Session 12

Session 12 Notes (Audio Recording available here)

Recording begins at 4:22 PM

Ship combat! 4:37 PM, initiative is rolled
 * Captain: Lorelai
 * Bridge: Janick
 * Comms: Rowan
 * Engineering: Aquila
 * Gunnery: Jedidiah (Fractal Impact Charge), Bijou (Sandthrower)

The Dreams of Large Women goes first, but is quickly fired upon and gets a hull breach. Some stuff happens, the Indeed It Does fires the Fractal Impact Charge  5 times (bringing ammo down to 3), and the Dreams of Large Women destroys the other ship.

5:25: the crew initiates a salvage mission, identifying parts of the engine and parts of the gun. The Dreams of Large Women goes to scan the perimeter of the asteroid belt. Rowan and Jedidiah attempt to board the husk of the ship to salvage, while the rest of the crew uses scans and flying to salvage the other things. Without a salvage arm, the ship has to either back into the salvage, or leverage magnetics and winches to bring stuff in.

Rowan and Jedidiah view the damage caused by the weapons, and head to the armory. A man in a vac suit lashes out with a combat knife, but is quickly dispatched by Jedidiah. There are 6 laser rifles, 3 laser pistols, void carbine, 10 type A cells, 5 vac suits, and 2 combat knives. They go to the bridge, carve out a hard drive from the comms panel, and get the intact transponder card from the ship. The two dead people on the board also have laser pistols for looting, and we get their names and badges (with numbers).

Rowan and Jedidiah re-board the Indeed it Does with all 5 bodies, to which Lorelai gets angry at Rowan for wanting to harvest DNA. The party agrees to bury the bodies while on-planet. The party talks to the Dreams of Large Women and then goes away separately, contacting Marisan 911 about “being robbed”. The responder seems bored, and seems to suggest that this happens relatively frequently: Janick gives fake information that can still be accessed.

The crew flies to Varvaressos. Marisa is almost a moon of Varvaressos, but Varvaressos appears very tan and devoid of blue/green, whereas Marisa has clouds/landmasses/oceans. Traffic control asks if the ship is heading towards Marisa or Varvaressos, to which the party responds with Varvaressos. The party is advised of a travel advisory and told to stick to the Malleus district, and then disconnects. The Malleus traffic control then contacts the party, to which the party says their business is to inform the people that they were informing their contacts that their cargo was stolen. The party mentions the coordinates, to which the traffic control merely says that they only patrol designated areas so the party is on their own.

Varvaressos only seems to have thirteen bubble cities. Most of the cities are connected by underground trams, with nice living quarters underground and solar power. The party’s coordinates are far away from any of the districts, in a mountain range. The planet’s surface is covered in holes for mining expeditions, and trying to travel across the land would likely end in falling in a hole. The coordinates lead to what appears like a valley/canyon, almost a fjord without water. The party agrees to bury the bodies after landing, and lands on a plateau conveniently large enough to land a ship on. The ship lands, after which a pair of vehicles (with tires: proper ground vehicles) starts approaching. The people appear to have TL3-level guns: a guy waves at the ship, and Rowan wants to wait until they’re close to meet them under the ship. The stop 50 yards away, and then start walking over. There are 8 guys, and the party extends the personnel loading ramp.

They introduce themselves as Jose and Aleta (the planet is breathable), who are married. The guy behind him is Jorge (they are obviously related, probably brothers). He says “welcome to the eye of the storm”, to which Aleta rolls her eyes and Jorge chuckles. They introduce themselves as the welcoming party to the red sands and as freedom fighters, to which Rowan asks who they’re fighting. Jose mentions talking over a few drinks, but points up (where Marisa is visible), looking about 4x the size of the moon from a visual perspective. Rowan observes that two of the people in the back are psychic, and nods/winks at them (to which they look at each other, and then away). Jose mentions a cavern nearby, out of sight of anything that could observe the planet’s surface, to park the ship at and meet their base. The party offers to give them all a ride with their cars (100T of scrap, meaning that there is still 60T of space leftover) which are 10T each. Most of the people are young, in their 20s. Rowan attempts to awkwardly interact with one of the psychics. The party flies into the cavern, rounding a bend and encountering lights and barricades like a construction site. There are people with guns, but Jose radioed in ahead to let people know we were good.