Lucid Thursday
C U Next Friday
Lucid's new persona is gonna be the down to earth "Next Friday" who believes in the reality of continuous time and the existence of history.
We complain a lot about paying a 30,000 docking fee
I party with some slightly dirtier types, and learn that an entire planetoid of miners and scientists and etc have all been fired by Lazarus Corporation
automated security, maybe i can hack it
theyre asking us to head in and try to dig up some dirt s they can get revenge.
Corporate espionage, detective work, etc
FASCISTS in WILD SPACE? Its more likely than you think.
After a Pariahan front corporation lands to survey as well, we investigate
6 person operation
it would take a long time to figure out more
looks like they weren't expecting a fight, doesn't mean they're aren't ready tho
It doesn't appear to have weapons, and it looks to mine overall in design
same kind of ship as Peter's though, so it's been modified
I can spell Syncaestraea better than Peter
We jump to the ritzy lovely NC port, in line with hundreds and thousands of other ships. A single bead of sweat is visible on Peter's face as he navigates the parking lot. Klaxon rings at one point when Peter has slipped out of the lane. The spanish bureaucracy is fully automated and functions like a beauty. Its very nice, reminiscent of Luna, but not run by a dictatorship
Benat responds to a text on his Nokia. He tells us that if he goes to Wahaka he can let Arkip bunk with the rents. Benat is invited to dinner by a recently promoted Admiral Ianara. party is on the moon Al Bracht.
"If you know one thing about me... I love a Soiree"
We spend the two days required to clean out the cargo hold of cat litter.
The dress I chose for this evening was referred to as a "Shamwow" by Benat. of course. There are only two other guests at the table. We are kissed politely as greeting, which does startle Lucid moderately.
Peter starts talking about "Journay to the West" and Nova Calvinism and Soddom and Gomorrah.
"I was always worried about getting left behind next Friday.
Captain Dora begins to hint at offering a job. shes a partyina ai placed inside of a robot and asks her very probing questions about nerves and strain.
Lucid is very happy to munch on churros.
Lucid learns Benat's last name for the first time. This is going to be related to a dude from his past. there is a civil war that syncestraea is not supposed to involve themselves in. the planet the civil war has occured on has closed their ports to synceaestraea. Galval has a mole placed among the syncaestraeans that requires the use of us outsiders.
Lucid also lands the phone number of Dora's robot body guy. we are also offered help acquiring a letter of Mark, or the opportunity to join the galactic mercenary guild.
They want us to kill that guy. Dora also passes over a cool plasma rifle as hand gun.
After negotiations are complete, the dinner lasts another 3 or so hours, exchanging stories and drinking coffee nd beer
then we go meet Benat's family, and Lucid gets to pet the space cow Elisabeta, she is very soft and lovely.
CAT-ASTROPHIC HAUL
jumping from Pandya to Babur, it's a lot smoggier here.
I overhear a lucrative opportunity in a scummier bar, the local government (Aseni Republic of Vega) has misplaced some crates in a local asteroid belt where there was a training base. Benat nudges a little more and learns that the ship disappeared on it's way to a larger military training base, and they have a last known location
What is the cargo? millitary supplies, do we need a fence? they might be pleased we stole from the aseni republic of vega.
it takes us 3 days to get to the belt, I do get a return ping on my sensor reading, giving us a direction to head in (a bearing) it's been burning at a solid 1g ever since it went missing, after taking a space "left", it was initially going against the orbit of the belt, but has fallen into the asteroid belt's natural orbit.
We pursue this bearing for another 6 hours, fail, another 6 hours, and now I have a location and trajectory, it appears to be heading away from us at an unchanged buring rate, about 8 hours away.
after we reach out to offer assistance they respond "assistance not required, please leave"
They are in a solar sailor, it won't have a ton of weaponry, we would out gun them, but they seem to have installed an aftermarket m drive. We can totally bully them. we considered turning them in for treason, kinda wanna trail them, but our stealth systems are fuel hogs
we follow for another 12 hours, as they approach another large asteroid in the system, which does have laser pistols. so we peel away. we don't really have a reason to fuck shit up, and don't need our shit fucked.
at this point 2 weeks have passed, and we need to spend some time gassing up we pay 50k for gas, and jump to xin heinan get another study week
lots of active terraforming, they've been trying to rehab this planet for about 500 thousand years, after an early butchered exploration, mis-jump. This planet could be described as a bit of a "fixer upper"
i specifically spread along the "juicy" rumor here. we find a job doing cat delivery here on xin heinen we spend like 9 days here?
We jump to Xin guangdong and pick up 5 to 6 hundred cats. there really arent any other job opportunities here. Peter was able to get a government job delivering a diplomatic missive.
We need to make three animal rolls to successfully hendle the animals. none of us know much abouit animals. Peter does one roll, and Benat does the other two, and does them quite poorly.
All the cats go loose!! Benat loses a study period having to track them down and patch them up. Lucid is making some "The DoDo" quality video. Benat is cursing at the cats in syncestraean. the content does not go over well, keyboard warriors abound. a cat eats some of Aidans psy suppressants. these two cats have become telepathically linked, so benat needs to try and medic them better. they'll be fine.
we just open the cargo bay doors and the cats run out. we are all covered in cat scratches.
and then we travel back to guangdong.
Shmooze-a-rama
Benat sees a familiar ship pull in, syncestrean stealth ship or something.
Lucid orders a concoction of an "americano" and finds it to actually be made as a latte, asks to have it fixed, but realizes it's actually her childhood best friend Lyle! Hes brokering for his dad's family now. She learns that her little sister is linging up to take Dad's council seat, and she is visibly disturbed by it. But she works to make herself interesting enough to be a fascination to him. She knows that where she thrives best is as a clown.
She works to reestablish her rapport with Lyle, so gives him some help in picking out his outfit for the soiree. Charming him, so that he agrees to try and mine some information about the syncestreans in attendance with Lucid.
Lucid is wearing a jumpsuit with a train, that is decorated with fiber optics
Aidan wears a locally purchased opulent suit, but failed to acquire a pocket square, so Lucid provides one for him and folds it nicely
12 groups of people,
the syncestraeans - the big gal is a captain, there is Partian AI in the ships. (Benat knows that she IS a partian AI!!!)
Lyle and his posse
Deepak Kang- outfit is a cross of late 18th century high royalty, smashed with current haute couture bullshit, his hair is in a circular halo shape hanging off the back of his head. when lyle finally introduces her, she kind of embarrasses herself.
Countess Asma in a ballgown
The Journal Entry’s title
Signal seems to be discombobulated by an un-updated software
I caroused up a pilot named Ashvari maybe?
DRESSED A COWBOY MESS
at the auction house, with the "nice refreshments"
We are serving major cowboy vibes, but we've completely missed the mark, because the actual vibe is ARMED TO THE GILLS
Jigarthanda beverage drink
WE STAY IN A GIANT MANSION...... BUT AT WHAT COST???
Given That You're Saying Combat
We're doing a fake sting on Blood Rat Blade, and take his products as "evidence" while being spied on by some Martian Marines or whatever.
Lucid might be a little distracted by the scary summonings she has thus far ignored from mom and dad.
Dad= Ludibrium Thursday
Mom= Heiress Thursday née Elyria
Contraband = 1 Basilisk War Frame, 2 Crates Type 622 'Killer Eye' Gun Drones (approx. 24), 2 crates Type 62 Individual Plasma Weapon (approximately 60) (basically souped up plasma rifles with fancy attachments)
Peter tells some good lines, and impresses the Martian Marine Types, very convincing arrest
Lucid makes up some pretend documents to get us past this point
And then Lucid is really happy to fake her death, is already plotting a change of name.
Rolled a 10 to namedrop Dad. Blech, yucky, but it meant we didn't have take apart the warframe.
We've arrived at Cygnus now tho, phew
The Journal Entry’s title
Family sent coordinates to genymede (Moon-glag)... very threatening, and I looked them up and found out that mom got a promotion, and dad got shuffled into state defense.
I am now a preliminar member of the Guild
Our plan for picking up the goods from Blood Rat is making like it's a sting operation, and we are delivering him to "You Know Who" for interrogation.
Today's Episode
"You know I could say something, but it has just as much of an effect as not"
Earth is still hunted, some of the red spots move (cause of life forms)
Parent's sent me coordinates to Ganymede, asking me to meet them there. (Space Gulag)
So I deleted the message, because that sounds like a problem for Later Lucid
I also dumped all of the nasty R34 esque messages into my homegrown LLM, with the intention to create the most vile chat bot possible
Getting Recognized at the Turkish Cafe?!?!?!
*A montage of Lucid Thursday, now with her new dark purple hair, and muted wardrobe choices. She is seen looking wistfully out the window as stars blink past, sweeping morosely through the peeling golden walls of the Venator, and removing her tear stained makeup*
"Hey guys, you've probably noticed that I haven't been online much anymore. I've been going through a bit of a brand-identity crisis"
"But today we get to spy on my coworker as he goes on a date with a previous fling"
Lucid, (as DrrtyThursday of course) is seen applying a disguise of some sort.
"I've been mostly spending my time reading, studying... researching..."
"Now my transformation is complete, you shall henceforth know me as.... SnEaKyThUrSdAy"
Lucid is now seen seated in a cafe, wearing sunglasses indoors
"This date is super lame, they're just talking about work. And this coffee I ordered is waaayyy too strong"
The coffee is a very very pale tan color. Lucid frowns as she stirs another packet of sugar into the coffee. Suddenly she looks up, having been distracted from her mission.
"Peter just left her to finish her lunch alone? what a dick."
Lucid is seen rushing out of the cafe quite clumsily. She is now seen stalking Peter as he crosses town, almost getting hit by a car at least once as she jay walks.
"A second lunch Peter? really? what are we, Plutonian?"
voices in the distance are captioned on screen in pink and red comic sans.
"you mightve seen mumble mumble ambassador"
"Pretty impressive mumble mumble some stream hacker just got busted for weapons trafficking. don't you have a stream hacker on your crew?"
"That streamer is crazy! she's been underground for months!" Lucid shouts, lowering her newspaper. We can see a figure approaching her from behind. The camera falls and goes black.
"My... my knee pits? You recognized me by my knee pits?"
"You... have a freckle..."
Thus begins an impromptu meet up, where Aidan keeps knocking and destroying cameras from admirers. Lucid is having a good time, but is becoming increasingly aware of her compromised anonymity. I make 150000 Credits.
There is a discussion of burning off the identifying freckle, facial modification, the acquisition of pants, etc etc
Returning from ZOOZVE
We have no idea if we are being tracked
"Oh shit- was that my job?" -Lucid
"The Union of Sol shouldn't give you much guff, unless there is specifically a Union of Sol official who is gunning for you." -James
"Someone remind me to dye my hair tonight" - Lucid
Now we arrive at Sar-dookie-ah
theres one called UREA
Cringefailed
Aidan and Benat have gone into the facility, accompanied by two flying guns and Astrid (for 10,000 credits, which I've taken out of Lucid's Account)
three teams roving the hallways, groups of five, meaning there are five combatants who are unaccounted for
"MIL ENCRYP SUITS" sticky note on monitor
two of my flying guns got fragged to shit
WE RAN AWAY AFTER KILLING THREE OF THEM
it has been revealed that part of why lucid ran away is an arranged marriage to a cousin
Peter: give yourself another study week I think?
We lost two of the researchers
Portable Plasma Gun, Human Portable, and Battle Dress
it can do 1 d6 times 10
This was a planned attack, almost certainly orchestrated by Opus Dei, the level of armaments is not unprecedented for them, but not particularly common
Lost in the VOID
We misjumped, and barfed all over the fucking place
Benat apparently did some kind of foolish self sacrificing bullshit, but somehow survived.
At least Peter got a week of studying in during the jump
ACOSTED by the BLACK HAND
We are accosted by the black hand as we leave Greg's World
after Peter just fucking hangs up on the Black Hand who is trying to hold us up, we consult Miku for the best course of action. She analyzes the available data on the opposing ship and our own ship's capabilities, and recommends Running The Fuck Away. Peter cheers because his suggested strategy was to evade and run the fuck away.
Astrid is finally doing what her ACTUAL job is, and looks great doing it.
and Hatsune Miku does indeed fuck shit up, playing musical selections such as The Chicken Dance, Spanish Flea, and the Paw Patrol theme. She also forcibly explains and reccomends homeopathic remedies to the crew, annoying one individual to the point of self spacing sudoku.
Finally we skedaddle away and misjump to safety (?)
The Journal Entry’s title
Begin writing your story here...
PASTIEST and SPICIEST Restaurant Ever!!!
We failed to find a fence for the bio-implants, so spectacularly so that Benat was arrested.
Lucid goes on a date with one of the customs agents in bribing for Benat's freedom
The date is awkward, but suitable, Astrid and Peter serving as chaperones.
The food is paste that they add seasoning to? and spread on bread. It was 1,000 credits a head.
Benat is released in return for the date and 40,000 credits, and he appreciates the doggy bag
we have still failed to sell our implants
The influencer discount was so measly it might as well have been an insult. 2 stars
Astrid found someone to sell our other medical supplies to, and we all took home 50,000 credits
MASSIVE COMPUTER HAUL
purchased over 300,000 Credits worth of drone swords and guns!
And then spent 22,850 credits worth of a laptop
It has a decryptor level one, and expert packages advocate and tactics for naval miku
I also bought a sarcastic mirror and a ring laser
Astrid Jensen... O-O
We're taking some cargo, gotta close the case again quickly
Sea Shanties are so this season
10-20 credits at diner
Rocket pie (+50 rad)
Make sure you finish it all so you can get the coupon for 10% off your treatment on the bottom of the pin.
I got THREATENED by CANNIBALS? Storytime.
Cringe-fail space port is essentially a helipad constructed from rusty parts of a crashed space-liner
Accommodations at the Gillman hotel
“We appreciate your appreciation”
Lucid sprained her ankle jumping on the bed, could have ended up in critical care
The water is salty and phosphorous
The Debris field is not worth traversing
According the old calendar it was settled 1500 years ago
Lost contact 500 years ago
Mapostates, black hand, ravaged, they do not belong.
We will tolerate foreigners, apostates will not be permitted to land.
The food is godawful, finishing the potatoes
On the way back to the ship
They heard Arkip and Aidan psychically communicating
Lucid is oblivious
Flying back to the Scout Ship
A missile rockets past us at like, mach 15
just then, the S.S. Good Times flies out of the space station in orbit, and takes out the missile
Arkip goes down from a piece of debris of the explosion.
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