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This episode of Float City was recorded in various locations across Brooklyn New York. It was produced, edited and sound designed by Mike Rugnetta.
And it grew both day and night,
Till it bore an apple bright,
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[ Transcription Note: IC denotes In-Character Speech, OOC denotes Out of Character ] [00:00:00] [ Intro Theme Begins ]
> Molly Templeton/ “Artemis”: [IC] In the far future, faster-than-light travel is possible via portals called Stiffworks.
Human and alien civilizations travel this way for millenia. Trade, war, and technology proliferate. Countless societies rise, thrive, fall, and vanish. Eventually, almost everyone forgets the secrets of the stiffworks. Almost. Three hundred years ago, the Worshipful Company of Stillfleeters is formed on Spindle, a space station of unknown origin. They send fleeters into the void using stiffworks in search of profit.
It is 100 Million Years in the future. Welcome to Float City. [ Intro Theme Ends ]
[ Main Theme Begins ]
> Mike Rugnetta / G.M.: Previously on Float City, the crew plus vat gnome Torres escape Graffa just barely after Vynos uses Millen’s Gravity Gun to defend against an oncoming horde of brain rats, and seemingly splits the island in two.
Steady Hand Dealer, Pirate King and Holder of the Cork Sword had just let the crew know that he’d managed to delay the distribution of arms, but only perhaps momentarily, as a mysterious figure had been approaching groups of pirates to arrange arms deals directly. A highly unusual move, betraying confidence and power not normally seen by the pirates. That mysterious figure would seem to match the description of one Shashō, the Saffron Anax’s slow-talking Deva, whomst the crew met on Rigamont B. If the crew wants to stem the tide of weaponry to Graffa, they have to act fast. Luckily, the path for that task and investigating who set them up to take the fall for Zeshdano’s failed murder are one in the same, and it leads through their bosses.
We join the team now, having just had a brush with death and a legion of brain rats, in the Near Bays on Spin.
[ Main Theme Ends ]
[00:02:22] > Taylor Moore / “The Bad Boys”: And Oat is kissing Merkis, all over the head- [ Shannon and Bijan laugh, Taylor makes kissing noises IC as Oat]
> Jenn de la Vega / “Merkis Imeldar”: [IC] Okay, alright -
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [IC as Oat] Oh you little wet wonder, Merkis!
> Jenn / “Merkis”: [IC] Ohh -
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [IC] I love you, I love you -
> Jenn / “Merkis”: [IC] Alright -
> Bijan Stephen / “Remy Tester”: [IC?] You know -
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [IC] Look at this - Look at this little guy! Merkis you’re the best-
> Jenn / “Merkis”: [IC] You can refrain from affection-
> Bijan / “Remy”: [IC] Merkis is hard now - Oat, Oat, Oat, Merkis is hard now, please stop doing that-
> Jenn / “Merkis”: [OOC] Merkis is crossing his arms [Jenn laughs]
> Bijan / “Remy”: [OOC] I think, I think Remy looks at Merkis and says [IC] You know, I
thought you were slippery. That was pretty impressive.
> Jenn / “Merkis”: [IC] I think I dried out a little bit, juust enough to have a little traction. [Jenn laughs]
> Bijan / “Remy”: [OOC] Yeah -
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [IC] I owe you -
> Bijan / “Remy”: [OOC] - Remy starts toodling -
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [OOC] Oh sorry, go ahead.
> Bijan / “Remy”: [OOC] I was gonna say Remy starts toodling a jaunty tune.
> Shannon Odell / “Beta Commbot”: [OOC] Beta holds the end of the, of the flute, grabs for the end of the flute, and is, and gives an eye at Remy and says [IC] [Scoffs] Not - not the time.
> Bijan / “Remy”: [OOC] Remy puts away the flute, takes out some Gunch, and rails a line. [Shannon laughs] Off his arm.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [IC as Oat] Merkis, Merkis, Merkis listen to me - > Jenn / “Merkis”: [IC] Yes Oat.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [IC] I am going to give you the thing every Harajoon hates to give, but must in this circumstance. I owe you a life debt.
> Jenn / “Merkis”: [IC] [Merkis Gasps] Oh, Oat, you don’t - you don’t need to do that Oat, no- > Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [IC] I am bound, I am bound by the ways of the Harajoon, I think.
It has been so long, but I feel - [Mike and Bijan laugh] - I feel - > Jenn / “Merkis”: [IC] You think?!
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [IC] I feel like a life debt is appropriate, and it is mine you shall have.
> Bijan / “Remy”: [OOC] Remy finishes his line - [IC] [Remy finishes snorting the line of gunch] Can I just interject? What - What is a - Oat, what the fuck are you saying?
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [IC] I owe -
> Bijan / “Remy”: [IC] What does that mean?
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [IC] - Merkis a life.
> Bijan / “Remy”: [IC] Okay, but I mean practically, does that mean you gotta kill someone? [OOC] And Remy Look at Torres, [IC] Or is it just - you - wha - what’s the - [Jenn laughs]
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [IC as Torres] What?!
> Bijan / “Remy”: [IC] What’s the mechanics here?
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [IC as Torres] Are you kidding?
[00:04:00] > Jenn / “Merkis”: [OOC] [Still laughing] Why did you look at Torres?
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [IC as Torres] I just helped - Me and Merkis just saved everybody
from the cave -
> Bijan / “Remy”: [IC] Hey! Hey! Little Guy, stay out of this! Stay out of this! > Jenn / “Merkis”: [IC] Alright, alright everybody! We need to calm down -
> Bijan / “Remy”: [IC] I was just - I was just asking a question, I had no idea, I don’t know, Oat, you’re closer to Torres, I was just like ‘alright, well that guy’s not, you know -’ [Jenn laughs] He’s just there. Maybe that’s a life debt? I don’t -
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [IC as Oat] It’s whatever Merkis says it is. > Bijan / “Remy”: [OOC] Remy walks away.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [IC as Oat] Just say - Oh, okay, well I’ll finish for the rest of you. [Shannon and Mike laugh] It could be to save Merkis’ life, it could be to take the life of someone who Merkis desires to be dead. I don’t - I’m honestly making this up as I go along - I don’t remember the definition -
> Mike / G.M.: Oat’s memory isn’t what it used to be. [Mike laughs]
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [IC] Yeah, it’s, you know, don’t forget I was asleep for sixty years, and aged very quickly, I think I got some amygdaloids mixed up in there, but definitely a life debt is real, I didn’t make that up. There was a ritual involved, I don’t remember the whole thing, but the important thing is Merkis - [OOC] And he grabs your forearm with his forearm - [IC] - I think this is the way you do it, I’m... your man.
> Jenn / “Merkis”: [IC] Alright Oat, I’ll accept that.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [IC] Oh, thank god.
> Jenn / “Merkis”: [OOC] And he pats your shoulder with the other hand. [Jenn laughs]
> Mike / G.M.: It’s - You’re looking at Oat when he grabs your arm, and it’s like, you know, maybe it’s like- I don’t know if you forgot, or like it’s just you guys have been moving around
alot, you’ve been going to a lot of places like - Oat is old. Like Oat looks old. And also, Oat looks very happy, Like -
> Jenn / “Merkis”: [OOC] Aww -
> Mike / G.M.: - someone who just had his life saved, and that he is thrilled to be alive. So,
yeah, there’s, there’s a lot going on in his like weird, you know, dog-ape face [Bijan laughs].
> Jenn / “Merkis”: [IC] Well Oat, Beta and I were the ones who made you come with us on this mission, so -
> Shannon / “Beta”: [IC] [Beta sighs] That is truuuee - > Jenn / “Merkis”: [IC] You are part of the crew.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [IC as Oat] I am part of the crew. Now, more than ever. [IC as Torres] Ummm, I hate to break up this, uhhh, delightful bonding, uh, moment that y’all got going on, but, um -
> Jenn / “Merkis”: [IC] Oh right, right.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [IC as Torres] - Yeah, I was promised that if, you know, I helped y’all get through the gate with the navigation stuff, that y’all could send me back to Gnarcossa, please.
> Jenn / “Merkis”: [IC] Yes Torres, one, one more thing for you actually. [OOC] And, uh, you can hear it as he takes it out of his bag, the stylophone, the old stylophone just goes awee-awoo, like [ Jenn laughs ] as he takes it out of his pocket - [IC] Please give this to Deep River. [Torres gasps] It’s evidence - [OOC] And then he scribbles real quickly - [IC] - ‘I will find you.’ - [OOC] And then gives it to her - gives it to Torres.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [IC as Torres] I see that my time of being hard is not only not over, but perhaps chapter two is just beginning. [OOC] he, and he [taylor laughs], he adjusts, wait, what is it, he gave the bandolier away, right? Who’s got the big, uh, heat-ray gun?
> Mike / G.M.: I believe Remy has it.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [OOC] Remy has - > Bijan / “Remy”: [OOC] No, I do, yeahh.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [OOC] Okay, yeah yeah yeah. Torres removes, uh, the bandana from his forehead, and underneath is a smaller bandana. And he, [Jenn and Bijan laugh] he gives the, the top bandana to you Merkis, and says [IC as Torres] From one hard to another. Wish me luck. I promise you, I will deliver your package. And, to you, the bearer of the weapon that I created by sweatin’ and clawin’ parts out of the sewer and the water from the brain rats. Wear it well, and do not use it in anger, unless it is great and righteous anger. It should have about two to three more charges left. I pray you shan’t need them.
> Bijan / “Remy”: [OOC] Remy says [IC] Actually, you’re probably gonna need this. [OOC] And just chucks it back to him.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [IC as Torres] Oh - [OOC] And Torres flinches, and it just sorta hits him. [IC] Oh, wait wait wait [Jenn, Shannon and Bijan laugh]. Wait, no - [OOC] And he picks it up - [IC] No, you take it. My time with this weapon is over. I shall go back to Gnarcossa the way I left Gnarcossa - soft. [OOC] And he takes off the [Mike, Taylor, and Bijan laugh], he takes off the last bandana from his head - [IC] Y’all, I’m sorry I am just - I’m, I am confused and tired, and I just wanna go home, please keep that gun, it makes me think about the brain rats [Shannon laughs], and pooping in a jar that I found. And I just wanna go back home and be normal. I will give this to Deep River.
[00:08:00] > Jenn / “Merkis”: [OOC] Okay, uh Merkis puts that bandana on top of his current bandana [Jenn laughs] because he’s already wearing one. [Mike laughs]
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [IC as Torres] Two bandanas, huh? I used to be just like you. [Mike, Shannon, and Bijan laugh]. But then I learned my lesson: You can’t go home again if you’re hard. [Nick chuckles].
> Jenn / “Merkis”: [IC] Now I’m double Merkis.
[ Opening guitar riff from “Eye of the Tiger” plays briefly]
> Mike / G.M.: I love the timeline that Torres is on, like everything is [Mike Laughs] just happening in like [Bijan laughs] -
> Shannon / “Beta”: [OOC] Rapid -
> Bijan / “Remy”: [OOC] All at once -
> Mike / G.M.: Uhh -
> Bijan / “Remy” [IC] Merkis, send this motherfucker back, I’m done. I don’t want to hear this
anymore.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [IC as Torres] Wow.
> Jenn / “Merkis”: [OOC] Merkis puts a hand on Torres’ shoulder, and then the other hand on the Stiffwork, uh, and this is just a spinside, uh, gate, so we can just burn two grit and open it up.
> Mike / G.M.: You’ve done this before, you are familiar with tacking to Gnarcossa, you have done it, I would say recently enough that, like, yeah the tack map is in there, so yeah just burn - burn your two grit, uh, and yeah, and nothing visibly changes, uh, the black rock of Spin is already black, the open stiffwork is black, but suddenly just the room, uh the bays feels slightly bigger.
> Jenn / “Merkis”: [OOC] And you hear the uh ‘bloop bloop bloop’ of the bulbous fingers, and he says [IC] Goodbye, Torres.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [IC as Torres] Heh, you know? It’s almost like the real ‘being hard’ was the friends we made along the way.
> Jenn / “Merkis”: [OOC] Merkis pushes him a little bit. [Mike and Shannon laugh]
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [IC as Torres] I feel like I have completed my narrative arrrch!
[Shannon and Mike laugh]
> Jenn / “Merkis”: [OOC] A gentle push. It wasn’t a shove.
> Mike / G.M.: The gravity switches, uh, in this stiffworks, a little bit quicker than the other ones, and Torres takes a couple of steps into the, uh, blackness of the, uh, open circle, and then, instead of walking, just falls through back to Gnarcossa, shouting about his narrative arch all the way. [Jenn Laughs[. You are now alone, together, in the near bays. What do you want to do?
[00:09:44] > Nick Guercio / "Vynos Lysumptuara": [OOC] Uh, and as they watch Torres, Vynos has turned to towards the rest of the crew, and so, as they kinda turn back away from the portal, Vynos is staring at all of them. It may be because it is so dark, but Vynos looks scary. His eyes look black, the tattoos that remain around his eyes and run down his face look more like war paint, or, as someone’s adorned themselves before a terrible ritual. Vynos also probably looks like he feels, he’s just killed people to save themselves, um, and he knows that. He doesn’t
know how many, uh, but he, um, is horrified by what he, what he’s done, to save themselves, and he knows that he has to make it worth it. And he stares at them with his arms folded. [IC] The way I see it, our lives are forfeit when we are found on this ship. We will be killed or imprisoned. We must not be found. We must find the Archivist, or, Shashō, and interrogate them.
> Jenn / “Merkis”: [IC] Or Algar?
> Nick / “Vynos”: [IC] Or Algar himself. We must be ready to kill. And we must be ready to get
answers.
> Jenn / “Merkis”: [OOC] After hearing Vynos, Merkis exhales and says: [IC] I’m very spent, from tacking twice in one day, but what should we do next?
> Bijan / “Remy”: [IC] Ahem. Well, I for one, Vynos, love your energy, personally, I’m hungry. And, you know [Remy Laughs], I can’t think of a better meal than our buddy with the, uh, beetles for a beard. I would like to eat... his teeth... one by one. After ripping them from his head. [Remy sighs, clears his throat] How about you guys? What do you guys feel? I, you know, we could put this up for a vote.
> Shannon / “Beta”: [OOC] Beta is... a little farther away from the group, kind of looking at her crew. She sees Oat, Oat looks older than ever. Vynos, fire in his eyes. Merkis is exhausted. She can see Merkis trying to fight through, get the energy. Has never quite seen Remy so hungry. And she knows it's her job to keep the crew healthy. She walks over, she goes: [IC] There’s no time for rest. Remy, give me- give me that gunch.
> Bijan / “Remy”: [IC] Of course.
> Shannon / “Beta”: [OOC] She gives each person three pieces of gunch [Shannon laughs], I
think that’s a lot of gunch [Nick laughs], goes: [IC] I agree, we have to talk to Algar.
> Bijan / “Remy”: [IC] I recommend y’all snort that, it hits way harder [Shannon laughs]. > Jenn / “Merkis”: [OOC] Alright. Merkis gunches up [Jenn laughs].
> Bijan / “Remy”: [OOC] It’s, it’s what, three health per -
> Shannon / “Beta”: [OOC] It is... [Shannon hums a tune] -
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [OOC] Sorry while she’s that lookin’ that up, who has the Oragamaman (?) Postulate?
> Mike / G.M.: Vynos does.
> Nick / “Vynos”: [OOC] Vynos does.
> Shannon / “Beta”: [OOC] Uhh, d6 health, one hit.
> Jenn / “Merkis”: [OOC] Merkis just spreads the gunch on his cheek, and it absorbs into the slimy -
> Nick / “Vynos”: [OOC] Nice
> Bijan / “Remy”: [OOC] Oh, that’s good, that’s good.
> Mike / G.M.: Like a salve.
> Jenn / “Merkis”: [OOC] Yeah. [IC] Alright Beta, where’s Algar’s room-blob?
> Mike / G.M.: Beta, it’s... hard to describe, like you, when Merkis asks where Algar’s room-blob is, one part of your brain is like ‘I have no idea,’ but then another part of your brain at the exact same time is like ‘Wait, no, I know exactly where it is.” You don’t, you don’t think you’ve ever been there, yet you know exactly where it is.
> Shannon / “Beta”: [OOC] Beta is confused by this, but is not gonna try to figure it out. She says: [IC] Follow me.
> Nick / “Vynos”: [OOC] Vynos follows immediately.
> Jenn / “Merkis”: [OOC] Yeah, Merkis pulls his hood up, on the robe, and follows.
> Nick / “Vynos”: [OOC] As he follows, Vynos, uh, sticks the gunch in his robes. He can’t imagine putting anything in his mouth or nose at this moment. [Jenn laughs].
> Bijan / “Remy”: [OOC] I think Remy notices, and he just nods.
> Mike / G.M.: You walk through the strangely quiet environment of Spin, um, as you’re navigating, Beta, everyone to Algar’s place. He lives in the Upper Flats, um, you see a few people coming and going, um, you maybe see folks like going to the canteen or leaving the canteen, maybe one of the tavern-blobs is open late. Uh, you, maybe some people are going to the green for a late night rendezvous, but you really only see, maybe, maybe a dozen people at most. And, as you get closer and closer to the Upper Flats, which is where all the Archivists and
the Refactors, and all of the very high-rank fleeters live, and where Algar lives, it gets more and more empty, and it’s almost like, you know, a ghost town. It’s very very late. There’s no one around, uh, you do not feel any nervousness about being seen or followed. Um, Algar’s flat, uh which is unmarked, but Beta you are very sure you are in the right place, uh, unlike most of the others that you know, uh, and every room-blob that any of you have ever lived in, has a door, a real, like a hard door, there’s a piece of material that’s slid over a round opening in the black rock of Spin, that is only able to be opened from the inside.
[00:15:17] > Bijan / “Remy”: [OOC] Remy knocks.
[Remy knocks on the door]
> Mike / G.M.: You don’t really hear anything. Uh, like a couple of seconds pass. > Bijan / “Remy”: [OOC] Remy knocks again.
[Remy knocks on the door again]
> Mike / G.M.: You hear like a distant rustling sound, coughing -
> Bijan / “Remy”: [OOC] Remy doesn’t stop knocking.
> Mike / G.M.: Um, you hear, you hear from the inside -
> Bijan / “Remy”: [OOC] And it’s just slow, it’s just steady.
[Remy knocks on the door, slow and steadily five times]
> Mike / G.M.: Yes that’s extremely threatening. [Nick chuckles] Yeah, you hear from the distance, you hear a voice be like: [IC as Algar] Alright, Alright, hold - I’m, I’m on my way, give-give me a moment! [OOC] And, uh, you hear some more rustling, and you hear a latch from the other side of the doorway, you hear a creak, this like, like low tone, like hard, grinding sound as the door opens a crack, and it just kinda slides over, spins a little bit, and there, in a small curve -
> Bijan / “Remy”: [OOC] Remy immediately punches him in the face, and tackles him to the ground [Nick chuckles].
> Mike / G.M.: There’s not enough room, not enough room to get a fist through.
> Bijan / “Remy”: [OOC] He just, he tries - he shoves his hands in and starts pulling. > Mike / G.M.: Roll combat.
> Bijan / “Remy”: [OOC] Yeah. [Nick chuckles]I was assuming the door would open a little bit more, but [Nick keeps chuckling]. Twelve.
[ Combat Music starts playing]
> Mike / G.M.: What, for real?
> Bijan / “Remy”: [OOC] Yeah.
> Mike / G.M.: Um - [Jenn laughs]
> Bijan / “Remy”: [OOC] He has thirteen, he has one d12 plus one, like - > Mike / G.M.: Uh, and you rolled - you rolled a perfect twelve?
> Bijan / “Remy”: [OOC] Uh, eleven plus one, yeah.
> Mike / G.M.: Okay, an eleven plus one, that’s still close to crit, alright, you - you manage to get your fingers, um, around the corner of this, uh, like round, thick door, um, like in the crack as Algar’s slowly opening it, and you pull, really hard, and you feel some resistance as you’re pulling, because there’s a chain that is holding the door, uh, to the - to the edge on the other side. There’s like a small chain that’s there. And you just, rip the chain out of the wall [Nick chuckles], uh, and you send the door, with a pretty loud crash, uh, like rolling back into the other side of the apartment, and you have opened up the door to Algar’s apartment. It’s dark on the inside, uh you can’t really make out anything that’s in there, but you can see that, yeah, Algar’s there -
> Bijan / “Remy”: [OOC] Yeah, Remy leads with his fist and just - punches him in the face as hard as he can to try to knock him down and tackle him.
> Mike / G.M.: Yeah, roll combat again.
> Bijan / “Remy”: [OOC] Uhh, five.
> Mike / G.M.: You connect, you punch him square in the jaw -
[Sound effect of Algar getting punched in the jaw]
> Mike / G.M.: - and you can both see, now that your eyes are adjusting to the darkness of the room, and feel, as your fist connects to his face, that Algar is not wearing his beetles, uh, his face is beetle-less, uh his, you see mop of gray hair like flopping all around, uh, as you sock him. He hasn’t even gotten a word out, you hit him, uh he just - he grunts, and stumbles, and he falls back and he stumbles to his desk. Inside the room, the rest of you, what you see, um, you see Remy trying to beat the shit out of Algar, um, you see a moss wall, on the, I believe it is the right hand side, you see a long bookshelf in the back towards where Algar is stumbling. Um, you see a workbench, you see a desk, uh, on that far wall you see a number of clocks, uh, that are all hung up, that are all the same time, a lot of them are ticking quietly. This is all just lit by the dull light, uh, that’s coming in from the exterior of the flats, the sorta mezzanine from outside the room. And Algar, when he staggers, he falls back and he’s sorta like half on his desk, half leaning on his chair, looks very tired, uh, like he has not even really focused his eyes yet, is, has his hands over his eye, over his head, uh, and he says: [IC] What is -
> Bijan / “Remy”: [OOC] Remy takes out his Katana, and holds it up to Algar’s throat. > Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [IC as Oat] Remy, Remy, Remy no! No!
> Shannon / “Beta”: [IC] Remy -
> Mike / G.M.: Algar puts his hands up, and puts his face, is like up, up against some of the clocks, you can hear them crunching as he’s pushing up against them, uh, like trying to just - and he puts his hands up, he’s not saying anything.
> Bijan / “Remy”: [IC] Hey Buddy! How’s it goin’?!
> Mike / G.M.: And he, he looks at Remy, and he looks at all of you, and he says: [IC as Algar]
Um, uh, I-I see -
> Shannon / “Beta”: [OOC] Beta runs over and kind of, like, nudges Remy, a little bit, so his
grip maybe isn’t as harsh on Algar and says: [IC] We’re here for information, remember. > Bijan / “Remy”: [IC] Sure.
> Shannon / “Beta”: [OOC] As she looks around the room, remembering all the details. > Mike / G.M.: Algar looks at everyone, and looks at Remy, looks at Beta -
> Bijan / “Remy”: [OOC] Katana still at his throat.
> Mike / G.M.: Yeah, yeah, yeah, he’s not moving, and he’s not - yeah, he’s - he is not aggressing in any way, he looks at all of you and says: [IC as Algar] I, um, I assume that this means that the foldgates... on Gnarcossa... have been... taken care of?
> Nick / “Vynos”: [OOC] Vynos, uh, starts to smile at his little joke, um, but his lip quivers. He takes a couple of steps closer, and says: [IC] Why are we here, Algar?
> Mike / G.M.: [IC as Algar] Uh, um, I wish that I knew, um -
> Nick / “Vynos”: [OOC] Vynos interrupts: [IC] Why are we here, Algar?
> Bijan / “Remy”: [OOC] Remy says: [IC] Uh, hold on, don’t answer that, yet. Do you need your beetles? Would that make you more comfortable?
> Jenn / “Merkis”: [IC] Comfortable? [OOC] Merkis is standing by the doorway, crossed arms, and takes out -
> Bijan / “Remy”: [IC] Merkis, I was - Merkis I know you’re hard now, that was a joke.
> Jenn / “Merkis”:[OOC] - takes out a hemp rope, from the venturer’s pack, and tosses it over
to Remy.
> Bijan / “Remy”: [IC] I don’t think we need that, so long as - I mean, he knows what this thing does, right?
> Nick / “Vynos”: [IC] I’m sure he does.
> Bijan / “Remy”: [IC] Yeah, I don’t think we need the rope, thank you though Merkis.
> Mike / G.M.: Uh, and Algar says: [IC] I - I - I have no intention of causing any trouble -
> Bijan / “Remy”: [IC] Good, great.
> Mike / G.M.: [IC as Algar] And, and yes, I - would turn the question back on you, why are you -
> Bijan / “Remy”: [IC] Hey, perhaps stop talking! Vynos, please.
> Nick / “Vynos”: [IC] What do you know? Of the dealings between Chargcht, and The Saffron Anax? If you lie to us, you will regret it.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [IC as Oat] Algar, I gotta tell ya, I - I just want to ask you some questions, I just thought we could talk to ya, but these guys are crazy, I don’t know what they’re gonna do.
> Mike / G.M.: When you say “The Saffron Anax”, Algar puts his hands down. He’s been moving back and forth between all of you, like keeping eye contact with, like he’s been trying to keep a straight face. He’s looked kinda scared, um also kind of pleading. When you make a joke about him wearing his beetles and being more comfortable, he kinda like tries to force a smile, and uh shakes his head a little bit. When you say “Saffron Anax”, uh, all of that leaves, and his face just goes very straight, and he looks kinda like, frustrated, and like, disappointed. [IC] Oh my. Ummm, well, what might be faster... is for you to tell me what you know, and I can fill in what I know.
> Nick / “Vynos”: [IC] We were framed for the death of Zeshdano, a death that did not occur. And we know that has to do with the arms deal between Chargcht, and The Saffron Anax. What we don’t know is all who are involved. We imagine you know something about that.
> Mike / G.M.: [IC as Algar] Well, but - um, when you say framed -
> Bijan / “Remy”: [OOC] Remy pushes the Katana closer to his throat. It’s touching him, and the implication is very clear that he’s going to crush his windpipe [Mike laughs] if he doesn’t say anything.
> Mike / G.M.: [IC as Algar] Friend, it - you claim to be here for information, yet you will not let me get a word in edgewise. So, if you’d like to kill me -
> Bijan / “Remy”: [IC] Oh, no no no, I mean, no, whoa - we can - buddy we’ll get to that. No, uh, I already told these guys, I gave them a little preview - You really have nothing to lose, let’s just put it that way.
> Jenn / “Merkis”: [IC] He’s hungry.
> Mike / G.M.: [IC as Algar] You may not believe me, and I... would not fault you, but I must say it anyways: You have to understand that I never wanted anything to happen to you. It was never my intention, uhh, it was, uh, um - you know, we have a way that we do things here, and, uh, you know how it is. You - uh - take the jobs, and you go and do them. Someone asks you to go and get an item, someone asks to go have a conversation with a person. You go and get the
item, you go and have the conversation with the person, and you don’t ask many questions because that’s just what it’s like...here. You survive by not asking any questions, you survive by...just...believing that what you are doing is the right thing. And I believe that what I do is the right thing. I am helping...all of us- I am helping myself, yes, I will be the first to admit to being selfish. I am helping myself, I am also helping you to survive, by giving you work, by giving you a reason to live, by giving you goals and aspirations, and when you meet them, by rewarding you for them, so my intentions have only ever been good.
[00:26:40] > Shannon / “Beta”: [OOC] Beta is at the bookshelf, and she’s looking for the book that she gave Algar from the Aanverder’s estate. Does she see it?
> Mike / G.M.: Um, roll will.
> Shannon / “Beta”: [OOC] I rolled a twelve.
> Mike / G.M.: Whoa! No, you don’t see it on the bookshelf, and you don’t see it on the bookshelf because it’s on his desk. And it’s open, um, and there is a notebook next to it, uh and there are a lot of notes in the notebook, um, and he’s actually kinda touching part of it, like he’s leaned up against his desk, in a defensive position, and like it’s there. It would seem as though it is, it has been a, like, intense and recent focus for him. You also notice on the bookshelf, maybe - I mean there are hundreds of books here, he has a lot of books here, it spans an entire wall in his room blob, his room blob is very tall. He has maybe dozens of editions of the Zizzlebyth Nibblebottom, uh, books. Like the same book many times. The reprints, the first edition, the second edition with the new introduction, the third edition which has been translated into mantid and back again, like he’s - he’s got a lot of these, so when you’re looking at the bookshelf - no you don’t see the book you gave him, but that’s somewhere else and you do see a lot of other things that indicate that he has a strong interest in this - this scholar.
> Shannon / “Beta”: [OOC] So Beta picks up that book, walks over to Algar, she - as she picks it up she closes it, walks over to Algar, and hits him over the head with the book [Sound effect of a book coming down on Algar’s head, and Algar grunting in pain] and says - [IC] Where’s Chragcht?
> Mike / G.M.: His nose starts to bleed.
> Bijan / “Remy”: [OOC] Remy gets out a handkerchief and wipes the blood off [Shannon and
Mike laugh]. And then licks the handkerchief.
> Mike / G.M.: Geuuuh [Sounds of disgust]. [IC as Algar] [Grunting and moaning in pain] [OOC] He cradles his face, and he’s talking through his hands, he’s like - [IC as Algar] Ahhh!
Ahhhh! Ga - ah - uh, Beta - you of all people, I - I would not have expected - [scoffs] What do you hope to get from Chragcht?
> Shannon / “Beta”: [IC] Maybe some answers, maybe a little bit more than “goals to keep us living”.
> Mike / G.M.: [IC as Algar] Okay, ah, um, for your own good, um, -
> Bijan / “Remy”: [IC] No, actually, sorry, just to rephrase - this is for your own good. Just to
be very clear about what’s happening here.
> Mike / G.M.: [IC as Algar] Um, for the utilitarian nature of this situation, for equal good for all of us - I will tell you some of what I know.
> Bijan / “Remy”: [IC] Uh-mm-uh-uh -
> Mike / G.M.: [IC as Algar] I - I will tell you - I will tell you - all of what I know. > Bijan / “Remy”: [IC] Better.
> Mike / G.M.: [IC as Algar] Chragcht came to me, um, long before your first job. He laid out... a very loose plan, um, about being able to trade into Kakudun. He was very light on the details, and, as I said, I did not ask enough questions. My main job was, um, as he said, to pull together a team that, uh, in his words “no one would miss if they were gone for a little while.”
> Jenn / “Merkis”:[OOC] Merkis’ knuckles crack very loudly [Sound effect of knuckles cracking].
> Mike / G.M.: Hearing this, Algar says - [IC as Algar] And I mean this - I mean this with the utmost respect. Vynos, you - you know - you had not been out on a venture in so long. You had spent just most of your time in the canteen, looking off into space and talking to some of the Algae Printers. Merkis, you were... fresh out of Banshee school, uh, you had yet to make your mark on the company, and, you know, this was maybe going to be a way for you to - uh - gain some renown. Remy, Beta, as - I mean, I hate to bring up a sore subject, but - your last crew was, um, shall we say, dispatched in such inspiring circumstances that the paperwork has been destroyed. You, for all intents and purposes, don’t even exist to the company.
> Bijan / “Remy”: [IC] Ooh that is so - that is such a relief, man, thank you for saying that.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [IC as Oat] But wait - then why did you put me on a team with all of my experience and talent? [Mike laughs]
> Mike / G.M.: Uh, Algar - Algar looks at you and doesn’t say anything, looks at you confused like he’s waiting for the punchline.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [IC as Oat] Oh.
> Nick / “Vynos”: [IC] I understand Algar, you wanted someone - a team, that was disposable.
But answer me this: I have been alive for hundreds of years, linearly - > Bijan / “Remy”: [IC] Whoa -
> Nick / “Vynos”: [IC] - and thousands, through the twisted caverns of time. And hundreds of thousands, by the look of the calendar. And in that time, I never knew the Company to be the architects - the merchants of war. Has that changed? In the time I spent talking to Algae? [OOC] And he starts to bubble a little bit, and turn blue - [IC] Or, is this the workings of you, and Shashō, and Chragcht alone?
> Mike / G.M.: He looks a little confused when you say “Shashō”, uh like he makes a face like ‘What was that?’. He puts his hands up again, and he says - [IC as Algar] Vynos, you - you have been, to your point, alive for so long. You likely know better than I, so perhaps you have simply learned this lesson, forgotten it, learned it, and forgotten it, and learned it, forgotten it - but there are people the void over that describe what we do here as exactly that. As ‘War Profiteers’, as ‘Slavers’, as those interested in nothing more than... rank and profligate excess, of gaining resources just for the sake of having them, and I think that they’re wrong for all of the reasons I said. We provide for people here. We give them a home, we give them purpose, we give them - we give them family. We give them friends. We show them - [OOC] He - he looks at Beta, he says - [IC] Beta, think of - think of everything you have seen. Out in the void. The planets you have been to. The species you have seen. You would have seen none of it if the Company didn’t rescue you from - from that hole you were pulled out of. You all owe everything you have to the Company. You would have nothing, and in some of your cases - [OOC] He looks at Remy- [IC] you wouldn’t even be alive- you’d be floating in the freezer of space for another million, million years. I’m not -
> Jenn / “Merkis”:[OOC] Merkis marches forward, and sticks his snout to Algar’s snout, nose ring touching his nose [Mike laughs]
> Mike / G.M.: Algar smells really good - [Bijan laughs]
> Jenn / “Merkis”: [IC] Provide?! Did you consider that we would survive this?!
> Mike / G.M.: [IC as Algar] To be perfectly honest, when Chragcht said to find a group of
people that no one would, uh, miss -
> Bijan / “Remy”: [IC] Alright, no, Algar, buddy, I’m gonna stop you right there - [OOC] And,
um - [IC] I have one question for you: Do you know where Chragcht is right now? > Mike / G.M.: [IC as Algar] I would guess that he’s in his flat, uh I don’t -
> Bijan / “Remy”: [IC] Wonderful-
> Mike / G.M.: [IC as Algar] I don’t know -
> Bijan / “Remy”: [IC] Wonderful, do you know where that is?
> Mike / G.M.: [IC asAlgar] I - I can find out for you.
> Bijan / “Remy”: [IC] Can you find out now?
> Mike / G.M.: [IC as Algar] Uh, if you would let me get up, please - > Bijan / “Remy”: [IC] Uh, I don’t think I wanna -
> Jenn / “Merkis”:[OOC] Merkis’ nose is pressed -
> Bijan / “Remy”: [IC] Uh, I don’t think I wanna do that, and neither does Merkis. Merkis is
hard now. I don’t know if you realized this, Merkis has killed many people, it is fucked, man. > Jenn / “Merkis”:[OOC] Merkis turns to the side and - spits on the ground.
> Bijan / “Remy”: [IC] Okay, so Algar, buddy, is there - is there a place in your desk - can you point us to it? Just to show us - show us where, where the information is.
> Mike / G.M.: [IC as Algar] Uh, if you go into my bedside table, there is a small book that has the contact information for all of the archivists-
> Bijan / “Remy”: [IC] Beautiful, thank you so much. [OOC] Uh, Remy puts his Katana down, he sheathes it, and then he holds both - like he holds his hand to Algar’s face - like, you know,
sort of like a lover would, like to one of his cheeks - and then Remy uses Consume. [Taylor gasps]
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [IC as Oat] Remy, Remy no!
> Bijan / “Remy”: [OOC] How much skin do you think is on a human face? Two kilograms?
> Mike / G.M.: Roll Combat.
> Jenn / “Merkis”:[OOC] Merkis is still nose to nose [Jenn laughs] with Algar!
> Bijan / “Remy”: [OOC] Ten.
> Mike / G.M.: Algar rolled move, to sorta sense your intentions to... hurt him. Uh, and he, he did pretty well. But, let’s play it through -
> Bijan / “Remy”: [OOC] Yeah -
> Mike / G.M.: - and see what happens.
> Bijan / “Remy”: [OOC] Remy’s just - Remy just puts his hand up to Algar’s cheek like, you know, what you’d do to a lover, and just sends his nanites into his flesh. And that’s - that’s it.
> Mike / G.M.: Algar is very suspicious of this action, uh, because for obvious reasons, and so he kinda like starts to recoil. Algar... rolled a twelve, um, to dodge. He manages to like, just, I think, get out of the way of the nanites, barely. Like they chew away some of his face, and you can see these bloody circles starting to form on his purple cheek, uh, and he gets up - and he is kinda sitting on his desk now. And he says - and he puts his hands up and he says: [IC as Algar] I don’t - I-I, listen, you can take whatever you want up with Chragcht, if you would like to go all the way to the top as, you know, I’ve heard them say, you - you are more than welcome. I can’t imagine what you think you are going to convince him of, I can’t imagine what you think you’re going to get from him -
> Bijan / “Remy”: [IC] But Algar -
> Mike / G.M.: [IC as Algar] - I can’t imagine - > Bijan / “Remy”: [IC] - but Algar -
> Mike / G.M.: [IC as Algar] - you gonna go -
> Bijan / “Remy”: [IC] - but Algar [Remy begins shushing Algar]
> Mike / G.M.: [IC as Algar] - you gonna take - are you gonna take on the Saffron Anax? It is
literally unthinkable!
> Shannon / “Beta”: [OOC] Beta, uh, okay, Beta’s seeing all this going on, uh, and you know, all the ruckus, and she kind of looks Remy dead in the eye, back to Algar, and says: [IC] Remy, he’s not worth it. He’s nothing.
> Mike / G.M.: Algar rips open the drawer that he’s leaning back against [metal desk creaks], and he -
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [IC as Oat] Look out!
> Mike / G.M.: - and he very quickly produces a laser pistol, and his hand is shaking. His hand is shaking like a leaf. He doesn’t even know who to point it at. He definitely is not pointing it once at Beta, he’s like holding it up, and he’s - he’s not really pointing it at anyone in particular. He’s just kinda generally brandishing this item, and he’s looking at Beta, and he says: [IC as Algar] Beta - I would have expected - so much better from you than to just continue to consort with these people -
> Bijan / “Remy”: [IC] Okay -
> Mike / G.M.: [IC as Algar]- after you found out what they were like!
> Shannon / “Beta”: [OOC] Beta turns around, suddenly like... seeing so clearly, all of these warning signs that she hadn’t seen about Algar, you know, she knows so much, she’s lived so long, but she’s just been blinded by this idea of love, and a relationship, and she’s like suddenly without fear, looks directly at Algar in the eyes, walks up to him, and just grabs his wrist, tight, and grabs the gun out of his hand. Making extreme eye contact with him as she does it.
> Mike / G.M.: He essentially just gives it to you [Nick and Jenn laugh]. And he looks at you, he looks at you, like, very close, and he’s like - [IC as Algar] Beta, leave - leave them. Just let them go on their quest. Imagine - [OOC] And he’s tapping on a book behind him - [IC] - imagine the life we could have together. Imagine, what we could - you could be an archivist with terminal access, the - the whole void could be yours. Imagine what you could learn about yourself, about Shoodthas, about whatever you want! Just - just let them go.
> Shannon / “Beta”: [OOC] Beta - Beta exhales, and she says: [IC] I know, I’ve seen it. And you know what? It’s not worth it. [OOC] And she... shoots the laser at his foot [Shannon, Nick, and Bijan laugh].
> Mike / G.M.: Yeah roll combat. > Bijan / “Remy”: [OOC] Whoa -
> Shannon / “Beta”: [OOC] I don’t wanna kill him, but I do - I do wanna put him in one place, so that Remy stops eating him [Shannon laughs].
> Jenn / “Merkis”:[OOC] Yeah, Merkis hadn’t flinched up until this moment, and so he backs away [Jenn and Bijan laugh] when Beta shoots the laser pistol.
> Shannon / “Beta”: [OOC] Oh I - [Shannon laughs] I got a two. > Bijan / “Remy”: [OOC] Ahh!
> Mike / G.M.: You - you shoot the ground directly next to his foot, and he squeals, and he puts - he raises a foot, and he puts his hands over his head, and he loses his balance and falls to the ground. Uh, and he’s like - in the fetal position, basically, on his side, covering his eyes with his forearms, um, and he’s kinda like... whimpering a little bit, and he’s saying: [IC as Algar] Please don’t kill me, please, just, don’t -
> Bijan / “Remy”: [OOC] Remy uh -
> Mike / G.M.: [IC as Algar] - please don’t kill me!
> Bijan / “Remy”: [OOC] Remy takes the pistol from Beta, and looks at her and says: [IC] So you don’t want me to, uh - you, you want me to uh - I -
> Shannon / “Beta”: [OOC] Beta -
> Mike / G.M.: [IC as Algar] I’ve only done what I was told!
> Shannon / “Beta”: [OOC] Beta -
> Mike / G.M.: [IC as Algar] I’ve only done what I was told! I was just doing my job - > Bijan / “Remy”: [IC] I would like to do this, but if you say no, I will not.
> Shannon / “Beta”: [OOC] Beta, without saying no, takes the gun back from Remy, points it at Algar, looks Remy dead in the eyes, and says: [IC] Find out where Chragcht is.
> Bijan / “Remy”: [IC] Yes ma’am.
> Mike / G.M.: Remy, you turn around and walk through Algar’s apartment, his set of room blobs, in the direction he pointed. It’s very nice, it’s really big. You walk through a kitchen, essentially, and dining room, uh, and then you walk through another hole in the black rock of Spin to a master bedroom, where there’s - uh you know you can see - it’s just barely lit, uh, by some recessed lighting. Um -
> Bijan / “Remy”: [OOC] Is the bed made?
> Mike / G.M.: The bed is unmade, uh it’s like very messy, he just got out of it, um -
> Bijan / “Remy”: [OOC] Yeah Remy - Remy makes the bed before he looks in the drawer [Mike and Shannon laugh].
> Mike / G.M.: That’s fuckin’ psycho dude.
> Jenn / “Merkis”:[OOC] Yeah.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: That’s wild -
> Jenn / “Merkis”:[OOC] That’s perfect for Remy though [Jenn laughs].
> Bijan / “Remy”: [OOC] Remy was thinking - I’m thinkin’ like, obviously this is a moment, Beta needs to have a moment with Algar, he needs to think he’s gonna die for a little while -
> Mike / G.M.: Take some time -
> Bijan / “Remy”: [OOC] - I don’t wanna just go get one thing, you know?
> Mike / G.M.: Fair. There’s a small, like mycelium table with a drawer, and uh yeah it’s got one drawer, and when you open it - [screeching drawer opening noise] - there’s like a very silly blue floral bound book inside of it. And when you pick it up, you see on the edges it’s got little marks for all the letters of the alphabet, and if you go to ‘C’, you can find Chragcht’s exact location in the flats.
> Bijan / “Remy”: [OOC] Yeah Remy looks for it.
> Mike / G.M.: Yeah you get it. You find out exactly where he is.
> Bijan / “Remy”: [OOC] Remy pockets the book.
> Mike / G.M.: While Remy’s in the other room, what’s everyone else doing?
[00:41:43] > Jenn / “Merkis”: [OOC] Merkis is nudging Algar’s bum with a boot, and just, uh, making conversation - [IC] Algar, did you have any orders for if we survived and came back?
> Mike / G.M.: [IC as Algar] Um, it, uh, um - I mean ... the intention was that you would survive and come back. No one thought you were going to die, no one intended for your death.
> Jenn / “Merkis”: [IC] Hmmm. The Nolastrian Guard was called, saying there was a dead fleeter-
> Nick / “Vynos”: [IC] - And that we were responsible.
> Jenn / “Merkis”: [IC] - You wouldn’t know anything about that, would you?
> Nick / “Vynos”: [IC] So perhaps not dead, but we should be locked up... for murder.
> Mike / G.M.: [IC as Algar] You - you will perhaps have to ask Archivist Chragcht, as, um, many of - um- the more detailed portions of the plan are of his creation, but my understanding was that you were to - I mean I’m sorry, you were pawns. You were being used. You would have been paid handsomely for your, uh, involvement. I - I mean, you would have likely spent a couple of days in a Nolastrian lock-up, someone would have submitted the right paperwork, you would have been released and your records expunged, returned to Spin, and likely given a promotion!
> Jenn / “Merkis”: [OOC] Merkis looks at Beta for permission [Jenn laughs].
> Shannon / “Beta”: [OOC] Yeah, when Algar said “Pawns”, she moved the gun even closer to
him, and she - can she tell what Merkis is asking permission for?
> Jenn / “Merkis”: [OOC] Merkis is very audibly tapping his boot.
> Shannon / “Beta”: [OOC] She nods.
> Jenn / “Merkis”: [OOC] Merkis gives Algar a swift kick in the ass.
[Algar screams in pain]
> Mike / G.M.: And from behind his arm, as he’s hiding, he’s like: [IC as Algar] Is there not
something... respectable about being a pawn? That you are useful to someone else, and -
> Bijan / “Remy”: [OOC] Remy walks back in the room, uh, and hands the book to Vynos.
> Nick / “Vynos”: [OOC] Vynos takes the book. [IC] Yes, and let’s talk about these goals. Your goals as for what? To send a planet into war? For millions and billions to die? For us to be a pawn in the deaths of the innocent? Where is the honor in that, is that what you ask right now?!
> Mike / G.M.: [IC as Algar] The honor is in doing whatever it takes... to provide for the people here on Spin.
> Nick / “Vynos”: [IC] You claim that people have said that the company is a bunch of warmongers for years. But that’s not what we are. That’s not what we signed up to do. That may be a mantle that you wear proudly, but it isn’t one that I signed up for, or was assigned to, I wouldn’t take it if it was. And none of the people here would. You’re a murderer.
> Bijan / “Remy”: [IC] You know Algar, I have to thank you. I didn’t realize the Company thought I was dead. I - I didn’t realize I was free. I didn’t realize I could - I could just do whatever I want [Remy laughs]. I could kill you, and then hide in the Far Bays, and no one would ever know. No one would care. And I just want you to know that it is by the grace of Beta that you are still alive.
> Shannon / “Beta”: [OOC] Beta is continuing to aim the laser pistol at Algar, says to Merkis: [IC] Tie him up. Make him wait.
> Jenn / “Merkis”: [IC] Yes ma’am.
> Shannon / “Beta”: [IC] We’ll deal with that later.
> Jenn / “Merkis”: [OOC] Yeah Merkis hogties Algar.
> Mike / G.M.: He’s kind of like... resigned to this. Uh, he has maybe done the calculations, and that, he’s not gonna win, and if he lets them tie him up they won’t kill him, so kinda just lets you do it. It’s um - it’s sad.
> Jenn / “Merkis”: [OOC] As he’s doing this, he’s whispering into Algar’s ear: [IC] Wait until my twenty-five brothers hear about this.
> Mike / G.M.: Algar just lets out a long sigh.
> Bijan / “Remy”: [IC] Merkis, I know you’re hard, good hogtie, love to see it bud, can you put
something in his mouth? Something degrading preferably, but anything’ll do.
> Jenn / “Merkis”: [IC] Surely. [OOC] And he grabs a handful of the moss from the wall, and stuffs it in Algar’s mouth.
[Algar gags on moss]
> Bijan / “Remy”: [IC] If you want to plug one of his nostrils too, just to make him suffer a little bit, that would be great.
> Jenn / “Merkis”: [IC] Yeah I don’t think this is enough. [OOC] He grabs a second handful and he’s putting it in his mouth.
[Algar gags on more moss]
> Bijan / “Remy”: [IC] Block those airways just a little bit, make him uncomfortable - make him think about his life and how much it’s worth.
> Jenn / “Merkis”: [OOC] And he grabs a little pinch, and puts one in his ear, just to annoy the shit out of him.
> Shannon / “Beta”: [OOC] With that, Beta drops... uh, she drops her arm, with the laser pistol, throws it in her tote - kinda a little too nonchalantly - looks at Vynos, and says: [IC] Lead us to Chragcht?
[00:46:38] > Nick / “Vynos”: [IC] Follow me.
[Eery and Intense Music plays]
> Mike / G.M.: When you leave Algar’s, it’s getting a little bit later, and you can hear more voices. There aren’t - there still aren’t a ton of people out, but there’s definitely more people around, and uh, yeah, Chragcht’s room blob is only probably a five minute walk, it’s further “up” - but what does that mean on Spin, no one really knows - but it’s basically higher up, because he is a higher-class individual, he is like a higher rank, so you have to go up a couple flights of stairs. But, after a while, you are at the location that has been, that was written in Algar’s address book. There’s no name on it, but it is different from all of the other room blob entrances that are around. The port-hole, the like hole in the rock of spin, is larger than all of the rooms that are
around it, and, um, you’ve maybe seen this a little bit around this portion of Spin, where lots of very, very powerful people live. Some of the highest level archivists are up here. Much like the poorest levels of Spin, there is no door on Chragcht’s room blob. You can see a short distance into this extra-large aperture that there’s a wall, and, like you know, maybe you have to turn left to go in, like you’re not looking directly into his apartment. But yeah, it looks like you can just enter.
> Nick / “Vynos”: [IC] As far as I’m concerned, we have all the information we need to know that Chragcht planned this. He deserves nothing but death.
> Bijan / “Remy”: [OOC] Remy says to Beta: [IC] So you’re really not gonna let me... eat him? You’re really just sayin’ no.
> Shannon / “Beta”: [IC] We’ll deal with -
> Bijan / “Remy”: [IC] It’s fine, look it’s cool, it’s cool, I’m not mad -
> Shannon / “Beta”: [OOC] Beta doesn’t even look at Remy, and says: [IC] We’ll deal with it later.
> Bijan / “Remy”: [IC] God I guess we process anger in different ways, huh? [Shannon laughs]
> Nick / “Vynos”: [OOC] Vynos doesn’t like that there’s not a door. He knows that the only people that don’t have doors are so powerful that they don’t need them, so Vynos’ heart starts racing, but he’s determined, and he walks in.
> Shannon / “Beta”: [OOC] Beta follows.
> Bijan / “Remy”: [OOC] Yeah Remy’s right there.
> Jenn / “Merkis”: [OOC] Alright Merkis nods and walks in.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: The interior of the chamber is a cleanly chiseled half-sphere. A perfect dome. At the top of the dome, there is a floating, pulsing sphere of what appears to be some kind of luminous plasma, or some kind of device. You can’t tell because it is... pulsing with this creamy, golden light that paints the white interior of the dome, with the light that would come from the last light of the sunset. In the middle of the dome is an enormous, glass sphere, in sort of a fish bowl shape, flat on the bottom. You can see up at the top, open, a round portal at the top. The entire thing is completely transparent, but you cannot see very far into its interior, for it
is filled with a viscous mist. There is nothing else in the chamber. And as you enter, you hear: [IC as Archivist Chragcht] Ooh, look. The “Loose Ends Brigade” has returned. [Nick laughs]
> Bijan / “Remy”: [IC] Hey! Nice to see you too buddy!
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: And as that reverberates throughout the golden dome, from the center, the great glass fish bowl - sphere, floats a nude Chraght, his toes dangling, pointing straight down, and as his naked body, nearly spherical, approaches the edge of the great glass bowl, you see that his body is sorta covered... in like six, seven - how many are there? Ports, each one ringed with some type of cyborgian biological metal about the size of a plum. And in them, you can see in to his body. What’s in there? Too dark to tell, but it looks like a baby could stick it’s hand in there and pull out - whatever it wanted. [Nick chuckles].
> Bijan / “Remy”: [OOC] I’m not gonna say “nice dong”, but I just want you all to know that I’m thinking it. [Nick, Jenn, and Mike laugh]
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: It’s not, actually, uh -
> Mike / G.M.: It’s a bad dong -
> Bijan / “Remy” and Jenn / “Merkis”: [OOC, in Unison] It’s a bad dong [Jenn laughs]
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: It’s a bad dong, but you can just tell from how unused and uncared for it is that it doesn’t bother him in the slightest.
> Jenn / “Merkis”: [OOC] Wowww.
> Bijan / “Remy”: [OOC] Yeah, no, I think - I think it almost becomes an ironic - > Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [OOC] Also -
> Bijan / “Remy”: [OOC] - An ironic “Nice Dong”, you know what I mean?
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: It is - it is almost vestigial. At best.
> Bijan / “Remy”: [IC] Good to see you again!
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [IC as Chragcht] I assume that because you are here, something has gone terribly wrong.
> Bijan / “Remy”: [IC] Oh yeah, we’re supposed to be dead, right?
> Jenn / “Merkis”: [IC] Wrong for you!
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [IC as Chragcht] I take it you’ve also spoken with Algar?
> Bijan / “Remy”: [IC] No, no we didn’t - I wanted to “speak with him”, believe you me I wanted to speak with him -
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [IC as Chragcht] You’re lying. [OOC] He levitates up out of the top of the bowl, curls of mist follow his body as it leaves the top. And he just levitates directly in front of you, um, about twenty feet in front of you. Uh, his toes are just barely touching the floor, and you can see now that like whatever moisture has beaded on his flesh is being absorbed very quickly into his body.
> Nick / “Vynos”: [IC] Tell me, whatever the Saffron Anax is paying you, or providing you, are you sharing that with the Company? Or are you keeping it for yourself?
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [IC as Chragcht] What the Saffron Anax shares with me... we share with everyone. The things you speak of, you do not know.
> Jenn / “Merkis”: [IC] Everyone, except us?
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [IC as Chragcht] Everyone.
> Nick / “Vynos”: [IC] Yes, the things you share, the things you share- What are the things you share? War? Death? Is that what you intend to share with everyone? When we’re in jail - or dead?
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [IC as Chragcht] What will you do... with your life? Tell me.
> Bijan / “Remy”: [IC] You know, I would like, personally, just a bit more information about the whole, you know - this is a classic evil-plan sorta scheme, and I - I’m curious what - what you thought would happen to us, first, and, you know, what part of the plan is not working.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [IC as Chragcht] The intention... was to turn the governments and people of Kakudun against the Co., by making it appear that the Co. had killed one of its own, who was engaged in peacekeeping activities. And by doing so, press the people in the governments of Kakudun into trade networks that are controlled by the Saffron Anax.
> Bijan / “Remy”: [IC] Well I mean - [muttering] I guess that makes sense.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [IC as Chragcht] That is sufficient? For you? > Bijan / “Remy”: [IC] Yeahh [exhales].
> Nick / “Vynos”: [IC] Does the Company know about your dealings? Is the Company happy to march into war?
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [IC as Chragcht] No of course not - > Nick / “Vynos”: [IC] - On your account?
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [IC as Chragcht] Do you want to stop me? Do you want to kill me? Are you here to fight?
> Shannon / “Beta”: [IC] I don’t think that anyone would miss you.
> Bijan / “Remy”: [IC] Oh - Hey hey hey that’s mean, somebody would. Right? It’s gotta be at
least one guy, right?
> Shannon / “Beta”: [IC] Well I’m referring - Remy I’m referring to when he said that no one
would miss us. [Jenn laughs].
> Bijan / “Remy”: [IC] Sorry I’m furious, I’m not - my - my brain isn’t - I’m taking - you know
this cheer is.. It’s an act, we all know this, yes? > Shannon / “Beta”: [IC] [Quietly] Yeah.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [IC as Chragcht] You’re right to be angry. No one could possibly hold that against you. But... I would offer you some advice, now: Run. Run away... as far as you can, from the Co., from the Anax. Get as far as you can from any stiffwork, and never let your face be seen again. If you want to live, that is my advice to you.
> Nick / “Vynos”: [IC] You are a disgrace to the Company -
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [IC as Chragcht] Good.
> Nick / “Vynos”: [IC] - and I don’t know what they’ll do to us after we kill you.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [IC as Chragcht] The Worshipful Company of Stillfleeters is like a knot of seaweed tossed about on the waves at the edge of a great black sea. It is a useful concentration of talent and resources; a brief and minor reversal of entropy. You are like the Co., a plant that looks for the light. You have no conscious direction of your own, the Co. has no conscious direction of its own. Like an animal who cares for nothing but the continuation of its blind survival. You’re a beast. In a world that needs a mind. And so my advice to you is to run, or to perish.
> Bijan / “Remy”: [IC] So like, um... if we were... gonna smack your shit up, uh, how hard would that be? In your opinion?
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [IC as Chragcht] I suspect it would be harder than you care for. [OOC] And as he speaks, out of each of those... ports on his body floats one, each plum-sized, shiny eye.
> Bijan / “Remy”: [IC] Well gang, what do you think? [OOC] Remy just turns around and like, is talking to everyone.
> Nick / “Vynos”: [IC] He dies.
> Jenn / “Merkis”: [OOC] Merkis cricks his neck, says: [IC] I’m not running.
> Bijan / “Remy”: [IC] Alright, well that’s good enough for me. [OOC] He turns around, and uses “Overcharge”. And just, his skin starts rippling and starts flaking off.
[Intense Combat Music starts playing]
> Shannon / “Beta”: [OOC] Beta doesn’t say anything, takes the laser gun out of her... pocket,
and is holding NTS in her other hand, and says: [IC] Let’s get started.
[00:57:51] > Mike / G.M.: Chragcht stands, sorry, floats in front of the lot of you, his eyeballs floating all around him in a circle. The room is filled with mist, and behind Chragcht is... a large fishbowl kind of thing that he has just emerged from. The first person to act in initiative... is Remy.
> Bijan / “Remy”: [OOC] [Sighs] What a beautiful thing. Uh, I just want to say that Remy feels ecstatic right now, just to start. But, I think what he’s going to do, is he’s going to use “Flechette”, um, which is a nanobio power, burn two grit and shoot an intense hail of tiny charged nanite arrows at a target. Get a plus two to hit, and the resulting damage is two d6. BUT, because I have overcharge, it’s gonna do more stuff.
> Mike / G.M.: So Chragcht, roll your movement to dodge. You have to beat an eight. > Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [OOC] Uhh... I do.
> Jenn / “Merkis”: [OOC] Shit.
> Nick / “Vynos”: [OOC] Vynos casts “Detune.” At any time, I can burn six grit, and make someone, anyone, fail a roll at which she just succeeded.
> Mike / G.M.: Take me through it.
> Bijan / “Remy”: [OOC] Yeah so Remy... Remy changes his stance, he holds out both of his hands, like arms fully extended, and out of his palms, you can see there’s like a massing blackness in front of them, and you know, you can see this sort of distortion as these tiny nanites sorta, you know.... If you can see them, that’s a lot of nanites, and he shoots them out of both of his palms, and is just aiming for the general vicinity of Chragcht.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [OOC] But before they can reach Chragcht, one of the eyes that’s orbiting Chragcht, emits this sorta pulse that almost puts a sorta shake or waver in the air, and when that pulse hits the nanites they lose direction.
> Nick / “Vynos”: [OOC] And we see the nanites start to slow, and stop. And that the entire action, of these orbs and their destructive power, have all happened inside of the eye, the dark, black eye, of Vynos. Vynos is completely still, and calm, and as he’s projecting this in his mind, he twists his head slightly, and the orbs do nothing. The swarming nanites of flechette fly straight on into Chragcht.
> Mike / G.M.: Remy how much damage does this do?
> Bijan / “Remy”: [OOC] Seven... plus ten, that’s seventeen.
> Mike / G.M.: Archivist Chragcht, you are sure that your floating optic robots would disrupt this nanite swarm, yet it seems as though it has both happened and not happened, and you are hit for seventeen damage, somewhat inexplicably.
> Shannon / “Beta”: [OOC] Detuned is sooo cool.
> Bijan / “Remy”: [OOC] That’s the coolest shit I’ve ever heard. > Jenn / “Merkis”: [OOC] Wooow.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [OOC] They hit him in the face - > Jenn / “Merkis”: [OOC] Ooof.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [OOC] - and we see some of the flesh wash away just like a sandcastle at the tide. It just sorta like, almost blows some of the skin off his face, and you might even see a glint of a chrome bone somewhere around his temple. And he looks at you and says: [IC as Chragcht] You are not the knaves who left Spin but a few days ago, are you?
> Mike / G.M.: The next person to act is Archivist Chragcht.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [OOC] One of the eyes suddenly shimmers and vanishes. And Beta, simultaneously, you feel your hand get lighter, and you look down and “Nearer The Sun Than Is Advisable” has vanished. [Shannon, Jenn, and Bijan gasp] That eye just used “Abstract.” You remove an object of a mass up to five xkg in mass unnoticed from a guarded place not more than ten kilometers away from you.
> Bijan / “Remy”: [OOC] Wow.
> Jenn / “Merkis”: [OOC] Incredible.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [OOC] And then, one of - the hazel-blue eye floating in front of Chragcht races towards Vynos. And the eye expands into almost like a cellophane sheet and wraps around Vynos, and then seems to vanish itself. And, Mike I almost don’t even want to say what the result of this is, so I’m not going to tell the players what just happened. [Shannon and Jenn gasp]
> Mike / G.M.: Okay.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [OOC] I am - I am going to put it in chat so that you can see what I
just did.
> Mike / G.M.: Okay. [Mike laughs]
> Nick / “Vynos”: [OOC] So Vynos is gone now too? > Jenn / “Merkis”: [OOC] Holy shit!
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [OOC] No, no, I’m sorry, I’m sorry. The eye turns - like expands into like a cellophane sheet wraps itself around Vynos -
> Nick / “Vynos”: [OOC] I see, I see -
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [OOC] But then, the cellophane sheet itself seems to sorta
evervese into nothing.
> Bijan / “Remy”: [OOC] It’s - I think it’s “Silence”, is that “Silence”?
> Mike / G.M.: Okay, got it Taylor. How convenient, okay [Mike chuckles].
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [OOC] Alright, yeah, how convenient.
> Mike / G.M.: The next person to act in initiative, is Merkis.
> Jenn / “Merkis”: [OOC] Merkis takes a look around the room, umm can he use “Insight”? He’s gonna burn one grit, to sorta look for anything technological in the room.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [OOC] The only thing - > Jenn / “Merkis”: [OOC] Is there something-
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [OOC] Yes - the device emitting light at the top of the dome, and also - so should I just tell you what all the tech is in the room?
> Jenn / “Merkis”: [OOC] Yeah.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [OOC] Right, so there’s the uhhh there’s the medicinal atmosphere generators, that are built into the lattice work of the great glass fishbowl, and uh then there’s the device that emits the light at the top. Uh, which appears to be just a very cool spherical lamp that is designed to emit very particular types of visible and invisible radiation. But it appears to be relatively simple. This is like [Taylor chuckles] his sad lamp. [Mike and Nick laugh]. This is his therapy light.
> Jenn / “Merkis”: [OOC] So Merkis is just trying to discern if Chragcht is powered by something.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [OOC] Yeah, and the other major tech you see in the room is Chraghcht is fucking full of it. Like, he’s full of very sophisticated archaeatech, right? And there’s like - it’s not just the eyes, it’s not just his eyes. Is that fair, is that not enough?
> Jenn / “Merkis”: [OOC] Totally, no that’s great. Um, yeah Merkis just notices the glint after the skin had melted off his face. He just sees, like, just kinda squints and notices there’s something about Chragcht that makes Merkis’ nose twitch.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [IC as Chragcht] You don’t even know what you’re fighting against. You’re fighting because you’re angry.
> Jenn / “Merkis”: [IC] Rightfully so. [OOC] And Merkis, uh, looks into his bag, pulls out the Illithnari button, and just - just starts staring dead on, and presses the button.
> Mike / G.M.: [Mike exhales slowly, Jenn cackles maniacally] So, uh, the button is hard to press, uh, it’s - it feels like there’s something resisting on the inside, and you have to really push on it. And as you push on it, you feel it grinding against some, like, internal uh - like some internal mechanism like it doesn’t want you to push it. And, uh, we didn’t plan for this, so Taylor I apologize for making you do this -
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [OOC] I forget what the button does.
> Mike / G.M.: You’re about to find out, [Shannon yells] uh we’re all about to find out [Nick
laughs]. Um -
> Jenn / “Merkis”: [OOC] He’s gritting his teeth, and pressing hard.
> Mike / G.M.: You push - yeah it really resists - and you finally push it and it feels like it travels for miles until you get this little like, just this beautiful very satisfying little click, and then a pleasant female english voice emanates from the button, and asks you what you need. Taylor, this is Artemis [Shannon laughs] -
> Jenn / “Merkis”: [OOC] It’s Artemis?!
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [OOC] Oh my god, okay [Mike and Nick laugh] > Shannon / “Beta”: [OOC] YESSSS!
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [OOC] Yeah, okay.
> Mike / G.M.: You - Merkis has no idea what this is.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys” and Molly Templeton/ “Artemis”: [IC as Artemis] Hello Merkis, what can I do for you?
> Jenn / “Merkis”: [IC] Oh, uhh... who are you?
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys” and Molly Templeton/ “Artemis”: [IC as Artemis] My name is Artemis, I am an artificially intelligent assistant. I can order you a taxi cab, I can tell you the weather. Would you like to know a fun fact?
> Jenn / “Merkis”: [OOC] Uh Merkis slaps his forehead. [Shannon and Mike laugh] [IC] Well- > Taylor / “The Bad Boys” and Molly Templeton/ “Artemis”: [IC as Artemis] I can give you
some resources about “Stress Management”.
> Jenn / “Merkis”: [IC] Oh, oh that’s not necessary. I would actually like to harm somebody named “Chragcht.” Do you have anything about dismantling someone named “Chragcht”?
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys” and Molly Templeton/ “Artemis”: [IC as Artemis] Searching, searching, searching -
> Jenn / “Merkis”: [OOC] He’s got a hand on his hip, now [Shannon laughs].
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys” and Molly Templeton/ “Artemis”: [IC as Artemis] Searching,
searching -
> Mike / G.M.: [Laughing] Everybody's waiting patiently as this is happening. [Nick chuckles]
> Taylor Moore / “The Bad Boys” and Molly Templeton/ “Artemis”: [IC as Artemis] I found some things on the web - [Shannon and Mike laugh]
> Jenn / “Merkis”: [IC] Web?
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys” and Molly Templeton/ “Artemis”: [IC as Artemis] “Karate: A
Martial Art first invented in China - [Taylor OOC] Shit! I can’t - [Taylor guffaws]
> Mike / G.M.: Uh it just - you have no idea what it’s talking about [Shannon is now laughing
so hard it sounds like she’s crying]
> Jenn / “Merkis”: [OOC] Yeah [IC] What’s the - Where -
> Mike / G.M.: It’s also - It’s like - It’s speaking spin, so you can understand it, but it’s speaking like a very very weird, extremely old, like sorta literal translation of spin, so sometimes it says
things and you’re like “I don’t know what this phrase means”, uh, yeah it reads for a while, it just keeps popping -
> Jenn / “Merkis”: [OOC] He just starts shaking it - [IC] Why do the Illithnari need this! [Mike and Shannon laugh]
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys” and Molly Templeton/ “Artemis”: [IC as Artemis] Would you like me to add the book “Jiu Jitsu for One” to your shopping cart?
> Mike / G.M.: You don’t know what a shopping cart is. [Merkis groans in exasperation] Uh the next person to act is Beta.
> Shannon / “Beta”: [OOC] Does Beta know - does she see where NTS went? > Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [OOC] No. Completely vanished.
> Shannon / “Beta”: [OOC] She immediately is kinda acting out of - it’s been a long day, she’s acting more out of emotion than anything, and she immediately does - she “extends” herself to NTS.
> Mike / G.M.: I think that works?
> Shannon / “Beta”: [OOC] Yeah it doesn’t say I need to know where the thing is.
> Mike / G.M.: That’s what I was gonna say, yeah.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [OOC] NTS exists, he’s not like removed from reality, so-
> Mike / G.M.: It does not say - The rules do not say, this is perhaps an oversight, that you need to know where the thing is -
> Shannon / “Beta”: [OOC] Yeah.
> Mike / G.M.: So, yeah, um burn d8 grit, Beta.
> Shannon / “Beta”: [OOC] Uh, okay so I burn six grit -
> Mike / G.M.: And then roll four d6 to determine how long it’s going to take to get to you. > Shannon / “Beta”: [OOC] My goodness. [Bijan laughs] Okay the total is ten
> Mike / G.M.: Okay, it - you will receive NTS to your person, as long as you don’t go too far, in ten hours.
> Shannon / “Beta”: [OOC] Yeah, so Beta - kinda knee jerk reaction, has had such a long day, has felt like her whole concept of reality kinda shaken, and the one piece of security that she had - not the only piece, but one piece of security she had - was NTS, and when NTS was taken, she immediately, just like - and this is the first time she’s ever extended a part of herself, um, kinda discovering it, grabs at NTS with her mind, and also with her hand, and grabs it back.
> Mike / G.M.: You know, insofar as you felt kinda adrift without this thing that you have come to rely on, or you use to feel safe or strong, that dissipates somewhat, for a kinda - for a reason that’s hard for you to understand. But you feel like “Okay, I have it again, it’s just - it’s gonna be a little while.” The next person to act is Vynos.
> Nick / “Vynos”: [OOC] Vynos doesn’t know what has happened to him, he knows that he didn’t just get covered in cling wrap that disappeared for no reason. Uh, he thinks it’s safest just to pull his shotgun out and fire at Chragcht.
> Mike / G.M.: Roll combat, and Chragcht roll movement to dodge.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [OOC] Um Chragcht does not dodge.
> Nick / “Vynos”: [OOC] Uh four.
> Mike / G.M.: Chragcht is just staring you down, floating, like the big ole creep he is. Roll damage.
> Nick / “Vynos”: [OOC] A six.
> Mike / G.M.: Vynos, you level your shotgun, and you fire off at Chragcht a slug round. It’s, again, it’s like you're back in the cave or the cavern for a second, it’s very very loud in this tiny rock room, there’s this huge explosion as the slug leaves the barrel and it passes through uh some of the remaining nanites swarm, it passes through some of this - it passes through some of this uh mist that’s in the air, and it hits Chragcht right in the side, and you can see it - like a hole opens up, and you see like bits of metal, like throbbing bags of liquid, and he winces like just the smallest bit. Like you’ve hurt him, you’ve done six damage. Vynos: your side hurts like you’ve just been shot like a shotgun.
> Shannon / “Beta” and Jenn / “Merkis”: [OOC] [Together] Ohhhh.
> Shannon / “Beta”: [OOC] Damn.
> Nick / “Vynos”: [OOC] [In an Irish accent] Jesus, Mary and Joseph. [Shannon and Jenn
laugh]
> Shannon / “Beta”: [OOC] [Laughing] All of a sudden Nick - > Mike / G.M.: Chragcht has promised vengeance upon Vynos. > Nick / “Vynos”: [OOC] Oh god.
> Jenn / “Merkis”: [OOC] Ohhh -
> Shannon / “Beta”: [OOC] Damn. Not very nice, Chragcht.
> Nick / “Vynos”: [OOC] Uh Vynos falls to his knees, clinging his side, and he goes: [IC] [Gasps] sonofabitch - HE’S PROMISED VENGEANCE ON ME! Anything you do to him will happen to me!
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [OOC] Chragcht floats closer to Vynos, and he says: [IC as Chragcht] Anything you do to me will be visited upon your friend here. Vynos, haven’t you ever wanted more? You are much more than the man who left spin. You’re more than I thought you were, I’ll be the first to admit it. Don’t you believe you deserve... more than this?
> Mike / G.M.: Remy.
> Bijan / “Remy”: [OOC] Remy drops his hands to his side, and he looks back at Vynos, and
says: [IC] You good?
> Nick / “Vynos”: [IC] [A little too quickly] I’ll be fine.
> Bijan / “Remy”: [OOC] And Remy walks up to Chragcht, and holds out his hand, touches the skin, and, uh, uses “Repro,” which is a power that lets you send your nanites into an electrical device - any electrical device, including a sapient brain - to induce any specific effect possible.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [OOC] Alright so Chragcht has multiple devices. Each eye is a device, his levitation ability is a separate uh device, and he’s got a few more devices that process some of his bodily ichors.
> Bijan / “Remy”: [OOC] I think um -
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [OOC] There are four eyes, orbiting Chragcht right now -
> Bijan / “Remy”: [OOC] I think - I think Remy’s gonna go for the brain, and I think he’s gonna - I think the specific effect is, uh, more of a command, which is to stop. Um, so if the manipulation would destroy the host it gets an additional will check against difficulty seven to remain fragmented or inactive but alive. Yeah, so I guess - yeah you roll will against my- oh sorry reason - charm...[Bijan rolls, and laughs] - uh critical fail. Rolled a one [Nick laughs].
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [OOC] Remy -
> Bijan / “Remy”: [OOC] Wait but you have to roll against it.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [OOC] I rolled a Twenty-Seven.
> Jenn / “Merkis”: [OOC] [Nick laughs] Holy moley -
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [OOC] Remy, your mind is pierced by high frequency static.
> Bijan / “Remy”: [IC] Ah fuck, okay. Alright. I guess that’s a no. [OOC] And Remy’s nose starts bleeding, and he steps back and is just like: [IC] Fuck, man you guys weren’t kidding about that shit. The hell?
> Mike / G.M.: I think there’s also a moment, Vynos, where you - you feel some intrusion into your brain that you do not understand, and then it blinks away, and it’s like there’s some residual tinnitus, maybe, you don’t know what was about to happen, but you can tell it was not going to be good.
> Bijan / “Remy”: [IC] Alright I tried, look, I fuckin’ tried, I got nothing.
> Mike / G.M.: The next person to act is Chragcht. Chragcht, one of these people has just tried
to send nanites into your brain?
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [OOC] One of the eyes, uh, around Chragcht - one that’s as yellow as the light in the room - floats up between Chragcht and Remy, and a bolt - an arch of electricity - shoots from the eye to Remy, and shoots from the eye to Chragcht, and both Chragcht and Remy vanish. [Jenn gasps] And they reappear in the fishbowl. [Jenn gasps again]
> Shannon / “Beta”: [OOC] Damn.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [OOC] Remy, the therapeutic atmosphere in this bowl is extraordinarily toxic to you. You cannot breathe.
> Nick / “Vynos”: [OOC] Oi.
> Shannon / “Beta”: [OOC] [More distressed] Daaaamn. Where’s the fishbowl again? > Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [OOC] In the middle of the dome.
> Jenn / “Merkis”: [OOC] Yeah.
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [OOC] Right straight ahead of you.
> Shannon / “Beta”: [OOC] How tall up is the fishbowl?
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys”: [OOC] Uhhh the fishbowl is about thirty feet high from top to bottom. Remy, your lungs and mouth begin burning, uh, it feels very much like I would imagine tear gas feels - like if pepper had been smeared down your esophagus, into your nanite infested lungs.
> Mike / G.M.: Next person to act is Merkis. Merkis, Remy has just been teleported into this weird thing, I don’t know - I don’t know if Remy is like grasping at his throat to indicate that it’s hard to breathe, but -
> Bijan / “Remy”: [OOC] I mean, I - I think so, but I don’t think that anybody would be able to see it, right? A yellow fuckin’ -
> Jenn / “Merkis”: [OOC] Merkis is looking up and down, hitting this button trying to turn Artemis off because she is still talking. He’s like: [IC] Shhh! Shhh! [Grunts in frustration].
> Mike / G.M.: Now she’s reading the Wikipedia entry, though you don’t know what that is, of something called Karate Kid? You don’t know what that is either.
> Jenn / “Merkis”: [IC] Ohhh boy - [OOC] And he throws her into the bag, and um - he takes a free action called -
> Taylor / “The Bad Boys” and Molly Templeton/ “Artemis”: [IC as Artemis] Ralph Macchio, personal life -
> Jenn / “Merkis”: [OOC] Merkis takes a free action, uses “Reposition” - uh burn six grit to gain an extra d12 for any future roll. He tightens a boot, rolls his shoulders back, and just charges forward. He skitters like a parkour practitioner and is using his lizard-like arms and legs to scale the curve of the dome, so that he is above Chragcht, hanging onto the inside of the dome. And he pulls out a rebreather machine, and activates it, and drops it to the bottom of the dome.
> Mike / G.M.: Uh roll combat, just to like be able to get it into Remy’s vicinity. I’m lookin’ - I’m lookin’ for a six.
> Jenn / “Merkis”: [OOC] We’re gonna use this d12 that I got from reposition. > Bijan / “Remy”: [OOC] Remy’s just like [choking noises] -
> Jenn / “Merkis”: [OOC] We got a 7, and the rebreather provides twenty-four hours of air oxygenation, and scrubbing, for a large room.
> Mike / G.M.: Remy, a rebreather tossed by Merkis lands and sorta spins to your feet, hits your boot.
> Bijan / “Remy”: [OOC] Yeah - Remy grabs it and shoves it in his mouth, and closes his eyes. > Jenn / “Merkis”: [OOC] Oh it’s like a box - it’s like a humidifier, it’s like a little thing, so it’s
gonna help everybody in the room.
> Bijan / “Remy”: [OOC] He still grabs it and tries to put it in his mouth [Shannon guffaws], his eyes are still closed. [Jenn laughs]
> Mike / G.M.: Just smashing a breadbox up against your nose.
> Nick / “Vynos”: [OOC] It’s gotta work better closer, right? [Mike and Jenn laugh]
> Mike / G.M.: The next person to act is Beta.
> Shannon / “Beta”: [OOC] Ohhhhhkay. Alright, it hasn’t been ten hours, right? Um... > Mike / G.M.: It’s been about three seconds. [Jenn guffaws]
> Shannon / “Beta”: [OOC] Okay. She’s looking around, she’s feeling helpless, she knows that everything that she could possibly do to Chragcht is going to happen to Vynos, and she swore that she would not let her crew get hurt like they did that last time. It’s - it’s all of that, you know,
Algar talking about what happened to her last crew is really hitting her hard, um, because it was her job to keep everyone safe, and she is going to pull out her sword, and she’s going to use “Auger”. [Jenn laughs]
> Mike / G.M.: She’s gonna commune with the sword for a second?
> Shannon / “Beta”: [OOC] Yeah. That’s what she uses the sword for, right? Not “Find Clue”.
Right? Yeah.
> Jenn / “Merkis”: [OOC] This is some samurai shit.
> Mike / G.M.: Okay, yeah you can ask any answerable short question.
> Shannon / “Beta”: [OOC] So yeah, Beta’s feeling all of this, and pulls out her sword, again, turns around - you know, turns to the opposite side of where the fishbowl, all the action is going on - looks at her sword, and basically says: [IC] How do I work around promise vengeance?
> Mike / G.M.: Um, as you open up this sword and shout this, and you say this to it, you hear in the distance the sword is like: [IC as Beta’s Sword] Yeah so I was like at this party, and, uh, this lady is trying to talk to me -
> Shannon / “Beta”: [IC] You’re always talking to someone else -
> Mike / G.M.: [IC as Beta’s Sword] And she always has these pro - wha- huh? What?
> Shannon / “Beta”: [IC] Wait, you do that to trick me every time, you’re not talkin’ to anyone else!
> Mike / G.M.: [IC as Beta’s Sword] Who do you think I’m talking to, I’m just hanging out in this scabbard all day, everyday. You gotta talk to somebody, I talk to myself I’m not gonna talk to you -
> Shannon / “Beta”: [IC] No time for small talk -
> Mike / G.M.: [IC as Beta’s Sword] You - You ever thought about this, that you only call me
when you need something? [Nick chuckles] Hmm?
> Shannon / “Beta”: [IC] Yeah, usually -
> Mike / G.M.: [IC as Beta’s Sword] Why don’t you call just to say hi every once in a while?
> Shannon / “Beta”: [IC] Maybe when this is all over, I’ve been in kinda some high-stakes situations-
> Mike / G.M.: [IC as Beta’s Sword] Okay, listen, you and I both have things to take care of. You want to know how to hurt the other guy without hurting your guy, the friend guy, right?
> Shannon / “Beta”: [IC] Yeah.
> Mike / G.M.: [IC as Beta’s Sword] Yeah so you just gotta figure out what you can do to the
big guy that isn’t possible to do to Vynos.
> Shannon / “Beta”: [IC] Huh. Isn’t possible in what way?
> Mike / G.M.: [IC as Beta’s Sword] Big guy has metal stuff, Vynos doesn’t have metal stuff.
> Shannon / “Beta”: [IC] Interesting.
> Mike / G.M.: [IC as Beta’s Sword] Yeah, okay, go- I gotta go, I got to talk to... nobody-
> Shannon / “Beta”: [IC] You don’t have anything on your schedule. But I’m gonna let you go because I’m gonna respect your wishes.
> Mike / G.M.: [IC as Beta’s Sword] No I’mma let you go. Goodbye! Love you, byeeee- > Shannon / “Beta”: [OOC] So with that, she puts the sword back in her scabbard, turns
around, and she yells [IC] You have to do stuff to his metal stuff! [Shannon laughs] > Mike / G.M.: The next person to act is Vynos [Mike and Shannon laugh]
> Shannon / “Beta”: [OOC] Uhhh I have to pay for all of this, what is it?
> Nick / “Vynos”: [OOC] Vynos is no longer wincing in pain. His side still hurts, but he’s - he’s stood up. Um, he’s just watched Beta try sorta in vain to figure out a general area of solving this problem, but Vynos more than anyone in this room, except for Chragcht, understands the power of Promise Vengeance. And how unbreakable that power is. And Vynos looks at Chragcht, and says: [IC] You are not the only one... who can promise vengeance. [OOC] And he turns to Beta, and says: [IC] Take care of Chragcht. I will take care of the Anax. [OOC] And at this, his skin goes completely black. Vynos promises vengeance on The Saffron Anax - [Taylor gasps]
> Bijan / “Remy”: [OOC] Holy -
> Nick / “Vynos”: [OOC] And he takes out... the star, what’s it called? > Mike / G.M.: The Oragamaman (?) Postulate [Jenn gasps]
> Nick / “Vynos”: [OOC] Dark smoke just envelops his whole body, and then the laugh of demons is heard throughout the room, and he holds the star up, and he stabs it into his own heart. [Jenn gasps] And falls down dead.
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> Mike Rugnetta / G.M.: You are now leaving Float City, thanks for listening. On July 20th, 2021, the cast of Fun City is doing a live show at Caveat NYC and live streaming it for anyone who cannot get to the city. Lash, Luxe, TK, and Viv will have a one-off adventure that requires no previous knowledge of the New York 2101 timeline, so bring your pals. Patrons get a discount, and that code can be found on our Patreon feed at Patreon.com/funcityventures. Caveat is a 21+ venue and will require proof of vaccination for entry. You can find all the relevant links in the episode show notes and at Caveat.nyc. That’s C-A-V-E-A-T dot NYC.
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[ Outro Music Begins ]
Hi, I’m Bijan Stephen, and I play Remy Tester on Float City. You can find me on Twitter @bijanstephens, on Twitch at the same name, and on Instagram at bijancakes.
I’m Jenn de la Vega, I play Merkis Imeldar. You can find me on Twitter and Instagram @Randwiches. That’s the word sandwiches but replaces the “s” with an “r”!
This is Shannon Odell, I play Beta Commbot. You can find me on social @Shodell.
Hello, this is Nick Guercio, and I play Luxe on Fun City and Vynos on Float City. You can find me at @nicholasguercio on Twitter and nguercio on Instagram.
I’m Taylor Moore, and I play all the cool, interesting characters. You can follow me @taylordotbiz (laughs menacingly)
My name is Mike Rugnetta, and I am your GM, and you can find me on Twitter and Instagram @mikerugnetta
You can find the show on Twitter and Instagram @funcityventures. Float City is played in a soon to be released system called Stillfleet, which you can find on Twitter, Instagram, and Patreon @Stillfleet. This episode of Float City was recorded at various locations around Brooklyn, New York. It was produced, edited, and sound designed by me, Mike Rugnetta.
And it grew.
Both day and night, Until it bore an apple bright, And my foe beheld it shine, And Pixel Riffs knew, That is was mine.
Fun City’s music is by Sam Tyndall, Remy’s flute playing is by Jake Fridkis. Our Fun City art is by Tess Stone, and our Float City art is by Ethan Gould. Our Discord mods are Olivia Gulin, Kelly McKew, Kit Pllium, and Kestrel. And the voice of Artemis is Molly Templeton.
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> Mike / G.M.: Okay let’s talk about this.
> Taylor Moore / “The Bad Boys”: [OOC] Okay, Mike.
[Shannon and Jenn Scream, Bijan exhales]
> Bijan / “Remy”: [OOC] That was insane
> Taylor Moore / “The Bad Boys”: [OOC] Ssss - Mi - Sidebar in the chat, Mike. > Mike / G.M.: Sure. Send me your thoughts.
> Shannon / “Beta”: [OOC] Damn.
> Jenn / “Merkis”: [OOC] Damn!
> Taylor Moore / “The Bad Boys”: [OOC] Well, actually - there’s too much information to convey. Can you send us to a break out room for a second?
> Mike / G.M.: Yeah I don’t know how to do that.
> Shannon / “Beta”: [OOC] Do you want us to just mute? > Mike / G.M.: Oh yeah can you just mute?
[ 1:24:51 End of Episode ]