The Saga Continues: Phoenix Force Forever.

DhAkael · Unread post by **DhAkael** » Mon Mar 26, 2012 12:01 pm

Nope..you missed.
http://www.badassoftheweek.com/tesla.jpg
No free ExP for you.
Mind you; he didn't LOOK like that when the device was activated, but yeah...Just Nik Tesla

P.S.; I will be throwing together the re-cap sometime today.
I Hope

Akashic Soldier · Mon Mar 26, 2012 12:09 pm

DhAkael wrote:Nope..you missed.
http://www.badassoftheweek.com/tesla.jpg
No free ExP for you.
Mind you; he didn't LOOK like that when the device was activated, but yeah...Just Nik Tesla
P.S.; I will be throwing together the re-cap sometime today.
I Hope

So close!!!

:ok:

Oh... I am totally going to attack my PC's with a group of villains dressed as great historical scientists now. This will be great. :lol:

DhAkael · Unread post by **DhAkael** » Mon Mar 26, 2012 12:11 pm

Akashic Soldier wrote:
DhAkael wrote:Nope..you missed.
http://www.badassoftheweek.com/tesla.jpg
No free ExP for you.
Mind you; he didn't LOOK like that when the device was activated, but yeah...Just Nik Tesla
P.S.; I will be throwing together the re-cap sometime today.
I Hope

So close!!!

Oh... I am totally going to attack my PC's with a group of villains dressed as great historical scientists now. This will be great.

Don't forget Da'Vinci and Werne... they were as much scientist as artist & writer

Akashic Soldier · Mon Mar 26, 2012 1:20 pm

DhAkael wrote:Don't forget Da'Vinci and Werne... they were as much scientist as artist & writer

Oh totally!

Now I just need a gimmick.

*strokes his chin*

Maybe a gang of those brain-juicer guys from J:Uprising?

DhAkael · Unread post by **DhAkael** » Mon Mar 26, 2012 2:10 pm

Definately will update the re-cap section tonight but presently am farrrrr behind on feeding self.
Will get back to everyone later

calto40k · Unread post by **calto40k** » Tue Mar 27, 2012 2:08 pm

Akashic Soldier wrote:
DhAkael wrote:Don't forget Da'Vinci and Werne... they were as much scientist as artist & writer

Oh totally!

Now I just need a gimmick.

*strokes his chin*

Maybe a gang of those brain-juicer guys from J:Uprising?

send me some of them thar credits or i m gonna blast ya

Akashic Soldier · Tue Mar 27, 2012 2:43 pm

calto40k wrote:send me some of them thar credits or i m gonna blast ya

Okay, Okay!

I keep all my credits in this custom box that I made to look like a fusion box so that no one would try stealing them. Pretty smart huh?

The trick is activating the box, then overriding while holding in this side button and then it cancels the detonation process and pops the secret hatch like... so... *pops, then relocks it and hands it over*

Would you like my baby photos too since you're so busy crushing all my dreams?

Aramanthus · Unread post by **Aramanthus** » Wed Mar 28, 2012 11:01 am

Jim Butcher's character "Harry Dresden" always is breaking the 4th wall. I think that is one of the reasons I enjoy those novels so much.

DhAkael · Unread post by **DhAkael** » Thu Mar 29, 2012 1:00 pm

[“Speak the Devil’s name…”]
A short ceremony was held for Team Alpha before their departure, and Sherriff Gwen Severson handed over a small pouch of silver to each member in repayment for their service to the township of Silvereno. Formalities done, the group boarded the TW Express 3-9 and headed back to Lazlo. This time the journey was peaceful and without incident, except for Tim’s reaction to finally seeing the semi-legendary city of tolerance (and the Tower / Spire that dominates its sky line and the giant tree growing beside it). Having no pressing matters aside from a quick verbal report, Rika bid the group farewell and left for her home and husband. The rest milled about, figuring out where they were going to go and what to do, but general consensus was; sleep, shower, relax and not necessarily in that order.
Leena & Anon, now having become nearly inseparable, went off to continue working on the Titan Combat ‘Bot and talk with each other some more. Garrus, after seeing to Tim the Borg’s accommodations (at one of the hotels that cater to larger than human scale visitors), left to see Fionna at her apartment. Shalyndra returned to her property and after removing her “work clothes”, settled in for an evening of contemplation over tea in her houses’ solarium. Jack Chirax, needing some recreationals to calm down, loaded up his bong and began to partake.
His relaxation did not last long.

Soon, whispers and giggling noises surrounded Jack; reacting in his usual manner with violence, he lashed out at… nothing. No one was there behind him or beside him. Quickly strapping on his gun belt and pulling on his shoes, he ran downstairs to his Hover-car and saw something that caused him to scream; a day-glo coloured symbol combining the symbols for male and female into one. Panicked, he did an all-points radio call on the Phoenix Force emergency frequency as he got into his vehicle and began to drive away.

Garrus, looking out the window, noticed that Fionna, still in bed, was surrounded in an aura of flame that did not burn, but still caused the alien to become concerned.

Shalyndra Baza-khaine felt her skin grow hot as she noticed the pattern on her mask began to change; the roses had bloomed and the thorns were tipped in blood-drops.

Leena began to smell something foul in the air, her NuMan senses, though not trained by the Warphunter guild were still sensitive to the supernatural; daemon stink was about.

As jack got in contact with Rika & Maj. Dalhousie, he dredged up a name he had heard bandied about in hushed whispers;
“It’s Slaanesh!” He cried through the radio.

Rika’s hand-held unit twisted in her hand and tried to French kiss her (causing the NuMan warphuntress to proceed to laser-blast it with her wilks pistol), while the anti-daemon wards in Phoenix Nest Prime began to light up and the TW fuses popped like firecrackers, and the Major’s radio unit melted.

Jack’s car exploded in a ball of pink and robins egg blue fire.

Shalyndra, beginning to gather her war-gear together saw a form fly from the sky and land in her koi pond moat with an almighty splash (and burst of magical energy as the wards and protection enchantments in her house and moat began to activate). Jack had arrived through the expedient of cartoon physics after riding the explosive shockwave of his car blowing up.
And to make matters worse, a fog was beginning to descend on the city.

Leena and Anon (the latter had to abscond with a modified Mk1 SAMAS in the hanger facility) began to suit up to go render assistance to their team. Tim saw the explosion and figuring that his new-found team mates could help him with the legal issues, leaped out of his hotel window and rushed to where he saw the explosion, soon encountering no less than 4 female crab-clawed day-glo skinned daemons. All 4 were surrounding an apartment near to where the car had erupted… Fionna’s apartment (also well warded and magically guarded thanks to Fi’s previous partner Dom’s paranoia). Tim rushed the obviously demented and evil demon horde and began to lay about with his lasers, sword and at the last, missile launcher. 2 daemons were dealt with (one knocked flying by a point blank mini-missile volley, another dispelled due to decapitation), but the other two waited until friendly fire had broken the windows of their preys’ apartment. The other two daemon fems began to use whip and magic fire-balls to try and drive out both Garrus & Fionna. Fionna was more than happy to comply and over the taunts and blandishments of the remaining two representatives of ‘She who thirsts’, dispatched the one who had fried her front foyer.

Things were not going so well over at Shalyndra’s. Jack, trying to wade over to Shaly’s house (that notable holding open the door but NOT going out) was soon flanked by another group of 4 daemons, one of which used a whip of pleasurable-agony to draw him out of the blessed pond. His blood-up and sense flying from his mind, Jack turned to confront the quartet and was soon captured, subdued and at the mercy of the unholy harlots. He had forgotten rule one when confronting demons of any nature… NEVER confront alone unless;
1) One is a trans-human supersoldier or machine-man Borg with superior weaponry.
2) One is a magi / psionic of unbreakable will and superlative skills.

Stealing her courage and enchanting her blades, Shalyndra lept forwards to assist her addled & helpless team-mate. Jack; not knowing how to back down, laid about him with head and elbows to keep his soul from being corrupted along with his body and managed to break free as the Elven sword-mistress began to cut into the daemons (who could not even parry the swords as they were magicked and hurt to even brush against).
By this time both Leena (who went to aid Fionna, Garrus & Tim) and Anon were able to assist, but when Anon flew down to take Jack from the danger zone, the power armour trooper refused and in fact dodged away from safety. Anon began to berate the OBVIOUSLY unbalanced fellow mecha-trooper for his foolishness, and began to become more concerned when the other 3 daemons began to ready themselves for much more lethal magical attacks.
Then a reprieve.
A bolt of lightning arced from the top of the stunted millennium tree to the tip of the Spire, causing the runes and sigils carved into its side to glow. A blast of PPE spread outwards and dispelled the remaining daemonic entities through Lazlo (including a full 8 that had attacked a dimensional weak-point in the city’s downtown core), and allowed enough of a distraction for Shalyndra to spin-kick the opponent she was facing into the purified and warded waters of her koi-pond.

After the battle, Team Alpha were commanded by Maj. Dalhousie to assemble at the Private room of the Broken Fist mercenary bar (as she felt it was THE most secure and discrete place in all of Lazlo for what she needed to say); Just outside of the building, Jack was right-crossed by an enraged Garrus, and informed that foolishness and recklessness of that kind would NOT be tolerated. Lt. Chirax wisely did NOT try and open fire on the alien Special Forces navy officer. Instead he allowed his own rage to descend into sullen persecution complex.

Inside the meeting Maj. Dalhousie announced that the meeting was neither a witch hunt nor a finger pointing session and in fact told ALL involved in the inter-team argument to shut up sit down and behave. Though the team had done remarkably well for disorganized and scattered tactical assets, Dalhousie wanted the team GONE.
Not permanently, but for at least two weeks until repairs could be completed and the inevitable red-tape and finger pointing by the council died down. Garnering assent from all in the room (making sure it known it was NOT a polite request), the Major walked out without another word, leaving the planning for the temporary exile (re; enforced paid vacation ELSEWHERE) to Captain Rika Hanlah.

The Date is now July 8th, (2:45 am EST), PA.109

Akashic Soldier · Thu Mar 29, 2012 2:28 pm

DhAkael wrote:(causing the NuMan warphuntress to proceed to laser-blast it with her wilks pistol)

Thats Anon's damned Wilk's pistol she confescated it when Anon shot Tim to prove he was an an indestructible superman! :lol:

I cannot comment more because I am shamed to admit I was hardly conscious for it but I do remember shaking Jack and realizing that Anon would actually be pretty good in a Samas if he had time to practice because of his experience with the Jetpack he always wears.

EDIT: Crap in a Hat! I just realized that next week the group will be meeting Anon's family and getting uncomfortably close to his darkest most terrible secret. He'll need to prevent them finding out at all costs!

DhAkael · Unread post by **DhAkael** » Thu Mar 29, 2012 2:51 pm

Akashic Soldier wrote:DhAkael wrote:
(causing the NuMan warphuntress to proceed to laser-blast it with her wilks pistol)

Thats Anon's damned Wilk's pistol she confescated it when Anon shot Tim to prove he was an an indestructible superman!

-ahem- that is actually HER laser pistol.
Anon's is a single shot.
Rika's is the double-threat. ;-)

Akashic Soldier · Thu Mar 29, 2012 2:54 pm

DhAkael wrote:
Akashic Soldier wrote:DhAkael wrote:
(causing the NuMan warphuntress to proceed to laser-blast it with her wilks pistol)

Thats Anon's damned Wilk's pistol she confescated it when Anon shot Tim to prove he was an an indestructible superman!

-ahem- that is actually HER laser pistol.
Anon's is a single shot.
Rika's is the double-threat.

Whats the serial number?

DhAkael · Unread post by **DhAkael** » Thu Mar 29, 2012 3:02 pm

Akashic Soldier wrote:
DhAkael wrote:
Akashic Soldier wrote:DhAkael wrote:
(causing the NuMan warphuntress to proceed to laser-blast it with her wilks pistol)

Thats Anon's damned Wilk's pistol she confescated it when Anon shot Tim to prove he was an an indestructible superman!

-ahem- that is actually HER laser pistol.
Anon's is a single shot.
Rika's is the double-threat.

Whats the serial number?

PF-03a-1070

DhAkael · Unread post by **DhAkael** » Thu Mar 29, 2012 8:14 pm

http://palladium-megaverse.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=2506167#p2506167

calto40k · Unread post by **calto40k** » Fri Mar 30, 2012 1:06 am

when you said banzai in game i was hoping for the good doctor showing up not a tree activating a defense system

calto40k · Unread post by **calto40k** » Fri Mar 30, 2012 1:09 am

off topic where in f did krow and servo get a tank on the sol in the i accuse my parents episode

DhAkael · Unread post by **DhAkael** » Fri Mar 30, 2012 10:38 am

DhAkael wrote:
calto40k wrote:when you said banzai in game i was hoping for the good doctor showing up not a tree activating a defense system

Nah; he's busy dealing with Martian tripods back in his home'verse..and the 3-legged buggers finally found a way to deal with the common cold / human cooties.

And no..no idea how they got a tank up there.

Akashic Soldier · Sun Apr 01, 2012 4:03 pm

DhAkael wrote:And no..no idea how they got a tank up there.

Whenever you dont know the question to an answer the answer is "because Elves did it."

And I don't mean those pissy giant slaying bow-wielding Fantasy elves. I mean Santa elves. Since the Unions they get vacation time once a year and roam the earth just doing stuff. I thought everyone knew that.

shiiv-a · Unread post by **shiiv-a** » Mon Apr 02, 2012 12:03 am

the excitement continues i see.

awesome. enjoy

DhAkael · Unread post by **DhAkael** » Tue Apr 03, 2012 12:30 pm

A week's break for the GM & Players and hopefully we won't be having any more disruptions to the story flow due to rampant paranoia about things that keeps Phoenix Force running... or Emo :frust:

However, it would be prudent for Leena to take a look at gLaD -ahem- I mean Haven while she's in residence

...and now a musical interlude.

Spoiler:

DhAkael · Unread post by **DhAkael** » Fri Apr 06, 2012 1:37 am

well... this is exciting *watches tumbleweeds roll past*

taalismn · Unread post by **taalismn** » Fri Apr 06, 2012 9:18 am

DhAkael wrote:well... this is exciting *watches tumbleweeds roll past*

Tumbleweed turns against the wind, begins circling DhAkael...other tumbleweeds join it...

DhAkael · Unread post by **DhAkael** » Thu Apr 12, 2012 2:41 am

Muse ran off again BUT I have some stuff to contribute soon.
HOPEFULLY sometime today when I wake up

(EST is 2:40am).

taalismn · Unread post by **taalismn** » Thu Apr 12, 2012 5:35 pm

DhAkael wrote:Muse ran off again BUT I have some stuff to contribute soon.
HOPEFULLY sometime today when I wake up (EST is 2:40am).

Tax week...those of us who pay them are working last minute to pay the piper. :-(

DhAkael · Unread post by **DhAkael** » Fri Apr 13, 2012 11:41 am

Please note that this is incomplete; and only covers the last session and some off-camera P.B.E.M.
[A time for reflection and distrust of the Machine]

July 9th to 23rd
*Rika decides to take everyone to Haven.
*Ammo allocations had been requisitioned.
*Anon gets his new mecha (the Black Talon)
*Anon gets freaked by Haven as it takes a shot at Shalyndra and the Starwind (due to her not taking off the mask and voice recognition software glitch).
*Both Tim the Borg and Jack Chirax talk about their pasts, with jack revealing a bit more of how he knew of the 4 great powers of Chaos; in an alternate Rifts Earth he and his mercenary group had signed on with Tolkeen in the final weeks of the siege. To show loyalty, Jack’s unit took part in a ceremony that pledged their souls to the Throne of Skulls and the Lord of Murder. Jack, having a collection of game books in his contraband collection from prior to the cataclysm recognized the name invoked and escaped as quickly as he could through a random rift. Anything was better than what he saw happen to his former comrades.
*Rika dresses down Anon for his (apparent) paranoia about A.I., and has him and Lena make sure the Starwind has been fully unloaded.
*Anon accidentally activates a DNA recognition program on the Starwind, re-playing a message from its previous owner; Captain ‘Handsome’ Robert Bartholomew Wilks, Esquire.

Spoiler:

*Anon is given 2-3 days to speak with his family about this new revelation into the history of the Wilks Corporation.

July 15th. Take off of the Fenris-Darkstar, pursuit by an unknown vessel and soon after the discovery of an alien artifact in orbit around Pluto & Charon. Also a flawless awakening of the A.I. ‘Fenris’, who was not pleased with being brought to full battle-reflex awareness levels by; “the Mewlings and flailing of foolish mortals.”
Despite this, Fenris did help the crew exactly as requested, but informed them not to bring him to full awareness unless battle was to be joined.

July 16th. Successful activation of the FTL system, training training and more training. Entry into the Tau-Ceti solar system and easy voyage in sublight towards TCIV-3. On close approach (geo-stationary orbit), the empathic / telepathic members of the crew thought they heard wordless singing (the female “voices” sounding like windchimes and the male like wood-winds) which caused consternation in the non-sensitive members of the party. Further causing some concern was the fact the initial survey had made out TCIV-3 to be an ammonia & nitrogen ice rock was proven inaccurate. The moon / sub-planet was now a weather active sub-zero nitrogen oxygen and atmospehered world. It was decided that the senior command staff would remain aboard the Fenris-Darkstar
Regardless; Uno-Rez & Lt. Chriax completed an orbital insertion and re-entry flawlessly in the Legios, while Shalyndra in the Starwind… did not. The outer cowling of the port-side gravity coil tore away in the high-velocity winds and ice caked up and shorted out the electronics in the nacelle. Narrowly avoiding a crash the Starwind touched own in a bowl-valley that was close to the beacon Cpt. ‘Handsome’ Rob Wilks had left some decades previously. Leena Shidow leapt out of the stricken craft barely before the outer hull had cooled to begin repairs.
…and the “singing” had stopped.

DhAkael · Unread post by **DhAkael** » Wed Apr 25, 2012 12:46 pm

http://palladium-megaverse.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=2512352#p2512352
Updated

DhAkael · Unread post by **DhAkael** » Fri May 04, 2012 2:10 pm

http://youtu.be/J7GQvXuQJVI Sorta the "feel" i'm going for. :demon:

DhAkael · Unread post by **DhAkael** » Tue May 15, 2012 1:07 pm

Micro GM rant

"The play's the thing", except in this case it is more likely to be "The game's the thing".

Last nights session was a bit of a butt dragger in places and -sigh- :nh:

yet again I had to pull out the Diablos Ex-Machina of "...and so a random negative-space-wedgie swallows the group to get the plot moving forwards." :thwak:

That being said, even though I got the crew to where they were supposed to be, bass-ackwards (they're at the destination point B without even going into departue point A which would give everything context :badbad:

), I think the attack of the killer peace-lillies at the end worked. :demon:

Oh, and "Go Blades!" http://www.sufc.co.uk/page/Home

taalismn · Unread post by **taalismn** » Tue May 15, 2012 5:12 pm

DhAkael wrote:[
Oh, and "Go Blades!" http://www.sufc.co.uk/page/Home

But can they hold their own against the Unseen Academicals?

calto40k · Unread post by **calto40k** » Sun May 20, 2012 6:28 pm

no fault of my own for once mwuahahahaha<continues eating his double whooper with cheese>

calto40k · Unread post by **calto40k** » Sun May 20, 2012 7:41 pm

If I end up one manning tonight I m sooooo screaming OHHHHH IT'S THE JUGGERNAUT }*^(#

DhAkael · Unread post by **DhAkael** » Wed May 23, 2012 12:46 pm

Not really feeling motivated to update.

calto40k · Unread post by **calto40k** » Wed May 23, 2012 12:51 pm

DhAkael wrote:Not really feeling motivated to update.

but we had a whole victory dance

calto40k · Unread post by **calto40k** » Wed May 23, 2012 12:58 pm

taalismn wrote:
DhAkael wrote:well... this is exciting *watches tumbleweeds roll past*

Tumbleweed turns against the wind, begins circling DhAkael...other tumbleweeds join it...

Followed by a tire named Robert and his ilk

taalismn · Unread post by **taalismn** » Wed May 23, 2012 5:14 pm

calto40k wrote:
taalismn wrote:
DhAkael wrote:well... this is exciting *watches tumbleweeds roll past*

Tumbleweed turns against the wind, begins circling DhAkael...other tumbleweeds join it...

Followed by a tire named Robert and his ilk

Beware Tires Named Robert and Riderless Bicycles Named Lurch.*

(*Magically animated bicycle in an old D&D game, thrown in out of sheer boredom. It became effectively an NPC when the PC began directing it to attack people, which it did with a vengeance, striking with particular accuracy and violence at knees and crotch. Got to the point that all it took to get captive orcs and goblins to talk was to let 'Lurch' coast past them and they'd spill their lungs talking a mile a minute to keep from being 'El Toro'ed' on the thing's handlebars. )

calto40k · Unread post by **calto40k** » Thu May 24, 2012 2:12 am

taalismn wrote:
calto40k wrote:
taalismn wrote:
DhAkael wrote:well... this is exciting *watches tumbleweeds roll past*

Tumbleweed turns against the wind, begins circling DhAkael...other tumbleweeds join it...

Followed by a tire named Robert and his ilk

Beware Tires Named Robert and Riderless Bicycles Named Lurch.*

(*Magically animated bicycle in an old D&D game, thrown in out of sheer boredom. It became effectively an NPC when the PC began directing it to attack people, which it did with a vengeance, striking with particular accuracy and violence at knees and crotch. Got to the point that all it took to get captive orcs and goblins to talk was to let 'Lurch' coast past them and they'd spill their lungs talking a mile a minute to keep from being 'El Toro'ed' on the thing's handlebars. )

lol

calto40k · Unread post by **calto40k** » Tue May 29, 2012 6:00 pm

two week hiatus = me going crazy

taalismn · Unread post by **taalismn** » Tue May 29, 2012 6:04 pm

calto40k wrote:two week hiatus = me going crazy

Embrace your madness. Make it work for you. Start with it picking up your living room, then doing the dishes, then maybe vacuuming in the corners. Later you can send it to fetch the mail and bring in the laundry.

calto40k · Unread post by **calto40k** » Thu May 31, 2012 10:31 pm

lol if i had mom implants i would... got to join up with eliakon's tuesday night game and i m going to start working out again got my p90 to start up again

DhAkael · Unread post by **DhAkael** » Wed Jun 06, 2012 1:19 pm

A breif update from two sessions ago.

July 16th into 17th Repairs began on Starwind grav-coils, psionic scan of Leena by ‘the Corus’ and subsequent violent rejection.
Geyser explosion coating Tim the Borg with alloy eating spores and then psionic teleportation of 4 ‘Grenades’; 2 of medium mecha size, 2 of “normal” grendel scale. Leena and Shalyndra panic; Shalyndra retreating back to the Starwind while Leena flies off in a random direction. Jack Chirax and Tim the Borg lay down suppressing fire to cover the retreat of their comrades, but sustain moderate damage as the bio-mecha unleash their own attacks. As Tim the Borg lays about with his vibro-claymore, he accidentally strikes a cluster of what appears to be quartz but is in fact active psylite. The resultant psionic backlash lays everyone low, kills the organisms in the geothermal vent along with the Grendels, and silences the Corus.
An hour back aboard the Starwind, the away team receive a broken message warning of a massive global ley-line storm approaching them as well as another possible space vessel landed several hundred Km away from their position Then all communications became cut off with the orbiting Fenris-Darkstar. Over ALL radio links, The Corus promised retribution for their defeat at the hands of Phoenix Force. The team began to dither and procrastinate on a possible course of action. However, the choice was taken from their hands as the ley-line storm struck the valley the Starwind was within. The rampant multi-dimensional energy teleported the runner-vessel somewhere else.
Outside of the view screen, the team saw a verdant jungle, interspersed with ancient and eerily familiar buildings (though no one could pin-point WHY the architecture seemed familiar) all inside a 2KM deep cavern. Sensor scans revealed they were still on the same moon, in the same dimension, just within the moon.

DhAkael · Unread post by **DhAkael** » Fri Jun 15, 2012 1:22 pm

July 17th
After analyzing the atmosphere, the team departed the Starwind (except for Garrus) to investigate their new location. Tim the Borg became delusional for some reason, believing that he was walking THROUGH the trees when he actually was walking BETWEEN the trees. The hallucinating borg began to hew about himself with his vibro-claymore, destroying an innocent banyan tree. That is when the sound of hollow drums and clattering wood began. Suddenly the air was filled with seed pods being flung at velocities found in .50 cal machine guns. Dozens of upright, motile “peace-lilies” were coming out from between the fern-like growths and tree-roots. Anon just stood dumbfounded and had to be forcibly tackled by Uno to prevent his head from being taken off by a cluster of killer seed pods (and still ended up with multiple broken ribs).
Tim the Borg stood his ground screaming incomprehensible imprecations against the uncaring plants while Jack Chirax began to lay down suppressive fire with his Alpha Fighter’s gun pod. Eventually the group managed to retreat back to the Starwind; a theme that acting commander Uno was beginning to resent having to repeat; Jack Chirax having to forcibly restrain Tim in one mecha-fist. With everyone now safely behind the Runner ship’s shields, Garrus then laid down area effect phase-cannon shots to clear out the rest of the killer-lilies.

Later, using both Alpha & Beta fighters to push the Starwind forwards with shields up, the group moved the half kilometer to the alien buildings. When there, Tim, Uno, Jack, Shalyndra and Leena (Garrus remaining behind again to offer fire support and Anon in the med-bay with his multiple broken ribs) approached the most intact building; noticing that it had no windows doors or opening of any kind they could see. A quick blip on Jack’s power suit radar detected a fast moving metallic object that stopped suddenly beside Uno-Rez. Leena attempted to communicate with the device (a bronze-coloured metal sphere about basketball sized). The device informed Leena that it had scanned everyone present and identified them as being human or near-human except for Uno-Rez, which it was going to take for further study. A nearly invisible beam struck Uno, rendering her inert. Jack acted quickly and let fly with his pistols; doing minimal damage, but enough to make the alien drone robot flee without Uno-Rez.
When Uno recovered, the building behind Shalyndra suddenly had a 10ft. oval opening appear right behind her and the elf-maid was drawn inside via tractor beam in an eye-blink, the door closing behind her just as suddenly.

Dithering and arguments began in earnest while unseen by the others, Shalyndra was “probed” by the automated science A.I. named ‘Gardener’; a machine intelligence responsible for the maintenance of the planet-forming greenhouse under Tau Ceti IV-3. Shalyndra asked about why she was being probed, and was informed it was to make sure her particular genome was not susceptible to infection by the mutagenic agent that had been introduced to the surface of the moon some 7 decades ago.
15 minutes later, a somewhat disheveled but unharmed ms. Baza-Khaine was deposited in front of the team, just as Gardner used its public address system (in perfect English) to inform everyone that the green-house facility was about to be sterilized due to irreparable mutagenic infection.
Again with the running to cover. In mere minutes, the entire bio-facility was flooded with toxins and then the dead materials incinerated.

Shalyndra & Jack Chirax, with permission from Uno-Rez, made contact with Gardener and requested information as to who created it and any other information that might be relevant. Gardener informed Phoenix Force that it was unable to give them all the information they wished, but that the archives would be made available to them.
Jack, Shalyndra, Uno and Tim the Borg readied them selves and were soon provided transport to the other sector of the underground facility; a seamless ovoid of alloy, transparent inside but opaque-reflective outside. With barely a nudge of inertia, the transport pod streaked off at mind numbing speeds towards what looked like a solid wall (but was in fact a rapid open-close airlock), as clusters of bronze spheres came into the ash laden greenhouse grotto to re-seed with fresh, un-tainted bio-mass.
At the end of the trip, the doorways to the archives of Gardener were enclosed by a giant bronze circle embossed with a stylized tree motif. The door slid aside smoothly, revealing a 500 diameter hemispherical room with a dozen couches molded seamlessly to the polished black marble floor. One of the seats was however occupied. A human (possibly) dressed in dark navy bodysuit, mummified after so many centuries or millennia, and on top of him / her was a 9ft. tall Skelton of a reptilian girded in what looked like carved crab shell.

The barrage of spoken questions that the flustered organic members of the away team fired off to the A.I. were met with bare bones information; most of the answers being “Please regard the projection provided” as a hologram would appear at head height to a seated individual if they were in one of the couches.

And then seismic shudders began.
Phoenix Force was calmly informed by Gardener that an unknown vessel had begun multi-megatonne thermonuclear airburst and orbital kinetic bombardment of the moon’s surface. “Would you like to know more?” being the final question asked as the lights went out.

Akashic Soldier · Fri Jun 15, 2012 2:31 pm

Up to date now. More comments when my brain isn't in sleepy-coma state.

DhAkael · Unread post by **DhAkael** » Fri Jun 15, 2012 3:40 pm

Most of the team last few sessions... :thwak:

http://chzsetphaserstolol.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/sci-fi-fantasy-trust-me-i-have-no-idea-what-im-doing.jpg

Akashic Soldier · Sat Jun 16, 2012 1:04 pm

DhAkael wrote:Most of the team last few sessions...
http://chzsetphaserstolol.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/sci-fi-fantasy-trust-me-i-have-no-idea-what-im-doing.jpg

Time to save the day with the Sci-Fi equivalent of a bumpkin farmer--Anon! :lol:

calto40k · Unread post by **calto40k** » Sat Jun 16, 2012 6:35 pm

DhAkael wrote:Most of the team last few sessions...
http://chzsetphaserstolol.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/sci-fi-fantasy-trust-me-i-have-no-idea-what-im-doing.jpg

DhAkael · Unread post by **DhAkael** » Mon Jun 18, 2012 12:00 pm

They blew up the library... :eek:

DhAkael · Unread post by **DhAkael** » Wed Jun 27, 2012 12:12 pm

...and as the mission fails (by the numbers..except for one accidental GOOD thing)... one steps away from the mantle and two come forth to take it up again.

calto40k · Unread post by **calto40k** » Mon Jul 02, 2012 10:07 pm

http://marvel.com/news/story/18994/aven ... e_only_one

DhAkael · Unread post by **DhAkael** » Sat Jul 07, 2012 5:23 pm

Well after the unnamed individual ragequit I've pretty much lost interest in updating on this here thread for the moment.
Once I get that incident behind me (and get the story back on track), I'll continue.

Nightmask · Unread post by **Nightmask** » Sun Jul 08, 2012 12:21 am

DhAkael wrote:Well after the unnamed individual ragequit I've pretty much lost interest in updating on this here thread for the moment.
Once I get that incident behind me (and get the story back on track), I'll continue.

Sorry to hear that, I hope you can put it behind you and get back to the fun soon.