Dramatis Personae
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NPCs
Paruuku is the woman whose uncle is the tribal administrator for the Comanche.
Ardyn is the man who was with her when we rescued them from the worm wraiths.
2025-11-13
GM's recap of the last few moments of last session:
As the Spulgorth spell of recall completes, a wave of scintillating blue energy erupts out from it, blanketing everything within 100 meters of it. As the wave passes through Tanky McTankface it washes over a cylinder 8” wide, 18” long, an energy cell discovered in the wreckage of a strange ship. A vibrant pink cocoon of energy briefly surrounds the cell, coming from within.
Then the pink energy erupts out, taking over the building rift energy of a spell meant to transport the Spulgorth, along with anything within 100 meters, to the nearest Atlantian outpost. Instead, the semi-sentient energy force known as Protoculture sensing a way for it to return to a reality where it belongs, takes control of the spell and redirects it across the dimensional barriers to take everything touched by the spell to a completely different reality.
As the pink energy rolls over Midnight he hears the hauntingly faint sounds of a choir signing a wordless song.
The next moment the group finds themselves surrounded by woodlands, in a small clearing. Across the gap in the canopy a string of pink energy discs streak across the sky followed immediately by an early 21st century fighter jet.
From Tony’s perspective he sees the blue painted jet being chased by 3 large red flying ‘crab’ like robots spewing discs of pink energy at it while it locks onto a 4th one. 2 light missiles streak out from the jet taking out the one it was chasing, only to have the jet itself seem to start falling apart as the rear section seems to start separating from it. Then, in the blink of an eye the jet transforms into a hybrid form with the forward half of the jet as its body, but with legs and arms. It is also now facing the opposite direction it is flying in, in a maneuver that should have seen any normal pilot passing out from gee forces.
The jet-man, now facing the 3 oncoming crab robots, opens up with its handheld heavy gatling cannon, disintegrating one of them before the other crashes into it, sinking their claws into the jet’s wings.
From the forest a light power armor leaps into the air through the canopy, at its peak unleashing a swarm of six guided mini-missiles into the back of one of the crabs, engulfing it in a flaming death as the light power armor lands back beneath the canopy.
In the same moment, the jet-man once again seems to start falling apart as it transforms, this time into a massive humanoid form almost the size of the last crab, which finds itself staring down the barrel of the gatling cannon in its last moments.
Silence fills the sky as Tony struggles to keep his smoking SAMAS airborn, the jet once again a jet, now keeping the SAMAS in its engagement range but not actively targeting it.
The sound of a motorcycle can be heard moments before a person, dressed in armor of similar design to the one Tony has been recently wearing, pulls up beside the barely conscious Layla.
On an open radio channel, the following is heard.
“Unknown ground vehicle, this is Lieutenant Commander Scott Bernard of the REF. Please identify yourselves.”
Only a few seconds have passed since the rift teleported everyone here.
2025-11-23
Tony's SAMAS, Stella, was further damaged going through the warp. He barely gots her down intact.
Lancer, in the blue jet, flew off to distract the Invid, the crab-like mecha D-bees.
Scott drove to a river, got us to wash Tanky's tires, and then guided us through terrain past Invid patrols.
While we were cleaning the tires off, Tony noticed that Scott's armor has seen a lot of wear and tear.
Scott noticed Tony, who was wearing his fancy armor since Stella was wrecked.
Scott didn't seem at all fazed by Layla or Midnight.
In the distance, Midnight saw a strange dome structure.
As we were getting close to clear of the zone, Tony spotted a patrol, just as Tanky got stuck. We didn't do anything, and they just passed us by.
At the edge of the danger zone, with Scott in the lead, we got attacked by two shock troppers and three armored scouts. It looked like Scott was toast, with the explosion that tore up where he was at. We shot down two of the scouts, and then saw Scott jumping out of the explosion in battloid form, popping off the shock troopers with well-placed mini-missiles. [I think these mini-missiles guidance systems are far better than the coalition's are.]
2025-12-04
Scott lets us know that the Invid know we've been discovered.
We get to their base, which is entirely stealth based. Faith notices that there are a number of exits from their camp.
This was definitely prepared as a fallback safe spot, but it was never really intended to be used.
Scott interogates Tony on what happened before we got here, and determines that we're not bullshitting him.
Meanwhile, Shan comes out of Tanky with coffee for everyone, and has a conversation with Lunk, the giant REF Bioengineer about how our two nuclear reactors are quantum unstable. He shows her with his hand scanner, which scanned Tanky in about two minutes. Shan scans him with her bioscanner, and from her point of view he is quantum unstable.
Marlene, an eerily beautiful woman comes out, and asks to speak to all of us. Midnight has noticed that everything out here as tasted off or not right, but Marlene tastes/smells/feels like death (the natural kind). If they were on Rifts Earth, he would say she's a mind-melter of paramount power, but she has a different power. Midnight has sensed this power once or twice before, and had the same feeling from the ship.
Midnight and Faith feel uncomfortable around Marlene/Ariel. Marlene lets us know she feels the same way about them.
Marlene lets us know her name is really Ariel, and she is the daughter of the Invid leader, the Regis. She also tells us that those of us who are supernaturally sensitive are probably going to die here soon, because we don't fit in this world.
Then she says they're coming, and goes to clear out.
Lunk gives Tony the 30 second crash course about how to the controls for the blue cyclone. Tony notes that it doesn't have the missiles on the front wheel that Scott's cyclone does, instead having some sort of discs on them.
Tony tries it out, and manages to connect to it. [Unskilled checks suck.]
Then the Invid arrive.
Roll for initiative.
2026-01-22 Session 17
We met Lancer in their relatively secure backup base.
We hashed out what must have happened with the protoculture cell and the Splurgoth slaver that ended up getting us here: the Splugorth triggered something, and then the protoculture cell redirected the energy to home.
We tried to figure out where we could get the power from to get Tanky and the rest of us home: the protoculture furnace of an Invid Hive.
Lancer agreed to let Tony take Lancer's old cyclone with him, and warned him to only use the gasoline engine when near or in the hive.
Faith shares with us that she can go invisible, which Tony connects to her being a Psi-ghost. When Faith uses this ability in front of Marlene, she agrees that this should be effective for sneaking into the Genesis pit, but probably won't be useful in the hive itself.
Paruuku and Ardyn were stretching and went to bed.
Shan asks Marlene on the sly why she was looking at Marlow. Marlene tells her Marlow is a robot.
Marlene shares that she was made to integrate with and monitor some humans, and wonders what Marlow's purpose is.
Faith comes up and asks Tony "Are you going to try to kill me in my sleep?"
Tony responds with "Well, you haven't killed me in my sleep yet, so I figure we're good."
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