RB 7-7: Sending the Dropship & Taking the Bio Lab

Mission Report

Tue, Feb 13, 2018 ((Dec 27, 2020))
Team: Jane (Cael), Proud (Aunne), Kromrak (Sielic), Shiro (DragoN), Isabelica (Basil), Sylvena (Dae), Lyndi (Aslene, joined late)

The team finishes searching the Lurking Doom and returns to the near future. They defeat the fungal presence in the bio lab and surgery without alerting the whole hive. Belica sees two demons trapped in the heart of the hive. Kromrak has a moment of deep emotion, confronting the room where they were Changed. Proud leads a discussion of the deeper roots of the Adintec Conspiracy and the implications of Aedin's judgment. Shiro shares intel on the infestation guarding the hive's heart.

Details

• Max: It's Tueday, Feb 13, 2018.
• Your fleet includes the Tardigrade, Bronislav, the Horochanz, and Temerity. The cruisers are cloaked and spread out around Ravnica 5 to watch for any approaching ships. Bron is guarding the entrance to the lab.
• Aboard the Tardigrade: Raptor Blue (including Max Witkey), Bronislav, Chuck Nielson ((Ari)), Magnus (gryphon rider) & Skyfall (his gryphon), Mikell Pavlovich (talnoksi tynker), Ordin Zarn (traumatized bard), Oskar (uplifted metal tree), Res (taciturn ranger), Rictus ((Razas/SchizoClarity)), Aedin, Farida ((Kitsunewill))
• Also aboard the Tardigrade, with his pod in the cargo bay: Nantuk Gribben
• You're aboard the Lurking Doom, a Kikai-class light cruiser leased to the Cult of Rakdos by the LRC. The captain was Zara Crispino, lizardfolk (she/her)
• You're in combat spacesuits, except for: Shiro (who's in his custom power armor).
• You know that the timeline, the Lurking Doom is supposed to deploy a dropship to Lab 86G.

• Proud and Sylvena pull all the data they can from the Lurking Doom
• Rakdos didn't waste much time or energy trying to understand their leased vessel
• Ordin uses magic to reconnect with his father's time aboard this ship, with Jane's help as a bird
• Kromrak loads the dropship with food, water, valuables, repair materials and tools, and Rakdos worship paraphenalia
• Isabelica inspects the mechadead bodies
• Jane uses a lyrebird form to perfectly mimic Ordin's playing (n20)
• Ordin and Jane draw out the backstory, including Tundin and Bree trying to get clear of the Circus Divergia. Tundin was double-crossed and taken to Amonkhet, where he was turned into a living archive
• Ordin goes back to the future
• Proud plots a course for the Lurking Doom that puts it cloaked in a parking orbit around Ravnica 5
• Sylvena loots the captain's room and puts the goods on the dropship
• Sylvena has a book to access a VIP bank account in the Orzhov Syndicate
• Proud has the lease for the Lurking Doom
• Jane takes 3 control rods (mechadead ape, mechadead leopard, tin soldier)

• You're under the ocean on Ravnica 5, a water planet. You're in Lab 86G.
• Aedin accompanies the team at all times but never initiates a conversation. He can only be perceived by the team.
• The fungal zombies are controlled by a corrupt sentient presence, in the northern, deepest part of the lab. You've glimpsed it in the Swift.
• You can turn power on and off in the sub-basement of Ops. Currently only the southwest sector has power. Each sector's security systems and environmental controls are isolated to that sector.
• Belica has a fungal zombie. Proud has Marina's badge.
• You have Marina Tasis with you.
• Marina: Primex wants super soldiers. Combine wants to advance science, especially to find beings with a gene that makes them better able to be enhanced to bond with constructs like graven hulks. They agreed on a prototype that would detect beings with demonic taint. The Combine wants to catch spies from the Cult of Rakdos inside their operation. The prototype is in the console.
• Max reports that the Horochanz' sensors indicate another cloaked vessel may have entered orbit and deployed a dropship to Lab 86G. You now know this is the Lurking Doom.
• You're in the northwest corner of the lab. You're preparing to breach the bio lab.
• Jane briefly explains Emlya path quests to Aedin

• Team fights the infestation
• Lyndi is concentrating on keeping this node from alerting the hivemind
• Sylvena 2 confirms that the incoming dropship is from the Lurking Doom, and Proud has programmed it to slave to Bron upon arrival outside the lab
• Isabelica scans the heart of the hive from the Swift (n20)
• Two demons: Arnoa the Mudeater and Kagroth Sailors' Dread
• The Rakdos spies tried to bring two demons through but something went wrong. They're stuck: one Grid side, one Swift side, and ensnared by the heart of the fungal hive

• After the fight, Kromrak is overcome with emotion
• Isabelica: Belica sends good vibes through the chain
• Jane Irwin: Bear!Jane rumbles, chuffing and leaning against him, a rock solid weight, warm and furry.
• Aedin observes the team's respone to Kromrak's reaction with his steady, unobtrusive attention
• Sylvena: In the chain, to Kromrak, privately: "It is okay to mourn the death of someone you used to be."
• Proud starts a discussion of the Adintec Conspiracy
• Max: We know that the 9 Hells played a decisive role in getting adintec into Nicol Bolas' claws
• Max: And the 9 Hells are where Tiamat is imprisoned
• Max: Quarsis, the elder brain that seemed to have let adintec get found and developed, wants to perfect ceremorphosis on dragons. With baby steps that have included fae and dragonborn.
• Max: Jane's contact on the inside, Romulus, said that rebels on Amonkhet sacrificed themselves at Adinzar's activation to trap Bolas inside
• Max: Bolas has all confidence and no doubt. Aedin has doubt.
• Max: Iatro Veritris, the Emerald Cavalier: a elf bard (they/them) from Tessera. They are a famous singer-songwriter and cold-blooded duelist. Now styles himself "the Mindmaster" and attacked General John Lincoln.
• Max: We expect to see him on Ravnica at the celebration later this week.
• Proud Flame: Max, a thought I need to capture: Giythanki may be the best possible source to understand Illithid tech outside of illithid themselves.
• Shiro reports that Testing includes: 6+ zombies, 4+ mounds, 1+ vine lords, 1 demon Gridside, 1 demon Swiftswift
• Max: If you can take down the heart of the hive, the remaining nodes and their forces may be controllable by Belica
• Max: Testing has waist-high water