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1:03

As the 21st century dawned, it

1:05

marked the beginning beginning of a

1:08

rapid and new expansion for

1:10

humanity, space. The human race

1:12

made many discoveries, some to

1:14

improve our lives, but most

1:16

in the pursuit of even

1:18

more expansion. For those with

1:21

power, always desire more. You are

1:23

aboard the UES as it swims

1:25

through the depths of

1:27

Europa. Europa. Duce, obviously there's some

1:29

damage has been sustained in

1:32

engineering. in If you were

1:34

to attempt to repair

1:36

it, how long do you

1:38

think that would take? you

1:40

would take that would take? hours.

1:42

With assistance hours. could reduce

1:45

this time to reduce this time

1:47

to... or two hours. you will

1:49

be doing it alone. alone.

1:51

He puts a thumbs up. thumbs

1:53

up. Cal, make sure

1:55

nobody, you Make sure an eye out. an eye

1:58

out. and myself will.

2:00

at some of these corpses and

2:02

the creepers. There are multiple body

2:04

bags, you unzip them, and you

2:06

see many different personnel from the

2:09

facility. Instead of convict outfit, you

2:11

find security outfits, which would be

2:13

pretty standard for a New Republic

2:15

soldier, and you see science officer

2:17

outfits, which would also be standard

2:20

for New Republic science officers. There's

2:22

also some maintenance crew, janitorial staff,

2:24

that sort of stuff. One of

2:26

them is even a very badly

2:28

mangled fucking Android. Which actually, with

2:31

a successful check, you could either

2:33

talk to or bring back in

2:35

repair. It would require a comm

2:37

check to talk to it or

2:39

a heavy machinery check to fix

2:42

it. Oh, well, I don't have

2:44

very heavy machinery, but I do

2:46

have solid contact. You make a

2:48

Comtec wits roll, so that is

2:50

eight total. You get three successes.

2:53

So, one is enough to succeed,

2:55

then you get two tricks. You

2:57

can get a plus one modification

2:59

to a later skill role relating

3:01

to this one. You don't need

3:04

to roll to overcome the exact

3:06

same challenge in the future. You

3:08

can do it quickly. You can

3:10

get unexpected or new information. You

3:12

hide your tracks or you show

3:15

off. You pick two. Oh, I

3:17

think I want to pick. I

3:19

mean, first off, Gideon is always,

3:21

always, always first going to pick

3:23

additional information. But also. I'll take

3:26

the plus one modification to a

3:28

similar role. You see little pockmarks

3:30

all over it, about as big

3:32

as, I don't know how big

3:34

that is, like a 50 cent

3:37

coin? Yeah, like a 50 cent

3:39

coin, or how big is that

3:41

in America? Like a half dollar.

3:43

A half dollar. Yeah, oh, a

3:45

50 cent coin. About the size

3:48

of a 50 cent coin or

3:50

a half dollar, if you will.

3:52

Little marks all over this Android.

3:54

It looks like something, it's little

3:56

tears. Bits of it have been

3:59

torn off. something either melted through

4:01

it or was torn off it,

4:03

it's yeah, a little pockmark damage

4:05

all over the Android. And then

4:07

the Android's eyes turn on and

4:09

they are green. I believe you

4:12

can just talk to it. Oh,

4:14

I don't know if I've established

4:16

this, but the rubbery face of

4:18

John Watson does not move when

4:20

it talks. Oh yeah, I was

4:23

never imagining it. It's got like

4:25

a full-on mouth and lips and

4:27

stuff like that, but it's crash

4:29

test dummy. There's no motion there.

4:31

Right, just speakers. Hello,

4:34

I am John Watson.

4:36

How can I help

4:38

you today? Hi, John

4:40

Watson. Can you tell

4:42

me a little bit

4:44

about what this facility,

4:46

what's happened to this

4:48

facility? I'm there, by

4:50

the way. No worry.

4:52

Yeah, that's fine. John

4:55

Watson comes to life.

4:57

I'm sashaying over. You

4:59

are currently in Lunaris

5:01

Grad, a Deepwater facility.

5:03

What is your clearance?

5:05

Oski Arvinen. Employee ID

5:07

45-782. Thank you, Oski.

5:09

My knowledge of... What

5:11

happened here is limited,

5:13

but I will tell

5:15

you what I... Remember

5:17

from my data banks.

5:19

Approximately one week ago,

5:21

according to my internal

5:23

clock, there were multiple

5:25

gun shots coming from

5:27

A side. Following that,

5:29

there were multiple gun

5:31

shots coming from B

5:33

side. Following that, there

5:35

were several explosions coming

5:37

from B side. Following

5:39

that, there were several

5:41

explosions coming from... A

5:45

side. Following that

5:47

there were several

5:50

explosions coming from

5:52

B side. The

5:55

explosions were two

5:57

on A side.

6:00

somewhere near the living quarters

6:02

and the loading bay. The explosions

6:05

were close to the science bay

6:07

and containment on B-side. What

6:09

was your role here John

6:11

Watson on Nulariscred? I was

6:13

a medical droid. I see. Well

6:15

that's not so useful. What is

6:18

containment on B side? What

6:20

was in containment? Containment is

6:22

where science experiments are conducted

6:24

in safety. What is the status

6:26

of containment as far as you

6:29

know? I detect no internal

6:31

Wi-Fi network. I am unable

6:33

to give you a current

6:35

status. Do you know what kind

6:37

of science experiments Lunis Grad was

6:40

conducting? We were conducting science

6:42

experiments on the specimen. The

6:44

specimen. Is the specimen this

6:46

lovely little creature, this little creeper

6:48

thing that's all over the

6:50

walls? I do not know.

6:52

Okay. I'm eyeing Aske. The

6:54

specimen. Hey, I have a question

6:56

from the sonar recording. That bump,

6:59

bump sound would have been

7:01

quite loud if it had

7:03

been originating from here. Is

7:05

there a heartbeat sound? You don't

7:07

detect one. The deep-range sonar and

7:10

then the sonar you were

7:12

following. It might not be

7:14

loud enough to... The sonar

7:16

is very sensitive compared to the

7:18

human ear. It might not

7:20

be detectable by the human

7:22

ear. It kind of depends.

7:24

Interesting. Okay, good to know. Can

7:27

I detect that Cal is listening

7:29

in? Yeah. Oh, I'm there.

7:31

I don't think you're hiding

7:33

it. Yeah. I just don't

7:35

know how much more information I

7:37

want this Android to be giving

7:40

out. I would say... you

7:42

would know this Android is

7:44

in a default state right

7:46

now having just been turned on

7:48

meaning that it'll just do

7:50

whatever you tell it to

7:52

do okay as an employee

7:54

of Bismarck yeah but I don't

7:57

I'm in a tricky position here

7:59

how much of my authority

8:01

can I exert without the

8:03

people who are on my

8:05

side no longer being on my

8:07

side I'm gonna let it keep

8:10

talking for the moment okay

8:12

really quick Adam this the

8:14

thing that I I pumped

8:16

in the beginning right would I

8:18

know if that would work in

8:21

this environment probably wouldn't work

8:23

in this environment. It would

8:25

need to be outside the

8:27

station to a function fully. But

8:29

you don't know because it's

8:31

kind of like depends if,

8:33

once again, the little guy

8:35

that you got is fucking powerful

8:38

and it might be powerful enough

8:40

to override whatever this station

8:42

is doing. While they're having

8:44

this conversation, I am going

8:46

to activate and plant it somewhere

8:48

hidden in this room. I don't

8:51

think you need to, it's

8:53

very very tiny, I don't

8:55

think you need to roll

8:57

to do that, especially because these

8:59

two are engaged. Yeah, yeah,

9:01

I'll let the Android keep

9:03

talking. I'm not going to

9:05

stop it. At what point did

9:08

you become unaware? It

9:10

is the official position, he's reading,

9:12

there's no chichichichichid, after he does

9:15

the first one, he's reading a

9:17

very obviously ingrained pre-written spiel, it

9:19

is the official position of Bismarck

9:22

Holdings that no AI has ever

9:24

become fully aware. So there is

9:27

not, so I am not able

9:29

to supply you with a time

9:31

when I was unaware. No, no,

9:34

no, no. I just meant, when

9:36

were you turned off? I was

9:38

turned off approximately five days ago.

9:41

Who turned you off? I was

9:43

turned off or deactivated, if you

9:45

will, by subject zero, seven, two,

9:48

dash, W, B, C, a crypto

9:50

guard classifier. Do I know what

9:52

that is? Something that we're researching.

9:55

Okay. Yeah, yeah, cool, cool. Are

9:57

the bodies in the... bags, what

9:59

have they, how did they die?

10:02

Some were killed by either stabbing

10:04

or gunshot wounds. Hard to tell

10:06

exactly who shot them or exactly

10:09

who stabbed them, but the stab

10:11

wounds do look rough. So you

10:13

would assume, not a knife, but

10:16

a sheave. That is some of

10:18

the people here. A lot of

10:20

them were killed in the same

10:23

way that the person in the

10:25

pod you found were killed. You

10:27

opened them and it's human soup

10:30

inside the back. Okay, cool. I

10:32

speak up from behind and go,

10:34

what left those marks on you?

10:37

These marks were left by subject

10:39

two, one, seven, dash, a, an

10:42

immuniforge classifier. What is that? What

10:45

is your clearance? Oskie,

10:47

Arvinan, clearance number 45782.

10:49

You do not have

10:52

clearance for that information.

10:54

There you go. That's

10:56

surprising. Just to be

10:58

clear here, John, there

11:01

were human subjects as

11:03

a part of this

11:05

science experimentation. You do

11:07

not have clearance for

11:09

that information. That's kind

11:12

of an answer in

11:14

and of itself. Well,

11:16

interesting stuff. Aske. Okay.

11:18

How long do you

11:20

spin in there? Well,

11:23

actually, the repairing his

11:25

comms unit took a

11:27

while. So I would

11:29

say, let's say it

11:32

about now. Okay. All

11:35

the lights come on properly.

11:37

It's still a fucking horror

11:39

show. But there's now pleasant

11:41

lights that make it look

11:43

like you're outside. A lovely

11:45

little breeze plays across your

11:47

face, making it feel like

11:49

the windows are open. And

11:51

then, you hear that from

11:53

somewhere further in the facility.

11:55

This is like a human

11:57

scream? No. No, it does

11:59

not. there a Kukonk? Kukonk.

12:01

Kukonk. You hear it now.

12:03

Okay. Is there a cons

12:05

unit in the medical bay?

12:07

Yeah. I'd like to go

12:09

over to it and once

12:11

again, Nagano Isami, this is

12:14

Oski, Jardvin, and I am

12:16

at your location. Come in.

12:18

The text reader pops up.

12:20

This is Nagano Isami, reporting

12:22

back, are you alone? I'll

12:24

type no, just in the hope that

12:27

it's less suspicious. Sure. I mean, what

12:29

can I do? Hal, what are you

12:31

paying attention to? The room itself, on

12:34

the opposite side, was there a door

12:36

there? Like on the far side of

12:38

the room? There is, there's a door

12:40

to the west and a door to

12:43

the east. There's the vent going north,

12:45

which leads to engineering, and the vent

12:47

going south, which leads to the living

12:50

quarters that you were in. And the

12:52

scream came from... The scream came from

12:54

somewhere from somewhere to the north west

12:57

to the north west to the north

12:59

west. So deeper in the facility, a

13:01

place you haven't been. That's constant throughout

13:04

everything. So I'm going to be setting

13:06

up, it's just a slow action, but

13:08

I'm going to set up the US

13:11

571C century gun pointing towards the west

13:13

door with all of us on the

13:15

right side or the east side. And

13:18

then with the heartbeat going, I turn

13:20

to Oske and go, ask John what

13:22

that is, please. Uh, you can, but

13:24

I think you've got the same clearance

13:27

as either when it comes to this.

13:29

I'm gonna take a wild swing here

13:31

guys and think it's the specimen. There

13:34

is a real big capitalization on that

13:36

one. I'm so sorry, I forgot to

13:38

mention there, I forgot myself, but there

13:41

is one more path going south, not

13:43

in the direction of the living quarters,

13:45

but somewhere towards A side, you think.

13:48

Okay, for map purposes. I'm dropping the

13:50

century gone right in the middle. Oh

13:52

right in the middle. Right in the

13:55

middle. Right in the middle. Pointing west.

13:57

All right. No, that's cool. All right.

13:59

Cool. Cool. Cool. Hell yeah. So it's

14:01

covering some of the medical. Oh yeah,

14:04

half of it. Okay. It makes a

14:06

little noise as it tracks from left

14:08

to right. Is engineering safe to go

14:11

into now or now? Duce comes back.

14:13

You get fucked up, dude. He's the

14:15

front part of him is all burnt.

14:18

I have made repairs to engineering. The

14:20

shielding is imperfect, but safe enough for

14:22

human travel. I'd like to type in,

14:25

no, I'm not alone. There's a bit

14:27

of a pause, and then it responds,

14:29

understood, full stop, I'm in the control

14:32

room. Okay, is there like a line

14:34

on the floor leading to a control

14:36

room? No, not right now, but you

14:39

know it'd be somewhere deeper in the

14:41

facility. So you'd have to go, not

14:43

necessarily in the direction of the screen,

14:45

but somewhere north. Oh,

14:48

by the way, I should say

14:50

this as well. I'm using North-South-East-West

14:52

so that you understand what I

14:54

mean on the map, but there's

14:56

no, you're in the core of

14:58

Europa, there's no real North-South-East-West. Okay.

15:00

I did have a question. One,

15:02

did John respond about what is

15:04

that to the sounds of the

15:06

scream and the heartbeat? No, he

15:08

didn't. He didn't seem to think

15:10

that was a question directed at

15:12

him. It is definitely a question

15:15

directed at him. And the second

15:17

thing I want to ask is

15:19

the breeze and the thing of

15:21

being outside and whatever, is that

15:23

a common thing for us in

15:25

the settlements of Europa? In a

15:27

fancier settlement? Yes. Okay. If that

15:29

was a question directed at John,

15:31

he thinks for a moment and

15:33

then says uncertain. Is

15:36

the breeze just pushing around gross decaying

15:38

body smell? It would be, yeah. Yeah,

15:41

it's not pleasant. Yeah, although actually these

15:43

bodies have been around, how long does

15:45

it take for their body to stop

15:47

stinking? Oh, I mean, if it's soup,

15:49

buddy. Yeah, if it's soup, it's especially

15:52

in a bag. It smells real bad

15:54

in here. Well, if you close the

15:56

bags, they're sophisticated enough that the smell

15:58

stops pretty quickly. you close the back.

16:01

Okay. I need to talk. I need

16:03

to get there. I gotta get there.

16:05

I gotta get there. I gotta get

16:07

to the control room. But yeah, deeper.

16:10

I need a map. Can I access

16:12

any of those? Oh yeah, you know

16:14

what? Of course you can. Now that

16:16

with the Wi-Fi on. You access the

16:18

map. You can see where you are.

16:21

You see that you are in medical,

16:23

medical connects to both side A and

16:25

side B. But it obviously kind of

16:27

folds a bit, just geologically more on

16:30

B side than it does on the

16:32

A side. Okay, cool. And we need

16:34

to, okay, basically the best direction for

16:36

us to head will take us to

16:39

where the heartbeats and screams were, yeah?

16:41

Yeah. Yeah, the screaming, now that you

16:43

can see the map, the screaming definitely

16:45

came from, you see next to the

16:47

control center, there is a room called

16:50

specimen observation. Yeah. It definitely came from

16:52

where specimen observation is. All right, so

16:54

the lines are main corridors. The little

16:56

dashes indicate that a room or a

16:59

corridor is broken up into multiple sections

17:01

or zones. And then the dotted lines

17:03

are vents large enough for a human

17:05

to get through. Do I think that,

17:08

oh, so there is a way to

17:10

get. Ooh, oh man. So we could

17:12

go from medical to cell complex B

17:14

to, what's that little vent line? Where

17:17

does that go? Do you mean the

17:19

T? To the armory, I think. Yeah,

17:21

armory next to the control center. And

17:23

then we could get into the control

17:25

center that way. Which is in the

17:28

opposite direction from the screaming in the

17:30

heartbeat. I have a question. Would Gideon

17:32

know what the optimal computer to start

17:34

data scraping would be on? Would it

17:37

be engineering, which potentially has access to

17:39

all computer networks to like assist with

17:41

unfucking them? Or would it be science

17:43

or would it be control room? I

17:46

believe you were told that you need

17:48

to put it into an open port

17:50

in either the control room or they

17:52

just said the science bay. They said

17:54

engineering control AI bay. So I'm right

17:57

next to engineering. I would like to

17:59

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19:51

and get a computer open and

19:53

start poking at it. Okay, so

19:55

you just head to engineering? Yeah.

19:57

Well actually on the map engineering

19:59

is kind of a great way

20:01

to go because we can just

20:03

vet from engineering to the armory.

20:05

Yeah, well right next to it

20:07

and it's safe now. All right,

20:09

we'll go through engineering. You head

20:11

into engineering? I take this entry

20:13

again. No worries, you pack it

20:15

down. You head into engineering so

20:17

very quickly. Engineering is now safer

20:20

to be in. You can see

20:22

that there is equipment and stuff

20:24

scattered around the place. It looks

20:26

like there is stuff to investigate

20:28

if you wanted to spend five

20:30

to ten minutes here. Otherwise you

20:32

could just keep heading north without

20:34

stopping. I would like to investigate,

20:36

please. All right, so is anyone

20:38

else stopping? I didn't intend to,

20:40

but when I see Gideon stop,

20:42

do you put the data scraper

20:44

down in a way that's visible?

20:46

Oh no, I'm not showing that

20:48

to you if I can help

20:50

it. We need to keep moving,

20:52

Gideon. This is part of what

20:54

you asked me to do. Okay.

20:56

I have another like data, I

20:59

have another data drive I think.

21:01

I have a data transmitter and

21:03

I have a PTT. So yeah,

21:05

any information, like I will pull

21:07

out my personal one for like

21:09

to be like, and like wiggle

21:11

it and a like, here's my

21:13

USB thing. Where you will be,

21:15

maybe on the map I would

21:17

have shown you where we're going.

21:19

Okay, I'll be sneaky. Come to

21:21

the control center as quickly as

21:23

you can. Can do. All right,

21:25

so you're staying behind Gideon while

21:27

everyone else keeps going. Yep. Okay,

21:29

well we'll go with everyone else

21:31

first. You head into the vent

21:33

going north. As you climb into

21:35

that vent going north, you can

21:38

see the intersection where the vent

21:40

splits ahead of you, going north

21:42

still, it splits into west and

21:44

east, west being towards cell complex

21:46

B. At that dividing thing, you

21:48

can see there's no light in

21:50

the vents, even when the facility

21:52

is powered on, these vents are

21:54

still dark. But you can see

21:56

that there is, it's not a

21:58

proper. but it looks like some

22:00

sort of little like other like

22:02

how someone might use a phone

22:04

light some other device that has

22:06

a light on it you can

22:08

see that is being used for

22:10

the kid is illuminating their way

22:12

through the event they spot you

22:14

and screen oh who's going first

22:16

do you want to send den

22:19

yeah they scream down I guess

22:21

you just hear this you don't

22:23

see the kid but they just

22:25

scream down murderers and then they

22:27

run den turns around and informs

22:29

you that they run back towards

22:31

cell complex B The child is

22:33

often all concerned to us. Keep

22:35

moving. You keep going, you turn

22:37

left and head towards the armory

22:39

instead. And you get to the

22:41

armory, I'm going to say in

22:43

that time, Gideon, you've had a

22:45

little look around and you, I'm

22:47

assuming you plug in the data

22:49

scraper? Oh, I can plug in

22:51

both. Okay, yeah, no worries. Thank

22:53

you. So as you were told,

22:55

the data scraper could take hours,

22:58

so you're gonna have to come

23:00

back here to collect it again

23:02

after some time is passed? I'll

23:04

hide it as best as I

23:06

can, like, can, but the not

23:08

one, and then my personal one,

23:10

I will leave in a very

23:12

obvious place. Okay. So, as I

23:14

said previously, it's covenant creepers. In

23:16

addition to that, the nuclear reactor

23:18

here has been partially slagged. You

23:20

see on the floor around the

23:22

reactor, there are puddles of some

23:24

substance. It's not human soup, you

23:26

know, that much. As you inspect

23:28

it, it's a mostly gel-like substance.

23:30

Suspended within it, you do a

23:32

little analysis, suspended within it are

23:34

enzymes and antimicrobial substance, but they

23:37

are mostly water. In addition to

23:39

that, you can see that anywhere

23:41

there's a puddle, the space around

23:43

it has been burned away in

23:45

a similar manner as to the

23:47

reactor. It looks like the puddles

23:49

could have leaked off the reactor

23:51

or fallen off the reactor. and

23:53

then whatever they once were, they

23:55

don't look, they're not acidic anymore,

23:57

whatever they once were, they burned

23:59

on the reactor, fell off and

24:01

burned on the ground. Okay, great.

24:03

I would like to do an

24:05

analysis thing. I'd like to roll

24:07

observation for this so I can

24:09

see if I can get additional

24:11

information here. All right, that's observation

24:13

wits. Let's roll your stress die

24:16

first, nothing on the stress die.

24:18

That is one success. So you

24:20

get one question. Okay. And your

24:22

stress goes down by one. Okay,

24:24

what questions, what questions? And then

24:26

you should just go up by

24:28

one, because you have encountered a

24:30

very definite alien life form or

24:32

substance, which maybe the increased stress

24:34

is not you being like, oh

24:36

God, oh God, oh God, oh

24:38

God, oh God, it's excitement. However,

24:40

however, however you want to play

24:42

it, it's nonetheless stress. Okay, okay,

24:44

okay. So that actually is helpful

24:46

because that eliminates one of my

24:48

questions. Sure, yeah, you, absolutely, I'll

24:50

give that to you for free.

24:52

This is alien, whatever it is.

24:55

So this acidic thing, am I,

24:57

first off, like all the little

24:59

synapses in Gideon's brain are connecting

25:01

of like, okay, it's antimicrobial, it's

25:03

in contact with something, just that

25:05

me to eliminate all of the

25:07

anti, like, like, like, like, materials

25:09

on something, which means it's superantibacteria,

25:11

which would explain why those guy,

25:13

that guy had a significant lack

25:15

of bacteria on him. He was

25:17

also super burned. This looks acidic,

25:19

and those other guys we saw

25:21

in that ship were also burned,

25:23

and they didn't seem to come

25:25

from the creeper, which looks more

25:27

plant life and not acidic. So,

25:29

this is the thing. This is

25:31

the thing, potentially, that killed all

25:34

those people on that little ship,

25:36

and probably did a whole bunch

25:38

of damage to those people's soup

25:40

over in Med Bay. Fascinating. Love

25:42

that. Oh God. I mean, it's

25:44

a hard question, but what is

25:46

its purpose? Or is it just,

25:48

that seems like a existential question.

25:50

No, I can give you a

25:52

pretty definite answer. Oh, that's so

25:54

great. Yes. Whatever these things are

25:56

they appear to be some sort

25:58

of combat life form because they're

26:00

killing people they're attacking objects and

26:02

entities hard to say, but from

26:04

your analysis here, you're not seeing

26:06

brain, you're not seeing internal organs.

26:08

It looks like they must be

26:10

part of some larger network, a

26:13

hive mind, or something like that.

26:15

Whatever they are, they're part of

26:17

some grander response, and it looks

26:19

like they might be the quotation

26:21

marks, soldiers of that response, if

26:23

that makes sense. Is there, I

26:25

mean, they're puddles. So it's not

26:27

like I can try and figure

26:29

out what they would look like.

26:31

But the soldiers that died, the

26:33

people that died on the ship,

26:35

they had specific marks on them.

26:37

Yes, scarring almost. Starring. So maybe

26:39

tenderly or possibly? Possibly. Okay. Oh,

26:41

this is some good interesting stuff

26:43

here. Okay, so puddles have been

26:45

looked at. I also maybe want

26:47

to cash in on that plus

26:49

one on Comtec. As this data

26:52

scraper is working, is there any

26:54

information I can see as the

26:56

computers running around that can give

26:58

me some information? You can make

27:00

a Comtec roll and you get

27:02

the plus one bonus on that

27:04

Comtec roll. So you can try

27:06

and watch the information as it

27:08

streams past. And then... So I

27:10

will, I'll do it in half

27:12

the time. Sure. And then it's

27:14

Gideon, she's going to want as

27:16

much information as possible. Okay, so

27:18

what I reckon I'll do is,

27:20

the information the new novel information

27:22

I'll give you is what rooms

27:24

are currently, you get a status

27:26

update of the facility and you

27:28

get, you now know what rooms

27:30

are currently flooded or are both

27:33

flooded. you know that living quarters

27:35

and mess a on the a

27:37

side both of them they are

27:39

flooded those are the only flooded

27:41

rooms you know moments before or

27:43

maybe at the same time as

27:45

these two are going to find

27:47

it out but the door between

27:49

the armory and the control center

27:51

is slagged shot it's broken no

27:53

one can access armory from the

27:55

control center or the control center

27:57

from the armory, which you will

27:59

soon find out. Then in addition

28:01

to that, you get what you

28:03

rolled for, you get the information

28:05

that's being scraped. Now it's taking,

28:07

it's gonna take a lot of

28:09

time because there's a lot of

28:12

fucking information. So you don't get

28:14

everything, but you get a, well

28:16

first off you get a lot

28:18

of fucking boring information. A lot

28:20

of shit, you, you're like, because

28:22

they're doing geological and flora and

28:24

fauna observation here, and you get

28:26

a lot of that. I'll say

28:28

the data scrapers in that section

28:30

right now, pulling that information. Oh,

28:32

that's not uninteresting, too. Yeah. A

28:34

lot of that information, though, is

28:36

kind of shit you already know.

28:38

Okay. But you learn some things

28:40

about flora and fauna and about

28:42

geological observation that you're like, oh,

28:44

that's peaking my interest. From the

28:46

geological observation team, you learn that

28:48

their research on their analyzing ore

28:51

samples, you find that their research

28:53

is focused on, are there any

28:55

living organisms in these oars? The

28:57

answer is sometimes. And then a

28:59

little note saying, sent to flora

29:01

and fauna. Another one is, how

29:03

were these oars produced? The answer

29:05

is, seems to be a mixture

29:07

of naturally occurring and leftover after

29:09

some great impact around Europa's formation.

29:11

And then finally, for geological, you

29:13

learn, is there a difference between

29:15

oars near the surface and those

29:17

at the center, date as older,

29:19

and are more likely to have

29:21

come from the impact? Now, meanwhile,

29:23

in the armory... Yeah, I'm sorry

29:25

to say, the armory is also

29:27

covered in creepers. You can see

29:30

that they have forced their way,

29:32

or maybe the door slag around

29:34

them. Either way, they can get

29:36

through the door, but it's only

29:38

enough room for the creepers to

29:40

pass through. The door has been

29:42

melted into slag so badly that

29:44

you don't even think with a

29:46

with a cutter you could get

29:48

through this. That was giving me

29:50

my next question. Yeah, you could

29:52

try, but it'd be a roll.

29:54

Yeah, for sure. No guarantee of

29:56

success. All the weapons and armor

29:58

are destroyed and met. into

30:01

a huge puddle on the ground.

30:03

You can see that there are

30:05

little y-shaped objects about yay big.

30:07

They're in the shape of a

30:10

y, circular, tubular y's tubular y's.

30:12

They're blue and they've got a

30:14

fuzzy surface to them like they're

30:16

covered in hair. Do I recognize

30:18

them at all? No, you don't

30:21

know. You don't know a lot

30:23

about the specifics. No, no, you're

30:25

for sure, for sure. They look

30:27

organic? They do look organic, yes.

30:30

Weird. With the Y pointed down,

30:32

they're stuck on that slag puddle

30:34

in the middle. Okay. Adam just

30:36

as a aside because I forgot

30:38

to say it earlier Gideon left

30:41

alone would have had her motion

30:43

tracker open to okay noise and

30:45

keeping a somewhat high on it

30:47

okay yeah this movement the facility

30:50

from around where the from around

30:52

where you know specimen observation is

30:54

there is movement slowly streaming through

30:56

the barracks and into the rest

30:59

of the facility oh boy oh

31:01

you see lots of little Lots

31:04

of little dots moving through. Okay,

31:06

she's gonna just keep an eye

31:09

on it until it starts to

31:11

get close to her. Sure, yeah.

31:13

Oh, we'll roll for the power

31:15

on that. You'll need to make

31:18

two checks because if you're leaving

31:20

it on to monitor them coming

31:22

towards you, you're spending a lot

31:24

of time doing this, yeah. So

31:26

it loses one, just one point.

31:29

So it's down to, so just

31:31

mark on your character sheet, she'd

31:33

power supply four, which should also

31:35

be your power supply here. Can

31:38

I see Nagano through the, from

31:40

the armory into the control room?

31:42

Like if I get up close

31:44

and I say, you saw me?

31:46

You hear walking on the other

31:49

side of the door? Yeah. And

31:51

a voice calls out, is this

31:53

Oski? Yeah. Okay. Maybe I turn

31:55

to everybody else who's here with

31:58

me. Go check on Gideon to

32:00

make sure she hasn't done anything

32:02

stupid up. Go on Jack. Jack

32:04

looks at the two of you

32:06

and then turns and walks away.

32:09

Well I was kind of including

32:11

you in that Oh, I'm aware.

32:13

Yeah, right. Okay. Yeah, this is

32:15

Oski. We cannot get through. Okay.

32:18

Well, that's all right. I could

32:20

probably make my way to you,

32:22

she says. How safest the control

32:24

center? Well, from the screen that

32:26

we heard, I'm guessing we're currently

32:29

going to want to leave this

32:31

facility real. She's interrupted. Everyone hears

32:33

this, it's a broadcast throughout the

32:35

entire facility. This is a facility-wide

32:38

blast from Arena, your station AI,

32:40

nuclear device armed. Please assemble in

32:42

your designated evacuation zones and await

32:44

instructions from your facilities manager or

32:46

the facilities director. You have 10

32:49

minutes. Well, is the evacuation facilities,

32:51

are they all functioning? Um, I

32:53

don't know. Okay, all right, perfectly.

32:55

Where would I... You know, well,

32:58

arena is on her side. She

33:00

could talk to arena pretty easily

33:02

if you want. Yeah, okay. Look,

33:04

this seems like it's gonna be

33:06

pretty hard to salvage, really. Where

33:12

would I go to salvage stuff?

33:14

It'd be, well, yeah, it's hard

33:17

to say exactly. Maybe the science

33:19

base or the control psychological observation

33:21

of flora and fauna. I mean,

33:23

if you can get to the

33:25

Comeray, you can do a quick

33:27

broadcast to just send everything you

33:29

need to send. Yeah. And like,

33:31

you could at least salvage the

33:33

information here. Okay. How far away

33:36

is Comeray? It's beneath the control

33:38

center, so you've got to go

33:40

back to engineering, core drilling, all

33:42

the way around. With only 10

33:44

minutes. It could be done. You

33:46

could do it in 10, easily.

33:48

Nagano, you're talking to Arino? You

33:50

can talk to her? Yes. I

33:52

just spoke to her. Ah, I

33:55

was going to ask for another

33:57

10 minutes, but if it's done.

33:59

If you wanted to make a

34:01

command check, you can get her

34:03

to do something? So, because I'm

34:05

assuming that Gideon is scraping the

34:07

ship anyway. The station anyway. Yeah.

34:09

So, would I assume that you

34:12

would be scraping all information? You

34:14

don't know. Yeah, okay. Like, I

34:16

don't know if it's compartmentalized. Or

34:18

would be, like, specific information in

34:20

Florida and Florida, okay. You know

34:22

what comes to know that if

34:24

she's scraping everything it's going to

34:26

take hours at the least? Okay.

34:28

Oh yes, if I besmark want

34:31

as much information that was discovered

34:33

here as possible in the gun

34:35

or so if you could give

34:37

me another 20 minutes even, you

34:39

know, 30. No successes. I'll push

34:41

it. All right, hell yeah! I

34:43

gotta push it dude for Bismark.

34:45

You get one success on the

34:47

stress dice, which is good because

34:50

you needed a success. She pauses

34:52

for a sec and then says,

34:54

remember who pays your bills Nagano.

34:56

It's on or off. I see.

34:58

Oh yeah. Turn it off. There's

35:00

a moment's pause and then. The

35:02

broadcast happens again. This is your

35:04

station AI, arena speaking. Nuclear device,

35:06

disarmed. Turn it on in 20

35:09

minutes. Am I waiting here, she

35:11

says. Yes, you are waiting here.

35:13

That's an order. 20 minutes, she

35:15

says. All right, I'll move past

35:17

Cal and into the other room.

35:19

Denton, you're with me. We're going

35:21

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