Episode 7: The Mystery of the Golden Lance Pt.1[]
The Golden Lance[]
News travel fast of a the spaceship discovered in the wasteland, ripe for salvage. Both from Charles, Captain William and Dagu. Conflicting reports tell of it possibly being the remains of The Retribution, but that is impossible. The Captain thinks that the ship is of Sonitii make and Rook starts gathering more information and a potential crew to head out there. Faye gathers the info she can find and according to the intel she got the ship is named "The Golden Lance", a Union ship that crashed 5 years ago due to internal malfunction after it initiated a self destruct protocol D13 after it was invaded. As more info is gathered reportedly it is also carrying the same corruption that was aboard The Retribution.
Warren and Loch agree to join an expedition to investigate.
Kee'ra tells Rook about working together with WOTO, and aiding in A.L.Ex. in her research on Gloop. But she has some bad news, Gloop is dead. Rook tells her this is what comes when one works with the corps in good faith and remarks that he will still trusts in her judgement on this if she wishes to continue this path.
Clearing Faye's Name[]
Meeting with Ellek Myth and Bobken Zavakian of SONITII.
Learning that both Sonitii and Atlantis know of Faye's real identity, Rook tries a direct head on approach by turning them against eachother. With Faye, Warren and Loch they walks in directly. Meeting Blayne Penn, Ellek Myth and Bobken Zavakian, Rook tries to paint the picture of him being a nobody, a bottom feeder picking the scraps they leave behind, something Blayne seemd to empathize with, originating from the wasteland himself. They show Sonitii footage of the head of Atlantis stealing information from them and agree to let Faye go - in exchange for her working for them at a distance - not completely free.
Meeting with Nadia Palpatyne of ATLANTIS.
Going to Atlantis next they meet Nadia Palpatyne who invites to speak with them in private. Rook tells her another different story, hinting at the reason for Sonitii going after Faye being of a completely different kind - that the one with the glasses supposedly has taken an unwelcome liking to his daughter. This is not all, they also show her valuable evidence that one of their own employees has been caught stealing from their competitors. This time its their own head of PR - Lady Shinohara, who tried to hack into Sonitii on her own accord but getting caught, quite embarassing information to get leaked in public. In exchange for this valuable info Faye would be protected from Atlantis.
Warning Lady Shinohara that her own people know of her getting caught.
Before parting with Nadia she showed strange signs of some afflication, headaches and personality changes as if another person was inhabiting her all of a sudden she promised she would do all she could so that his daughter remains unharmed.
Thinking Faye to be cleared Rook is approached by none other than Lady Shinohara herself, who gives him valuable information on the corps without asking anything in return - maybe he was wrong in giving her up to her superiors? Returning her good faith he warns her that her own people are after her before they part, but not that he was the one who told them.
An assassin makes short work of Sonitii
DM: A hit on Sonitii[]
Sonitii having heard something was up didn't exactly expect what came next. An unknown assassin clad in Shadowbat armor, kitted out with a jetpack, rare weaponry and a signature black hat, mows down all the guards at the HQ checkpoint with his automatic rifle. He downs Vee, Ellek Myth and Bobken Zavakian he uses some device on Bobken, copying his fingerprints and burns them off. Mid chaos Damien from Talaris walks in and is fired at, with the bullets penetrating his magical armor - but luckily not harming him - after which the assailant smashes a window and blasts away.
Reorienting himself after the encounter Damien realize that the attacker was using Talaris own weaponry against him, the mage slaying bullets that were stolen last year.
The injured miraculously survive thanks to the amazing treatment from Nirvanas emergency care and medicine.
Vee is hacked by "The Brass King" who initiates hidden protocols that manage to fully self-repair her.
Max, Miss Money and Conrad reel back, luckily Kaiphus is not here to kill
DM: Nothing escapes the corps[]
In WOTO offices Goldman recieves a message from a hacker, which after flexing his muscles showing he has access to all their systems agrees to a deal of 17.8% profits - after bargaining - on what he is about to divulge. He shows all that Rook learned prior about the crashed ship "The Golden Lance".
At Atlantis none other than Kaiphus appears before Max Stillwell, Miss Money and Conrad, insisting on exclusive coverage with their cameras rolling over the news once he kills this - new assassin. Nobody upstages Kaiphus the Collector!
Mars learns of an alien fleet approaching...
Over in the Mars offices Luca Gray, Korgak Mars, Razz Arleth, Enzo Quintiliano receive troubling news from one of their satellites. A ship cruiser, not of demi-humans but of unknown alien origin has entered the Evenaris system and they're packed for combat. Analyzing more a fleet armed 6.8 times more than all of Mars weaponry combined in the whole sector. Before getting their systems jammed by the hostile aliens they witness a video feed from the cruiser, a face with pallid skin and tentacles where a mouth should be.[1]
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