RB 6-10: Meeting Mikell & Burning the Dead

Mission Report

Party: Lyndi Fletcher (Aslene), Jane Irwin (Cael), Proud Flame (Aunne), Shiro (DragoN), Isabelica (Basil), Sylvena (Daewendriel) (9/13/20)
Back up: Kromrak, coordinating on Bron (Sielic)

Nasha revives Daniel. The team continues to Mikell's shop. Mikell Pavlovich is golemancer and secretly an illithid. Yet Jane senses good in him. Mikell starts dealing with Nasha and other Raptors. But a group criminals attacks. The team fends them off and escapes on Bron. They work together to dislodge the decrepit colony pods at the bow of the ship and send them into the gas giant. The destruction of the bodies lifts the curse on the station.

Reviving Daniel

• Mission Brief RB 6-8 Into the Magitec Expanse v2
• Kromrak returns to Bron, to coach Skyblue 9 and monitor ship traffic
• Lyndi directs Kromrak to trade for some coffee

• Nasha revives Daniel
• Daniel recognizes Jane, and sort of Sylvi
• Daniel is weak and disoriented
• Daniel's left eye has been replaced by a magitec implant
  • Jane asks, and he says it was his choice

• Criminals watch the team, including League of the Rusted Crown members
  • Gang bangers, kinda similar to the Black Mambas in Chicago

Meeting Mikell

• Mikell Pavlovich is suspicious
• Had an open contract with the Death Dragons
• Extended bargaining via intercom
• Mikell opens the door
• Shop is a bubble against the ship's malign background radiation

• Mikell Pavlovich, Mikell working on a golem
• Mikell Pavlovich true form
• ((Mikell is based on a real person: https://www.rbth.com/science-and-tech/326532-army-of-robots-siberia))

• Lyndi sees Mikell's true form: an illithid
• Jane uses the Heart of the Depths to assess Mikell's nature, and sees good in him (n20)

• Golemancer
• Interested Sylvena's legs
• Mikell picked up German accent on purpose, sort of

• Nasha pays for Shiro's parts order from Mikell
• Shiro ultimately leaves the parts on the floor

Attack on the Shop

• Kromrak reports that criminals are moving towards the team from the market
• Bron reports he senses weapons charging on nearby ships
• Max reports that an LRC Kikai-class cruiser is moving towards the station
• Jane blocks the corridor with Wall of Stone

• Gang bangers blow a hole in the rear of Mikell's shop
• Jane grabs Mikell and tries to drag him over the counter
• Nasha Pogray webs two of the gang bangers
• Shiro hits them with a carefully-aimed Fireball
• Belica summons specters: two protect Mikell, two attack the bangers trying to set a charge on the wall of stone
• Sylvena animates the shutter and it closes itself

Leaving the Shop

• Kromrak and Bron depart the docking bay and move towards the airlock
• Mikell has codes to avoid the attackers and escape via an auxiliary docking bay
• He warns that an angry ghost guards the approach
• The teams forms up and moves out

• The ghost is a the chief engineer, a duergar in giant form
• Belica negotiates with the ghost, who lets the team pass, then prepares to delay the attackers

• The team buttons up their suits
• Jane polymorphs Daniel into a lizard
• The team cycles the airlock and boards Bron

Cremating the Dead

• By hacking, Max has moved most of the station population aft-ward
• The team brainstorms a plan to lift the curse from Yellow Dagger
• Shiro hacks the colony pods to begin their landing sequence
• Jane and Sylvena use Reverse Gravity on each side of the cargo matrix to direct the pods towards YD3's upper atmosphere
• Proud sends a faulty, misleading message as if a ship is trying to board, coinciding with the pods' activation, as if accidentally
• Lyndi draws on her gods to skew entropy in favor of the plan, and show the dead how to ride the gravity to their release (n20)
  • Lyndi begins to dance among all the bodies in the ship, a swirling, elegant, contemporary sway and spin and light steps, her hands-hip-elbows-feet moving into people's personal space, and out again, -almost- touching, -almost- getting into the way, but never quite doing so. Like flower petals in the wind.
• Belica coaxes the dead to cooperate with the plan, ride the entropy, and pass on (n20)
  • Isabelica: Do not worry my friends. It is time to go. It is time to find peace beyond this space. Embrace the chaos, the randomness, the unknown. Dance amongst the stars, travel towards the great beyond. The sea has come to claim your bones but your spirit will fly free.
• The plan works, beautifully
  • The pods launch and crash into each other, and all fall into the gravity
  • Some burn up right away, while others fall deeper into YD3, where they're crushed by pressure