Cleo's Arc Part 1

**WARNING**

The beginning of Cleo's Arc, where Cleo discovers her identity as a clone, and works with the party to stop her 'expiration date'.

### **Session 8**

... **boi.png**, so this session continues with the party walking outside the wall to find the alien ruins, Camio decided last minute before going out the wall to stay behind (probably exploring more of the prison or somethin). While walking through the wasteland with barely anything interesting in it, Auster straight up fucking teleported without any warning at all, so that left the party confused as fuck and only left Rens, Moth and Cleo. The party finally noticed an alien ruin after confusion and hours of walking and walked up to it, Moth went up to a pillar that glowed blue and poked it, **proceeding to teleport him to an entirely different dimension that looks almost exactly the same but everything is green.** Cross-dimensional physical contact is still possible so Moth takes a guess at where Rens is and drags them towards the pillar and **teleports Rens to ANOTHER DIMENSION but instead of green, everything is yellow.** In both of these dimensions there is 1 pillar that has been replaced with just a grey disc that glows a different colour responding to proximity. In Rens dimension, they meet a homeless dude who may or may not have a screw loose, so Rens just kinda uncomfortably vibes with them. Meanwhile the bug in Cleos backpack perks up after Rens teleports and decides to go investigate the pillar, after some inspection the bug basically says “aight imma head out” to Cleo, touches the pillar and fucks off. Cleo sees a truck park a bit outside the ruins and then gets told by 2 random people to hide behind a pillar, so she does, through this she meets Bill and Leo and they explain how they are there to stop Vortech from scavenging shit by blowing the shit up, and the Vortech crew that just parked outside has a mysterious fellow who is in full body armour and is **BUILT**. The crew tries to penetrate the doors to the inside of the ruins with explosives, with no luck, Leo and Bill shit themselves and hide somewhere else, Cleo follows them to a balcony that leads into a temporary living area, so Cleo, Bill and Leo just kinda vibe here for a bit before the Vortech crew end up finding them in the room. The guy in armour is confused with the presence of Cleo at first, before revealing that **he is the real Alcuin, and the 'Alcuin' the party have been travelling with is a failed clone born from a failed attempt to avoid dying, the 'Alcuin' the party have been travelling with is actually called X1-AS, X1 for short**. So as our Cleo tries to take this all in and not have a mental breakdown at the same time, Alcuin 1.0 (gonna be using that to refer to the original Alcuin in recaps) revealed that they are 206 years old and that Cleo **only has 8 months left to live** and there is **no known way to fix that.** SO after Alcuin 1.0 and the Vortech crew fuck off to do their own thing, Cleo tells Bill and Leo to also fuck off, which they do. Cleo figures that she has nothing left to live for so he goes back to the glowing pillar and touches it, transporting her to a blue dimension, she stands on the disc in that dimension and in the yellow dimension, the homeless guy was just kinda vibin on the disc and in the green dimension Moth was panicking and writing his thoughts into his book. SO now that all the discs are occupied, everyone gets transported back to the main dimension where the Vortech crew and Alcuin 1.0 are still trying to open the door, Moth punches Alcuin 1.0, Cleo tells Moth off and they don’t even attempt to have a conversation with the homeless guy that Rens met. The party follow the Vortech crew who have already gone into the ruins now that the doors have opened and find a pyramid structure in the middle of it where the Vortech crew and Alcuin 1.0 are discussing what they should do next. Moth talks to Alcuin 1.0 and finds out that Alcuin 1.0 is there because of rumours about a destiny cube being hidden in one of the alien ruins, and then Moth goes on his info dumps again and accidentally reveals to Alcuin 1.0 that they got a destiny cube from Brot. Once that happens, Cleo asks Alcuin 1.0 if he can help them find a way to stop Cleos **expiration date** and Alcuin 1.0 agrees to at least try and find a way, and the session ended there with that interaction and the party entering the pyramid... **boi**

### **Session 9**

Okay so after Cleo found out she was a failed clone and shit, Camio decided to look for the rest of the party outside the wall. While Camio was deep into his search fuckin Auster yeets back in at the same spot he yeeted from before, Camios like "yeo, wtf" and Auster is also like "yeo, wtf" but in a different way, due to him being a fucking amnesiac. Anyway Camio tried to explain everything to Auster as they walked towards an abandoned alien ruin and then they meet the homeless guy, who leads them to the rest of the party outside of the pyramid. Once they meet up, the party interacts with Alcuin 1.0 for a bit, and then the archaeologists open up the entrance to the pyramid revealing a hallway that at the end just... has the entrance, so yeah the party spent some time exploring this non euclidian pyramid, eventually Camio and Moth got separated from the rest of the party so they made their way out as Rens, Auster, Cleo and Alcuin 1.0 discussed the latest revelations. Moth then found an old piece of paper with the same language as before from the bug, so he gave it to an archaeologist and the archaeologist was essentially like "yeah idfk what that means". Camio went over to an abandoned ship near the pyramid and found **el buggo** messing with its wiring and shit, meanwhile Rens, Cleo, Auster and Alcuin 1.0 made it out of the pyramid and met up with Moth to go meet up with Camio at the ship. Once arriving at the ship, Auster decides to do a fucking captcha on the robot bug and after some arguing, two of the bugs legs get cut off and Moth puts it in a box. When the party walks back to the pyramid, a new room has replaced the entrance, it is filled with blue cubes on stands. Moth asks the bug about the room and then asks about the piece of paper and the bug was able to read it, revealing that only one of the cubes in the room are real and the cube is called the cube of creation, one of the destiny cubes. So everyone went in, touched a cube of their choice, and Rens got the right cube, everyone else got the wrong one and got teleported into a random part of the pyramid, luckily they were able to make there way back quickly. After this Cleo talked with Alcuin 1.0 about a cure for her time limit, and Alcuin 1.0 said he knew a scientist that would be crazy enough to be able to do it, one problem, **he is in prison** ~~also a massive war criminal but the party doesn't know that yet~~. So Alcuin 1.0 gives the party a spike drive 2 and they make their way to the prison planet Borlocrow.

### **Session 10**

When they get to Borlocrow, it's security system immediately kicks in and initializes the guilt detector, which is faulty af so the only two people who don't get put into a cell are Cleo and Alcuin 1.0... **yeah**. The ship gets beamed down onto the planet and Moth, Rens and Auster are taken into the prison, then Cleo and Alcuin 1.0 get taken in for interrogation. The interrogator asks Cleo why she's holding people who are guilty and then because there was a crew searching the ship, they found out Camio was just asleep there so uh, interrogation got worse because turns out, there is recovered security footage from the Nova Station showing Camio crawling through the vents **shortly before it exploded**. When it was Alcuin 1.0's turn Cleo went outside to see the crew searching through the ship and taking Camio in to the prison, so she swiftly told the crew to fuckin **C E A S E**, Meanwhile Auster gets sent to the Sedpin branch of the prison and Moth and Rens get sent to the Cashatier branch. Moth gets put in the same cell as Charlie, who got sent to Borlocrow for possession of brain juice (goddammit Auster), Auster is able to get a call in to his boss, or as he said to the guard, his "mum". Auster told his boss about how he was in prison and shit and she essentially was like "oh... well that's a bit of shitty situation your in I guess" and just didn't help. Lunch time comes around and Moth, Auster and Rens meet up in the cafeteria to find the scientist and uh, he is a bit hard to miss considering he's got fucking dragon wings n a shit ton of limbs and shit, so after getting to know him ~~and his war criminal deeds of turning everyone on his home planet into a genetic hybrid of other creatures~~ Moth, Rens and Auster are able to convince Dr. Maskarulotrapdamorx to help with Cleos situation. Meanwhile Cleo and Alcuin 1.0 are trying to think of a way to break in to the prison, they come up with the idea to talk to someone inside to get more info on what can happen and they decide to talk to Rens because... well... Auster is Auster and Moth is Moth. So a guard lets Rens out to speak with the Alcuins for a maximum of around 5 minutes and they discuss about how they found Dr Maskarulotrapdamorx, how to get out and uh... the fact Dr Maskarulotrapdamorx and Alcuin 1.0 were in a relationship at one point... **I didn't even plan this as a DM, Sam just brought the idea up and I was like fuck it why not**. Anyway the 5 minutes goes up and the guards tell the Alcuins to get out and send Rens back to their cell.

### **Session 11**

The next day comes around, the Alcuins are still stumped for what to do and the others are just living their best lives... in prison... yeah... So morning free time comes around and Moth, Rens and Auster encounter a large crowd in the main plaza area, turns out this crowd is watching a fight between a drunk god and a goose... said gods name being Harrison (oh hey one of my OCs from my comic made it into the campaign) They interacted with Harrison for a bit and broke up the fight between him and the goose, after that the free time ended so everyone was sent back to their cell. Meanwhile the Alcuins are still debating on what to do and Alcuin 1.0 comes up with a plan to call someone he knows to help, so he does that. After a while some maniacal laughter is heard in the distance as a fucking man with a jetpack comes around and his name is Dr Jackson... this is the guy Alcuin 1.0 called to help. After failing to convince Cleo to get some mysterious substance injected into her to stop the expiration date, Dr Jackson told the Alcuins to hold onto his hands and they flew up to the top of the prison building, heading over to the glass dome ceiling of the plaza, and then subsequently crashing through it and landing in the plaza. The Alcuins go to the Sedpin branch and Dr Jackson goes to the Cashatier branch, Dr Jackson gives a quick lil speech about freeing everyone and just... well, *he does just that*. Dr Jackson has a device that could displace things in time, so he placed all the cell bars perpetually 1 second into the future basically making them non-existent, thus allowing everyone to escape.... **everyone**. So Dr Jackson goes through all the branches and chaos ensues as the party go up through the broken glass dome in the plaza and Rens fucking passes out, and the party runs back to the ship and fucks off, kind of completely forgetting about Camio for a second leaving him on his own.