Chapter 1: What cryptic warning is found in the cockpit?
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Wisest of all is the ant that can tell shade from shadow and flees the approaching boot. Western Karooish adage. Three phrases written on a window. Lean in. There's a fucking mole. Good luck.
Chapter 2: How does the concept of 'lean in' relate to space travel?
Let's talk quite briefly about the phraseology behind lean in. It might be obvious that it means to focus or to consider something closely. Its origins stem from what little the average person in the 40 suns understands of faster than light space travel via ORM. To lean in but not pass through is a death sentence. That's a phrase people know but don't understand.
And though the what might be vaguely intuited, something about the portal, the wormhole, we don't have the word for it. We call it a lean. The why is a mystery. And yet, somehow across centuries of common use, the phrase lean in remains no longer a warning to would-be pilots in their first days of training.
Though I suppose in this instance, scrawled messily in Jemis Octavo soldier's blood across the Kenner's cockpit window, some spirit of the original mystery has been preserved.
Chapter 3: What forensic details are discovered from the blood message?
May I investigate the writing for any either forensic details or coded messaging within this scroll?
Ooh, okay. Yeah. Give, like, we'll say the baseline DC is a six. We'll go reason. And then every sort of, like, step up above that flat six will give you more information.
Delightful. And I have a quibble working against me.
Yeah. I appreciate your quibble honesty.
Chapter 4: What clues suggest the presence of a mole on the ship?
10 plus 1 is 11. That's a success, which we have to re-roll.
Come on. Come on, 1. 5 plus 1 is a 6. Okay. You go and analyze what best you can. Are you trying to avoid the crime scene at all? Or like how into this are you getting?
Yes, I am trying to avoid the crime scene.
Chapter 5: How does the group react to the situation with the dead pilots?
Okay, so kind of just getting up to the window, I think the thing you can most easily suss, this was written by someone writing with both of their hands. Like it's very easy to suss out like left or right handedness in like Skrull, especially in the sort of like finger painty way.
But there's something about the like lack of lean or specificity that this was someone kind of using both hands simultaneously, a highly dexterous act for a normal person.
Yeah.
But there doesn't appear to be any coded message there. Just a very specific warning to someone who they knew would see it from the inside of the ship. Two dead guards? Yeah, two dead pilots. And you've heard no other sounds from the rest of the ship. And there was blood in the corridor.
Chapter 6: What is the significance of the assassin's actions?
And obviously, this feels clear, written not by one of the two victims. Correct. Yes, written in their blood by somebody who either perpetrated it or... Wasn't bothered by it enough to not write a message. A thousand percent. Okay. Are there any guns or sidearms on the two guards?
Yes. The kit that they essentially pulled you all with is still present. Their rifles aren't on them. They took all of those off. But in their storage lockers, those massive rifles are there.
I have a sample collection kit. So I think that I swap out my fingertips on my hand and go to collect the guns from storage and hand a gun to Chi or offer a gun to Chi and Zadava. I'll take one. Oh, thank you. I do not take a gun for myself.
I will note that you don't see the other four guards, but you can pretty easily guess that they are also dead. If you wanted a gun, you could go get one.
There are other guns here in this space.
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Chapter 7: How do the characters navigate potential threats in the bar?
Six officers on the ship, all of them had rifles when you were pulled. I would actually like to disable those weapons. Okay. And not take one for myself. Okay, you head to the back of the ship.
With a cursory glance, is there any chance that I recognize the handwriting? Hmm.
Go ahead and give me, let's go difficulty... We'll try difficulty six, reason. That's a one.
Oh!
I'll ask you a question and then offer a sort of like world move to honor that one. What do you think Chi finds the most distracting about this scene specifically?
I think that this is in a parlance that is specifically targeted to me. And I think maybe with a one that I am desperately caught up in trying to find this hidden message or some sort of a double entendre or a personalized threat.
There is something inside of the slang of lean in. You are traveling with nobility and a being that uses a fuller capacity for language than the slang of lean in. It's a pretty good guess that this message was for you. And I think that's the thing you circle around. And it takes you a second to realize snap and realize it, but it's because of the movement of those lights.
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Chapter 8: What conclusions are drawn about Ayasa's role in the events?
Farther down, like looking past the words through the window, the ship landed in this like dock district on Karueda. And you see off in the distance, it's pretty foggy and green and gray all around. So lights have to be very bright to cut through the noise of the mist everywhere. one of those spinning lights reminds you of authority figures. And it occurs to you that your time here isn't forever.
I'm not saying police are on their way, but someone else other than the three of you will see this soon.
Lean in. Oh, there's just a fucking wall. Okay. Oh. Authorities are on the way.
Oh. Well, you didn't kill him.
I looked down at the gun in my hand. No, no. We were all together. They'll believe you, won't they? Depends. Are there any sort of signs of anybody else leaving the cockpit? Where are the rest of the guards?
Yeah, I think Zadovin is working through, I think, a pull interrupted. A pull. Something simple. It's not complicated. Go where you're told. Wait until the deal is made. Go home. Interrupted. Why? And I think is just going to, I think, start to walk, kind of walk in the direction of XLZL. Just trying to see if there's anything else.
Yeah, if both of you are sort of moving towards the back of the ship, you will come across the corpses of the other four guards here. So we're near the cockpit right now. You were at the cockpit and then you mentioned moving back to go disarm the other weapons.
Are they like far down a hallway or in another room somewhere? They're in another room. In that case, I think forget that if that's okay. I think if they were in the same storage locker, he'd do it. But I think in that case, as I hear you say authorities are coming, I'll just say, hmm. Interesting. Obviously, authorities are also present here on this ship.
Interesting to think about what might be the supreme or competing authority. Zadavin, seeing the cockpit currently unmanned, what is the protocol around interrupting one's own pull?
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