S10 E03: Lick 'Ems

## Episode Summary

An alien is found. A solar system is... lost?
Bill Webb keeps the drain from getting clogged. Cecilia considers lying to the crew. Trizzy hides a suspect's identity.

## Plot

Trizzy tries to impress the hologram by moving swiftly through the ship.

Gun was fired at the ceiling, punching a hole causing blood to rain down and fill the tank.

Cece thinks Render is delirious

Cece stabs Dot with her rapier while blood rains down. As blood hits the laser rapier it evaporates and steam rises from the sword.

Dot fires two shots and misses Cece.

Bill crits causing Dot to fire wildly causing more blood to fill into the tank.

Cece tries to drink all the blood, but does not have a straw.

Cece swims frantically to not get pulled through the sluice gates.

Cece attempts to get Dot to stop, and Dot replies that "we are all going to die anyways, you have no idea what's happening."

"This is the only way anyone doesn't die, if we can become Illithids."

Dot fires twice at Cece.

Bill hits Dot again and she goes under the blood.

Cece goes to help Render who psychically pushes Cece away.

Dot triggers her traps and opens a sluice gate in the floor.

Bill gets sucked into the drain with Render, while Cece holds on.

Bill tries to contact the captain and realizes that he cannot get a psychic link due to some shielding.

Bill pulls out a rope and gets it tied to an emergency valve to keep from being pulled into the drain.

Cece misses an attach against Dot.

Dot slides down into the drain, passing by Bill.

Bill attacks Dot as she goes by and she gets pinned to the ground.

Trizzy enters food processing and sees bullets shooting through the floor and machinery hissing and bleeding.

Trizzy goes to shut off some machines, but things are too far gone to affect anything.

Boiler explodes and Trizzy avoids the shrapnel, by scuttling along the walls.

Trizzy open the hatch in the floor and sees Bill, Cece, Render, and Dot.

Bill ties up Dot.

They leave the tank and contact the captain.

Cece checks up on Render who seems as if they are extremely drunk.

Cece takes off her hat, revealing a crown without any blood, wipes her brows then takes a swig of blood from her flask.

Trizzy realizing the complications with a PR rep kidnapping an Illithid, tries to find away to keep her identity a secret.

Trizzy modifies an article of clothing to keep Dot's face from being noticed by others.

Bridge crew takes Dot to sick bay

Trizzy introduces Gronk.

Gronk is currently only programmed to tell Emma to stop bothering Trizzy until the temperature has been checked.

Render asks for a blankee.

Cece gives Render her cape to use as a blanket.

Captain Dumile contacts the bridge crew to ask about what happened in Food Processing.

Dumile brings Emma into the call, Trizzy mentions Gronk, and then Trizzy hangs up on Emma.

Still not getting communication with Sol.

Woosh

They meet the medical officer Jovon a Solitaire.

Each room has a large ice cream machine.

The Rezubian is sponsored by Lick 'Ems ice cream in order to afford the mission

Jovon is bored because magic makes their job easy.

Trizzy offers to have Jovon help with the interrogation, who is excited about the prospect.

Bill is eating pie and it's too adorable to be intimidating.

Trizzy and Cece are also not very intimidating.

Bill asks "What is your entire deal?"

Dot may have been the first to realize communications stopped.

The ship is teleported based on the transponder signals from Sol, if they are down they can never get back to Sol.

Trying to download jpegs from HQ, and noticed they weren't there any more.

It's not just the Rezubian who cannot contact Sol, the ambassador on Tsukiyama also cannot.

Captain Dumile send the crew the last communications received from Sol.

Cece notices a precipitous drop in stock prices all across the solar system.

Nothing is wrong with the Rezubian, something is wrong with Sol.

It would take 129 million years to get home without teleportation.

Dumile requests their presence on the bridge.

Trizzy threatens Dot to keep quiet.

The team needs to decide if they should tell the crew.

They decide not to tell the crew just yet.

Woosh

They enter the bridge, a 15 foot glass column of green liquid, with a giant brain floating in it.

The captain asks the opinion of the crew.

Bill says they should confirm that they don't have communication but do not give them the impression that this is permanent.

Trizzy is tasked with investigating alternative ways home.

The Rezubian does not have a brig.

There are no laws.

Woosh

Jovon enters the bridge saying that Dot poisoned the juice and suspects the Captains tank is also poisoned.

Cece helps to get a sample for Jovon to analyze, the sample includes a tadpole.

The team asks Render and Dot is no longer in the Sick Bay.

The team get to the sick bay and find Jovon in a drawer, and Dot has been in Jovon's shell.

Cece asks the Captain to locate Jovon's shell, and he detects an ignition of the octopus in the hanger bay.

They lock down the hanger bay and head there.

The team decides to fight Dot in the shell.

Bill slips a knife between the plates.

Cece misses but hides.

Trizzy casts Tasha's Caustic Brew and it slides off the shell ineffective.

Bill convinces Dot to give up, by bluffing that she can be turned into an Illithid.

As Dot comes out of the shell Trizzy launches her wrench at her with the spell Catapult.

Trizzy holds up her hands and the wrench launches directly into Dot's head knocking her out.

Cece catches the tadpole flask.

The rope talk mentioned at the beginning appears after the outro music.

## Quotes

"It's against security protocol to refer to a suspect as a corpse." - Austin after Leon almost called Dot a corpse.
"And I want to pull another blanket out of my bag, and put that one on. I'm never without a blanket, or a cape" - Quinn after having Cece give Render her cape to use as a blanket.
"Oh shit, we're a Voyager." - Leon when realizing that the Rezubian is lost in space.

## Metagame

Any level ups? New skills? Gained items? Upgrades? etc.

## Preamble

Professor Nuts peanut butter brand
Professor Nuts problematic

## References

Mention of a rope conversation between Bill and Cece, but the conversation was cut.

Lick'em cat brush: https://www.amazon.com/Lickem-FON-10280-Fairly-Odd-Novelties/dp/B081KFS7QW/ref=sr\_1\_2?crid=1FKCVDA6QLV24&keywords=Lick%27em+tongue+cat+scratcher&qid=1679202904&s=pet-supplies&sprefix=lick%27em+tongue+cat+scratcher%2Cpets%2C124&sr=1-2

Austin mentions being in the front row of a french movie in 1905 and a speeding train is approaching the audience. It's unclear exactly what Austin is referencing as the movie L’Arrivée d’un train en gare de La Ciotat released in 1896. A train movie released in 1905 is titled The Little Train Robbery or Train Wreckers, but it was an American silent film