RB 6-9: Elemental Boons & Yellow Dagger Station

Mission Report

Party: Lyndi Fletcher (Aslene), Jane Irwin (Cael), Proud Flame (Aunne), Kromrak (Sielic), Shiro (DragoN), Isabelica (Basil), Sylvena (Daewendriel) (9/6/20)

Lyndi concludes the conversation with Dwight Mackey. He gives them a code to identify a Primex agent. An elemental emissary, Taking Up Jogging at 40, arrives when the Tardigrade shiplets just let him aboard. He gives elemental boons to the Raptors. The team makes final preparations to board Yellow Dagger in disguise, and do so. The station is actually a capital ship in permanent orbit, and it's cursed and haunted. Nevertheless, it has a modest clientele of underworld types. Nasha claims a container waiting for her, which contains Daniel the awakened white ape, in stasis.

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Conversation with Dwight Mackey

• Lyndi confirms that Mackey will cover financial costs (e.g., hiring mercs)
• The Simic Combine as a topic surprises Mackey, and he gives away some signs of disgust, even though his words suggest he is serene about this business partnership
• Mackey asks whether RB was trying to make themselves visible when they attacked the LRC barge
• Proud remembers that Primex largely uses double agents
• If someone asks about the Chicago weather, the countersign is, They don't call it the Windy City for nothing
• Mackey said Caterina isn't human, and not aberration, infernal, fey, or draconic

Grateful Elementals

• Taking Up Jogging at 40
• Comes from the elemental lords
• They're grateful for Raptor Blue's treatment of elementals, especially freeing those trapped on the Invictus

• Choose:
  • Earth: +1 AC
  • Air: +5 base movement
• Zone of Truth on the elemental emissary
• Air: Belica
• Earth: Kromrak, Proud
• Earth: Lyndi
• Air: Jane
• Earth: Shiro
• Earth: Sylvena

Approaching Yellow Dagger

• Mission Brief RB 6-8 Into the Magitec Expanse v2
• Max: Nasha has never been to Yellow Dagger. She has a contact on the station, to get directions to the Death Dragons lab

• Bringing the Skyblue 9 cadets
  • Aiden Fletcher, Face (Bard L1)
  • Furque Willelmus, Goliath T'Aramont marine
• Posing as an all-women band of mercs
  • The Scourge of the Valkyries
• Belica helps Nasha put on a more believable seeming of a human woman

• Many cloaked pirate ships, doing business at Yellow Dagger via shuttles
• Bron's cloak is better than theirs
• Yellow Dagger still laser-comms Bron, making it clear they can see him
• Bron and Kromrak fly smoothly through the debris

• Nasha's contact is Mikell Pavlovich
• Human, runs some kind of tech shop

• Yellow Dagger
• "Station" is a capital ship in orbit around a gas giant
• Star is unstable
• Gas giant is unstable
• Lots of orbital debris
• Signs that ships fighting here is a bad idea
• Station is marked by Orzhov Syndicate

Docking

• Station comms, dockmaster is bored, talks through details of renting a berth
• Dockmaster arrives in a roller bot
• Nasha pays for 16 hours with gemstones
• 2 other ships in the docking bay: one loading, one refueling
• Yellow Dagger has lots of dead bodies in the forward pods
• The ship is deeply haunted
• Signs that the Orzhov Syndicate's ownership is new

• Port docking bay is used for ships
• Starboarding docking bay is a market
• The axial corridor (or "mezzanine") is tall and wide, divided by a non-functioning tram rails
• Bridges have been built over the tram rails

Retrieving Daniel

• Nasha leads the team aft in the mezzanine
• Stall run by a bugbear
• Rotating rack of storage containers
• Apparently a long-term locker transhipment and storage business
• Nasha pays 2700 gp in gems

• Shiro and Furque pull Nasha's container out
• Nasha enters a code and opens it
• Daniel the white ape is inside, in stasis