Session Log 17

Stars Our Destination Tier

• The party decided to leave the satellite core in the vault. Piv rigged it to blow, but did not verify its destruction (he critically failed this test).

• There were a lot of group and individual conversations about what to do regarding Angel’s offer to join Project Ozma. Some were dead set against it. Others were all for it. Some were simply curious. The party even had an awkward, not quite contentious meet up with Angel where lots of innuendo and accusations were thrown around. Piv made his contempt particularly clear. Angel referred to Piv as Lieutenant, Kru as Captain and seemed disgusted with Rentlov. Her pitch sounded good - maybe too good to be true.

• Rentlov, with help from Kru’s and a infamous Swarm psychosurgeon named Dr. Mindfuck, decided to make a Trojan fork and send it along with Angel while also keeping an active fork on the Swarm. Terry went too, but also left an active fork on the Stars. John 117 had no interest in joining Ozma and did not even come to the initial meeting with Angel. Kru decided not to go.

• Piv contacted his primary fork back on Mars and learned that something was up as Evo had ordered the Mars team to ground.

• John 117 farcasted to Mars and merged with this primary fork. Then he farcasted back to the Swarm reinstantiating in the same morph. He is now up to date and verifies Piv’s story.

• Those who were leaving met Angel at Gentrix Interplanetary and as they were preparing to depart Kalber Singh and some additional security volunteers show up to officially run the party members off the Swarm on a proverbial rail. Seems someone (John 117) anonymously notified security that an agent of Project Ozma (Angel) was recruiting on the Swam and had found some converts. Singh just wanted to make sure that she and her new crew were actually leaving.  One by one the team farcasted out with Angel putting in the code and going last.  As she was about to send Rentlov she leaned in and whispered “we got you asshole.”

• John finally pulled the trigger on revealing himself to the Swarm elders and asking to make amends. He was invited to a dinner in Alice Cho’s quarters where he met representatives from most of the major Swarm collectives. Terry also got an invite and the initial discussion was all about Angel and Ozma, what the hell were they doing here and how was Terry/John's cohort involved. Singh was actually called away by some new crisis and left without getting satisfactory answers from either John or Terry.

• John spent the next several hours getting lambasted and reamed by the collective representatives. While they shouted and accused and broadcast across the mesh John was able to maintain his cool and be sincerely contrite and penitent. Though different groups across the swarm called for blood and others for forgiveness the debate centered on the question - how can we live forever is there is no chance of redemption?

• Finding out from Piv that Angel was alive and on the Swarm Nikolas’s primary folk farcased from Mars to the Stars and made contact with the rest of the team, wondering aloud if he should have trusted Angel after she betrayed him the first time.

• While the various versions of the party members sat in Notorious, Singh contacted them. Something is out of control aboard Thought Crime and the factory is pumping out hordes of wild artificials. He said it smells a lot like “your fault” and asked for them to help clean up the mess.

Liberty City Tier

• Rentlov worked a deal - if the party could fix the “red” food dispenser the wall rats would trade them some clothes and a work pass that should get them to the Green. Peg and the surly teens eagerly showed them the way to the food dispenser which turned out to be the purging valves on the back of the industrial maker that produces faux-foodstuffs for a particular quarter of the Zone. John 117 made short work of fixing the problem, winning the admiration of the kids. They all returned to the camp carrying buckets of slop.

• The wall rats made good on the deal and provided a surprisingly clean worker's coverall and a plastic ID card that they claimed would get the one man party up the worker lifts. Peg lead morph to a disconnected air circulator and they crawled out into an alley that lead to a crowded, neon-lit, underground slum.

Interlude

• A gorilla morph and an attractive female were prepped for farcasting aboard a space station in orbit around Mercury. The gorilla was sent first.

• A very similar female was checked out by a medical technician post-farcast. As she pulled on a silk robe an attendant handed her a small case containing four cortical stacks. She dropped it into her pocket with a satisfied smirk and walked out of the facility. (A slow retreating pan shows she is aboard a Planetary Consortium space station in orbit around Venus.)