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game_systems:mindjammer [2020/03/22 11:16] – [Episode 3: Love Makes for Strange Bedfellows] Bryan Stephensgame_systems:mindjammer [2020/05/16 11:37] – [Episode 3: Love Makes for Strange Bedfellows] Bryan Stephens
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 ===== Adventure Journal ===== ===== Adventure Journal =====
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 +==== Episode 4: Living History ====
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 +While all of 7S7 is not on an assignment, SABAR is recruited through ExSol to help hunt down SulliedMen on the world below. Douglas receives a message from Nari Llashrm, Minister of Security, telling him where his old ship is located. Douglas has been growing increasingly concerned, as he does not remember blanking out the memory backups on board the //Unity//, nor does he remember giving them the actual override codes. Knowing where his old ships is, there is a chance he can access one of the back up nodes, which would reveal any tampering of the ship’s memory. This would help him reconcile his memory of being woken up by someone in an encounter suit. 
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 +Douglas sends the message to the team, and they discuss going to the coordinates. The ship is surrounded by 8 cloaking satellites, in a solar orbit trailing one of the systems gas giants. Accessing telescopic records does not show any activity in the area, and there are no radio transmissions. Titus is the most reluctant to go, being worried about the possible danger to the team, but the decision is made to investigate, stealthily. 
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 +Titus is able to spot the satellites and sneak through the field. Inside the cloaked is the //Unity//, powered down, but with clear zero-point APU in operation. A small interplanetary ship is docked to the side. There is a local mindscape instance within part of the ship, around the computer core, bridge, and crew quarters. 
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 +Douglas directs the team to the drive section, where the most hidden archive is in place. Cimon accesses the computer, and is confronted by the suddenly reactivated AI personality, Evangeline, a steampunk avatar/interface left by “Dougie”. Evangeline tells them that one of the 4 cores is already been removed and thus self-destructed. The one in the drive is still safe and secure behind its bulkhead. The team sets to work getting to the drive. Cimon leaves drones to watch for any approach, and while Douglas is working, a sentinel bot comes upon the team. The advanced warning gives Douglas and Malstox a chance to block any communications it might make while the rest of the team goes into action. Cimon tries to activate something, but the old technology just cannot hear him. Owari begins hand to hand with the bot, while the others take shots which bounce off of hits armor. Owari takes a couple of hits which slow her as she wrestles with it. Douglas and Malstox race to engage it and help slow its movement. Owari is then able to crush and rip off an arm, forcing a shut down. 
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 +Douglas and Malstox go back to retrieving the unit, while Cimon downloads the bot’s memory. Cimon works with Evangeline to report in over the intercom as if the bot is still on patrol. 
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 +Back on the ship, Douglas is able to share the records which show another ship approaching from the side, and docking with //Unity//. Encounter suited figures awake Douglas from his stasis, and then knock him out, and do something to his mindscape implant. The team immediately asks Dr. Tilton to look at Douglas, except for Cimon, who suddenly goes into standby. Alarmed, Tilton leads Douglas and Malstox in investigation into Cimon. Apparently, he shut down seeing the encounter suit figures because of a small unit implanted in him. Tilton is able to remove it, and Cimon now is able to remember being intercepted during his journey between the stars, within 2000 AU of where the //Unity// was boarded. 
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 +Immediately, the whole team checks each other for similar devices, finding one as part of Douglas old Mindscape implant. Everyone else is clean. It is clear to the team that the implants have been recording and transmitting information without their knowledge, in an encoded way. Cimon promises to try to track how it transmits. 
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 +Feeling they are on a clock before the hole in the bulkhead is discovered, Douglas pushes for answers of the three people on the ship or blowing the ship up. Cimon suggests destruction of the other two modules of information. The team is easily able to get to both, and destroys the first, but contemplates leaving the second to be found, as they feel this information may need to get out. 
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 +Cimon and Dr. Tilton move to the edge of the Mindscape instance and Cimon attempts to handshake into secretly. While it looks like he was successful, the thoughts he is able to glean are all superficial. Suddenly, he is trapped in an imposality he is unable to overturn. Seeing he is cut off, Tilton goes to yank him back, as the Mindscape instance flows into the area. 
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 +In the accelerated space of the Mindscape, two hyperintelligent minds talk at racing speeds. Lisa Emotha is with SciForce and confronts Cimon. It is fast clear she knows who he is, and who his companions are and their histories. As 4 security bots move in, she opens a link from Cimon to the rest of the team, commanding them to stand down and talk. Cimon relays the information (excluding the transmitters) and offers that they have with the SciForce team is looking for. Dr. Tilton recognizes the woman who told him he was banished. Everyone is escorted to the Hanger, and Titus flies around to be close to the team. 
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 +Ms. Emotha explains that the information in Dr. Tilton’s report is why they obtained the ship and are investigating. It becomes clear they see this as a threat to the Commonality and this information is why Tilton was banished. Cimon gives them the data and after the exchange the team is free to go. 
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 +SABER rejoins the team at ExSol 7, where the team immediately make sure he is free of the transmitter. They meet with Keepu and tell him the full story. He is concerned and promises that ExSol will start its own investigations. He also suggests that maybe work away from the Sector Capital would be a good idea, and they are told to head to Olkennedy, at the edge of the sector. Orders would be waiting for them in the Mindscape. Once safely in 2-space, the technical team begins working on understanding the transmitters. 
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 +1 Refresh 
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 +1 Aspect to be spent on Equipment Only (From Kipu)
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 ==== Episode 3: Love Makes for Strange Bedfellows ==== ==== Episode 3: Love Makes for Strange Bedfellows ====
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 7S7 leaves Delebor and heads for Ajeux 7S7 leaves Delebor and heads for Ajeux
  
-On the way, Omni Mox brings passenger’s oddness to Doctor and Cimon’s attention to meet Alaz Yaubem (man you picked up) in sick bay. Omni Max asks Dr. Tipton for a scan of Alaz.+On the way, Omni Mox brings passenger’s oddness to Doctor and Cimon’s attention to meet Alaz Yaubem (man you picked up) in sick bay. Omni Max asks Dr. Tilton for a scan of Alaz.
  
 Omni says that he does a contract with all employees that involves a Memoplex (p.188 core rulebook) that includes confidentiality enforcers. These are all voluntary but protect him.  Omni says that he does a contract with all employees that involves a Memoplex (p.188 core rulebook) that includes confidentiality enforcers. These are all voluntary but protect him. 
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 Omni Mox: //“I cannot insert this contract. I am not sure what we need to do with him, but I don’t want him near my ventures ongoing.”// Omni Mox: //“I cannot insert this contract. I am not sure what we need to do with him, but I don’t want him near my ventures ongoing.”//
  
-Cimon and Dr. Tipton take this to the team, and they decide to confine Alaz to quarters. Alaz appears to have no knowledge of what is going on. They look at security, and it does not appear Titus has been tampered with in any way. They decide to tell Keepu and see what ExSol will do. +Cimon and Dr. Tilton take this to the team, and they decide to confine Alaz to quarters. Alaz appears to have no knowledge of what is going on. They look at security, and it does not appear Titus has been tampered with in any way. They decide to tell Keepu and see what ExSol will do. 
  
 Upon arrival in the Ajeux system, Titus is told to go under stealth and take a circuitous root to ExSol 7 and doc in an inside bay. There he will get upgraded. 7S7 makes their report. Keepu says they will keep the data confidential and will get Alaz off the station. They are free until their next mission.  Upon arrival in the Ajeux system, Titus is told to go under stealth and take a circuitous root to ExSol 7 and doc in an inside bay. There he will get upgraded. 7S7 makes their report. Keepu says they will keep the data confidential and will get Alaz off the station. They are free until their next mission. 
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 About 9 days after return, 7S7 is directed to the office of Takanna Trianis, a local leader who runs a shipping corpocracy, **Trianis Traders**, and sits on the ruling council for this system. Her head of IT Security, and illicit xenomorph canine lover, Sempef Windlight has clearly been kidnapped. She cannot involve the Security forces as this will bring to light the illicit love affair. He was taken 10 hours ago leaving the Odessa building after a meeting with Stardust Traders.  About 9 days after return, 7S7 is directed to the office of Takanna Trianis, a local leader who runs a shipping corpocracy, **Trianis Traders**, and sits on the ruling council for this system. Her head of IT Security, and illicit xenomorph canine lover, Sempef Windlight has clearly been kidnapped. She cannot involve the Security forces as this will bring to light the illicit love affair. He was taken 10 hours ago leaving the Odessa building after a meeting with Stardust Traders. 
  
-7S7 springs into action, and immediately splits up to investigate. Cimon leads the investigation at the site, while Douglas goes to the vitim’s home with Dr. Tipton, and Owari and (Doug’s) investigate the office. They find nothing in the office of note other than a schedule of his day, written on paper. At his apartment, they find a pen from a restaurant The Savoir Où Est. This is a listening bug transmitting to the mindscape. They secure the pen but do not investigate the restaurant. +7S7 springs into action, and immediately splits up to investigate. Cimon leads the investigation at the site, while Douglas goes to the victim’s home with Dr. Tilton, and Owari and (Doug’s) investigate the office. They find nothing in the office of note other than a schedule of his day, written on paper. At his apartment, they find a pen from a restaurant The Savoir Où Est. This is a listening bug transmitting to the mindscape. They secure the pen but do not investigate the restaurant. 
  
 Meanwhile, Cimon is able to determine the cameras were hacked, but the local cameras are a high security type with on board memory. He finds they are doubled hacked, and clearly, Windlight left a personal view of what happened. He was jumped by four members of a gang, one of whom is clearly a cream colored canine xenomorph. All were wearing masks. The Car, registered to Palace Rides merges into air traffic and is lost against the cameras. It is clear holographic rigs were used to fool the local cameras. This seems pretty high tech for a gang. Cimon goes to look up the symbol on the jackets, and finds that information is secured.  Meanwhile, Cimon is able to determine the cameras were hacked, but the local cameras are a high security type with on board memory. He finds they are doubled hacked, and clearly, Windlight left a personal view of what happened. He was jumped by four members of a gang, one of whom is clearly a cream colored canine xenomorph. All were wearing masks. The Car, registered to Palace Rides merges into air traffic and is lost against the cameras. It is clear holographic rigs were used to fool the local cameras. This seems pretty high tech for a gang. Cimon goes to look up the symbol on the jackets, and finds that information is secured. 
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 When the fighting began, the whole site was severed from the general mindscape. Cimon was able to use his skills to piggy-back on the bugged pen signal and gain access. He brought an imposailty into place to deal with the guards and the sentinels. The team descended on the elevator, as Malstox and Cimon were headed to the location by aircar. The doors opened, and Douglas yelled “Look out!” as he saw three auto turrets descend from the ceiling.   When the fighting began, the whole site was severed from the general mindscape. Cimon was able to use his skills to piggy-back on the bugged pen signal and gain access. He brought an imposailty into place to deal with the guards and the sentinels. The team descended on the elevator, as Malstox and Cimon were headed to the location by aircar. The doors opened, and Douglas yelled “Look out!” as he saw three auto turrets descend from the ceiling.  
  
 +===Part 3 2020/03/15===
 +The turrets fired, but those in front were able to take near misses. Except for the large ursinoid of the group, who just shrugged off the shots and charged into the room to rip the turrets from the ceiling. SABER and Titus fired to destroy two of the turrets, but the real story was the angry bear. Searching the basement, Douglas found an air-gapped data storage. Titus acted as a bridge for Cimon and they downloaded the encrypted contents. 
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 +The team was now aware of city police and planetary security descending on the building. Cimon and Malstox are instructed to head to the Ministry of Security and their aircar conveniently heads in that direction. Cimon is also told to have the team come out and enter the Ministry air van which is arriving. The team takes the data drive, and leaves the building, but not before Cimon makes sure the encrypted data is stored on a Mindjammer in system. 
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 +7S7 meets with Nari Llashrm, Minister of Security, Taylor Flag, Head of IT Security, Lea Cothran Deputy Minister of Security, Takanna Trianas, and Hans Gordan, her head of Physical Security. It appears Trianas came to Llashrm when she found out about the SulliedMen. Taylor Flag heads off to decode the data, while the group talks. Dr. Tilton notes Cothran slipping out of the meeting, but otherwise things seem normal. During the conversation, Trianas is surprised to discover Tremba talked to the party. Gordan denies telling Tremba anything. It is clear Tremba knew things he should not have known. Tilton quickly cross-checks the other hair sample and sure enough, it was Tremba. 
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 +Flag returns with the decoded data, and it is quite clear there is a plot afoot. Lea Cothran is a SciForce plant, and this scheme is set up to discredit both Trianas and Llashrm. By the time this in known, both Tremba and Cothran have disappeared. Llashrm orders 7S7 weapons to be collected and soon the group is headed to the safehouse location where the decrypted data says Windlight is being held. He promises the mindscape in the area will show nothing out of the ordinary. 
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 +In the climax of the adventure, the team bursts into the dockside warehouse. Cimon provides the cameras outside with a boring fantasy life, and the team goes in on the side opposite the street. It is clear the local SulliedMen know they are coming, but the team plows through them. Owari literally slams a group of four thugs into the barrier others are behind. Now in his BRADD suit, SABER adroitly burns through the group behind the barrier. Owari takes the barrier and uses it as a ram to crush the other thugs in the hallway. Douglas enters behind SABER and is attacked by a human from a room. They fire back, and the new assailant dodges back in and secures the door. A search of the room later will show a secret passage out from what was his bedroom/office. 
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 +Owari and SABER search the complex, with Owari bursting into the room where Windlight is being held by “Slate Grof” who surrenders with no fight. His real name is Alci Badi. Windlight is being kept in a suspended state, but Dr. Tilton is able to wake him. Security moves in, while the team leaves. 
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 +Thanks to their efforts, all history of their actions has been memoplexed away, and will at best, be rumors. New security against the Commonality will be put into place, despite the damage it might do to trade. For obvious reasons, Trainas is well on board with this now. The Minster tells Douglas he will not be doing that podcast but promises him some further information on his old ship in the next few days. 
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 +7S7 returns to ExSol 7 and debriefs with Keepu who says that they are seeing more Commonality activity as well. Keepu dryly notes that 7S7 is clearly not an investigative team, and he will point them into more robust situations in the future. 
  
  
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 The Mission is to explore alien ruins on the planet. It looks to have been involved in large scale nuclear war in its past. Yi Xiu is at the hot edge of the habitable zone and is drying out. CO2 levels will require breathers for humans.  The Mission is to explore alien ruins on the planet. It looks to have been involved in large scale nuclear war in its past. Yi Xiu is at the hot edge of the habitable zone and is drying out. CO2 levels will require breathers for humans. 
 Omni Mox is a Large ATV with many drones and other plug in parts, including a makepoint. He will assemble himself as a base at a chosen location on the planet.  Omni Mox is a Large ATV with many drones and other plug in parts, including a makepoint. He will assemble himself as a base at a chosen location on the planet. 
-The Rest have various cargo, equipment to install, and there are 16 satellites to be orbited around the planet to let Omni have a planetwide mindscape.// +The Rest have various cargo, equipment to install, and there are 16 satellites to be orbited around the planet to let Omni have a planet wide mindscape.// 
  
  
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 //From the void between the stars, two ships converge on the Darradine Rim Capital system of Ajeux. One is a old STL gardener ship, with a loan crewmember. The other is a crippled scout, with a tired and damaged vet of the Venu war.  //From the void between the stars, two ships converge on the Darradine Rim Capital system of Ajeux. One is a old STL gardener ship, with a loan crewmember. The other is a crippled scout, with a tired and damaged vet of the Venu war. 
  
-The gardener ship, Unity, is intercepted by a Commonality corvette, including one Dr. James Tipton, from the Core Worlds. It is he who wakes up Douglas Arthur, the Unity’s engineer after his long sleep. After this find, the good Doctor finds he is banished and cannot return to the Core Worlds. Arthur, amazed at the future, signs up with Titus as ship’s engineer. Titus, is a retired vet of the Venu wars, an infiltration ship, trying to adapt to civilian life.+The gardener ship, Unity, is intercepted by a Commonality corvette, including one Dr. James Tilton, from the Core Worlds. It is he who wakes up Douglas Arthur, the Unity’s engineer after his long sleep. After this find, the good Doctor finds he is banished and cannot return to the Core Worlds. Arthur, amazed at the future, signs up with Titus as ship’s engineer. Titus, is a retired vet of the Venu wars, an infiltration ship, trying to adapt to civilian life.
  
 The scout held the synthetic Cimon, a hacker from the Venu wars, forced to limp home, burning with resentment for a Commonality which abandoned him. The scout held the synthetic Cimon, a hacker from the Venu wars, forced to limp home, burning with resentment for a Commonality which abandoned him.
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