Previously on the Atomless
Azan he
Ike
She
My name is Thiriyak
What's up?
My name's Skye
Welcome to the patchwork my dudes
Everyone welcome to WildTams
We are trying to merchandise the organisms, the specimens
Sometimes foundations need to change for something to grow
Do you ever think that your foundations just don't fit anymore?
Do you see Lorik, who is one of the board members?
Thank god, I didn't know if you'd be here in time
I don't know what is happening to the park but things are weird
I don't think Kiskekk went on holiday at all
And then there is a shot that rings out as this purple energy is sucked out of Lorik's
head and they fall down
And this huge bolt of energy shoots out and hits all five of you
And slowly begin to shrink
Skye I would like you to make me a will save please
You're going to take, you just need to write this down, one corruption
As this zombieed curse begins to inflict your mind
And the acid has successfully made its way into your bloodstream and is slowly turning
you into one of these slug zombies
So that's two of three
How are we going to tell our friends that that's a six?
Am I a zombie for like ever?
And we're going to make our way over to Mr. Wilde's residency
Four creatures sit unaware of their place in a grand plan
A plan made in folly, a plan made of dreams if such creatures can even dream
These four creatures may never know their place
They may die before they find out They may already be piecing together what their
destiny is But for now they get on with their daily routine
Unaware of any grand plan
There you sit on the monorail
Its silent beating against the tracks
Swaying your little cabin
You are alone, no one else is allowed in the park at this time
unless they're a very very specific VIP guest but since the parks closed everyone just sits
in Raven's Roost. You're going to the residence of the co-founder, Mr. Wilde. They are at
the absolute top of Raven's Roost, sitting in the beak of one of the embossed ravens on
the side of this giant orb that sits like a second moon looking over wild times. I think
the theory act is fairly quiet for most of the ride. Just kind of processing and still
like kind of obviously like like discombobulated but also there is a Zomkin feel a sense of
anger coming off the theory act. Do you want to talk about it? I mean if you if you won't
we could just sit here and be mopey. Zomkin is taking out a little file and is just it
is not pleasant noise scraping some of the craggy bits off his knuckles. I just don't
feel very respected. By who? By most people. So I live in a planet covered in noxious gas
spewing volcanoes. Well for a while it was. There's these little creatures they're called
Groshox. They're well basically they're a bag with a face fun to put it that way. It
inflates with this carbon dioxide nitrogen spewing gas goes up above the skyline and
then re-inflates with oxygen and brings it back down. Well it's an oxygen hybrid it's
heavy it doesn't matter I'm not going to explain it to you you're a biologist. A lot of people
have a tendency especially when they come to what planet for the first time to think
of them as minor annoyances but without them a lot of people wouldn't be able to breathe.
I go back to filing my knuckles. Respect is not what's important Ferrek. As much as it's
nice to feel it. It's knowing that you are an integral part of this place. I mean I mean
you know I don't really like love wild times but without you there would be no wild times.
Who needs respect when you've got when you're integral? I don't agree. I don't think I'm
integral anymore. I'm no longer the keystone species I suppose. They have what they want
they have the process by which to to biohack these creatures. After that what am I good
for a spokesperson? They already have feet for that. I know that they were always driven
by my capitalist forces yes but I would have hoped my idea had some hold. My principles
would have hold. Principles often make way for profit when it comes to people like these
because we've been told well not me but you know galaxy at large has been told that morality
is equal to one's profit. Power is equal to one's profit and in some cases more truthfully
safety comfort all equal to one's profit. If you're not profitable you can hardly live
comfortably right? Because we've tied them so closely together. My point it doesn't matter
what your principles are because your principles are second to morality and morality this galaxy's
morality dictates their profit is what makes you good or bad. Look at saga. Our planet
has seen more destruction than most right? What makes a good person on saga according
to many people is living on the upper decks. Living on lower decks means that you're dirty,
uneducated, rowdy, every synonym you can think of perhaps without exactly saying bad or evil
but nonetheless and of course situations like that turn people like Tommy into cruel hardened
people. People well people like me because once you've been told you're bad long enough
lots of hops skipping a jump from being bad yourself. Fyriak it's not that your principles
weren't good enough it's not that you didn't care enough it's that you're fighting against
an inbuilt system built over millennia upon millennia. It was going to fall eventually
but you made it last for a very long time. Don't discredit yourself just because other
people do. No good ever comes from it. I'm not even mad about the park. I knew it was
going to turn into this at some point. It's looking back towards like the actual wilderness
behind wild times. It's about that. That's all I wanted to do was to just try and funnel
some awareness and a way for people to comprehend what's going on and stop it from being buried
under all the headlines and advertisements and distractions and just... And to what?
Sovereigner? You lost? Wild times is now a corporate show? It's not about wild times.
It's about the wild. You can't replace that. There are far too many things called wild
in this bloody planet. I understand. That just means you need to find new tactic. That's
all. Then try again and again and again. You don't give up until you find yourself locked
away for decades. And even then you think to yourself, well how do I find a new solution
to a very old problem? Giving up, Firiak, is a dead man's game. And you're far from
dead. But I get it. You want to commiserate. So how do you commiserate? Do you soak your
roots in alcohol? I work, I suppose. But... God, you are. I'm sorry, that is the most
oppressing thing I've ever heard and my planet isn't ruined. It's what I do to cope. It's
not. Is it what you do to cope or what you do to hide? I don't really want to talk about
this right now. Okay, okay. I'm going to keep my mouth shut until we get to this Mr. What-
Is he like? He is loyal, if you share in that loyalty with him. He's forward, but also quite
the charmer. It was easy to cosign with him. I'll say that. Firiak, forgive me for asking.
Is your relationship with him more than just professional? No. It's pretty strictly business.
I mean, we've spent a little bit of time just, you know, relaxing when we were when I was
first out here on a do, but nothing really in terms of like one on one interpersonal
bonding. Well, he's hoping he's hoping that they have the right person for the job. Gardens,
I hope so. It's you know, Firiak, what's the worst that could happen? I'd rather not think
about that. There is a small chime as the train gets into the the heart of Raven's Roost.
Mr. Wilde's penthouse is accessed through a lift exclusive for them and some visitors.
Well, after you, his arm stands up and he like bangs his fist against his hip. It's
like the sound of grating obsidian. That's a bit tight. What do you wish to meet with
this person alone? I'm not sure now is the time to be making introductions. Firiak, I
many things, but I'm one more than capable of introducing myself and two, I'm also more
than capable of sitting in the back and being muscle. Rest assured, I won't talk unless
I'm spoken to. Come on. All right. We'll walk forward. Do I need to talk to the receptionist?
There's a a specific key card. It pulls the wild times AI to you as a receptionist. Cool.
You swipe your card. There is this solid red light that blinks to green as you swipe your
card and then manifesting from a line strip in the floor that goes all throughout Raven's
Roost a hologram of this translucent lion purple tentacles or humanoid face. Well, how
there? How can I be of service to you today? I would like to request the lift to Mr. Wilds
residency. Right you all. Let me go ask. This is I promise you I'll show you the real subject
one when this is less chaotic. Do you think they've got stuffed animals? I look like that.
Oh, there's stuffed animals. There's action figures. There's t shirts. There's hats. The
ones with like the little the little tentacle appendages and the kids they wear them and
then they shake their heads. All right. I don't really know where I can just do that
with my bloom. Yeah, I don't like it. This is a precarious enough situation. Right. Yeah.
This way doctor and the left doors open. You know, my mom used to bounce bells on these
to teach me good posture. So if I shook my head too much. Really? Yeah. Yeah. I mean,
to be fair, it were bound to ever tell you about nevermind. It's not important. I am
interested to hear more. We can discuss cultural implications of if read physiology some of
the time. Fair enough. You know this. I see. Okay.
as the lift moves to Mr. world's apartment. We are going to move on over. I sky. What
have the pair of you? What are the pair of you been up to? There is you sky you are you
have recently been so poisoned that you lost your mind. I you were pretty beat up. And
you are there with sky scrap is busying themselves. Actually scrap scrap is left briefly the medicines
to speed up the anti poison process have been delivered and scrap is going to the fabricator
to come pick them up. So scrap is gone. It's just a pair of you. Since it's been about
two hours since since sky you woke up. I'm playing a game on my communicator and then
I take a short break to text in the group chat. You guys okay? I'm not worried or anything.
Delete delete delete delete delete and then I send that and just like what are you guys
up to responded in a bit and continue playing the game. I know I'm not worried or anything.
I am so that's that's okay. You do need rest. How are you feeling so far? If I said fighting
fit would you test me on it? I well I wouldn't fight you. But I would question that because
I think I think it only has been a little bit and you went through quite an ordeal.
So yeah, I mean, not the first time I've been brainwashed and lost all sense of agency.
Oh, do you want to talk about? No, I I don't even want to think about it. Because you've
seen what happens when I am confronted with that information. I lose all of my marbles
and I just got my marbles back. 100% I just figured I'd check just in case. No, that's
a really nice thing for you to do. Thank you. You're welcome. Well, let's maybe at least
just get this second round of of anti poison in you before we start testing your bow staffing
skills. Scrap going to be back soon. He just went to go grab the medication. So I think
I think he should be scrap comes in hands full of like drinks and little snacks. Right.
Yeah, I know we're not staying. And we have other things that we're probably going to
need to do tonight. But whilst the settle in you like the while the medicine settles
sky, I do want you to eat some food. All right. It's I want me to eat some food too. Glad
we're on the same page. Thank you pushes this like these like armfuls of of like sweets.
And there's like some vending machine sandwiches and drinks and stuff onto the onto the bed.
How we feeling? You're feeling okay? Um, I'm feeling much better physically and mentally.
The fact that I'm essentially useless is making me freak out a little bit. But I think we're
handling it. Okay. I mean, you're not useless here. Well, I'm never really useless. I get
that. But I am still very tired. Quite weak. I was poisoned and, you know, zombified by
a slug. I mean, some slack, dude. Yeah, no, I understand. I mean, hey, if anyone's going
to be talking about useless around here, I fully blanked out whilst you two were fighting
the heath back on helium. So you blacked out? No, I was just I just zoned out. I was not
there at all. I joined way too late. Just enjoying a comedy show. Yeah, but still, it
doesn't feel great. You know where we'd be without you? Me and I, well, maybe not I,
but I'd definitely be back on saga. Everybody else would be on the VA 11. No, no, no, I'm
not having this. This isn't a a all it's all feel bad for scrap. This is a I understand
where you're coming from. I about what happened earlier, I understand where you're coming
from. I just want everyone to know that I sympathize with things that I'm not good
at addressing it with words. Okay, I know that I'm not useless. I just mean I understand
the feeling. Okay. All right. He had a text back from theory. Meeting with the Oh, sorry.
Dear colleagues. God. As I'm an eye on managing. We are currently on our way to Ravens Roost
to meet with the other co founder of wild times. We will see if this meeting is fruitful.
And if we can find any other information from this and hopefully come out with possibly
an ally. Wishing you well sky. Dear colleagues, I'm reading this over. I'm reading this over
their shoulder as they're typing. And I immediately reply with this is not will. Nor is it a last
testament. I have no idea why it was written in such a way. Oh my god, it's on. No one
was thinking that till you said that. Hey, Andre. May I request a narrative bone to be
thrown my way. Sure. theory act have mentioned the name Mr. Wild. Yes. Or what? Yes. I did
I not say Mr. Wild. Okay, I was that's why I was. Yeah, okay. Cool. Yeah, I would have
said has a theory. Yeah. Momo has a theory that might be absolutely nothing. But it could
also make the meeting you're going into very dramatic. And I live for the drama. So sky
is going to message back. Do we know the first name of Mr. Wild? Man? Nope. Wait a minute.
You went into business. Mr. is purely a formality goes by wild. I'm like just beginning to
wonder if we're gonna go up there and see a robot or hologram or clone of theory act
at this point. I honestly don't know. Oh my god. Can you imagine that would be wild? No,
a full orphan black situation. Yeah, so you theory act you get the you get the text of
Do we know the first name just goes by wilds? W I L D E. I scrap. Yep. We might want to
be prepared to get out of here really fast. Oh, I'm gonna do some breathing exercises.
Okay. scrap texts. Where did you meet wild? Question mark. Were they called wild before
the park? Oh, for fuck's sake, is it another void member? I say that out loud to theory
act. Can't be more of them, right? How many people do they have? Honestly? Seems like
every week, boom, I've a void member. Boom, never void member. Nice to meet you. My name
is a parking garage. I live in a metaphorical and sometimes literal den of snakes. Yeah,
you do those breathing exercises. I'm gonna try something. Okay, I'm not doing really
well. I think I might have stopped breathing. No, you're no. I refuse that scrap. Remember
when we first got here and I asked if they were taking money from the void and everybody
gave me shit for it. Yeah, yeah. Remember that. Why I'm going to delete skies information
from the medical record on this computer system. Give me a computer check. Okay. I don't know.
It's entirely possible. People always take other people's blood. 17. Yeah, you you you
managed to full blast all records. Okay. If if they're like a void void member, then what
theory act has just been working with the void this whole time. I mean, the void is
everywhere. That's why I asked. I'm not surprised. They are literally everywhere, especially
in this system. Also, we're not dead yet. We might be overthinking this. Maybe they
left wanted to just become a company person. We did. We kept our names should take five
or six times. Well, that reminds me I need to text. I do text. What do you text? How
did theory expel his his name? It was with an E at the end. W I L D E. Yeah, I text hive
W I L D E. Question mark space and then an emoji of a black hole and hit send. The message
goes to send but is in that like gray space for a bit when it hasn't quite been delivered.
And then is there an undo button? A little exclamation mark comes up next to it as not
sent because we can't get stuff through to saga. Right. I forgot. Right. We might be
okay. This person has clearly worked with theory act before. We don't even know if they're
void. They might be X at this moment. There's a voice call for everyone in the group who
is not there yet. For me from his own. Well, theory acts with me. I have speaker on scrap
answers and then puts it on speaker and puts it down. I'm figuring this is probably better
than that's just thinking on our own and getting into our heads. You know what I mean? Okay.
More void. Right. Was what we're all thinking. Yeah, I think so. But it might not be the
worst. They might be like, they've been working with theory act this whole time didn't reveal
the fact they were void or get theory act involved. Very act. I've I did not know about
void until literally I met all of you. Well, I heard them in the news. I have no other
context for them outside of meeting you all. Okay. Well, does Mr. Wild ever talk about
friends with strange mononyms? You know, I milk shop. I, I, I can't think of I would
have remembered those. I it's just other people like I know. I know a Jack and a Salak and
I dub and I met Lynn through I don't know theory. I have a feeling that names like that
could just fly right over your very big head. Big as in your smart. I okay. Well, all right.
My question is, do we know how wild got so much money, you know, with which to fund the
park? They are really good. They knew a lot of people who ended up investing. They were
very good at like selling the park. I see. To others and big investors who ended up becoming
the board. But that is just very normal how business stuff works for other people. Yeah.
That just related basically. Yeah. Okay. So then maybe scrap is right. Maybe this they
are X void and maybe we don't. Maybe this won't be as terrible as we're all imagining.
Right? I mean, right now we're seemingly in an endless elevator up to avoid Memphis room.
So yeah, couldn't possibly get worse. Okay, you know, it's a really long, really long
left. He lives at the very, very top. I live actually at the very, very bottom. Can you
leave us on the line when you get there? Yeah, we'll be real quiet here. I know, I know how
to mute us. I mean, if I were, look, I'm not exactly technologically proficient, but if
I was a Mr. Wild and I happen to work for a void and I also happen to have billions
and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions and billions
and billions of a lot money, what I'd probably do is make some coin kind of blocker. Yeah.
But we can try real quick because I do feel like you're the left is about to hit the room.
It's really fucking. It's not like the lift. Okay. Oh, look, the lights going up. Yeah.
Close. Yeah, I see. I see it. Oh, I sky. What are we doing? Actually, generally, what is
our plan? Are we staying here? If it comes to worst body, you're on body duty. Lorik.
I'm going to deal with Lorik then. Yeah, with I know that I'm like real weak and stuff, but
given the current circumstances, I feel like maybe this isn't the best place. I agree.
Actually, um, that's, that's, we should go and make our way. Okay. Yes. Don't mention
me. I'm assuming no mention scrap or hive or any of them. No, I just don't want to be
involved in the hierarchy of the wild times. Capitalistic society is on. So I should only
speak of myself. Okay. We'll just I'm muting us now. Bye. Okay. Um, I'm assuming it means
the line is still open enough that they can hear it. I'm assuming it means we can talk
about I guess much as we like that's fine. It's a text that comes through. Yeah. It's
in the really small font. I shoved my phone in a pocket where it picks up enough so the
baby could doesn't get drowned. What is wrong with me? I used to be so good at being dishonest.
The elevator's doors open onto this grand room. Huge penthouse. There's a fire. There's
like a sitting pit. There is a TV that has some random sitcom on it. A broad man balding
head shaved to enough to show the fact that they are balding quite quick, but they have
a little bit of hair in a what is essentially a bathrobe that's done up. Thirriak. Oh my
god. I did not think that I would see you again. I hope your holiday was good. As everyone
who can hear, this is the same voice as the mascot. Wild. It's good to see you again.
On a scale from like one to eleven, how hot is he? He has an aura. Okay. Okay. Sollith
seven. Your friend? Oh, this is my friend Azzam. Hello. Hello. How y'all doing? It's
nice to meet you. Do you want a drink? Can I get you a drink? No. Come on. I'll get you
a drink. Okay. Uh, opens up a mini fridge. I look at Thirriak just utterly shocked. He's
got a quite forceful personality, yeah? He's very charismatic. I thought you. I mean, this
is more than that. You can barely speak of word in his presence without getting flustered.
Now I'm excited to hear about why you left us with on on open and weak with with no knowledge
of where you went. I'm stoked as hell to hear all about that. But first, let's have a drink.
It's good to see you back, pal. Thank you. And at the mention of disappearing without
a trace, the directors palms the full like glass with like an iron grip. Oh, you seem
tense and you picked up some new friends. Yes. I surreptitiously fill theory X class
with my glass because that drink. So, um, first of all, uh, I did send out an email,
um, to everyone in on the board and in upper management, uh, stating why I would be gone.
I was actually collecting a specimen, um, of of, uh, uh, Leviathan's Eye for collection.
I know that we were looking into expanding our, uh, our menagerie. I know that we have
the saga exhibit, obviously, with, um, a lot of the funding that they wanted to bring about
the they want to bring in people from saga to to a do. But we managed to actually capture
some of the parasitic slugs, the mollusks that now roam Leviathan's Eye. We collected
two. Well, very good. Look at you out doing field work. Just like just like what we used
to do. It's, uh, it's nice to see that that passion hasn't hasn't died out with all the
corporate stooge in that has been happening around here. So you're aware of corporate
stoogeing? Let me tell you, my friend, I I do not have a mind for business. I can talk
people into doing it for me, but I am not a fan of it myself. I've never been a fan
of big corporations like this, but I tell you what, the money ain't half bad, so I'll
deal with it from day to day. Wait, hold on. Hold on. Firiak. Hmm? Wilde. You two signed
up together without one of you actually being business minded? Well, the point of being
business minded is I'm of the mind that we can get other people to do it for us. So we
did. Firiak is the mind behind everything. I'm just the person to pick things up. I just
I get us where we need to be. I'm the driver. Firiak is the navigator. I drive us to the
destination. Firiak tells us where we're going. This park has come quite a long way since
from the initial idea of what it was going to be. Quite a lot more money in it too. Yes.
We wanted to talk to you about something that was a little disconcerting. I believe an attempt
was made on my life. Oh dear. So we're just jumping right into it, yeah? I don't see why
it happened. By who? I don't know. But what had happened was, you know Lorik. I'm aware.
Yep. Finance. Lorik sent me a written note in my laboratory stating that he suspected
something was afoot amongst the board and asked me to meet with him at a designated location.
Aware of what that might entail. Especially did not want to go alone so I brought the
rest of the crew who I travelled to Leviathan's Eye with, which included Azam, to meet him.
And very soon after we met there at the location, he was shot. And I'm sure you're familiar
with the ray. That was used on us and made us. We were able to manage to get ourselves
back to regular size. But one of our team members was able to, part of our crew encountered
a cybernetically altered rodent that we use in testing facilities sometimes. Are you familiar?
Not really, no. But go on. But it was implanted and it had attached to it some sort of video
feed functionality in the implant and contained this card. Hand it over. Quickly takes it
from you. Looks it over. Is there any connection between this and the attempt on your life?
I'm honestly not sure. But to my understanding, the purpose of the rodents was for the purposes
of recording advertisement video from a worm's eye perspective throughout the exhibits to
use in publication. It was largely Feed's idea to do so since we already had the testing
rodents.
They turns and walks off into another room. Although they walk off, you are very much
in their house now, so you could follow if you want to follow him. But he does. He walks
off into another room, opens up a door to a very nice, what seems like office, and turns
on the desk, which has a holographic screen raised from it and puts the SD card in. He
looks up and eyes you for a second and then, here you've been getting into quite a lot
of adventures whilst you haven't been here. Are you sure the attempt on your life was
related to the park?
Well, it could either be that or a one-time accidental association with Void. But I'm
figuring it's probably park related. I look very closely the moment I mention the word
Void for a reaction from Mr. Wilde, and I would like to do a sense product check. A
genetically modified 20.
They don't react, but in a way that reads, they already know that you know.
How many microphones do you have in that lift?
The lift I ain't got none. I keep myself to myself most times, but I had a sneaking suspicion
when I saw you and Doctor yourself stepping off of a pretty hunk of junk, shit-rattled
ship with a young girl, another rat, and type something on the computer. And this person
turns the screen toward you.
It's holographic, but it's like a physical hologram.
I can't see it.
In my brain, the hologram aspect is not just light. It's little magnetic balls that hover
and then light up. So then people who can't see color or light are still able to piece
together.
They can still see it.
Yeah, or like the inside of an assistant.
They turn the screen around, and there is a short email that leads to a picture. It's
from an unknown email address, has the words Bounty Alive, and it has 500,000 credits.
And below is a picture from Weymouth School for the Young and Gifted, and is a picture
of Ike.
Wrapped off the ship with this person, didn't you? Now I heard that you took an awful lot
of money. Did you really think that that wouldn't come to bite you in the ass?
I sincerely hope you're not playing on collecting the bounty on our dear friend Ike.
My friend 500,000 credits is pocket change to what we make here.
And I'm a little indebted to Theriak, is all.
So no, I won't be.
Because if I was gonna, I think all of you would already be dead.
Now I'm not saying that this attempt on your life has anything to do with this, it might
have stuff to do with the park. I just want you to know, Lorak, bless him, that's a shame,
it's hard to find a good finance person around. But that seems like a weird casualty to me.
To be frank, a friend and I were thinking that maybe Lorak wasn't an intended casualty
at all. It was an automatic turret that fired at Lorak, and when it did, it fired a bullet
with a small chip, a kind that can upload a consciousness into a different device.
That is high, high tech. Those are hard to find.
That's not something we would readily have available on the property.
Not for my knowledge, I have no idea why we would have one of that on the property at
all.
Would a person of Lorak's means be able to acquire one for himself?
Lorak probably could, but I don't know why Lorak would want to do that. It's not a pleasant
experience getting shot in the head and having your consciousness uploaded, as far as I'm
aware. I don't know why they do it to themselves. Doesn't seem smart at all.
When did I say shot in the head? I just said shot.
Consciousness chip has to be shot in the head, else it won't work.
I had no idea. Excuse me, I'm a naturally suspicious person.
I understand.
I'm just a bit flabbergasted still. Forgive me.
It's alright.
I will say, for the small amount that it's worth, there is the void. There is, of course,
the heath.
There's a lot of dangers in this galaxy, and theory-like I do have to be honest, business
is, especially at this level, probably one of the most dangerous that you could get yourself
in. So if it is what you think, and this is an attempt on your life from wild times, almost
definitely one of the board doing it, or who knows, maybe someone else who wants to get
in or out.
Would you allow me another sense of motor check? I want to see how truthful... Are we
being strung along? Is he being truthful? Is he scared? Only fifteen this time.
As someone who has been in a lot of very dangerous situations, you do, you actually in particular,
understand that after a while you get numb to danger, especially at this level. You also
know that Wild isn't worried at all, almost like they're not involved in this, so they
just seem to be giving information freely. What they know, and they don't seem to know
a lot to be fair.
Both not worried enough to be the culprit, but also not worried enough to be a friend
concerned about their react safety. Oh, that hurts.
Well they're concerned a little bit, as they are actually helping. There's no reason why
they would ever need to say that I... like, tell the bounty on Ike. That actually actively
goes against a lot of the things that would be useful for them, so they do seem to be
helping. But in a... this is definitely your situation. I'm giving you this, I'm not involved.
Right. Um, would you be at all against interrogations of the other board members? Investigations?
Would that be too... too far?
Hey, if I'm... I sit here and I get on with my day, I'm very hands off. If you want to
go investigate and interrogate the other board members, as long as there are people filling
those seats when you leave to do whatever you're doing and this park is still running,
I don't give a shit what you do.
But would you be willing to back Firiak up?
In combat? Probably not.
If other members of the board start playing coy and say they won't participate in the
investigation, would you be willing to step in and put a foot down?
Force them to tell you what they know?
Yeah. People ain't playing along.
And if it comes down between a choice... a choice between the board as it is, or Firiak,
would you back?
There's a lot of questions with a lot of unknowns being thrown around.
See his...
I... Firiak... your friend here clearly likes you very very much. Or has just a weird list
of strong sense of morals, I haven't quite decided.
You helped me here. And you helped me a lot. I am living very pretty off what you have
set up here.
So I ain't saying I'm gonna have anyone's back, but...
The board are just the board. We can find new people to sit in chairs. You're the one
who set this whole place up.
Well, I will personally message you as to what the next steps are when that's decided.
I do greatly appreciate your input, and I do not... I don't expect you to participate
in any way besides should there be any resistance to cooperate. That's all I ask.
I deeply appreciate your... your help.
I appreciate that. Well, first, moves the screen back around to them. Pulls up the SD
card. There are hundreds of hours of footage on this SD card, segmented off into days.
The last day, the most recent recording, is of Azam, I, and Scrap calming the rat and
then taking the SD card out. They scroll back to the first. I ain't saying that anything
is gonna come of it. If you have a... basically a recording of the underworkings of wild times,
that might be pretty useful to scrub through.
Probably, yes. Sometimes the clear answer is not the one you seek out first.
I understand. Well, you can have my... you could use my desk for the time. I'm gonna
be up for another hour or two, so you can use it. Or I'm sure you have a personal device
which you can watch the files on.
I wouldn't want to solicit any further than I already have, so... and we'll stand out
a hand for the card.
They remove the card and then hand it back to you. Well, best of luck, the Pariah. Hope
we don't have to meet again. To you, Azam. Theriac, you're always welcome here.
I appreciate that. Well, um, expect a message soon, I suppose. And then we'll finish the
rest of the drink.
Which is double, because it's also Azam.
A nice double shot from a tiny little garlic bowl.
A nice double shot from a tiny garlic.
With a cracked peel. Oh yeah, that whole time had the cracked peel all across the face.
Ah, yes. Cool.
Alright, thank you again for the drink. I appreciate that. I appreciate you very much.
You're very nice.
Thank you.
Alright.
Thank you. You too, you're very smart.
It might be important and bold while everyone's complimenting each other. Why wild?
Before this was WildTam's the park. This was just WildTam's the facility. They used to
bring upper deckers here, it was just a house in place. And I was brought to take out one
of those upper deckers. I did so, and it's not as easy to get off this planet as it is
to get on. So, started being clean up crew. Now look at me. And gestures to the window
next to their office, which is overlooking this whole theme park. Ain't done too bad
for myself.
Seems a bit lonely though.
Azam.
If you're with yourself and your own thoughts, they're never really lonely. Only sad men
say that.
Only sad men do. And I follow Theriac.
Both leave. Now Skye, I am Scrap, has all heard this conversation. For the most part.
I'm so sorry.
I... Well, it's fine. He doesn't seem to want to do anything about that. We will just
have to deal with the rest of Void.
It's actually really lucky that you guys have met four Void members. And they've all been
chill, actually. Great, great odds.
Right. Well, uh, school definitely...
No yeah, school and track suck.
Wants us dead, but they were sort of not working at full capacity at the time that we met them.
So...
And your capture thing says alive. Not dead.
Wait, why do they want you alive? I thought it was because you took the race money. Do
you have something of theirs or...?
Well, I didn't want them to be able to find Dr. Theriac because Dr. Theriac was very nervous
about being captured on film and publicity and things because of... I don't know, I didn't
know why at the time, but now I guess it's coming together. And so I did the thing that
I do sometimes with computers. And sometimes, most of the time when people find out about
that, they are put off for various reasons, but then sometimes people...
Want to use you?
Right. So maybe me doing that is why they don't want me dead?
That's not gonna happen.
Well, I'll be alive, so...
There are things worse than dying.
Hmm.
I think it's not gonna happen, so we don't need to worry about that right now. How about
we go find our dead body?
Let's...
Fuck.
Yes.
Uh, Skye, can you unmute us?
Are we gonna... Unmute.
What's the plan? What are we doing? We're gonna go do the body. What are you two doing
now? Do we need a meeting?
I think a meeting would be beneficial.
I'm thinking maybe wild times might deal with the body themselves. Do we maybe want to go
meet up at Firiak's place?
Oh yes! You should come to my residency at Raven's Roost.
You wanna text the address?
Check where the body was just in case.
Okay.
And then we can meet at Firiak's place.
I can run and check on the body and I can come meet you.
And I text the address.
I can go twice as fast as you.
You are very ill.
You need to take it easy unless there is an emergency. We need you in fighting shape.
Firiak, you got a couch, right?
Oh, assuredly.
The way you said that made me immediately picture Firiak's apartment as just couches.
Oh, I got couches.
Oh, I got couches. You ain't even seen a real couch before.
Firiak doesn't have an apartment, it's just a department store that sells couches.
It's just the furniture section of Home Depot.
I gently cover the microphone. When you say you have a couch, do you have a couch for
a... Am I going to break your furniture?
No.
Oh, good.
No, no. My furniture is designed for people even larger and heavier than you are.
Yeah, good, good. Because I could use an apartment.
You will not need to worry about the ceiling either.
Hey, Azam, we really need to teach you how to mute your communicator because that doesn't
work. But we definitely heard all of that. It was just like a little muffled.
So what?
I cover the microphone again. It just makes me feel better. That's what's important.
And then I'd cover the microphone.
I understand.
Well, I know a lot of people and drugs make them feel better, so I don't know if that's
the best ideology to have, but okay.
Anyway, let's meet up at...
Let's go. Let's meet up.
Yes.
I'm going to go deal with the body. I'm going to go make sure it's still there. Everyone
go meet it back up at Theriax.
Okay. And are you going to be okay, Scrap?
Yeah.
Okay. I want you home by 11.
I've buried a thousand bodies. It's already one. I can assure you I'll be back by 11.
Okay.
All right.
I want messages throughout the night. Please and thank you.
I will stick to my phone.
All right. I'm going to take the bag off my IV and I'm just going to stick it in my pants.
I say let's go.
The three of you leave the Med Bay. Sky's records are like completely wiped out. Scrap
breaks off when you leave and you two make it onto the monorail. As I'm Theriax, you
go down the elevator, cross to another, has the same.
Well, how did they? Where would you like to go?
You swipe your card. The doors open. No checking because it's your room. In about half an hour,
everyone manages to make it to Theriax's apartment. Theriax, would you like to describe what your
apartment looks like?
Oh, baby. So, Wild lives at the very, very top of Raven's Roost. So, he has a full view
of the entire facility, top to bottom. Theriax is at the very bottom of Raven's Roost, below
ground level, and actually extends outward into the sea. It is a domed domicile that's
built in conjunction to the reef without destroying it. So, it bends around where the reef is.
Even at night, it's fairly active with nocturnal fish. You can even see sharks and other aquatic
life sort of swimming around, some baby turtles. It is spacious. It is extremely tall considering
it's an underwater area. And it seems large enough to even house some of the bigger animals
at wild times. There's an entertainment system. There's a very large computer set up with
a 15-foot screen and lots of little screens on the side. Big old swivel chair. Nice bed.
Couches. Kitchenette. Dining area.
Like a wild amount of couches. Too many couches.
There's like five couches. And the lights are actually bioluminescent. So, that's Theriax's
place.
Nice.
The man just wanders straight in, rolls up a pillow into the shape of a cylinder, tucks
it behind his horns, and lies down on the couch with an audible groan.
Dr. Theriax's apartment! I think it took us to the Lido deck instead.
No, you're at the right place. I like the lights. That's nifty.
You live here?
This is where I live when I'm not at the lab.
This is so dope. That is a, I almost said wild, that is an amazing computer set up,
dude.
And it runs, whine at like nothing else.
Don't take this the wrong way, yeah? You are exorbitantly rich.
Not true. I'm not rich. They were just very, very kind with furnishing.
This is rich.
Theriax, if this isn't rich.
I have none of the money. I pay for none of this. My checks are, compared to wild's, quite
small. Even compared to the other poor bearers.
Why is that?
I donate a large amount of my income to actual conservation research.
Oh. Of course.
I mean, it probably helps that you don't have to pay for this place, right? You probably
got lots left over to donate to conservation research.
Hey, I take the IV bag out of my pants. Do you have like a lamp or something?
You have to, it has to be elevated so that it can drip down. It's a drip IV.
I was wondering why it was a little lightheaded.
Runs over to the closet, pulls out a closet rack and just hangs it up.
Thank you.
Yeah.
It's not like a coat hanger.
It's just not a coat hanger.
I'm gonna lie down in the closet.
Oh wait, can I, as you're, as you're walking away, small garlic bulb, I'd like to just
tug on your lab coat.
Yeah?
Thank you.
You're very welcome.
I think we've all had a long night. I'm going to set up just extra security measures before
we go to bed, finally get some rest.
That does sound like a very good idea. Very smart.
There's a slight tearing sound as a little shift in his sleep causes one of his horns
to slightly rip the couch. He's already fast asleep too.
That's fine.
We can stitch it up.
Does crap come through the door?
Yeah, you, you, you all get a text saying, um, body's still there.
Uh, people haven't seemed to notice it yet.
Come back?
Come to Raven's Roost.
Come to bottom floor.
My domicile.
In about 40 minutes.
There's a ding.
And Scrap's like, holy moly.
Good Lord.
I feel like we're going to summon the galaxy's greatest superheroes.
We who knows?
We could be.
I guess we're turning in for the night.
Yes.
I'm going to be setting up extra security measures to ensure that we aren't perturbed
in our sleep.
We can get some actual full rest.
I do want to just say, I know that this is a, must be very scary situation and I know
that you want to stay here or I don't know if those plans have changed, but you do always
have a seat on the patchwork.
You know that, right?
If you want to just get up and get out of here and try to fly away from all this mess,
we will always have your back.
I appreciate that, Scrap.
I would be lying if I said the past 24 hours haven't made me deeply reconsider.
I thought coming back would be a relief and it's been nothing.
All right, well, come on, we've had a rough day.
So we'll sleep and then we'll get that meeting.
Okay?
All right.
They like pat you on the back as they walk off.
Yes.
Oh, I almost forgot.
We can pull out, these aren't couches, they're futons.
And then we'll like pull out the bottom and it like extends outward for you.
Thank you.
Okay.
You're welcome.
Are you all right?
I know I didn't understand the school bounty thing, but are you okay?
Oh, that's quite low on my list of worries right now, actually.
A bounty for you for half a million credits is not at the top of your list?
Not right this moment, no.
Iriak, I'm very sorry about Lorik and I don't know if I made a very good decision.
Regarding what?
I found that chip thing in the bullet.
It was sending some data somewhere and I became very afraid that that was going to put you
in more danger somehow, or all of us maybe.
And I didn't really understand what it was, so I stopped it from sending that data.
But now I'm worried that I'm the one who effectively, and it has life.
What?
The data on the chip is like uploading someone's consciousness, that's what Scrap said.
And you're saying that you killed him by preventing that from completing its designated task?
Well, that's what Scrap and Azong have basically been saying is what happened.
I- if Lorik- okay, first of all, shooting yourself in the head with a bullet that's
designed to upload your consciousness to a cloud, that's pretty bonkers.
Right!
Scientifically.
Well, okay, that is fair.
You agree with that- with that posit, yes?
Would you also agree that in doing so, he understood that by shooting himself in the
head, in the cranium, he risked dying?
I suppose.
But then, I suppose.
I just wish I hadn't made that decision.
No, no, I understand.
I understand that it's- in the moment, it's morally complex, yes.
And that taking a life is not easy.
No, it never is.
Never should be.
He reaches a handout on Theriac's arm, quite gently.
Theriac, are you okay?
I'm very, very stressed.
I really thought coming back here would just be returning back to the laboratory and continuing
more, more maintenance of the park and exhibit planning and I had to- oh, I wanted to show
you, we have a saga exhibit!
I would like to see that when we figure out how to make this safe again.
Yes, when it's safe.
But I am- I'm glad that's- I'm glad you're here.
Oh, well, I'm glad to be here.
I'm glad you're not alone right now.
Maybe I wouldn't, wouldn't want that at all.
I don't think I'd want it either.
That's good.
Theriac will use their hand and grasp Ike's and just kinda squeeze it.
I should, we should get some rest.
It's- I think we're going to have quite a bit more to figure out tomorrow.
Yes, very much so.
I will leave you to your cycles.
I'll talk to you in the morning.
Yes, I'll see you in the morning.
And then Theriac goes to the big ass computer that faces away from all the beds so that
no one else has to deal with the glare of the blue light while they're sleeping and
works on maximizing security for the night.
And as everyone drifts off with conspiracies afoot, possible new allies, there's a lot
of danger on every turn.
We're going to call our session there, gang.
Oh, would you look at that as a new episode all cleaned away.
It's been a bloody while.
I apologize, gang.
I have got a new- brand new job.
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And that's why next week's might also be super late, but it might also be coming out just
next week.
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