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rapid and new expansion for
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humanity. Space. The human race
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made many discoveries. Some to
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power, always desire more. You
1:23
are aboard the UES Longhouse as
1:26
it swims through the depths of
1:28
Europa. Let me in, Nagano. The
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door opens. Inside there is a
1:33
panic room. She... I try and
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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
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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,
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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
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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.
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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,
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you know, crack my jaw and
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then look at him to see
2:42
what he'll do next. He is
2:45
really mad, very stressed, but then
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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
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main control room. And is there
3:06
like a button to turn the
3:08
power back on from in here?
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Yeah, you could turn the power
3:13
on from here easily. Yeah. And
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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
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that in but you haven't turned
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it. The second you put it
3:38
in, everything turns on? That wasn't
3:41
you. I look at Nagano. Nagano
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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,
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you, I think you were there
4:27
when this happened. You watch as
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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
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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
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know it does actually. Yes. I
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would like to patch in, if
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I can, to the UES Longhouse.
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Okay, about half an hour ago.
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Amanda Schaefer has been playing the
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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
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stalks the second one. Coming up
6:23
behind, her communicator roars to wife.
6:25
Oski, what do you say? Amanda
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Schaefer, this is Oski Yarvinen. I'm
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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
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catches her in her side. She
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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,
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her revolver roars twice. The other
7:03
wetwork agent hits the ground dead.
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Amanda Schaefer picks herself up... pressing
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one hand against her wound picks
7:10
up her calm unit and speaks
7:12
into it coming she says awesome
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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
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is borrowed into a rock face,
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but you also are aware there's
7:33
like gaps or there would be
7:35
gaps in fissures in it because
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the other sections water has come
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in from somewhere. So you don't,
7:42
you just don't know. Okay. I'm
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just wondering, Nagano, do you know
7:47
what is directly above us? Is
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it rock, are there fishes? If
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we were to cut through the
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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.
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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
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a member of Bismark Holdings? I
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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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