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and Mir sending back up

2:44

to the exchange, the transport

2:46

ship, and we're just going

2:48

to do a little... section

2:51

with you two and then

2:53

copy we're going to make

2:55

a new character for you

2:57

because I think your character

2:59

was toast as in literally

3:01

I think toast at the end of

3:03

the the last mystery. So Mere

3:05

and Terrence go back up to

3:08

the transparency and you'll go through

3:10

sort of a series of tests

3:12

and you know adjustments which extracts

3:14

it will put you through you

3:16

know a bit of kind of

3:18

therapy both. physical and mental just

3:21

to kind of you know get

3:23

you ready for your next assignment.

3:25

So the first thing is reset

3:27

your change score to one. Because

3:29

otherwise, yeah, absolutely be a short game

3:32

for me or honey, okay. Yeah, I

3:34

know, because otherwise it would be nice.

3:36

But we're going to introduce a new

3:38

a new score, which is called burnout.

3:40

And burnout is going to be a

3:43

sort of campaign level thing. So that

3:45

will start at one and we'll roll

3:47

that up. you know, similar to the

3:49

way you roll up, changed, and

3:51

you know, if that gets too

3:53

high, then you'll be out

3:55

permanently. So, two questions,

3:57

and basically, if you ask...

3:59

answer yes to either of these I'm going

4:02

to get to make a burnout roll. So the

4:04

first thing, Terrence and Mir, do you

4:06

need surgery after your last assignment?

4:08

Now bear in mind that extracts the

4:10

surgery is quite advanced so if you've

4:12

got injuries that need putting right, or

4:14

burns or so on like skin graft,

4:17

they can do that. But also if

4:19

you need some sort of mental surgery

4:21

like you know if there's something like

4:23

really messing with your head or something

4:25

that you need out of your head,

4:28

they can do that too. So... or

4:30

whatever kind of surgery

4:32

you like, but do you

4:34

need surgery? Wasn't one of

4:36

mere fingers

4:38

bifurcating? Yeah, it was.

4:41

The question is, did

4:43

that stop when we

4:45

terminated the other adjacent

4:48

realities, when we burned

4:50

down the crops, did

4:53

that stop that process

4:55

from happening? I think it

4:57

still hurts. I think you should

4:59

get that put, right? Did Mir

5:02

get burned hugging Dylan as

5:04

well? Not sure. I'd be great

5:06

with wearing some some some burn

5:08

scars from that hug. Sure. Is

5:11

there anything else you guys would

5:13

like to throw on me really

5:15

bad? Maybe a full frontal lobotomy.

5:17

Didn't she bump her knees? She

5:20

had a twisted ankle too that

5:22

needed to be removed. Yeah, so

5:24

we probably have some scar tissue

5:27

that she wants treated but

5:29

not removed. She doesn't want

5:31

to erase Dylan like that. From

5:34

a psychological standpoint,

5:36

she definitely doesn't want

5:38

anything extracted because she

5:41

doesn't. She doesn't want

5:43

to not remember Dylan as well. But

5:45

yeah, the whole splitting thing, if that's

5:47

still a thing, that would be great

5:49

to go ahead and get that addressed.

5:51

Fantastic. All right, so roll, give me a

5:54

burnout roll, which means your burnout is one

5:56

at the moment and roll a D6, and

5:58

if you get higher than one. it will

6:00

tick up. Hey, me rewrote a

6:02

one. Oh, wow. There you go. Grief

6:04

is carrying her through honey.

6:07

And what about Terence?

6:09

Does Terence need surgery

6:11

at all? No, Terence is

6:14

oddly fine. Considering everything we

6:16

as a group went through

6:18

on that planet, he... ended

6:21

up with a change score of three,

6:23

he shrugged off most of the psychological

6:25

weirdness that was thrown at him through

6:27

some lucky dice rolls or unlucky depending

6:29

on how you look at it, and

6:32

took no physical damage whatsoever.

6:34

Excellent. When you said fine,

6:36

I did fine in quotes. Yeah,

6:38

I'm just explaining, because apparently this

6:40

is a podcast, I'd be going

6:42

fine in quotes on the camera.

6:44

It's not, you know, apparently that's

6:46

not a good thing. Cool, okay.

6:49

And so the other question, and

6:51

again, if the answer is yes,

6:53

then you'll make a burnout role,

6:55

is do you distrust

6:57

Extractser? Because if you do,

6:59

if you do, they can

7:02

fix that too. They've got

7:04

all kinds of little things

7:06

they can put in light

7:08

and just adjust your

7:11

attitude. So do you distracts

7:13

Distractser? that Terrace was

7:15

oddly okay with what

7:18

they were doing. He's

7:20

going to be CEO

7:22

by the end of

7:24

the campaign. Absolutely. Mere

7:26

absolutely distress. I don't

7:28

know if she could actually

7:31

articulate that out loud

7:33

though, because her distress is

7:36

so high. Oh, that's fine. Because

7:38

they will detect that. So, and

7:40

they won't, they won't let you

7:42

go back in the field with,

7:44

you know, like burning extracts, I

7:46

hate. So, so give me another

7:49

burnout role. That was such

7:51

an uncomfortable question, by

7:53

the way, Graham. I'm sorry, right. Oh, it's

7:55

so good. I hate it. It's a two.

7:57

She rolled a two on this one. Sure.

7:59

And so Mir will go through like

8:02

a bit of therapy and you know

8:04

you remember that those voices that speak

8:06

to you before you go to bed

8:08

they will kind of you know calm

8:10

you down and so you will go into

8:12

the I don't know it's like when you've

8:14

had a bad week at work and you

8:16

know and you have a bit of

8:18

leave and you come back fresh right

8:20

so it's you know you won't forget

8:22

anything but you will just come back

8:24

with a bit of a better attitude

8:26

for the start of the next

8:28

scenario. Amazing.

8:31

And we should... Can

8:33

we just have a

8:35

quick scene between Terrence

8:37

and me? Just because

8:39

it's nice to have

8:41

like little scenes on

8:44

the spacecraft. So, where

8:46

would you guys bump

8:48

into each other on

8:50

the transparency? Sorry, on

8:53

the exchange, this massive

8:55

ship? I'd say probably

8:57

in the refectory.

9:00

sitting there just with

9:02

a cup of green tea,

9:04

sitting there quietly, thinking

9:06

perhaps making a few notes

9:08

in the notebook. I mean,

9:10

he's the kind of person

9:13

who still actually has a

9:15

paper notebook and writes in

9:17

it with a pen. Cool.

9:19

And Mia, let's have you

9:22

happening across Terrence. And

9:24

let's just have a really,

9:27

really quick scene just to

9:29

sort of... play out something

9:31

very quick between you. Yeah,

9:33

just a reverse question with the

9:35

surgeries and the therapy, what's the

9:38

time a lapse there? A month, a

9:40

week, a handful of days? A month

9:42

or so, you know, so yeah, a

9:45

couple of weeks of therapy, a couple

9:47

of weeks of leave before your next

9:49

assignment. Okay, so part

9:52

retroactively narrating this and

9:54

also kind of into the current

9:56

day. Dr. Drummond has not

9:58

had Meers come for the past month.

10:01

And she actually is going to, because

10:03

she feels better, right? After a handful

10:05

of surgery, she's a little bit more

10:07

refreshed and a bit more stable. She remembers,

10:10

but she's not as deeply wounded, so

10:12

she will actually bring her tray and

10:14

just sit down in front of him.

10:16

But she still is going to address him

10:18

as Dr. Drummond. Oh, look me. Is that

10:21

your new finger? It's actually three, if

10:23

you can believe it. They did a good job,

10:25

right? Oh wow, yes. Yeah, you

10:27

can barely see the

10:29

join. I'm impressed. Who

10:31

did the surgery? That

10:33

was a Dr. Whitaker?

10:36

Are you familiar with her?

10:38

Yes, yeah, I've heard

10:40

of her work here. She's

10:43

competent. I would

10:45

agree. Did... Oh, I

10:47

haven't asked, have I?

10:49

Sorry. How has your

10:51

recovery been? I didn't

10:53

need any recovery up.

10:56

Apart from the disappointment

10:59

that I felt over

11:01

the choices that you

11:03

and Dylan made, I thought

11:06

that it was otherwise

11:08

an interesting and

11:10

a citing assignment

11:13

that unfortunately was

11:15

just sported through.

11:18

Well, as I said some

11:20

poor decision making.

11:26

I think she's just going

11:28

to get really quiet

11:30

and regret sitting down.

11:33

I'm really happy to

11:35

end it there. That

11:37

would be absolutely lovely.

11:39

Yeah, so just with

11:41

Terrence going back to

11:43

writing in his book

11:45

and see, it's completely

11:48

oblivious to the fact

11:50

that Mir is blanking

11:52

in. Yep. They're back.

11:55

So Cup, we should make you a

11:57

new character. Did you have an idea

11:59

about occupation? Yes, nobody liked

12:01

those though, so I have

12:03

settled on a, I think

12:06

I'm going to be Marius,

12:08

a systems engineer. Systems engineer,

12:11

okay, that sounds good with

12:13

me. And we can

12:15

interpret systems engineer very

12:17

widely, so yes. Marius

12:20

might say genius systems

12:22

engineer. No, that's

12:24

good. And I think the way

12:26

we'll do it is that Marius

12:29

will have grown up with Terence

12:31

and Mir on Carly. So you

12:33

come from the planet Carly, this

12:35

sort of forested planet. And so

12:37

I just want to flash back

12:39

like we did with those characters.

12:41

We're going to play it as though,

12:43

you know, you've been around for a

12:45

while, we just haven't sort of

12:48

mentioned you. And let's have you

12:50

after school. and so we'll have

12:52

you sort of leaving lessons

12:54

and give me a quick

12:57

description of Marius as a child.

12:59

What's he looking like? Okay,

13:01

Marius is a precocious child,

13:03

maybe all of the scientists

13:05

are as well, but he

13:07

wears these mismatched brightly colored

13:09

clothes and he is eccentric

13:12

in the way that he dresses, but

13:14

he's a pretty reserved kid at the

13:16

same time. He has this hobby of

13:18

making homemade pins to represent different social

13:21

causes that are important to him, especially

13:23

environmentalism, since they're on Carly and a

13:25

lot is happening around them. So he's

13:27

got little pins of trees and flowers

13:30

he likes and things like that. That

13:32

he puts on his backpack and on

13:34

his shirt. He's creative, but he doesn't,

13:36

you know, adults might call him lazy.

13:39

He doesn't like to do things, but

13:41

he likes to think about things.

13:43

That's really lovely. And let's

13:45

have you giving one of those pins

13:47

away, if that's okay. So would you

13:49

like to give a pin to me

13:51

or Terence? Oh, I'm going to give

13:54

Terence a pin, not because I think

13:56

he'll like it, but because I think

13:58

he needs it. Amazing. You two

14:00

will just sort of bump into

14:02

each other kind of walking home

14:04

and let's start with here's something

14:07

I want you to have. Here's

14:09

something I want you to have

14:11

and I'm gonna hold out this

14:13

pin and it's kind of this

14:15

shimmering pin. It's it's catching a

14:17

little bit of sunlight. Yeah, I

14:20

made this. It's it represents shimmerite.

14:22

Oh, what is it made of

14:24

shimmerite? Well, no, but it looks

14:26

like shimmerite. I mean, look at

14:28

the shape. I mean, I know

14:30

you can form shimmerite into whatever

14:33

shape you want, but this is

14:35

like a shape you might see.

14:37

Anyway, it's cool, right? It actually

14:39

shimmers and he holds it up

14:41

into the light. So why didn't

14:43

you shimmerite? Well, it's really hard

14:46

to get. It's expensive. Yeah, well,

14:48

I suppose this is almost as

14:50

good. Thank you. It's the sort

14:52

that counts, anyway. I mustn't have

14:54

it. I've always admired that range

14:57

of colors that you wear, all

14:59

those little badges. Do you ever

15:01

find any of the local fauna

15:03

try to pollinate them? No, I,

15:05

well, I mean, like you said,

15:07

they're not that realistic, I guess,

15:10

Terrence. No, probably not. Yeah. But

15:12

thank you, says Terrence, tucking it

15:14

in his pocket, out of sight.

15:16

Do you think Mir would like

15:18

the same thing or should I

15:20

make her something different? Something different.

15:23

Okay. Let's leave it on something

15:25

different. I think that's absolutely lovely.

15:27

And let's cut forward now. So

15:29

you all grow up. on Carly

15:31

on this beautiful forested planet through

15:33

school together and then you will

15:36

go to the Extractser Recruitment Center.

15:38

And I just want to see

15:40

Marius and Mere just on the

15:42

way to the Extractser Recruitment Center.

15:44

on the way into one of

15:46

Harley's, well, smallish cities, I think.

15:49

And let's have one of you

15:51

say. Let's have Marius saying to

15:53

meer, how do you stay so

15:55

calm? How do you stay so

15:57

calm, meer? Oh. He should have

15:59

seen me about 32 days ago.

16:02

You wouldn't have actually thought that

16:04

of me. They have tools they

16:06

have treatments they have things that

16:08

can help with that let me

16:10

get let me get original mirror

16:12

currently is not in love with

16:15

the company but it's okay with

16:17

them so let me raise that

16:19

let me get let me get

16:21

original mirror out of the way.

16:23

Mm-hmm they have tools they have

16:25

treatments they have things that can

16:28

help with that I could put

16:30

you in touch with a couple

16:32

of the doctors they have some

16:34

They have some infusion that will

16:36

really just take the top edge

16:38

off of it if you're feeling

16:41

overwhelmed or nervous. What the hell,

16:43

mere treatments? We haven't even started?

16:45

And you're trying to drug me

16:47

up? No, I'm not trying to

16:49

drug you up, Mary's, but you're

16:52

obviously upset. And they could help

16:54

dial that back a bit. Yeah,

16:56

just that everyone else here is

16:58

like a renowned scientist already, and

17:00

I just, you know, futs around

17:02

with systems and computers and... Hey,

17:05

hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, stop

17:07

that. You got the assignment, you

17:09

got the assignment, right? Right? Right?

17:11

You're here, right? It's pretty intense

17:13

and you made it. You're going

17:15

to be fine. I know it's

17:18

intense, but I've been studying and

17:20

I'm worried that they're going to

17:22

know I've been studying and they're

17:24

going to know I'm an imposter

17:26

because why would I need to

17:28

study if I if I already

17:31

knew about the machines and everything?

17:33

She's going to throw up in

17:35

and snap her finger super loud

17:37

like just a couple inches away

17:39

from his nose just kind of

17:41

snap. Hey, stop. You're okay. Terrence

17:44

said I'm not smart enough to

17:46

work for extracts or I just...

17:48

Yeah, well Dr. Drummond feels that

17:50

way about everyone that's not himself,

17:52

all right? China... to take any

17:54

stock in what Dr. Drummond says.

17:57

How is he already a doctor's?

17:59

You know what? There's obviously not

18:01

doing morality screenings because, come on,

18:03

let's actually, come on, let's get

18:05

you and I both could use

18:07

something right now just to take

18:10

the end off. Come on. Should

18:12

we turn them by the shoulders?

18:14

Should we wait for Dylan or?

18:17

And actually, let's just leave

18:19

it at that point. That's

18:21

a beautiful moment. That was

18:23

cold. Bridget, actually, her heart

18:26

jumped a beat. Master. So

18:28

that's really, really beautiful. Yeah,

18:30

cool. And so you will,

18:32

but you'll both get the

18:34

job. And so you get

18:36

on board the exchange and

18:38

you use jet off to

18:40

the. far regions of the

18:43

galaxy. And a cup you

18:45

weren't, so Marius, you weren't

18:47

on the first mission, the

18:49

one with the sort of

18:51

weird time bodies, but you

18:53

know, so you'll be starting

18:55

your first mission now. And

18:57

so finally it's just the

18:59

night before your first mission

19:02

and you'll go to sleep

19:04

and every night you get

19:06

these these things whispered into

19:08

your ear, these sort of

19:10

assessment questions. I

19:13

can feel Scott, I

19:15

think I've just heard

19:17

Scott laugh, kind of

19:19

slightly delive something. Yeah,

19:22

it's great. And so,

19:24

yeah, let's start with

19:26

Marius. So the question

19:28

that Marius gets is.

19:44

I think it's, uh,

19:46

when I was 11

19:49

years old and, uh,

19:51

mom died. We never

19:54

really had a proper

19:56

conversation before that happened.

20:02

Yeah. Thank you, Marius.

20:05

And then, Mir, the

20:07

question that Mir gets

20:10

is... What's your strongest

20:13

memory of your home

20:15

planet? I

20:30

think tonight it's going to

20:32

be... it'll be the afternoon.

20:34

Dylan invited me to play

20:37

a headball. Headstick. Sorry. It

20:39

would be her to mess

20:41

that up though, so it

20:44

would be her to mess

20:46

up the whole game altogether.

20:48

That works for her. Thank

20:51

you, ma'am. And Tarent, the

20:53

question you get is... I

21:08

would happily forget the

21:11

entire six months after

21:13

graduation, when I searched

21:16

for employment that was

21:18

worthy of me on

21:21

Kani, when I was

21:24

either offered jobs that

21:26

a shaved monkey could

21:29

do, or was turned

21:31

down for ones that

21:34

I was clearly overqualified

21:36

for And

21:39

the whole process was humiliating.

21:41

Thank you, Terrence. And so

21:44

I just want to leave

21:46

you with this image that

21:48

you're in the living quarters

21:51

on the living level. I

21:53

just want you to leave

21:55

you with this image of,

21:57

you know... zooming out and

22:00

this control level above you

22:02

where you never go. It's

22:04

all computers and the maintenance

22:07

level and some sort of

22:09

storage level below. And throughout

22:11

that, there's these, there is

22:14

these maintenance droids, liquid metal

22:16

things that kind of roam

22:18

about the ship, just kind

22:21

of busying themselves and fixing

22:23

things. They're known as antibodies

22:25

and they have, they have

22:28

the faces and hands of

22:30

the engineers that that made

22:32

them, so in a sort

22:34

of slightly failed attempt to

22:37

make them less creepy, they

22:39

have sort of human faces

22:41

and hands, and so they

22:44

just busy themselves going throughout

22:46

the ship. So just like

22:48

you to imagine sort of

22:51

zooming out from the exchange

22:53

where you three are being

22:55

asked these weird questions and

22:58

these these creatures zooming throughout

23:00

the ship. And now you're

23:02

floating towards the transparency. which

23:05

this massive hulk of a

23:07

ship hanging in space looks

23:09

like the exchange but like

23:11

an older exchange. It's an

23:14

extractor transport ship. It looks

23:16

when as you get closer

23:18

it looks like blackened and

23:21

slightly crushed. And there's a

23:23

voice in your ear which

23:25

says associates this is the

23:28

exchange. You're approaching the extractor

23:30

transport ship. Transparency. Medical office,

23:32

please acknowledge? Medical here. Thank

23:35

you, Dr. Drummond. Botanist, please

23:37

acknowledge. Hard pause, as she's

23:39

probably distracted by something. I'm

23:41

sorry, yes, here, present. And

23:44

systems infinite, please acknowledge. Systems

23:46

Engineer, please acknowledge. Systems Engineer,

23:48

please acknowledge. Systems Engineer. Thank

23:52

you, associates. Associates, you will

23:55

search this abandonment and salvage

23:57

everything valuable, including the computer

23:59

core. You have all

24:01

the necessary scanners and

24:03

equipment you need. Good

24:06

luck. We'll be back for you

24:08

in one month. And behind

24:10

you, the exchange fears off

24:13

course, just very, very slowly,

24:15

gets farther and farther,

24:18

and you are left

24:20

floating, you have communicators,

24:22

so you can talk,

24:24

but you left, floating

24:26

towards this giant, giant

24:28

ship. Yes. Did

24:30

they say one month? It

24:32

is a large ship, there's

24:35

three of us. I'm

24:37

not entirely sure

24:40

why they thought it

24:42

was a good idea

24:44

to send a doctor

24:47

and a botanist on

24:49

this expedition, but well...

24:52

I think we should say

24:54

it. I think

24:56

we should still look at

24:58

this as an opportunity to

25:00

shine. Yeah. Mir, did they

25:02

say anything about plant

25:04

life on the ship or anything?

25:07

Is there any life at all?

25:09

Quick question of Graham,

25:11

did we get any

25:13

debriefing other than just

25:15

getting dropped off and like,

25:17

hey kids, will be back

25:19

in a month? Nope, that was

25:22

your deep briefing. Deep briefing

25:24

just happened while your briefing

25:26

just happened. Briefing just happened.

25:29

Yeah, um, Marius, I don't know.

25:31

I think I think we'll we'll find out

25:33

when we get inside, huh? Okay. Yeah, I

25:35

brought, if it's okay with Graham, I

25:37

brought Astro the the little drone so

25:40

we can just send it around

25:42

and kind of sniff out for

25:44

anything valuable. Sounds like it's

25:46

mostly the computer core though,

25:48

should be, gosh, like two days. To

25:51

get that all packaged up?

25:53

Well we have a month here, let's

25:55

do a thorough job and I'm

25:58

sure there's going to be... other

26:00

interesting items on board,

26:03

but I'm just the

26:05

computer core. We should

26:07

check every part of the

26:09

ship who will have the time

26:12

to do so. And I think,

26:14

I will have to defer, I

26:16

believe, to you, Mr.

26:18

Bishop, for what is

26:20

going to be of

26:23

interest engineering once. But I

26:25

think if there's anything

26:27

else that... Looks like

26:29

it may pertain to

26:31

previous missions or artifacts

26:33

that have been recovered

26:35

from other worlds. That

26:37

probably falls within our

26:40

remit as well. Yes, that sounds

26:42

fine. Why don't you be

26:44

in charge of thoroughness then?

26:46

And I'll tell you what's

26:48

important. Yeah. That sounds good.

26:50

Maybe I'll set up a little

26:52

workstation and you can bring

26:55

me things and I'll appraise

26:57

them. And you're having

26:59

this conversation, like, floating

27:02

closer and closer, and

27:04

now it's just like this vast wall

27:06

in front of you. And it's a

27:08

ship, and I don't know how you're

27:11

going to get it, and you're

27:13

in front of a big ship.

27:15

Ooh. Marius, this is kind of

27:17

your lane, right? Well, everything's

27:20

interconnected, so yeah, I

27:22

think I can tackle just about

27:24

any system. Do I see

27:26

anything unusual? on the facade here?

27:29

Sure, I mean, give me a

27:31

roll. So this is one die

27:33

if it's something an employee could

27:35

do. It is one die for

27:37

your specialist, which is systems engineer.

27:39

Plus, if you wanted to add your

27:42

change role, you're allowed to. Okay, I

27:44

won't add it yet. I went up

27:46

so fast last time. Yeah, you did.

27:48

But yes, I'm going to make the

27:51

roll. I guess. It was too in-game for me

27:53

to ask if I see anything unusual. I

27:55

think I would be looking for entrances and

27:57

obvious places. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you're trying to

27:59

find... way in. Yeah. Okay, I did not do

28:01

well. I don't want to back see tension

28:04

here here but I think an airlock

28:06

could be good. Yeah. Could I, um,

28:08

could I re-roll Graham? What did

28:10

you just get? A one and a three?

28:12

So a three will let you find an

28:14

airlock if that's what you want

28:16

because you never fail unless you

28:18

I roll against you. But if

28:20

you want to re-roll you're welcome.

28:23

Okay, I think I want to

28:25

know a little bit more. Like,

28:27

do I see anything? Any signs

28:29

of like corrosion on the ship?

28:32

Anything on the exterior here? Yeah,

28:34

yeah. Well, so for the moment,

28:36

let's leave it as well. You

28:38

think that's probably an airlock

28:40

down there, but you'd like to

28:43

know a bit more? And please

28:45

do a re-roll if you like.

28:47

To re-roll, do I add change

28:49

dye? You re-roll you re-roll everything.

28:51

Okay. Sure. So you can find

28:53

an airlock which you'll recognise is

28:55

the the airlock to the cargo

28:58

bay. And you also, you know,

29:00

you also realise how you can

29:02

get that open. There's an emergency,

29:04

there's an emergency switch which you

29:06

can you can activate from the

29:08

outside. It will open just enough

29:10

to let a human in because

29:12

they don't really want people to

29:14

die outside. But as well as

29:16

that, you'll realise that this ship

29:18

has been crushed as though there was

29:20

sort of some... I don't know. gravitational

29:23

event or something, that

29:25

there are extracts of files. We're

29:27

going to assume you're sort of

29:29

all linked to a database of

29:31

extractor files, so it kind of,

29:34

you know, it consults them automatically.

29:36

There are extracts of files of

29:38

ships that have been too close

29:40

to the glitch. You remember

29:42

the glitch, this, you know, large space

29:45

nominee in place, and which come back

29:47

crushed. This shit looks crushed, it

29:49

also looks as though it's been

29:51

burnt. Yeah, this is interesting.

29:54

Looks like the ship,

29:57

I'm kind of cross-referencing.

29:59

some things I think

30:01

you may have seen this

30:04

in the last mission it

30:06

like it like it was

30:08

crushed by gravity from the

30:11

glitch did you learn anything

30:13

useful about the glitch in

30:15

your last mission I wish

30:18

we had a physicist here

30:20

yeah I'm just a humble

30:22

medic but from oh is

30:25

that the word you're gonna

30:27

use Scott humble that's how

30:29

you feel okay But from

30:32

my limited understanding of such

30:34

things, gravity doesn't really work

30:36

like that, does it? If

30:39

this has been crushed, I

30:41

mean, if it went into

30:43

a strong gravitational field near

30:46

the glitch, wouldn't that be

30:48

more likely to pull it

30:50

apart? Hmm. I think you're

30:53

right. Yeah, it's like it

30:55

was... Caught

30:57

between two forces here. Unless

30:59

unless whatever Exerted the gravitational

31:02

pull was within the ship.

31:04

Oh Yeah Huh, well I

31:06

guess when we find the

31:08

core. Yeah, that wouldn't explain

31:10

the exterior burning though, right?

31:12

No. Oh you saw that

31:14

too. Yeah I Don't know

31:17

maybe we can find some

31:19

answers on board. Maybe there's

31:21

a A ship log or

31:23

something? We have a month.

31:25

We can get the history

31:27

or the story of the

31:30

ship as we're on-site scavengers.

31:32

Shit with a month, we

31:34

can probably recreate the event.

31:36

Marius, at that point, makes

31:38

the call. Yeah, well, let's

31:40

go to the airlock. Sorry.

31:43

Yes, we'll have you at

31:45

this point, you have opened

31:47

the airlock, and so there

31:49

is a large dark crack

31:51

leading into the... into the

31:53

cargo hole. You will have

31:56

flashlights, so I'm imagining this

31:58

is illuminated in flashlights. Yeah,

32:00

let's go fast. I don't

32:02

know how long this will

32:04

stay open. The ship's in

32:06

disrepair, so don't take any

32:09

chances. And you go through?

32:11

There you are. Your flashlights

32:13

aren't going too far into

32:15

the dark. But what you

32:17

can see in this, you

32:19

know, these sort of distant

32:22

beams of your flashlights is

32:24

it's a cargo bay. There

32:26

are walkways and staircases. There

32:28

are... There are

32:30

sort of rectangular things, they're

32:33

probably cargo containers, which seem

32:35

to be free-floating in the

32:37

carbacobi. Hmm. Well, perhaps job

32:39

number one should be re-establishing

32:41

artificial gravity within the ship.

32:43

Yeah, that's not going to

32:45

be in the cargo bay,

32:48

though. Is it okay, Graham?

32:50

Is it cheating? Can I

32:52

send Astro, the little drone

32:54

that I brought ahead to

32:56

look for? Sure. Yeah, let's,

32:58

let's send Astro out and

33:00

look for the, look for

33:03

the systems. We can kind

33:05

of reactivate everything. That, that,

33:07

that sounds good with me.

33:09

I mean, you know, Astro

33:11

is going to turn up

33:13

just burnt and at some

33:16

point. Oh, yeah. I'm allowed

33:18

to mess with Astro. Yes,

33:20

Astro, I'm imagining Astro has

33:22

a camera and sensors and

33:24

sends data back to our

33:26

comms as it finds things.

33:28

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm

33:31

okay I can use occupation

33:33

for this too right sure

33:35

sure okay a four and

33:37

a five on occupation yeah

33:39

cool so you can see

33:41

the the feed from Astro

33:44

and it's finding its way

33:46

towards a control booth there

33:48

is a control booth where

33:50

if you wanted to you

33:52

can switch on the localized

33:54

gravity in the in the

33:56

cargo hole you can switch

33:59

on the lights as well

34:01

if you want and then

34:03

suddenly it Okay. Astro, I

34:05

mean your entire screen is

34:07

filled up with a face

34:09

of a corpse. Oof. Oof.

34:12

Let's remind you about change

34:14

rules, your changes, one, any

34:16

time that... I think, yeah,

34:18

Marius was kind of watching

34:20

the feed with a lot

34:22

of excitement, this is what

34:24

he likes, right, like sending

34:27

this thing into hard to

34:29

find places. So yeah, the

34:31

face right there, that's... That's

34:33

like the first time I

34:35

saw Jaws that moment. So

34:37

it's definitely a change role.

34:40

Mere Terrence, what are you

34:42

up to? Oh, I wrote

34:44

a six. And that's okay.

34:46

Yes. It just takes up

34:48

one, right? Yeah. Six is

34:50

a very bad on other

34:52

roles. Yeah. Using

34:55

the Combs in his suit

34:57

just to see if there

34:59

are any broadcasts or anything

35:01

that is coming from within

35:03

the ship that would indicate

35:05

live systems or even survivors.

35:07

That's really nice. Okay, give

35:09

me a roll. Okay, this

35:11

is just going to be

35:13

a single die because it

35:16

is not within Terence's. professional

35:18

expertise, but I still rolled

35:20

the six. Nice. Wow, okay.

35:22

Lovely. Oh boy. So there

35:24

are very few survivors. This

35:26

was a shit which had

35:28

thousands of people and there

35:30

are, you know, there are

35:32

probably corpses all over this

35:34

ship. There are... individual people

35:36

about the ship and there's

35:39

obviously been some sort of

35:41

disaster and as your you're

35:43

thinking about it, this kind

35:45

of flashes into your head.

35:47

So there will be just

35:49

a flash of crushing and

35:51

burning just for like a

35:53

tenth of a second and

35:55

then it stops. I think

35:57

if the tenth of a

35:59

second is enough to provoke

36:01

a changed role there. So

36:04

that's a five. So, Terrence's

36:06

changed goes up by one.

36:08

And can we... Yeah. Yeah,

36:10

and I think he just,

36:12

he's sort of talking half

36:14

to himself, half to the

36:16

others as he's going through

36:18

talking about the channels that

36:20

he's checking through, just normal

36:22

kind of updates to the

36:24

others, and then just stops

36:26

and goes very quiet. Well,

36:29

I'd have a screen from

36:31

Terrence. Can we... He's been

36:33

quite emotion so far. I

36:35

like the... Yeah. I think

36:37

less of a scream or

36:39

more just of a gasp.

36:41

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Hey Terrence,

36:43

I think I know why

36:45

they wanted to bring a

36:47

doctor on the mission. Kind

36:49

of just staring. I don't

36:52

think he stopped looking at

36:54

the corpse, like he's still

36:56

looking at that. Yeah, see,

36:58

it has seemed that there

37:00

may be one or two

37:02

autopsies to perform here. Yeah.

37:04

And probably some survivors as

37:06

well. We have a lot

37:08

of questions to ask them,

37:10

I think. So near, this

37:12

cargo bay with these free-floating

37:14

metal containers, which are heavy

37:17

things. You would not want

37:19

one of those to crush

37:21

you against a war. And...

37:23

What you might previously thought

37:25

were dark shapes, but they're

37:27

corpses. There's there are corpses,

37:29

you know, dozens, hundreds of

37:31

corpses just floating freely in

37:33

this cargo bay. And again,

37:35

to set the scene, there's

37:37

walkways. You are probably standing

37:39

up. Are you holding onto

37:42

a walkway? I just floating,

37:44

I don't know. I think

37:46

as soon as she gets

37:48

inside of this cargo bay

37:50

and Marius already has his

37:52

nose up his like data

37:54

transmitter and he's collecting information

37:56

from Astro and Dr. Drummond

37:58

is already doing something similar

38:00

just in a different direction.

38:02

She's a botanist but she's

38:04

a gardener at heart. She

38:07

likes to put her hands

38:09

on things, she likes to

38:11

straighten things up, she likes

38:13

things to be a certain

38:15

way and she likes to

38:17

get her hands dirty. So

38:19

I think while they're doing

38:21

the techie things she would

38:23

probably slip into that more...

38:25

Molly Helper helpful mode. So

38:27

she would be floating around

38:30

and pushing these cargo containers

38:32

out of the way so

38:34

that when the artificial gravity

38:36

kicks back on, it's not

38:38

landing on one of us.

38:40

That's like using straps from

38:42

the, that's like using straps

38:44

from the wall, just to

38:46

make sure. That's like using

38:48

straps from the wall, just

38:50

to make sure, at least

38:52

when you drop that whole,

38:55

you know, 100 kilos can

38:57

go right here. And suddenly

38:59

artificial gravity kicks kicks back

39:01

on. So that would be

39:03

her first name, because at

39:05

least I would give her

39:07

a sense of feeling useful.

39:09

I think with the corpses,

39:11

I don't think she's as

39:13

alarmed or as startled as

39:15

she might have been, because

39:17

this is a derelict ship.

39:20

She knew this was a

39:22

possibility. But she is going

39:24

to be very intentional about

39:26

at least putting the corpses.

39:28

Bridget is, I'll just go,

39:30

hey, roll the, hold on.

39:32

We're just rolling now. I'm

39:34

rolling my change, I now.

39:36

And she goes up by

39:38

one. Getting the corpses quote

39:40

unquote piled up into the

39:42

same location as well. So

39:45

at least when they drop,

39:47

they're all dropped in a

39:49

pile somewhere. Okay, so, um,

39:51

let's have you pushing, pushing

39:53

these corpses and sort of,

39:55

yeah, hurting the corpses. Corps,

39:57

that works. Yeah. And, and

39:59

you're pushing, there was one

40:01

corpse in particular, which, um,

40:03

It has this kind of

40:05

fleshy bloom on his face.

40:08

Some of them have these.

40:10

So you know how waspeness

40:12

is, right? Have you seen

40:14

a waspest? Just imagine one

40:16

of those, but with flesh

40:18

coming out of an eye.

40:20

And so lots of them

40:22

seem to have these. This,

40:24

by the way, is pine

40:26

from engineering. His name's pine.

40:28

Pine from engineering. Pine from

40:30

engineering. Pine from engineering. Pine

40:33

have a family? Pine. Oh,

40:35

yeah, I mean, you remember

40:37

him and his wife, definitely.

40:39

Yeah, she was sweet. She's

40:41

a really terrible cook, though.

40:43

Why do I remember Pine

40:45

from engineering on this ship?

40:47

It's going to turn Pine's

40:49

face down so we can

40:51

get away from that, whatever's

40:53

protruding from his face, just

40:55

like, yeah, you dropped over

40:58

there in that corner. Mary,

41:00

you found Pine? Is he

41:02

alive? No, I don't think

41:04

anyone is. I don't know

41:06

how many survivors were going

41:08

to find something terrible happened

41:10

here. Now, Bishop, before you

41:12

turn that gravity on, do

41:14

check to see that it's

41:16

functioning properly. It just occurred

41:18

to me that if what

41:21

happened here was... gravitation in

41:23

nature, then it's not out

41:25

of the question that the

41:27

artificial gravity might have malfunctioned,

41:29

in which case, switching it

41:31

back on without running a

41:33

full diagnostic could be unfortunate.

41:35

Yeah. Yeah, I don't think

41:37

we can let Astro do

41:39

that. I want to take

41:41

a look at the components,

41:43

make sure everything's in working

41:46

order before we do that,

41:48

but I'm going to have

41:50

to do that in person.

41:52

I'm afraid. I have a

41:54

question. Terrence's... I'm not trying

41:56

to make this unsettling for

41:58

anyone, but do you think

42:00

that there might be a

42:02

risk to other people on

42:04

the show? Is this... Are

42:06

we sure this is gravity?

42:08

It's not something contagious? At

42:11

the moment, I have no

42:13

idea. I know that whatever

42:15

happened here was a sudden

42:17

and catastrophic that it was

42:19

probably gravitation in nature, but

42:21

that doesn't eliminate the possibility

42:23

of other threats to life.

42:25

Let's wear our PPE until

42:27

we know what's going on.

42:29

How about that? Agreed. Okay.

42:31

So, corpses, you're in walkways,

42:33

there is a control booth,

42:36

so Astro made its way

42:38

to the control booth now

42:40

if you like. Yeah. Terrence,

42:42

by the way, you can

42:44

examine corpses, you know, if

42:46

you want, if you want

42:48

to do that, you're very

42:50

welcome, I don't mind. I'm

42:52

going to hold off for

42:54

the moment because... There's no

42:56

point in getting a superficial

42:59

examination at this stage. I

43:01

want to wait until I've

43:03

got a medical base set

43:05

up and I can do

43:07

a proper autopsy. Yeah. To

43:09

that end, can I try

43:11

to get Astro to check

43:13

and or activate the power

43:15

without turning on the gravity

43:17

system? Yeah, sure. Give me

43:19

a role to activate the

43:21

power. Also, if you roll

43:24

a six, I know exactly

43:26

how this is going to

43:28

go wrong. Oh no. Well,

43:30

I kind of want to

43:32

re-roll because I rolled a

43:34

pair of twos. Okay, so

43:36

for two, we can have

43:38

it sort of flicking on,

43:40

things will spark out, but

43:42

you know, there'll be a

43:44

low level of residual kind

43:46

of light. Okay. Maybe I

43:49

can put Astro at greater

43:51

risk, have it like going

43:53

to the compartment and try

43:55

to get better power. Yeah.

43:57

I do have a six

43:59

on my occupation die. Here

44:01

we go. Yeah. So the

44:03

lights flash on and we'll

44:05

have you on a walkway.

44:07

you've turned the lights on

44:09

but not the gravity right?

44:12

Correct. And suddenly this flashes

44:14

back to you. I mean

44:16

this is where you know

44:18

you're a systems engineer right?

44:20

You have a bit of

44:22

a fascination with... Marius, he's

44:24

sort of had this fascination

44:26

with things and machines or

44:28

something like that. Oh absolutely.

44:30

Like a aspiring tinker who

44:32

doesn't like his hands dirty?

44:34

Yeah. This is where he

44:37

learned it all. So it

44:39

flashes on and this is

44:41

deep, deep in your memory.

44:43

You remember spending most of

44:45

your childhood in this cargo

44:47

bay. Huh. That's a change

44:49

die for sure. Yeah. He

44:51

kind of shakes his head

44:53

like, this isn't Carly, what

44:55

the fuck just happened. And

44:57

I rolled a two, but

44:59

I'm already at two. Takes

45:02

you moment to think of

45:04

that name. Carly? Oh, okay.

45:06

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I think

45:08

maybe I'm just trying, I'm

45:10

remembering some of the like

45:12

forest areas, but yeah, and

45:14

eventually names comes back. Carly.

45:16

Yeah, okay. Yeah. Carly. But

45:18

I did have my best

45:20

change role ever and only

45:22

rolled it to which I'm

45:24

already at. Yeah. Yeah. Maybe

45:27

back in training. Is it

45:29

familiar? And she's probably looking

45:31

at the back of the

45:33

jumpsuit of pine right now.

45:35

I don't know, Marius. Okay.

45:37

I'm looking at the systems

45:39

engineer. I know his wife.

45:41

I've never met him before.

45:43

And I don't think I've

45:45

ever been on this shit

45:47

before. Oh,

45:50

you don't know. If you say

45:52

that, that doesn't quite sound right.

45:54

Oh. How about you, Terrence? Have

45:56

you been on... Have you been

45:58

on this ship before? No,

46:01

of course not. Yeah, no

46:04

worry, I just had like

46:06

a deja vu kind of

46:08

thing. It's fine. Teja vu

46:10

is a very common phenomenon

46:12

and there's a perfectly rational

46:14

neurological explanation for what happens.

46:16

Oh, sorry, I want to

46:18

make sure I have enough

46:20

power here. Yeah, sorry, Terrence.

46:22

Mayor, are you still... What's

46:24

Mayor doing? I can give

46:26

you something extra with the

46:28

corpses if you like, but...

46:30

What are you doing? She

46:32

was finished with the corpses,

46:34

but now that this whole

46:36

recollection thing is here, I

46:38

think... Can we climb back

46:40

up the wall and just

46:43

start turning bodies over again

46:45

one more time? Maybe it

46:47

looks like a guy I

46:49

knew named Pine. It can't

46:51

be Pine, because I've never

46:53

met Pine. So yeah, she'll

46:55

just go back, start going

46:57

through the bodies again. Yeah,

46:59

okay. And yeah, they all

47:01

look familiar. We've kind of

47:03

done that. I'm not going

47:05

to give you a bit.

47:07

You know, they feel they

47:09

feel familiar. They feel like

47:11

people you've grown up with.

47:13

They've died in two different

47:15

ways. This is what you're

47:17

going to notice. So some

47:19

of them have the have

47:22

this sort of thing that

47:24

they have like localized crushing,

47:26

like sometimes half their faces

47:28

crushed. Yeah, but you

47:30

know, bits of their bodies

47:32

now hand will be crushed,

47:35

a bit of an arm.

47:37

And so some of them

47:39

seem to have died through

47:41

this localized crushing. Some of

47:43

them have holes bored through

47:46

them. So they will have

47:48

perfectly round holes as if

47:50

they were drilled through them.

47:52

Where are these concentrated? Like

47:55

in the chest, arms, leg,

47:57

forehead, randomly scattered about. Definitely

47:59

not random. I mean... Definitely.

48:01

I mean, sometimes through the

48:04

gut, sometimes sort of through

48:06

the chest, in one case,

48:08

directly through the head, but

48:10

always, you know, very calculated

48:12

to kill, basically, very efficient.

48:15

Feel free to make change

48:17

roles. Change roles are good.

48:19

Yeah, I'm going to go

48:21

ahead and take that opportunity,

48:24

please, and thank you. I

48:26

love the bridges jumping in.

48:28

She wrote a four, her

48:30

change is now up to

48:33

a three. Oh, with that

48:35

one that has to hold

48:37

this straight through it, I

48:39

think she's just going to

48:41

stop. This was, this, what

48:44

is that word choice you

48:46

just used, Graham? It was

48:48

an efficient way to kill

48:50

someone? Efficient, yeah. You know

48:53

who's really into efficient ways

48:55

to kill other people? Her

48:57

medical officer. So she is

48:59

just going to grab that

49:02

particular corpse by its ankles

49:04

and float it down to

49:06

Dr. Drummond. Oh, what have

49:08

you found, man? Something that

49:10

I can't particularly explain. She's

49:13

going to just turn that

49:15

body really slowly, almost like

49:17

she's rolling pizza dough where

49:19

it's facing Dr. Drummond. Yes,

49:23

that does look like

49:25

very deliberate. Hmm, I

49:28

don't want to say

49:30

execution, but a very

49:33

deliberate form of death.

49:35

I would like to

49:38

make a role to

49:40

see whether I can

49:43

determine what role. Yeah,

49:45

yeah. I'd rather not

49:48

make a change role

49:50

for drum and scene

49:53

this just because medical

49:55

yeah yeah medical he

49:58

performs autopsies he's used

50:01

to seeing, you know,

50:03

dead bodies and strange

50:06

wounds. Hmm. No, that's...

50:08

There's something very unusual

50:11

about it, but... Oh,

50:13

what did you get?

50:16

Three? Three and a

50:18

two. I think I

50:21

am going to re-roll

50:23

here. Oh, here we

50:26

go. That's

50:29

better. I've got a five.

50:31

Okay, fine. This guy was

50:33

killed by the antibodies. Do

50:36

you remember these sort of

50:38

engineering creatures that kind of

50:40

go around the shit? Usually,

50:43

I mean, usually they sort

50:45

of go around fixing things.

50:48

They also sort of expel

50:50

foreign objects. They're very efficient

50:52

at getting rid of them.

50:55

They seem to have turned

50:57

on humans, for some reason.

50:59

There are isolated records of

51:02

antibodies... doing this, I mean,

51:04

there are very very occasional

51:06

times when someone would have

51:09

to be killed on a

51:11

ship. You know, for example,

51:14

if they were in the

51:16

way and you needed to

51:18

save a shuttle or something,

51:21

an antibody would kind of

51:23

make the efficient decision of

51:25

you know, that person needs

51:28

to go. Of course. Not

51:30

a decision that's made lightly,

51:32

but... These people have been

51:35

executed by the antibodies. The

51:37

antibodies... Are there any records

51:40

of antibodies either malfunctioning or

51:42

having been taken over by

51:44

a malicious actor of some

51:47

kind? No, actually not taken

51:49

over by a malicious actor.

51:51

I mean... No,

51:55

they're very secure and they

51:57

would only be killing people

51:59

if... in some weird way,

52:01

it was for the good

52:03

of the ship or for

52:05

the good of the remaining

52:07

people. And at this moment,

52:09

I mean, Antibodies kind of

52:11

were and hover around the

52:13

ship, and I want you

52:15

to hear that sort of

52:17

characteristic whining were fairly distant,

52:19

but coming towards the Karko

52:21

Bay. I'm

52:25

going to make a change role

52:27

here because I think, well, Terrence

52:29

is perfectly happy rationalizing all of

52:32

this. On the other hand, it

52:34

does feel a bit threatening. But

52:36

he rolls of one, so he's

52:38

okay with it. He keeps it

52:41

together, yeah. I would assume that

52:43

Terrence was kind of learning that

52:45

independently and then hearing the wine

52:48

of the antibodies, Marius is just

52:50

going to say. Oh good, it

52:52

sounds like the antibodies are still

52:55

working. They can probably help us

52:57

kind of suss out everything that's

52:59

going on. And actually as you

53:02

say that, let's have the cargo

53:04

door just opening fully. So not

53:06

the airlock, but the door to

53:09

the ship's interior. And one of

53:11

the antibodies will hover through. It

53:13

has this sort of what you

53:16

might recognize as a defensive shape.

53:18

It's a sort of sphere with

53:20

spikes protruding protruding out of it.

53:23

and sort of half-form faces and

53:25

hands floating over its body's body's

53:27

body surface. I'm going to see

53:29

if I can make a connection

53:32

to it through my, through Astro

53:34

or through my kind of device

53:36

on my suit. Oh, fantastic. Yeah,

53:39

yeah, yeah. Let me find a

53:41

die so I can roll a

53:43

failure against you. Oh, wow. Out

53:46

of the gate. Here we go.

53:48

Oh, yeah. God, I want this

53:50

to fail. Absolutely. You want to

53:53

make a connection to it? What?

53:55

Yeah, so I want to see

53:57

if I can either gain control

54:00

over it? or kind of learn

54:02

its history, read through the logs,

54:04

analyze what's happened. Yeah, exactly. Okay,

54:07

are you sending Astro in or

54:09

are you trying to get close

54:11

to it yourself? What are you

54:14

doing? Well, I think Astro is

54:16

in the control, so right now

54:18

I'm trying to physically get closer

54:21

to it. Right, okay, that's good.

54:23

Get close to the thing which

54:25

has obviously killed a load of

54:27

people, that can't go wrong. We

54:30

don't know! I don't have the

54:32

full information yet. All right, so

54:34

you are, so you'll be walking

54:37

down walkways and staircases. This is

54:39

a huge space to get closer

54:41

to this thing. Is that right?

54:44

Yeah, I know it's a defensive

54:46

one, so I'm not like going

54:48

to touch it. I just want

54:51

to get close so I can

54:53

get a clean connection. Okay, that

54:55

makes sense. Terrence Meer, what are

54:58

you doing? Terrence is pushing himself

55:00

back within the cargo bait and

55:02

observing. He will, I think just

55:05

very quietly on a Combs channel

55:07

to the other two, if he

55:09

can set one up that is

55:12

unlikely to be monitored by the

55:14

ship or me, yeah, an encrypted

55:16

channel idea, private channel to the

55:19

other two, and say, I don't

55:21

want to alarm anyone, but the

55:23

people here were killed by the

55:25

antibodies. Oh,

55:29

I feel like that comes across

55:32

right as Bishop, right as Mary's

55:34

hits the button to make the

55:36

connection. Yeah. Oh, that's brilliant. And

55:39

the antibody will stop as though

55:41

it is trying to detect a

55:43

signal coming in from around it.

55:46

Mir, can I just give you

55:48

a chance? What do you want

55:51

to do anything before we go

55:53

to? Mary's establishing his connection. This

55:55

is all happening so quickly. And

55:58

right now, Mary's too far away

56:00

from her for her to physically

56:02

do anything about it, but I

56:05

think she's going to start heading

56:07

that heading that direction. The heading

56:09

towards him heading towards him as

56:12

quickly as she can if that's

56:14

you know propelling herself off the

56:16

walls you know knocking on whatever

56:19

she can she's gonna start moving

56:21

that directly as quickly as she

56:23

can that sounds good to me

56:26

all right um let's roll to

56:28

connect to the definitely antibody okay

56:30

I will add my change die

56:33

to this yeah rolling again to

56:35

you yes oh I wrote a

56:37

six on my change die that's

56:40

such a delightful roll That's interesting.

56:42

Oh my God, so you've connected

56:45

to one of these things, haven't

56:47

you? Okay. So you will connect,

56:49

and for a moment, you will

56:52

see almost, ah, you will see

56:54

a lot of its history, so,

56:56

and sort of in slight, I'm

56:59

sorry, I'm trying to have phrased

57:01

this. slightly in the wrong order.

57:03

So you, like Scott, will experience

57:06

the screaming and the disaster and

57:08

the people burning and exploding. You

57:10

sort of almost see this, the

57:13

ship getting closer to the glitch

57:15

and this gravitational events of, you

57:17

know, the ship being... Similes tensionally

57:20

crushed and pulled apart, people being

57:22

similarly crushed and pulled apart, screaming,

57:24

screaming from all around, and then,

57:27

you know, a vision of the

57:29

antibody drifting around and just systematically

57:31

killing, killing, killing. Oh, should I

57:34

go ahead and roll my chain?

57:36

Sounds good. He gives up the

57:38

one. Yeah. I'm rolling a lot

57:41

of sixes. Yeah, you are. I

57:43

do think that, so getting that

57:46

flash, do I feel like I

57:48

was part of it? or that

57:50

I've just made some kind of

57:53

neurological connection to this thing. You

57:55

felt you knew the people on

57:57

the ship, who you were seeing.

58:00

Okay. Fuck. I think that, um,

58:02

Marius, like, this is gonna look

58:04

weird to Mir and Terence, almost,

58:07

like, just quickly and erratically spins

58:09

out away from this thing, like

58:11

in a panic. No, no, no,

58:14

no, don't make any movements. No,

58:16

don't do that, don't do that,

58:18

don't do that, don't do that.

58:21

Exactly, exactly. And so, exactly. And

58:23

so as you do that, it

58:25

will. stop it what if it

58:28

can turn towards you it will

58:30

I mean and and then it

58:32

will just begin to to drift

58:35

towards you with spokes yeah spikes

58:37

pulsating in fact let's let's me

58:40

sorry yeah go on meatarants if

58:42

you want to do something yeah

58:44

I want to try to distract

58:47

the antibody away from Bishop because

58:49

I've got this corpse I've been

58:51

examining so I'll try to brace

58:54

myself against the nearest surface as

58:56

best I can and push the

58:58

corpse as hard as I can

59:01

towards the antibody. This sounds good

59:03

to me. Mir, do you want

59:05

to do anything? How far am

59:08

I away from Mary's at this

59:10

point? She was loping trying to

59:12

get to him. Tell me what

59:15

you want to do and we'll

59:17

go from that. Well... If

59:20

she's close enough to grab him, she

59:22

doesn't want to be this close to

59:24

this machine either though. Oh, you know

59:26

what I'm going to do? I'm going

59:28

to roll randomly. Give me just a

59:31

quick second here. We're going to see

59:33

how we feel about life today. Apparently

59:35

she's going for full altruism right now.

59:37

So what she's going to do is,

59:39

what she would like to do is

59:41

grab on to Marius and just see

59:43

if she can freeze them and go

59:45

red light. Is a game they played

59:47

as a game they played as kids?

59:51

Oh no! No! No!

59:53

We were playing that

59:56

outside! highly oxygenated air

59:58

by the creek not

1:00:00

a cargo bay that

1:00:02

doesn't seem real but

1:00:04

yeah let's that's good

1:00:06

well let's just let's

1:00:09

do just do a

1:00:11

three-way role so um

1:00:13

um Terrence you roll

1:00:15

to to distract meer

1:00:17

you roll to grab

1:00:19

I'm going to roll

1:00:22

a fairly die and

1:00:24

let's see who gets

1:00:26

highest mirror Would

1:00:29

you like to re-roll? We can...

1:00:32

I think if you re-roll there's

1:00:34

going to be some serious destruction

1:00:37

which would be kind of... I

1:00:39

think we don't, if we just

1:00:41

let that stand there'll be some

1:00:44

serious destruction. I... Yeah, I'm always...

1:00:46

always interested in escalating. So yes,

1:00:49

I'll re-roll with my change. Okay.

1:00:51

Sure. That's brilliant. I'm going to

1:00:53

narrate the first one and then

1:00:56

we can narrate the re-roll. So

1:00:58

just before the re-roll, let's have

1:01:00

a moment of the antibody. So

1:01:03

what's actually going to happen is

1:01:05

that the antibody will shoot out

1:01:08

this sort of liquid spike. Mere

1:01:10

you will sort of attempt to

1:01:12

grab Marius but not succeed and

1:01:15

Marius it's actually going to get

1:01:17

the walkway below your feet and

1:01:20

so... you know, we'll have two

1:01:22

walkways, it's going to hit a

1:01:24

vital strut, the walkway is going

1:01:27

to list over, you're going to

1:01:29

be able to grab just in

1:01:32

time, and there'll be sort of

1:01:34

this creaking and grinding, he will

1:01:36

be sort of torn away from

1:01:39

you at that point, I think.

1:01:41

And at that point it's not

1:01:43

really distracted by the corpse, but

1:01:46

then you do push the corpse

1:01:48

terrence, right? And again, you get

1:01:51

a moment of this visualising this

1:01:53

ship heading to towards disaster, this

1:01:55

sort of flash of screaming and

1:01:58

tearing bodies in your head. And

1:02:00

the antibody will sort of turn

1:02:03

itself really into a sort of

1:02:05

liquid silver spear and just carve

1:02:07

a massive hole in the middle

1:02:10

of this corpse. So it's distracted

1:02:12

for a moment. Everyone would like

1:02:14

to do something. Okay. Well, the

1:02:17

first thing I'm going to do

1:02:19

is make a change role because

1:02:22

on that we draw. Oh my

1:02:24

change now I came up high.

1:02:26

Oh and I rolled a six

1:02:29

so that's one. And then I'll

1:02:31

shout at the others. It's distracting

1:02:34

get out of here. Bishop can

1:02:36

you close the drawers behind us?

1:02:38

Yeah yeah I'm gonna try. I

1:02:41

feel like right as the as

1:02:43

it bores into the corpse maybe

1:02:46

Graham I have recognition of that

1:02:48

corpse. at the same moment that

1:02:50

I'm trying to go ahead. Absolutely.

1:02:53

Yeah, yeah, yeah. This is this

1:02:55

is your mentor. I mean, this

1:02:57

is the person who, when you

1:03:00

came down to the cargo bay,

1:03:02

you know, you watched him, or

1:03:05

you watched, let's go for her,

1:03:07

you watched her, um, you watched

1:03:09

her tinker with ships, someone you

1:03:12

deeply, deeply respected. Yeah, um, and

1:03:14

where this would surely be a

1:03:17

change role, right? Yeah, yeah, I'll

1:03:19

do a change role on that.

1:03:21

Shit. I'm going up. I'm going

1:03:24

up. I'm up. I'm up to

1:03:26

five. I'm up to four now.

1:03:28

Okay. This might be faster than

1:03:31

Dylan. So yeah, I think what

1:03:33

I'm going to try to do

1:03:36

then is that kind of recognizing

1:03:38

that Terrence has done me a

1:03:40

favor for the first time in

1:03:43

his life. I'll process that and

1:03:45

then make my way for the

1:03:48

hatch that maybe leads to the

1:03:50

maintenance bay. I

1:03:53

don't know where do we connect here

1:03:55

from from the cargo bay to the

1:03:57

maintenance area maintenance level. Yeah, there will

1:04:00

be a you can find a maintenance

1:04:02

hatch if you'd like to find a

1:04:04

maintenance hatch. Okay, yeah, follow me through

1:04:07

here. I know this level better than

1:04:09

any level of a ship. And then

1:04:11

when I say that, I feel like

1:04:14

I know this maintenance level. Hmm. It's

1:04:16

like coming naturally. But hurry, hurry. Close

1:04:18

it out. Try to seal it off.

1:04:21

Diling Astro to try to lock it

1:04:23

behind us. Yeah. Let's do it. Follow

1:04:25

me. Come on. Mears on a six.

1:04:28

Amazing. So you will go

1:04:30

through this this maintenance hatch

1:04:32

and you win some maintenance

1:04:35

ducks now. And perhaps it

1:04:37

is it time to destroy

1:04:39

Astro I feel it may

1:04:41

be. So perhaps the last

1:04:43

the last thing but will

1:04:45

be that on Astro's view

1:04:47

screens you will see this

1:04:49

sort of this silver sphere

1:04:51

spear shooting towards it and

1:04:53

it will just you know

1:04:56

then just go and stuff.

1:04:58

Oh fuck. Could I try

1:05:00

to manually lock this door?

1:05:02

Sure. Yeah, yeah. Because I

1:05:04

was trying to get Astro

1:05:06

to do that, but now

1:05:08

I'm going to try that.

1:05:10

In my head, that was

1:05:12

like his last act, so

1:05:14

he locks it. Oh, he

1:05:17

did it. Okay. Yeah, so

1:05:19

he locks it and then

1:05:21

sometimes. But that's the last

1:05:23

thing. Good boy. All right.

1:05:25

We lost Astro, but I

1:05:27

think we're good for now.

1:05:29

I don't think we're good

1:05:31

at all. Oh my God.

1:05:33

What's going on with the

1:05:35

equipment. It's a rogue, a

1:05:38

rogue antibody. I don't know,

1:05:40

hopefully the rest of them

1:05:42

aren't like that. I don't

1:05:44

think it's a rogue antibody.

1:05:46

They don't malfunction like that.

1:05:48

I would suspect that it

1:05:50

is more likely that a

1:05:52

set of circumstances have arisen

1:05:54

that has led to them

1:05:56

detecting us as anomalous or

1:05:59

hostile as problems to be

1:06:01

dealt with. Oh. I think

1:06:03

it would be logical to

1:06:05

assume that this is somehow

1:06:07

related to whatever caused the

1:06:09

catastrophe on board the ship,

1:06:11

but that's just a guess.

1:06:13

It may be completely unrelated.

1:06:15

Can you think of anything

1:06:17

that could be related to

1:06:20

this gravitation event to the

1:06:22

people exploding and being torn

1:06:24

apart? The survivors being identified

1:06:26

by the ship's systems as

1:06:28

problematic. Well, the bodies, they

1:06:30

were, they were, I'm not

1:06:32

a doctor, but if I

1:06:34

had to guess cause of

1:06:36

death, you had some that

1:06:38

obviously suffered massive massive gravitational

1:06:41

trauma. There were those that

1:06:43

had the, the, the, the,

1:06:45

the, she can't even articulate

1:06:47

what the robot has been

1:06:49

doing to God knows how

1:06:51

many people on her ship.

1:06:53

and then she thinks her

1:06:55

ship and she's like, this

1:06:57

isn't my ship. But there's

1:06:59

another collection of corpses that

1:07:02

have weird groves on them

1:07:04

and then she's gonna try

1:07:06

to describe that waspness protruding

1:07:08

from the eyes. Maybe if

1:07:10

they became infected, the bots

1:07:12

were trying to euthanize or

1:07:14

to, oh God. No, but

1:07:16

it came after me, I'm

1:07:18

not infected. I know, but

1:07:20

what if the protocol is

1:07:23

to destroy anything that's living?

1:07:25

What if it's a quarantine

1:07:27

protocol? No, they're smarter than

1:07:29

that. I think they would

1:07:31

know. I don't think they

1:07:33

would try to attack us

1:07:35

unless we were dangerous. Marius,

1:07:37

with a ship of this

1:07:39

ice, how many antibodies typically

1:07:41

work it? What is it,

1:07:44

like 150? Yeah, it's a

1:07:46

lot. We're not going to

1:07:48

be able to take them

1:07:50

all down. I mean, even

1:07:52

if I got to the

1:07:54

brain, I don't... If it's

1:07:56

important enough to them, they're

1:07:58

not going to let me

1:08:00

override. I don't even think...

1:08:02

We can't stay here for

1:08:05

a fucking month though. The

1:08:07

food's back in the cargo

1:08:09

bay. I mean... to do,

1:08:11

don't panic, that is counterproductive.

1:08:13

What we need to do

1:08:15

is first of all ascertain

1:08:17

why they have identified us

1:08:19

as being a threat, whether

1:08:21

it is some kind of

1:08:23

global command that identifies all

1:08:26

humanoid entities on board the

1:08:28

ship as being dangerous. we

1:08:30

may be able to find

1:08:32

some way of proving to

1:08:34

the ship's computers that this

1:08:36

is no longer the case,

1:08:38

or alternatively, we should prepare

1:08:40

ourselves for the very real

1:08:42

possibility that whatever it is

1:08:45

that causes them to identify

1:08:47

us is a risk, is

1:08:49

something that affected us as

1:08:51

soon as we came on

1:08:53

board, and they are not

1:08:55

an error. Right.

1:08:57

I think that your conversation

1:09:00

is interrupted and there's a

1:09:02

tapping just above you and

1:09:05

someone says, up here, up

1:09:07

here. Do we recognize the

1:09:10

voice? Not instantly, but... Okay,

1:09:12

yeah. Help us, immediately, kind

1:09:15

of, Marius is going toward

1:09:17

the voice. Yeah, you would

1:09:20

recognise that, I mean, so

1:09:22

now you think about it,

1:09:25

there is a sort of

1:09:27

maintenance room in the middle

1:09:30

of the maintenance ducts, right?

1:09:32

It's like a storage room.

1:09:34

Yeah. And so you can

1:09:37

get that? Yeah. I know

1:09:39

how to do that. There's

1:09:42

spare parts. Before you open

1:09:44

that hatch bishop, are the

1:09:47

antibodies capable of mimicking human

1:09:49

voices? How

1:09:52

about if we just

1:09:54

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