Twilight Mirage 36: Every Bad Idea
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🗓️ 26 January 2018
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Summary
Newly unified as "The Notion," the crew of The World Without End has arrived to Gift-3. While half of the group is busy working on their (semi-)official assignment, the team of Tender Sky, Fourteen Fifteen, Gig Kephart, and Grand Magnificent have their own work to attend to. At the request of Grand's local contact, a small-time transporter named Alabaster Went whose niece, Winchester, has gone missing, the crew heads into the Mandati capital of Big Garage to investigate a case of runaway teens. Is it an NEH plot? Could some technological marvel (or monster) kidnapped them? Or is Quire itself interfering, yet again?
This week on Twilight Mirage: Every Bad Idea
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Cover Art by Craig Sheldon (@shoddyrobot)
Episode description by Austin Walker
Music by Jack de Quidt
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| 0:00.0 | Very quietly over the last six months teens have been disappearing across the major |
| 0:06.8 | settlements of Gift 3. It has been easy to miss. Though around 300 have gone missing, |
| 0:14.0 | that's a small number in comparison |
| 0:16.0 | to the planet's population of 10 million. |
| 0:19.0 | They haven't vanished completely though. |
| 0:22.0 | Camera feeds record the occasional sight of a child long thought gone. |
| 0:26.0 | Blips across Combs networks reveal that many of those kids are still sending messages to their friends back home. |
| 0:33.6 | Of the adults who noticed their absence, some believe they are being led away by an evil |
| 0:38.3 | force on the planet, technological or magical in nature they're not sure. Others more hopeful perhaps think that these |
| 0:45.1 | teens have gone off to search for the schematics of Gumption eager to be |
| 0:49.0 | heroes. But some, like Alabaster Wendt, Grand Magnificence Contact in the Mandati capital of Big Garage, are less optimistic. |
| 0:58.0 | Went runs a small shipping company out of an even smaller transport vessel. He believes that his niece, |
| 1:04.0 | Winchester, has been abducted and brainwashed by the New Earth of Gemini. His |
| 1:08.0 | evidence, a recording and liquid metal of Winchester, pale, awkward freckled teen, being lifted in the air by a massive red torch |
| 1:16.1 | unit. |
| 1:17.1 | Add to that a report of other torch units in the crashlands to the east, and this is clearly |
| 1:21.7 | some sort of NEH op, Gwen says. Whether you believe it or not, you can |
| 1:25.9 | definitely tell that he does and that is why you agree to find his niece. And that is why |
| 1:31.9 | silhouetted against a pink and blue sky, U4 are currently climbing through a window into the 29th floor of Big Garage co-working tower 12, one of the blocky asymmetrical spires that the floating capital can connect to for refueling |
| 1:46.0 | resourcing and data exchange. |
| 1:48.8 | Cameras spotted the torch unit head this way an hour ago and you all mobilized as quickly as possible, charming and sneaking |
| 1:54.9 | your way into the structure and picking up the trail of three suspicious figures. |
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