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Reggie Carlisle – John (Beta)
Trae Mowaka- Jesse
Jack Nash – John (Prime)
GM- Tod Foley 

Grabbing a few useful items from the camp as everyone packs up, the group escapes to Ulla's bugout spot: a renovated RV, camouflaged in an innocuous location ten miles to the south, where they get to know each other a little. She has water and some bathtub booze, and they kick back to talk while explosions to the north verify the destruction of her old abode.

Ulla tells them about her past with Wolfram, and how she fled (without precisely describing the technology she has in her head – a fact that Trae notes). Trae also recognizes the company’s name, though he doesn’t remember CRABB having any relations with them. Neither Somnambula Inc nor Diaspora Labs seems to exist in this world; there is no such thing as "DayTripping," and Ulla has never heard of SlipSpace.

Nash does his best to explain their own backstory and how they got here, but it sounds completely insane, and Trae’s injections of detail aren’t really helping.

Finally, just as Baby Reggie finishes explaining how (a) this might actually be an unstable reality and (b) their messing around with timelines and lucid dreaming may have somehow caused all of this reality-fracturing stuff (both of which are a lot for Ulla to take onboard), the group is interrupted by a squad of little killbots in the yard out front.

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DayTrippers (Season 4 Episode 2) Bugout

Ulla Vangelis – Leslie
Reggie Carlisle – John (Beta)
Trae Mowaka- Jesse
Jack Nash – John (Prime)
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Before they can figure out what's going on, one of the little bots shoots a laser beam through the wall of the RV. Trae and Ulla run to get into position while Nash kicks open the front door and takes a shot, knocking the one bot back several meters. Oddly, the others don't even seem to have line of sight yet -- they are moving in random directions. Ulla and Trae shoot at some others while Nash obliterates the first one with a killer shot.

Suddenly a voice calls out of the darkness: "Stop! Hold your fire! Ohmygod you killed Fred!" The voice assures them the bots won't hurt them: "You're too big," he says. "They're only looking for food." Nash stays ready, weapon drawn, when the guy steps into the light. He looks like a well-groomed city dweller, trying to play bad-ass. He introduces himself as "The Terminationer" (stumbling over his words as he does so - he clearly needs some practice at bad-assery).

Trae knocks the stranger to the ground, disarming him, and stands over him, weapon drawn. Nash picks up the dropped pistol. To Trae's surprise, the guy grabs the barrel of the gun and pulls it to his own forehead. "DO IT," he says. "You think I'm scared of death?"

Ulla steps in to calm things down a bit. She asks "The Terminationer" what he's doing here. He starts rambling about bringing termination, fending for survival, being a "real man" -- and then inexplicably begins hurling insults at his own father. "Fuck my dad! I'm never going back!" he shouts. At this point Ulla realizes “The Terminationer” is only a kid, maybe 19, probably a runaway. She warns him about the city's salvage operations, but he's not concerned. "They don't care about anything out this far," he says. "They don't care about the tunnel people -- left ‘em out there to DIE."

Tunnel people? Nobody, not even Ulla, has any idea what he's talking about. She invites him in for a drink. "I would LOVE a drink," he says.

The kid walks into the RV, where Reggie greets him. The kid glances at Reggie, sits right down next to him and introduces himself. He is completely unphased by the sight of a talking baby in a jar. "I've seen lots weirder stuff than you," he says. "My dad works for Global Nation Products, and they have ties to Nutrex, so I know all about the babies they're growing in jars. I think it's for the Mars colony." This kid has big dreams, lots of ambition, and a fierce drive to rub success in his father's face. Unfortunately, what he doesn't have is two brain cells to rub together.

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DayTrippers (Season 4 Episode 3-1) The Terminationer

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Reggie Carlisle – John (Beta)
Trae Mowaka- Jesse
Jack Nash – John (Prime)
GM- Tod Foley 

The more he drinks the more he talks, and Ulla is happy to keep pouring. He ends up telling them a lot, including bits of his life story, his diet of rats and lizards, his ongoing feud with his father, and his insistence on living out here alone (“I’ve been out here for almost a month now,” he says proudly). Eventually he passes out. The group lays him down on the floor and goes through his shit.

The kid’s real name is Kenn Erstlinger. His father works for Global Nation Products as an ad sales optimizer. Aside from an employee passcard to the GNP headquarters, Kenn has an implanted RFID chip for a Carter Blue life insurance policy including drone airlift and resuscitation services (this is why he didn’t fear death), and his backpack holds a TufR LifeSaver3000 (a broad-range digital scanner and microfreq hub with 1km range). A cursory search of the surrounding area turns up his campsite, where a SHIELD Viber5 MegaTent sits among a small grove of olive trees. Ken’s “gun” turns out to be a toy replica. Nash tosses it. 

They take the tent, the card, the scanner hub, and the damaged bot, and carry Ken’s unconscious body to an old pickup truck a few blocks away, laying him out in the flatbed. They then go back to the RV and continue making plans for their next move.

As the sun rises behind the gloriously sanguine clouds of the fractured world, a medical drone approaches the area where the pickup is located and descends. A minute later it’s seen heading back to Union City, with the still-unconscious Terminationer dangling from a cable below.

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DayTrippers (Season 4 Episode 3-2) The Terminationer

Ulla Vangelis – Leslie 
Reggie Carlisle – John (Beta)
Trae Mowaka- Jesse
Jack Nash – John (Prime)
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It's been a long night. Ulla and Nash clean their wounds, and everybody takes turn on watch while getting some sleep. While on watch, Nash cleans the weapons and mounts Erstlinger's gun on the base of Reggie's jar. Trae uses his watch shift to mess with the "Fred" killbot. He manages to get it online again, but without proper electronics equipment, his fix probably won't last long.

Later that afternoon they take off into the badlands heading east by southeast (the direction Erstlinger had pointed). Reggie and Nash are discussing the difference between reality and memories when a vortex suddenly opens up ahead, and sitting at its edge is a military-drab 2-liter canister with a row of red blinking lights on top. Nash instantly recognizes it as live ordnance, and shouts for everyone to hit the deck.

Reggie pushes with all his mental power in an attempt to shut the vortex, but instead he only manages to disable the canister itself. The blinking sequence stops as the vortex whirls up and away again, leaving the inert canister sitting there... and then the lid starts to open. Ulla realizes what's about to come out, and she shouts "NANOBOTS!"

Everybody draws their weapons while Trae dives toward the canister, attempting to hack it as quickly as possible. He's able to establish contact with the onboard system -- and recognizes it as Wolfram code -- but is unable to do anything else about the rising cloud of nanobots that quickly swarms all over everyone.

A cloud of nanobots enters Nash's stun baton, morphing it into a writhing snake, and he jumps back. Another buzzing cloud surrounds Ulla, entering her head through her ears and skin, while an even larger cloud covers Trae's body. But when the nanos in Ulla's head reach her central DNI processor, something unexpected happens: her system "speaks the same code" as the tiny devices, and manages to pull them all under her control. Focusing on a single goal, she calls the entire swarm back to her... and they all fly directly into her head.

Ulla's eyes go wide. Her vision and hearing are turned "up to eleven" -- nothing but blinding white light and vast waves of horrendous sound -- and as the two networks fall into synchromesh, she feels the unspeakable sensation of millions of tiny bots entering her head *from both inside and outside at the same time*. She falls to her knees and begins vomiting. Then, quickly as it started, it's over. Her head is throbbing. There's no sign of the swarm, though Ulla's skull has grown slightly larger in size. Nash runs to her aid while Trae processes what he's just seen: his network picked up a signal when Ulla called the nanos, and he could tell exactly where it came from. Ulla -- he realizes -- has a DNI implant in her head that she hasn't told anyone about... and it's all Wolfram tech.

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DayTrippers (Season 4 Episode 4-1) Special Delivery

Ulla Vangelis – Leslie 
Reggie Carlisle – John (Beta)
Trae Mowaka- Jesse
Jack Nash – John (Prime)
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Trae tosses the canister and lid to Ulla.  Examining the interior of the lid, she's shocked to find a message embossed into the metal: "YOU WILL RETURN WHAT YOU HAVE TAKEN." She shows it to the others. 

Ulla comes clean and tells them about the experimental implants in her head. She was "designed," she explains, to function as a first-generation cyber-assassin for Wolfram. The system in her head is worth billions. She actually performed several missions for them -- including one that took out an important lieutenant of their enemy "The Fate Broker" and his army of "whisperer" informants -- but eventually she grew tired of their mistreatment and fled. 

They continue walking eastward, talking as they go. Ulla is experimenting with her new senses, mastering the use of this nano-swarm like a new skill, and becoming hyper-aware of things in her general area. Ulla becomes aware that there is a group of people about 300 meters ahead: they're a little bit below ground. Trae sends a drone ahead and locates an underground door. Nash and Reggie decide they'll go in first and Nash knocks on the door.

The door cracks open a bit and a large gruff man in a mining helmet stares out at them. The man pulls a cigar out of his mouth and barks: "PEOPLE OR STATE?"

Surprised, Nash assures the man that they have nothing to do with any city or state, so... "I'm gonna say people. The man opens the door for them and shakes everyone's hands. "My name's Exo, and I run this place. He leads them down a set of rickety stairs to a massive subterranean complex, all recycled wood and scavenged machinery. "Welcome to Tube City," he says.

Exo leads them deeper into the complex. A workshift is just ending, and a crew of miners comes up the tunnel toward them. The foreman of the off-duty shift introduces himself as "Blinky,"

Ulla asks what exactly they're working on. Exo looks at her. "Why the tunnel, of course! We're gonna finish the job we came here to do!" He explains that they "hit a few snags" when the city abandoned the project. We'll be there in a year, maybe two. Are they ready for us? NO!" He rallies the others up around him, shouting "People over State!" Fists are raised, slogans are chanted.

Nash asks Exo what they plan to do when the tunnel is completed. Exo tells him that they're already in touch with some people who'll be helping from inside. "When we finally break through, it's Revolution Time, son."

Trae asks who those people on the inside might be. Exo laughs at him, and hands them off to Blinky. "Get these people a meal," he says & walks away. Blinky takes them back up tunnel to a small eatery where they have some lizard stew and hardtack crackers.

Blinky explains how the job of digging the tunnel was a lot easier when they had the old automated equipment and AI, but now they're doing it "the old fashioned way: a lotta shoulder and back work."
Trae asks him about the smaller tunnels Exo had mentioned. The foreman says they keep those tunnels sealed for a reason.

Ulla notices that Whisper is hiding behind a nearby table. She coaxes the kid over and begins asking questions in a soothing voice. The kid listens intently and moves slowly closer, but doesn't speak. Finally the child is close enough to touch Ulla's knee, and leans in close to her ear. "I like you," says Whisper -- snugging in even closer until their lips are grazing her ear -- and then: "Please take me away from here."

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DayTrippers (Season 4 Episode 4-2) Special Delivery

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Temporary Sanity - A Deep House Awakening (08.2010)

Ulla Vangelis – Leslie 
Reggie Carlisle – John (Beta)
Trae Mowaka- Jesse
Jack Nash – John (Prime)
GM- Tod Foley 

Whisper is called away by Frenzy as the locals wander off, and the gang finds an unoccupied cave to bed down in. Ulla expresses her concern about Whisper. Reggie focuses on a Lucid Dream and tries to locate the child. As his little body trembles with effort, he sees Whisper being herded into another room with a bunch of other children, all between the ages of 5-12. They are being equipped with flashlight helmets and tools for digging. They are a labor force. Suddenly Whisper turns around and looks straight back at him, eyes wide in shocked surprise -- and then the connection is cut.

Reggie tells everyone what he saw. The weird thing was being seen: Reggie has projected himself many times before, but no one has ever noticed him before -- with the notable exception of The Frank. The group discusses the idea of intervening, and decides to keep an eye on the situation. Ulla is getting upset with Nash's moral relativism.

In the distance they hear the child labor force being marched down toward the work site. Trae follows the group with his drone. He sees that the children are clearing debris, and the smallest are being sent to scout out narrow fissures and cracks in the rock face.

Reggie takes first watch while Trae programs the Omega bot to do recon and mapping. The bot is a Global Nations product, intended to patrol warehouses and exterminate "small living objects."  A toggle in the code enables Trae to scale that feature up to human size any time he wants.

Meanwhile Reggie reaches out mentally to Whisper. She hears him and asks who's there. Just as he's beginning to speak, another child screams somewhere nearby and the connection is broken. Reggie tries to contact her again, but can't.

There's a lot of shouting outside. Frenzy runs into the room, yelling "Everybody up! Emergency! You're going to work NOW!" He slaps the sleeping form of Nash for emphasis. Bad idea. Nash lashes out so quickly, he isn't even fully awake before Frenzy hits the floor, knocked out cold.

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DayTrippers (Season 4 Session 5-1) Suffer the Children

Ulla Vangelis – Leslie 
Reggie Carlisle – John (Beta)
Trae Mowaka- Jesse
Jack Nash – John (Prime)
GM- Tod Foley
 
Trae flips to his drone view to see that a child named "Max" has fallen into a fissure - into water below. There's chaos as the adults push the other kids out of the way, because they're all excited about finding fresh water. One of the adults calls Whisper to the front of the line, ordering her to climb up into the crack Max just fell through. They want to know how far down the water is.

Ulla is the first to speak. "Ok I'm ready to go kill people. Who's with me?" and Trae pulls out his gun.

Nash looks over and tells him "Trae, you are officially loose." 

As the group hustles down-tunnel toward the work site, Reggie establishes telepathic communication with Whisper. Splashing into the freezing water, she calls out "I've got him! I've got Max!" His body is cold. As the connection is broken, Reggie feels the rope pulling at her waist. 

By the time they get down there, every adult in town is standing around, smoking and slapping each other on the back. The miners and engineers are very excited about finding water, and no one seems concerned that a child died in the effort. Whisper hugs her. Then she spots Reggie on Nash's back, and runs over to hug him as well.

"Jar Baby! You were there with me! How did you do that?" she asks.
Reggie explains that she has powers, if she only works at psychic manipulation, she can do anything.
"I couldn't save Max!" she says, and begins crying again. "I'm not like you, Jar Baby." - then she stops and her eyes open wide: "YOU CAN SAVE MAX,' she whispers. "You got manip-alation!"

"Reg, back me up!" shouts Nash, as he runs to Max's side and begins attempting to resuscitate him. Reggie furrows his brow, envisioning bursts of Life Energy flowing into the small brain. Nash keeps massaging the kid's chest, and after a minute, the eyelids flutter, and Max sits up, spitting out water. The undergrounders stand there, amazed, saying nothing. "WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE?" shouts Nash.

Exo steps forward, waving his cigar around. "Look friend, I thank you for bringin' the kid back, but his lot in life is to WORK, just like the rest of us here. I don't know what YOU do... maybe YOU'RE the problem." Nash puts the child down and slams his fist into Exo's face, breaking his nose, as Exo grabs his wrist and pulls him close. In his other hand Exo has been holding a knife, and he stabs Nash in the ribs just as Nash head-butts him. The other adults all step back.

Glancing over at Ulla, Trae pulls out his pistol and shoots the foreman who led Max's team.

Ulla releases her nanobots. Her hair whips around as the tiny bots pour out of her nose and mouth, swirling out of her head in a giant black whirlpool. The undergrounders scream and back up, many of them running away up-tunnel. She then sends the cloud toward Exo's body, where they begin swarming around him, penetrating his skin. Eco's body begins swelling uncomfortably. Nash steps forward and stabs him, and Exo's body POPS like a giant blood-filled balloon.

Blinky raises his hands and steps forward. "I take it you had problems with Exo," he says. "Some of us did." Turns out Blinky is the new leader. Ulla and Nash confront him about child labor, which he defends as "from each according to his ability." In the end it is decided that the child miners will be given a choice. 

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DayTrippers (Season 4 Episode 5-2) Suffer the Children

Ulla Vangelis – Leslie 
Reggie Carlisle – John (Beta)
Trae Mowaka- Jesse
Jack Nash – John (Prime)
GM- Tod Foley 

The group heads out with Ulla taking charge of teaching the children hunting, waterfinding, and survival techniques. After a day they reach her bug-out spot, and decide to take rest there for the night while they discuss their options. Ulla knows that taking them to Union City will raise all sorts of eyebrows and their fate would be uncertain, even though the UBI would ensure they would not starve. Trae points out that the group is much slower and easier to track if the kids stay with them (a point which Ulla and Nash are quick to stifle). Chiyan wants to go to Union City, while Dain would prefer to stay with the group. Whisper, who has been practicing telepathy and imitating everything Reggie does, sends a psychic message to him: "I want to stay with you too."

Eventually they hit on the idea of relocating Ulla's clan, to see if they might provide a home for the kids. Ulla decides it's likely they've moved westward, further from the city, toward the geothermal power plant Dril and Montago were always talking about. They tuck the kids into the megatent in the back of the vehicle.

While on first watch, Nash hears someone out in the bushes. It's NightOwl, the old woman who served them soup back in Tunnel City. She beats around the bush a little before asking if they'd be willing to let her join them. "I can cook," she says, "and I know these kids." Nash agrees that would be helpful indeed. "Good good good," NightOwl says, and hands him a dirty plastic container full of roasted lizards. "The kids love those," she says.

Nash takes the food and welcomes her. "We'll be heading west for a couple days," he says, "You're welcome to come along." NightOwl is surprised by this. "I thought you was goin to the city!" she says. Nash explains that they know another group that might take the kids in. NightOwl's mood seems to shift; suddenly she becomes very suspicious. She asks who the group is, and when Nash can't provide specific names, she decides she won't be joining up after all. "Enjoy them lizards," she says as she backs away, "you can keep the tupp!"

Nash wakes Trae up for his watch and tells him what happened. Trae suggests setting up a perimeter defense using his drone and killbot. Nash agrees and goes to sleep.

Several hours later, Trae is on watch when he notices a small silent drone hovering just above the trees; watching him. When he sends his own drone up to try pinging it, it refuses access but returns a visual image: a single violet blade. The "Violet Blades" was the name of Trae's klatch at CRABB; their logo was six such blades in an intersecting pattern.

Trae turns and bangs on the RV loud enough to wake everyone inside. "Mister Nash," he says, "we are in danger. There is a Strike Team in the area." 

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DayTrippers (Season 4 Session 6-1) Is That You

Ulla Vangelis – Leslie 
Reggie Carlisle – John (Beta)
Trae Mowaka- Jesse
Jack Nash – John (Prime)
GM- Tod Foley

Trae turns and bangs on the RV loud enough to wake everyone inside. "Mister Nash," he says, "we are in danger. There is a Strike Team in the area."  Opening a visual to Nash, Trae taps his wrist to indicate the six violet blades of his tattoo. The drone slowly descends below the treeline.  There's a very tense minute while nothing happens.

Reggie decides to tries astral-projecting himself out to do some recon. A little transparent ghostly image of Baby Reggie moves out into the surrounding forest, searching for this alleged strike team, and finding nothing but the sleek black drone. It's flashing a digital pattern on its external screen: SKULL SKULL HALO. Reggies snaps back to his body in the jar and tells Trae what he's seen.

Trae thinks for a bit, and then sends his own drone up, moving it out to hover over the CRABB drone in the woods. Using the onboard lasers, he fires a series of blasts into the ground just ahead of it: DASH DOT DASH DASH.

The other drone rises and tips its wings left then right, then turns and goes back to the city. Trae follows along with his smaller drone as far as he can.  Trae sits silently for a while. "Apologies," he finally says, "We are NOT in danger."

He explains what happened: his klatch (or a version of it) exists in this reality, and they've picked up his signal somehow. "Skull Skull Halo" is code for "Is that you? Identify." Trae's response was affirmative, and the wing-dip meant "Acknowledged."

Nash asks "Would they help us?" Trae guesses that if nothing else, their existence might make it easier to get into the city. After that, it's anybody's guess. There's a whole round of theorizing about what they might do, or whether this affects their plans to head toward the power plant, and eventually they decide to stick to the original plan. No matter what CRABB and Wolfram are up to, these kids would be safer with the Clan.

It's time for Ulla's watch, and Trae stands outside until she comes out.  Trae asks Ulla if she would let him insert a backdoor in her neurocomputer that could be used by his drone in case of emergency. Ulla has to think about this. "You're a bit frightening," she says, "and I don't frighten easily." Trae tries to explain that he was raised to be connected, mentally, with others like himself, but says if Ulla doesn't wish to do that, he understands. "Do you miss it?" she asks. He changes the topic. Finally she looks at him and touches his arm reassuringly. "Okay," she says. "I'll trust you."

They face each other, Ulla opening up her defenses and Trae initiating a connection - but not before both of them secretly set up secret failsafe sequences. Trae ensures that the connection can only be accessed from one direction; he doesn't want Ulla in his head.

When the connection opens up, it hits Trae like a lightning bolt of pure multidimensional information, coming at him from more angles than his DNI system was designed to handle. Trae's system is powerful and super fast, but Ulla's is off the charts.  Ulla catches a glimpse of something no one else on the team has ever seen: a look of fear crossing Trae's face. He barely manages to secure his own processor from overload as he inserts his access function, and cuts the line.

His eyes dim again as he catches his breath. Ulla checks to make sure he's alright, then looks at him with a slight smirk. "Yeah," she says. "It's a little scary in here."

Trae stands up silently, and walks back inside without a word.

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DayTrippers Season 4 Episode 6-2 Is That You

Jaden - Bad Connection (Acapella)

Ulla Vangelis – Leslie 
Reggie Carlisle – John (Beta)
Trae Mowaka- Jesse
Jack Nash – John (Prime)
GM- Tod Foley

In the morning, Nash and Ulla discuss what they should do with the children. Trae sleeps late and seems distant, as he's still processing what happened between him and Ulla the night before. The kids are a handful; Noah sometimes picks on Max and Whisper's powers are growing; she uses her mind to coax a rat out of hiding, and in her newfound confidence she steps off the roof of the RV and slows her fall just before hitting the ground. Praised by Reggie, she repeats the feat, to everyone's amusement. It becomes clearer than ever that they can'[t take this child to the city; she'd become a medical experiment.

And so they set off to complete their westward journey to the power plant, just half a day away. Ulla keeps the kids busy playing "the finding game" along the way. They're hoping Kek will take the children in, but there's no telling for sure, and in any case, Whisper needs to learn some restraint.

Later in the day Nash gets that queasy feeling and Reggie senses it too — they know there's a Reality Fracture coming in. Nash yells "Flux Storm!" as he directs everyone to dive for safety. This is odd because at the same time, Reggie is realizing there's a direct similarity between this feeling and the feeling of being knocked into the Multiversal Chao in a SlipShip. The sensations are practically identical.

As they dodge aside from the opening vortex, Ulla realizes the experience itself is practically identical to the first time: the same hallway can be seen, the same canister, and in her photographic memory she can recall that it's even *turned the exact same direction it was* the first time. She directs Whisper to try and make the thing go away. Whisper tries to close the vortex with her mind, but she can't do it, and develops a serious nosebleed. Reggie lucid-dreams the vortex back to oblivion, leaving the canister behind. If this plays out like last time they have just a few seconds before it opens up.

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DayTrippers (Season 4 Episode 7-1) Goodbye Stranger

Ulla Vangelis – Leslie 
Reggie Carlisle – John (Beta)
Trae Mowaka- Jesse
Jack Nash – John (Prime)
GM- Tod Foley

On the other side of the reality fracture other-Nash yells "That's live ordnance!" and everybody hits the ground. The group realizes they’re looking at themselves from a few days ago, the day they found the canister. It’s like a mirror into the past, with the canister sitting dead center. Before anyone can do anything, the vortex closes.

As this happens Reggie tries to send a psychic message through the vortex, to himself or whomever is on the other side. He gets the feeling his message went through, but he has no idea who received it. There was something different about that one, and Reggie can’t get it out of his head. It didn’t have the usual “Flux Storm” feeling he and Nash had identified earlier. Much worse: it felt like Frank.

This starts Reggie thinking, and he has a weird sense of time branching off and echoing. He feels like they just created another reality: one where the canister was never retrieved, leaving other-Ulla without her nanobot army. And somehow, it has something to do with Frank. But is it friendly Frank, or enemy Frank? No way to tell. This throws Reggie into a tailspin, and he starts to doubt this reality as he babbles about Frank.

Ulla asks who Frank is, and Reggie gives her a short version. He’s terrified of facing Frank again. Now he can’t stop thinking about it.

About halfway to the city, night falls and they make camp. Trae notices they’re close enough to get a signal now, and he quickly hops online to research local news. What he finds is all bad. He keeps it to himself.

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DayTrippers (Season 4 Episode 8) No News is Probably Better 8-1

Ulla Vangelis – Leslie 
Reggie Carlisle – John (Beta)
Trae Mowaka- Jesse
Jack Nash – John (Prime)
GM- Tod Foley 

Reggie is still a mess, and Ulla tries to talk him through it. She taps on the glass of his jar. "Do you think Frank did this to you?" she asks. He says no. She continues: "You don’t think you’d do it to yourself, would you?" Reggie laughs, because it’s not hard to imagine that. "But would you do it to him?" she asks, gesturing at Nash. That stops his laughter. No, he wouldn’t do that to Nash.

Ulla believes that the jar is no more than appearance; that actually it's all just part of Reggie. But there’s only one way to find out. She asks him if he’d like to try something, and he agrees.

Ulla lets her nanobots fly, and they quickly dissemble Reggie’s jar. The infant and its surrounding faux-amniotic fluid spill into the dirt. Baby Reggie feels an agonizing sense of pain through his whole being, and he can’t contain himself: angry and frightened, his psychic energy 
radiates visibly from his tiny body…

…as reality itself pixelates and freezes like a buffering video stream…

and suddenly there’s a pale man with grey eyes and dark clothes standing there: It’s Frank. He bends over to pick up the struggling infant, raising him to eye level, and shouts directly into Reggie’s face: "What the fuck are you trying to do!?"

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DayTrippers (Season 4 Episode 8) No News is Probably Better 8-2

Ulla Vangelis – Leslie 
Reggie Carlisle – John (Beta)
Trae Mowaka- Jesse
Jack Nash – John (Prime)
GM- Tod Foley 

Reggie tries to answer, but all that comes out are baby noises. Ulla and Nash are struggling to deal with what they’re seeing and hearing.

Frank’s lips are moving, but Reggie can’t hear what he’s saying, and darkness closes in as reality tunnels away from him. As everything grows fuzzy, he has a warm and familiar sensation of being cuddled in the loving arms of a gigantic voluptuous maternal figure. He’s torn between the two overlapping realities, but he makes a choice: he wants to be with his friends.

Reggie pushes his consciousness back down into Ulla’s world — where he reforms in his adult body, totally naked — as Frank falls to the ground, holding his head. Nash and Reggie hug in a joyful reunion, while Ulla crouches to the ground and begins rocking quietly.

Franks sits up, apparently in great pain, he’s struggling to maintain his connection. “I don’t know how,” he says to Reggie, “but you and I are connected.” He glances at Ulla. “And I know they’re looking for you, too.” He’s nervous, eyes darting around as if scanning the sky. “They could be watching any moment, I can’t stay long,” he says. Just before blipping out like an old TV signal he tells them “Don’t come here.”

Ulla’s had more than she can take. She heads into the tent, grabs a bottle, and proceeds to get shitfaced. 

Nash finds a small diamond-like crystal on the ground where Frank had been laying just a few minutes before. Nobody knows what it is. Nash gives the crystal to Reggie, who sticks it in his pocket. The conversation turns theoretical. When Ulla’s drunken rambling stops making sense, the boys put her to bed.

In the morning they’re awakened by an alert from Trae’s drone: there are vehicles coming up the road in this direction.

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DayTrippers Season 4 Episode 9-1 Gotta Get in to Get Out

Ulla Vangelis – Leslie 
Reggie Carlisle – John (Beta)
Trae Mowaka- Jesse
Jack Nash – John (Prime)
GM- Tod Foley 

In the morning they’re awakened by an alert from Trae’s drone: there are vehicles coming up the road in this direction. It’s a traveling scavenger/trader who calls himself “Trueblood,” and his two motorcycle-riding companions. They’re decked out in tribal regalia, and they’re eager to trade. Trae and Ulla cough up the torch and fuel they’d taken from Kek’s clan, and Nash decides to throw in the Viber 5 tent. In exchange they pick up two machine pistols, a blade for Nash, a stun baton, and some clothes for Reggie. Before he leaves, Trueblood warns them to be on the lookout for drones; there’s a salvage operation later today.

The group moves on, and eight hours later they arrive within view of the south end of the city. There’s an immigration intake office beside the train tunnel, but given the weaponry they’re carrying, they decide to take the surreptitious route. Reggie dreams up some stairs, and they climb up to the top of the train tube, then lower themselves down inside.

Trey hacks into CitySystem, transfers over to the Transportation module, and sends an emergency alert signal emulating an incoming train. When the gigantic doors slide open, they rush inside and hurry up the dark tunnel into the city.

Coming upon a maintenance platform just south of a passenger terminal, they break into a service hallway and come out the other side, to find themselves in the amenities hall of Hadid Station. It’s quiet. To the north is the boarding platform, where several people are standing around. To the east is a set of stairs leading up to street level. Reggie liquifies the glass fronts of some vending machines so everyone can help themselves to some snacks, and heads into the bathroom.

Sitting in the stall with his new pants down around his ankles, Reggie notices something warm touching his leg. It’s the crystal, which has taken on a dull grey glow like the color of Frank’s eyes, and is getting inexplicably warm. Reggie pulls it out and gazes into it, opening his mind. It’s a signal coming directly from Frank.

“I’ve had another dream about you,” Frank says. “I know you’re important and I don’t know why… but they’re watching you.” An image appears in the crystal: it’s a memorial marker outside the gates of Diaspora Ranch, engraved with the name Reginald Aloysius Carlysle. On either side are markers for Jack Nash and Steve-o Tarr.

Franks asks “Is this you?”
“Yes and no,” Reggie answers.

The image is already fading, but before losing connection, Frank says again: “Don’t come here. They’re after all us Dreamers.”

Reggie goes back and tells the group what just happened. Nash asks who exactly is coming after the Dreamers. That’s when Trae reveals everything he learned in the previous night’s research:  In this reality, Jack Nash is a drunkard with a string of public disturbance and assault records, Reggie Carlysle died of a Comanapricil overdose, and the CEO of Wolfram is a man named Yngwe Cordoba.

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