Side Episode 2: "Teens In Space TTRPG pt. 2 - A KOllOK 1991 Story"

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**Side Episode 2: "Teens In Space TTRPG pt. 2 A KOllOK 1991 Story"**

## Synopsis

The adventures of the Space Force Cadets continues, and while Mallory is absent Tibby has invited a Bennett to fill his space at the table.

## Plot

June 29

Back in Billy’s basement Tibby, Em and Mike join him for another game of Teenagers in Outer Space. Mike has brought gardening tools for props for his character after acquiring greenhouses for their ship last session, and it reminds Em that she brought them all mini figures that she and her dad made and painted for them to use during the game. Mike gets into a snack war with Em having brought a variety of meats and cheeses for a charcuterie plate and some “soy” slices for the non-dairy eaters of the group. However, he loses out as Em shares out Gushers for everyone. They briefly discuss the absent Mallory, unable to attend due to work, but Tibby reveals that he had already invited another new friend to join them, one who he met at the park. Billy shows concern as Tibby reveals the friend he met is slightly older and the doorbell rings, with Laura Bennett arriving and joins them around the table.

Billy sidebars with Tibby and he confirms that Laura is Marcus’ sister and he had been watching her after they’d met in Prime A, and seeing her without a lot of friends wanted to invite her into their group. Billy relents and ends the sidebar, Em welcomes Laura into the game by offering Laura her own figure to use while she plays. As Mike introduces himself, he reminds the group that he is Mike Hunt Jr, which cracks up Billy and Tibby, though as they ask about his father Mike becomes distant. Tibby, Billy and Em reveal to Laura that they have powers but after living in Synchroneity she is okay with it and tells them of her own heritage being from another universe. The group introduce the game and their characters to Laura as they level up after last session and she creates her own character, the Scientist astronaut, May Winslow. Once everyone is ready Billy begins the game and recaps the events of last session. After a brief check in with the characters about what they have been doing for the past two weeks, in which Em explains the D.O.N.E.T.E.L.L.O.’s name: Dangerous Once No on the Earth, Luxurious Living Oh yeah, and Billy switches to Laura’s character.

An injured May Winslow attempts to boost communication systems to a dying international space station, she manages to do so just long enough to send a mayday signal out into the strange new galaxy. Back on the ship the crew discuss their efforts to map the new galaxy they find themselves in using the ships “Pantharo waves,” a type of interstellar echo location, and learn about Zace’s people from him. The Pantharos people attempted to spread knowledge and understanding across the universe and created the green Wurm Ways to do so, by combing the two types of waves X and Y generated by their kind. He tells them that their ship transmits X waves but without Y waves they can’t open a Wurm Way back to the moon.

Tibby leaves the table for a while and Billy tries to fill the time with a team building rpg for their characters called Wurm Ways and Werewolves while in game they wait for the ship to find a match to the galaxy they have mapped of the system. Laura, Em and Mike bond and when Tibby returns he finds out that Mike’s soy slices in fact contained milk and triggered his allergy. All the players back at the table Billy moves the plot along as the ship has found a match and Zace tells them that his people had settlements here until they went to war against another race called the Proleans who forced them out. Before he continues their ship picks up May’s distress signal and Zace tells the crew, to the shock of the players that anything in Earth’s atmosphere, including the atmosphere itself would have travelled separately to the planet. The group argues with Billy about not making that clear last time and back in game they head off to investigate May’s signal.

They find the international space station adrift in space and Steve exits out the airlock to head inside to find May. Steve finds and tells her about the Earth but accidently insults her and May flings a piece of debris at him and knocks him unconscious. May ends up saving him from drifting out into space and she boards the DONETELLO. Steve wakes up and everyone introduces themselves to May. After tending to her wounds and explaining things to her, May bonds with the ship and Laura picks he rupgrades as Tibby talks to Billy about his nightmares about a destroyed Earth and the game making him uncomfortable. Laura chooses Nanotech as well as cyro-chambers and they begin again. Another AI interrupts Zace and a whiny William Winifred Gwendoline Wallace voices his annoyance at having been picked up by their ship. He tells them how his ship was shot down in the war and Zace realises that there must be other ships in this galaxy, one of which must have Y-waves.

They find a planet and as William continues to annoy the crew, Steve place the AI in his suit and the crew take the rover to track a mysterious heat signature on its surface. They find their way to a hidden Pantharos base and discover several broken ships inside, meanwhile another AI, Gilly Gardner, also comes on back on the ship. Steve passes William onto Quinn and they find a Y-wave ship in the base. They head inside and Zace tells them that they need the ships emitter, so Gwen remote controls the ship to come down to the surface so they can synch them together. However, the local wildlife, acid spewing pterodactyl insects, begin to attack their ship and the now visible base. With little time they split up and Steve is told to grab the emitter from the ship as the others keep the creatures at bay, but the others do such a good job he doesn’t need to.

They decimate the attacking creatures and synch the ships together; using the rover they manage to get everyone on board their ship leaving part of the William AI on the planet. Able to use the Wurm Ways again they take a purple one and decide to head back to the Wurm Way where the Moon was, but it to is gone. Billy ends the session and Tibby thanks Laura for hanging out with them. Billy tells Tibby not to invite anymore people but he asks about if Mickey wanted to play and he says that’s fine but no one else. Tibby, Laura and Mike leave and Em and Billy discuss using his powers to bring in monsters like Big Foot to their world before she leaves as well. Mike having stuck around comes back down and continues his and Billy’s D&D game from last time.

## Cast

* Zac Lim Eubank as Tibby Devin
* Mika Midgett as Embeth Pegg
* Aabria Iynegar as Laura Bennett
* Brandon Winfrey as Mike Hunt Jr.
* Lucas Eubank as Billy Baker/GM

## Notes

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