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‎After the Battle

Cinero: Created page with "Mission Report Sat, Jan 13, 2018 ((Jan 12, 2020))
Party: Jane Irwin (Cael), Cyrus Riggs (Sielic), Proud Flame (Aunne), Haelra Vayn (Basil), Shiro (DragoN), Sylvi (Daewe..."

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Mission Report

Sat, Jan 13, 2018 ((Jan 12, 2020))<br/>
Party: Jane Irwin (Cael), Cyrus Riggs (Sielic), Proud Flame (Aunne), Haelra Vayn (Basil), Shiro (DragoN), Sylvi (Daewendriel), Lyndi Fletcher (Aslene; player joined later)

The heroes confront the gray hive queen in the cargo bay. The queen shares intel on the adintech conspiracy, identifying 5 groups she calls the Malign Quintet. She doesn't reveal the identity of the Puppetmaster, but offers to trade this intel for one of the team. The team refuses. A battle starts. Cyrus and Sylvi are knocked unconscious more than once. Shiro gets the killing blow on the queen. The heroes do a final sweep of the ship and set the fusion reactor to self destruct. They return to Themis Station.

== Confronting the Queen ==

* DM: > H succeeds in a way to protect Bron from the Helm of Liquid Imagination
* Dropship is the Subtle Word, captain Lyrei Reyran (she/her/hers), cargomaster Adresin Vara (she/her/hers)
* Lyrei reports that the ship has opened an escape pod hatch and is preparing to launch a pod
** Vae'gaun leaves to intercept the pod
* Lyndi seems distracted early in the mission

* Team enters the cargo bay
* Enemies
** Gray Hive Queen
** Hunter Killer
** Leapers & Clowns
* "We wish to parlay."
* "We have transcended fear."
* Give you gift: creep pod opens, offers datapad
* Datapad has stanzas 13 and 14 of the Bloodstone Prophecy
* "Generations have passed since a Herald has been chosen."
* "You are the hunters. In your enemies, you kindle much fear."

* Queen uses wisp swarms to create hologram-like images
* "Those that survive this shadow war, this war on the Edge, will call the forces the Malign Quintet"
** Devils: want to harvest the souls of selfish arcanists and other great mortals who fall; they fear the machinations of their hierarchy; ants vying for the top of the hill, or in this case, the bottom of the well
** Demons: want to spread Strain and random Changes, create chaos, weaken your beloved Breakwater; fear that mortals will build unity and common purpose
** Reavers: want to weaken or bypass the Breakwater, for Earth's population and the weapons hidden in the Closeness; fear that humanoids will cease their conflicts and focus on containing them, or worse, ally with the Planters
** The Warlords: Nicol Bolas and his cults, the League of the Rusted Crown, even elements of your Rational Ascendancy; fear what all mortals fear, powerlessness, suffering, irrelevance, and death
** The Puppetmaster, whom your Dr. Nails calls the Puppeteer; you don't know what they want; fears that something broken can't be rebuilt

* Offer: "We will reveal the identity of the Puppetmaster and why they created the Adinzar"
* In exchange: "one of your Unbound"
* Proud talks and rants at the Queen

* Battle starts
* Wisp Swarms killed
* Leapers killed
* Hunter Killers killed
* ((Aslene joins early on))
* Cyrus and Sylvi go down more than once
* Draco: I'm continuing to analyze the hive queen. She is invulnerable to cold, and resistant to slashing, bludgeoning, and piercing. However, my multispectral analysis of her form suggests a vulnerability to some kind of damage.
* Jane Irwin: Jane, in the Chain: She feels like plants or something!!
* Max: She talked a lot about fear. What do plants fear?
* Heroes discover that the queen is vulnerable to fire
* Shiro gets the killing blow
== After the Battle ==
* DM: > Proud & Shiro search ship
* DM: > Jane drags Sylvi away from the pool
* Proud Flame absolutely does /not/ leave until Sylvi is woken up - and she gets a rather fierce hug /immediately/ after her eyes open... and /then/ he gets to work.
* DM: > Cyrus & Draco analyze the queen's corpse
* DM: > H talks to the ghosts of the crew
* DM: > Shiro finds Edwin (nova intelligentsia)
* DM: > The crew worshipped Face of the Bountiful Lady
* DM: > H takes the religious tokens of the crew, to deliver to their relatives via a contact on Themis Station
* Jane Irwin: Jane helps Sylvi stand. "You good?"
* Sylvi looks at Jane and says, "Yeah, much better. Thanks. I owe you one...or three/
* DM: > Lyndi sterilizes the suits of the team as they leave the ship
* Jane Irwin: Jane looks away, a bit pink in the cheeks. "I mean, yknow, my job and shit. Anyways, uh, yeah."
* DM: > Also sterlizes Edwin
* Sylvi smiles, though there's a bit of blood in the corner of her mouth. "Mission accomplished, yeah?"
* Lyndi 4.0: Lyndi flashes a slight smile at Sylvi over Jane's shoulder, and then continues sterilizing Shiro's containment suit.
* DM: > Cy and Draco take a portion of inert assemblers
* Lyndi 4.0: On the ship back, Lyndi sits quietly next to Riggs, looking totally drained but determined. She quietly cleans her gunblade, listening to the conversation.
* Cyrus Riggs 2.0 [Common]: Cyrus sits down and is immediately asleep. Upright, no snoring, just sleeping.
[understood by: Proud Flame, Cyrus Riggs 2.0, Haelra Vayn, Jane Irwin, Sylvi, Shiro, Lyndi 4.0]
* On the flight back, Draco talks about the evidence of adintech experiments in the Nigerian lab, and how burning a soul in a bloodstone would break the cycle of their reincarnation forever, removing a soldier from the forces of Lord Bahamut.

* Asked to stay in the drydock with the Tardigrade and Bron for now
* But they can virtually explore the station
* Everyone gets a long rest and a day of downtime

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 * Lyndi 4.0: On the ship back, Lyndi sits quietly next to Riggs, looking totally drained but determined. She quietly cleans her gunblade, listening to the conversation.
 * Cyrus Riggs 2.0 [Common]: Cyrus sits down and is immediately asleep. Upright, no snoring, just sleeping.
 * On the flight back, Draco talks about the evidence of adintech experiments in the Nigerian lab, and how burning a soul in a bloodstone would break the cycle of their reincarnation forever, removing a soldier from the forces of Lord Bahamut.

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Cinero: Created page with "Mission Report Sat, Jan 13, 2018 ((Jan 12, 2020)) Party: Jane Irwin (Cael), Cyrus Riggs (Sielic), Proud Flame (Aunne), Haelra Vayn (Basil), Shiro (DragoN), Sylvi (Daewe..."

Cinero: Created page with "Mission Report Sat, Jan 13, 2018 ((Jan 12, 2020))
Party: Jane Irwin (Cael), Cyrus Riggs (Sielic), Proud Flame (Aunne), Haelra Vayn (Basil), Shiro (DragoN), Sylvi (Daewe..."