RB 4-16: Important Conversations on Themis Station

Mission Report

Sun, Jan 14, 2018 ((Jan 19, 2020))
Party: Lyndi Fletcher (Aslene), Jane Irwin (Cael), Cyrus Riggs (Sielic), Proud Flame (Aunne), Haelra Vayn (Basil), Shiro (DragoN), Pogru (Kitsunewill)
Wrapping up jobs on Themis Station before traveling with the team: Sylvi (Daewendriel)

The team finishes decontamination and hosts several visitors. Pogru, a half-orc exosuit specialist, agrees to upgrade their exosuits and make suits for some of the team's animal companions. An agent of the T'Aramont Ministry of Security & Intelligence tries to get Proud to accept a black communication box but settles for sharing details on contacts and dead drops. Seberios introduces the team to new ammo types for their gauss weapons and proposed a collaboration on experimental ammo. Ioshiden and Indri Emberheart, dragonborn clerics, arrive to honor the Herald of the Wyrm Princes of the Celestial Circle and bless the Tardigrade (as a "cosmic chariot"). Finally, the team visits the Comet's Dust bar again, where Jassin Torina apologizes for the AForm attack and briefs them on unclear changes happening in Sigil.

After Decon

• OOC: This is why I confined you to decon
• You continue to grow in your Unbound power (We're into the teens, starting with 11)
• What does your metamorphosis or growth looks like?
• What might the team notice has changed or improved?

• Pogru arrives at the airlock
• Jassin's friend, Pogru is a half-orc tynker (she/her/hers) who specializes in exosuits for beasts
• Much discussion of the team's suit needs
• Pogru will upgrade the team's suits from the Talarin model, to a level comparable to last-gen T'Aramont Navy, including: vacuum, extreme environment, and armor
• Hazmat can be put on and off, is more bulky (-5 Speed)
• Stygi (squirrel, he/him/his) (Jane), gets his own suit, plus a riding spot on Jane's suit
• Ellison (gennet, she/her/hers) (Haelra), gets her own suit
• Phobos (wolf/dire wolf, he/him/his) (Lyndi), gets his own suit, with expansion capability (wolf/dire wolf), with external weapons
• Chikara (robot dinobird, they/them/theirs), no suit needed
• Mechaphobos (robot wolf, they/them/theirs), no suit needed
• Mecharaptor (robot raptor, they/them/theirs), no suit needed
• Sigrun (robot? cyborg? bat), no suit needed?
• Max: I'll see that we get suit upgrades for Chuck, Rictus, and myself.

• Proud gets a visitor
• Courier, Grand Navy: Garlen Orona, half-elf (he/him/his), dresses as an ensign
• Checks Proud's citizenship (paperwork instead of implant, hmm)
• From T'Aramont Ministry of Security & Intelligence (MSI)
• Offers a Proud a black communication box, to trade intel with MSI
• Team discussion and vote
• No to box. Instead, Orona offers details on contacts and dead drops
• Orona requests cover story: courtesy to you as a returning citizen, personally arrange correspondence and gifts to your family through secure channels

• Seberios, bariaur armorer (he/him/his)
  • Accompanied by Benson
  • 6-legged robot with many cases and pouches (with extradimensional properties)
  • Rogue Mechanos drone
• Cyrus discovers they have an anti-scrying field
• Seberios wants to start a side hustle in crossword puzzles; he hopes the Raptors can connect him with someone good at creating puzzles
• Seberios sells another revolver for Sylvi
• Variety of gauss-compatible ammo; different armies and navies have variations and different formal names, but these are what most warriors call them
  • Icefang: flash chills on impact, then delivers fractal-edged darts (cold,piercing)
  • Flamejet: flash heats on impact, then delivers fractal-edged darts (fire,piercing)
  • Buzzkill: shocks on impact, then delivers fractal-edged darts (lightning,piercing)
• He's trying to perfect R&D on….
  • Toxshiv: flash shatter on impact, then delivers poison or acid
  • Can't get the formula to work
  • Discussion of possible collaboration on the ammo
• Seberios praises the pamphlet on Dol'modeen

• More visitors
• Ioshiden and Indri Emberheart, gold dragonborn priests of Bahamut
• We have come to witness the launch of the Herald's cosmic chariot, and give our blessing to its righteous armor
  • The Herald (Draco): shall seek and find evidence of the Princes' adversaries and track them to their domains
  • The Dragon Knight (Cyrus): The Knight shall carry out the justice of the Wyrm Princes and inspire the Herald's retinue, the Vanguard.
  • The Dragon Eye (Lyndi): The Eye shall know the Wyrm Princes' laws and help the Herald track those who violate them.
  • Earthkeeper (Jane): The Herald is accompanied by an Earthkeeper, to parlay an alliance between the forces of Nature and the Wyrm Princes, on the worlds where battles must happen.
• The priests want to bless the ship
• Lyndi and Jane commune with the Tardigrade
• Ship is nervous about wearing the blessing of Bahamut (like being a flagship)
• Lyndi recommends making the blessing be subtle/stealthy
• Ship is descended from scouts and couriers, although it's a scientific vessel
• Ship agrees to blessing
• Indri says, "Soon you will be be ready to drink of the Amphora of the Sovereign."
• Draco explains that this is some kind of ordeal, that connects the Herald with the wisdom of Bahamut
• The Amphora is a closely-guarded secret

• Visiting the Comet's Dust
• Jassin Torina
• Ushered into VIP lounge
• Jassin apologizes for ambush
• Jassin urges the team to make haste to Sigil
• They're calling it the 6th Reset
  • Previously could only get to Sigil via portals, and the portals were usually no bigger than windows or doors
  • Something changed
  • No one seems to understand why yet
• Portals are closing faster than opening
  • Several of our preferred routes to Sigil have closed
• New way to reach Sigil: find a vertex using the Hornwood Equation
  • The team remembers meeting Sarii Hornwood (in robot form) in the Project Stratonix lab, where she was seeking a calculating machine
• Caterina Berrett is in Sigil and rising the ranks of the Fated
• The team's contact with the Unbroken Tide is Estelle Erallo, of the Society of Sensation (whom Haelra has worked with)