The next morning, the ship that was across the way is gone.  There's a credit on your docking fee.  Seems someone paid for your berth and maintenance fees up until now.

Maybe it was their way of saying sorry! Fritz opines.

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Surprisingly, the next two days go rather swimmingly.  That is, nothing weird happens.

The shoots go decently.  No one misbehaves.  No signs of mysterious strangers skulking about.  The crew plays a lot of cards and shares a lot of weed.  Those with sweet babous get to spend some quality time with said sweet babous.  Even Fritz doesn't act weird.  Well.  He does act weird.  But at the same level he has been acting at.  So take what you can get.

Even Nero's channel is posting some satisfactory numbers. He's actually over 2,000 subscribers!

"I'm just gonna run over to the market.  Honestly, you folks don't stock enough fresh veggies."  Maribell giggles and pokes your chest Rig.

"I was gonna make a big pot of stew.  But stew needs garlic. And you guys only have that synth crap.  I'll just be a bit.  Anything you want me to pick up?  Or you wanna come with?"

This guy again.

Found you ass clown

It's been a while since your creepy stalker posted Nero.

Your tribe steps up.

Glad you found your ass, you clown

Y U B Trippin?

Get some help fucktard

At the end of the string, stalker boy replies.  He replies with a vid though.  It's you walking out of the hotel yesterday.  You know it was then because of the clothes you're wearing in the vid Nero.

From the angle of the shot, whoever took it was across the street from the main door of the hotel.

<orange>You can decide who gets this one<orange>

Fritz comes on your personal comm.

There's a message for Ulie.  Someone named Bilgo from Black Sun Entertainment wants her to contact them right away.  I can't reach her comm though.  And not sure I'm supposed to be talking to her either.

Or am I?  You guys aren't ashamed of me, are you?

Rig has been spending the last few days working with Fritz trying to get his runaway memory problem under control. Something had to be triggering his belief that he had to learn or die and he was beginning to suspect it had nothing to do with the Tia and more to do with Fritz itself. His knowledge of AI wasn't great but he did understand that all intelligences needed a rest and maintenance cycle and perhaps that was the issue at hand, Fritz had not had any time to "rest" and was becoming a bit hyper-compulsive.

Ledo laughed at Fritz's insecurity.

"Of course they know about you and of course we aren't ashamed of you. We just told them that our tech expert is agoraphobic and doesn't like coming out of his room around strangers, that's all. I'll go out and look for Ullie."

When he was done with Fritz he commed Silver who was presumably watching the cast and crew while he was taking care of matters at the ship.

"Silver, where's Ullie? I've got a message for her..."

Nero was pretty nonchalant about a stalker tracking him to the planet but BB was not taking any chances. She was thankful he had gotten his head out of his ass long enough to at least warn her that someone was stalking him.

BB began setting up a more secure surveillance network with the cameras they had bought on Wyltz. Before it had been to guard against pranksters but now she might actually get a chance to use her chainsword to make some internet troll piss himself. She had been looking over the feed and she wasn't too happy with the threats this guy had been making. He had been stalking Nero for months now and from her training in private security she knew that escalation was a bad sign, a very bad sign. She was supposed to sill be watching Black Sun but now her focus was on Nero and his protection.

"What's up Nero Knights? I'm still here on this frozen ice ball as they finish up filming. I hope you all have been digging the behind the scenes interviews and clips but shhhh <i>they don't know I'm sharing it all yet<i>. NDA? More like NDP: Nodda Problem! Make sure you shout me out in the comment section.

Oh yeah, some fool thinks he's going to scare me away with some pics and threats? Well I hope he shows his face because..."

Nero pulls out one of BB's combat knives he lifted from her luggage when she wasn't looking.

"...if he tries anything I'll give him an autograph he isn't going to forget! Whaatttaaah!"

What follows is nearly a minute of Nero brandishing the knife like an idiot as he clumsily strikes at an imaginary foe, pausing now and then to pose, struts, and say tired one liners like "You get my point now?"

Maribell gives the top of your head a kiss Rig.   "I'll pick ya up a beer."

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I like Maribel.  She's nice.  I like her imagination too.

Do relationships change because of the physical component Engineer Rig?

Oh.  Here is the data you wanted on my maintenance routines.

The data isn't particularly helpful.  You had run some Bogman-Stress-Tests but the results aren't very illuminating.

Do you mind if I ask what you're looking for Engineer Rig?  You seem to be looking at my maintenance schedules and running a lot of stress scenarios.

Silver, you get Ledo's comm.

Ulie is about twenty feet away from you, looking over some footage they just shot with Relen.  Most of the crew is setting up scenery for the next shot.  The actors are in a tent, the only ones who aren't freezing their nuts off at the moment.

Ulie squeezes her eyebrows together when she hears the name Bilgo.  She then looks at her comm and groans.  "Shit.  My comm has frozen up.  Can I use yours?  I need to take his message."