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Hey, it's us, Payton, with a role playing

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public radio. We're playing Eclipse

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Bay, second edition tonight. It

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has been a hot minute since I run it, and

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we have a new cell of

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firewall agents here.

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The scenario is called Chancel,

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which is a part of a cathedral. So

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I don't, in an architectural term. Yeah,

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I don't use, yeah, it's very new for me to use architecture.

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I've never done that. Yeah. So all

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three of you are firewall agents. Before

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we introduce where you are, where we're beginning the scenario,

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I'll give you your background briefly, but first tell

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us who you're playing and who you are. Hi,

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gang. It's me, Chris. It's me. I'm the guy I

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am playing a character called Chi.

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It is a mechanical small

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dragonfly that flies around a barsoomian

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activist,

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a cheeky, a cheeky person.

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If you can call him a person, he works for past humanity.

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Yep.

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It is very much a transhumanist. So

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I agree. Is that character. Are you like like

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an AGI that's like a digital

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mind? Or are you like a person? What this is here?

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Background. Like, are you were

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you originally human or since

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you're my family's soul self? Sorry. So you. Okay.

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So you're you're inhabiting a robot right now. A human

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inhabiting a robot body, which is just what

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you do. Um,

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we have a new role player today. We do.

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Hi. Welcome. Thank you. Hi,

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Amanda. Hi. So I'm Amanda. I'm playing

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this character, Astika, and

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I don't know anything about them.

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Well, they are from the Eclipse

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phase. These are pre-made. She

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and Astika are from the pregens in

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the Eclipse phase core book. So you can look at that if you

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have the PDF or the print book.

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But Astika is a gate crashing

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scientist, Xeno archaeologist. So

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you go to alien planets and look at alien

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artifacts and ruins, trying to figure out what the dead

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aliens were doing. Yeah. Robot

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Indiana Jones. Yeah.

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So, and you're in a Slytheroid body, which is a

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robot, you know, snake person kind

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of thing. And there's your bullet. Use your tail.

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Yeah. Oh, there you go. You

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could do that if you wanted to.

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Stika Jones. Stika Jones.

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Oh my God, you should totally do that.

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And then we have Tom,

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who actually made a- I made my dude, playing

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Goddard. He is a,

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he's a game crasher and explorer.

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Okay. And survivalist. Okay.

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And obviously he's also a Slytheroid

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because it's way easier to survive in a robot

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body, but you don't need biological shit like

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food and sleep. All right.

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So all of your members of Firewall.

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Firewall is a secret organization run

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by volunteers that wants

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to protect what's left of humanity from

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other existential threats. Threats that, threats

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for the,

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all of the existence of humanity.

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Things that could kill everyone who's left. It's not

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a precarity. Yeah. And so I've got 90% of

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everybody 10 years ago and the

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last remaining 10% are really,

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really desperate to hang on. So

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yeah. And

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you've been recruited for your background mission

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before you went out to mission, is

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that you are all actually going to be forks. You're going

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to be copies of your egos.

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So basically people make copies of your minds

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and sent them on this mission. So you know that

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you're a copy, but that's okay.

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So- What is real

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and who, what does it mean to be a person? Who knows?

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So they know that

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a very rich person, an oligarch on

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Mars, Jorg

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Fugger basically,

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yeah, that was funny name. Good

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job.

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Liquidated his entire

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portfolio, all of his money and spent

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it on resources to

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send through one of the Pandora gates, one of the

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gates that let you travel outside of the solar

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system for something

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and nobody-

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news knew what it was and people and

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firewalls like well that can't be good. What

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if he builds a weapon and comes back and kills us all

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and or tries to take over?

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Or what if he attracts an alien you know

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an alien threat and leads them

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to us you know, we got to see what he's doing.

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What if he's building a shitty amusement park? So there's

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a fourth agent in your team, an

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AGI, an AI hacker

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who just lives as software

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and computer systems and they

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but they present themselves as a little cat

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girl whenever you have virtual meetings. They

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go by the name of Bingo. So Bingo the

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cat girl will be your little AI

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assistant

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helping you on this mission. And

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so that that's what you all remember

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when you were on Mars and you're like,

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all right, I'm

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sending a copy of myself to Mars.

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Bye. Second

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me. Good luck on this mission.

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Now you've been told the

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only piece of hardware that's going on this mission is what they

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call a quantum entangled transmitter

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communicator. So basically

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quantum entangled devices

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are basically you know,

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quantum entangled device A and B.

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When one of them it's very complicated, but

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they can transmit data to each other, no

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matter how far apart they are in the universe.

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So they can be and it's instantaneous.

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So they these could be 1000 light years apart,

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and you could be texting each other with it instantaneously.

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I

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don't ask me to claim the science. The

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book tells me that's possible. So that's that's

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yeah. Quantum

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entangled told you to jump off a

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bridge. All right, sure. So your

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mission,

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what you remember your mission was is to

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bingo would get you a sleeve into physical

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bodies,

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somehow, and then you'd be

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put in physical bodies, you wake up somewhere on this distant

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exoplanet, this distant planet. And

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then you have to find the quantum entangled communicator

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and then tell firewall what this guy is doing

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with all of the

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he these resources he's building

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his own city somewhere

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in the universe. So what's he building?

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What's he building in there basically? And

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so as we begin, you all

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wake up and you realize you're in a simulation.

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You're in what they call a symbol space, a virtual

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reality, a matrix style computer simulation.

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And it looks like a

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late

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21st century Earth cafe. It's

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very cozy. It's very nice. There's

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a barista there serving people drinks.

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And then there's a cat girl

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there. And she

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waves at you. And

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you know that that's Bingo.

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So Bingo has uploaded your minds

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into the simulation, probably to give you

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an update on what's happening in the real world.

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So you can

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look like yourself, like a robot snake

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person, or you can look like something else in this

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coffee house simulation.

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So Bingo says, yeah, don't worry. Hi,

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I just want to give you an update. It's been the

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mission's gone a little, it's

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been a little complicated. So I want to

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tell you what happened for. Fine.

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Yeah. Well,

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Goddard, it's we're

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a little, you know, I thought I'd be able to sleeve you into

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bodies, put you in a physical body

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in a couple months.

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Been a little longer than that.

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Well, many times is relative, but how

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relative? Well, let's not get

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it. So first off, what

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do you look like, Goddard, in this simulation?

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Actually, I kind of look like my human self, but

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just in kind of like, you know, like

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late 19th, early 20th century explorers.

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Okay. Explorer gear. All right. Yeah. So

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Jurassic

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Park chic kind of a little

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bit. All right. Yeah, you know, khaki, but

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but not, you know, yeah, you know, lots of

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lots of khaki and very

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official. Okay, very good. So

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a sticker, Amanda, what

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would you look like in a simulation? Would

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you look like your robot body? Or would you look

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like something else? I think I would look like my robot

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body Okay, so you're just the robot

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in the coffee house. Yeah. All right that

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there's a book. Yeah We'll

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write it next yeah, there we go. All right

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and chief what about you? I

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Am a completely unshaded or they

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just looked two feet off the ground and my username

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hangs above it costs like a

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default The

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alpha version of the software

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Yeah, I would have also accepted T posing

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yeah So yeah, so we have

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an orb a robot and an explorer

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hanging out in a coffee house with

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a cat girl and so

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Yeah

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Yeah, so the good news is I did get you the bodies

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that you wanted So there's two slitheroids and

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a dragonfly so you can you you'll

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be as soon as we're done with this You'll be loaded in your actual

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physical bodies

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But it took a long time to get

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them assembled and find a safe place to

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Do that in this place? It's called

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the Cathedral by the way. That's what this City

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is called So

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yeah, it's been 38 years. I think

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since you launched this Yeah,

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since the yeah since you yeah, your last memory

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were 30 when you were on Mars was 38 Yeah

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The

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quantum entangle communicator I think is still existing I

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think it I put it I

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don't know we've lost contact

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Yeah,

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so it turns out this billionaire

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guy was Catholic and

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he I think

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what he wanted to do was make

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a society that was more Thinking

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in the long term.

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He thought capitalist societies were too short-minded

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and would burn out So he wanted to make a slow

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society that would last for thousands and thousands of

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thousands of years. So he went back to like

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the medieval thinking. And so he sort of

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structured a kind of pseudo medieval

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society.

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Like, you know, there's this idea

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called cathedral thinking, where

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the idea is you start working on a cathedral,

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then your son will do it and your son son will do it. And

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you know, it takes 200 years to build the cathedral. So

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but you're okay with that. You just spend your entire life building

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a cathedral, they'll never be done.

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So I don't know what they're trying to build, but it's big.

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And

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there's a lot of people now. But

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we're in it's so big that I could find a little

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space at the end of this city that

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no one's paying attention to. So I could put you on the bodies.

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Because that's sort of my mission is to get you

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into physical bodies. So you can do your mission.

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So so we can't phone home,

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we can't check you can if you can get the

10:45

quantum entangle device.

10:47

But that's out

10:49

of the city. So you have to get a vehicle to get

10:51

to it. No, I can drive.

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So um, yeah, how

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are you doing is thinking you don't seem to be. It

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seems to be a bit shocked to you. I'm

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just trying to figure out what I'm supposed

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to be doing. Well, I guess I'm just in

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taking information. Okay, okay. Well, yeah, no, there's

11:07

a lot of information. So your mission is

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to find out what your

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gear, the billionaire running this place, he calls

11:16

himself a shepherd now, which seems

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creepy. That's how these

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movies always Yeah, he, he's

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trying to build use. He brought

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lots of people in. And he copied

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them and copied them and edited them.

11:31

So there's actually like, I think a couple million people

11:33

in the city now.

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Some of them are in robot body, some of

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them are like, you know, human bodies. Some

11:40

of them buy

11:42

a shotgun. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

11:45

Yeah. So

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yeah, it's, it's, so

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you kind of have a lot of autonomy here. So if you think

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it's a threat, you know, firewall that

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did say it's okay to take

11:56

over this place or blow it up. I

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don't know. Yeah,

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I do vaguely know where the Pandora gate

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is. I mean, I imagine security there's pretty heavy

12:06

But you know, there's a lot of options

12:09

here. I mean honestly We're

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so far out. No, we could kind of do

12:13

whatever we want. Nobody's gonna pay attention to

12:15

us So, I mean, you know, I maybe we just

12:18

kill the shepherd and take over and

12:20

control society millions of people Do

12:22

everyone know? That sounds like a lot

12:24

of hard work doesn't like a lot of hard

12:26

work. But yeah, we're in a big city We're

12:29

on an exoplanet. I don't know where it is

12:31

It's no it there's no air outside

12:34

the city, but you know, you're all in robot body. So that doesn't

12:36

matter It's very cold out there too, but you will

12:38

definitely need a vehicle.

12:39

But yeah, we're on a cold frozen

12:41

planet in a big

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giant metal city that was

12:46

vaguely shaped like a cathedral and It's 38

12:49

years later. So Yes,

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sorry So, yeah,

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all right I Recommend we do what

12:57

it takes to get in contact with base because 38

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years is very bad And we need to make sure that

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we're even gonna get paid Well,

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yeah So put it or you do this for

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the love of the game essentially because you believe

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in firewall like because you think

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they're the only Things that will actually protect you man.

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Well, yeah, my motivation is Martian liberation.

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I would do this Sam's the money Yeah,

13:18

exactly you you believe if this

13:20

if they come back through the gate with this massive city

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They have millions of people now they could take over

13:25

Mars and destroy Yeah,

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actually our solar system so Amanda

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you you can just like if you were in that situation

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What would you want to do? You're you're

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you've been cut off?

13:37

It's been years later. You're

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just waking up, you know, and you're

13:42

in a very distant place. That's very weird

13:44

Do we need to wait to get our bodies? No,

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you're okay. Yeah. Yeah, I just put you in the simulation to

13:49

Sort of guy Gently guide

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you into this. So like well,

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uh, I can put you in the but you want to wake up in your body right now

13:58

Don't I need that Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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Okay, yeah. Let's get you in your body. All right.

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So the coffee house disappears.

14:06

You all open your eyes. You're

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in your bodies. You're yours. The

14:10

boat two of you are in Slytheroids, you know, robots,

14:12

snake people and you're into robot dragonfly. Right.

14:15

We're not going to roll for

14:17

integration. No, no. Um,

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yeah, being all took care of

14:22

all that. So if you put, you could

14:24

put your mind in a new body during this scenario, in

14:26

which case you would have to make we'll deal with that. But like,

14:29

if you're like, Oh, that's a cooler body. I want

14:31

to go on that one. That's definitely possible. But

14:33

anyway, you wake up, you're in

14:36

a

14:36

your sensor readings reading that's very cold.

14:38

It's like negative 30.

14:42

Fahrenheit. And

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it's entirely metal.

14:46

You're all on just

14:49

these metal slabs. You

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wake up there there is the lights are flickering.

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Your

14:56

sensors are reading the outer the

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far wall is much colder than the inner wall.

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So you think you're you're that's the the outer

15:03

wall of the city.

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So there's not much heat here. So

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your your your your robot bodies are

15:09

fine right now. But basically,

15:11

you're the equivalent of a supply closet at

15:13

the end of the city at the far end of the city,

15:16

where no one's paying attention to this, you can tell

15:18

there's not maintenance here is already beginning to suffer.

15:20

Things

15:20

are beginning to fall apart. So

15:23

yeah, you get access there is a network,

15:26

it has its own internet, essentially wireless

15:28

internet. Bingo has already

15:30

given you access to it.

15:31

And it begins with a daily

15:34

prayer. Yeah, there are hourly

15:36

prayers. And there's litany of the faith. Looks

15:39

like the shepherd here has created

15:41

his own religion that people are

15:44

sort of

15:45

programmed into from from birth

15:47

here. Yeah, I mean, the far future

15:49

you can just make people believe. Yes. There's

15:52

a thing where people's minds are digital and you

15:54

can edit files. So yeah,

15:57

yeah, so all of you if you have a knowledge.

16:00

skill that would be of use. You

16:03

could learn something about it. So for example,

16:05

how to knowledge have

16:07

ops. Okay, sure. You can make a knowledge have ops.

16:09

So a sticker.

16:14

Let's

16:14

see. I'll look at you.

16:20

I do succeed. All right.

16:25

So let's see here. You have

16:27

engineering, which would be useful. Nanofacturing,

16:30

which we use. So

16:31

Xenoarchaeology would be useful. So

16:34

now that you're waking

16:36

up and you're getting a sense of what this place is like, is

16:39

there anything you would want to know more about it? You'd

16:41

be curious to investigate, to figure out.

16:45

Like I

16:46

don't need any sort of like map

16:48

or anything, right? Like no sort of guide

16:51

to get out of here. Actually, a map would be very

16:53

useful. You don't have one. There

16:55

are there's some information, but it's kind of spotty.

16:58

So you can roll knowledge, nanofacturing,

17:02

which is about nano manufacturing

17:04

technology. Yeah, that makes sense. And you

17:06

have a skill of 55% in that you see where

17:08

it says 55.

17:09

So you roll your dice and tell me if it's

17:13

equal. Yeah, if it's over or under, if

17:15

it's equal, you succeed. So is this 59? That's

17:19

five and nine. Yeah. Yep. All right.

17:21

So you look around,

17:24

I will give you some information,

17:26

even though you failed and say,

17:29

basically, you.

17:31

What did

17:32

we fail?

17:34

Oh, and then manufacturing, you need to roll under your skill

17:36

to succeed. Oh, I thought it was over.

17:39

No. Oh, okay. Okay. So

17:42

you can't get a cohesive map to

17:44

any areas, but you realize this place

17:48

is actually kind of a blind spot. So like

17:50

anything that happens in this outer area, which is

17:52

called, um, it looks

17:55

like there are a lot of maintenance, uh, robots

17:57

around that are actually like people are in them.

17:59

They're not all.

17:59

automated. So there

18:02

are people around here you could talk to

18:04

and get more information. But

18:06

you can't get a map on your own. So

18:08

HabOps, what are you trying to figure out, Goddard?

18:11

Just trying to get a sense that like, as you know, every

18:13

Hab has like, you know, function. Mm

18:16

hmm.

18:16

I'm trying to just kind of get a feel for like,

18:19

how does this place how does this place just kind of work

18:21

on a ground on an overall? Yeah,

18:24

you can get that it is vaguely categorized

18:27

as a cathedral. So

18:30

there are different areas, and

18:32

there's a different cast of people in them. So

18:35

this is called the facade. This is the outer walls. This

18:37

is the very like this is the least protected

18:40

area, it is the lowest cast

18:42

people live here. And

18:44

the maintenance, you know, people live here,

18:46

essentially, internally repairing the walls

18:48

against the terrible weather.

18:52

Then closer in or is the nave.

18:55

They're actually people there and they're

18:57

the main workforce

18:58

for the great work. And it doesn't

19:00

say what the great work is, but this seems like a

19:03

multi generation like peasants and laborers.

19:05

Yeah,

19:06

then there's the transept,

19:08

which is skilled labor and security.

19:11

Then there is

19:13

the choir. And then

19:15

there's the chancel, and that's where the shepherd lives.

19:17

So those are sort of like, it's kind of nested

19:20

in upper class, and then the great

19:23

leader.

19:24

So yeah, those are also

19:26

areas. So like each area,

19:28

and the further and the closer you go into the core of the habitat,

19:31

the better it is. So yeah,

19:32

but yeah, this is a massive city. There

19:34

are millions of people in it. It is absolutely

19:37

huge. It is like hundreds

19:39

of square miles in size. Busy

19:42

bees. Yep. So

19:46

Chi, what do you want to figure out looking around? So

19:48

those broadcasts are like they're doing like sermons

19:50

and stuff on them, right? Can I use my knowledge

19:53

of photography to see if they're like actually broadcasting

19:56

a message? Oh, sure. Yeah. Like

19:58

a virus or something.

20:02

88 is a critical failure, I

20:04

believe, right? Yes. It

20:06

is. So critical failure, you get shut out. You'll

20:10

have to

20:11

get somebody's credentials to log

20:13

back. You've lost access to the network. So

20:16

you could spend an insight

20:19

to cancel that. Yes, I will. All right.

20:22

So you spend an insight. You don't critically fail.

20:24

You just don't find any hidden

20:27

messages. But you think there could be. In fact,

20:29

it would be very probable given

20:31

the traffic in there. But you don't find a specific one.

20:33

So so Bingo

20:35

is just talking to you in your head. Like Bingo

20:38

is just like an AI floating

20:40

around a software. She doesn't

20:42

have a physical body. So

20:46

she's like, hey, I'm here to assist you with your

20:48

mission. So

20:51

I do know that they have vehicle. There is a vehicle

20:53

based somewhere that they take

20:55

out for mining operations and scouting

20:57

for more mining. They're basically mining this

20:59

planet

21:00

to turn it all. I think they're going

21:03

for an ecumenopolis here.

21:04

Well, I think it's turning the entire planet

21:06

into a factory so they can start building the actual

21:09

project. Also, the

21:11

theater is not the main project. No, the

21:13

theater right now is they're just they're talking.

21:15

This is the only they're only 38 years in like a 10,000 year project.

21:20

So like they're there. That's

21:22

that's what their goals are. Oh, it's the cathedral

21:24

data. Yeah. Yeah. So

21:27

they plant, I think, mine the entire this entire

21:29

solar system. So

21:32

so OK, where are we in physical relation to this vehicle?

21:35

Well, I don't know yet. So

21:38

I've been sort of focused, very focused

21:40

on just like one not being detected.

21:42

Are any of you good

21:44

at actual actually speaking to people? I

21:46

try to avoid doing that at all. Well,

21:49

and then the other one and the other thing I've been good at has

21:51

been trying to get you build you your

21:53

bodies and your. I appreciate that. Yeah.

21:56

Feels

21:56

good. Yeah. Now I just want to get help

21:58

you do your mission. I can't feel any. Yeah,

22:01

that's a since joke So

22:03

I do know somebody nearby though who could help So

22:06

that one of the caretakers Annabelle

22:08

has spotted me in the system and I've talked

22:10

to her a few times and she seems Okay,

22:13

she's in a cheap robot body,

22:15

but we could go I I

22:17

think

22:18

she's kind of got her own secrets

22:20

so No,

22:24

she's a she's a local But

22:27

she's definitely detected me and we've conversed

22:29

a few times and I think she's kind

22:31

of like got her own secret So I don't think

22:33

she's gonna like rat us out to anybody

22:35

Do you either you have like your splay

22:38

deceive or kinesics? Anything

22:40

like that. I get the sieve. I

22:42

don't think so. Yeah, I I try to avoid

22:44

talking. I Mean

22:48

at least you know, I'm trying to get some Yeah,

22:51

don't worry. I will handle it. Okay

22:53

as we can tell I'm off to a good start So

22:56

to get to her we'll have to leave this room and

22:59

go along the outer wall itself

23:01

So you have wings so you can do that pretty

23:04

easily but the other two will have to like

23:06

climb Well,

23:10

I mean We

23:13

don't know where the vehicle

23:19

Well, you don't have a vehicle There's

23:23

a big I smart the drive the dumb vehicle

23:25

for us isn't there? Yeah. Yeah, but a sticker

23:27

has pilot Okay

23:32

So you can either go talk

23:34

to an event or you could leave

23:37

the room and start exploring to look for the vehicle Okay

23:41

So yeah

23:44

Like just start literally slipping around

23:46

it's looking around on this wall. Yeah

23:48

Athletics, yep,

23:50

both of you give me an athletic check. So you have an

23:52

athletics 40 or that right?

23:55

Yeah Okay 18 make it. Okay

23:59

I'm sure if you have any gear

24:01

that would help. Do do do do. I

24:04

think you do. I

24:06

rolled 55, that's bad, right? Yeah, that

24:08

is. But

24:11

I think they remind us pocket

24:13

blab. Oh no, you have electronic

24:16

rope. That'll give you plus 20. So

24:18

electronic rope will let you climb better. So

24:21

you actually. Do you

24:23

make it if you add 20 to your skill? So

24:26

the skill is 40. So I have 55.

24:29

That's critical success. That would well, yeah, that

24:31

would raise it to 60. Yeah, yeah. So now it's a critical

24:33

success. So yeah, cool. You

24:36

are slowing like a pro on this thing. Yeah.

24:38

Or roll or rolling these things. So if you

24:40

literally don't know what I just did. So

24:42

basically you woke up in this metal room.

24:45

You find out you're in the cathedral, this massive city,

24:47

right? You

24:48

got that. Yeah.

24:50

And Bingo, your little

24:52

AI helper is telling you there's someone you could

24:54

talk to, but you have to go along the outer wall. You have

24:56

to go outside. Right. And so you're

24:58

you're clinging to this outer wall. And

25:01

you're outside. You just see this bleak,

25:04

rocky landscape that stretches

25:06

as far as the eye can see. There's nothing but rock

25:08

in this city. This is the only place on the entire

25:10

planet. And you're up like

25:13

half a kilometer. You're like 1,000 meters in

25:15

the air. You're really high up.

25:17

The wind is howling. And you're just

25:19

clinging to this wall. If you fall, it's

25:22

a long ways down. And

25:24

with the electronic rope, you're able to expertly

25:27

guide

25:28

you. He

25:30

has wings, so he could fly. But it's very hard

25:32

for him because the wind's very hard. But

25:35

yeah, you're just climbing along the wall. And you're seeing

25:37

a site you've never seen before. And it's a

25:40

very, yeah. So

25:43

do you picture that? I do. Yeah. All right.

25:45

So you climb along this outer wall

25:47

of this massive city.

25:49

And you come to a door. And

25:52

a little red light blinks on it, slides

25:54

open. You go inside.

25:56

And you're in this little circular

25:58

chamber.

25:59

with a heating unit there. And

26:02

there is this old, thin robot that

26:04

looks like it's been patched and repaired so

26:07

many times. It's very much, is this the original

26:09

robot? Case morph? Yeah, what they call

26:11

a case morph. The cheapest, shittiest robot

26:13

you can imagine.

26:15

And in there, there's a very, very

26:17

cheap synthesized voice.

26:21

Hello, I am Annabelle. I

26:24

see the little cat has brought friends. Hi,

26:29

well, it's this place. This

26:31

is something. Yes,

26:33

it is my little home. No one knows

26:36

of it. I do my work and get

26:38

my rations, my energy rations and my

26:40

patch tools and things to

26:42

keep me going. And I'm able

26:44

to be clever enough to avoid the, well,

26:47

the culling. You

26:49

see, we here in the facade cast are

26:51

only, we're supposed to go to

26:53

our reward after 20 years of work.

26:57

But I've been avoiding that. Yes,

27:01

they kill us after, they delete our

27:03

minds after 20 years. But

27:06

I've been avoiding that because

27:08

they think if we stay, if we, you know,

27:11

awake too long, we start to get to ideas

27:14

and they rebel. Yes,

27:17

so I've been here since the beginning.

27:19

So I was very curious about

27:21

what this cat would eventually produce because

27:24

I figured she was an outsider and

27:26

she's brought you three here.

27:28

So. No, we're perfect. Yes,

27:31

we are perfectly normal

27:33

people here. Nothing, nothing, nothing. But

27:36

say we were looking for a couple of things, would you

27:38

go to help us out? Well, sure. Well,

27:40

there's

27:41

supposed to be a communications device.

27:45

Oh, well, Bingo pops

27:47

on. I have the coordinates of that. You just need a vehicle

27:50

to get to it. Yes, we need a

27:52

vehicle. We were told there was one. Oh,

27:54

there's a vehicle bay on the ground level. It

27:57

is, they have scouting vehicles and big.

27:59

ground haulers for or probably

28:02

something like

28:04

probably the scouting I mean I would love

28:06

to drive a giant war hauler but really

28:13

well if you take one of those bigger vehicles

28:15

they'll be bound to attract attention that's

28:17

why in fact if you take any vehicle it'll attract

28:19

attention

28:20

they they uh i can

28:23

i can drive stuff facade worker

28:25

well no it's just the vehicles are strictly watched

28:27

over to make sure people don't escape uh

28:30

well they don't want people some people

28:32

occasionally get ideas that they

28:34

think they've seen god out in the wilderness uh

28:36

and uh are these vehicles watched by living

28:39

eyes or is it that's here in camera also

28:41

yes

28:42

um mostly living eyes uh you'd

28:45

have to bribe or trick someone uh

28:48

to let you take a vehicle out or or yes

28:51

you could take a watch wait for workers to go

28:53

to a vehicle and then uh delete

28:56

them and take their how about i just write

28:58

a very quick sub routine that puts them in

29:00

stupor for exactly 30 minutes meaning they

29:02

don't understand what's going on they will not know

29:04

are missing until it's too late yes

29:06

you i suppose you could you'd need to

29:08

be uh most of those you'd have to get physical well

29:10

you can't do it from here oh i just can't do it in

29:12

my little

29:13

no you don't you haven't got to the vehicle bay yet like you'd have

29:16

to get close to the person to hack uh oh

29:18

proximity is an issue i thought well

29:21

because some people aren't that open

29:23

like like most people like

29:25

uh physical people you'd have to get close to to

29:27

hack because they're they're they're internal

29:30

little security is too good for distant hacking

29:32

you know like in ghost in the shell you have to plug into

29:35

someone to hack them okay i'm thinking

29:37

yeah we're all it's all

29:40

but um yes uh so that would be

29:42

that once i i don't know what you went out

29:44

there that waste but uh

29:46

you're welcome to it uh getting back with well

29:49

yeah that that would be a problem getting a telephone oh

29:52

i see you need a phone call yes

29:55

um okay well do

29:57

you have any other questions about the city the

30:00

people Where

30:04

are all these minds coming I'm sorry go

30:06

go go go go ahead So

30:10

been hearing the these

30:12

fair Mm-hmm. Like

30:15

hourly. Yes. There's there's the

30:17

morning prayer. There's the the book of hours,

30:19

you know There's a prayer for every hour of every

30:21

work day. There's different shifts a

30:24

lot of prayers Well,

30:27

the choir has to keep busy writing all these words. They have to

30:29

justify their existence. I Have

30:32

knowledge of music. I listen to the programming

30:34

once again to find any sort of

30:36

hidden message being broadcast. Sure

30:41

That's a win baby 21. Oh, yeah,

30:43

you do find an embedded message in one

30:46

It's talking about beware the Angels

30:49

the Angels Must

30:51

be purged from the deaths

30:54

From the death

30:56

yeah from the depths from below and

30:59

You

31:01

mentioned this to Annabelle and I

31:04

was oh, yes, so a very

31:06

interesting thing here, you know with our egos. We're

31:08

not supposed to die, right? Here

31:11

they want to enforce mortality. So if

31:13

you die

31:14

They take your ego and reprogram it to think

31:16

that you've died gone to heaven

31:19

But now they put you in a body and say you're an angel

31:21

that you're you've been sent back to the

31:24

land of the living

31:25

In order to serve God

31:27

and protect the people and they're called angels

31:31

the problem with the angels that some of them are buggy

31:34

and the ones that are buggy and malfunction

31:37

are left below and they've started

31:40

to come up from the depths and

31:42

They're very disturbing to people but you

31:44

can't attack an angel you can't you know, that's

31:47

that's sacrilege So you then saying

31:49

an angel is broken or malfunctioning

31:51

is heresy

31:52

So there's a there's a hidden cult of

31:54

heretics wanting to get rid of all

31:57

the angels Yeah.

32:03

So... Yeah,

32:06

there's a bit of a problem with all these angels running

32:09

around, creeping people

32:11

out, and murdering. Well, I

32:13

don't know if they've murdered anybody yet, but I feel it's only a matter of

32:15

time. So yes, that is

32:17

sort

32:20

of...I've heard of this heretical cult, and

32:25

they're trying to wipe it out, but

32:27

it is proving very hard.

32:30

I don't know who... I

32:33

do know they're a yeoman. Do you have any images

32:35

of these angels? Oh yeah.

32:38

Annabelle pulls up a screen, and

32:40

you see this cyborg,

32:42

like flesh and metal, but

32:44

with like angel wings, feathered angel

32:46

wings, and like their eye,

32:49

fleshy eyes on the wings.

32:54

They just come out of the earth then.

32:56

Well, they're not supposed to. They're supposed to

32:58

work and work alongside you, and

33:00

guide and lead and inspire

33:02

you. You get the point of

33:04

origin for all these good boys, it's like, I don't know, a mine shaft, you guys

33:06

are taking too greedily, too deep? Well, no, they're basically

33:09

brainwashed people that have been told they're dead,

33:11

and now they're angels. But you tell

33:13

them when they come out of the pit.

33:15

Well, the ones that are broken are left

33:17

down in the pit. Is

33:20

that their point of origin? Does something come

33:22

from the pit? No, the

33:24

pit is where the broken ones go.

33:26

So you

33:29

throw your broken robots into the pit? Yes. And

33:32

then you tell people that these angels, these flesh eye things,

33:34

they come from the pit?

33:37

Well, they come out of the pit, the broken ones

33:39

do. The good ones stay up here, and

33:41

are leaders and guides and whatnot.

33:44

Do you understand why they

33:47

want to enforce mortality

33:51

around here? Well, I mean, I'm

33:53

just a little caretaker, I wouldn't know such

33:55

things, but it does seem that the shepherd never dies or

33:57

hasn't gone old.

33:59

if you if you live forever, maybe

34:02

you get bored, or maybe you stop working as

34:04

efficiently. Maybe you're not afraid

34:06

as much as you should be. You don't work as much.

34:09

Yeah. I think I

34:12

don't know. I can only speculate,

34:14

but it seems to me that the leaders

34:16

of this place don't get old, only the workers

34:18

do. And the yeah,

34:21

the bishops and the choir never die. Still

34:23

that view. Yeah, let's go find that. Let's just go

34:25

ahead and steal that view. Yeah, let's

34:27

do that. Okay, so, Asika,

34:31

do you have any questions? Or? Okay. All right.

34:35

Annabelle says, I like your,

34:39

well, both of your robot bodies. They're very nice.

34:41

But

34:42

good work on that rope. I saw you outside. Thank

34:45

you.

34:47

So the three of you go, you've given like

34:50

a path, a map

34:51

from Annabelle. And you

34:53

can take it so you go to all the you go from

34:56

her little Annabelle's little sanctuary into

34:58

the city itself.

35:00

Into the facade of the facade is like

35:03

the outer section, but it's, you know, still

35:05

like about half a kilometer

35:07

wide, you know, so there's numerous

35:10

passages,

35:11

and

35:13

larger rooms and there you

35:16

begin to see like people like mostly

35:18

maintenance robots, occasionally you see people in

35:20

armor, like living like, you know,

35:22

humans in armor, that it's cold

35:25

enough here that anyone

35:26

not in a robot body needs some kind of

35:28

invite like suit. And

35:30

we don't stick out at all. Well, that's

35:32

a good question. You're out your body's actually none

35:35

of your robot bodies

35:37

are common here.

35:39

So now the workers

35:41

are not going to ask questions because they're

35:43

workers and they know asking questions is

35:45

a good way to get punished.

35:47

So but there are occasionally humans

35:49

in suits.

35:50

So that's a good question. So one

35:52

of them is coming up. And

35:55

he'll be in your path. So are you going to

35:57

try and walk by and

35:59

hope he's the human in the

36:02

suit doesn't say anything or you Okay,

36:08

so you're gonna try and sneak around Okay,

36:13

okay Give me a stealth of negative

36:15

ten because you have a big dragonfly on your head You're

36:18

like a couple meter you're like a meter The

36:23

future's not where I want to be I want to be tiny

36:27

Okay, well with the 22 you still succeed

36:29

so so stick up

36:32

There's

36:34

in order to get to the vehicles you have

36:36

to go through all these corridors, right? Yeah, and there's

36:39

there the worker robots Aren't right.

36:41

So should I try to hide with Tom or sorry?

36:44

Yeah, that's your choice. What would you want to

36:46

do? I would probably try to hide and go

36:48

around that guy. All right So you do

36:50

not have infiltrated as a skill which

36:52

is the sneaking skill So I can't do that. You

36:54

can try it, but it would be

36:57

is that a so you would have a 20

37:00

Okay, yeah,

37:02

so if you look in the aptitudes your

37:05

ref reflex is 20 so

37:07

Well,

37:09

that's it

37:15

I'm gonna say it's gonna be based cuz like you

37:17

the whole point is you have a trade like otherwise

37:20

So you have a 20% chance to succeed

37:22

at sneaking?

37:23

So what do I have a

37:25

good chance of doing so

37:28

you could shoot him you could run You

37:31

could go back on the outer wall and

37:33

climb around him No

37:36

one's on the outer wall. So you have the

37:38

electronic rope so you'd have a 60% chance

37:40

of climbing on the outer wall Yeah,

37:43

basically you basically sweet using the rope

37:45

to swing around. Okay, let's do that. Okay

37:49

All right 26 very

37:52

good. So you succeed so basically got

37:55

erred and She

37:57

sneak around and you just go

37:59

you know, go to the outer wall and just swing

38:02

around. So you're basically,

38:03

you go around and that's how you get to the vehicle

38:05

bay. Um, so you're coming out

38:07

of from the outside and they're coming from it on the

38:09

inside.

38:10

Um, so the vehicle bay is

38:13

a, is a bustling with activity.

38:15

There are vehicles coming in, vehicles coming out

38:17

all the time. They are, they are wanting to strip mine

38:20

this entire planet, it seems like.

38:22

So, uh, and they are just

38:24

bringing in thousands of tons of ore

38:27

every hour, it seems like. Um,

38:29

and, uh, it looks

38:32

like they're, they're actually leaving it like

38:35

they've, they've actually stripped mine this into a pit to

38:37

a degree. Um,

38:38

but like, um,

38:40

yeah, there's just these massive, it's just a massive

38:43

open hangar bay at

38:45

the bottom of the city. And there are all these giant

38:47

mining vehicles, giant trucks,

38:50

like trucks that are like three stories tall.

38:52

Uh, and there's also smaller

38:54

vehicles like little cargo trucks,

38:56

um, and even, uh, yeah, all

38:59

kinds of vehicles all around, but, um,

39:01

there are people in suits giving orders. You actually see

39:04

one of these, a couple of these winged angel people

39:06

like giving orders. Uh, yeah,

39:09

they're pod more cyborgs like flesh

39:11

and robot parts, uh, together. Um,

39:13

and

39:16

yeah, so there's a lot of things going on.

39:18

Um,

39:19

so the question is how do you get one

39:21

of these vehicles without, uh, getting

39:23

the security coming after you? There are some guards,

39:26

there are some people with guns. Is it, uh, does anyone,

39:28

the guards are obviously focused on the workers. They aren't

39:30

expecting any intruders because as far as they know, they're

39:32

the only people on the planet. So you are, uh, you

39:34

have a info set, correct?

39:37

That's the hacking skill. Yes. Can we maybe,

39:39

uh, like hack into the, uh, into

39:41

the, you know, the network here and kind of like give authorization

39:44

for one of these smaller vehicles to be taken out?

39:46

Like it's an aside. Yeah. That one you could do wirelessly.

39:49

All right.

39:49

Okay. Um, so this is going to be in a post

39:52

check because obviously they have their

39:54

own security. I see. Okay.

40:00

Yeah, I Like

40:02

my oopsie points already. Yeah. Well

40:05

you get them back after you rest

40:07

No, yeah, yeah

40:14

Do you have another one well, it's just one

40:16

and then there's a three with an arrow next to it

40:18

Oh Yeah,

40:27

well you're that that's from your morph so you actually

40:30

get also yeah you get

40:32

you have three oh Okay,

40:36

so You get a 38 they get a 31 so

40:38

you beat them. It's blackjack rules highest without

40:40

going over

40:41

So you get in who

40:43

you giving the authorization to?

40:46

I can I I have pilot ground in 65. Yeah

40:50

This dude here. These are not found in

40:52

system. No, no, no, no, I Should

40:56

I shish him up?

40:57

I told I totally because I'm a crazy who says

40:59

here Okay, I totally I totally like

41:01

give him like like a good cap and background Okay,

41:04

you know, he's been promoted because he's never

41:07

looked the bigger in the eye I Know

41:13

like like he's he's got two crosses

41:15

on this What

41:18

what's his name what's his good Catholic name

41:21

or actually Amanda what's a good Catholic

41:23

thing? Yeah,

41:23

I don't know anything about Catholicism

41:29

Thomas Sure.

41:31

All right, Thomas Aquinas. So one and only

41:34

know what's his job?

41:35

What's his job? Security

41:38

as well. I was going to go gunned up. Yeah. All

41:41

right. Yeah.

41:41

Okay So Thomas Aquinas security guard

41:44

as born. So what about you two? Are you just gonna

41:47

sneak on? Are you gonna give yourselves IDs to

41:49

know we don't need to complicate this He

41:51

just needs to get the vehicle driving to the point we hop

41:53

on them. Okay, so you okay you'll mean

41:57

Yes Yes,

42:01

actually that has like red text at the top

42:03

of your profile so they don't bother you. Alright,

42:05

so guard does come up to you and then

42:07

you can tell he's looking at your new profile and he's like,

42:10

Val, silence.

42:11

I was... You just bow? I

42:13

don't even have a bow in my head.

42:16

I'm also like, yes, that is true.

42:19

Okay, what are you taking the vehicle

42:21

out for?

42:25

This guy, I just wanted to know

42:28

something. I got like

42:30

a stupad I could type on. Sure.

42:33

It's one of the... Like, the secret even

42:36

to me. Oh, okay. Actually,

42:40

it's a matter of faith. Oh,

42:43

Godspeed, Brother Thomas Aquinas.

42:47

I did like... I did a quick

42:49

search of my brain like, North and South West

42:51

East. The sign in the cross.

42:54

I have to get my directions. Oh yeah, you gotta do that.

42:57

Alright, so what

42:59

kind of vehicle are you taking? There's all kinds of vehicles. Kind

43:01

of like small... Something big

43:04

enough that can fit all three of us comfortably

43:06

and

43:07

maybe some cargo or another

43:09

person. There's like an oversized, like, basically,

43:12

I think like big wheel,

43:14

like a monster truck with like a larger cargo.

43:16

I mean, I'm correct. I would love

43:18

to take one of the giant three-story trucks into the sky.

43:21

Yeah, that would probably

43:23

not be good for security guys to take that. No, it's like

43:25

one of those. Alright, so yeah, you get a big

43:27

truck that is

43:30

pretty fast. This planet does

43:32

have lower gravity than Earth, by the way. I'll say it's like 0.65 G.

43:35

So it's

43:37

not moon gravity, but it's... Yeah, it's like Martian gravity.

43:39

So as long as I'm in the city,

43:42

I'm also going to keep it like, obey the speed

43:44

limit. Oh, well, the hangar bay just faces out into

43:46

the waste, like, into... So yeah, you just roll

43:49

out. Okay, I'm trying to like... I'm no tricks or

43:51

anything until I can get them on board. Okay.

43:54

Yeah, you too can meet rendezvous and jump in. So

43:56

yeah, give me

43:58

a piloting check to...

43:59

navigate to the buried

44:02

QE transmitter.

44:05

It's a 52. Okay.

44:09

So that's a success. It is. I'm 65. All

44:13

right. So you

44:17

get there. Give me

44:19

a Stika. It is buried

44:21

though. So to find it is going

44:23

to be a little hard, but you do have

44:27

Xenoarchaeology, which is really good at uncovering

44:30

buried things. So

44:32

you can give me a Xenoarchaeology check.

44:34

All right. Let's do that. So it is. The

44:38

skill is 70. Is this nine?

44:42

Zero nine. So this is zero zero

44:44

and this is nine. So that's nine. Okay. Yeah.

44:47

So we find it then. Yeah. We dig it

44:50

out. So Stika, you find it. You

44:52

dig it out of the dirt. It's several meters

44:54

below, you know. And again, this is a

44:56

frigid. The thing like a rocky, it's

44:59

colder than Antarctica. It's rocky.

45:02

There's

45:02

no atmosphere here. You can see the

45:04

stars up ahead. There is a sun on the,

45:06

you know, in the solar system. It is

45:08

a cold. There's not providing this planet as much light.

45:10

And you're just in this bleak,

45:12

bleak, rocky planet. And yeah,

45:16

you're just out here and you find the quantum entangle

45:19

communicator. So you can use it first. So

45:21

do you can I,

45:25

you could send firewall, a status report.

45:27

Or you can

45:30

do, you can, you can ask, you know, you know,

45:32

there's one person on the other end. It's basically like a walkie talkie.

45:35

It's tied to one particular device. You can't. I

45:38

guess we will call in and let them

45:41

know that we're finally here and ask

45:43

them if there's any information we need. Okay.

45:45

Also, maybe also, also, Hey, do

45:47

humans still exist in the soul system?

45:49

Oh yeah. It has been like 38 years. So yeah.

45:51

Okay. Yeah.

45:55

So you that and it's.

45:59

silent for a while and then you

46:02

get a message back, stay in bot.

46:03

So. Oh,

46:06

good. Yeah. This isn't, this isn't

46:08

tense or anything. Yeah. Instant communication

46:11

and they're taking their time to get back to us. Well, after 38

46:13

years, well,

46:16

I've got some good news and some bad

46:19

news. An old TV pattern with the First

46:21

Nations guy.

46:26

When we want to conclude our broadcasting

46:28

day. Yeah. Uh-huh. Yeah.

46:30

The galaxy. Um, so eventually,

46:33

uh, hours later, so you're all just

46:35

sending this truck

46:36

waiting for this, um, what

46:38

do you do while you wait? Um, you could pull

46:41

up your own little simulation. You could try

46:43

and read up more information. The angle made some reports

46:45

of like what's going on. Yeah. I'm playing

46:47

some old, older, some old

46:49

earth music from one of like a speaker in

46:51

my body. Okay. Yeah. And you know, like tail

46:54

curled up on the dash. Okay.

46:56

Just, just kind of just like, well, I'm about

46:58

to like, actually about to find out

47:00

if humans still exist. Yeah. This

47:03

is a feels good

47:06

to wait. Yeah. Think I'll play it's raining. Uh,

47:10

yeah. Let's think about about you. What would you do with you? If you're

47:12

waiting?

47:13

Um, I'm just gonna, I'm just

47:15

laying here looking at the stars, trying

47:18

to walk away a little bit from the eighties music,

47:20

but you know, like

47:21

what kind of sky are we looking at here? Uh,

47:24

there's no atmosphere. It's just stars. Okay. Yeah.

47:26

Just looking at the constellations and the other

47:28

planets. Totally new. You've never seen them before.

47:31

Just contemplating the meaning of all of this

47:33

and what we're doing. Hey,

47:35

there's a, there's a pulsar within ice. Yeah.

47:38

Your, your little robot body says, would you like to filter

47:40

out the music?

47:41

Yes. Yes. We are filtered.

47:44

Don't, uh,

47:47

yeah, exactly. Uh, it's a very user

47:49

friendly body. All right. So it's very advanced.

47:51

Oh, you don't like, you don't like early 1970, you know, like 70.

47:55

Uh, I go to another. See, what about

47:57

you? I want you

47:59

to work here. Fly as high as it's possibly

48:01

safe for me so I can get a bird's eye view of the field

48:05

Okay, give me a you have flight or

48:08

free fall

48:09

Why would it be it

48:11

or athletics athletics? Yeah, that is okay First

48:15

edition had flight as a skill 17 very

48:18

good. Oh, yeah Yeah

48:21

with this you you can get a sense

48:23

of the scale this place it is Yeah,

48:26

absolutely The largest,

48:29

you know man-made structure you're

48:31

aware of

48:33

Actually, no, there are some space stations that are

48:35

comparable in size, but it's fucking huge

48:37

And it is actually shaped like a

48:40

cathedral. It is cross shaped

48:42

And so, you know, you're at

48:44

the bottom end of it It's like a Latin cross where

48:46

like it's not even like it the the cross

48:49

is sort of like You do

48:52

so yeah

48:52

cross shaped you're

48:55

at this end of it So that's the and

48:57

the outer walls are all the facade but like

48:59

the transept is right here where they meet,

49:01

you know, and then the

49:04

Chancell is here at the head. So But

49:07

it's very tall, you know, like I said, it's like a thousand

49:09

meters tall Over a thousand

49:12

meters. I'll say like 1300 meters tall

49:14

and you're at you know level 100,

49:16

you know One yes,

49:19

it's 130 levels

49:20

Yeah, it is absolutely massive

49:22

TV a lot Yeah,

49:27

yeah, it's kind of yeah, yeah There's a lot of Catholic

49:29

symbolism on the outer walls. You can

49:31

see massive murals of holy

49:33

things It is not

49:36

standard Catholicism. You like none of you really

49:38

have actually Stica

49:41

you would stica you would probably know but like yeah,

49:43

they've clearly it's no longer Catholicism He's

49:46

changed it to suit his own needs. Yeah,

49:48

basically there's no longer Jesus Christ.

49:51

There's just God like it's very

49:53

but yeah There

49:57

are lights moving in the distance and you can

49:59

read those are the absolute massive mining trucks.

50:02

They're coming in from all directions. They're

50:04

gradually just strip mining this entire continent

50:07

as far you know. If we determine that they're mining

50:09

anything special,

50:11

um, or just general materials? Where's this?

50:13

Uh, you if you have,

50:16

uh, let's see, a Stika, you could figure that out with

50:18

knowledge engineering. What are we trying to figure out?

50:21

Oh, I was asking, you know, do we do we

50:23

even know exactly what they're mining? We don't even know what

50:25

they're mining. We can both make engineering checks. Yeah,

50:28

you can. Yeah. So you can roll engineering

50:30

and, and, uh, Goddard and you can sort of compare

50:33

notes. All

50:36

right. 13, 57. My

50:38

engineering skill is 70. You did. You did. We

50:40

both did. So

50:44

the two of you sort of look at it and you've also looked at the

50:46

hangar bay and you've got some data from Bingo

50:49

and Annabelle and,

50:50

um, you gotta put together one thing. They're

50:53

obviously

50:54

just mining a lot of material to have raw materials

50:56

to make the cathedral bigger, basic infrastructure,

50:59

you know, like there's millions of people now.

51:01

They need a lot of resources just to support themselves,

51:03

but you realize there's stockpiling a lot of

51:05

things.

51:07

And, uh, they're already beginning

51:09

to embark on

51:12

building there. There's actually a secondary construction

51:14

phase. You can see actually off in the distance.

51:17

Um, they're beginning to build like,

51:20

uh, the infrastructure rocket gantries

51:22

to launch rockets into space.

51:25

Uh, they said they want to, they need to mine the whole

51:27

solars. Yeah.

51:30

Um, so with this in mind, uh,

51:32

yeah, they're, they're, they're planning to

51:34

convert, uh, uh, in general, there's,

51:37

you know, the three types of civilizations in sci-fi

51:39

type one, type two, type three type one is can

51:42

utilize all the energy on the planet type two is

51:44

utilize all the energy in the solar system. Uh,

51:46

and I think, um,

51:48

you know, it was utilize all the energy in the galaxy.

51:50

So they're probably trying to become like a type two

51:53

civilization. So you would guess

51:55

that this 10,000 year plan involves building

51:58

a Dyson sphere around the sun. in this

52:00

solar system. And a Dyson sphere is basically

52:02

the sci-fi thing where you build a big sphere around the sun,

52:04

you know, like solar panel. So look, you know,

52:07

you put the solar panel and you absorb the

52:09

sun's heat and radiation or electricity.

52:12

Sometimes it's like just it's like, you know, rings. Other

52:14

times it's like a whole shell. Yeah, it's a whole

52:16

shell. So like, why not just build

52:18

the solar panels around the entire sun

52:21

and get 100% of the sun's energy?

52:23

So just yeah, so it's basically getting

52:25

capturing all of the energy possible. It does exterminate

52:28

all the light, but I don't think they're really

52:30

caring about. Yeah. So obviously something like that

52:32

would need thousands of years of work

52:35

to build. Okay, so they're not they're

52:37

not in the earth like on everything like

52:39

seitanium or devil

52:41

rock or nothing like that.

52:44

Okay, they're not they don't they, you know, like, oh, there's

52:46

the body of a dead God in this planet. Well,

52:48

I'm kind of imagining myself

52:50

as like, yeah, they're basically just digging up everything.

52:53

They're siphoning up all the minerals that are useful.

52:55

I can't imagine the size of like the slag

52:58

piles. Oh, sure. Yeah,

53:00

no, can we actually see like mountain? Oh, yeah. This

53:03

reminds the entire planet. They're gonna they're actually ruining

53:05

it.

53:06

I mean, it's a dead planet. It's just a rock.

53:09

They're just destroying the Eliphos here.

53:11

Huh? Yeah. So we've

53:13

got enough information to fill

53:15

our mission point, right? Well, we don't

53:18

know that as you finish that analysis. And

53:21

you know, Bingo's beginning is Hey, would you like to play a game?

53:24

I have all kinds of games on my week we can load

53:26

up.

53:27

As I know, and rage avians. Yeah,

53:29

and rage avians or I've

53:32

been running Yeah, well, what's your favorite?

53:34

Yeah. Anyways, while Bingo is trying to distract you, or

53:36

keep you entertained, you

53:38

finally get a message back from the quantum entangled

53:40

communicator. And it says a

53:46

this civilization if you can, either

53:51

a civilization like this is a threat

53:53

to transhuman civilization, it

53:55

is likely we will come into conflict with

53:57

them at some point, if they use the Pandora

53:59

gate. to get resources

54:02

from other systems,

54:03

either

54:06

destroy the Pandora Gate

54:08

or destroy, destabilize

54:11

the colony,

54:13

or take it over if you can subvert

54:15

it. Assassinating and replacing

54:17

the Shepard indicates

54:20

a high probability of taking over

54:22

and then

54:26

you can reestablish contact with Firewall.

54:28

I mean, I'm not much of an assassin.

54:32

So they pose like

54:35

they do send a theory paperback. If

54:37

you, a society like this

54:39

is highly likely to experience stagnation.

54:42

The leaders are all immortal

54:45

and they have no room for advancement or additional

54:47

glory.

54:48

If you can find someone you can

54:50

ally with, they could help you kill

54:53

all the others, delete their egos and

54:55

you could take it for yourself. You are an X Factor.

54:58

No one is expecting you. Play

55:00

that card well and you could destroy it

55:02

or take it over. Fair enough.

55:05

So the answer to the other part of our inquiry. What

55:08

was that? Do humans still

55:10

exist in the soul system? Yes.

55:14

Okay. I mean, I don't, I'm not breathing, but big sigh

55:16

of, big mechanical sigh of relief there.

55:20

So yeah, they would like you. It would be very convenient

55:22

if you could, since you have nothing better to do.

55:27

If you could take over or destroy the society,

55:29

that would be great. That would be beneficial to us

55:31

back in the solar system because they're a potential threat.

55:34

Better to strangle it in the gray. Now, I

55:36

imagine that this guy is basically the lumber

55:39

office. So yeah, if you could take over

55:41

their society or to stabilize it, that

55:43

would be great. That would be great. So

55:47

they, they, it sounds

55:49

like you have a local contact already.

55:51

Annabelle, Annabelle may know someone you

55:53

could reach. It is a very hierarchical

55:55

society, right? If you can,

55:57

if you find somebody else who is this sad, if there's

56:00

is a cult of heretics. If

56:02

you can find them, they could help you

56:04

launch a revolution to overthrow

56:07

the current regime. There's

56:09

a lot of avenues.

56:12

Of course, if none of these seem viable, you could

56:14

take a rock, you could

56:16

secure a spaceship and then

56:18

escape and explore the galaxy and let us know what

56:21

you find with the Quantum Antangle Communicator.

56:23

Is there anything I can do to

56:25

just absolutely destroy this place? Sounds like a lot

56:28

of work. Can

56:31

that just make it impossible for them ever to

56:33

leave this rock? If the

56:36

Pandora Gate is near their nuclear power plants,

56:39

then if you cause it to go into meltdown,

56:41

it would destabilize

56:44

the Pandora Gate. They wouldn't be able to access it if it's

56:46

entirely irradiated.

56:48

Or if they have any tactical nuclear weapons

56:50

in them. Or here, here's some schematics for a tactical

56:53

nuclear weapon. If you can get some access

56:55

to fissionable material, you can just

56:57

make one. Yeah, you won't be... I'm

57:00

still gonna get this done in five minutes. How many rules

57:02

do I need to make? Well, you need the fissionable material.

57:05

Yeah, the casing and the explosives,

57:08

that's all easy. But yeah, we're gonna need some

57:10

weapons grade.

57:12

And then like access to a 3D

57:14

printer that, you know, in a couple hours

57:16

to fabricate it. So it wouldn't be easy. So

57:19

the main question you realize

57:21

though, yeah, you're so far removed

57:23

from them, they can't really do anything.

57:26

Yeah, you're truly on your own. So the question is, what would

57:28

you want to do? Like, no one's going to stop you

57:30

aside from them. I don't know about

57:32

you guys, but

57:34

taking over and leaving this place just

57:36

sounds like a bunch of work.

57:39

I don't like leading

57:42

people. I don't like leading

57:45

people. Making

57:48

choices and being responsible for their

57:50

outcome. Ew. Yes. I'm terrible. All

57:55

right. I propose a

57:57

third way. How

58:00

about we just join these people in the pews? Launch

58:03

a revolution? No! Okay? Just

58:06

become happy little campers? What if- what if we

58:08

just fucking move in?

58:11

Won't we be put to work? What

58:13

if? We'll have to like... do

58:16

things. Like... physical

58:18

labor. Oh, I don't know. How badly can

58:20

they make you do shit? Sorry, I'm Ross. I mean, they will

58:22

kill you. We could just go hide with Annabelle

58:24

in that closet. Like you do- you do-

58:27

you do remember the bit about the enforced mortality. They

58:29

will like eventually delete your ego. Well,

58:31

I won't let them. Okay, well...

58:33

Because of me. Yeah. Yeah,

58:37

no. I think no one wants to see where that goes.

58:39

Sorry. I thought I'd all hail the flying

58:41

spaghetti mouse. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

58:44

Yeah, if you- you could kill one of them and take their

58:46

place in society. But then you'd

58:49

be av- accepting that role. Like that

58:51

would be the easiest way to do that.

58:54

I am not gonna go along with that. Yeah,

58:56

I mean you could split up and do your own things too. I

58:58

think we should at least make sure this isn't a threat

59:01

that's so close to our planet. What is

59:03

a STICKA thing? Like what is a STICKA

59:05

inclination? You have total freedom.

59:07

Which is terrifying, but yeah.

59:09

They are building spaceships. You

59:11

could try and steal one and just fuck off and

59:14

see what the rest of the universe has to offer. Or

59:17

you could lead a revolution and let

59:19

them decide what to do and then leave. Like

59:22

if you lead a revolution, maybe you get the Pandora gate and

59:24

go to a new planet. The

59:26

adventure begins anew. Next week!

59:29

Yeah, exactly. You start

59:31

gate there, shit. Well,

59:34

I mean, what would you do? Just you, Amanda.

59:36

Like what would you do in this situation? Like I

59:39

know it's a fantastical situation, but like... What

59:42

would I do if I was

59:44

on another planet in a

59:47

manufactured robot body? Yeah. I've

59:50

probably presumably been alive for like

59:52

hundreds of years at this point. On and

59:55

off, because I know I just had this 38 year nap.

59:58

I think I'm just a memory. I don't think...

1:00:00

I think this is my real consciousness.

1:00:02

So I mean like. She's gonna

1:00:04

talk herself in the ego death. I would just go

1:00:06

blow the whole fucking thing up. Like, can

1:00:08

we just put bombs all around

1:00:11

the thing? Like.

1:00:12

Let's do this. Yeah, you could, yeah,

1:00:14

all right. So that would be. We need to get the materials

1:00:16

and whatnot, right? So how do we get those? There's two ways you

1:00:19

can build a tactical new thing or you could go to

1:00:21

their power plant and cause that and go,

1:00:23

you know, cause it

1:00:25

trigger a meltdown. Okay. Now

1:00:27

if all the lights go out, they're all freeze to death. It's

1:00:29

really fucking gold. But aren't like most

1:00:32

of them robot people too?

1:00:34

They need power too.

1:00:36

They, places like this is

1:00:38

not worried about external and savage

1:00:40

wars.

1:00:42

They're only worried about the people rising up. So they're

1:00:44

probably not securing their power plant

1:00:46

that well against people like you,

1:00:48

like expert, like you have

1:00:51

engineering skills. You know how to trigger a meltdown that

1:00:53

would fuck up their power plant.

1:00:54

So we just need to get around a couple of these

1:00:56

angels and suits and get into

1:00:58

the power plant. Yeah. All

1:01:00

right.

1:01:01

What do you guys think? I like that plan. Let's

1:01:03

do it. What about what? Yeah. Yeah.

1:01:06

I'm all I mean, I know again, we're

1:01:08

just here to protect earth and I

1:01:12

mean, we can get off this planet. Yeah.

1:01:15

Maybe you can get to a Pandora gate and try and activate it

1:01:17

and go someplace random in the universe. I

1:01:19

mean, we'll go through that gate before we

1:01:22

blow it up on, from Bob. Yeah, exactly. Cause

1:01:24

I'm Bob definitely. You can do a trigger. Yeah. Cause

1:01:27

I definitely don't want to stay here. Yeah.

1:01:29

So, all right. So

1:01:31

you take the vehicle back. Now

1:01:34

there's a couple of ways you don't have a map

1:01:36

to the power plant yet, but

1:01:37

you can get one. Bingo's

1:01:41

like, well, that sounds really interesting. I like to see what

1:01:43

happens. I see a few

1:01:45

different ways of doing this. One, you

1:01:47

can actually go talk to the angels and see if they

1:01:49

will help you because they're probably

1:01:51

very disgruntled. And maybe they,

1:01:53

if you lie to them and tell them that

1:01:55

you'll save them, they'll help you over,

1:01:58

take over the power plant.

1:01:59

The Bad Angels from the cave pit.

1:02:03

I mean, where's that

1:02:05

cult at? You know where that

1:02:07

cult is, right? Well, they're hidden amongst the people. Okay.

1:02:11

You could try and contact the cult and maybe get

1:02:13

them to help you

1:02:14

and say, destroying the power plants will get

1:02:16

rid of all the Bad Angels.

1:02:18

Well, I mean, they have to have like secret

1:02:20

meetings or handshakes and bars

1:02:22

or something. So how do

1:02:24

we start tracking these people down?

1:02:26

That's a good question. So you

1:02:29

can give me a doo doo doo

1:02:31

doo doo doo doo doo. You

1:02:34

know what? Actually you're knowledge hyper-corps. You know

1:02:36

how to do, you know, they're very secretive. Or

1:02:41

if you had knowledge, anything related to psychology

1:02:44

or sociology. I

1:02:46

have physics. I don't think that's gonna cut it

1:02:48

here. No, you have knowledge hyper-corps. I

1:02:50

also have- Corporations. Physics.

1:02:53

Yeah. So if you're old, Right,

1:02:56

right, right, right. So hyper-corps would give you the idea.

1:02:58

So go ahead and give me your rules.

1:03:02

Oh, idiot. Okay, well,

1:03:04

you don't know shit. Godard

1:03:09

or Chi, do you have any skills that would help you

1:03:11

figure that out? Security ops would help too.

1:03:13

I've got photography, that's gotta be good, right? Yeah,

1:03:15

you can give me another cryptography.

1:03:17

With all the hell of 99. Oof.

1:03:20

All right. We're

1:03:24

talking about finding the cult here? Yeah, finding the cult.

1:03:30

I had perceived and researched. Have ops to

1:03:32

know like maybe where, on a place

1:03:34

like this, where was someone who doesn't want to

1:03:36

be found? Okay, yeah. I'll try that. All

1:03:38

right. Okay.

1:03:41

So, you know, you have to go into the

1:03:43

nave, which is sort of like

1:03:46

the main work areas. There are a lot

1:03:48

of, actually, there are these,

1:03:50

they have fat-grown food for all the living people, like

1:03:52

the fleshy people. So those

1:03:55

vats are very like impossible

1:03:57

to monitor because it's very noisy, very...

1:03:59

You know, it's large spaces.

1:04:02

That would be the perfect place to have meetings. So

1:04:04

you could infiltrate there All

1:04:06

right All right. So

1:04:08

with your credentials Thomas Aquinas Another

1:04:11

guard so in order to get in there. You can't go

1:04:13

in the outer walls anymore So you either have to sneak or

1:04:15

talk your way past now with your cover Someone

1:04:20

you just had to come with a cover story for why

1:04:22

would these two be following you? Well,

1:04:27

I have no persuade so I can't Well,

1:04:30

I'm gonna say your cover is very good you about

1:04:32

silence. You just need to like What

1:04:34

what? Yeah guard stops using who

1:04:36

are those two? Or

1:04:39

YouTube can interject like this is an even I'm not

1:04:41

even gonna make a skill check They're not again

1:04:44

people aren't used to being lied to here. It's a very

1:04:46

you

1:04:46

know Faithful. Yes,

1:04:49

you guys could say that you're like your followers

1:04:51

following my example Okay,

1:04:54

we're trying to learn from yes, Aquinas

1:04:57

mr. Aquinas. All right uh,

1:04:59

yeah, I you know that because I Because

1:05:01

I went on like a yeah,

1:05:04

I went on a machine vision quest Okay.

1:05:07

All right, but I Overclock

1:05:10

some enters some energy and I just I saw

1:05:12

I had a vision.

1:05:13

Oh, they're very impressed They've

1:05:16

never heard of anything like that. You don't have to tell them how

1:05:18

to do it sometime I probably there are actually

1:05:21

like drugs for oh sure You

1:05:25

can meet their their narco algorithms. So

1:05:27

like It's actually just put in the chip

1:05:29

and you're yeah, yeah, they just programmed.

1:05:32

Yeah, your senses are all simulated. So yeah

1:05:34

Yeah

1:05:42

So that you

1:05:45

you get through the you leave the hangar bay

1:05:47

you go through the facade you get in the name I just cut up guys

1:05:49

were going like

1:05:52

And

1:05:56

you get to the food vats just

1:05:58

you know industrial vats where they're growing

1:05:59

the basic proteins and

1:06:02

you know cards yeah it's like

1:06:04

all like baby to your background cheetos yeah

1:06:06

basically so all of you can give me perceived checks

1:06:08

to

1:06:12

see

1:06:15

who you think is going to be the

1:06:17

don't have that okay what's the what is that what's

1:06:19

that that's based off of that

1:06:22

cognition yes

1:06:24

I have a 20

1:06:26

okay

1:06:28

oh I mean I

1:06:31

don't know how you critical okay one okay uh Amanda 61

1:06:33

well it says 50 and 60

1:06:42

but either way is in your your current body

1:06:44

so you fail by one yeah yeah

1:06:49

so guitar do you see

1:06:52

a group of people as you're looking through these vats

1:06:55

a group of workers

1:06:57

yeoman going off to a storage

1:07:00

area

1:07:01

and there's no reason why all of them should

1:07:03

be going at once like

1:07:07

so yeah you you you

1:07:09

head over there and

1:07:11

you see a group of them there's

1:07:13

one in front of the in one of the

1:07:15

one of the yeoman is again these are dudes

1:07:18

they're dressed in industrial clothing

1:07:21

like clothing appropriate for work have these

1:07:24

are these are these are humans

1:07:27

yeah they look like normal humans

1:07:29

not enhanced or wearing like industrial

1:07:31

clothing but with like crosses and like

1:07:33

the weird symbolism of the church but they're

1:07:39

like the shepherd is blind we

1:07:41

must he has been blinded

1:07:43

the God is actually

1:07:46

imprisoned below the Cathedral the

1:07:48

the angels are actually holding him

1:07:50

there we must purge all the angels

1:07:53

below the cathedral they they

1:07:55

are they're they've

1:07:58

tricked our poor shepherd at all

1:07:59

acquire and we must get rid of

1:08:02

them and rise up and destroy

1:08:04

all of the angels. Um, and

1:08:06

everyone's like, yeah, yeah. So yeah,

1:08:09

you found the cultists.

1:08:10

Um,

1:08:11

they don't notice you three yet. So

1:08:14

you can just go. Okay. So before we go, what's

1:08:17

our plan? I, I

1:08:20

cannot, I cannot, I cannot bullshit.

1:08:23

Who's chatty? I, the bingo,

1:08:25

the AI again, just like, I can

1:08:27

talk to people. What approach do you want

1:08:29

me to use? Nice, aggressive,

1:08:33

deceitful or other.

1:08:36

You can specify

1:08:37

what kind of personality I will do.

1:08:40

Do what it takes to get them to trust us. Sociopath.

1:08:45

Okay. I was like, that tracks.

1:08:48

Um, and what is

1:08:50

the, what do you want them to do to help you to secure

1:08:53

the power plant so it can be just, uh, uh,

1:08:55

triggered into meltdown? Well, we want, we want the

1:08:57

help of securing the power plant, but please don't tell

1:08:59

them that it's for like, you know, anything that would end up in their

1:09:01

destruction.

1:09:03

Of course. Yes. That is a good point. We

1:09:05

have to admit certain things. Yes. Uh,

1:09:08

the meltdown is where a relic

1:09:10

that can be used to banish

1:09:13

all of the angels is.

1:09:14

And so what you must go to the power plant. How was that?

1:09:16

Does that sound satisfactory? Yeah. I hope they fall for it.

1:09:19

Okay. Good. Uh, it would be

1:09:21

beneficial if I could remotely. I call

1:09:23

it like, be, like the arc of the fallen

1:09:25

or something's buried under there.

1:09:27

Ah, yes. Oh, the arc of the covenant.

1:09:29

Yes. That is very good. Um, can

1:09:31

I puppet one of your bodies for this?

1:09:35

Uh, the product I'm going to take to will that giant dragonfly

1:09:37

talking, but then again, Jack snake

1:09:39

robots, not too easy on the eyes even. Yeah.

1:09:42

Uh, can I project the hologram?

1:09:44

Actually, I kind of think, uh, like, like something

1:09:46

like, you know, a, a, a profit that literally

1:09:49

flies down from the, from the,

1:09:51

from the wealth. Yeah.

1:09:53

I don't know. I don't know. I'm going to do the private thing

1:09:55

here. Oh, I think that's sociopaths.

1:09:58

So that work. Yes. That sounds fine.

1:10:02

And then I will tell them to listen to one of you. Who should

1:10:04

I, or all of you? That

1:10:06

sounds good, right? Sure.

1:10:10

Okay, so your body, you

1:10:12

find yourself in observer mode. Or

1:10:14

you get a little window, can bingo take

1:10:16

over your body? Yes, no. Allow

1:10:19

to not. Would you like to know more? Would you

1:10:21

like to know more? And so Chief

1:10:25

flies out to them and says, Brothers,

1:10:28

sisters, be at peace. I

1:10:30

am a messenger from God sent to

1:10:32

deliver you from evil. And I have

1:10:34

a message. The

1:10:38

power plant holds the Ark of the Covenant.

1:10:41

And if we can use it, all of the angels will

1:10:43

be destroyed and we can free God from his

1:10:45

prison.

1:10:46

And let's

1:10:49

see here. They're

1:10:51

a bit skeptical. They're actually kind

1:10:53

of on board, but they're kind of skeptical. One

1:10:56

of the one who's preaching

1:10:58

is like, well,

1:10:59

then one of you, how

1:11:01

can we know only there has to be

1:11:03

a test of faith to let us know that, you

1:11:05

know, you're trustworthy, that

1:11:07

you're not sent by the choir. If

1:11:09

you destroy an angel, then we'll know that you're trustworthy

1:11:12

because the choir and the cops

1:11:14

will never destroy an angel unless you

1:11:16

could propose something different. I

1:11:18

have my robot body broadcast that

1:11:21

Emily listened to, but I reprogram

1:11:23

it. The message just makes them like

1:11:25

fall in love with my robot. So

1:11:28

if I can get what kind of skill would that

1:11:30

be? Didn't you say you had a music skill?

1:11:32

Yes. All right.

1:11:35

Then your music skill. There it is.

1:11:37

Okay. You need to play music.

1:11:42

We got it. Okay. Nice. If

1:11:45

you spend a flex point, I'll. I'm

1:11:47

sorry. Yeah. A

1:11:49

spin a flex point or an insight point. You can

1:11:51

upgrade that to a critical. And

1:11:55

yeah, that will, that will, that'll nail them

1:11:57

forever. All right. I'll do that.

1:11:59

So yeah the cults on board They're

1:12:03

like we know where the people are sent from heaven. Yeah,

1:12:06

but they've got the heavy security there. Yeah We

1:12:09

have some weapons, you know that we've made

1:12:11

or scavenged, you know But they they

1:12:13

have they have guns there. They're kind of concerned

1:12:15

about uprisings for some reason

1:12:17

probably cuz there's a cult Are they cool

1:12:19

these two if I mentioned? Yeah,

1:12:22

yeah Yeah

1:12:26

And yeah

1:12:28

So

1:12:31

we got to deal with the power plant security, yeah,

1:12:33

then we you can get in you can get the Ark of the Covenant

1:12:35

right. Yeah so Yeah

1:12:41

Okay, so I guess we're ready to mobilize yes well

1:12:45

Bingo says I've they've sent

1:12:48

me the plane the maps of the the power plant

1:12:50

and I've analyzed them

1:12:51

And I don't think we have enough firepower right now

1:12:53

to Get through security.

1:12:56

We have a lot of people from the cultists, but

1:12:58

they're lightly armed. So We

1:13:02

need to do something else to put

1:13:04

the odds in our favor We

1:13:07

should take security and put it down the guns actually

1:13:10

no I got it. I want to hack the guns. They

1:13:12

just don't fucking work

1:13:14

Okay. Well in order to do that In

1:13:18

order to do that for all the guns at once you would have to

1:13:22

Do like get access to their security

1:13:24

server? Which means you have to sneak in

1:13:26

and physically hack a computer like or actually

1:13:28

could I sneak in like maybe attach a remote?

1:13:30

So we could do it then yes I'm

1:13:33

pretty like I could get it. I think I can get in there

1:13:35

Okay, but I was able to gun people to send the

1:13:38

masses at them. All right, so you're

1:13:40

gonna have you're gonna have to you're gonna have to be my

1:13:42

packing proxy like I Can't

1:13:45

hack I can't hack it then it's

1:13:47

my thing Let's

1:13:50

see here, but you let's

1:13:53

see here a stika you

1:13:55

can help as well Now

1:13:58

you have a lot of skills that actually be helpful

1:13:59

with this.

1:14:02

So you could you have knowledge

1:14:04

hardware robotics. They

1:14:06

have a lot of maintenance robots and things like that.

1:14:09

You could try and reprogram them to

1:14:11

help you. You could also

1:14:13

use your knowledge of physics and engineering to

1:14:16

build explosives. You

1:14:19

also have firearms so you could snipe

1:14:21

people and lead

1:14:23

them away. Or you have

1:14:25

knowledge, paramedic. So

1:14:28

you can actually make some drugs. Make some drugs to

1:14:30

give to the people because they're in human bodies

1:14:33

to enhance their combat performance. So

1:14:37

religious, actually make religious. Yeah.

1:14:40

So so you have you have

1:14:42

you have a paramedic

1:14:44

too. Yeah.

1:14:46

Well, you'll be busy with a hacking. So

1:14:48

yeah. So Stica,

1:14:51

in order to take over the power plant, there will have to be a fight.

1:14:53

You have some people on your side with the cultists, but you

1:14:55

need to do something. We need to give them an edge. Yeah, we need to

1:14:57

give them an edge. So. So I gave

1:14:59

you some options, but you can come up with other things. Okay,

1:15:02

Chris and Tom are going to hack the guns of the security

1:15:05

team, which will help. Oh, if we

1:15:07

can make them self destruct and like you just pretend

1:15:09

to do it like because I will

1:15:12

ask God. Yeah, we'll let Amanda like,

1:15:14

I know. Yeah, yeah. Which radio? I

1:15:18

think the robot thing might be very helpful. So that

1:15:20

would be engineering. Well, you're

1:15:22

a robot. Hardware robotics. So,

1:15:26

um,

1:15:26

okay.

1:15:27

There's a lot of different robots around here, small

1:15:30

ones and big ones and to

1:15:32

do different tasks like robots

1:15:34

to deliver things robots

1:15:37

to lift things.

1:15:38

Mostly like industrial type. So we're inside

1:15:40

the power plant, right? Or no, we're outside of it. Yeah,

1:15:42

yeah. You're in the food growing areas right now. But like, this is sort of the

1:15:44

main thing. Like, this is sort of the main part of the

1:15:47

city, like the power plants guard

1:15:49

it. So you can't you need to fight your way in

1:15:51

basically. So

1:15:54

what would you want? What would you want? Big

1:15:57

robots or small robots? Probably big robots.

1:15:59

Okay. robots. Yeah. And

1:16:01

what would you want them to do? Just like, be

1:16:03

distractions or like try and turn them

1:16:06

into battle robots? I

1:16:08

want them to be battle robots that are the first

1:16:10

wave so that like we can like

1:16:12

kind of protect the people so Okay,

1:16:14

yeah. Okay, that's good. Um, so

1:16:18

how do you picture those? Do you want them to have like,

1:16:20

they do have some guns and you can build you have engineering

1:16:23

you can build guns.

1:16:24

Or do you could give them big like riot shields or

1:16:26

something to block more damage? Or

1:16:29

you do something else? Like what what what do you think the robots

1:16:31

would do?

1:16:32

Um, I mean, they would they would have shields

1:16:35

for sure. I would I mean, I would like for them to have

1:16:37

shields, you know, and weapons.

1:16:39

Okay, so a little bit of everything. Yeah, a little bit of everything.

1:16:42

So all right. Yeah, that's good. You

1:16:44

can roll hardware robotics.

1:16:46

My skill is 55 and I rolled 25. Nice.

1:16:51

So there's this montage of you

1:16:53

taking these big industrial robots used to

1:16:55

like move

1:16:57

cargo and stuff like that and like weld

1:16:59

things. And you're welding more armor

1:17:02

onto them and welding guns onto them and

1:17:04

shit like that. So like, yeah, you

1:17:06

can even like personalize them even

1:17:08

paint jobs or something if you want. Yeah,

1:17:10

I'm gonna draw a killroy on all of them.

1:17:14

Okay, very good. So you're doing

1:17:16

that.

1:17:16

Actually, Stika. While

1:17:20

you are working on all the making these

1:17:23

industrial robots these big things

1:17:26

into battle robots. The

1:17:29

guy who was leading the sermon, the

1:17:32

leader of the cultists. His name

1:17:34

is Archibald, by the way. Archibald. Yeah, he

1:17:36

comes up to you and is like, what

1:17:39

do they call you? They

1:17:43

call me Tika. Tika. Where

1:17:46

do you come from Tika? I

1:17:50

come from someplace far

1:17:52

away to... By

1:17:54

the way, Archibald was very young. He's like 20. He was born

1:17:58

here. He's like,

1:18:01

you come from somewhere else? You

1:18:03

weren't born here?

1:18:06

No, I wasn't

1:18:09

born here. There is more out

1:18:11

there outside of the city. We

1:18:13

were told God took

1:18:15

us away from the

1:18:16

earth because earth

1:18:18

was cursed for evil and that

1:18:23

we are the only blessed people left. Everyone

1:18:25

else is a fallen sinner or dead. That's

1:18:30

mostly true. Oh,

1:18:32

that's good. But you're not a fallen sinner? No,

1:18:36

I got out of there before all the sinners fell.

1:18:38

So where have you been all this time? Waiting,

1:18:42

resting, waiting for the right time

1:18:45

to meet you. Wait,

1:18:47

to meet me? But this group

1:18:50

of people. God has a special destiny for me? God

1:18:53

does have a special plan for all

1:18:55

of us. Oh,

1:18:58

God. Yeah, the shepherd only says there's a

1:19:01

special plan for the shepherd, but they

1:19:03

don't really mention the rest of us. We're supposed to...

1:19:05

Yeah. It's kind of a surprise. It's

1:19:07

kind of a surprise. Yeah, I probably

1:19:10

have said too much because I don't want to get your hopes

1:19:12

up. Yeah, he has plans

1:19:14

for you.

1:19:15

Oh, that's good. Is there anything else

1:19:17

you could tell me? I don't

1:19:20

think there is. Okay,

1:19:23

well, yes. Here's

1:19:25

this armor for the battle robot.

1:19:27

Yeah.

1:19:28

You're serving God well. Oh,

1:19:31

thank you. Thank you, Tika. I'm

1:19:36

glad I'm not wasting my life. Not

1:19:38

at all. Yeah, I'm not. I

1:19:40

will definitely go to heaven. I will be my reward.

1:19:43

Bless you, child. Yes. Bless. Thank

1:19:45

you. Oh, God bless you. Shepherd

1:19:47

bless me. Bless the Lord. Yeah.

1:19:50

Because... Yeah, you're the

1:19:52

first outsider that a lot

1:19:54

of these people have ever met. Very few of them

1:19:57

remember life before. Bless and are the faithful,

1:19:59

for they will believe...

1:19:59

anything we say. So

1:20:05

meanwhile, the two of you need to sneak

1:20:07

into you need to sneak

1:20:09

into the place and plant the device

1:20:11

so she can hack it, which

1:20:13

will disable all or

1:20:15

hopefully most of their guns. Yeah.

1:20:20

Okay, yeah. So

1:20:23

yeah, it's all right. So yeah, so it's

1:20:25

a, it's a security building.

1:20:28

It is one story

1:20:31

kind of like a little just a blockhouse

1:20:33

kind of thing.

1:20:35

local administrative, you know, security

1:20:37

center, basically.

1:20:39

You can give me do you perceive?

1:20:43

No. Okay, how do you want to figure out a way

1:20:45

in? Why? Sure,

1:20:48

I perceive for? Yeah, you can receive. Yeah,

1:20:50

you're there too. It's

1:20:52

a win. 11. Oh, 11 shit. It's a

1:20:54

critical success. Yeah, there's

1:20:57

a there's a five minute

1:21:00

event.

1:21:02

You do you're very good at that. Your your very

1:21:04

your snake body is very good at that. That's why

1:21:06

I like this. Do like, I

1:21:09

just love crawling through air vents and there's

1:21:11

no better. So the

1:21:13

only problem is that there are

1:21:16

it's on a side of the building that

1:21:18

gets a lot of foot traffic.

1:21:21

Now, the cultists can help

1:21:23

you and be a distraction.

1:21:25

But you either have to open the vent and

1:21:28

close it very quickly. Or

1:21:31

you have to keep like unwanted

1:21:34

people from walking by while you

1:21:36

open and get in. So for

1:21:38

them to distract

1:21:40

for distraction. Okay. Yeah,

1:21:43

they can go like a normal distraction

1:21:46

or like a big distraction. The big distraction actually

1:21:48

like they attract

1:21:51

attention in the long. Yeah, okay. So

1:21:53

yeah, no, no, just like just keep eyes

1:21:55

off this box for like less

1:21:59

than a minute. Okay, so they

1:22:01

form, they think

1:22:03

about it, they form, like they

1:22:05

go shoulder to shoulder on

1:22:07

either side so

1:22:09

no one can walk by and create

1:22:12

a blind spot. So, and they start

1:22:14

like arguing and fighting amongst themselves, so the

1:22:16

security guards start doing that. So yeah,

1:22:19

give me, actually

1:22:21

first give me a somatic

1:22:24

times three to force open the vent.

1:22:27

I'll be for

1:22:29

somatics. Oh, somatics. Sorry.

1:22:32

Five. Five, all right, yeah. That's

1:22:34

for physical things. So, all right, you

1:22:36

open it up, no problem. Put

1:22:39

her in, now this is the infiltrate check.

1:22:42

Infiltration

1:22:45

and damps. That

1:22:47

is 62.

1:22:49

Okay, that beats a failure. So,

1:22:52

well, I assume that succeeds. Yeah, I have

1:22:54

an idiot. Okay, well, yeah. So,

1:22:57

you get in and

1:23:00

you get to the vent above,

1:23:02

you can open up the other vent. Now, the only thing is there

1:23:04

is a dude in the room.

1:23:06

A security guy in

1:23:08

the room. He is, you know,

1:23:10

dressed like a

1:23:12

bit, kind of like the Swiss guard, but you know, high

1:23:14

tech. So like. So

1:23:17

we're in for 40k. Yeah, we're in for, yeah. This is totally, I'm told.

1:23:19

Oh yeah, I had not mentioned how many candles and skulls you

1:23:21

all have seen. Like there's a lot of candles. I

1:23:23

was gonna ask, but I didn't want to short-tail you.

1:23:26

I was like, he's got a vision. Don't pigeonhole

1:23:28

him. Oh no, it's extremely,

1:23:32

I'm having fun too. Yeah. What

1:23:35

if 40k happened in the eclipse phase?

1:23:40

So in order to get to the server, you have to deal with that dude

1:23:43

one way or the other. You can either

1:23:45

wait for him to turn around and make

1:23:47

an opposed infiltration check, or

1:23:50

you can kill him silently,

1:23:52

or. I have infiltrate,

1:23:55

but I'm not in a set. Okay. I'll

1:23:58

wait for him just to. All right, opposed. Check

1:24:01

versus is perceived. I don't know is constriction

1:24:03

really assassination. Yeah,

1:24:05

you could do that Yeah,

1:24:11

he fails so yeah Alright

1:24:19

so All

1:24:23

right, yeah, you mean info sec with you get a

1:24:25

plus or any bonus cuz you know you have that device on it

1:24:31

They fail and critically fail actually. Oh

1:24:33

shit. Just don't don't don't creep. We fail.

1:24:35

Yeah info sec

1:24:37

Here it is

1:24:41

But that makes my skill 100 this job

1:24:43

they don't they don't roll on 99 is always Alright 22.

1:24:48

Yeah success. Yeah our shit Yeah,

1:24:53

that is very good. So

1:24:55

Very

1:25:00

good So you

1:25:03

have access and security system you can do all kinds of things

1:25:05

to fuck up their security

1:25:07

You have the battle bots now you

1:25:09

have the cultists. They're raring to go

1:25:11

Is there anything else you want to do before you? Well,

1:25:19

no, they actually are useful in every game just

1:25:21

not to you I know this Okay

1:25:25

What I mean that's honestly that's on

1:25:28

you for not realizing the potential cultists

1:25:31

fine lesson learned. Yeah. Yeah

1:25:34

I have their guts. They

1:25:36

just don't work. Yeah, whatever that is If

1:25:39

they've got any like stupid ass beam

1:25:41

swords or knives or whatever those don't work

1:25:43

now

1:25:44

You tell me everything's happy. Yeah,

1:25:47

no it is it is You've hacked

1:25:49

as much as you possibly can from this Now

1:25:52

usually they they there's sort of like

1:25:55

multiple redundancies in a security system

1:25:57

so that

1:25:57

no one your

1:26:00

point can cause the entire system to

1:26:02

break. So they'll also have some things

1:26:04

that work or they'll be able to reboot their guns

1:26:06

and shit like that. But maybe

1:26:10

not in time before you know your boys

1:26:12

kill them. So they'll give you a massive

1:26:14

advantage.

1:26:15

All right, so I've done all that. Now it's

1:26:17

time for Stika

1:26:20

to free the cavalry. Yes. So,

1:26:23

Stika, you have

1:26:25

your platoon of

1:26:27

battle bots. Yep.

1:26:29

And you want to use them as a distraction,

1:26:32

right? Yeah, you're gonna

1:26:34

be the first wave of attack. Okay.

1:26:36

So you actually

1:26:39

have piloting skills. Yes. So

1:26:41

you can remote control pilot them. And

1:26:45

basically your pilot ground skill will determine how

1:26:47

well your battle bots do. Because

1:26:50

one thing you could do is you could copy your

1:26:52

version of your mind into all of those

1:26:55

battle bots. So you're controlling all of

1:26:57

them. Okay.

1:26:59

So yeah, give me a pilot. Yeah, you have pilot ground.

1:27:02

All right. So my skill is 40.

1:27:04

And I rolled

1:27:06

a 71. Okay, you can spend

1:27:09

a, if

1:27:11

you have, that's the, that

1:27:14

is a figure. So you can spend a

1:27:16

point of figure to flip that to 17. Okay. We do that.

1:27:18

So 17. You can so imagine this

1:27:20

power plant, you

1:27:25

know, we're inside this massive city, the

1:27:27

power plant has, you know,

1:27:30

you know, fences, guard posts,

1:27:33

sentry turrets and guards, and

1:27:35

then your industrial vehicles armored

1:27:37

up like it's like Fury Road, basically,

1:27:39

right?

1:27:40

So can you narrate to us what

1:27:42

it looks like when you lead the charge

1:27:44

of the battle bots into these robotic row

1:27:46

here? Yeah.

1:27:50

Well, now that I'm thinking like none of their

1:27:52

guns or defenses are going to work, right?

1:27:54

Because you hacked them. Yeah.

1:27:55

Well,

1:27:58

their guns will some of their they can read. boot their

1:28:00

guns. But you've succeeded.

1:28:02

Okay. So like, there's

1:28:04

also like walls to get through.

1:28:06

So yeah, so we will

1:28:09

surround the fence. And

1:28:13

all of the robots will advance at

1:28:15

once. So we can spread out the

1:28:17

guards as much as possible with the fighting

1:28:19

and okay, and whatnot. Most the guards

1:28:22

are probably rebooting their weapons right

1:28:24

about this time. So, you

1:28:27

know, our battle bots are just taking them out

1:28:29

as they can. Okay. Pushing

1:28:31

them flipping them through the air, shooting

1:28:33

them when needed. Yeah.

1:28:36

Just so we can kind of get through that first

1:28:38

fence. And then we're just gonna rush all the doors

1:28:41

possible.

1:28:41

All right. Yeah. So

1:28:44

yeah, your bots are just massacring

1:28:46

these dudes. Yeah, just running

1:28:49

them over. And you're using them to get into

1:28:51

like the main things you can't hack are like armored

1:28:54

doors, because they're obviously not

1:28:56

remotely hackable they're

1:28:58

designed not to be networkable because that seems

1:29:00

like a bad idea. You can't hack the engines and

1:29:02

future stuff. Yeah. But

1:29:05

you can weld them off. You can blow them up.

1:29:07

You can melt them that you have tools to

1:29:09

do that that just takes time. So

1:29:11

your cultists come in. You're

1:29:13

some of your battle bots even

1:29:15

survived the initial fight. So you still have some of them

1:29:17

left.

1:29:18

And

1:29:21

the only thing now is you

1:29:23

got to hold out until you know, you

1:29:25

got to stop the reinforcements. So

1:29:28

as your boys are actually

1:29:31

no you two can both give me engineering checks, right?

1:29:33

You both have engineering, right? Yeah.

1:29:35

How fast can you break into the power

1:29:37

plant get through all those armored doors? Oh,

1:29:39

shit, 84 versus

1:29:41

my skill of 70. Okay. 44

1:29:45

engineering. Do you have any Oh, yeah, everyone's

1:29:48

had some time to rest.

1:29:50

So everyone recovers.

1:29:53

Two points of vigor or flex

1:29:55

or ego or inside or any of

1:29:58

those things you spent so

1:30:00

Alright, so I can use bigger to flip this around.

1:30:02

Uh, well engineering is inside.

1:30:05

Do you have any? Oh, yeah.

1:30:07

Oh So you could do

1:30:09

that. Yeah. Oh, okay. Oh, yeah.

1:30:12

Yeah, one. Yeah, 48 then.

1:30:14

All right, so we are engineering.

1:30:16

Yes, we are So

1:30:19

there's a team of like Swiss guard cyborgs

1:30:22

and angels coming in to like

1:30:24

retake the power I Let

1:30:29

me have fun. I'm loving.

1:30:31

Okay. All right

1:30:36

If you started Well,

1:30:39

he calls himself the shepherd all right like it's a

1:30:41

model graduated that yeah, yeah, he

1:30:43

needs about a billion more people under his command

1:30:48

Yeah, it is

1:30:50

so Really the

1:30:52

question is so Archibald's with you

1:30:55

and he looks to you as TK is like

1:30:57

We're in where's the Ark?

1:31:00

It's hidden deep within

1:31:03

the building. They have more

1:31:05

guards and They have

1:31:08

you know, we're gonna have to find some

1:31:10

switchboards to to unlock

1:31:13

it. Of course We

1:31:17

shall find them The

1:31:19

artifact lies in the heart of the beast go

1:31:22

young man

1:31:23

Uh, yeah So,

1:31:27

uh, you have access to the power plant now, you

1:31:29

don't know if you can you can

1:31:32

basically trigger a meltdown

1:31:34

With a timer or you could you

1:31:36

you trigger it immediately just in the scenario,

1:31:39

but like no I

1:31:41

understand the one shot, but we do want to survive.

1:31:43

Okay. Yeah. Yeah.

1:31:44

What's me? What's my little followers name again?

1:31:47

Archibald Archibald? Yeah, I feel

1:31:49

like we should bring him with us. I just So

1:31:52

you're trying to get so there's two ways to escape

1:31:54

this place. One is there are some spaceships being

1:31:56

built

1:31:57

You could go there or you

1:31:59

could go to the Pandora gate which is at the

1:32:01

bottom of the city. Throw

1:32:04

ourselves through to ship the door behind us? Yeah.

1:32:07

Yeah. It's near the power plant.

1:32:10

The spaceships are a little farther away. So

1:32:13

I feel like we should

1:32:15

try to set this on some sort

1:32:17

of a timer and then we all run for the

1:32:20

gate. We still have some battle bots too.

1:32:23

So

1:32:23

yeah. Well, right now your battle bots are fighting

1:32:25

off the reinforced. Oh, they're still fighting. Ooh,

1:32:27

okay. Well, I mean, as soon as the power plant was attacked,

1:32:30

they called in reinforcement. So like, yeah,

1:32:32

your battle bots are doing their best. But you know, I

1:32:34

gotta say, let's do a timer and get to the gate.

1:32:37

You want to go to the Pandora gate? Yeah, we're going to have a damn

1:32:39

vision. I mean, the thing's going to blow up one way or another,

1:32:41

so we might as well try to get out. All

1:32:43

right. How much time do you want to give yourself? You figure

1:32:46

it takes you normally running at top speed or going

1:32:48

to trial speed, take you about 20 minutes to get there.

1:32:50

You don't know how long it'll take you to get through the security

1:32:52

of the Pandora gate or

1:32:54

you normally activating it only

1:32:56

takes like two minutes. 30 minutes.

1:33:01

Well, that only leaves us eight minutes. 45 minutes.

1:33:04

Yeah, 45. All right. So you

1:33:06

do that. Archibald, so you said it

1:33:08

to do that. Archibald

1:33:12

doesn't understand what you're doing to the power plant, you

1:33:14

know, but trying

1:33:17

to explain to him that we're

1:33:19

freeing God. It's a complicated

1:33:22

process. He's a powerful God with powerful

1:33:25

artifacts and

1:33:27

it takes a lot to unlock them.

1:33:31

So you

1:33:34

start running, so you're taking Archibald

1:33:36

with you? Yeah, I'm carrying him. Oh, okay.

1:33:38

Yeah. You are very strong. He

1:33:40

can't keep up. No, he's just a normal human and you're

1:33:43

in a very strong robot body. So Archibald's

1:33:45

about to melt feelings. Yeah.

1:33:48

Strong lady carry me. Strong robot lady carry

1:33:50

me. Yeah, I don't know what this means. Well,

1:33:51

I think the robots are male, so I

1:33:54

don't know. Well, you could be whatever gender

1:33:56

you want. I mean, it's a robot and this

1:33:58

is the future. So yeah, I can. be whatever

1:34:00

I want. Yeah, but yeah, I don't

1:34:03

know what is the front of their products.

1:34:05

Anyway, it doesn't matter. Oh, yeah, dinner.

1:34:07

Yeah. So anyway, strong robot carry me

1:34:10

strong. So the

1:34:12

four

1:34:14

of you now they and technically five bingles

1:34:17

like embedded in your systems, you know, the

1:34:19

little AI. Get

1:34:21

the vehicle. Don't forget that little cat. So our

1:34:24

muses, which yeah, I think we have. I

1:34:26

have mine. But yeah.

1:34:31

So you're running the Bandora gate and then you

1:34:34

realize that's what the job of those broken

1:34:36

angels are is to guard the Pandora gate.

1:34:38

And so bingo comes on,

1:34:40

it's like, I have been talking to the angels, the broken

1:34:42

angels. I hope

1:34:44

you don't mind. I took initiative to do that. But

1:34:47

they actually, they're a bit

1:34:50

confused. But they would be

1:34:52

okay. I

1:34:53

think they want to talk to you three if they

1:34:56

decide if they'll let you

1:34:58

pass or you want to

1:35:00

pass. Yeah, the broken angels. It's not

1:35:03

their decision. Well,

1:35:05

I think they're gonna physically stop

1:35:07

us. So yeah, so you can have a fight

1:35:09

or you can talk to them. I say let's talk to them. I'm

1:35:12

gonna hack them. Okay. Well,

1:35:15

they're hackable. There's a lot

1:35:17

of them.

1:35:18

There may be too many to hack if in the amount

1:35:20

of time that you have. This is all the broken angels

1:35:22

in the past 30 years.

1:35:25

No, they they were just told to guard

1:35:27

it. So they they're all like independent creatures, but

1:35:29

they have nothing else to do. So yeah, I

1:35:32

said, we'll talk to them. You can fight them. You

1:35:34

can run them. We're good. Yeah. But I said,

1:35:36

let's let's do the final obstacle. All right. I mean,

1:35:38

I'm

1:35:41

gonna say like, what do you think? What

1:35:43

do you think we should do? Um, I mean,

1:35:45

I mean, I can sneak by them. But I don't know

1:35:47

if you guys can.

1:35:49

You could run, you know, you'd be athletics.

1:35:52

You can fly around

1:35:54

them with athletics as well. But you

1:35:58

it does take a couple of minutes to turn the

1:36:00

pandoriate on. So you'd

1:36:02

have to hold out for two minutes from these

1:36:04

angry angels if you don't talk to them. Is there

1:36:06

a way we can trick them into thinking

1:36:09

we're important people? Yeah. So

1:36:12

they'll turn the thing on for us? Sure,

1:36:15

you can try. You have to see, right? You

1:36:18

actually have a point of flex. So

1:36:21

you could, and flex can be used for narrative

1:36:23

declarations. So you could say

1:36:26

that,

1:36:28

oh, Archibald knows how to talk to the angels.

1:36:30

So you could spend a point of flex to say,

1:36:33

Archibald has a relationship with the angels and they'll

1:36:35

listen to him. Archibald

1:36:38

has a relationship with the angels. So we need

1:36:40

Archibald to speak to them. All right, so you spend your point of flex to do that.

1:36:43

I spent my point of flex. Okay, so does this

1:36:45

guy know how to talk to them? And

1:36:48

I- I write in a book. Yeah. So

1:36:51

the problem is they're divided into two camps

1:36:53

as well. I think there are those

1:36:55

who believe that the pandoriate should remain closed

1:36:58

because it's a gate to hell. And there are those that

1:37:00

think it's a gate to heaven. They're really divided

1:37:03

about that. But I would tell them like, like,

1:37:05

well, like, we're gonna take the ones

1:37:07

that want to go through with us and then

1:37:09

they, the ones that want to stay can stay in garden. Well,

1:37:11

no, because the people who think it's a gate to hell think

1:37:13

it has to be closed at all time, no exceptions.

1:37:16

So we need to somehow first get

1:37:18

the people who think it's heaven on

1:37:21

our team, tell them we're going to heaven and then somehow

1:37:24

overcome the other half

1:37:26

of these angels. So

1:37:28

like, we'll take the ones that want to go through and

1:37:31

then we will steal it from the other side forever.

1:37:33

Well, or you can, if

1:37:35

you can disprove that it's a gate to hell, then

1:37:37

they will accept you.

1:37:39

And things that are good are,

1:37:42

so you can say you're from the gate and

1:37:44

you're not from hell, therefore it's

1:37:47

not a gate to hell.

1:37:50

So if you can prove that you're not from hell,

1:37:52

you can, you

1:37:54

can, you can get past easily.

1:37:57

So now they do, there are a couple

1:37:59

of ways to do that.

1:38:00

One

1:38:01

you could say that well I can take

1:38:03

it we one of us can defeat any of them

1:38:05

in a single one-on-one Combat or three

1:38:07

on one. Yeah, they'll they'll they'll take

1:38:10

you all three of you

1:38:11

can fight off their mighties champion Yeah,

1:38:17

or any other any no I'm gonna test

1:38:19

of faith you could recite the Lord's Prayer

1:38:21

the shepherd's prayer You

1:38:24

know so just a cognitive memory test

1:38:26

Where we can convince them like well we could do

1:38:28

that Robot could tell us or

1:38:30

the thing in our head more if you were from hell

1:38:32

we could know in no way could we interact with?

1:38:35

angels We can

1:38:37

have them splish fully water on us Well

1:38:43

it had to be more dramatic than that like Angels

1:38:46

and demons can fight that's for sure they can touch

1:38:48

each other. That's that's obvious that's a

1:38:50

piano

1:38:51

demons actually are angels Yeah,

1:38:54

yeah, see so you yeah, you can

1:38:56

have bingle give you the Lord's Prayer

1:38:58

Or you could do a three-on-one fight if you want to test out the combat

1:39:01

mechanics of the game I mean I

1:39:03

got I got guns at 60.

1:39:05

That's it. Yeah, well that you have a gun

1:39:08

All of you have guns we can just ditch this

1:39:11

idea go get a spaceship We've

1:39:16

already kind of committed I know but these corn

1:39:18

dogs aren't gonna fucking move the spaceships outside

1:39:20

how much time do we have left? narratively

1:39:23

appropriate amount

1:39:26

Yeah,

1:39:33

if you defeat the champion that you can get all the angels to

1:39:35

go with you so yeah That's

1:39:37

that's what we have to do we have to fight

1:39:39

them well, or you could recite the Lord's

1:39:42

Prayer I think we should just recite the Lord's Prayer.

1:39:44

Okay, they'll today up Tika. All

1:39:46

right, so Banjo or

1:39:48

whoever has to tell me So

1:39:53

T Stica stica you I will

1:39:55

let you Do

1:39:58

this We

1:40:02

have to make up a prayer. Is that what you're saying?

1:40:05

Uh, yeah, I want a little role play in here.

1:40:07

Um,

1:40:09

then we get that. Well, she's presiding. We

1:40:11

could do some special effects to enhance it.

1:40:14

I've done this before. Uh, let's see

1:40:17

here. Um, the King

1:40:19

James, uh, programming, uh, which

1:40:22

is a taking programming

1:40:24

Bibles and the King James Bible together. All

1:40:27

right. Um, and I know Greek, so

1:40:29

I can like speak it in Greek. And I think

1:40:31

that would be like pretty impressive to them as well.

1:40:33

All right. So Amanda, here I found it.

1:40:35

So here, this is what bingo is going

1:40:41

to read to you. So you just have to like role play

1:40:43

to really sell this here. Just pass my phone

1:40:45

to. All right. All

1:40:48

right, angels. Yeah. I need you to gather

1:40:50

around as I complete

1:40:52

the task you have sent for me. The

1:40:56

seven italics.

1:40:58

This is, this is a different

1:41:00

interpretation. Uh-huh. I

1:41:02

told you it's not Catholicism anymore. This

1:41:05

was first demonstrated in a clear way

1:41:07

by Alan M Turing, who's 1936

1:41:10

paper lead the foundations of the earth, both man

1:41:13

and beast.

1:41:14

Oh, you're doing an Alan Turing. Yeah.

1:41:17

Uh, they smoked the city with

1:41:19

the edge of the sword. And

1:41:22

one of his main motivations was

1:41:24

the high cost of proprietary software

1:41:27

houses. What man

1:41:30

is there that knoweth how to go about doing

1:41:33

arithmetic on polynomials?

1:41:35

The Lord is good. A

1:41:38

stronghold in the wall

1:41:40

of the city had 12 foundations and

1:41:43

in them the name of some

1:41:46

characters, including hex,

1:41:49

octal, and binary values.

1:41:52

Oh, I got the whole time. Amen. In

1:41:55

this section, we design a proper

1:41:58

set of selectors in construct. This

1:42:00

is the inheritance of the children

1:42:02

of Israel. And

1:42:06

not my days few cease then

1:42:08

and let me not fall into a loop here. Now preach

1:42:11

sister. Ill

1:42:14

who waited till Job had

1:42:17

spoken, Job, Job

1:42:19

had spoken because they were

1:42:21

constrained by the applicative

1:42:23

order evaluation

1:42:24

of scheme.

1:42:27

Ben Bediddle, an

1:42:30

expert systems programmer, looks

1:42:32

over Alyssa's shoulder and

1:42:34

comments that he is giveth salvation

1:42:36

unto kings. We have

1:42:39

also obtained a glimpse of another crucial

1:42:41

idea about languages and program design.

1:42:44

This is the thing which had greatly feared

1:42:46

has come upon us, desolation

1:42:49

and destruction. And he found

1:42:51

a pair of eyes scanning the

1:42:53

directories for files. Very good.

1:42:57

Yeah, it turns out when AIs

1:43:00

write a biblical scripture, it

1:43:02

gets a little weird. So

1:43:06

the angels say, only no demon,

1:43:09

nothing from hell could recite the

1:43:11

truth. He is the Messiah.

1:43:15

So they part the ways. So, Estica,

1:43:19

you have knowledge. Who

1:43:22

has knowledge of geek crashing? I do. Okay.

1:43:26

Let's see here. I'll say all three of

1:43:28

you have acts. You first give me an knowledge

1:43:31

gate crashing thing.

1:43:33

Three. Okay. So

1:43:35

you turn it on. So all three of you

1:43:37

have the coordinates to one other

1:43:39

planet. I'll let you decide.

1:43:41

It's a distant planet that few people have

1:43:43

been to. You can describe

1:43:45

it in brief and then the three of you can determine which

1:43:48

one you go to. So

1:43:51

this is some distant planet that is maybe

1:43:53

there's a colony on there. Maybe not.

1:43:56

Maybe there's alien ruins on it. Maybe

1:43:58

it's a jungle paradise with floating eyes.

1:43:59

and blue people. No,

1:44:02

there's no blue people. There's no living aliens. That

1:44:05

is the only thing about living aliens. There's alien

1:44:07

faunas, not sentient.