Hello esteemed colleagues, fellow Overseers, Managers, etc, I will dispense with the additional pleasantries and get straight to it!

SESSION 27!!

our session began again in the Adler bedroom, now WITH a bed which was simply ridiculously thin, with a book caught in an animation loop. the book itself, the book's cover does not have any words on it, only a tiny M.N.H.R logo, and while the contents of the book are innocuous[a mild dramatization of the life and times of a National mine technician], the room itself fills with the scent of either blood or rust, and after opening the door that SHOULD Lead to the A.L.D.R study, instead leading to the mystery flesh pit [-it being a national park] and because this is still meant to be a survival horror setting, they go dow- oh. that soldier tackled Pixie down the hole. that's annoying. they fall through many locations such as 
- that place with the awful yellow wallpaper
-the library
- yeah that was it.

before eventually finding themselves inside a mining tunnel, dug miles beneath what we would know as the Atlantic ocean, and what was known to the proto-empire as the Euruskian Strait, although admittedly I did not actually communicate that during the session because uh...… to be completely honest I completely forgot to actually DO that.

unsurprisingly, the mine workers are both not thrilled to see these three interlopers and also, as you can imagine, extremely confused by the very existence of robots that looked like this because, as you might remember from the that brief time I flat out *could not DM this campaign* because of Virgin media being quite annoying that at this general period of human history, that Replikas, if even called that broadly at this time, are at MINIMUM eight meters tall, so these mine workers can barely tell that these simply are not humans, at most they could be weird specialised cyborgs, they wouldn't think these are actual machines, but regardless, they go towards a guy that seems like they're important, finding that the person that this is the mine supervisor, telling them that this tunnel keeps fucking with the Boring drills so they needed to poke and prod at the tunnel itself for a while since they needed to find out what the fuck was going on. the next thing they find is the humanGESTALT who's neural pattern was used for M.N.H.R units almost a century later. half her leg is gone. vertically. And yet somehow she's still LIMPING AFTER THE PARTY OUT OF MORBID CURIOSITY, but mostly to get to a nearby medical station, and upon getting there, the party is greeted with... LILYA?? or maybe a distant relative. since I don't expect you to remember all the names I bring up, so just to refresh your memory, that's the human that Lilith was based off of. gee, I wonder if that particular detail could possibly mean, it's almost as if this is alluding to the potential return of a certain medical psycho. Yeag I see that look on your face, "Who does she think she's fooling?" I get it dw, do me a favour, please do not open the door labelled "ANNOYING GHOSTLY TORSO THAT BITES PEOPLE" again because I accidentally did that, and consequentially, LILITH LEFT THE GREEN ROOM AND HAS OFFICIALLY COME BACK FROM THE [metaphorical]GRAVE AS A PARTY MEMBER, not before her ghost, a wholly separate entity for reasons I will intentionally leave vague because I don't actually have an explanation for it in mind, and also frankly because it's funnier to leave unexplained, and after a brief scuffle, including the ghost of Lilith briefly ripping Pixie's off and Pixie then immediately going into a frenzy before shutting off, thus forcing Minnesota to quickly pop in to reboot her, and while the others just see the standard Drop Troopers come in, open a panel on the back of Pixie's head, and bonk a CPU back into place. But Lilith knows what she saw, I believe. Or at least I'd like to think she does. that mass of wires beneath a cloak. a black square blocking the creature's visage from her view. now I get to transcribe a bit of dialogue directly {func_emotive-happiness}

[context, Minnesota = ensign, Lilith's lines should be obvious]

Ensign: "I thought you were supposed to be dead." [annoyed the whole way through]
Lily: "Apparently, I am not yet finished." [said as creepy as she can manage
Ensign: "It would be so nice if I was given any information about when a thing like you was supposed to show up beforehand." [more visibly annoyed by the lack of communication from the overseer now] [[it won't get better]]
Lily: "Oh I'm so sorry. did not exactly figure I would last this long" [disingenuous for most, bit of that usual murder-whimsy at the end though, shown via the voice getting higher in pitch]
Ensign: [sighing like she realised I demoted her again for the sake of a bit]
Lily: (breathy, evil giggle)
Ensign: "I'm sure some people here would've preferred if you hadn't come back. But eh, listen to me blabbering on." [tiredness creeps in about here]"I'll let you deal with.. the big one, oh and um..."

overseer, now right up Lilith's face: "do not break anything here before I get back."

[Ensign then promptly disappears into the ether] 

Lily: (normal volume evil giggle) "I did not miss her"
[Ensign then pops back into reality to bonk Lily on the head and disappears again.]

as well as Lilith and the rest of the gang catching up again, as well as formal introductions between Pixie and Lilith Mc'Rips-arms-off-to-say-hi, also featuring Lilith being neurotic about people touching her which is a trait that looking back I didn't really mention in the early reports. Bird is actually the one that points out that we've gone backwards in time. Also Lilith and Lilya actually react to each other's presences and Lilya mentions that Lilith shouldn't be here. that goes exactly where you think[hint:NOWHERE]. and after Lilith mentions she's hungry and Lilya immediately shoots down her want to get into a medical waste bin, THAT was were we ended the session this week.

Möge das wachsame Auge der großen Revolutionäre euch Sicherheit bringen.
願皇后的祝福伴你一路前行

P.S: HOLY FUCK, THIS IS THE FIRST ONE IN A LONG ASS TIME THAT'S ACTUALLY OVER 6000 CHARACTERS LONG! ok look, I know that the actual character count doesn't actually matter much when writing a recap/status report but I have been in a major slump recently, and finally being able to push my writing past what felt to me like the bare minimum feels SO GOOD after all this time! also yeah, Lilith is back again! in fairness though she can't get in every week but in her player's own words, they want to show up as much as they can reasonably manage so I might also shuffle the visuals around a little bit for the individual replikas, or just strip Lilith of her faction-related paint next time. Goodbye! See you all next week!! Also sorry that this update took a bit too long to actually post. Also apologies for the poor language here in the post script.