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Rifts (SWADE) - Terror on the Dark Frontier, sessions 2025-10-23

 

Last session 

 

October 23, 2025

 In the morning, we all walk back to Tanky McTank face through the soaked terrain.  Despite taking about an hour to get to the mansion last night, we find it was only about a kilometer away.

Shan's cousin is making breakfast when we arrive.  Midnight goes out on his own, hunting.  He comes back as we're finishing breakfast, and lets us know he's got a track on a slaver barge.  Tony asks them if they're good with staying with us while we hunt them.  Ardyn agrees, and asks if he can have one of our "mule" shotguns.

It turns out Midnight & Tony have actually had brief encounters with them, and the rest of us have at least heard credible information about Splugorth.

Ardyn and Paruuku bundle into Tanky's cabin, and we set off.

Our survival/navigation/driving team of Midnight, Faith, and Shan all succeed on their rolls, and we get to position ourselves as we want to.

We found the slaver barge near a ramshackle ranch. As we approach, Tony picks up Coalition signatures at long range.  He checks more closely, and determines that they are a pair of Skycycle riders.  He also determines that  there are unidentified bogies to the southwest.

Layla casts an illusion on the retrofitted forearm vibroclaws on Tony's SAMAS.

The Splugorth women deploy in a skirmish line facing us.  

Shan has a moment of fear, and has to fight it down, but opens fire against the closest woman.

A bunch of gunslingers came out of the area to the southeast, while the sky cycles arrived on the scene.

Layla, our mystic, calls down some unholy magic on the barge itself, and prepares to cast sloth on the slaver women when they get closer to Tanky.  

Faith lays down some fire.

- - - -

Then we reached the end of the session, because we only have two hours scheduled, things started late, and we had technical difficulties.

I think SWADE still rolls faster than Palladium's system.  I'm not convinced Forge-VTT is always good at using SWADE, though.  There seem to be a bunch of problems with it.

I'm optimistic that next session we'll get the fight finished pretty quickly.

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