Mothership: Advent Dawn Session 4

 This was a doozy of a session, and I ended up with  pages of notes!

 

Ossie, wandering lost in the ship for a bit came around a corner to find Doc Stirling, Chl03, and a golden retriever exiting a reactor room. They quickly exchanged stories about what they'd seen, and pressed on. Noping past several suspicious looking rooms, they come to a massive chamber labeled Paradimensional Drive. 

Within the chamber, warning lights were flashing, and a weird sensation passed over everyone. Doc Stirling flashed back to when he tried to attach a liver to an elephant and it did not go well (and how he lost his funding). Ossie flashed back to his 3rd divorce when his now ex wife stabbed him. 

When they come back to themselves, they notice the droids in the room scrubbing only semi-effectively at the blood stained floor where "Corrupt Heart of the Ship" is written. Mostly they're just smearing it. Looking up at the drive itself, a tangled mess of wires and tubes and thrumming a pair of eyes that aren't there look down balefully. 

Ossie swallows the bile rising in his throat and rushes over to a terminal to stop the drive from engaging. He starts to hack it when nanites swarm out of Ossie and into the terminal!  He can't get past the system login. A thick black liquid (oil?) oozes out of the terminal connection. Ossie foolishly touches it and feels a stinging in his fingers where the liquid soaks into him. Stirling comes up to see what's going on. Chl03 uses one of the inactive androids to hook the extra Chl03 head up to, in hopes that she can provide some help.

Other-Chl03 almost immediately begins to scream and burn, the android skin blackening and the smoke  that surrounds her acts more like watery shadows that cling to the android body. Her eyes glow the same red as the eyes above that aren't there. The rest of the room warps and darkens too, the shadows thickening, despite the light levels remaining the same. Ossie and Stirling run for the door... or where they think the door is. 

"I told you to stay out of my fucking head" Chl03 yells. It is unclear which Chl03. The sound of her nailgun rings out. Ossie keeps trying to find the door, and avoiding the androids. He's hit by something, stumbles and keeps going, miraculously arriving at the door. Stirling appears there as well, with Kissygirl the golden retriever with him. Was he there first? Ossie isn't sure. They yank the door open and run for it while the Chl03s continue to battle. 

A short time later they find themselves in a much quieter section of the ship. The signs say Section 14, for what little that's worth. They come to a door to a crew lounge, and within is a skinless android doing some repair on itself, a pair of humans munching on a human arm. The bartender, Hank warns Ossie and Stirling that Hanks is a place of peace, and anyone who breaks that peace will know none. He offers them a drink. It's called "The Fuck" and is made with "anything that can ferment, and a lot of things that can't" Neither Ossie nor Stirling much care at this point and they drink it down. He asks Chl03 to change the music.

Chl03?!? This one, again, just a head, says she's been on the ship 37 days. And she warns that the drive will activate in just over 3 hours. Ossie and Stirling finish their drinks and make to leave. Hank gives them a growler to go, and wishes them luck finding a way off the ship. 

Continuing with little idea of where they are or where they're going, they come to some weird writing on the walls... maybe in blood? Kissygirl licks it. Just beyond it is the door to the waste processing facility. It is remarkably huge, with catwalks, conveyor belts, massive vats... the sort of place you'd expect in a major hive city, not on a spaceship. Nevertheless, hooch in hand (and bloodstream) they decide to check it out in hopes there might be an escape pod. 

Not long after entering, below the sound of running feet. A human boy(?) being chased by a slimy reptilian thing. Stirling takes a shot at it, but misses. It is enough to get the creature's attention, and the boy runs off. Kissygirl vomits up some 2" long purple worms at the creature, and it flees. Ossie is further freaked out, but at this point who can tell? Stirling says she's a good girl. 

Further into the facility they see large blob things moving along on another catwalk, and more of the slime reptile dog things. Kissygirl shows more of those purple worms and keeps Ossie and Stirling safe(ish). Down below they walk above a big 6 legged version of the slime dogs, with tentacles on its back. It SHOOTS them up toward the trio, and Ossie gets bit by one. It holds on, and starts emitting a high pitched noise, loud enough to travel over the sound of the facility. Ossie blows the worm off with his revolver, the last shot. Stirling slaps a quick bandage on it, and they press on as quickly as they can. 

Ahead, a flooded area but a hatch out of the facility. Something is clearly swimming in the flooded area, but Stirling things he can make it to the door... and he does, but gets bitten by something in the foot as he gets the door open and the gross sewage flows out into the hall, draining away. Ossie hobbles after Stirling and they close the door behind them, and Stirling patches himself up... or at least stops the bleeding.

Mothership: Advent Dawn session 2 + 3

In the embryo lab, with the screaming head of Alt-Chl03 on a shelf, and an android with skin issues and a shoulder mounted gun, Ossie pulls a gun on the mentally unstable android that's insisting on keeping "our" Chl03 and shoots him in the back. It's a solid, but not debilitating hit. The android turns to Ossie to shoot him, and Doc Stirling chucks in a grenade. Ossie dives behind the central tube of embryos just a fraction of a second before the grenade goes off, and after the first shots from the android miss. In a loud and confusing next few moments, Chl03 unloads her needle guns into the android, while it's attention can't focus on any of the 3 attackers who've hurt it. That lack of focus is probably the only thing that let them survive and take down the unnamed android. 

 Removing Alt-Chl03 from the shelf meant unplugging her from the ship's power, turning her off. Ossie carried her with him, and they progressed deeper into the shifting ship's corridors. 

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At this point my notes are all but useless. It simply says "nope. nope. NOPE" I don't recall exactly what it was we saw, but it was a series of doors/rooms containing various horrors that didn't seem to be anything that would be worth interacting with.

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I missed session 3, and my character got split off from the group, and ended up wandering aimlessly while they found a golden retriever they named Kissy Face who is the bestest dog ever, found the navigational data, and managed to avoid death.

Mothership: Advent Dawn session 1

On some backwater planet, Ossie Marcial, SpaceTuber and  Teamster specializing in computer repair and zero-G industrial equipment (hover forklift certified) goes looking for work. His viewership numbers are about as good as this blog does... in other words, lousy!

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Needing cash, he signs on to help recover a derelict ship. A couple other lucky souls ended up on the team, though apparently through less than voluntary means. 

 Ossie and the other members of the advance team are jolted awake from their cryosleep and get the lowdown on things from Chl03 PAX-70N, aka Chloe. The android tells us that we're approaching the Advent Dawn, a massive ship built around the Company's experimental inter-dimensional drive engine. Looking out at the ship, its resemblance to a tentacled monstrosity is purely coincidental. 

Ossie introduces himself to the other team members, Adalberto Loony, a fellow teamster specializing in demolitions, and Stirling Blackwood a xeno-biologist. What exactly are we going to find on the Advent Dawn?? Chloe tells us that she has already been on the ship, and that we should avoid anything that looks like a moving ooze. Solid advice... also that her prior visit isn't going to be super helpful in getting to the bridge as apparently the inter-dimensional drive causes the interior of the ship to rearrange itself... Fun...

The shuttle docks, and they take their first tentative steps into the Advent Dawn. Hacking the first terminal they come to, Ossie gets some basic, but not really useful info from the ship. Wandering the halls they eventually come to a med bay. It's filthy. Ossie tries to hack the computer here, but it reaches out to touch him in uncomfortable ways. Doc Blackwood checks the computer and find that a human (?) brain in a jar is hooked directly up to it, with a pair of floating optic nerves and eyes in the jar looking back at him. Everyone agrees this is a hard NOPE, and head back to the corridors. 

Not too much further into the ship is a lab, with a number of clear tubs with embryos taking up most of the space. There's also a crying android with a large gun mounted to its shoulder, and the head of another android active on a shelf... the head looks remarkably like that of Chl03... and she insists that it IS her head. The crying android wants Chl03 to stay with him. Ossie tries to talk the droid into coming with us, as no one in the party is of a pay grade high enough to authorize turning her over. He almost goes for it, but then threatens violence. Ossie tells the droid to take Chl03, and as the droid passes Ossie to grab Chl03, Ossie pulls his gun. 

Terrifyingly Adalberto pulls a grenade...