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Session 36

2026-01-08T22:47:49Z

77.2.126.159: Created page with "Jerry was on his way to meet the others, but made a brief stop in a hallway where you find a door you've seen in some kind of vision. When he tries to open it, he finds a workspace with locked cupboards, a bucket and a whiteboard on the wall. On it, there are a lot of names (Rosmerta, the Lavrov boss, Gyrante siblings to name just a few) that are familiar to him, as well as cross connections (like an organigram of sorts..gangs, individual people etc). He steps towards th..."

Jerry was on his way to meet the others, but made a brief stop in a hallway where you find a door you've seen in some kind of vision. When he tries to open it, he finds a workspace with locked cupboards, a bucket and a whiteboard on the wall. On it, there are a lot of names (Rosmerta, the Lavrov boss, Gyrante siblings to name just a few) that are familiar to him, as well as cross connections (like an organigram of sorts..gangs, individual people etc). He steps towards the whiteboard, takes a picture and sends it to the group along with a location pin - "I've found something really weird - does it mean anything to anyone?". The setup reminds him of something he found back on Baragown. When he tries to open the cupboards, only one opens - it's empty but contains some sort of holding implements that could be used to keep weapons in place.

Darian and Nissa meet at Gabriel plaza. It's a square with vending machines (it sells potatoes like Linda and Ariel for example) - columns holding up a kind of roof but also angel statues and the like. Darian is taking a closer look at the potato machine. Nissa recognises that there are quite a few more security people than usual. The potato vending machine is in the place where a liquor machine was before, as Alexis quickly realises when she joins the others. Since the last meeting, Alexis has tried to get a date with chief of security Ren, to gain his trust. He and Gunther seem to be part of some secret network [Gunther was responsible for the disappearance of some scientists earlier on]. Adrian buys a bag of Rylan potatoes in order to convince the team chef to make some fries.

After some salutations, the trio decides to join Jerry. Adrian takes his potatoes with him, to have a weapon - just in case. They try to avoid police control on the way. While it quite busy in the zouk, they soon get into a surprisingly quiet area. There's a tagged window with angels on it across the door where Jerry is hiding. Jerry and Darian find their names on the whiteboard, next to them there are information about their roots and level of radicalization. Nissa tries to open one of the lockers and is successful with opening the one closest to the whiteboard. In it, they find 4 kevlar-enhanced suits - Alexis searches them for transponders or anything along those lines. They are decorated with UN Navy patches, which reminds Darian of another booby-trapped cupboard in another UN Navy hideaway and makes him more careful, when he tries to open another cupboard. It really is wired to secure another metal door which is closely behind the first one. Nissa recognizes that it is connected to the first cupboard. They call homebase to have someone bring some detection gear to make sure nothing blows up. Fnan is of to meet them, but is taking a bit longer because of the new checkpoints. On her way she overhears Lavrov people, that they plan to go into the Luther system. This doesn't seem to be a good idea, since we assume they also have a silver egg that is prone to exploding just there. When Fnan jokingly mentions wanting to shoot the Lavrovs instead of going to the gym (where a bug is still hidden), everyone is taking it up in earnest, as it seems to be a good way to prevent another disaster.

As soon as she leaves, the rest is carefully using the just arrived equipment to check the wire mechanism. The wires are connected to three doors connected to a mechanism that is carefully circumvented by Darian. After opening the door fully, the inner door is in perfect view. Nissa drills a whole into a corner of the door. Using the endoscope the crew finds out that it is full of explosives, which Darian is looking to harvest with Alexis help. With a hairpin and some chewing gum, she is able to dismantle the middle cupboard. Jerry is surprised when suddenly John Gyrante appears and gives a thumbs up before disappearing into the first door that was opened. Jerry follows but sees nothing but darkness. Behind the other doors there are only weapons (anti-tank rocket launcher and assault riffles), which everyone grabs onto, when voices appear outside. The group closes the door to the outside as well as the cupboard doors and put out the lights. When the door opens, its Diana Smith with 3 more bodies as security personnel. "Freeze" says Darian. Diana stops and is frisked by Alexis while the others try to disarm the guy who hasn't stepped back outside. They deny knowing anything about the room, which they test, by opening the middle door. Diana is pretty good at masking her reaction when nothing happens - Jerry however is a keen observer and knows that she must have been at least familiar with the security mechanisms in place. She shares that she is an interim head of security of the new station security contractor and that they came here to check the room since it is similar to the one that was blown up last time - back when the station stopped its rotation. While the others have their attention, Alexis clones Diana's phone and erases all her traces. It is returned reluctantly, when she promises no consequences when the 4 leave the room in exchange. The explosives have to stay in the room however. The order is almost obeyed, even though some KGs might have wandered into the toolbox.

Jerry filmed the room as it was when we left to make sure they don't have any grounds for alleging that C&C has taken anything dangerous from the room. They don't let us take the assault riffle and want to have a closer look at the potato sack. Darian doesn't appreciate that, lets the riffle go, takes the potatoes and runs. Alexis and Nissa follow him, while Jerry and Diana stay behind baffled. "You get used to it" Jerry sighs. "Good luck with your investigation." "I'm not sure this won't affect the relations between Pope Industries and C&C. Tell them." Diana angrily replies.

Alexis, Nissa and Darian still run from her security personnel and try to get across the area to a lift that gets them closer to their ship. They keep them at bay with some balls for bearings they find along the way and astonishing constitution. They cut it close, but can just about reach the lift before Diana's henchmen. On Gabriel's plaza Darian gets more potatoes, joins a group of drunken unicorns and makes his way home (being forced to buy all sorts of liquor from the unicorn stag do on his way), while Nissa ducks through the zouk and Alexis is singing some Caribbean tune to puzzle her surroundings. The Navy bodysuits they are wearing have gone completely unnoticed.

Fnan is calling Jerry to check if the group is still planning to do anything against Lavrov - because they've really packed their things and are ready to make a move towards Luther. Alexis checks the cloned phone and learns, that it is build similar to Rens. She can't get into the deeper layers, but should be able to intercept Diana's communication now. Hopefully she has covered her tracks well enough.

by Nissa

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Session 37

2026-01-08T22:47:07Z

77.2.126.159: Created page with "Lim, Nissa and Kale meet at the shaved ice cart at Gabriel plaza. Next to it is the super spud potato vending machine and one selling soft drinks (it's called sergeant pepper). Lim and Nissa are buying shaved ice (condensed milk with red bean paste for Lim, milk with wobbly balls for Nissa). While waiting for the girl who makes the treat to finish, Lim inspects the back of the potato vending machine, where he finds a black box that he pockets while Nissa is on the lookou..."

Lim, Nissa and Kale meet at the shaved ice cart at Gabriel plaza. Next to it is the super spud potato vending machine and one selling soft drinks (it's called sergeant pepper). Lim and Nissa are buying shaved ice (condensed milk with red bean paste for Lim, milk with wobbly balls for Nissa). While waiting for the girl who makes the treat to finish, Lim inspects the back of the potato vending machine, where he finds a black box that he pockets while Nissa is on the lookout.
They talk about Gunther, who they are looking to save - Urs was sure to know him from his Belter childhood, though Gunther acted as if that wasn't the case. There's a rumour, that Gunther has killed on command of colonel Trechov - a traitor who has sweet potatoes named after him. After some discussion, it is decided that we should save him and bring him into the oberon system, where Erich could look after him.
Since the change in security personel has occured, the station has been darker than usual.
The trio makes a plan to get some uniforms, cause a bit of a stir with protests and maybe manipulate the electricity near the police headquarters to get a reason to get Gunther out of there. Lim, Kale and Nissa make their way to This & That laundry, where acheron uniforms are printed. They're made out of cellophane, because why would you weave something if the security's name changes all the time. Lim puts on his very slimming helicopter cap to be slightly obscured and walks towards the backdoor of the shop. He has little trouble opening it and finds a printed acheron uniform sample along with a printed set of 50 c&c uniforms, which was ordered by tessa zaal and is meant to be collected by lia venko. Lim suspect it's part of the crawlers ongoing scheme to discredit the company and therefore takes them with them. They take the sample to yello works - a pure belter printing company, where a young woman named Olena - who is also part of the zero g workers guild and is afraid of the current climate - quickly prints out 4 more samples. She warns Nissa, Lim and Kale to take care and not get caught with those.
The three venture home, where they meet Rosmerta. She is puzzled by the sight of the new overalls and doesn't really believe that the black one only ended up in the pile by accident. Everyone else seems to be on mission and she is looking for whoever has left a bag of alcohol shots in the toilet tank. She leaves the others be, when she learns that the rest is planning to go to workers protests in the afternoon. Nissa and Lim try to motivate some others to meet for a demonstration in front of the security headquarters later in the day to protest against the injustices that have happened against union members. Acab is penciled in to give a speech at the event.
In preparation, Lim and Nissa are building stationary smoke bombs, while Kale is forging transfer papers for Gunther. While the former dress up in navy suits, Kale puts on a acheron paper suit - all concealed by the forged c&c paper suits.
On the way, the three hear the humming of the station as well as some protest music. Kale and Nissa start looking for a distribution box away from the crowd, which they find after a while and start randomly cutting cables, until it gets slighty darker in the security station. Unfortunately Kale gets hit by an electric shock, which leaves him slightly distressed and his hand wounded. Nissa is more succesful and soon the lights go out. The chanting to free the Belters is swelling up, smoke arises, and Kale, Lim and Nissa get rid of their C&C uniforms.
Lim starts pushing his pals away while they make their way to the door (especially Arturo, who is now owed a beer), where the transfer papers are scanned and there's a brief chat about the security of the situation. The trio is led towards the cells, which are below the regular floor. There are single cells in the back and a group of 7 Belters is penned up in one of the cells in the front. On the way, the three pass Ren, who is too busy with his terminal to care or reckognise anyone. When they reach Gunther's cell, the cell is unlocked and Gunther is on the floor and in deep pain. After wispering to him, that we're trying to rescue him, Lim is trying to get him handcuffed and on his feet. Since he still seems to be unable to do anything and is holding his stomach, Lim is trying to make Gunther puke, assuming that he might be poisoned. After he has emptied the contents of his stomach, he seems to be slightly better, so the rest tries to get him up the stairs and out of the premises. On their way, Lim is firing another smoke bomb, while Rem is back shooting into their general direction.
Lim is weilding his weapon, which makes the loan slaves of Acheron reconsider their fate and let the small group leave to stay safe.
Outside, after being shouted at by Lim, Acab makes sure the group gets through the masses. He makes his way into the direction of the security headquarters, when he hears that there are innocent workers held in the building. Rosmerta is waiting with the queen of sheeba which the four just reach.

When they try to leave the station however, the gates are getting closed by station security, because radiation values have reached a new high. Except for one...the one leading into the Luther system. A black sphere appears and starts glowing in a pale blue light, which feels like additional radiation. All of a sudden, leaving feels more secure than staying, so they ignore the flight ban and make their way towards the gate leading to oberon.
Optical sensors show something that isn't usually there - the whole hubspace is illuminated, the hubstation gets brighter and brighter, with gates being black holes in the dark. All of a sudden Rosmerta is cursing and informing the others, that the gates have shifted and they should brace themselves for a bumpy ride. When things get calmer again, and the crew has reached the oberon system - the gate glowing behind them. A look at the systems shows, that there are two gates missing now. One of them is the one to Luther.

by Nissa

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