Episode 44 - Handjob

Episode Description
The Crew make it back to the terminal with their prize, a new friend, and maybe some weight loss... Now the tide has turned and it's time to see if the Crew will prepare for an assault on the Inquisition.

Summary
The episode begins on the Torog with the crew, now including Zarial, tending to Z in the "medical bay". Theran reattaches Z's leg with help from Zarial's medical tablet, advice from Rell, and Martle holding Z's hand. The arm is both rotting and moving, however, so they incinerate it with Zarial's sword.

On their way back to the pirate terminal, Zarial takes a look at the file on the Inquisition, and finds that it's encrypted. He attempts to hack it and fails, seeing he has two tries left. Martle says not to try again, and leave it to the pirates. Zarial ignores her, fails again, and gets punched in the kidneys.

Z dreams she's on Mercy with her mother, reliving a memory. She tells Z how she met her father, and how he protected her from people collecting gnomes. One day she saw a symbol of a sword in a perfect crystal on his computer, and him looking worried. He left the next day. When Z wakes up, she does not remember the dream.

Z wakes up with a newly reattached leg, a missing arm, and a hangover from the dragonborn moonshine Theran gave her in place of anaesthetic. Theran brings her up to speed as they reach the station. Z, Rell, and Zarial go to see Rick about a replacement arm. Zarial attempts to take a pickle and is reprimanded, twice. Z starts negotiating for a new arm, and Zarial goes and buys two jars of very fancy pickles to eat in front of Rick. Rick offers Z a basic model in exchange for one of the jars of fancy pickles. Zarial spits in it before handing it over, but Rick dumps it in his bucket unfazed. Rick gets a basic mechanical arm for Z, using a toggle to adjust the size to fit her. Rick says he doesn't have anaesthetic, so Z tells Zarial to punch her. It does basically nothing, so she smashes her head on the counter to knock herself out. Rick begins surgery.

Martle and Theran, meanwhile, go see Demia and Lelia, who are videochatting with a blue-haired gnome pirate lord named Quartz. He appears very fond of gems, and is reluctant to form an alliance against the Inquisition. Demia, seeing Martle, tells him they have the location of an Inquisition base, and he agrees to meet. He ends the call to eat the last cow in existence, and Demia turns to Martle and Theran. They tell her what they found and give the file to Lelia to decode. Theran pushes Lelia to her room, and Martle has a drink with Demia. They talk about the mission and Demia's job, which she might hand over to Lelia soon.

New Information

 * Rell originally got his cybernetic arm on Mercy.
 * Mercy has spires all over the planet, and basically every corporation has a location there. It's also heavily guarded by Parliament.
 * Rell's order seeks enlightenment via cybernetics and augmentation.
 * Demia, Quin, and Lelia were a thing at one point, but Lelia didn't like sharing.

Memorable Quotes
Mitch: I'm just gonna accept it cause I know I'm an ass.

Z: Did you at least give it a proper burial? Theran: If by "burning it repeatedly with a flaming sword" is a proper burial, yes.

Rell: *sigh* pirates are weird.

Trivia

 * Theran has the highest bonus to the medicine skill (+3), so he was chosen to reattach Z's limbs, with an additional +3 for the help from the other party members. He rolled a 20 on the leg and a 13 on the arm.
 * Natalia rolled a nat 1 for Z to remember the symbol from the dream.
 * This is the first episode with Quartz.