Rifts: Terror on the Dark Frontier: Sessions 23

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PCs

• Anthony "Loco" Diaz (SAMAS pilot) - A street rat captured and raised by the Coalition, now in his late 20s, and a fugitive SAMAS pilot from CS El Dorado, wanted for stealing his SAMAS suit, Stella, along with some other things.  He fled north towards Castle Refuge, and joined with Shan, Layla, Faith, and Midnight.
• Layla Lacoi (DB Mystic) - A tall dimensional mystic being with a bit of a catfish face.  Her gentle demeanor belies how powerful she is.
• Midnight (Psi-stalker variant) - A dark and mysterious stranger, riding a strange horse.  He seems to have influence over lightning, and is a man who lives off the land.  
• Faith Macavoy (covert Psi-ghost) - A non-descript vagabond woman, who seems to be quite capable and full of supplies.  
• Shan Medsans (Cyber-doc, I think) - A hardcore cyberdoc apparently from a long line of traveling healers, renowned enough to know Erin Tarn personally.  Her clinic is in an upgraded Mountaineer ATV, traveling around to help those in need.  She has helped Tony, both healing him and repairing his SAMAS.  He has, in return taken to staying with her, and guarding her.  Her nephew is its dedicated driver, although Shan can also drive.
• Jordan Moore (Crazy and an actor) - He can't handle being bored, and likes to shoot things. 

NPCs 

• Paruuku Quahadi is the woman whose uncle is the tribal administrator for the Comanche, whom we rescued from the worm wraiths.
• Ardyn Uller is the man who was with her when we  rescued them from the worm wraiths. 
• Old Owl (Waapsuiku) is  Paruuku's uncle and a member of  the Comanche council.
• Wesi Tsaatupi is the Chief of Tribal Police. 

 Vehicles

• Tanky McTank Face: A giant all terrain vehicle with a medical bay, crew quarters, and an engineering bay designed to hold a SAMAS inside.
• Stella: An early model Coalition manufactured SAMAS with a modification to install vibroclaws.
• Cynthia:  Tony's Cyclone, inherited from Lancer from latter day Robotech Earth.

We all get back from visiting Wesi Tsaatupi, the Chief of Tribal Police.  Tony really wants to go to the Northern Gun dig site, but everyone else suggests that's not the way to go.  Layla does want to go for a walk, though, and Jordan and Tony join in. 

On their walk, they notice  there are a lot of people willing to throw down for a fight for very little agitation, and while some people insult the three of us, nobody picks a fight.  We wander by the work site entrance, and talk to the deputy there, confirming that Chief Tsaatupi had let her deputies know.  She recognizes Jordan from his vidcasts, and flirts with him for a bit.  Jordan reciprocates.  Then we head back.  This deputy shows up later to have a few drinks and whatever else with Jordan.

 The next morning, we all head back to the site, and take a look.  The deputy at the gate is a male native Comanche this time.   The gates are swung open, and we enter.  Other than the scale, this looks like a typical construction site.

The next day we go onsite, and examine areas where deaths occurred.  Tony helps Layla determine if a nearby machine  was actually in need of maintenance.  It did need maintenance, but there wasn't anything unusual about that maintenance, just normal wear and tear.

Jordan uses his psychic sensitivity to determine that there is a sense of anger and of sadness at the site.

A woman married to Makuruu who works at the college library lets Layla know that Waapsuiku (Old Owl) is very worldly, and less suspicious of taibo  than most Comanche are.  She also gives us the reports about the Northern gun construction site.   They're very thorough.  There's no sign that this was a burial site.  It goes back at least a couple of hundred years.