More on the Tarsa Setting can be found on the Tarsa Backround Post.
Players:
Lee – Logan – Kantorian master of matter manipulation.
Mike – Pythos – Former military cybernetic being with mercenary tendencies.
Shawn – Sycrom – The most intelligent dense person (like really really tough to hurt) you’ll ever meet.
Steve – Neo – Shapeshifting infiltration expert.
Our terrific trio make their way to Drakos to pick up the Pythorian (with Steve the shapeshifter playing the role of Pythos). They soon arrive and are hailed by one of Pythos’ old friends who happens to be in the Drakonian resistance. He requires an urgent meeting at a location that is well known to Pythos. Unfortunately for Steve, he has no idea where that is and can’t risk exposing that to Sy and Logan who he does not know. He manages to search through the data on the Pyro and make a good stab at where the meet will be. He does well and shows up at the right place.
Parker (I can’t remember the name I used, so it is now Parker) lets them know that Logan led the Meganauts right to one of their few secret bases on Drakos. And on top of that, he had lost his whole regiment of resistance fighters because of it. They come up with a plan to enter the base through a back ventilation shaft. Unfortunately, luck was against them as they tripped a sensor before the junction room and the portable perimeter defense guns started firing! Unfortunately for Parker and Neo (as Pythos) they took the brunt of the attacks (of course Sy had little to worry about).
Logan quickly brought up a wall to block the fire and Sy took out the guns and the Meganauts on the other side. Unfortunately the damage was done and Neo lost consciousness losing his Pythos shape. His horrible visage nearly shook up the Sy and Logan, but the shock of realizing they had not in fact rescued Pythos was more jarring.
Not sure what to make of their companion, New quickly explained. Pythos had asked him to go to Mero 10 and make the deal for him so Pythos could do another job that was more pressing. He even loaned him the Pyro for the job. Clever players would then realize Py is probably somewhere on Drakos since the Pythorian is here.
The group quickly decided to accept Neo at his word, and because his shape shifting ability was particularly useful at this moment. Neo morphed into a Meganaut and scouted out the hangar to get the Meganaut count. Determining that there were approximately 12 Meganauts aboard the Pythorian, along with 15 or so Drakonian resistance prisoners, and that they were close to hacking the final system they needed to take the ship, the group sprung into action using the classic, “I found some prisoners” rouse.
As the cliff hanger ends, our group has just entered the holding cell to drop off the “prisoners” on board the Pythorian…
Next Time…”Meet the Terminator”