2 August 2024
We get to pick more three ship shares worth repairs: - 1 share on microfractures - 2 share on the manoeuvre drive
It will all take a week to complete.
We still need to name the `nibbon'.
The next morning we are greeted by Princess Rao and Laris Spittral. There was a catastrophic chemical leak on the lower levels of the space station several decades ago, and now there are tremors being felt in the lower levels of the stations. It may be a grav engine. The nature of the leak is unknown. We may not get paid but we take the job.
We meet Duke Willoughby, he tells us that the gas causes skin blistering.
Franky, Shanti & Diogo each grab a combat armor. Franky grabs a cutlass and an advanced combat rifle Shanti grabs a cutlass. Brick gets an combat armor + an advanced combat rifle + a cutlass. Stigo gets an advanced combat armor.
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We take the elevator to the lower town - people look poor, sad, sus. There seems to be a kind of trafficking and / or a street hierarchy. Duke Willoughby seems unaffected. We discover that the airlock definitely has been opened recently. There are toxins in the air.
We take some samples, but fail to analyze them.
The power is out to the cargo lift, we find the emergency stairs. In the first two levels Diogo's drone fails to find monsters, but it does get caught in some trash. We make it all the way down four levels and then stand in front of a door.
We enter into the former main habitation areas - it looks spacious. After a walk, we arrive at the central park. Diogo sends the drone ahead. WE sneak around the park and then a voice
"Human flesh, we had a deal. Human flesh for juice, no flesh we take." This is a psionic effect.
We make it to the doors to the grav engine, but they have been forced and won't open. Someone appeared to have cut a hole in the side wall, so we crawl in, Franky first.
Once we are all in, we go to the control room - Diogo hacks into a computer and we find a map of the larger underground space.
We move on towards the plant - Franky sets off a trip wire and in the room beyond we find a dead, human (middle-aged man) in a hide-out and rotten food. The corpse has a stab wound, and did not appear to have died here. We are not sure if the gas has damaged the corpse.
We move along. Once Buck gets to work and we fortify our position. It takes four hours.
We move out. At the exit, the drone is covered in liquid. We roll for initiative.
I have been bitten (for 13 pts of damage) by a small flesh heap with a circular maw full of teeth. We shoot that creature and it and its companion run away.
Once they are gone, we make a move back to the stairs. We activate the elevator, calling it down, and then climb the stairs.
Once we are a flight up, the lights come on and the door opens. Someone hails us, calls us Reginald. Once he figures our who we are, and that his boss "Treek" did not authorize our excursion but the king did, they skedaddle.
We make through the lower town, which is now strangely deserted. Once we make it to uptown, we end for the night.
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