FT Game 2_Planet 2

Cleo
Let’s go at nighttime! I really want to see all the special going ons, plus we’ll likely be able to have one on one chats with some of the artists. Oh man I really should have brought my portfolio for them to judge, or, not. I’d honestly be kind of nervous to get my artwork judged by the masters; after all I’ve only been doing it as a hobby.

Marble
I’m sure they would have liked to see your art Cleo. It’s too bad I don’t have room for my glowsticks. Not only are they useful in a survival situation, but also they’re great for any raves we might happen upon.
[Marble chuckles at the thought of going to a rave. While she was a partier early on in her life she definitely had cooled down in her recent years.]

Cea
Raves huh? Weeeeeeeell I’m going to go get those glowsticks. I’ll have to leave my phone behind but it’s no big deal. The entrance I’ll give with a few glowsticks will be more then worth it.

Cleo
This is going to be so radical! Are you ready to finally head outside One-Punch?

One-Punch
I’m absolutely ready to go Cleo!
[The lessons that were taught to One-Punch caused One-Punch to feel [Philosophical]. One-Punch also learned [Improvise], an ability that when activated in a situation will cause a luck roll. If the roll is high then One-Punch will be able to bypass any other type of stat check, if it’s low One-Punch could possibly destroy any chance of redeeming the situation. [Egotistical] has changed in to [Narcissist].

Cleo
Oh boy oh boy! We’re all going to have so much fun! Come on everyone follow me!
[Cleo skips over to entrance of the ship and opens the door. As the ship’s doors open a tense creeps its way on to the ship. Marble looks at Latta, and Latta looks back. Both of them know something is wrong, but do not know what it could be. Cleo happy exits the ship without a care in the world.]

???
[Just outside the door 2 husses stare at the now exiting crew. The husse closest to the group whinnies in surprise and gallops away to hide behind the other husse. The two husses look at the crew like they were strange monsters, at least until One-Punch trots out. The more nervous husse points at One-Punch and whispers to the other. The two share a short game of rock paper scissors with the more confident husse losing.]

Shetlock Hostler
[The husse gallops towards the group at high speeds. Marble gets in front of Cleo, worried the husse was about to attack the group but the husse stopped inches away from Marble, nearly tripping on his own feet. Marble huffs at the husse, causing him to back off in fear. He takes a long drag from his pipe before talking.]
Greetings, I mean no harm. I am Shetlock Hostler. You may have heard of me from the books!

???
[The other husse covers his face when Shetlock Hostler says his name and groans. He’s already dreading that both of them are doomed and starts looking around for a good escape plan off the bridge and away from the crew.]

Shetlock
Sorry about the fact that both of us where investigating your ship. We didn’t know what it was and the shape of your ship interested us with its formal and simplistic box like shape. We were wondering what you all were doing here, also if-if....
[Shetlock tries to not sound desperate but fails as his voice reaches a higher pitch as he nearly whinnies his next sentence.]
You might have some food? Please? The nice edible leafy things, or seeds. Anything at all!


Cea
[Classist]
Ugh, buggers. How about you lowlifes get out of here? We don’t have handouts for people who aren’t going to work for it. Why not just eat some grass you find growing on the ground; I’m sure that’s worthy of people of your standards.
[Cea looks their dirty clothes up and down before scowling at them.]

Shetlock
[Shetlock throws his hands in the air and waves them around as he yells.]
Do you see any grass here? Most of the top “soil” on this planet is clay my good sir! Eating grass from the floor of a planet you don’t come from is not only unsanitary but also possibly deadly; you don’t know the composition of that grass! If there were grass we would have risked our lives trying to eat it by now.

Cleo
Cea, stop being so mean to them! They’re not homeless people, they’re starving artists, those are two completely different things! One doesn’t have a house and one is one overdue bill from losing their house.

Cea
[Cea rolls his eyes and crosses his arms. He didn’t want to argue with Cleo.]
Makes little difference to me, whatever, they’re still gross in my book. Captain, can you deal with these people so we can get moving already?

Latta
[Latta sighs, already knowing the crew had already gotten off on the wrong foot with Cea’s comments. She attempts to redeem the situation with small talk.]
We might be able to help you out with a little bit of food. Did you make a comment about my ship back there?

Shetlock
[Merely the mention of the prospect of food had calmed down Shetlock.]
Yes! It’s very simple in shape and form. It’s just a box. Boxes are usual the symbol of stability and safety you know? Just the type of ship and AI people pick really tells a lot about their character.

Latta
Well I guess you got me there. I came from doing boring office work to adventuring. I have to admit while I did make a big jump by doing it I still wanted a safety net. This is the safety ship around, can’t be damaged from the outside. I got it for free from a Hermes. He said he’d just give it to me as long as he got to stay on it. Anyway enough story, let me grab you two some food.
[Latta goes inside to grab food for the husses.]

[Latta comes out with 2 expired plant rations. The rations were starting to become brown in certain places but were still slightly edible. She holds them out for the husses. Shetlock takes his ration and gobbles it down without a second thought. The other husse approached Latta slowly, ears pinned back before he nabbed the other ration and trotted away from them to eat.]
So, any of you two want to tell me what’s going on?

Shetlock
[Shetlock greedily eats his rations in seconds. Not a bite or crumb of ration is left as he licks down his plate. He coughs then stands up straight; trying to reclaim what dignity he had left.]
I can’t tell you ma’am. It was sudden from what I heard. Everything was great; this whole planet was flourishing with the exchange of cultural ideas and art.

Then a month after the grand opening there was a great festival that was planned. The main attraction was a guy named Macciu, apparently a genius in music. I don’t know what happened at Macciu’s performance but he’s turned this planet in to what any outsider would confuse as a nuclear wasteland.

????
[The other husse approaches the group, his entire demeanor turned from reclusive and grumpy to slightly happier after his meal.]
Hay there! Sorry about being rude before, I was just worried you guys were going to try and attack us. Its happened a lot cause no many people know what we are and assume we’re monsters. My name is Andrus Esroh, I was there at the festival.

Andrus Esroh
The festival was going great. Macciu, some famous and great artist was about to go out. I went to go buy some chips but the line was so long I ended up missing what Macciu did. All I remember is that there were loud sounds and people ran screaming out of the stadium we were at. Curiosity kills the cat and it almost killed me. I peeked out to see what was happening, and saw a giant clock looking back. Not a clockwork, a clock a mile tall.

That thing started messing with everything. Buildings were reverted to what they were when they were being built. Land being reverted to what they were before the planet had cooled. It was beautiful on an artistic level, horrible any other way. All the watches on the planet started acting weird; people would bump in to them and be changed in to something else. Heard there was a name for it, “life changing clocks”.

Shetlock
It turned me from a normal husse to the famous Shetlock Hostler!

Andrus
[Andrus pushes Shetlock away before whispering to the others.]
He’s not Shetlock Hostler, Shetlock Hostler isn’t even a real person! My friend is a performance artist who imitates people from books. He’s really good at what he does, the dude totally changes when he’s in character, but he hasn’t been out of character in years.

Anyway. The surrealist leader from the Slab lands, Dali, made a way to fight back against the giant clock and get rid of the clocks that kept changing people in to other things. Too bad Dali well....unleashed monsters on to us. Every ship was trashed due to the event. All of us became land bound. You guys should leave now before it destroys your ship as well. Maybe take us with you too; we want to get off of this planet.

Latta
What things are we talking about? My ship cannot be destroyed so I’d like to see these things even attempt trying to take it out.

Andrus
Well that is right, your ship can’t be destroyed, I still feel like you guys need to leave now. It’s only going to get worse for you. I can’t tell you what the things are, I feel like just talking about them will summon them. They may not be able to destroy your ship but they can destroy us! Why won’t you guys leave now?

Latta
We only have enough fuel to get in to space. We’d just end up drifting and waiting for help at best. At worst we could end up starving to death up there. Dealing with this planet is a lot better then possibly having to deal with the consequences of heading in to space without enough rations.

Andrus
Oh great, we’re all doomed.... Hey, uh, do you have more rations? We need all the food we can get.

Latta
We do but we need those rations ourselves. We also have seeds but we’re not giving any rations or seeds for free, definitely seeing as rations are rare here.

Andrus
We’re willing to do anything for food! Seeds are also gold mines, money means nothing in this place, it’s all barter and trades! Just give us a task, we’re willing to work for food, right Shetlock?
[Shetlock nods his head. They both seem very desperate.]


Latta
If you can tour us around and possibly point us where to get some fuel then I think we can let go of some of our food. How many rations are you looking to get in return?

Andrus
4 rations and 4 seeds would be good enough to pay us off right?
[Andrus looks to Shetlock who nods in confirmation.]

Latta
Good. Wait out here with my crew, I’ll go inside to grab those items.

Cleo
Oh! One-Punch go swap out some of your items for items that’ll sell a little better on this planet like the chocolates and wine. It seems these guys don’t have many luxury items left on this planet so they might be willing to trade higher for them!
[One-Punch agrees and heads in to swap items.]

Marble
You know I could call in a nearby military for you guys. I have connections so it would be in my reach to send this planet help.

Andrus
HEEHAWWWHEEEHAWWW!!!!!!!!
[Andrus bursted out in laughter before regaining his composure.]
On this planet there were many priceless art pieces loaned out by different nations all around the universe. We’re talking pieces that were practically the species’ heirloom.

Marble
So what you’re trying to imply is that the military and help has already landed on this planet in an attempt to save everyone.

Andrus
And all of them have died.

Shetlock
Well there is one group that has recently came by and has yet to be destroyed. The didaskaloi army has taken over the Nouveau settlement to the right of us. We just got back from checking the Nouveau settlement. We thought the army was here to help us and we could get rations before they yet again get destroyed but these guys, they’re not here to save us. They only told me they had something more important to do.

Andrus
We’re not sure what they meant by that, I’ve heard the didaskaloi army tend to be about bringing peace with words, then bullets if that doesn’t work, which makes it odd that they’re here of all places, a world that needs more bullets then words. They also aren’t here to help us, so what are they here for? I guess it really doesn’t matter, they likely won’t be here for too long.

Latta
[Latta comes out and gives 2 expired and two normal rations to the husses. She knew she couldn’t get away with giving them all expired rations. She also hands them 4 mystery seed packs that she got from Edel.]
So now that that’s done, mind telling me what’s around here?

Shetlock
I’d be delighted to madam. See those bright lights that are sure to attract anything from miles away to it? That’s the Nouveau settlement; the didaskaloi army is currently posted there. They’re not aggressive but it might be hard to speak to them, they’ve been really picky with telling people their plans. The other settlement across from it is the Deco settlement. We live there along with many other artists.

Almost all the lights are turned off over there and for good reasons; we don’t want to attract the attention of the beasts. People are, certainly strange over there but it’s the home we’ve come to know and love. Just earlier today a large ship landed just beside the settlement. We don’t know anything about the ship other then it’s attracting a lot of beasts....but it has an even larger monster protecting it. I’m sort of glad it’s killing beasts but what if it takes aim at us?


Latta
Well the Deco settlement seems the best option right now. Maybe we can check out the Nouveau if we have time.

Andrus
Trust me you’re going to want to get out of this place as soon as possible! It’s not the sort of place you want to stay at. By the way, which one of us do you want to show you around? One of us is going to need to drop off these items at our home while the other tours you.

Latta
Shetlock can lead us around while you head home.

Shetlock
You picked well my lady, I, Shetlock of the front yard, will be delighted to lead you around. You’ll be happy to know that I can show you some of the odder and more secluded parts of the settlement. I have connections with O o o o so he might be able to pin you in for a short meeting.

Latta
O o o o? Who is O o o o?

Shetlock
Who is O o o o? Why surely you jest, O o o o is the “big man” in town, the self-proclaimed leader of the settlement. Everyone follows his rules because his rules have protected us from Dali’s beasts. I can’t say I agree with his art style or his way of leadership but I am a huss of reason my good lady. I know it is better to pretend to enjoy an art form then bicker about it and get tossed out my home.

Latta
Right I understand, and this Dali you talked about, who are they?

Shetlock
He’s another eccentric creator, a mastermind of our time, now if only he didn’t get so interested in building his beasts. He stands above everyone else in the Slab lands. A surrealist by nature! I never met the man but have heard he’s a delight to speak to. He’s not evil per say but he definitely took his extermination of clocks to an extreme level. His creations still wander today causing disorder, all of us are sure he’s still creating more of them but none of us know if it’s a fact.

Anyway, enough small talk for now. Let us head on our wa-
[Shetlock pins back his ears as he hears the sound of something under the bridge. He drops his forced accent as he says his next sentence; the matter at hand was serious.]
We need to get out of here. Now. Follow me!
[Shetlock and Andrus break into a sprint for the Deco side.]

????
[What they are running from becomes clear in seconds. A giraffe raises its head from behind the bridge. The area around it begins to distort and twist.  Its legs bent in ways that were impossible as climbed the bridge and headed towards the ship.]


Latta
[There was no time to think, Latta called for the whole crew to move just as One-Punch exited the ship with new items in tow. Marble was hesitant as the others ran to follow the husses, but she knew she had no plan of action. She’d endanger everyone with a hasty attack on something 100 times her size, so she ran. She ran as fast as she could.]

?????
[The giraffe did not chase them. It did not even attempt to do so. Instead it stared them down from afar. It wasn’t of this world. It wasn’t of any world. ]

Marble
[Noticing the giraffe watching them, Marble stopped to take out her tablet. She was [Protective] and thus needed to call the crew, she needed to make sure Slate was safe. As she turned on her tablet she was met with nothing but her screen twisted and red from the giraffe’s influence. Cleo assumed that Marble had frozen in fear and ran back to her to pull her along.]

???
[Marble didn’t move, desperately trying to get the tablet to work until the giraffe took a single step. The sound of hoof hitting the floor sounded closer then it was, it sounded like the giraffe was directly next to Marble, causing her to be ripped back to reality. She followed Cleo. There was nothing she could do for now as the giraffe looked down at the ship with its endless pits called eyes.]

Andrus
[Andrus was the first to reach the Deco town. He quickly ducked in to an alleyway and waited for the others. For now they all were safe.]
I knew they’d come for the ship! I’m so sorry this happened to you guys, we should have demanded you leave! I knew we should have!

Latta
[Overreacts]
What did that thing do to the area? What happened to our ship?
[Latta shouted up at the husses. Even with how short she was compared to the large husses she stilled frightened them, causing them to back up in fear.]

Andrus
It’s Dali’s....well...
[Andrus whispers, still scared that speaking of it would summon it.]
-giraffe. It twists the area around it, the closer you get the more twisted it becomes. If it touches you, you could become one of the “twisted”. Mangled up people who roam the wild.

Shetlock
We don’t know what will happen to your ship. The best case is that your ship will be left alone when it finds out it can’t destroy it. The worst case is what will likely happen. The ship will be dragged off to the Slabs. We don’t know what happens after that. We don’t know what they’re using all the ships they drag off for.

Marble
[Marble tries calling Slate with her tablet once more to no avail.]
Why can’t I call the crew in the ship?

Andrus
Well, they mess up everything that gets near them, even things like communication, as long as they’re next to whatever you’re trying to communicate with it won’t work.
[Andrus gathers the food from Shetlock.]
I’ll be heading home now. Please take care of Shetlock for me.
[Andrus quickly nuzzles Shetlock before trotting off.]

Shetlock
Hopefully this place won’t become your new permanent home. Yet again, I apologize for what happened. I hope your crew is safe. Now, there are a few rules I must tell you before we start. First, avoid any clocks. Nearly every clock on this planet will change you. Digital clocks, pocket watches, and sadly to say, just about anything that directly tells what time or day it is. So if you have any calendars you may want to burn them now.

Next, don’t tease any of those who have been changed. Those poor fellows don’t need any more pain in their life. If you see a “twisted” though, yell for help. You’ll know a twisted when you see them; they look like that thing we saw but on a smaller scale. Lastly respect and do anything O o o o says. Never deny a request by O o o o if you want to live. If O o o o says to roll in trash for an hour a day then disgustingly, we better get rolling.

Now I know you’re likely still stunned by the whole event, so feel free to take your time and obtain your bearings.  I can take you anywhere inside the town or just outside of it. There’s a market district in the subways. We can head to O o o o’s “palace” if you want to introduce yourself. There’s also Bob’s place. Bob is the nicest guy in town; he’ll try to help you no matter what the issue is. A good start if you’re confused about what to do.

There’s also the Chrysler Building but I wouldn’t go in there. Some surrealists have taken roost there. They seem friendly and give out handouts but I wouldn’t trust them. They never talk, it seems only a charming person could ever speak with them. Lastly there’s “downtown” where there’s lots of gambling to be done if you want to test your luck! I would avoid it if I were you, mainly because I lost all our food last time gambling it away.....

Ah! There is also that ship just out of town we talked about, but I’m not sure how safe it is. Not only is there some huge beast protecting the ship, but the ship itself is attracting the you know whats. It’ll be hard to get past them with the way we are now. We’ll need to find something or someone that can assist us with getting pass.


Cleo
Wait a minute? Bob? You MEAN BOB FROM “ARTIST SHOW”? I LOVE BOB. OH MY GOOOOOOSH I GREW UP ON BOB’S ARTIST SHOW! HE HAD SO MANY GOOD QUOTES AND HE MADE THE BAD TIMES IN TO GOOD TIMES AND ALWAYS TALKED ABOUT HOW IT’S OK TO MAKE MISTAKES. WHICH WAY IS IT TO BOB?

Shetlock
[Shetlock points to the direction Bob’s place was.]
That way, but please let me inform you that-
[Cleo ran before Shetlock could finish. One-Punch mimicked Cleo and bounced after her gaining the [Excitable] trait.]
I suppose we should go after her then.

Cea
[Cea lets the others walk away so he could speak to Sonny without anyone questioning him.]
Sonny, do you mind checking up on the ship? I don’t want some creature ruining my room, also I suppose someone needs to check if the others are safe.

Sonny
I can absolutely do that Cea. We spent so much time reordering those books; it would be a shame if something ruined them. We must also make sure the others will be safe as well. I shall be back in just a few moments.
[Cea smiles and nods, allowing Sonny to drift off towards the ship.]

As you set the crew to go follow Cleo’s to Bob’s place you looked at Shetlock’s stats. He has a trait called [Extreme Cosplayer]. The only thing the description says is “You’re a little too in character... Cooldown: Active so long as the Cosplay is worn.” Seems it’s possible to change Shetlock’s traits or stats by giving him new clothes.

Cleo
[As the others reached Bob’s place, they noticed Cleo at the door looking in confused.]
Hmmmm this.... this doesn’t look like the Bob on TV. Did I walk in to the wrong building?
[Cleo whispers to Shetlock.]

Shetlock
No my dear, but the truth is well, confusing. See Bob recorded “The Art show” on “Planet” about 2000 years ago. That show went on for about 500 years, until someone noticed after reviewing things that there hadn’t been a new “The Art show” in over 20 years. The worst was assumed; Bob must have died on Planet. One artist took it upon herself to “bring back” Bob. So she gathered all the episodes of “The Art show-“

Shetlock
[Bob stops painting the wall in front of him and turns around to see his guests. He sees that Shetlock and Cleo are whispering but patiently waits for them to be done.]
-and put it all in a robot, so that Bob could “live on” in a way. Try not to bring this up; Bob is a treasure to the community, keeping the truth away from him has apparently been a tradition for about 1500 years.

Bob
[Seeing that they’re done Bob slowly wipes off his expression so he could draw a new one. His missing arm causes this to take much longer then it would take a normal Helios but no one in the room seems to mind. All the damage done to Bob seems recent.]
Greetings, I’m Bob and I’d like to welcome you all to my happy little zone. Did you by chance come here for a lesson? I’m always here to help no matter what the subject.


One-Punch
[One-Punch leaps over to Bob when Bob offers help. One-Punch’s [Narcissist] trait activates.]
I would like a painting of myself!

Cleo
One-Punch no, it’s super rude to just ask people for art like that, Bob doesn’t even know your name.

Bob
[Bob is too nice to deny One-Punch’s request.]
It’s alright, I don’t mind doing a little painting of the guy. Before I do that though, I see you folks looking at me with this lost little look in your eyes. I can tell a painting by me isn’t what y’all came here for.

Latta
Well we just landed on this planet-
[Bob is already shaking his head, knowing what’s going to come next.]
A giraffe surrounded our ship. Our ship indestructible but we don’t know if it took our ship or if it left it alone, but either way we’re going to need to get fuel.

Cea
[Sonny comes back with worst possible news possible, the ship was missing.]
Yes, about that, lets just say a little birdy just told me the ship has most definitely been taken away, so if you have any info on how to get it back we’ll be needing it.

Bob
Well fuel should be easy to get as long as y’all have items to trade. Just head over to the market in the subway and you should meet Pablo. I know he sells fuel, ship parts, and nice little music boxes. Now I got a theory on how you can get your ship back, but you folks might not like it.

Latta
We’re willing to listen to anything at this moment.

Bob
Well, if your ship can’t be destroyed then the giraffe likely took it off to the Slabs. You’re going to need to go there yourself and confront Dali himself.

Latta
Right, so we confront Dali, defeat him and his nightmare army, which then solves the problems on this planet and we gets our ship back.

Bob
[Bob laughs a little at Latta.]
Sorry about that, but I wasn’t suggesting you solve all our issues miss. I was just saying that while it may be a long shot you could try asking the fellow for your ship, he might give it back. If you want to give a try at solving all of our issues you got my blessings, but we aren’t expecting that from a group of people who have nothing to do with this.

Not to sound like a downer but I feel it’ll take a lot more then just you folks to take down big ole Dali and his friends. Y’all have places to go and things to do, don’t let our issues hold you up. Now the hard part is getting to Dali’s place. The slabs are awfully far away and as you can guess the area around it isn’t the friendliest landscape around.

The surrealist who holed themselves in town somehow got here safely so they should be able to help you, might need to offer up some tea and biscuits to get them to warm up to you though. I think O o o o is pretty good with uh....vowels. He’d be a big help to this all, should be able to fish out supplies for you all out of the tra- his uh, pile of creative little goods.

There’s also that large ship that landed recently, it still looks like it’s in working order so it wouldn’t take much to fly over there. I heard on my radio just before you all came in that someone from the ship is making their way over here right now. Sounds like a perfect time to give them a warm welcome. O o o o yet again might be able to help you in this situation.

Either way you’ll likely want to head over market to stock up on supplies or meet with O o o o first. If you’re feeling brave you can just head right in to the action though. I, well, didn’t want to say this before but all of you should take care of yourselves. No matter what the Slabs and the things in it are deadly stuff. Ain’t too many reports of people coming back from there, well, in one piece that is.

Latta
We’ll look over our options but there’s no way we can stay on the planet. We’ll accept our risks and our fates if we fail. Do tell me though, why should we believe we could just ask Dali for our stuff back? It doesn’t seem very smart.

Bob
Maybe it ain’t, but I believe everyone’s got a little good in them. The real world ain’t like the tv shows, there’s no clear black and white. Every bad guy thinks they’re the good guy, sometimes they just haven’t seen the other side or maybe their logic is all messed up, or maybe we thought we were the good guys this whole time but we’re really the bad guys. Either way I always like to have hope that if people sit down and talk, they’ll do the right thing.

Latta
Hmmmm, I’ll think about it then. Cleo you should stay here with Bob until we finish recon of this town and prepare for a trip to the slabs. You may want to assist Bob with his “injuries” as repayment for his help.

Cleo
Sure thing Captain Latta! So hey Bob, what happened to your arm, and, well your chest too? I might be able to help you out.
[Cleo isn’t sure if Bob knows he’s a robot and thus tries to keep things vague.]

Bob
I lost it while protecting someone. It’s a small cost to make sure someone stays alive. If you think you can help me out I’d be glad to accept it. Don’t worry yourself too much though; I’m doing just fine without any of this.

Cleo
[Intelligence check passed.]
[Cleo takes a look at Bob. She can easily fix his issues and make him a new arm but it would cost her 3 scrap and 3 wires to do so. She also noticed his control panel was broken. The panel itself was fine but the door to it was broken. Anyone could easily take control and reprogram Bob, even Cleo.]


Cleo
[Cleo would never try to take control of Bob it would shatter the hearts of many of the artists in the area. She had to fix him.]
One-Punch, can you find scrap for me?

One-punch
I can do it Cleo! Just watch!
[One-Punch uses [Improvise] ].

[One-Punch crushes a nearby art piece that was made of metal. It was someone’s found object piece and now it was nothing but scrap.]

Here Cleo, here! I found you scrap!
[One-Punch attempts to hand Cleo the 3 scraps he made from the art piece.]

Cleo
One-Punch.......

Bob
It’s ok, I can just tell the creator of the art piece what happened, it’d be fine. I’m sure they’ll have no problems with it.


Cleo
Well even if you’re ok with it, it wasn’t ok for One-Punch to take things without asking! So don’t do that again, ok One-Punch?

One Punch
[One-Punch huffs and drops the scrap in to Cleo’s hands.]
I won’t do it again Cleo...
[One-Punch mumbles as Cleo goes to fix Bob.]
I thought crushing the art was really creative, I was just improving the art by another magnitude by making it imitate life itself....

Latta
We’ll leave you 3 to your work. If Cea, Marble, or me find any scrap or wires we’ll bring it over. We may also come back to grab any items you all have for sale.

Cleo
Sure thing captain Latta! Stay safe!

-Back at the ship Edel checks on Slate in his room. Slate currently doesn’t want to leave his bed but physical health wise Edel can confirm that Slate is just fine. Edel has yet to notice anything happen. He finds it strange that the crew hasn’t communicated with him since they left but figures it’s because they’re busy. Almond happily sings raising the sanity of Edel and Slate by 10.

Latta
[Latta and the group head down into the subway. Down there they see small little set ups, the homes of some of the artists and guests who have been stuck on this planet for years. A large gracefully written sign denotes the market area. Pushing their way though it they find Pablo’s shop. Cats drat around in the shop, some hiding from the crew, others begging to be petted and given food. Latta rings a bell to summon the shopkeeper.]

Pablo
[The shopkeeper rushes over to the counter, almost tripping over his own feet.]
Oh, sorry about the delay! I was checking on Kelvin, you know how it is!

Latta
Kelvin?

Pablo
.....Oh! I’m so sorry I thought you were one of our regulars! Kelvin is one of the cats and she’s quite sick, I wish there were more doctors around... Anyway come see my wares! We only do trades here sorry.


Latta
A sick cat? Well we do have someone who is fantastic with animals on our crew; maybe she could take a look at Kelvin.

Pablo
Unless she’s a doctor I don’t think it’ll matter. I’m great with cats but Kelvin is ill, she doesn’t just need a few kisses and nuzzles she needs a doctor.

Latta
Ugh, you’re right about that. I don’t believe the crewmember I was talking about is a doctor in any shape or form. We do have a doctor but we can’t get to him now. I wish you the best of luck. If we find a way to help we’ll contact you. For now, tell me more about the Schadenfreude box.

Pablo
Well I make lots of these special boxes with all the odd bits and pieces I can find around here. What they do and contain is a surprise but the name of the boxes should help you figure it out.

Latta
Ah, I see. By any chance would you be interested in a kuppa of blood?

Pablo
Ugh, I hate blood. I know people of my species should love blood but this isn’t my species at all! I used to be a geptad until some creep started running around throwing watches at everyone because he could. That’s why I’m hoping to buy a few of them. I know I likely won’t be able to turn in to a geptad again but not being so...huge, would be nice. I guess I could sell the blood, people would, and have killed for coffee here.

Latta
I’m surprised no one has attempted to “mug” me yet. I’ll see what I want to get from the store using my blood then, give me a moment to think about it.

Marble
I have a tablet, which technically might actually count as a clock. I suppose I could sell it to you but I’ll have to think it over it as well. What I do want to sell to you though this this amazing art piece. I call it, “History repeats”. I would like to trade it in for scrap and wires.
[Marble shows the rusted skeleton to Pablo.]

Pablo
[Charisma check passed]
Wow! That’s amazing! I love it! It can be the newest centerpiece in my shop.
[Pablo gives Marble 7 scrap and 5 wires for the skeleton.]
What else do you guys have? Got any more metal bits and parts?

Cea
Well let me tell you handsome, we got lots of goods and services to give for the right price. We do in fact have a small snake robot by the name of Apollo. I’m hoping to find him a good home. Maybe you’d be willing to pay us a little extra for him?

Pablo
[Charisma check passed, but it seems the flirting went over Pablo’s head.]
Wow you’re really nice! I wasn’t going to tell anyone about this but I suppose I can tell you. There’s a person who in fact wants a snake robot! He appeared out of nowhere a week ago, said it was “destiny” that he was here, and then he winked at me and said it was only a matter of time before someone came down his way with it.

He told me he’d pay something special for such a robot. I’m sure he’d be able to take care of the robot you’re talking about. He said he’d also give a huge reward of 45,000p to whoever referred them to him. I don’t need the money on this planet so maybe we can swap the rewards, it’d make me super happy!

Sonny
Come on Cea, let’s go get Apollo and get the reward.

Cea
Hmmmmmm?
[Cea questioned Sonny while also appearing to be thinking about Pablo’s offer.]

Sonny
What I mean is, Apollo would be best off with this other person. Trust me Cea. I know all about destiny. Normally we should go against such things, but this is one time we should agree with such calls.
[Sonny rolls his eyes.]
Plus I’m sure Pablo here will be very happy for you to do this for him.


Cea
I don’t think I’ll sell him buuuuut I suppose I do want to meet this fellow. Point me to him and I’ll decide if I want to sell, I say it’s pretty unlikely though.

Latta
CJ we could use 45,000p. As Captain I think I have last call on this.

Cea
Well as the owner of the robot I think “I” have the last call Latta ole gal, and I don’t think I’m selling, so don’t get your hopes up.

Pablo
[Pablo decides to not get in the middle of the argument.]
Uh just exit the shop and head right, it’s a bit of a walk but you’ll come to a dead end, the guy should be there.

Cea
Thanks Pablo dear.
[Cea gives all his items to Marble so he’d have space for Apollo.]
Now if you don’t mind I’m going to pick him up and I’ll meet you all there. Don’t take too long.
[Before Latta could say a thing Cea exited the room with grace.]

Pablo
So did you two think about those offers? Any trades you want to finalize?


Latta
I’ll trade in my blood for a paint kit. Anything you’re going to trade in Marble?

Marble
I suppose I can give you my tablet for the schadenfreude box. I believe we have some wine, would you be willing to trade that in for the rest of the scrap?

Pablo
Hmmm normally I wouldn’t but you are handing me another chance to fix myself so I’ll do the trade!

Marble
That’s great! I’ll go get the wine. Captain, are you coming?

Latta
No, I’m going to go check on CJ. While I do want to make this deal I don’t trust whoever this guy is. Knowing CJ he’ll likely insult him and get in a fight. CJ wouldn’t be able to fight his way out of a wet paper bag so he’s going to need backup. I’m well armed so I should be able to keep the peace. I’ll pick you up from Bob’s place after the deal.

Marble
Understood captain, but if I don’t hear from you two after awhile I’m going to rush down there to make sure both of you are ok.

Latta
Heh. Sure thing Marble.
[Latta shakes Pablo’s hand.]
Thank you for having us here. If I get my ship back I’ll likely visit you again to get a few upgrades.
[With that Latta exits the shop. She and Marble head their separate ways.]

Cea
[Cea had grabbed Apollo from One-Punch and went down the path to meet the mysterious buyer. He had little intention to sell Apollo unless he was absolutely sure it would be ok. He wouldn’t let Sonny egging him on change his thoughts on the matter. While Sonny was rarely wrong that fact never stopped Cea from doing whatever he wanted. As Cea got closer to the meeting point he bumped in to a familiar face.]

Blu
[Blu, not even looking in front of himself bumps in to Cea. Blu seems awfully flustered by something.]
YO! DON’T GO BUMPING IN TO ME BUDDY!

Cea
Excuse me, but it is you who bumped in to me shorty.  I didn’t know you guys followed us on to this planet. Guessing it went badly huh?
[Cea quickly realizes that Blu crew didn’t have an indestructible ship like they had.]
No one....died did they?

Blu
Naw, we all got out the ship before shit hit the fan. We ain’t expect none of that to happen. Shouldn’t have rushed to get on this planet before you. We lost a lot of our stuff but if we could just get a dang signal on this planet we’d be able to call in a backup ship to pick us up.

Cea
Oh dear, well at least all of you lovelies are doing alright. I’d be just heart broken if any of you died.
[Cea notices that Blu is still flustered and decides to tease him about it.]
You seem nervous my little shorty. By any chance have I dazzled you? Maybe you see something you like?

Blu
YO, SHUT UP MAN! I GOT NO INTEREST IN FOOLS LIKE YOU! I told you to stop trying to date my crew, that ain’t no request to be trying to hit it up with me. I, I just, the freaking freak of nature caught me a little off guard and made me lose my cool a little you feel me?

Cea
Freak of nature? Did this person happen to be looking to buy a robotic snake?

Blu
Yeah he was, we ain’t have one but we did want to ask him a few questions, but when we got there....Ugh! I hate everything about that guy yo! His freaking....looks.....his winking.....HIS DAMN WINKING! I wouldn’t go see that guy, he’s a total creep.....

Cea
You sound like you’re tying to convince yourself more then you’re trying to convince me.

Blu
If you’re gonna accuse me like that I’m just gonna go then. I ain’t need more of this. How about you do me a favor and tell Phlodur when she’s done having her little tea party with him to meet me at this O o o o guy’s place.

Cea
Oh come on, lighten up, I was just teasing dear. I suppose I’ll stop the teasing, for now. You know how it is. Look, how about if we get our ship back I’ll convince the captain to let you use our devices to call in another ship. I’m sure I can convince her with just the smoothness of my voice and a few compliments.

Latta
Convince me to do what now? Help the enemy? You think I’m going to do that CJ?

Cea
Tsk.
[Cea rolls his eyes.]
Latta do you have no soul? It’s just one phone call!

Latta
I sold my soul a long time ago, CJ. I’m not letting them use our services to call in another ship. We gain nothing from it and we’re both after the same goal. We only lose from this deal.

Blu
Ugh, look maybe you can scratch our back and we’ll scratch yours. We can come up with some junk to give you for a simple call.
[Normally Blu would have argued with Latta but even he knew when he needed to cut his act to help out his crew.]

Latta
We’ll think about it. No. I’ll think about it. You better come up with something good to impress me enough to let you touch our stuff. Come on CJ.

Cea
[Cea takes one worried look at Blu before following Latta down to the dead end. Cea was going to make sure that no matter what Blu and his crew would be getting off the planet even if he had to deny his captain’s orders.]

Phlodur
[Phlodur was currently being entertained by a rousing story by the only other person in the area.]
Wow, that many robots at once? That must have been totally tiring dude!

Nikki
We-well of course it was b-but all those robots needed a tune up and I-I was the only one around so of course a god like me was up to the t-task. ;3

Phlodur
That’s so awesome! :3cccc
[Phlodur flattens her ears against her head as she watches Cea and Latta approach.]
I smell a total loser and his uptight little captain. What does crew Jerkwards + Marble want?

Nikki
I am going to guess you are C-Cea Jasper? It is nice to meet you. This isn’t the first time we’ve met but it is the first and last time we’ll meet. I’m N-77, but call me Nikki p-please. ;3

Cea
[Cea scoffs at Nikki. Nikki’s charisma was so low Cea only saw him as some poor low class notail who didn’t deserve to be in the same room as him.]
Ugh, I walked all the way here to talk to a bloody rat....and this Nikki fellow.
[Cea shoots a grin at Phlodur.]
I mean really, ending your statements with “semicolon three” is absolutely stupid.

Nikki
I’m not s-sorry for pronouncing it that way because that’s just h-how it’s done, but if you want me to be less f-formal I can. ;3*
[*Pronounced “mischievous wink”.]

Cea
Whatever, I don’t care how you do it. Anyway I just came to-

Nikki
Sell me a s-s-s-snake body. I know. So what about it C-Cea? Do we have a deal or do we have a d-deal? Or maybe, you have q-questions to ask? Either way I won’t be leaving you alone until you sell, even if I have to do some convincing. This notail won’t be giving up the hunt. I a-always get what I want. ;3


Cea
[Classist]
Well your grubby lesser class hands can forget about it because I’m not handing him over just because you want hi. You’re a rat who isn’t getting anything from me, what do you plan to do about it?

Nikki
I’m more of a c-c-cat really. Meanwhile yo-you’re all talk and n-no bark. You might say you’re not going to give-e-e me Apollo but I know you will sooner or later. You might even say it’s impossible f-for you not to give me him! ;3

Cea
[Cea doesn’t sense a hint of lie in Nikki’s tone. Cea didn’t understand how one man could be so sure of himself.]
Is this the kind of nonsense you worship Phlodur?

Phlodur
Uh excuse me you piece of overpriced trash? When did I ever say I worshipped the guy? He might be saying he’s god but I sure as heck didn’t say I believed him. At least I’m not some weirdo who believes in an imagery snake in his head. I don’t believe anyone is a god until I see them do something totally radical.

Latta
Both of you need to stop arguing about nonsense. Now look here Nikki, I think 45,000p is too little for what we’re offering. I expect you to throw in a lot more if you want this robot.
[Latta attempts a charisma check.]

Nikki
[Nikki counters Latta’s charisma with an intelligence check.]
Too bad I w-w-was offering the 45,000p to the person who referred you to me. I’m not changing my offer for anything because my o-offers are above and beyond what that robot is worth. ;3

Cea
Well spit it out already. What are you giving us in return and what do you plan on doing to this robot?

Nikki
I’m offering almost anything you could ever w-want. Being a cheeky snake and trying to outsmart m-me, which I must tell you is impossible, withstanding. As for what I p-plan on doing with it, there’s a l-lady who needs a gift that’ll really w-w-wow someone she really loves. I’m just being a nice person a-and h-helping her out. ;3

Cea
That sounds like an utter lie.

Nikki
It’s t-too bad because it’s all true. ;3
[Nikki showed no signs of lying.]

Cea
Well, you don’t seem to be lying, but I still don’t trust you. How about you just take the shell of the robot and I keep the core?

Latta
Cea you’re being unnaturally attached to a robot that you got two days ago.

Pahlo
Uh duh, the robot looks like a snake, he likely believes it some creepy god he should be worshipping like always.

Nikki
[Nikki rubs his temples. Everyone in this room was far more annoying then he thought they would be.]
Look here, my list of the events I’m supposed to take to get to my goal say n-nothing about giving up the A-AI core bucko. I won’t be diverting from my plans because I already know my plan works the way it is. ;3

Latta
By any chance are you good with fixing ships?

Nikki
Ships are my specialty. I’ve been fixing them f-for years. Are you by chance trading me the snake for a job? ;3

Cea
No she is not, because I’m the one who gets to decide.

Nikki
[Nikki sees that Latta is literally fuming at Cea and decides it’s time to bail out.]
W-well that’s good for y-you and good for me. You get to feel like you ma-made a choice in this matter and later on I get a free robot w-while you get nothing at all. I-it seems we’ll be both winning from this. Oh wa-wait it’ll just be me winning. If that’s all you have you can leave n-now. I have nothing else I want from y-y-you. ;3


Cea
[Cea sighs and tosses over Apollo to Nikki. Something told Cea that Nikki was right.]
Fine have him. I swear he better find a good home or I’ll, well honestly I won’t do anything but fume in a corner. Now about the reward, I guess we could use some sort of attack animal. You notails are good at getting those, right? I suppose getting you on the crew might also be helpful for repairs.

Nikki
[Nikki laughs under his breath as he gets Apollo.]
You p-picked the right c-choice sucker. I can do one or the other easily now that I have what I need. If you o-o-order the animal I’ll throw in some h-homemade notail mutagens to make things inte-eresting but what you pick is your choice. ;3


Cea
I suppose I’ll just agree with Latta, so your payment will be you joining the crew for our trip. I hope you like going to Fortuna, hun. Seeing as you’re joining the crew it’s means we get to keep Apollo and whatever you can do with animals.

Nikki
Well sounds like it’ll be quite the t-trip. You’re w-wrong about it meaning you’re keeping t-this robot though, or any animals I can bring. I told yo-you before, trying t-to play smart doesn’t work on such a h-holy person as myself. It works on idiots like you though. H-hahahahaha! I knew t-telling you that you had n-no chance to keep him wou-would cause you to hand him over without a fight. ;3

Nikki
It’s just b-basic marketing really. L-like telling people their i-item isn’t that special so they sell it at a lower price even though their item is p-priceless. ;3
[Nikki hands the 45,000p to Cea and walks away from the group.]
I will see you in a f-few days to join your c-crew. Or is that just a few m-minutes to you? Give that money to whoever r-referred you all. ;3

 Cea
Tsk, should have guessed as much. Shouldn’t have believed that piece of rotting trash. At least the shopkeeper gets these points.

Latta
Why should we bother giving him the points?

Cea
Because it’s rude to keep someone else’s reward?

Latta
Pablo wanted whatever the non point reward was. We took that reward instead of the point reward. At this point we might as well keep the points as well and tell Pablo that we didn’t do the trade at all.


Cea
Latta it’s rude to take money that isn’t yours, you’re just asking for karma to bite you back. I’m sure word would spread around town fast if we refused to give Pablo his money even if he doesn’t need it. We don’t know how long we’ll be stuck on this planet so lets not ruin our nonexistent reputation.

Latta
Look Cea, I’ll meet you halfway. We don’t give Pablo the money, yet. If we find a clock for Pablo, aka an item we have no use for, we’ll come back and give Pablo the clock. If we don’t find any clocks we’ll come back and give him the money. Do we have a deal?

Cea
[Latta’s [Popular] trait stops Cea from losing morale due to Latta’s recent actions.]
Hmmmm, yes I think we have a deal, hun.  I still say you have to get out of your normal “It’s us or them” mindset though. I know you’re a really nice lady Latta but it’s really hard to tell when you’re busy trying to stop people from having a good time.

Latta
This universe is a harsh place Cea, sometimes it really is us or them.

Cea
You see people try to justify being a jerk by saying the world or universe is a hard place to exist, but does it really make sense to make the universe an even harder place for everyone else by having that mindset?

Latta
Maybe not, but we’re going to Fortuna, Cea. You know how the tale goes. Those that seek Fortuna get horrors thrown at them. You have to be careful trusting anyone; cause when you look for Fortuna the whole universe likes to conspire against you. Something about Fortuna just makes the idea of a lucky event seem like a distant memory. Anyway, lets go grab Marble and head to O o o o. It is about time we’ve met who’s in charge.

Shetlock
[Cea, Latta and Shetlock head to O o o o’s palace after picking up Marble. Messy scribbles adorn the walls and floors; strange objects hang from the ceiling, and garbage seems to be tossed about. Shetlock sees that main door is closed, signaling that there is already a meeting taking place. He grabs a ticket from a tree made totally out of tickets. Shetlock is number “Dragon doing a split on the property of an aristocrat.”]

[Shetlock sinks in to one of the garbage bag chairs. He sighs as if he has already gotten over the ridiculousness of the place.]
This is O o o o’s palace, make yourself at home, we may have quite the wait. If there are any questions you have about the man himself, or just about anything, I’ll answer to the best of my abilities. I must warn you though, nothing I can tell you can quite prepare you for O o o o.


Marble
How do you pronounce O o o o? Is it O O o o, O o O o, maybe Oh oh oh oh?

Shetlock
There’s no true way to pronounce O o o o with just one tongue, which I think is what O o o o wants. I suggest trying to pronounce it the way you wish my dear. A safe bet is to sound out the O sounds high and then lower each O. So O o o o works best.

Cea
What’s O o o o’s job around here again? From the looks of it, it sure isn’t house cleaning.

Shetlock
We informed you of this. O o o o is the leader of our humble town. He’s a strange one but as said before, he knows what he’s doing. I guess.

Marble
Do you have any advice on what to do around O o o o? We won’t want to offend the person we’re trying to get help from.

Shetlock
Offend? O o o o? I sorry to my dear, but I believe it is O o o o who is likely to offend you. He has strange tastes, and strange views. I would pick and choose what you want to be offended by. Some of the things he says he truly believes in, the others I’m sure he just throws around purely to shock and appall his audience. Just, as the kids call it, go with the flow.

Cea
[Cea takes a look at the art on the walls. Each and every single one of them looked like absolute rubbish to him.]
Ugh, what is this trash on the walls? Many of these paintings are depicting some sort of tentacle creature, and it’s frankly just strange to me.

Shetlock
Ah, never heard of the Limbo god, The Divided? Lesser known as the Half being. I wouldn’t fault you, I didn’t know about her until I came here. She is the most hated of Limbo gods, and yet I believe that all Limbo worshippers praise her silently, for she the god of the Known and the Unknown is the only creature to have come close to killing the Neo. She is the 2nd most powerful of the Limbo gods.

What she looks like is unknown, many books saying she is all things but also nothing. At the top of her power she was inches away from murdering the Neo when the Helper, madden that the two fought while she was trying to unify the gods ripped the Divided in half and kicked the Unknown half across the cosmos.

The people here are very in to Dada, and well. From the stories the Unknown part of The Divided is well. Very eccentric and, dada, very dada like. Stories of the Unknown rarely make sense, tend to look like bits and bobs pasted together, may have questionable morals, or no morals at all! I know O o o o is quite the fan.

Cea
Are you telling me that the 2 halves of the Limbo gods can just split away from each other?
[Cea puts a finger to his lips in thought.]
That would explain quite a lot.....

Shetlock
As I said you should talk to dear Andrus if you really wish to know. I am no holy man and only have a small belief in the Neo. On my home planet our god was the great Hussy who wrote our universe in to existence and then proceeded to attempt tearing it apart page by page because it wasn’t perfect. Our goal was to attempt fixing the story from the inside in hopes the story would be spared. Matching this with the belief of the Neo was elementary.

Cea
Have you ever considered believing in a god who loves you?
[Yelling came from O o o o’s room.]
I mean I know it’s a very strange concept in this universe seeing as the Limbo gods seem to be the popular religion and they hate or don’t care about us, but consider this, there’s a hidden 10th limbo god who actually loves-
[The doors burst open as a bird of blinding light pushed past.]

Geko
IF YOU WERE NOT SOME UNKILLABLE MONSTER I WOULD HAVE MY ARMY SHOOT YOU IN SECONDS O O O O!
[Geko turns around to the group.]
Ah sorry about the wait. I hope you all weren’t waiting too long.
[He then turns to his assistant behind him.]
Watch over O o o o, Rivet. Make sure he doesn’t tamper with our goals again.

Rivet
Affirmative president Geko. Please call me when you have any other orders.

Marble
[The whole crew is awestruck by Geko’s charisma. They didn’t even dare speak to him in fear of saying the wrong thing. When he left Marble waved to Rivet.]
Rivet, you’re on this planet? No wonder I got a signal from you on the ship! How have you been doing Rivet?

Rivet
Oh same ole same ole. Watching the troops, keeping the peace, and showing force when people refuse to keep it. Only thing is that force doesn’t work on this....monster. Not sure who he sold his soul to but we have confirmed the rumors are true. O o o o is unkillable, and he plans on making our project here much harder then it should be it seems. Enough about me dear, what are you doing here Marble, this whole planet is a death trap and you told me you were doing smaller jobs.



Marble
Well I was doing a small job and it landed me on this planet. I would have told the captain to keep far away from this planet if I knew what was happening here. Some monster took our ship so now we’re stuck.

Rivet
[Rivet doesn’t look fully satisfied with Marble’s answer. She crosses her arms as she asks her next question.]
Small job huh? I don’t mean to pry in to your circumstances but humor me Marble, what exactly do you mean by “small job”?

Marble
Well you got me Rivet. I’m going to Fortuna.

Rivet
Marble! Do you need a talk? Are you suicidal?  You shouldn’t be going to Fortuna. You don’t need to go to Fortuna. Marble you have everything you need. Money, great kids, a home, and quite a few suitors. People would kill to be in your position, Marble! You got enough to retire in peace. I don’t see a single reason a person like you needs to go to Fortuna.

Marble
[Marble glazes right over Rivet’s comments.]
So how did your date with Cojo go? I know I set you two up a while ago, haven’t asked how it went.

Rivet
[Rivet is far too used to Marble avoiding things she doesn’t want to talk about and just lets it pass by.]
Marble I know you enjoy attempting to set up dates, but to be fairly blunt Marble, you’re not really good at it. It’s strange really; you’re absolutely fantastic at understanding people but when you try to match them together you completely fail at the task.

Marble
[Marble scratches her chin in thought.]
That would explain a lot about my relationships.

Rivet
Don’t bother blaming yourself for those, Marble. Arma’s have 2 types of relationships, and Drakons have one type of extremely complex relationship. Really I’m sure your biological wires are just a little confused about how most species like their relationships to go.

Marble
There’s nothing wrong with my biological wires. You guys just didn’t click.

Rivet
Fine Marble. Well let me just tell you now, I 1. Didn’t appreciate that the date set with Cojo was at a wrestling match. 2. Didn’t like that Cojo was the main wrestler, and lastly 3. Did not appreciate that our date was me being pulled in to the ring with Cojo and having to fight Cojo in front of a crowd.

Marble
[Marble seems heavily disappointed her idea didn’t go well.]
Well it sounded like it’d be a dream date to me. Sorry about that Rivet.

Rivet
Yes, maybe it would have been a dream date for you but for me it was a bit of a nightmare. Don’t blame yourself like I said. Wires crossed or not you didn’t know I wouldn’t like being thrown in to a pro wrestling match.

Cea
My goodness, I didn’t figure Marble for the matchmaking type. I wouldn’t go quitting your day job just yet dear. If you want some real match making how about you come see me on your break. I’m sure I’ll find you someone who’s the perfect fit.
[Cea winks at Rivet. Rivet groans.]
By the way, do you have any tips with talking with O o o o? We have the next meeting with him.

Rivet
My advice? Don’t. This guy is unlike any person I’ve ever met with. Don’t know what god he resold his soul to to become what he is but let me tell you, I don’t think there is a way to deal with him. He’s really destroying the foundations of our project here and there doesn’t seem to be a way to stop him.

Marble
What is your project on this planet? Is it to save everyone who is trapped on it?

Rivet
[Charisma check passed.]
Look, don’t tell anyone you heard this from me ok? I got a reputation and a pension to uphold. We’re not here to save anyone. We’re here for a few art pieces returned but mostly we’re here to hunt down a god.

Marble
That’s just silly Rivet. You know religious stories are just that. Stories made up to teach us deep and meaningful lessons, there aren’t really go-
[Rivet cuts her off.]

Rivet
I didn’t believe any of that Limbo god mess before, but it’s true Marble. I’ve seen a god with my own eyes. They are walking among us and there’s one on this planet. President Geko confirmed it. Even O o o o couldn’t lie about it. I knew O o o o from a long time ago. I know when he’s lying, and he told us with the most serious face I’ve seen from him in years that there’s a god here, but isn’t going to help us because he wants to speak with it first.






Rivet
Granted, Oooo doesn’t quite have a serious face, or any way of showing expression. Honestly saying he has a face at all is pushing it, but you understand what I am getting at.

Marble
I fully understand Rivet, well, most of it. I’m not sure I’m ready to go around believing there’s a god walking among us just yet. I’ll believe it when I see it.

Nikki
Looks like I came at just the p-p-perfect time. Did someone call for a god? ;3

Marble
.......Who is this joker?
[Marble says pointing at Nikki.]

Latta
That is our new crewmember, Nikki. He believes he’s a god.

Marble
I see we have another cosplayer. Sure seems to be a lot on this planet.
[Marble states as she refers to the Nikki she’s heard about in the stories she’s been told about. She assumed this Nikki was just a notail pretending to be that other Nikki.]

Nikki
I am a g-god I’ll have you know.  It’s going to be really sad when you all realize my godhood too late. Everyone w-will be screaming, “I-I-I didn’t see that coming.” and I’ll be l-like I told you so. Anyway no ma-matter what you think about me I hope you’re ready to h-have a god join your presence. ;3

Marble
[Marble leans over to Latta and whispers to her.]
Captain Latta, you really need to be careful when picking new crewmembers.

Latta
Blame Cea for this one.
[Latta speaks up.]
Anyway, thank you for your tour Shetlock. You’re free to follow us around if you wish. We shall be heading in now.
[Shetlock leaves the crew. Nikki joins the crew!]

Shetlock
Oh lass, your number hasn’t been called yet. I’m don’t think you can go in yet.

Latta
What will Oooo do if we go in without waiting for our number?

Shetlock
No idea, no one has never not waited for their number to be called.

Latta
Looks like we’re about to find out because I’m not willing to wait.
[Latta opens the door to Oooo’s room. Marble, Nikki, and Cea follow close behind her while Shetlock stays at the door, peering in due to curiosity.]

Latta
[Before them a being sits at a throne of trash and knick-knacks. He, and his long neck captivate everyone. Surrounded by this trash he looked like a king.]

Cea
[Cea couldn’t take his eyes off him. He fumbled for words, for once in his life he didn’t have a pick up line ready, he said the only thing his mind could come up with.]
Hi.

Oooo
[Oooo turned around, and the moment he did, it became clear that what the crew was looking at was his tail, the thing that looked like a pile of trash before was really Oooo.]
Huh? I did not expect one to be approaching me at this time, much less a modest congregation. Was your number called?

Latta
[Latta is broken out of her trance as she realizes that what she was looking at before was the backend of Oooo.]
No, I don’t see any reason waiting for a number to be called. You’re open right now and no one else is waiting out there, I do see why we have to wait for a meeting.

Oooo
[Oooo makes a noise that cannot be replicated by a person with only one mouth. It is a sign he is amused.]
I like you already. I think meetings are a pity anyway. If you wish for something, go up to them and ask. If they are busy, close the door, open it back up, and ask again. They will give in at some point before the universe reaches its great reversal.

Latta
So, that confirms it, you’re Oooo.

Oooo
Oooooooooooo?
[Oooo taps his hooves for a short bit and looks around.]
I apologize; I just realized that I am not Oooo. I see what happened, when you opened this door you must have been transported to the inside of a room that is identical to the one Oooo would be in but instead of Oooo you got one who is identical in every way to him.

Oooo
Have you attempted to close the door and open it again?

Latta
We’ll pass on the games, thanks.

Oooo
Aaaaah games you call it. They are not games but adventures, merriment. I see your mind has already been claimed by a personage that you cannot perceive as of yet. Nevertheless all is well, most cannot distinguish between themselves and a character. Maybe one day I shall meet another like that. Who isn’t a rat crossing the street.

Oooo
Before you speak to me, you have an obligation to read this manifesto I’ve written. If you don’t agree to it that is acceptable, but that just means I do not have to look over your personal manifesto. Which is favorable for me, planned on just reading these poems from inaudible voices and it would have been an inconvenience to read more then 3 things at once.

Latta
[A strange notail vaeri comes and hands everyone a copy of the manifesto. Latta’s is covered in ink that blocks out what the last bit says. She looks it over, twisting and turning the page to read what is written on the edges. She’s not surprised Oooo’s manifesto is as strange as he is. She’s a little off put when she hears the sound of giggling and laughs coming from someone on her crew.]

Cea
[Cea points at a rule on the page.]
Pfffff haahahahAHAHAHAHAHAH! Look at these things!
[Cea points out something on the manifesto to Marble and Nikki.]

Nikki
[Nikki is frankly disgusted at Cea’s actions.]
W-What are y-you? 12?

Cea
[Cea snaps his fingers.]
Out of a 10, I better be a 12. Really how do you not find this, pffffff nonsense funny? Look at this!
[Latta notices that Cea is pointed to a part of the page that’s inked out on her paper.]
He’s just drawn doodles of “positions” all over this page for no reason!

Nikki
[Nikki look up at Marble.]
You there, t-tall one. How old is he?

Marble
Hahahaha! Physically? An adult. Mentally? A teenager at best!
[Latta, not wanting to be out of the loop grabs Marble’s manifesto and looks it over.]

Latta
Did you really just hand us a piece of paper you drew porn all over? Is that really the level we’re stooping to?

Oooo
What no? Those are common exercise positions for the aoeyoi'ie. It was not to shock or awe but bring a strange calm with its instructional looks.

Cea
Hey, if you ever want to work out with me I’m just saying, I’m free whenever you are, baby.

Oooo
[Oooo uses all of the tubular membranes on his back to create a deep, disappointed humming sound.]
Why do you have this man in your congregation?

Latta
At this point? Pity.

Oooo
Aoooooooooo. Anyway, the small chatter has scrambled across the table and taken quite a roll around the pastries. It is time for the main course. If you are willing to listen to my manifesto, I am willing to listen to what you need to say.




latta
Yeah...sure, we’ll listen to your rules.
[Latta had no idea how she and the crew would follow the rules but she was sure there was no way to deny them.]
Lets get to the point. Some freaks of nature out there stole our ship. We need to get that, and fuel so we can get off this planet. We came here to tour around. Not end up in the middle of your fight.


Oooo
Ah, a fight? Everyone is fighting, always. We fight against our lives, we fight against our thoughts, our coffee machines, fights are everywhere. You will have to explain what you mean by “those freaks”, because, aren’t we all freaks?

Latta
Look. I get it O o o o. You’re some sort of hippy, but get this, you know those
towering giraffes that apparently have been messing with this planet for years? Yeah. Those are the freaks I’m talking about. Don’t play dumb with me.

oooo
Ahhhhh those. Those things cannot be considered freaks. Things which are mindless cannot be considered anything. They do not exist. I do not see why you have a
problem with them. I have never had any problem with these “freaks”. I walk past them. I eat next to them. They do not care.

Latta
Let me explain this slowly to you.
Our ship.
Is gone.

Oooo
Are you sure it’s gone? Have you checked? Did you even own a ship or are you one of those who is looking for a free rebate? You can be honest. O o o o knows.

Latta
Ok. I’m done talking to you. Marble. Talk to this creature. Try to make him
understand that we are in a bit of a situation and that he’s not helping at all.

Marble
Sure thing captain. Look Oooo, we’re a crew on our way to Fortuna. We came to this planet on a ship. That part is clear to us. Apparently it was taken from us, and now we have to get it back. So to keep this simple, we want to head to the Slab lands. Can you help us or are you going to keep playing this game?

Xerves
YOU WISH TO GO TO THE SLABLANDS. ONE IS WISHING TO LOSE THEIR SOUL. IF YOU ARE GOING TO DECIDE TO DO THAT. YOU MIGHT AS WELL HAND OVER YOUR SOUL TO ME NOW. ^xx^

Marble
And explain how I would hand over my soul to you. Explain why we would lose our souls in the Slab lands while you’re at it.

Xer
TAKING YOUR SOUL IS EASY. SEE MY GUN? MY GUN TAKES SOULS.
[Xerves’ gun is a camera attached to a gun.]
ONCE I SHOOT YOU. YOUR SOUL WILL BE CAPTURED IN TO IT FOREVER. I WILL PIN YOUR SOUL ON TO MY WALL. IN DALI’S LAND. TAKING YOUR SOUL WORKS LIKE THAT TOO. BUT. THEIR GUNS DO NOT HAVE CAMERAS ON THEM. ^xx^

Marble
Riiiiiiight..so Oooo, do you have anything to say about this?
[Marble looks back at Latta. She has no idea what to do. She has studied the art of talking to people for many years, and at this moment, she is baffled as to what to do.]

Nikki
Souls don’t f-f-fucking work like that. None of us have s-souls you idiot. We all had them taken away before birth. You are a souless h-husk. She’s a s-souless husk. Me? I have a soul because I e-earned it baby. ;3

Xer
THEN WHAT HAVE I BEEN TAKING? ^xx^

Nikki
Pictures......you’v-ve been taking pictures. Photographs. Those things are worthless. M-Much like y-yourself honestly. You have no handle on the concept of l-life. So how about it y-you two. You going to ke-keep this up or do I have to tear this all down? I’m under a t-time limit you know? Gotta keep to my p-plans. ;3

Xer
THIS PERSON. IS NOT A PERSON AT ALL. DO YOU. FEEL IT OOOO? THEY’RE REALLY SOMETHING ELSE. THEY ARE. LACKING A SOUL. ^xx^

Oooo
Yes quite. I get this feeling we’ve met once? Maybe twice? How many times have you kicked around in this part of time? Yes yes. You shall do just fine with Dali. You two are likely to enjoy the common merrymaking situation of churning butter and
celebrations of the highest order. Is this what you all really wish for. To head to the Slab lands to attempt to obtain your ship?


Marble
[Marble looks to Latta to see what she has to say, she shrugs and motions for Marble to talk, she wants to stay away from talking to those two.]
Yes, even if we could find another ship, our crew is on the ship we came on. We can’t leave them behind, so yes. We want to know how to get to the Slab lands.


Oooo
Sure sure. I understand now. I will help you get to the Slab lands. So have you been shot out of a large cannon before?

Latta
[Adventurous]
Yes. Yes I have. I’m ready to be shot out of a cannon right now. Take me to it!

Oooo
Ah yes. Good good. Perfect. Follow me to the roof and we will shoot you in to the air and over miles of land. To the Slabs you will go. The rest of you? Stay down here.
Make small talk. Small walks. Small birds. The common objects of our landscape.

Marble
[Marble holds Latta back from following O o o o.]
Captain. Don’t you think this is a bad idea?


Latta
No, not at all. I fired myself out of a cannon once. It went just fine.


Oooo
It is perfectly safe. Only about everyone who has been fired in it has never come back, but they are being fired in to the Slabs you see, so it was likely being in the Slabs that killed them, not the firing of the cannon. Except for the one who turned into dust after we decided to improve the cannon with fire.

Blu
Hey! Yo! Move out the way. I gotta a problem with this Oooooyeah man right here!

Oooo
Did you take a number?

Blu
Wait what yo? We have to take a number? Lame I ain’t even see no number round  the waiting room. Uuuugh can’t we just say we with those losers over there?
[Blu points to Latta and crew.]

Latta
Get out of here Blu, take a ticket, and wait like the rest of us. You’re not a part of our crew.

Cea
Excuse me? We didn’t wait honey. We just waltz right in here without a care in the world. I think they got a right to stick around here. They don’t have to be a part of our crew to stand in this room and wait their turn.

Latta
[Latta takes a deep breath and fumes. Her blood begins to boil just a little. She
attempts to stop herself from punching Cea.]

Oooo
[Oooo looks between both of them. He points to Cea.]
Yet again. Why is this man on your crew? No. Say no more. I will solve this issue. I will be giving everyone a ticket. You will only be able to speak when your ticket is called. If you get called twice in a row you will be shot out of a cannon. Is that fine with everyone?

Marble
[Latta attempts to say that she is fully and utterly ok with that. Marble covers her mouth and picks her up before she can say a single word though.]
No! We are not ok with that! We’ll just allow them to stay in the room with us. My captain is just being a little picky right now. Not all of us wishes to be shot out of a cannon right now.

Oooo
Ooooooooaaaauuuu. I suppose that’s ok. Many people wish to have a stable life. One not filled with being fired out of a cannon. I would suggest our catapult, but you all seem the non-inventive type. That is fine though. I will still be handing out tickets just so you will have a reminder of what could have been.
[Oooo hands out tickets to everyone in the room, when a voice calls out.]
“Hey there pal! You forgot our tickets!”

Mors v42
Howdy, howdy! We’re here to party. Not in the way you’d want though.

Oooo
Who are you two? What party are you going on about? Am I invited?

Somnus v42
Ah....yes....I can.....explain that. Me and my sister....are apart of the surrealists. We’re just here......to tell you all....that this planet’s time is done.... well. Not yet.....but soon you see. We just wanted....to hand you an invitation from Dali’s lady....she wishes. To invite you to the party at the Slabs.

Latta
Mind if we tag along if O o o o goes to the Slabs? We have work to do there. We really don’t care about whatever your party is.

Mors
Dali’s lady only wants artists. Buzz off lady! We’ve never heard of the likes of you. Kuppa’s are pretty bad at the arts. We’re not inviting anyone else, cause Dali doesn’t even know about this. It’s a surprise. This planet is about to meet its end; Dali’s lady figures she should invite all the artists to see it happen. Dali wants to play it safe, not invite anyone who can you know, stop the plan, but we only follow Dali’s lady’s orders. Not anyone else.

Nikki
E-explain what your plan is r-right now. ;3

Som
You heard my sister...... We don’t talk to non artists.......it........ruins our groove.....we don’t want to be.....tainted......

Latta
Well I’ll have you know we have an artist on our team! Her name is Cleo, she’s fixing Bob right now. I’m sure you’ve met Bob by now, haven’t you?

Som
Yes.....we’ve spoken to him....just a minute or so ago.....he has accepted our request. Guests can only take two people........ with them though. So it looks like you’re a little out of luck. Cleo isn’t on the list......

Blu
HEEEEEEEEEEEEY check it yo! I’m the biggest artist around! Blu in the house! I’m on that list ain’t I? Come on. You gotta let me in pal. I ain’t missing no party!

Mors
Oh my gosh! It’s the Blu man! The Blu crew! It’s funny. You’re on this list. Didn’t think you were on this planet. The Lady is really all seeing isn’t she! Yes you and your crew are allowed, but you can only take 2 guests for your whole crew.

Marble
This sounds good. Too good. Just tell us how you’re going to trap us already. I know a trap when I see one.

Som
This is.....not a trap......We told you....The lady is inviting you to a party....before this world ends. We are....actively telling you that this planet is over.....everyone on it....including the people at the party...will be killed. She wishes....to invite you all over to enjoy yourselves before death....

Latta
Quick question. Who in this room, and in Bob’s room is on the guest list? We need to make sure everyone on our crew can come.

Som
[The Somnus unit slowly scans the list.]
Bob.......Oooo......Nicko......Andrus........and Blu.....anymore questions?

Latta
Excuse me. Who is Nicko?

Nicko
[Nicko suddenly pops out of one of the trashcans in the room.]
Greetings! I, Nicko, am Nicko, myself!

Oooo
Why are you in my trashcan? Only I may sit in that one. Please relocate yourself to one of the others. My I suggest this can filled only with peanuts?
[Nicko hops out of the trash can and shakes his head. He’s ok with standing.]

Cea
Tsk. It’s the homeless man again. What are you doing here? Scram! We don’t need you. How did you even get in here?

Nicko
I, Nicko, am only slightly homeless! I, Nicko, am a traveler, and thus, I, Nicko, do not need a home right now! I, Nicko, give everything I, Nicko, can to others, people. You, Cea, have watched me, Nicko, do so. I, Nicko, am also not an artist, but I, Nicko, do know her, the lady. I, Nicko, am very happy to have finally found her, the lady.

Latta
If you’re so generous, would you invite 2 of us along? We’d like to go to the party and meet your lady.

Nicko
Sure. I, Nicko, do not have any friends, nobody, to bring with me, Nicko. I, Nicko, will be glad to take you, Latta, and another person, whoever, with me, Nicko!

Mors
Sounds good! Ok, here are the rules. Once you arrive at the party, you cannot leave the party. No leaving the room! Enjoy our fantastic cakes, our drinks, and get ready to die! Also, no touching the Lady. The Lady is to not be touched. Mainly by you Nicko. In fact it is underlined 5 times. “This rule is mainly for Nicko.” And with that, we’re done here. See you all in 3 days!
[The Mors and Somnus leave the room.]

Nikki
[Chip magnet]
S-s-soooooo hey hot bot, what do you think about inviting me to go to the p-party? You know, I’m w-willing to do a lot if you do that for me. Heck, I-I’d do it even if you didn’t invite me. ;3

Blu
Y-Yo! Don’t be flirting with me like that! I-I’m giving you the spots but not cause you done won me over or nuthin’, I just want you to stop embrassing me while my crew lookin’! I ain’t want you on my trip though, and please, no payment.

Nikki
S-Sure. I get it. W-well if you ever want to go back on that request, I am still m-more then willing to give you a h-hand, or t-two. ;3
[Nikki looks over at Cea.]
T-this is ho-how you flirt mortal. ;3

Cea
I am good at flirting! I am the best at flirting! I bet I could suduce even you! Just watch!
[Cea looks at Nikki and attempts to come up with a pickup line. He suddenly
notices something. Nikki is very unattractive due to his low charisma.]
How in the world does Blu, the Blu, think a dirty rat like you is hot? He hasn’t called me hot, but he thinks you’re hot?

Blu
Yoooooooooo. Guess who’s gonna leave now? Me. How bout you come tell me when you all ready to tell me who I’m takin’ to the party. We cool? Cool. See you.

Marble
Ok CJ. Back up. We don’t need you to be throwing a fit because Nikki is better at flirting than you.

CJ
He’s not better then me! I was just confused! I don’t know how someone so ugl-
[Cea is cut off by Latta.]

Latta
Cea shut up right now. You make me want to pull my nose off.
[Cea shuts up and fumes.]
Oooo are you going to the party?

Oooo
[Oooo doesn’t move. He makes a slight humming noise. Everyone stares for a few minutes before it finally hits them. Oooo has fallen asleep for the whole ordeal.]

Xer
OOOOO, THEY’RE ASKING YOU A QUESTION! ^xx^

Oooo
[Oooo wakes up but it seems nothing as changed.]
Ooooooay. Are they done chattering away? I suspect they have already ravaged my two tickets as if they had any right to it. No one has right to it. Not even me. I will be giving my 2 tickets in a raffle. I cannot be held accountable for the winner.

The raffle begins now. I will be placing you all on the sheet. Let us see who will win.
[Oooo takes out the raffle sheet and places everyone on it.]
Aaaaaaaaaaao.... It appears, this Nikki has won a ticket, as well as someone called Hichico. Enjoy your ticket Nikki.
[Nikki passed a luck check to get the ticket.]

Shet
Ah! Are you all still in need of tickets? I’m sure Andrus is going to invite me to the party, but no one else, so he’d likely be glad to hand the other one over to you. Bob is also likely willing to give you both tickets. I know him, if it was possible, he’d give you his own ticket as well! Never been much of a party bot. You may want to
assemble who is going with whom.

Latta
Ok. This is how we’re spliting the group. I will go with Andrus because Marble won’t let me jump in the cannon. Cleo and CJ will go with Bob. Marble and Nikki will go with Blu. Hmmmmm, I guess we can sell the other tickets. Wonder if these 3 tickets can get us anything good. How about we keep on just in case, and we hand out the other 2? That seems about right.

Rivet
[Rivet, who was listening in the whole time decides to speak up.]
Ah yes. You can give us those two tickets. If I’m right, this “Lady” might be the god that’s been talked about. She seems to fit many of the pieces. What do you want to trade for those tickets?

Latta
We want rations, enough so that all of us can last the trip there. I also want fuel. Enough for our ship to fly out of here the moment we get to it. Think you can do that?

Riv
This appears to be a deal to me! We’ll fill your tank to the top. How about
tomorrow we meet on Oooo’s rooftop to hand off the rations? I suspect you’ll need time to make it to the party on time, I would offer to let you ride with us, but we have a policy, can’t let anyone not in the army on, at least not when Geko is on the ship.

Latta
[Latta hands over the tickets.]
Alright, I’ll see you there.
[Latta looks to the rest of the crew.]
Looks like we’re done here. Thank goodness we can get out of this trash heap.

Shet
Right, I’m glad we got that all worked out! I’m sure this planet death situation is all wind being blown around, there’s no way they could end this planet, I mean, unless they summon that, monster again. I hope Dali isn’t planning that or else it’ll truly be the end for all of us. It has to be some sort of trap, right? Either way, you all will need transportation, and I’m sure you don’t want to take the, cannon. Now me and Andrus likely have a way there but.....

Well, it’ll take 2 days to make it there, it’s also admittedly not the, prettiest way to get there, but you can join us. You may be able to find a way to get there in one day, thus being able to save some of your rations, and you’ll also be, well, less likely to get harmed. I’ll leave that up to you though! Once you’re ready to sleep you can come by me and Andrus’ place! I know the carpet isn’t the best place to sleep, but it is there for you to check out.

Latta
Thank you Shetlock, we hope we’re not being too much of a burden. We’ll see you later, hopefully before the sun rises.
[With that Shetlock, and Latta’s crew split and leave Oooo’s building. Latta had a lot of planning to do in the next hour if she wanted her crew to get a good rest. The others needed to sleep, but she didn’t.]


Latta
[Latta exits in to the waiting room in thought before speaking to Marble.]
Hey, how about all of you get some rest? I’m going to head out. It’s already late for all of you and we’ll likely have a lot of work to do in the morning. I’ll see what info I can gather while you’re all resting.

Marble
Sure thing captain! I’ll gather up Cleo. Stay safe out there.

Latta
Sure thing. By the way, if I don’t come back in the morning you can assume I some how got killed.

Marble
Captain I don’t think you need to go there.

Latta
I don’t, but it’s the responsible thing to do. I’m heading out on a mission alone on a planet we don’t fully understand in the middle of the night. If I don’t come back no one can waste time looking for me. I’m not saying I’m going out tonight with the intention of dying, it’s just the reasonable thing tell you in this situation.

Marble
I understand, it’s just that where I come from we consider it jinxing yourself to say such things, it brings bad luck. It is in all of the movies, the person says this and never returns.

Latta
Hahaha! Well admittedly you come from a large space ship that’s rumored to be deadly gang of pirates, where the leaders are a space dragon larger than a Zeus ship and a can of fire so I don’t expect the movies to be very normal. Seriously though Marble this isn’t anything foreboding. You keep hyping yourself up like that and you’re going to be disappointed when I’m not dead in the morning.

Marble
Understood! I just need to make sure everything is in tiptop order. I can’t stop worrying about everyone’s health. Speaking of which. I hope Slate and Edel are ok. As long as they don’t leave the ship they’ll be fine, but I’m not sure if we had enough rations on that ship.

Latta
More reason to find a way to get to the Slab lands early then. I’ll leave you to herd the crew up and stop any fights. See you later Marble.
[With that Latta leaves the building. Marble checks on a few things before heading out afterwards to gather up Cleo and One-Punch.]

Cea
Hmmmmm. Sonny, mind checking out that ship outside of this town that everyone is mumbling about? It seems awfully important, and I have a feeling as to what it might be.
[Sonny agrees and leaves Cea to follow Marble.]

Marble
[The group gathers up Cleo and One-Punch, they confirm that Bob is willing to take them to the party. Because the crew brought wires and scrap at the store, they would be able to fix up Bob’s arm if they really wished to in the morning. They arrive in Shetlock’s and Andrus’s home.]
Hello, are you two here?

Andrus Esroh
[Andrus peeks his head out, he seems nervous but lightens up when he sees it’s just Marble and co.]
Greetings! I know it’s not much at all, but welcome to our home. Shetlock just walked out so I’ll need to give you the tour. This is the living room, the room next to it is a bedroom, and a mile away is the only working bathroom around here. That’s about it!

I hay to say it, but there’s not much going on in this place. This was supposed to be a temporary arrangement for 2 months until the incident happened. At least we have somewhere to sleep unlike a lot of others. You all can just find a spot in the living room that doesn’t appear to be covered in trash and – wait a moment is that a notail?

Nikki
I’m actually a g-god who is currently in t-this form but the short answer is yes. Good eye, a-and by good eye I mean g-good job not being blind. ;3

Andrus
[Nikki’s low charisma causes Andrus to freak out. Andrus jumps in to the bedroom and keeps the door open a crack to speak.]
Oh no! No no no! I will not be exiting this room until that thing is out. You may call me in the morning when you all leave. Please tell Shetlock dear to just trot over to this room; I don’t want him getting sick. There’s no medical care on this planet so sickness here means death!

Cea
[With that Andrus slams the door closed. Cea shoots a glare at Nikki.]
Why do you have to be so filthy? You’ve scared our host away!

Nikki
[Nikki looks around at the room filled with trash.]
Yes th-that was it. The filth is surely w-what scared them. That was s-sarcasm of course; h-he’s really scared of me infected him or g-giving him a mutation by just e-existing in the same room as him and r-rubbing my g-grubby little claws all over everyt-thing. ;3

Cleo
Awww man! I heard of tons of stories of people getting cool mutate powers from notails! I hope I get one.

Marble
Cleo dear, please, you don’t want to get a sickness from a notail. I once got a disease that caused the top knuckle of my hands grow long bones as sharp as knifes out of my skin.

Cleo
Is that an argument against getting notail sicknesses because that sounds pretty metal to me.

Marble
I will admit, punching someone with my new knife knuckles sounded like a good idea until I did it. Have you ever punched a man with your own bones, Cleo? I’ve never felt a worse pain in my life. Even after I was cured of hyper knuckife I couldn’t move my hand for 2 months.

Cleo
That sounds soooooooo cool!

Nikki
On E-Eukaryote we would have had this one euthanized. ;3


Marble
Ugh, look Nikki, you’re going to need to sleep outside. You risk everyone in this room by staying here.

Nikki
Hmmmmmm n-nah. ;3
[Nikki hops on to the couch for a rest.]
I am under no obligation to do anything. If you kick me out of this c-crew that’s fine with me, i-it gives me more time to do w-what I need to do. If not th-that’s ok too, I factored in it a-all. You c-can take your chances in here, or out there, i-it doesn’t matter to me.


Marble
[Marble dumps trash on top of Nikki. Nikki asks why she’s doing this. She explains the trash is to both make room for everyone else on the floor and to act as a quarantine, but really it was because she was annoyed by him, his low charisma was starting to grate on her nerves. The trash barrier was useless for quarantining Nikki.]

[There was nothing else they could do but sleep in that room. Sleeping outside put them at risk to the elements, thieves, and whatever other monsters were out there. The night was dreamless, and for most of the crew, morning came far too quickly.]

Cea
[The moment Marble started to wake up she felt Cea shaking her. ]
Marble dear, I think we have a bit of an issue.

Marble
[Marble shoots up in a panic.]
What? What happened? Are you sick?

Cea
No no no, not me. To be honest I’m feeling better then ever! I honestly feel like I’m ready to take on the day more then ever!
[Cea had gained a mutation that caused him to gain +2 to both his strength, and endurance!]
It’s well....Cleo. She’s not doing alright.

Cleo
[Cleo shivered and could barely open her eyes. It seems in the night she was quickly overtaken by a sickness, her agility, strength, and endurance have fallen to 1 due to her new [Diseased] trait.]
Thiiiiiibaaaah suuuucks......my...mybaaaahdy got s-ssick. She’s suuuffering reaaaally baaadly.
[Cleo could barely control her body at this point; it was being overcome by the sickness.]

One-Punch
[One-Punch keeps nuzzling Cleo, unsure of what else to do in this situation.]
Last night, the man said sickness means death here! Is this true? Is Cleo going to die?



Cea
No not at all! We can get medical assistance right? We’ll just call up a good doctor and-

Marble
CJ, there are no doctors in this area, and if there are they haven o medical supplies, we were already told this. Don’t panic though. I’m sure Latta can help until we can get to Edel. Edel will know how to fix this issue. Until then, do you by chance have a capture cage, Nikki?

Nikki
Not at all, I g-got one and that’s busy being o-occupied by a rat. No room to fit her body in to it. I-If you’re wo-wondering why I don’t just toss what I h-have in there it’s because t-that’s just not how this play goes. ;3

Marble
[Marble groans knowing there is no use trying to change Nikki’s feelings on the situation.]
Maybe we can go to Pablo. Pablo has cats, would a cat work as a new body Cleo?

Cleo
Iiiiiiit would bb-but it would li-likely be a horrible body. Cats are sssssssmall and don’t like liiiisting.

Marble
I’ll put that as a backup plan. I understand you likely don’t want to leave your body Cleo. That one has been with you your whole life, also who would dare ditch a body with a cool gun hand like yours?

Cleo
[Cleo cracks a small smile. Marble’s joke makes her feel just a bit better.]

Marble
Hey Nikki, can you help with this situation at all, or are you only here to make it worse?

Nikki
Let me check. I’m an N-Class. Th-that means I’m a N-Neo class. B-Basically I’m a p-priest. O-One who got bored of b-being a boring p-priest and moved on to h-hotter work mind y-you. ;3

Nikki
Like I said on E-Eukaryote we would have had this one euthanized. Her b-body isn’t working, b-but her real self is, j-just throw some o-other weird, goat, dog, w-whatever that thing is under her. M-My ex priestself though w-would say this “f-fight your s-sickness you pansy. I-If you get k-killed by your s-sickness it just proves the Neo should kill your s-species. ;3” ;3

Marble
Ugh. Looks like I’m going to have to ask Rivet for help. I’m not sure if she’s going to be able to do it, seems the whole army is in a rush.
[Marble rubs her temples; she could feel today getting worse by the second.]
One-Punch, pick up Cleo, we can’t have her tiring herself out.
[One-Punch picks up Cleo right away.]

Latta
[Latta enters the room. Other then a little dirt on her she doesn’t appear any different. She takes one look at Cleo and frowns.]
Shoot. Cleo no. How could this happen to you Cleo?
[Marble points to Cea and Nikki. Cea seems offended he’s being pointed out.]
Oh of course it’s those two. I can assume you tried figuring out what to do here Marble?

Marble
Tried, it’s only been a few minutes though, I’m sure we can come up with something else. My backup plan is if her body dies we can place her on another animal. It might be impossible for her to control but it’s better then nothing. Other then that I think we’re going to need to do a rush job on getting to the Slabs.

Latta
Agreed. What Cleo looks like is a fever, bad one at that if it overwhelmed her this much in the span of one night. Hopefully it’s not contagious but I want everyone to keep away for their safety.

Latta
Anyway, speaking about faster paths, we do have a few here I’ve looked in to over night.

Marble
I hope the cannon isn’t on that list.

Latta
The cannon is on the list Marble. I’m not taking it off. Currently our options are as followed. The cannon. Sneaking on one of the army ships and hoping they don’t shoot us, taking all of our time to go with Shetlock and Andrus, and two more other options I found out about last night.

You know those surrealists that moved in to one of the nearby buildings? I wasn’t able to get in because they don’t trust me, but I did see something very interesting. They have terrordactyls. That’s likely how they got here. If we could convince them to loan them to us we’d be able to get to the Slabs in no time. There’s also stealing them. I mean it wouldn’t be the first time I’ve stolen a terrordactyl for a joy ride. The other option has to do with someone you know. Someone who is hot.

Marble
Is it Mondla? I can’t believe Mondla is on this planet.

Latta
What? No, no no no, Mondla is not on this planet. Also really Marble? You think Mondla is hot? You have some weird taste in people I’ll tell you that. I mean the other person who’s hot, like, on fire hot.

Marble
[Marble sighs.]
I thought you were above the hot grandfather jokes Latta. I trusted you! Anyway, what you’re saying is you saw my grandfather? That’s impossib- no wait it makes sense. No wonder I was able to get in contact with one of my relatives, they were nearby the whole time.

Latta
Yes, and I spotted him wandering around. I didn’t want to walk up to him because I don’t know how true the stories are, but if we could make it to their ship I’m sure we can convince them to give us a lift if you’re there.

Cea
Oh Latta dear there’s nothing to worry about. Marble told us none of the stories from that dumb movie are real. The Zelshys aren’t kuppa kidnappers.

Marble
Ahem...well....out of all the lies from that movie....that one is uhhh how do I say this? More.....fact then fiction. In fact it’s uuuuuh all fact.


Latta
Well then there’s no way I’m going that way. I’m going to check out the terrordactyls, not really looking to get kidnapped right now. I’m going to go with Cleo to the surrealists. Cleo could be a big help if they decided to lend us those terrordactyls.

Marble
That sounds good Latta, it also means when you pick up supplies from Rivet you can ask her if she can please lend you anything medical or take Cleo with her. While you do that what will I be doing, captain?

Latta
You’ll go with Nikki and Cea to see your family of course. I need them out of my blood and I’m sure you can get them to agree to help.

Marble
[Marble is silent for a moment before nodding her head and moving towards the door.]
Right, I understand, I’ll go meet with them if I can.

Cea
[As Marble exits the room Cea tosses a suspicious glace over to Sonny.]
She seems off today. I doubt it’s the whole sickness thing that’s got her down. Do you know what’s going on Sonny? You never did tell me if you found out anything about that beast and the ship last night.

Sonny
I found out what it was, but I think it’s better you just find out yourself, it would ruin the surprise if I told you.

Cea
Fair enough. I trust you to not be tossing me in to anything that’s going to kill me.
[Cea rushes out the door after Marble.]
Wait up you two!

Marble
[Marble stops for a bit to let Cea catch up before continuing through the city, toward the direction Nova was seen. She’s not as chatty as she normally is.]

Cea
So Marble! Tell about your family, you never talk about them other then to say the movies about them are total rubbish. Come on, are any of them cute and single, maybe would dig a guy like me?

Marble
[Marble stops in her tracks, staring down at the ground. Cea touches her shoulder, worried that somehow she was sick as well. Marble carefully pushes him away.]
Cea let’s ditch this job.

Cea
Wait what? Marble did you come down with a fever as well? You would never ditch captain’s orders as long as they were reasonable! We’re just going to meet your family, what’s wrong? You told us the movies were making up all that junk, is it, oh no, please don’t tell me your family hates you. How could anyone hate such a nice person as you, Marble?

Marble
No no, it’s not that at all Cea. My family likes me, in fact they love me, they’re proud of what I do. Most of them.
[Marble rolls her 4 eyes.]
There’s always one guy in every family who can do nothing but berate everyone else of course.

Cea
What? You don’t want to see that guy? You leave it up to me Marble, I will flirt with that hunk of meat until he wants nothing to do with you, either because he gets disgusted by me and leaves, or because he decides to accept my offer.
[Cea winks at Marble. Marble just lowers her head even more.]

Marble
No it’s not that Cea it’s, it’s because......ugh....Cea. The movies....They weren’t totally lies.

Cea
No way! Your family is a bunch of hyper murder pirates that practice necromancy, killed millions to satisfy their bloodlust and whose captain is a 100-foot tall dragon? That’s horrible but very exotic honestly.

Marble
No CJ! Those are lies....well, exaggerations. I have to come clean. My family members are pirates, and it’s true, they used necromancy once, or twice, five times tops. They are not hyper murderers who’ve killed millions of people. They’re like anti pirates. They attack pirates, steal the stuff they stole from others, and kill them in the process.

Cea
And then they return it back to those who were stolen from!

Marble
Well not, really. They just kind of keep it all for themselves, but that’s because they’re not allowed in public spaces! I’m sure if they were allowed they’d return it.
[Marble sounds like she’s trying to convince herself.]

Cea
Well that’s good to hear I guess? They definitely lied about the 100-foot dragon thing right?

Marble
[Marble coughs.]
Ahem, yes. They definitely lied about captain Kelda being a....100 foot dragon.

Cea
Well then I see nothing wrong here dear.

Marble
[Marble puts her hands together to plead to Cea.]
Look I understand I’m being selfish and rude but, honestly I am embarrassed by my family! Most have them have lost their minds due to hybrid related sicknesses and they’re not just eccentric CJ, they’re absolutely past that. I love them all, but as a person of the law, I don’t enjoy relating myself to pirates.

Please CJ, we can do anything else. We can do anything you want to do, as long as we don’t go to them. There’s other ways to help out in this situation.
[Marble closes her eyes in defeat.]
Even though, I know they would help us, in their own horrible ways. Yet again, I fully understand the request I’m making is selfish but please, I am begging CJ, lets just tell the captain this wasn’t a valid option and do anything else.




Cea
Ok, you can back away from the situation and let us handle it. I’m sure we’ll do a fine job.

Nikki
Yeah peon. We’ll do a f-f-fantastic job at impressing your f-folks. Bet your f-folks will be so proud of their l-little girl when they see the people she w-works with. ;3

Marble
[Marble looks back and forth between the two. She starts to feel like this choice is only slightly better than what she is going to avoid. ]
Ok, listen here, try to keep in line, and don’t agitate anyone! Most importantly, under no circumstances are you to touch anything related to coffee, this includes the kuppas. Leave them alone. Don’t even talk to them, they speak in gibberish because they’re being mind controlled.


Cea
Right, I can see what Latta darling didn’t want to come. We don’t need her being mind controlled and turned in to a gibberish spitting kuppa. Anyway Marble you lead the way!

Marbl
Yeah....lets go.
[Marble trudges on forward, to a clearing outside the city. There they see one of Marble’s shames. Cea can barely understand what he’s looking at.]

Cea
M-Marble! You told me the movies were lying!

Marble
Well....I wasn’t lying when I said she wasn’t a 200 foot dragon. She’s bigger then that.
[Giraffes surrounded the ship, the giant beast known as Kelda Zelshy kept them away. The mutation she gained long ago had turned her in to a malevolent one, but with luck instead of being one who was land bound, she was able to take to the skies.]

Cea
Bigger than that? BIGGER THAN THAT? MARBLE DEAR THAT IS AN UNDERSTATEMENT. What else have you been lying about or covering up from us Marble?

Marble
[Marble rubs one of the shields on her arms, ignoring the question for a few moments.]
Nothing else. I’ve told you almost everything. I didn’t want to come here because of my family. If you want to know how they really are, well, you’re going to meet them.

Nikki
Ah that b-b-black scaled beast has a tower in her skull. A shame it’s too late to remove it. ;3

Marble
I don’t think anyone’s tried to remove it yet. With enough power it should be removable though.

Nikki.
N-Nope! Trust me I-I’m sure she’ll have to live with that su-super computer in her head for the r-rest of her life.
[Marble gets ready to question how Nikki knows what the tower is but he walks away and brings up a question.]
So, p-pray tell. How do you plan t-to get to the ship with those giraffes in the way?

Oooo
Backwards.
[Oooo cuts in to the conversation as if he was always there.]
Ladies, gentlemen, and vermin in the shape of a klannce, I present to you, the way to not die. Do not accept death.

Cea
Excuse me, are you telling us to just not pay attention to those killer monsters! Are you insane? We can’t just pretend we’re not dying honey!

Oooo
Yes you can. I myself have done it for years and am in fine shape.

Cea
Not to be rude sweetie but you look like you died months ago. Smell like it too.

Oooo
Actually, I died years ago. Except I refuse to accept it. I told myself. I, O o o o, am not dead, and so I wasn’t. It is a simple concept, I’m sure you read about it in the manifesto correct?
[Oooo starts skidding down the rocky hill in front of them.]
If you are not going to follow me please inform my maid to heat up the unknown liquids I found in Shetlock’s trash can, I believe it will make a delectable stew.


Marble
Geko said he was an unkillable monster. I don’t think someone so high in the ranks would lie about that. Lets follow him over, it seems like it’s going to be the only way we cross this area, or would you like to fish for strange liquids in someone’s trash?

Cea
No no, I see no reason to not believe him, I’ll accept his reasoning, but if we die, and there is an afterlife I am most definitely going to be giving you the cold shoulder.
[Cea and the rest of the group follow O o o o down the rocky hill in to what seemed to be a large crater.]

Marble
[The beasts dare not attack any of them. They hover nearby, throwing glances at the group, pretending to not watch, but not once do they approach.]
Not that I want them to attack us, but what is the explanation for them staying at bay?

Oooo
Does it truly matter why they do not attack? Maybe seeing a group of people walk this path reminds these beasts there is no worth in killing us, for they can tell an even worse fate follows us. Questioning why you have not been killed is like waking up in the morning and wondering why you are not dead. Can you not be killed at any moment? Why are you not dead yet?

[Oooo walks through the open door of a ship being pressed down by one of Kelda’s many legs. Nikki lingers just outside, checking out the ship.]
I bid you farewell for now, I’m positive we’ll meet again, just as life intended. If life has intended there to be gruesome beasts who torture and test on those it considers lower, then I believe we can ask life to do us just one favor for having to live in its shamble of a house.

Cea
Wait stop where are you-
[But Oooo trots away before Cea can stop him. He showed no interest in what Cea had to say.]
Well I was going to ask where he was going but it seems that’s not going to work.
[Someone rounds the corner of the hallway and spots them.]
“Who the-? Who told you you could invade someone’s ship?

Cobalt
Got an answer you blithering zircon, or are you going to stand there like an uncivilized feral with your mouth agape? Meanwhile we have a giant revolting- oh, that’s M-M-Marble. So who are you here to arrest this time? I’ll have you know I haven’t done any moronic stunts lately, so you can cross me off your list!

Marble
I’m not here to arrest anyone.

Cobalt
Oh yeah, I’ve heard that a before. I’m not a half-baked disease-ridden potato here. If you’re not after me then I honestly don’t care which of these chronically backwards vermin you take. You cannot possibly make this situation any worse then it already is.

Cea
[Cea whispers to Marble while pointing at Cobalt.]
Is that her? The horrible monster A-Chili? She seems like she’s about to attack, maybe we should get out of here.

Cobalt
Are you serious YOU GROSS SMALL MINDED DOPE? YOU ARE LITARALLY 10 FEET AWAY FROM ME. POINTING AT ME. IN A VOICE THAT IS ONLY SLIGHTLY LOWER THAN A TRUCK CRASHING IN TO A NUCLEAR EXPLOSION! DO I REALLY LOOK LIKE A MONSTER TO YOU!

CEA
Yes.

Cobalt
[Cobalt is taken aback by this as she wasn’t expecting such a blunt answer. She recovers and snaps back at Cea.]
Oh I didn’t know I was made of a reflective surface! That sure does solve the issue here!

Marble
This is Cobalt Ootkins. You may have heard of her. Out of all the clockworks I’ve met in my life she is by far the nicest one I know. She’s one of the nicer people on this ship as well. Though you do seem highly aggressive right now Cobalt, is something wrong? I don’t think I’ve ever seen you this mad.

Cobalt
What’s wrong? You want me to tell you what’s wrong? It would be easier for me to tell you what’s NOT WRONG RIGHT NOW! Absolutely everything in this festering coccydynia of a ship is going wrong. If you want anything you better make it quick because everyone on this ship is ready to snap.



Marble
Well it seems everyone on this ship is in a bit of a tie, forget that I was ever here Cobalt. Come on Cea, the people of this ship have their own issues to attend to, they don’t need our problems on top. We can take a seat outside and wait for Oooo.

Cobalt
Wait, wait, wait. Marble Rayson has a problem? A problem so big she has to come to her criminal family for help? You either really messed up or you forgot your toothbrush here the last time you visited.

Cea
Marble we are not leaving, you promised we’d get to ask someone for help.

Marble
[Marble groans.]
Cobalt, where can we find my father at this time? We need to have a talk with him.

Cobalt
Ha! Knew that you were planning on arresting someone, just didn’t think it’d be your father again. He’s where he usually is. You know the room.

Cea
Wait, you arrested your own father, Marble?

Marble
[But by the time Cea turns to question her she’s already down the hall and heading up a flight of stairs. Cea starts to wonder what’s wrong with everyone leaving mid conversation. He follows her.]

Nikki
[Nikki peeks in to the ship and sees that the two he was suppose to be following have left.]
You t-t-here...
[Nikki takes a moment to figure out what Cobalt is suppose to be.]
Abomination. W-where did the other two go? ;3

Cobalt
They went down the hall, up the stairs, and to the left. It’s the giant door you can’t miss it.

Nikki
T-thanks. ;3
[Nikki leaves off to follow the other two.]

Cobalt
Yeah whatever, you’re welcome.
[Cobalt gets back to her work. She opens up a panel on the ship and takes a look inside. She can’t focus though due to a slow creeping feeling coming upon her. She can’t seem to nail down where the feeling is coming from and stares blankly at the work she’s suppose to be doing.]

Cea
Marble look, I know you likely don’t want to talk about it but you’re at least going to need to tell me some info about your father, I can’t go in there blind, honey.

Marble
Fine. There’s not much to know about him. His name is BOLDER. Yes, you have to raise your voice to say his name. He’ll be offended if you don’t. He’s a criminal who believes in his own form of justice. He’s not a bad person....
[Marble pauses, not even sure if that’s correct.]
..but his actions are unforgiveable. He believes in justice, but the way he does things is absolutely horrible.

That’s all there is to know about him. He has drive, now if only he would channel it in to positive actions, he could actually improve the universe. Due to that, him and me don’t see eye to eye.

[Marble stands to the side of the entrance to the room BOLDER was in.]
When you go through those doors say you’re friends of Dio. He’s part of the family. He won’t ask too many questions if he thinks you’re with Dio. You tell him I’m here and he’s going to want to see me, and I don’t think we want to deal with how that might go.


Cea
Understood, I have no more questions. It’s time to do this! I won’t fail now!
[Marble had no hope for him as she watched him push open the doors and enter in to the control deck.]

[Cea entered the spacious room and spotted his target. Cea thought Marble was big, but her father Bolder was even bigger then her. He sat in a chair and looked outside the large window before him. He didn’t notice Cea and Nikki enter the room until Cea spoke.]
Hello there sir! I’m with Dio and have a request to make. Do you happen to be available to talk?

BOLDER
[A few moments pass without a word, Cea wonders if Bolder is even awake when he slowly rises from his seat. The broken shackles around his wrists click together as he turns around. Bolder’s eyes are jet black, they don’t even seem to pick up reflections from light.]

Cea
[Cea is affected by Bolder’s [Intimidation] and loses 20 sanity and moral. Nikki remains unaffected. Cea feels panic spread through him as Bolder kept up his slow march towards time slightly, but he tries to appear unfazed on the outside. For a moment he truly envied Nikki and his mask.]
U-Uh hey, you ok? Did you uh, hear me? We need uh...stuff...

[Bolder just keeps walking forward until he’s too close for comfort for Cea. For once in Cea’s life he wanted nothing to do with the shirtless man in front of him. What’s worse is Cea could smell an overpowering scent of smoke, and now he knew it came from Bolder, for with every breath he took the smell would get stronger.]
EXPLAIN.

Cea
Uh, look! We found info that the world here is going to end, in you know, 3 days, that’s a short amount of time, yeah....sooooo we need control of the ship so we can drive it over to the event that’s going to end the world and stop it. Afterwards we can steal everything! You know, cause we’re pirates and all.

BOLDER
WE ARE NOT PIRATES.
[Cea’s head was starting to spin as the smoke fumes were starting to get to him.]
Dio....DIO! That imbecile always calls us pirates. WE ARE NOT PIRATES. I should HANG HIM for his disrespect.

Cea
Well, you guys are kind of pirates. You steal stuff!

BOLDER
WE KILL AND TAKE FROM PIRATES. We are not pirates ourselves. We are, anti pirates. It is fair if we take from those monsters.

Cea
Well technically that means you guys are still pi-

Nikki
Well technically m-maybe you shouldn’t p-play the “technically” g-game with the guy who could crush y-your windpipe with one hand. ;3

Cea
[Cea throws Nikki a grin in an attempt to hide his fear.]
Point taken.

BOLDER
Go back to dio. Tell him he should know we are not flying this ship. IT IS MY ORDERS THAT THIS SHALL BE THE RESTING PLACE OF THIS SHIP! If he doesn’t wish to abandoned the ship then SO BE IT, but I am locking it down. Tell him I want to hear no complaints. He can die in this ship like the WORM HE IS.


Cea
Ugh looks like you’re not going to budge. Fine we’ll see you later hon-

Nikki
[Nikki attempts to use luck and lies to get them forward in this situation.]
E-Excuse you but this was a direct order from the captain. Are you really going to de-deny a captain’s orders? I’ll h-have you know that’s really sick you know. Pirate t-talk almost. ;3

BOLDER
[Luck check passed!]
BUT I AM THE CAPTAIN AND I DIDN’T GIVE THOSE ORDERS! Well, I’m 3rd in command. The 2nd, my father, doesn’t like being called captain or giving orders, and the 1st in command, the real captain....

Nikki
[Nikki makes sure that if anyone gets in trouble for anything it’s all on Dio.]
Told Dio that they want this ship to f-fly. ;3

BOLDER
[Bolder looks out the window then back at Nikki.]
Dio must have lied to you! Kelda Zelshy can barely form a sentence that isn’t coffee related, you EXPECT ME TO BELIEVE SHE GAVE ORDERS? DIO IS PLAYING A SICK JOKE HERE.

Nikki
Well, why don’t you ask her yourself?

Bolder
Alright then. MOM, DID YOU TELL DIO THAT WE HAVE TO MOVE THE SHIP?

Kuppa
[A kuppa pokes its head in to the room. Cea is initially shocked by how similar the kuppa and Latta look.]
1000 years ago the vaeri started to supply a generic planet with their own form of coffee. After 3 years of providing the generics with coffee they suddenly cut it off. As it turns out the coffee was highly addictive and within a week every city on the planet fell. The vaeri then took over the planet with no opposition.

This event caused the popular phrase “You’ll give me a coffee today and take the city tomorrow” as a way for people to say on dates, business meetings, and gatherings that they feel the person they are talking to has ill intentions and they want nothing to do with them.
[Luck check failed.]

Bolder
Fantastic, thanks a lot, you can leave now.
[The kuppa leaves the area. Bolder points at Nikki and Cea.]
You go back to Dio and tell him I will PUNCH HIM IN THE SHOULDER FOR EVERY YEAR HE’S LIVED FOR ATTEMPTING TO TRICK ME.  Now leave!


Cea
Fine, we’ll leave. Sorry for bothering you. Seems we’ll have to talk with Dio about the situation. It’s too bad we won’t get help with taking down that evil fiend Dali!
[Cea tries a last ditch attempt at getting Bolder interested in the Case. Bolder just marches back to his seat not even humoring Cea with a comment.]
Alright...lets go Nikki.

Marble
[Marble perks up as the two exit unharmed. She expected at least one of them to come out with a broken arm.]
How did it go?

Cea
Horribly. This whole thing was a total bust Marble; your father is a tough one to crack. Not only that but I felt like I nearly died from all that smoke. If I get sick from smoke inhalation I know who I’m going to sue. I feel bad for whoever this Dio guy is, seems like the BOLDER fellow is planning on crushing him next time he sees him and it’s all going to be our fault.

Marble
Don’t feel bad, I sent you in pretending you were part of Dio’s group just so that if you did fail Dio would get the punishment. I don’t want to get in to it Cea, but Dio is a messed up scumbag. I suggest moving your bad feelings to something more worthy of it, like a bag of half eaten potato chips.

Cea
Well if you say so, but this Dio guy sure seems important. We could try getting him to try and take control of this ship. It’s too bad your father hates you else I’m sure you’d be able to talk him into moving this ship for us. You’ve always been the best talker on ship. Guess we can just wait for Oooo in front of the ship and tell the captain we got nothing.

Marble
I suggest we stay away from Dio. You are right that he could help, but trust me we don’t want to associate with him in case things backfire. As for my father...you’re right. If I’d talked to him it might work out, it’s me who hates him, not him who hates me. He’s physically incapable of hating someone who hasn’t committed a crime. Even my arrest of him didn’t change his attitude.

But we had an agreement. I’m not talking to any of them. Now come on, lets wait outside.
[Marble motions towards the stairs.]


Cea
Wait, there has to be something else we can do. Who else is in charge around here?

Marble
In order of who’s in charge, it’s Kelda, Noverus, Bolder, and lastly Dio. Kelda’s not going to give you a straight sentence, you better leave Noverus alone, you just talked to Bolder, and we’re not going to Dio for help.

Cea
Just out of curiosity, where does Noverus normally stay?

Marble
He normally sticks around the coffee cup room. There are signs everywhere pointin- NO! Cea I’m telling you to leave him alone! He doesn’t need you bringing him all this stress! Do not move or I will be forced to chase you!

 ___________

Cea
That’s too bad Marble dear, because if I'm remembering correctly no one on our ship is better at running away from problems then me. See you honey!
[Cea flees from the area. His agility means that Marble didn’t even have a chance of catching him.]

Marble
Cea stop you’ll..zzzyou’ll......zzzzzzzzzzzzz.
[In a split second Marble hits the floor, asleep.]

Nikki
Well. That’s convenient timing. T-Time to hit the road. ;3
[Nikki strolls away.]

Noone
...........................

Cobalt
WAIT A MOMENT. THAT WAS NIKKI!!!
[A shout rises from the floor below as Cobalt finally realized what was bothering her about the notail she saw.]

Cea
[Cea reaches the room with no issue. He expected there to be more people on the ship but everyone he met on his way to the room were kuppas, all of which had a #1 Dad tattoo just like Latta. In the middle of the room was a single, slightly dusty coffee cup with the same phrase on it “#1 Dad”. Large overwhelming signs pointed to the coffee cup. “DO NOT TOUCH THIS CUP,” the signs screamed. “Ok geez fine.” Cea whispered back.]

[Cea spotted what appeared to be a suit of armor, just what, no, who he was looking for. He’s seen him in the interviews and on the shows. The famous, or rather infamous, Noverus Rayson.]
Hey there, wake up if you would dear! I got a few requests for the hot Nova Star Rayson.

Noverus Rayson
[The suit of armor slightly moves when Cea speaks. Smoke slowly rises off of it and the temperature in the room shoots up.]

[Noverus had been awaken. He stomps a the ground before yelling at Cea.]
Bah! Today of all days, you come to bother me Klannece!
[Noverus pauses for a quick second to take a quick racial assessment. Cea was a high-class klannece and thus above him in everyway and form. He takes a step away from Cea.]
I apologize klannece. Today is not a good day for any talks. Who are you and what do you want?


Cea
Sorry to have woken you up dear. I’m Cea Jasper, but you can call me CJ. I’m a friend of Marble’s. You might not know this hun but this planet is set to be destroyed unless someone stops it. Marble and me wish to borrow this ship to fly over to the location, I tried asking her father nicely but he’s a real stubborn one you see. So is it alright if you let us borrow it? I know you’re higher up on the command chain than your son.

Nova
[Charisma check passed! Cea’s charisma was boosted by Noverus’s [Racist] trait!]
I hate taking the captain role, the only one who should do it is the captain herself, but I do admit my captain hasn’t, well lets not get in to it, I don’t like thinking about it. Recent events have only made it worse. What I’m tryng to say is I wouldn’t mind letting you use the ship. They were planning on abandoning it anyway.

Cea
What? But this ship looks in a perfectly good state. Why would anyone abandon it?

Nova
You’ve apparently only seen the “healthy” part of the ship, klannec. Truth is someone inside this very ship has sabotaged us. Someone has unleashed a clockwork virus and it’s taking over quickly taking over the ship from the inside out. Everyone on this ship but me will be abandoning it. An arma never abandons their captain!.......Even if I wasn’t an arma I wouldn’t abandon her anyway. Not that I think I count as an arma anyway anymore.

Cea
Well, not to point any fingers but you have clockwork on your ship, seems pretty obvious who infected the ship. Also why did you say you won’t abandon your captain? Can’t you just, I don’t know, lure her away or something and set her up somewhere that isn’t an infested ship?

Nova
Negative on both ends. People on the ship are blaming that aftik but I’ve known her for long enough to know her dirty disease is fairly safe. She’s a type of semi safe clockwork that only fuses when it wants to. If she infected the ship she’d be attached to the ship. The type of clockwork virus we got on our hands is highly aggressive and would infect anything it can get to. As for my captain, that’s also why I know this was sabotage.

Someone touched this cup here at just a perfect moment, causing her to become angry and impale herself with the ship AI that was on top of the ship. That AI was the first thing infected, so by now it’s too late to save her. That’s why we landed on what we assumed to be an abandoned planet, to drop the ship and her off in a place both items would be unable to harm anything else. Seems we miscalculated.

Cea
Wow, that’s some horrible stuff going on. Sorry you have to deal with that. I wonder why Marble never told us about any of this.

Nova
She likely wanted nothing to do with the situation or didn’t know. I wouldn’t be surprised about the former, but an arma like me doesn’t gossip about officers like some low class. You can ask her father if you want to know more about her, but I expect more from someone of your class.

Cea
Well thank you for the info. I guess you’re pretty much telling me we can take this ship, but we might end up infected, and by an aggressive strain at that. That’s quite the risk, but we do need a ride I guess.

Cea
We’ll take it; I have a friend who’ll help me keep track of the infection so we’ll be fine.
[Cea is referring to Sonny.]
I have 2 questions. You’re free to skip them if you want. First off, what are you exactly; you’re not a clockwork are you?

Nova
[Noverus tenses up, extremely offended by the question.]
If I was a clockwork I would kill myself like any reasonable person would! As a living being it is your duty to be willing to accept death the moment you become a danger to society by getting infected! As you can see there is fire emitting from me, klannec. Fire is the enemy of clockworks, thus I am the opposite of that.

Bah! As for what I am, I’m not fully sure. I’ve heard of tales of the legendry Eos ship. Those who go in to it become immortal flame beasts. Though I’ve never been in one I can assume I’ve been afflicted by something like it. All I have to say on the matter is don’t drink strange bottles of liquid you just happen to find.

Cea
Good advice. Now for my last question, how is everyone else planning on leaving the planet once they don’t have this ship?

O o o o
Excuse me, proceed to not notice me, and continue your conversation.

Nova
Quickly is how. We called in a person before we landed, good thing we did too, none of our communication systems are working anymore. If everyone loads up quickly enough they should be able to get off this planet without-
[Oooo’s luck check fails and he gets spotted by Noverus.]
What are you doing here trash bag?

Oooo
A a a a aa aaa aaa. That normally goes much better. I would like to ask you hulking mammal, what are any of us doing in this life?

Nova
Get out of here before I toss you in to the trash compactor! Also get away from that cup, I see you reaching for it! Can’t you read the signs?

Oooo
I can read the signs quite clearly. A person who puts up this many signs declaring the need for one to not touch must truly be wishing the object get touched, for these signs only pique the interest of the common delinquent. If you truly did not want it touched you would have put it in a safe, far away from prying eyes. Also yes I was actually hoping to take a tour of your trash compactor, please take me to it.

Nova
Klannec, I think you should leave this moment, before things get messy. You already have my approval; you just need to tell Bolder about it.

Cea
Thank you hon! I’ll make sure to stay out of your armor for the rest of this trip. Enjoy dealing with the, uh, Aiiieoloe? Aoooileee? Ailololoooo? Whatever he is.
[Cea makes a speedy exit out of the room quite proud that he finally finished something he started without Sonny’s help.]


Latta
[Latta exits the area the Husses gratefully let her crew stay and headed towards the building she heard was filled with surrealists. One-Punch with Cleo in tow followed closely behind, worried for her. Latta stood in front of the surrealist building; the terrordactyls leaned forward from their perches to view her knock.]
Excuse me, would it be ok if I come in? I just want to have a chat with one of you.

???
[Charisma check failed.]
Ey? No we don’t go allowin’ no bodies in here, no sir. If you want some of them foods y’all gonna need to be waitin’ till one of us all ready to place it outside. Now shoo shoo. I don’t want to have to deal with you makin’ everyone assume food just bout to be put out.

Latta
[Latta snaps her fingers.]
One-Punch, improvise.

One-Punch
[One-Punch gets to work, checking a nearby pile of trash. In the pile of trash One-Punch finds two perfectly sized and thin rods, and with a little bit of work One-Punch makes lock picking tools. One-Punch quickly opened the lock on the door with no issue. One-Punch tosses out the lock picking tools afterwards.]
I’m done Latta!
[One-Punch gains the [Inventive] trait!]

Latta
[Latta nods to One-Punch and [Adventurously] walks in to the building without fear. She impresses the few surrealists there, likely due to her [Popular] trait.]
So, which one of you is the leader here?

Ksimas Spips
Ay ay! That’d be me, Ksimas Spips! You righty bold to just be picklockin’ the estate of a group of people you ain’t know. You must be real hungry to have done that. Speakin’ of hungry your coffee smell is about drivin’ me up a wall. Don’t figure you be up fo sharin’ that now?

Latta
Sure I don’t mind sharing if you guys have a jug. I’m a little low on coffee though so you won’t be getting an awful lot. First though I want you to tell me what’s going on about this Dali stuff. I just recently landed on this planet with my crew, and it seems Dali is making a big mess of this planet. He also took my ship. I was told you people would know the most about this. Doesn’t help that it sounds like he plans to destroy the world soon.

Ksimas
[Charisma check passed. Ksimas looks to the others in her group and taps the headphone like equipment on her head.]
I ain’t hear none of what that there cup said bout anythin’. Me hearin’ aid really messin’ up right now.
[One of the surrealists tells her to whisper quieter and explains to her what Latta said.]

Oh ok, I understand now. I don’t know who told you that there info, but sure, I can tell you bout it. Look here. Dali just tryin’ his best tryin’ to fix up stuff on this here planet, it just ain’t goin’ as well as it should and in his attempt to fix things up he uh, makin’ it all worse. The path to damnation is paved in good but poorly planned intentions. That is what I tell the younglin’s.

Latta
[Latta [Overrects] instead of asking questions calmly.]
Hold the phone right now!

Ksimas
[Ksimas picks up a phone with her tail.]
A’ight but I’m goin’ to warn you we ain’t have any service round here.

Latta
What? No! I mean a rhetorical phone! Dali is killing people and taking their ships, and you’re telling me he has good intentions? Those long necked freaks absolutely do not look like good intentions to me!

Ksimas
Oh right! That’s what you mean. Now, now, calm down my child, I can explain it all to you, well, not really you see. Dali had good intentions at first, but the beasts he created to do his done dirty work are, a bit weak in the mind. Doesn’t help that the stuff they covered in makes you hallucinate if you get too close to them, and if you inhale too much of it causes you to become a real party animal.

How bout this, we start this story from the very start. See once upon a time this here land was full of art, real boomin’ place. Everyone was runnin’ around, excited bout the big openin’. After all this was goin’ to break the record for biggest art event. The owner of this here place hired only the best to help run thin’s. I was a police officer at the time gettin’ ready fo the big event happin’ on my day off by bakin’ some cookies.


Latta
Ok I’m sorry to interrupt you but I’m going to be blunt. I’m not a huge exposition dump kind of person. Can you just summarize the important parts now and we can get back to this when we’re not in danger of planetary annihilation?  Just put everything into a neat paragraph or two.

Ksimas
A’ight, lets have a look here.
[Ksimas fumbles as she tries to figure out how to condense such a long tale. Ksimas feels a pang of disappointment; she loves to ramble to new people.]
A friend of Dali summoned a righty big-o god you see? It was part of a music piece and I’m a guessin’ summoning a giant terror god was part of the piece. We were all righty scared of it, no surprise there.
Dali and another fella whose name I can’t rightfully pronounce right now worked together to send the summoner fellow, I guess to another time usin’ one of those time travel ships? To be honest I ain’t awfully sure, all I know is that rat got what was comin‘ to him. After that the monster went dormant. You ever hear the ringin’ of a clock tower at every hour? The one that sounds like it be from a clock far away?

Latta
Yes I’ve been hearing it. I think the info I gathered on this planet said it’s actually some sort of feature of this area. I assumed it was possibly some sort of art piece, what does it have to do with anything we’re talking about?

Ksimas
Well that’s the thin’ love! That clock ringin’, I used to be thinkin’ it was an art piece too, until I learned that it was here before you, before me, before anyone done even touched this planet!  That dang tollin’, it comes from the god under our very feet for this is where it sleeps! When Dali calls it to rise again it will destroy this lil ole town and then the rest of this world. Ain’t that scary?

Latta
Why would he destroy this place? It seemed he liked this place before, so why is he attempting to destroy it now?

Ksimas
That I don’t quite know. Dali tried his best to clean up and fix thin’s after the first attack. He done trained his giraffes to gather up all the ships, and clocks after the whole mess with them transformin’ the people up. As time went on his little pets stopped listenin’ to him, they kept nabbin’ this and that without stoppin’, and he ain’t even know about that awful side effect they had on people till it was too late.

It just done became a slippery slope. He stopped carin’ bout fixin’ the issue seein’ as he done made it worse, but he ain’t ever wish to destroy the planet until a few weeks ago. I think demons done got in to his head, and whispered evil thin’s to him. I think they got in to everyone’s heads seein’ as many agreein’ with him. That’s why we came here. We were hopin’ the army could help us leave this place, but they ain’t up to helpin’ no one but themselves. They wanna see that there god.


Latta
Sorry to hear about all of that, it has to have been horrible for you these past few years.

Ksimas
It ain’t been too bad for me. Life in the slabs is pretty nice compared to this here place. Do wish I could get home though. Got an older sis who likely is all worried about me. Plus it should be almost her time to get sacrificed to the gods, which be our putley tradition, as you know. It’d be a real shame if I wasn’t there for her passin’.

Latta
Like I said, I’m sorry this is happening, I got my own issues to work out right now but maybe if you help me I can help you. If you lend me a terrordactyl I plan on flying over to the slabs. I might stop Dali while I’m there, no promises though.

Ksimas
[Charisma check failed.]
Absolutely not. Those little fellas are my children and there ain’t no way I would let them go off with some stranger.

Latta
[Latta snaps her fingers.]
One-Punch, improvise.

One-Punch
[One-Punch grabs Cleo’s gunhand and points it at the surrealists.]
Give us the terrorddactyl or I’ll shoot!
[Cleo groans in pain for pulled around. The surrealists are slightly threatened by this situation, but are mostly confused. They stare at each other looking for someone to explain what’s going on. One-Punch gains [Impulsive]. ]

Latta
One-Punch put Cleo down, that’s not what I wanted.
[One-Punch puts Cleo back where she was to the relief of everyone in the room, but mostly Cleo.]
Sorry about that. Look we just really need this terrordactyl. You have at least 5 of them, can’t you spare at least one. If you guys find a ship before this planet ends it’s unlikely they’ll have space for all these terrordactyls anyway.

Ksimas
[Intelligence check passed.]
Hmmmm, ain’t that the truth? How bout this than? You take a terrordactyl, but, ya’ll have to take it with you in your ship. If your ship really tough enough to survive being hauled across the land then it be tough enough to carry one of the smaller terrors in its haul.

Latta
You can’t expect me to agree to take a terrordactyl with us in to space.

Ksimas
Hmm, that’s too bad kuppa, cause I guess you can’t expect me to agree to you takin’ one of my lil terrors cross the planet.



Latta
Ugh, fine, we’ll take it with us.
[Latta knew taking it was a bad idea but it was all she could do for now. She secretly plotted in her head ways to get rid of the terrordactyl once she got to her ship. She figured maybe Slate knew a few recipes for terrordactyl meat.]

Ksimas
Delightful, hope you don’t mind that I’m goin’ to follow you around then.

Latta
Excuse me, what? I can’t take in any new crewmembers, we’re currently full.

Ksimas
Oh, no way. I ain’t askin’ to join yer crew, I’m just gonna follow you till you done leave this planet. You done said I should give you a terror cause you gonna leave this here planet, so sounds like you givin’ me an openin’ to leave this planet via your ship, even though I don’t think you as honest as you sayin’ you are. Course, if you an honest cuppa coffee then you shouldn’t have no issue.

Latta
[Ksimas intelligence checks Latta and passes. Ksimas is smarter then Latta took her for. She has no way of denying Ksimas’s offer without exposing herself.]
Sure. I have no problem with that.
[Terror stake was off the menu.]

Ksimas
Well don’t be dilly-dallyin’, come with me, we’re going to meet the princess terror. She a lil thin’ but you know how it is with them terrors, 10 feet tall by the age of 2! Got a long wingspan though and she responds well to directions so that’s all you be needin’. Let me see, what was her name again? I swear it’s on the tip of my tongue.




Oh yeah, it Shu'da! Look at her, the lil princess herself. Come on Shu'da, give a big ole smile for the nice lady here.
“KWARWH!!!!”
Awwww she likes you already!

Latta
Right. Charming. Absolutely charming. Well I’m going to take this terror, Shu’da, out to the ship outside of town, but first we have to pick up some supplies from someone on top of Oooo’s rooftop.
[Latta and the rest of them hop aboard the terrordactyl and fly towards Oooo’s rooftop.]

Rivet
Ah I see you’re here right on time. I didn’t know you owned a terrordactyl.

Latta
It’s a long story. Do you have our part of the trade?

Rivet
Yes, in fact I packed a little extra food just in case you need it.
[Rivet hands over 5 plant rations, 5 meat rations, 2 insect rations, 2 fish rations, and a fuel in a container.]
That should be everything correct?

Latta
Yes that’s correct, but can I ask if you have any medicine? Cleo here got sick and I would like to make sure she gets off this planet alive.

Rivet
I am so sorry but all medicine is onboard the ships and we don’t have the time to stop to figure out what she has and then check if we have something to cure her. If it’s contagious we also risk getting many of our troops infected as well. I’m sorry we can’t do anything to help her.

Latta
I understand. Thanks for the supplies anyway. I guess I’ll see you at the party.

Rivet
If there’s even a party to see when you get there.
[Rivet takes to the skies and towards the other settlement. Latta hops back on the terrordactyl and heads towards the ship.]

Ksimis
[The skies are filled with thick clouds and while it has yet to rain lightening flashes in the clouds above in strange colors of blue, red, yellow, and green. The terrordactyl panics at times when the thunder rumbles just a little too loud for it but Latta calmly keeps it under control.]
Hey! You know what we should do? Tell tattoo stories! That’ll be fun.

Latta
Tattoo stories?

Ksimis
Yeah! The story of how you got your tattoo!  Like look here, most people be thinkin’ I got a moon tattoo on my head, but that ain’t it at all. If you look carefully it’s an eclipse. I got it cause eclipses are related to fortune tellin’ and [visions] of the future, which I done feel I got you know? Oh oh! Funny story, one time my friend got an ouroboros! I ain’t tell him what ouroboros means to us putleys! Haha! So why you got that tat on yer head? You got kids? Hey, why it say Dad anyway?

Latta
[Latta stares in to the distance. Thinking about her “#1 Dad” tattoo always caused her to become confused. She could never remember where she got it from.]
I don’t know. All I know is that until about 2 years ago my life was a blur. All I remember was.....
[Nothing. She couldn’t remember anything about her life other then a few blurry shots of her childhood and filing papers.]

Working. Lots of work. Mind numbing work, that must be why I can’t remember too much of it.  Then one day I felt like I “woke up”, and I was in a hospital. Apparently my friend Marble found me in shock after losing most of my blood. This doesn’t explain why I apparently think I am the number 1 dad but I suppose that’ll always be a mystery.


Ksimis
Sorry to hear about that doll. Life is much too short to be wastin’ it away doin’ the type of stuff you’ll never remember in the mornin’. Never mind the silly little clothes you have to wear. Risking your life to go round wearin’ them shiny shoes and tying cloth around your neck.

Latta
I was with you until you dissed the clothes. Don’t diss the clothes. I mean you’re wearing a giant generic gift-giving day sock of merriment with the foot part cut out. Socks don’t even have anything to do with the generic holiday of gift giving, people just force that in because some people just strangely want stuff in their socks. If anything is ridiculous it’s your fashion sense.

Ksimis
Rude, but true. I love my ridiculous sock, thank you very much. It helps me stick out of the crowd instead of blendin’ in. Works wonderfully at the spaceport.
[The terrordactyl flew over the hill. At that moment the ship they were heading to, and the beast guarding it came in to full view.]
Wow! So that be the beast I be hearin’ all about?

Latta
It’s a......dragon.....

Ksimis
Pretty sure that ain’t no dragon. Dragons suppose to have win’s for arms or on their back, none of this free floatin’ this one right here be pullin’.

Latta
Dragons.....are radical.....
[Latta loses control over herself and sends the terrordactyl flying towards Kelda.]

[Latta couldn’t remember what happened after that other than the distance sounds of yelling.]

Latta
[When Latta comes to she finds herself covered in her own blood on top of Oooo’s building.]
What happened? Why am I covered in blood?

Kismis
What happened? I should be askin’ you that! You done tried to drive poor dear Shu'da right into the mouth of some freakish dragon, that’s what done happened. You were babblin’ all sorts of nonsense.

Latta
Oh right. I can’t get near that ship, I’ll be mind controlled. How are we going to get anything done like this?



Cea
[Back at the ship Cea went to go take a look at Marble, he didn’t expect her to be up yet, after all when she fell asleep she was down for at least an hour if she was lucky.]
Seems I’ll have to inform Latta myself that we found the ship. I can only hope I can find her.
[Cea waited for Oooo to come out of the room and then followed him back and through the giraffes.]

[The first place Cea checked was Oooo’s place, and to his surprise Latta was there.]
Oh good you’re here dear. It seems you had a bit of an accident there.
[Cea said, noting all of the blood on Latta.]
I just wanted to tell you that I was able to convince the ship’s captain to let us use it.

Latta
That’s great to hear Cea. I was able to gain usage of a terrordactyl. How about you take One-Punch and Cleo with you to the ship. I’ll try to find you guys over at the Slabs.

Cea
What? Why can’t you come with us?

Latta
I can’t get near that dragon. The moment I do I completely lose control over myself. Don’t worry Cea, it’s going to be hard to miss a giant ship.

Cea
Well if you say so Latta, darling. You are the captain so I’m sure you know how to handle the situation. Seeing as you’ll be taking the terror we’ll wait for you at the Slabs. Don’t take too long. Come on Cleo and Punchy, I’m sure you’ll feel better in a nice cool ship.

Cea
[Cea headed downstairs to speak to Oooo again.]
Excuse me, we need to get back to the ship, so how about you walk back over, I don’t want to risk my dear friend, or me being killed.

Oooo
[Oooo already starts leaving by the time Cea starts talking.]
I have already invited everyone who is coming to the party.

Shetlock
Yes very nice of Oooo to find us a useable ship. Shame we can’t just use it to fly off this planet, those fickle rules always getting in the way. Still, it’s a much safer way then using the....other way we planned to get to the Slabs.

Citren
Lame, I was looking forward to trying out the cannon.
[Blu’s crew, Shetlock, Andrus, Nicko, One-Punch, Cleo, and Bob all follow Oooo. Cea grumbles about Oooo taking his thunder but follows anyway.]

Cea
[As they all walk to the ship Cea decides to break the boredom by talking to Nicko.]
Sooooo, Nicko, I heard your lady is kind of a big deal. Wanna give some tips on how bag a lady? I’ve been having some relationship issues lately and I mean, if a low level dumpster living guy like you can get someone then you just absolutely have to be doing something right.

Nicko
I, Nicko, know the perfect way to get them, ladies. I, Nicko, am willing to tell you, CJ, how to preform the act of getting them, the ladies. Do you, CJ, wish to hear what I, Nicko, have to say on this, the subject?

Cea
Yes, please do tell me.

Nicko
First, I, Nicko, seek out her, the perfect lady. Then I, Nicko, spend weeks, too anxious to talk to her, the lady. I, Nicko, figure out what she, the lady likes, so that I, Nicko, can create it, the perfect date. Once everything, the date, is ready, I, Nicko do what is needed.

I, Nicko, kidnap her, the lady. That is how I, Nicko, get her, the lady.

Cea
[Whatever smile Cea had on his face is instantly wiped away. Cea’s mouth suddenly feels dry, and as he looks at Nicko’s toothy grin, he feels suddenly very threatened. Cea didn’t know he was dealing with someone who was willing to kidnap people.]
...............

[Cea mumbles something incoherent to Nicko, Nicko doesn’t seem to mind and welcomes Cea as if he said thank you. Cea stays away from Nicko for the rest of the walk in silence.]

Cobalt
[Cea walks in to the main room of the ship, ready to tell BOLDER that he believes they are ready to take off. He instead comes face to face with Cobalt.]
Everyone else has already left, but someone needed to drive the ship. Because I’m “the clockwork” I get the short end of the stick around here!

Cea
Well, do you know how to drive a ship?

Cobalt
[Cobalt looks at the controls, placing her hands on them as if she knew what to do.]
Of course I know how to operate a simple ship!
[She did not.]
Are you ready to leave, or do you have something else you want to do first?


Cea
I think we’re ready to leave right now. By the way, we do have 2 ship AIs with us, would you like one of them to drive the ship for you?

Cobalt
Are you implying that I can’t drive?

Cea
No I’m not, ugh, just forget it dear. I do want to talk about the clockwork situation though.

Cobalt
Right, BOLDER already wrote a paper on every room on this floor just in case you want to plan things carefully. Absolutely anything can happen. The virus might stay at bay, or it might act up. While all of the crew has left the ship, those kuppas haven’t. We locked up any on the upper floor, but we don’t know if any got trapped on the clockwork side of the ship. Dio’s lab was also on that side of the ship. So I suggest you talk to everyone and get them organized.



Cea
[Cea had perfectly organized things, until Oooo came around and messed with it. Thankfully things still worked out pretty well for everyone, and no one was out sleeping in the hallway.]

[Things looked peaceful for a while, but it wouldn’t stay that way.]


One-Punch
[A slow banging could be heard by the room One-Punch and Citrine were in. One-Punch shakes Citrine awake.]
Do you hear that?  I think something is banging on the door between us and the clockwork area!

Citrine
Ugh, just our luck. How about you wait here and watch the door while I go tell everyone in the control room we may have a problem here? You a good runner?

One-punch
I can watch the door! I’m good at running and I’ll shoot anything that tries to get pass!

Citrine
Good! Try to stay safe; I’ll be right back. If something happens run to the control room.

Cea
[Citrine runs to the control room. Cea makes a comment before she can even open her mouth.]
Well well well, Citrine darling. I thought you didn’t want to be in a room with me. So what did you come over here for, huh?

Citrine
Can it Cea, this isn’t the time for this! We have a problem, we believe we heard banging coming from the door between us and the freaks!
[A scream ring out. Everyone looks around the room but everyone is firmly in place and safe.]

Cea
Oh no, who was that?

Shetlock
My fine sense of hearing do not lie, I have deduced that it was more then one person who yelled out! Seems the trouble came a little faster then we thought it would. I can’t seem to pinpoint what room, or rooms it may have come from though, the way the hallway echos is making this quite confusing.


Cea
I’m going to check room 6. That seems like the most likely room the scream could have come from! Come on.

Marble
[Cea, Shetlock, and Citrine rush in to the room and are met with confused stares.]
Is anything wrong? We heard a yell and I was about to go out to check what happened. Are any of you hurt?

Cea
Oh, no. We heard a scream but we assumed it was from over here.

Shetlock
If I heard more then 1 scream, and this room isn’t the affected room, then it must have come from the middle room with the robots in it! Quick, we must head there henceforth before someone gets hurt!

Hasty
[Cea, Shetlock, and Citrine make a move towards the middle room when Hasty jumps out of the room in a panic.]
Oh jeez, you guys we need help in the middle room right now! Blu is in there all by himself and these knifes can’t help us! They’re.....They’re too short! Why don’t we have more weapons? Oh gods, Blu is going to get hurt, no no no. Those things are small enough to pass through the vents!

Citrine
Ugh! Of course, the noise wasn’t from the doors it was from the vents. We have to get in there and save Blu.

Shetlock
Or we can lock all the doors right now.

Citrine
What are you trying to say?

Shetlock
The only room with broken vents is that room. If we were to lock all the doors right now we will be locking the only room that can allow those fiends in. Everyone will be safe until the doors need to be opened again.

Hasty
BUT BLU IS IN THERE WE CAN’T PULL A LOCK DOWN NOW!

Shetlock
And if we don’t do a lockdown, we risk them escaping in to the hallways.

Cea
[Cea whispers over to Sonny.]
This is really tough Sonny.... I can see why there are jobs just to make decisions now. What do you think about this situation because I don’t know what to do Sonny.

Sonny
This is one of the many hard choices you have to make in life Cea. I didn’t expect for those creatures to figure out the vents were a valid area to travel by. On the upside only the infected kuppas could have fit in to there, so we at least don’t have to worry about anything larger than that, and trust me, I’ve seen things much larger than those.

Sonny
Closing the doors is valid, but then once those doors open up we’ll have Blu to deal with, and I’m sure he won’t be happy. Our lack of weapons is worrying and the worst part of this. Close combat with a clockwork is suicide, not even counting the fact they would absorb the metal knifes, but there is a weapon more useful we can make, fire, the enemy of all clockworks.


Cea
Ok, I think I have an idea of what to do now! Thanks Sonny.

Hasty drop all of your items right now and go run in there, pick up Blu, then run out!

Hasty
What? No, no no, that won’t work at all my inventory isn’t big enough he’ll just fly out and break my inventory. IDon’tCarryAllOfMyItemsOnMeWhoDoYouThinkIAm???

Cea
You have to do it right now! No questions just go!

Hasty
But!!!!!

Cea
Blu could DIE if you don’t go now!

Hasty
Ok ok I’ll do it!
[Hasty empties his inventory as he runs towards the door. All he had on him was a knife, a sign with all the items he had for sale, and a statue of a limbo god.]

Citrin
Cea what the heck! We have a GUN! Why did we send Hasty in without a weapon?

Cea
Well see, if the clockworks are kuppas, then that means shooting them in the heads would cause blood to splatter everywhere.

Citrin
Have you ever fired a gun at a person Cea?

Cea
No, what do you take me for? Some sort of criminal?

Shetlock
[Cynical]
I-I can’t trust listening to you anymore! I’m sorry gents but I am closing the doors right now! I need to make sure everyone is protected, even if I must go against your words.
[Shetlock escapes from the hallway and rushes towards the control room. Citrine makes a grab for him but misses. She turns to Cea and continues her argument.]

Citrin
Well when you shoot a gun at a person blood doesn’t come gushing out! Granted the kuppa’s heads are filled with blood but as long as you’re not standing right next to them you should be fine!
[The sound of a shatter rings through the hallway, and then another.]

Blu
[Suddenly, due to pure luck, Blu is flung away from Hasty’s inventory breaking directly out of the room.]

Hasty
[Hasty runs out seconds after, coffee over one of his legs and a bit on his face. He yells at the group.]
Close the door right now! Hurry up!

Blu
[And with luck, Shetlock in the control room happens to close the doors just before hasty is either crushed by the door, or locked inside. Blu pushes himself off the ground, he’s scuffled up a bit by hitting the wall but otherwise spotless.]
Hast! Why you go and pull that off? You could have gotten killed there!

Hasty
I can’t let anyone on my crew get hurt. Not again. Are you ok Blu? They didn’t bite in to you or anything right?

Blu
Yo, don’t worry bout me. Must have been pure luck, but them kuppa’s ain’t want any of me after I went swingin’ that knife at them. Though they might have just been a lil disoriented after falling out of the vent. How about you man? You smashed open one of those kuppas with your own hands. It ain’t get you right?

Hasty
[Hasty takes a moment to shake his leg, hoping to get some of the coffee off.]
No. Don’t worry about me. I’m fine Blu. Come on, we have to find somewhere safer for you.


Cea
[Cea stops Hasty, he knows that Hasty doesn’t want to bring attention to the issue but Cea knows that not bringing it up could endanger everyone.]
Hasty, don’t take another step dear. You know there’s an issue here.

Hasty
No there isn’t. Blu is fine now see! Nothing is wrong with Blu.

Cea
It’s not Blu I’m talking about it’s you. You got blood on your hands Hasty.

Hasty
.............

Blu
Yo! It ain’t blood, it just that gross kuppa coffee stuff, not blood!

Hasty
Yeah, it’s coffee, not blood. I’m fine. I’m going to be fine. Can you stop? You’re starting to scare everyone.

Cea
No, it’s not coffee. It’s kuppa blood.

Blu
[Blu can’t stop looking back and forth between the blood on Hasty’s leg and the blood on his face. He reaches forward, nearly touching Hasty, but pulls his hands back, suddenly scared that he might get infected. He blurts out a sentence without thinking.]
Dad, you’re goin’ to be alright, right?

Hasty
Don’t worry Blu, I’m just fine. I’ll be back soon, just gotta get cleaned up and everything will be better. How about you go to the room at the end of the hall? The room’s door is broken so you should be able to get in there. You’ll be safe there for now.

Blu
No way! Let me come with you.

Citrine
[Citrine grabs Blu and tosses him over her shoulder.]
Come on, let us listen to the boss little man. If he says he’ll be ok he’ll be ok.
[Blu struggles the whole way to the room, trying to get out of Citrine’s hands and escape back over to Hasty.]

Hasty
[Hasty waits until Blu is out of view to turn to Cea. Cea can feel a subtle look on his face. His smile is forced, like when someone asks him for a discount. While Hasty doesn’t say anything, Cea feels like he’s blaming him for this situation, and yet, he also knows that he would have ran in to save Blu even if no one told him to.]
What’s your next plan?

Cea
Well, follow me into the kitchen. We do have that notail, he might know a way to fix this. We should at least wash the blood off you, that stuff might not have had enough time to try and seep in to you yet. I would take you to Cleo, but as long as the doors are locked and she is sick there’s nothing we can do there.

Nikki
[Hasty and Cea make their way to the kitchen, the moment Nikki spots Cea he accusingly jabs his finger on Cea’s chest.]
Y-You’re trying to g-g-get rid of me huh? Tossing me in prime condition in the k-kitchen? You’re not even being subtle w-with this. I’m the b-bait aren’t I? ;3

Cea
Shut it dear. Shut it right now. Take your problems and shove them in to your primitive little mouth. My friend here just got clockwork blood on him and I need you to clean him up, maybe even grab his AI core out of him, or at least check if the infection has begun to spread to the insides. I don’t know machines, or whatever terminology you would use for this situation.

Nikki
[Nikki tenses up, and then very suddenly calms down. Cea feels a horrible feeling in the back of his head. Even though Nikki was wearing a mask, Cea felt like he could physically feel a large disgusting grin spread on Nikki’s face.]
No. ;3

Cea
What? No? You can’t say-

Nikki
A-A-Are you the captain? N-N-No? W-what a shame. Now mind you, I wouldn’t touch anything relating to d-dirty clockworks even if I was f-forced to. ;3
[Nikki lights a stick of wood on fire, carefully holding it in his hand. He moves towards the two.]

Hasty
No....No! Please don’t burn me! I have to take care of them!

Nikki
[Nikki swings the burning wood and hits the ground near Hasty, applying heat to one of his carelessly made bloody footprints.]
Anyone on t-this ship but me w-wearing shoes?
[Nikki doesn’t wait for an answer, knowing shoe wearing was extremely rare.]
Thought s-so. I have to b-burn all your footprints before s-someone steps in them. ;3

Cea
Wait! Look, I need you to do this for me. What if I beg? Look, I am not below begging at this point. Just please, do this for Hasty.

Nikki
Hmhmhmhmhhehehehehe! The peasants o-only look to god when their h-house is burning. I g-got no reason to help you, peon. Maybe, j-just maybe, if you g-get on your hands and k-knees and beg for m-m-m-mercy would I help you! Abolish a-all other gods f-from your mind!  For I am t-the only one you should honor! ;3

Cea
..................No. I won’t do that.

Nikki
Hmmp. T-that’s what I thought y-you would say. What a g-gross creature you are, but a-at least you s-stick to y-your fake beliefs. F-For that, I grant you a boon.
[Nikki roughly shoves a screwdriver to Cea. It cuts in to his hand, but Cea refuses to even flinch.]
That should o-open up his head. Well, goodbye i-idiots. Don’t get k-killed while I’m gone. ;3

Cea
[Cea holds his ground for a few moments, the blood starting to pool in his hand until he heads to the sink to wash it off. He opens a few cabinets, finally finding a cloth he could wrap around his hand to stop the small wound from bleeding, this is the last moment he wanted to be spilling blood, and he knew that Nikki did it on purpose.]

Hasty
[Hasty, watched the whole event silently. He could feel all the stress Cea was in. For a moment, Hasty tossed away all of his issues and what little he had against Cea to make sure he was ok.]
That guy is a total jerk. I’m sorry you have to deal with that CJ.


Cea
Don’t worry about it; lets just worry about the bigger issue here. I’m going to open you up, and then see if I can get your core out safely.

Hasty
Are you sure about this? Do you have any training?

Cea
Not at all dear, but I’ve watched a few “medical” AI shows, that’s basically training right? Anyway I’m going to need to make sure you’re turned off before we start working. That way if you start moving I know it’s due to the infection.

Hasty
[Hasty doesn’t seem too sure about Cea, who appears to have never handled a screwdriver in his life, considering the way he was holding it, operating on him, but he knew it was his only choice at the moment with no one else to do it for him.]
Ok. I’m ready.
[Hasty shuts down.]

Cea
[Cea is a [Perfectionist] in every way. He’s extremely careful with Hasty, even though he has never attempted such a feet before. He locates the core and carefully unhooks it. He makes a small mistake as he drags the core out and bangs it against the opening to Hasty’s inners. The bang seems fairly harmless, but Cea isn’t fully sure. Cea does fail the intelligence check to figure out if Hasty’s core is already infected though. He has no idea what to look for.]

Cea
[Cea closes up Hasty, unsure of what to do with the shell for now.]
Well that’s that. We have to be close to the slab lands soon, and that means we’ll have to open the doors. I better figure out how I’m going to set this up. I cannot afford to fail again.


Cea
[Cea decide to set a fire in front of the 2 doors with the broken vent. Due to the doors being locked, Cea has to go all the way up to the control room door and yell for someone inside to turn off the sprinklers. They do so. Cea heads back to the kitchen and drags Hasty’s shell in front of one of the doors before piling wood around both doors. He then asks Citrine to take Hasty’s core.]

[With everything set in place, hands washed, and the fires, springing to life, Cea walks to the door of the control room, ready to ask them to open them. A thought came to his mind, what would they do once they reached the slabs? Before he thought they should find their ship, but now he was unsure. With the infection over taking this ship over they couldn’t afford to use it to fly anywhere else.]

[Attempting to find their ship meant that the others would have to find their own way to the party, as it was likely they didn’t have enough fuel or space to fly their ship to the party. The others in the ship might even risk using this ship again. Looking for the party first meant they could safely look for their ship afterwards, as long as they solved the issues on this planet. Failure to do so meant they could end up rushing to get off the planet before its supposive death.]



Cea
[With a bit of thinking Cea tells them they’ll be looking for the ship first, and calls for the doors to be opened. There’s a bit of hesitation as the people in the room quietly debate leaving things to Cea of all people, but they soon some to the conclusion that they’ll have to trust him. The doors are opened.]

[The fire closest to the kitchen goes without a hitch. It’s well controlled and not only does Hasty’s body burn, but the clockworks attempting to exit that way do as well.....]

[But the other door doesn’t do as well. One of the clockworks charges forward with all its might, and flings some of burning wood across the hallway. The clockworks are still blocked in to their room, unable to cross the flames that remain.]

[But so are the people in room 6, Marble, Andrus and Oooo. Luck has blocked their room with growing flames. Marble thought about rushing past the flames, willing to take the risk, Andrus slinked to the back of the room, knowing that all his hair would burst in to flames if contact was made, Oooo on the other hand warmed his backside by the flames.]


Marble
[Looking at Andrus cowering in a corner triggered her [Protective] trait. Her endurance rises by 2 points and she grabs Andrus and hoists him on to her back. She then goes for Oooo.]
Come here Oooo, I’ll lift you over the flames and bring you to safety!

Oooo
No thank you, I’m full.

Marble
What? But if you don’t move you’ll be consumed by the flames!

Oooo
[Oooo, who is now being consumed by the flames, shrugs nonchalantly.]
It is to be expected. Life has already given up on me. She refuses to return my phone calls. He cold shoulder extends so far that she won’t even come over to take the engagement ring called life away from me. More for me I say!

Marble
Ooooh, ok?
[Marble didn’t have time to think about what Oooo was saying. It was clear that something was causing him to not be affected by the flames. She would have to think about it later, now she had to get out. Making sure that Andrus was secured she rushed in to the flames.]

[She liked to think that her early life prepared her for this moment, such as when her cousins made small fires to surprise her. It was funny when 2 pyromancers shot fire at each other, nether could be harmed, but it wasn’t as fun for her, she didn’t gain such traits. What she did gain years later was the power to stop other powers. She was overjoyed when she could finally be safe from their flames.]

[When she got this power, this anti power, she felt life finally accepted that she was given the wrong set up, that this life she lived in wasn’t at all how she should be.]
[When she was born, life declared that she would be a pirate, that she’d be aggressive, patriotic yet past the laws, that she’d be male, that she’d be willing to kill and commit actions she could not fully approve of for her family, and that she would be forever an outcast like them. Life told all of them they would be outcasted for false reports 200 years ago, and they accepted it.]

[But Marble refused. She refused the cards life had laid out for her, presumably while wearing a backwards hat and skating in to the sunrise. She disowned “What she HAD to be” and formed “What she WANTED to be”. He own life.]

[And yet, she allowed herself to have to come back here. She attempted her best to stay neutral and professional here, but being taken here caused her so much pain. The flames licking at her feet could only wish they were as painful. Not just because she had to remember moments she had high disagreements with, but because she had to see this place in shambles. She would have to wonder to herself if she could have stopped this if only she had stayed.]

[But she digresses. The path she took was the right one. She wanted to nothing to do with the lifestyle she had been given, and she had the right to break free of it. She has her own life now, and she’d never give that up.]

[Finally, at the end of what felt like an hour spent reflecting on the issue, using it to ignore the pain, she’s out of the flames and dropping Andrus to the floor. Everything else was a blur, sound felt muted as Shetlock and Andrus yelled towards each other in their native language.]

[The pain hits her hard. She starts to feel like she’s not in her own body, more like watching someone else play a game while she sits and watches. She leans up against the wall as Andrus and Shetlock take care of her.]

Cea
[After making sure things were secured Cea moved to the control room.]
How are things going over here darlings?

Cobalt
Well I found a massive pile of ships, almost all of them destroyed, if your ship is still around then it has to be there. Also don’t call me “darling”. Where do you want to land?

Cea
Hmmmm well we should land a few miles away from the ships. This place is still highly infected and I’m sure once we land it’s going to attempt to spread outwards. It’ll be a long walk, but for our safety I suppose it’ll be alright.

Bob
Wait a moment, I don’t mean to be rude about your choices, but if this ship here is infected we can’t go landing it in places. The ship being here on this planet is bound to cause a horrible event. The people of this planet care barely get by, even without clockworks to worry about roaming around.

Cea
That is true. Well, the ship can self destruct so that’s always an option. I’m guessing it’s times, so everyone can leave, then the fastest runner can set it to blow up and run out. Sadly those poor mind controlled kuppa dears will die but I suppose that’s not as bad as being turned in to clockworks.

Cobalt
[Cobalt is slow to talk, having to think out her next words carefully, but she finally speaks up about the situation.]
We can’t blow up the ship. It’s a good idea, and blowing up the ship means anything that survives will be harmless, stuck in bits of metal that will never move, and quickly expire, but it’s not a plan we can do.

Cea
And why not?

Cobalt
Because, that numb skull Nova isn’t going to move or approve of us blowing the ship up! If we blow it up, he dies. If we tried to get him to move by telling him we’re blowing up the ship, he might actually attack you. Trying to get him to move is like trying to get Kelda to give up coffee cups!


Cea
We have no choice. It’s one guy and a few cups. Saving them doesn’t matter darling.

Cobalt
What, is that what you THINK YOU-YOU- I’m LEAVING! I won’t have anything to do with this. I- I don’t have anywhere to go, but anywhere is better then staying around you!
[Cobalt leaves her station at driving the ship, it seems she’s forgotten that she was even driving. Bob quickly takes the wheel before there’s any incident and parks the ship. With the ship parked Kelda safely tucks it under one of her feet.]

Bob
You made the right choice. It wouldn’t be fair to all those people if they got turned in to clockworks over a guy who refuses to move.

Cleo
Who are you going to- to- COUGH! Put in the code-e-ee-e CJ?
[Cleo has gotten worse overnight.]

Cea
Ugh I’m getting tired of making these choices. Marble or Latta should be doing this. Lets see, I know that no one not on our crew would be willing to do it, they didn’t sign up for it, and we didn’t even bring them to where they need to be. Maybe One-Punch can do it. One-Punch looks like a rather fast robot.

Bob
Now, I know I ain’t fast or anything, but I got no issue putting in the code for you. You can take the tickets and done say that I’m going to be a little bit late. I’m sure the fellas there won’t awfully mind or question it. I’m sure you’ll get what you need to get done before they even know what happened to me.



Cea
No need Bob, you’re too precious to be sacrificed, don’t you worry your little head, I got the perfect man for this job. Ah, here they are right now.
[Both Nikki and One-Punch have walked in to the room.]
Nikki. You’ll be putting in the self-destruct code for this ship I hope you know how to run.

Nikki
[Instead of instant anger Nikki just taps the edge of his mask.]
A-A-Ahhhh so this is the reason I had to do that very u-unconventional jump. I was w-wondering about that. No, I will n-not put in the code for you, I off to do the big jump n-now. Don’t worry, past me will make it u-up to you, I think. T-The person I saw d-did look pretty angry for some reason. ;3
[In a quick flash of light Nikki was gone. Nikki has left the crew.]

Cea
[Cea puts his hands together and takes a deep breath. He holds out the paper with the code to One-Punch.]
One-Punch, dear, I’m going to need you to do this. About 1 to 2 hours after we leave I need you to punch in the code and run out and away from the ship, can you do that?

Onepunch
[One-Punch takes the paper and waves it around in the air.]
Yes I can do that! This sounds easy! Punching in things is what I do.
[Both Cleo and Bob look at each other, worried.]



Cea
Oh no, no, no honey. I need you to carefully put in the code, not punch it. It’s absolute important you get it right, I also need you to train getting off the ship and running away as fast as possible. If you don’t, well, it’s not going to end well.

One-Punch
[One=Punch nods.]
I understand! I will be the best at running away!
[True to their word, One-Punch runs away to train.]

Cea
Well, that’s that I suppose. I’ll go inform everyone on the ship that they must leave as soon as possible and to not come back after they leave. I guess we don’t have to tell them about the ship blowing up, after all those fires won’t last forever.
[With that Cea leaves to the hallway.]

Cea
[He checks if the items Hasty dropped are still there. It appears someone has retrieved his sign, but the limbo statue is still there. It’s of the Poetnix. Cea pockets it and goes on with telling everyone to get off the ship.]

Marble
[Marble has slowly sprung back in to consciousness. Andrus and Shetlock ask if she needs any help but she acts like she hasn’t been harmed at all. In truth her legs have bad burns on them, constantly causing her pain, but she refuses to worry them. They tell her that Cea told them to leave the ship. Marble nods and lets them go on their way. She decides to go speak with Noverus. She doesn’t know why, but she wants to attempt to get him off the ship.]

Nova
[The moment Marble walks in her [Psychic Disable] affects Noverus, his flames getting shorter. She stays by the doorway, scared that getting closer could kill him.]
I haven’t seen you in years. What do you need Marble dear?

Marble
I want you to leave the ship. The rest of us are leaving and no one else but the clockworks will be on it. You have nothing to gain being on the ship. Please, just come with us, I’m sure we can assist you with getting off the planet and getting some care.

Nova
No. This is where I stay. I refuse to leave. Bah, I have already been asked a few times, and each and every time I have told them no. You asking will not change my mind. It is my duty to be here right now.

Marble
[The pain and Noverus’s stubbornness causes Marble to raise her voice at him.]
Why are you doing this? You don’t have a duty here anymore! There is no crew and thus no reason to stay! You’re just putting yourself in danger due to pride! There is a time and place for that Noverus, but now is not that time.

Nova
[Nova takes a moment. He tries to speak a few times but stops in his tracks. He takes what appears to be a deep breath before slowly pointing at the cup in the center of the room.]
I....had one job. Guard the captain, my wife. One simple job! To guard this one cup, and I FAILED! If I just did my job right she wouldn’t be infected. It’s my fault this happened, and so I will stay.

Marble
[Marble understands where he’s coming from. Arma’s value their captains and leaders above all, failing one, much less one’s spouse, is the worst shame an arma could feel. Some second in commands have even been known to guard the bodies of the dead for weeks without eating until someone rescues them and takes the bodies. She goes to talk, to tell him it wasn’t his fault, but he cuts her off before she can try.]

Nova
Leave me to mourn. Please. I don’t need anyone to talk to. I need a moment of silence, a long moment. I will leave when I feel it is right.

Marble
[Marble sighs and nods. There will be no changing his mind she understands that. She leaves, hoping that one day he will leave the ship.]



OnePunch
[Everyone but One-Punch, Nova, and for some reason Oooo, exits the ship and go their separate ways. The crew heads towards the ship pile while the others, slightly disgruntled they’ll have to find a way to traverse a landscape filled with giraffes, head towards where they believe the party is. One-Punch begins training, first very serious and calculated.]

[But after the 10th time of perfecting the run, One-Punch began to become playful, jumping and skipping the whole time and [Narcissistically] singing about how great one was at their job. One-Punch was sure no one else was better at escaping the ship.]

[But once 2 hours passed One-Punch got back in to a serious mode. One-Punch ran the “course” one more time to make sure the speeds didn’t falter, then the code was put in. The ship got ready to self-destruct as One-Punch escaped. Getting out the ship was a breeze and soon One-Punch ran free on the flat dry clay lands outside. One-Punch doesn’t look back, far too excited about telling Cleo of what a good job was done.]

Nova
[Before the event started Oooo leaps out and eats the cup. Nova slams his foot down on Oooo’s fake head, and tells him to spit out the cup. Oooo refuses and before Nova could punch him, the alarm goes off. His mind panics, unsure what to do, no one told him that they were planning to blow up the ship.]

One-punch
[There’s a sound of a loud roar, followed by the ship exploding soon after, but One-Punch, who is running as fast as possible, isn’t even thinking of the blast, instead thoughts of how amazing things are going to be fill One-Punch’s head. One-Punch wonders if adulthood is in store soon.]

[The sound of the blast getting closer and closer fills the air, as well as the sound of a large creature in pain. One-Punch felt a pang of worry “Am I fast enough? Am I going to get home?” were some of the thoughts that went through One-Punch’s head. One-Punch tried to not look back, but it happened anyway, just a peek, One-Punch just wanted a peek.]

[For a split second One-Punch looks back and sees everything, the large dust cloud, the fragments shooting forward aggressively, and a beast rearing back in pain due to having a leg blown off.]
[In the next second, One-Punch saw no more. One-Punch has been slain.]
[Agility check failed.]



[Meanwhile the explosion of the ship had triggered something in the great beast known as Kelda. All of her mental links to the kuppa’s on board had caused her once overworked and busy mind to go quiet. In this small moment of clarity she realizes something horrible has occurred. She sweeps the pile, not looking for her cups, but for Noverus.]

[Unfortunately, Noverus had been slain in the blast.]

Cleo
[The crew stood alive, but highly demotivated after their events on the ship. Morale and sanity went down by 50 points for all 3 of them. Marble was now [Injured] and lost 2 agility due to her burns. On their way to the ship area Cleo found herself unable to walk. Marble picked her up and carried her. When the sound of the explosion rang through the air she picked up her head, trying to look for One-Punch, but she was unable to muster the power to do even that.]

Marble
[Marble was more surprised by the explosion. She spins around in a panic, mouth opened. She looks to Cea and she yells in a tone that is a mix of surprise and anger.]
What......What happened!?

Cea
Oh, well honey, we blew up the ship because of the clockworks. We couldn’t just leave the ship there; this whole planet could have gotten infected. I want a clear conscience when we leave this planet.

Marble
[Marble looks between the smoke rising in the air and Cea. She couldn’t believe what has just been done. She understands why Cea did it, but she doesn’t think Cea understood the full story.]
But what about Kelda, Cea?

Cea
What about her?

Marble
She’s a clockwork Cea! She’s huge! She’s only just been recently infected. That blast....that blast won’t kill her, it’s too small. ALL BLOWING UP THE SHIP-
[She stops herself. She knows better then to yell. She starts to calmly explain.]
Sorry about that. I just want you to understand, that I understand your motive, it is admirable, but without her dead there’s still a clockwork on this planet.

Cea
[Cea rubs his gem, attempting to not look stressed.]
Oops, sorry Marble. I was just trying to help.

Marble
[Had she not been carrying Cleo Marble would have placed her hands firmly on her face. She was getting a headache thinking about what would come later. Surely her family would ask her what was the fate of Nova. If they found out what happened it could get nasty. Marble decided to not bring it up for now. This was not the time or place for this right now. They would talk about the consequences later. In the distance she sees a terror of the skies come towards them.]

Latta
[Latta lands and jumps off with a smile on her face, it seems things have gone well for her.]
I’m excited to see you all, sorry about the slight lateness. It’s not easy following a quick ship on a creature like this. We also had to take a pit stop at a settlement to rest the terror.

Spips
The settlement had malfunctionin’ robots everywhere. They’re were nice thin’s they were. Tried to make us an apple pie, but burned it, thrice. Would have saved you some of that pie but I gobbled it right up.

Latta
Don’t worry though; we picked up a few extra supplies. I wish you could have seen the robots Cleo you would have loved them.
[Latta just notices the shape the crew is in.]
Are you guys ok? I know Cleo is sick, but you guys look like you’ve went in to the depths of the underworld and just came back.


Cea
This is well hard to explain, but I attempted to take charge while you were gone and it went fairly badly.

Latta
How badly are we talking?

Cea
Well, the ship was filled with clockworks, so we spent the night in terror. Marble almost had her legs burned off, Nikki stabbed me and left, and it was just a complete mess! Then I ordered the self-destruction of a ship and I forgot about the giant infected dragon hanging around it! It’s been horrible dear, how do you do it?

Latta
I think it’s rather easy. The whole crew looks like it’s in one piece and our ship is just an hour off by foot, so you didn’t do a shabby job Cea. I always expected that if you took charge I’d come back to.....something far worse. As for Nikki, I knew he was a scam, I don’t know why we bothered to take him.

Marble
Not to interrupt you captain Latta, but Cleo is getting worse, can we use the terror to get her to the ship faster?

Latta
Sure thing, hand her to Spips. Which one of us should go with Cleo to the ship? That terror only holds 3 people and Spips has to stay on to make sure it doesn’t freak out.


Marble
I’ll go. I can more easily carry Cleo and I do need to get my legs looked at.
[The others agree and Marble gets on the terror with Cleo and Spips.]

Cea
Hey there Latta who’s your friend there? Mind introducing me to-
[But Spips, Marble, Cleo, and the terror already flew off.]
Well how rude. She could have at least acknowledged me.

Marble
[The terror flew towards the pile of ships. Almost all of them were destroyed beyond recognition, but the mercury stood unharmed apprently only recently placed there. The giraffes seemed to not care for them at all, they all marched forward in a pack towards the blown up ship. It seemed something about the fire and smoke attracted them. Marble, Cleo, and Spips slip in, and as soon as they do they see Edel speaking to someone unusual.]

Edel
[When Edel hears people enter the ship he turns away from his conversation.]
You’re back Marble. I was beginning to worry about you, Cleo, and the captain.

Marble
What about Cea?

Edel
He could die out there for all I care, Marble. Now, I need to ask you about this thing here. Did you hire this delinquent to fix our ship?

Nikki
W-When did going through with a-agreements suddenly become a d-d-delinquent activity? I fixed q-quite a bit of this ship as par our agreement. These su-suckers traded me a rare Apollo v1 shell for this. Oh and some r-random AI in it for this w-work, or at least they will do that in my future, and in your past. ;3


Marble
You’re the one who made Cleo sick. I hope you’re ready to compensate us for that before I inform someone of your illegal time traveling.

Nikki
[Nikki taps his claws together.]
How strange. I don’t remember h-h-having someone hunt me down for my crimes in my past. Guess that m-must mean you’re either the b-biggest bluff in the universe, or y-you’re going to die pretty soon. W-which one do you want to make it? ;3
[Marble growls lowly but makes no more comments at Nikki.]

Edel
[Edel takes Cleo from Marble’s arms.]
So that’s what happened to her. Should have expected as much. You handle this creature while I handle Cleo. She’s in a deplorable state, but I say I have a good chance at stabilizing her. Thankfully Slate seems to be alright, physically that is. Mentally?
[Edel just shrugs and shakes his head before heading off to the medical room.]

Nikki
Alright then, n-now let me run down all the repairs I’ve ma-made. I fixed your coffee machine, the t-tv of whoever’s room smells like o-over doing it, upgraded the s-ship’s scanner, and then r-repaired your engine. W-what a mess it would have been if you had taken off too quickly w-without fixing that. You w-would have spiraled out of control and became meat s-slushies. Now if you mind I will be leaving now. ;3

Marble
[Marble grabs Nikki.]
No you’re not, not until the captain is here.
[Nikki sighs and mumbles that this is a waste of his time. They wait at least an hour for the captain and Cea to come back, the whole time never speaking to each other.]

Cea
Hello darlings how are we- You! You little dirty rat! You stabbed me!

Nikki
I d-did? S-sweet, I’m sure you deserved it. N-now if you would please, captain, l-let me out of your g-gross pit of a crew. I nearly fixed all the m-major issues on the ship and I’m r-ready to get out of here. ;3

Latta
We don’t need you here now scram.

Nikki
Thank goodness. N-Now I will have you know I used all your wires and scrap m-metal, also as payment I will be t-taking the rest from you all.
[Nikki steals any wires or scrap metal they might have.]
See you l-later peons. I m-mean that both ways sadly for y-you and me. ;3

Latta
What a joke. Anyway, do any of you need to do any last minute missions before I fuel up the ship and leave to the party? By the way, which one of you wishes to come with me to the party, because I’m not missing out on crashing it early.


Cea
Well I wanted to go, but that whole event on that ship really tired me out, Edel needs to help both Cleo and Marble, so they can’t go, meaning it looks like you’re heading alone, unless you want to take Slate along.

Latta
Sure, I might as well take Slate, no use wasting the tickets we got. You can come with us too Spips, after all you’re practically part of the crew now.

Spips
Well, I’ll have to think bout stayin’ on the crew, but I don’t mind joinin’ you lot for now. All of you seem like the friendly types.
[Spips joins the crew.]

Latta
Looks like we’re ready to go then, Spips, get the terror on the ship. I think that’s the only thing we need to- oh, I haven’t seen One-Punch yet, where is One-Punch, CJ?

Cea
I have no idea darling, I assumed One-Punch would be back by now, but maybe One-Punch got tired and walked after escaping the blast.

Latta
Well we can wait a few hours. Spips needs to load up the terror, I need to get reports from Edel, put away all of our food, get in to clean clothes, and I need to fuel up the ship. I think everyone needs a moment to relax. Just sit back CJ while we do the work.
[Cea goes to sit in the common area. Hours pass while Spips, Latta, and Edel get to work. The hours melt away as Cea relaxes.]

[But One-Punch never made it back to the ship.]
We need to get going CJ, we want to get to the party before it happens and we need to give ourselves time to find it.

Cea
[Cea sighs.]
Poor thing, One-Punch must have ran the wrong way. Maybe One-Punch wasn’t paying attention to what direction we were leaving. I’ll just have to tell Cleo that she’s going to need to come back and look for One-Punch after we get to Fortuna.

Latta
Running out of a ship during a countdown would cause anyone to get thrown in a panic. If we’re lucky One-Punch might have ran towards the party, but yes, Cleo can look for One-Punch on her time, we can’t afford waiting any longer.
[With everything on the ship loaded and ordered, Latta tells Hermes to take the ship to the skies and look for where the party might be. Hermes finds it in a flash and lands in a safe location.]

[Latta, Spips, and Slate take some gear and head out. It was easy finding the party; everyone in the town was quietly marching towards a single large building that looked to be a church. There Latta spotted the Blu’s crew, Bob, Nicko, the husses, Geko, and Rivet.]
Hello, how are you all doing?

Phedor
Totally horrible is how we’re doing! That jerk CJ nearly got us killed with his plans, ruined Hasty, and then made us walk! We nearly got killed when some brainwashed, mindless arma attacked us. Apparently what happened to him is called giraffe sickness. We had to kill a man, Latta! It wasn’t FUN!
[Citrine pulls her scarf awkwardly, she thought it was fun.]

Latta
[Latta honestly didn’t care but attempted her best to feel bad about the situation.]
I can’t believe you all went through that. If I were there I wouldn’t have allowed this to happen. I’m sorry about this. I’ll make sure CJ gets some sort of punishment for this.
[All of them mumble among themselves, agreeing that Cea should be punished. Latta’s words gain her trust points with them.]
So why haven’t any of you gone in yet?

Phedor
Well like, no one else is totally heading in. It’s like this. The surrealist dudes are waiting till the party starts cause they want to be prim and proper like that. I’m guessing none of us care about being on time but like, no one wants to be the awkward dude who’s the first one to the party.

Spips
The lady hosts a party like this once a year. We call them the mysteries, because no one is supposed to talk about what they see in the party or that there lady will have their head. No one ever comes early. I don’t think there a rule or anythin’ against it, but surely she’d be huffin’ and puffin’ that you walked in before she’s ready. She’s like a queen, doesn’t want to be caught with no feather out of place.

Nicko
I, Nicko, cannot take it, the waiting, any longer! I, Nicko, must see her, the lady, now!
[Nicko pushes open the doors and slips in. Geko whispers to Rivet, they both nod and enter behind Nicko.]

Latta
Perfect, this is our chance, we’ll pretend like we’re trying to stop Nicko when we enter, it’ll give us the perfect excuse to get in there. You can follow too Slate or keep an eye out here if you want.
[Latta and Spips run in, yelling Nicko’s name in an award winning performance for all ages.]

Slate
[Slate just stares at the door and then the people out with him, silently deciding what he would rather do. Citrine makes a comment about how she hopes Slate goes in with them. Phlodur punches Citrine in the shoulder and tells her not to say that he’s creepy so loudly while he’s there. Citrine punches her back and says that now she’s doing it. Blu puts his hands on his face and quietly chants about wanting to go home.]



[Slate skims his eyes over the crowd, he sees a happy surrealist, ready, even seemingly over prepared for the party. Slate decides they would be a good victim and uses his [Sanity Swap]. Soon the once excited artist is overcome with utter despair as their morale is sucked away. Their morale is now -90. Slate’s sanity is now 85.]

Citrin
Well look, if no one from our crew is going to go in, then I’m going in. I’m sick of being in the dark about things! Come on weirdo lets go.
[Citrine picks up Slate and walks towards the door.]

Blu
Yo! Why you pickin’ up the weirdo?

Citrin
Huh? To be honest I just enjoy picking up people, reminds me of how strong I am and how weak other people are, plus walking in carrying someone makes you look cool.
[Citrine picks up Blu with her other hand.]
Which is why I’m going in with two people in hand, little man!

Nicko
[The party hall was vast, the lady and her two servants, a Mors and Somnus, placed perfect decorations, and mouth watering food lovingly all over the hall. Nicko sprinted down the middle of it with the others in tow as he tried to get attention from the 3 in the room.]
Hello you, the Lady, it is me, Nicko, your, the Lady’s, husband, Nicko! I, Nicko, have come for you, the Lady! Please come back to me, Nicko.

Mors
[The Mors pushes back against Nicko to stop him in his tracks. She slams her tail a few times on the floor to warn Nicko to back off.]
What in the world are you doing sir? You are not allowed to touch or get near the Lady!

Nicko
But I, Nicko, am sorry for what I, Nicko have done, and am here, in this place, to apologize. Please let me, Nicko, say sorry to her, the Lady, then maybe the Lady, her, will accept my, Nicko’s apologizes, and come back to our, Nicko’s and the Lady’s, home, a hole in the ground.

Mors
Oh! Well ok. HEY LADY YOUR HUSBAND IS HERE TO FINALLY SAY SORRY FOR THE KIDDNAPPING!

Nicko
[Nicko blows a raspberry.]
Pffffffttt, no? I, Nicko, am not here to say sorry for that, the kidnapping, that, the kidnapping, is in the past. That, the kidnapping, is all water under the bridge, yes?

Mors
.............................
FORGOT ABOUT WHAT I SAID LADY, YOUR HUSBAND IS STILL A POOPY JERK WHO LIKES TO PRETEND THE KIDNAPPING DIDN’T HAPPEN!

Nicko
Please, just let I, Nicko, have his, Nicko’s, wife, the Lady, back. Sweet wife, Persephone, please come back to me, Nicko.

Somnus
Oh no.........No one is allowed to say her name.....You do not do that.....

Persephone
It is admirable that you’ve sought me for so long and have traveled so far for me, Hades, but all of that was for nihility. I am engaged in a situation currently. I have dues to reimburse. I would have possibly listened had come to apologize but I recognize that is not the case.

There’s a curse on this planet, one I will put to rest. Remove yourself from my sight, or I shall have my associates remove you for me.


Slate
[Slate is dropped on the floor by Citrine. He’s unsure of what’s going on but just sort of accepts the situation that he’s in. He doesn’t even question the large robot speaking in front of them all.]

Latta
Sorry to ruin your reunion, but let’s cut to the chase here Persephone, also known as Dali’s Lady. What’s going on here? Why is the planet going to be destroyed and a limbo god summoned?

Som
I said....you’re not allowed.....to say her name.......she doesn’t like that...

Geko
Where is it? Where is the god of the Past and Future? You will tell us this instance.

Persephone
If you want answers from me, you’re all going to need to show more respect then that.
[Persephone stares at Geko for a second before knelling down and reaching over to him. Geko jumps in to the air and flies away from her.]
Poor fool, you are just like my husband. How long have you been trapped within your own mind?

Cobalt
[Just then Cobalt unnecessarily kicks down the door to the room.]
I’M PISSED AND WANT OFF THIS PLANET. I was told to come to you, you BEFOULING WRETCHED- Geko? Geko is that you? Geko......YOU, YOU, YOU.....never answer my calls. Geko I’ve been trying get ahold of you for centuries, why do you never respond?

Geko
Hmmp, don’t speak to me like we’re friends. Your friendship to me was just another way help myself to what I needed! You were a good fool, maybe I’ll take you off this planet just for the help you’ve given me in the past.

Cobalt
.......No....no that can’t be you Geko! I.....I DON’T REMEMBER YOU BEING SUCH A FEATHER PULLING PARASITIC WASP!

Persephone
[While Geko is distracted Persephone snags him between 2 of her fingers.]
That is because this is not the person you know as Geko. No, not at all, and he hasn’t been for a long time, but you are right on one thing. He is a parasite.

Cobalt
He’s a parasite?......He’s a parasite......a.......parasite.......HE’S A PARASITE! THIS EXPLAINS EVERYTHING! I’LL KILL YOU FOR THIS!
[Cobalt points the long stinger attached to her arm at Geko and rushes forward.]

Geko
Rivet! Shoot the fingers!
[Rivet wastes no time following orders, shooting at Persephone’s fingers and causing her to drop Geko. Geko flies away from Cobalt before she can take correct aim at him; she wanted to be precise with her attack.]

Mors
Oooooooooooh now you’re all gonna get it! Are you going to do the thing big brother? Are you going to tenderize them all for hurting the Lady?

Somnus
I....warned them.......Why couldn’t they be kind people........why must such people ruin a nice day like this.....I warned them all......I didn’t want to do this...but now it has to happen......I am sorry...



Blu
Hey man back off you don’t got to hurt us, you can just hurt them and let us leave in peace. I swear we won’t get up in your grill no more!

Somnus
[The Somnus reaches inside himself and starts pulling out arms and other bits of metal that are loosely connected to each other.]
I’m sorry.........No one is freed from fault in this room.....You should have waited.......You ruined the party.....She worked so hard on this...Now you must pay.....

Spips
Oh lords and limbos in the stars that is mighty gross!

Mors
Yay brother! Show them why they should never cross the Lady! Show them with your fierce eyes!

Slate
[Slate seems to understand what’s going on. He attempts to mind control Geko, and for a second it works, but the next “Geko” breaks out of it. The more direct mind control was stronger then Slate and he couldn’t see to control the “fake Geko”.]

[The fursuit the Somnus was wearing rips apart as more and more metal shoots out. In the end what

[Somnus lets out an piercingly loud screech and activates [Item Dropper]! It’s affects everyone and everyone’s inventory drops all of their items. The floor is now littered with goods.]

[Blu yells as Hasty’s core flies across the room. If it hit the floor at that speed it would surely shatter to bits without the protection its body would normally provide. He yells for anyone, anyone at all to catch it.]

[The Mors unit answers his cries and catches the core in just the nick of time.]
Oh thank you man! Yo that’s my dad right there! I don’t know what I would do
without him. Like for real? You the real mvp yo!


[Mors eats the core.]
HAAAAAAAAAAAAASTY NOOOOOOO!!!!!

[Seeing as he couldn’t get control of Geko, Slate moved on to the next person, things were dire and he knew he needed to get as much of the group as possible to be on the same side. He gives her the info she needs to see the truth about Geko.]
My........my boss.....he’s a....limpoturt? No...this can’t be possible....and yet....it
explains why his hat never falls off when he’s flying...


[Rivet does a quick fist pump.]
I have to save the president! Don’t worry Mr.President, I got you!
[Rivet speeds through the sky towards Geko. Geko is so surprised by all his items falling out that he doesn’t even notice Rivet coming up behind him.]


[Rivet steals the hat off of Geko with a quick tug. For the first time in over 200 years....Geko was no longer trapped within his own mind.]

[Geko feels the top of his head. Nothing but the strange halo above him.]
Rivet! You saved Geko! Geko is finally free from awful hat monster!

[Rivet puts the hat safely into her inventory.]
Excuse me....what? No no. Oh my goodness, I am so sorry there is a
misunderstanding here. I wasn’t saving you. I was saving the president. You can go now. Really. You don’t have to be here anymore.

But....but....Is Geko not the president of the united planets? That is what Geko was for the last 200 years. Why is Geko not the president anymore?

Pffff oh my goodness no! I guess the president was just using your body to do this. I am so sorry about that, please send us an email later I’m sure we can give you some money to make up for the forced rental of your body. Right now, I have issues that are a tad more important than you right now.
[Rivet says pointing at the boss.]




[Slate uses mind control on Geko. Geko forgets all about his very sudden mental freedom. Instead he looks for any important items he can find. He’s able to find 4 items due to his speed, and his traits. Geko grabs a laser pistol, Hasty’s shop sign, a knife, and a flame thrower. Geko tosses the sign to Citrine, she uses the sturdy sign as a shield. The flamethrower gets tossed to Slate, the knife gets tossed in to Blu, while the pistol is given to Cobalt who promptly tosses it on the floor.]

[Cobalt is yet again mind controlled by Slate and forced to run towards the Somnus looming overhead. Being forced in to action forces Cobalt to activate [Achilles Rage]! Cobalt anger peaks! She gains +5 strength! She will not stop attacking until someone dies!]

[Spips suddenly gets a vision! Time slows down for her, she looks to Cobalt and can feel the future rush towards her. She sees it. Something.....something stops Cobalt, and then suddenly she’s turning around, and heading towards the group, large
stinger arm aimed at who ever was closest. This is what Spips sees.]

[Spips quickly whispers to Slate and Latta.]
We need to move right now! We’re all in danger!
[Latta doesn’t need to even ask, she pushes Slate and runs to the back, heading
towards the front door.]

[Slate uses his mind control again, he takes control of Citrine and has her go grab Blu, but he messes up, he instead causes her to grab Geko instead. He loses control of Citrine. Citrine, confused, but now with a full understanding of the fact that something terrible is going to happen runs towards the front door with Geko in hand, completely forgetting, or purposefully forgetting to tell Blu to run as well.]

[Cobalt inched closer, ready to attack, but she found herself unable to. The Mors unit looked like a friend, a friend she honestly couldn’t even remember well or at all, but she felt forced, unable to attack due to this.]
[CFF stops Cobalt from harming any Mors units!]
[Cobalt turns around and heads towards the group to attack!]

[Slate once again takes control of someone, yet again ending up with Rivet, Rivet is losing her sanity every time Slate does this and she’s getting quite low on it. She flies towards Nicko and throws him in the path of Cobalt, Slate needed to protect Blu at any cost, he was willing to murder a man for it.]

[Nicko shakes with fear as Cobalt charges at him. He askes her to stop, once, twice, and finally a third time, but she doesn’t stop. He’s forced to out himself in public. He lifts his hands, or more like, the hands of the person he’s controlling, in to the air. He rips in to the air, causing a hole to be ripped in to it, leading to the
underworld. Cobalt doesn’t have time to stop.]


[And so Cobalt fell. Nicko didn’t even bother attempting to put her on solid ground, instead placing her miles above the Underworld. She fell, for a while. At sometime she calmed down just a bit to think about what to do. Die. That’s what was going to happen right? There was no way she was going to live. The ground rushed forward, her final thought before hitting the ground was just “Finally”.]


[Cobalt hits the ground with her back, and yet.....]
[Cobalt failed to be slain.]


[She screamed in pain, she shouted words that aren’t allowed in this very text box. What had happened she thought? She thought she was suppose to be dead, but due to her [Achilles Rage] she was unable to die unless she was hit in a very certain spot, the ankles. Here she was, laying on the ground unable to move. Still alive. In a place she did not know, and she, was pissed. The angriest she had ever been in her life. If she ever got out of here, she was going to gut someone.]


[Latta looks around for anything she can grab, she finally picks up a knife and a small gun. She shrugs, she’ll have to make do with what she can get her hands on. She rushes forward, instead of aiming at the Somnus. She aims at the Mors.]


[Slate tosses Latta the flamethrower he took. Latta tosses him a smile and nods, now that’s what she needed right now. The Mors attempts to run, but Spips who is much faster ties her up. Latta aims the flamethrower at the Mors.]
Ok. I’m done. I’m done with this whole planet. I want to get off of this hellhole right now, and you’re not going to stop me. Now be a good....water dog....whatever you are, and stop, or else I will kill your sister. I’m not playing around, I’m pissed.


No! You can’t kill my sister! But....I cannot let you live! The lady will kill me for
letting you live! But.......my sister...........No! No don’t make me make a choice
between me and my sister’s life. What will my sister do without me? What will I do without my sister?...........Let her go please.....


[Latta doesn’t say anything, she doesn’t order Spips to let go, she just looks the Somnus squarely in the eyes. Tapping her feet, waiting for Somnus to die or attempt retrieval.]

.................No.........Why would you do this.......you’re a monster........Right?..It is you who is the monster here? Not me...........Why would you do this.....
[The lady takes a few steps towards the Somnus. He looks back in fear.]
But why would you do this Lady? We’ve been nothing but good to you. Why would you kill me?........You could kill them.....you know you could....why do you refuse to kill them Lady?

[The Lady’s foot slowly descends on the Somnus, ready to crush him. Giving him time to attempt to run away and do his job, but he doesn’t move.]
Lady.......No.....You can’t do this.....who will take care of my sister?....who will hide you? We were....employed by Her, that spider, to watch over you and keep you away from wandering eyes......Is She not the ruler of the world you come from? Are you going against orders?

[Persephone takes her foot away from the Somnus. The Somnus looks relieved to not be dead at the moment. He bows his head to the ground, grateful for her mercy. She reaches over to him with her hand, and smashes the orb he was carrying.]

[The moment the orb is broken, the Somnus starts to wobble, his form breaking apart, his parts spilling to the ground.]
You........You’re a monster.......A monster........bzzzzzzt......I hope...bzzzzzzt....that She punishes you.......

[The Somnus unit has been slain. In the pile of junk left behind are bits of poor quality scrap metal, a case of points, a red sharpie, broken glass, a dead axolotl, and the head of the Somnus’s fursuit, which is wearable.]

I am not a monster. I am a god, you, small being are not even worth the metal you are made of. You do not all understand, how truly simple minded you all are. A single death, is nothing to me. I hosted these parties to enrich your lives. Today,
everyone on this planet will die. I was just ending yours early, it will be less painful that way.

[The Mors starts to “cry” as far as Latta is concerned. Spips feels bad and lets her go now that there is no longer a chance at being killed.]
You’re all.....Meanies!!!! You let my big brother die! What am I going to do now? I hope you all d-d-die!!! I’ll.....I’ll kill all of you!
[The Mors runs at Spips, fists flailing, but she trips and faceplants on to the ground. She stays on the ground and cries.]

[Latta isn’t affected one bit by the Mors’ whining. She points up at the Lady, with no fear in her at all, even after watching her murder her own servent.]
Tell me what’s going on on this planet. Keep it quick.

[Persephone steps over to Latta. Latta holds up her flamethrower, ready to defend herself in the case the Lady attempted what she did with the Somnus on her. The Lady just leans down and laughs.]
I won’t kill you. You are special, I can tell, you and your crew. There’s actually a mind that can understand emotions behind your thoughts. You’re not mindless. You’re not stupid. You’re not an insect. I will tell you what you want, and then you will leave.

A long time ago, a god slept in this planet, a man found out and brought it. The start of the curse. He wished good things on the people who came to his fair, he wished for immortality. Many went to his opening event, and there, he used the music of the God of the Future to wake up the God of The Past. With them both awake, they granted all the viewers that day a power they did not know about. They would be unable to die as long as they stayed on the planet.


And so he trapped them. He trapped them all on this planet. He had hoped that the artists would enjoy freedom, away from the worries of the outside universe.
Freedom to create the pruest of forms, but you know the Limbo gods, they are
horrible beings. The god of the Past attacked and sent him away, he would never be able to enjoy his work, and without a leader to explain what happened, everyone was set in to a panic.


It didn’t help that the god of the Past sent the god of the Future back as well,
wanting to be freed from their other half, after all, the god of the Past only wishes to wake near the very end of the universe, so that they may live out the rest of their life, backwards, as it should be.


So you’re trying to tell me this is some stupid feud between a god, and himself?


The Limbo gods, they’re not good people, have you never read the texts? They fight each other, and they fight themselves, they’ve been doing nothing but being angry at their very existence the moment the beast of the lake came out and destroyed the world of perfection. If you do not know what I’m talking about, that is alright, you’ll get an exposition about it sooner or later I’m sure. Now, do you really want to save this planet? You can leave right now.


Heck yes, I want to save this planet, lets do this, point me to the planet saving lever so I can pull it, save it, and then walk out of this planet with all of my loot.


You cannot save it, I am sorry. Today I will be undoing the curse, I have already
summoned the god of the Future to come here, I am minutes away from waking up the god of the Past from their slumber. Unless you wish to fight me, and show me that there is another way, I will not stop....but I know you, you have a way off. You don’t need to stay here and try to help them all.....in fact, you have a way to save the people of this city, but the rest of the planet? Let them rest. Let them sleep.


[Slate taps Latta’s shoulder and points to the door, Latta nods and understands that Slate sees no reason to hang around anymore.]

Hey Persie, can I call you that? You mind just giving us a bit of time to get people off? I mean herding up people isn’t an easy task. We’ll try to make it as quick as possible so you can get on with your....life I guess? Doomsday? Yeah.


The party wasn’t suppose to start for almost half a day and then it would take a while for the god of the Past to head here. The god of the Past is....how do I say this? Lazy. Scum. Yes that is correct. Those are the only words anyone can use to describe the god of the Past. I say you have about a day to do your work here.

Thanks, I’ll attempt to use the time wisely.
[Latta points at Geko and Rivet.]
Hey you two! Let us use your ships. You still can’t still bent on this god catching thing. To me it seems that catching these gods is just a death wish...or an
immortality wish it seems? Either way I don’t see a reason why you would want them anymore.

[Charisma check passed.]
I think the president would still want to catch those gods, but he doesn’t have a say in his unintelligent state, so I suppose we could use our resources to help you and these people. I could just tell the president that we were unable to make a move without him. After all I have no idea what his plans were to actually catch the god, and I’m sure the plan wasn’t “shoot it a lot.” He wouldn’t tell me before...

[Rivet picks up a pendant of the Poetnix off of the floor.]
All I know is that it had something to do with this? Maybe it’s some sort of offering to the gods to make them listen to us? Why would the god of the Past and Future even care about the Poetnix, you think they would like something else like a cat or a rat. Hmmm guess we might have to come back later. Hopefully they don’t escape.



[Geko is stuck staring at where Cobalt suddenly vanished. He breaks away to make a comment to the group.]
Geko’s.....Geko’s friend! Are we all going to pretend Geko’s friend did not just poof away when the friendly man who gave Geko a hat moved his arms aroun- wait a moment! You! You gave Geko a hat with an evil presidental candidate in it! Why did you do this to Geko? Geko thought you were nice man!


[Nicko laughs and rubs his, Nicko’s, ears.]
I, Nicko, plead the....which ever law number you, Geko, have which allows I, Nicko, to not talk to you, Geko. I, Nicko, was not attempting to make sure that I, Nicko, would have a backup body in the case that I, Nicko’s, body happened to get
damaged.  I, Nicko, did not pick you because you, Geko, were possibly very low in intelligence, I, Nicko, would never be so rude.


You’re not very good at hiding your plans Hades.

I, Nicko, who is not I, Hades.......Ugh, I, Nicko’s, quirk, is working against me, Nicko! I, Nicko, am not good at doing the evil thing. I, Nicko, am just a simple salesman! I, Nicko, am only outside of my home because I, Hades, I, Nicko mean Nicko, I.... oh this is just getting really twisted now. I, Nicko! Demand that you! Persephone, come back home!

What is the magic word Hades?

[Nicko taps his feet.]
Is it, the word, eggplants?
[Persephone shakes her head.]
Is it, the word, Pomegranate?
[Persephone says that it starts with a P but it isn’t that. Nicko opens a dictionary.]
Pace? Pack? Package? Pad? Page? Painful? Paint? Painter? Painting? Pair? Pale? Palm?

.....I’ve learned to just stop paying attention to anything weird that happens around here. So if you mind me, I have 1000s of people to save aaaaand...
[Latta goes to grab all of the loot, but when she tries to grab the marker it
suddenly disappears out of thin air. She shrugs, deciding to not question it.]
I’m taking all of this loot. Spips take the Mors unit please.

[Spips wraps the end of her tail around one of the legs of the Mors.]
Got you cap! I’ll head to the ship with her while you help get these people on the army’s ship, I’ll go transport all the stuff we got on to our ship!

Alright looks like we’re done here. I do have one last question Persephone, where is Dali? This whole time we’ve been hearing about Dali this, and Dali that, but I haven’t even seen the man once. Does Dali even exist, because I’m starting to think he more of a bogeyman than he is an actual person.

Dali is real. He asked me personally to lift the curse after he wasn’t able to stop all the side effects. If you really wish to see him...
[Persephone points to a door in the back. The door looks run down, as if it hasn’t been cared for in years.]
He is beyond that door. You won’t gain much wisdom meeting him, but I’m sure you’ll wish to see him just so you can see the man behind your woes.

Nope! Not really. I honestly don’t care anymore. If you want to see Dali, Slate, you can go ahead. Now if you mind me I’ll be helping out with the efforts now. Goodbye to any of you who will be staying behind.

[Slate looks at Latta leaving, then looks at Blu who seems to be staring at the door to Dali. Slate shrugs, picks up no less then 3 knives and walks to the door to Dali.]

Wait up creepy dude! Dali owes me a freaking ship! I’m going to make that guy pay for it with his own wallet! Or that’s...what Hasty would have said. Hey, do you think your captain would allow me on your ship just for today? Just so I can gut that Mors and take my dad back?

[Slate wonders if Blu even knew he never talked. Likely not as he never seemed to notice no matter how much he paid attention to Blu. He tried to not look excited about Blu talking to him, and passed with flying colors. He was glad to a master at never changing expressions.]

Uuuuuuuuuh you’re kind of creepin’ me out here....but you just blinked twice so that’s a yes ain’t it?
[Slate was just blinking due to fully natural reasons.]
So looks like we’re goin’ in! Let’s show that artist nerd he can’t be messin’ with us!

[Slate and Blu enters the room. The room is almost totally dark. A small light can be seen at the end of the room.]

[Blu uses his face as a light, but oddly it doesn’t go as far as it should.]
Dude why does this Dali guy live in a dump like this. You think he’d be living the high life or somethin’ bein’ the big daddy of this place. You sure this isn’t no trap?

[Slate just keeps moving foward, not saying anything to Blu. Predictable.]

[Blu gets so nervous he starts to rap in an attempt to calm down.]
It’s me and you, making our debut, in this hallway of doomsday, I wish you would chill before this goes downhill, shoot me a rhyme, throw me a beat, stop being a creepy dude who would put anyone to sleep!

[Slate wants to talk, but he remembers how his voice sounds. It sounds “Wrong.” “Incorrect.” He decides to not talk and just snap out a beat for Blu. Blu just kind of sighs, he’s rather lukewarm about the whole beat snap and just stops his rap.]

[Blu just hums to himself as they walk on. He feels like something is wrong, but he can’t put his finger on it.]
I...Think we’re almost at the end of this room, but at the same time I ain’t really seeing anythin’ dude. Did she just send us in to an empty room? Also where is this light comin‘ from? I don’t see any lights here? What is up with that.

[Slate shrugs once again. He doesn’t care, he doesn’t know where the light is coming from nor does he care. He squints as he walks in to the near blinding light. In the distance, Slate sees him. Dali.]

[It’s Dali.]

Hey jerkwad! You busted up my fine ass ship! How bout you pay for the stuff I lost? Heck I should be havin’ you pay for a new body for Hasty too!

[It’s Dali.]
[He’s a stomatopoid.]

[Slate decides to hand Dali a knife as a show of peace. Dali accepts the knife.]


[It’s Dali.]
[He’s a stomatopoid.]
[Dali uses the knife to cut the bands around his claws. He snaps his claws.]
- **** *- -* -*- / -*-- --- **- *-*-*- / *** - ** *-** *-** / - *-* *- *--* *--* * -** / **- -* -** * *-* / *-* --- -*-* -*- *** *-*-*- / ** - / ** *** / --- ***- * *-* / **-* --- *-* / -- * *-*-*-

[Blu has no idea what Dali is saying. Sadly no one brought a translator.]
Maaaaaaaan I knew I should have downloaded the translation pack, this is what I get for being cheap! I’ll record it though so we can just check it out later.
[Blu records anything Dali says.]


[It’s Dali.]
[He’s a stomatopoid. His claws are free. He snaps them.]
- ** -- * / -- --- ***- * -** / **-* --- *-* *-- *- *-* -** / **** * *-* * *-*-*- / *-- *- *-** *-** *** / **-* * *-** *-** / -** --- *-- -* / --- -* / -- * *-*-*- / -* --- *-- / - **** * *-* * / ** *** / * -- *--* - ** -* * *** *** *-*-*-


Snap once if you don’t know what we’re saying. Twice if you know what we’re saying.

[It’s Dali.]
[He’s a stomatopoid. His claws are free. He snaps them twice, waits, and then snaps them in a way that can be considered “Confused” or “So-so”.]


[Slate turns around, he decides this is no longer worth his time. Before he leaves though he looks at the rest of the bright room, willing to risk looking in to direct light to see what’s beyond Dali.]

[It’s Spips.]

[Now it’s Cleo? Slate decides to start a small fire, just between the word gullible and sick.]

[The fire gets out of Slate’s control, he’s no longer able to control it, it rips through the [Sick], but also takes out the 3 below it instead of taking out [Gullible] as well. Slate kind of looks away and pretends he didn’t do anything.]

[Slate decides to attempt to burn away [Forgetful] and [Gullible] seeing as they’re so far away. The fire spreads a little farther than he wanted it to but in the end it doesn’t harm anything else.]

[Slate takes his exit, Blu following closely behind, still mad he gained nothing from that whole trip. Slate exits in to the Lady’s room.]

[Nicko is still reading through the list of P words.]
Place, Plain, Plan, Planet, Plant, Plastic-
[Nicko suddenly freezes as you use your power, trapping Hades in to a trap. To you the room shifts in look.]

[Only the hat, Hades, was left. Hades played dead.]

CO-PLAYER! Ah...That’s how you look? Well that’s an...interesting look I suppose! I suppose it does match many of your traits. Now co-player, I will teach you how to start a....why are you freaking out over there co-player? We have a lesson to do!

Because this looks like my nightmare.

What? This doesn’t look like much of a nightmare co-player. Unless your nightmare is the underworld, Hade’s battle room! Hmm, I do suppose a place of death could be very nightmareish to some.

Oh no, it’s not that! It’s th-
Oh, hey, this again. We better make the best of it and not ruin everything!
MEOW MEOW MEOW MEOW MEOW MEOW MEOW MEOW MEOW MEOW!
That didn’t last very long at all!

Oh don't mind them Theney, you don't mind I call you Theney right? They’re just a bit excitable.
I am not excitable!
See Theney, it’s just that simple.

Right. This, situation you have going on co-layer. I believe Helios mentioned it to me once. It really does explain why you change plans all the time, and seem to argue back and forth about what you want to do, before then jumping in to the worst
situation! Do you have anything else you feel the need to explain because I feel like I have a good understanding of this already.

No not at all Thene, Let's get on with it.
Hey hey hey! Wait, can I hug Helios first? I want to hug Helios.
You don’t have arms!
You have arms and we are you so we have arms yes.
Some of us are also disproportionately attracted to robots. Just warning ya.

This isn’t really the time for hugging.

...It all went bad quickly...Yeah, sorry about all of that...
Shush for a bit and listen to what Athena has to say. Lesson first complaints later!
But...
Complaints later!

Alright co-player! Now first thing you need to do in a roomlock situation is to-

Taunt them right??? Hades, you're in a pretty... dead-end sITUATION RIGHT NOW HUH????? Yeah that’s a good taunt made it up all by myself!
We JUST agreed to stop and listen!
Hades, we know you're there. There's no use in playing dead. I have but one
question for you... WHY A FEZ? No seriously, there's loads better hats out there you could have been and you settled on this? Come on man!

Hey, I suggest we have an impromptu makeout with Hades to calm your nerves. You know, just one or two kisses. It wouldn’t be that bad.
I swear this isn’t me I think.....


Wow! This is acutally pretty distracting! It’s like the moment you got an avatar in this you just started going off the walls. ANYWAY! Like I was saying the first thing you need to make is a game plan! So tell me. What’s your plan?

Well, I mean I didn’t get to think about it much but I think-
Hades you get to stay here until you know how it feels to be kidnapped against your will and feel genuine remorse that's just how it is.
Well. I guess that’s the plan now...
Our plan is to plunge the underworld into a black hole obviously.
Ok I think we can all agree that’s not our plan.

Waiting around as a plan? I suppose that could work. Hades might get bored of being trapped long enough and give up! Downside though, our game is still running in the background, so the longer we take the longer we’re not looking at the game, the longer those idiots out there have to ruin all of our plans! Ok lets try this. you go up to Hades, and attempt to get him out of his shell. I’ll go get the gun just in case we need it.

Ok.. I’ll try.
[You walk up to Hades and peer down at them. You don’t understand how a simple fez could ever be a robot.]
Hey there Hades, I know things have been hard but-
Yo Hades, how're the divorce proceedings going??? I hear Hera got single recently. You may wanna get on that cause, well, you know, or if you want I’m always open.

Ok you know what? This isn’t very cool of you at all. I think you need to let me talk sometimes? You know. Both of you....uh...all of you? Keep talking over me and it’s not nice!
Nah I think we’re just going to keep doing that pal.
Well...understand that I am offically filing a complaint about this!


[Suddenly a shot rings out, and before you know it, someone has shot through one of your screens.]

I......I....What just happened....
[You slowly turn around in fear to face Athena.]

What are you looking at me like this? I noticed that that screen never had anything good to say! Meowing, or flirting, or trying to doom the universe. So I got rid of it! You look like you wanted it gone, and so it is. Don’t worry, you get fixed every lockin, it’ll be back next time! No harm done as long as I don’t kill you. If I kill you, that’s another story, but I won’t do that co-player, unless you tried to kill me for my power or something.

That was a bit drastic, but I guess it's alright? I think? I’m not sure I feel safe
knowing you could kill me at any moment. You’re the one with the weapon. Well at least I only have one other screen left, and that one seems nice enough.

You mean 3 more. Have you really never noticed the 2 others on your back? Wait what am I saying, you just spawned in, you haven’t even had time to control your avatar and spin them around. What I am saying, is you have 2 more than you think! I’m not sure what their usage is. Lets not find out right now!

HEY GUIZ WHAT'S MEM-
[You push the screen away to shut it up.]
If the bootleg Hermes screen talks again you are within your rights to shoot it.
That seems a little extreme don't you think pal?
Do you know what it sounds like? I think it broke my speakers when it talked.
Ok reasonable I suppose.

So what powers do we get if we kill Hades? I know you said something about getting powers if we kill someone here, does that apply to even Hades? I’m just asking, I don’t want to kill Hades I think. He doesn’t seem to have done anything wrong. Other then uh, kiddnapping and stuff.

You’d get all the power Hades has! You’d be king of the underworld! A god of the under soil! If you or any of us kill someone else, you are also free to toss that power to another god. When any type of god dies, their power is left behind for collection. Sometimes no one wants to take it though, some gods just have powers that have too much work attached to them. You on the other hand aren’t required to take up their job if you kill them.


[The hat starts to shake in fear, or anger. Suddenly it takes to the air, flying higher and higher, a form appearing under it.]


[Hades is huge, there was no question about it. He towered over everyone, he even towered over the land. He was big enough to be a small apartment, ready for use. Hades opened his mouth slowly, and spoke in a booming tone.]

YOU!.....
[Hades attempts to think of another word to go along with it other than you.]
Player! DO NOT WANT TO KILL ME, HADES, KING OF THE UNDERWORLD! I, HADES, THINK YOU, PLAYER, WOULD HAVE A RATHER HARD TIME COMMITING SAID CRIME. DO NOT WORRY PLAYER, YOU, I, HADES, DO NOT WISH ANY HARM ON YOU, PLAYER.

Oh um! LIKEWISE YES! DO I NEED TO YELL FOR YOU TO HEAR ME ALL THE WAY UP THERE I JUST WANTED TO MAKE SURE.
[Hades shakes his head.]
Ok...good good. I don’t want to have to kill you either. I’m not sure what being a king is even about anyway. Soooooo uuuuhhh man....what do I even do here? Hey ok, I have a few questions! Why are you a hat and also can you stop the fake accent?

I, Hades, need to get around, as such I, Hades, travel using smaller beings and
controlling their, the smaller beings, movements and ideas! ALSO, THIS, MY ACCENT, IS NOT A FAKE ACCENT. THIS, MY ACCENT, IS JUST HOW I, HADES NORMALLY SPEAK. I, HADES CAN ATTEMPT TO DROP IT, THE ACCENT, IF IT, THE ACCENT, OFFENDS YOU, THE PLAYER, SO MUCH.

That was totally rude of you don’t speak to a god like that son.
Sorry! The accent sounds good on you, we were just confused! I mean I was
confused not we this is not a WE situation here. So hey! Uh, can you just kind of say sorry for the whole kidnapping thing you did to your wife? I don’t think that was very cool of you and you need to say sorry for that.

I, HADES, SAY SORRY A LOT. I, HADES, HAVE SAID SORRY FOR IT BEFORE, SHE, MY WIFE, JUST THINKS IT’S FUNNY TO HEAR ME, HADES, SAY IT AGAIN.

Admittedly you did kidnap her, so I think she gets the right to get you to say sorry once a day or something.
It sounds like you have some serious marital problems dude. I'm not sure we're equipped to handle that! Let’s instead play a game to decide if you say sorry or not!
Wait what?

Of course! When you roomtrap a god you commonly do one of 3 things with them. You talk to them in an attempt to get them to listen to you.
You kill them in an attempt to gain their powers.
Or you beat them in a game! Commonly a god wants one of your characters to be placed up as a bet. Are you ok with this?

Oh alright! That seems simple enough. Now I won’t agree to anything until you tell me what game we’re playing, but I would like from you, your ship and AI unlocked, as well as you saying sorry to your wife. Is that alright?

I, HADES, CAN AGREE TO THAT, AS LONG AS YOU, PLAYER, CAN AGREE THAT IF YOU, THE PLAYER, LOSE THEN I, HADES, GET SLATE, YOUR CHARACTER. AS YOU, THE PLAYER,  AND YOUR PATRONS, ATHENA AND HELIOS, ARE THE “HOME TEAM” IN THIS SITUATION, YOU, THE PLAYER, WILL PICK THE GAME, OR I, HADES, CAN GIVE YOU, THE PLAYER, A PUZZLE TO SOLVE, AND IF YOU, THE PLAYER, SOLVE IT, THE PUZZLE IN THE TIME LIMIT, YOU, THE PLAYER, WIN.

Sure I’ll take the puzzle, I’m good at those! Lets do this.

HERE IS THE PUZZLE. IT, THE PUZZLE IS A FAIRLY COMMON ONE. A WHO IS LYING PUZZLE. HERE WE, ALL OF US. HAVE 4 DOGS AND A MAN WHO HAS BEEN KILLED. NOW I NEED YOU TO FIGURE OUT WHICH OF THESE DOGS ARE LYING, AND WHICH DOGS ARE NOT. NO NEED TO FIGURE OUT WHICH ARE THE MURDERERS.
[Hades whistles, and 4 dogs come forward.]

HiThereFriend!I’mRisk! BARK BARK BARK!!!! I CAN’T SEE BUT I DO KNOW THIS. ONLY ONE OF US IS A LYING BARK BARK!!!!! ONLY ONE OF US HURT THAT MAN. THAT POOR MAN! AWWOOOOOOOO HE SURE DID SCREAM!

Yelp! I’m Burr! I saw the whole thing! I saw those who did the.......you know....
murder. I can’t tell you who did it.......but it wasn’t me, it was 2 other dogs! The poor man......he was in so much pain.......

....Bark....Bark....................grrrrrr.....grrr.....bark.......oh......you want a statement from me.........bark..well.........only one of us isn’t lying.....bark.....it’s sad isn’t it?

[The last dog tells you to get closer, before whispering to you.]
All of us are dirty murderers. Don’t listen to what the puzzle wants, we all killed that man by being there. Those who didn’t help are murderers in their own rights, sitting there. Watching. Disgusting beings they are for not trying to save the man. Is that what you would have done? Sat there while a man died, attempting to not be apart of the situation.

.......................!!!

You disgust me you horrible creature.

I, HADES, WILL ALLOW YOU, PLAYER, ONE QUESTION WITH ONE DOG. MAKE IT COUNT.

Ok. So, hey dog 3, who was in the room when the murder happened?

When the murder happened.......... there were.....3 dogs......3 dogs barking. Only one of them was the murderer............and none of them were dog 4.

3 dogs barking but not all the dogs barked here, lets see, 1 is lying for sure, but 4 is confusing me, but I think-
[While you talk, Helios whispers to Athena and points at you.]
And if we carry the one then it has to beeeeeeeee tw-
[Athena headlocks you before you can finish.]

It’s 3. 3 is telling the truth.

CONGRATULATIONS!!!!! YOU’RE, ALL OF YOU I GUESS, ARE CORRECT! I, HADES, GUESS THAT MEANS YOU, ALL OF YOU, WIN. GUESS YOU, TEAM NOT ME, GOT THAT I, HADES JUST NEEDED ONE LIE PER DOG. I, HADES THOUGHT I, HADES, COULD TRICK YOU WITH TWO VALID ANSWERS THAT YOU, TEAM NOT ME, WOULD HAVE TO ASK THE CORRECT QUESTION TO STOP.

NOW, LET ME, HADES, ASK YOU, TEAM NOT ME, IF YOU, TEAM NOT ME, WOULD LIKE TO GO DOUBLE OR NOTHING. COME ON I, HADES, HAVE MORE PUZZLES FOR YOU TO PLAY.
[Athena whispers to you to say “Fuck no”, take our winnings and run.]

No- FUCK NO.
I think w- I’m good.
CAN WEE HAZ A HUG-
ATHENA THE GUN.
I’LL STOPZ.

So look, I know I won but I just want to say you’re pretty cool? Yeah that. So like, don’t be too hard on yourself for losing. I mean I was about to say the wrong choice until my patrons came and stopped me. Hey if you ever need a good marriage
counselor I’m sure Heli-
[Helios draws on his face so fast it’s like a stop motion animation. “Don’t” he says.]
I’m sure you can pay for a fairly nice one! Too bad I don‘t know anyone!

By the way, why did you want Slate anyway?

I, HADES NEED A NEW BODY. THE ONE I, HADES HAVE BEEN USING IS
BECOMING FAR TOO OLD. I, HADES NEED A STRONGER BODY, TO TAKE BACK MY, HADES’, THRONE FROM THAT SPIDER. I, HADES CANNOT BELIEVE MY, HADES‘, WIFE WAS WORKING FOR THAT SPIDER. BUT....ALSO I, HADES, KNOW MY, HADES’ WIFE IS SMART. SHE, MY WIFE, WOULDN’T DO FOR NO REASON. SHE, MY WIFE MUST HAVE AN IMPORTANT ONE. I, HADES, WONDER WHAT IT IS.

Who is this spider that keeps coming up. She sure seems important. You think I would know about her but I don’t! Can you guys just kind of stop playing the
pronoun game and tell me who the spider is? Also if you want you can just take one of my character’s bodies after I’m done with my game, I’d be ok with that.

HOW DO YOU, THE PLAYER, NOT KNOW THE SPIDER? YOU, THE PLAYER KNOW ABOUT THEM. APASEM! THE SPIDER. THE LADY OF THE HOUR. AS IN, THE HOUR. THE HOUR THEY, APASEM, ARE SUCH. HMMM, I, HADES, GUESS THAT WOULD BE CONFUSING.

EXCUSE ME APASEM IS A DUDE RIGHT? Like. I’m remembering my own character right?
[You look to your patrons.]
That’s right right? Is this another puzzle? I didn’t agree to this.

Ooooooh, I, Hades understand now.  SEE HERE PLAYER, YOU, SOMETIMES, APASEM ISN’T APASEM. SHE, HE, APASEM, IT REALLY DEPENDS ON THE TIME OF DAY, DO YOU UNDERSTAND PLAYER, YOU? AND WHEN YOU, THE PLAYER, OR ANY OF US, SEE APASEM, SOMETIMES, WE, ALL OF US, FORGET WHO THEY, APASEM EVEN ARE. IT IS LIKE.....NICKO......SOMETIMES. NICKO IS NOT NICKO, NICKO IS A GIANT ROBOT WHO CONTROLS THE UNDERWORLD.

YOU’LL, THE PLAYER, WILL UNDERSTAND WHEN YOU, THE PLAYER, ARE OLDER. THOUGH REALLY I, HADES, AM JUST SAYING THIS SO YOU CAN LET ME, HADES, GO. I, HADES, DO NOT ENJOY THIS KIDNAPPING. IS THIS REALLY HOW BEING KIDNAPPED IS LIKE?

No..this isn’t too much like how being kidnapped is like.
It’s a LOT worse than this MAGGOT, your wife has the right to ask you to say sorry all the time even if she likes you, and you said sorry before.
Yeah sure lets go with that. Anyway, I’m letting you go. You seem safe enough.
Goodbye to you now!
[You let Hades leave the roomlock. Now it’s just you and your patrons.]

Thank you for shooting that other screen, what a prude! Oh my gosh its so nice to be able to talk to you guys, I'm glad you liked my drawing. Oh also Athena I would totally say you should break the rest of us, but to be honest we have no idea how You would react being completely alone and also I would like to thank you both for stopping us from making a HUGE mistake on that puzzle-
You do know other people need to use the text box right?

Tsk, when I first saw you, I felt like something was off. I thought you looked a bit like a knowledge god, due to the sun on your midsection. Knowledge and suns go together as you can guess.....BUT! I can’t believe I missed this co-player, of all people to miss this I should be the last. You are NOT a knowledge god.

You’re a chaos god! Like Eris! I can’t believe I didn’t see it before. Sort of like a mid range between Eris and Hermes in a way.

I guess being a chaos god means I’m not useful then huh? Or I make things worse.

No! Not at all co-player, I’m glad you’re not a knowledge god. That’d mean we’d have 3 knowledge gods. 3 is too many as you can guess! It just means....that you can say the word “Chaos roll” and things might go horribly. Which is why we’re not going to say it!....This might be a good time to say I can block chaos rolls....I can block many types of rolls. Though who knows, you might not even be a chaos god, you might be another type! Looks alone don’t tell. What kind of god do you think you are?

I think I’m a god of friendship, or maybe love, something nice and not exciting.
No I think GOD OF CHAOS fits us.
Bzzzttzttzzzzzzzzzzzzz.......
I AGREE! AND WE SHALL CALL OURSELVES BIGGUS DI-
If I could reach back there I would toss you out.

Hey you know what, lets just forget about that right now, how about we have a group hug?
[Athena pulls on her scarf a bit and says that she doesn’t trust hugs too much, something about good friends with back stabs. She pushes Helios forward for you though he looks at her like she just killed his son.]

Sure student, I’ll hug you.
[Something about Helios’s tone makes it sound like he’s worried, as if you would kill him the moment you touched him. Still you go ahead and hug him, and no one died.]

Right! This was good, everyone is ok and no one is hurt! No one is...killing anyone for their powers or in an attempt to summon a sun god, or in some FOUL ATTEMPT TO DOWNLOAD SOFTWARE TO CONTROL THEIR MIND. So I guess we can leave now! Lets do that, lets leave. Now.

Oh ok, I’d like to talk about it, but I feel like you might not want to. Whenever you want to talk about it, feel free to tell me! Anyway I won’t do that chaos, you know what, right now, but maybe if I am a chaos god you can ask Eris to teach me. She is the best choas god right? Oh yeah, and here! Here’s a horse and a bird picture for you two!
[You summon 2 pictures out of thin air.]

Wow thank you co-player! This bird is a lot like me! It looks powerful and ready to kill at any moment!
[Athena leans over to Helios.]
(Did the co-player just summon 2 objects out of thin air or did they have an
inventory before hand?)

Thank you student for the picture, this is a fine steed.
[Helios then draws a worried face as he whispers to Athena. Both Helios and Athena fully understand that you can still read what they’re saying this is just how they’re both choosing to go about this situation.]
(Yes....they did.....How did I not notice this before....this is how they summoned all those markers. Why didn’t I acknowledge this before? I just took it as fact.)

(Chaos god! Knew it. So that’s why all the markers keep disappearing out of thin air. They’re not  disappearing, they’re being teleported to the past. I hope we never end up in dire need of markers, or pens, or pencils in the future. Or maybe inventory god? At least we’re getting closer to what they are, slowly.)
Ok looks like we’re done co-player! Are you ready to leave?

Yeah I’m ready to leave!
[You decide to not comment on their whispering, but at least now you know that your power is on a debt system. You take out items, but at some point, in the future, that item will be taken away from you or someone next to you. This could come in handy if you accidentally steal a weapon from someone else.]
[You break the roomlock and are taken back to your game.]

[Back over in the game, Latta was still helping the army round up people to bring to safety. Slate, and Blu’s crew went over to the mercury ship to wait for Latta and Spips to finish up. In the med bay Cleo was on her feet fit as a fiddle, as if she had never gotten sick, but she felt different. She spent time trying to figure out what felt different as she exited the room when she walked in to Edel.]

Cleo, what are you doing out of bed, you were near death just half an hour ago. You shouldn’t even be able to walk. I haven’t even finished prep for you.

Huh? Really? Wow that’s weird, I feel just fine now! I just feel a little light headed but it’s not too bad. I thought you must of already gave me some sort of super strong medicine to help me!

No I’ve been looking up info on what you might possibly have, and also what
medications work with your species. I have to be careful to not pump anything that might be toxic to your species in to you.

Really? Wow! Guess it must have just not been that bad!
[Cleo just shrugs.]
Hey I saw the others on my walk, but I didn’t see Latta or One-Punch, have you seen them around Edel?


I’ve been told captain Latta is on a mission outside and from the looks of Slate coming back in she should be back soon. As for One-Punch, I’ve been told it’s highly likely One-Punch ran the wrong way after putting the code in to blow up some ship. As far as it goes that robot is likely lost on the planet now.

Naaaaah, One-Punch likely blew up. One-Punch is kiiiiind of slow to be honest. Sorry it sounds like I don’t have enough faith, but that’s just the facts.
[Cleo puts a finger on her nose.]
Man blowing up? That’s kind of metal. I think I’ll put that on my top 10 ways to die, with a bang! Next self destruct mission goes to me ok?
[Cleo states [Sarcastically] with a wink.]

Is there anything we have to do around here or are we just waiting for Latta to come back? Cause if so I can totally go look for her!

I don’t want you going anywhere Cleo. You were just at death’s door, at least your body was. Your sickness might look like it stopped but it might spring out at any moment for the killing blow.

Awwwww man that’s totally lame. I don’t want to have to do any tests but I also guess I don’t want to die at this very moment. I’ll come with you.
[Blu approaches both of them dragging along the Mors unit.]

Hey yo! You the new girl on the crew who opens up the robots right? Mind doin’ me a favor and rippin’ this robot apart so I can get my dad back?

Get away from me! If you touch me I’m going to bite you! Stay away!

[Cleo disregards the warning and goes to grab the Mors. The Mors attempts to bite but misses. Cleo takes out her tools and attempts to disable the Mors. After a few seconds she looks at Blu.]
Excuse me.....is this a joke?

Uh excuse me, what do you mean by, “Is this a joke?” This ain’t no joke, that THIN’ ate Hasty’s core and we need to get it out.

Oooooook, well, I’m sorry to tell you but I work on machines and robots, this isn’t a robot or a machine. It’s a person and I’m not a people doctor.

Why did you gotta go telling people that? I’m not a robot! I’m an animal in a robot suit, just like how my BROTHER was a robot in an animal suit!

I’m going to go put her in the storage where she’s not likely to bite anyone if that’s ok with everyone. I don’t want her attacking anyone or something. The storage will be semi safe I think, as long as I warn everyone. I hope she doesn’t eat our supplies though.

B-B-But what about Hasty?

He’s toooooooootally dead dude. Sorry!
[Cleo walks off with the Mors to put her in the storage, leaving Blu behind. Blu runs off to the control room before anyone could see the uncool face he was making.]

[Marble decides to go meet with Cea in his room, deciding it would be easier to talk to him there.]
Hey there CJ, how are are doing?

Oh god, is it really that time of the day again? I don’t know if I really want to talk Marble, this whole planet was a mess. Sure no one died but I just feel totally stressed out right now. I just kind of want to lay down you know?

Yes it’s that time of the day again. I won’t force you to talk, but I think it would help you to talk about what happened.

There’s nothing really to say. I messed up so much today. I thought I could take a leadership role, but I couldn’t. I was just useless I swear. Everything went wrong and it was all my fault.

Well you tried your best Cea, I’m not sure I would have done much better, and was it really so bad? We came out on top, got our ship back, we saved some people, and got supplies, I think we did just fine, and that you did a good job.

Well...I mean...when you put it that way, you’re kind of right, nothing sure quite a lot of horrible things happened but, well, we’re all fine! I mean, ok, Hasty is kind of dead, and I guess One-Punch is currently missing, but other then those things we’re all ok! Maybe you’re right Marble. The stress of this planet was very real, but it’s over and we’re fine. It’s not really worth stressing over what happened, it can’t affect us anymore.

Now you’re looking a little better CJ! By the way, how’s your hand? I saw that it was bleeding on our walk towards the ship, I want to make sure it’s treated, no good if it gets infected, then you’d have a real problem, not unless you’d like to join Cleo in having a gun hand.

Oh no no, I went to Edel to get my hand patched up, he then yelled at me about having more important things to do, but I know how to do some fairly basic
bandaging so I just did it all by myself. See?
[Cea shows off his bandaged hand.]
I have to say Marble dear, having a gun hand sounds like the opposite of a problem. Not sure I’m quite ready to chop off my arm for it quite yet.

Sounds good CJ! Plus you might want to keep your hands made of flesh, better for holding other people’s hands without feeling cold.
[Marble flips though her notes.]
So, Cea, you know what we’re going to talk about next. Are you still talking to Sonny?

[Cea mockingly mouths Marble’s words as she says them.]
Yes Marble, I’m still talking to Sonny, it’s just that I do. He helps, he’s useful I swear! He’s not trying to hurt anyone Marble. I mean...
[Cea looks back and forth between Sonny and Marble. Sonny tells Cea “Don’t tell her what we talked about.”]
Yeah he’s not trying to hurt anyone! So he’s not harmful.

Cea, I’m sorry to say, but when Slate went in to your mind, he....got hurt, mentally that is, by something. He can’t tell me what he saw, and in fact he doesn’t seem to talk to text me about it, but the fact of the matter is there seems to be something harmful in your mind. Maybe it’s not Sonny, but it’s something Cea. I won’t ask you to tell me what’s going on, but going on not talking about it could be harmful. I’ll make sure to put in your papers that looking into your mind is a bad bet.

[Cea sighs.]
I understand what you’re saying Marble dear, but I just think at this moment in time, I’m alright, and don’t really need to be attempting to get rid of Sonny. Look, when we get to Fortuna, Sonny is going to be gone. He’s going to be real, not in my head anymore, so don’t worry about it, trust me, Sonny isn’t-...uh...harming me.

Well alright Cea! I’ll avoid talking about it for now then seeing it looks like it’s not an issue right now. As always, if it ever does become an issue, you know who to go to to talk about it. Now. Tell me, did you see any attractive people on the planet, you sure you didn’t flirt with anyone while on the ship?
[Cea laughs and both Marble and him continue to have their conversation.]



[Having nothing to do while he waited for Latta and Spips, Slate finished dinner and delivered all of the meals, keeping 2 to the side for Latta and Spips. With everyone else fed he came in to the control room with a plate of food to wait for Latta while he ate. He spotted Blu who quickly changed his expression so Slate wouldn’t see anything. Slate decided to sit next to Blu.]

[Blu looks around.]
Um....yo? What up?

[Slate starts eating while watching Blu. He doesn’t say a word, he just keeps his eyes on Blu. He wonders if he should smile. Does Blu like smiles? Would that mess things up if he smiled? Those are the sort of thoughts that went through Slate’s mind.]

Do....Do you not talk or somethin’? Like dude it’s weird. Like, what do you want from me? You’re just....eatin’ and shit man. Is this like your spot or somethin’? Do you normally eat here and I’m just squattin’ all over it?

[Slate brings up his hand to pretend he’s holding a cell phone. Blu seems to get it and gives Slate his cell phone number. Slate carefully types on his tablet, trying to attempt to not embarrass himself with his normal typing style. Finally he hits send.]

[Blu reads the message.]
“Heeeey there Blu! I just wanted to tell you I don’t like talking because of my voice, I’m sorry but that’s just how it is! <3”  Ooooh ok you just don’t talk. I get it the little less then 3 is a little weird though, that does that mean?
[Blu gets another text.]
“NOTHING, it was a slip up, don’t worry about it!” Oh ok got you!

[Blu gets more texts.]
“I like your music, it’s like a really good pastry! Uh no, I mean like electricity! An electric pastry? Uh...you know...like one of those....Ok this is going bad. I’m going to leave now. By the time you finish reading this outloud I’ll be gone. Also why are you reading this outloud that’s so weeeeeird. <3” Wait what?
[And so when Blu looked up from his phone Slate had already escaped.]

[Phlodur peers over Blu’s shoulder and points at his latest text.]
That’s pretty gay.

[Spips and Latta have just finished helping inform people about where to go to get off the planet. The army informed them both they can handle the rest.]
Hmmmm...You know I rightly so feel real bad about this. Wish we could go and done help everyone on the planet instead of just this here city. My friends are over back where we were before. It don’t feel too good knowing they bout to die and all. Just ain’t fair.

Greetings, I’m here to use this fine cup you see here to solve all of our problems.

Sorry buster but we already decided to save as many people as we can and leave this planet to the dogs, no need for any weird plans now.

Curse me and my short feet, ooaaaaaaauuuuu, what a shame, I suppose I might as well leave now. No longer will I need this.
[Oooo throws the #1 Dad mug but Latta manages to catch it. A pained roar rings out in the distance.]

[Latta puts an arm around Spips, or at least attempts to.]
Look here Spips, we can’t save everyone, but today, we at least saved about 100,000 people.
[A building falls as Kelda smashes in to it. Latta blinks.]
90,000 people Spips. We saved about 90,000 people. Now let’s uh...run. Now.
[Spips agrees and both of them rush back into the ship.]

[As Latta and Spips enter the ship Slate bumps in to them. He notices the cup, and throws a point towards it. He knew all about the cup and what it could do, and in that instance he hatched an idea. Kelda could help him possibly save everyone, maybe that would get everyone’s mood up. He just needed to play his cards right. He motioned towards cup to ask for it.]

Huh? You need this? Well ok I’ll give it to you but I need you on this ship right away, I don’t want you getting hurt out there ok?
[Latta tosses him the cup and he catches it. He gives her a nod and strides out of the area and towards the Lady’s area. Latta goes to get the ship ready for launch.]

[Latta enters the control room, calls everyone to it and checks what planets were open to heading towards today.]
We did a good job today crew!
[Everyone on the crew, but Slate who wasn’t there, along with Blu’s crew who had nowhere else to go, sort of groan in a half agreement.]
So lets check out our choices of planets today!

Today, we have 4 planets to pick from.

And they’re all the same fucking planet.

So looks like we’re going to.....
[Latta looks at the planet’s name, attempting to figure out how to say it.]
Mendac-Ium. We’re going to Mendac-Ium. Home world of the Tegyps. I hope you’re all ready for this. It’s known as “Cool lamp planet, with cool lamps, and also those weirdos who hang around it who are not lamps.”

Alright guys, lets break. Edel I want you to go plant some seeds, and then use a med kit on Marble’s legs, we don’t need Marble to gain any permanent damage because no one helped with her. She’s a strong one but that doesn’t mean nothing can do her in. As for the Blu’s crew. Don’t eat our food, or touch anything. Just kind of sit in a corner until we get to the next planet. I’m going to go check on the baby.

[Blu was already way ahead of Latta and sitting in a corner.]
Don’t need to tell me once. I’m already on it.
[Latta smiles and nods. A job well done she thinks. Marble stops her from leaving the room to ask a question.]

Captain Latta, where is Slate? He’s not here at the moment, did he refuse to come out of his room again?

Oh no, he took some #1 Dad mug I had and walked off with it. I told him to come back as soon as possible, I’m not sure what he went to go do but he seemed to be in a hurry, maybe he went to go return it to someone. He should have been back by now though.

#1 dad mug....No.....What is he doing?
[Marble turns around and attempts to run towards the exit of the ship, but ends up more in a quick limp then a run due to the state of her legs. Latta immediately understands that something is wrong and tells Spips to follow her. Marble almost never panicked, so if Marble was panicking right now it meant that she knew something unimaginable must have been happening.]




[Slate had made his way towards the party. No longer was there a line of people waiting outside, but just silence and the distant drones of ships flying off and one angry beast looking for her cup. The moment Slate entered the party area he held the cup up high and looked Persephone in the eyes. She was quick to speak back to the man who said no words.]

Is this a threat?
[Slate nodded.]
Devious, what kind of creature put that idea in to your head dear? What could you possibly want from me?......You want more time huh? Willing to risk yourself over this?

[Slate stood his ground even as Persephone got closer.]

Too brave and too foolish for your own wellbeing. Why did you send this one out? Why not the useless one? Hmmmmmmm. I see what you want to do. You wanted to correct a mistake you made along the way and only this one can do it. Can’t send the expendables to do a job only a pro can preform.
[Slate lifted an eyebrow in confusion. Persephone was starting to speak nonsense.]

Aaaah but you didn’t think this through. I could easily crush this one and then remove the cup, but you know what?
[Persephone rubs her neck while taking a few steps back with a laugh.]
I’m far too easily impressed by those who are so bold, such as yourself, to walk up to a god and make voiceless demands. You want more time? Fine, you can have it.
[The large window in the room, once covered with a large curtain, breaks.]

But I suppose he will lose his.
[Kelda’s hand slams in to Slate with deadly impact. He couldn’t feel the pain he was in. All he knew was that he was suddenly on the floor and far too much of his blood was pooling out. He just laid there looking at his blood, too shocked to move. Too shocked to scream.]

[It was minutes later when Marble, Latta, and Spips entered. Marble never stopped mumbling no over and over to herself until she saw Slate laying on the floor. Nicko hovered over him, his bag and a few items were scattered on the floor as if he attempted to find something to help Slate but gave up realizing it was to late. Marble put a hand to her mouth.]
No....Slate....no...

[Marble kneeled down near Slate and touched him to feel for a pulse. It was faint, but there. Slate couldn’t even open his eyes but he knew Marble was there. With the last of everything he had, he forced himself to do what happened next.]
I’m sorry auntie. I didn’t try hard enough.
[Slate has been slain.]

[For a moment, Marble stopped breathing. Even though little had changed about Slate, she could feel that he was gone. When she finally regained feeling in her arms she placed a single hand on Slate. She didn’t even attempt to shake him, she just lowered her head and closed her eyes tightly in an attempt to not cry.]

[Latta stood feets behind Marble. She didn’t know what to say to her. Marble had always been there for any who needed to mourn the death of a loved one or friend, but now that Marble was the one who lost someone dear to her she drew a blank. She never realized before how hard it was to do what Marble did, to go up to someone in so much pain and comfort them. Spips was the brave one to approach Marble.]

I don’t know you and I know you ain’t know me but when it comes to people in pain I ain’t care if I know them or not. I’m sorry for your loss. Was he your son?

[Marble takes a deep breath before slamming her fist on the ground.]
He....he might as well DAMN have been my son! It’s not fair. It’s not fair for children to have to apologize for not being born in a way their parents wanted them to be! It’s not fair he had to grow up in that situation...it’s not fair..that I didn’t take him out of it sooner. Life wasn’t fair to this boy.

People think Death is the worst of the gods, but as the Limbo book says, “It is They, Life, who is both most cruel, and lovin’.” If you believe in any there gods now is the time to curse them or ask them why they chose him, and if you don’t, you’re braver than many. Havin’ a god allows people to have themselves somethin’ to blame when thin’s go wrong. When you ain’t have one, you have to piece together their life to done figure out who to blame, and sometimes, there ain’t no one at the end of that rope.

[Marble clenches her fist.]
I’m going ki- no...That’s the wrong action to take. His father is a monster, but killing him wouldn’t solve anything. It would just bring a cycle of revenge. Plus I failed him too. I was selfish to bring him here. Please give me a moment.

Take all the moments you need.
[Spips left Marble’s side to rejoin Latta’s. She tossed Latta a sad glance, one that Latta returned. Latta was still trying to figure out her own feelings on the situation, Slate had been on her crew since the start and despite his silence she had grown well accustom to him. She decided to keep a straight face; it was Marble’s turn to mourn.]

[Persephone shakes her head slowly before looking down at Hades.]
Hade’s dear, keep our current guests, and our arriving guest comfortable. I have an army to call.

Don’t you, Honey, mean that you’re, my wife, are going to tell the army, them, to come back for the others?

Oh no, that would be boring. As queen of the underworld I shall summon the army of below to assist with my plans!...... By that I mean I’m going to go call about a few thousands of Mors, Persephone, Hermes, and Hades to go haywire, land here and help out the people. Ta ta.
[Persephone leaves though the now broken windows, allowing her escape from the building.]


Bye, bye my, Nicko’s, err Hades? Wife, Persephone! I shall deliver drinks to all here.
[Hades takes out a few cups and a red liquid, pomegranate juice. He offers it to Spips and Latta who take it, but holds off on offering any to Marble for the moment. He also offers a hat to both Latta and Spips, but Latta tells Hades she can’t even wear a hat, while Spips refuses on the grounds of the hats clearly being for mind control. Hades denies everything.]
So the lady done said that there was another guest comin’ but I don’t see anyone else here. Who this other guest?

[The smile on Hades’ face dies quickly. He scoffs and takes a swig of his own drink. Clearly the question was upsetting.]
God, the Future, will be coming here. In fact, he, the Future, appears to be here right now. Hmmp.
[Hades pours out juice, ready to give to the Future, but overfills it, seemingly on purpose so that the Future would have to hold a sticky cup.]

[Latta looks to the door to see the entrance of the Limbo god.]
No. You’re fucking with me right now. That is NOT a limbo god.

[Macciu squints at the piece of paper telling him directions to the party and looks up. He laughs and grabs the drink Hades held out for him, seemingly making sure to tilt it in such a way that most of it spills on to Hades.]
Finally! I am here at the grand event! I thought I would never get here after taking a wrong turn while attempting to put on my shirt today. I had put my left arm in my right sleeve, I had nearly become trapped.


[Hades growls a welcome at Macciu.]
We, Hades and Persephone, welcome you, flea bag, to our, Hades and Persephone’s, party. You, dirty animal, can make yourself, Macciu, at home.

[Macciu is unable to sense any of the hatred coming from Hades.]
Really? Macciu can make himself at home? Macciu never had a home before! Well except for that one time, but turns out most people do not consider Macciu’s home of a hole in the ground to be valid. There was also the time I had a cell in a jail. Why did Macciu leave that place anyway? Food, water, angry man across from me, it had much to offer.

You’re lying. That can’t be a limbo god. Limbo gods are suppose to be impressive, not this, dirty rat creature. This is some crazed man who thinks he’s a limbo god, not an actual one.

I am most impressive. For one Macciu has sailed the seven seas of the neighbors backyard pool. I have also once found a full hamburger in a trash once, only 2 days old, a test of luck it was, also I want you to take a look at Macciu’s tail. How fluffy it is. How fine. This is not one of Macciu’s impressive feats, I just wished for you to look at it. To take it in. Such a wonder it is.

I’m ordering you right now to stop joking around, or else you’re going to find out how your tail feels when it’s on fire!

[Macciu straightened up, attempting to look as serious as he possibly could, before giving up two seconds in and going back to a slouch.]
I am a god! Surprisingly not a god of music, I was born in to the wrong system I know it so. People saying Macciu isn’t a god is why Macciu gave up on attempting to convince people. That and because apparently being a god means you will be burned at a stake, and not the juicy kind.

Do you really want to see that Macciu is a god? It might hurt your ears, your eyes, your left pants leg, but not your right, your right is immune to my effects.

Yes I want to see this all powerful limbo god. You’re just trying to scare me and get me to back out of proving you’re nothing but a fake. Let us have it. Let’s see this “god”.
[Spips flutters her wings in excitement. Seeing a real god was her dream.]

[Macciu glows white. His fur is overtaken by the invasive color, until he is but a shining light in the room, his shape changing in to something more.]
Well, you asked Macciu and Macciu will deliver, unlike that pizza Macciu was suppose to deliver for his part time job 300 years ago. Limbo gods hide their true forms, not because we are scared, but because it is more fun to walk among our worshippers without them knowing.

[A huge, unnatural being filled the room. The being was a solid two colors, nothing more, nothing less. Even attempting to move around it to see if the light would add any shades or tones to it failed. Looking at it made one worry about the future.]
Now you see Macciu in all his glory, and a nice suit. Limbo gods do not really have any true forms, we change all the time, like underwear, once a month, maybe less. I am the god of the Future. Of time to come. I see what happens before it does.


[Spips is more than excited about seeing the Future. She forgets she can’t fly and attempts flapping her wings to take off in to the air so se can get closer.]
WELL AIN’T THIS KNOCKIN’ MY TUBESOCK OFF!!!! It’s really him! The Future! I love the Future they’re my favorite gosh darn god ever! Look at them! Look!

[Latta couldn’t take her eyes off the god if she wanted to. She tries to tear herself away but cannot. Even Marble who was lost in her own world now looked to the god. The deep black of the god quickly flashed to a few images. One of a hawk
committing a murder most foul. A weeping fish. A snake being sold a package by a cat, and a god of black and gold joining in an unholy bond.]
Stop......Change back....Now.....Please......I....Can’t look away.

[Spips sees nothing odd with the flashes before her. To her these were common place. She sticks her tounge out at Latta.]
Awwww don’t be a party pooper now! You done asked for it. Just look how amazin’ it all is. Come on you have to agree it’s great!
[Latta attempts to shield her eyes from what she’s seeing, Marble is unable to.]
Awwwww...Ok....please change back! You’re hurtin’ the poor people.


[Macciu starts to transform in to what he once was.]
I told you I was a god. You must listen to Macciu, Macciu knows what is “hip” and “Up” with the kids. This week it is their pants. Finally they return to their belts. Let Macciu give you some wisdom! Stop investing in gold, sell all now and drink your fine wines! The universe ends in only 342 more years, so now is the time to get drunk and also groom yourself so you look nice for the end.


Uh...What, no way, the universe can’t be all up and endin’ in the next 400 years. That just don’t seem right at all. It can’t be true....but....you’re the god of the future so you know this stuff.

Yes that is how long. Macciu counted using both his fingers and toes so he knows. Also it is how long my other half is going to sleep until he starts living his life
backwards. Macciu’s other half is so rude to Macciu, even after I raised him he treats me like smelly old unhelpful rat. I am smelly, old, and unhelpful, but I am no rat. Why do people keep calling Macciu this? But yes, it all ends soon! Sorry for whatever inconvenience this gives you, Macciu can give you a 50p rebate though.

Curse the Neo! I mean, I’d hate to ask for spoilers and all, but it’s the Neo who destroys the universe like always right? I mean that’s how it done always goes in the books. The universe is all handy dandy until the Neo feels we ain’t progressing fast enough and destroys us. Or if they get bored. Or hungry. Or they just kind of feel like doing it. Always that dang swamp beast!

No it is not them! I was surprised too you see. I have not spoken to them in forever, and they do not visit, they do not come over for holidays, they do not call, or send cards, or even try to eat Macciu whole like they used to, but I know it is not them, in fact it is not any of them. Not the gator, not the cat, not the phoenix, not the deer, not the ox, not the dolphin, not the squid, not the lizard, or even the dragon strangely, but a snake who ruins the universe.

[Spips opens her copy of “The Book of the Limbo” and flips through it.]
Well that’s mighty strange. It’s gotta be a god who does this, but ain’t more but a few side mentions about any snakes at all in this here book.
[Spips whispers to Macciu.]
(It ain’t me right? I ain’t want to be no killer so I just want the heads up if you’re tryin’ to tell me this here murder snake is me.)

No it is not you! Cannot be, you aren’t giant and also attempting to eat Macciu whole right now. I mean I am surprised, Macciu would eat himself whole right now if he could, I look delicious. Macciu isn’t sure what snake it is, but it is here in visions of the future it is a snake. Macciu’s other half is, slightly more smarter then Macciu, has more notes, makes sure to keep fur and time travel orderly. If you are willing to wait, Macciu is sure I can get other half to speak to you about this.


I think we should wait! But first let me attempt to see if I can feel any insights come to me!
[Spips looks upwards. She focuses with all of her might, hoping something would come to her, but all she gets is a strange vision of a robot with 4 screens killing another robot, or breaking a television.]
Hmmmmm well I ain’t see nothin’ that relates to us. Sorry, still I think we are safe!

Well then join Macciu in this one man party. I will order us drinks from monster who can’t help but obey!
[Macciu snaps his fingers and Hades groans and pours more drinks for Macciu.]
Macciu always wanted to be center of party, but I am always too late. It is hard being me, only being able to go in to the future, always late for parties by at least 4 years. It took Macciu lots of work to get here on time!

[Latta didn’t know what to say so she kept it simple.]
Ok Marble. You take your time. Feel free to sit this all out at the ship. If you don’t want to tell the others about what happened don’t bother, I’ll tell them.
[Marble nooded and left, taking Slate’s body with her.]

[While the others on the ship tinkered around, not knowing anything about the events that happened, and while the others at the party pretended to care about what Macciu had to say, Marble looted a shovel and dug a grave. There was nothing else she could do. There was no one else to send the body to. Dio would have just tossed it in the trash, the rest of the family would have handed it to Dio, and
keeping it on the ship would have just made her think about bringing him back.]

[When Slate’s body was placed in the grave and covered up, she didn’t bother
waiting. She stuck the shovel in the ground as a makeshift marker and walked back to the ship. She decided Latta could tell the others about Slate’s untimely death.]


[The god of the Past was taking his sweet time getting there. Macciu told them they could all rest for now, and that tomorrow morning the Past would be there to speak with them. The moment everyone left except for Hades, Macciu started talking to himself.]
Hmmmm....oh.....it’s you....hmmmm...I should have expected it. Let me guess, this is the part where you ask Macciu many tough questions. The prying type you are.

[Hades stiffles a laugh from the question, Macciu snaps his finger, Hades seems
startled and looks away, pretending he’s not apart of the situation.]
No. No. No. I’m the god of the Future. The one with the F. Not the P. I’m half a god not a full one.
[Macciu leans back in his chair and puts his feet on the table.]
Macciu is adorable, and useless. That is what Macciu’s power is. Got it?


[Hades hisses at our comment. Macciu sort of laughs.]
Macciu supposes that is correct. Macciu could end your universe right here. Right now. 342 years? Seconds to Macciu. With one snap of Macciu’s fingers 342 years would pass, and you would be helpless to Macciu’s whim. I am not a jerk though.
[Hades brings Macciu some food but Macciu drops it to the floor.]
Most of the time. Macciu is not a jerk.

Helper? Macciu and other half have this to say about Helper. Jerk. Always thinks she is doing right thing, but Macciu knows, she just hates all of us just as much as we hate each other. Mmmmm we are not very loving gods. You know this. All know this. Even Macciu last week knew this. If you pretend she is going to be doing the best for everyone, then boom! She will do it. As long as she is the center of attention. Makes Macciu sick, like rest of universe.


You ask Macciu this? Does the Neo know about this sun god thing. Yes, and the Neo is not worried. Macciu has already been though this many a times. You summon
monster, then you want to kill it, but you always fail in the end. Macciu knows, Macciu sees, also Macciu is older then your unwashed clothes. The Neo does not care, the Neo is not affected. Even big horrible monster like the sun god cannot kill the Neo, as such the universe keeps going as normal. Bleh.

[Macciu puts a hand on his chest.]
Do not speak about Macciu in the Macciu person like that. You have no reason to do so. Macciu does so for quirkness, it makes Macciu look good. It makes you look stupid. You think if Macciu knew about how to stop the sun god Macciu would be sitting here hanging out with this stupid hat robot? No. Macciu would be doing something, but Macciu is useless, and thus will do nothing.

Macciu doesn’t care much if you’re this player or that player. Macciu has seen many players, all speak the same, so why should Macciu care. You are all using Macciu’s house as big fun playground, so Macciu cares not who you are. All same to Macciu. To Macciu, you are like hat robot. Think you are strong, but Macciu knows, any of the real gods could ruin everything for you in one moment. It is not hard.

Macciu does have question for you. What is odd thing you keep doing? You keep trying to help these useless small people. If one of them dies Macciu sees you take too much time sticking around them. If one even stubs toe it is issue with you. Macciu sees all with his right eye, but not the left. What are you attempting with this nonsense?
[Macciu opens up his eyes widely and spits out his drink.]
What? This is your first game? Why are you here?! Flipping soft shelled turtles on the beaches of Macciu’s lovely home. How did you get here? Why is there rampaging monster in your game. Macciu does not know how you messed up so badly.
[Macciu throws his hands in the air and waves them.]
This is sort of horrible mess pro player would make, not sweet newbie!


You did simple mistake like that and got here? Macciu thought you were MONSTER not confused person! Well Macciu supposes that is how universe works, one small mistake and everything goes wrong. Hmmmm now Macciu isn’t sure what to do. Let me ask Macciu’s other half.
[Macciu’s lazy eye spins, the night quickly turns to day, and the day to evening before time stops. Latta, Spips, Cleo and Phlodur enter.]


Hey we’re back, so is this Past god going to show up? We want to leave the planet as soon as possible after we see the Past.

Shuuuushusususuusususuuuuu He is coming right now. Look to the door. The Past is at it, and Macciu knows what he wants.

[The Past catches up with the group, it sits in front of the open door and says only one word to the group.]
Meeeeeeeeeeew.

Awwwwwww It’s a cute caaaaaaaat. I’d pet it but I feel like it’d make an attempt on my life if I did that so I’m just going to admire it from here ok? You stay adorable you little, kind of killer looking kitty!

MeeeeeBZZZZZZZZZZZTeeeeeeeeeeeew!

Ooooooooh my god! Look at this cat! I love cats, and it’s not just because my
species just happens to look like cats. Drakons are actually more genetically related to cats then me. Just you know, setting the record here. Come here kitty!
[Phlodur feeds a bit of fish to the cat and picks them up.]
Look at me. Do you think I care that this is apparently a god? No. It’s a cat. It’s MY cat now. I’m ready to leave now.

Oh neat! Looks like the cat is safe after all.
[Cleo goes to pet the cat. The cat hisses and scratches Cleo. Cleo reels back and rubs her arm, she has a feeling that could have gone a lot worse.]
Owwwww geez! Why did you do that for Mr.Cat?

[To everyone else the cat is just meowing and hissing, but to you it’s speaking.]
G-G-Get away from me with this. Y-Y-You think you can just command your gross animals to touch me without a meal? What a p-piece of trash you are. Thanks a lot f-for waking me up so early. ;3


No. It’s too l-late! I’m not h-hungry anymore. Also if I’m going to t-talk to myself, at the very least h-help me stop t-time so we don’t risk killing e-everyone in this room. Thanks. ;3
[Macciu nods and raises his hand. The Past does the same, and suddenly everyone stops moving, not just the characters, but the whole universe. Everyone but the Future and the Past could move.]

Right, Macciu has a question for self. Why does self fur always gross and slimey? Look at Macciu. Look how nice and trim my fur is. You aren’t trying hard enough, you need Macciu to brush your fur and wash you. You should rejoin with Macciu.

[The cat jumps out of Phlodur’s hands and changes in to a form you know well.]
E-E-Excuse you? Who do you th-think you are, other then me? I am clean. A-As clean as a p-person who has been sleeping for a few thousands of years. Too b-bad someone keeps waking me up w-whenever they have a problem. As me, yo-you know how much I hate being woken up from a nap. ;3

Right, right, well Macciu gets it. Macciu just had one question to ask. This player, Macciu thought they were old pro player, like most players who do this to the
universe, but it turns out this player as new as the pair of shoes Macciu brought and never wore. Macciu normally dislikes helping players, but.....this is not like other situations. A new player should get to enjoy the game, and this must not be very fun at all for this new player. So can we help them?

[Nikki yawns, still sleepy.]
Yeah about that? I al-already did help, well more like, I wi-will help, in my future. I’ve already d-did what I needed to do though in y-your past. See the plan is this. Complete the s-sun god. Ma-make him more powerful! That was the pl-plan. I did it, or, am going to do it. Look we need to p-pick if we’re going by your, or my-my time frame. Ok? Lets go by y-yours. ;3

What does it solve? He-Hell if I know. All I know is that i-is the plan. Feed the s-sun god! Just a few days ago (from your point of view) you g-gave me an Apollo v1 shell. Then I teleported away, and gave it to a lady who’s going to feed it to the sun god, give h-him even more power. By the way. At what point do we feed Helios to the s-sun god? I don’t have that on my list. ;3

Where did I get t-this great plan you ask? I-It was from a snake. Yeah he t-told me in (your) past that this was the plan. B-Before we met honestly. W-Well it wasn’t quite a s-snake. It was a pe-person who was like, taken over by one. I f-figured if someone was a-able to tell that I was a r-real god then they must have been s-sent by you. This has actually happened be-before in other runs, buuuuut this is the first time I’ve l-listened, I was kind of bored so w-why not? ;3


I-I think this plan m-makes a lot of sense. If you c-can’t beat them, w-why not join them? Y-Yes just feed all of your f-friends to the sun god, t-thats how you do it. I’m being sarcastic b-by the way. T-This plan sucks, and I-I’m not going to bother telling you what I’m going to s-see when I wake up, but I’ll tell you this. It’s p-pretty hot if I d-do say so myself. ;3

Who is this lady I’m talking a-about? Oh right. I-I don’t know her name I just knew to be a-at a certain place at a c-certain time. The lady I’m talking about is t-that one though. ;3
[Nikki points to Spips. He then pauses and taps his mask.]
But you know, j-just not that one. Does s-she have twin? I-If so it’s the twin I g-gave it to. Do-Don’t try to stop the event, it’s pretty important. ;3

Oh you know. The u-universe and e-everything in it. Just that h-honestly. See that’s the b-best thing about me. I’ve al-already done everything in a way. It’s great.
Everything I d-do will happen, and the u-universe just has to tiptoe around my will. Aaaah, d-don’t you just love time. Don’t you just hate the p-past biting you like this? Every Li-Limbo god has a “good” and “bad” side to them except one of them. Guess which s-side is the bad side for the god of the Future and the Past. ;3

Uuuuh...
[Macciu goes to pet Nikki, even though he was only about 3/4th his size. Nikki
instead picks him up by the neck.]
Yelp!

Oh come on player! S-Stop being so hopeless. I-I’m on your side, as long as you keep the r-robots coming. I can’t h-hate a p-person who loves robots. Other m-me is also on your side, and if he isn’t, I’ll kill him. I mean it w-won’t do anything
because he’s m-me and all, but I’ll do it. Remember, the past, also known as m-me will always remember your disgusting mistakes, and wi-will remind you at all times, but the future, the f-future can always be changed. ;3

Aka, the other h-half of me is going to help you. N-Not me though. I don’t d-divert. Plus, I-I’ve done more then e-enough to help you. You’ll see. I-I bring out the b-best in people! The smooth, rich b-best in people. W-when they see me they just c-can’t help but look back on all the mis-mistakes the lead up to seeing me and
c-correcting all of that. Now. Are we done here? Mr.Ratty has to g-go back where he belongs after all. ;3

[Nikki tosses Macciu in to his inventory and turns back in to a cat. He jumps back in to Phlodur’s arms.]
Good to know we’re done here. I’ll just keep doing w-whatever I w-want. D-don’t worry, like I s-said before. I’m tooooootally useful. T-totally. ;3
[Time starts up again. Everyone is confused as Macciu has suddenly vanished out of thin are, just leaving them with the cat.]

Where did he- you know what? I’m not going to ask.
[Latta crosses her arms.]
He likely time travelled right out of here. I hate time travellers, I can see why we put each and every single one of them in jail now. I bet you this cat isn’t even any kind of god, just, a really weird looking cat. Cats are strange and I frankly don’t even like them.

Ah yes, the gods sure are jerks, just like how I thought they would be. I’m so glad the gods didn’t fail at doin‘ what they do best, or else I would feel really bad about callin’ them all jerks and cursin’ to the skies bout their junk. Wouldn’t want to have them on my side that’s fo sure! If my sis is still alive I want to tell her bout my meetin’ with a god. She’ll get a hoot! Might as well head back now right?
[Latta nods and collects food from the table, enough to feed the terror for a day.]

Yeah lets head back! I’m sure Blu is going to feel better about all the mess that’s happened once he gets to pet my new cat Nikola! Nikola is totally a god by the way. No one can tell me other wise. Plus come on, no cat just “happens” to look this weird? It’s a god. Yep.
[Latta just rolls her eyes and leaves to the ship, everyone else following behind.]



[Latta walks in to the control room she starts up the ship and it takes off. Oddly enough the planet was much closer then expected, so Latta went off to do some chores for a few hours, and then came back ready to pick a location to land on the planet. Everyone seemed busy so she called the Hermes to assist her with a pick.]
Hey Hermes! Where are you?

[In the distance sounds of items from the closet door can be heard being tossed around and moved out of the way. Suddenly Hermes rushes in the the room,
skidding across it and tossing Blu to the side after bumping in to him at high speeds. Hermes finally comes to a rest and hops over to Latta, he seems in horrible shape.]
HelloHello!!!! I’m here what do you need?

Uh, are you alright? What have you been doing this whole time? Did you even notice the ship moved?

Ooooooh you know, nothing NothingAtAll!!! I’ve been soooooooo bored...So bored! Doing nothing all day. All I’ve done so far was uh.......
[Hermes looks away, not wanting to look Latta in the eyes as he recalled the events that happened to him while everyone was gone.]



Hermes
[In the closet of the Mercury ship, Hermes sat quietly, attempting to calm himself down.]
128 hours, 32 minutes, and 17 seconds. 128 hours, 32 minutes, and 14 seconds. 128 hours, 32 minutes, and 10 seconds. 128 hours, 32 minutes, and 07 seconds.

Ugh! This is horrible, I....I just can’t stop thinking about it...What I saw in the mirror. Why did I look?!?! I just wanted to take a small peek that’s all, a small one, why am I being punished for this? OkOkOkOk, I gotta calm down, I’m over thinking it. Yeah! I just need to do ANYTHING else than think about this! Man I would just ship, but the player took my shipping chart.

I can’t believe they did that...are they trying to be mean to me? I mean I worked on that chart for a long time and they just kind of, took it without asking. They did get Athena, and she’s a war god! Why did they even get her, don’t her and Helios have almost the same main powers anyway? Unless....

Oh no. I mean, look at her! She’s strong, fast, and aggressive! SheCouldTakeMeInHer HandsAndSnapMeInTwo! She’s smart, unlike me, and she never loses attention...unlike me....she’s one of the few gods who I can’t trip up with my speed or my funny jokes cause she never gets them! They...wouldn’t try using Athena to kill me right? No! No way! The player likes me, we’re like friends, I think.

[Hermes takes out the fanart the player made him so many years ago. He tried his very best to keep it in tact, but yet it still showed the signs of aging.]
Yeah...we’re friends. Them getting Athena is just...a coincident! It’s nothing. I just wish they talked to me, cause right now it doesn’t feel like we’re friends at all.

I don’t even know why they brought me here if they didn’t want to talk to me! I mean why would they summon me to be their ship AI and then ignore me other than to do normal ship work?

.................

Did I do something wrong?

Oh gods, oh no, what if Athena told them that if they kill a god they can take their power and power up one of their patrons or themselves???? I always knew Athena would go power hungry! She always voted most likely to become a god killer in our yearbooks! I just thought she was being misjudged because she yells a lot!

.......They could come in at anytime....they could rush in and kill me. While I’m chatting to myself here the player could suddenly trap me and send Helios and Athena on me.....I think Helios would do it, I’ve heard about project solar flare! He’s a killer too! He could kill again....I wish I had a mirror! I wish I had a mirror! What if my time has already changed? 128 hours, 28 minutes, and 54 seconds. That’s what I think I’m down to.

No no no! I have to stop this!
[Hermes stomps his feet on the floor and puffs out his neck.]
I, Hermes Greek am being paranoid. No one is going to hurt me. I’m just going to go talk to some of my friends! They’ll remind me everything is A-Ok! I’ll talk to them, realize they’re good people who would never kill me, and then I’ll talk to the player, who loves me and is also a good person!

That’s the goal, and I’m sticking with it. Like a famous captain once said, it’s going to be alri-...........

Uh. Maybe I shouldn’t be quoting people who have been killed by people they thought were their friends. Yeeeeeeeeeeeah let me not do that. Anyway! Time to start with the one person I know is a good guy who would never hurt me....Thanatos!!! What a good harmless friend he is! Now away I go!
[Hermes zips away, tearing a hole to the underworld and summersaulting in to it.]



Than
BROTHER. WOULD YOU LIKE TO TAKE PART IN THE MURDER HOUR? OR. THE “SUPER HAPPY FUN TIME HOUR”. AS IS THE FUCKING STUPID. POLITICALLY CORRECT TERM FOR IT?

Hyp
[Hypnos says nothing but softly snores as he bats a rounded rock back and forth. Hypnos head sways side to side gently like a person who was drowsily trying to stay awake. Thanatos, the normally impatient and quick to anger god strangely watches this without any additional comments, waiting for Hypnos to decide what he wants first.]

Hermes
[Hermes suddenly bursts in.]
HEY WHAT UP MY KILLER BROTHER?!?! I’m here to PARTY!!!! Almost killing hour, bet you need a partner in crime to help you out huh? Oh, oh, oh! How about we play that game where I’m the sheep dog, the extrals are sheep, and you’re the drunken farmer who’s here to kill the flock?

Hyp
[Hypnos only makes a sound that can be described as the universe’s quietest trombone being surprised, before abandoning both his rock and his thoughts to back away from Hermes and his sudden appearance.]

Than
KEEP IT THE FUCK DOWN. AND WATCH YOUR FUCKING LANGUAGE WHEN MY BROTHER. IS IN. THE ROOM. I CAN’T GO ANYWHERE TODAY SHIT FOR CIRCUITS. CAN’T YOU SEE? MY BROTHER IS AWAKE? GODS SMITE YOU. AND YOUR FAKE CHILDREN. AS WELL AS YOUR STUPID ONE TRACK MIND.

Hermes
Wow. That’s sooooooooooo lame. Your brother is a toooooootal lame-o keeping you in like this. Why can’t he just follow you around or something? Why do you have to be the one to watch over him all the time?

THAN
GET THE BLOODY FUCK OUT OF MY PRISON.


Hermes
Wait what? Why are you throwing me out buddy?

THAN
YOU’RE BEING. SO FUCKING RUDE IS WHY I WANT YOU OUT.

Hermes
Really, this is how we always talk to each other, why is it an issue now?

Than
WELL OPEN UP YOUR HEARING SENSORS. AFTIK SHIT. YOU CAN CALL ME ALL THE NAMES YOU WANT. AND I. IN RETURN WILL YOU NAMES. SUCH AS. BUT NOT LIMITED TO. BROKEN PIPE CLEANER. FUCK BOY. A MAN WHORE. A BROKEN LAMP. FUCK FACE. FUCKAROONY. FUCK FUCK. AND SO MUCH MORE. BUT IN NO WAY ARE YOU ALLOWED TO CALL MY BROTHER. A LAME-O. LOOK AT HIM. HE’S GOING TO FUCKING CRY.

[Hypnos plays a sad flute sound. Hypnos is being more affected by Thanatos yelling than he is by Hermes.]


AND IF HE CRIES. I WILL KILL YOU. MURDER YOU. I WILL TEAR OFF YOUR LEGS. SEASON YOU WITH SALT AND PEPPER. BEFORE THROWING YOU OVER AN OPEN FLAME. AND SERVING YOU TO THE WIFE AND KIDS YOU DO NOT HAVE.


Hermes
W-w-what did you say? DidYouJustSayYou’dKillMe???? NoPleaseDon’tIDon’tWantToDie! We’re best buds, the best of buds, you shouldn’t say that to your bud, come on! Ha...ah....ha.......

Hypon
[Hypnos shakes his head back and forth.]
it’s too loud here. please stop fighting.

THAN
YOU FUCKING HEARD HIM. STOP BEING SUCH A PUSSY. AND GET OUT. NOW. OR ELSE I WILL KILL YOU.

Hermes
I-.......I.......ok........
[Hermes runs away from the brothers, scared for his life.]

Hypnos
[With Hermes gone Hypnos calms down, curling up and closing his eyes for a rest. While he had only just woken up minutes before he was already tired from the excitement of his short time awake.]

THAN
ARE YOU GOING TO SLEEP. ALREADY? THAT’S FUCKING ALRIGHT. I GUESS. DON’T WORRY ABOUT MY ASSWIPE OF A BEST FRIEND. HE’LL GET IT ONE DAY. I DON’T THINK. HE MEANT TO CALL YOU A LAME-O. YOU ARE THE BEST. OF BROTHERS. HE JUST DOESN’T FUCKING UNDERSTAND YET.



APOLLO
[In the wide reaches of the underworld, an Apollo unit was carefully pacing back and forth as he respectfully filled out his taxes and reviewed the rent he’s gotten this month. The family in 5F was going to have to be evicted but otherwise everything was looking fairly clear. His eye sensors spun around rapidly as he attempted to figure out how he would break the news to the poor family who was having money issues.]

[Seeing someone he knew in the distance he put on his normal shades and approached them, tail wagging.]
It is...nice to see you brother.

Mors
Howdy brother! How are you doing today? Are you ready for our plans today? Got a fairly big birdy to catch!

Som
I’m doing well.....I am sure that the player didn’t suspect a thing and assumed that I was Apollo.....It is just such a shame....that I can be accepted as an Apollo unit to the masses......without any questions.....but they will never accept my true form.......at least the money from the rent I collect.....is fairly enjoyable.

Mor
Hahahahhahaa! You’re soooooooooo in character my gosh darn adorable brother! You’re the cutest lil puppy doggy in all of puppy land! A real grumpy puppy that’s what you are!

Som
Yes.....I am the best.......dog in all of puppy land......this is true.....anyway...why don’t you get the plans out and explain them....

Mors
Okey dokey! Now lets see.....
[Mors takes out a large piece of paper with crayon writing all over it. Mors holds it out when someone comes barreling over to them at high speeds.]

Hermes
[Hermes bumps in to Mors, causing Mors to fall face first in to the ground and the plans to be covered in the fine dust that blanketed the whole underworld.]
HEY THERE GUYS! WHAT’S UP!?!

Mor
You little FFFFFFFFFF-
[Mors does a small tap dance while snapping his fingers in an attempt to stop himself from saying something rude.]
Freaking -Snap- Amazing -Snap- Robot -Snap- -Snap- -Snap- You!!!! But honestly Mr.Hermes, you kind of threw my plans all over the floor, and me, and that’s a huge no no!

Hermes
Woops! You’re so short I didn’t notice you until it was too late!
[Hermes picks up the plan and shakes it to dust it off before handing it to Mors.]
Anyway, I was hoping we could hang out Mor- I mean clockwork! Jeez I can never get it right UGH! Anyway the ship I’m suppose to be watching is kiiiiiiind of getting stolen, so looks like I have time to do whatever! You want to play some board games or....run around in killing hour......or.......

Mors
Oh woowy Mr.Hermes, I’d love to but I’m doing adult things today with my very adult plans!
[Hermes eyes the very adult plans written in crayon, they eye him back.]
So I just can’t squish in any time for a play date! I think I can pencil you in for tomorrow!

Hermes
Oh come on, it’s killing hour! We should be shaking down fools, jumping out from dark corners while yelling boo, and scaring the heck out of some extrals! Oh and then killing them after, that too. I’mSoooooBored, I just need some entertainment right now, to take my mind off things, and killing hour is my hour. My fine hour.

Somnus
What is he doing? I don’t think I’ve seen him do that before with his face.

Mors
[Mors waves his hands a bit.]
Oh that? He does that with all his best bestest of buds. If he did this to everyone people would likely judge him all rudely! Sort of like if someone judged me based on when- actually I’m straying here! I’m sorrewe Mr.Hermes but like I said, I have work today. Time for the big boy pants.


Hermes
Hey, if you have work that needs to be done, I can help! I’m good at helping.

Somnus
I mean......maybe Hermes is just what we need.....after all our target today.......is his kid.

Hermes
Whaaaaaaaaaat? I don’t remember having any kids! Lately.

Mors
Well listen up, the kiddo we’re going to steal is that lil baby bird you stole, then sold, then you decided to be cootie buddies with that one Apollo who brought the egg, and then someone tossed it on the floor and it hatched. I believe that bird is the reincarnation of the poetnix! We’ll have a diddly darn easier time keeping peace if we have the birdy of peace on our side. Maybe we can even kil- I mean, put it to sleep and take its power!

Hermes
You mean kill it! Why would you kill Yammy?

Mors
It’s Yatiz, Mr.Hermes. The reason we would kill Yatiz is because when you kill a limbo god, you can take its power. We’d have to figure out which one of us would get the power buuuuuuuut we should try reasoning with it first. That’d be fiddly diddly easier then figuring out how to get rid of Yatiz without causing pain. Pain is awful; we wouldn't want to give that to poor lil Yatiz. I already got the Moirai, aka Fates, to agree with the plan. We’ll trap Yatiz without a hitch!



Hermes
Uuuuuuhhhhhh. Yeah..sure that’s a good plan I guess.

Somnus
I’m not sure it’s going to work........ If they really are the Poetnix then this Yatiz has to be smart. Not sure if they’re going to trust us....... and stand still long enough for the Fates to trap them.

Mors
No way brother! Don’t you worry your little head. Your little brother is here to make sure everything goes hunky dory clean! Plus, you have the body of that Apollo who is Yatiz’s “dad”. It was a good thing we took Mr.Apollo’s body or else we might not be able to fool them!

Somnus
Heh....yeah it was pretty awesome.......I’m glad we did this.

Mors
What was it that Mr.Apollo said again? “Oh yes, of course, how could a god of knowledge such as myself remember a, what was it? 10 word contract?” Hahahahaha! He’s so fucking stupid! The contract he signed never ever ever said we had to give his body back, just that I wouldn’t delete him!

Sure, I told him I would give him his body back, but only verbally! He’ll have a hard time arguing that in court with no witnesses! Is that ruuuuuuuude of me? Oh well! At least he won’t die as said in our contract!

Som
He should be glad....we gave him a body at all.....he’s doing pretty well for a guy who could have been tossed back in to the tutorial.....bark.

Mor
Yep! It’s our lucky day! I mean I didn’t think we’d eveeeeeery have a reason to take his body other then to mess with him, but here we are! That lil birdy is going to think his papa came home, but nope, it’s Somnus!

Hermes
Hey, I’d hate to cut in, and be the negative guy, I really do, but don’t you think what you guys are doing is just a tad rude? Just, you know. A little?

Mors
Geeeeeeeeeez, maybe you’re right Mr.Hermes, maybe we’re being rude, sort of like that one guy who released Mr.Apollo from their prison. I mean, releasing him was a good action! After all he didn’t reeeeeally do the bad thing, buuuut they didn’t admit to anyone they did it, so I got all those mean people throwing rude words at me and trying to get rid of me. Only a bad man wouldn’t admit their guilt when someone else is getting hurt like that!

Hermes
Yeah that sounds pretty bad!

Mors
That sounds pretty bad? THAT SOUNDS PRETT- yes. It is pretty bad you little silly. Don’t worry, if they ever told me they were sorry, I’d forgive them.

Hermes
...................................
[Hermes slowly nods.]

Mors
You know what? I DON’T think I’m sorry for Mr.Apollo! I hope he burns. Painlessly. I hope someone takes out all of his pain sensors and then, he burns, and he’s like “Oh ok, I guess this is happening.” Like he’s not panicking or anything, he’s just understands that in 5 to 30 minutes he’s going to die. That’s what I want. Anyway, if you want to help you can follow. If not, then you can stay here. I don’t care.

Hermes
No no, I’ll help!

Mors
Perfect! Just try not to get too in the way Mr.Hermes!
[Mors form begins to shift, his horns splitting in to two, one part turning in to ears and the other splitting off in to branches.]

Hermes
You know, I never understood your whole transforming thing, like how does that even work? Hahaha..ha. No reeeeeeally no one else finds it a little bit weird that Clockwork can just sort of do that? Cause it’s like really weird.

Somnus
[Somnus just stares at Hermes before popping off his own head. For the few seconds he’s headless small metal arms and wires of all shapes slowly snake their way upwards, until finally Somnus inserts an Apollo head on to himself. He fakes a cough as he gets in character.]
Woooow you’re a real smart one aren’t you? Maybe you should be a teacher! I think you would relate well with first graders.

Hermes
Hahahaha! You sound just like Polly!

Mors
That’s the point silly! Anyway now it’s time to catch that bird. Come on!
[Mors rips a hole in space and leaps in to it, the others follow just behind.]

Panel showing the planet name

[It too some trekking in the woods of the planet, but soon they came upon a clearing, and their prize for their hard work.]
Well look at what we got here. A little birdy.

Som
That bird is a tad bigger than “little” don’t you think?

Mors
I’m making a joke brother! Now you two need to work your magic. Go greet your “child” keep them still for just a minute or two and this should be in the bag!

Hermes
Alright! Lets do this!
[Hermes gallops forward with Somnus behind him. He stops when the bird looks towards him. He finds himself unable to speak.]

Somnus
[It is Somnus who makes speaks first.]
Hey there Yatiz! It’s me, your dad! It’s been so long, I’m sorry I lost you after that incident, but I’m finally here......to pick you up again.

Yatiz
..............................

<Emojies in the placeholder doc>



Somnus
[Somnus holds himself back from saying how ear grating the tone that came from Yatiz was. Due to being robots both Hermes and Somnus were unable to understand the true emotions behind Yatiz’s “words”.]
Yea that’s right.... It’s me your dad.

Hermes
No you’re the mom, not the dad! I’m the father!

Somnus
[Somnus punches Hermes lightly in the neck.]
What? It doesn’t work that way, you’re the dad and I’m the dad.....that’s how it works right now. I know you’re making a joke but this is not the place or time....

Mors
[Mors whispers to both of them.]
If you guys keep this up I’m going to puu- give you guys noogies! So stop it.

Yatiz
<It’s in notepad>

Mors
Awwww what a touching reunion, Yatiz really does miss you both.

Hermes
[Yatiz leans in to get a closer look. Hermes touches Yatiz’s bill. Hermes had nearly forgotten about the plan as the bird softly coo’d.]
Yeah! It’s great to see Matiz again. I’m so glad that Herpollo has been doing so well! She, well I think she’s a she, looks like she’s doing well for herself!

Mors
It’s just so sad this is fake.
[Mors snaps his fingers, and holes to the underworld rip out of the ground. Threads erupt from the ground quickly making their way to Yatiz.]

Hermes
 [Hermes panics, from where he’s looking the threads appear to be coming his way, ready to rip him apart to get to Yatiz. In fear he screams.]
No!!!



Yatiz
[Yatiz is surprised by the yell and attempts to fly away, believing Hermes to have been shouting a warning to her.]

[But it’s too late, the threads tangle around her feet and bring her crashing down. She looks at Hermes and Apollo, knowing she was betrayed.]

Mors
[Mors stomps his feet as he glares at Hermes.]
What was that abo-
[Yatiz screeches as loud as she can as she’s slowly dragged off to the underworld.]
Shut up you ssssstupendously wonderful bird! We’re not trying to hurt you, yet! We’re just wrapping you up so it’s easier to tell you our goals without you killing us!

[Mors takes out a checklist and growls as he checks capturing the bird.]
Ok we’re all done here and ready to leave! Lets so!
[Mors makes a hole to the underworld and jumps down it.]

[Hermes tries to follow but Mors pops back out, now transformed back to his normal self, and puts a hand on Hermes before lightly pushing him away.]
Sorry Mr. Hermes, I think you need a time out after that performance you had there were you warned the bird that we were going to trap her.

Somnus
Yeah you look....on edge.....maybe you should just sit out this whole process for now....take a walk....as people always tell me to do. You’ve been.....very jumpy.
[Mors closes the hole, leaving Hermes behind.]

Hermes
.........No wait up guys don’t leave me alone!
[Hermes rips his whole hole and travels to the two.]

OhMyGosh! I’mSoSorryIWasn’tTryingToWarnYatizISwear! I just got you know, a little worried and scared and when I saw the threads I thought they were coming for me you know!

Mors
What? Why were you scared? You knew the plan right? We explained it to you.

Hermes
Well.....see....I thought you might have been tried to kill me....haha..ha...it’s funny right?

Mor
What the fuck Mr. Hermes?



Hermes
Oooh come on! It’s a perfectly reasonable thought, come on.

Mors
......I’m going to ask you Mr.Hermes, do you really, honestly, think I would ever murder you?

Hermes
Hahahaha...well I mean, a little yeah, I think you would.

Mor
What? Mr.Hermes I would NEVER murder you and you should know that! You’re my friend Mr.Hermes, I don’t have any reason to ever kill you, other then it being an after effect of destroying the whole universe! I can’t believe you would ever think that. Do you know I’m being blamed for what you did?

Hermes
Huh? What I did? I have no idea what you’re talking about.

Mors
Oh, well let me help remind you. Once upon a time a robot named Mr.Apollo was thrown in to the tutorial, and a robot named Hermes felt so bad about it, he released Mr.Apollo from it later on. Now are you going to keep playing dumb?

Hermes
[Hermes scratches at the ground, attempting to disconnect himself from the conversation.]

Mors
Why’d you go and let Mr.Apollo out of the tutorial?

Somnus
[Somnus pulls the back of Mors’ hood in an attempt to stop Mors.]
Come on, lets leave him alone......... How about we all walk away...... and then come back later once everyone is..... cooled off.

Mos
No! I want to know why you did it Mr.Hermes. Why did you let Mr.Apollo go?


Hermes
Be-because Apollo is my fr-

Mors
BECAUSE APOLLO IS YOUR FUCKING FRIEND BOO HOO! Mr.Apollo is your friend from a PAST universe! This isn’t the same Apollo, he doesn’t remember anything! Also look who got the blame for your actions, huh? Who go it?

Hermes
It was you.....I didn’t expect you to get blamed.....

Mors
Oh you didn’t expect me to get the blame? I’m a Roman Mr.Hermes, no matter how much I want to hide it! I’m always going to be blamed before a Greek! Why didn’t you correct them when they were blaming me for everything? For letting Mr.Apollo out of the tutorial for a reason even they didn’t know?

Hermes
I didn’t want to be blamed...

Mors
And so you let me take the blame? You let me get bullied around by Greeks AND Romans because you didn’t want to be blamed? I have almost been KILLED, Mr.Hermes, a few times over this, and you did it because you didn’t want to be blamed.

I knew you did it, but I never told a single little bitty soul about it, and do you know why Mr.Hermes? Why someone would willingly take the blame for a horrible crime even though they didn’t commit it?

Hermes
No not really...

Mors
Wa-what? You....don’t know why? That’s.....
[The comment hits Mors pretty harshly.]
It’s because I’m your friend Mr.Hermes. That’s why I’m willing to take the blame even though you did it. Even though you never defended me or say you think I didn’t do it, and yet here you are Mr.Hermes......Believing that I of all people would kill you...Something I never would do to you Mr.Hermes.


No matter how much people were mean-os to me, hunting me down whenever I so much as set my small toe out of the underworld, I never told a single soul it was you. Not even my own brother, I’m sure he figured it out though, he’s a smart boy, a good dog. But the thing is, I’ve never gotten any thanks for this, or any sorries about it. It’s almost like you didn’t CARE what happened to me.

I’m sorry! I’m so sorry about it! I should have told you about it but I’m such a dumb airhead, I either didn’t want anyone to be mean to me or I’d always forget to tell you about it. I didn’t even think about it.

That makes sense to me.......It’s...understandable......I think we all should take a short break.....come on brother.....
[Somnus tries to pick up Mors but Mors doesn’t allow him to.]

Just cause it makes sense doesn’t make it ok! I just don’t like that he seems to value his friendship with a DEAD Apollo more than mine. I think HE should have to move and get out, not me.

Ok.....Now you’re starting to act like a.........hmmmmm.........yeah......I guess this
situation is going....correctly........

[Hermes reaches over trying to give Mors a friendly pat.]

[Mors pushes Hermes hand away.]
Please don’t! I’m pretty sure you don’t even trust me, that’s what started this whole thing, and I’m looking at the reason right now. You didn’t listen to the biggest rule, did you, Mr.Hermes? That’s why you thought I’d kill you and why you’re hanging out with me on today of all days.

No! I just wanted to hang with....awww I can’t lie....that’s why I did it. I’m only hanging with you to make sure you’re not planning on killing me.

Well at least you have the flip flapping burgers to admit it. Now if you really trust me, you can come back here in 127 hours, 19 minutes, and 10 seconds to say sorry to me about it. If you do that, you’ll be totally forgiven. Won’t that be nice?

But....But that’s when....

Just moments before you’re suppose to die? Yes. I know. That’s the point. That’s really too bad but that’s the ONLY time I have open for you to say sorry about this. Consider it a trust exercise. If you trust me to not murder you, you’ll come.  Now get out of my sight Mr.Hermes.

I-I......I......Don’t know if I’ll come back....
[Hermes runs away from Mors and teleports off.]

.......Harsh....

I guess, but it’s for his own good. Sadly I’m sure he’ll do himself in because of his paranoia rather then anyone else doing him in.

You should say......sorry...

You’re right....I should..if he’s even alive by the time I see him next.



Right... sure. Anyway I wanted you to help me pick out a spot to land. Currently we have 4 places to land.  First is Midnight Vales. One of the two largest cities on the planet, Midnight Vales is home to many tegyps and is almost always in a state of
afternoon/twilight, despite its name of "Midnight". Likely a good place to land if we want our trip here to be quick.

Second we have the ruins of the Terror Bird. It’s called the ruins of the Terror Bird not because the ruins were about a terror bird but because it was an area ruined by a terror bird. From the info I’m picking up it happened after some strange event. There should be a lot of loot to pick up there.

Next up we have “A House” a popular tourist attraction here. It’s a house. You enter the house and every door you enter takes you to another house. Some are filled with parties, some are filled with your darkest nightmares, and some are filled just with lamps. Just. Lamps. You have to be careful while in “A House”, some people go in and never come back out, either losing their way in the house or falling to a fate much worse.

According to legend, the House is also the home of the mysterious faceless tockhau who lives in the walls of every tegyps home. But those are just rumors.

The last location is “Kivver”. It’s not the planet Kivver, it’s “Kivver: The real
experience!” It’s really a poor example of what Kivver really is. One of the
attractions here is listed as “the bottomless hole of soul seeing, another tourist attraction that is said to reveal the true nature of the soul of whomever looks into it. Or it eats them, nobody is quite certain.” So basically this is nothing like Kivver. I’m also sure it’s pretty deadly.


Oh um, maybe we can head to the house, I mean sure it sounds a little deadly, but as long as you guys make sure to remember the way you came it can’t be that bad right? Just gotta keep tabs.

That sound about right, full speed ahead to the House. I’ll go tell Cleo, Spips, and Edel that they’re going to come with me. I believe Cea and Marble need a little time to themselves, you and the Helios need to keep an eye on them. See you!
[Latta sets the ship to land and heads off to inform the crew.]