RB 5-12: Into the Invictus

Mission Report

Wed, Jan 24, 2018 ((May 3, 2020))
Party: Lyndi Fletcher (Aslene), Jane Irwin (Cael), Proud Flame (Aunne), Shiro (DragoN), Sylvi (Daewendriel), Kromrak (Sielic), Isabelica (Basil), , Farida (Kitsunewill)

The team makes final preparations for the Invictus op. Max introduces Lyndi to the idea of a ship's song, and a way to "listen" to it. The Tardigrade enters the crystal sphere of Daysahren, after clearing the quarantine perimeter. The Weave-space around the planet remains warped. The Invictus is still in orbit but getting closer to the planet. The team enters the derelict and moves through a security checkpoint. In main engineering, they discover elementals who attack them.

In Flight

• Bron and Kromrak play Edgewar

• When the League of the Rusted Crown captured the Glory of Kefnet, all the spellcasters were killed in the battle
• So while barge has a spelljammer helm, the refugees don't have anyone who can use it
• One of Talia's riders, Keri, is a cleric and can use the helm
• Rictus has spell slots so he can use the helm in a pinch
• Lyndi prefers Keri to step in first, if needed

• Max: while analyzing of the survey team's report on the Invictus, came across an interesting detail
• In the T'Aramont Navy, every living ship has a song
• The Tardigrade has a song
• In magitec terms, a ship's song is a mix of the sounds and other vibrations of its systems and subsystems, from the hum of the engines to the fluid flowing through its distribution manifolds
• I have the Invictus' song
• I think Lyndi can use her psychometry to tap into the song, if she wears an amplifier, a kind of magitec hearing aid
• Max gives Lyndi the prototype
• Lyndi tries it with the Tardigrade

• Talia sends Isalia to stay on Bron during the op

• Final gear check
• Suits with emergency jetpacks
• Standard kit
• Toolkits based on tactical roles
• Food & water: everyone has min 7 days, including Phobos
• Lyndi distributes Ghost Sight Ointment: everyone has
• Everyone has 2 healing potions, anti-venom kit, vial of holy water
• Gatriel is carrying 7 days of food and water

• Jane gives Gatriel a Dol'modeen pamphlet

Day'sahren

• Approaching the crystal sphere
• Quarantine spirits (gargantuan and unknowable; rumors are some are the souls of dead T'Aramont emperors, generals, and paladins), probes, and battle drones

• Weave-space around Day'sahren is warped
• Magic may behave unreliably
• Jane hears the ocean

• Invictus' orbit has decayed: it's passing from the thermosphere into the mesophere (Atmosphere Layers)
• Surrounded by clouds; that's odd
• Invictus in Mist
• Habitation rings are motionless

Into the Derelict

• Flight deck: mix of fighters and habitat modules
• Broken loader robots (?), actually exoskeletons, runes
• Sylvi and Kromrak recognize the runes as Undercommon
• Ghost Sight ointment applied

• When Proud steps onto the Invictus, his jacket glows with warmth

• The team enters throw a docking bay near main engineering
• Lyndi sends Bron back to examine an exoskeleton
• Lyndi uses her psychometry to listen for the ship's song
• The Invictus is incredibly huge, tired, seems to try to hide the Raptors from another's awareness

• The team moves down a corridor, finds the security checkpoint for main engineering
• Proud is checking for traps
• Sylvi easily bypasses the relatively-primitive security
• The team investigates the security checkpoint
• Belica and Shiro find binders with details on the construction of the main reactor and connected systems
• Team sends Phobos to deliver binders to Isalia on Bron

Main Engineering

• Main reactor is a tunable elemental vortex
• Subtle signs of damage melted by fire elementals
• Some atmosphere inside
• The Invictus uses a series of system nodes, with a network of spirit messengers between them.
• That network is mostly down, because the spirits have left.

• Sylvi is spotted by a blistercoil weird
• It and other elementals attack