FuriousAngle fucked around with this message at 12:24 on Jul 5, 2017

Azhais fucked around with this message at 17:00 on Jul 5, 2017

Session XP: 15

Stalker          [ -5]
Disorient        [-10]

Azhais fucked around with this message at 02:33 on Jul 12, 2017

• Got acquainted with your new ship, the Wayfarer-class medium freighter Sunrise. She's an ugly chode of a ship, but she's solid. The only quirk she has is that she has substandard weapons mounts (all shipboard weapons are Inferior and have 1 Threat when used).
  
• After getting to know your ship a bit and getting a little bit of breaking-in roleplay, the party made its way to the near-dead planet of Thanium.
  
• Surveys with passive and active scanners from above detected the presence of some buildings constructed in the mountains just east of the abandoned megalopolis of Thanium Prime. Unfortunately the crew was unable to find a proper area to land their much larger ship.
  
• The crew set the Sunrise down in the city's ruined spaceport and did a little recon. There was another ship docked at the starport, but there was no sign of life anywhere (both on sensors and through the Force).
  
• Gunnis, Alis, Gank, Hrakk, and Imp found a couple of newer droids guarding a modern computer mainframe room amidst the quiet and dead spaceport. The droids were dealt with via Gunnis's commanding presence.
  
• Investigation into the mainframe (and the surrounding garbage cans) led to the crew discovering a timetable that appeared to be slaved to the droid brain aboard a ship. The timetable seemed to be controlling the comings and goings of a ship to and from the spaceport. After an initial glitch that sent the timetable haywire, Alis was able to restore it to its original state, as well as erase any trace of having sliced into the mainframe in the first place. The crew also discovered that this little operation seems to have started around 3 weeks ago.
  
• Zep stayed behind on the ship to hold down the fort and keep watch. During this time he experimented with dabbling into the force, and was met with a powerful vision giving him a very vague notion of the lifelessness of the city, and an ominous feeling of void was embodied as a massive citadel to the east. As he came out of his vision, a starship took off from the spaceport, and he was able to sort-of identify it as a Corellian light freighter of some type. It moved slowly toward the east.
  
• Hrakk and Alis fumbled with a chest inside the mainframe room and failed to get it open with both cunning brutality and brutal cunning. In the end, Gunnis took a laser torch to the drat thing before the party screenwiped back to the ship. Inside, the group found the following: 5 unused ration packs, 2 canteens filled with water, a collapsible tent, climbing gear, and two glowrods.
  
• The party regrouped at the ship to swap information, then made their way to the docking bay that the other ship departed from. There, they found only some cargo containers (most empty, some with foodstuffs in -- most were local foodstuffs that were withered and somewhat weak-looking, but there was some stuff from offworld).
  

Session 1 XP Gain                    [+10]
Skulduggery (Skill)                  [ -5]
Codebreaker (Slicer)                 [ -5]
Session 2 XP Gain                    [+10]
Toughened (Emergent)                 [-10]
Session 3 XP Gain                    [+10]
Indistinguishable (Emergent)         [ -5]
Session 4 XP Gain                    [+15]
Defensive Slicing (Slicer)           [-10]
Sleight of Mind (Emergent)           [-10]
Session 5 XP Gain                    [+15]
Grit (Emergent)                      [-15]

Killbot fucked around with this message at 19:56 on Jul 9, 2017

Session 5 XP Gain		+15xp
Talent- Touch of Fate	 	-15xp
Unspent				0xp

FuriousAngle fucked around with this message at 02:09 on Jul 10, 2017

Session 1 XP Gain                     [+10]
Coercion 2 (Skill)                   [-10]
Session 2 XP Gain                     [+10]
Session 3 XP Gain                     [+10]
Session 4 XP Gain                     [+15]
Session 5 XP Gain                     [+15]
Agitator Specialization               [-30]
Deception 1 (Skill)                    [-5]
Cool 1 (Skill)                        [-10]
Streetwise 1 (Skill)                  [-5]
Session 6 XP Gain                     [+15]
Streetwise 2 (Skill)                   [-10]
Knowledge (Underground)(Skill)        [-5]

0XP Remaining
Duty 10

tokenbrownguy fucked around with this message at 19:16 on Jul 16, 2017

Session 6 Gain:			[+15xp]
1 Rank in Mechanics (Skill):	[- 5xp]
Banked XP:			[+10xp]

FuriousAngle fucked around with this message at 22:16 on Jul 16, 2017

Session 1 XP Gain                          [+10]
Perception 1 (Skill)                       [-5]
Rapid Reaction Talent (Commodore)          [-5]
Session 2 XP Gain                          [+10]
Command Talent (Commodore)                 [-5]
Session 3 XP Gain                          [+10]
Discipline 1 (Skill)                       [-5]
Leadership 2 (Skill)                       [-10]
Session 4 XP Gain                          [+15]
Known Schematic Talent (Commodore)         [-10]
Session 5 XP Gain                          [+15]
Session 6 XP Gain		           [+15]
Commander - Tactician Specialization       [-30]
Commanding Presence Talent (Tactician)     [-5]

Darius099 fucked around with this message at 19:56 on Jul 16, 2017

Session 1 XP Gain                    [+10]
Skulduggery (Skill)                  [ -5]
Codebreaker (Slicer)                 [ -5]
Session 2 XP Gain                    [+10]
Toughened (Emergent)                 [-10]
Session 3 XP Gain                    [+10]
Indistinguishable (Emergent)         [ -5]
Session 4 XP Gain                    [+15]
Defensive Slicing (Slicer)           [-10]
Sleight of Mind (Emergent)           [-10]
Session 5 XP Gain                    [+15]
Grit (Emergent)                      [-15]
Session 6 XP Gain                    [+15]
Computers 3 (Skill)                  [-15]

Killbot fucked around with this message at 00:26 on Jul 25, 2017

• Split up into a couple different groups to explore the area immediately surrounding the starport of Thanium Prime (the big-rear end megalopolis on the planet Thanium).
  
• Zep, Alis, and Dem went scrounging in the starport's parking garage (you guys have a thing for parking garages) to try to find some workable technology. After checking out a bunch of rusted old metal heaps thousands of years old, you found one that looked like it might be servicable with a little elbow grease. Dem found some replacement parts from another wrecked car, and technobabbled her way into making it seem like she knew that those parts were totally workable, mmhmm.
  
• Hrakk and Gank went off to scout out the central park area, just a few blocks from the starport in the city's government district. They checked out the lobby area of the planet's treasury building, which had several makeshift barricades erected within it relatively recently. Behind one of the barricades they found the still-fresh bodies of six people, wearing corporate uniforms and carrying corporate ID's. Their light blaster pistols were scattered about, all with dead power packs. The duo pocketed the corporate ID cards, and Gank squirrelled away the light blaster pistols for later use.
  
• Leaving the treasury and going into the park, Hrakk and Gank found a pavilion/gazebo thing at the center, with a subway station alongside it. A long streak of dried blood was seen on the stairs leading into the station, continuing through it until reaching the platform. The blood streak seemed to have boarded one of the city's apparently-still-active subway trains at some point -- one of which screeched by as Hrakk and Gank investigated the station. The train was completely empty.
  
• Gunnis turned in a different direction out of the starport and found a massive crashed freighter off to one side. The freighter was capsized, but structurally stable. He was able to ascertain that it originated during the time of the Sith Wars. Further exploration of the ship was hindered when Gunnis opened the doors that lead to engineering, resulting in a radiation breach. He was able to make it out only lightly singed, and before quitting the ship, he left behind some makeshift proximity sensors to alert him if anyone entered. The lifespan of these sensors is limited.
  
• Gunnis was called back to the parking garage and was able to bring the old car relic back to life.
  
• The automated light freighter (a YT-2000) returned to its landing bay right on schedule, and the party was there to wait for it. The boarding ramp extended, but nothing came out. Exploration of the ship revealed it to be completely empty, with the ship's computer jury-rigged directly into the navigation console. You loaded the repaired speeder into the ship's cargo bay, and let the automated flight start off.
  
• The ship's flight path took you eastward, to where the edge of the city meets up with the mountain chain's sheer face. The ship lead you into a darkened landing bay, where you noticed a few other modern ships docked (some TIE Shuttles, a couple generic no-name ship types). Ship's sensors registered no signs of life, but they were also unable to penetrate very far into the mountain, due to its mineral composition.
  
• Upon exiting the ship, you saw in one corner of the docking bay signs of life: a group of humanoids huddled around a campfire, beside a makeshift encampment. Zep approached diplomatically, and the de facto leader of the humanoid group approached as well, after some hushed conversation with his buddies in a weird creole of Basic. After Zep makes his peaceful intentions clear, the other man trembles and falls to his knees sobbing, gasping out his thanks that rescue is finally here.
  

Session 1 XP Gain                          [+10]
Perception 1 (Skill)                       [-5]
Rapid Reaction Talent (Commodore)          [-5]
Session 2 XP Gain                          [+10]
Command Talent (Commodore)                 [-5]
Session 3 XP Gain                          [+10]
Discipline 1 (Skill)                       [-5]
Leadership 2 (Skill)                       [-10]
Session 4 XP Gain                          [+15]
Known Schematic Talent (Commodore)         [-10]
Session 5 XP Gain                          [+15]
Session 6 XP Gain		           [+15]
Commander - Tactician Specialization       [-30]
Commanding Presence Talent (Tactician)     [-5]
Confidence Talent (Tactician)              [-10]
Ranged [Heavy] 1 (Skill)                   [-5]

Darius099 fucked around with this message at 21:16 on Aug 6, 2017

• 1. Gunnis' room.
  
• Sparsely furnished with no decorations, the room has dark blue carpet that looks fairly old, the same standard full size bed that all rooms on the ship seem to have. A large durasteel cabinet is against one wall at the foot of the bed, empty but for a few pieces of clothing. A battered brown cloth upholstered armchair is in the other corner, patched multiple times over probably long years of service.
  

• 2. Gunnis' office.
  
• A pair of simple metal framed chairs sit in front of a round cornered desk and an accompanying desk chair behind it, a single datapad sitting on it, and a terminal which is inactive and dark. Along the wall are two tall chests of drawers, very similar to the ones in most of the rest of the cabin rooms, but filled with data files or empty for future use.
  

• 3. Barracks room.
  
• Three columns of bunk beds, small but functional and stacked three high, dominate most of the room. There is also a bank of lockers, running close to the ceiling in a 3x3 formation. The room is disused and has a light layer of dust over everything.
  

• 4. Conference room.
  
• A long and heavy older model holotable dominates the room, with six chairs around the table, and one at the head with a small terminal for controlling the holotable.
  

• 5. Lounge
  
• A low table sits in one corner, with a pair of short couches and a single chair off to the side. A small shelf sits against the far wall. The opposite corner has a normal size table, surrounded by six battered chairs.
  

• 6. Gunnis' Workshop
  
• A pair of massive dark red crates, empty and nearly eight foot square line one wall, with a tall durasteel cabinet across the opening next to a smaller gray crate. A long workbench is up against the right wall, covered in hand tools and small bits of electronics and mechanical parts. The far wall has a larger and heavier workbench with a pair of portable power cells and a large fabrication/machining matrix dominating the right side of the table. Most of the storage is empty, though the empty floor is interrupted by a red upholstered rolling seat.
  

• 7. Primary Enclosed Cargo Hold
  
• A large open space, enclosed behind the tall cargo doors, with a few lingering crates (some full of zip disks).
  

• 8. Bridge
  
• A semi-circle, the curved wall-cum-ceiling being covered in cabling, wiring, and exposed panels other than the broad curving viewports. A variety of stations take up the rest of the space, including a raised platform in the center for a commander, the forward central station for a pilot, several terminals for sensors operations and access to the ships computers, and a gunnery station. A simple holotable for visualization, docking visualization, and advanced system information is also available, a heavy dark hood coming down from the ceiling to make the table operate correctly.The deck is covered in textured synthrubber for grip when walking, and occasionally a cable under a synthrubber runner snakes across it, part of old temporary repairs that were never corrected.
  

• 9. Zep's room.
  
• Zep's room is still spartan. Along with his well-used Bowcaster-flex there is a modest bunk which is neatly made and a small locker that he keeps his clothing and any gear he's not using. There is also a small workstation that consists of a desk, a stool, and several boxes containing scrap metal and circuitry. The chassis of a FitBot 3.0 sits, halfway completed, on the workbench, along with a few basic tools.
  
  On one of the walls, the only form of decoration is a lone poster of Zep's favorite Progressive Jizz band- Bachman Turner Hyperdrive.
  

• 10. An empty room.
  
• This room contains the bare necessities of a cabin room and a bit of dust.
  

• 11. An empty room.
  
• This room contains the bare necessities of a cabin room and a bit of dust.
  

• 12. The Refresher
  
• Seriously I am not going to describe space toilets to you.
  

• 13. Airlock/Docking Port
  

• 14. Medbay
  
• Several medical beds, including a surgical bed, are the bulk of the floorspace in this room. The deck is covered with some kind of new-ish sterile tiling. A cabinet is half full with the bare minimum of medical supplies, and two tanks clearly intended for bacta are stood in one corner, drained and empty for the time being.
  

• 15.
  
• Wouldn't you like to know
  

• 16. Engineering Bay/Engineroom
  

• 17. Alis' room
  
• This spacious room has a broad view with three tall viewports. A large protruding bulkhead has had a small ladder welded onto the side, and a standard full bed, seemingly taken from storage, has been secured to the top, about eight feet up into the fourteen foot tall room. On the floor in front of the ladder is a rare hand woven Alderaanean rug, a dense maze of colors and soft nerf fibers. Across from the door and against the base of the viewports is a large and solid workbench with a few pieces of electronics and a laser soldering iron sitting as if work was just interrupted. To the other side of the door is a large terminal and accompanying desk chair, looking for all the world like a generic terminal begging to be customized by its owner.
  

• 18. Dem's room
  
• A standard full bed up against the wall dominates the room, with a tall chest of drawers up against the wall next to the door. The floor space is empty. Standing out a bit more from other cabin rooms, this one seems to be cleaned with immaculate military precision.
  

• 19. Gank's room.
  
• A standard full bed up against the wall is most of the room, with a tall chest of drawers up against the wall next to the door. Against the other wall is a small metal stand supporting an aquarium and the associated biofilter. Inside the aquarium, so far devoid of decoration, a single solitary goldie with bright blue scales floating around the tank in lazy circles.
  

• 20. Hrakk's room.
  
• A standard full bed up against the wall dominates the room, with a tall chest of drawers up against the wall next to the door. The top of the chest of drawers has a small unusual shrub of foilage in a pot, growing from a small clipping. The floor already seems to have a few pieces of clothing and a discarded power pack lying about.
  

Darius099 fucked around with this message at 00:01 on Sep 18, 2018

• Spoke for the first time with the de facto "leader" of the slaves, a gaunt man in a ruined corporate jumpsuit. His spirits were broken, but reassurance from the crew gave him home (and a comlink). He gave you a rough history of the base: the corporations tasked with building the base pulled out suddenly, but the Overseer and a skeleton crew volunteered to stay behind to continue the work. The Overseer set up the automated food freighter to keep the base supplied with food provided by agreement with the local farmers. Shortly thereafter, he disappeared, and the Slavers showed up to fill the power vacuum.
  
• The remaining workers, along with some farmers that had been captured since then, were enslaved by an unknown pair of slavers and their lackeys. They are tasked with continuing excavations into the mountain, to expand this base for whatever purpose the slavers seem to have in mind. The leader doesn't know what they have planned or why they must dig away.
  
• A group of slavers had just left the base on one of their regular assignments not too long before the party arrived. The leader of the slaves doesn't know exactly how many slavers there are in total, but he surmises somewhere between 1 and 2 dozen. The slaves outnumber the slavers, roughly twice their number, and at any given time there are some working in the mines under some kind of supervision.
  
• The slaves all wear painful-looking makeshift implants in their sternum, preventing them from leaving the premises of the base. One foot outside and boom.
  
• Resolved to put right what once went wrong, the team leaves the slaves and makes their way for the base's Command & Control center located farther up the mountain, where the slavers had apparently been camping out. The blast door leading into the C&C center grinds open slowly, ruining any element of surprise you may have had, and a firefight with some very surprised-but-determined group of slavers ensues. An early attempt by Dem at coercing the slavers into throwing down their guns fails. Hrakk and Zep take the lion's share of the damage from the motley group of pirates, but the party mercilessly guns down the slavers, including their leader (a woman wielding a stun pistol). Total loot from the fight: 4 blaster pistols, 4 truncheons, 1 battered stun pistol, and 4 ration packs. Searching the area of the C&C (including the quarters of some of the other slavers) yields an additional 10 ration packs, a good start at rehabilitating the malnourished slaves.
  
• You killed 7 in the room, and based on feedback from the slave leader, there are maybe another 17 left (assuming his guess of 2 dozen was accurate).
  
• Alis manages to slice into the base's computer system and download logs to help clarify the history of the base: a consortium of Imperial-aligned corporations began excavating the base in a subcontracting deal with the Empire. The base, as yet unnamed in the logs, was meant to be a low-level production facility for small spacecraft, utilizing raw minerals from within Thanium's massive mountain ranges for construction of TIE Shuttles, and possibly other designs. For one reason or another, the corporate higher-ups decided to abandon the project (lack of resources in the mines? political issues? loss of profit?). The local Overseer for the construction, a human male who seems to have been well-liked by his employees judging by feedback from the slave leader, managed to pull some strings with the corporations and secure a deal: he would retain a skeleton crew on-base and would attempt to finish the project autonomously. He seemed to believe in the usefulness of the project and wanted to see it out. The corporate leaders reluctantly agreed, and the vast majority of the construction crews pulled out, leaving the Overseer behind with a handful of his most loyal workers. Not long after, the project ran into supply issues, and the Overseer arranged a deal for acquiring food from the native farmers on Thanium, and set up an automated freighter run to bring those supplies to the base. Shortly after this, the Overseer disappeared under unknown circumstances, and was quickly replaced by the group of slavers.
  
• Alis also manages to get a better picture of the condition of the base. External proximity sensors are online, but the base seems to have a serious problem with its reactor, as power fluctuates wildly throughout. The base's comm tower is located farther up the mountain summit and is only controlled remotely from the C&C area -- it seems functional, but there is no way to deactivate it from here.
  
• Zep really wants to throw bodies out the window, but gets firm resistance to the idea from the rest of the party.
  
• The group splits up, with Hrakk and Gank investigating the floor immediately below the C&C center. They find an area that is mostly empty and still under-construction, though it seems some slavers decided to claim some rooms for themselves. Gank counts 18 sleeping bags scattered throughout various rooms on the floor.
  
• Meanwhile, the rest of the group heads down the turbolift to meet with the slaves again. The leader is extremely relieved to see the group again, and likewise has his spirits boosted when you tell him of your deeds above. Gunnis pulls the leader aside and gives him The Talk, and convinces the slave leader and his people to stay on and work for the Alliance. The leader is initially skeptical, but doesn't seem to harbor any ideological loyalty to the Empire. He agrees, on the condition that employment contracts for himself and his workers are negotiated within the next 2-3 months. Gunnis also offers safe transport for those who don't wish to say, on the caveat that the farmers be told that this base will be destroyed rather than reclaimed.
  

Session 1 XP Gain                          [+10]
Perception 1 (Skill)                       [-5]
Rapid Reaction Talent (Commodore)          [-5]
Session 2 XP Gain                          [+10]
Command Talent (Commodore)                 [-5]
Session 3 XP Gain                          [+10]
Discipline 1 (Skill)                       [-5]
Leadership 2 (Skill)                       [-10]
Session 4 XP Gain                          [+15]
Known Schematic Talent (Commodore)         [-10]
Session 5 XP Gain                          [+15]
Session 6 XP Gain		           [+15]
Commander - Tactician Specialization       [-30]
Commanding Presence Talent (Tactician)     [-5]
Confidence Talent (Tactician)              [-10]
Ranged [Heavy] 1 (Skill)                   [-5]
Session 7 XP Gain                          [+15]
Toughened Talent (Tactician)               [-15]

Darius099 fucked around with this message at 23:09 on Aug 6, 2017

• Hrakk and Gank started things off by continuing to scout out some of the other floors of the mysterious mountain base. They discovered the base's cafeteria, which was occupied by three drunken and somewhat raucous slavers. A fight ensued that saw Hrakk killing one of the slavers, while a torrent of stun blaster fire from Gank took two of the slavers out of the action. The duo hogtied them and continued their exploration. They found the base's reactor control room, but the blast door leading to it was covered in some kind of carrion, and they noped out for a bit.
  
• Zep and Dem led a group of the slaves up to the relative safety of the now-cleared-out cafeteria. There, they interrogated the stunned and hungover slavers in a pretty convincing Good Cop/Bad Cop routine. They were able to get some useful information out of the slavers: 1.) there are 24 slavers in the group, including ones that you had killed up until now. 2.) the group of slavers is led by a husband-and-wife duo, Dreks and Taza. 3.) Taza was the leader of the group up in the control room, until you all killed her. 4.) A small group of slavers recently went out on some kind of mission outside the base. The rest of them are down below in the excavation, accessible via the base's ground floor. 5.) this particular duo are named Bob and Jim, and have the callsigns "Thunder" and "Lightning" respectively. All of the slavers have kickass callsigns, including the leaders of the whole group, who go by Big Daddy and Sweet Mama. 6.) You took their commlinks.
  
• Alis continued working on decrypting the hard-copies of the base's communications between the previous Overseer and the Board of Directors of the consortium responsible for building the base. The translation isn't finished, but she was able to determine that there were a string of killings (or murders?) coupled with "profit shortfalls" that ultimately convinced the Board to abandon the project. The Overseer seems to have protested against this decision, and ultimately remained on-base with a skeleton crew to continue the project.
  
• Gunnis and Hrakk headed back up to the reactor control room in an attempt to sort out the base's power issues. Upon opening the door to the chamber, they saw that the reactor, floor, and bits of the ceiling were coated with some kind of biomass, the same carrion that seemed to be encrusted to the hallway outside the blast door. Hrakk abruptly threw a fist-sized rock at what appeared to be a nest of some kind on the ceiling, and three totally unidentified creatures sprang forth and attacked them. A row of triumphs-without-success later saw the mynocks defeated, just as one of them was attempting to sucker-munch its way through Hrakk's radiation suit. Gunnis was then able to restore nominal power levels to the base, but noticed that there was some kind of power feed leading down into the excavation below. He rigged up his datapad and comlink to the reactor controls, enabling him to cut power to the base remotely -- or so he thinks.
  
• As Gank was standing guard at the turbolift entrance (and while over comms with the party discussing the various happenings), he heard an echo of blaster fire issue from the tunnels leading downward into the mines. The group convened hastily, with Zep leaving the leader of the slaves responsible for protecting the group in the cafeteria and "keeping an eye on" the two stunned slavers. Down in the mines, Hrakk charged headlong into a huge chamber occupied by 8 slavers and 8 slaves, grappling one to the floor and starting a melee. A hail of blaster fire (some more precise than others) and a minor slave insurrection saw the enemy defeated and the slaves retreating to the cafeteria, some leaving behind their badass-looking vibropickaxes (statblock to come later).
  
• As we closed out, you noticed that the slaves were attempting to widen a passage, beyond which lay a perfectly smoothened, sculpted hallway leading deeper into the depths. The walls were carved out of the rock directly, and intricate patterns and script were engraved into it. Zep was unable to identify the script, but thought that it was something he should recognize...
  

Session 1 XP Gain                          [+10]
Perception 1 (Skill)                       [-5]
Rapid Reaction Talent (Commodore)          [-5]
Session 2 XP Gain                          [+10]
Command Talent (Commodore)                 [-5]
Session 3 XP Gain                          [+10]
Discipline 1 (Skill)                       [-5]
Leadership 2 (Skill)                       [-10]
Session 4 XP Gain                          [+15]
Known Schematic Talent (Commodore)         [-10]
Session 5 XP Gain                          [+15]
Session 6 XP Gain		           [+15]
Commander - Tactician Specialization       [-30]
Commanding Presence Talent (Tactician)     [-5]
Confidence Talent (Tactician)              [-10]
Ranged [Heavy] 1 (Skill)                   [-5]
Session 7 XP Gain                          [+15]
Toughened Talent (Tactician)               [-15]
Session 8 XP Gain                          [+15]
Session 9 XP Gain                          [+15]
Commanding Presence Talent (Tactician)     [-20]
Session 10 XP Gain                         [+15]
Mission 2 XP Bonus                         [+5]
Field Commander Talent (Tactician)         [-20]

Darius099 fucked around with this message at 19:44 on Aug 27, 2017

• Ventured into the heart of darkness sarlacc flatulence chamber mysterious underground structure that you uncovered after freeing the miners. Inside, you found some stuff, alright!
  
• First, you found a library/reading room, a large domed room carved into the rock itself. Nearly all of the books were destroyed, either in fire or via thousands of years of decomposition. Zep gingerly (or, not so gingerly) tried to rifle through a few, but they crumbled to dust in his hands / on his protuding belly. Alis took some archival photographs of the books, as well as a large ornate symbol carved into the roof of the reading room - a group of circles within circles.
  
• Scouting ahead, Gank and Hrakk encountered a fork in the road, and took the middle path first. They passed through some kind of weird time anomaly, where the passage of time (and Hrakk's upbeat whistling) seemed to slow to a crawl from their own perspective, though according to the rest of the party, there were only gone a few minutes. The effect increased as they approached a massive stone door at the end of the hallway, adorned with clear gemstones. Hrakk pocketed one of the gemstones after prying it from the door, and the two of them moved back to report their findings to the party before checking the other forks.
  
• Checking the other forks, Hrakk/Gank (and later joined by Dem) discover the left fork leading to a sleeping chamber for around ~10 people. Sparsely-appointed, the only items of any note were ancient burlap robes made brittle by time, and a leatherbound tome, in better condition than those in the library, hidden under one of the robes in a cubby-hole. They then found a dining area with the remains of a millenia-old liquor still, as well as two items that seemed highly out-of-place: a modern datapad, still active and containing a hand-scribbled map of the mysterious underground structure, and a crumpled up Sienar uniform.
  
• While those two scouted out, Zep checked out the door at the end of the middle hallway. He experienced none of the weird time phenomenon, and determined that his physical touch on the gems embedded in the door seemed to activate them. With every gem he touched, they began glowing with a bright white light. He went back to join the main group, and Alis embarked on her own little expedition to the door, in order to take some photos of it for Alliance records.
  
• While out the door, Alis reached out and touched the centermost gem on the door, the only one no longer lit. The gem responded by immediately glowing brighter than the rest, and the door slowly creaked open. The rest of the party rushed in, after a garbled commlink message from Alis, to see the room beyond.
  
• The massive room beyond was a completely empty, darkened rotunda -- empty save for a mysterious silhouette in the middle, standing beside a stone pedestal.
  
• tl;dr the man is Lothor Mallek, the former Overseer of the unnamed mountain base. He seemed to have aged decades in a relatively short period of time, and was gaunt and emaciated, wearing only one of the ancient burlap robes and hobbling along on a cane. He fiddled nervously with an object in his pocket (totally not a fidget spinner).
  
• Even more tl;dr, Lothor Mallek has pretty clearly lost his mind just a little bit. He chews on the scenery for a bit, rambling on at the party about things that have been happening in his crazy little world. To sum up the version of events that he told you: he discovered the structure during the construction of the base, and came down alone to "study it". He discovered that, thousands of years ago, it apparently housed a Force-using sect that believed that good and evil were not inherent to the Force, and exist only in the hearts of sentients. The Force, in their view, is merely a tool -- at least, according to Lothor. His version of events may or may not be reliable based on his obvious lunacy at spending so much time alone in the dark with no food. Over his time studying what few texts remained of this mysterious Order, he began to develop his own Force sensitivity, and started seeing the workers in the base as "his people"... eventually extending this to everyone on the entire planet. He sounds pretty tyrannical.
  
• After spending several minutes rudely ignoring the non-Force sensitives in the party (concentrating only on Zep and Alis), a heated exchange occurs between Gunnis and Lothor, resulting in Gunnis losing a bit of his cool and shooting at the man out of spite. The shot misses, but a melee ensues, with Lothor Mallek immediately drawing the mysterious fidget object from his pocket: an ancient lightsaber, its blade brilliant silver with a tinge of red near the hilt. Two spiders, giant and grotesque and under Lothor Mallek's control, emerge from the darkened space above the only exit, and immediately began laying into intense combat with Hrakk.
  
• In an intense combat encounter, Gunnis managed to disarm Lothor of his lightsaber while Zep deftly and supernaturally dodged Lothor's attack with unexplained grace and speed. Dem kicked the lightsaber away, to be picked up by Alis. After sustaining some hits, Lothor ultimately falls to a stun bolt from Zep's blaster pistol, falling over unconscious.
  
• Hrakk's melee with the spiders is even more intense, the brave Trandoshan warrior nearly bested by the two gigantic beasts (down to 1 wound iirc?). His hunting prowess prevailed however, as he single-handedly slayed the fell beasts with his new vibro pickaxe was saved by blaster fire from his teammates.
  
• As the adrenaline subsides from the encounter, Alis grasps the lightsaber she picked up -- and has a disturbing and intense vision of Lothor Mallek, seemingly younger but in reality not so, discovering the underground temple and the pedestal at the center of the room. In a time-lapse scene, Alis watched as Lothor spent countless days, weeks, months standing before the pedestal, trying in vain to replicate some sort of ritual from an ancient book. In the vision, Lothor ultimately succumbs to frustration and anger and attempts to destroy the pedestal using the lightsaber he found somewhere in the temple (apparently), but the otherwise humble stone pedestal deflects every blow without but a scratch or scuff.
  

• Duty will be tracked individually, and I'll be putting that in a later post in the thread this week. No more set Duty for everyone each session!
  
• +15xp for the session
  
• Zep got +1 Morality for trying to talk Lothor down by explaining the truth of the Light and Dark side and the immorality of slavery.
  
• If Zep and Alis want to roleplay out some Forcey Jedi-ish stuff in the thread between sessions, I'll give them each +1 Morality as a bonus.
  
• I'll also post a "complete" inventory of the base sometime this week, giving you all of the info that you know about so far re: its stocks and equipment.
  
• You all are now CR 2, so start thinking about what kind of duty rewards you would like once this "mission" ends and you get in contact with the Alliance again. You'll also get promotions at that point, refer to Page 393 of the AoR core rulebook for that, or you can use http://cmelliso.wikidot.com/rebelallianceranksweg as inspiration for a similar but slightly different rank if you want, just run it by me. The range of CR 2 to CR 4 reflects the higher levels of non-commissioned officer, so Sergeant to Master Sergeant for the Army, Petty Officer/Chief Petty Officer for the Navy, etc.
  
• Check your spent XP so far -- everyone should have earned 120 XP as of today, total for the whole campaign!
  

Drone fucked around with this message at 20:43 on Aug 20, 2017

Darius099 fucked around with this message at 01:58 on Aug 21, 2017