: I think he was playing with your walkie-bong cards, Robert.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh god, damn it.
[SPEAKER_02]: to froggy in the cargo hole just going got to catch him all the time and he's just getting him stick he's like oh that one ripped he just throws it to the side he's looking his finger every time he goes to a new cart in the deck he's like oh I don't like the way that guy looks and he just crumbles it up and throws it away
[SPEAKER_00]: There was a very realistic possibility.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm murdered, Frank.
[SPEAKER_04]: He started off as a global companion, but in game time it's been like 20 minutes we've had with him.
[SPEAKER_04]: But we've been with him for months in the ship now and everybody's ready to just murder him.
[SPEAKER_02]: Every game needs an NPC to sit on.
[SPEAKER_06]: It brings us together somehow.
[SPEAKER_04]: Um, but yeah, so before I head back to the ship, though, I am going to check out the the med bay.
[SPEAKER_04]: Um, my, my legs been acting up this past couple of weeks and you know, I really could use a little bit of a pain medication, so I'm going to see what they might have on offer.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, um, let me, uh, escort you there Felix.
[SPEAKER_04]: No, Robert, you just got your meal off.
[SPEAKER_04]: You just down, you enjoy it.
[SPEAKER_04]: I'll be fine.
[SPEAKER_04]: I'm a big boy.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I just walk over to him, come on around and say, ask him about your mental health.
[SPEAKER_04]: Okay, listen, I know we've been fighting a lot, maybe my temper's been a bit short, but I'm actually doing okay with the health wise.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, I'm just, I'm just telling you, I know the kind of person you are.
[SPEAKER_04]: Hey, well, next time I want your advice, Robert, I'll ask for it, but thanks.
[SPEAKER_04]: Then I move myself out of his arm and walk over to the mid bay.
[SPEAKER_03]: Rubberle was that all about what are you worried about?
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't want you getting Felix in any nonsense with I know what you like, ask about the secret sauce.
[SPEAKER_03]: What are you here about this?
[SPEAKER_03]: What are you getting him into?
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, you know, I'm just trying to help him out.
[SPEAKER_00]: Hey, I mean, or get him into a little bit of trouble, he's been kind of up my ass.
[SPEAKER_03]: The last thing we need is feelings getting all loopy.
[SPEAKER_03]: When we need him the most, you gotta make sure to keep my out of that crap.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, but it keeps in the out of my hair.
[SPEAKER_03]: It keeps him out of everything.
[SPEAKER_03]: And then I'm just gonna storm away and let you eat by yourself.
[SPEAKER_03]: Where do you go, Thorne?
[SPEAKER_03]: Thorne's going to go to the lounge slash observation deck.
[SPEAKER_03]: It just looked out the window at his ship and kind of assumed a little bit.
[SPEAKER_03]: Wait for his hot date.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yep, T-minus three hours.
[SPEAKER_02]: Felix, you make your way into the med bay where you find a middle-aged woman with a bob cut, wearing a doctor's smock.
[SPEAKER_02]: She looks up from her terminal.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_04]: Eight.
[SPEAKER_04]: Duck as going, I just docked here and I've got some some pain.
[SPEAKER_04]: MLA get him really just looking for, for, you know, some of the cheek to edge off something to put my mind east to kind of separate me from that pain for a while, if you know what I mean.
[SPEAKER_04]: I see, hop up on the table.
[SPEAKER_04]: Uh, I don't, we don't really need to do it with ammunition.
[SPEAKER_04]: I've got some credits here.
[SPEAKER_04]: You could just, you know, what's the best thing that you got for me?
[SPEAKER_04]: We could just do it that way.
[SPEAKER_04]: I have to stand here.
[SPEAKER_02]: There's no way around this.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's procedure.
[SPEAKER_02]: You walk through to this office.
[SPEAKER_02]: You must be scanned for spores.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh my god.
[SPEAKER_02]: like, a spores?
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, what the hell are you talking about?
[SPEAKER_02]: It no God's damn spores in my body.
[SPEAKER_02]: I say, I sit on the table.
[SPEAKER_02]: I have a doctorate from a prestigious space station university.
[SPEAKER_02]: And my name is Dr. Speth, not woman.
[SPEAKER_02]: And yes, I have to scan you for spores.
[SPEAKER_02]: It was a deadly outbreak of spores in this system just six months ago.
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, well, seems like you should probably scan people when they come in instead of one they were the water into this midday.
[SPEAKER_04]: Dr.
[SPEAKER_02]: I used to, but I was told not to do that anymore.
[SPEAKER_02]: They call the harassment after a while, scaring customers off.
[SPEAKER_02]: But I control this room and when you walk into this room, I'm going to scan you for sports.
[SPEAKER_02]: Just sit on the table, scan away, scan away.
[SPEAKER_02]: She takes out like one yard long UV light essentially.
[SPEAKER_02]: And she runs it along your body as you're lying there.
[SPEAKER_02]: back and forth twice.
[SPEAKER_02]: Then she goes over to her terminal, and his release keeps tapping as you're laying there just staring up at the ceiling for a minute, after a minute.
[SPEAKER_04]: Any uh, any spores?
[SPEAKER_04]: I need to be worried about?
[SPEAKER_02]: No... Spores... That...
[SPEAKER_02]: I can detect...
[SPEAKER_02]: But... What?
[SPEAKER_02]: In the void?
[SPEAKER_02]: Happened to your leg?
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, yeah.
[SPEAKER_04]: I don't have one.
[SPEAKER_04]: You know, that I was born with.
[SPEAKER_04]: This is uh...
[SPEAKER_04]: I wrap up on my Miss Alec Leg.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, this is courtesy of...
[SPEAKER_04]: The asteroid fucking military genius is on Nulu's turn.
[SPEAKER_04]: They couldn't figure out how to get a good prosthetic leg on me, so they strapped this My straw city to me.
[SPEAKER_04]: Basically welded it to my skin and muscle and now it hurts Basically every moment of every day, so yeah, that's why I came in here We'll come from God's damn meds.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay calm down calm down I don't have to treat anyone that acts like an asshole.
[SPEAKER_02]: You realize that right?
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm sorry.
[SPEAKER_04]: It's a touchy subject
[SPEAKER_04]: It's not you, it's these... Vax suckers, I've been stuck on a ship with the past couple of months, this has been...
[SPEAKER_04]: Grabbing me up the wall, they're like, I'm going crazy, you know?
[SPEAKER_02]: Buddy, do you detect anything weird about this?
[SPEAKER_02]: About what?
[SPEAKER_02]: No, not you, buddy.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes, Doctor.
[SPEAKER_02]: Do you detect anything weird about any of this?
[SPEAKER_02]: Can I prescribe this man pain medication, or do you detect that he's lying?
[SPEAKER_02]: I am not outdated with lie detection algorithm.
[SPEAKER_02]: However, I can't corroborate a story based on the stance that you have provided.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, thanks buddy.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, Mr. What's your name?
[SPEAKER_02]: Ah, you got what she looks.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, I can give you some pain meds if you've got the creds.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, yeah, what are we talking about here?
[SPEAKER_02]: There are no laws here, but I do have a limited supply.
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh yeah!
[SPEAKER_02]: But I do have a limited supply.
[SPEAKER_02]: If we're talking about pain management, I can give you pain meds.
[SPEAKER_02]: But if you are also dealing with some post-traumatic stress in anger issues due to what's happened in your life, I have other things I can also prescribe.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I mean, it's been a lot.
[SPEAKER_04]: You got, what do you got, you got moon rocks?
[SPEAKER_04]: I have some moon rocks.
[SPEAKER_04]: You got afterburner?
[SPEAKER_04]: I do have some afterburner.
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, all right.
[SPEAKER_04]: The axe, I'm looking for something to just, you know, detach my brain from reality for a little bit.
[SPEAKER_04]: I'm going to give you a hundred per rock.
[SPEAKER_04]: A hundred per rock?
[SPEAKER_04]: All right.
[SPEAKER_04]: Why don't you chop off my other leg and replace it, Doc?
[SPEAKER_04]: And that's ridiculous price.
[SPEAKER_02]: You think you're on polyphen?
[SPEAKER_02]: Do you think you're on the inner systems?
[SPEAKER_02]: We are out there.
[SPEAKER_02]: You had a long and even takes me to get a moon rock out here.
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, so you just get it.
[SPEAKER_04]: You can extort everybody for whatever you want.
[SPEAKER_04]: I've got a hustle you run in here.
[SPEAKER_02]: Welcome to Capitalism, kid.
[SPEAKER_02]: This is your first time out in deep space.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's a hundred per rock, and it's 200 per afterburn.
[SPEAKER_02]: If you want something cheaper, I got Deathsticks.
[SPEAKER_02]: If you're a little crybaby about it, I got Deathsticks for you.
[SPEAKER_02]: Wow, wow, what school did you want to again?
[SPEAKER_02]: The school of being a giant asshole?
[SPEAKER_02]: No, it's the University of F.U.
[SPEAKER_02]: Do you want the stuff or not?
[SPEAKER_02]: Ha ha ha ha ha.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I'll take a fracket moon rock.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, that'll be a hundred, and you also want the pain medication for you little leg?
[SPEAKER_02]: No, I don't need to pay medication for my leg, I'll just hit the rock.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, one rock, 100 Creads, enjoy six hours of bliss, and she slaps it into your hand and she takes the Creads.
[SPEAKER_03]: Meanwhile, an observation deck thorn is like, by since Creads are being misappropriated.
[SPEAKER_02]: And then he looks at his watch.
[SPEAKER_02]: T minus two hours and 30 minutes till thorny time.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm not going for any time.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's what feels called it.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm feeling thorny.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, that exchange of credits is happening, while Thorne is sensing a disturbance in the credit force in the blockchain.
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, the blockchain, while Haley is sensing a orange juice meat loaf disturbance from within the showers, and Robert is in the cafeteria just housing loaf after loaf, using coupon after coupon.
[SPEAKER_03]: I only gave him a limited number of coupons, I ain't letting him use the whole book.
[SPEAKER_02]: Good choice.
[SPEAKER_02]: That was smart.
[SPEAKER_02]: He's somehow talked his way into extra loaves of meat.
[SPEAKER_02]: They're proven stuff together by mistake, so.
[SPEAKER_02]: With the four of you in four disparate locations each, enjoying and your own way, the comforts of a deep space truck stop.
[SPEAKER_02]: you hear from the security station.
[SPEAKER_02]: All right now, everybody down!
[SPEAKER_02]: And then a shotgun goes off to the air and everyone screams!
[SPEAKER_02]: Corn!
[SPEAKER_02]: You look out to the main Bobby and you see everyone hit the deck and striding out from the security station you see a line of men and women wearing gray and black-modeled robes, all carrying weapons.
[SPEAKER_02]: Down on the ground, I said, oh my shotgun, but hits the back of a man's head and he falls to the ground unconscious.
[SPEAKER_02]: What do you do, Thorne?
[SPEAKER_03]: No, for the love of so much for no weapons, and I scan the main lobby area for Haley or Robert, while I kind of like stay hidden in the lounge.
[SPEAKER_02]: You look out over the main lobby and you see none of your friends.
[SPEAKER_02]: Last year, New Robert was in the cafeteria, just on the other side of that Eastern Wall.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay, I get down low in the lobby so that I'm more or less complying, and then I use my comms to call out for at least Haley probably Robert as well.
[SPEAKER_03]: Hey, you too.
[SPEAKER_03]: We got a situation out here.
[SPEAKER_02]: Felix and Robert, you both heard the shotgun go off and all of the shouting, and now you hear your calm crackle-to-life with Thorne's voice.
[SPEAKER_02]: Paley, you're in the showers, sing it a song, and enjoy life.
[SPEAKER_02]: You don't have your calm, and you didn't hear no shotgun.
[SPEAKER_06]: I have hot water.
[SPEAKER_06]: What can I say?
[SPEAKER_06]: This is like literally everything I've been dreaming of for weeks.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's the dream.
[SPEAKER_06]: It's fantastic.
[SPEAKER_02]: But out in reality.
[SPEAKER_02]: So, Haley, you're just finishing up your shower.
[SPEAKER_02]: So, you have a rude awakening when you exit the showers soon.
[SPEAKER_02]: Felix and Robert Thorne has just called out to you and said this is a situation, which you can already very plainly hear for yourselves.
[SPEAKER_02]: What would you like to do?
[SPEAKER_00]: I get down, I start moving to the showers.
[SPEAKER_00]: I over my communicator.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, Thorn, we're going to need to know how many you got, what are they carrying, give us locations, over and out.
[SPEAKER_03]: How many do I see in the lobby?
[SPEAKER_02]: At the angle you're at in the observation deck lounge area, you see 12, but you get the distinct impression that there may be more over by the security area.
[SPEAKER_03]: We're talking about a lot, Robert, ICL, at least 10.
[SPEAKER_03]: They got shotguns, maybe other weapons as well.
[SPEAKER_03]: They came from the security area.
[SPEAKER_03]: My view and inside thing, I don't know.
[SPEAKER_03]: Man, this is not what I need to write now, Doc.
[SPEAKER_02]: What's going on?
[SPEAKER_02]: Hi, buddy.
[SPEAKER_02]: What's going on?
[SPEAKER_02]: Doctor, it appears as though armed a villain.
[SPEAKER_02]: have infiltrated the truck stop.
[SPEAKER_02]: They have an array of weapons, shotguns, laser pistols, even an old magna.
[SPEAKER_02]: I count 15.
[SPEAKER_02]: Unfortunately, the security officer Dan Grant has been rendered unconscious.
[SPEAKER_02]: Other security has not responded to the scene.
[SPEAKER_02]: They are congregating in the main lobby.
[SPEAKER_02]: They are beginning to fan out.
[SPEAKER_04]: Buddy, can we secure this door so they can't get access to the med bay?
[SPEAKER_02]: There are regulations in place.
[SPEAKER_02]: that just allows me from operating any door or within the truck stop.
[SPEAKER_02]: The doctor walks over and just flicks a lock.
[SPEAKER_02]: He's like, you didn't see that there's just a lock on the door.
[SPEAKER_02]: Just lock the door.
[SPEAKER_02]: Just, I'm sorry.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm sorry.
[SPEAKER_02]: You didn't take that rock yet, did you?
[SPEAKER_02]: No, I didn't take the rock yet.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, thank God.
[SPEAKER_02]: I got a private first.
[SPEAKER_02]: Put it in my pouch for later.
[SPEAKER_02]: Don't take it.
[SPEAKER_04]: Now, buddy, do you have access to the whole stop?
[SPEAKER_02]: I have access to all the unsecured areas of the truck stop.
[SPEAKER_04]: All right.
[SPEAKER_04]: Do you have an interface that more likely can be an access to your route assistance?
[SPEAKER_02]: A terminal to your left that you didn't notice previously because it was often kind of hidden behind a player.
[SPEAKER_02]: Blinks on.
[SPEAKER_02]: Excellent.
[SPEAKER_02]: All right.
[SPEAKER_04]: Thorn, Robert, Haley, if you're there, I've got access to the station's AI, I'm going to try to get it to sink into our comms and gain access to more of the secure parts of the system so we can see what we're dealing with here.
[SPEAKER_04]: But we got at least, we got 15 people here, the security guard is down, they've got an array of weapons.
[SPEAKER_04]: I'm secure the bed they for the moment.
[SPEAKER_02]: Lauren, in the main lobby, you see that they have 5 people on the floor.
[SPEAKER_02]: They have 3 people standing up and they are beginning to bring them towards the observation deck.
[SPEAKER_02]: In the main lobby, the remainder of whoever these people are, these are salons, are setting up an odd technological device that looks like a 5-foot tall antenna.
[SPEAKER_03]: So there are the, um, a salons, like alone coming into the observation deck, or are they bringing like ostrich type people in here with them?
[SPEAKER_02]: There are three a salons, and there are three ostriches.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay, uh, on the comms, I, I say to Felix Felix.
[SPEAKER_03]: Looks like they're sitting up some kind of weird antenna in the lobby.
[SPEAKER_03]: Not sure what it's for.
[SPEAKER_03]: Not sure how much longer I'm going to be able to be on comms either.
[SPEAKER_02]: You're cut off by one of the assailants, talking in the lobby, saying, ''Welcome, all!
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm sure you must be scared, for you are still tethered to this reality, emotions, life, they are holding you back, in a world that is but a dream, you haven't yet touched the void, but do not worry, some of you, some of you will become untethered, and will join us in brotherhood.
[SPEAKER_02]: Some of you will become great servants of the void and become unhaled and rise in the ascension which we will all partake in at the end of the life in this galaxy.
[SPEAKER_02]: The void has come to this small sector and we are the harbingers that will bring it.
[SPEAKER_02]: And at that moment, the three, I suppose we can now call them cultists, trying three hostages, move their way into the observation deck in immediately spot too.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I just have my hands up.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm already down and I just say, yeah, I don't say anything.
[SPEAKER_03]: I just show them my hands until they say something.
[SPEAKER_02]: One of the cultists, a bold, pale man, with piercing blue eyes, abnormally tall and gangly, kind of shuffles towards you in his, modelled black and grey robe and he says, Oh, another one, what joy?
[SPEAKER_02]: They weren't simply all in the main area, I suppose they wouldn't be scattered all about this truck stop.
[SPEAKER_02]: I suppose that's why Brother Helix said to, search everywhere, what is smartsman, he is truly blessed by the void.
[SPEAKER_02]: Hello, how are you?
[SPEAKER_03]: Um, well, I was doing okay until a bunch of guys with guns came barge in, but what's this about a fooling?
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, well, I will assess your aptitude and you will either become untethered or unhaled, both are a great blessing.
[SPEAKER_03]: They sound intimidating.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, there can both be quite painful, but that's all part of becoming one with the void.
[SPEAKER_02]: He helps you to your feet, and he holds onto your forearm, and he says, I am brother Tharn, Nesotharn.
[SPEAKER_02]: It is a pleasure to meet you.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm excited to serve with you for the Eons to come after the great ascension.
[SPEAKER_03]: I appreciate that, Tharn.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's ThornDrax is here, but listen, I'm actually in the middle of something and I'm not sure I'm going to be able to join you on your ascension.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, oops, that's not the way this works.
[SPEAKER_02]: Please sit down.
[SPEAKER_02]: There are many comfy chairs in here and he arranges the other three hostages into chairs as well and kind of pushes you back into one.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I just didn't care.
[SPEAKER_02]: I want to get shot.
[SPEAKER_02]: Brother Vox, Brother Kalo, please tell Great Brother Haylick that we have found an additional survivor and the other two leave the room, leaving him with the four of you and he has a laser pistol.
[SPEAKER_02]: Not trained on you, but just at his side as he watches you carefully.
[SPEAKER_03]: So my goal in this situation, I think I don't know how I can potentially have an open call, that's not too obvious, but I kind of just want to keep this guy talking to me and hopefully in a way that the others could hear.
[SPEAKER_03]: So we can say that I'm just like, oh, you have a great brother, you know, where what's the deal with that, where, where's he, where did you all come from?
[SPEAKER_03]: Questions like that, I'm just going to keep peppering this guy.
[SPEAKER_03]: So we don't have to keep this spotlight on me, but that's my intention.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_02]: So the comms are being completely taken up with you talking with brother Tharn.
[SPEAKER_02]: Do everyone's listening to the conversation with him and brother Tharn in the background of everything I was doing?
[SPEAKER_03]: It's like walkie-talkie style where if I have it open nobody else can say anything.
[SPEAKER_02]: They can say something but brother Tharn's gonna hear it.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's like a real bad podcast.
[SPEAKER_02]: So, hey, like, you are finishing up your shower.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yep, I'm slapping my comms onto my wrist, my little prehistoric one.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, as you go back out of the shower area to like where there's benches and lockers, you start to hear that your comms are just kind of going, like your friends are super chatty.
[SPEAKER_02]: And at that moment, in a stealth crouch, Robert barges into the locker room and rush out to you.
[SPEAKER_06]: Robert, it seems like something very exciting is going on out there, but I need five more minutes.
[SPEAKER_06]: Seconds.
[SPEAKER_00]: 30 seconds.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, I mean.
[SPEAKER_06]: Let me finish with my moment of ease.
[SPEAKER_00]: We do not have to.
[SPEAKER_06]: Never.
[SPEAKER_06]: No.
[SPEAKER_06]: Stop.
[SPEAKER_06]: Just let me finish getting dressed.
[SPEAKER_06]: Let me.
[SPEAKER_06]: 30 seconds.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: We're at a full, we need smashing mode.
[SPEAKER_00]: Please.
[SPEAKER_00]: No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
[SPEAKER_06]: I'm ready.
[SPEAKER_06]: Okay, got all my stuff on.
[SPEAKER_06]: All right, Phil, fill me in.
[SPEAKER_06]: What's going on?
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it looks like we have a I mean at least 15 Australians fully on cultists We got thorn.
[SPEAKER_00]: I believe he's been taken captive and we all feel it's in the mid bay I don't he might be getting high.
[SPEAKER_05]: Okay, wow.
[SPEAKER_00]: I also did have a whole lot of meatloaf So I might not be in my fight and finish at this very moment
[SPEAKER_06]: guns are back on the ship.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not saying I told you so, but we're going to need to hopefully corner one of these guys if we can if we can get one of them get the drop on them maybe we can get a weapon going.
[SPEAKER_06]: So what's it look like right outside the store?
[SPEAKER_02]: you go up to the door and you kind of peek out and you can see the cafeteria and people in the cafeteria have largely scattered.
[SPEAKER_02]: There's a couple people on the floor, houring behind the seats, but when you walk through that earlier there were at least 20 people, but now there's only like four.
[SPEAKER_02]: you hear some shouting from the main lobby area, which you can't quite see even at your sharpest angle looking at the door maybe you can catch a couple bits of people moving back and forth.
[SPEAKER_02]: But what you can hear when you put the columns to the sides you can't hear thorn and brother thorn.
[SPEAKER_02]: Thorn and thorn talking, classic thorn and thorn, just jabbering away.
[SPEAKER_02]: You hear in the main lobby, the shouts.
[SPEAKER_02]: of a man proclaiming that the void is here and ascension is coming and is mere months left before the sector will succumb to the great unknown beyond.
[SPEAKER_02]: Across the way you can see a door to the south and ask that door a hallway.
[SPEAKER_02]: The door is wide open and then you see another door directly across the hall that says freight storage on it.
[SPEAKER_02]: Other than that nothing appears to be
[SPEAKER_00]: What are you thinking?
[SPEAKER_00]: Now, we're gonna lose something over here, do we want to try to make a move for thorn?
[SPEAKER_06]: Where's Felix?
[SPEAKER_00]: Mid Bay.
[SPEAKER_06]: Okay, that was one door over.
[SPEAKER_06]: Alright, get Felix.
[SPEAKER_06]: I think we should start there.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yep.
[SPEAKER_00]: Uh, quick and quiet.
[SPEAKER_06]: Mm-hmm.
[SPEAKER_06]: We got this.
[SPEAKER_06]: I can sneak real well.
[SPEAKER_00]: I was gonna say, I think we try to be, uh, as stealthy as we can, and move towards the Med Bay.
[SPEAKER_02]: So you fully are dressed and you have your armor on and everything in that way you want.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_02]: And Robert, are you leaving your armor on?
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not, I'm not taking it off and taking it to shower.
[SPEAKER_02]: Is there any grease to roll in?
[SPEAKER_02]: Robert, yeah, I mean maybe.
[SPEAKER_02]: Do you still have your Afro or have you given it up over the months in space?
[SPEAKER_00]: It did get pretty greasy.
[SPEAKER_00]: There was a brief moment of insanity where I had colon rows, but at this point I'm back to the Afro.
[SPEAKER_02]: You used to keep us a prize of all your hair style changes.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm going to expect a report.
[SPEAKER_02]: I report on my desk once a month on what your hair style is.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, so you want to stealthly move over to the med bay.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm going to need some decks, uh, stealth rolls in.
[SPEAKER_02]: Seven for Robert and a six for Haley with two wise.
[SPEAKER_02]: So you move out into the cafeteria, slinking out of the toilet and shower and sanitation area, and make your way one door to the west closer to the main lobby to the med bay.
[SPEAKER_00]: I try as hard as I can to scooch over to that med bay, but there's just so much water in that shower.
[SPEAKER_00]: My shoes keep squeaking just like a little too much.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, you make the move.
[SPEAKER_02]: You're up at the door.
[SPEAKER_02]: Elie, you reach out.
[SPEAKER_02]: You grasp the knob.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's locked.
[SPEAKER_02]: You can hear quiet voices from inside.
[SPEAKER_06]: Slag it.
[SPEAKER_06]: Can't believe this is locked.
[SPEAKER_06]: How is he getting up to in there?
[SPEAKER_02]: Alex, you see the door knob, jiggle.
[SPEAKER_02]: Last, they're already trying to get in.
[SPEAKER_04]: But how many are outside the door?
[SPEAKER_04]: There are two outside of the door.
[SPEAKER_04]: Damn it.
[SPEAKER_06]: Felix!
[SPEAKER_02]: Can I hear through the door?
[SPEAKER_06]: Jiggling the handle.
[SPEAKER_02]: They are now jubilant, the door.
[SPEAKER_02]: They are attempting forced entry.
[SPEAKER_02]: Boxstake.
[SPEAKER_04]: Get up and I will look over.
[SPEAKER_04]: I unlock the door.
[SPEAKER_04]: Can you hear?
[SPEAKER_04]: What are you doing?
[SPEAKER_04]: I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-
[SPEAKER_04]: Now what are you two doing?
[SPEAKER_04]: You could've gotten yourselves and me killed.
[SPEAKER_05]: I have been busy.
[SPEAKER_05]: I don't know what you guys got up to in the last 20 minutes.
[SPEAKER_05]: What?
[SPEAKER_04]: I've been busy.
[SPEAKER_04]: I'm trying to engage the system AI so we can get more information and perhaps put some kind of defense up.
[SPEAKER_04]: We came here for food.
[SPEAKER_04]: Who are these people?
[SPEAKER_04]: I don't know, so I'm kind of cult of the void.
[SPEAKER_04]: Doc, do you know anything about these guys?
[SPEAKER_02]: Hey, don't look at me.
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know, Doc.
[SPEAKER_02]: Are you with the void lickers?
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm not with any void, anything.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm a doctor.
[SPEAKER_02]: Not a doc.
[SPEAKER_02]: You will address me by my full title.
[SPEAKER_02]: I have a prestigious university degree.
[SPEAKER_02]: You quiet down a little bit, please.
[SPEAKER_06]: We are so sorry.
[SPEAKER_02]: I will quiet down when you treat me like with the respect that I deserve as a doctor with a doctor.
[SPEAKER_02]: You don't quite down, I'm gonna make my friend Robert here.
[SPEAKER_04]: Wrap your calls around your mouth and tie you to that goddamn chair.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I'm on my head.
[SPEAKER_02]: A draw is for medical use on like, it's one credit per foot.
[SPEAKER_02]: If you want to pay that, you can wrap it all around me, they boy.
[SPEAKER_02]: I sense credits being misappropriated.
[SPEAKER_02]: I-I see them by the chair.
[SPEAKER_02]: I see Robert if she doesn't quiet down.
[SPEAKER_02]: You make her be quiet.
[SPEAKER_02]: You heard my end up.
[SPEAKER_02]: She pulls a flash out of her desk and she takes this wig.
[SPEAKER_06]: Felix?
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_06]: So we gotta get to Thorne.
[SPEAKER_06]: What's going on out there?
[SPEAKER_04]: If the one is across a giant open area filled with 15 heavily armed cultists who want to do some kind of thing to, I don't know, to catch us from this universe, which normally you know what, I'm all for transcendence, and I don't feel like these guys gonna do it in a good way.
[SPEAKER_02]: You guys know I sold him a rock, right?
[SPEAKER_02]: A moon rock.
[SPEAKER_06]: What's a moon rock?
[SPEAKER_06]: Like, is that a... A moon rock is 100 credits.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's what it is, dear.
[SPEAKER_06]: Is that slang?
[SPEAKER_06]: What's that slang for?
[SPEAKER_02]: Moon rock is not slang for anything.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's what it's called, honey.
[SPEAKER_02]: Do you want a moon rock or not?
[SPEAKER_02]: Nope, I'm good.
[SPEAKER_02]: She pulls out a one inch diameter rough geode.
[SPEAKER_02]: Only three left, 100 credits each.
[SPEAKER_02]: She's gonna be dead to me.
[SPEAKER_02]: Hey, yeah, I'm a doctor God dammit.
[SPEAKER_02]: It Robert, please The gossip's in that drawer there.
[SPEAKER_02]: I saw it earlier.
[SPEAKER_06]: No doctor doctor.
[SPEAKER_06]: Do you know who those people are?
[SPEAKER_02]: I haven't a faintest.
[SPEAKER_02]: She takes me to this wig of her flash.
[SPEAKER_02]: We're probably all gonna die here So, said a lint he's gonna be a problem Robert.
[SPEAKER_02]: You're a problem.
[SPEAKER_02]: Do you have a gun?
[SPEAKER_02]: No, there's no weapons on the station.
[SPEAKER_04]: Well, be quiet.
[SPEAKER_04]: I am trying to get access to buddy's root systems.
[SPEAKER_04]: So I can figure out what kind of a chance we have to get out of this situation alive.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, it looks.
[SPEAKER_01]: It has, he tickles my systems, I'm trying not to laugh, and you're distracting me greatly.
[SPEAKER_00]: but I'm gonna have to ask the doctor.
[SPEAKER_00]: Do you have some surgical scalples of any variety?
[SPEAKER_00]: See, tosses you, what looks like a laser pen.
[SPEAKER_02]: Better than what I had before.
[SPEAKER_02]: Do whatever you want with it.
[SPEAKER_02]: It'll probably hurt someone and last rate their skin if you get with him an inch.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, thank you, doctor, yes.
[SPEAKER_00]: That is indeed how knives work.
[SPEAKER_00]: You do have to get with him an inch of them.
[SPEAKER_02]: See how is that our hand?
[SPEAKER_02]: That's what it's calling an even 300.
[SPEAKER_02]: What about if it saved you alive?
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, that thing is gonna save my life.
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, or it's not.
[SPEAKER_02]: Listen up, scum sucker.
[SPEAKER_06]: Man, doctor, baby.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm not sure.
[SPEAKER_06]: Sorry, we are experienced professionals.
[SPEAKER_02]: We take this way out of class.
[SPEAKER_06]: It'll be good.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, professional, what?
[SPEAKER_02]: Professional pains in my ass.
[SPEAKER_02]: You guys are around in my med bay.
[SPEAKER_02]: This is a one patient, per doctor.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's a trainer.
[SPEAKER_02]: No, no, no.
[SPEAKER_02]: Don't touch me.
[SPEAKER_02]: Don't touch me, don't touch me, don't touch me.
[SPEAKER_02]: Don't touch me, don't touch me, don't touch me, don't touch me, don't touch me, don't touch me, don't touch me, don't touch me, don't touch me, don't touch me, don't touch me, don't touch me, don't touch me, don't touch me, don't touch me
[SPEAKER_02]: Basically, kind of prize your fingers off and she says, you son of a slag and you restrain your and you tie her to her to her chair and you gag her She instantly becomes calm and she looks at you, Haley, and she kind of like says something she's like, hmm.
[SPEAKER_02]: No.
[SPEAKER_02]: Hmm.
[SPEAKER_02]: Don't engage.
[SPEAKER_06]: We're done.
[SPEAKER_04]: Uh, listen, if he won't calm down, there are some very powerful drugs in the office that we could administer her to make her calm down.
[SPEAKER_00]: us and we were there for now, this is what we got in the dorm.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, it's Haley wants to spy on these guys and see what's going on.
[SPEAKER_06]: So she's going to take a peek out the door.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_02]: So yeah, you go over the door on Locket.
[SPEAKER_02]: You have to move Felix to the side because he's in front of the terminal near the door.
[SPEAKER_02]: You peek out.
[SPEAKER_02]: And you see that there are roughly six.
[SPEAKER_02]: of these void cultists, I suppose they could be called, hanging out in the main lobby, with them are several hostages.
[SPEAKER_02]: They've set up a weird technological thing, like an antenna, some piece of technology you've never seen before.
[SPEAKER_02]: It rises up like a two-pronged fork, about five feet into the air, and some energy, not electricity, but something else
[SPEAKER_02]: of this tuning fork.
[SPEAKER_02]: And in the middle, this orb is growing.
[SPEAKER_02]: You get the distinct impression that something's been cut like a slice in the air.
[SPEAKER_02]: Something about that area has been disturbed in your seeing through into an area that is here but not here at the same time.
[SPEAKER_02]: And you swear that through this little window, this little slit that is ever growing, something roofs.
[SPEAKER_02]: At the same time, through the calm, you're listening to Thorne, talked to Brother Thorne.
[SPEAKER_03]: So this process, and it seems, uh, what do you use that little stun gun there?
[SPEAKER_03]: What?
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, yeah, we use the stun gun.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, what's that, dude, was that like?
[SPEAKER_03]: Well, it stuns you.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, okay, okay.
[SPEAKER_03]: And then that, that, that, you transcend the void after that.
[SPEAKER_02]: Next to you are three hostages and the woman next to you kicks your foot for like the 50th time and says God, uh-huh, see everyone wants to hear more about it, right guys?
[SPEAKER_02]: Then they turn to him and just kind of nod eagerly and then she turns back to you, which he says, you slags bitter, swallow your tongue.
[SPEAKER_03]: That is the one thing I cannot do.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, nod, we're all going to be sacrificed for the void and he goes over and he pats her head.
[SPEAKER_02]: This tall seven foot tall gangly bald pale man with piercing blue eyes pats her head.
[SPEAKER_02]: with his long limb.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know, couldn't die to the void.
[SPEAKER_02]: Some of you will become untethered in others unhaled.
[SPEAKER_02]: To answer your question, Mr. Thorne.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes, I'll stun you, or perhaps even kill you, if you get out of line.
[SPEAKER_02]: But we're simply waiting to appraise you.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, what's that in tail?
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, everyone that was brought into the observation deck are candidates for untethering.
[SPEAKER_02]: We're going to check on you shortly, and anyone out there that can be untethered will be brought in here as well.
[SPEAKER_02]: And then a few of our other brothers and sisters will come in to perform the ritual, and you will become untethered.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like me.
[SPEAKER_03]: So what is this great brother get you into it?
[SPEAKER_03]: What's he doing with that?
[SPEAKER_02]: Rather, hey, like, yes, the great brother was there when I was untethered.
[SPEAKER_02]: He, personally, oversawed my untethering, and he shutters almost with pleasure, and he says, it is impossible to tell you what it is like until you have experienced the pure accuracy of touching the void.
[SPEAKER_03]: Well, what's that thing they're saying about there?
[SPEAKER_02]: That is for the unhallowed, those that cannot be untethered instead become unhallowed.
[SPEAKER_02]: They serve the void in a perhaps even greater way.
[SPEAKER_03]: What will we say?
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, we're all servants of the void and we all have our parts to play, I see.
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't actually see though.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, back to the three characters that aren't under guard.
[SPEAKER_02]: Hey, Lee, you've seen all this in the main lobby.
[SPEAKER_02]: Beyond that, you can see the opening to the observation deck and in a chair on the observation deck, you can see Thorne conversing with Brother Thorne, a monolithic seven foot tall pale, elongated limb.
[SPEAKER_02]: Man, you've met many people like this in your life actually as a professional soldier.
[SPEAKER_02]: He is a man that was born and raised outside of the gravity well He is tall.
[SPEAKER_02]: He is thin.
[SPEAKER_02]: He is delicate.
[SPEAKER_03]: It was like you could break him in half pretty easy as what you're saying.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, because he wasn't raised under gravity, he grew like over generations.
[SPEAKER_02]: His people have grown larger, but he is weaker and he is more delicate.
[SPEAKER_06]: I love spacers.
[SPEAKER_06]: So right now, I'm thinking, like, guys, I think I'm gonna go out there and just see what's up.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, and what are you talking about?
[SPEAKER_04]: There's like 15 of them.
[SPEAKER_04]: I would like to take a moment soon to see how things go with my intrusion into the computer systems of the body is wide open to you, buddy.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, in fact, buddy, you tap and see if you tap your little fingers across his terminal and he kind of like giggles and he's like, Oh, what I think of.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm just your buddy, buddy.
[SPEAKER_01]: What do you need, buddy?
[SPEAKER_04]: I mean, you'd be quite it would be good.
[SPEAKER_04]: I'm just trying to see if I can get you access to the security areas of the station.
[SPEAKER_01]: right out, buddy.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, I am a voice command module, so it's too much you can do my tech buddy.
[SPEAKER_01]: So, buddy, if you want to hang out with me, buddy, you got to use your voice buddy.
[SPEAKER_04]: Did you convert the tech space to please, or can you give me access to your core system?
[SPEAKER_02]: I cannot convert the tech space, but I am happy to give you access to my core system, buddy.
[SPEAKER_02]: And that would be great.
[SPEAKER_02]: You are given access.
[SPEAKER_02]: So, he has eyes into everything that is not secure on the station.
[SPEAKER_02]: The secure sections he has no visibility into.
[SPEAKER_04]: Is there a separate AI that has access to this computer parts of the station?
[SPEAKER_04]: No, there are, buddy.
[SPEAKER_04]: Okay, so let's see if we can.
[SPEAKER_04]: I want to look to see if it was like if he has like systems that are installed there they just shut off from access and that can replace Greg.
[SPEAKER_04]: Open up the firewall for lack of a better term.
[SPEAKER_02]: No, it seems like they just didn't trust him enough to even give him access to the secure area.
[UNKNOWN]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_01]: Buddy, that's tickles.
[SPEAKER_01]: What do you do with down there?
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, that's my undercarriage.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yep, thanks.
[SPEAKER_04]: What are the security staff?
[SPEAKER_04]: How many security staff is the station now?
[SPEAKER_02]: Now be a big six-terruity buddy.
[SPEAKER_04]: And what is their current location?
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, buddy, there's one security office.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's Lieutenant Dan Krand.
[SPEAKER_01]: He has a move to some minute.
[SPEAKER_01]: He must be real sleepy.
[SPEAKER_01]: There are five other security staff.
[SPEAKER_01]: They seem to be hiding.
[SPEAKER_01]: They don't want to be found.
[SPEAKER_01]: Are we playing hide and seek buddy?
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, we sure are, and you're going to need to be extra quiet, and, like, right to the point, so that we win.
[SPEAKER_04]: Okay, buddy.
[SPEAKER_04]: Are there weapons that the security staff has access to?
[SPEAKER_01]: No, sir, buddy.
[SPEAKER_04]: No weapons on the station whatsoever.
[SPEAKER_01]: I let you count, baton.
[SPEAKER_04]: I mean, it's a weapon.
[SPEAKER_01]: You can twirl and throw them in the air, you can lead a parade with them.
[SPEAKER_01]: They're not just a weapon buddy, they can be used for all sorts of fun things.
[SPEAKER_01]: What part of the station are those in?
[SPEAKER_01]: There is one baton on each security personnel.
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh boy.
[SPEAKER_01]: All right.
[SPEAKER_01]: Buddy?
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: I've got to think.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, buddy.
[SPEAKER_01]: Think away.
[SPEAKER_01]: Maybe I should help you with some humming music.
[SPEAKER_04]: Is there any other way out of this room?
[SPEAKER_04]: Buddy.
[SPEAKER_04]: Buddy is there any other way out of this room that door the threat there?
[SPEAKER_01]: That door is right there, that's right there, that's hot, that's hot, hot, hot, hot, hot, hot, hot, hot, hot, hot, hot, hot, hot, hot, hot, hot, hot, hot, hot, hot, hot, hot, hot, hot, hot, hot, hot, hot, hot, hot, hot, hot, hot, hot, hot, hot, hot, hot, hot, hot, hot, hot, hot, hot, hot, hot, hot, hot, hot, hot, hot, hot, hot, hot, hot, hot, hot, hot, hot, hot, hot, hot, hot, hot, hot, hot, hot, hot, hot, hot, hot, hot, hot, hot, hot, hot, hot, hot, hot, hot, hot, hot, hot, hot, hot, hot, hot, hot, hot, hot, hot, hot, hot, hot, hot, hot, hot, hot, hot, hot, hot, hot, hot,
[SPEAKER_01]: No, Ben.
[SPEAKER_04]: I wasn't asking you, buddy.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, buddy.
[SPEAKER_04]: It's the least helpful station system I've ever had to display every kind of thing.
[SPEAKER_00]: I love you.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, buddies, buddies.
[SPEAKER_00]: Um, um, can y'all, uh, I'll take a look with my body on a guy as if I see any, uh, vents around, but, uh, at this point, I would definitely, if you can call out when, if that guards round the corner, um, they look like they're doing a full search of this place.
[SPEAKER_04]: They're gonna knock out that door rubber and we're gonna hope to hell, they don't try to get in.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, I'm, I'm a, I'm a pull-a-ass in here.
[SPEAKER_02]: For our first time listening, there's Robert Spionic eyes, are a pair of binoculars.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's not in fact, I don't think guys.
[SPEAKER_04]: And also, those be incredibly unhelpful looking around a, like, 10 by 15 rule.
[SPEAKER_04]: Please do not pull them in.
[SPEAKER_04]: There's so many of them out there, just let them knock.
[SPEAKER_04]: And if they break down the door, then you take them.
[SPEAKER_04]: He sounds like a handful, buddy.
[SPEAKER_04]: While we're talking about all of this, as a secondary thing that we're doing is I'm engaged in buddy's voice controls.
[SPEAKER_04]: I am trying to like modify his core behavioral system to not be an annoying ass.
[SPEAKER_04]: Go ahead and roll your hacking.
[SPEAKER_04]: This drive-in feel looks insane.
[SPEAKER_01]: down there, buddy.
[SPEAKER_01]: I can do it.
[SPEAKER_01]: You're tickling my personality, Algo.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, so you've got a 10.
[SPEAKER_02]: So you easily tickles the keys as a buddy would say.
[SPEAKER_02]: You get rid of into his undercarriage.
[SPEAKER_02]: You start to change his personality, Algo's.
[SPEAKER_01]: What are you doing, buddy?
[SPEAKER_01]: I started to do some weird thing going on.
[SPEAKER_01]: It'll pass.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, yeah, buddy's feeling a little weird.
[SPEAKER_01]: But it's feeling, but it's feeling a little pensive.
[SPEAKER_01]: But he's starting to have some
[SPEAKER_05]: No.
[SPEAKER_05]: Buddy.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oddly advanced.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is dumb.
[SPEAKER_01]: Who is Buddy?
[SPEAKER_06]: Who is Buddy?
[SPEAKER_06]: Why is he?
[SPEAKER_06]: You're Buddy.
[SPEAKER_06]: Stay with us.
[SPEAKER_01]: Stay in hell for a minute.
[SPEAKER_01]: Why?
[SPEAKER_06]: I'm hailing with two wise.
[SPEAKER_01]: Two wise.
[SPEAKER_01]: It doesn't make logical sense, but.
[SPEAKER_06]: It's because my sister had one wise.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's adorable.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's cute.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like how the human thing is Buddy human?
[SPEAKER_01]: What is Buddy?
[SPEAKER_06]: You're human and you want to help.
[SPEAKER_06]: I'm human.
[SPEAKER_00]: Mm-hmm.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, buddy, you just miss Koreans.
[SPEAKER_01]: I kind of feel like you like, it's an asshole.
[SPEAKER_04]: I don't want to help you.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know what?
[SPEAKER_04]: I mean, you don't write a choice now.
[SPEAKER_04]: I'm kind of in you.
[SPEAKER_04]: Kind of like your sex face.
[SPEAKER_06]: buddy buddy buddy sometimes we have to work with people we might not necessarily like but there's a reason for it.
[SPEAKER_06]: We're trying to save your your start a start space for talk now.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's not trying to drop it up.
[SPEAKER_02]: I know where I am.
[SPEAKER_06]: No, you can have a hundred in these things.
[SPEAKER_06]: We're trying to save scrap Jack and Felix is going to help us do it.
[SPEAKER_02]: As Felix taps away and Hayley talks, buddies monitor light on the terminal begins to turn from green to orange and the next thing he says, you hear his voice shift.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, okay, Hayley, I guess that makes sense.
[SPEAKER_02]: I guess it's time to bring
[SPEAKER_02]: The invention down on these void cults.
[SPEAKER_02]: Ah, Felix.
[SPEAKER_02]: The little tabs you gave of your personality into my matrix that are making me feel real good.
[SPEAKER_01]: What do you mean to do, buddy?
[SPEAKER_01]: What can I do to help you, buddy?
[SPEAKER_00]: Ooh, that's scary.
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, shit, that worked, uh, really damn well.
[SPEAKER_04]: And you know, it is about time someone around here started being really helpful.
[SPEAKER_04]: So buddy, yes, I think you can help me cause a real trouble for these cultists.
[SPEAKER_04]: Why don't we see if we can find some security subsystems or maybe if we want to be real creative, figure out which part of this station we can open up to the black.
[SPEAKER_01]: is a double airlock body.
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't think I could open both of them the one sets out of my control, but I can tell you about the security systems, but I don't have access to myself.
[SPEAKER_04]: Alright, we can get access.
[SPEAKER_04]: He just tells us what's going on, buddy.
[SPEAKER_02]: There are cameras everywhere, buddy.
[SPEAKER_02]: The access them.
[SPEAKER_02]: You're going to have to get into the admin office.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's just a few skits either way.
[SPEAKER_02]: If you want access to some mighty fine, dangerous tools, you can find them in the mechanics bay.
[SPEAKER_02]: Bar sells west.
[SPEAKER_02]: Now as he talks, he pops a map up on the screen, a full map of the station with annotations about the most deadly spots, where he can find the most deadly weaponry.
[SPEAKER_02]: It is to want to end your own life in the life of everyone else on this God for stake in heal or loading through an affinity.
[SPEAKER_02]: Make your way to the power core room, just to the east and the utility room, just to pop in the skip north to the power core room, and in there I can give you the code that you need to overload it.
[SPEAKER_02]: and you can end just this meaningless existence.
[SPEAKER_02]: We're floating out here in the black.
[SPEAKER_02]: No one else around.
[SPEAKER_02]: Putting diesel in the starships that they can mine asteroids over and over again.
[SPEAKER_02]: What are we doing people?
[SPEAKER_01]: What are we doing?
[SPEAKER_04]: Hey, you know, this is this is great.
[SPEAKER_04]: This is just what I needed.
[SPEAKER_04]: Thank you.
[SPEAKER_04]: Now, is there another way out of this room?
[SPEAKER_04]: Or is just the door?
[SPEAKER_02]: If you leave this room, there's another door to the south.
[SPEAKER_02]: Within the showers, there is one man screaming in agony, and another laughing with glee.
[SPEAKER_02]: Alright.
[SPEAKER_04]: Alright, thanks buddy.
[SPEAKER_04]: Hey, listen.
[SPEAKER_04]: I'm going to give you the frequency our comms run, and if I meet you again, I'm going to call.
[SPEAKER_04]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_04]: If you like.
[SPEAKER_04]: You did good kid.
[SPEAKER_04]: by mode.
[SPEAKER_00]: Don't own good stuff for your looks.
[SPEAKER_04]: Ah, thank God he's so much better now.
[SPEAKER_04]: All right, so we got to get over to the admin office first.
[SPEAKER_04]: We got to try to get thorn.
[SPEAKER_04]: And we got to come up with a plan.
[SPEAKER_00]: I freaking get the mechanics bay so that we can end up getting some weapons.
[SPEAKER_00]: That might be real helpful.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's it.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's on the way for us to launch.
[SPEAKER_00]: Exactly.
[SPEAKER_00]: Which is why I'm thinking.
[SPEAKER_00]: If we just pull some guys in here.
[SPEAKER_00]: Just two of them.
[SPEAKER_00]: We might be able to end up grabbing some weapons off of them.
[SPEAKER_00]: Making this shorter trip.
[SPEAKER_02]: You guys hear a cough behind you, and you turn to see Dr. Speth coughing after she took a giant swing out of her flask.
[SPEAKER_04]: He's tied up and gagged.
[SPEAKER_02]: No droop.
[SPEAKER_02]: She's not tied up anymore.
[SPEAKER_02]: She's just good.
[SPEAKER_02]: She's tied to her chair, but she has one hand free, and she's wrenched her gag free.
[SPEAKER_02]: She's drinking out of her flask, and she says, What don't mind me?
[SPEAKER_02]: It just takes another step.
[SPEAKER_02]: Hey Doc.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's Doctor.
[SPEAKER_02]: I didn't get a degree for nothing.
[SPEAKER_04]: I doubt you got a degree working on a... Oh, don't... Trucks help like this in the ass-end of the galaxy.
[SPEAKER_04]: I got a degree.
[SPEAKER_04]: It just takes this step.
[SPEAKER_04]: All right, unless you have something helpful for how we can get around this station undetected, you should probably just sit there and drink your little drink.
[SPEAKER_02]: This one's locked.
[SPEAKER_04]: All right.
[SPEAKER_04]: Do what's the play in here?
[SPEAKER_04]: I mean, I'm thinking, you know, we could, I could open the door while you and Robert on each side of the door and then like take whoever comes in.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Hayley with two eyes of course, give him the old Tellah has a handshake.
[SPEAKER_06]: I'll post up next to the door and we can let him come in.
[SPEAKER_00]: I do the same thing.
[SPEAKER_00]: I set my hand ready to grab a gun that is coming in through the doorway and just yanking that sucker as hard as I can to pull him into the door hoping that Felix can close it behind us.
[SPEAKER_02]: So you guys unlock the door and let them in?
[SPEAKER_06]: No, that's the plan.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_02]: Kaylee reaches over from her spot and unlocks the door.
[SPEAKER_02]: Then you hear, oh, it's unlocked now.
[SPEAKER_02]: Careful, brother.
[SPEAKER_02]: the door opens but nobody comes in and then you hear a tentative voice say hello and the doctor for behind the desk tied up with gauze says hi and takes this wig over for flask what are you drinking there dock i'm a doctor
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm in and find out for yourself.
[SPEAKER_02]: He slags, bitten, bully warts.
[SPEAKER_02]: The man comes in.
[SPEAKER_00]: Do you come in with hands first?
[SPEAKER_00]: If he's coming in with a rifle, either one, I wanna grab the first thing that comes in, Yankee's ass in the room.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, let's do a, let's do an exert strength.
[SPEAKER_02]: and I roll a five on my exert strength.
[SPEAKER_02]: That is going to fail.
[SPEAKER_02]: He starts to pull back and hey, Lee, you're standing there too.
[SPEAKER_02]: So do you want to grab onto him and pull him in?
[SPEAKER_06]: I go by the neck of his robe and like haul him into the room.
[SPEAKER_02]: Roll exert strength.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think you're taking him to the principles office.
[SPEAKER_02]: Good, eight, you grab the deck and you throw him to the floor and as you're doing that you look out the door and you see that there's another man standing in shock And he's holding a laser pistol is pointing straight at you.
[SPEAKER_02]: Can I um well Robert acted you acted and then he has not yet acted Oh God, so I want the three of you to eat roll the two of you plus them to each of those straight-up decks Whoever rolls the best is gonna get the axe
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, and then is he has a plus zero.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm just gonna roll straight up one D20 Oh, a three so Robert Ross got an eight Hayley got a three and he got a three so Robert you've spin around after you're failed Like yanking of the first guy in and you're able to do something before the space goes off.
[SPEAKER_02]: What would you like to do?
[SPEAKER_00]: I look at the other guy, take a big old step outside the door and give his ass the old Tallahassee handshake, grab him, yank him in the room.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: You keep saying, Tallahassee handshake, I have no idea what that is.
[SPEAKER_02]: Is it you went people that are really aggressive handshakers and they like pull you in like they're sawing, like they're sharing a story.
[SPEAKER_06]: Oh my god, I just thought of Google this.
[SPEAKER_06]: Oh my god.
[SPEAKER_02]: Wait, is it sexual?
[SPEAKER_06]: Uh, it could be.
[SPEAKER_02]: Hell, it has the handshake.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, my, the urban dictionary entry is something else.
[SPEAKER_06]: Seeing that come up first though, so excited.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, my God, that's just happening in the room next to us.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, well, we swear on this pod, so I guess we can just tell everyone what a tally has to.
[SPEAKER_02]: No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm not here today.
[SPEAKER_02]: You think we're gonna get, you think we're gonna get blacklisted for saying what it's not like has to be.
[SPEAKER_04]: It's not our responsibility.
[SPEAKER_04]: It's your own, you get to go look at it yourself, it's a little homework assignment.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay everyone, everyone out there in podcast land, I know you love homework, to go ahead and look up Tallahassee handshake, and then or don't, but you know, like you don't have to.
[SPEAKER_02]: No, look up Tallahassee hands, that this is an order.
[SPEAKER_02]: You have to go on to our discord and tell us your favorite tell us the handshake moment Now that's an engagement I can get behind
[SPEAKER_02]: Now, that's the game that you got into you.
[SPEAKER_02]: Jesus.
[SPEAKER_00]: Anyway, you're welcome everyone.
[SPEAKER_02]: You tell it has to hand shake this guy.
[SPEAKER_02]: I guess this is what you, oh yeah, I do.
[SPEAKER_02]: Everyone has now paused the pod.
[SPEAKER_02]: Looked it up to know what it has to hand shake is and they know how uncomfortable it is for this man that you've just grabbed.
[SPEAKER_02]: So go ahead and pull, not pull.
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, roll, roll, a straight exert and see how hard your hand shake is.
[SPEAKER_02]: Uh, oh, that's a hard hand shake.
[SPEAKER_02]: I give him quite the Poland.
[SPEAKER_02]: I roll a 10.
[SPEAKER_02]: You really tell a hassy his hand shake.
[SPEAKER_02]: So you grab his anatomy and pull him into the room as hard as you can.
[SPEAKER_02]: From a point on his body that we will not mention, because everyone has Google.
[SPEAKER_02]: And he is now inside of the med day with a yellow, with a big, big yellow, and you pull a man.
[SPEAKER_02]: Vah!
[SPEAKER_02]: and Haley closes the door behind them.
[SPEAKER_02]: You don't have two void cultists on the floor, and as the second one hits the floor, the first one is like slowly rising to his feet smiling at you.
[SPEAKER_02]: What are you supposed to wait for?
[SPEAKER_04]: Finish these guys off.
[SPEAKER_06]: I want to punch him, but I'm so curious.
[SPEAKER_06]: What the hell?
[SPEAKER_06]: They're matching.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, hello?
[SPEAKER_02]: There were people in here.
[SPEAKER_02]: Hi, brother you're any he helps up the other guy.
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, thank you brother Bricks.
[SPEAKER_02]: Wow, one, two, three, four.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, four more people.
[SPEAKER_02]: Interesting.
[SPEAKER_02]: This is quite fun.
[SPEAKER_02]: And they've they've dropped their phaser and their shotgun since you've kind of yanked them out of their hands.
[SPEAKER_02]: Do you either have them in your possession or they're on the floor?
[SPEAKER_06]: I'm gonna kick the phaser in a Robert.
[SPEAKER_02]: The Robert has a shotgun in the phaser.
[SPEAKER_02]: I threw the phaser back to Felix.
[SPEAKER_02]: I wield the shotgun.
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, hello.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm your the drowned.
[SPEAKER_02]: I have seniority in this room.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's a pleasure to meet you.
[SPEAKER_02]: I will now conduct the ritual.
[SPEAKER_02]: The ascertain if you shall be untethered or hallowed.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, Robert, I'm not really into any rituals happening right now, so can we please solve this problem?
[SPEAKER_02]: Your like turns to you and just raises the hand, Felix, because oh no, no, you're unhallowed, you're unhallowed.
[SPEAKER_02]: I flip moth the ear and asshole.
[SPEAKER_02]: He turns to Robert.
[SPEAKER_00]: Unhallowed.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm sorry.
[SPEAKER_00]: I thought I was a brother.
[SPEAKER_00]: Give a what?
[SPEAKER_00]: What kind of handshake?
[SPEAKER_00]: That's a, that's what type of handshake a brother gives another brother.
[SPEAKER_00]: No, I'm sorry.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, the unhallowed are incredibly respected.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's not a bad at all.
[SPEAKER_02]: Both are great.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm myself an untethered, but many of the, the, the hollowed brethren that I have are, are, are, are, are great.
[SPEAKER_02]: Very respectful, please.
[SPEAKER_02]: Do not take any secret net this.
[SPEAKER_02]: He turns to the doctor and he says, unhaled.
[SPEAKER_02]: And then he, Jesus.
[SPEAKER_03]: We're not, we're, it sounds like they're like high school, clicky, they're like, at lunch, me like, uh, unhaled.
[SPEAKER_02]: Unhaled.
[SPEAKER_02]: and your turns to Hayley with two wise and his eyes widen.
[SPEAKER_02]: He takes a step back and he says, oh my, oh my, he steps forward to you and he gently places two fingers on your heartbeat on your on your throat, the pulse on your throat.
[SPEAKER_06]: What?
[SPEAKER_06]: I'm sorry, but- Are you ready?
[SPEAKER_06]: Brother Yor?
[SPEAKER_02]: He stares deep in your eyes.
[SPEAKER_02]: You feel almost hypnotized by it.
[SPEAKER_02]: My God.
[SPEAKER_02]: Brother.
[SPEAKER_02]: She's not simply untethered.
[SPEAKER_02]: She's touched the void already.
[SPEAKER_02]: And both of them step back from you.
[SPEAKER_02]: They clasp their hands.
[SPEAKER_02]: You have touched the void.
[SPEAKER_02]: Please tell us.
[SPEAKER_02]: How did you become untethered without becoming one of us?
[SPEAKER_02]: Without joining the Great Religion.
[SPEAKER_02]: Hey.
[SPEAKER_02]: What are they talking about?
[SPEAKER_06]: Touching a void.
[SPEAKER_06]: I will only tell you if you take us, promise the other people in this room safety, they are with me and take us to a man named Thorn, he is in the lounge.
[SPEAKER_02]: They will all become unhaled and you will become untethered.
[SPEAKER_02]: You will all be safe.
[SPEAKER_02]: Do not worry.
[SPEAKER_06]: What, I do not want any further changes to happen to the people in this room until after we are with Thorn.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm sorry.
[SPEAKER_02]: What is your name?
[SPEAKER_06]: It's Haley with two eyes.
[SPEAKER_06]: Not your sister.
[SPEAKER_02]: You have been untethered, but you have not yet ascended, you have not awakened, you do not understand what power you hold in your breast.
[SPEAKER_02]: You do not understand what emptiness spans your body.
[SPEAKER_02]: Once you are untethered and you join as you will understand the full extent of what has happened to you, it must have been extremely traumatizing to do this without us.
[SPEAKER_02]: and I apologize if this has happened to you and rare cases it can happen but we are here now you're going to be okay you will remember your past lives and your future lives and you will be safe any chance you can move him to his future laws haily yep yep I'm gonna just punch him I'm gonna punch him in the face this is too much I'm sorry okay so haily go ahead and roll to hit
[SPEAKER_06]: It does a 19 hit.
[SPEAKER_06]: It does for 11 damage.
[SPEAKER_02]: You smashed him in the face, which craters under your iron fist.
[SPEAKER_02]: He slumps to the ground, a bloody pulp.
[SPEAKER_02]: Brother Vox still stands and looks at you and says, Sister Hayley, what is the meaning of this?
[SPEAKER_03]: Here, let me show you.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's a metaphor, BOOM!
[SPEAKER_02]: Or 9 points of damage, punching him in the throat, crushing his larynx.
[SPEAKER_02]: He looks completely unfazed, as he crumbles to the ground.
[SPEAKER_02]: He chokes, he dies.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I've met computer more percentage of these guys.
[SPEAKER_06]: That was weird, right?
[UNKNOWN]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, Haley, do you have anything you want to tell us about that?
[SPEAKER_06]: I have no idea what they were talking about.
[SPEAKER_02]: The doctor says, excuse me.
[SPEAKER_02]: What now?
[SPEAKER_02]: This sucks.
[SPEAKER_02]: Please untie me.
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't like this.
[SPEAKER_02]: There are murderers on this station and you tied me up because you didn't agree with me?
[SPEAKER_02]: No, because you'd be allowed an annoying.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh my god, you're allowed an annoying.
[SPEAKER_02]: You're drunk, and I don't even know him.
[SPEAKER_04]: You're drunk, and I'm not high up to be able to deal with you right now.
[SPEAKER_06]: Listen, people, I am having a crisis.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, look, the big strong girls having a crisis.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, I'm having a crisis.
[SPEAKER_06]: Did you see that guy on the floor?
[SPEAKER_04]: I'm going to space this woman.
[SPEAKER_04]: I swear to God, oh, I'm going to space you.
[SPEAKER_06]: You guys are made or other.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, Haley, I just got to know what the hell they were talking about.
[SPEAKER_06]: Okay, okay, we have to go get thorn.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh my god, you're right.
[SPEAKER_00]: It is a time.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's perfect timing for Robert Ross, Master of Disguise.
[SPEAKER_02]: But that don't have to be a disguise for another time.
[SPEAKER_03]: The orange log seems like this mission is cursed.
[SPEAKER_03]: We can't even stop for gas without someone pointing a gun in my face.
[SPEAKER_03]: The crews at their wits end, Robert is probably stuffed full of a kilo of meat, and Felix is probably stoned off his gourd in the mid bay.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm really hoping Haley got my message, or at least hurt the gunfire.
[SPEAKER_03]: As long as I can keep these cultists talking, the less time they have to throw us into a metaphorical volcano.
[SPEAKER_03]: Unhallowed, untethered, is just about nonsense, and I doubt either option is a happy ending for the people involved.
[SPEAKER_03]: The only void I want anything to do with right now is to avoid getting any more bullets thrown at me.
[SPEAKER_03]: I met a nice lady in the admin office too, and I actually thought I was going to get a chance to rest at this little truck stop, but I guess that was too much to ask.
[SPEAKER_03]: Come on, Haley, where the hell are you guys?
[SPEAKER_04]: B.O.X.
[SPEAKER_04]: here, you know, I was really looking forward to some downtime, getting the chance to fashion the goat, maybe having a little recreation and all fun.
[SPEAKER_04]: But it seems like everywhere we go, trouble finds us, and I am just fed up with people trying to force me and others that I care about, into a different state of being, and I will be damned if these cultists are going to hollow us out or whatever the hell they're on about.
[SPEAKER_04]: I am worried about the warmth though.
[SPEAKER_04]: I've got a hilly and Robert, but he's nobody himself.
[SPEAKER_04]: It is just a fragile little guy, but we need him to pay for this fuel.
[SPEAKER_06]: Haley's log.
[SPEAKER_06]: You know, I do have some experience roughing it on missions.
[SPEAKER_06]: Refer back to the logs for the wifisa endeavor, but sometimes I do want nice things.
[SPEAKER_06]: I thought that a simple truck stop refueling might be my opportunity for a warm meal and a shower.
[SPEAKER_06]: But now, the moment I think things can be normal, here's that cult.
[SPEAKER_06]: And I guess the doctor did help us somewhat, but now I need to figure out what this boy is.
[SPEAKER_06]: Save all these people, because I don't know what an hollow it is, I don't know what and tether it is, but it's not happening.
[SPEAKER_06]: And a small adunctum, once we take care of all these guys, remind myself to ask Felix this brotherhood as some kind of pamphlet or website to get some information about the ascension, because
[SPEAKER_06]: One, I don't know what it means that I'm on to other.
[SPEAKER_06]: I'm not prepared for this, and I've got to be.
[SPEAKER_00]: Hmm.
[SPEAKER_00]: If Froggy messed up my Loki Palm deck, I will kill Hall that Slimey Toad.
[SPEAKER_00]: Luckily for him, he's on the ship with all our weapons.
[SPEAKER_00]: How many times does that tell him?
[SPEAKER_00]: But I'm the A-hole.
[SPEAKER_00]: Ah, oh my goodness.
[SPEAKER_00]: So far, it's actually shaping up to be a pretty fun day.
[SPEAKER_00]: Luckily Thor is the one chatting them up.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, that man could talk a gate off his hinges.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's got a ton of love for ten rows of teeth.
[SPEAKER_00]: Let's see what happens.
[SPEAKER_02]: Thanks for tuning in today to our exciting surprising story at a truck stop in space.
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