Sol III Missions

In Search of Miriam

Trinity Landing

Miriam landed right in the middle of a dangerous zone in the middle of what was once Trinity. She is either dead or hiding her signature because no one can sense her. The echoes of the dark side unleashed remain in the area suggesting she was at least alive after landing. Her bow was found in the hallway only for it to probe to be a perfect mimic that ambushed the group. While it died easily, it means any object could be an enemy.

The quest to find Miriam has led the group to the once great land of Trinity where the three great races, machine, anthro, and human, all coexisted and mingled. Miriam's slab of the ship fell within the city grounds. The city, sealed in a great barrier walls, now acts as a prison for horrible, polymorphic monsters most just call; mimics. They can be anything. A chair, desk, or coffee mug could suddenly spring up to attack. The group does not manage to find the wreckage of the ship. They did find evidence Miriam was present and battled these things with unleash.

Kalie is the last one to see her and tended to her wounds. In doing so, her counterpart, Iota, took Miriam out of the city. The group tried to get out of the city but had to take refuge with "The Maker" who is related to the androids, to the mimics, and to Tappani nobility as well.

Kalie and Iota Oscillator Crystals: Fwiffa installed Kalie's and Windy installed Iota's kyber oscillator crystals. They can now conduct force powers channeled through them, and they will begin to evolve and advance beyond their origin with time. They also now need to sleep at least 4-6 hours a night.

Battle Bus

The group is going to try and break out from the city limits which means a chase and a battle on the road! The route is being planned. Lost of equipment has been salvaged, and the getaway vehicle has been prepared. The bus has some special equipment due to very careful planning and a good deal of luck. Kalie and Iota have stripped most non-essential electronics aside from themselves from the bus for some reason.

Shield Generator a micro scale shield generator provides 1/-/-/1 defense to the bus

Gauss Rifle An anti-vehicle grade gauss rifle with some form of enchanted ammo slugs is now mounted on a swivel turret on the top of the bus

Alchemical Armor A special coating made by Windy that provides a burst of protection at a critical moment. Vastly reduces damage from psionics.

Police grade armor plates and cruiser engine Extra standard armor and power to still move under that weight.

Escape from Trinity: breaking out of the city took every resource the group could find from getting Zia an IFF code so she can Mutans could take the sky to stretching Windy's force powers tot he limit. Not was shot was wasted trying to keep enemies off the bus even as the graeat Nightmare tore through entire buildings to pursue its prey. The group barely made it to the main gate an relied on Tanniquinn's battle machine's front cannons to keep the path clear for their departure. The smoking mess that is the bus and a whole crew of exhausted combatants have been scooped into the walker as its starts on the path to Blackmoore in safety, for now.

Blackmoore

Miriam remains well ahead of the group which is no surprise. Traveling alone, even if badly injured, she can manipulate wildlife to aid her, and she excels at travel through challenging terrain. Th elusive squib has been seen in Blackmoore where she took on supplies and left almost immediately. Now getting to her will require specialists in adventuring including Celeste, Sadie, and Eva Lee, if they can convince them to join.

The group partially repaired a Pazuzu class destroyer tank that belonged to the Central Mechanism

KEY CONTACT: MOXIE VENULI

Moxie is probably the single most powerful entity that the group has encountered. She is an equal to Terra but hails from Vena. She has diminished due to the battle over her world with Hadar, Sol's best life stealing agent as a dark phoenix. Terra is hosting Moxie because Moxie still has scant life on her world, but recovery is very slow. Moxie is wiser and better with people than Terra. They consider each other sisters, but Terra is very brute force nature most times and Moxie highly social

Moxie and the group: Moxie intercepted the group at the bar where they saw Celeste playing and Sadie holding watch from the shadows. While Moxie could be cryptic and sneaky, she opts to be very straight forward with the group. She lays a few things out for the group:

Their friend has already headed for the great jungle to the north of the swampy lands of Blackmoore and beyond
They will need Celeste to survive the jungle.
- Celeste cannot be forced. You have to find a way to convince her to join. Her confidence is at an all time low
- Where Celeste goes, Sadie goes.
Geiger, an agent in the city from Central may be helpful with advanced equipment, but they only trade in information
Eva Lee (a name that makes Zia groan) may also be very useful. She's an archaeologist, and when Celeste's skills end, hers begin. She is quirky though.

Windy, Zia, and Kalie entered Blackmoore, a large metro area with buildings above and below the water line. Definite military presence keeping order that is akin to the Empire securing a location
At a night club, partially revealed in Windy's vision, two major entities are presenmt
- A singer, a white rat wearing a jackal mask (just like Gibb's) is on stage.
- A black rat with a modified lightsaber and at least one other weapon appears to be the blademaster of Blackmoore. She also has a sith holocron. She is a more obviously dangerous entity
The night ends without a chance to interact with the singer. The party gets some good lodgings.
The group also knows there is a Central representative in town known as Geiger. According to Zia, they are a bit of an asshole. According to Kalie, they have matching reps even in Trinity

That night, Windy and Gibbs get to talk. He is able to relate some things about Diver 0 and some of the larger issues in the cosmos. He urges caution in dealing with Diver should they interact because Diver is actively tracking and testing Windy for reasons no one knows.

Pre 8-26-2023

The Warp Blade: A mysterious entity has found a way to get ahold of one of Windy's sabers, take it completely apart, and leave behind a new crystal while taking away the old. The new blade is dark but not like the darksaber. Instead, it is almost more of an event horizon form of darkness, and it has a peculiar energy signature. It also has an effect on spacetime and can cut in a way sbaers do not. It is not a hot blade but instead an ultra-sharp partial repulsor of some form.

Brunch and Pandas: Zia gets the group to have brunch at a local diner because of the vantage point it provides. She uses it to show Windy the differences in species and motivation in Blackmoore. She also takes the chance to educate Windy that the present is not far from the past in some ways in terms of how red pandas are viewed. There was a great war with a distant nation where they are dominant over issues of trade, resources, and philosophy. It also involved the war of huge, powerful dragons that were then slain by dedicated hunters until now they are assumed extinct.

At the diner is aa panda named Lita. Zia messes with her a little by using her native language. Lita is hiding something carefully, and based on the lore Zia gave, she could be one of the remaining dragons of old.
Eva's Museum: Eva Lee's "house" is a structure that rivals most of the upper class housing and support structures. The massive complex is home to restored artifacts as well support systems for doing restorations. A good deal of the items in the sections seen pertained to the conflicts and trials that shaped modern society. They include weapons from the ancient past, some millions of years old, that she has brought back into working order. This also means she has a stockpile of ancient weapons that may be the reason she has been allotted such a massive facility. Some of these weapons include a working rail tank that is from pre-first impact meaning it is about 600 million years old. According to the data on it, it was recovered from a special vault that was embedded in deep granite structures in a highly stable tectonic plate region.

Eva probably has more tech than anyone in the city short of Central. She knows the area that Windy needs to go contains one of the largest, most elaborate vaults ever found. The same issue keeping Windy out of the jungle that resides over it is what is keeping her out. She knows of TZ0, a massive mobile city system buried nearby, that she has been messing with that could get them into the jungle faster than trying to walk all of it, but getting in deeper will need a powerful natural magic user.

Central and Overlord

Eva has some rapport with the Central Mechanism entity Geiger, and she is able to pull some strings to their their aid. Geiger takes an interest in Kalie right away. After seeing the warp blade, it indicates that such technology once appeared here in the hands of off world visitors. Geiger takes everyone to Overlord, confirming it exists and is operations, and performs a deep analysis of the weapon. The device is confirmed to be a warp blade but not of the origin from the off world entities. Its exact origin is unable to be places. A minor spacetime anomaly was registered by Central around the time Windy would have been asleep. It also implies that there is no guarantee of purely linear time. For instance, a time pocked could have been generated that would allow for many hours of work in mere moments. It also may account for Windy seeming to have slept in. The situation, the jungle issues, and the vault all prove to be of interest to Central such that Geiger has joined the group and will be sitting on Eva's shoulder most of the time.

The Central Collective itself is also 650 million years old and has been adapting and growing all through time. However, its primary objective remains: prevent humanity, which now includes humans, splicers, and uplifts, from going extinct. The tech it keeps for itself, like teleporters, suggests it has been evolving all this time. 42, a sort of machine got, remains a holy quest of sorts for Central which hopes it will complete unlock Central's true potential.

NOTE: Peripheral Mechanism, that tore up ships in the outer solar system, do not appear connected to Central or even mentioned by the machine race.

All things hinge on a broken heart: The success of everything lies with recruiting Celeste. A known werewolf, she has taken refuge in Blackmoore where she is actively protected by Sadie and the city. She is known to lending her healing skills at a hospital in the case of a child in the upper classes. Based on data from Geiver, Celeste is an off work entity of a scale that exceeds imagination. A giant energy ribbon 15 light minutes wide that condensed into the entity everyone has seen now. She was part of a large pack of wolves that were systemically exterminated until only she remained. She has since been in a deep depression that has also seemed to alter her ability to use her healing skills. It is not clear if she has other abilities. Her exact age and point of origin are unknown short of Central having some record of what direction she approached Terra.

Without Celeste, nothing can proceed. A way must be found to get her to join the group directly or indirectly.

Last Time 8/26/2023

Celeste, an immense star traveling being, is absolutely necessary to get access to the site Miriam has gone to. Getting her assistance, however, is not an easy task. To do so required the right leverage to even get a start.

A sick child: Much of Celeste power and time is spend tending to a sick child in the main hospital in town. Afflicted with a weaponized diseases created by humans against splicers, she has barely been able to stave off the effects and allow the kid to grow otherwise normally. That she cannot cure this disease has been a huge hit to her self confidence.

On top of this is a second surprise: the dreaded blademaster, Sadie, has a huge affinity for children, and she appears more protective of them than anything else. Having waited long enough to catch them coming out of the hospital, they were able to provide Windy with the information that the mega shelter Miriam was headed towards might also have the means to fix this disease and actually cure it. That is enough to make Sadie consider and will discuss with Celeste.

The child, a male raccoon, belongs to the bartender, Beckett, who is far more than what he seems. He has infliuence enough to get Celeste's aid, and has such formidable mental defenses that he is more likely to be a senior intelligence officer of some kind, no who they work for us unknown.

Eva's Ride: Eva has access to TZ-00, an extremely rare mobile human shelter that she has been restoring for some time. She said it will offer a mobile operations platform as well as plow through miles of jungle to save the group time. Why it can't go all the way has not been discussed.

The Impact Site: Located directly about Shelter Z-1, a massive mega complex spanning thousands of square miles, was an impactor that some believe destroyed the Shelter. It has also been the site of some kind of invasive growth that has twisted the local jungles into bizarre shapes and even more dangerous terrain now that the flora is as deadly as the fauna even before the foul mist in the air is considered. Miriam apparently headed into this alone (though in truth she flew in as far as she could before having to go to ground)

Shelter Z-1: Home to tech that could cure the kid, but no one else has asked much about the site beyond that. Geiger and Zia are sure to know more.

Last Time 9/2023

42: Its not just Jack's lucky landing pad any more. 42 is a machine entity that is more advanced than anything on Terra or even in the whole Sol system. It is so complex and so old that it has a faint force signature to it. It has, apparently, been wandering the holonet much as it did the networks of its time on Terra, so it knows a great deal of current events an history. One of its most significant powers, however, is to be the brakes on the Overlord system. 42 has singular veto control over the whole network. What it decides, Overlord is obliged to obey to the best of its ability. 42 also has a strong affinity for and is protective of sentient life in all forms. Spawned by the central intelligence machines of the day, it self-evolved its hardware and software under the shadowy hand of the great machines. While it could not stop early Overlord actions, it became a major player later on.

42 has stolen an imperial shuttle, made it virtually invisible on the holonet and BOS network, and provided it to Windy to use how she chooses without restriction even if that is to just throw up her hands and leave. No Central or Peripheral system will try to target it, and they will provide limited protection and escort as needed. 42 also provides major revelations regarding the warp crystal Windy is carrying. To introduce how to use it, 42 had to loop in RJ, a ringtail. The significance of this is that ringtails are no longer real and only influence the world from the dimension of dreams which makes them more or less poltergeists. They are a dangerously technologically advanced rivaled only by jakcals, and they are the origin of the warp crystals.

RJ and Real Time Travel: RJ is a female ringtail with an unusual ability: she possesses an artifact that lets her experience an entire new life daily over the real time course of about 15 min time. As such, she remembners a great number of things from various places and times. In this time and place, she is a humble pizza delivery driver that 42 lured into training Windy. In its simplest form, it just cuts. When used with knowledge of higher dimensionality on the tune of 12-14 dimensions at a time, it can be used to move around spacetime at will so long as cuts are not too close in time or space from each other. To do so needs more than a couple of flicks of the wrist.

To use the blade fully, it must be used in a dance format. This allows the user's mind and body to become aligned with the blade and thus simplify the system so it can be used to touch other higher dimensions reliably. Blade dances can take extended periods of time, the longest ranging from 15 to 60 minutes. Thus, advanced warp blade dances must be done in safe locations. Short dimension hops to parallel paths, however, can be done in just a few minutes, as few as 3-5 once the user knows them well. Still not a good combat technique but suitable for use in preparatory situations or when in hiding in a safe place.

Only two groups have ever used warp crystals: ringtails and Diver Zero. No one knows how Diver obtained a crystal or why she swapped it into Windy's gear.

Windy's return time is set to be a believable time, maybe an hour or two, from her initial split from the group to see the shuttle. Only Mutans is going to understand the significance of the shuttle flying overhead. What Kalie and Zia are up to during that time is a mystery.

Last Time 10/21/2023 - Explosions and a Force Mimic Monster

The Explosions: For Windy, she's had ten years of focus and training to deal with the warp blade. Coming back to the main timestream just a few hours from her departure, she is beset with a very uneasy feeling. "You're not going to like what comes next" was written on the mirror, and for some reason it seems like it could be now as two massive explosions happen in close time. A huge explosion under the residential area where Celeste and Sadie live takes place in the underground geothermal plant. The explosion and subsequent fall of material into the crater devours hundreds of lives including what should have been Celeste and Sadie. Having been lured away by the attacker, Windy realizes she fell for a trick that has left two of her allies in dire condition. Using her alchemical amulet as protection, Windy is able to help dig out her allies. Only Sadie is found and with third degree burns over eighty percent of here body. BY all means, she should be dead. She is carrying a white feather that she gives to Windy. The wererat is taken to medical while Windy gets more questions as the group loses access to Sadie's mage masher weapon.

The second explosion occurred at Eva's place was more dangerous for where it was than who it targeted. With Eva off with Geiger to prep TZ-00, their intel is old and they miss the cyberbunny. Her restored items including alchemical weapons of functional status posed the danger of an even larger explosion of a magical nature if not doused. Dragons Lita and Zia went to put out the fires given Lita is a water dragon and Zia has a form of ice breath even if hers is oddly space cold instead of the usual ice.

The Shoggoth: What else can you call a hyperdense mass of unknown biological matter that can roughly approximate the shape, size, and voice of some of your allies? This entity has a very flat personality much like a droid. When pressed, it erupted into a giant mass of lashing tentacles, eyes, and mouths. The scent of the monster was one every being in the galaxy would know and dread instinctively for these horrors have been and will be around at the dawning of many sentient species. This one seemd non-combative despite the display until Windy realized it was just acting as a decoy. It does seem to have used Unleash in the same manner as Miriam might, so it is a very good mimic. Two tentacles, probably involved in using unleash, showed damage characteristic of recoil from using unleash.

Last Time 11/18/2023 - Family and Fusion

First of Kin: While meditating after the events of the day, Windy found herself able to not only see a strange place but also communicate with someone there. The reason for this is two fold. First, she has been out of Palpatine's shadow long enough for her to be foud. Second, the one who has reached out to contact her is a blood relative. The dasher, Landon, shares more than half his genome and all his medichlorians with Windy. An engineered project that was spun off from the one Windy was part of, Landon was meant to be used in a more tactical setting rather than for life extension. He is the figure that was seen near a strange ship and a jedi fugitive back when Fwiffa was being briefed on the mission. The ship, the Liberator, appears to be a rebel faction vessel operating on its own under Landon's control. He is apparently trying to find a way to Windy, but until then, he is relying on bilocation. He even used it to send Windy a sandwich from Selonia. He has made no judgements on her nature or what she has done, and he only brings up a desire to get her away from the empire.

Fusion Feather - Celeste's Reincarnation: With the assistance of Fwiffa and Kalie, Windy took a speeder out away from town about twenty miles and set the feather out in sunlight. Soon after, the feather accumulated enough energy, a mix of Sol and Terra's, that it went off like a thermal detonator and immolated nearly everything in several hundreds of meters, and she produced a fireball and mushroom cloud visible for miles around. Unfortunately, she emerged in a panicked state as a white wolf with wings that also was emitting high gamma radiation. Tracking towards shelter, she started running for town. In the process, she collided with Fwiffa's speeder, utterly demolishing it although the cat still managed to land on his feet. Using bind and move by Windy and Fwiffa ended up with Celeste dragging them along behind her like they had used cables. Perhaps for a first time, Windy had to play the good cop and sooth Celeste to calm her down long enough to get her to reason again. Able to get her back to her rat self, though for now with wings, they wrappd her up in a cloak to bring her back to town once her radiation levels tapered off to something safe.

A Town Rebuilding: The town of Blackmoore has everyone helping to rebuild, and plenty of military to make sure anyone thinking to steal a few things in the process loses a hand. Bringing Celeste back to Sadie, who is in a bacta like tank to recover, it is obvious some alchemy was used in the blast site. Traces of alchemical silver and kyber like crystals were embedded in some of Sadie's flesh. As a result, her injuries are healing at a slow rate, though she is still regenerating from lethal wounds no one else could have survived. The number of critical wounds is reduced by the day, but she may still be weeks from being able to leave the medical facility. It may mean Celeste will have to leave without her to face what is in the jungle.

Beckett provides a safe place to rest unil TZ-00 is prepared. Windy has also been warned some special care may be needed around Eva given how the nanomachines in her body may be reacting to current stressors.

Central Intel: Central shared satellite imagry of a strange storm and energy emanations in the jungle. They are in the 'creep' region, a place of corrupted jungle around the main vault, Z-1. While visible, Central cannot record other data on it which suggests an alchemical, force, or magical source. Some of it suggests Miriam's typical combat behavior, and it might be evidence she is still alive and active. Though small for terra, it could also be her actions.

Other Missions

A Rat in Time: Beryl is destined to vanish into a time vortex. Hints of ancient relics suggests she was 2.5 millions years in the past. Can you get her back?

This Old House: Restore the Menders: Chit, Flit, Bit

Triads

A temple high in the mountains showed interesting triangle motifs associated with people and places

Places: Sky Temple, Sea Temple, Unknown templae (portion of rock was destroyed)
Foxes: Mae, Luna, and Terra
Omni Triad: Rat (beryl) Dragon (Zia) unknown wolf associated with a star
Dark Siders: Windy, Fwiffa, Miriam

Menders do not fit this pattern as there are 4. There could be more triads to find. Triads hold special power.

Resolved Missions

The Cat in the Clouds

Fwiffa is in the west high in the mountains. What condition is he in? Is he mission worthy? Foresee suggests a hard road ahead.
Fwiffa revealed how their masters were beginning to betray them including giving them orders in private to kill the others. Fwiffa intends to disobey orders and Windy is running with the technicality that Fwiffa has not yet crossed over to the light
Fwiffa appears to have settled in a dark side of neutral position. He sees Jedi and Sith as operating foolishly and is striking out to do something in the middle

OUTCOME: Fwiffa has joined the party though depending on scenarios, its not sure where his loyalties now lie

A Tangled Web

Zia has given you a small cylinder of what looks like graphic powder to exposure Beryl to it. It supposedly should help her vault get Beryl to come back to them.
Zia hired the pair to rescue someone from an old vault. Turns out that someone was her primary body which ended up being something impossible: a silver dragoness locked into cybertech
Zia is free but still trapped underground. Trying to head down to unlock the cargo lift, Windy and Fwiffa see that all the desiccated corpses that were missing
The group must now figure out how to get out intact and with Zia in tow. Ivan has come down to the vault to offer aid
- Zia has begun a search to verify the origin and likely outcome of using the gray nanopowder on Beryl as she was hired to do. Zia is suspicious and unhappy about this.
- Zia is also busy tapping into project data regarding herself and potential tools

OUTCOME: Zia, Aka Lily, has left home behind and now follows with the team. A dragon that doesn't yet know how to be a dragon