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Rifts (SWADE) - Terror on the Dark Frontier, sessions 2025-10-03 & 2025-10-17

 

October 3, 2025

The  team was traveling north after a stop to repair Tanky McTankface, Shan's armored hospital on wheels, when we ran into a ley line storm.

Our electronics mostly went to crud, so we hunkered down, with the mystically sensitive having bad headaches.  That's when we started hearing a woman or girl sobbing on our radio.  Not getting any responses to our hails, Tony suited up into his SAMAS, and the rest of the party dressed for the weather.

Based on triangulation, we went in the direction of the signal, which seemed to be a hut on a hilltop.

The going was slick, and we decided to go stealthily, so Tony waited until they breached and called him in psychically.  Faith and Midnight took the lead, breaking into the hut, where they saw a woman of some sort torturing a young woman, with a young and very hurt man sitting a few feet away from them.

As they burst in, about eight humanoids apparently made of worms, oozed out of the walls, somehow wearing dusters and carrying shotguns.  We drew for initiative. 

 

October 17, 2025

 Gunfire erupted.  Tony was called in.  He entered in a dramatic fashion, his desert camo-painted SAMAS crashing through the wooden roof, managing to land on one of the humanoids, burning it with his landing thrusters.

Ignoring the auditory damage it would cause, he fires his rail gun, managing to hit the humanoids with every shot and destroy them.  

Once they established there was no more danger, Shan treated the humans.  Tony took guard at the door, since he seemed to be intimidating the young man.  

The man thanked us, and asked why we were here.  Faith stepped up, and told him that we're looking to make a good impression on the Commanche.  The young man asked why.  Faith responded that we're hoping to let people migrate to Castle Refuge. The boy nodded.  

The girl spoke up then, telling us about the Commanche leadership, and letting us know she would put in a good word to her uncle, who was part of the leadership council.

 

 

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