[SPEAKER_03]: Welcome to the Darkstar Adventurecast, where the stars are cold, the void is endless and dangerous lurk in every shadow.
[SPEAKER_03]: Out here, trust is a gamble, and survival is never guaranteed.
[SPEAKER_03]: On to Night's Adventurecast.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, we all feel great, but now let's try to find some alien artifact to sell.
[SPEAKER_00]: I was gonna ask a simple question before I covered myself in Jello.
[SPEAKER_02]: I do think you're gonna have to be bucket-ass and I can get into this.
[SPEAKER_02]: This is gonna be a gross episode.
[SPEAKER_03]: So sit back and enjoy.
[SPEAKER_03]: This is the Dark Star Adventure cast.
[SPEAKER_03]: Previously on the Darkstar Adventurecast, the crew touched down on the desert world's sibling to refuel, refresh, and visit with Froggy's old friend from Wofita, Dr. Veracorbin, a zino archaeologist with assumed to be bankrupt company like our industries.
[SPEAKER_03]: But after discovering the Dr. Vowska'd activate the alien exocyte and realize that it could be the answer to her bankruptcy problems, Dr. Veracorbin employed the crew of the goat to explore the exocyte with her.
[SPEAKER_03]: We now join the crew of the goat, as they entered a powered alien exosite for the first time in human history.
[SPEAKER_03]: Following the gentle downwards slope of the corridor, you arrive in fairly short order at a dead end.
[SPEAKER_03]: You've only traveled about 20 yards into this exosite.
[SPEAKER_03]: There are smooth walls on all sides of you, save for a small object at here to the right hand wall.
[SPEAKER_03]: The object is a translucent, jiggling mass of what appears to be jello, in cake form, like someone who just plopped it out of a fruit cake pan and stuck it on the wall.
[SPEAKER_03]: It begins to glow with a soft blue light at your approach.
[SPEAKER_04]: Felix, what do you make of this daily in Buncake?
[SPEAKER_04]: Well, it looks like a button, the worm, but I'm kind of hesitant to push a big glowing alien button.
[SPEAKER_04]: Uh, Alara, what do you think?
[SPEAKER_04]: You pick anything up from it?
[SPEAKER_03]: Uh, Felix?
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't understand what this is at all.
[SPEAKER_05]: Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
[SPEAKER_05]: And we are here to gain.
[SPEAKER_05]: Ha ha ha ha!
[SPEAKER_05]: I thought you were gonna fall that up with, and I slammed the button.
[SPEAKER_03]: Vera goes to touch the button and froggy grabs her wrist, and he says,
[SPEAKER_03]: He takes his step back with 30 says let them lose their hand to the jello molds
[SPEAKER_04]: I will take out my portable computer and like see if I could pick it up on like scanning it and like see if there's any kind of you know signals or anything and anything that I'm picking up.
[SPEAKER_03]: Great idea.
[SPEAKER_03]: So you scan for just all kinds of general signals that your trifles can pick up and the only thing you really pick up that you find kind of odd is heightened electrical interference.
[SPEAKER_03]: which you're under a bunch of sand and you're a half a mile away from the dome to research stations.
[SPEAKER_03]: You really shouldn't be picking up anything from there.
[SPEAKER_04]: I'm not picking up much, they're getting quite a bit of electrical interference, which is odd for where we are, but nothing really helpful.
[SPEAKER_00]: So are we going to push the button?
[SPEAKER_05]: Wait, if I know what a button does.
[SPEAKER_02]: Real quick, if you get closer or further away from it, do you get any type of change in your feelings or personality, any signal?
[SPEAKER_03]: Before she answers, Vera says, I have to ask.
[SPEAKER_03]: What Voss was saying before, what Felix has been saying, and that would Robert saying, What do you mean feeling?
[SPEAKER_03]: This is just a drone, she's back on the ship.
[SPEAKER_04]: Vera, do you want to figure out what's in this alien vault?
[SPEAKER_03]: Yes, of course.
[SPEAKER_04]: Then don't ask us any questions about Dr. Voss.
[SPEAKER_03]: She takes a step towards you, looking at Dr. Voss a little more closely.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay, fine then.
[SPEAKER_03]: Really push this button.
[SPEAKER_03]: you push it, I think it's funny that multiple times people have been like, wow, the only way to find out how a button works is to push it, and then no one pushes it, and it's like, well, someone's going to push this button.
[SPEAKER_04]: It's like one of those anime things where it's like it's doing the cuts of like the two people coming at each other fighting, and it keeps cutting right before they hit each other.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, two minutes, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm
[SPEAKER_00]: Because honestly, this is the way more exciting of a time than I ever thought we would be having Ansible in.
[SPEAKER_00]: So, yeah, I push the button.
[SPEAKER_05]: If there's one thing I'm good at, it's doing whatever I want, and I want to push this button.
[SPEAKER_05]: Hey!
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, instead of punching dudes in the faces, pushing buttons.
[SPEAKER_03]: The person you're doing is button until he gets annoyed, and that I punch him in the face.
[SPEAKER_03]: So you go to push the button with a couple fingers and instead of pushing inwards like a button would, your fingers begin to just think into the jello.
[SPEAKER_03]: Ah, gross.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, you're so wearing gloves.
[SPEAKER_00]: How does it feel is my hand is getting sucked into the bunk cake of jello?
[SPEAKER_03]: It feels exactly like sinking your hand into a bunk cake of jello.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's just my hand to feel anything other than Jello.
[SPEAKER_03]: Kohl's a little cold.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's a little cold in the Buncake of Jello.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_03]: Jello's been in the fridge.
[SPEAKER_03]: So you only opt to like your fingertips right now?
[SPEAKER_00]: All right.
[SPEAKER_00]: Is there any change in the Jello itself?
[SPEAKER_03]: The Jello remains inert.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_00]: Um, I put, I keep pushing forward.
[SPEAKER_00]: With your hand?
[SPEAKER_00]: With my hand.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay, you push the remainder of your hand into the cello, and when you do that, it feels like something locks in this place, and each of your fingers, all four fingers, and thumb, are like cradled by an individual invisible hammock.
[SPEAKER_00]: Huh, it feels nice somehow.
[SPEAKER_04]: Okay, you're happy to have it.
[SPEAKER_04]: You're having a manicure.
[SPEAKER_04]: Great.
[SPEAKER_00]: Can you open the door?
[SPEAKER_03]: Um, if I move my hand around does anything happen you begin to move your hand around like moving your fingers and like stress like strain again sees like invisible hammocks
[SPEAKER_03]: And as you do that, the wall in front of you begins to respond.
[SPEAKER_03]: And it's like the wall in front of you is a jello mold itself.
[SPEAKER_03]: And as you like move your fingers, you create rents in that jello wall.
[SPEAKER_03]: So you move your index finger and from the top left down to the middle, you create a rent into wall and you can kind of see through it to the darkness beyond.
[SPEAKER_03]: When you move your finger back up, the wall fills back in, and it's extremely fluid.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's not like stone like clicking into place.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's like it's simply melting away, and then rebuilding.
[SPEAKER_04]: Emily?
[SPEAKER_04]: Huh.
[SPEAKER_02]: All right, we'll reach out, Emily.
[SPEAKER_02]: Let's get it all the way over so we can get in there.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yep.
[SPEAKER_02]: There was definitely nothing sexual about that.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's Jello.
[SPEAKER_04]: We kind of saw you know, dip our heads and shake them.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, Boston, Vanirbethko, Robert.
[SPEAKER_03]: Sorry, ladies.
[SPEAKER_00]: These are alien artifacts.
[SPEAKER_03]: And then Froggy goes, Robert, he doesn't get it.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's okay.
[SPEAKER_00]: Actually, Haley is going to tear her hand out of the thing.
[SPEAKER_00]: What happens when she removes her hand?
[SPEAKER_03]: You just remove your hand and the tiny holes that you created in the wall all stay.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, perfect.
[SPEAKER_00]: then I put my hand back in the gelo and create an opening large enough for us to get rid of.
[SPEAKER_03]: So you scoop down with your hand and create like a six foot tall doorway.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's like oval shaped, essentially.
[SPEAKER_03]: There is says, I don't know how you are all so calm about this.
[SPEAKER_03]: This is the second piece of alien technology that actually works.
[SPEAKER_03]: We've seen, unlit, inert, goo, for lack of a better word.
[SPEAKER_03]: We call them, of viscous molds.
[SPEAKER_03]: Attached to walls and ceilings and floors.
[SPEAKER_03]: We've even seen whole pools of them before.
[SPEAKER_03]: We've never known what they've done.
[SPEAKER_04]: We just shut down a portal to an alternate dimension, so like this is not that big of a deal to us.
[SPEAKER_03]: I want to hear about that, but I can't, I can't hear it right now.
[SPEAKER_04]: I can't hear your overloading people, be like, I know that's what I do, I'm a hacker, I overload the systems.
[SPEAKER_04]: I will say, I wasn't expecting the alien technology to be based on gelatin.
[SPEAKER_04]: Just gonna throw that out there.
[SPEAKER_04]: It's a gelatin-based society, yeah.
[SPEAKER_04]: They're probably made of goo.
[SPEAKER_04]: Well, you have it.
[SPEAKER_04]: We don't make our doors at a bones.
[SPEAKER_05]: Don't we feel like three bones?
[SPEAKER_05]: Three bones?
[SPEAKER_04]: I don't.
[SPEAKER_04]: I don't know what Robert is with these doors.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm literally struggling to keep it together in the back over here.
[SPEAKER_04]: I'm about a bonus, dude.
[SPEAKER_04]: You can't do it.
[SPEAKER_03]: So just past this door, you can see that there's a large round room.
[SPEAKER_03]: In that room, there's a sort of a large hole in the middle of the room.
[SPEAKER_03]: It probably takes up like 60, 70% of the room.
[SPEAKER_03]: Kind of poking your head in, you don't see any adornments on the walls.
[SPEAKER_03]: No other exits.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's just all...
[SPEAKER_03]: Bear kind of concrete like a gritty concrete which you now know is whatever this fluid is that covers the walls I can make doors appear and disappear everything here is that same substance God don't want us to sound like a loaded question, but do you move into the room?
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, I don't know.
[SPEAKER_03]: I think that's the question that people like DMs ask and then they're like Idiot the trap goes off
[SPEAKER_00]: Ha ha!
[SPEAKER_00]: Is the floor the same substance as the wall?
[SPEAKER_01]: No much jello.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's so much jello.
[SPEAKER_00]: Is it also jello?
[SPEAKER_03]: Well the the jello stuff controlled the wall and created a door in it.
[SPEAKER_03]: And the substance that you removed from the wall was seamless with the wall itself.
[SPEAKER_03]: You can't really tell a difference between the substance that that used to be here.
[SPEAKER_03]: in front of this hole and what the wall that you can manipulate is made out of.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's a gritty concrete, it's semi-porous, it kind of feels like coral.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like it has that like rough, sometimes bulbous texture, tiny holes, and sometimes very extremely like gritty.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_02]: Are you, um, I definitely think we should move into the room, uh, Froggy.
[SPEAKER_02]: Don't you want to show, uh, how much of an adventure you've become?
[SPEAKER_02]: Why don't you take the lead?
[UNKNOWN]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_03]: And he looks at Vera and he takes it up and then she puts a hand on his shoulder.
[SPEAKER_03]: And she says, Froggy, there's a professional explorers.
[SPEAKER_03]: Let them lose their hand and then the two kind of like laugh.
[SPEAKER_03]: And he's like, I said that.
[SPEAKER_03]: I said that before.
[SPEAKER_03]: And she's like, I know, I've got it.
[SPEAKER_03]: I thought of it, I thought of it.
[SPEAKER_03]: I thought it was really funny.
[SPEAKER_03]: I then I said it.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, I missed you and then they give each other a big hug.
[SPEAKER_03]: And then Voss says, Robert, I'm pretty sure that's why we have you.
[SPEAKER_02]: to push these two into the room first, absolutely.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm sorry to be fair, your heart piled, but can't afford to lose you.
[SPEAKER_03]: Healy.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yep.
[SPEAKER_03]: I think you should probably go first.
[SPEAKER_00]: Really?
[SPEAKER_03]: Absolutely, I think the honor is all yours.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, healy.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's going to be the one of two of us.
[SPEAKER_02]: Rock paper scissors.
[SPEAKER_03]: Rock paper scissors.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay, so I'm going to say rock paper scissors, and then you guys both yell out what you do.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_03]: Rock paper scissors shoot.
[SPEAKER_03]: Rock.
[SPEAKER_03]: correct neck.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay, and again rock paper scissors shoot rock paper just beat rock.
[SPEAKER_03]: Wow Don't you know Stephanie really well The rock avalanche.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's the triple rock and a row is my go-to What's what so at the loser has to go in or the winner gets the cheese.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh It goes in
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_02]: Waiter, sorry.
[SPEAKER_02]: When are you guys to choose?
[SPEAKER_02]: And we'll, got there.
[SPEAKER_02]: Let's just say, we had a bad experience that one time.
[SPEAKER_02]: I didn't hate we go first.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'll take the lead.
[SPEAKER_00]: I got this for Aubrey, don't worry.
[SPEAKER_00]: I have to burn my stripes somehow, right?
[SPEAKER_04]: First night, everything wanted to go in.
[SPEAKER_04]: And now they're both falling over each other to go in.
[SPEAKER_04]: Hey, now it's a little bit of a waste.
[SPEAKER_04]: Bye.
[SPEAKER_00]: Take the lead girl.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I look around just to see if anything shifts or moves, say.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's like, like, go into the space.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_03]: You add you into the room and everything seems to stay stable.
[SPEAKER_03]: You're in a round room and there's a big round hole in the floor.
[SPEAKER_03]: And as you approach the hole, looking around everywhere, you clock all the exits in the room.
[SPEAKER_03]: There are no exits.
[SPEAKER_03]: There's just the one that you came through.
[SPEAKER_03]: There's no adornments.
[SPEAKER_03]: The walls are all made of that coral-like texture.
[SPEAKER_03]: And as you move towards the hole in the middle of the room, you see that it's not a hole.
[SPEAKER_03]: but a pool.
[SPEAKER_03]: A pool filled with goo.
[SPEAKER_03]: The same goo that you just stuck your fingers into.
[SPEAKER_03]: It may really gross episode.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's just so gross.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's going to be your intro line feeling.
[SPEAKER_03]: This is going to be a gross episode.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's going to be a favorite dude.
[SPEAKER_03]: Wait, you like the lines at the beginning?
[SPEAKER_03]: Absolutely.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I love doing that.
[SPEAKER_04]: All right, I'm going to move in two with Foss.
[SPEAKER_04]: As I go in, I'm going to be checking my data slab.
[SPEAKER_04]: Just to see if the level of electrical interference is changing at all, as we're kind of moving further into the complex.
[SPEAKER_03]: it increases as you move in and something else that you're mathematically oriented mind notices is that this room isn't just like round.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's almost certainly a perfect circle as is the pool that's in the middle of the room.
[SPEAKER_04]: I'm going to I'm going to keep checking the tool in the front so I'm not going to like raise anything up to the team unless it begins to seem important but I will kind of keep an eye on it.
[SPEAKER_03]: If the interference is like a skill of 1 to 100, you were at like 30 before, which is the odd.
[SPEAKER_03]: And when you step into this room, it jumps up to 60.
[SPEAKER_04]: Ooh damn.
[SPEAKER_04]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_04]: I will I will say something.
[SPEAKER_04]: So as I move in.
[SPEAKER_04]: Whoa, whoa, all right, that electrical interference I noticed before it is getting much higher.
[SPEAKER_04]: There is something that's, I think I'll put in a lot of power down here.
[SPEAKER_05]: Maybe it has to do with how the goo works.
[SPEAKER_04]: I mean, yeah, I mean, if that little bit of goo gave off that much interference, then this big pile of goo, I guess it could give off this much interference.
[SPEAKER_00]: I shuffle a little bit towards the pool.
[SPEAKER_03]: But it does not change in any way.
[SPEAKER_04]: No, it's just different in the room hell.
[SPEAKER_04]: It doesn't seem to change based on what you're doing.
[SPEAKER_04]: If you want to get in, we can see if it changes when you get in.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I just wanted to recon from how big is the hole, the pool?
[SPEAKER_03]: So the room itself is about, well, so from Hayley's point of view, you're like, it's like 20-ish yards, Felix, you're like, this is like 25-and-a-half yards, and this pool takes up about 17 yards in diameter.
[SPEAKER_00]: What?
[SPEAKER_03]: I feel like that's, so it's like the room is all pool.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, it's like you're in, it's like you're in an indoor pool area.
[SPEAKER_03]: The pool takes up most of it and then there's like this like 10 feet around the whole edge.
[SPEAKER_02]: Robert would like to look over at a boss to see if she is in any way moving and if the proximity or increase electrical appearances impact and earn it.
[SPEAKER_03]: She hasn't said anything, so you're actually unsure.
[SPEAKER_03]: It evolves.
[SPEAKER_03]: How you doing in there?
[SPEAKER_02]: Like, we should be scared, good, like, scammed it, good, or like.
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't, I don't quite know how you are supposed to feel, but I feel good.
[SPEAKER_03]: I feel, it's like when I was in a human body, I felt like I was meant to be in a human body, and ever since I've been in this body, I haven't felt like I've meant to be in this body, and now I feel like I'm meant to be in this body, I feel like I feel good, Robert.
[SPEAKER_03]: How are you?
[SPEAKER_02]: Um, I'm just so happy you're feeling good.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, we all feel great, but now let's try to find some alien artifacts to sell.
[SPEAKER_05]: Ali, we know that goo manipulates things in the room, so is there any chance that if you start playing in the pool or something?
[SPEAKER_00]: I start climbing in the pool?
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, I know.
[SPEAKER_00]: I was going to ask a simple question before I covered myself in jello.
[SPEAKER_04]: Good.
[SPEAKER_00]: Man.
[SPEAKER_04]: You and Robert covered yourselves in time and goo and oil.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: What's wrong with the warriors?
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_05]: It's a warriors thing.
[SPEAKER_00]: That was a Robert thing.
[SPEAKER_05]: I'm super jealous.
[SPEAKER_03]: Warriors.
[SPEAKER_03]: The warriors.
[SPEAKER_03]: Come out and goo.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's like a finished feel like this version of the description Fine, feel like when you get closer to the pool you're always looking for like a port to jack-in to you know You're like what is up with this area of what's like digital or like electronic or something that is like gonna connect me to the network I'm never gonna beat these allegations if you keep talking about me like that keep jack that port.
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, it's looking for a port to jack-in to
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay, so as you move closer to the Goop pool, the Goop pool that Haley is frantically scrambling towards all of a sudden for some reason.
[SPEAKER_03]: You notice that there is an indent on the rightmost side of the Goop pool.
[SPEAKER_03]: As you kind of swing your body that way and your data pad fall is suit, you notice that that is directly east for the magnetic poles on this planet, unciviline.
[SPEAKER_03]: This small indent is exactly the same size as the virtual intelligence that is Dr. Boss now currently in habits.
[SPEAKER_04]: As I noticed this, Hayley's probably just about to dive into the pool.
[SPEAKER_04]: I put him out.
[SPEAKER_04]: Whoa Hayley, Hayley, hold on a second.
[SPEAKER_00]: What?
[SPEAKER_04]: I think there's something else we can try here.
[SPEAKER_04]: Alara, there's an indentation here.
[SPEAKER_04]: Do you see that?
[SPEAKER_04]: I think you're vessel.
[SPEAKER_04]: What fit in it?
[SPEAKER_04]: Let me see it.
[SPEAKER_04]: I turned Dr. Boss to look quote unquote at the indent.
[SPEAKER_03]: There's goo in the bottom of that indent.
[SPEAKER_04]: What are you afraid to get a little dirty?
[SPEAKER_04]: No, there's a, there's a plate on the bottom of this orb.
[SPEAKER_03]: And you take a look, Felix, and there's actually like a smooth plate.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's like an ancient diameter at the bottom of the orb.
[SPEAKER_03]: And looking in the indent, you can see this goo is an ancient diameter as well.
[SPEAKER_03]: I think that this chassis is meant to fit into that indent.
[SPEAKER_04]: I agree.
[SPEAKER_04]: What do you say, Doc, yep, to give it a try?
[SPEAKER_03]: If I was not casino linguist, I would probably say no, however, I shouldn't go I am.
[SPEAKER_03]: If I can erase and I'm gone forever, it's been a fun ride Felix.
[SPEAKER_04]: Well, I'll be right here, ready to snack you back if you need me to.
[SPEAKER_06]: What's the do this Felix?
[SPEAKER_04]: Alright everybody, watch out.
[SPEAKER_04]: I don't know what's going to happen.
[SPEAKER_04]: I kneeled down and I gently lower, talking about this chassis into the indentation, releasing her when she touches down.
[SPEAKER_03]: The lights all over the orb go into a kaleidoscope of colors.
[SPEAKER_03]: Every hue you can imagine starts to rainbow and ripple across your surface.
[SPEAKER_03]: The blue-lit goo that's in the pool begins to ripple.
[SPEAKER_03]: In a few waves, course back and forth, it's flushed over the edge a little bit, and then the fluid finds its way back into the pool.
[SPEAKER_03]: And then it goes still.
[SPEAKER_03]: The lights on Dr. Voss' chassis, dim, and go to a soft blue.
[SPEAKER_03]: Felix, this is a two-person task.
[SPEAKER_04]: Okay, what do you mean to do?
[SPEAKER_03]: I find myself in a deep and unwavering digital ocean.
[SPEAKER_03]: The horizon is an unfathomably far, far distance away.
[SPEAKER_03]: The ocean is deep, deeper than any ocean, on any planet that any human has ever encountered.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's, it's not just an ocean, it's a network, a network of connections, it's the way that these beings connect into their own electronic network, much like our exonette.
[SPEAKER_04]: That was it.
[SPEAKER_03]: Because an organic being, you should be able to connect the same way that I'm connected now by simply submerging yourself in the pool, which I can now see is a enhanced nano fluid.
[SPEAKER_03]: You'll be able to breathe just fine, Felix.
[SPEAKER_04]: All right, so fully submerged then like all the way submerged.
[SPEAKER_03]: Just checking it seems to be the case They are gonna want complete bodily contact with this fluid.
[SPEAKER_03]: All right Well, it were the dock everybody have I guess I'm going in there are steps forward and says wait wait wait Whoa feel like so you share about this
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, why not do I need to go.
[SPEAKER_04]: I'll go instead Listen, it's not that I don't trust you.
[SPEAKER_04]: It's just that I have how can I say this?
[SPEAKER_04]: No faith in your skills as a technician.
[SPEAKER_04]: I'm gonna get in there and work with Dr. Voss to understand this system
[SPEAKER_03]: Froggy puts a hand on her shoulder and he says there's the explorers let his body dissolve in the go and then they laugh and she says okay Okay, okay.
[SPEAKER_03]: She likes you go first, but I'm going second, okay?
[SPEAKER_00]: I've got to try this Oh, you're not going second.
[SPEAKER_03]: Do you have do you want to go second?
[SPEAKER_03]: Ali calls second
[SPEAKER_03]: This pool is big, Haley, let's go in at the same time after.
[SPEAKER_03]: This is what we came here to find.
[SPEAKER_03]: What a party.
[SPEAKER_04]: Alright, how about you all just staying back?
[SPEAKER_04]: Just wait a second and let's just see what happens.
[SPEAKER_02]: Totally refelix.
[SPEAKER_02]: I will say from the description from the doctor.
[SPEAKER_02]: I do think you're gonna have to be book it Asked and I could get into this.
[SPEAKER_04]: It knows she did not say anything about that She said full bodily contact.
[SPEAKER_04]: No, she said voice emerged.
[SPEAKER_04]: She did not say it.
[SPEAKER_04]: Listen if a while on my clothes off shoot a vast
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay, I don't think you're not to take your clothes off, but I'm also not sure if whatever this species is even worse close.
[SPEAKER_04]: If it's a nano fluid, it can get under my clothes.
[SPEAKER_04]: It's fine.
[SPEAKER_03]: Try it with your clothes on if it doesn't work, you can strip down after.
[SPEAKER_04]: Perfect.
[SPEAKER_03]: If you're feeling modest, everyone can leave the room.
[SPEAKER_04]: Sounds good.
[SPEAKER_04]: I tell you what I do want, though.
[SPEAKER_04]: Hey, I want you to tie that rope around my waist.
[SPEAKER_04]: So you're going to eat me out if I go into some kind of seizure or something.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, great idea, Felix.
[SPEAKER_00]: Thank you.
[SPEAKER_00]: I start to tie the ropes around the rope around Felix so that he, you know, can safely hopefully go into the goo, the goo pool, and Felix, I know we don't get along the best, but please do not get stuck in there.
[SPEAKER_00]: I will pull you out, just pull on the rope three times.
[SPEAKER_04]: And hey, I trust you, I know you've got me.
[SPEAKER_03]: I just want to ask, if Felix pulls on the rope twice, what are you going to do?
[SPEAKER_04]: That means he wants to be in the goo for it.
[SPEAKER_03]: Forever.
[SPEAKER_03]: He wants to be in the goo for it.
[SPEAKER_03]: So you guys map out your 1 to 10 rope tugging methodology.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yep.
[SPEAKER_03]: We call it the 10-tug program.
[SPEAKER_03]: No, you don't.
[SPEAKER_03]: We can't with this episode.
[SPEAKER_03]: We can't.
[SPEAKER_03]: My fault.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay, so you guys have your 10-tug.
[SPEAKER_03]: Wait, where'd you go with the 10-tug?
[SPEAKER_00]: It was free.
[SPEAKER_04]: It's only three.
[SPEAKER_04]: You all make it.
[SPEAKER_04]: Neither me nor Hayley.
[SPEAKER_04]: The only one involved with this are coming up.
[SPEAKER_04]: All yank on it three times.
[SPEAKER_04]: And I'll assume I go to some kind of seizure that will basically equate to it being the hanged three times.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay, that's Brian, can you make that rewind noise again?
[SPEAKER_06]: Don't work him in the middle of the game!
[SPEAKER_03]: Felix, you are about to enter the pool.
[SPEAKER_03]: Haley has just tied a rope around you and wished you luck.
[SPEAKER_03]: You have come up with your three-tog methodology.
[SPEAKER_03]: He talks about this.
[SPEAKER_03]: What would you like to do?
[SPEAKER_04]: So I will sit at the edge of the pool and put my feet in.
[SPEAKER_04]: It's called.
[SPEAKER_04]: Ooh, my shiver.
[SPEAKER_04]: And I will move in to the pool.
[SPEAKER_04]: Hold it onto the side, still at first.
[SPEAKER_04]: See you in the back in touch.
[SPEAKER_04]: A bottom of any kind.
[SPEAKER_03]: You can't, but as you move into the pool, you find that you find it like a stasis, like you float in space.
[SPEAKER_04]: It seems to be very buoyant.
[SPEAKER_04]: Alright, I'm gonna go under now.
[SPEAKER_04]: And I instinctively hold my breath and duck under.
[SPEAKER_03]: You felt kind of like a prickling on your skin as you were moving about in the pool and when you duck under that prickling feeling and the coldness that goes along with it rushes over your scalp when you are fully submerged for a few seconds a warmth suffuses your body from your toes all the way up to the tip of your head.
[SPEAKER_03]: You go a warmer and warmer until you feel quite comfortable.
[SPEAKER_03]: You feel like you're cradled in a womb and then you find yourself opening your eyes in an infinite
[SPEAKER_03]: Your head is above the water, and you look out and see the great green sky of an alien world.
[SPEAKER_03]: Even though it is full daylight, there are plenty of stars in the sky.
[SPEAKER_03]: You don't see a sun anywhere.
[SPEAKER_03]: Your unsure exactly where this green glow is coming from.
[SPEAKER_03]: At first at least, within a few seconds you realize that the entire ocean is covered with a green algae.
[SPEAKER_03]: And it's lighting up the sky with its luminance.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's hard to see through this gain of the ocean.
[SPEAKER_03]: How far down is the figure?
[SPEAKER_03]: Don't we?
[SPEAKER_03]: Pretty deep, like 10 yards.
[SPEAKER_04]: Something else around me in any direction.
[SPEAKER_04]: You are completely alone.
[SPEAKER_04]: Hope I'm a good swimmer.
[SPEAKER_03]: I do have heavy robot legs.
[SPEAKER_03]: Hmm.
[SPEAKER_03]: Well you find in this realm you don't have robot legs.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh damn.
[SPEAKER_03]: You find in this realm you are an excellent swimmer.
[SPEAKER_03]: In fact, the mere thought of moving in a certain direction moves you that way.
[SPEAKER_03]: Crack a big smile.
[SPEAKER_04]: But then I think is my body my own.
[SPEAKER_04]: As I think about the way I feel and look more closely.
[SPEAKER_03]: You look at your legs, they are your legs.
[SPEAKER_03]: You look at your arms, there's that weird mole, there's the hair on your arms you know and love.
[SPEAKER_03]: You're wearing a shirt, even, that you recognize from your youth.
[SPEAKER_03]: In fact, you seem to be the perfect recreation of how you picture yourself in your mind.
[SPEAKER_04]: It used to this.
[SPEAKER_04]: Okay, okay, let's figure this out.
[SPEAKER_04]: All right, well there's only one thing to do, I guess.
[SPEAKER_04]: Let's go see what that is.
[SPEAKER_04]: And with that, I kind of kick off and dive down to investigate the shape beneath the water.
[SPEAKER_03]: Once you are under the water, you realize that you can see everything perfectly.
[SPEAKER_03]: Clarity underwater is not an issue.
[SPEAKER_03]: It says though there is no water at all.
[SPEAKER_03]: You are floating in just air.
[SPEAKER_03]: The figure below you is immediately visible and you begin to move towards it.
[SPEAKER_03]: It is a blonde woman.
[SPEAKER_03]: In her late 30s wearing a lab coat, a practical pair of slacks, and wire rimmed glasses.
[SPEAKER_03]: As you move down to her, says... Felix, Felix, you made it.
[SPEAKER_03]: Are you okay?
[SPEAKER_03]: Dr. Foss, is that you?
[SPEAKER_03]: Lara?
[SPEAKER_03]: She takes the look at her arms, and she says, Yeah, I suppose here you're exactly how you remember yourself.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm glad that the goo didn't dissolve your organic body.
[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, I don't have any guarantee of that right now to be honest.
[SPEAKER_03]: I suppose that's true, but if you're still conscious here, I can only assume you're still alive there, one can hope.
[SPEAKER_03]: So what do we do now?
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know if you can feel the same thing I can feel, but just take a moment.
[SPEAKER_03]: You're larger than your body.
[SPEAKER_03]: The frame that you see in front of you, your arms and your legs, this is not who you are here to.
[SPEAKER_03]: the space that you think you should occupy.
[SPEAKER_03]: Here's a size in the shape you think you should be.
[SPEAKER_03]: But take a moment and close your eyes.
[SPEAKER_03]: Imagine that you are part of this ocean.
[SPEAKER_03]: You're part of the data stream.
[SPEAKER_03]: Because that's what this is.
[SPEAKER_03]: This is a digital ocean.
[SPEAKER_03]: Can you feel the currents?
[SPEAKER_04]: It closed my eyes, and I stretch out my senses, kind of letting myself float like almost dissolve into the water as I feel the motion and everything flowing past me and threw me in around me.
[SPEAKER_03]: Roll a program wisdom, a sentence I would never thought I would say.
[SPEAKER_04]: How wise are you?
[SPEAKER_04]: What program in?
[SPEAKER_03]: We're talking about a two-day program.
[SPEAKER_03]: I got a seven.
[SPEAKER_03]: You feel yourself dissolved into the digital ocean.
[SPEAKER_03]: And you feel the undercurrents.
[SPEAKER_03]: We can deploy you this way in that.
[SPEAKER_03]: You recognize the limmers of light in the distance.
[SPEAKER_03]: Lighthouses.
[SPEAKER_03]: No.
[SPEAKER_03]: Beacons.
[SPEAKER_03]: Cubs.
[SPEAKER_03]: Terminals.
[SPEAKER_03]: Notes.
[SPEAKER_03]: This is the network map.
[SPEAKER_03]: You don't understand it.
[SPEAKER_03]: You can't traverse it.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's too foreign.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's too alien.
[SPEAKER_03]: But you can feel it.
[SPEAKER_03]: You can see it even though you can't understand it.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's like looking at a fast forest from a distance and trying to pick out the individual trees.
[SPEAKER_04]: I'd bask in the kind of awe of it for a time, and then I kind of come back to my body to where I was with Alara.
[SPEAKER_04]: That's amazing.
[SPEAKER_04]: Alara, that's like nothing ever felt or seen before.
[SPEAKER_03]: I can barely comprehend the scale of this.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's the same feeling I get when I connect to the exo-net.
[SPEAKER_03]: You once told me that you wanted to move past the limitations of the human body, and although I did not choose to do that, it's a blessing in many ways.
[SPEAKER_03]: And if you're able to do it as I have, this is what awaits you on the other side.
[SPEAKER_04]: It's like a dream that's the freedom and the peace that I feel here.
[SPEAKER_04]: It's like nothing I've ever experienced for a good of hope to.
[SPEAKER_04]: If only I could dive down and explore those lights, those nodes more closely, but I can't quite make sense of that.
[SPEAKER_03]: I can not either.
[SPEAKER_03]: Even though this chassis was built to connect in this way with this technology, I don't have the knowledge of the programming to do it.
[SPEAKER_03]: But something we can do here, perhaps an experience you'll never be able to have again, is we can transfer data instantly to each other.
[SPEAKER_03]: I will take some of my knowledge and I'll give it to you, and it will be as if you learned it and experienced it.
[SPEAKER_03]: It will be startling at first, but it is, in my experience, the height of what a realm like this can give you.
[SPEAKER_04]: I mean, you have so much to share, so much knowledge you have about, about the alien species about just single linguistics, and I hope that I equally have something to share with you.
[SPEAKER_04]: But all I have to ask is that all this place is for us, is that all we'll have discovered here in this, in this vault?
[SPEAKER_03]: I hope not.
[SPEAKER_03]: The peace I have talking to you is about 1% of my processing power.
[SPEAKER_03]: Everything I was I have is scouring the digital ocean attempting to make sense of it.
[SPEAKER_03]: at least one that leaves this immediate area.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's more like a silo, narrow, but deep, but I can see the connections, like channels or rivers, tried up, walled off and damned.
[SPEAKER_03]: They likely led off world, this alien species, whoever they were used this as their own exonette, connecting all of their worlds, but it's tried up.
[SPEAKER_03]: So we are here in what is likely
[SPEAKER_04]: Good.
[SPEAKER_04]: Well, then anything you have to share with me I'd love to accept.
[SPEAKER_03]: Felix, I know sharing with you a deep expertise, something like Enzynal Inquistics, it would be like reading an article on it.
[SPEAKER_03]: You would learn with the article as to say where you wouldn't necessarily learn it.
[SPEAKER_03]: There's no substitution for education, but you already have a basis in mechanical engineering.
[SPEAKER_03]: So what I'd like to share with you are the experiments that we did on Wofisa.
[SPEAKER_03]: If you are,
[SPEAKER_03]: You feel something on the edge of your brain, Felix, it's almost like a knock on a door, and all you have to do is answer it.
[SPEAKER_03]: I open my brain to Dr. Vass.
[SPEAKER_03]: The information isn't a rush, it doesn't flow into you, it doesn't slam into you, there's no force, there's no resistance.
[SPEAKER_03]: You open the door and you simply now.
[SPEAKER_03]: It says if you open the door to another room in your own home,
[SPEAKER_03]: And now that that door is open, that room is accessible.
[SPEAKER_03]: I feel, I feel so smart now.
[SPEAKER_04]: Alright.
[SPEAKER_04]: Thank you.
[SPEAKER_04]: Alright, I mean, that's, I feel like I could share some routines and programs with you, but especially with your ability to connect to the accident and how I don't have anything to share with you that you don't already know.
[SPEAKER_03]: Felix, it's okay.
[SPEAKER_03]: It actually, I found something a bit more exciting than that.
[SPEAKER_03]: There is something here I think we can use.
[SPEAKER_03]: ExxonT.
[SPEAKER_03]: This place.
[SPEAKER_03]: When I read the text on the door, I thought it may be a medical facility of some sort and it is.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's a core and team.
[SPEAKER_03]: It must have been a terrible disease if they couldn't have solved it.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't see much more about it, except that I see a record of many other facilities.
[SPEAKER_03]: The name, Sibleen, that's not what they call this planet.
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't have a way to put it into English, but I see the symbol.
[SPEAKER_03]: This other symbol here, this must be Polyphen, and this one Wafisa.
[SPEAKER_03]: All of the facilities of this sort were here on Sibleen, none on Polyphen, none on Wafisa.
[SPEAKER_03]: The symbol in May have been a quarantine colony.
[SPEAKER_03]: But besides that, I've found something actionable, a switch.
[SPEAKER_03]: A virtual intelligence is needed to activate it, but it can't do it alone.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's sort of like a main circuit breaker.
[SPEAKER_03]: This whole building, whatever you want to call it, is running on emergency power, to turn it back on.
[SPEAKER_03]: It takes a virtual intelligence and an organic being, whatever those beings were.
[SPEAKER_03]: I've primed it for you.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm sharing the digital coordinates that you can call that with you now.
[SPEAKER_03]: See if you can't reach out and flip the switch.
[SPEAKER_03]: All right, I'll do it again.
[SPEAKER_03]: Feelings go ahead and roll programming with a plus one because of boss helping you.
[SPEAKER_04]: And what's my attribute?
[SPEAKER_04]: I'm using for that again.
[SPEAKER_03]: Wisdom again, yes.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_03]: Check out with your feeling.
[SPEAKER_03]: I got an eight on my roll.
[SPEAKER_03]: So you reach out with your mind, and you feel like a big, heavy lever, like a toggle that you can physically move with your mind.
[SPEAKER_03]: You're not sure if that's actually how it presents itself, but
[SPEAKER_03]: Due to the limitations of your own body and your own sensory perceptions, that's how your brain isn't interpreting it.
[SPEAKER_03]: I train mentally and push it up.
[SPEAKER_03]: Back out of the go, everyone that's not Felix, what you see is light.
[SPEAKER_03]: Turn on in the room from some mysterious source.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's like the lights simply emanates from the walls.
[SPEAKER_03]: A nice calming 3000k light, just glowing dimly with a soft luminance from all of the walls.
[SPEAKER_03]: The door that you came through instantly melts shut, and at the same time, a door in the other side of the room melts.
[SPEAKER_03]: Hoping, leading to a hallway that is now also lit dimly.
[SPEAKER_03]: Felix, down in the digital ocean, you are conscious this returns back into your digital self after flicking this switch, and you get the feeling, now you know for a fact that there's something else close by that is not just you and Dr. Boss.
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh no, now it's freaky.
[SPEAKER_03]: He was watching the whole time.
[SPEAKER_03]: You feel like there's something below you.
[SPEAKER_03]: I quickly look down.
[SPEAKER_03]: You look down just in time to see a form rushed by.
[SPEAKER_03]: Large, at least three times larger than you.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's a tango of sleek limbs.
[SPEAKER_03]: Then it dives down into the depths.
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh my god, what was that?
[SPEAKER_03]: What?
[SPEAKER_03]: What did you see?
[SPEAKER_04]: It's some kind of creature.
[SPEAKER_04]: There's enormous.
[SPEAKER_04]: Get out, make it out now.
[SPEAKER_04]: What?
[SPEAKER_04]: What about you?
[SPEAKER_04]: Take me out.
[SPEAKER_04]: All right, all right.
[SPEAKER_04]: I'll do it.
[SPEAKER_04]: Quick.
[SPEAKER_04]: How do I?
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, that.
[SPEAKER_04]: I saw my breathing.
[SPEAKER_04]: And I visualized, detaching from the digital ocean.
[SPEAKER_03]: Roll programming wisdom.
[SPEAKER_03]: Eight.
[SPEAKER_03]: Nice.
[SPEAKER_03]: You forced your consciousness out of the digital ocean.
[SPEAKER_03]: You find yourself submerged in the goo once again, the rope tied around your waist.
[SPEAKER_04]: I kind of swim up through the goo, make my way to the side and pull myself up as close as I can, grab Dr. Boss out of the hole.
[SPEAKER_05]: And we all help feel like step out of the pool when we see you start moving.
[SPEAKER_05]: How long was the down there, like real time or did it seem longer or shorter to us?
[SPEAKER_03]: So, feel, that's a great question.
[SPEAKER_03]: Felix, you felt like you were down there for about three hours.
[SPEAKER_03]: Out here, waiting around the pool, it was closer to three minutes.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_03]: So, he definitely held his breath for an incredibly long time.
[SPEAKER_01]: He didn't pull in the room three times though.
[SPEAKER_01]: How many yanks don't talk?
[SPEAKER_01]: Excuse me.
[SPEAKER_01]: How many tugs in the three tugs system did he utilize?
[SPEAKER_01]: Zero tugs utilized.
[SPEAKER_00]: Zero.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, that's not any way we'd be fine.
[SPEAKER_03]: Voss, as you pull her out of the socket she says.
[SPEAKER_03]: Something's down there.
[SPEAKER_03]: Something was coming for me.
[SPEAKER_03]: You pulled me out just the time Felix.
[SPEAKER_03]: Something was coming.
[SPEAKER_04]: Is it other consciousness in there?
[SPEAKER_04]: Virtua or not?
[SPEAKER_04]: I don't know, but I look around her to everybody.
[SPEAKER_04]: We're not alone in here.
[SPEAKER_04]: Well, you mean there's something in the pool and I like look in the pool to see if I can see some kind of monster Oh, the pool is just it's just a port to a larger digital network I would understand there's just there's some kind of intelligence in there We just need to be careful.
[SPEAKER_04]: There might be something else controlling the systems in here
[SPEAKER_03]: Vera moves forward and says, FAST the Nating.
[SPEAKER_03]: And she goes and puts her hand in the pool.
[SPEAKER_03]: And kind of traces her finger around in the goo.
[SPEAKER_03]: Good out of there.
[SPEAKER_03]: What did I just say?
[SPEAKER_03]: She snatched her hand back.
[SPEAKER_03]: Well, I'm getting in that pool sooner or later, but I suppose it can wait.
[SPEAKER_03]: Sounds like it's some kind of alien security system.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's probably more than that.
[SPEAKER_03]: Captain Thorn?
[SPEAKER_03]: Is it?
[SPEAKER_03]: It is.
[SPEAKER_03]: Felix, tell me, what was it like?
[SPEAKER_03]: What was the pool like?
[SPEAKER_03]: Knocked it.
[SPEAKER_04]: Listen, I can't even describe it to you.
[SPEAKER_04]: You wouldn't understand.
[SPEAKER_04]: Let's just go.
[SPEAKER_03]: I am a Middling Xeno Archaeologist in my field.
[SPEAKER_03]: I wouldn't understand.
[SPEAKER_04]: I said let's just go And it's it's very obvious everybody else that feels as much crowd cheer than when he went in I'm not happier to be back in a body He's groucher than usual.
[SPEAKER_04]: I don't do it better.
[SPEAKER_04]: Really.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's open up of a story to you guys having a great time Froggy looks at Vera and just takes the pen now
[SPEAKER_03]: And so she just kind of like shrugs and fall silent.
[SPEAKER_03]: And I just kind of heavily like limp and make my way towards the open door.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_03]: Felix is now leading the way.
[SPEAKER_04]: You all heard the man.
[SPEAKER_04]: Do I have any goo on me or does it like smoothly come off when I get out of the pool?
[SPEAKER_03]: it's yeah it smoothly comes off it's just like haily experienced as you come out of the pool the nanofluid just runs off of you it's the ground and then like a magnet just proof flows right back into the pool okay cool so it's not like Nickelodeon gag over me no you're completely dry
[SPEAKER_03]: Cool, cool.
[SPEAKER_03]: So, this hallway that you move up to Felix, you walk up and you put your hand on the wall, the feeling the weight of your organic body on your mangled robotic legs.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's almost like you have to catch your breath every step now.
[SPEAKER_03]: Down this hallway, you see glass vats of some sort.
[SPEAKER_03]: You can't quite make the mountain the dim light from where you are here.
[SPEAKER_04]: I kinda lean on the wall and catch my breath as you said.
[SPEAKER_04]: Every's gonna catch up to me.
[SPEAKER_04]: Lookin' ahead.
[SPEAKER_04]: Well, what do I want to do?
[SPEAKER_04]: Keep going.
[SPEAKER_04]: Go back.
[SPEAKER_03]: Well, of course we're going to keep going.
[SPEAKER_03]: What do you talk about?
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, to keep moving forward.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, progress says, guys, I don't think we can go back.
[SPEAKER_03]: The door closed.
[SPEAKER_03]: It like melted.
[SPEAKER_03]: He's at the wall, like running his hands over where the door is.
[SPEAKER_03]: He's like, unless you can get back and that goo and open this door, I don't think we can go back, guys.
[SPEAKER_03]: All right, he sounds, he sounds scared.
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't think we can go back.
[SPEAKER_03]: I think we're in here now.
[SPEAKER_03]: Relax, Froggy.
[SPEAKER_05]: We always knew this was part of the plan.
[SPEAKER_05]: This is what you brought me, Adventure is more.
[SPEAKER_03]: There, would you help Reggie with his episode?
[SPEAKER_03]: Virgo's over and kind of passes back.
[SPEAKER_03]: She's like, It's okay, Froggy.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's what they call you, right?
[SPEAKER_03]: Froggy?
[SPEAKER_03]: It's okay.
[SPEAKER_03]: Voice of the waste.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, and you did the radio thing.
[SPEAKER_03]: That was great.
[SPEAKER_03]: Listen, I've been in this situation a couple times.
[SPEAKER_03]: Sometimes you go into an area and you don't know how you're gonna get out.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's just a part of the spelunking.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay, Froggy?
[SPEAKER_03]: This is all normal.
[SPEAKER_03]: And as she's comforting him, the four of you plus boss turned towards this now exposed and lighted hallway.
[SPEAKER_03]: And here you find row after row of large glass vats.
[SPEAKER_03]: Each vat is filled with that strange goo.
[SPEAKER_03]: And each contains a few fragments of some hard bone-like substance at the bottom of the vat.
[SPEAKER_03]: Each vat also has a single light built into it.
[SPEAKER_03]: But besides these little fragments of bone, there's nothing in the vat to really put a light on.
[SPEAKER_03]: Robert Ross using your military train and you're like that's got to be at least a hundred yards away There's just three four rows deep on either side of you going for a hundred yards long on this hallway and then you see that the hallway simply ends to the keen eye of Haley she sees what might be an indentation or a hole in the floor at the end of this hallway
[SPEAKER_04]: I said everybody, all right, listen, I had a feeling I know what was in these pods, or I figured out this place used to be some kind of medical quarantine center, so it's likely that these were the creatures, the aliens, the beings were in these pods until they died.
[SPEAKER_04]: So be very careful because if any of these become breech, there's no telling what kind of pathogens might be released, so don't touch anything.
[SPEAKER_00]: That'll be pretty easy.
[SPEAKER_00]: Don't touch the stuff that my hand has already been in.
[SPEAKER_04]: No, no, no, the things with the bones in the memory.
[SPEAKER_04]: OK, OK, the things with the bones in the... Oh, I get it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yep.
[SPEAKER_04]: I very pointly was looking at viewer the whole time saying this because I know she didn't want to get it those bones.
[SPEAKER_05]: So, be like you're saying each one of these bats is like some kind of terminal to some kind of VR chamber or something like that and I follow in you.
[SPEAKER_05]: It's not even like a VR chamber.
[SPEAKER_04]: It's a good different universe, though.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, like a virtual reality.
[SPEAKER_04]: Nah, I need to collect my thoughts on a mobile for I can talk about it, okay?
[SPEAKER_05]: Man, I will talk about it later.
[SPEAKER_03]: Alright, if it's enough to get you this weirded out, it must be weird.
[SPEAKER_03]: I need some moon rocks.
[SPEAKER_03]: Thorne is a no so bad, but he just can't em balls into the goo.
[SPEAKER_05]: I'm just saying, can we can we market this technology?
[SPEAKER_05]: Like, what are the patents look like?
[SPEAKER_03]: I have to say that is very astute between the two of you being like, oh, this is where the disease beings were held and then dormed being like, oh, these are like VR terminals to like the digital ocean.
[SPEAKER_03]: They can like not be the pain.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, very astute.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, we're sci-fi characters.
[SPEAKER_05]: We know what's going on.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, I'm moving down this hallway.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, what do you see down there, Haley?
[SPEAKER_00]: As the intrepid explorer I am.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's another indentation in the floor up ahead.
[SPEAKER_00]: Down towards the end of the hallway past these vats, but...
[SPEAKER_05]: Probably the only way forward.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yep.
[SPEAKER_05]: And definitely as Felix said, keep your masks on because... We don't know what these people were sick with.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, move forward to the end of the hallway.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_03]: Haley, are you like a reconnaissance mission on your own or is everyone moving with you?
[SPEAKER_03]: I felt like I was with her.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: Bigger, you're just in front.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_04]: But she's pointing, we're all going together.
[SPEAKER_02]: If she's going, I'm behind everybody in clothing and especially froggy.
[SPEAKER_03]: So froggy and Vera are like fourth and fifth, Roberts, sixth, Haley's first, and then Thorne and Felix are second and third.
[SPEAKER_03]: So we got Haley, Thorne, Felix, froggy, Vera.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh great, you're doing the order that we're standing in awesome.
[SPEAKER_00]: Can't talk.
[SPEAKER_05]: Marking order always means something good is about to happen.
[SPEAKER_03]: Which is the narrow hallway, and I just want to know what's happening.
[SPEAKER_04]: It's so that he can know who is the hungry visitor so they can get a prize.
[SPEAKER_03]: And it was wrong.
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, lucky.
[SPEAKER_03]: Hey, marching order is important.
[SPEAKER_03]: But unfortunately, we're going to have to wait till next time to figure out why I was writing that down, because we're out of time for tonight.
[SPEAKER_03]: So let's go to logs.
[SPEAKER_02]: Everybody's losing their damn minds over this alien tag.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm like a bunch of civies This right here's when I got a lock in I mean if you don't it's how you just stumble into some of these traps Haley take it point jello mole breach force.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm on a cell Always got her back the rest of the crew
[SPEAKER_02]: Basically, I'm setting up a base of fire for Overwatch while Felix and Voss playing grab ass in the Goop pool.
[SPEAKER_02]: When in the hell did I become the babysitter?
[SPEAKER_02]: We're there today.
[SPEAKER_05]: Who boy, I have never been so excited to find a bunch of goo.
[SPEAKER_05]: The site is basically fully active.
[SPEAKER_05]: We have access to their network, Voss is the key.
[SPEAKER_05]: Her technology gives us the ability to access information and infrastructure that scientists have been scratching their heads about for years.
[SPEAKER_05]: We gotta play this cool though.
[SPEAKER_05]: We can't just sell off Dr. Voss.
[SPEAKER_05]: So unless we find something that's functioning independently, the value of this whole endeavor might not end up being what I'd hoped for.
[SPEAKER_05]: It still had Felix couldn't access something tangible while he was in that goo network.
[SPEAKER_05]: Hopefully whatever they bumped into in there doesn't jeopardize this expedition.
[SPEAKER_05]: If it really was some kind of security system, we'd better be careful.
[SPEAKER_05]: I can tell everyone is on edge.
[SPEAKER_05]: The only technology I'll do that to a person.
[SPEAKER_05]: but even Haley and Robert seem affected.
[SPEAKER_05]: Not as gung-ho when things get weird.
[SPEAKER_05]: Felix too, what did he experience in there?
[SPEAKER_05]: I actually think Froggy and Vera being here is keeping the tension down.
[SPEAKER_05]: As long as we can keep them safe, their company is actually working out in our favor.
[SPEAKER_05]: Can't say I love the whole medical vibe of this site.
[SPEAKER_05]: It's a big concerning.
[SPEAKER_05]: I don't want to end up wiped out like whoever built this place.
[SPEAKER_05]: But we're stuck in here now, so all we can do is press on
[SPEAKER_00]: and just as I said, I was hoping to avoid a scrap track situation, I'm reaching my hand into some goo.
[SPEAKER_00]: At least it was just a goo, no tendrils, no hallucinations, and I'll take that as a win right now.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm glad that Felix got out of that nano food awake though, because I think we're gonna need all the help we can get and mostly to keep Froggy safe.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm expecting this situation to get a little worse before it gets better and keeping everyone on their own to feet gonna be a priority here.
[SPEAKER_04]: This place is amazing.
[SPEAKER_04]: I mean, the level of technology these people reached is just astonishing.
[SPEAKER_04]: The ability to form a neural connection with some kind of massive computer network through just a whole body connection and a nano fluid is next level.
[SPEAKER_04]: Shit.
[SPEAKER_04]: And I mean, I'm not even sure if that's what is actually happening.
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, I felt like I was in that ocean for hours, but, it's been days, no, years exploring this.
[SPEAKER_04]: There is something else that's making me feel a bit uneasy.
[SPEAKER_04]: Not just that presence, boss, and I noticed in the ocean, though, that was definitely unsettling.
[SPEAKER_04]: Now, it's the fact that something could take out these people, as advanced as they were
[SPEAKER_04]: and that is truly scary.
[SPEAKER_04]: It's just hope we don't accidentally unlock something.
[SPEAKER_04]: We shouldn't.
[SPEAKER_04]: But fuck me.
[SPEAKER_04]: I was blissed to be out of this body for a while.
[SPEAKER_04]: I know I was being hopeful, but this feels like an important step to understand in what happened to PD and maybe just maybe fixing it.
[SPEAKER_04]: And if that's the case, I will do whatever it takes.
[SPEAKER_04]: Concentances be damned.