Session 004

  • Rusty reveals that we're the thirteenth group of people that Maximillian has brought here.
  • Her full name is Feathers of Rust.
  • Job details:
    • Planet not too far from here (relatively speaking).
    • Labeled as Candidate 72.
    • About five days each way.
    • Sits within the habitable zone of a star and is thriving remarkably well as a result.
    • Large amount of indigenous life on the surface (none intelligent from initial observations)
    • There are precursor ruins on the planet that contain communications magitech that Feathers of Rust wants.
  • Approximately 10% of the tellura are made into assistants by the Accord.
  • One of the tellura named Tyza is Rusty's assistant.
  • Rusty has built a pseudo-mesh here so Tyza doesn't die but it results in her having extremely limited connection.
  • There are 8 tellura and 4 assistants here, all defected from the Accord. They came to the LMC in hopes of finding a means to remove the chips from their assistants or at least to avoid killing them.
  • The local wildlife is apparently extremely aggressive. Rusty has prosthetic circuitry in her left arm bolstering it where a huge chunk must have been ripped away.
  • Feathers of Rust has a small torus symbol with a weave of wires running around it that point toward the center.
  • They instruct Isha to take off their comms band and then touch the torus; it enables some form of telepathy that can be innately understood.
  • Emmett recognizes that Feathers of Rust will do Anything for IA9 Tyza.
  • Feathers of Rust recognizes the name of the perdra that Isha is looking for; Tora Ydrekarlina.
  • She sends a copy of security footage that looks like Idra standing alongside a human, tense, while the human is yelling at someone behind the counter. She demands weapons or threatens renegotiation of terms of arrangement.
  • Ydre refers to the human as Cira, come on, give the guy a break.
  • Cira refers to Ydre as "Tora", which is evidently a badge of shame.
  • Ydre was Isha's college girlfriend and was one of the ones lucky enough to get off-planet.
  • Greater Zervides (nation)
  • Maximillian isn't getting paid a finder's fee; evidently Feathers of Rust is making some problems go away for him.
  • Evidently, he owes money to the wrong person in Port Kunja. He got conned into doing some work for the White Fleet, which pissed off the wrong people. Feathers of Rust claims that she has the ability to prove that he was tricked.
  • He also apparently has heard rumors of people getting possessed in the LMC.
  • C72 has an advanced AA grid that strikes like a bolt of lightning.
  • AA has about a 16km radius on the facility.
  • We rearm and head back to the Ragnarok.
  • Isha spends the time practicing the glamours from the manticore.
  • Noelle is able to cut the journey down to 4.5 days.
  • Noelle also decorates an augmented reality space for the ship.
  • Noelle convinces Ramiel to relax and suggests that she imagine what she would look like if she had a body of her own.
  • Lasani gushes about alt languages.
  • Isha scienced the shit out of it.
  • We decide to land outside of the radius and hoof it.
  • Isha reminds Noelle that she's an adrenaline junkie.
  • The planet is extremely green and lush; colossal trees and leaves.
  • The lightning begins. Noelle avoids the first bolt.
  • Isha eats lightning.
  • It still hits the ship hard and hurts Ramiel bad. We crash. There's nothing I can't pilot... except that.
  • Isha is bruised, battered, and burnt out.
  • Lasani is knocked unconscious in the descend.
  • Emmett takes Lasani to the med bay and she recovers.
  • Ramiel doesn't respond to Noelle.
  • Isha is nowhere to be seen. No signal from her life support.
  • A colossal chitinous creature pushes its head through the underbrush; solidly 15' tall and heavily armored. It has a mouth with a jaw and multiple rows of teeth. It has pincers and a tail with a spiked club on it. Looks like a stegosaurus bred with a beetle than threw on the maw of a plesiosaur.
  • Isha shoots it to draw attention.
  • Emmett is going to draw it's attention so Noelle can get in the fighter.

Date

November 1, 2021