Star City/Arden/Kapu (2227 EA766C2-6) Date: 544-287
Characters in play this night included the returning Tiernan, Zaccheus, D'Arcy, Aggie, Capt Neo, Dionysius, and a new PC, Vladimir.
Two and a half weeks after dropping Watson, the "boy in the metal box" cargo container with the Chief Librarian, he asked the group to return to the Kelrax system for additional salvage, including the main computer core from the station. They contacted the Peacekeeper, and asked Chief Engineer Zesiro to accompany them on the journey. As they waited for his arrival, they met a recently arrived exile from Gruvek by the name of Vladimir Alexicov, a retired marine. He agreed to join their party as well.
Loading into the Arianwyn, they jumped to Tralnor, spent a day refueling, and headed on to Alwuud, where they again spent a day refueling. Their next jump took them to the Kelrax system, where they quickly headed to the asteroid with the colony station. After landing, Vladimir scanned the local area and found the remains of quite a few wrecked starships. Zaccheus used his psionics to scan for life, but found nothing within his range. Once inside the station, Zesiro inspected the power plant, and told them it was a standard hydrogen powered plant, with tanks capable of storing 30 tons of fuel. The party made the 5 day round trip to the closer of the two gas giants in the Kelrax system, and were able to fill the station's tanks. Zesiro brought the power plant online while the party explored the power dome. They managed to find the main breaker controlling life support in the dome, and brought it online as well. As air started to fill the power dome, Zesiro turned on power to the central dome, and the Team began to explore it as well. With power restored to the dome, they were able to use a terminal to pull up maps and locate the main computer room, as well as the program notes for the AI Seed program, which they realized must be Watson, the "boy in the box" they'd "rescued" during their last visit.
In order to salvage the computer core, per the Chief Librarian's request, they left life support off in the central dome, and blew the airlock so they'd have a large enough exit to manhandle the computer to the ship. This took several days, during which several party members explored the third dome. This dome held both living quarters and a store-room of personal gear, which they inventoried. Once the computer core was secured in the Arianwyn's hold, they flew to the gas giant to refuel, then made the journey back to Arden, again stopping for a day in the Alwuud and Tralnor systems to refuel.
Back on Arden, they delivered the computer core and copies of the AI Seed program data to the Chief Librarian. They asked if any progress had been made with Watson, and learned he'd been moved into a shielded vault after he asked about The Watcher. Inside the vault, Watson had admitted The Watcher had been asking him lots of questions, but wouldn't tell anything about himself, and that in the vault, he could no longer hear The Watcher at all.
They decided to take a break for a while in Star City, and a week later, Dionysius woke with his first vague memory of what had happened to him on Alwuud. He recalled using his pickaxe on the concrete in the hole he dug, and he remembered breaking through it. He couldn't remember how thick the shell was, but knew he'd accidentally dropped his pick into the dark hole and had a clear memory of seeing it fall out of sight in the darkness. He never heard it hit bottom.
They decided to return to Alwuud to solve the mystery, and brought Ga'a'atak and Fil onboard with them before taking off. Leaving orbit, they made the jump to Tralnor... but didn't fall out of jumpspace at the end of the week as they were supposed to. Three more days went by, and they finally dropped into normal space... 17 parsecs from their intended destination, in deep space... without enough fuel to attempt another jump! Using the astrographic data they'd received from Kearnay, they quickly figured out where they were, an empty area of space (0519) in Hallu Subsector. They spent a week there, scanning space around them, and found jump signatures indicating the area had been visited recently, and possibly regularly. They turned on their rescue beacon, hoping another ship might jump into the system and find them, but also began work on splitting hydrogen out of the alcohol Tiernan had on board. During their second week stranded, Ga'a'atak and Capt Neo entered low berths, hoping to conserve life support and supplies...
(Game Calendar: 544-287 to 545-020).
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Actual Play - 13th Game - 24 Jun 13
Star City/Arden/Kapu (2227 EA766C2-6) Date: 544-209
Characters in play this night included the returning Tiernan, Zaccheus, D'Arcy, Gildas, Maddoc, Cinnia, Aggie, and Dionysius, and a new player, L3, joined us with her character Aggie, a scientist from Arden.
Almost two months had passed since the party returned to Arden. The Chief Librarian sent word that he needed to speak to them. "Looking through the Plan Alpha archives," he began, "I found that some of the data was damaged. It appears our ancestors left something important at the colony in the Kelrax system... but we have no idea what it was. O'er King Ossian would like you to go there, determine what of value may have been left there, and if possible bring it back. Oh, and I want to introduce you to Aggie Iliopoulos, a computer expert who should prove useful on this mission." The team introduced themselves, and the next day, Tiernan, Zaccheus, D'Arcy, Gildas, Maddoc, Cinnia and Aggie left Arden.
They jumped to Tralnor, stopping there only long enough to refuel, and then jumped to Alwuud to pick up Dionysius. As they landed, they noticed the giant hole Dionysius had been digging when they left was completely gone, apparently filled in and with new grass already growing over it! Dionysius was nowhere to be seen, but a messenger approached and invited them to meet with the King. Once there, they were informed that Dionysius was hospitalized and in a coma. The King explained he'd started acting strangely just a few days after the group left him, and wouldn't allow anyone near the hole. He then began to fill it in, working apparently nonstop for more than four weeks until it was filled in. He then collapsed, and it was apparent he'd slept little and eaten less during this time. He'd been carried from the site and had not regained consciousness.
Using his psionics, Tiernan was able to heal Dionysius enough to awaken him, only to find he had no recollection of anything after the team left him on Alwuud.
In the meantime, Maddoc visited the training site he'd set up last visit, hoping to collect some trained soldiers to take along. He was less than pleased to hear the Colonel tell him the recruits were slow to learn group tactics and military discipline, as they'd been raised in an individualistic warrior culture rather than a military culture. He returned to the starship without soldiers just as the party prepared to leave.
After jumping to the Kelrax system, they learned it had two gas giants and one asteroid belt. Approaching the nearest gas giant to refuel, they found a heavily damaged space station in orbit. The piece that was left massed about 200 tons, so after a brief exploration, they attempted to pull it into their cargo bay. They were partially successful, pulling it halfway into their ship when it lodged and stuck. They immediately set about trying to dislodge it, and after several attempts they popped it free and accelerated away from it. Unfortunately, they changed it's orbit, and as they accelerated away from the gas giant, they watched the wreck fall into the clouds and burn up.
Heading in toward the asteroid belt, they located it's homing beacon, and made radio contact with a young boy. He told them he was trapped in a room in the main dome of the colony, and had been alone for quite some time. It took them four days to round the star and arrive at the colony, which turned out to be three large domes with connecting tunnels. One dome held living quarters, one held a power plant, and the center held labs. In the lab dome, they located a large sealed metal box, which the boy claimed to be trapped in. He couldn't remember his name, so the party decided to call him Watson.
While half the party was attempting to open the box, the other half flew to a wrecked starship not far from the station. It had heavy combat damage and no power. The bridge held several dessicated Vargr wearing vacc-suits but no helmets. The team was unable to bring the engines online.
Meanwhile, in the dome, the party decided to lift the box in order to free the boy. They unbolted it from the floor, and managed to lift it only to find it had a solid bottom. Perplexed, they decided to take the entire box back to Arden with them. They loaded it into their cargo hold, called the other party back from the other wreck, and headed home to Arden, stopping at Alwuud and Tralnor just long enough to refuel.
(Game Calendar: 544-209 to 544-265).
Characters in play this night included the returning Tiernan, Zaccheus, D'Arcy, Gildas, Maddoc, Cinnia, Aggie, and Dionysius, and a new player, L3, joined us with her character Aggie, a scientist from Arden.
Almost two months had passed since the party returned to Arden. The Chief Librarian sent word that he needed to speak to them. "Looking through the Plan Alpha archives," he began, "I found that some of the data was damaged. It appears our ancestors left something important at the colony in the Kelrax system... but we have no idea what it was. O'er King Ossian would like you to go there, determine what of value may have been left there, and if possible bring it back. Oh, and I want to introduce you to Aggie Iliopoulos, a computer expert who should prove useful on this mission." The team introduced themselves, and the next day, Tiernan, Zaccheus, D'Arcy, Gildas, Maddoc, Cinnia and Aggie left Arden.
They jumped to Tralnor, stopping there only long enough to refuel, and then jumped to Alwuud to pick up Dionysius. As they landed, they noticed the giant hole Dionysius had been digging when they left was completely gone, apparently filled in and with new grass already growing over it! Dionysius was nowhere to be seen, but a messenger approached and invited them to meet with the King. Once there, they were informed that Dionysius was hospitalized and in a coma. The King explained he'd started acting strangely just a few days after the group left him, and wouldn't allow anyone near the hole. He then began to fill it in, working apparently nonstop for more than four weeks until it was filled in. He then collapsed, and it was apparent he'd slept little and eaten less during this time. He'd been carried from the site and had not regained consciousness.
Using his psionics, Tiernan was able to heal Dionysius enough to awaken him, only to find he had no recollection of anything after the team left him on Alwuud.
In the meantime, Maddoc visited the training site he'd set up last visit, hoping to collect some trained soldiers to take along. He was less than pleased to hear the Colonel tell him the recruits were slow to learn group tactics and military discipline, as they'd been raised in an individualistic warrior culture rather than a military culture. He returned to the starship without soldiers just as the party prepared to leave.
After jumping to the Kelrax system, they learned it had two gas giants and one asteroid belt. Approaching the nearest gas giant to refuel, they found a heavily damaged space station in orbit. The piece that was left massed about 200 tons, so after a brief exploration, they attempted to pull it into their cargo bay. They were partially successful, pulling it halfway into their ship when it lodged and stuck. They immediately set about trying to dislodge it, and after several attempts they popped it free and accelerated away from it. Unfortunately, they changed it's orbit, and as they accelerated away from the gas giant, they watched the wreck fall into the clouds and burn up.
Heading in toward the asteroid belt, they located it's homing beacon, and made radio contact with a young boy. He told them he was trapped in a room in the main dome of the colony, and had been alone for quite some time. It took them four days to round the star and arrive at the colony, which turned out to be three large domes with connecting tunnels. One dome held living quarters, one held a power plant, and the center held labs. In the lab dome, they located a large sealed metal box, which the boy claimed to be trapped in. He couldn't remember his name, so the party decided to call him Watson.
While half the party was attempting to open the box, the other half flew to a wrecked starship not far from the station. It had heavy combat damage and no power. The bridge held several dessicated Vargr wearing vacc-suits but no helmets. The team was unable to bring the engines online.
Meanwhile, in the dome, the party decided to lift the box in order to free the boy. They unbolted it from the floor, and managed to lift it only to find it had a solid bottom. Perplexed, they decided to take the entire box back to Arden with them. They loaded it into their cargo hold, called the other party back from the other wreck, and headed home to Arden, stopping at Alwuud and Tralnor just long enough to refuel.
(Game Calendar: 544-209 to 544-265).
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