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)

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