Episode 38 - What is Lost

Intro
Matt: Hello and welcome to Celestial Expanse, a real play D&D podcast set in the celestial expanse universe, my name is Matthew, I'll be your DM for the night, and playing with me today is Ben as Rell... Ben: Uh, hello. Matt: Theran, being played by Jason... Jason: What up. Matt: Rebecca as Martle... Rebecca: My gun is gone, and I am mad. Natalia: Lols. Matt: And Natalia as Z. Natalia: Ewo! Matt: So I would ask how everybody's doing, but I kinda have an idea how Rebecca's feeling. Rebecca: I feel fine. Martle's grumpy. Natalia: Z lost her axe. Matt: One of them, she still has - Natalia: Yeah, but she lost her special throwing - special - she -

Episode Description
The Crew are about to fix the station but are soon faced with a situation that they are not prepared for. What disaster are they about to face?

Summary
The episode begins with life support still off, tied to the station's power source, which is currently only accessible by going through vents. The vents are closed, and Lelia can't open them using the computer. Z offers to shoot the lid off, but since that could result in blowing up the entire station, they decide to pry it off instead. Lelia mocks Martle's suggestion that there might be screws. Theran claims his bow is superior to Martle's deceased gun, and she makes lots of colorful threats. Z and Martle successfully pry the cover off the vent, and Lelia admits screws would have made it more secure. Martle flees Theran's comments about screwing by going down the shaft, and the rest of the party follows. Martle gets hit with scalding steam, and they take a short rest. Lelia passes out rum truffles. Z writes a letter to her space dad and chugs from Lelia's flask.

They reach the reactor core, but it's sealed off. Lelia's handprint lets her through, however, and she goes in to work with the monitor inside. Theran follows. She asks Theran to grab something from her bag by the door, and when he goes, she seals herself in the reactor room. Martle attempts to pry the door open, but it's sealed too well. Lelia says the only way to restart the core is manually, needing someone to be exposed to lethal levels of radiation, and there are no radiation suits. Rell has the idea of shattering the glass door with sound. He and Z start rewiring his arm as Lelia continues to work. Martle attempts Hold Person, but fails. Theran persuades Lelia to wait 5 minutes. Martle believes she can do something about the radiation, so they plan for Rell to shatter the door and everyone but Martle and Lelia to leave. Rell shatters the door and falls unconscious, and Theran gets him and Z back to the vents. Martle and Lelia switch the filter rods in the core, falling to 1 hp as radiation floods the room. Lelia falls unconscious, and Martle uses Lay on Hands on Lelia and herself, partially curing them of radiation sickness. She then falls unconscious as well. Theran gives Lelia a healing potion, which helps, but she and Martle are both still unconscious. Theran picks up Lelia and carries her out, seeing all systems are back online. Z gives Martle a healing potion, and Martle wakes up to Z smacking her in the face. Martle heals Rell and hugs him, thanking him for helping save her sister. Rell feels some of his power is missing, but believes it was worth it.

The party goes back up the vents and go to get medical attention. On their way, many people express concern about Lelia. Many people are hurt, but a medic with a brown braid and her head shaved on one side attends to them. She says they saved the station, and that they couldn't have lasted another five minutes. The non-sick party members are ushered out, and Z sees the pirate lord Demia sobbing in another room. Z goes over and sees that Quin is dead.

Memorable Quotes
Lelia: I left my bag at the door, can you grab the key system? The backup computer system? Theran: Sure. I suspect nothing.

Lelia: I really wish you'd just let me try to save you. Martle: Funny, I wish the exact same thing.

Trivia

 * Matt rolled a nat 1 for Lelia against Theran's 11 persuasion check to wait 5 minutes.
 * Rell permanently lost 1 ki point to use his arm to shatter the door. The damage normally done by his electrocution attack was multiplied by twice his current ki points, resulting in 144 damage to the door.