Side Episode 3: "Teens In Space TTRPG pt. 3 - A KOllOK 1991 Story"

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**Side Episode 3: "Teens In Space TTRPG pt. 3 A KOllOK 1991 Story"**

## Synopsis

Mickey joins the game for the final session of Teenagers in Outer Space, and a pivotal moment in the game brings her and Tibby closer.

## Plot

July 6,

Billy’s basement is crowded as Laura, Mallory, Em, Mike, and Tibby are joined by Mickey, who arrived back in town after having a holiday with her family. Mallory is annoyed at having so many people now in the group and Mickey shows reluctance at being there. Tibby hurriedly asks her to stay and have fun and Em helps convince her to stay. Em and Laura share out the assortment of snacks, Mike having been banned after the “Soy” slices from last week poisoned Tibby. Mallory and Laura introduce themselves to each other with Mallory commenting that she looks familiar. Tibby shows nerves and frustration and confronts Mallory that he is upset that he missed last session for work but it is obvious that his nerves also come from Mickey being at the table, hoping that she will enjoy herself.

Tibby hurriedly explains the game to Mickey, mentioning to the others that he’s been trying to show her how their regular games work. Mickey introduces her character’s name as Jo Miller and Mike shares a poem, he wrote about their characters, which they all enjoy. Billy gives a summary of last time and the game beings.

Joe Miller wakes to the sound of the war at their doorstep and rushes outside of their farm home to see the Proleans attacking. Joe runs to their old ship, hidden in a barn and takes off into the atmosphere but is followed by two Prolean ships. A red Wurm Way opens above the planet and Joe heads toward it. It transports them elsewhere in the galaxy but the Proleans have followed.

Back on the DONATELLO the crew deal with the ship overheating after their jump through the Wurm Way and Billy let’s them level up their characters and the ship. Tibby saves his points for next time, Mike adds more greenhouses, and Laura and Em give their characters new abilities. Back in the game another AI, Mlli Maker shows up and Quinn charms the Pantharos AI to deactivate so they can cool down the ship’s systems. Quinn sends out a scan to find the Moon and they get a response back from their old commander, Billithy Baker asking for help as the Moon has been put on a trajectory towards the sun.  Logan options using the ships self-destruct to send the Moon on a different course which surprises Zace and another AI, Billy O’Bragins temporarily appears. Gweneth pilots the ship toward the Moon and they receive another message from Commander Baker. They explain that they are the missing students and he tells them to be on the lookout for the Mars Federation who rejected their request for aid and instead wants to wipe them out.

Tibby and Em bring up that Billy hasn’t introduced Mickey’s character yet and he argues that he’s getting to it if they would let him. Back in game, Joe Miller manages to lose the Proleans on their tale and hide out in the caves on Venus, lying low for two weeks. As their supplies have dwindled to almost nothing the Proleans find them and Joe flees once again with them hot on their trail. Back on the DONETELLO as they approach Venus the crew pick up on the heat signatures of the three ships, however a holographic salesman intrudes upon their systems and while Quinn and Logan attempt to by his dog, May keeps track of the three ships and Gweneth pilots them closer. The Proleans damage Joe’s ship and Quinn manages to make contact with them, however caught up in the moment and concern for Mickey’s character, Tibby accidently calls her his girlfriend and is upset as Quinn can charm alien character’s like Jo.

Quinn tries to contact Jo and they reply asking for them to help. A short space battle ensues and through trickery, piloting and marksmanship the crew are able to destroy the Prolean ships. However, during the fight their medical bay is damaged and Joe’s ship is destroyed and she is forced to eject into space. Quinn and Steve launch out of the DONETELLO after her. Quinn reaches Jo first and seeing her helmet cracked and leaking oxygen he shares his own supplies with her until Gweneth manages to pick them all up with an impressive piloting manoeuvre. May repairs the medical bay and Steve is able to rusticate Jo, Zace identifies her as a member of the Frigorian species and tells the crew about them, that they are reanimated versions of the people they once were. Jo wakes up and the crew introduce themselves to her and she tells them how she arrived in their galaxy.

The news about the Proleans makes Zace nervous and he tells them about the Proleans and Jo manages to charm the AI salesmen to give her his dog but as a hologram it just vanishes until May makes a physical one using her Nanotech, and Jo names it Gear. Zace tells them the Proleans were waring amongst themselves until they relised they were not alone in the universe and united to wage war against the universe, finding new planets and stripping them of their resources. Zace and Steve figure out from Jo’s story that the same red Wurm Way that transported her to Venus may have also been the exit for the Earth and Zace has Quinn send out a signal to find the Fragorian home world. On approach to the moon they try and enable the ship’s Camouflage but the ship is too overheated and in the intense moment Quinn tries to kiss Steve.

The situation makes Tibby incredibly uncomfortable and Billy tries to goad Tibby saying that he will remove the overheated condition from the ship if they kiss. Mickey sidebars with Tibby and asks if he has ever been kissed before to which he say he hasn’t, hoping his first would be with someone special. Mickey kisses Tibby which stuns him for a moment and Mickey tells him to then kiss Mike so they can succeed in the game. They do and Billy keeps his word and back in game they activate the camouflage and are able to enter the Luna Academy disguised as one of the regular Space Force ships. They exit the ship and are greeted by other cadets as well as Commander Baker who takes them to a conference room to come up with ideas to save everyone on the room. The crew tell him about the Wurm Ways as a possible way to save the moon as Zace tells them that the signal has returned and the ships needs to show them something.

They return to the DONETELLO with the Commander in tow and Zace tells them that he has managed to make contact with Earth and each of the Cadets receive a message from a loved one sent a while ago. Another transmission is picked up but this time from the bridge of a Prolean ship, its captain Zanthorn, gloating about their destruction of the Fragorian world and the appearance of a new planet, the Earth, behind him. He tells them that he intends to take their Pantharos technology and having already understood Wurm Ways will see them very soon. A gun cocks behind them and they all turn to see Commander Baker pointing his gun at them but his face is that of a Prolean.

Billy ends the session and Tibby asks that they never talk about the kiss with Mike, which Laura teases him about. Mallory and Em reveal that they know Marcus and Laura brings up that they are siblings, to Mallory’s surprise. As Tibby mentions that the town will be getting a mayor soon, Mallory makes the decision to quit his job at Taco Bell and run for mayor in the election. They decide to meet up at the lake the next day and slowly make their leave apart from Mallory who stays behind to play more with Billy who invites him to crash on his sofa for the night.

## Cast

* Zac Lim Eubank as Tibby Devin
* Mika Midgett as Embeth Pegg
* Aabria Iynegar as Laura Bennett
* Brandon Winfrey as Mike Hunt Jr.
* Matt Sohinki as Mallory Jenkins
* Shelby "Shubble" Grace as Mickey Jones
* Lucas Eubank as Billy Baker/GM

## Notes

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