[SFS/Shifty/OP4] #3-17: Clone Batch Catastrophe (B) (Inactive)

Game Master Nik B.

Your false gods have been dethroned, the powers that hold back your progress have been shattered. No longer will you have to suffer in bland unity, limited in greatness by the uniformity of your kind. Are you afraid of what awaits, Joros? You limited imagination cannot fathom what lies in the beyond, an infant mind waiting to explore the dawn of the day. Before you stands the greatest journey in your shared memory.

Remember to stay off the g-g-gra...

Panic not, you of fearful minds! For you are in the presence of a living god, revealing to you an existence of h-h-harmony and u-u-nity. Cast off the false shackles that bind you and move into the light!

RZMR delivers a speech with as little empathy as it has sense, interrupted by stuttering fragments of public service announcements, only to finally add:

Damage report: light abrasions and dents in the outer shell. Medical: team members with lacerations. Organ damage within tolerance. One case of genetic disruption reported. Advise close monitoring, and termination where required.

O.K. will show all the evidence they have and look at Tellrix.

"There also something you need to understand and i will leave my friend here explain it better. We are explorers from outside the vault."

"Thanks, buddy."

Your false gods have been dethroned, .. Your limited imagination cannot fathom ... an existence of h-h-harmony and u-u-nity. Cast off the false shackles that bind you and move into the light!

RZMR delivers a speech with as little empathy as it has sense, interrupted by stuttering fragments of public service announcements, only to finally add:

Damage report: light abrasions and dents in the outer shell. Medical: team members with lacerations. Organ damage within tolerance. One case of genetic disruption reported. Advise close monitoring, and termination where required.

Telirix shakes his head and steps up to the front of the group.

"My companion, RZMR, speaks poetically and with an attitude born of his mind's own godhead, but he isn't wrong. You're going to need to settle down and think about what we tell you.

You're also gonna find the dead leader of the Commanjoros. He shot us with darts and tried to decapitate us with weaponized whizdiscs. Here Tel holds up one of the modified whizdiscs. We had to kill him in self defense. Once you figure out what was goin' on in there some of you, like members of the Commanjoros, might want to follow his lead. I'd advise against it. Like I said there's a lot of world out there and most of it isn't Joros. "

While RMZR and Tellrix does their speech, O.K. feels his attunememt to the cycle of the star and his planet. Quickly before his polyps solidify, he changes his attunement in a way that his supernovas will be in a distance toward himself.

The lashunta pushes off and waves the rest of the party toward the non-joros.

" What's through that door is gonna make a lot of joros uncomfortable. Depending on where you stand in the nature versus nurture debate, you can take your chances here or come with us. It's not a perfect galaxy out there, and it'll be a huge culture shock. You might find yourselves just as isolated and alone as in here, but I think you'll be safer.

We're heading out now. If you're coming grab what you can fit in a pack and meet us at Roofer Joro's house."

After OK drops a bombshell on the Joros, the RZMR wades in to ensure the whole community clones is both alienated against you and mortified by what you have to say, an existential crisis is sparked in a handful of Joro clones as they question whether they’re really Joros at all or were originally non-Joros repurposed into Joros.

The community of Joros numbering in the high hundreds are completely perplexed, but Telirix gives some guidance that gets some attention - as he finishes his statement though, several loudspeakers across the town announce “Community vault test 341 completed. Sterilization and reset protocols commencing in 24 hours.” - there is a sudden silence as the vault production facilities begin grinding to a halt.

The Joros look extremely worried now.

"Oh my goodness!.. This.." says to himself Ok.

Change of plan! Everyone! shouts the copaxi. "Grab your relatives and goes to Roofer Joros's basement. This is an evacuation! In 24 hours, the Ai of the Vault will "Sterilise" this place. There is an exit in Roofer Joros house!"

Poor roofer.

He turns to his follow starfinders and propose himself to go to Roofer and contact Vex.

You take the opportunity to get far enough outside the vault to talk to Venture-Captain Kunoris Vex for further instruction. Kunoris expresses a strange mixture of bemusement and confusion upon hearing about your expedition and promises to help evacuate all the clones before the vault performs its reset.

"Congratulations for learning as much as you did. Clearly there's something wrong with the guiding intelligence if it’s performing tests of this nature."

Telirix isn't sure when it happened, but he seems to have picked up a jigsaw puzzle from somewhere and now feels strangely attached to it.

Teleirix has been permanently afflicted by the Joro morphogen finds himself drawn to jigsaw puzzles, board games, and choral music even after he physically recovered (roleplay effect only)

/End!