U.E.S. Longhouse Chapter Fourteen

U.E.S. Longhouse Chapter Fourteen

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U.E.S. Longhouse Chapter Fourteen

U.E.S. Longhouse Chapter Fourteen

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1:23

are aboard the UES Longhouse as

1:26

it swims through the depths of

1:28

Europa. Let me in, Nagano. The

1:30

door opens. Inside there is a

1:33

panic room. She... I try and

1:35

get in there with her. Okay.

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I'm fleeing. To safety. Okay, you

1:40

there's a little control panel, you

1:42

hit that, shut the door behind

1:44

you. Do you send dinner on

1:47

the other side? I, uh, yeah,

1:49

I got the backup, she says.

1:51

As you told me, she hands

1:54

you the data disk. This is

1:56

worth more than any human life

1:58

on this facility. All right, I'll

2:01

let myself decompress. Yep. Your stress

2:03

level reduces by one. Nice. Hey,

2:05

I'll take it, honestly. If you

2:08

want, that was about, we'll say

2:10

five minutes. For every five to

2:12

ten minutes, you spend decompressing in

2:15

this space, you can reduce it,

2:17

buy another one. So you've got

2:19

eight points of stress left. I'll

2:22

spend another five minutes in here.

2:24

Sure. Your stress goes down to

2:26

seven. Beautiful. I feel refreshed. I

2:28

feel refreshed. I will press the

2:31

button to open up the panic

2:33

room door and step. One solid

2:35

knock in your jaw. I like,

2:38

you know, crack my jaw and

2:40

then look at him to see

2:42

what he'll do next. He is

2:45

really mad, very stressed, but then

2:47

he... For a moment his hand

2:49

by his revolver holster twitches and

2:52

then he stops. Got it all

2:54

out of your system? More like

2:56

on pause. Whatever it takes. I

2:59

will go over to the control

3:01

panel that, you know, for the

3:03

main control room. And is there

3:06

like a button to turn the

3:08

power back on from in here?

3:10

Yeah, you could turn the power

3:13

on from here easily. Yeah. And

3:15

then I would like to access.

3:17

As soon as you, there's maybe

3:20

like a, you have a personalized

3:22

data key thing as part of

3:24

your PDA. You like press a

3:27

little button and a little slot

3:29

comes out and it literally works

3:31

turning a key. Yeah. You put

3:34

that in but you haven't turned

3:36

it. The second you put it

3:38

in, everything turns on? That wasn't

3:41

you. I look at Nagano. Nagano

3:43

looks at you. She at first

3:45

doesn't notice that you haven't turned

3:47

yet. Then she clocks it and

3:50

you see her face goes white.

3:52

I access the security cameras and

3:54

I want to just cycle through

3:57

the whole facility. You cycle through

3:59

the facility. What you see. scares

4:01

you. You see a Trinity, not

4:04

a, several Trinity wetwork teams making

4:06

their way through the facility. Perkule.

4:08

They are in, obviously, engineering, which

4:11

you can see they have an

4:13

engineering team there, which obviously restarted

4:15

the reactor. You can see there

4:18

is in the core drilling room,

4:20

there's another team there, and as

4:22

soon as they turn things on,

4:25

you, I think you were there

4:27

when this happened. You watch as

4:29

they make the same realization that

4:32

little antibodies are coming up from

4:34

the hole. You don't hear because

4:36

there's no audio to the camera.

4:39

You just see as they open

4:41

fire. You can also see there

4:43

is a wet work team at

4:46

loading base. and one at Loading

4:48

Bay A. It looks like they're

4:50

just there securing the area. Does

4:53

this facility have secure combs? I

4:55

know it does actually. Yes. I

4:57

would like to patch in, if

4:59

I can, to the UES Longhouse.

5:02

Okay, about half an hour ago.

5:04

Amanda Schaefer has been playing the

5:06

scariest game of Caden Mouse of

5:09

her entire life. Two members of

5:11

the Trinity Wetwork team have been

5:13

hunting her throughout the UES long

5:16

house. Oh, Jesus Christ. In heavy

5:18

compression suit armor and with the

5:20

most advanced heartbeat seeking weapons, they

5:23

have been searching room by room.

5:25

But she has the advantage. She

5:27

has three distinct advantages. The first

5:30

is that Spark... is still online

5:32

and they don't know how to

5:34

turn Spark off. The second is

5:37

she knows the ship better than

5:39

they do. And the third one,

5:41

the most important one, is that

5:44

the long house... provides. On several

5:46

heart-stopping occasions they have come dangerously

5:48

close and she has just by

5:51

the hairs of her chin-chin-chin-chin-chin been

5:53

able to narrowly avoid them. Once

5:55

in the mess hall where one

5:58

of them didn't notice that the

6:00

bin could be pulled out and

6:02

so she hid in the bin.

6:05

And another time in one of

6:07

the bathrooms the guy just didn't

6:09

look up. That was her first

6:11

opportunity to strike. One of the

6:14

two wetwork members is in a

6:16

bloody broken pile on the floor

6:18

of that bathroom and Amanda silently

6:21

stalks the second one. Coming up

6:23

behind, her communicator roars to wife.

6:25

Oski, what do you say? Amanda

6:28

Schaefer, this is Oski Yarvinen. I'm

6:30

going to need you to bring

6:32

me my ship. Before you've stopped

6:35

talking, that Trinity Wet Work agent

6:37

spins around. Oh fuck. A suppressed

6:39

burst of machine gun fire roars

6:42

towards Amanda. She rolls? and just

6:44

barely dodges two out of the

6:46

three bullets, but the third one

6:49

catches her in her side. She

6:51

screams in pain, but not needing

6:53

to defend against someone else, another

6:56

unseen assailant, she is now able

6:58

to go loud, and bang, bang,

7:00

her revolver roars twice. The other

7:03

wetwork agent hits the ground dead.

7:05

Amanda Schaefer picks herself up... pressing

7:07

one hand against her wound picks

7:10

up her calm unit and speaks

7:12

into it coming she says awesome

7:14

so the facility where is the

7:17

control room in regards to the

7:19

layout of what's above us Adam

7:21

that's a complicated question and then

7:23

ocean I see what you're asking.

7:26

So you know that this facility

7:28

is borrowed into a rock face,

7:30

but you also are aware there's

7:33

like gaps or there would be

7:35

gaps in fissures in it because

7:37

the other sections water has come

7:40

in from somewhere. So you don't,

7:42

you just don't know. Okay. I'm

7:44

just wondering, Nagano, do you know

7:47

what is directly above us? Is

7:49

it rock, are there fishes? If

7:51

we were to cut through the

7:54

bulkhead above... us, would we be

7:56

able to swim for the U.S.

7:58

long house if it were to

8:01

be directly overhead? Some sections, yes,

8:03

some sections, no. I could have

8:05

a reasonable, I did maintenance, so

8:08

I can do a reasonable guess.

8:10

Okay. And then if we were

8:12

to cut through, it is obviously

8:15

quite thick. What is there any

8:17

kind of drill or advanced cutting

8:19

torch anywhere in the facility? Well,

8:22

the most powerful cutting torch we

8:24

had was in the armory. Aside

8:26

from that, there might be some

8:29

in one of the science bays.

8:31

I know they would sometimes requisition

8:33

equipment, but all sorts of different

8:35

equipment. Can I get on the

8:38

computer and check logs? Absolutely. So

8:40

science bays. That'll be a compact

8:42

role. But yes. Two three successes

8:45

on the regular. And the panic

8:47

dice. Five successes. And a ton

8:49

of ones. Oh baby. That is

8:52

11. Which is kind of largely

8:54

seek cover. You must use your

8:56

next action to move away from

8:59

danger. I'd say just broadly. Yeah.

9:01

You must. Your next next time

9:03

you move you must move away

9:06

from danger. No, hey Oski's gonna

9:08

have no trouble doing that Other

9:10

than that you can act normally.

9:13

Okay. Okay. You can gain a

9:15

plus one modification for later roles

9:17

You don't need to roll to

9:20

overcome the same challenge Oh, you

9:22

can do it quickly, which might

9:24

be useful. You get new or

9:27

unexpected information, you can hide your

9:29

tracks, you can show up. Okay,

9:31

well, I will do it quickly

9:34

because it's just useful to do.

9:36

Sure. Then with my three other

9:38

successes, I will get extra information.

9:41

Okay, first off, you... Can I...

9:43

Can I... from this place control

9:45

the doors? Yes, absolutely. Okay. Could

9:47

I theoretically, assuming that there is

9:50

a drill in science, the Science

9:52

Bay, could I theoretically use that

9:54

control of doors and maybe like

9:57

just the internal ventilations or whatever

9:59

systems to make a safe path

10:01

for deuce? I would say. You

10:04

cutting off like Trinity wet work

10:06

guys that kind of thing. I

10:08

would say that you can give

10:11

yourself using these successes You can

10:13

give yourself a bonus to doing

10:15

it. Okay. Yeah. All right. I'll

10:18

take that assuming that there is

10:20

a drill in medical science at

10:22

all Yeah. Well. I tell you

10:25

what if you want. Yeah. I'll

10:27

give you instead of giving yourself

10:29

plus two to doing a safe

10:32

path. Give yourself plus one. Okay.

10:34

And I'll give you where you

10:36

can find one. Okay. Yeah. Yeah.

10:39

Yeah. Sounds sounds good. Oh, there

10:41

are evens? Evens. Evens. Okay. Science

10:43

Lab A? Okay. Or yeah, Science

10:46

Lab A has one. With Science

10:48

Lab A. It's the... Science B?

10:50

Yeah. Science B? It's in the

10:53

middle, kind of. Oh, that's great.

10:55

Oh, hey, that's beautiful. That's away

10:57

from the Trinity Wetwork, guys. Yes.

10:59

Fantastic news. That means all I've

11:02

got to do with the doors

11:04

is keep the fucking, white blood

11:06

cells away. Yeah. I've got a

11:09

very important mission for you. I'm

11:11

going to need you, can I

11:13

show you the map like that?

11:16

Absolutely, yeah, he can understand. I'm

11:18

going to need you to go

11:20

to Science Bay, A. From here

11:23

I am going to try and

11:25

keep the white blood cells sent

11:27

a little wise away from you

11:30

to make it as safe as

11:32

possible. When you are in there,

11:34

you are to get the industrial

11:37

strength cutter and bring it back.

11:39

Order, understood. Yes, to use it

11:41

needs two hands, but if you

11:44

get it back to me, she,

11:46

this entire time while you've been

11:48

doing this, she has stood herself

11:51

up on one of the control

11:53

console. And she, with like a

11:55

pencil from, she has a utility

11:58

belt, with a pencil from a

12:00

utility belt, you can see she's

12:02

working out where she's going to

12:05

cut in the command. You're doing

12:07

it in the command room. Yeah,

12:09

yeah, yeah, yeah. She's working out

12:11

where she's going to cut. Okay,

12:14

great. All right then, fantastic. Duce,

12:16

get the industrial strength drill and

12:18

bring it right back here. Understood?

12:21

Okay. I open the door, like

12:23

remotely open the door to the

12:25

control room, then I'll spin around

12:28

to the computer, and I will,

12:30

using the computer, try and keep

12:32

the white blood cells away, even

12:35

doing stuff like smashing the doors

12:37

together to make noise to kind

12:39

of distract. Oh, clever, clever, yeah.

12:42

I'll give you a plus one,

12:44

that's a good idea. Two successes.

12:46

Okay, good. And then your stress

12:49

is seven. Uh, no successes, no...

12:51

No panic. Yeah, no panic. Yeah,

12:53

no panic. Yeah, you just got

12:56

two, did I say successes? Yeah,

12:58

yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I'll

13:00

make it quick. Yeah, I'll make

13:03

it quick. Yeah, I'll make it

13:05

quick. Yeah, I'll make it quick.

13:07

Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's

13:10

crazy if I'm doing the doors

13:12

quick. on the camera you're watching

13:14

as the Trinity Wet Work team

13:17

that one in the quadrilling facility

13:19

immediately overwhelmed. Oh, okay. You watch

13:21

as three of the most battle-hardened

13:23

elite special forces units that can

13:26

be found on Europa are instantly

13:28

killed. Oh, boy, it is. It's

13:30

not even a competition. The ones

13:33

in engineering work out quickly enough

13:35

that they want to close that

13:37

door. Cool. Okay. Good stuff. You

13:40

watch as they continue though, the

13:42

ones in engineering start making their

13:44

way towards you basically. Okay. I

13:47

assume that you, maybe just quickly

13:49

she, yeah, yeah, shut the doors,

13:51

absolutely, yeah, yeah. counter that first

13:54

one and you watch with horror

13:56

as they take out a burner

13:58

and start cutting their way through

14:01

that. Okay, but... That'll take time.

14:03

Yeah, that'll take time. That'll take

14:05

time. Duce makes his way and

14:08

almost immediately because you did this

14:10

so quickly he gets the science

14:12

A and he's back in like

14:15

a minute. Fantastic, beautiful. I hand

14:17

it over to Nagano? How long

14:19

do you think it would take?

14:22

No longer than 12 minutes, she

14:24

says? You that's cut in a close.

14:26

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'll go to the

14:28

door to arena. I'll be like tell

14:30

me when it's 10 and then I'll

14:32

open it and step inside. Okay. Well,

14:34

I guess I keep the door open

14:37

between us so she can communicate, but

14:39

I'll step. You remember you don't

14:41

have a hard suit, right? That's

14:43

right. Thank you for reminding me.

14:45

I will need at least three

14:47

pressure suits or three hard suits.

14:49

Yeah. Let me get back

14:51

on Combs. We're gonna do

14:53

it again baby, let it

14:55

ride. All right, Amanda Schaefer

14:57

is bleeding heavily from that

15:00

wound in her side. She

15:02

with a squelching noise sits

15:04

down in the pilot's seat

15:06

and starts navigating the ship

15:08

around to getting closer to

15:10

the station. Cool. as she's

15:12

doing that she with she's

15:14

doing that with one one-handed

15:16

like she's doing that with

15:18

her other hand she reaches

15:20

in and gets a

15:22

medical staple gun and

15:24

she's drunk oh she

15:26

staples herself shut mmm

15:28

hmm cool cool cool cool

15:30

nasty I yeah I will check

15:33

logs to try and find the

15:35

location of three more pressure suits.

15:38

Okay, there would be pressure suits,

15:40

honestly, in, kicking yourself for this

15:42

one in both science base, both

15:45

science base have a bunch of

15:47

pressure suits. There'd be, I don't

15:50

know if this is important to

15:52

you, you just noticed that all

15:54

of the equipment in the science

15:57

base is A-O-N, not new republic.

15:59

M-A-O-N-specific. out of line with Bismarck's typical

16:01

business practices? It's just unusual, not

16:04

even because it's a Bismarck thing,

16:06

it's because the New Republic have

16:08

a stockpile of A Owen equipment.

16:10

Yeah, you're not sure why that

16:12

is. Okay. There would be New

16:14

Republic suits in probably in both.

16:16

Bayes, not that those are useful

16:19

to you. No, no, no, but

16:21

still, good to know. At some

16:23

security checkpoints near the barracks and

16:25

near both cells, cell blocks I

16:27

should say. Okay, well I will

16:29

send juice, I'll try and do

16:31

exactly the same thing, and I'll

16:34

send them to the nearest one.

16:36

So maybe the one near the

16:38

barracks. Although that is where all

16:40

of the little nasty whys are,

16:42

but I can close the doors.

16:44

So I'll send Duce there to

16:46

the barracks to collect three pressure

16:49

suits. I think you don't need

16:51

to roll again. I think you

16:53

can just do that. Duce goes

16:55

there, gets some pressure suits and

16:57

comes back. Fantastic. All right. The

16:59

pressure suits are big, so that

17:01

is going to take a little

17:03

while as he goes and gets

17:06

them one at a time. We've

17:08

got no other choice. You watch

17:10

as the Trinity Wetwork team. No,

17:12

no, just probably isn't going to

17:14

start cutting as well until the

17:16

suits are here. Yeah, that's fair.

17:18

That's very fair. The suits arrive

17:21

and the already tight window of

17:23

time has become almost non-existent. You

17:25

think you're going to be fending

17:27

them off around the end of

17:29

this cutting process. Okay. Okay. So

17:31

all of you are in the

17:33

control room. The doors even to

17:36

the control room, assuming, I'm assuming

17:38

you have shut. Absolutely. You watch

17:40

as high as all those. Loas?

17:42

There's a brief moment where maybe

17:44

you're even trying to encourage it.

17:46

The antibodies on the white blood

17:48

cells are about to intersect with

17:51

one of the wetwork teams and

17:53

you're trying to encourage that. Yeah.

17:55

But then at the last moment,

17:57

something else just randomly gets their

17:59

attention and they head off in

18:01

the wrong direction. Damn it. Damn

18:03

it. You have, you, Jack, and

18:06

Nagano have all done to the

18:08

suits. Nagano is cutting her way

18:10

in. At this point, water is

18:12

spilling in, but a hole just

18:14

isn't big enough for you to

18:16

get through yet. And you watch

18:18

as Nagano cuts and the wet

18:20

work team cuts. You're seeing the

18:23

sparks coming through the control room

18:25

door. Jack, time to earn your

18:27

paycheck. And then I step into

18:29

Arena. Because I got to set

18:31

the nuke going. Okay. You step

18:33

into Arena. Arena. Arena is designed,

18:35

by the way. for arena is

18:38

that only one person can be

18:40

in the room at a time

18:42

arena her command console is in

18:44

a cylindrical hard case a bomb

18:46

resistant probably the most the safest

18:48

place in the facility is inside

18:50

that case that casing does not

18:53

open it is programmed never to

18:55

be opened when there is more

18:57

than one person in arena's room

18:59

as you step into the room

19:01

and the door seals behind you.

19:03

that cylinder parts revealing arena's command

19:05

console. This is Oski Arvinan Bismarck

19:08

executive employee number 45782 requesting access.

19:10

Hello Oski I'm arena. How can

19:12

I help you today? I would

19:14

like to arm the nuclear device

19:16

here in the facility. Are you

19:18

a member of Bismark Holdings? I

19:20

am. And what's your service number?

19:22

I just said it. 45782. Thank

19:25

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19:49

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21:14

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21:17

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21:19

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21:21

All right. Sweet. All right. I'll

21:24

get up. Thank you, Arena. And

21:26

I will open the door. Thank

21:28

you, Oski. Yeah. And step outside.

21:31

Put my helmet on and hide.

21:33

Okay. Yeah. S. S. The wetwork

21:35

team is first. The

21:38

doors explosively like pedals of a

21:40

flower ripple inwards and then gunfire

21:43

follows Jack holds them back as

21:45

best as he can. Are you

21:47

just not getting involved in this

21:50

fight? I am going to if

21:52

you're just hiding. Yeah. You will

21:54

just basically be a passive observer

21:56

until your moment to shine arise.

21:59

Then let's do that. You watch

22:01

Highs Hallows. I guess actually, I

22:03

guess I do have my service

22:06

pistol. So I think I will

22:08

have that and I'll be by

22:10

Nagano because she's the most important

22:13

asset we have currently. I'm not

22:15

actively firing at them, but I'm

22:17

just defending Nagano if that makes

22:20

sense. Okay. Well, yeah. Just letting

22:22

you know. Nagano is she's standing

22:24

on a desk out in the

22:27

open cutting upwards probably in full

22:29

view of the doorway. She obviously

22:31

is not currently a threat and

22:34

the wetwork team will know to

22:36

prioritize Jack, but if Jack goes

22:38

down or if at any point

22:41

they think it's necessary, Nagano is

22:43

really exposed. Yeah, okay, okay, fuck.

22:45

Are there lights in this room?

22:48

What is the lights? You can

22:50

turn lights off, yeah, yeah, yeah.

22:52

Okay, I'll just turn off the

22:55

lights. All right, let's plunge us

22:57

into darkness. Okay. Do you give

22:59

any commands to Deuce? Yeah, I'd

23:02

say Deuce, defend Nagano. Defense Protocol

23:04

initiated. Deuce, you could just in

23:06

the dark outline, you could just

23:08

see as he stands up on

23:11

the desk in between Nagano and

23:13

the door. Like, beautiful. You don't

23:15

see it happen, you just hear,

23:18

I have sustained damage. As long,

23:20

I crouch in the darkness, Adam,

23:22

and I listen for that... That's

23:25

the only important thing right now.

23:27

I held on to the data

23:29

disk. Yep, and I listened to

23:32

the s I have sustained damage.

23:34

I have sustained damage It's so

23:36

funny. You need to hold out

23:39

for so long Because it took

23:41

you so long to start cutting.

23:43

Yeah. Yeah. Highs or lows? Highs.

23:46

I have the bloom more You

23:48

Eris Duce, fuck. You Eris Duce

23:50

hits the ground. Probably for the

23:53

last time. I'm not bringing him.

23:55

You're not bringing him. No way.

23:57

Dense, the taker? No, none of

24:00

us are taking Duce. Nagano, she

24:02

didn't give a shot. She didn't

24:04

give a shot. She's in peace,

24:07

Duce. in the control room. That's

24:09

fine. That's fine. You feel a

24:11

slight force of the, because you've

24:14

been blasted up against the floor,

24:16

you feel a slight force, the

24:18

pressure of the entire ocean sitting

24:20

upon you, the suit you are

24:23

wearing, you can feel a warp

24:25

a little bit. Oh no. Oh

24:27

no. You're going to need to

24:30

make an air supply check. Boy.

24:32

Oh boy. That's five dice for

24:34

this suit. Okay. You're down to...

24:37

for air supply. That's fine. When

24:39

the pressure equalizes, the head mounted

24:41

torch immediately automatically turns itself on,

24:44

you can see floating in the

24:46

water slowly spinning around with one

24:48

eye still lighting itself on and

24:51

off on and off is juice.

24:53

Can't remember if we established he

24:55

has a light up mouth as

24:58

well. Scary. But you could see

25:00

there's some little fire going on

25:02

behind his lips. You don't know

25:05

what that's about. Where on a

25:07

Mark 2 John Watson is the

25:09

information kept? Let's say they're hot.

25:12

Okay, can I, can I, how

25:14

fucked up is the front of

25:16

deuce? Well, from all the acid

25:19

that he's had to deal with,

25:21

pretty fucked up. Okay, can I

25:23

reach in and collect the data

25:25

disk, just... Unclip it to do

25:28

it right now. I'm gonna make

25:30

that a check because you I'm

25:32

underwater Yeah, well no you don't

25:35

know if you're in a time

25:37

limit But I'm assuming you're acting

25:39

quick. Absolutely. Yeah. All right. So

25:42

that would be a Honestly a

25:44

heavy machine or a check. Yeah.

25:46

That's okay. So it's you've got

25:49

nothing and heavy machinery, but it's

25:51

a heavy machinery strength, so four

25:53

dice. Okay. No success is there,

25:56

but... I'm stressed as fuck, yeah.

25:58

An extra seven dice. Yeah. Let's

26:00

never forget. One success? Okay, hey.

26:03

And a panic. Fuck. Drop item!

26:05

You pull it out, and as

26:07

soon as you pull it out,

26:10

a bullet whizzes past you, you

26:12

realize shit still going on, you

26:14

drop. That's fine. It disappears into

26:17

the darkness. It's fine. That's fine.

26:19

That's fine. That means, hey, best

26:21

case scenario, they were covetuse, and

26:24

he just doesn't have it in

26:26

him. And they've got to come

26:28

back here, it's going to blow

26:31

up and soon anyway. Sure. Yeah.

26:33

You look over, you can see

26:35

the wet work team have not

26:37

been killed. Okay. Okay. Damn it.

26:40

Damn it. That's fine. I start

26:42

swimming for the whole. out into

26:44

the ocean. You launch yourself upwards

26:47

and you get out through the

26:49

hole. You can see you are

26:51

in some sort of dark cavernous

26:54

space. It's like a fissure in

26:56

the rock. You can head in

26:58

two directions. Suck. Fuck. What could

27:01

I do here? I was like,

27:03

could I get it? I could

27:05

get up my movement tracker, but

27:08

that's really not going to tell

27:10

me anything. Yeah, there's no map

27:12

to it. Well, honestly, I'm just

27:15

going to pick a direction then.

27:17

Odds or evens or evens. Odds.

27:19

So you have an air supply

27:22

of four, you need to make

27:24

another air supply check. I'm assuming

27:26

I'm like moving through the fissure

27:29

hands on the walls, occasionally reaching

27:31

down to feel the data pack

27:33

on my chest. Yeah. Ten seconds

27:36

go by. Another air supply check.

27:38

20 seconds go by, another air

27:40

supply check. Okay. A minute, but

27:42

I just don't know. This is

27:45

the kind of shit I should

27:47

ask in the garner. Am I

27:49

alone up here? Yeah, there's no

27:52

one else around here. I didn't

27:54

see. There is a comms unit

27:56

in your thing, but you don't

27:59

know what frequency. Oh, it's. An

28:01

A-O-N one, so it would be

28:03

set to A-O-N frequency. Oh, wait,

28:06

no. No, you got it from

28:08

the barracks. It's a new Republic

28:10

one. It'll be a new Republic

28:13

frequency. Can I talk to the

28:15

others with it? You can, yeah,

28:17

anyone on a new Republic

28:20

frequency. Nagano? Jack, I have

28:22

gone right. Is that the

28:24

right direction? Yeah. All right.

28:26

Yeah. Hey, this

28:29

is Nagano. Uh, which way

28:31

did you say you want?

28:33

Right, I went right. Yeah,

28:35

you're good. Keep coming. Oh,

28:37

Tank Got, okay. I'll keep

28:39

going. I'm right ahead of

28:41

you. Okay, good, good, good,

28:44

good. You don't hear anything

28:46

from Jack. Hey, hey, we

28:48

don't have to pay him.

28:50

That's what that means. That's

28:52

more money in the back,

28:55

that's fine. All right, dude.

28:57

You're on one. Talk dude,

28:59

fuck, fuck. Another air supply

29:01

check. You're out of air. No,

29:03

no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

29:05

no, no, no, no, no, no,

29:08

no, no, no, no, no,

29:10

no, I'm gonna start rushing

29:12

then. After your air supply

29:14

runs out, you must make

29:16

a stamina roll every turn,

29:18

or after every strenuous activity,

29:20

like close combat or mobility.

29:22

Yeah, cool. A failed roll,

29:24

directly to zero health. Uh-oh.

29:27

Okay, so you want to

29:29

make a mobility check? Yep.

29:31

To, to, you know, go

29:33

fast. So that's, that's going

29:35

to be two stamina checks.

29:37

Uh-huh. Ooh, it's two

29:40

days. Plus seven. Plus

29:42

seven. My panic will

29:44

help. That's a success

29:46

on the regular dice.

29:48

And two successes. And

29:51

then one panic, yeah. So

29:53

you're on that's a nine you don't

29:55

have anything to drop so you're fine.

29:57

Okay good good good good good yeah

29:59

Yeah, and then the, oh, just

30:02

give yourself the plus one, I

30:04

guess, to your next one of

30:06

these roles. Yes, absolutely, that's exactly

30:09

what I do. I reckon that's

30:11

what you should do, yeah, that

30:14

plus one on it. Or actually,

30:16

wait, make it the related role,

30:18

so it's this stamina. Yes, yeah,

30:21

yeah, yep, yep, yep, yep. All

30:23

right, it's, um, no success. And

30:25

then you have seven panic guys.

30:28

Okay, two successes. Okay, give yourself

30:30

another plus one on the next

30:33

one. I will I'll check another

30:35

plus one on there and you

30:37

roll a eight for your panic

30:40

Trembal, okay, that's fine. You start

30:42

to tremble uncontrollably all skills you

30:44

see get chill it. Oh, come

30:47

on. Suffer a negative two modification

30:49

until your panic stops. Come on

30:52

dude. You explode. You're out. No,

30:54

no, no, no, no, not breathing

30:56

You explode out of the rock

30:59

face. You can see the UES

31:01

Longhouse is right. Oh, fucking there.

31:04

Thank God. The airlock is wide

31:06

open and waiting for you. Okay.

31:08

One last check. Okay. Negative two

31:11

to this, but you got yourself

31:13

a plus one, so it's only

31:15

a negative one. Yep. Yep. Yep.

31:18

And it is a mobility check.

31:20

So no successes on the regular.

31:23

And then seven panic. Please let

31:25

my panic. Get me there. You

31:27

panic. One success and a panic.

31:30

For God. Who cares? What is

31:32

it? Hey, tremble. It's another negative,

31:34

too. You're floundering. You're just like

31:37

throwing yourself wildly. You're not... The

31:39

problem is, if you were calm,

31:42

you'd understand, you're not swimming. You're

31:44

just throwing your limbs. One more

31:46

mobility check. Oh, it's a one.

31:49

Plus the panic. Plus the panic

31:51

dies? That's a success! Oh my

31:53

god. You still need to roll

31:56

for panic? Okay, still, hey, bro.

31:58

Oh my god. Three successes total?

32:01

Yeah. But there is... panic. Okay.

32:03

As long as it's not freezing

32:05

place. It's 13. 13 is flea.

32:08

Okay. Okay. Once again is flea.

32:10

I'm trying to do that. Yeah.

32:12

That's what I'm literally in the

32:15

middle of doing. It's so funny

32:17

because if you when you finally

32:20

get into the airlock because of

32:22

the flea. Now you need to

32:24

roll to stay conscious. Okay, okay.

32:27

I'm also assuming, because it's a

32:29

free action, you're just over the

32:31

radio. Yeah, I'm out, I'm out,

32:34

I'm inside the airlock, I'm inside

32:36

the airlock. Seven dice for your

32:39

stamina. One success? Okay, thank God.

32:41

So you will stay conscious, will

32:43

you panic? Yeah, probably. No, no

32:46

panic. Okay, all right. I'm safe,

32:48

that's why I'm not panicking, that

32:50

makes sense. The water starts draining

32:53

out and you swing for the

32:55

surface unplugged and go, sweet, beautiful

32:58

oxygen kisses your lungs. This is

33:00

Oski, Jarfinnen, no lie. Made it

33:02

into the airlock, Nagano, Jack, come

33:05

in. Nagano, you can see her

33:07

through the glass window of the

33:10

airlock door, you can see her

33:12

in the UES longhouse, through a

33:14

communicator, says, yeah, we got you,

33:17

don't worry about it. Hokidok. She,

33:19

on the other side of the

33:21

airlock, turns a big cylindrical handle,

33:24

and then the airlock door swings

33:26

open. I step inside into the

33:29

UES longhouse, punch it, let's get

33:31

out of here. What about Jack?

33:33

He's dead, Nagano. Okay, all right.

33:36

Um, she into the communicator speaks

33:38

again. Uh, Captain, where all that's

33:40

left? We gotta go. The UES

33:43

Longhouse. Okay. words into life and

33:45

starts moving away, but Amanda Schaefer

33:48

is quiet in an ominous way.

33:50

Okay. Not like a... She's dead,

33:52

it's just like... Yeah, there's, there's,

33:55

you just, it's inscrutable and that

33:57

is ominous to you. Okay. I

33:59

would like to walk into my

34:02

chambers, sit down on the bed,

34:04

take off my helmet and all

34:07

of that, and then take the

34:09

data pack and put it in

34:11

the brief case. Possibly I would

34:14

even have in the briefcase like

34:16

a little secure almost like a

34:18

safe kind of thing that I

34:21

can slot it into Put that

34:23

close the briefcase and then sit

34:26

and try and let my panic

34:28

lower While I wait for the

34:30

sound of the nuclear device. Nagano

34:33

probably followed you in here. She

34:35

just it's quite obvious. She just

34:37

doesn't know what to do with

34:40

herself. She sits down at There's

34:42

maybe a desk here. She sits

34:45

down at that and sets the,

34:47

she's still wearing the suit. She

34:49

sets her helmet down on the

34:52

table though, and she just quietly,

34:54

she sits there in silence with

34:57

you. Okay. Eventually, deadened heavily by

34:59

the water around you, you nonetheless

35:01

feel as the UES Longhouse shudders

35:04

a little bit from a blast.

35:06

I just, maybe I'm sitting there

35:08

on the edge of the bed

35:11

with my hands on my knees

35:13

and my like hands. my arms

35:16

and my hands cross like this

35:18

and then like maybe I just

35:20

get two fingers together like in

35:23

a kind of you know when

35:25

people put two fingers together like

35:27

a please I cross my just

35:30

cross my fingers in the hope

35:32

that the place is blown up

35:35

as you're doing that you're you're

35:37

like your mind is like imagining

35:39

trying to manifest a tendency of

35:42

sizable proportions. You look over at

35:44

the open door to the bathroom

35:46

and you can see a single

35:49

arm lying out. It's a, you

35:51

immediately recognize the glove and sleeve

35:54

as a wetwork, a Trinity wetwork

35:56

agent and there's blood slowly pulling

35:58

out from the bathroom. Well, that's

36:01

for the best really. I'd like

36:03

to get up from the bed

36:05

and head to the control room.

36:08

I'll very politely knock on the

36:10

little entrance the sliding door and

36:13

then step inside. Come in. I

36:15

was hoping to have a conversation

36:17

with you regarding the outcome of

36:20

your mission. Amanda turns around swells

36:22

around in her chair and you

36:24

can see the wound on her

36:27

side that she has stapled shut.

36:29

She's got a very serious expression.

36:32

If looks could kill, you would

36:34

be praying for death. Bismarck will

36:36

make up what you would have

36:39

been paid by the United Nations

36:41

science and research team. We will

36:43

also provide you with perhaps a

36:46

little more in return for your

36:48

discretion about what happened here. She

36:51

takes a deep breath. Hoorn a

36:53

new crew. will be expensive. One

36:55

million. That can be arranged. She

36:58

nods. She turns back around the

37:00

console. I'll get up to leave

37:03

and as I'm standing in the

37:05

doorway without looking over my shoulder

37:07

just looking ahead. Pleasure doing business

37:10

with you, Amanda Schaefer. Final

37:28

report regarding the events

37:30

at Hunaris Crat facility,

37:32

Europa. Employee number 45782

37:35

reporting. Steve Cal Borman,

37:37

Gideon Saut and the

37:39

mom Saliba of the

37:41

U.S. Longhouse are dead.

37:43

The ship's John Watson

37:45

Mark II, designated juice,

37:48

has also been destroyed.

37:50

Only myself, Bismark employee

37:52

Nagano Isami. and the

37:54

ship's captain, Amanda Schaefer.

37:56

have survived. I have

37:58

in my possession the

38:00

complete backup of the

38:03

facility's consumer data, which

38:05

I will return to

38:07

Bismarck Holdings at the

38:09

next opportunity. Ulnari Scrad

38:11

is destroyed, as are

38:13

its contents. An extended

38:16

version of this report

38:18

will be available within

38:20

five business days. This

38:22

is senior executive, Oski

38:24

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