[SPEAKER_07]: Welcome to Darkstar Adventures.
[SPEAKER_07]: Tonight, we journey deep into the shadows of the Viridian Expans, where danger lurks that every turn and no one can be trusted.
[SPEAKER_07]: You've tuned in to an adventure where the stars are cold, the enemies are many, and every decision could be your last.
[SPEAKER_07]: On tonight's adventure cast?
[SPEAKER_05]: Man, I could find her, but saving people, I mean, I work with machines, not people.
[SPEAKER_05]: You're crazy.
[SPEAKER_06]: I'm not giving our credit to these bumbling gangsters.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm just roll around and some grease and spack out my hair real quick.
[SPEAKER_01]: Make it look like I'm a neon line.
[SPEAKER_02]: We're gonna punch him.
[SPEAKER_02]: They're gonna feed up on a giant wall.
[SPEAKER_02]: After they come down.
[SPEAKER_07]: Now buckle up.
[SPEAKER_07]: The stars are waiting in the peridian expanse.
[SPEAKER_07]: Never forgive the unprepared.
[SPEAKER_07]: This is the Dark Star Adventure cast.
[SPEAKER_07]: Cleary four hangs in the black like a forgotten coin, spinning slow at the edge of inhabited space.
[SPEAKER_07]: No beacon, no welcome message, just a rustling tall the size of a city block, and the faint glow of docking lights that someone forgot to shut off years ago.
[SPEAKER_07]: As your transports drop as bike drive, the station fills your view port.
[SPEAKER_07]: Up close, it's even worse, corridors of pitted metal, antenna bent at the wrong angles, carbo containers welded to the hull where they probably shouldn't be.
[SPEAKER_07]: This was a research hub, once someone was proud of it, that was more than 20 years ago, and now it's something else.
[SPEAKER_07]: The airlock hissed open in the smell is what it's you first, rust, old fuel, something burning.
[SPEAKER_07]: The corridor ahead is dark, half the lights are dead, the rest flickering in that particular rhythm that says nobody's coming to fix them.
[SPEAKER_07]: No government here, no authority, just people who've run out of options, moving to the dark like they own it.
[SPEAKER_07]: Somewhere in this station, there's an office with a name that matches the one on the invitation you received, you're not that long ago.
[SPEAKER_07]: A message is waiting.
[SPEAKER_07]: A message that may change everything.
[SPEAKER_07]: The four of you come from many different walks of life, but something that you all share is that you received a cryptic message from your employer, Omnitec Corp, telling you to head on out to a gas mining office on a recluse deep space station on the outer fringes of space called Camiri 4.
[SPEAKER_07]: For those of you that may have investigated its comery for, you find it odd that there's actually no omnitech presence on this patient at all.
[SPEAKER_07]: In fact, omnitech isn't a very powerful megacorp, it would have been weird if they did have a presence here, but you do find it odd that they would ask you to come here.
[SPEAKER_07]: I didn't think my TPS reports were that bad when I guess they're relocating me already.
[SPEAKER_07]: You find yourself with three other people at the front of the gas mining offices.
[SPEAKER_07]: I've a recruitment center to hire low-skill workers to work in the gas mines on various gas giants or high-atmospheric density planets.
[SPEAKER_07]: The door is locked, but...
[SPEAKER_07]: As the 4th of you arrives, you hear the door, snick, as it unlocks, and slowly creeks open on rusted metal hinges.
[SPEAKER_07]: Hearing inside, you see a Spartan office, no chairs, a single metal desk on two metal legs, behind it a robot that is welded to the floor, unable to move from its position.
[SPEAKER_07]: This robot is not meant to look human.
[SPEAKER_07]: It is simply a trapezoid with a speaker in front of it.
[SPEAKER_07]: Please enter the gas mining offices of Crime Area 4.
[SPEAKER_05]: That's a, that's quite an old model, but there.
[SPEAKER_05]: Felix says, I walk in cautiously.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I don't think we should, uh, offend it if you know what I mean.
[SPEAKER_06]: Thorne strides in and up to the desk, and he says, yes, this is Thorne Draxis reporting from Echo 3 about some blackout one.
[SPEAKER_04]: Haley walks in all six, five of her, and just stairs at this awkward awful machine.
[SPEAKER_04]: Wondering why they're there.
[SPEAKER_07]: The door shuts behind you, and you hear a lock.
[SPEAKER_07]: The one window, which is already frosted over, now has a metal shutter come down, plunging you with the darkness.
[SPEAKER_07]: A light turns on.
[SPEAKER_07]: A low blue hum, a mitts, from the droid.
[SPEAKER_07]: Welcome to the secret Omni Tech offices on Crime Era 4.
[SPEAKER_07]: A small shoot opens up in front of it, and a tiny pincer claw comes out, holding an SD card.
[SPEAKER_07]: The tiny arm telescopes out to the wall where there is a slot with a speaker above it.
[SPEAKER_07]: It imputs the SD card into the slot.
[SPEAKER_07]: Immediately, a voice fills the room.
[SPEAKER_07]: Welcome, members of Blackout's One.
[SPEAKER_07]: This mission briefing is classified.
[SPEAKER_07]: We trust you understand the importance of secrecy.
[SPEAKER_07]: A few months ago, a deep space outpost intercepted an encrypted transmission from outside the sector.
[SPEAKER_07]: A transmission which resisted all conventional force of decryption.
[SPEAKER_07]: We found an employee of some of the sector's best hackers.
[SPEAKER_07]: And out of their efforts came a string of numbers, we now believed to be a coordinate.
[SPEAKER_07]: at the bar reaches of our own texture, the veridian expand.
[SPEAKER_07]: Your mission is to travel to the Stratus IV.
[SPEAKER_07]: There, you will retrieve a phenolinquist named Dr. Alara V. Now the good doctor is not an employee of ours, and she may require some convincing.
[SPEAKER_07]: Once you have her in your service, figure out how to get to the uncharted
[SPEAKER_07]: The A2 in this mission of free merchant class they ship has been purchased, and awaits you in docking base 72.
[SPEAKER_07]: Now although this ship has not flown in close to a decade, it exists in no known registration, allowing you some anonymity.
[SPEAKER_07]: A false ship identification has been uploaded on its ship.
[SPEAKER_07]: which has been provided to you.
[SPEAKER_07]: At this point, the little pincer claw rich freets back into the robot and comes back out, holding a small envelope and it hands it to, uh, the idea of the boss.
[SPEAKER_07]: It goes ahead of the rubber ross, but then towards next.
[SPEAKER_07]: Nope, I'm curious.
[SPEAKER_07]: I grab it.
[SPEAKER_07]: Keaking inside of the envelope, you find a thousand credits represented in physical form and a small SD card.
[SPEAKER_07]: Dumb credit, have also been provisions for a food.
[SPEAKER_07]: in addition to the fly.
[SPEAKER_07]: We are likely not the only group or corporation to have intercepted this signal.
[SPEAKER_07]: Be wary.
[SPEAKER_07]: But those who meet on your travel may be searching for the same thing as you.
[SPEAKER_07]: You will have no contact with us until your mission is complete.
[SPEAKER_07]: We will be in touch.
[SPEAKER_07]: The transmission ends.
[SPEAKER_07]: A curl of black smoke rise from the force that the ST card was inserted into.
[SPEAKER_07]: the shudders rise in the door of the box.
[SPEAKER_05]: Well, this is all a bit co-conduerned.
[SPEAKER_06]: I can't say that this is what I expected when I woke up this morning.
[SPEAKER_05]: What's in the envelope, Thorne?
[SPEAKER_06]: Thorne dumps out the contents like into his hand and holds it out.
[SPEAKER_06]: Well, these are the credits that they mentioned, and one of the easier data chips.
[SPEAKER_06]: No, we took a look at that.
[SPEAKER_06]: And it over.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's a standard high-capacity SD card.
[SPEAKER_07]: You're not sure what's on it, but according to the transmission, it's some sort of identification profile for the ship.
[SPEAKER_07]: So assumeably once you get to the ship, you'll have to upload it into its system.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_05]: This must be that, uh, that I need, they're talking about for the ship.
[SPEAKER_05]: I'll hold on to this, so I'll get us to load it up and we get there.
[SPEAKER_06]: Hmm, license and registration.
[SPEAKER_05]: Apparently so.
[SPEAKER_05]: By the way, if I'm good to see you again, I haven't seen you since that last mission.
[SPEAKER_05]: Would that go three?
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, I'm surprised they put us together after that whole thing went haywire last time.
[SPEAKER_05]: Well, you know, as I said, I'm a break, but I'm got to be back in the action.
[SPEAKER_04]: Can you say haywire?
[SPEAKER_04]: We're supposed to save Dr. Foss.
[SPEAKER_04]: You guys can do that, right?
[SPEAKER_04]: Find her?
[SPEAKER_05]: Man, I can, I can find her, but saving people, I mean, I work with machines now people.
[SPEAKER_05]: You look more like you could save somebody.
[SPEAKER_04]: just gotta get to her for anyone else does.
[SPEAKER_07]: Though, I know I threw a lot of paragraphs at you.
[SPEAKER_07]: and I can give you like a high level version of it.
[SPEAKER_07]: Your mission for tonight is to go get your ship from docking base 72, and then go to mistrata4, which is a research facility on the planet Wafisa in the Ravarmi Treatis system.
[SPEAKER_07]: So that is one, two, three, four, five systems away.
[SPEAKER_07]: So you're looking at like 20 to 30 days of spike drives.
[SPEAKER_01]: you.
[SPEAKER_01]: And for that I'm gonna take a look around, good look around, make sure that if there's anything that we can harvest out of this base while we're making our way to the dock, I'm gonna see if I can grab it.
[SPEAKER_07]: Absolutely.
[SPEAKER_07]: So as you leave the false front of Omnitek here on
[SPEAKER_07]: and start making your way towards the docking base.
[SPEAKER_07]: At least some of the docking base, one through 100, because you're looking for 72, you are encountering this horrible space station that was once a hub for research and development, but has since over the past 20 years turned into a haven for black market drugs and elicit activities.
[SPEAKER_07]: The corridors are dark with many of the lights burnt out or broken.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's grimey.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's run down.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's obviously no governmental entity here.
[SPEAKER_07]: There's no cleaning staff.
[SPEAKER_07]: There's simply anarchy.
[SPEAKER_07]: The air smells of rust.
[SPEAKER_07]: Old fuel.
[SPEAKER_07]: And the buzzing of malfunctioning lights flickers overhead.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's not a very pleasant place.
[SPEAKER_07]: In fact, like many space stations, it feels that you are underground by here, it's particularly claustrophobic.
[SPEAKER_07]: All of the luxuries that even the cheapest space station has are not present here.
[SPEAKER_07]: Windows into space or at least illusionary pictures to make you feel like there's a actual planet outside with blue skies and green grass.
[SPEAKER_07]: Here you are, deep underground, even though you are floating in the middle of space.
[SPEAKER_01]: ammunition, rations, fuel, and any drugs I can find just to keep him out of favourites his hands.
[SPEAKER_05]: You don't know me yet, man.
[SPEAKER_05]: How does the set of curiosity, do we know how supplies work on ships is just based on the life support?
[SPEAKER_07]: I'm not going to run a very crunchy game.
[SPEAKER_07]: Okay, cool.
[SPEAKER_07]: But the one thing you will need is fuel.
[SPEAKER_05]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_07]: We're gonna probably wanna like track fuel because that's impetus for you to take on jobs.
[SPEAKER_07]: 100% blind.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_07]: But for food and stuff, I don't care.
[SPEAKER_07]: If you have fuel in your tank, then I assume you have enough food to eat as well.
[SPEAKER_07]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_07]: That makes sense.
[SPEAKER_07]: So are you guys making your way towards talking base 72 while just looking out for other things?
[SPEAKER_07]: Or are you intentionally going away from talking base 72 to shop or to search?
[SPEAKER_05]: I think we should I mean we're here for reason I want to get off the station I'll go around.
[SPEAKER_05]: He already to go.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean I assume one of you can pilot this thing Yeah, I'm I'm moving with urgency here.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'll I'll happily pilot us away, but I'm definitely just keeping a strong eye out while as we head towards the Back May 72.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, you keep a safe big man.
[SPEAKER_06]: You know, when I heard we were going to Crimeary, I thought we were just getting demoted.
[SPEAKER_06]: Now I feel like this is the coolest side mission.
[SPEAKER_06]: What is it anything different with Omnitech?
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, they've been trying to kill me for years and don't yet.
[SPEAKER_03]: Look, it's still a bit of a sensitive subject.
[SPEAKER_03]: Guys know about my sister.
[SPEAKER_01]: Of course we do, now that's sad.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, they've been, you know they've been trying to do something fun to us.
[SPEAKER_01]: There's a reason they put us all together.
[SPEAKER_03]: so that we can start because we're the best.
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[SPEAKER_07]: You're going through this dingy, crappy space station that probably caused trillions of credits to make and have since been abandoned by whatever entity made it and taken over by the gangs that have sprung up here.
[SPEAKER_07]: You count your way up to docking base, passing corridor after corridor.
[SPEAKER_07]: The first one is for docking base 1 and 2 only, then 3 through 10, then 10 through 20.
[SPEAKER_07]: Sometimes the docking bay corridors are just for one or two massive docking bays that are meant for frigate clash ships.
[SPEAKER_07]: Other ones are a bevy of smaller docking bays.
[SPEAKER_07]: All crowded together, fitting most likely in its heyday, two three four strike fighters per docking bay, meaning that there would be a hundred for a single corridor leading off to one of these docking bays.
[SPEAKER_07]: You make your way up to the 50-80 section.
[SPEAKER_07]: You're looking for docking based 72.
[SPEAKER_07]: In this section, like all the other sections, it's full of grime and refuse.
[SPEAKER_07]: Sure, it smells of stale recycled air, but something different about this area are the score sparks on the wall.
[SPEAKER_07]: The dried blood on the ground weeks, if not months old.
[SPEAKER_07]: Bear dates have been built in various places along these corridors.
[SPEAKER_07]: A war broke out at some point.
[SPEAKER_07]: Massive battles along these corridors.
[SPEAKER_07]: There is a barricade directly across the entrance to docking phase 50 through 80.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's built of stacked storage bins and metal sheeting.
[SPEAKER_07]: Two armed guards wearing a hat together armor painted in bright greens and yellows and behind the barricade.
[SPEAKER_07]: The barricade is about 10 feet tall and they're on some sort of ledge behind it.
[SPEAKER_07]: On each of their left shoulder pads is a red emblem of a fierce rat, one wields a semi-automatic pistol which he brandishes at U.S.U.
[SPEAKER_07]: approach and the other supports a thought-off shotgun which he holds at the ready.
[SPEAKER_07]: the welcoming committee.
[SPEAKER_07]: They both also have knives in a band of leaders across their chest.
[SPEAKER_07]: Their shoulder pads are spiky, but not as spiky as they're hair as each sport, identical, green, and yellow mojox.
[SPEAKER_07]: One of them speaks up and just, hey, hey, this area is off limits to the likes of you.
[SPEAKER_06]: gentlemen, gentlemen, we're here on official business.
[SPEAKER_06]: We're looking for 72 and I like I very regariously step forward and like put my arms out like this doesn't have to be a shootout.
[SPEAKER_07]: He's brand is the one that's talking.
[SPEAKER_07]: He's just brandishing his semi-automatic pistol around.
[SPEAKER_07]: Pointing it at each of you and then scratching his head with it.
[SPEAKER_07]: He's like, oh yeah, well, I don't see no 72 here.
[SPEAKER_07]: So why don't you 72 yourself away from us?
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_07]: They high five each other.
[SPEAKER_01]: that was driven gentlemen now i mean we might have to take a little step away because i mean i was just trying to show off around here all these barriers you all put up to to keep keep back the orphans i i know you have a whole bunch of orphan barriers around here is i right
[SPEAKER_01]: often bet what the hell are you talking about often barriers I was an orphan I don't my friend my friend here was an or what what do you mean what the fuck do you mean often barriers and now he's pointing his gun in here I mean I'm just showing it look look y'all got such a nice looking barrier here uh did didn't mean to disturb now what a nice little little rat oh that's a spot
[SPEAKER_06]: I think what my friend is trying to say is, we don't mean any offense, but we do need to get beyond your barrier.
[SPEAKER_07]: That beyond our barrier, listen to these fancy gentlemen coming in from the south side of the station.
[SPEAKER_07]: You don't know who you are?
[SPEAKER_07]: You're obviously not from around these parts, because we're the drift rats!
[SPEAKER_07]: We drift like rats all around this side of the station.
[SPEAKER_07]: And you think you're going to come here and get across our bearer, you're a drift rat territory.
[SPEAKER_07]: What do you not understand that yet?
[SPEAKER_07]: Because I could pump you full of lead, and maybe that'll give you a little bit of an idea where you are.
[SPEAKER_01]: I didn't know that drift rats, I didn't know it in drift rat territory.
[SPEAKER_01]: Y'all should have said some earlier.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, that's my boys.
[SPEAKER_04]: Hey, Lee's just standing off to the side.
[SPEAKER_04]: Starting to do up our old flex routine, crunching your knuckles.
[SPEAKER_04]: We know where we are, we're on our way to 72, move.
[SPEAKER_07]: So I need you to roll talk, Robert Ross, which is not a skill you're good at.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, I'll try to talk them up real good and I roll the five.
[SPEAKER_07]: So, as you guys approach the 10-foot barrier and you're crunching your knuckles, crack in your knuckles and Robert is basically trying to ingressiate yourself to them, right, Robert?
[SPEAKER_01]: Or at least let them know that, I mean, I respect the drift rats, the drift rats are a mighty game.
[SPEAKER_07]: So unfortunately you didn't roll very high so as you approach they the shotgun guy also points his gun and He says hey yo, I don't like that they're getting so close to us there and the other one says What do you think you're gonna do get over this wall and he pats it really hard back up?
[SPEAKER_07]: You're not allowed in drift rat territory.
[SPEAKER_07]: You're probably working for them neon fangs anyway Huh, and he spits on the ground neon fangs more like more and he looks over to friend more like
[SPEAKER_07]: He snaps his fingers, looking for help.
[SPEAKER_07]: The guy just looks at him.
[SPEAKER_07]: Neon waves.
[SPEAKER_07]: We had him.
[SPEAKER_07]: Ah!
[SPEAKER_07]: The Neon waves.
[SPEAKER_07]: I'm glad I thought that.
[SPEAKER_07]: The Neon waves.
[SPEAKER_07]: You're a bunch of them Neon waves.
[SPEAKER_06]: Listen, we're not with the waves.
[SPEAKER_06]: We respect the drift rats.
[SPEAKER_06]: And we're on official business.
[SPEAKER_06]: And I'm telling you, too, that it would be in your best interest to let us through.
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, okay.
[SPEAKER_07]: Well, the one, why don't you roll a talk because you're trying to intimidate them?
[SPEAKER_07]: I rolled a 12.
[SPEAKER_07]: So yeah, with a 12, you say that and then go, you know, box.
[SPEAKER_07]: I think these guys are serious.
[SPEAKER_07]: Ah, shut up with ya.
[SPEAKER_07]: Okay, tell you what, y'all look pretty serious.
[SPEAKER_07]: Why don't you just stay there and I'll get a little rust claw.
[SPEAKER_07]: He'll talk to you and he'll he'll he'll he'll he'll he'll he'll
[SPEAKER_07]: That's sort of this out.
[SPEAKER_07]: You'll sort it out.
[SPEAKER_07]: You stay here and he'll sort this out.
[SPEAKER_07]: I'm sure.
[SPEAKER_07]: He hops down off the back of the wall and the guy with a shotgun just keeps it kind of trained on you and his face is just completely blank.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's obvious that there's not a lot of lights on in there.
[SPEAKER_06]: So I just kind of smirk Adam and then I turn back to the group and I like puddle up real quick and I'm like are we going to do?
[SPEAKER_02]: We're going to punch him.
[SPEAKER_02]: They're going to feed up on a giant wall after they come down.
[SPEAKER_05]: Sorry, oh, I mean, I'm going to have to let the muscle take care of this one.
[SPEAKER_05]: Um, these boys are low tech.
[SPEAKER_06]: What do we just tell them we, uh...
[SPEAKER_05]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_05]: I mean, we could go to the lowest tech route.
[SPEAKER_05]: I mean, we've got a thousand credits.
[SPEAKER_05]: I mean, we're going to bribe these boys one.
[SPEAKER_05]: Probably not very much.
[SPEAKER_05]: They don't look like much.
[SPEAKER_05]: Are they going to think a big difference in their lives if you don't want to mean?
[SPEAKER_06]: You're crazy.
[SPEAKER_06]: I'm not giving our credits to these bumbling gangsters.
[SPEAKER_05]: You want to tell the boss that I'm exact that we got stopped before we've got to the ship?
[SPEAKER_05]: I think we'll get to tell him much more dead, maybe you're right.
[SPEAKER_07]: In Truders, uh, welcome to the lower docking base.
[SPEAKER_07]: You turn to find a hooking, heavily scarred man.
[SPEAKER_07]: his nickname of rust claw comes apart quite clearly as his left hand is missing and has been replaced with a mechanical cybernetic claw.
[SPEAKER_07]: He looks like a beast built for sheer strength and he has a very commanding presence.
[SPEAKER_07]: Box tells me that's well you want to get through to docking base 72 look at me.
[SPEAKER_07]: I'm a poet everyone.
[SPEAKER_06]: Good one boss good one.
[SPEAKER_06]: Uh, if it isn't the great and illustrious lord rust claw.
[SPEAKER_06]: Thank you for taking the time to meet with us.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yes, we would like to get docking base 72.
[SPEAKER_06]: Very important business.
[SPEAKER_06]: I see.
[SPEAKER_07]: Well, you're in drift rack territory.
[SPEAKER_07]: You can't just
[SPEAKER_06]: of course of course i'm sure one in docking base seventy two oh i i nervously look back get everybody else and then uh i look back at at rust claw again and i say uh but that's where we parked
[SPEAKER_07]: We've been in control of these docking bays for years now.
[SPEAKER_06]: What do you mean that's where you parked?
[SPEAKER_06]: I think that this is just a big misunderstanding, and we just need to pay the toll, right, Felix?
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, boss.
[SPEAKER_05]: You gotta pay the toll.
[SPEAKER_01]: As was happening, um, I'm, I'm, I'm, can I size him up compared to Haley?
[SPEAKER_01]: Um, because I want to give it the old, hey, what about an arm wrestling contest?
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, and Miller size.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's Hulk versus Thanos.
[SPEAKER_07]: Is he on the wall or is he down where we are?
[SPEAKER_07]: He's on the wall.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, okay.
[SPEAKER_07]: I told you say, well, talking base 72 is one of the ones we've been, uh,
[SPEAKER_07]: Unable to open these past several years, tell me what's in there, and maybe you can do a favor for me and exchange for the goods that I own.
[SPEAKER_07]: Man, wait, this told you it's where we part.
[SPEAKER_07]: What kind of ship is in there?
[SPEAKER_07]: You adapt for a spaceship.
[SPEAKER_07]: And what kind of favor are we talking about?
[SPEAKER_07]: It depends on what kind of spaceship is in there.
[SPEAKER_07]: Are you telling us y'all don't even know what's in you're talking about there's a lot of security in here I'm able to open all the doors to all the docking base We've gotten a lot of them open.
[SPEAKER_07]: Don't get me wrong.
[SPEAKER_07]: This one we haven't quite opened yet
[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, well, I could, I could open one of the other ones for you.
[SPEAKER_05]: It exchange for you led us through 72.
[SPEAKER_06]: And it's nothing special.
[SPEAKER_06]: It's just an old, you know, small ship.
[SPEAKER_06]: It was, it was left to four Felix's uncle just passed and he left to two of them in as well.
[SPEAKER_06]: So we're here to pick it up.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm just curious.
[SPEAKER_01]: If my big, strong friend over here.
[SPEAKER_01]: can't can open the door with her bare hands, feel like she's all going to hack this.
[SPEAKER_01]: If she can open this with her bare hands, will you let us take the contents of what's inside?
[SPEAKER_07]: No, what are you taking for a fool?
[SPEAKER_07]: Do you think I became the leader of the DRIFF RATS by just giving things out based on feats of strength?
[SPEAKER_07]: Boy, I am a feat of strength!
[SPEAKER_07]: I care not for seeing such musculature, then he points down to you when he says, you tell me what type of ship is in there, and I'll proportion a favor.
[SPEAKER_07]: You do this favor?
[SPEAKER_07]: We open those doors.
[SPEAKER_07]: Based on him assuming you have the code to get in, and if that type of ship is in there, you weren't lying to me, if so facto you can take it away, because the favor has been rendered in full, and a drift rat is always worth his word.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's just a free merchant, and yes, we have the codes.
[SPEAKER_06]: a free merchant that's been sitting there for how long?
[SPEAKER_06]: Who knows, how old was here on COVID-19?
[SPEAKER_05]: Well, let's see, Uncle Roger died.
[SPEAKER_05]: I mean, I've been playing it a couple times.
[SPEAKER_05]: You know how hard it is to keep track of interplanetary time.
[SPEAKER_05]: How old did you see all it been here?
[SPEAKER_05]: Five years or so?
[SPEAKER_05]: I think it was about six years ago.
[SPEAKER_07]: If that thing's been sitting there for longer than two weeks without maintenance, it's probably a rust bucket that's not flyable by now anyway.
[SPEAKER_07]: I'll tell you what, I have a small favor for you.
[SPEAKER_07]: Obviously you've heard of the drift rats, but have you heard of the neon fangs?
[SPEAKER_05]: Do you mean the neon lames?
[SPEAKER_07]: Heh heh, neon lames.
[SPEAKER_07]: Hey boss, that was my joke.
[SPEAKER_07]: I mean a silence, you.
[SPEAKER_07]: If I want to know who said a joke I'll ask, the neon lame.
[SPEAKER_07]: That's a good one.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yes, the neon, the neon lanes, the neon lanes are, well, they're another gang, a lesser gang.
[SPEAKER_07]: They're a bit more south of us.
[SPEAKER_07]: They have some of the docking base, and they've been trying to expand their reach.
[SPEAKER_07]: They've forgotten exactly who is in charge of this side of the space station, and they need to be reminded.
[SPEAKER_07]: Do you have someone with you that can hack?
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, you could say so.
[SPEAKER_07]: I've been hatching a little plan for a while now, but our hackers are Not really up to the task.
[SPEAKER_07]: They're not fighters and this requires going behind any lines.
[SPEAKER_05]: What's the hack?
[SPEAKER_05]: Exactly.
[SPEAKER_07]: Move into the neon lanes territory neon lanes
[SPEAKER_07]: And you're going to try to take down their systems from the inside.
[SPEAKER_07]: Of course, all of their ports are fire walls, so you're going to have to actually move into their territory to use one of the unprotected ports.
[SPEAKER_07]: Blaster the drip brats in Sikdia, all over every screen on the station if you can access them with a message on it, better a rat in the drift than a king in a cage.
[SPEAKER_07]: That's our motto, we live by it.
[SPEAKER_07]: Remind them who's in charge of this station.
[SPEAKER_07]: If you could do this, and we see the proof on our own screens, you can come back here and we'll let you into, well, we'll let you access to Docket Base 72, opening the door will be up to you.
[SPEAKER_07]: Well, give you a hearty handshake and a glass of brew if you wish it because you'll be on a rare inch riff rats if you can make the neon lames look that thing.
[SPEAKER_07]: I mean, lame.
[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, you have a copy of this program you won't run.
[SPEAKER_07]: No, no, no, you've got a right to film program.
[SPEAKER_07]: What do I look like somewhere who writes programs?
[SPEAKER_07]: Do I look like I'm wearing glasses?
[SPEAKER_05]: Well, you're well-go, and then what was it again?
[SPEAKER_07]: Better a rat in the drift than a king and a cage.
[SPEAKER_07]: Finish this box.
[SPEAKER_07]: All right, all right, all right, yeah, that'll be no problem.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's great stuff, by the way, great stuff.
[SPEAKER_07]: He waves his hand just missively and hops off to the back of the wall, and you can hear him moving back off into the duck and his.
[SPEAKER_07]: Box waves his semi-automatic you, and he goes, oh, right now you heard the boss, get the fuck outta here, and do the job, you're gonna get shot in the head a couple thousand times.
[SPEAKER_06]: All right, all right, I turn around and I look, I look at Felix, this is the problem for you, right?
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, no, that'll be fine.
[SPEAKER_05]: We just need to get to the right dinner feast.
[SPEAKER_05]: So let's, uh, he said, what do you say south of here?
[SPEAKER_05]: I never know which direction is which it's space.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's all rotating.
[SPEAKER_07]: So you leave docking base 50 through 80, unable to get into docking base 72, and you're going to go try to figure out where the neon things are, how to infiltrate them, how to hack them, and do exactly what, uh, rust claw needs to allow you access to your ship.
[SPEAKER_06]: be like, how long is going to take you to write a program that does that?
[SPEAKER_05]: I like to do all we're walking, you know, just take me a little bit of time, but I mean to get into their system, I mean, if you have the prep for, for a bit here, we could, you know, I could do it no problem.
[SPEAKER_05]: I do like, I don't know, a good hour, hour and a half just to down on board through this, but you know, make sure I got the right reps through their protocols.
[SPEAKER_05]: Or, you know, we just go in there and I wing it.
[SPEAKER_07]: And I will say, you're on a space station that has accommodations.
[SPEAKER_07]: So if you guys need to, it is getting on in the day.
[SPEAKER_07]: It'd be nice to spend the next night on your spaceship, but if you can't do things fast enough, there are hotels, CD and non-CD here on the space station.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, I mean, listen, Thorne, you know, you see me in action?
[SPEAKER_05]: I can do this, no problem.
[SPEAKER_05]: This is a baby act.
[SPEAKER_05]: Like the fact that there guys couldn't do it, I mean, I wouldn't even call them hackers, they're, you know, kids playing around.
[SPEAKER_05]: It was give me 10 minutes if I don't order their terminals and I'll be fine.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean 10 minutes might be a little bit of a time.
[SPEAKER_01]: Do you know what kind of security we're going through here?
[SPEAKER_06]: No, that's what the 10 minutes is for.
[SPEAKER_06]: Hopefully not a big 10-foot concrete wall.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's what I'm worried about.
[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, you mean physical security?
[SPEAKER_05]: I don't know about any of that stuff.
[SPEAKER_05]: You all got to figure that out.
[SPEAKER_05]: Cyber security?
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, because that's the 10 minutes.
[SPEAKER_05]: Maybe 15 minutes tops.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, that's that, that's that click of the clock part.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now, I'm talking about what am I going to have to deal with to make sure that you have the then their 10 minutes.
[SPEAKER_05]: Well, that's crazy.
[SPEAKER_05]: Look, Flash is across my eyes.
[SPEAKER_05]: Why don't we go find out?
[SPEAKER_01]: That's what I'm talking about.
[SPEAKER_07]: That was my boy, Felix.
[SPEAKER_07]: Okay, so tell me how you want to approach this.
[SPEAKER_07]: You're heading towards neon fang territory.
[SPEAKER_07]: And we have a decent idea of where that is, right?
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, so you know that they hold some of the docking base, south of 50 through 80.
[SPEAKER_07]: All right, so we're looking for the 33, 50 area or whatever it is.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, so you eventually find the neon fangs are holding.
[SPEAKER_07]: You don't quite know the extent of their holdings, but you do know that they don't start to hold until the low 40s.
[SPEAKER_07]: And they hold multiple corridors, but they're smaller.
[SPEAKER_07]: They're not like the big neon rat.
[SPEAKER_07]: The big drift rat section of 50s to 80, which one massive corridor with a bunch of stuff behind it.
[SPEAKER_07]: They hold many smaller corridors with only a few docking base behind each one.
[SPEAKER_07]: So as you approach this area, it's less of a barricade that's stalking people from going in, and more of a residential area, and lots of stalls, and merchants, and the neon fangs sort of patrolling the area more like armed guards, and preventing people from going down certain docked big corridors.
[SPEAKER_07]: But other than that, they've seemed to have built a community that they are the protectors, or perhaps exploiters of, here in the lower areas of the docked back.
[SPEAKER_06]: Okay, what I was gonna say was that we should keep our eyes peeled for anyone that looks like they're with the fangs, but it sounds like we can see that.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, so the neon fangs are dressed in similar, like, street armor as the DRIFFRATS, but they're colors are different.
[SPEAKER_07]: They're spray painted red or black, red and black all over their armor, and they have an emblem of a rat that looks very similar to the DRIFFRAT rat, but it has two giant fangs on the front, like coming out of its rat like mouth.
[SPEAKER_07]: So their emblems are practically identical, but one has fangs.
[SPEAKER_07]: And I'm sure there's some sort of message in there about how we're all actually alike.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, I wrote pages, reams of history about these two gangs and how they splintered from the same night.
[SPEAKER_04]: I didn't know, no, no, no, no, oh, did I. I'm like, where's the room you and Juliet story here?
[SPEAKER_07]: If you guys want to stick around in this space station, I'm sure you could find that story.
[SPEAKER_07]: That guy with the handgun was clearly in her future, yeah.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_05]: I mean, so as we're moving through this area, and we kind of see all the things you described with the stalls, the guards, I'm looking around for any like access points that seem like they're tied into, you know, that they that I could check out to see if they're tied into the right network and begin doing some analysis of the system here.
[SPEAKER_07]: Sure, so you're moving down essentially what is the main corridor?
[SPEAKER_07]: All the docking base have other corridors that branch off of this one.
[SPEAKER_07]: This main corridor with all these stalls and people is the same corridor you've been following that goes all the way back to drift rat territory.
[SPEAKER_07]: And also goes all the way to the lifts that bring you up to the upper levels where you actually went to like the Omnitech gas mining front.
[SPEAKER_07]: So this is just the main thoroughfare.
[SPEAKER_07]: There is, you do spot a port.
[SPEAKER_07]: spelling can made rugs and towels.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's he has a flat-toff looking device plugged into it with a great ribbon cable.
[SPEAKER_05]: A nudge, a nudge thorn.
[SPEAKER_05]: I gotta get on that, that exact one.
[SPEAKER_05]: I mean, have you seen any others?
[SPEAKER_05]: Haley?
[SPEAKER_05]: Rob, you seen any others?
[SPEAKER_04]: Sure, we can keep looking, I mean, he's just a merchant.
[SPEAKER_05]: He looks nice.
[SPEAKER_06]: Like, somebody should go talk to him.
[SPEAKER_06]: You want me to distract him?
[SPEAKER_04]: I can go ask.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, before we all do that, I'm kind of curious, just to give him a little bit of distraction.
[SPEAKER_01]: If I'm just rolling around in some grease and speck out my hair real quick, make it look like I'm a neon line.
[SPEAKER_05]: I mean don't see it.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, I mean, you do your body.
[SPEAKER_01]: I turn my Afro into like the most gigantic spike dreadlock throw thing you've ever seen.
[SPEAKER_07]: I'm just curious what method of adhesion are you using for your Afro?
[SPEAKER_01]: What colors your Afro?
[SPEAKER_01]: It is a white Afro that has been just dunked in floor grease.
[SPEAKER_01]: Just like I'm just rubbing it up against a wall.
[SPEAKER_07]: You're Afro touches the wall and immediately turns into shoulder-length hair, that's how greasy it gets instantly.
[SPEAKER_07]: So you spike it up to the best you can with lower grease and whatever else is rubbing off of the floors and wall.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's a disgusting, it's less of an Afro and more of a block of hair.
[SPEAKER_07]: Now that is, it's a trapezoid of hair.
[SPEAKER_07]: But you are missing the red and black spray painted armor.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, the black's coming from the grease, because I'm now just rolling around in grease.
[SPEAKER_01]: Haley, can you, can you try to make a little rat up in here somewhere?
[SPEAKER_01]: Can you just drop, drop, drop, drop, drop, drop in there?
[SPEAKER_07]: No.
[SPEAKER_07]: People are looking at you a bit funny here in this main thoroughfare of the space station.
[SPEAKER_07]: As you roll around on the floor and rub your head against the wall.
[SPEAKER_05]: I kind of, as he's doing this, I kind of feel kind of, you know, who limps over.
[SPEAKER_05]: And I lean against the wall near where the merchant's computer is plugged in, as close as I can get to it.
[SPEAKER_05]: And kind of like, you know, make it obvious that I'm rubbing like a painful part of my body, like, and I kind of like hiking up my pants and people to see my robot legs.
[SPEAKER_05]: And I'm like rubbing my, my, the joints when my legs meet my, my hips.
[SPEAKER_07]: And I'm just like lean against the wall for a quick little rest.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, Haley is terrified right now of what's going on on the floor have nothing to do I have nothing to do with that Robert just went for it and I just like trying to take advantage You walk up and he's like got an idea and he starts break dancing.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, I love it.
[SPEAKER_04]: My sister I'm like this is what my sister experienced
[SPEAKER_04]: And I'm just going through a whole lot of reshaping what I thought strike units.
[SPEAKER_04]: I was like, I'm like, is this a normal strike unit six adventure?
[SPEAKER_04]: Robert?
[SPEAKER_01]: This is the least weird thing we did.
[SPEAKER_07]: So Robert, I'm going to have you roll perform dexterity.
[SPEAKER_07]: No, no.
[SPEAKER_07]: Let's do perform dexterity's perfect.
[SPEAKER_07]: So you're rolling around the ground, rubbing your hair everywhere, trying to get it into a approximation of a neon fangs armor.
[SPEAKER_07]: and air style, which is obviously never going to happen.
[SPEAKER_07]: But unbeknownst to you, you are causing the exact distraction.
[SPEAKER_07]: You wish to cause my becoming a beyond thing.
[SPEAKER_07]: So, with a role of eight, you meet the DC, and you have captured the attention of the nearby rug and towel merchant, who is saying, who, uh, Felix, who's right next to him next to the fort on the wall, can hear say, What the, what is this?
[SPEAKER_07]: That young man's lost his mind.
[SPEAKER_07]: And Felix I need you to also roll perform because you're trying to act like you have a reason to be leaning against the wall So it's too perform.
[SPEAKER_05]: I am in pain.
[SPEAKER_05]: I have been lichen a bit pain as well.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, but you're trying to mask your true intention of yeah So go ahead and roll perform charisma 6 sadly
[SPEAKER_07]: Okay, so, but you get a bonus from the distraction.
[SPEAKER_07]: The merchant is not looking at you.
[SPEAKER_07]: You're just another, you know, man with, well, I guess you have prosthetic legs, but you're another, you know, another older gentleman that's having problems rubbing his legs and he's attention to just purely captured by this white afroat man rolling around the ground.
[SPEAKER_07]: In fact, he's capturing a bit too much attention as two neon fangs down the corridor seems to have noticed him on our starting to make their way towards him.
[SPEAKER_05]: Well, I'm not going to have enough time, I think to myself, do the hack here, but we'll have.
[SPEAKER_05]: So first thing first, I'm going to unplug his laptop and plug in my data pad.
[SPEAKER_07]: Okay, he is too wrapped up in what's happening to notice.
[SPEAKER_05]: So I perform like the handshake and like, can I tell that this is a neon flame?
[SPEAKER_05]: I forget their actual name.
[SPEAKER_05]: I mean, yeah, I'm flame.
[SPEAKER_05]: Thanks.
[SPEAKER_05]: Neon fangs.
[SPEAKER_05]: Is an actual neon fangs?
[SPEAKER_05]: Um, I purchased their systems.
[SPEAKER_07]: So to determine that, I'm going to need you to make some sort of exploratory computers role.
[SPEAKER_07]: So you plug in, you grab, what kind of device you use in?
[SPEAKER_07]: Are you opening a laptop or is it a data path?
[SPEAKER_05]: No, I have it's a data path.
[SPEAKER_05]: It's a slab, it folds out into a three-three-three-three thing.
[SPEAKER_05]: It's called the data slab.
[SPEAKER_07]: Awesome.
[SPEAKER_07]: So you plug your ribbon cable into the port, and you slide open your data slab, and you heavily type on, is it a virtual interface or is it actual, like physical keys?
[SPEAKER_07]: It's a virtual interface.
[SPEAKER_07]: So using the virtual interface, go ahead, go ahead, go ahead, go ahead, go ahead, go ahead, go ahead, go ahead, go ahead, go ahead, go ahead, go ahead, go ahead, go ahead, go ahead, go ahead, go ahead, go ahead, go ahead, go ahead, go ahead, go ahead, go ahead, go ahead, go ahead, go ahead, go ahead, go ahead, go ahead, go ahead, go ahead, go ahead, go ahead, go ahead, go ahead, go ahead, go ahead, go ahead, go ahead, go ahead, go ahead, go ahead, go ahead, go ahead, go ahead, go ahead, go ahead, go ahead, go ahead, go ahead, go ahead, go ahead, go ahead, go ahead
[SPEAKER_05]: Realizing that I'm going to try to pull out a Like a network map of the vocal area.
[SPEAKER_07]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_07]: I'll keep your roll from before.
[SPEAKER_07]: This is all a single hacking attempt.
[SPEAKER_07]: So
[SPEAKER_07]: You continue typing as the neon fangards are you can see out of the corner right there now conversing with your group and Robert Ross has started from the ground and they're all talking.
[SPEAKER_07]: So you're typing they're continuing to distract and you pull out a network map that tells you how many different ports you're here in this corridor but also that the ports that are fire walled you can tell because you can't reach.
[SPEAKER_07]: ask those ports and figure out what's on the other side of them, which means they're firewalled, that is where the neon fangs ports are, but you do have their physical locations.
[SPEAKER_07]: Meanwhile, two neon fangs walk up to you, Robert, while you're on the ground, they each have pistols and knives, but whole certain seeds and one of the neon fangs says, citizen, you're
[SPEAKER_07]: low, the neon fangs, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah,
[SPEAKER_07]: absolutely understand.
[SPEAKER_07]: Well, I haven't seen you around here before.
[SPEAKER_07]: This is neon fangs territory.
[SPEAKER_07]: We try to keep the peace the best we can.
[SPEAKER_07]: Obviously your friend wasn't hurting anyone, but we can't have him rolling around in the streets.
[SPEAKER_07]: Are you new in this area?
[SPEAKER_07]: Yes, actually.
[SPEAKER_07]: Well, welcome to the Neonfangs territory.
[SPEAKER_07]: We keep everything as safe as we can from the other gangs, essentially from here, down to docking Bay 20, I don't know if gone that stealth yet.
[SPEAKER_07]: If you need lodging, there are several costals, as well as one more upscore hotel.
[SPEAKER_07]: A lot of residents have been moving in and taking shelter in,
[SPEAKER_07]: What we unfortunately are calling a shanty town, but there's plenty of space there if you simply need the bed somewhere outside and you are You know, bereft of credit slits that well, that's extremely helpful.
[SPEAKER_06]: Thank you and if I could ask I don't suppose the things have like a Central base of operations in these areas do you?
[SPEAKER_07]: It depends what you're looking for.
[SPEAKER_07]: Now, if you need some sort of help navigating the area, or you want to talk to our leaders about some concern with our community, you can go to book docking Bay corridors down, that's two on the port side.
[SPEAKER_07]: Whenever we say a number of corridors, we're talking about port side corridors, go to down, and then it will be that next corridor.
[SPEAKER_01]: And then theoretically, if we were having some,
[SPEAKER_01]: Of course, did not necessarily have an issue with drift threats.
[SPEAKER_01]: Would you all be able to help us with that?
[SPEAKER_07]: If drift threats enter this territory, we kindly ask them to leave.
[SPEAKER_07]: We don't take them as a legitimate threat.
[SPEAKER_07]: Of course, they harassed our citizens before and interrupted our supply lines and they've taken a section of docking base to the north that are largely useless.
[SPEAKER_07]: which is why we haven't attempted to move into them ourselves.
[SPEAKER_07]: But of course, they are a problem from time to time.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_07]: We wouldn't move against them, though, based on something that happened outside of this area now.
[SPEAKER_07]: But if you've had trouble with them, I would simply tell you, stay away from them.
[SPEAKER_07]: There's plenty of stable sections of the space station where you can call your new home and welcome the Crimea for.
[SPEAKER_07]: Well, it's been a delight speaking with you, gentlemen.
[SPEAKER_07]: Thank you.
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, if you're going to be
[SPEAKER_07]: picking a place to live on Kremiria 4 and you end up staying in the neon fangs community.
[SPEAKER_07]: My name is Roger.
[SPEAKER_07]: I actually run a...
[SPEAKER_07]: pool hall just down.
[SPEAKER_07]: Well, I guess I thought I'd be running it, but as a as a guard with the neon fangs on another much time.
[SPEAKER_07]: So I suppose it's probably more fair to say by a wife in my eldest axle run the pool hall.
[SPEAKER_07]: So if you play billiards or if you'd like to gamble a little bit or just want a good place to drink with a few friends.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's called Rogers, that's my name.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's down there for corridors and your findings.
[SPEAKER_07]: Well, thank you.
[SPEAKER_04]: Thanks, you're so kind.
[SPEAKER_07]: He stakes each person's hand in turn.
[SPEAKER_05]: While that advice happening, I'm pulling my data pad and pulling it back and the brushes left up.
[SPEAKER_01]: and I give him the most long and awkward greasy handshake.
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh God.
[SPEAKER_07]: He does show on his face that he thinks it's awkward and greasy, but out of politeness, he waits for you to finish the handshake.
[SPEAKER_07]: He obviously thinks that you're suffering some sort of like emotional trauma.
[SPEAKER_07]: When you release his hand, he grips you by the shoulder.
[SPEAKER_07]: For a moment, he says, my friend.
[SPEAKER_07]: whatever's happening, it will get better.
[SPEAKER_07]: It will, and he claps to on the shoulder.
[SPEAKER_07]: Just stay with your friends.
[SPEAKER_07]: They're a good lot.
[SPEAKER_01]: You serve our con man, and I will absolutely, for that fact, I love billions.
[SPEAKER_01]: I've been playing since I was a boy.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm gonna go buy Robbins.
[SPEAKER_01]: Robbins.
[SPEAKER_07]: Robbins.
[SPEAKER_01]: Robbins.
[SPEAKER_07]: Robbins.
[SPEAKER_07]: So yeah, Rogers just found that and I can't wait to see you there.
[SPEAKER_07]: All are welcome.
[SPEAKER_07]: First round is on me of cool and drinks.
[SPEAKER_07]: If you don't drink, we have water too.
[SPEAKER_07]: Wow, thanks, Rogers.
[SPEAKER_07]: Thanks, Rogers.
[SPEAKER_07]: And Rogers and the other guard who was standing a little bit off just kind of watching the crowd during that leave.
[SPEAKER_07]: And as they leave, the second guard gives you kind of a half-hearted wave like he regrets not being more part of the conversation.
[SPEAKER_07]: And they move on into deeper into neon thanks territory.
[SPEAKER_04]: Guys, guys, what the fuck, sorry, that was rude.
[SPEAKER_04]: What, they're awesome here.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, like, what's with this code?
[SPEAKER_04]: I don't.
[SPEAKER_06]: Well, I kind of feel bad now, yeah.
[SPEAKER_06]: Haley's right.
[SPEAKER_05]: Guys, it's a prank.
[SPEAKER_05]: Do you not get, like, I'm putting up a picture in some words, it's a prank.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's just a prank, bro.
[SPEAKER_05]: It's so we can get access to our ship.
[SPEAKER_05]: Are we sure?
[SPEAKER_05]: I wrote the program, Haley.
[SPEAKER_05]: Are you, is it a nice prank?
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, but we're still the bad guys.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, there's a picture in some words from the dumbass gang.
[SPEAKER_05]: These are just people.
[SPEAKER_05]: We're never going to see them again.
[SPEAKER_07]: These are just people.
[SPEAKER_07]: They're just people.
[SPEAKER_07]: They are.
[SPEAKER_04]: We go to that pool hall and drink their beer.
[SPEAKER_04]: They're not just people anymore.
[SPEAKER_04]: What pool hall?
[SPEAKER_06]: What are you talking about?
[SPEAKER_06]: You missed a whole thing, Felix.
[SPEAKER_04]: Did you not your Roger?
[SPEAKER_05]: I got a map of where all their ports are.
[SPEAKER_05]: We can go now and finish this.
[SPEAKER_01]: Is one in Rogers because let me tell you that place on a great.
[SPEAKER_05]: What is Rogers?
[SPEAKER_01]: What are you talking about?
[SPEAKER_03]: There's a free beer!
[SPEAKER_01]: Wait, I was too busy rolling around and grease.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's free beer?
[SPEAKER_03]: He said he's got us the first round free.
[SPEAKER_06]: He did say first round is on him and that did constitute a verbal contract.
[SPEAKER_05]: Where did he say this place was?
[SPEAKER_05]: Or corridor stand?
[SPEAKER_05]: I cross-reference that against my map of ports.
[SPEAKER_07]: So to get to any of the firewalls ports, you're going to have to go through one of these lock doors.
[SPEAKER_07]: Either a barricade or a shut door, but there is a barricade and a shut door basically every corridor that you pass.
[SPEAKER_05]: Listen, like we can go there if you want, but we're not here to have a good time.
[SPEAKER_07]: Okay, excuse me, excuse me.
[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, sorry.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yes?
[SPEAKER_05]: Yes, I'm good.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's the carpet towel seller.
[SPEAKER_06]: Ah, yes, carpet towel salesman.
[SPEAKER_06]: How can I help you?
[SPEAKER_07]: Would you like to buy something you've been in front of my stall for a long time now?
[SPEAKER_06]: No, you're a business.
[SPEAKER_06]: I believe we were just leaving.
[SPEAKER_06]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_06]: Your textiles are lovely.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, I'll take a towel.
[SPEAKER_06]: No, don't pay that much.
[SPEAKER_06]: Don't pay that.
[SPEAKER_03]: Well, how much is it?
[SPEAKER_06]: That'll be three credits for the towel theory.
[SPEAKER_06]: It's too much.
[SPEAKER_06]: Come on, just walk, walk, walk, walk, walk.
[SPEAKER_06]: Or just walk in a way.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's a towel.
[SPEAKER_04]: My apologies.
[SPEAKER_04]: Like, we all need towels for space adventures.
[SPEAKER_07]: So are you heading to Rogers?
[SPEAKER_07]: Is that what I've heard?
[SPEAKER_05]: Listen, I found this I pull up this map of the ports.
[SPEAKER_05]: We got to get through one of these locked doors And you guys are walking down the main thoroughfare right now as you talk I'm talking in hush tones Listen, you see all these and I'm pointing out the locked doors and I like to barricades as we last passed We got to get in there.
[SPEAKER_05]: That's where I could do my work Somebody like somebody's got to get me in there.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, can you hack one of these doors?
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm in perfect neon-fying disguise, so I could easily watch the door
[SPEAKER_06]: Probably I don't have to tell you this, my friend.
[SPEAKER_06]: But the disguise is not that great.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_06]: I don't know about that.
[SPEAKER_04]: I think it's worth one beer.
[SPEAKER_06]: And maybe there will be, it's listen.
[SPEAKER_06]: Feel like there's one for corridors down.
[SPEAKER_06]: We check that corridor and see how close it is.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, here's like every corridor.
[SPEAKER_06]: All right, let's go.
[SPEAKER_05]: All right, all right.
[SPEAKER_06]: So in an attempt to kill two birds with one stone, we can go four corridors down, and see if we can find the door that's there, or doors, I guess, and see what their proximity to Rogers is.
[SPEAKER_07]: Well, we'll have to head on off to Rogers another time, guys.
[SPEAKER_07]: I'm sorry, but we are out of time for tonight.
[SPEAKER_07]: But before we go, let's take a moment to hear some thoughts from our crew.
[SPEAKER_05]: Well, the group is dragging me to some God's forsaken billiards hall, more people, I guess.
[SPEAKER_05]: But I think there's a chance I could find one of those access points that I need.
[SPEAKER_05]: We'll see what we turn up.
[SPEAKER_04]: You know, this has been a weird mission so far.
[SPEAKER_04]: First, there's the robot which we're weird.
[SPEAKER_04]: Then, you know, unexpected from Omitech, then we, you know, can't even buy towels
[SPEAKER_04]: You know, watching Robert roll around an oil because of the neon flames.
[SPEAKER_04]: And thank God we've met one nice person on this place, but, you know, people are seem to be hell bent.
[SPEAKER_04]: Hopefully we can just finish this mission before someone messes something up and also get Robert clean.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's a shame we ran into the craziest on this station before we ran into any normal people, but at least we're on our way to get in that ship.
[SPEAKER_00]: Did you see what they were charging for rugs on this thing?
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh boy, it's a good thing these drinks are going to be free.
[SPEAKER_01]: Felix and, uh, Amy with one wild sister, um, love working with the crew that I'm in a bunch of random days.
[SPEAKER_01]: That said, these are your dear friends, but they seem like a bunch of chimps, but the ship's a ship.
[SPEAKER_01]: We need her.
[SPEAKER_07]: Thanks for tuning in to this episode of Dark Star Adventures.
[SPEAKER_07]: The story is just heating up, and our cruise challenges are only just beginning.
[SPEAKER_07]: Well, they find a way to outsmart the neon bangs and get the docking base 72.
[SPEAKER_07]: You'll have to join us next time to find out.
[SPEAKER_07]: Until then, stay sharp, keep your engines running, and remember, out here among the stars, survival, is the ultimate victory.
[SPEAKER_07]: See you next time on Dark Star Adventures.