Leora finds a artifact that allows her to detach her own hand. There is a control panel and Jasmine manages to switch it on. The goo in the pipes start to be pumped up through the tubing. A door opens and Keltek comes limping in holding a saber in one hand. His limp head snaps up, "You were looking for me?"
He starts toward Hector. His sword slices through hector, and a sheath of ice envelops Keitorga. Zole cuts deep into Keltak's shoulder. As Hector injures him again he says, "This form has taken damage." A shodow reaches out of his chest, toward Hector but Hector dodges just in the nick of time. Keltack collapses.
Zol reveals that that he is Keltec is his brother--he'd become a constable, and Zol became an assassin. But he's an honorable one. He claimed.
The party heads to the library (after spending an incredible amount of time debating what to do with the body of their fallen commrad. Options included dissection for cyphers and disolving so he became part of the datasphere. Ultimately they left it there, after looting the corpse and Zole traded swords with him). There are a couple consules that they begin working on. It powers on and they see a face of a woman.
"The Kromulack started their slow voyage across the galaxy more than a thousand years ago. They should have arrived by now. They are miners and as they go stripping the world of natural resources. Their progress is slow and inexorable."
"How do we defeat Mosk?"
"They were unable to defeat Mosk. He was banished to an undying planet 10,000 years ago."
How do we keep the atmosphere from killing us humans?
Human biology not recognized.
What is the shadow that keeps attacking us?
The shadow served as the natural protection for the city until they lost control [there was more I didn't get].
Leora is stressed and starts taking her hand on and off. The party saves the final console and heads to the armory. There are many consoles, but most of them are wrecked. Some from time, others have claw marks. One or two are glowing now that power has been restored to the city. There is a large pile of debris in the corner, and it looks like a nest of some sort. As they get gloser a head appears and they see a huge dog with tenticals. Many of the party remember there was one of these guarding The Forge of Dreams. Quin feeds it a cypher, and it starts wagging its tail. She names it Shyfear.
Ketorga realizes that this Armory is not a place where you get weapons, but a place where you become weapons. She decides not to tell, and Jasmine inserts her arm. Jasmine starts to shake as two needles are inserted into her arm and start to rewrite her DNA. She now has six fingers on each hand (not the extra hand). She now also has added speed defense as well. Ketorga decides to tell them, and Zol immediately sticks his arm in as well. (he gets +5 armor against acid, and +2 armor against slicing attacks. His teeth turn completely black). Ketorga sticks her arm in and gets +5 to her might pool--also purple hair. Zol sticks his other arm in. His head goes fuzzy for a moment, and when he comes to he realizes that remembering is difficuly (disability to all mental tasks). He has a ridge of bone down his forehead and his speech is a little slurred. The party heads to the starport.
In the starport is a huge nightship, which has crashed there and scattered the remains of the other night ships. Above in the dome there is a huge metal iris where ships can go in and out, and there is no damage to the dome. It bears no resemblence to any nightship either there or that the party has seen. It is pocketed with marks, as if having gone through an Iron Wind. Shyfear begins to sniff around with interest as soon as they arrive.
As they come up to the sideo f the huge wrecked ship they find two hatches. Hector climbs up tot he airlock, and after a minute gets it open. The party follows. Hector hears a whisper in her head, "Jasmine is trying to kill you, you should kill her first." The inside of the walls are scored with scratch marks. Medea takes the lead and sees what looks like the remains of a human with a tentical thing coming out of the face plate. The tenticals start to move, and the party reacts quickly. Squidzol responds fastest, demolishing it with a crossbow dart.
Meanwhile Quin finds a different entrance Shyshadow fits through. She finds a small escape pod and four space suits. Also a drone that will help her if she feeds it energy things.
The rest of the party finds a machine with a dessicated body. They realize that it is a healing machine, and Ketorga decides to try it out on the condition that medea runs it. The machine powers up and her skin starts growing back.
(missed a bit)
Body with tubes coming out of it. The tubes made the body feed on it's own organs. As Ketorga examines it the tubes detatch and insert into her body. Leora steps forward to detach the tube just as Squidzoll releases a bolt, striking Leora instead.
As the team is reacting to the betrayal of one of their sort-of-own (Squidzol blamed the shot on Leora), a second shadow appears on Medea, Jasmine, and Quin (who is still in the cargo hold). It attacks with icy cold fingers. Leora uses her project light to blind it and Squidzol hits it with his crossbow. Medea also uses her crossbow, causing it to recoil. Quin cries out from the opposite side of the ship, and Squidzoll hears and starts running toward her.
The shadow attacks Ketorga--who was not able to dodge--and Jasmine, who did. (Missed some) Leora, who possesses a shard of the sun, sends a blast of light at the shadow causing it to recoil on itself and dissolve.
As Quin is hacking a shadow to death "FOR THE LOVE OF MY LIFE, KELTACK!" Zoll the Squid-face is running to her rescue and arrives just as the shadow dissolves, She leans on her great sword. "I think I have this handled." He says, "Wait--you were in love with my brother?!?" And then she turns to him and says, "And yeah, you look a lot like him."
The party (minus glaves) continues exploring up a ladder. They keep finding bodies in rooms. All died different ways. One with a plant, one a pink crystal, a partially melted face spider, a suction tube for organs. Cause of death is inconsistent.
Meanwhile Quin and Squidzoll are exploring lower down and they find the heart of the engine of the ship. Everything is dormant, as if it was suddenly turned off. Several of the surfaces are covered with pink crystals. As she examines it she hears a voice, "Zol wants to eat your brain, you should eat his first."
Quin sets her drone to fixing the console, then heads to the next room. She finds a fabricator that will make an item of her choosing. Gate keys, engine parts, swords, with several hours another drone. She sets it to work making a gate key.
Squidzoll finds another corpse up the ladder sitting in the control chair. The body is dessicated, in one hand is a silver orb. The other arm is silvery and the hand is choking the corpse.
Meanwhile the other party starts into the room with the killed-by-a-plant guy. There is a release of spores, but their suits protect them.
Meanwhile Squidzoll decides to find the rest of the party while leaving Quin to fix the console. A woman appears and seems to be inaudibly shouting--what have you done? What are you doing? You have to stop! You can't do this! She shifted into solidity and attacked Quin. Quin did not return the attack, trying to calm the woman. The woman revealed that the whole reason they were there was to stop mosqk. And something the party was doing was going to release him, but before she could explain she flickered and was snatched away.
The rest of the party finds Quin unconscious, and after some debate decide to rest while Hector works on the console and Squidzoll stands guard. Squidzoll hears a voice telling him that powering on the ship is the way to stop mosk. After 9 hours the key is finished. When the rest is over Quinn wakes up and immediately tells them to stop fixing the console.
******
Hector stops work at the warning, and as he does the console flickers on and he notices the ships log. Looking through it, the most recent one shows someone being killed with a mosk drone. Farther back they see another log telling about the crew picking up a mosk drone that had sent out a distress call.
Meanwhile Quin went downstairs to fetch the key, and returned a few minutes later with both the key and a spinal cord and human brain crystalized in the pink crystal. The party discusses what to do next, and then the pink crystal starts melting into the console. Hector and Medea frantically try to turn off the ship, but as they do so a mosk tentacle comes out of the console and attacks. Medea hits with her whistler. Jasmine's arms both do damage to mosk, but then her mosk arm tries to attack her. She is able to regain control. Hector starts to sing and shatters two more arms. Quin brings her electric staff down on the final tentacle and destroys it. Medea rushes to the door and unlocks it, while HEctor is grabbing a cypher out of his pocket. The party rushes out, Hector standing at the door and throwing his cypher at the control panel. The room is filled with acidc smoke and everything starts dripping down.
The party hurries to the cargo bay, and as they leave suddenly shadows appear--one, two, five, 20, 30. they wash over the party with chilly breath and melt into the walls of the ship. It starts to shudder, then explodes. The party turns and runs.
Body with tubes coming out of it. The tubes made the body feed on it's own organs. As Ketorga examines it the tubes detatch and insert into her body. Leora steps forward to detach the tube just as Squidzoll releases a bolt, striking Leora instead.
As the team is reacting to the betrayal of one of their sort-of-own (Squidzol blamed the shot on Leora), a second shadow appears on Medea, Jasmine, and Quin (who is still in the cargo hold). It attacks with icy cold fingers. Leora uses her project light to blind it and Squidzol hits it with his crossbow. Medea also uses her crossbow, causing it to recoil. Quin cries out from the opposite side of the ship, and Squidzoll hears and starts running toward her.
The shadow attacks Ketorga--who was not able to dodge--and Jasmine, who did. (Missed some) Leora, who possesses a shard of the sun, sends a blast of light at the shadow causing it to recoil on itself and dissolve.
As Quin is hacking a shadow to death "FOR THE LOVE OF MY LIFE, KELTACK!" Zoll the Squid-face is running to her rescue and arrives just as the shadow dissolves, She leans on her great sword. "I think I have this handled." He says, "Wait--you were in love with my brother?!?" And then she turns to him and says, "And yeah, you look a lot like him."
The party (minus glaves) continues exploring up a ladder. They keep finding bodies in rooms. All died different ways. One with a plant, one a pink crystal, a partially melted face spider, a suction tube for organs. Cause of death is inconsistent.
Meanwhile Quin and Squidzoll are exploring lower down and they find the heart of the engine of the ship. Everything is dormant, as if it was suddenly turned off. Several of the surfaces are covered with pink crystals. As she examines it she hears a voice, "Zol wants to eat your brain, you should eat his first."
Quin sets her drone to fixing the console, then heads to the next room. She finds a fabricator that will make an item of her choosing. Gate keys, engine parts, swords, with several hours another drone. She sets it to work making a gate key.
Squidzoll finds another corpse up the ladder sitting in the control chair. The body is dessicated, in one hand is a silver orb. The other arm is silvery and the hand is choking the corpse.
Meanwhile the other party starts into the room with the killed-by-a-plant guy. There is a release of spores, but their suits protect them.
Meanwhile Squidzoll decides to find the rest of the party while leaving Quin to fix the console. A woman appears and seems to be inaudibly shouting--what have you done? What are you doing? You have to stop! You can't do this! She shifted into solidity and attacked Quin. Quin did not return the attack, trying to calm the woman. The woman revealed that the whole reason they were there was to stop mosqk. And something the party was doing was going to release him, but before she could explain she flickered and was snatched away.
The rest of the party finds Quin unconscious, and after some debate decide to rest while Hector works on the console and Squidzoll stands guard. Squidzoll hears a voice telling him that powering on the ship is the way to stop mosk. After 9 hours the key is finished. When the rest is over Quinn wakes up and immediately tells them to stop fixing the console.
******
Hector stops work at the warning, and as he does the console flickers on and he notices the ships log. Looking through it, the most recent one shows someone being killed with a mosk drone. Farther back they see another log telling about the crew picking up a mosk drone that had sent out a distress call.
Meanwhile Quin went downstairs to fetch the key, and returned a few minutes later with both the key and a spinal cord and human brain crystalized in the pink crystal. The party discusses what to do next, and then the pink crystal starts melting into the console. Hector and Medea frantically try to turn off the ship, but as they do so a mosk tentacle comes out of the console and attacks. Medea hits with her whistler. Jasmine's arms both do damage to mosk, but then her mosk arm tries to attack her. She is able to regain control. Hector starts to sing and shatters two more arms. Quin brings her electric staff down on the final tentacle and destroys it. Medea rushes to the door and unlocks it, while HEctor is grabbing a cypher out of his pocket. The party rushes out, Hector standing at the door and throwing his cypher at the control panel. The room is filled with acidc smoke and everything starts dripping down.
The party hurries to the cargo bay, and as they leave suddenly shadows appear--one, two, five, 20, 30. they wash over the party with chilly breath and melt into the walls of the ship. It starts to shudder, then explodes. The party turns and runs.
QUOTES
Richard: Roll a D20.
Christiana: Should I be worried?
Grace: You should always be worried when Richard is the GM
Zol: "We took different paths, my brother and I. He became a constable--"
Jasmine: "And you became a dirty thief!"
Zol: "...And I became an assassin."
Medea: "Jasmine! Let him talk! Big difference between your version and his!"
Zol: "An /honorable/ assassin."
body has not been officially dissolved. And if it weren't for Richard stepping in, Jasmine would have cut off Keltacs arm to add to her collection.
Richard: "No. There are not cyphers /inside/ his body. You do not need to dissect him."
Zol: So do black teeth make me good at kissing?
Everyone: NO! YOU HAVE AN INABILITY AT KISSING.
Everyone: NO! YOU HAVE AN INABILITY AT KISSING.
Richard: It's true. You won't have to see his forehead ridge or black teeth if he wears the cuthulu mask
Zol: "Hey! I only kill people when I'm /paid/ to kill people. I don't wipe out entire cities."
And hector's weapon makes him sing to use it. He's shooting at the creepy shadows and singing "I see skys of blue.... And I think to myself, what a wonderful world."
Arthur: Yes--I can ask it a question and the topic is "you" whatever "You" I want it to be.
Richard: For example, "Jasmine likes arms."
Jasmine: What?? How did you know??
Richard: Well... you have a third arm. Holding a fourth arm as backup.
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