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!

I love each and every one of you who do reads this blog!

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...