Episode 4 - Corrupted Files

## Intro

**Matt**: Hello and welcome to Celestial Expanse, a real play D&D podcast set in the Celestial Expanse universe, my name is Matthew, and unfortunately we had suffered through some sort of audio difficulty, and lost the entire audio for episode 4. I am so sorry about that, and I tried everything in my power to recover it, it just was not up to a quality I was willing to put out there for everybody to listen to, so the next best I could do is give a bit of a short run through of what happened this episode.

## Summary

### Episode Description

We had a severe data corruption of the latest episode and here at Celestial Expanse want to apologize for our blunder. In this episode we have our DM Matthew give a bit of story telling just to explain what happens that leads up to episode 5. Again we want to apologize that this happened and we hope you stick with us.

### Summary

This is Matt's summary of the events of episode 4, which makes up the body of the episode that was released:

We just saw our crew members taking out the zombies, or better known as shedders, in the cargo bay, and were being chased by more of them, and this is where they meet a special NPC known as Ashley Deacon, who is actually a member of the hunting lodge, that Huntmaster Bunric Bloodchest sent down to look for them and finish the mission if they couldn't do it themselves. And after saving them and hiding them from the shedders that were after them, they agree to work together and find the cause of this zombie outbreak. And while doing so, they encountered another kind of zombie known as a Titan, that had a propensity to throw other zombies at the heroes. They were able to successfully kill the other zombies and this now-discovered titan, but they were severely wounded and suffering from the aftereffects of the shedder poison that they dealt with earlier. This is where they luckily found a hidden medical facility that was being controlled by a robot known as a MARTA 30. I'm not going go into a description of what that stood for, it's just a fun placeholder for the robot's name, since I have a thing for using acronyms for robots. Anyway, continue on, after they rested they found some potions thanks to Theran's need to loot things that obviously don't belong to him, and they were also able to recover from the disease the shedders put onto Z and Juniper. While they were exploring the hallway, they soon discovered that the metal was being replaced by a growth that was like a leathery-type skin growing on the walls almost like poison ivy in the United States. They encountered the end of the hallway, and they discovered that it was locked by an ancient locking mechanism, and Theran had to dig through this leathery skin to short circuit the door open. And when they opened it, they quickly went through and forced the door closed, but when they turned around, they discovered that it was inhabited by a very large zombie that they affectionately called a Mombie, because it had infant-sized zombies surrounding it. And that's how the episode ended.

## Trivia

* Instead of audio of the actual playing of the game, this episode was released as Matt's summary of events due to corrupted files.
* Ashley Deacon was introduced this episode.