Cleo's Arc Part 2

**WARNING**

The second part of Cleo's Arc, where the party starts getting the things required to stop Cleo's expiration date.

### **Session 17 - Written by DM**

Auster teleported back into the ship, usual shit again, memories fuckin jumbled and shit, oh and he's also on his own in the ship so uh... **yeah nobody to tell him what's going this time**. So he goes outside the ship and ends up at Pervis, because his head is fucked up by the teleport he asks around the town asking who he is, this went... not well considering this is the first time Auster ever set foot in this town. Also Auster met this weird guy who sniffed him then ran away, Auster ran after him but failed to catch up. All the activity Auster was causing got him noticed by a cop who recognised the behaviour of not knowing who he is because he knows about Eclipse, so the cop asked Auster to come with him to the police station. Meanwhile Moth, Rens, Dr Maskarulotrapdamorx and Cornelius walk through the forest to look for the temple after Alcuin gets a notification on his compad and basically fucks off, eventually the temple was found and the doors were just... open.... **I mean it is an old as fuck temple not exactly gonna have the best security**. So they enter and are immediately greeted by another closed door with an ancient Vunisian keyboard on the wall to the left of the door and to the right a shitty drawing of snake, there's also two hallways on either side so the party decides to go the left hallway first, the party splits into pairs and Rens and Moth enter a bedroom with a snake hiding under the bed. Moth grabs the snake and puts it to sleep before anything else happened and then Dr Maskarulotrapdamorx and Cornelius walked in after hearing a little commotion from the other room, the party then made their way down to the end of the hallway. Meanwhile Auster went to the police station and talked to the officer and found out he has a daughter who also works for Eclipse, so he has a chip that can help with the whole memory bullshit that happens when Auster gets teleported. It's basically dementia medicine, so Auster takes the chip and the officer goes on to talk about a suspect for disappearances in the town, this main suspect is the guy that sniffed Auster earlier. So the police officer and Auster go around town to investigate, by this time it's night and shit so the police officer and Auster hide behind a bush to watch the guy after finding him and they watch him knock on a door, person living in house refuses to answer, the suspect proceeds to fucking bust the door down and at that point the police officer stands up from the bush, points a gun and tells him to freeze, the suspect in fact did not freeze instead to choosing to fuck off into the woods. The police officer went after him and Auster talked to the guy who lived in the house before going to catch up with the police officer, Auster then heard the officer scream in the distance and eventually found himself following a trail of blood, and met the officer again except this time he was acting weird and then he kinda just straight up turned into a wolf and another wolf came in and OOPS AUSTER IS NOW FIGHTING TWO WOLF SHIFTERS (no... not fucking werewolves) Anyway the fight ends when Auster gets bitten and instantly just feels... **empty**. So while Auster did all that, the rest of the party continued investigating the temple, they found a bit of old Vunisian currency called "kits" and some other old stuff. After Moth made Dr Maskarulotrapdamorx *extremely* uncomfortable trying to probe him for information about his and Alcuin 1.0s relationship, he just walked off to the other side of the temple to explore there. So Moth, Rens and Cornelius investigated some more before meeting back up with Dr Maskarulotrapdamorx and they saw him reading a scroll that was written in Ancient Vunisian, **which Rens understands now because I guess they've always been into ancient languages**, so through that they find out that there's a password on the scroll that's been circled, so they go back to the main entrance and use the password on the giant keyboard on the wall. The password works and the party is greeted by a completely gold room... **with a bunch of snakes hanging from the ceiling**, the snakes fall down onto the ground and all merge to form a huge fuck off dragon and the party is like nOPE, so they just close the door over again so they can wait for Alcuin and the person he contacted to come back, they decided to not just wait at the temple the whole time and go back to the town so they walk back. Auster, after getting bitten by a wolf shifter, calls his boss to tell her about it and *she wasn't angry, just disappointed*. The rest of the party arrive back at the town after Auster finishes his phone call and Moth immediately starts examining Auster up and down after hearing about the wolf shifter and that's the end of that session.

### **Session 18 - Written by Auster**

Auster hangs around a telephone box after calling his boss, waiting for the rest of the party to come pick him up. When they find him, they learn about Werewolf, and the mayor tells them about another wolf shifter living in the mountains. They hike up there and doctor Maskarulotrapdamorx falls down some stairs. Without helping him, the party continues to the cave. Cornelius eats rocks to grow larger, much like famous Italian plumber and Mario Kart star, Mario.

They arrive at a cave, and meet the wolf shifter, Agnes Morrison, who tells them about a juice they can make that will give Auster control of the shapeshifting abilities. The party comments on the tv she owns, confused as to how she gets signal in a cave, and Agnes talks about her excitement for a show called ‘Ship Wars Live’.

The party follows Agnes to a cave where they can find the crystals they need to make the juice, which is thankfully empty, and Agnes leads them to a goop orb inside, the creator of the wolf shifters. She asks the party to attack the orb to distract it while she extracts the crystals, but the party doesn’t understand and Moth sticks his hand into the goop while Auster does unsuccessful cartwheels. Moth is ejected from the goop, and they try again after Agnes clarifies her plan. When the crystals are pulled out of the orb, it is destroyed, but Agnes says it will eventually regenerate and keep making wolf shifters. Back at the cave, Agnes prepares some of the juice and Moth takes a shower to un-goop himself. The party then heads back into town, and the session ends.

### **Session 20 - Written by Daz**

Ok so im gonna be honest I don't remember too much about this one

The gang- after picking up a shiny new Telekinetic cowboy- lands on the planet of Kolra  to pick up an electrical engineer to help with Alcuins expiration date, and are immediately attacked by an escaped criminal by the name of Rai. After the group witnesses this man literally fry someone alive with a lightning glove, they\* begin firing upon him until he's quite literally asking the group to stop, which they do not. So, after coming to the very logical conclusion that they are not going to stop anytime soon, Rai flees to the streets of the city to try and hide amongst citizens and the gang- unsurprisingly- chases after him. After spotting the dude within like ten seconds, Alcuin catches up with and slams the guy to the ground and ties him up with whatever the group had on their persons, and "escorts" him to the nearest police station.

After taking the guy in and having a nice conversation with the Police Chief, the Lads™ found out that his partner in crime, Enya, is also loose in the area. And, after about ten seconds, (again) the group finds her in the bank with a hostage. She quickly surrenders after being shot at, thrown across the room, and nearly stabbed by this group of absolute lunatics.

Once she is also secured, the Hostage tells the group that he won't tell the cops if the group were to "borrow" some money from the bank that was being robbed five seconds ago. So, whilst a couple of the party members turn Enya in, the others rent a room in a nearby hotel, as there is currently a quarantine on the spaceport because somebody killed a couple dozen people with an electric glove during their visit there, and the session ends.

\*The only two people in the party who are fairly competent with guns

### **Session 22 - Written by Daz**

Hey wait this is the among us one

Also there really isn't much to this one because like nothing happened

So, after picking up Rill, the party lands on Dakril and finds a ship that has seemingly made an emergency landing with one of the crewmembers standing on the outside of the ship's hull, waving the group down. Upon landing and exiting the ship, the party is instructed to only walk to the larger ship in their bare feet. As Daz and Alcuin both have metal legs, they are forced to wear pink bunny slippers to cross, which is actually pretty funny.

After reaching the ship, the group becomes acquainted with the very few inhabitants of the crashed vessel: Rick\*, Ellie, Shirley, Sovro, and the other guy. Once everyone is done introducing themselves, they talk for like five minutes before the group decides to go to bed. Once awake, the body of shirley is found in the workshop area of the ship, with his robot standing over him, armed with a knife. After making this shocking discovery, the Party is hit with a "To be continued" because our GM enjoys watching us suffer.

\*Astley

### **Session 25 - Written by Daz**

The session starts off with the party landing on the planet of Hapracore, and immediately upon exiting the ship, they realize something is wrong- based on the fact that nobody there has any mouths, Rill has a McHeadache Supreme, and Samuel (he’s here because he was sent by a group of people in robes) states that the planet literally did not exist a few years ago. Upon receiving this information, the party decides to spread out in what is possibly the most suspicious city in the system. It is discovered that- although they are extremely talented at roundhouse kicking visitors- they are horrible at anything else. Every action taken by them appears to only be an extremely basic recreation of the original action. This is made apparent when the group discovers Hapracorians fishing in a lake without fish, when Alcuin attempts to game but discovers everyone just staring at their start screen, and when Daz is handed an empty bottle at a bar that has a goddamn cardboard cutout pool table.

Next, after taking a few minutes to round everyone up again, the party is conveniently able to meet the "Chief\*" of the planet who, because they see the party as helpers due to willingly giving away the destiny cubes, reveals that the source of the Hapracorians is a single man that has pieces of the Cube of Life infused with his body, who just so happens to be chained up in the middle of the room with his mouth bound shut. The Chief lies to the party and states that the man wanted to do this, despite him screaming in agony when the party removes his gag. Unsurprisingly, nobody believes him and instantly catches on to the fact that the dude is being held there against his will, so Daz- after reminding everyone that he "shoots people that need shooting"- adds an additional hole to the Chief's head via a bullet.

After helping the boss clear his head, the party finds the cube of life, takes the crown made from broken parts of the cube,  frees "the Source" (the man that was previously chained up) and almost instantly confirms that he, contrary to what the Chief told them, did not want to be in that situation. Afterwards the party, including the man being carried and the tall-ass Orc, somehow sneak back to the ship and manage to take off without being followed. And once they are away, the only medically qualified people on the ship attempt to save the Source despite his protests. He dies regardless, and the session is ended there.

\*Head honcho/big boss/el presidente/big man on campus

### **Session 26- Written by Rens**

so the session started off with the party on the ship after everything on hapracore happened and kinda just. dealing with the aftermath. then everyone (excluding auster + daz because they’re cringe ass nae nae babies with no compads) got a news notification on their compads/dataslabs from the delta news network, aka space fox news, which said that the mantis had gone to pervis on vunis to find the cube of plants, and when it learned said cube wasn’t there anymore it burned the whole town down and attacked mayor oro, who lost a hand and a leg as a result. dnn also said that:

- the party had threatened the mayor with the mantis to get the cube of plants from him

- the party had created the mantis and are using it to obtain the destiny cubes and raze civilizations in the process - calling the party terrorists

- people must hunt the party down and kill them to put an end to their supposed terrorism

*anyway.* after processing that shit the party took a look at two other reports: one that the planet trepso is being invaded by the planet varolio, and another that cashatierian and tezlen tech across the sector were having ‘disruptions’. moth called his aunts to check they were alright and they seemed to be (although the connection was a bit patchy), and rens texted edgar to check he was ok too, which he was. also edgar asked if rens could come to cashatier for his birthday in a month or so and they said yes, so now the party’s heading to cashatier after alcuin’s thing is dealt with.

the party then remembered that we still had a whole-ass dead body in the cargo hold that we kinda needed to take to the united planets (space un) to show what was going on on hapracore, but now we couldn’t exactly show up the united planets with a dead body considering the whole uh. **terrorist situation.** so the party decided to call samuel jones/the detective to ask if he could take it instead and luckily he agreed. cue the detective making a bridge between ships, taking the body off of their hands, and promising not to mention their involvement in the whole thing and the party was now corpse-less and all set to head off to estosha.

the party spent most of the time just kinda vibing in the ship while alcuin piloted the gang to estosha to get the final ingredient for his anti-expiration secret sauce: daz basically just played pool the whole time, auster vibed around the ship not really doing anything, rens checked the ship for any problems every 5 seconds, and moth wrecked daz in pool somehow (out of character we also developed an entire system for playing pool. this was 100% crucial).

once the party had reached estosha and found a good spot to land, dr. maskarulotrapdamorx suddenly fucking booked it towards another ship at the first chance he could. the party followed and got into a fight trying to stop him, (moth, daz and alcuin trying to physically stop him via alcuin stomping on his leg and otherwise attacking him; auster and rens trying to run to the other ship’s engine to destroy it), but he managed to get into the ship with two unknown people who flew him away. however after sulking for about a minute or so (and daz just fucking. passing out/shutting down for some reason), the party basically figured that since he’d brought them to the final place they needed to go so it didn’t really matter that he’d ditched at this point. so they decided to fly over to a nearby village to find any clues about the supposed secret lab that the final ingredient was in and that’s where the session ended.