COS II Session 15

don't ask me things!! i do NOT know!!! 😭

## Starring...

* The Barovian Freedom Fighters
	+ Red, blowing up mom's credit card
	+ Tokili, cursed with knowledge
	+ Stone, Tiamat's marriage officiator
	+ Galia Trey, technically there
	+ +2 shortsword, finding god
* ERA001, ~~happy and~~ healthy
* Apples, ten seconds away from a re-enactment of *2000: A Space Odyssey*

Notable absentees: Xadriel Maverran, Twiggy

## Hesitating

Having collapsed of sudden exhaustion at the end of session 14, Stone holds the entire party's\* attention as she wakes up one second later. She uses *sending* to thank an unknown third party, and when questioned as to what the hell that was, Stone cites "just girl things". Tokili, with his ever-running *detect magic*, notices that Stone's impromptu coma was caused by "enchantment but also like five different schools of magic".

\*It is of note that the "entire party" at this point was Tokili, Al, Stone, and half of Galia.

Just before the party leaves the era by placing the Pyramid Artifact on the platform, they realize Red has gone missing. They decide to wait around a bit for Red to make a reappearance—in the meantime, mad-dogging an unfortunate VRS agent, trying cigarettes, and reading Stone's mind. To expand on that last point, Al uses a monk mind reading ability to pick Stone's brain about her feelings towards her god (and also stick her with a tracking chip). Tokili, still able to see magic, calls out Al, to which he responds, "wasn't me, I only looked into her mind and viewed her thoughts, completely different thing from mind reading".

As the tension between Tokili and Al nearly boils over, Red appears. The party powers up the time machine platform, and they're off to the races!

## The Laboratory

While the time machine startup goes as smooth as normal, the machine begins sparking and smoking after closing its signature antimagic dome. The platform flies between the pits of time with a deafening static blocking all attempts at communication—all but the scattered voices heard by the party. Alucard attempts to communicate through lip movement alone but forgets that he is wearing a bag over his head and his attempts are thus fruitless. After a moment and an eternity in the time between time, the platform hits solid ground once again.

The Barovian Freedom Fighters find themselves in an immaculately clean chrome room contrasted by their means of transportation, which is spewing black smoke. Before they have a chance to get their bearings, a voice rings out from behind a desk, belonging to a metallic-looking humanoid.

"Sorry, unauthorized teleportation is forbidden here."

Al says some robot-racist remark (classic) before Stone interjects to apologize and attempts to explain that the party's teleporter is broken. The robot receptionist is confused at the 'unique design' of the Barovian Freedom Fighters, until eventually they mention the name 'ERA001'. The receptionist is baffled and threatens to call security, but eventually concludes that the adventurers before them are time travellers. Not bothering to ask twice, the receptionist reroutes the party to ERA001's lab.

The party gets teleported to a very cluttered lab with various papers and dolls and other stuff probably. ERA001 is there and intact and she asks the party a whole bunch of questions to which they give answers. Upon pressure from Tokili, she offers to find out approximately how many years have passed since the 'present' and all it costs is an item from the time period. Al offers his bag, but decides against it as he needs to keep up the façade that he feels bad about his actions and it's hard to do that when people can see you grinning. Red offers on of his daggers, ERA chucks it in to a machine and it comes out in a mangled heap, according to the machine the party is 200,000 years in the future.

ERA inquires how the party came in to possession of the time machine to which Al explains that he is an idiot and hasn't been paying attention while Stone, Red and Tokili all give non-answers. Al further derails the conversation by asking "what's with all the technology" and "Have you ever heard of a guy called Strahd Von Zarovich". Eventually ERA is able to explain that basically all the planes have smashed in to each other causing the ultimate primordial chaos soup. By technicality the entire robot civilization (Intellia) lives in a protective bubble somewhere in the astral plane.

* Teleport to ERA's lab where there is so much information
	+ ERA herself is okay and here!
	+ All the planes are overlapping in the Convergence
		- This is the Astral Plane (kinda)
	+ Al's bag is futuristic
	+ Red eats a random pill
		- Red and Al tortured by visions
		- Red gets the remote that kills you when you use it
	+ The party is 200,000 years in the future, and all it took to learn that was sacrificing one of Red's daggers
	+ "hey guys you can sleep in my house and also have my money"

## Apples

* Go to ERA's house (but without directions so just trying the keys in every door until they work?)
* yell at apples
* Long rest
	+ Red passes out and does not do anything else
	+ Tokili tells Stone to stop lying so much (lol)
	+ Stone avoids Al
	+ Al invades privacy
* Wake up
	+ whoa a note—Tokili takes it
	+ everyone else heads to the expo

## The Expo

* Tokili gives the note to ERA to incinerate, then heads off to the expo
	+ also he picks up the newly-named Bootstrap Device
* (man, at least Delvana's big event had a name. this is just The Expo. does the building have a name? does the expo have a name? do any of these robots have names?)
* Red, Stone, and Al poke around, but don't buy anything.
* Tokili obliterates a robot and buys a pair of bracelets that allow him to do it again
	+ This costs all of his credits, plus 10 of Xadriel's.
* The rest of the gang look at all two (2) inventions then go check in with ERA
	+ The Bootstrap device can now be a ring.
	+ It'll tell you what year relative to 743 it's in upon arrival.
	+ It'll change your clothes.
	+ Tokili has it.

## Developments

* The party is in approximately the year 200,743.
* Red has been imbued with the save/reload feature.
* The party has ERA's house keys.
* The Bootstrap Device has been broken, named, repaired, and upgraded.
* Alucard is a cleric of Bahamut now, I guess.
* The following dolls have been obtained:
	+ ERA001
	+ Expo Fighter

## Trivia

1. ↑ Surely "unauthorized" would clue in to the fact that they're forbidden, it seems inefficient to say both. Rather strange. Why not just say "teleportations are forbidden" or "No unauthorized teleportations" this is what the transmissions are referring to when mentioning "the cracks in this world"
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 he actually said this