Previously on the Atomless Azan, he- Ike! She- Uh, my name's Thiriyak What's up? My name's Sky! Welcome to the patchwork, my dudes! Everyone, welcome to WildTams You are trying to merchandise the organisms? The specimens? Sometimes foundations need to change for something to grow Do you ever think that your foundations just don't fit anymore?
Kiskak, you see Lorik, who is one of the board members Thank- thank god, um, I didn't know if you'd be here in time I don't know what is happening to the park, but things are weird I don't think Kiskak went on holiday at all And then there is a shot that rings out as this purple energy is sucked out of Lorik's head And they fall down, and this huge bolt of energy shoots out and hits all five of you And slowly begin to shrink You hear a doof doof doof as you look to your side
Where the slug was held in an electric cage And this now humongous slug lurches forward You see a large rat The rat, it's firm, matted, and slightly burnt The top part of its head is metallic, coming down into this one point that looks like a camera Which has been implanted into this rat's head The constant exhaled breath of computer fans' focus The screen on the experiment bay The unwavering eyes try to focus on the board member that was shot down
And then the co-founder and crew that were shrunk Uploading, one percent complete A spined rodent shivers at its surroundings And uses its eye stalks to peer out at the room beyond the glass in front of it A thin black wire connects a console to a helmet on its head Fifteen percent uploaded It wasn't optimal They think on their uncharacteristically impulsive decision Twenty-five percent uploaded But first, punishment for crimes called mistakes Fifty percent uploaded
Perspective needs to be obtained And the dream of progress can continue Seventy-five percent uploaded But before that dream can come to pass Eighty percent uploaded Secrets still need to be revealed Ninety percent uploaded Truths need to be uncovered Ninety-five percent uploaded And those punishments need to be given Upload failed Source of the upload has been removed We cut back to these two scenes that are playing out With our tiny patchwork crew Theriac and Skye at the shrink ray port
Theriac on Skye's skateboard in front of the nozzle that will grow or shrink the subjects Skye at the console which is far, far larger than they are trying to figure out How to switch shrink to grow and grow Theriac back to normal size An electrified cage that holds one of the slugs that you all found on Leviathan's eye switches off And the slug slowly pours itself out of the cage and crawls towards Skye And under the experiment chamber where the excess fluids from the charge of the shrink ray
flowed and have corroded this copper pipe A rat attempting to hide in darkness but with this metal plate imprinted on their head A light hanging like an anglerfish's lamp above them lighting their way for a camera that seems to be centered in its forehead Ike with their hand out holding a block of cheese that has been eaten Azam sickened by the toxic waste that flows throughout this pipe that Scrap and Ike have been able to offset
Since they are used to a slightly more toxic environment because of where they are, where they hail from, which is the lower decks of Saga Ike casting a spell misread the amount of power that they had sparked part of the rat's brain that made it go slightly feral Can everybody roll me initiative? Please! Let's go!
Unfortunately the rat did roll the highest with this slight spell that went off And it's going to go for a bite It's going to try and bite you immediately That's a 28 against your KAC which I believe hits It does a little bit This isn't that bad, that's 7 damage to your stamina as it strikes out at you It looks like it's very worked up at the minute so it's just trying to lash out at you But that's all it's doing this turn, that's it, Azam it is you I'm assuming we don't want to hurt it I don't
I'm going to rush up to it and I'm going to try and give it a little pet Okay This is combat basically Yeah that's actually incredible Okay so that's going to be survival, so we're going to do that So this is as a move action you can use your survival to improve the attitude of an animal with the intelligence of a score 1 or 2 Which is this You are using your move action to do this Yeah so I basically like, I was very close to Ike to begin with I reach up and as I like walk closer I say
We are not here to hurt you We're not here to fight you We're not even here to disturb your day, we're just wondering what the light is And in like in a very soothing Azam voice He just says, please we don't want to fight you That is an unnatural 20 A genetically modified 20 A genetically modified 20 A bio-act 20 I like this It's like Of it's like flailing like calms as you try to like calm it down It still counts as hostile But it is like not flailing wildly You know it's not like enraged
It's just like it still is treating everyone like a threat But not like I'm gonna fucking kill everyone here Can I observe the eye patch computer chip to see if it's possible to remove it Absolutely, this is going to be the final action in your turn Which is an engineering 18?
You overseeing it Not removing it, specifically this isn't removing it But this is seeing if it can be removed You see a small rectangle above this like robotic eye Which is like kind of in like the crown of it's head You see a very thin line that you can assume is like a micro SD Given enough force because of how small you are you could push it down and it would release this chip I motion one hand towards Scrap because I know that Ike's busy And I point to the card and I make a motion to push
While I'm like shh shh shh you're a good rat They give you a little nod, they have their pistol out There's a little robot that is like flying next to them It has like a small little pistol Just like a small disk with a fan and there's like a little pistol in it He was in combat mode and now he's like ah ok, perfect Ike!
Yes It's your turn You can tell me what we like to do I just want to try to figure out what exactly The camera or light or whatever it is I want to find out exactly what it's doing Absolutely, is there a spell that you're casting along with this or is this just a I think I'm going to forgo any spells And just try to Now that it's not thrashing about I figure I can look at it a little bit closely Perfect So you want to tell what this camera thing is doing to it
Is this like you want to hack into it to try to see Or you'd like to just give a more passive No I guess I do want to hack into it a little bit And I just want to say we're very stressed out What are you doing? What is this? And I yell it at the camera not at the rat Ok then roll me a computers to hack system
Who? 29 Oh beautiful As you like follow this thread to this camera It doesn't seem to be technologically advanced enough to give you like a proper response But you hear a whirring like a classic Like think that 1940s film camera like Like something is being recorded Ok if I look Can I garner just the general direction of where the thread is going to It's like recording because I don't know if I know this but it's recording onto the SD card
It would have to go to here so it's not like the other situation It's purely recording onto this Ok that's it that's all I do Scrap's turn now The pair of you here the low whirring of Scrap's little drone So do you want me to try and take the thing out of its head So Scrap is going to try to do an engineering roll As the drone flies off to like it's now this little drone The pistol that it was carrying moves into like the main system of this
Imagine this drone is like it's like a frisbee it's like a disc But the main center bit has this little fan that's spinning real fast This pistol that was on attack mode forms back up into it And then a little like not screwdriver but very like precise pinpoint pops out This is also a different drone to what you saw Scrap using earlier Scrap seems to have a whole Batman's utility belt of little drones and little things that they can use
The drone very slowly moves this point toward the little slot to try and push the card in But as it does it seems to it just doesn't have enough weight to do the push in unlock So it just the drone just kind of like flies backward a little bit And that sudden movement of the drone like hitting this small point into the rat's head and then flying back That sudden motion makes the rat like scream a little and then and then get more onto fours where it's now like more wildly looking
It seems to be angered a little bit more as he felt that roll As you all are attempting rat SD card surgery We are going to move on over to the experiment room Theriac sits on top of a flying skateboard about equivalent of about 50 foot in the air But it's really only like maybe one or two foot into the nozzle of this of this shrink ray Sky is at this giant giant console and this big old slug is like is crawling its way toward toward the two of you
Sky I am hoping to direct the skateboard so that it can pick me up like Aladdin jumping on the magic carpet And we can like meet in the middle and just go you know and you're just are you just trying to just like get the hell out of dodge
I'm getting chased by a giant slug. Yes, please. It isn't like a hard roll since your your skateboard is literally built for speed I will say with both of you on it at the same time its movement is halved so it is convinced It's pretty slow since mechanically can't really work with two people on it But theory act is teeny tiny enough that is able to pick them up you you pull your skateboard around
I'm just so I'm I'm 30 and the skateboard is 30 so we can meet in the middle. Oh, yes, you will have to meet in the middle That's true. Yeah, it would look cooler that way. So I'm not upset about that. Okay, there we go So you take off sprinting down the console theory act?
There's this sudden jolt as the skateboard moves itself on its own accord And then sky hop and then lands on it as a like jumping on a moving train Is there anything else you'd like to do since that was just your that was your drones full turn and your movement? Yeah, I'm looking at the I finally found the class traits that we were talking about I don't think if I can comprehend what's going on in those large blocks of text
I don't think we actually are breaking any rules. So can I do it? Yeah, you can do it. Yeah, okay, so sky Hops on a skateboard and I imagine it wobbles a bit like a Star Trek ship and we're like whoa And she's going to start taking grenades out of her pocket and laying them down on the skateboard putting a screwdriver in her mouth and being like Theory act, you know the like chemical compound that you use on the wild time animals to make them less aggressive
Yes, I'm gonna need you to walk me through that real fast And I'm taking I'm cracking open the grenades and taking pieces out and taking test tubes out of the back pocket of my cargo pants And I'm just starting to assemble things on the skateboard as it's flying away. Ah Okay. So do you see these two? Identical looking of aisles that are in these syringes. Yes. Okay. These are very different. The one is an inhibitor and one is I forgot the word. Uh, what the what is it called?
Explanations more putting things together Each one and either enhances or un enhances different aspects of the creature Or I've been using them on people too, which I don't know about the scientific ramifications of the Do you want to help it or hurt it? I want it to befriend me. Okay. I want it to be less aggressive Okay, well this requires 10 minutes we can cut away You're welcome to continue this RP on theory act if you
Theory act also has a turn right? Uh huh. Yeah, like during your turn, which is right now. Well I suppose if we are trying to have it to friend us, we should use the inhibitor So that way it's less inclined to aggressive behaviors. Yes. I don't love I don't love that friend platonic bomb. Sure. A friend bomb friend bomb and will hand How many do I have? I need to double check that real quickly my class features. How many do I have?
Oh, you don't need you don't need to use anything. I can make a I can make out of nothing a custom grenade Each each day pretty much and I can make as many as of those as I basically as As often as I attack so I just want to put theory act in the position where they have to pass on their problematic Knowledge to the next generation. Oh No, not
Not cultural hand be downs. Brilliant So sky you can have you can count that as your grenade is being built since it is it's supposed to be at the beginning of the day But like we're allowing the grace of the fact you didn't know you're gonna get shrunk today. I picture she's like assembling it
Something almost falls off the skateboard and she reaches down and grabs it without stopping. Oh, oh, I just had a spark um, and well, uh very quickly fashion a Fusion of the inhibitor and the booster into one shot and then it's gonna try and fire it at the slug How's it 21 a 21? Okay, great. I do you do a hit? Yeah Little little guy takes big little guy takes for damage Piercing damage I should say Increasingly the damage it takes from one energy type of your choice
Do this piercing work for you? Moe sure minor inhibitor a Negative one penalty to attack rolls for number of rounds able to three plus my ability score Which I think is for seven rounds and then for the booster Target games plus four bonus only on the next saving throw that attempts against the drug or poison So maybe I shouldn't have done that Okay, so it gets plus four to the next saving throw for against drug or poison or a drug or poison
Okay, which is very dangerous since I'm pretty sure that's exactly what's happening is is a drug. Okay, perfect That's that's you you fire this Combination of inhibitor and booster it took into this slug and this little potion goes goes into it Oh That's I should have done that. Oh Why shouldn't you have done that? I gave it resistance to drugs. Oh Why would you give it resistance to drugs?
You are the smartest person I've ever met but you work so poorly under pressure I know that's why I'm having a bad time Gotta get a couple chips on your shoulder or this could be real rough As the two of you are yelling this slug Turns to you both on the skateboard flying and then like you can see These two spindly little ice stalks on the top on the top of its head watching as this skateboard flies away and it goes yeah, and this big glob of this thick fluid flies out of this
immediate created mouth that it that it made just like a slug, you know, they have those weird mouths and flies toward the skateboard can both of you make a reflex save please as this thick glob Hits the skateboard and the skateboard immediately stops as it is captured in glue and starts falling Toward the the table like it is trapped 22 22 hell yes six six as this as this huge glob of this like Flemmy gross fluid is flying toward you the theory like you you get you can say whether you depthly
Jump out the way because the skateboard hasn't taken off the ground very far yet or you Get up in shock and then stumble and fall off the skateboard as this big Flemmy fluid
Yes, the absent mind of professor one. Yes that one you get up in shock and then stumble like you lose your footing lose the balance that you had and fall off onto the table as sky and the skateboard are Captured by this this fluidic substance both of you both of your speeds are zero theory like you dodged out the way of it and Sky as you are trapped in this fluid from this slug you feel a slight Burning on your hands on one of your hands, which is trapped inside. Can you make me a will save?
15 Your mind is cast back to where you found this slug on the Leviathan's eye these hundreds of zombies who had these slugs attached to their minds and you feel like There is something in this fluid that is trying to get you out of the way That is trying to get into your bloodstream You have avoided corruption
For now you do however take four acids damage. We're gonna cut over the sewers The rat With this unsuccessful attempt to like get the SD card out of its head this like quite aggressive tap that scraps droid drone had it screeches and I specifically you hear this like a whirring of like a burning of a tape as all of this This like almost EMP pulse comes from an overactivity of fear in this little rat's mind as arm I can you
Give me a reflex check as there's this small like of energy that explodes out Before you make that check the Zom says watch out you have a plus two bonus to that saving for ah That is good Commander shit
Because my role was not great. So let me see plus two you said so plus 12 15 Even with Azam's command you're not sure what it is, but diving out the way this this small burst of energy boof still hits you you I take 12 damage and Azam you take six that is that that is the rats turn as arm it is you can't do an athletics check to remove that SD card You know what athletics is all about like strength stuff
I'm down for you sprinting up toward it and trying to like push this thing and I think that's really cool. Yes, you can yeah, so I
Run forward like I skip out of the way. I almost get hit And then I immediately turn to face it run forward maybe like put a foot on one of its legs to push me high enough to 22 you do exactly as you describe you you you sprint up to it You like jump off one of its legs use its its little rat nose as like a small bit of like leverage as you Push it down and it's like slam the top of its head You feel the in click of this micro SD card and then the It comes out and you're a it is very big for you
It is still like a double hander, but it is out the rat is still up. This didn't seem to have damaged it But it has seemed to have disrupted the Mechanical things that are going on in it you you put it out It is a two-hander So you until you like put it down or give it to like scrap or whoever you won't be able to like do Anything that requires hands, but you you take out this SD card the abilities of this rat seem to have lessened quite dramatically I get is you now that the Chip is out
I'm gonna try to calm the rat again Literally just gonna like make myself smaller than I already am and they get like low to the ground just be like Everything is fine. Here's more cheese You know Okay, can you send me a voice clip of you saying that so I can listen to it when I have a bad day Everything is fine Just more cheese. Yes, it is calmed down more it like shocked with this
Relief that seems to be in in its head. I you feel the threat like not snap But lesser there is still technology on its head It's just slightly powered off in the minute as arm grabs this card and then you feel it like calm You pull out the cheese and then it's like it's again. It is still a little bit hostile
But it's far more neutral. It's not going to attack if you don't it is just a it's it's hostile in terms of the fact that it is A it's scared since you've all come in and then started like batting it on the head Which is quite scary for quite alarming for many things And I just I just say to his arm this is working and I don't think that we have to hurt it at all Scrap after you like release the micro SD from its head is going to sprint
Over to you and then be like come on give give give give give and then like Open up their their arms for you to pass over the the SD do you do you do that? Of course I do and then is going to After running up towards you is going to use the rest of their movements They only use 20 to run back to the drone. I'm holding this this SD your hands are free
As is Ike's and since then that is all done. We're gonna move Back on over to team slug Team slug Sky you Are you and your skateboarder currently trapped in this big thick goop that you? Can't seem to to move in Movement is completely zero and you can feel this natural Corruption that this slug emanates is is Attempting to infect you it is your turn. Okay. I imagine we're not I'm starting to think 10 minutes is a very long time
That's like three MCR songs. I don't know if we're gonna have enough time I'm giving you the grace of like the 10 minutes just isn't there the 10 minutes was you spent Because you didn't know it was combat today and I respect that like you spent your time on the patchwork before you came into wild times 90 building this grenade you just needed the ax a little bit to like pop in and the grenade is aww Thank you. Okay Um do what can I spend an action trying to get my hand out of the goop?
You're fully in the goop your your head and hand is almost the only thing that's not in the goop You're like completely encased like you are as is your skateboard Which is now currently all like a glob of snot like glued to the table. You can try and wrestle your way out. Yes, can I? So, you know how we talked about earlier that sci-fi is just like It's more fun when it's just magic and things don't have to scientifically make sense
I'm gonna do something there is there is actual magic in this universe. I is magical That is that is true, but I am about to do something where it's like I don't know if this is how this works, but it is a fun little way to think outside the box So we're all here to have fun. Let's go sky is swimming in the goop
And she's got her grenade. She's gonna put Her gas mask on and her goggles take out of one of her cargo short pockets a smoke grenade and Pull the thing in the hopes that the smoke will like I don't know if that's how that works, but I just think it'd be fun. I'm like Like I'm trying to like you're trying to blow yourself out of the thing Out of this not Take out of this not maybe it'll make oh you want to let ice because you want to make like a little pocket like a
Like an air bubble basically, right? Yeah. Yeah smoke will like fill up enough that the guy like Okay Here's how here's how this is gonna work. You're you're trying to make a sonic air bubble In this in this pile of goo
You are then going to try and wiggle out. I imagine you can roll me Because the normal roll is an acrobatics or athletics to try and Wiggle your way out and you can roll me this with advantage Because you're using one of your smoke grenades to make this small pocket 22 is the highest you pop this smoke this smoke grenade You like shove your free hand into the into the goop and then it and then makes a pocket big enough that you can like wiggle out of as you
Scramble out you can see that the goop is like and like quickly closing in like you've parted the seas for a second, but They're all gonna collapse in and and trap you even further a bubble in pudding you crawl out You can try to get your skateboard out also But it's gonna require you to reach a hand back in and try to pull it out skateboard. Yeah, reach reach for my board
All right. This is gonna be another acrobatics Actually, no, this is gonna be a sleight of hand It's gonna be a sleight of hand But if you fail this the dc is gonna be 15 if you fail this You are gonna be still in the goop skateboard is like my child or you can just leave never leave skateboard behind That's a six You you put your hand back in And you try you like fully grasp skateboard and you pull slightly
But can't I control skateboard with my mind? Can't I also like you can but it's like stuck in the goop It's like trying to wiggle but it's fully in jelly And as you try and pull it out you pull it out like halfway and then it collapses back in and traps your arm again As it and then captures your arm. Can you make me another will save please?
Isn't going very good for me. I'm so sorry. It's okay. Oh 21 you again feel the bubbling of this acid is trying to get inside of your Bloodstream to corrupt you but is unable to and you take two damage as it's just still just burning on you slightly Firiak you're out. You're free. You just watched sky try to grab the skateboard the glute We recaptured them as they were trying to get their skateboard. The slug is still there is weakened and is
Slowly making his way toward you. Okay Oh boy sky yeah Expose your forearms real quick working on it and then we'll load up another booster and just gonna uh with it with a basic booster which is You're gonna get plus one enhancement bonus to ac plus two enhancement bonus to all skill checks plus 10 foot enhancement bonus to their speed Whoa? Andre give me a second here Okay, you've gained 10 feet of speed yet
Plus two to all skill checks. You have plus one to your ac and that lasts four rounds I feel fast Thank you. Thank you
That's what i'm here for and then we'll oh god. Okay, I need to find a way. Oh How to subject myself to and then we'll uh stick themselves just willingly with with a needle the slug very slowly Approach you as it sees its little trapped prey we because it's at the bottom of the round I'm gonna head on over back to rat gang Do you rep do you rep the rat is going to i'm actually is going to use its full turn as it calms
Like it breathes and it's gonna edge its head out a little bit. It's gonna sniff the cheese And that's its whole turn It's on edge, but it's sniffing the cheese good as um, what you like to do You see we're friends we didn't want to hurt you we just had to get that thing out of you Don't worry and like I extend with our very warm hands out And then gently gonna like pat it snooped would you Like for a chance to completely end this combat to roll a survival
To see if you correctly pet it if you get a crit fail You're gonna punch this rat and this rat is gonna start Swiping out at everyone 14 the rat backs up a little bit as your hand slowly goes near it and then it Takes a bite of the cheese and you place your hand on it rat gang if they would like are out of initiative as You have calmed the rat enough that it was no longer in a threatening position. You have the SD card We made it. Yeah, okay
If you calm the rat the rat isn't going to be like super aggressive anymore. It is still a wild rat so it's not like Hyper kind to you all but um is not going to attack you as you as it's nibbling the cheese. I take one little corner of the cheese And then I put the rest down so it can just have it on its own and then I I snack Because I I needed a piece of cheese also. All right Okay I got the card Do we want to keep moving down the tunnel?
I mean, i'm not against it, but I just Meet a friend today That's good. Yeah, it's uh, it's a rare situation like yeah Looking okay. I'm Alive Everything is fine
Want to go further down the tunnel? Yeah Yes I think Yes We keep going Uh, so take it come on and like with like a audible grunt and like the cracking of the spine his arms stand straight up again The rat backs off a small amount with the fact with the hearing the clicking of your spine and your sudden stand up But then calms again upon your Nice. Okay. That's all right The rat is snacking on the cheese are all of you moving past we will
Yeah, all of you move past the rat. It's going to take you One round to get Into the experiment chamber. So if you're all just full booking it you will arrive at the edge of the experiment Chamber with the theory i can sky and the slug Oh, yeah, let's go as fast as we can. We will sprint And Sky it is your turn are we going to try and force our way out of this goop again? Would it be an easier role to just try and get my grenade hands out of there?
Your grenade hand is out of it. It's your other hand that is in in my in my mind Your grenade is in your right hand and your left hand is stuck in the goop. It's equivalent of of 35 40 foot away But okay. I have my hand stuck in the skateboard and I got my grenade in my right hand. My grenade is fully built Yeah, theory act doc. Yes. I'm sorry that I said that you don't work well under pressure Here's a chance to work well under pressure with a grenade
I need you to get this slug to imprint on you like a baby duck. Can you make that happen? You know what imprinting that's that's pretty advanced any Oh, yes theory act. I am stupid in so many areas, but there's a couple areas where i'm like wicked smart Baby ducks is one of those areas. We'll have to get some and then we'll snatch the grenade Run a little bit forward and then
Chuck it. I kind of want you to miss because it'd be so funny. It would be so funny if you missed 15 you Love this grenade it This like green Gas that that explodes from this from this grenade this slug As it is slowly moving towards you just slowly stops And shifts its weight and shifts again its eyes blink and Turn and look at you and it seems like this slug has calmed sky. However Can you give me a will check since your arm is still in this goop I can do that. I guess
Have you considered making not making me do that though? That's a 10 this slug Shifts its weight and looks toward theory egg And as you're looking toward this feeling pretty proud of the fact that your grenade worked and your call of getting theory egg to throw it Um was a good idea There is like a small fog that kind of rolls in in your mind your vision starts to blur as
Even though you feel your body move. It doesn't feel like you are moving it You're going to take you just need to write this down one corruption as this zombie'd curse begins to Inflict your mind the acid has successfully made its way into your bloodstream and is slowly turning you into one of these slug zombies God I also need you to take four damage, please I will I'm gonna meta for you all Whenever you fail that role you take one level of corruption when you get to three levels You become
Full. Oh my god Sky was feeding This slug cheese puffs a day ago. I feel like that's important Oh, it's very important. I thought we were cool burger and fries As you yell, I I thought we were cool. You feel that you're the words kind of falter in your own throat and you kind of Flub a couple of words since your tongue feels a bit too big in your no, I can't lose the ability to talk That's like my favorite thing Oh Oh god, you staring at this slug here From behind oh Oh god, it's
The paralysis effects. Oh god, the slug is still shifting its weight and looking at the two of you Although this imprinting has worked sudden movements do seem to interest it and kind of spike it out of this thought process So we're gang Sprint all three of you see a crack in the copper pipe that leads clearly into the Experimental chamber you actually aren't able to hear anything since it's equivalently pretty far and this noise is very very quiet
Since it's just like slow slug moving noises and it's a mainly an internal noise rather than an external But you can see the chamber that you're all trying to get in at the end of this round after the slugs turn All three of you will make it into the chamber and then I will combine the initiatives sky I would like you to make me a will save please Okay five Your vision almost entirely goes black You can feel Your heart beat in your chest
You can almost just hear the movement of your bones as they creak inside of your own body Theriac As you run over to sky you see Her eyes are clouded over big thick green and purple veins Run up her arm to her neck and I will say if you do get too close She is going to make a strike at you. Oh, well, i'm right next to her so I'm right next to her And do I do I take damage as well?
Yes, you do because you're still inside of the thing that is an additional four damage I feel like you can tell Momo's stressed out because suddenly she's like well We're not going to talk about what's narratively happening here. Let's talk numbers. Yes mechanically Is it four? Because it's a mechanical tom Four four four damage I need to break my own immersion right now. We're just gonna do a little combat game and it's gonna be fine
It's gonna be fine. So theriac you said that you run up to sky Unfortunately, I did just roll a nat 20 immediately takes a a swipe at you. It's not fully
It's it's not fully just like random gurgles. You can hear Sky's voice in like the back of this thing's throat This is so sad that is 11 damage to you 11 damage She strikes out and just like hits you in the face as you as you run you are there in front of her sky Slashes a theriac and actually manages to break the skin of the garlic And now it is like exposed clove underneath That was a that was a big chunk of damage. Uh, it was painful here. It was like Okay
Get the micro lab. Uh, we'll pull out the micro lab very quickly i'm going to make I'm going to use that in combination with my med kit to Administer an antidote is this a is this just an ability that you have dc 25 medicine checks to treat deadly wounds Would you consider this a deadly wound? I would also under the physical science skill craft drug poison or medicinal is here And because of your micro lab, I will allow you to quickly use the like combination of a booster and inhibitor to
Make the role to make a full antidote. Okay, so I will use a Physical science check or life science or physical science Physical science physical physical that's that's fine Fine no, I got a nat one There is just Theriac doesn't work well under pressure And there is just too much going on So you feel a heavy shift behind you As you feel the slug Slightly lurched towards you whether it whether or not it's a
It's it's for angry purposes. It's not yet to be said Your hands are just shaking And you haven't set up your lab right and you're not able to Concentrate or do what you want to do The top of the round Azam, ike and scrap all All make it onto the table that even with all of the initiatives combined Sky is still first I'm really glad I made all those animatics of my character. That's about to Be coming. No, that's great. No, don't even give that thought
Voice in your head. It's not gonna happen. I would be so dramatic. I live for the drama If you would make me I will say Um, i'm just gonna pray i'll be right back eat the mubarak everybody Um, how are we how how are we gonna tell our friends that that's a six Death feels weird You feel not a rush but a Slow agreement that your blood makes with this poison as it works its way towards your brain Your vision clouds and goes black You feel your body snap And contort itself
You feel like it's fighting a losing battle one that your brain has already lost You feel yourself float Not in a physical sense more of a metaphysical The darkness That you see starts to swarm into new forms And even though you're here You feel your body being forced to move You feel your arms swing and your legs kick Blashing out in anger, but in your brain You feel a pulling toward this darkness A tree forms branching its way throughout this eternal dark space You hear Breathing
This slow inhale like the breath is trying to draw you toward it And There's a shifting in the darkness Something slithers behind you large uncaring but acknowledging your space There's a howl off somewhere in the distance From beyond the darkness something changes for You And the tree shudders Back on the table Theriac It is your turn Skye's jaw slacks They slump almost like their personality has been Wiped clean of their body and they slump and stumble And twitch as they look up at you
Your lab is set out in front of you. It's your turn No, no, I I Just wait one moment and we'll rush and try again to make uh an antidote In the denial of what just happened give me a physical science, please Much better That is a 31 Seeing Skye's body shift something matches that shift in you a A adrenaline rush of intellect as soon as you see this problem Face out in front of you using some of the sludge that Skye is trapped in you whip together an antidote in a small
needle injector will load up a An inhibitor inject that immediately and then will then Inject the antidote to follow This is both into Skye you're injecting this. Yes. Can you before any of this? You've done all you've created it. You have it. Can you give me you can pick life or physical science? I'll do life science. That's a nat 20 this antidote You have to the best of your ability created you are so Sure that this is going to work, but you can see that Skye is Skye is
Quite far gone. This antidote is going to work But Skye is going to need full Medical support after she will still need time to recover She is she also is still inside of this goop And you are not sure of the ramifications of you injecting an antidote Which you have one of and her still being inside of this this glob of poison You Gather the idea that getting her out and then injecting her Would give you the highest chance of getting her back After injecting the inhibitor
All of that runs through the rex mind Takes a step back and like Looks around Can they see uh azam? Azam come quick I run over sprint over what Skye we need to pull Skye out of I don't even wait for that sentence to finish I Reach out with burning hot hands Into the goop and grab my friend to drag her out You Shove your hands in there is this immediate sizzle as this as the the wet burns away and you wrench Skye out you both
Collapse and fall down. I wrap my arms around her protectively All right, just hold her still Just for a second and we'll try and aim Uh for a vein spot and then Inject the antidote
I'm not gonna make you roll for it. You're a doctor. You know how to do this But I am going to move over to Skye This Void that you found yourself in the large Shifting of creature behind you these howls this Being just beyond the veil that changes forms this constant inhalation It starts to match your own breathing But your lungs burn as you try to keep up with the breaths They breathe too deep too cruelly for you to catch up You can still feel your body In the material plane
But as you're watching Trying to find some form of meaning between all of these different sensations around you looking at this one tree that stretches on toward the infinite you feel a Shove back toward your body You can feel in this metaphysical that your arm begins to reconnect to the arm and your physical and just like a dream this whole space Begins to fade away The large shifting behind you stops The howl quietens The shifting creature fades from memory and this tree in front of you burns
As this breathing Un-sinks with your own You're still unconscious, but you know that you're in your own body And this space but gets completely forgotten As you lie still Alive I don't need to be lodged to use the uh the telecom system, correct No I'm calling um Oh wild times, uh Emergency services and security Uh What I was emergency services, how can I help you hello, this is a doctor theriac I am in uh, the experimentation bay uh, we have um a particular individual who has been uh
compromised by a new specimen That was being uh held in the in the bay. Uh, we need uh immediate medical attention to them asap Of course doctor we'll send out someone to To help you now. Theriac is going to look at look at ige. Can you with the the board? Can we do that now? Do What with the board? Activate the shrink activate the Reverse engage the shrink ray so it becomes an enlarging ray so that we can return back to proper size Can we do that really like okay?
Um, I I imagine there is a visible shrink ray in this room There is a very you can see what is here. Yes There is a very obvious shrink ray the thing that you know is the thing that does it as well as a console that Uh, you can probably speak to it. Um, well I run as fast as I can up to it and um Hi, I'm so sorry. We really need uh your help very badly. We need to all be normal sized Uh people again, can you please please please please?
Give me a computer's check, please Uh 21 You hear and feel an acknowledgement and everyone sees the ray go from Red to blue as it Ding and you can see that the shrink ray has switched modes scrap Scrap being the last to climb up and seeing everything that's going on. Oh my god sky sky Is is is she okay? What's wrong? We are we need to get her to medical attention asap uh the slug, uh Coded her in some of the paralysis. Um mucus so we need to escort her to
An emergency room asap. All right. Fuck. All right. Fine. Where do you need me? I need you to grab sky alongside azam and move her towards the ray Azam clearly does not need help to pick up sky. I'm sorry, but scrap does Does go on but isn't isn't doing any of the pickup is just like taps on Sky's face a little bit and he's like hey there, it's all gonna be all right. Don't you worry? Hey, we're gonna get you we're gonna get you out
We got some of the smartest people in all of the galaxy right here for you. Okay The slug lurches forward slightly But again doesn't seem to be Aggressive azam actually we're going to leave initiative since this slug is not aggressive It is in it is approaching everyone, but i'd just like to know what everyone is doing Ike is working on the board Azam and scrap are with sky right now The req is going to gonna do their best to try and redirect the slug away from the ray because
What we don't need is a giant slug to break out of here so i'm going to try and Course, correct. Can you give me a survival with advantage since the slug is not hostile to you?
I roll the one and a two that is That it that's just two You move around to try to get the slug to come follow you but the slug seems to be Interested in this large gathering of people it seems to have the a certain affinity for sky Since sky has been infected with the with the mucus and is edging more toward this The conglomeration of everyone you haven't yet distracted it was we I said we're out of initiative, but we're we're we're being fanciful with it Yeah, azam
The shrink ray has yet to fully move to its core Yet to fully move to its correct position you are holding sky. I'm going to creep out my hand one of my arms under her And then hold use my other to prop her up and hold her again extremely protectively This is like akin to how someone is holding either a fallen soldier or their own child
But the hand that's reaching out is beginning to glow a bit brighter. It's not as bright as it should be because azam himself is sickened But should that thing come within 15? feet Should the thing come close enough? That I can hit it with My heat I will I I'm gonna keep focusing on making the ray Work, would you like to push it into position or would you like to? Try to just like more ready it up. I guess i'm just
I yeah, I don't think that I have the strength to move it. It can be mechanically moved as well Okay, so you could try to do a little hack to try and mechanically move it then. Yes Uh, so yeah, uh, I will i'll just sort of be like you need to make that girl over there Human-sized it fully moves at the full 90 degree angle is now pointing at the crew The slug edges forward. It's now pretty close as arm. It is within the 15 foot it
Again doesn't seem hostile. It seems curious. I don't care. I'd like to make a reflex save, please It fails that reflex save 14 fire damage you Open up your palms and this white hot air bursts out it dries and cracks Cracks the mucus on the slug everyone can see the slug going from not hostile to actively being attacked as it shifts and angrily like
However, that is an absolutely huge amount of damage. It seems it does seem very hurt However, it does now seem hostile So I am going to put us back into initiative order since you are now actively in a combat service scenario I guess next I believe no, we just did I we just do I we just go back to the top Go back to this That's you theory act the see set happen and Is going to Rush
Using just a straight dash action with this last round of the plus tens fee. Yeah To just book it and then it's going to say to I I activate it now go please go 22 there is this loud whirring As uh the now growth rate Charges up turns on and then
Hits all of you. You all feel yourself grow and get bigger and bigger The slug stays the the the same height you're all pushed from this table all falling and crumbling over each other as you all Crash down to the ground and you're all normal size again A zom still have sky like in I would have held on to her Yeah, like for dear life You hear a little car like drive up and if someone flings open the door looking at all of you Who needs medical this girl right here?
Where do you want to outside outside walks through the door like stupid a little as he does so to try and make sure that he's as protecting sky as possible Until there's a safe place to lay her down you Lay sky down all four of you with scrap watch sky get put down. There is uh, someone who's like checking her pupils and Then they do like a one two three and put her on a stretcher and then put her on the back of her thing
Um on this little emergency jeep that they have we're going to be taking her to the medical bay. Is anyone else? I'm fine Uh, yeah, fine. I Definitely bleeding Let me let me take a look at you first someone else goes over to attend to sky and they like Start preparing her to hook her up to an ivy and and this other person comes over to you actually, I think it's best that we all go to the medical bay I very unfortunately Can't do that right now. Where are we going? Come on?
theory act will like pull his arm to the side I think You have most likely deduced this at this point. You shot yourself. Yeah, there is He what? slightly There was a chip inside bullet. It was supposed to upload Uh lorick's consciousness into something which means this was either a trap or a plot Something's rotten in the state of wild times
I am trying very hard not to be aggressively sarcastic right now. I think It would be best For you to stay with sky I don't think that you Being with me as I approach The board would be why you're being alone right now is not wise Please because if someone came for lorick and they belong to your board they could come for you Bringing in an outsider will be seen as as an attack You just survived being shrunk almost shot and attacked by a slug We'll well pass aggressive negotiations
I can stay outside but at least let one of us be in your eyes shot So if something should happen to you, we can see it and act All right All right fine I scrap Yeah
You two accompany sky to scrap is already on the jeep. Yeah, it's like sat next to a company Yeah, it's like sat next to a company here to the med bay We have some business to attend to um Oh uh Scrap puts the hand in their pocket and pulls out a now very small Uh micro sd card Um and then hands it Reaches out to you therian um We found that Azam can fill you in I mean it was in a rat with the camera on its head it was recording things in the pipes Oh my god I told them not to
You can grumble about it on the way. Come on
Yes. Yes. Okay. Let's go. Let's go just before I hop in the cart ambulet Thing go up to theriac and azam who are about to head off in a different direction theriac I think There's a lot happening right now I I think it's all gonna be okay eventually but um you did fully just save sky's life, um and I think I just want to I just want you to remember that you did that and I would just like to kind of like a little hand on their shoulder and Uh, I would like to cast a fluid morphism
To give them a plus two to intelligence For a while Oh shit I've got 20 ins right now No Um theriac more like brainiac. Am I right as theriac gets like that wave they are like All the neurons are firing at this at this moment as that Washes over them Thank you I'd I'd be smiling if I weren't so stressed But thank you
Sorry, we'll we'll talk in as soon as this is over. Okay Okay I you get on the Jeep I imagine You're sat in the back with a Emt I imagine it is who is Looking over sky and then turns to you and scrap both of whom I mean scrap is like Perfectly fine as the jeep Puts out and drives toward the medical facility leaving you theriac and his arm in the park. It is Very late. It was dark when you Met up with lorik. It is still it is like far later
It's like full middle middle of the night. The park is closed to outsiders Theriac is going to direct their eyes towards raven's roost Are the lights on? Yeah, the lights are always on in raven's roost this huge floating orb that Looks over the park Is still floating silently in the sky almost Like a second moon that was just watching over the things that you had just done All right We'll discuss what
The steps we take next on our way there. Theriac you can be okay. No, no, I mean physically Mentally no There's a lot to go through in one day for anyone The hunt Is not over yet. It doesn't mean you can't take a second a split second to stop catch your breath And acknowledge the seriousness of a situation
We have to go. Theriac, I like grab theriac by the shoulder I don't tell you how to do medical shit When it comes to fighting wars battles hunts You're not the expert I am Come on and then I start walking towards raven's roost Walking towards raven's roost The medical bay is Less rudimentary than you think a park's medical bay would be Since there's a lot of To be frank quite dangerous animals lurking around they have they're quite well equipped for problems of this nature
They've put sky in a in a room a private specified room since Theriac is the co-founder you have all been bumped up in importance They're laying on a bed being hooked up to an ivy with a monitor Going on in the background they They have then taken you Ike and scrap out of the room just as they get set up and you are sat Right outside the room But are still separated by a by a door Is there a reason we can't be in the room with her?
No, the doctors are just setting up so they just need some space You'll be able to go in the room and sit next to her in a few minutes Okay soon Very and you have a little plaster they sort of you earlier and they've they've they've cleaned you up and they Maybe a nod and then leave since the park is closed. This is emergency staff only so there's really no one in these Hallways aside from yourself and scrap as the doctor leaves Scrap, are you okay?
uh Yeah, I mean She'll be fine she's gotten herself through worse scrapes Just um, yeah, I just wasn't expecting to see her like that at all. Oh Definitely not She'll be okay though How are you worried I'm worried Trying not to be but I still don't feel Like it was a good idea for The Achaena's song to go There Without the rest of us. I feel like something terrible is happening and I don't really understand what it is yet Um, and I'm just very worried. How are you doing after? I don't know.
I'm too worried about everything else. And I don't know what exactly happened. So I'm not doing well, Scrap. Um, when I was in your position, I also didn't handle it too well and had other things that I was trying to focus on. Speaking from that, if you keep putting off feeling that, it's gonna start eating you up. I just need to understand what actually happened. Because you and Dizam are... I know... I know it feels... I know the feeling, okay?
But, again, I don't know if it's they did it to themselves and you stopped it or if someone else did this to them. But I still think you did the right thing. I know that doesn't... I know that doesn't help. But I do want you to know that... I hope it brings you some comfort to know that I think that you saved someone from a far worse alternative. It isn't that I don't believe you. I do, and I do genuinely appreciate that. But I would like to know that for sure.
And I would really like to tell Dr. Theriac. But I can't do that until I know that they're also not directly in danger anymore because this seems to be all ongoing. I think I don't get to feel better about this until I do what I'm supposed to do. But thank you for trying. I do appreciate it. You're very brave, Ike. I'm... Not that at all, Scram. I am afraid of almost everything and everyone. Almost. And I'm very much afraid of what I just did as well. So I don't feel very brave.
I think that's what makes you brave. People can't be brave unless they're scared. And you've helped us so many times. You keep fighting against your fear. Is that not what bravery is? Did something that a lot of people won't do. You saw a giant rat and you were brave enough to try and help it. You were brave enough to race in a race that we colloquially call the Death Race. That is what bravery is, Ike. Is being scared and trying your best anyway. Maybe. Well, I like that idea.
I just don't know that I feel very brave right now. I think that we're here and I guess, like you said, we have to get through this no matter what. And we need to make sure that Skye is okay and we need to get to the bottom of what's going on in Theriax's world here. And I can't just go hide in the pipes. We need to just do it. I guess you could be right.
Scrap puts a hand on your leg, a little mechanical clawed hand, pats and then moves the hand back to themself and sits in contemplative silence. You can feel that there's more to be said, but they might not be brave enough. She'll just turn the hand, also. And then she'll just pass the door into the next room. Skye, you awake slowly to the hums and beeps around a room. She feels off. It was in a different state for a very long time and you didn't have the luxury of acclimatization when you grew.
Your head is swimming like a powerful hangover and as you shift, your eyes open to a blurry room, you see a figure in the corner underneath a security camera. You're cloaked mostly in shadow, staring back at you. And then as you blink, this figure is gone. And you regain consciousness, enough to speak. Can I get up? You can get up. Your arm is connected to the IV and the heart monitor still. Where am I? Can I figure that out? Yes.
I'm gonna hang up my phone and I'm gonna text Theria. I might as well text the group chat. Hey, I'm conscious. How do you spell conscious? Whatever. Thank you for, I'm assuming, saving my life. But, Dr. Theriak, did you give me over to the medical team of the theme park that we believe to be corrupt enough to try and kill you? Dot dot dot. All I'm saying, dot dot dot, is don't let this turn into a hostage situation, because that's just gonna be real embarrassing for all involved. See you soon.
Very tired. Sky. Send. And then I'm gonna take a selfie in the bed. I would like to imagine that this comes through, because that was a long text, but it comes through in like three separate messages. They're out of order. Oh, PS, Dr. Theriak, is hallucinations a symptom of fatigue or slug slime? I get responsive. Eye slash scrap. Question mark, question mark, question mark. The door is like, as soon as the text is sent, the door is flung open and scrap is, scrap an eye, can I imagine.
Holy shit, there she is. There's nobody in here. I guess not. Was there supposed to be, I just imagine there'd be a doctor or nurse or something. I think they just gave her a few minutes to rest. How you doing, slugger? Don't talk so loud, scrap. Sorry. That's okay. I mean, I lived, so. Yeah, you did. I was fucking scary for a minute there. Oh, I was terrified.
It's a good thing that I lost the ability to speak, because I think I would have traumatized the doctor a lot more than their little heart could have handled today, you know? Right. I am good at cards on the table here, my dudes. I am not as fighting fit as I'd like to be, so I just want to make sure that the vibes here check out, because this just could end badly, you know what I'm saying? Because I don't even know what I'm saying right now.
The minute, the few words leave my head, I forget what I said moments ago. Yes, I agree. This is, everything is quite precarious still, but, um, well, that's why Scrap and I are here. You can rest until you get strong again, and once you are, then we can figure this out. But you definitely need to get stronger first. Uh, okay. What the frack happened? Well, we... I have no idea. We ran into the room.
We came up, yeah, and you were swinging and frothing at the mouth, Azarm had to pull you out of the goop and Theriac hit you with something. Then I moved the ray and we all grew back to normal size. Theriac called the med team. That's why we're here. Where are Theriac and Azarm? They're going to the headquarters to confront the Lord. I don't, it was sort of a decision made unilaterally, so we, it's just, it is what it is. They're over there. This is a mess.
Okay, I can't tell you guys to go follow them, because this is a hostage situation waiting to happen. I agree. We're not leaving you. But, but also them going to see the evil council by themselves. I feel like the plan could be improved from this point on. I, I, I mean, yeah, they, they put us in that situation and, and, and, you know, whatever happened, happened, but they needed to hide, even though they were planning on killing a few of us.
So I don't think they're that strong. I think they're just people. And Azarm is there. Theriac has a wicked streak. So I actually think that figuring out what's happening and yeah. Well, hmm. All right. Well, what do we do, B team? Well, I was thinking maybe as long as there's no staff in here, I could see if there's a way for me to sort of move your recovery process along a little quicker. I don't know. If you do that.
I can, I don't really understand half the things I do, but I could look around. Okay. Putting my life in your hands has not done me wrong so far. That's good. You're telling me. Well, go on. Yeah, go have a look around. I guess. I guess I want to, I would wonder if there's maybe like a computer on wheels or other such medical equipment that is technological that I could peek into. Yeah, there's some basic computers that they use to like track the, track patients health like a live feed.
While you're doing this, I'm just going to rest my eyes. As I, as you turn scrap. Like does grab skies handed and squeeze it a little just to make eye contact and then too much physical contact. Get that intimacy away from me scrap. What are you doing? I just wanted to ask if you were right. If I could move my arm I smack you. I'm fine. Yeah, you said it. Go on. Keep moving on. Sounds encouraging. Now try to peek into this here computer. What kind of information are you trying to find out?
I'm looking, I would, okay, my, my hope of all hopes is that I can look at Skye's little chart that they've made. See what the current status is and see if maybe there's any like information about what the treatment plan would be. Schedule her surgery up. I'm just going to move you up in the queue. That's all. Sure. That, that will be a super easy computers. Okay. 18? It being, it being a quiet night, this is an emergency med bay, but you do see like one or two people ahead of Skye.
You see that she needs very basic poison checks and antidotes over the next few days. The IV that she's like plugged into is doing like a dramatic amount of help with fluids and then trying to like flush out the poisons. As well as the antidote also did very well. You push the medicines ahead and yeah, and that's a, that's a, that's a easy thing to do. It should, it will arrive within like the next hour. I feel like my veins have been stung by 300 bees. Because I think they have actually.
It was one slug. You know, one slug, but an acid slug. Listen, I know, I know this isn't the highest priority, but do you think that this medical bay has food? Yeah, I can get you some stuff from the vending machine. I, I, could I? I want to get it myself. I hate this. I hate everything about this. This is an awful situation for me. Skye, you very need to rest, at least until the medicine comes. I hate being a sitting duck. I don't like sitting. It's my worst.
This is the exact opposite of fast scrap. Yeah, but you're a sitting duck now, but that's only because you're an angry goose and someone attacked that angry goose and you now need to be a sitting duck just for a little bit. That was all theory actually. Don't think of it as a sitting duck. I just kind of handed them the tools to do it. Well, you got them. You, you, they used your skateboard. Where's my skateboard? You see that your skateboard is just like on the side.
Like it's a little, it's a little dinged. There's like some acid burns wearing off the paint and there's like a sticker or two that have, have burnt off slightly. I can't believe I gave Burger and Fries cheesy puffs and this is the payment I get. Well, I don't think that, you know, there was any nefarious reasons behind it. I think that they just are, they are just, that's just what they are naturally. Slugs will be slugs. Slugs will be slugs. I sure hope Azam and Theriak are doing okay. Me too.
Azam, you stand at the monorail to Raven's Roost. Lights are still on, but because of how late it is, you can't really imagine that there's any of the board members working, but they do, all of them do stay in Raven's Roost. The only one who didn't was Kizkak, who stayed off planet, but they have gone on holiday or gone on holiday in quotation marks. Can we get a rundown of everybody really quick again?
We have Mr. Helo Lepore, who is a human, is the person who met you at the gateway and you shuttled down with. We have Sir Mincell, who is a Cassathar, whose long elongated head ends at a certain point and has been replaced with a fish tank. They sit on the Hermod Tech Board of Directors, which is a big tech company. Does Lepore have a specialization? Lepore is the business, they deal with the big picture, big main investor.
They are like pseudo an ideas person and also like a big, big investor, arguably the biggest investor in wild times. We have Fede, who is an Android. She is the person who deals in getting more investors involved in the company, is very much the face when you are not the face. And she works with social media and publicity and stuff? Yes. We had Kiskak, who was a Shiren and was the park and ride manager.
She dealt with all of the installing the things and getting the wild times equivalent of Imagineers involved. Lorik is the person who was just killed, who was finances, and then you have Lin, who is the screedreep, who is your second. Oh, you know what? We didn't do anything with Lorik, did we? No, Lorik is very much still there. Can we, before we leave actually, decide what we want to do with Lorik before we run away to Raven's Roost?
Before the whole party splits, you want to decide? Or just yourself and Izom? I'm okay with either. We can do it over text. I mean, the rest of the group is still hanging around Sky. Yeah, we can just do it over text. Now that Sky is awake, what do we want to do with Lorik? Izom does not answer the question, instead grunts and sits down on the sidewalk with his arms out in front of him. I'm good with whoever everyone else wants.
As I understand the situation, anything that would pin me publicly as the aggressor would essentially be the end of my cooperation with Wild Times. It would be very easy for them to spin the story of myself being a tyrannical co-founder. And I know that's what they want. They want me off the board. Anything that would give them that power is what we want to avoid. Are we getting this through text? Yeah, it's the text message. You didn't hear what I said? Right, okay.
Oh, I will say everything that, like the long explanation of the theory act's thought process was just said to Izom, not sent to the child. Thank you. Okay. Who was Lorik's? Sky, the bug-like fellow? I now text the group chat. Dead one. Oh. Put the body on top of a high building. People will smell the smell of burning flesh and assume it is a barbecue, and no one will look on top, yet the heat will dispose of the body. Good night. Okay. We're gonna talk about that later. I...
Sorry, gang. Sky's very drugged up right now. Okay, um... I am open to... disposing the body. I can go do it. I've done it before. Is Lorik dead? Question mark? Yes, although we may not want to do anything drastic with his body until we confirm something. Oh my god. I don't say- I don't text oh my god, but I say it aloud. I can tell them. If you want me to. I have to. I- Tell them what?
I take out- I take my phone back out and send another message, saying they were shot with a bullet that had some sort of communicator that was sending data somewhere else, and I thought that was dangerous. So, I stopped it. I don't know exactly what that means yet. What if we contacted security again? No, but that would-
Fyriak, you're obviously- you're obviously overthinking things. So, think about that. Come on, right here. What do you want to achieve? What's the goal? Short-term goal. What's the short-term goal? Short-term goal is to- oh my god, I don't know what I want to do. Okay, then. Um, I want to discover what the plot is. That's what I want to do. Do you think Asbest discovered tonight or tomorrow? Do you think it even makes a difference?
Uh, well, uh, okay, well, if I- if I know- if I know the board members, most of them should be asleep. If we wanted to get a direct line to them, we could try to speak with one of them. I'm pretty sure that trying to speak to all of them would raise many red flags, but speaking to one would only raise one red flag.
So we'd have to get into a place of residence quite and quickly enough, or they'll raise any alarm. So now, pick one who's most vulnerable. Go through a list. Who's overconfident enough to not have good security systems, or alternatively, who's low on wrong enough, or cheap enough not to have one. Would it also be worthy to waive the option of who would be most integral to this plot and try and remove the person with most influence in that scheme?
Ask yourself, do you need allies on your board, or do you need enemies? You take down Top Brung, it'll last for a bit, but you'll make many enemies. If you bring up yourself an ally, it might be easier to figure out what needs figuring out before you take a lot of them down. It's up to you. At this point, you can really see that Azam is just not as energetic as he's supposed to be.
I will also just really quickly interject. They're not part of the overarching board, but they do technically count as one. The other co-founder, Mr. Wild, is also on planet and in Raven's Roost. Oh. Alright, I have two primary thoughts. Let's go with Doe Number One. We approach Mincel, who is the head of tech for Wild Times. Mincel would be able to assist us in understanding what that chip was that was lodged inside that bullet.
If that is something that would have been accessible to people coming into Wild Times, or if that would have been smuggled in, and determine if this would have been brought in or readily supplied on site. That's thought number one. And Doe Number Two. Door Number Two is to contact Mr. Wild himself. Wait, hold on, hold on. This place is named after a Mr. Wild? It came with certain licensing rights, let's say. But Mr. Wild is the other co-founder alongside myself.
Which means a probable guaranteed ally. Or Big Bad. To my understanding, he was the initial, not just co-founder, but funder. As in readily provided the funding needed to kickstart the actual facility. And oversaw lots of the executive decisions as it progressed further into more of a lived in experience. Yeah, for just general context for you, Andre.
The Idun used to be just like a housing, essentially just a group of holiday homes. Four upper-deckers from Saga, they would come in and just live in the holiday homes and that was it. Mr. Wild was in charge of expansion and expanding that area. Hired you, and then you came up with the idea of instead of just getting rid of the animals, biohacking them.
And then they backed you in this process to make it more. So you wouldn't have that much contact with them, but they would have helped set up meetings with investors and stuff. So yes, everything you said is correct on top of just that little bit of background. So it's, like you say, it's likely he will be a guaranteed ally or likely the root cause of all of this.
Alright, so I ask again, which one supports your short-term goal best? More information gathering or going straight to someone who will either know all or back us up to know all? We can work with information. People change. It's more utilitarian for us to discover more about the evidence theory we have rather than... I'm going to say this once. Don't think like a scientist. They're counting on you to think like a scientist right now. They know you. Trust what's...
Do you have an equivalent of a heart or a soul? Do you delegate it to someplace? You have a soul, yes. And where do your people think you keep it? Up here? Nocks on his own head? Up in here? Nocks on his chest? I once met people who thought a soul was in their feet. And yes, I realize how silly that sounds in trade language. That's not silly. That's our souls are not in our roots. Alright. No, I meant it sounds silly because souls of a feet are different than souls. But they meant both.
Oh, I understand. As in S-O-E-E. Yeah. Trade is such a terrible language sometimes. It's awful. Think and then I motion to your roots. Alright. Alright. Alright. Alright. Alright. How would you like to meet the other co-founder of Wild Times? I mean, I'm not that excited, but I can psych myself up. And like with a loud crack, he just stands up to his full height. Let's go. And we're gonna make our way over to Mr. Wild's residency. And with that, we're going to call our session here today.
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And then I got to get up. Oh, no, don't say so sad.