[08.01.2024 23:35:10] Caliban: [Incoming Call --> CLBN#4812]
[08.01.2024 23:35:33] Lea.Kaufman: What do you want?
[08.01.2024 23:35:50] Caliban: Answer me a simple question.
[08.01.2024 23:36:01] Lea.Kaufman: Shoot.
[08.01.2024 23:36:08] Caliban: How much do you like Levan. And is he worth it for you?
[08.01.2024 23:37:07] Lea.Kaufman: *You can hear a long silence in the comm.* Enough that I can do anything to protect him. Why do you care?
[08.01.2024 23:37:46] Caliban: Alright, fine. Then I won't slit his neck.
[08.01.2024 23:38:11] Lea.Kaufman: W-what?!
[08.01.2024 23:38:29] Caliban: I still don't know how he attracts women with a personality like that.
[08.01.2024 23:39:25] Caliban: [He shrugs] Should've left him with you in New York instead of showing some fucking compassion.
[08.01.2024 23:39:52] Death: Kiramay was put out of action by a hostile vessel.
[08.01.2024 23:40:20] Lea.Kaufman: What is you are hiding? What do you mean?
[08.01.2024 23:40:46] Caliban: You two had an argument while myself and two others had some fun. Levan apparently felt cornered.
[08.01.2024 23:41:09] Caliban: Wanted to fuck off. Came to my home to flee you. Some foursome orgy I guess. Dunno'.
[08.01.2024 23:41:15] Caliban: To flee from you.
[08.01.2024 23:41:48] Caliban: After the party I find out he casually tried to have one of his best friends killed at the hands of said friend's -
[08.01.2024 23:41:52] Caliban: - own fucking lover.
[08.01.2024 23:42:22] Caliban: I'm a mercenary. I kill for a living. But this? You don't do this shit.
[08.01.2024 23:43:26] Lea.Kaufman: *She is silent. She is not sure what to even reply to this.*
[08.01.2024 23:43:43] Caliban: The Sentinels. All of this shit has been happening for years.
[08.01.2024 23:44:07] Caliban: I fought this war from the start. He shows up barely a month ago and already wants to decide his friends' own fate.
[08.01.2024 23:44:21] Caliban: Knows jackshit, acts as if he knows everything.
[08.01.2024 23:44:51] Lea.Kaufman: I see...
[08.01.2024 23:45:16] Caliban: Worse. Turns lovers against one another over a hunch that somehow the war will be over if one of them dies.
[08.01.2024 23:46:13] Caliban: ...anyway. You know. Do with this as you will.
Of course he leaves out the important parts, just trying to stirr drama and distrust.
Look, you know about the Sentinels, Harbinger and Relevant trying to doom Sirius now. You were there when we got attacked at Heisenberg. I do not know how if anyone explained how big this entire thing is, but since you know about them, just like I, Monique, Madeleine and Kristoff, Aspen, Rebecca and, yes, him, Caliban, do, we are all in this.
This is all about some kind of vault. Harbinger, an alien of a race that wants mankind dead, wants to open it. Relevant wants to open it, because she does not care about mankind and thinks she can get whatever technology is in there.
Harbinger apparently has the ability to create keys to open the vault. He himself cannot do it, thus he makes people become keys. Caliban is, or was, one of those keys. Then he killed himself. For a time being, that key was gone. I do not know if he still is a key, since he avoids telling anything about what happened. We do not know what the hell he himself is, but apparently, he actually died not only once but twice. He got killed by Cobra and Empress once and then killed himself, allegedly, by Relevant's word. Now he is back again.
In the meantime, Harbinger has turned Lazurith into another key. Both Lazurith and Relevant pretend that is not the case, but she would not have chased us that badly if he was not. I am 100% convinced he is a key now. And Rebecca and I were in a situation where we, immediately after it happened, had to decide on whether to let Relevant have that key or not. We had to decide on whether to let Relevant and Lazurith alive. Since Rebecca was longer part of that entire thing, I left the choice to her. I reminded her that if Lazurith gets to stay alive, it means we potentially let Relevant and Harbinger win. Because whatever is in that vault, only Harbinger and Relevant want it open. Everyone else is afraid it could literally be the end of mankind and even the nomads. So, whatever is in there, it was put away for a good reason.
If it had been my decision, and I made that very clear, I would have killed Relevant, and I would NOT have killed Lazurith. I would have taken him with me, because I love him. I do think there is some way out of all of this for him. But not as long as Relevant is alive.
So, yeah, I have all of this in mind lately, and do not get me wrong. The idea of spending time with you privately is a pure delight. I would have liked to say yes. I would have liked to go to New Berlin with you and my girls and just have an incredible time with you. I would love to have a normal life, not needing to care about any of this and just have fun whenever I can.
But we are in this now. While Monique was trying to get us both in bed, I was texting with Lazurith, with Kristoff, who said he was on Caliban's ship, with Rebecca and Caliban, smoking weed. Two keys in one location. Thousands of questions, no answers. Why is he still alive? Is he still a key? What happened? Why did he kill himself? Why did he come back? Why is he hanging out with Lazurith like that? Why is Kristoff casually hanging out with the guy who wanted to kill me? Why is Kristoff casually hanging out with a zombie?
I had all of that in mind when we were talking, Lea. And that is not even the entire thing. Even the nomads are in this. And I have no idea how to get out of all of this. Relevant made clear she can track me down anywhere. The nomads said they would keep an eye on us. The Sentinels can appear literally anywhere. And regardless of what I do, Lazurith says he wants out but gets dragged back in all the time because of Relevant.
I am at the end of my wisdom, Lea. Maybe it is best if Kristoff dies. Maybe it would have been ideal if Relevant and Kristoff would have died when Rebecca and I had the chance. Instead, we let them both live, for the same reason. We both love Kristoff, and it was most likely the entire time that when he was weakened by Harbinger after getting turned into a key, that only Relevant can help him recover.
And Rebecca and Caliban know there is so much more about it, and yet they run around and cry about it and tell half-truths, while I not only had to give up on an incredibly seductive time with you and Monique and Madeleine, or hell, even with you alone, but also went to Coronado on a ship I have never been to be fore, to see Kristoff completely high, see him vomitting his guts out, to carry him over to my ship and take care of him. I went on that ship there, knowing not just one person that tried to kill me was on it, but TWO.
And you know what the best part of all of that is? When I brought Kristoff over to my ship and put him in my bed, I fell asleep after some time of watching over him, and when I woke up again, he was gone, without a word to me or Monique or Madeleine. Guess where he went to? Right, back to Inverness to the Technomancers. No thank you, no "I love you", no "see you later".
Trust me, if I could turn back time, I would have picked spending time with you, no matter in what capacity, over entering the lion's den, breathing in air so thick of weed stench that you could have cut it with a knife, watching Kristoff throw up and then carry his heavy metallic ass over to the Kay.
So, know you know. Meanwhile, this asshole boasts about the many times he shot down Relevant and how he could kill her easily, and yet he does not do it. And when I confront him about the consequences of his actions, he gets furious, cries and yells, insults me, mocks me for my private life and pretends he is so much better than anyone else. He has been fighting this war for years? And what progress did he make, huh? He cares about Lazurith? Then why does he do not do the one thing he boasts about being able to do that would actually help him?
He is a barking dog. And a zombie. Do not let this man misguide you. He tends to twist the truth, and whenever he gets backlash, he goes on a rampage.
I have no word to express what you just said. It seems all this thing is too big. It's too big to know all this already.
I... I do not know what is the vault they want to open. Maybe you should contact an organization who has the methods to make a stop to this. There's no way Rebecca, your girlfriends, you and I can stop this. We are not a military organization who can dispose ways to nuke all this.
I crossed again Caliban. He... he is tired of those Technocrats with their nomads, the quick words I heard from him. If you ask me, you should not search what happened to him. He is not your friend, not mine. The more you will try, the more you will face the consequences and I don't want to fight Caliban just because you did 'x' or 'y'.
I know you want badly to help Kristoff, but from what you tell me, he is... a lost case. You want me safe, don't you? I... I will step back out of this even if I know as much as you. But hey... maybe... maybe if you just lay low, you won't be hunted down? I try to find solutions without violence first. Yes, killing Revenant would probably be the best, but I don't have anything to face her and her group alone. If you say Kristoff is under control by her, then, you know what will happen...
I honestly do not know if laying low is an option anymore. I was not lying when I said that the Kay might be the safest place for me, because those shields and armor plates are probably the one and only obstacle in the way if anyone tries to hunt me down. I know too much, and you, sadly, too.
So, what can we do now?
I do not know. Can we kill her? Probably not, you are right. Which is why I want you not to risk it. You have good intentions, but she has the entire Technomancy behind her, and I would not be surprised if many of them are controlled just like Kristoff is. The only person who would be able to tell us more is a woman called Kimiko, but she is gone. Have not heard from her in a long time. She was the one who found out about the chip the Technomancy uses to control people.
Aspen is gone, too. Without a trace, actually. I am not sure what happened, whether she left on her own or whether she got hunted down for knowing too much, but... staying in one place seems like a bad idea. Which is why Monique and Madeleine stay with me on my ship now.
I tried to stay planetside. I was shopping with the girls, constantly being afraid someone was stalking us. I heard that woman Dezember over and over. It was... simply not an option. I thought about hiring a bodyguard and security robots, but honestly, the only thing keeping me safe is this gunboat.
Whatever you do, do not risk your life. Do not throw your life away like that. Not for me, not for anyone else. And do not let Caliban fool you. Not the first time he tries to sell false truths, I hope you remember that. He tends to leave out important context and then prides himself of not having lied.
The truth is, leaving out the whole truth is just as much of a lie.
Kimiko? It does not ring a bell. I doubt I met her and if I did, I probably forgot. And if she knew this, then, maybe she is gone because she knew too much… it’s scary now that I think about it.
Like you said, I unfortunately know a bit too much now. I won’t lie, I am scared. I am scared that without a notice something bad will happen. I don’t have a big hull nor a big shield to protect me. It will sound crazy, but either I stay with you or… I hide somewhere nobody knows.
But again, if the Sentinels comes out of nowhere, like they did in Cologne, I am afraid that you are right. Hiding in one place might not be good enough. But Levan, tell me, what do you plan now? I want to know even if I might not be a big help… I just… I just want to be sure you remain alive and that you don’t act without thinking.
There is no plan. The first time we had a plan, Kimiko vanished. The second time we had a plan, Aspen vanished. There is no plan left.
I do not know what to do, apart from keeping moving. Staying in places where Relevant cannot get us. If I ever need to escape from her again, I know that radiation will do the trick, because my ship can last longer than hers. Otherwise, I guess Liberty, Bretonia and maybe Omicron Delta do the trick - simply because she is afraid of the Order. She made that much clear when she got mad at me for talking with Silverstone, although I do not know if he is working for the order. She made it sound like that, though.
I hope we eventually find a way to free Kristoff. And maybe Caliban actually puts the money where his mouth is and kills her. In any case, this is all too big for little me, and too big for little you. Maybe it is really best to leave this to Caliban, the Order and the Technomancers. And the nomads.
It's funny you tell me to let all this to the Order, Technocrats and Nomads because you see, I met Rebecca, yes the one who tried to kill you.
She told me enough about the situation and I am out of this. She told me that my chance to be 'marked' is low so I can finally be a bit relieved... And funny enough, according to her, you are also not interesting for Harbinger. She told me the story when she was mad at you. Quite interesting I'd say. It was three years ago, so I will not dig this further.
However, you, I want you to stop this too. If you don't, I feel forced to follow you. There is no way to let you on your own and do something dangerous. Not only for you, but also for Monique and Madeleine. You told me you were surrounded by big nomad ships in Delta near the Freeport! What do I feel about this? I feel stressed for your safety!
Levan, you are a cool young man. Please consider to stop trying impossible things. It will also avoid me to put myself in danger.
If I was you, I would not put too much value in her opinions. Harbinger might not have an interest in you or me, but we still know about the Sentinels and all that stuff. We got attacked by them.
Not only that, but there are other groups who still factor into this. Do not let her put you at false ease, Lea. Stay on your toes. Rebecca has been wrong about many things in the past.
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