Harrowed Halls

Thanks to Alex for the mostly accurate (from his character’s perspective) summary of the events so far!

Heading to a planet run by insectoids. Florans (plant people) are here to mine ore for their planet. Insectoids are mean to them. We are security for the news crew interviewing the florans. I ask a floran if they get harassed a lot. Just as I do a ship arrives telling us to cease operations. Michael DeSanta draws his gun on the balcony and the insectoids get ready to fire. I jump in front and throw up my hands. I tell them we come in peace and convince my crew to lay down arms. Hitler the 4th, Daphodillius, and the news anchor come down to talk. The News anchor runs her mouth and the insectoid goes to hit her. I step in and take the punch and spit blood all over. Jack Shift tries to use his tellariian powers but he still seems to not understand them. The insectoids become enraged I step in and convince him that the psychic powers were because of malfunctioning mining equipment. He sends for reinforcements. I tell the insectoid that I saw some suspicious activity near the rigged platform. He heads over and is electrocuted but still standing. The reinforcements arrive. Jack fires his pistol killing one. The insectoids fire on Lars and he lives. They fire on me and they incapacitate me. They fire on Jack and he’s okay still. Michael DeSanta draws his gun and fires but can’t seem to hurt them. Lars runs into a garage to hide. Hitler runs to me and heals me. I’m up but still heavily injured. 

Alex- 1 conviction
Steve- 0
Ben- 0
Old Ben- 0
Lee- 0
Owen- 0

The crew sets out with their brand new ship “Star Venture” to travel to a nearby star system called Amineh, with a Jumpgate. The crew spent the 28 days or so, learning about the ship, the new AI, and reading up on the history of the Ghostreach Sector. One thing the crew fixated on (and rightly so) was the Rec Hub, where they can pick up jobs to do to keep the ship going until they find their way home.

They find a job on offer on Samksha to track down and kill a wild boar that is destroying villages around an old Tenarii artefact. They land at the spaceport that is run by a company called PrimaCorp, but the whole place is in fact run by a psychic crusading religion called “the Veiled Mind”. They seem opposed to the killing of this boar. But the local Serran population needs help to stop the destruction.

Our heroic criminals quickly jump in for the princely sum of $5,000 to kill this boar. Once they arrive close to the forest a sudden electrical jamming kills anything running on electronics (including implants), which shuts down the vehicle and all their comms. While tracking through the forest, a boar is spotted and Desanta runs after it, taking a blind shot into the woods where he thinks it may have gone…but instead shoots a PrimaCorp soldier causing a raucous.  Luckily he didn’t kill him or things would have gotten much worse!

The PrimaCorp squad shows up and when Desanta refused orders to drop his weapon, they opened fire on the crew. Hitler, as always the voice of reason, dropped his weapon and the other followed suit. Afterwards the crew was escorted back to their vehicle and left to wait out the power jamming. They quickly overpowered the one guard that was left and they continued on their hunt.

While searching for the boar, they came across $1,000 worth of valuable minerals to sell at the spaceport. They were attacked by the boar and was able to take it down. The Serran’s paid the bounty and back at the spaceport Jack Shift was sweet talked into joining the “The Veiled Mind” and underwent the process of having his mind tinkered with by a machine built Millenia ago for a completely different type of being. Smart guy. But now he has Psionics!  And some hindrances that he is aware of, and at least one he is NOT aware of.

Also, every crewman (regardless of whether or not they joined in on the hunt) should make a persuasion or intimidation roll and text or email me what they rolled. I will send separate texts or emails to each person based on their roll. If I don’t get a response from someone that’s ok…you just won’t have any information.