On deck one, Talyn and Aadi cautiously move into the Rec Room, but don’t find anything of interest in there. Moving further, toward the ship’s living space, Talyn sees that it looks like something you’d find in a college frat house. The place is trashed, with a mismatch of shabby furniture, a large video display, extensive porno collection, and laid out alcohol and drug paraphernalia of all sorts. Basically a hedonistic paradise wrapped in nasty.
Of note here is the collection of porn. It includes all of its lowest and most disgusting forms, including a disturbing video of some teenage boy being mauled to death (and eaten) by the ship’s two white tigers (sadistically titled: “This is what happens to you when you don’t behave.”).
Meanwhile, Nigel moves toward the armory, while Maurice heads into the kitchen.
When Nigel opens the door, he sees that the armory has been converted into a sickening mockery of a child’s bedroom, but also includes tripod mounted video cameras, and elements of sadism and torture.
Currently, a young girl, matching Amberly’s description, stands in her underwear, locked around the neck by a chain hanging from the ceiling. She is tearfully struggling to stand on her tippy toes in order to keep from being hung to death by the chain.
Sitting dead in a nearby chair is the body of Lester Werthlen – his brains blown out by a deck pistol that now lies under his slumped hand…
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On deck two, Anath goes to help Julia, while Tristan and Wrench try to hack open one of the vaults.
Tapping into the lock cover and spending 2 luck points, Wrench actually manages to decode the lock and its twin on vault two.
Opening the doors, Wrench and Tristan see the ship vaults are being used to house the children kidnapped by Lester’s crew. Currently there are 8 male children in Vault 1 and 13 female children in Vault 2. They range in age from 4-16 and are all traumatized enough by their abuse that they will not leave the Vaults unless physically directed to do so.
Of course, given the explosive decompression they are now experiencing (with no protection from the now vacuum environment) – that won’t be an issue for too much longer…