Nova: Part 1
Posted: Sat Apr 16, 2022 1:19 pm
The sky ship angled upward at the last minute twirling through a gout of green flame unscathed for now. The passengers were thrown against the deck but the ship through the efforts of heroes righted itself. Katapodis and Tsaoussis (Two CS scientists) clutched the deck’s rigging with one hand and pointed off the stern at the Spider Skull walker on the nearby rock outcropping angling for a shot on the main mast. Both had heavy welts on their temples and there incomprehensible babble had to be translated by Xander “Spider we are the fly! Web’s of fire must become a ghost!”The walker’s lasers went red hot, but before it could fire it exploded in a vague mushroom shape cloud of fiery gass. “Look oh! A savior looms and goes boom!” The boom came from underneath, and those on the Morose could finally catch a breath.
He muttered a curse under his breath and dropped to one knee. He gurgled, “Kingsdale…. It’s about an hour, maybe two away. Go North west.” He leaned back on the deck breathing shallow at the mercy of the assorted heroes.
In a short time the familiar hillocks and bunkers of Donner’s division came into view. Fortunately closing in to kingsdale the leyline returned, although it could never be used to travel to the Tomorrow Legion’s castle. The hillocks formed a natural barrier and funel into the city. Two roads to the west were packed with vehicles, horses, wagons, and people in general trying to plead with the Kingsdale Forest Rangers for entrance into the safe haven of Kingsdale. Several robot armors of different makes patrolled nearby letting the rangers conduct their interviews in relative peace. Beyond the Hillocks nestled in the tail end of the Ozarks with a river on one side was the city of Kingsdale. A few tall towers, and a great grey monolith noted the city center and were really all the buildings of note that the vantage from the skyship could offer of the city proper in the distance. A great road sprawled to the east that presumably ran all the way to the Mississippi.
Aboard the Morose the four juicers approached the heroes. One of them with pink silver sparkly hair cracked a cocky grin. She wore the traditional plate mail of a juicer and sported a JA-11 rifle on her back. Like most juicers she was extremely fit, “Well it looks like Jergins went boom. Ma name is B-side, this is Spiderweb, total-hate, and Bathwater.” She pointed in turn to a green haired female, a bald male, and male with a vibrant blue mowhawk. All juicers of course and all strangely named. “If you need crew we got you.” Despite her efforts B-side could not help but steal half a dozen glances of Cassiopeia.
Kassandra nodded joining the conversation clapping her uncle Mercer’s shoulder. She adjusted her CS uniform and tossed down her death head style patch ripping it from her uniform. “We are with you too. With Luke repairing the converter My team can keep this ship running, its slow from what I can tell but maybe we can punch it up and even figure out how to power it without leylines.” She paused thinking for a sec, “Ophelia asked us if we wanted to join the Tomorrow Legion, given all that happened. We are in.” Angus and the other CS scientists and soldiers nodded in solemn commitment.
Lucy llyboc took her eyes off Big Joe for a moment and looked out, she pointed toward two dozen TK flyers rapidly approaching the Morose. Her sultry mouth and warm breath tickled Big Joe, “What are those big fella?” Her eyes narrowed as the rising sun rays caught one of the flyers just right giving the impression that the person on the flyer was shirtless with bare skin glistening.
With the Captain unconscious the heroes of the legion held fate in their hands. The sun had just started to rise, a horrible clang came from the heavens and a dark ornate blade fell from above plunging into the wooden deck of the sky ship. The blade was soaked in blood and was forged as if made of solid shadow itself. It could not be moved. Glyphs of an unknown language were scrawled into it’s side.
Please feel free to have some in character interaction, and set a course. Do you stop? Do you go east toward merctown? Do you travel instead to whykin to see what is going on there? Do you go in some unexpected direction? Maybe there is some info you have gained during the adventure so far you wish to share. Anyways have fun with some RP and we well get this adventure moving forward in two weeks. Also Please make a single piloting roll, feel free to support. No modifiers.
Xander to Luke
Captain Gaiter swooned to the wheel, and what was left of his head was slick and dark with blood. Despite tremendous pain the Captain grinned, “Well the ship is a mess but in one peice…. Welcome aboard I guess.” He was the only one of the crew that had survived. He grimaced clutching his shoulder and tapped the wheel, “Thank ya for not dumping my cargo. I’ll need to get a new crew.”He muttered a curse under his breath and dropped to one knee. He gurgled, “Kingsdale…. It’s about an hour, maybe two away. Go North west.” He leaned back on the deck breathing shallow at the mercy of the assorted heroes.
In a short time the familiar hillocks and bunkers of Donner’s division came into view. Fortunately closing in to kingsdale the leyline returned, although it could never be used to travel to the Tomorrow Legion’s castle. The hillocks formed a natural barrier and funel into the city. Two roads to the west were packed with vehicles, horses, wagons, and people in general trying to plead with the Kingsdale Forest Rangers for entrance into the safe haven of Kingsdale. Several robot armors of different makes patrolled nearby letting the rangers conduct their interviews in relative peace. Beyond the Hillocks nestled in the tail end of the Ozarks with a river on one side was the city of Kingsdale. A few tall towers, and a great grey monolith noted the city center and were really all the buildings of note that the vantage from the skyship could offer of the city proper in the distance. A great road sprawled to the east that presumably ran all the way to the Mississippi.
Aboard the Morose the four juicers approached the heroes. One of them with pink silver sparkly hair cracked a cocky grin. She wore the traditional plate mail of a juicer and sported a JA-11 rifle on her back. Like most juicers she was extremely fit, “Well it looks like Jergins went boom. Ma name is B-side, this is Spiderweb, total-hate, and Bathwater.” She pointed in turn to a green haired female, a bald male, and male with a vibrant blue mowhawk. All juicers of course and all strangely named. “If you need crew we got you.” Despite her efforts B-side could not help but steal half a dozen glances of Cassiopeia.
Kassandra nodded joining the conversation clapping her uncle Mercer’s shoulder. She adjusted her CS uniform and tossed down her death head style patch ripping it from her uniform. “We are with you too. With Luke repairing the converter My team can keep this ship running, its slow from what I can tell but maybe we can punch it up and even figure out how to power it without leylines.” She paused thinking for a sec, “Ophelia asked us if we wanted to join the Tomorrow Legion, given all that happened. We are in.” Angus and the other CS scientists and soldiers nodded in solemn commitment.
Lucy llyboc took her eyes off Big Joe for a moment and looked out, she pointed toward two dozen TK flyers rapidly approaching the Morose. Her sultry mouth and warm breath tickled Big Joe, “What are those big fella?” Her eyes narrowed as the rising sun rays caught one of the flyers just right giving the impression that the person on the flyer was shirtless with bare skin glistening.
With the Captain unconscious the heroes of the legion held fate in their hands. The sun had just started to rise, a horrible clang came from the heavens and a dark ornate blade fell from above plunging into the wooden deck of the sky ship. The blade was soaked in blood and was forged as if made of solid shadow itself. It could not be moved. Glyphs of an unknown language were scrawled into it’s side.
General Radio communication
Common knowledge TN 4(-2 if you are new to the area), The two roads, Whykin and Laramy
Notice -2, the road east to Mississippi and merctown
Kingsdale Oh my…
Bonus Benny chance
Rest
Antipas
Clark
Leyline
Please feel free to have some in character interaction, and set a course. Do you stop? Do you go east toward merctown? Do you travel instead to whykin to see what is going on there? Do you go in some unexpected direction? Maybe there is some info you have gained during the adventure so far you wish to share. Anyways have fun with some RP and we well get this adventure moving forward in two weeks. Also Please make a single piloting roll, feel free to support. No modifiers.