RB 5-8: Personnel Matters & Planning to Seize the Barge

Mission Report

Fri, Jan 19, 2018 ((Apr 5, 2020))
Party: Lyndi Fletcher (Aslene), Jane Irwin (Cael), Proud Flame (Aunne), Shiro (DragoN), Sylvi (Daewendriel), Kromrak (Sielic), Bella (Basil)
Leaving: Haelra Vayn (Basil)

Haelra announces her decision to leave the team, to parent and help build the collegium. Gatriel explains that without a god to serve, she will perish. Ordin tells some of his story, including naming an original disseminator of adintech: Gerzil the Pernicious, a devil who serves Mephistopheles. Lyndi has a conversation with Naluni Pogray. Clell and Ougyl brief the team on an op: attacking a League armada to free slaves and seize lazotep. The team plans. The ambush starts.

Weekly d20s Notes

• Proud finds a Sensation dealer (Cynthis Rucker) and a Sensate tout (Denris Ramsey)
• Lyndi meets Gakkil Runemail, a Bleaker who hangs with the Sensates, and they laugh at his dour responses to sensation experiences

Haelra's Sabbatical

• Haelra explains her decision to leave the team, to focus on parenting and helping Danja create the collegium
• Substitute

Gatriel's Problem

• Gatriel returns
• I've been conferring with colleagues, other celestials in service to gods
• Many of the orders of gods of war see a war coming
• However, they have rejected my interest in serving; I infer that they all don't wish to offend Lord Tempus
• Lord Tempus has caused my name to be stricken from the book
• My days are numbered; I would spend them fighting evil and disorder

• Some discussion of Gatriel pledging to Dol'modeen
• DM: > Jane checks in with Big D, but signs are unclear
• DM: > Lyndi assigns Gatriel to help jane with the shrine project

Ordin's Story

• Gaps in my memory
• Bree Ambersheaf, the Dawn Chaser
• Did work for the Circus Divergia, then stopped
• Tundin used in an early experiment, Spring 2003
• Tried to backtrack his progress, including visiting Icewatch on Tessera in November, 2006, met Jane, Proud, and Cyrus
• Illithid brain-eating versus mind-eating
• Knowledge, skills, memories, emotions
• Fixated on souls
• Their knowledge, their power
• Experiments on humanoids, fey, and dragonborn
• Created a dragonborn illithid, Keq'nahdeer, who calls themself a drathid
• Mesiah
• Was some kind of ambassador to the Reaver Combine

• Amonkhet
• Nicol Bolas raising an army
• Creating the Black Pyramid
• Rumors that some of the architects were inside, perhaps to spring the trap

• Adintech, bloodstones
• Investigation lead to me to Gerzil the Pernicious, a devil who serves Mephistopheles

• DM: > Ordin left his partial copy of Tundinzarn with a friend in his Sigil.
• Max: > will collaborate with Shiro on better hacking DABOS

Overnight

• Naluni Pogray contacts Lyndi
• House Pogray learned that you got your man back
• Original bargain not possible
• Offers to trade access keycodes for League starships, in exchange for helping her sister get out of Sigil
• Lyndi asks whether Naluni is receptive to allying with Tide factions
• Naluni is non-committal, talks about drow needing to adapt
• Naluni sends codes

Welcome Isabelica

• Max: she's a past R3M asset, and a possible asset in Sigil
• Original training via the Gray Chamber on Tessera
• Introductions

The Glory of Kefnet is Coming to Sigil

• Clell Omri and Ougyl Icnod arrive to brief
• Mission Brief 5-8
• Ougyl is excited
• A chance to prove yourself to the Unbroken Tide, while striking a blow against the League and Duchess Caterina Berrett
• Lead on an incoming League armada
• Barge of refugees from Amonkhet, the Glory of Kefnet
• Found and captured by the League
• Likely facing interrogation, then enslavement
• Also carrying a large supply of lazotep
• Raptor Blue will strike at the armada and liberate the barge
• Tide forces will skirmish with reinforcements and prevent them from joining the fight
• Meanwhile, my friend Factor Icnod will be at the Hall of Speakers, presenting evidence that the League is trying to bring hazardous cargo into the city
• By saving Sigil from this cargo, you will be eligible for Medals of Civic Virtue
• The laws are such that any recipient of such a medal has special protections in Sigil
• Protections include amnesty for all past crimes and canceling of all bounties
• We can offer Unbroken Tide troopers, if you want more warriors with you

• Towed by a League light cruiser, Kikai class ("Opportunity" in Japanese), the Riptide
• Two escort fighters
• They'll expect an attack
• League defends their property with the unexpected (e.g., Ramshead had two Loxodas)
• Gravity storms

Planning for the Op

• Discussion of tactics
• Plan includes first disabling the fighters, then the cruiser
• Meanwhile, a strike team lands on the barge to secure it
• Final assignments and preparations

Ambushing the Armada

• Armada emerges from a Hornwood vertex
• Fighters are drake drones
• Shiro and Sylvi deftly hack the fighters (n20 x2) and steer them directly into each other, significantly damaging both
• Tardigrade fires rail gun, but the cruiser's shields deflect it
• Bronislav launches, dinging the hatch
• Tardigrade launches missiles and fires lasers
• Some noticeable damage to the cruiser
• Bron and Kromrak clumsily dive beneath the cruiser and spiral out and back, before reaching the deck of the barge
• Gatriel: "This is going to be a good fight."
• The strike team disembarks