Now that the decision has been made to go to Camaas, things procede fairly smoothly. The ithorians agree to keep posession for now of the carbon frozen jedi. And they fill all the available cargo space on the Magellan with supplies for the scientists of Refuge City. The party also stocks up on breath masks, anticipating some time outside on the planet. After receiving a datachip of introductions from Herd Leader Tatupu, the party is on its way.
Arriving in orbit around Camaas, the party is confronted by grey death. Camaas is a planet with very few features, and little to draw attention from its devestation. An automated landing beacon directs them to Refuge City, but it takes a while to break through the clouds, and get a closeup look at the planet. After a few minutes they do get an actual being, a very surprised sounding Camaasi. The party is directed to land at one of the two landing platforms, and after a few awkward introductions, make their way into the city.
Refuge city is a small spartan community centered around science and restoration. With the unlooked for bounty of supplies from the magellan, the leaders of refuge City call for a banquet that evening. During the festivities, the party meets the Bothan Recycling Inc. representative on camaas and many other of the scientists. During the dinner, they learn that a couple of pairs of scientists have visited the site of the herdship crash, but none have returned. The site is now home to a growing jungle, and some kind of dark presence.
After spending an uneventful night, the party decides to fly over the jungle, and then land near the center and approach the crash site. The heavy metal of the herdship is easily spotted on the ships scanners. The darkside presence, on the other hand, is fleeting and hard to pin down.
On approach to the crash site, the party is attacked by three beasts working in concert, and with more than a little coordination. However, the party easily kills, or drops them unconscious. After a little more searching the party comes upon the jungle covered remains of the herdship surrounded by the remains of some ancient stone buildings - really just rubble - except for one that seems intact and more than a little mysterious.
Saturday, February 25, 2006
Sunday, February 19, 2006
A Deathmark is a Hard Thing to Live With
The party researched the mysterious metalic net that was found on the comatose jedi thawed at the end of last week. Mater Dee discovered that the device you found on the jedi could be linked to speculation about devices used to record and perhaps alter memories, but noone has actually produced such a device.
This led of course to speculation about what to do next. As the Jedi were discussing perhaps using farseeing - a call was received from Grarwarr on the Magellan that someone was breaking in. The party rushed to his (and the ships) defense. In short - wookiees charged, force powers were used, once again Jorus kicked butt with a lightsaber, and the intruders were defeated.
The intruders turned out to be bounty hunters hired by Blackhole to kill you and return your bodies.
One odd thing that happened during the battle was that the ship seemed to be helping you, opening and closing doors during the fight to help you and hinder the bounty hunters.
Boppa decided to use farseeing to find out about the crashed herdship, and instead saw a vision of the dead zabrak. His ethereal outline then changed into a picture of the planet Camaas. Mater Dee used a empathy to talk to the "ghost" and was told that on Camaas was a secret about Blackhole.
This led of course to speculation about what to do next. As the Jedi were discussing perhaps using farseeing - a call was received from Grarwarr on the Magellan that someone was breaking in. The party rushed to his (and the ships) defense. In short - wookiees charged, force powers were used, once again Jorus kicked butt with a lightsaber, and the intruders were defeated.
The intruders turned out to be bounty hunters hired by Blackhole to kill you and return your bodies.
One odd thing that happened during the battle was that the ship seemed to be helping you, opening and closing doors during the fight to help you and hinder the bounty hunters.
Boppa decided to use farseeing to find out about the crashed herdship, and instead saw a vision of the dead zabrak. His ethereal outline then changed into a picture of the planet Camaas. Mater Dee used a empathy to talk to the "ghost" and was told that on Camaas was a secret about Blackhole.
Monday, February 06, 2006
Ghost in the Machine
The party decided to go back to the Herdship. Once there, they found an increased presence of the Rebel fleet, but undaunted decided to land on the herdship. They reported to General Adama on their mission to Illum, and turned over the shapechanger prisoner. The ugnauts asked to stay, and Mater Dee decided they could be trained to help around the ship.
The Ithorians offered to help off-load and thaw (as oppossed to un-thaw - Wade) the Jedi that were frozen in carbonite, but when you started to move them from the cargo bay, it was discovered that the slab containing the deceased zabrak was empty. In panic mode, the crew search the Magellan, and the Rebels sealed off the landing bay, and began a search of the herdship.
Both searches came up empty, however, just as the crew was getting back together the astrogation computer started up on its own doing some kind of search for coordinates.
Panic ensues again, as the party tries to find the invader. Joruss does a physical search of the ship, Mater Dee starts working on getting the engines "offline", and Grarwarr starts isolating the astrogation computer from all other systems on the ship. After removing all the fuel from the engines, unloading all ordinance from the ships weapons, and isolating all systmes from astrogation, it is finally considered "safe" to let the computer complete its search. During the search, Mater Dee gets a feeling, that the search of the computer is somehow directed by the force.
The coordinates that the computer eventualy returns are for a planet - Camaas, one of the core worlds. Camaas was destroyed by a bombardment from space, by an unknown attacker shortly after the Clone Wars. Known as a peaceful world, it had no weapons, on planetary shields. Those shields were sabotaged, and the planet was blasted in oblivion. It is now uninhabitable, except with special breathing apparatus to keep out the ash and pollutants. There is one city, Refuge, were a collection of Camaasi who were off planet at the time of the destruction and Ithorians work to terraform the planet. The only other settlement is a small group of Bothans that are leasing a large crater where they "recycle" dangerous waste for its valuable byproducts.
After looking up the relevant facts on Camaas, the Navigation computer started on its own, but only displayed two things onits screen, the word "Blackhole", and a picture of the Holocron - the real one that was destroyed on Illum.
Well, after receiving word that the world Camaas came up under unusual circumstance, the Herd Master Tatupu came to visit the party. He told of a Herdship that crashed into the planet soon after its destruction. This crash has been kept secret since it happened, and Tatupu has asked you to investigate. Joruss agreed.
Lastly, the party decided to revive one of the people frozen in carbonite to help explain the missing zabrak. The block was hauled into the medical bay on the magellan, and the thawing process commenced with no apparent problems. The human inside the carbonite appeared healthy, and was able to breathe on his own, but also showed no brain activity. Mater Dee found a small metal net that covered the top of his head. It had some kind of small control box attached. Searches of the Magellans systems showed no reference to any similar device, so Mater Dee is proceeding to the medical labs of the herd ship for further research. Accompanying Mater Dee are Joruss, Beaker, Bar Bar, and Boppa. Grarwarr and the ugnauts stayed behind to watch the ship.
The Ithorians offered to help off-load and thaw (as oppossed to un-thaw - Wade) the Jedi that were frozen in carbonite, but when you started to move them from the cargo bay, it was discovered that the slab containing the deceased zabrak was empty. In panic mode, the crew search the Magellan, and the Rebels sealed off the landing bay, and began a search of the herdship.
Both searches came up empty, however, just as the crew was getting back together the astrogation computer started up on its own doing some kind of search for coordinates.
Panic ensues again, as the party tries to find the invader. Joruss does a physical search of the ship, Mater Dee starts working on getting the engines "offline", and Grarwarr starts isolating the astrogation computer from all other systems on the ship. After removing all the fuel from the engines, unloading all ordinance from the ships weapons, and isolating all systmes from astrogation, it is finally considered "safe" to let the computer complete its search. During the search, Mater Dee gets a feeling, that the search of the computer is somehow directed by the force.
The coordinates that the computer eventualy returns are for a planet - Camaas, one of the core worlds. Camaas was destroyed by a bombardment from space, by an unknown attacker shortly after the Clone Wars. Known as a peaceful world, it had no weapons, on planetary shields. Those shields were sabotaged, and the planet was blasted in oblivion. It is now uninhabitable, except with special breathing apparatus to keep out the ash and pollutants. There is one city, Refuge, were a collection of Camaasi who were off planet at the time of the destruction and Ithorians work to terraform the planet. The only other settlement is a small group of Bothans that are leasing a large crater where they "recycle" dangerous waste for its valuable byproducts.
After looking up the relevant facts on Camaas, the Navigation computer started on its own, but only displayed two things onits screen, the word "Blackhole", and a picture of the Holocron - the real one that was destroyed on Illum.
Well, after receiving word that the world Camaas came up under unusual circumstance, the Herd Master Tatupu came to visit the party. He told of a Herdship that crashed into the planet soon after its destruction. This crash has been kept secret since it happened, and Tatupu has asked you to investigate. Joruss agreed.
Lastly, the party decided to revive one of the people frozen in carbonite to help explain the missing zabrak. The block was hauled into the medical bay on the magellan, and the thawing process commenced with no apparent problems. The human inside the carbonite appeared healthy, and was able to breathe on his own, but also showed no brain activity. Mater Dee found a small metal net that covered the top of his head. It had some kind of small control box attached. Searches of the Magellans systems showed no reference to any similar device, so Mater Dee is proceeding to the medical labs of the herd ship for further research. Accompanying Mater Dee are Joruss, Beaker, Bar Bar, and Boppa. Grarwarr and the ugnauts stayed behind to watch the ship.
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