CR Arcadum S1E17: What Family Means

What Family Means
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Season	1
Episode	17/22
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DM(s)	Arcadum
Director	Arcadum
Actors	Callous Row Season 1 Characters
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Chapter 17: What Family Means

Plif, Felix Dolore and Alexander gets ready for the rescue mission.

Rescue mission to save Bo

Rook did not join the planned rescue operation but leading it was Coach Eric, he along with undercover Faye, Fandiarius Sharborough, Felix Dolore and Alexander travel to the Nirvana Corporation complex where Bo is held captive.

Dr. Luscious Hambone greets Coach Eric

Eric having booked a meeting with Dr Luscious Hambone of Nirvana he puts on a front of offering fertile soil for disposing of toxic waste chemicals from Nirvana manufacturing. The strong Plif carries a huge case with a soil sample with them. While Eric distracts Dr Lusciouis going on a guided tour around the heavily guarded Faye and the others sneak off to gather information. Dodging armed guard patrols Faye hacks open a door retrieving confidential information and Felix Dolore figures out where Bo was being held captive.

Dr. Luscious Hambone is shown a soil sample

Alexander is caught but makes up an excuse of him being a structural engineering for the sweepo corporation, developing a biohazard chute that would minimize the materials for construction, directly helping Nirvana and is given a pass. The party is directed to where Bo is being held thanks to Erics silver tongue but lacks means to release her with all the guards around. Faye eventually hacks a terminal and triggers a fake gas leak causing a distraction. Plif quickly release Bo and puts her in the soil cask. Before being able to leave he is caught by the doctor who notices that Bo is missing and before rising alarm Plif knocks him out cold and puts him in the cell where Bo was being kept.

Faye sneaks about the NIRVANA compound, recovering information.

Captured

The party makes their way out but are stopped at the checkpoint outside the compound as an alarm is announced on the PA system. Armed Nirvana soldiers storming to arrest them in the midst of the gas leak alarm cause chaos. The party gets arrested and the container keeping Bo is opened, being out in the free she is able to use her magic again and hits the Nirvana soldiers vision with blindness and fogs their minds. Thanks to her magic Bo manages to escape while Eric and Faye are captured and escorted to the holding cells. Alexander is taken elsewhere. Hope is not lost as Eric manages to bribe one of the guards to betray her loyalty towards the Nirvana Corporation. Things turn vilent as the guard shoots one of her coworkers and assists in the partys escape.

Commander Rider captures Alexander

The commander in charge of security Richard Rider interrogates Alexander and is fed false information about his reasons, eventually he collects a blood sample which is run through the corporate database system. The results fire up and Alfons true identity is revealed, no more secrets. The bounty of 90.000 credits are displayed in the commanders vision and he intends to collect it. He calls in a bounty hunter from ATLANTIS who comes to collect him.

NIRVANA Corporation labs

Example of the remaining

While the rest of the party are safe returned to Callous Row, the ATLANTIS bounty hunter brings Alfons with him and intends to execute him in the streets, to set an example. As he stabs him he is interrupted by Desmond who engages in battle. Sustaining some wounds Desmonds attack got himself injured while the bounty hunter escaped. Severely wounded Alfons and Desmond are brought to the clinic and treated, but their wounds are not normal, they've been infected with nanomachines and nanites surge in their bloodstreams. In a strange fight for treatment Static assists in the diagnosis and realizes that the nanites hold of either person means that the doctor must choose who to save. Miraculously both survive thanks to the treatment from Dr Cell and Cap Fawkes. (Out-of-character lucky dice rolls were made).

Alexander is treated by Dr Cell and makes a miraculous recovery.

Slummer justice

The aftermath of the infiltration of NIRVANA leaves Conk and Bo expressing their gratefulness to Rook while retribution for her captuire is pointed towards the corporate aligned. Lange Pliskin and Rana Amariah are gathered up at the bank and questioned for their involvement in Bos kidnapping by Mayor Eric and Rook.

Mayor Eric asks Bo about her judgement regarding guilt

Sharing his information Lange told his reasoning why Bo got abducted in the first place. The reason being that the clinic had gotten samples of health potions that got to the Nirvana corp, from Bethany Esda, containing mushrooms. To replicate the potions they had kidnapped one of the mushroom people. Rana claimed that she only works for Nirvana in order to get her husband back who is held captive. Conflicting stories from Lange and Rana leaves Bo getting to decide who is at fault and what justice be served to them.

Lange is freed of suspicion, while Rana gets exiled to the wastelands

Bo decides to exile Rana to the wastelands while Lange is freed. Lange working with Mayor Eric expresses his anger at being suspected at all, meaning that any dealings with Nirvana would have been evident in the books that he already shared with the mayor in their shared business dealings. The Mayor apologizes to Lange who is released, free to go.

Exile to the wastelands

Rana although professing her innocence is sentenced to exile in the wastes as per Bo's decreed. Charles offers to take her somewhere in the wastes where she has a chance and Rook agrees to hand her a weapon of their people - a spear.

Mayor Eric tells Rook of the useful information that Faye recovered, and how it might help their problem with the WOTO Corporation demanding justice for their dead doctor Sham.

Rook before retiring for the day, gathered all the workers at the brothel and told them about Nirvana tracking and the healing potions that were the reason for Bo's kidnapping. Bethany was also informed and the best way to keep safe was to keep quiet.

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