PT 013

USS Adventure06/05/2020

Captain's Log, entry 13.

[7:04 PM]

After an exchange of histories and information, we have seen the Other USS Adventure take off to rendez-vous with the Oni rebellion at Tang.

[7:05 PM]

I can only wish them the best, they did to us. ...Also, a promised rematch with my doppelganger gives me something to look forward to.

[7:06 PM]

At the behest and advice of my elite officials, we are pulling away now from the irradiated plane we discovered. While I have concerns about potentially abandoning people to this wasteland, my people are correct. We have no means to locate them, no room to keep them, and continued orbit here could prove hazardous to the ship.

[7:08 PM]

The professor is having ARTI keep track of the radiation absorbed into the shields so we know when it has run off enough to jump safely. In the meantime, I have called another meeting to update us on the current situations aboard.

[7:08 PM]

*End Log*I

[7:09 PM]

We now open on you guys in said meeting. Displays are highlighted showing dossiers on the five crew men you brought aboard from the Hephaestus Base.

[7:09 PM]

Dr. Aevarnis, the counselor, is standing and giving a report.

[7:11 PM]

Aevarnis: "I have done some cursory questioning and first sessions with the crew. While they seem to have complete memories of their time before the collapse of Hephaestus, they cannot seem to recall anything from the past three years. I am concerned that they could be repressing the memory to avoid trauma...although, it is rare for them all to react to trauma in an identical fashion."

Xho06/05/2020

*nods.*

Theo06/05/2020

They all went through a similar trauma. It could be more of a physiological consequence then purely psychological.

[7:13 PM]

They were all exposed to the same toxic soup.

USS Adventure06/05/2020

Williamson: "The radiation also has a clear arcane component. It's possible that this same magic could have kept their minds separate during that time as otyughs."

Xho06/05/2020

*nods again.*

Theo06/05/2020

Which seems as merciful as you could expect residual arcane radiation to be. I wouldn't want to remember my time as a semi-sentient filth monster.

Xho06/05/2020

Are any interested in eventually returning to duty?

USS Adventure06/05/2020

Aevarnis: "That is quite true. My concern would be that if it is repression than any random stimulus could potentially break it. I would like to run further tests."

[7:17 PM]

Aevarnis: "Most seem eager to return to duty...but I am not sure that is a safe measure at this time."

Xho06/05/2020

What kind of tests?

USS Adventure06/05/2020

Aevarnis: "If I can borrow a CAT scan machine from Dr. Viex, I could try and stimulate those memories in a controlled environment and examine their brain waves. Make sure the memories are actually not present and not just buried."

[7:19 PM]

Aevarnis: "Or, as I'd originally suggested, Guest could sit in with us. His abilities could prove more accurate and it would give me greater control of the environment for them."

Theo06/05/2020

I'd say that's up to him. And them. And the captain I suppose.

Xho06/05/2020

Perhaps it would be best if Dr. Viex was present.

Theo06/05/2020

True. They could be were-otyughs now.

USS Adventure06/05/2020

Captain: "I would definitely want to keep Dr. Viex present. And I remain hesitant to allow Guest to be used in this manner. He is, far as we can tell, still emotionally a child."

Xho06/05/2020

Surely it would be preferable to wait at least a few months.

USS Adventure06/05/2020

Aevarnis nods. "Then I will prepare for a brain scan. I'm not letting them back on duty until I am sure they're safe."

Xho06/05/2020

*nods.*

[7:24 PM]

Some may not wish to do so at all; others to wait. But some will find it best to have a distraction.

USS Adventure06/05/2020

Aevarnis: "They may appreciate it, but burying trauma under work can be just as bad as having to sit in it. It's about finding a way back."

[7:26 PM]

Dr. Viex: "...I can prepare some machines after our next jump."

[7:26 PM]

Captain: "Sounds good. Mr. Sage. I believe you and the professor had some ideas about our new holographic companion."

Sage06/05/2020

I had thought if Theo was willing to try we could hook Itsy up to run in a section of the cafeteria could help to relax people off duty and mean He isn’t stuck alone in a database

Theo06/05/2020

*nods.*

[7:29 PM]

Should be easy enough.

[7:30 PM]

Also it would be a closed system. If he went rogue he wouldn't be able to generate dangerous holograms and chase us through the halls with them.

USS Adventure06/05/2020

Captain: "Excellent, once we're able to jump to void space I'd like you to get on that."

Xho06/05/2020

.... do they often do that?

Theo06/05/2020

Not yet. I hope to see it in my lifetime, though.

Xho06/05/2020

... I am certain you meant to include the word "not" in that second sentence.

[7:32 PM]

Please do not correct me.

Theo06/05/2020

Sure.

USS Adventure06/05/2020

Williamson: "...I thought I was the only one."

[7:33 PM]

Captain: "Either way, once we're in void space, I'd like it as your main goal. I'm sure Mr. Itsy would love to be able to get out of that one room."

Theo06/05/2020

Will do.

USS Adventure06/05/2020

Captain: "Ok then...if there's no other business. Professor, let me know when ARTI says we can leave."

Theo06/05/2020

*nods.*

USS Adventure06/05/2020

Captain: "Meeting adjourned."

[7:37 PM]

Aevarnis will go up to Xho.

[7:37 PM]

Aevarnis: "Commander, do you have time?"

Xho06/05/2020

Of course. Thank you for your patience; it has been an unexpectedly eventful day.

USS Adventure06/05/2020

Aevarnis: "It's been an unexpectedly eventful few months at this point."

Xho06/05/2020

... a fair point.

USS Adventure06/05/2020

Aevarnis: "The first thing I want to discuss with you though is very simple."

Xho06/05/2020

*nods.*

USS Adventure06/05/2020

Aevarnis: "I'd actually adopted one of the tressym's kittens. A fluffy black one. Unfortunately, I can't keep it myself, I learned. Breaks regulation for me or one of the medical personnel to care for an animal in a professional environment. People might be allergic. It creates issues."

Xho06/05/2020

I am very sorry to hear that. What will you do with the kitten?

USS Adventure06/05/2020

Aevarnis: "I was hoping...maybe you'd be interested in keeping a kitten."

[7:42 PM]

Aevarnis: "I've found him very sweet so far."

Xho06/05/2020

Me? ... why?

USS Adventure06/05/2020

Aevarnis: "...you seemed like someone I could trust. Your job is already about caring for the crew. ...you seemed like a good fit."

Xho06/05/2020

Ah. ... I have never had a pet before. I am sure ARTI has information about cats, however. If you feel it is a good idea, I will take the kitten.

USS Adventure06/05/2020

She smiles at you. "Good. You can stop by and pick him up any time. He's incredibly adorable."

Xho06/05/2020

((KITTYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!))

[7:46 PM]

All of them are very engaging.

USS Adventure06/05/2020

Aevarnis: "...my other concern is a bit more personal. I'd like to speak to you about it in private, if you are comfortable with that."

Xho06/05/2020

Yes, of course.

USS Adventure06/05/2020

ARTI: "Attention, Dr. Forgewight. Our shields have runoff approximately 99.3% of all absorbed radiation. We should be within safe parameters to jump."

Theo06/05/2020

Perfect. On my way.

USS Adventure06/05/2020

Captain: "Commander, we'll be taking off. Do you want to join us on the bridge?"

Xho06/05/2020

... sir, I have been deferring an appointment with Dr. Aevarnis for much of the day.

USS Adventure06/05/2020

Captain: "Very well. We'll survive."

[7:51 PM]

Captain: "Everyone else to positions."

Xho06/05/2020

... good luck, sir.

Theo06/05/2020

*sets up the jump to Void Space.*

Xho06/05/2020

*signs off and heads to the counselor's office.*

USS Adventure06/05/2020

As you guys head up, Duo comes to join you.

[7:53 PM]

Duo: "Permission to come aboard the bridge, Captain."

[7:53 PM]

Grax stares at him.

[7:55 PM]

Duo: "...I want to watch, please. I won't touch anything."

[7:55 PM]

Grax: "...no harm in that."

[7:55 PM]

((Theo, can you give me an arcana roll with advantage this time?))

Theo06/05/2020

((17))

Theo06/05/2020

((Did we jump))

USS Adventure06/05/2020

((You are preparing))

Theo06/05/2020

Hmm. Hold on, I need to recalibrate something.

USS Adventure06/05/2020

Captain: "Do what you need to do, Professor."

Theo06/05/2020

*heads down to engineering!*

USS Adventure06/05/2020

((It shouldn't require that. You can do it over the command console you have set up on the bridge.))

Theo06/05/2020

*grumbles and just does it on the bridge then!*

USS Adventure06/05/2020

Once that is done, you move to jump to Void Space, under slightly different conditions than normal.

[8:03 PM]

As you do, the hull shakes a bit which is not unexpected. But you also seem to be taking longer in the jump.

[8:03 PM]

Captain: "...Professor?"

Theo06/05/2020

I don't know. Could be something to do with the residual radiation destabilizing the matrix.

[8:04 PM]

Once we're in Void Space I'll run a full diagnostic.

USS Adventure06/05/2020

The room falls under a blue light for a split second. And then...pop. You're in Void Space.

Theo06/05/2020

Does anyone here feel particularly evil?

USS Adventure06/05/2020

Duma: "No more so than usual."

Theo06/05/2020

Okay. Just making sure there wasn't any personality inversion.

[8:07 PM]

ARTI, start a diagnostic.

USS Adventure06/05/2020

ARTI: "Running diagnostic. Warning detecting abnormal energy signatures within the hull."

[8:09 PM]

You guys can look and you also see that Duo is passed out.

Sage06/05/2020

*goes over to check on Duo*

USS Adventure06/05/2020

Give me a medicine check.

Sage06/05/2020

((23))

Sage06/05/2020

Captain Duo has separated

Theo06/05/2020

ARTI, are the energy signatures in the hull Legion?

[8:14 PM]

Can you isolate them?

USS Adventure06/05/2020

ARTI: "Isolating. There is one in the hallway outside and several within Counselor Aevarnis's chamber."

Sage06/05/2020

*makes sure Dalarei is stable then heads out to the hallway*

Theo06/05/2020

*contacts Engineering. "Smoke, fetch the empty homunculus."*

[8:15 PM]

*then tries to contact the Counselor's office. "*

[8:16 PM]

"... Counselor? There's an issue, Duo has seperated, and ARTI has tracked his Legion partners to your vicinity. Be careful."

USS Adventure06/05/2020

Aevarnis: "We have a situation in here, Doctor. We'll have to get back to you."

[8:17 PM]

Outside in the hall, you see a single bouncing ball of light. One.

Theo06/05/2020

Careful, Sage.

USS Adventure06/05/2020

Smoke comes running in with the homunculus which absorbs One.

[8:19 PM]

Smoke: "...I did it! I got him! Nothing broke or--"

[8:19 PM]

The homunculus starts screaming and crying.

[8:19 PM]

Dalarei starts crying.

[8:19 PM]

It's just loud open weeping.

Theo06/05/2020

.... It worked!

[8:21 PM]

... sorry, I shouldn't be pleased right now.

USS Adventure06/05/2020

Captain: "No. Bad timing, Professor."

Theo06/05/2020

Smoke, please One next to Dalarei. We'll get this figured out.

USS Adventure06/05/2020

Smoke carries the homunculus over to Dalarei. The two embrace.

[8:24 PM]

Dalarei: "...oh...oh Gods...oh, I think I might throw up."

[8:24 PM]

One: "I now know what throw up is and want to, but I can't!"

[8:26 PM]

Dalarei fights his way to his feet and attempts standing.

[8:26 PM]

Dalarei: "Oh...oh this is just...it's like I'm missing an arm."

Theo06/05/2020

It's not a great feeling. There's still two more.

[8:27 PM]

*looks at Grax.* "Not sure what's going on down in the Counselor's office, but that's where they are."(edited)

USS Adventure06/05/2020

"Mr. Sage, can you and Duma investigate the Counselor's office? Professor, I want to know what happened and I want to know now. Take Williamson and Smoke to engineering and run a full investigation. I'll take Dalarei to Viex in Med-Bay."

Theo06/05/2020

Right.

Sage06/05/2020

*will head out with Duma*

USS Adventure06/05/2020

Theo, everyone now joins you in engineering. Also there are Von Kemp who is following Xho...who has the ghost of a goth-ish looking Drow woman officer around her.

Theo06/05/2020

Okay.

Xho06/05/2020

Apparently my entire class, and a Planefleet away team, have been forced to follow me since their untimely deaths.

Theo06/05/2020

Okay?

Xho06/05/2020

All the time.

[8:56 PM]

The whole time.

Theo06/05/2020

Is this a new development, or... oh, you just didn't know. Did you find the Legion?

Xho06/05/2020

When?

[8:57 PM]

We need to assist these people. Preferably resurrect them, if possible.

Sage06/05/2020

It’s not legion they separated somewhat from Xho when we jumped

Theo06/05/2020

Ohhh. Huh.

Xho06/05/2020

*looks for an empty chair.*

USS Adventure06/05/2020

There are many empty chairs.

Sage06/05/2020

*will pass Xho a cup of tea and a biscuit*

Xho06/05/2020

*sits in one, heavily, and stares at the tea and biscuit blankly.*

Sage06/05/2020

Von Kemp any ideas?

Theo06/05/2020

That makes sense. The residual radiation messed up the shielding in unforeseen ways.

[8:59 PM]

It'll bleed off with time.

USS Adventure06/05/2020

Angna vanishes and Ristel appears again. A tall thin drow male officer with long hair.

Theo06/05/2020

I could probably make homunculi for them, too. I still have parts.

USS Adventure06/05/2020

Ristel: "For the record, we don't just follow around watching and hearing. We actually feel the experiences. Which, let me say, just left Carfine...well...you can imagine."

[9:00 PM]

Angna replaces Ristel again. "Ristel! Fuck off! Asshole."

Theo06/05/2020

*indicates a box full of broken toys, doll parts, and mannequins bits.*

Xho06/05/2020

*draws her legs up in the chair and hugs them.*

USS Adventure06/05/2020

Angna: "Oh great. We can either be ghosts who can't feel, touch or smell anything or robots who can barely do any of that either. Super great."

Theo06/05/2020

Are you okay? You don't seem okay.

[9:01 PM]

*looks at the ghost. "Then try harder not to die?"*

Sage06/05/2020

Being a robot s not as bad as you make it out to be

USS Adventure06/05/2020

Von Kemp: "I am afraid a full res for them is not possible. Too much time has passed since their demise and they have been completely separated from their bodies."

Xho06/05/2020

*mutters something.*

Sage06/05/2020

Options then? because this is not good for the Commander

Theo06/05/2020

Exorcism.

Xho06/05/2020

That hardly seems fair.

Theo06/05/2020

*looks around, and pulls a mostly sleeping kitten out of an engine compartment. He plops it on Xho's knees. "Pet that, it helps."*

Xho06/05/2020

*puts her feet back at the ground and cuddles the kitten.*

USS Adventure06/05/2020

Breea, an angry seeming woman with short hair replaces Angna. "WHOA! I'm not a demon! I'm a person, with a full, happy, successful life ahead of her! I want that back!"

[9:05 PM]

Von Kemp: "...with all due respyect...you are being dead. Moving on is typical way of being for dead, yes?"

Xho06/05/2020

... how many people are there?

USS Adventure06/05/2020

Breea: "Nine."

Xho06/05/2020

I could be moved elsewhere, but that still leaves nine of you in a single body, and one I doubt the men would be happy with.

Theo06/05/2020

Are they possessing you or just... attached?

USS Adventure06/05/2020

Breea: "We're just stuck. We can't even take possession of the body."

Theo06/05/2020

So you've tried.

Xho06/05/2020

*pets the kitten.*

USS Adventure06/05/2020

Breea: "...we may have...tried."

Xho06/05/2020

Perhaps we should consult the captain.

[9:11 PM]

It is a very reasonable tactic to try, I feel. One of the few obvious ways to facilitate communication for a noncorporeal being.

USS Adventure06/05/2020

((He actually said several))

Theo06/05/2020

((Oh, right. Nevermind.))

USS Adventure06/05/2020

Breea: "Ristel says if we're getting new bodies he wants to share one with that barbarian guy in your away team. ...gross."

[9:14 PM]

Williamson: ".................................guys....what if we had something...that specifically makes new bodies?"(edited)

Xho06/05/2020

... do we *have* a barbarian in our away team?

Theo06/05/2020

*points at the box of nightmare parts.*

Xho06/05/2020

I doubt they want to be flumphs.

USS Adventure06/05/2020

Breea: "The one called Lubzun."

Xho06/05/2020

There is nothing *wrong* with being a flumph, but a humanoid might find it objectionable.

USS Adventure06/05/2020

Williamson: "If we know how to use it, we can make things other than flumphs."

Theo06/05/2020

Oh.... humm. Theoretically, there's all kinds of templates on there.

Xho06/05/2020

I had understood that it was incredibly dangerous.

Sage06/05/2020

do we have a better idea?

Xho06/05/2020

*hails the captain.*

Theo06/05/2020

IT was when it was leaking, but we fixed it. It *was* meant to be used.

[9:18 PM]

The entities it creates are... blank slates. You've met Guest. Capable of functioning and learning, but with no past or history.

USS Adventure06/05/2020

Von Kemp: "This does not address the core problem, though."

Sage06/05/2020

which is?

USS Adventure06/05/2020

The Captain eventually arrives. "Ok, Dalarei seems to have...what is happeneing here?"

Theo06/05/2020

Commander's haunted.

Xho06/05/2020

... I have apparently been carrying around my dead classmates and an away team of dead coworkers since their untimely deaths.

Sage06/05/2020

multiple individuals who have died near Xho are still connected to her and the jump gave them form

Xho06/05/2020

The whole time.

USS Adventure06/05/2020

Grax: "....oh...yikes."

Xho06/05/2020

*laughs, shakily.*

USS Adventure06/05/2020

Aevarnis: "They are not simply ghosts in her brain. They're sharing a subconscious. If we just...cut them loose...we don't know what damage that will do to them or to Xho."

Xho06/05/2020

They want to use the artifact to make them new bodies and then move them into them.

Theo06/05/2020

It's an idea.

[9:23 PM]

What do you think?

[9:23 PM]

It's your brain.

USS Adventure06/05/2020

Captain: "The artifact made by god aliens that last time we use just...farted out a flumph and before that changed the DNA of a cat?"

Xho06/05/2020

If it wouldn't endanger the crew.

Sage06/05/2020

Do we have a better option?

Xho06/05/2020

It doesn't matter what happens to me. I had my chance.

USS Adventure06/05/2020

Aevarnis: "...what chance? ...Xho...this is not your fault."

Theo06/05/2020

Of course it matters.

Sage06/05/2020

you do matter

Xho06/05/2020

*shakes her head, but doesn't answer, either.*

USS Adventure06/05/2020

Captain: "...Theo, you and Williamson have bodies to make. Mr. Sage, assist Cleric Von Kemp in finding a means of extracting the personalities. Everyone else...you have jobs."

[9:27 PM]

Grax looks at all of you with a "leave now" glance.

Theo06/05/2020

*does not perceive this.*

[9:28 PM]

This is engineering.

Xho06/05/2020

*doesn't move either, mostly 'cause she wasn't given an order.*

USS Adventure06/05/2020

Aevarnis: "...Commander...what are you feeling right now?"

Xho06/05/2020

Embarrassment and guilt.

USS Adventure06/05/2020

Aevarnis: "Guilt for what?"

Xho06/05/2020

Living, primarily. For their negative experiences.

USS Adventure06/05/2020

Aevarnis: "...Commander...would you be willing to talk with me in my office?"

Xho06/05/2020

... again?

USS Adventure06/05/2020

Aevarnis: "I don't think you want to have it with everyone present."

Xho06/05/2020

... yes, of course.

[9:35 PM]

*stands up, letting the tiny cat down.*

USS Adventure06/05/2020

Aevarnis will take Xho aside.

[9:36 PM]

Grax: "...Professor, how well do we know this artifact?"

Theo06/05/2020

*shrugs. "We know what it does. Figuring out how it's supposed to work... well. That might be challenging, but... huh."*

[9:38 PM]

Williamson, is it still in your lab?

USS Adventure06/05/2020

Williamson: "It is."

Theo06/05/2020

Guest was created with a full knowledge of how to function. If the idea of these artifacts was to recreate a world... Maybe he knows how to operate it.

Sage06/05/2020

*will go over to Von Kemp*

Theo06/05/2020

Maybe knowledge like that is built in.

USS Adventure06/05/2020

Williamson: "...that...makes a certain amount of sense."

[9:42 PM]

Von Kemp: "...what is your experience with spiritual disentanglement?"

Sage06/05/2020

no experience, you?

USS Adventure06/05/2020

Von Kemp: "NONE!"

[9:44 PM]

He smiles broadly.

Xho06/05/2020

((\*starts rolling a new character))

Sage06/05/2020

anything maybe in the books you brought with you?

USS Adventure06/05/2020

Von Kemp: "Possibly. ...how fast a reader are you?"

Sage06/05/2020

lets find out

USS Adventure06/05/2020

Von Kemp reaches into the pack he carries and pulls out some texts.

Sage06/05/2020

*will start scanning through texts*

Theo06/05/2020

*tracks down Guest.*

USS Adventure06/05/2020

Ok, Sage, give me a religion check with adv.

Sage06/05/2020

((nat 20, 20 total))

Sage06/05/2020

*passes over one of the books to Von Kemp and points to a section*

USS Adventure06/05/2020

Von Kemp: "...is dangerous...but could work.

[9:56 PM]

Theo, you find Guest.

[9:56 PM]

Sorry, lots of things all around.

Theo06/05/2020

Guest! We need you to look at something, do you mind?

Sage06/05/2020

Do you want to look for something else or get this set up?

USS Adventure06/05/2020

Guest: "Sure thing, Pop Pop!"

Theo06/05/2020

... yeah. Follow me.

[9:58 PM]

*takes him to the lab.*

USS Adventure06/05/2020

Von Kemp: "...I doubt we will find anything else."

Sage06/05/2020

whats the risk you see happening with it?

USS Adventure06/05/2020

Von Kemp: "We sever at the wrong end and she ends up with the wrong memories."

Sage06/05/2020

can we minimize that in anyway?

USS Adventure06/05/2020

Von Kemp: "...being really careful...and putting both our eyes on it.

[10:02 PM]

Theo, Guest follows you to the orb.

[10:02 PM]

Guest: "Ah, where I was created. Feels like it was just last week."

Sage06/05/2020

how big a space do we need

Theo06/05/2020

What do you think of when you look at it?

USS Adventure06/05/2020

Guest: "...that's a big orb thingie."

[10:05 PM]

Guest: "Well...it's not that big, really."

[10:06 PM]

Guest: "I guess I think it's a little orb thingie."

[10:06 PM]

Von Kemp: "...we could use the illusion chamber."

Theo06/05/2020

If I wanted to, say, create a drow body with it, do you know how I'd do it?

USS Adventure06/05/2020

Guest: "...Maybe?"

Sage06/05/2020

go start getting setup I will talk to the captain and join you

Theo06/05/2020

How would you do it? Walk me through it.

Sage06/05/2020

*finds the captain*

USS Adventure06/05/2020

Grax is in the med bay. You see Dalarei in bed, he's tearing up a bit.

[10:11 PM]

Guest goes over to the orb and turns it a couple of times...and then taps it.

Theo06/05/2020

Don't do it yet.

[10:11 PM]

But you think you could?

USS Adventure06/05/2020

Guest: "...kinda...maybe...it's like...there, I think."

Theo06/05/2020

Okay. We have some souls we might need you to make bodies for. You think you're up for that?

Sage06/05/2020

*goes over to Dalarei " we will try to help you and one once we have settled all the other things going on"*

USS Adventure06/05/2020

Guest gives a tentacle thumbs up. "No idea!"

Theo06/05/2020

If you're not, we'll find another way.

USS Adventure06/05/2020

Guest: "...can we do a test?"

Theo06/05/2020

Yeah. Can you make... a gecko?

USS Adventure06/05/2020

Guest: "...Gecko...geck...o...hmmmmmmm."

Theo06/05/2020

*grabs a tablet and pulls up a picture of a gecko.*

USS Adventure06/05/2020

Guest starts spinning the thing and sets and activates it.

[10:16 PM]

There's a burst of light...and then a gecko.

[10:16 PM]

Guest: "Is that it?"

Theo06/05/2020

That would seem to be a gecko.

[10:17 PM]

*inspects the critter. It's alive and stuff, right?*

USS Adventure06/05/2020

It is alive and moving.

Theo06/05/2020

(Does it look like the one in the picture?)

USS Adventure06/05/2020

It does not exactly. But it does enough to be recognizable as a gecko.

[10:20 PM]

Guest: "...I don't really know how precise I can get...is that gonna be an issue?"

Theo06/05/2020

Probably not. IT seems like we just.... call up a species, and the traits of the individual is up to whatever is stored in the artifact.

USS Adventure06/05/2020

Williamson: "We can make some cosmetic and minor physical changes after the fact."

[10:22 PM]

Williamson: "But before we do that...we need the souls out and the bodies made."

Theo06/05/2020

*nods.*

USS Adventure06/05/2020

((So, at this point, I'd like to call everybody back to the main chat.))

[10:25 PM]

((We can squish later if people want. But Von Kemp will call everyone to the chamber for the ritual.))

Xho06/05/2020

*turns up as asked, still looking a little bit shell-shocked.*

Theo06/05/2020

Good news. We can make bodies. But it will be something of a crap shoot in terms of the body's features.

USS Adventure06/05/2020

Ristel: "So, I don't get to pick some new nose? Cause I was hoping to maybe do something with this."

Theo06/05/2020

IT'll be an entirely new nose.

[10:27 PM]

And face.

[10:27 PM]

And body.(edited)

[10:27 PM]

Possibly species?

[10:28 PM]

There's a lot of question marks.

Sage06/05/2020

*will double check the ritual setup for probably the umpteenth time*

USS Adventure06/05/2020

Von Kemp: "Ok, well...let's be getting on with this. Commander, I will be needing you to lie down and close eyes. Mr. Sage, I will be needing you to hold, while I cut."

[10:29 PM]

Vlad is holding a very long sword.

Xho06/05/2020

*nods.*

[10:29 PM]

*checks to see if the captain is here or not.*

Sage06/05/2020

*nods and gets in position*

USS Adventure06/05/2020

The Captain is here.

[10:30 PM]

He nods at you, Xho.

Xho06/05/2020

*nods back, and lies down and closes her eyes, waiting.*

USS Adventure06/05/2020

As she lies there, Von Kemp begins to chant and white smoke comes oozing out of her. It begins to split and sever in ten separate ways.

[10:33 PM]

Sage, you grab each line in turn, where you believe the divide happens and not an inch higher.

[10:34 PM]

As you do, Von Kemp slices them, until there are nine clouds of smoke hovering around the single plume shooting out of Xho.

[10:34 PM]

Guest then begins popping bodies.

Theo06/05/2020

*would have wanted to call up their personnel files so Guest had pictures to go off of, at least?*

USS Adventure06/05/2020

((You totally did that..no way to know if it'd help, really.))

[10:36 PM]

But the spirits each find a body and like that...they fumble around naked into a strange approximation of life.

Theo06/05/2020

((Hopefully they're all the appropriate species and gender.))

[10:36 PM]

((That's ll he wanted to accomplish.))

USS Adventure06/05/2020

((We'll find out.))

[10:37 PM]

((I don't really have anymore. Are we ok stopping here?))

Xho06/05/2020

((Aww. Okay.))

USS Adventure06/05/2020

((I'm sorry. We can squish a little maybe.))

Theo06/05/2020

((Kinda hard to squish on a cliffhanger. ))

Xho06/05/2020

((Yeah, I might be dead!))

USS Adventure06/05/2020

((Ok fine, we'll wrap up.))

[10:39 PM]

The bodies all come to full consciousness and then...realize they're naked, which causes them to...react in various ways.

Theo06/05/2020

((Are the bodies Drow?))

USS Adventure06/05/2020

Four of them are. The other five are different races. They are the members of Xho's ground team.

[10:40 PM]

No one seems to be a species or gender they're unhappy with.

[10:41 PM]

And Xho, you may return to consciousness when you wish to.

Xho06/05/2020

*sits up.*

[10:41 PM]

... did it work?

Theo06/05/2020

*gives Guest a high five.*

USS Adventure06/05/2020

Breea: "YEAH! IT DID! NOW CAN I GET A SHIRT, PLEASE?!?"

[10:41 PM]

Guest returns it.

Theo06/05/2020

You did good, kid.

USS Adventure06/05/2020

Guest squeals and hugs Theo.

Xho06/05/2020

Oh, good. Excellent work.

[10:42 PM]

*sits up.*

USS Adventure06/05/2020

Williamson begins tossing out clothes.

Xho06/05/2020

*stands up and tries to unobtrusively escape.*

Theo06/05/2020

*follows after telling Guest to go hug Williamson next.*

Sage06/05/2020

*leaves as well*

USS Adventure06/05/2020

Guest will hug Williamson, who seems a bit grossed out, but takes it.

Theo06/05/2020

*follows Xho.*