[SPEAKER_03]: Welcome to the Dark Star Adventurecast, where the stars are cold.
[SPEAKER_03]: The void is endless, and dangers lurk in every shadow.
[SPEAKER_03]: Out here, trust is a gamble, and survival is never guaranteed.
[SPEAKER_03]: On tonight's Adventurecast.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, jumping in punches, and you're gonna find some joy here.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, you're speaking by language.
[SPEAKER_02]: Let me take a look at those.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's your language.
[SPEAKER_01]: Let me look good on your back, that thing.
[SPEAKER_01]: A few of fun, like a robot, when you're back, that thing up.
[SPEAKER_02]: It actually took you the stuff that I heard you say, and it made me forget it.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's it, that's it, that's it, that's it, that's it, that's it, that's it, that's it, that's it, that's it, that's it, that's it, that's it, that's it, that's it, that's it, that's it, that's it, that's it, that's it, that's it, that's it, that's it, that's it, that's it, that's it, that's it, that's it, that's it, that's it, that's it
[SPEAKER_03]: The crew of the scapegoat is deep within an alien quarantine building, long since abandoned and covered by the sands of Cybilin, and recently discovered by Froggy's Xenoc archaeologist friend, Vera.
[SPEAKER_03]: Near moments ago, they encountered a deadly multi-armed machine and tent on their destruction, and narrowly avoided that outcome with good aim and even better teamwork.
[SPEAKER_03]: They now find themselves in a room of goo vats, a large vertical tube at the back of the hall leads downward.
[SPEAKER_03]: The tube is caked with residual goo, and a large crack along its side hints at its former purpose.
[SPEAKER_02]: All right, so I lean over and I shine my light down the tube, but turn around to the team.
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, looks as the only way forward is down, cause we got a hole one other forward down there.
[SPEAKER_03]: Froggy stops his frantic pacing for a moment, and he says, great, that's great, Felix, but you know, I was kind of thinking that it's probably time that we leave.
[SPEAKER_03]: Right, guys?
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't see any other exits, y'all.
[SPEAKER_03]: Vera walks up and puts a comforting hand on Froggy's shoulder, and she says, I'm sure that was the worst of it, Froggy.
[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, how much security could there even be in a hospital anyways?
[SPEAKER_03]: Yep, my experience up.
[SPEAKER_03]: What would be it?
[SPEAKER_03]: Vosses or blights up for more it's perched on Felix's back back it says
[SPEAKER_00]: reporting in here at 85%.
[SPEAKER_02]: The mine looks to be at about the same.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's not bad for a couple of hours of exploring.
[SPEAKER_03]: We should be fine.
[SPEAKER_03]: Dr. Voss, I'm surprised just doing contact with those through the walls of this place.
[SPEAKER_03]: My calm has been dead since we got in here.
[SPEAKER_02]: But it's so the uplinked from the goat to our combs, as you know vosses made special by army attack for these long range missions, and boy you could probably punch a signal right through a damn mountain.
[SPEAKER_02]: So a little bit of this sand is stone as well within its operating parameters.
[SPEAKER_02]: Must be nice.
[SPEAKER_00]: He who is standing next to Felix and just looking down the tube, and all of this nasty goo that isn't it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Guys, I have a really bad feeling about where this goes.
[SPEAKER_02]: Our alien no choice.
[SPEAKER_02]: The doors are closed and we're slowly running out of oxygen.
[SPEAKER_02]: So it's bored or nothing.
[SPEAKER_01]: Hey, how deep you think this thing is?
[SPEAKER_00]: Honestly, I can't see the bottom and we can throw rocks.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know I love throwing some rocks.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_01]: I was a rock skipping champion.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I think we could absolutely throw something down there.
[SPEAKER_03]: So you look around and you grab one of the tiny annihilation box because suspiciously there's no other debris in this entire place.
[SPEAKER_03]: Whatever makes up these walls, floors, and ceiling is on something that breaks down into pebbles.
[SPEAKER_03]: And when you hook it down there, like you just full on just chuck it as hard as you can, and it's like half a second later,
[SPEAKER_02]: Do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do
[SPEAKER_02]: That's why we have you and Robert, Haley.
[SPEAKER_02]: You were the fighters, you go first.
[SPEAKER_02]: But the ordinary can help lower one of you down.
[SPEAKER_02]: And in jumping, maybe one of you lower yourselves.
[SPEAKER_02]: Lower each other even down into the hole and give us a good look around.
[SPEAKER_02]: You got a light like Felix's, anybody else got a light?
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, we all have lights.
[SPEAKER_01]: I brought the rope.
[SPEAKER_01]: I got rope and a list, um, I'm happy, yeah, no lower, lower me on down and, uh, uh, uh, strap it towards to my face and we'll see what happens.
[SPEAKER_01]: Sounds good.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's the spirit.
[SPEAKER_03]: Thorne and Felix, you know they both have flashlights in their backpacks because you packed their backpacks for them because they cannot be trusted to pack their backpacks.
[SPEAKER_02]: You both have lights in your bags, all right, they're in the middle pouch, right next to the protein pills, so you could just get out of the light, tie the rope, and go down the hole.
[SPEAKER_03]: Froggy says, wait, wait, you brought protein pills?
[SPEAKER_01]: I'll be, I will hurry you and your cat down this damn hole.
[SPEAKER_03]: You don't even like the protein pills, Robert, just give them to me.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm hungry.
[SPEAKER_01]: Do you- you- are you going down?
[SPEAKER_03]: Are you going to- are you going to- are you going to- are you going to- are you going to- are you going to- are you going to- are you going to- are you going to- are you going to- are you going to- are you going to- are you going to- are you going to- are you going to- are you going to- are you going to- are you going to- are you going to- are you going to- are you going to- are you going to- are you going to- are you going to- are you going to- are you going to- are you going to- are you going to- are you going to- are you going to- are you going to- are you going to- are you going to- are you going to- are you going to- are you going to- are you going to- are you going to- are you going to- are you going to- are you going to- are you
[SPEAKER_03]: Froggy six out is tongue from behind is transparent oxygen mask.
[SPEAKER_03]: I heard that.
[SPEAKER_03]: And then he flicks off Robert and walks away.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm trying to be the bigger man who, hey, what were you saying?
[SPEAKER_00]: Think we're ready to go and keep moving forward.
[SPEAKER_00]: I really want to get out of this place.
[SPEAKER_01]: Hey, little me on down.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, so you get tied off and you're being lowered down.
[SPEAKER_01]: In my mind, I'm repelling and they are ideally three, but I mean, it's haily.
[SPEAKER_01]: So I mean, girl could probably solo, but lay my ass down.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, she's the counterweight and your feet are on the wall.
[SPEAKER_03]: You know what's funny is, whether you're first level or 20th level, the logistics of how to climb up and down a wall always takes 10 minutes.
[SPEAKER_03]: For every player in every game that I've ever deem for.
[SPEAKER_01]: I got to be jumpy and let him in the right choice, I don't know.
[SPEAKER_01]: Greatest puzzle ever in D&D, and any other TTRPG is a 20-foot gap.
[SPEAKER_03]: Do you want to take up 20 minutes of time, 20-foot gap?
[SPEAKER_03]: One extra minute per foot of the gap, especially mundane door.
[SPEAKER_03]: So, I need Haley to roll Exert Strength, and I need Robert to roll Exert Dex.
[SPEAKER_03]: Game of the Dex roll, you sir.
[SPEAKER_03]: Isn't that your jam?
[SPEAKER_03]: That isn't deep magic.
[SPEAKER_00]: It was like, hey, I rolled it 12.
[SPEAKER_03]: God damn.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay, so we have a seven from Robert Ross, which beats the DC of six, and we have a 12 from Haley, which beats the DC of six by a lot.
[SPEAKER_03]: So Haley, you just lean back and casually lower Robert down.
[SPEAKER_03]: Robert, you make your way down to the bottom.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's about 30 feet.
[SPEAKER_03]: And you flash the flashlight around.
[SPEAKER_03]: You're in a medium-sized room round, just like the first room that you ended up with.
[SPEAKER_03]: There's a goop hole.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's a round room about that size.
[SPEAKER_03]: On the floor of this room is a several inch high ridge that spirals out from the center of the room like a not-alist shell.
[SPEAKER_03]: a forked pylon of black metal is stuck into the center of the spiral.
[SPEAKER_03]: It looks strikingly similar to the device, the void cultus at the truck stop had used, though while their pylon looks cobbled together and, well, human.
[SPEAKER_03]: This one is utterly foreign with multiple metallic loops, orals, and impressions that defy immediate understanding.
[SPEAKER_03]: Between the times at the top of this forked pylon is a small impression, just like the one you saw next to the pool upstairs.
[SPEAKER_03]: There's also a doorway leading to the west.
[SPEAKER_03]: You can't quite see what's in that room.
[SPEAKER_03]: You flash your flashlight and you see some surfaces in there, but it's hard to really make out exactly what they are from the east side of the room where you are currently.
[SPEAKER_03]: And next to you, there is an empty goo tube running horizontally through the wall out of the room to the east, sealed off with an iris hatch on top.
[SPEAKER_01]: We have a whole other Glujakuzi room down here.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to need everybody.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm definitely mean Felix and Hayla here because we got one of those void tentacle forks that I sweared to, I saw that the new through.
[SPEAKER_01]: It was bad.
[SPEAKER_01]: There were tentacles.
[SPEAKER_01]: There's something happened here.
[SPEAKER_01]: I need somebody with a way more experience in this y'all can y'all will pill down there.
[SPEAKER_03]: So you guys hear all that from upstairs.
[SPEAKER_03]: It sounds like the randings of a madman.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, so just like a normal Robert conversation, then.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: Why you got out of it is that you should probably hurry up and get down to that sub-level before he ruins his afro with slower grease or something.
[SPEAKER_02]: Robert, Robert, just don't touch anything.
[SPEAKER_02]: Because you don't know what you might set off will be right down.
[SPEAKER_02]: Be like, do you go down next?
[SPEAKER_02]: Make sure you're just not break anything.
[SPEAKER_02]: And then I need Vera down there because she's going to be able to help with understanding some of this stuff.
[SPEAKER_03]: Vera is like right next to you.
[SPEAKER_03]: She says I'm ready to go down.
[SPEAKER_03]: Let's do this.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I'm just standing down there to like catch people.
[SPEAKER_01]: We have Haley on the on the one end, holding the rope and me if they accidentally fall and I'm catching them like a big old baby.
[SPEAKER_02]: All right.
[SPEAKER_02]: So I'll make my way down the rope next.
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_03]: I've seen what you do to babies.
[SPEAKER_03]: I am part robot, so I'm worried that he's gonna get taken over by his desire to kill robots lately.
[SPEAKER_03]: He is a robot killer.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I will swing my creaky robot legs around the room and shooting away down Okay, go ahead and roll exerted exterior dc6.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh baby.
[SPEAKER_03]: I made an eight nice.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh Those creaky robot legs.
[SPEAKER_03]: Did you just as today you make your way down to the bottom safely?
[SPEAKER_03]: Damn you look good when you back that thing up you'll find like a robot when you're back that thang of Jesus Christ
[SPEAKER_03]: and I'll re-explain the room in a bit more detail when everyone gets down there hearing it through the lens of what Robert saw is probably not the best way to describe it he's like there's a purple dragon down there I don't know what's going on Art Vera, you're good, come on down, then froggy, that you we don't want to leave you up there alone
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay, so Vera, her is forward.
[SPEAKER_03]: She grabs onto the rope, and she is going to tempt to exert decks her way down.
[SPEAKER_03]: She gets it with an eight, so she slides her way down.
[SPEAKER_03]: You aren't in froggy next?
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I don't unless it's there by himself.
[SPEAKER_03]: You still have thorn up there, too.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, but if we just leave him and Hayley, then Hayley's not going to force.
[SPEAKER_02]: I can just go thorn in these forces and down.
[SPEAKER_03]: Froggy does not get any bonus.
[SPEAKER_03]: However, he rolled a nine, but he gets a minus one because he doesn't have exerts, so he's at an eight.
[SPEAKER_03]: So he makes it down just fine, surprisingly.
[SPEAKER_03]: But he stumbles at the bottom and he kind of like falls into Robert's arms, who catches them.
[SPEAKER_03]: This is one time, bro.
[SPEAKER_03]: He looks up at you where he says, hi, get your hands off me.
[SPEAKER_03]: Any blushes?
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, I'm gonna do that.
[SPEAKER_02]: I look over at Haley.
[SPEAKER_02]: Haley, how you getting down?
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm gonna jump.
[SPEAKER_02]: I had a feeling you were gonna say that.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, jump in and punch in.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm gonna find some joy here.
[SPEAKER_02]: I just gotta shake my head.
[SPEAKER_02]: Shake my head and I grab the rope and I say, well,
[SPEAKER_02]: I guess that's up to you.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I said they're climbing.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_03]: So, uh, exert decks and then afterwards, can you please look up the falling damage?
[SPEAKER_03]: What that's going to take?
[SPEAKER_03]: I got a seven.
[SPEAKER_03]: Nice.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_03]: That hits the DC of six just fine.
[SPEAKER_03]: So you were down.
[SPEAKER_02]: One D6 damage for every three meters falling.
[SPEAKER_02]: Understand your gravity.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_03]: Every three meters.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: Although we're not on standard.
[SPEAKER_03]: We're on standard.
[SPEAKER_03]: Grab, are we?
[SPEAKER_03]: We're at point eight gravity.
[SPEAKER_03]: So if you jumped on there, you have the potential of taking two D6 damage.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I'm also going to make a case for myself here.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is the kind of shit that I my characters literally trained for and made to do.
[SPEAKER_00]: I am not Felix throwing himself down, like a sack of bones into the bottom of this like two.
[SPEAKER_01]: And Robert could catch her.
[SPEAKER_00]: I am an actual tactical person here.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, no, I refuse to catch Haley.
[SPEAKER_00]: Haley got going to be covered in goo.
[SPEAKER_03]: So you're making a case for your soldier.
[SPEAKER_03]: So you should ignore fall damage.
[SPEAKER_00]: Not that I should ignore fall damage that I am going to be a little bit more prepared and trained in how to land to prevent damage.
[SPEAKER_02]: But you are jumping off a three-story building.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, that's true.
[SPEAKER_00]: I am jumping off three-story building.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm going to say that, yeah, I'm going to say anyone can attempt to do this, but it really comes down to your exert role, which you've trained up, right?
[SPEAKER_03]: Don't you have a plus one in exert?
[SPEAKER_03]: No.
[SPEAKER_00]: I haven't done anything with exert.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay, maybe you're not trained up for this.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's not a physical thing.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, that I got earlier was a reason.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I could do a physical saving throw.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Are you bringing it down with you?
[SPEAKER_03]: Would you have to get back out of here potentially?
[SPEAKER_03]: Maybe.
[SPEAKER_00]: The only way to go is forward.
[SPEAKER_03]: As far as we know, yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Either way, Haley grabs the rope.
[SPEAKER_00]: She just takes the weather.
[SPEAKER_00]: She does not have time to deal with not.
[SPEAKER_00]: She is a brute force girl.
[SPEAKER_03]: You guys are fucking lunatics.
[SPEAKER_00]: And you know what?
[SPEAKER_00]: She jumps down.
[SPEAKER_03]: God, you give a mouse a cookie.
[SPEAKER_03]: Am I right, guys?
[SPEAKER_00]: I rolled a six.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay, well, six is obviously not good enough to beat your saving throw, so you take two to six damage, and that is five, but now you can go ahead and roll or form constitution.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I want to see, I want to see that superhero plan.
[SPEAKER_03]: I love doing like a skill in naming like a random attribute that doesn't normally make sense for it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Five.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay, so you just barely miss it.
[SPEAKER_03]: So you land everyone grimmises because you land so hard.
[SPEAKER_03]: And then your face just crumples.
[SPEAKER_03]: And then you like get a hold of yourself again, but everyone saw the pain on your face.
[SPEAKER_03]: And then you just limp out of the tube a little bit.
[SPEAKER_00]: Go through me off.
[SPEAKER_03]: Froggy runs up and he's like, Oh my god, Haley, are you okay?
[SPEAKER_00]: It's personal.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_00]: Froggy, are you about your own stuff?
[UNKNOWN]: I got this.
[SPEAKER_03]: You mean my cat?
[SPEAKER_03]: Are you threatening my cat?
[SPEAKER_03]: I just wanted to know if you were okay.
[SPEAKER_03]: Why is everyone so mean to me?
[SPEAKER_03]: And he walks off sulking.
[SPEAKER_02]: All right, so I didn't even notice painly coming down because I am engrossed in this chamber.
[SPEAKER_02]: So tell me what I see.
[SPEAKER_01]: Felix, does it accurately feel like what I just grabbed you?
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, we swing our lights around and see if we can make sense of what Robert said.
[SPEAKER_03]: I will rediscover the room so that everyone can remember what I said because if what Robert Ross said is, it actually took you the stuff that I heard you say and it made me forget it.
[SPEAKER_03]: you're welcome.
[SPEAKER_03]: You are in a medium-sized round room starting in the center of the floor and spiraling out is a ridge about three inches high and it spirals all the way out to the walls and forms a notalist spiral.
[SPEAKER_03]: And the center of that spiral is a forked pylon of black metal.
[SPEAKER_03]: It looks very similar to the one the void cultists had at the truck stop, but theirs was like very human looking.
[SPEAKER_03]: It was like sleek and it made sense.
[SPEAKER_03]: This one is like utterly foreign and alien.
[SPEAKER_03]: It has all these metallic loops and worlds and impressions and you know, weirdness bolted onto it.
[SPEAKER_03]: It defies immediate understanding, but maybe with with research and times, someone could figure out what all this is for.
[SPEAKER_03]: But most importantly, at the top, between the forked tines is an impression that looks exactly like the one that was next to the goo pool upstairs.
[SPEAKER_03]: Like a buncake.
[SPEAKER_02]: No, no, no.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's the one that Voss confirmed.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, the Voss hole.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: The Voss hole.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'll call it something else in the future.
[SPEAKER_03]: There is one exit from this room on the Westwall is a doorway leading into another room where you can see maybe like a couple vats in there.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's kind of hard to tell from over here.
[SPEAKER_03]: You got to walk a little bit closer.
[SPEAKER_03]: And also here on the Eastwall is a horizontal good tube with an iris aperture hat on it.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's sealed.
[SPEAKER_03]: But the horizontal good tube is completely empty.
[SPEAKER_03]: And it runs out through the Eastwall.
[SPEAKER_03]: Which for those of you keep in track, puts it outside of the immediate facility because the front door to this place is to the west.
[SPEAKER_04]: Hmm.
[SPEAKER_03]: So this this goo tube leaves the facility.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's it's empty.
[SPEAKER_02]: You said empty of goo, but it is closed.
[SPEAKER_02]: So is it closed on the far end?
[SPEAKER_02]: Do you mean it's open on this side?
[SPEAKER_02]: That's how I can tell it's empty or is the aperture also transparent?
[SPEAKER_03]: It's a transparent tube with an aperture on top of it.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, it's on top, I see.
[SPEAKER_03]: And goo tube is empty and runs through the walls.
[SPEAKER_03]: You can always see this part of the goo tube.
[SPEAKER_03]: You can't see where it leads to.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_03]: So now that you're all in here and flashing your flashlights around, you run them along the ceiling.
[SPEAKER_03]: And you notice that there are more iris hatches, just like at the end of this goo too, dotting the 15 foot high ceiling.
[SPEAKER_03]: They are obviously connecting this room to the vat chamber above with a single iris hatch below each of those individual bats up above.
[SPEAKER_03]: grooves are cut into the ceiling.
[SPEAKER_03]: The grooves are about a finger's breath wide and several inches deep and the groove runs underneath each of these apertures.
[SPEAKER_02]: Let's not open those.
[SPEAKER_02]: As I'm going to another room, I'm trying to make a couple of observations.
[SPEAKER_02]: One, did lights automatically turn on because they did another part of the facility.
[SPEAKER_03]: There does not seem to be any lights in this room, at least none that automatically turn on.
[SPEAKER_02]: I take out my data pad, and I'm kind of, as I've had some lots of far-looking different electronic interference or signals from the robots above, and I pick it up any signals or interference on my data slab.
[SPEAKER_03]: No.
[SPEAKER_03]: If there's anything down here that could cause interference, it's an error.
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, I'm not picking anything up, and this, I don't know, this part of the facility seems abandoned or dead somehow.
[SPEAKER_02]: Although, I don't know, boss, you want to give this a try, and adjust her towards the pit.
[SPEAKER_02]: Absolutely.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yes, lock me in.
[SPEAKER_02]: So I'll orient her or correctly because I know there's a little spinner disk at the bottom and place her in the invitation.
[SPEAKER_03]: So after just a few moments she says,
[SPEAKER_03]: It's quite interesting.
[SPEAKER_03]: Everything is disconnected, it's unpowered almost, but I can kind of see what the intention is here.
[SPEAKER_03]: There's a control for filling up the tube, the one that leads off to the east.
[SPEAKER_03]: I can't open the aperture on it, but once it's filled up with goo, it looks like the aperture opens up on its own.
[SPEAKER_03]: But it's unpowered so I can't do that.
[SPEAKER_03]: There's something else here, it feels like the digital ocean that we encountered upstairs, some sort of connection to it, perhaps.
[SPEAKER_02]: Be careful, Doc, we don't know what's in there.
[SPEAKER_02]: So it seems like we need power.
[SPEAKER_02]: Any hints on that?
[SPEAKER_02]: Where power source might be?
[SPEAKER_02]: Any hints behind this door?
[SPEAKER_02]: So I go over there and I shine my light beyond the door and see what's on the other side.
[SPEAKER_03]: So this west door, it's six feet tall, but strangely enough, it's only two feet wide.
[SPEAKER_03]: and it leads into a cramped room with a low six-foot ceiling.
[SPEAKER_03]: At the center of the room are two empty cylindrical vats, just like the ones that are upstairs, but much larger and completely lacking in goo.
[SPEAKER_03]: Each vat also has a drainage aperture leading to a fixture-like formation in the floor, probably an alien drain.
[SPEAKER_03]: Both apertures for each of the vats are currently open.
[SPEAKER_03]: suspended above each of that is a cluster of metallic multi-legged devices that hang from the ceiling like mechanical spiders.
[SPEAKER_03]: Each bristles with an assortment of cutting blades, robing arms, and diagnostic tools mounted at the tips of their segmented limbs.
[SPEAKER_03]: On the wall next to you, Thorne is a glob, or a goo-bunt cake, as we were calling it on the first floor, and one last detail, mounted to the ceiling is a single cylindrical vat of goo, just like the ones that are upstairs, on its top and bottom are irisatches, so things could be dropped in and things could be dropped out of it.
[SPEAKER_03]: It also is mounted to a groove in the ceiling, exactly the grooves that are in the spiral room.
[SPEAKER_03]: The groove in this room runs directly over both of the vats and out the east wall.
[SPEAKER_03]: But just simply stops at that wall.
[SPEAKER_03]: There's no actual way for it to move on into the spiral room.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's like in this room, we got some giant vats and some kind of less than friendly looking machinery, but take a look at all these grooves.
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know, fear of loss, Felix.
[SPEAKER_02]: You think there's any significance?
[SPEAKER_02]: Look how they go around out of all these vats.
[SPEAKER_02]: And there's more goo up there in the ceiling too, and another one.
[SPEAKER_02]: I have to think that, I don't know, it's all connected somehow, what do you think?
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, well, y'all come on in here, but I'd like to clear the room first.
[SPEAKER_01]: Make sure there's no hazards and I just scatter around the room.
[SPEAKER_01]: Make sure there's nothing that's going to attack him.
[SPEAKER_00]: I will assist with that.
[SPEAKER_00]: If I can.
[SPEAKER_03]: So, hey, Lee, you're assisting Robert.
[SPEAKER_03]: Go ahead and roll, notice wisdom.
[SPEAKER_00]: I rolled a five.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_03]: You unfortunately are unable to assist him.
[SPEAKER_03]: But Robert, you don't get a plus one, Robert, but go ahead and roll your notice with your plus one.
[SPEAKER_01]: uh... intelligence or wisdom please oh and uh... because i'm so wise i roll four so both of you guys kind of poke around for a while but you're not really paying that much attention and you don't find anything uh... yet everything looks safe this uh... crazy cutter bought seems seems safe enough made up poke around a bit like maybe do i don't know come on in y'all
[SPEAKER_02]: Wait, wait, did somebody say crazy machines?
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, the kind with scary blades and pokey drills.
[SPEAKER_02]: I just speak of my language.
[SPEAKER_02]: Let me take a look at those.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's your language.
[SPEAKER_03]: So Felix, you go into this room.
[SPEAKER_03]: And what you want to examine these two spider-like machines?
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I want to get a closer look at them.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm trying to basically understand are they functional and what is their function?
[SPEAKER_03]: So they are these spider-like mechanical beings that are hanging up of these empty vats.
[SPEAKER_03]: They have cutting blades, probing arms, and diagnostic tools mounted on the ends of their limbs.
[SPEAKER_02]: Judging by, I mean, it's all very, I mean, aliens seems redundant, but all very alien, but basically, we know of this place and what we saw upstairs, I think these are some kind of med bots.
[SPEAKER_02]: Now, there might be a bit, I don't know, more extreme than some of things we're familiar with, but perhaps there was some kind of disease that required the exciseing of limbs in order to save it off.
[SPEAKER_02]: You think that the vats upstairs can act down here, and then they perform some kind of weird surgery?
[SPEAKER_02]: I do.
[SPEAKER_02]: And then this might be, and I point to the tube running on the wall, this might be even going to have waste disposal to hube.
[SPEAKER_02]: Waste.
[SPEAKER_02]: Waste disposal, though.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's the word you can use.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, what else?
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, for waste.
[SPEAKER_02]: Once something's not being useful, it's waste.
[SPEAKER_02]: Hey, did you notice that weird thing in the other room, that was the thing that was attached to the void?
[SPEAKER_00]: Yep, still kind of processing that whole thing.
[SPEAKER_02]: I say this to distraction, the weird look that Thorns give me that I don't understand.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes, that is the look I'm giving you.
[SPEAKER_00]: And Haley was trying to help, obviously, with Robert's look around the room, but was certainly distracted by the giant potential portal looking device.
[SPEAKER_02]: every two seconds you look back over your shoulder at it.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's why you didn't roll very well.
[SPEAKER_02]: You're trying to look around, but you're like, what is it still there?
[SPEAKER_03]: Vera moves into the room.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh wow.
[SPEAKER_03]: Wow.
[SPEAKER_03]: This is really amazing guys.
[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, we obviously can't take this with us, but really anything here, which kind of sucks, but this is incredible.
[SPEAKER_03]: If we can hang onto this place, we could really make a lot of money.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, one can hope.
[SPEAKER_03]: Vera?
[SPEAKER_03]: Mm-hmm.
[SPEAKER_00]: Think right now, we're focused on getting out.
[SPEAKER_03]: She takes a quick glance at her oxygen meter and she says, I mean, I'm still at 75%.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's not been that long since we've been in here, Vera.
[SPEAKER_01]: I know.
[SPEAKER_01]: I feel like we still need a way out.
[SPEAKER_01]: That doesn't help we without.
[SPEAKER_03]: Froggy says, yeah, Vera, you know, we're not all braves, you know, archaeologists, you know?
[SPEAKER_02]: Froggy, if you're not feeling brave, you're not going to like what I think is the way out.
[SPEAKER_00]: Froggy, just remember to keep your breath slow and even.
[SPEAKER_00]: If you feel yourself getting anxious while we are down here, just think of exercises to help you calm down.
[SPEAKER_00]: What's your oxygen at right now?
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm feeling anxious.
[SPEAKER_00]: Think of personal.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm at 73%.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'll feel anxious.
[SPEAKER_03]: Vera was at 75%.
[SPEAKER_03]: But I'm at 73%.
[SPEAKER_03]: That means I'm using my oxygen.
[SPEAKER_03]: Am I going to die?
[SPEAKER_03]: No.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm not, I'm not giving you mine.
[SPEAKER_00]: We got you.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's a space for you on the scapegoat.
[SPEAKER_00]: We're going to get you back to it.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_03]: Um, listen guys, I don't want to like lie to you, but this is really bad.
[SPEAKER_03]: We're all going to die down here, and I'm pretty sure we're all going to die Lock it down Seriously clock it down He's having a bad doctor like lock it down He's like that's what my dad used to say to me
[SPEAKER_02]: I go over to him and I grab him by the shoulders from behind and I'm like, massaging him.
[SPEAKER_02]: You're going to be all right, champ.
[SPEAKER_02]: We're going to, we're going to figure this out.
[SPEAKER_02]: Froggy name five things you can see.
[SPEAKER_03]: I see an alien spiral, and an alien black thing, alien vats and others, there's a thing everywhere.
[SPEAKER_03]: This is a good guys.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, good.
[SPEAKER_03]: I can't point any normal things in here.
[SPEAKER_03]: There's nothing normal.
[SPEAKER_03]: I've got a plan.
[SPEAKER_03]: Don't worry.
[SPEAKER_03]: We're going to get out of here.
[SPEAKER_03]: A normal plan.
[SPEAKER_03]: Please tell me it's not going to go up.
[SPEAKER_03]: Go to third level of alien stuff.
[SPEAKER_00]: What are four things that you can touch?
[SPEAKER_03]: He puts his hand on Thornton's hand, who's massaging him.
[SPEAKER_03]: They're there, buddy.
[SPEAKER_03]: In this episode of the Darkstar Adventurecast, the crew is given the difficult, nine possible task of calming down a panic-stricken froggy.
[SPEAKER_03]: Never has an anxiety tax, slow down a session as much as this.
[SPEAKER_01]: So, so froggy.
[SPEAKER_01]: You're chill.
[SPEAKER_01]: We're good.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now how are we going to get through this here door?
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, Felix.
[SPEAKER_02]: I want to hear this plan, yours.
[SPEAKER_02]: So I'm pretty sure what we need to do is fill this tube with goo and get in sweet juice.
[SPEAKER_02]: Hmm, because I pretty sure this is transport tube, and hopefully it leads to a way out.
[SPEAKER_03]: Vera goes and kneels next to the empty tube, and she says, transport tube, what do you mean?
[SPEAKER_03]: For like, moving stuff, but we section the facility.
[SPEAKER_03]: Huh, it is very large.
[SPEAKER_03]: So what, you think this fills up with goo and then there's like a current?
[SPEAKER_03]: Good be.
[SPEAKER_02]: Or we propeller it as long, I mean, you can breathe in this stuff, it's fine.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's oxygenated.
[SPEAKER_03]: Incredible.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yes, I mean, I wanted my chance in the group pool all along but first things first You got to fill with goof first, and maybe that giant pile on tune in fork than any other room can help Vostas I don't want to interject too much, but I take a fence to the continual use of the word goo But you got something better?
[SPEAKER_03]: Most likely a nano fluid to the point
[SPEAKER_03]: Varus says, I'm gonna call on goo.
[SPEAKER_03]: Nanofluits too long.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm gonna call it Nanofluit.
[SPEAKER_03]: We need a short hand goo, goo, goo, goo, we all agree goo.
[SPEAKER_03]: Go.
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't care what we call it.
[SPEAKER_02]: I do, by the way, want to collect a sample of the Nanofluit at some point.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: You gotta get some first.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I know.
[SPEAKER_02]: Maybe some of the dry stuff or when we fill this two, but I'm gonna go for some.
[SPEAKER_02]: All right.
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, I mean, the only lead is this thing, and I adjust her to the weird pile on thing.
[SPEAKER_02]: He's to be powered, that's all I know.
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, I don't like looking at this thing.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's making me uncomfortable the longer I look at it.
[SPEAKER_03]: I saw this game's froggy's throat.
[SPEAKER_02]: Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
[SPEAKER_03]: I hear Robert lying to me.
[SPEAKER_03]: I hear.
[SPEAKER_03]: I hear Felix insulting me and calling me weird.
[SPEAKER_03]: And I can hear Thorne's loud breathing as he is still massaging my shoulders and it's starting to get awkward.
[SPEAKER_00]: You are present in the moment, so.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay, Felix, all eyes are on you.
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, I don't want to run this thing.
[SPEAKER_02]: I was thinking, hey, if you want to get, you've got some kind of connection to this thing from the before.
[SPEAKER_02]: Maybe you're drawn to it somehow.
[SPEAKER_01]: is the the crazy pitch book.
[SPEAKER_00]: Go over to the crazy pitch work that I'm near it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Do I like sense or feel anything?
[SPEAKER_00]: Assuming this is like an inactive portal.
[SPEAKER_03]: This is all completely inactive.
[SPEAKER_03]: Feel shitty.
[SPEAKER_03]: Being down here, you feel very much not at ease, but not anywhere.
[SPEAKER_03]: So except for your own personal anxiety, when you get close to the pile on.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's not necessarily caused by the pile on.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's just me being like,
[SPEAKER_00]: are haley being like, uh, breathe, experiencing this.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: Exactly.
[SPEAKER_01]: I know it about the grooves.
[SPEAKER_02]: What about the grooves?
[SPEAKER_02]: The more I mean, what about the grooves?
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, you tell me, I don't know, but there.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm not an alien archaeologist.
[SPEAKER_02]: Those don't want to get any tech I'm familiar with.
[SPEAKER_02]: Don't they look like traces to you?
[SPEAKER_02]: But traces to and from what thought?
[SPEAKER_02]: A power source to something that requires power.
[SPEAKER_02]: All right, well, if you can open up a door to the power, let me know.
[SPEAKER_01]: Have we investigated the Bunkcake?
[SPEAKER_01]: I heard there was a Bunkcake.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, would you guys like me to re-explain the grooves as well?
[SPEAKER_03]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_03]: So the grooves are a few inches deep in about a finger's breath wide.
[SPEAKER_03]: The groove runs around the perimeter of the room underneath every single one of the apertures.
[SPEAKER_03]: Any other room, there is a vat just like the ones upstairs hanging off of the ceiling off of one of those grooves.
[SPEAKER_03]: And that groove goes over both of the vats in that room and then bumps into the east wall.
[SPEAKER_01]: And these might be transfers within the wall.
[SPEAKER_01]: We might be able to utilize.
[SPEAKER_02]: Could be.
[SPEAKER_02]: It could be that's the way the goo is funneled into here.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm sorry, Ben Nano fluid.
[SPEAKER_02]: Nano goo.
[SPEAKER_01]: How do you think that how do you think we can power it?
[SPEAKER_01]: Then those nano whatever's.
[SPEAKER_02]: We got this guy right here.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I point my thumb with a blunt cake on the wall.
[SPEAKER_02]: We've had him up so far with these controlling things.
[SPEAKER_02]: I can give it a try.
[SPEAKER_02]: Better than standing here waiting for our oxygen to deplete.
[SPEAKER_02]: Have at it.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm like, I'm like, what, 65 at this point.
[SPEAKER_01]: I would think I've been breathing a little heavy.
[SPEAKER_01]: You're a big guy, Robert.
[SPEAKER_01]: I use less because I have half a body.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's true.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, you're an 80% so.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I don't know how to oxygenate my legs.
[SPEAKER_02]: So I will go over and poke my hand into the nanopluid store knob.
[SPEAKER_03]: OK, you feel that sensation of your hand being cradled by a giant hammock with each individual finger, cradled by a slightly smaller hammock.
[SPEAKER_02]: I close my eyes and kind of try to feel my way around it's, you know, I had luck upstairs understanding that I could control the little, uh, the little bot.
[SPEAKER_02]: So I'm trying to like identify, like an on-switch, like power, you know, something that feels like it's off that I can turn on.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_03]: So instead of just randomly moving your hand around, like, hey, Lee did on that first wall, you're trying to like feel and figure it out.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yep.
[SPEAKER_03]: So go ahead and roll program wisdom.
[SPEAKER_03]: I got a 7 so you feel that it can control things around you just like the glob from the first blur.
[SPEAKER_03]: So control things around me can I turn lights on or can I turn power on you can't there's nothing for power but you are able to twitch your fingers and get a soft glow to the few both rooms down here so everyone can turn off their flashlights there is now a luminous
[SPEAKER_03]: That's something.
[SPEAKER_02]: Can I fill the tube with goo?
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, feel around for like an utter.
[SPEAKER_03]: You, I think I'm milking motion with my hand is having the adventure reject you and you were no longer in this campaign.
[SPEAKER_03]: You you search around and try to identify what you can only name as a sub routine that would do something like that.
[SPEAKER_03]: But you get the sense of the globs really only affect the walls or like the structure of this place.
[SPEAKER_02]: In that case, then, as I'm doing that, is there another door I can open because I know that Hayley was able to open her door before.
[SPEAKER_02]: Can I remove parts of the wall?
[SPEAKER_03]: You feel like there is a pre-programmed opening that you can open, but it's in the other room.
[SPEAKER_03]: And I can't control the other room from here.
[SPEAKER_03]: You feel like you could, but the opening just doesn't make any sense.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's a small opening towards the ceiling on the wall.
[SPEAKER_02]: Alright, well, this is- can somebody go in the other room?
[SPEAKER_02]: For me, let me know what you see when I do this.
[SPEAKER_02]: What are you doing?
[SPEAKER_00]: I was like, does that get me closer or farther from my spiral portal to go into the other room?
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm staying here.
[SPEAKER_00]: I guess.
[SPEAKER_02]: So the whole one about to open is in the ceiling in the room with the spiral thing.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's near the ceiling on the wall.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: So I'm in, I'm currently in the room with the spider robots.
[SPEAKER_02]: Thorne and Robert are now in the room with the tuning fork.
[SPEAKER_03]: So you twitch your fingers and every one in the other room you see like a tiny hole appear right where the track hits against the west wall which is the wall that shared with the room that Felix is in and as Felix moves his fingers more the whole kind of opens further and then contracts.
[SPEAKER_02]: What does it look like?
[SPEAKER_03]: It seems like you're opening some kind of hole in the wall.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's pretty high up, though.
[SPEAKER_03]: As you fly, it's like 15 feet up.
[SPEAKER_03]: And as you flash your flashlight around, it looks more like a tunnel.
[SPEAKER_02]: Maybe it's like some kind of tunnel.
[SPEAKER_02]: How big is it, Thor?
[SPEAKER_02]: I'd say it's like,
[SPEAKER_03]: Well, it's oscillating because he's messing around with it, but the largest you've seen it get is like two feet by two feet.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's like maybe two feet, but you won't stop changing it.
[SPEAKER_02]: Sorry, it's addictive.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's like a little fidget.
[SPEAKER_02]: So maybe we could get a toss up there.
[SPEAKER_01]: Do you think most of us could fit up there, Thorn?
[SPEAKER_01]: Or just a little thing?
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, if you like get on Haley's shoulders and then I get on your shoulders, then maybe I could look and see in there, but actually getting in there, that's another story.
[SPEAKER_02]: I could roll Vostown the tunnel, I guess.
[SPEAKER_02]: So it looks like it leads to above your room, right at the end of the track, even.
[SPEAKER_02]: All right, so I'm going to leave the aperture open as wide as it can.
[SPEAKER_02]: But before I disconnect from the globe, I want to check one more thing.
[SPEAKER_02]: Do I have the ability to manipulate like the atmosphere in this room?
[SPEAKER_03]: Can I increase the levels of oxygen?
[SPEAKER_03]: You cannot.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_03]: It seems like the globe can only control the structure.
[SPEAKER_02]: Is there any chance you can, can you move the grooves?
[SPEAKER_02]: What?
[SPEAKER_02]: Move the grooves?
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, or turn the room itself, like spiral in anyway.
[SPEAKER_03]: You can not turn the spiral, you can not move the grooves, the grooves themselves.
[SPEAKER_03]: You can always seem to move the structure of the room.
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, it is possible that my hand is not the same as the hand of the creatures who built this place.
[SPEAKER_02]: I might not be equipped to actually manipulate everything.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think I've done what I can.
[SPEAKER_02]: Can I like manipulate the height of the ceiling?
[SPEAKER_02]: And either room?
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_03]: You start to move your hand, but you can feel a lot of resistance as you try to like mess with the ceiling itself.
[SPEAKER_03]: It almost feels like the strength of your fingers aren't enough to do this task.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm gonna get both my hands in there.
[SPEAKER_03]: With both your hands working in tandem, the ceiling and indeed the floor is well.
[SPEAKER_03]: We come movable.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, here we go.
[SPEAKER_02]: And now we got something and I start moving the floor to the other room that they're in.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, you're definitely doing something now.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, all right.
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, I can move the, this is weird.
[SPEAKER_02]: This is like nothing I've ever felt before.
[SPEAKER_02]: I can move the ceiling of 40 crew.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm just gonna need y'all to tell me where to put this.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, you want to get the hole you open, lined up with the groove in your room.
[SPEAKER_02]: All right.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'll move the ceiling in their room down.
[SPEAKER_02]: Just if I can get it to light up, just ceiling in the room I'm in.
[SPEAKER_02]: I feel like you're gonna bring in the zeling down, please tell me that you have a good control over bringing the zeling down.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yep, yep, sure, it's getting pretty low.
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know, you're okay.
[SPEAKER_03]: my camera because I'm not going to ship safe and sound.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, hold on.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, right.
[SPEAKER_02]: So I'll stop that one at about eight feet and then bring those ceiling in my room up to level it.
[SPEAKER_03]: And you left the two by two foot hole open.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_03]: So you see as you raise your ceiling up to eight feet, you slowly see the whole reveal and then you line it up until the two tracks click together.
[SPEAKER_02]: All right, and then I'll step back kind of exhausted with a hands out of the nano fluid.
[SPEAKER_02]: Damn, that was hard.
[SPEAKER_02]: Programming is not usually this taxing.
[SPEAKER_03]: Various right next to you when she says, well, you've still got to like do the rest of this.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I know.
[SPEAKER_03]: I needed a minute.
[SPEAKER_03]: Various.
[SPEAKER_03]: Jesus.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm sorry.
[SPEAKER_03]: I just want to see it.
[SPEAKER_03]: I got to see it.
[SPEAKER_03]: This is so cool.
[SPEAKER_03]: And then another room you hear Vase.
[SPEAKER_03]: The two Zeno professions are psyched.
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_02]: That means I'll just risk deep in goo.
[SPEAKER_00]: In there, don't know.
[SPEAKER_02]: You want to know what I think?
[SPEAKER_02]: I think it's mildly cool, I guess.
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, what's the next move?
[SPEAKER_02]: What do y'all think?
[SPEAKER_02]: The VAT in the ceiling in your room.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's full of good.
[SPEAKER_02]: All right.
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, very, you want to see some more cool stuff.
[SPEAKER_02]: I guess, let's see what can happen.
[SPEAKER_02]: So I'm going to put both my hands back in the nano fluid control panel.
[SPEAKER_02]: And the only thing that I see right now is this other VAT that's in this room that I've been.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's like, got some good when it already.
[SPEAKER_02]: I want to see how I can manipulate that.
[SPEAKER_03]: You can directly move the VAT.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_03]: But it is in that channel in the ceiling.
[SPEAKER_02]: Only raising lower though, or can I like tilt it?
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, you better believe you can tilt it.
[SPEAKER_03]: I like gravity do my moving.
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, all right, now this is getting weird as I start kind of tilting the ceiling around.
[SPEAKER_03]: You tilt the ceiling and it causes the vat to move towards the hole.
[SPEAKER_03]: And then you're like, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, you slow it down by tilting the other way.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: Bye.
[SPEAKER_03]: Before long, based off of your previous programming role, you kind of get into an interesting, double-handed movement where you're kind of angelating the ceiling, like waves, and you're pushing the bat forward into the next room.
[SPEAKER_03]: So it's less of tilting the entire ceiling and more about treating bulges in the ceiling.
[SPEAKER_02]: This is weird stuff.
[SPEAKER_00]: tentatively looking out for anything that's changing in the environment.
[SPEAKER_03]: So you bulge the vat out.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's currently already filled with go.
[SPEAKER_03]: And you reach one of the apertures.
[SPEAKER_00]: You've reached one of the apertures.
[SPEAKER_03]: All right, what am I over right now?
[SPEAKER_03]: Just a spiral.
[SPEAKER_03]: The spiral covers the entire room.
[SPEAKER_03]: So Voss said we've got a crazy power, right?
[SPEAKER_00]: By dropping stuff, presumably onto the spiral.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, and this nanofluid is pretty spectacular.
[SPEAKER_03]: Well, various says, hold on, wait.
[SPEAKER_03]: You're going to just drop goo.
[SPEAKER_03]: That doesn't make any sense.
[SPEAKER_03]: Wouldn't there already be goo in this spiral?
[SPEAKER_01]: I think we have to end up lining up the spiral.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, this seems like a fluid system.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now that you can move the ceiling in full, absolutely left, right, undulating patterns, we might want to just make sure that we line this whole system up.
[SPEAKER_03]: Froggy is kind of running his finger along the ridge of the spiral.
[SPEAKER_03]: And he says, Ferra, I think they're probably right.
[SPEAKER_03]: Just like in the tube over there, there's like some scum from like old goo.
[SPEAKER_03]: Maybe it just, maybe it just dried out.
[SPEAKER_03]: Ferra gets in and she kind of like, she rubbed the spiral as well and she says, I don't know, and she brings it over to Dr. Voss.
[SPEAKER_03]: What do you think, Dr. Voss?
[SPEAKER_03]: Actually, perhaps the first accurate observation ever recorded from young Reginald.
[SPEAKER_03]: Well done, Froggy.
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, in that case, I'm going to open this VAT and you all might want to come in here.
[SPEAKER_02]: What that happens?
[SPEAKER_03]: He is sir.
[SPEAKER_03]: Everyone piles into the next room, crowds around Felix as he vigorously moves his two hands inside of the glob.
[SPEAKER_02]: Don't look at me while I do this.
[SPEAKER_03]: And then you what?
[SPEAKER_02]: So I'm trying to, like, basically open the aperture, we'd be out of the vat that we just moved into that other room.
[SPEAKER_03]: You don't seem to have, like, full control over it, but has you're, like, angelating the ceiling, the ceiling kind of bulges out and makes direct contact with the vat.
[SPEAKER_03]: And when that happens, it sort of, like, adheres almost, like, magnetically seals.
[SPEAKER_03]: And the aperture on the top opens.
[SPEAKER_03]: Now, this vat is already full of goo.
[SPEAKER_03]: So the goo that isn't whatever vat up above can't really drain into it.
[SPEAKER_03]: the aperture on the bottom of the vat stays closed.
[SPEAKER_00]: What happens if I punch the aperture?
[SPEAKER_00]: So, do you like legit?
[SPEAKER_03]: It's at it's eight feet tall because Felix is lower the ceiling and this is what I'm going to get on to Robert shoulders over the ceiling or you're The ceiling is a tall, but the that is already two feet long.
[SPEAKER_03]: It is at her right.
[SPEAKER_03]: We don't need any human pyramid.
[SPEAKER_03]: You can still get on Robert shoulders if you want.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I'll be like squatting like shuffling on my knees for this.
[SPEAKER_00]: Our goal is getting this fat to trip down onto the spiral basically, right?
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I like how excited everyone got when she said I can get our Robert shoulders.
[SPEAKER_03]: It was an explosion of everyone's shadowing.
[SPEAKER_03]: I had no idea what was happening.
[UNKNOWN]: Punch the fat.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay, you punch the fat.
[SPEAKER_03]: Boom!
[SPEAKER_03]: It's actually, it feels indestructible.
[SPEAKER_00]: But I just shot up a bunch of stairs.
[SPEAKER_03]: And, well, they cracked a little bit from a bullet.
[SPEAKER_00]: I pull up my rightful.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: After you punch it, you're kind of like, I love with it.
[SPEAKER_03]: And you're, you're right next to this vat now.
[SPEAKER_03]: And you realize there's a little glob on the side of it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Haley pushes the button.
[SPEAKER_00]: She is very overwhelmed right now.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's a lot going on in the room.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's a lot of goo.
[SPEAKER_03]: So you stick your digit into the glob, and you squish it around a little bit, and the aperture opens up underneath flashing, nano goo, all of your feet, and all over the spiral.
[SPEAKER_03]: Then, all of the goo from the vat on the first floor rushes into the vat after it into the empty space, straight through, right to the floor, and fill it with the spiral even more.
[SPEAKER_03]: So two full vats have now splashed onto the spiral, and it seems to be about a fourth full.
[SPEAKER_03]: However.
[SPEAKER_00]: Wait, wait, no, Felix, what did you call this before?
[SPEAKER_02]: Uh, nanofood?
[SPEAKER_00]: All right, guys.
[SPEAKER_00]: We are now changing our terminology.
[SPEAKER_00]: I am not covered in Goop, or Goop, or Glob.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's nano-fluid.
[SPEAKER_01]: How does it react with the spiral?
[SPEAKER_03]: When it goes into the spiral, it like perfectly fills in the ridges, and then rushes, straight to the center of the spiral, blooding up against it as hard as it can.
[SPEAKER_03]: Nothing else seems to happen.
[SPEAKER_03]: However, when this happens, when the aperture opens and blue starts to splash all over the place, just wet and wild.
[SPEAKER_03]: You hear a mechanical wearing noise?
[SPEAKER_03]: I knew it.
[SPEAKER_03]: Shocked.
[SPEAKER_03]: You turned to find the two mechanical arachnids on the ceiling, starting in fits and bursts to life.
[SPEAKER_03]: They begin to thrash and cut and probe inside the empty goo vats.
[SPEAKER_03]: Before turning blue laser to eyes upon you, from the other room, Vostez.
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