RB 6-12: Into the Keyes Lab

Mission Report

Fri, 2/9/18
Party: Lyndi Fletcher (Aslene), Jane Irwin (Cael), Proud Flame (Aunne), Shiro (DragoN), Kromrak (Sielic), Isabelica (Basil), Sylvena (Daewendriel) (9/13/20)

The team finishes their final preparation. Sylvena uses Mirage Arcana to fool the Assembler swarm into seeing a Feywild incursion. The team enters and sweeps the archaeology module. They find weak AForm sentries. The archaeology activity seems to have been abandoned for some time. The team detects larger AForms moving towards the module and fights them. They kill the small ones but still face two hunter-killers.

Planning Insertion

• Max: It's provocative that the Death Dragons chose a dead world, Yalod Angara, to research another dead world, Amonkhet. In addition to avoiding almost all accidental discovery, there might be something about so much death that aided their work.

• Retcon: Team makes final prep in Bron while doing initial recon on the base

• Max: Roger! Bron and I will try to hack into the maintenance drones
• Max: Environmental systems are under the Main Landing Bay
• Max: Heating is from a geothermal spike
• Max: Correct: we've established that the swarm prefers hot and humid. A drop in temperature will hurt them.
• Max: Assemblers build with tissue as well as metal and tech. Organic engineering likes hot and humid.

You're all in hardened combat spacesuits. Temperature control is standard.

• Max: Special equipment you have: AForm disruptor: signal generator created by Rictus for Lyndi; Sylvi built an AForm comms jammer and a system purger to destroy intruder-ghosts in electronics.
• Max: Advanced AForms are immune to cold, fire, and poison

• Team agrees on a plan
• Sylvena will use Mirage Arcane to create a base-wide effect that a rift to the Feywild has opened
  • Feywild fungal swamp
  • Starting in the area of the offices
  • Drawing on guidance from Jane
  • It smells messed up
• Lyndi's spirit guardians are scary Fey

• Sylvena: Chain: Be careful of the water I've made, inside the facility. It can't hurt your or anything, but it will be difficult to get through, like actual water might be.

Archaeology Module

• Team sweeps archaeology module
• They find a mostly-empty, mothballed area
• Sylvena starts hacking
  • The swarm is using the hardwired network
  • There is a wireless network but it has no traffic
• They dispatch sentries: leapers, clowns, and wisp swarms
• Two dorm rooms have cocoons from hunter-killer being assembled
• Jane finds cocoon pieces that give her a material link to the HKs that emerged
• Director's office lock is infected with a gremlin, which Sylvena destroys
• The team starts to detect powerful, localized Strain

• Max: Sylvena, my extrapolation matches yours and the current data. The team took enough AForms out of their network that a force-recon unit was sent your way.
• Max: *seems to get more clinical to manage her anxiety*

First Hunter-Killers

• Max and Bron detect HKs moving towards the module
• The team engages, including Kromrak using acid breath, Sylvena using lightning bolt, Belica using blight, and Jane using tidal wave
• They destroy the small AForms but the HKs reach them and engage