Author's note: This is a severely pared down version of what happend for the sessions mentioned in this time-bracket.
As it's been nearly a month & half worth of game dates...yeah; memeory is a BIT hazey. Link to previous entry is:http://palladium-megaverse.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=2476592#p2476592[The stars are not right.]Both Shalyndra and Rika ghosted towards the exo-frame piloting human male, being very careful to use every method of stealth they had at their disposal to make sure they were not seen and accidental fired upon. Anon Wilks, the pilot in question, was shocked & surprised when a red haired, long-pointy eared human like female suddenly perched above his roll-cage and calmly informed him to “Relax and don’t do anything foolish.”
Anon’s response was to of course reply; “Anything you say. Please don’t eat me.”
Fairly quickly, the displaced mecha-jock / mining expert realized he was no longer in Silvereno; he wasn’t even still on Earth. As the rest of Phoenix Force Alpha arrived, they filled in Anon with as much information as they felt he could absorb in a time-critical fashion. Unfortunately the noise of his arrival had attracted attention. Shalyndra pointed out a pyramidal structure, topped with an angelic statue in the central courtyard as having a possible hiding place. Retreating to the base of the ziggurat, they found yes, indeed it did have a doorway the could force open, which they did as sensor returns on Anon & Archangels scanners got closer and closer. Alas even sealing the door behind them did not prevent a conflict from occurring.
As Team Alpha explored the massive chamber located under the pyramid, Fionna’s 6th sense screamed “danger” just as several plasma blots struck at Anon’s exo-frame. While the machine staggered under the hail of fire, the rest weren’t idle and soon found their assailants hanging from the ceiling; 3 Riathenor warriors with 2 Herreschetti war-beasts. What followed was a brief but extremely violent battle, resulting in the near crippling of Anon’s mining exo-frame, a concussed Archangel, and at least two arcane devices within the chamber being slagged. However, Team Alpha succeeded in dispatching at least half the unholy biomechanical creatures, while Anon, using his own wrestling skills and a power-staff, intimidated one of the 2 remaining warriors to retreat or face the same fate as its kin. It fled.
A short respite followed, where the group finished investigating what the chamber was used for; a control hub for the entire undercity. Te reason it had never been found over the course of so many millennia was readily apparent once the ancient Palman writing had been translated. The entire city was just slightly out-of-phase with normal space time and thus impossible for any explorers or miners on Algol to have found it (unless they knew where to look; which it seemed no one did... except the NEMA). Another critical piece of news; the city had been abandoned because most of the dimensional gates into it had been compromised by “things” and to save the population, the original inhabitants had evacuated and plug the D-gates both ways, trapping the demonic invaders between space-times. Unfortunately the NEMA had disrupted the plugs with their haste in searching through the undercity. It seemed as if a swarm of demon-kin were going to break free into the now, and most likely then spread into Motavia.
Fionna & Rika worked quickly trying to engage the mystic defenses of the undercity using the surviving TW controls in the chamber. They had managed to bring the undercity back into the side-real universe, reestablished communications with Uno-Rez (and found out almost a full 3 days, NOT the 3 hours they had originally thought had passed), and were about to engage a city wide ‘Protection Circle’ when one of the demon host broke through the hidden doorway into the pyramid’s control chamber. An Angar-Robotics battlesuit, with a black upside-down ‘U’ on its chest plate.
The Mark of the Omegan Order.
The date is now June 25, P.A. 109
