ΒΆ Session 057
Previously: Session 058 Next: Session 060
Seresia: "You're a good man. I know you'll make the right decision."
Captain Lucas: "I was just in the right place at the right time."
Seresia: "That's all it takes. A good person is just someone who does the right thing at the right time."
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The fake Administration void on the map was actually the Autonomous Weapons Research wing.
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The door had gouges in it as if something was trying to claw its way out.
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A crackling wall of force surrounds Ami's core.
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Ami killed the reconstruction of Raya, Tresslyn's wife, because Raya was trying to get Ami to stop working on Starbreak.
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Ami admits to having killed 48 people.
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Seresia intends to shut her off, and she shuts the door.
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Ami intends to finish Starbreak.
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Captain Lucas sides with us.
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There's a neural interface terminal of some kind in the center.
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The core is surrounded in a roiling field of energy.
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The terminals on the side look like something done by hand.
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Trenia sees three figures in the room up on the balcony and around.
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The creatures look like their faces were replaced with some kind of liquid metal.
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One of them shoots Seresia with some kind of rifle growing out of its arm.
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Robin inspects the terminals.
- Ami has a series of phases. Each phase increasingly more dangerous and rendering her a little more desperate.
- Phase progression requires two successful terminal activations, each of which requires two checks.
- A side terminal activation in the toxic gas rooms grants a Mark of Progress. One Mark allows disabling one of Ami's features, two pushes to the next phase.
- The central terminal is a direct access to Ami's mindspace. Up to two players can participate at once and they are unconscious and wrapped in a wall of force while doing so.
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Robin is scooped up by drones.
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One of them casts slow on Dixie, Kathika, Trenia, Tresslyn, & Robin.
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Lucas disrupts the caster.
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Nyn plugs into the mental terminal.
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Seresia is back in.
- Depending on the state of mind chosen, you may select a perspective to witness it from which determines the ability check to make.
- Directions: Betrayal, Anger, Death, Reconstruction, Despair, Bargaining, Denial, Acceptance
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Seresia choses bargaining/captive. Vision shifts, moving into the perspective of Ami.
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A jailer is trying to bribe her to give them Starbreak in return for Ami's wife. They cut out the thought that they're the reason Raya is dead.
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Nyn choses bargaining/jailer.
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Seresia choses Acceptance/Freed for her bonus action. It's at the point where Ami has killed pretty much everyone in the facility.
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Sorry, not empathizing with the serial killer.
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Tresslyn finishes Acceptance.
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Seresia chooses Reconstruction/Engineer. It's split between Clover and Lysenna.
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She splits her perspective and does Reconstruction/Miracle Worker simultaneously.
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Trenia picks Death/The Witness. She gets to observe as Felice tries to stop the order for Kathika to kill Amastacia, but is too late.
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Kathika does Death/The Killer and runs back through her own experience again.
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Ami begins to lose control.
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Robin plugs in as well, and Casey greets her.
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Nyn goes super-saiyan.
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Final:
- Three doors, inside which there are two perspectives. One person per door.
- The future: Hopeful (Dixie) & Hopeless (Tresslyn).
- The present: Hero (Robin) & Villain (Kathika).
- The past: Scholar (Seresia) & Gardener (Trenia).
- Three doors, inside which there are two perspectives. One person per door.
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Robin sees the deck of the Allisandras. Casey has a body, and offers a hand to the collapsed villain that is Ami. Kathika sees the other side.
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Seresia sees the perspective of Amastacia at a door, working up the confidence to knock. Trenia sees the opposite, Raya opening the door from years ago.
"Raya. I'm sorr-"
"I forgive you."
"But I was gone for so long..."
"I know. And all I ever cared about was that you would come back." -
Starbreak winds down as we succeed.
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The final barrier falls.
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Seresia demands the location of the bodies of Lucas' soldiers.
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Seresia hands over one of the radios to contact Cerr's Thorns to Lucas.
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We get the teleportation circle back online and start to pack up the Starlight core.
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Val pops in to swear a bunch.
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Kathika drops a demo charge into the elevator for some Katharsis.