Fading Suns - Spit.

Splode. The Dorritos are for the room, not for your penis. Only Ao and Fal remember the night before. Fal slides down the stairs into the cargo emergency wash, but can't turn the shower on. Ao and Ren slide around aimlessly on the deck. Illiad managed to wiggle into Fal's shower, and also can't turn it on at first and then yanks it with his teeth. Cooper and Ness flail. "Cooper! It's soluble! Lick your hands!" It's nasty. Thag slams around in the cargo bay. Scathe manages to work Illiad's shower. Ren tries to move himself with psychic abilities, fails, and flops over like a child and starts wiggling towards the door. Illiad walks in with a bucket of water. "Hi sweetie." Ao washes his hand and then goes careening down the hall and crashes into a wall. "Scathe, Mantis Tears? Next time call ahead so we can make preparations." "Yeah." "Illiad.. I can't reach the water.." "We couldn't grab anything so we licked our hands clean." "Why didn't you just spit on them?" "Fuck you, Illiad." Illiad throws the bucket of water on Ness and Cooper and breaks the engine room. He's Illiad! "Thag.. this might be the last time I get to tell you this. I broke it again. This is your goodbye present from me!" Ren eventually gets to his room and showers. Never forget your pants. Never forget. Ren retrieves the keycode from the plant and unlocks the door. Ao give Illiad a watch. "You can flip the cover and push the button.. doooon't.. to start the engines." Illiad goes with Fal and Ren to buy new dresses/ball gowns. Next day we hire a driver and show up for the ball fashionably a half hour late. When you enter, you're pretty much asked to leave. Radioactive assassin! "Illiad and his Fucktwats." This place if far too big for me to see it all! I'm going to start with this bush! 30ft ceilings mosaic of stars 80 or so guests, various houses, guilds, and races. Couple vorox we saw at the tea party. Other obun in traditional clothing. Holograms of the planets above. Scathe is here and other big important people. "Oh shit! Relatives! They're going to kill me they're going to kill me!" "Ah button-watch. I love you." "Pardon me sir, can you point me in the direction of the cheese poofs? And perhaps direct me to the restroom after. You see, I am having a bowel movement." Fal crits etiquette! Scathe is surprised we are there and he is on duty. He's watching a Li halan. Cooper learns the emperor's party does not serve wine coolers. Fal gets asked to dance by a guy who looks kinda like Illiad! Mikell! Oh noes! Illiad chats with his cousin who set up the Grunch plan about makin' some "art". Grandpa Hawkwood. "Hello I am Ness and I do not have to poop." Fal told Duke Garric some things. And they talk about Darric! D: "I'm a princess! Spin me!" Ren spots an old bespectacled decorated eskatonic Philosophus Estaban and the Earl of Plants! He knows I've been to Nowhere and seen the ship that was attacked by symbiotes?! Let me introduce you to my eskatonic friend. Cooper grabs a random drink, feels ill, surprises the guards, runs past the emperor, and goes looking for a bathroom. Ness gets ready to un-peacebind his sword so he can run himself through. Illiad and Mikell notice each other, he's not wearing his house colors. Illiad would like to stand behind Ness when he kills himself. Fal will stand in front. Ren sees all of this and Garric with a bunch of Hawkwoods staring at Fal. Illiad and Ren whisper high pitched about how fucked they are. Yay the emperor! Let's all go to the flying bathroom! The emperor introduces Thag to the assembled. "What are we gonna do?" "Let's dance and talk about it!" "Sorry Ness you can't come!" "We're gonna stand behind your gloves and pray!" Ness verbally goes the bathroom. The mother fucking emperor. The guards are gonna bring Cooper to the sitting room so they can shoot him there. "Your tits are great. That dress is nice. That guy's not for you." Ness fanboys on the emperor. The emperor's safe! Let's go over there! Estaban talks with Cooper. Again with the sun metaphor! Thank the emperor for inviting us and we'll keep in touch via Thag. "We can argue about this on the ship. When we're hopefully not dead." We checked the tank at the door. Hush kitten, it'll be okay. Peep! And drive! Thag will understand if we don't say bye. Oh shit, the brother sister. There's a rose on Fal's bed when she changes out her dress. Ren hikes up the dress and comes back still wearing the ballgown with the belt, suit, sword, and guns. Check the hiding places and the camera. It's Darric! What did he do? Mikell killed Illiad's cousin who let him know we'd be at the party. Two weeks later we go through the gate and end up next to the sun. It wasn't a metaphor! Fal fails, Illiad takes the controls and tries to steer towards the planet, problem with the engines, there's another explosion. Ren goes flying out her seat and down the hall, crashing into beams. Ness comes out his room and tries to catch her, but misses. A bulk head door closes on Ren's left calf, it breaks and sealant closes the gap. Illiad freaks the fuck out and puts Fal back on driving to go check. He and Ness get to Ren who is swearing in obun. Fal panics, accidentally hits the wrong switch, and turns off the gravity. Ren's leg does not bend that way! D:!! Illiad realizes he is no help here and runs back to the deck. Cooper prays about the situation (I misses the explanation) and then runs over and transmutes the sealant around Ren's leg. The gravity turns back on, Ren slams back to the ground and passes out. Ness pulls the door up. Ren's bone is sticking out. The explosion busted the hull of the ship and the oxygen is low. The ship is is being pulled into the planet's gravity. Everything's red hot and half the crew passes out. Illiad manages to stay conscious just long enough to see the ship crashing into the planet's surface.

Illiad's cousin was tortured for info and killed. The Brother Battle has died from severe head trauma. Ao made a good check, but the Hawkwoods did better. Darric and Mikell tied a device to the sartha dampner which overcharged the gate drive and was intended to toss us into the sun of the system we were traveling to. Ao was near the explosion and took the brunt of it and a little vacuum damage before space put out the fire. Used himself as a living conduit.