Episode 10

Starting: Monday, 2351-01-01
Ending: Saturday 2351-01-06

Placeholder Notes

• Alfie turns on the spare transponder and sets the ship name to the Manhattan
• Alfie tells Nikki that he's not going to Ceres and wants to have the ship refit in Tycho
  • Nikki tells the crew. NoDot acquiesces. Kova has objections but no agency in the decision.

• NoDot asks Kova for advice on whether or not she should delete all malware from Terpsichore
  • Kova helps NoDot come to the conclusion that she should delete it, and she does, but makes Kova press the button

• Nikki finds Alfie tap dancing and gives him some pointers
  • Alfie learns what a Major in college is.
  • Mack shows up and wants to learn as well.

• Kova and NoDot spend time together repairing the Protogen Defense Robot
  • They reprogram it to be cute and purr when you pet it
  • Mack shows up and asks wtf it is
  • They talk Mack into touching it, he chuckles when it purrs

• Kova and NoDot have a discussion with Hecate where Hecate says:
  • The protomolecule was discovered on Phoebe, not engineered by humans.
  • Eros was probably a demonstration

• Kova tells NoDot that she destroyed the Augustin Ghemorra with Marco
  • Obsessed with freedom for belters and belter rights and it clouded her vision
  • NoDot tells Kova about her time in the OPA (see nodot's diary, killed son of man who owned the mining company)

• NoDot and Mack play videogames each day in Mack's bunk

• On the final travel day, Nikki is working out and starts taking out her anger about the loss of Julie Mao. Sobbing.
  • NoDot comes to talk to her after "giving her space" for 5 days, but sheepishly walks on the treadmill (very out of character)
  • Nikki Collapses on the ground and NoDot turns and says. "Finally."
  • Nikki shuts her eyes and sits on the ground silently. She looks unhealthy, upset, and sleepless. It's also possible Nikki hasn't eaten since leaving Eros
  • NoDot shoves a plush in Nikki's arms
  • NoDot goes to the Kitchen and grabs a big glass of water and makes a sandwich out of the various ingredients in the kitchen, and a bucket of cheesy puffs
  • The bread, olives, hummus, and herbs are real, but the sandwich has too much going on to be truly delicious. NoDot has never made a sandwich before.
  • Nikki takes the water and sips it, then, realizing she's thirsty, drinks the whole thing and thanks NoDot. She also eats the whole sandwich, and throws up into the bucket of cheesy puffs, apologizing.
  • NoDot assures her it's okay and comforts her. Nikki laments "why did it have to be Julie. She's a better person than me. Did you know she's on anti-cancer meds for the rest of her life after helping save irradiated miners?"
  • NoDot says "Oh my god, that's inspiring"
  • Nikki says "I just came out here to run away. But she came out here with purpose. Why is she the one who ... Why not... why her?"
  • NoDot says "If Hecate died I would space myself." And brags about how smart Hecate is and how she did her own feminization surgery and body modding. She pushed NoDot to be an activist and join the OPA. She was also the first to become uncomfortable when they realized the OPA was doing shitty things. She moved to Ganymede to do plant research and provide for people.
  • Nikki says "We should go visit her. You should go visit her."
  • They have a conversation about cheesy puffs where Nikki comes to the realization that NoDot buys cheesy puffs every time they dock at a station and says "I thought you were off doing hacker things." to which NoDot replies "... that is hacker things."
  • Nikki dozes off and NoDot carries her to her room. NoDot hangs out on their laptop playing chess by mail with hecate.
  • Nikki has pleasant and abstract dreams about Julie
  • NoDot makes a looping gif of Nikki and Julie dancing on the Elysian Dream, creates a looping video frame picture of it in Nikki's room.
  • Nikki wakes up to the ship docking and has a little cry over the video picture frame

• The players arrive on Tycho
• Alfie plans to talk to the dockyard about fixing up the ship
• NIkki plans to talk to Holden, Alfie informs her that they have arrived a day sooner
• Nikki decides to go talk to Fred Johnson instead
• ...NoDot and Kova plan to go shopping for drone parts
• Alfie and Nikki are the first to leave the ship. They are immediately greeted by Mormons.
• They do not respond and the mormon tells them he'll be around the dock
• Alfie goes to the local shipyard office at the dock and gets told it'll be 25mil UND and realizes they're extremely short on cash

• Kova and NoDot leave the ship to go shopping
  • NoDot wants a backpack that they can wear that can launch multiple civilian drones. must look cool. can't look "like this" NoDot says while gesturing to Kova.
  • The Mormon fellow tries to talk to them as they leave the ship and they keep talking to eachother and ignore him.
  • consumer drones $1000UND each.
  • nodot wants stuff to put a gun on the military drone (and repair it)
  • nodot wants flame throwers * ~$80 each
  • parts for fuel line for arachno * cheap
  • Go looking for bank / ATM. current exchange rate is 100k UND: 1 EMC

• Nikki goes to find Fred Johnson.
  • She can't figure out where he is
  • So she asks a maintenance man who points her to the highest level near the mormovator
  • She gets there but can't find Fred's office and asks NoDot to produce a mpa

• NoDot has a conversation with Nikki via text about how she's worried she fucked the EMC economy and it may have cost people their lives
  • NoDot returns to the ship and encounters Mack talking to the Mormons
  • Mormons are telling Mack about how the Nauvoo is a little slice of rural Americana
  • NoDot openly tells Mack that they're abusive, and takes him back to the ship
  • Mormons are very patient and try to save nodot, when she doesn't budget they say "When you're ready, we'll be available right out here."

• Nikki runs into Zuko while standing outside of Fred's office. He asks what she's up to, and then if he can bring the money to Dawes.

• Nikki talks to Fred Johnson, who recognizes that they changed the name of the ship by looking up the drive signature.
  • Fred immediately recognizes her
  • Nikki mentions Holden
  • They talk about Eros
  • They have a discussion about Dawes and how they work together to renew the reputation of the OPA
  • Johnson shares that he has been using the antenna on the Nauvoo to track protogen related stuff and other weird happenings.
  • Fronson asks why they changed the name of the ship. Says that they need ~15m UND to refit the drive on the ship.
  • Offers full ship rebuild in exchange for their mission aboard the Nauvoo, including weapons.
  • Tells Nikki that they'll need physical access to the comms array.

• Alfie looks for drugs.
  • shoplifts Phaze from pharmacy. Promises to calm him down.

• Alfie uses spare hand terminals to text Sophia. Through code "If someone tries to recruit you, don't."
  • Texts her "Someone recruited you."

• Nikki runs into Dawes coming back from the ship. He's messing with the Mormons and wasting their time.

• Nodot has been alone in their room learning about finance and finding streams about how fucked up Ceres economy is. They have their streaming light on to prevent people from entering.
  • Messaged by Nikki to help them infiltrate the Nauvoo comms array.

• Have a meeting.
  • Zuko, Mack, etc. are there. Fred Johnson sends a message to all of them with details of the trip.

• NoDot and Kova have a conversation where NoDot still feels bad about the money.
• Mack, Zuko, Kova, Mack and Nikki have a conversation about Mack learning poker face, and they go to a bar with Poker tables
• Nikki gets pulled away by Detective Miller and he interrogates her about Julie Mao. Becomes progressively more unhinged and actively convinces himself that Nikki is responsible for her death.
• Nikki gets a free drink at a bar with a free drink that she scores off of somebody by flirting.
• She teaches Mack how to spot tells, and by association he learns how to be a better liar.

• Alfie goes onto the The Nauvoo to get Sofia who is there on a tour with her adopted parents. She runs away from them to a cave, where a bear is, and Alfie shoots the bear and rescues her and tells her that they're going back to his ship.

• Alfie takes a moment to be in awe in this space now that he feels Sophia is safe.
• They get back to the ship and Sofia is in awe.

• She encounters Nikki who asks Alfie why she's here, and "should I be alarmed".
  • Alfie replies "I abducted her. And no."
  • Nikki is alarmed.

• Nikki shows her to her new room when she tells Alfie she wants to stay on the ship.
• Mack comes out of his room groggily asking why he heard voices. Nikki tells him that Alfie rescued a girl and that he should go back to bed.
• NoDot messages ??? (Hecate?) when she finds out about this. Opens her door and recognizes Sofia. "Oh boy! Oberto!"

• She explains to everyone that an old man took her to a mormon couple and they boarded the Nauvoo.
  • The old man is not Zuko, or Dawes

• Nikki tells Alfie that they'll need to talk about this in the morning.