My name is Irene I play I own a starling and she has a riff of the Shadow Dragon from Dungeons and Dragons
Snyder’s Return:as you as you get back into the room two of them are starting to sort of lift Victor Chang off they're not being like heavy handed with him but like under arm one on each side just lifting them up and moving them out the two of them sort of stop and look at you and his Victor Chang is very clearly unconscious subjected to the knockout gas from from Mr. Hyde sorry from from the knockout gash of hide grenade So you're sort of stood Yeah, face to face.
Iona Starling:I'm gonna allow some of the Dragons voice to bleed into her own voice
Snyder’s Return:to convince for me
Iona Starling:I don't know anything. I don't got anything to be honest don't
Snyder’s Return:got enough and I got enough
Dr. Henry Edwards:I got I gotta run with you're not a very spooky Dragon.
Iona Starling:Dragon now I'm sure I'd be spookier if I was a dragon. But I'm saying not now. Mild. Which nothing fucking got power, which is one right
Dr. Henry Edwards:minimum power is one one used
Rafa:you still have to juice from from the other room. Yeah. To
Snyder’s Return:to get up to extract Veronica.
Iona Starling:Yeah, yeah, I guess I'll give it you're targeting can choose either take sides are given a little bit protect their own agenda. So do they take the status
Snyder’s Return:what steps would you give them and I will make a decision based on it. But given a little I'm one of them in a sort of a very plain tone through the helmet and the respirator will come back for this one. And they late they place him down and they don't just drop him they place Victor Chang against sort of sat rest against a wall turn round immediately turn around pick up the next one and start carrying them out. Doctor was in the distance you can hear tell the tell tale signs of helix labs transport vans sort of moving a pace through the wild knock a state. I own your neck next to Victor
Iona Starling:Iona. I guess I honestly I just just scoops him right up and takes him back outside.
Snyder’s Return:As you place Victor down. It's clear because he's unconscious. The connection between Veronica and Victor is temporarily severed. He has the black sort of track marks and dark looking pupils as the two of them sort of reconnect she holds his hand and the feeling you get vicariously through Veronica z is a sense of calm as she turns around and and almost not needing to say it. But vocalising anyway,
Iona Starling:thank you. And it gives her gentle smile and crouches down. Did you you didn't mean to do this write it It's Okay, listen, I get I understand better than most about dealing with something dark that you're not fully in control. And so it's okay. You're not going to get any judgement for me. Okay.
Unknown:Just wanted some friends and whatever happened in the lab that wasn't I didn't choose this.
Dr. Henry Edwards:At this point, the doctor begins to shrink down to his normal size, which is not a fun process to be witness to as his bones crack and his muscles atrophy down to their regular size. But he removes from his pants pocket is glasses, which are, of course cracked at this point and places them on his face, looks down his nose at the girl and says, unfortunately, I will not be reserving judgement. You may not have asked for this, none of us did. But we did not all of us respond by resorting to human trafficking. That was your choice.
Snyder’s Return:You only get the even before she reacts and you can see her shoulders drop and slump. You can feel a mixture of anger, confusion and just just the deepest sense of sadness sort of well up within her, which sort of moves across to sort of wash over you a little bit. She Veronica says to you, Doctor
Unknown:just I felt I had Hey, hey, hey, please, please help me.
Iona Starling:Actually, I never I never asked how a young is this kid.
Snyder’s Return:Teens high schooler down High School.
Iona Starling:I want to turn to a small where the doctor is like, she's just a kid. You think she has any idea what she's doing?
Dr. Henry Edwards:She had enough idea to buy people to be her friends to force that on her on them with powers? She no she did not understand.
Iona Starling:Veronica, you need to tell me what's going on. Right? You're You're just a kid. I I I don't believe that. You're as evil as the doctor would like to make you out to be but you have to tell me what's going on. If you don't we can fix this who who was getting you the people
Snyder’s Return:and she sort of rains in her breathing and the tears and she says it's it's a man and they standards law. My dad knows him from from work. moans about him brags about him. So but I just I don't know that Dr. Mann's is right. I shouldn't have done it. But I need help.
Iona Starling:I believe you. But we cannot change what we do in the past. We have to keep going on. Why did you get these people did you feel a need to was someone making you?
Unknown:If I didn't want to hurt people closest to me. From from what my dad was saying there's bad money. He knew how to get things and I just I wasn't thinking I wasn't thinking
Iona Starling:okay. All right. You're You're clearly in a bit of a shock right now. Okay, we can't we can't have a conversation here about what's going on. Alright, so let's let's get you someplace safe Okay, let's get you something to drink and then you and your brother both and and then we can we can talk and you can explain everything and we can fix this. Yeah, we can fix this together.
Snyder’s Return:She looks you square on but all she faces you square on her head is very much lowered in a submissive sort of posture. She you feel that that sense of of hurt that realisation that that guilt the welds up from deep within even out the corner of her eye she can see her brother your unconscious not in any other worse state maybe a little bruised from hitting the ground but unconscious and she looks sort of Panzer her head up to look at you you know square and you know Eye to Eye almost no the wide they're open. They're the sort of read from from tears. She wipes them with her arm, twist her neck in a natural way not saying she just turns her head around.
Iona Starling:I was just thinking like, does she just snap her own neck?
Snyder’s Return:Nothing, nothing quite but she she turns her neck around enough to the sort of the top of her body enough to look back at you, Dr. Woods and as as calmly as softly as she can muster not an act, but just the way it comes across. She says can you help me please?
Dr. Henry Edwards:We will do our best
Snyder’s Return:as we hang on that moment. Couple of dark sort of vans now pull up round and sort of position themselves by the House hide in the other black hot black ops operatives. begin loading The unconscious members of the exoskeleton into the vans. You unfortunately notice a couple of bags of the black variety go into the house and they are bought and put into a separate van.
Iona Starling:And I'm gonna turn Veronica away from the side a little like MC.
Snyder’s Return:Yes. Yeah. So she does once what is who remains within the house have been cleared up. There is one van that pulls up separately to collect. Veronica and Victor and anyone else that wants to head back to heal at the club at this time. The other two are the couple of vans who have moved off and disappeared off through the district or the suburb of wild knockin disappeared back towards helix labs. The door opens and the van just waits
Iona Starling:glances at it. glanced at the doctor and she's like, Veronica, do you feel right going in that van?
Snyder’s Return:Are you coming?
Iona Starling:Yep, I promise. I'll stay with you. Okay. Shut up. Oh.
Snyder’s Return:That's Toby are ringing. You can't just tell him you can't leave him out.
Dr. Henry Edwards:To have an emotional moment here.
Snyder’s Return:She says the Veronica says to you owner, you don't. You don't need to come with me. We've connected hashtag friends for life.
Dr. Henry Edwards:This can't possibly end poorly.
Iona Starling:Thank you, doctor. Well, once we figure out how to help you with your abilities, we won't have to be connected anymore. Yeah. But I'll stay with you. Right.
Snyder’s Return:She hugs you
Unknown:Oh my god.
Dr. Henry Edwards:Quietly under his breath says you should probably get yourself checked.
Iona Starling:for that. Fucking rabies you
Snyder’s Return:don't mass. She releases. She releases from the cuddle or the embrace, I should say and she steps back and holds each of your hands in her hands. And she smiles. She says I'm ready. I'm ready. Does
Iona Starling:the doctor this doctor let her hold hands?
Snyder’s Return:No with with you Iona She's saying she's saying goodbye.
Iona Starling:Goodbye. Right let's let's go kind of glances at Rafa and she's like he's gonna do something about bring him with him. I'm still technically his bodyguard as I said I'll look after him but
Rafa:you there was just this beautiful scene. Just evolving and unfurling and like there's a body unconscious on the dirt just
Dr. Henry Edwards:the doctor holds up a finger goes over and talks to hide gets a little injector injects the antidote to the sedative gas. And then I'm gently but not as hard as he can just slaps Rafa across the
Snyder’s Return:boom. Rafa you spring a week.
Rafa:Oh my god. Did you didn't stick? Did the house fall down? Ah.
Dr. Henry Edwards:No family person who fell down was you? Well done.
Rafa:Where's the girl? Did you didn't kill her? Did you kill?
Iona Starling:Right? She's your dumb app. She kind of cuts himself off. There's she's she's right here. Ronica This is my friend say hi.
Snyder’s Return:She kind of shiny Charlie says hi. Ah. Oh, hi.
Rafa:Okay, I wow.
Iona Starling:Do you miss a lot? Because you're unconscious.
Rafa:This this dream? No, I
Iona Starling:can be nice. Rafa.
Rafa:Well, about you. I don't I don't. I believe that that okay, I didn't in my I mean, in my wildest dreams,
Dr. Henry Edwards:that that was a lie.
Rafa:In my wildest dreams, I didn't believe that this outcome would be possible. But okay.
Iona Starling:I just fall unconscious in the middle of important situations.
Rafa:Yeah. Okay, so great. Good work team. Yay.
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Iona Starling:I saved you by the way, I pulled you out of there. You're welcome.
Rafa:Thank you very much.
Snyder’s Return:As Victor. Yeah. As far as Victor and Veronica load into the van. You're sort of go with or make your own way back to back to the rest of the city.
Rafa:Do we want to go to the doctor's place and have like a team meeting? Or let's just call it tonight?
Iona Starling:Where? Well, I plan on taking Rana Khan and her brother to my brother, actually,
Rafa:my mind of a joint?
Dr. Henry Edwards:I don't think that's going to happen the way you think it is.
Iona Starling:Okay, well, can he come over? At least?
Dr. Henry Edwards:Your brother can assist with helixes examinations. Yes. I think it would be best that we not simply wander around in the wild with the avatar of the Black Death. Okay, well,
Iona Starling:she's not a wild beast for one. So be nicer to her, please. She's a scared teen be nice. I'm not the nicest person on the block. Now I know not to refer to her as a scared beast. And two, that's fair. Let's go.
Snyder’s Return:All right, you are either put in piling or getting depending on your choice of vehicular access. And you sort of fade out on the house sort of behind you the van that you're all in, moving through the streets disappearing back into the city proper, out of wild knock that sense of hunger that has provided and invaded your your sort of core eases and subsides as you get clear of the wild knock estate. And that sense of foreboding, a strange sort of shadow moves between the houses behind you strange sort of long shadow antlers, almost sort of the shadow moves across various buildings but never enough to catch sight of of the creature that casts such a shadow. And that is the close technically, we will continue on with it. But that is effectively the close of V is
Iona Starling:for going viral. Like that's the close of the chapter.
Snyder’s Return:We could say that that is as the freezing Season Season Finale. But we won't stop we will just keep going but that closes out your first case effectively that the threads will continue. But you have suffered
Rafa:arc
Iona Starling:yes first arc baby is dead. Nobody's dead.
Snyder’s Return:There's at least three dead none of the crew none of the crew.
Dr. Henry Edwards:The only casualty was Rafa's dignity.
Snyder’s Return:But took a heavy bruising.
Iona Starling:I cannot believe that my owner has adopted another sibling This is truly stunning.
Snyder’s Return:I'm yet to work out what that stone does. So that's something
Iona Starling:I got to deal with. What the fuck is up with our rock buddy? I don't know if that's just like rehearsing or at some you've given me a magic rock Rafa Wow.
Rafa:I just want to say that I have nothing directly to do with Okay, sure. I just gave you a rock for shits and giggles
Iona Starling:I believe it actually turned into something that's frustrating.
Rafa:I'm so happy I do want to ask a question I still have infected one will it stay there
Snyder’s Return:that we can work through the cause? A cure because I own a technically still has infected three but they deal with as we go through.
Iona Starling:Great um, I'm a big sis now. Yes, she already was a big sis but I'm a bigger sis now you
Snyder’s Return:know have an extended family.
Iona Starling:I am big sis squared.
Dr. Henry Edwards:And your little sis gave you herpes great to find a point on it, but
Iona Starling:first of all, I just want to say that was fucking rude. And uncalled. I just had a really nice moment. As the season finale, this is Iona overcoming personal darkness by helping someone else with their personal darkness. And that's what you have to say about it.
Dr. Henry Edwards:Oh, you can always count on me to step in your emotional putting. Yeah, well done everybody,
Snyder’s Return:before turning into a bloody massacre. So as part of the season finale and something we can we can have a look at between you guys get a new character, a new nascent extra theme for your crew be at ride ally, base of operations, yada, yada, yada. You can work through and pick, pick what those are. Also, if you have achieved personal things I know, Chris, Dr. Edwards went through a theme improvement. You mentioned it during the episode, stuff like that. So what we could do is geek out now and then start, we can either do, I'll give you two options. So the season finale thing we can discuss and bring in the extra crew theme. Not a problem. We can either do a montage, and keep the story rolling, which isn't an issue or we can geek out during the credits. And then when we start the next episode, we just continue the threads. But you get to sort of readjust and recover anything that way. So either way you get a bit of downtime be a montage, or a decal during the credits, and the benefits and bonus for the new guys to discuss as your new extra crew theme.
Iona Starling:I mean, I think I'd like to do the montage. Just because I I'd like to keep the ball rolling for a bit. Okay, that's okay.
Dr. Henry Edwards:Montage works. Alright, I'm just gonna take a look at the options for extra cards. I ride base of operations. We
Rafa:kind of already have your lab. Don't we Edwards lab?
Dr. Henry Edwards:It doesn't do anything for you guys, though. Aside from the Dr. Edwards lab tag, this would be an entire theme of tags we can use? I believe, actually, I'm just thinking, you can also take an enclave as an additional tag. You can. What if we did the maze? The labyrinth?
Rafa:Yes, I did want to kind of work on on the LeBrons being more more of Central on more abstract, maybe kind of unlocking certain way new new rooms or new functionalities. But yeah, that could be some kind of a new start.
Dr. Henry Edwards:I mean, if you want to save that for your own cards, that's fair.
Rafa:I think it's great. I think it's great. So if we if we can kind of manage. Yeah, a labyrinth. You could technically enter from many doors, maybe pre set or sometimes I can unlock them. And we just have a base. Yeah, like a little meeting room.
Iona Starling:So we have a base. We're
Snyder’s Return:under discussion.
Rafa:Yeah. I think it's a great idea. So yeah,
Dr. Henry Edwards:so we can talk about that after the montage. I'll just push the montage button for us.
Snyder’s Return:All right, montage. Joking. You spend your downtime. That's so good. So you can spend some downtime given tension work in a case. Technically, there are threads you could look to exploring a mythos preparing for next activity. Again, there are threads to be called they're recovering from your life. Last Activity So who would like to address the downtime montage first?
Rafa:Just a general question we are we are not going directly to helix slept facility to see the girl we are just doing a bit of downtime me time. Firstly,
Snyder’s Return:we are effectively the van the trucks you guys were riding in have has gone into the city and got a helix labs everything from from that point of the van reentering the city, we can safely assume she got there safely and is being cared for anything that you want to do between van and reentering the city. And when you pick up following this montage, throw it, throw it in, in this space here.
Iona Starling:Trying to think I don't think I really want to the only thing I can think of is I try and speak to BronyCon Lemoore not like get her to talk about any of the shit that's gone down. But more like, you know, try and try and hear more about who she is Where does she go, you know, the calm things not about the human trafficking. So
Snyder’s Return:I'd still say work the case because you're you're looking more into her. So she would be able to give you more information. Should you ask for it. Even if it was indirectly in you're just having a chat. She may volunteer information, which we can pose as a series of three clues, for example.
Iona Starling:All right. All right. You guys talk about what else you guys do in your montage. I'm gonna say you're on my screen please give me a moment
Dr. Henry Edwards:the doctor is going to give attention to his routine the good doctor and he does so by overseeing directly for once the lab work on the subjects in question and relaying the relevant information to his superiors at helix.
Snyder’s Return:Okay, more on that shortly.
Rafa:Rafa will first try to recover a bit from the from the shock of the good result that we had, that he was seriously panicking about. And as he kind of winds down, I'll bet he will find the red thread that he picked up from his doorknob, and he will try to find out a little bit about Dell. So I think that's worked a case as well. He will first posted to his activist group whom he wasn't in touch for a while and try to find out a little bit about this red seemingly conspicuous little trap.
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