2.0 [Q1-2022] Black Company on Rakis INTERLUDES
- Daniel
- Daniel (Lars)
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2.0 [Q1-2022] Black Company on Rakis INTERLUDES
2.0 [Q1-2022] Black Company on Rakis INTERLUDES
The Interlude reward is Conviction which carries over between quarters also.
After reading this
please post your Interludes here.
Please write an Interlude about what your character has been doing for the past month. You all arrive at Castle Refuge a month ago.
Include an interaction with someone from either the Future Brigade, the townsfolk, former Shock Dog, or a Rakis Nomad. You may use one of my NPC’s from this post and expand upon who they are or come up with your own NPC from one of the groups.
As far as Craven, he’s a Rakis Nomad (Basically a Shadow Combat Mage type of guy, born and raised on Rakis) who I plan on NPCing and using for the trip from Castle Refuge to Fissure.
Try and have fun with it, any made up NPC’s will definitely become canon in our game (the PLV*) and reappear in our story.
*Pender Lars Verse
Your reward for the Interlude is earning Conviction.
- Hans Greuber
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Re: 2.0 [Q1-2022] Black Company on Rakis INTERLUDES
Those Nomads think they stripped this train? They haven't seen anything yet.
With the assistance of Gargamel, Hans was able to get to work stripping the Train of any parts of value. Even after what the Nomads has previously removed, Hans was able to gather about 20 million credits credits worth of salvage. Giving the Nomads a million credits leaving 19 million worth of salvage for their help, Hans was easily able to have them cheerfully haul anything of value from the now properly stripped hull. It hadn't even taken Hans a week to finish. The Nomads were so happy with that the haul that they brought Hans a suspiciously familiar nuclear engine that he was a perfect fit for their Black Company APC. After a quick install and once over, Hans was able to get it running in just over a day and with the Nomads pulling trailers full of salvage, just a week after starting the work on the train, they were able to haul everything to the castle.
"If you know of any more sites that you already consider salvaged, I can give it also a nice once over and we can split whatever I get out of it."
After a discussion with the other assistant managers of the Black Company and Humble, Hans gets a bunch of Nomads to help him and any other Company members go to New Troker with their load of tech parts, some of the Technowizard parts, and their shopping lists. While there, Hans finds an Enchanter's shop and commissions a and some with his share plus the 50k that Wormy owes him... Hans will pick up credits of Golem Summoning Materials and leaving 30,000 credits after all 3 weeks, assuming Hans's proposed split of Enchanting Materials
Once they get back from the shopping trip, Hans gets an invitation from their Shaman, Desert Mouse. In Desert Mouse's tent, Hans and him have a conversation about possible salvage sites and salvage splits, as well as trading services of Enchanted items in exchange for Technowizard items. In exchange for knowledge of the salvage sites, labor, transportation, and security for these sites that were previously considered worthless, the Nomads will get half of the salvage.
Impressed with their share of the salvage from what they thought was a totally ransacked wreck, the Nomads spend the next two weeks bringing him and Gargamel to wreck after wreck that they had previously ransacked... hoping that Hans would find them riches... and he did. Hans did not find as much valuable salvage as he had on the train, but since the Nomads' share was now half of what was found, their share would be larger. While they were out, Hans also got them to bring 8 tonnes of clay that he would later make into Golem bodies.
At the end of the 2 weeks the Hans and the Nomads go back to New Troker to sell their new salvage and pick up the materials Hans ordered two weeks ago. While they are there, Hans hears a LOUD BOOM! Sending Gargamel in to investigate, Hans discovers another merchant, one that specializes in Missiles. After a quick talk with the vendor, Hans grabs up a Golem sized Light Missile Launcher and, knowing @Wormy's love of Boom, 32 AP Missiles to use in it. Looking across the street, Hans also sees a Giant Vibrosword that would go perfectly for Jim.
"I wish I had the credits to outfit my Golems too, but that will have to wait until I get some more credits. That was fun, but now I need to work on a few items this next week"
Spending the next 5 days in the forge room that he found deep in the castle, Hans is able to craft one Iron ring and two Silver rings and imbue them with some magical nanites. Slowly coaxing magical energy into the nanites, he is able to have the Iron ring emit a field that will partially stabilize the magical field around a Techno-Wizard and allow them to better control their magic. The other two he funnels the magical energy into them as fast as he can... cycle after cycle of energy funneled into the two rings. After days of this treatment into the specially prepared rings, are turned into a sort of battery, that will be able to store magical energy, and even directly feed off of the energy of a ley line to charge themselves.
Hmmm... just enough time left before we go to Charon's armor
Last edited by Hans Greuber on Thu Jan 27, 2022 7:20 pm, edited 30 times in total.
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Having satisfied herself on the particulars of Flint's condition, and with his blessing, she sets to work on his mummification. Draping his body with the rags soaked in the chemicals and spices she has accumulated over the years. The grisly ritual is a raging success, as is her later use of some of the components Hans has salvaged to create an amulet to sustain Flint's enhanced form. So successful, in fact, that she's able to imbue it with extra power, granting him additional speed on the battlefield, and generally more athletic prowess, reasoning that a nimble and swift mummy is likely to catch many off-guard.She also spends a bit of time outfitting Flint and the Zombies with better gear--a few grenades, laser rifles and vibro-swords, along with some basic Body Armor equipped with armored cloaks. Flint receives the same gear, making him harder to spot when he's walking among the zombies. While this won't necessarily be a big help in the immediate future, she does also keep an eye on the fact that the long-term plan seems to be settling in Newton and using both Flint and the Grim Legion as protectors.
Finally, she asks @Hans Greuber if he would be able to enhance her armor, giving her a bit more
Updated Paragould Zombies
Mummy Flint
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Re: 2.0 [Q1-2022] Black Company on Rakis INTERLUDES
Wormy opens his eye and looks around and only sees sand in every direction. The last thing he remembers is nearly exploding his team mates and passing out from the shock of stopping it. In a moment of panic, wormy considers whether or not he exploded the entire world.
Then he feels the power of the ley line thrumming under him and checks his mystic senses. It only takes him a moment to realize that at some point he was transported somewhere else. He startles when the earth moves beneath him, but it just turns out to be Jim unearthing himself now that Wormy was awake.
Before long, he encounters some sort of nomadic tribe retreating from another group with vehicles and heavy weapons. Turning the gifts of the Mighty One against the weak is a terrible sin, so the little zembahk motions for Jim to charge forward to defend the nomads. Wormy reaches out to their minds to let them know he is a friend.
The nomad's enemies weren't prepared for the extra firepower Wormy represented and beat a quick retreat. The nomads were wary of the strange wormlike creature at first. When he offered to join them in their journies, the nomads begrudgingly accept the offer. The nomads would warm to him quickly.
So the weeks passed. Peaceful nights around the campfire regaling the nomads with the parables of the Mighty One, healing their injured and raising their spirits. Long journeys by day, often leaving twisted scraps of ganger vehicles too brave to stay away from the now notorious nomad group.
Roughly a month later, the nomads made the journey to the former Castle Refuge where Wormy was exstatic to meat up with the allies and friends he thought were lost to him.
Then he feels the power of the ley line thrumming under him and checks his mystic senses. It only takes him a moment to realize that at some point he was transported somewhere else. He startles when the earth moves beneath him, but it just turns out to be Jim unearthing himself now that Wormy was awake.
Before long, he encounters some sort of nomadic tribe retreating from another group with vehicles and heavy weapons. Turning the gifts of the Mighty One against the weak is a terrible sin, so the little zembahk motions for Jim to charge forward to defend the nomads. Wormy reaches out to their minds to let them know he is a friend.
The nomad's enemies weren't prepared for the extra firepower Wormy represented and beat a quick retreat. The nomads were wary of the strange wormlike creature at first. When he offered to join them in their journies, the nomads begrudgingly accept the offer. The nomads would warm to him quickly.
So the weeks passed. Peaceful nights around the campfire regaling the nomads with the parables of the Mighty One, healing their injured and raising their spirits. Long journeys by day, often leaving twisted scraps of ganger vehicles too brave to stay away from the now notorious nomad group.
Roughly a month later, the nomads made the journey to the former Castle Refuge where Wormy was exstatic to meat up with the allies and friends he thought were lost to him.
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Living many lifetimes as a brute and a foot soldier Humble was surprised when the others called him Commander. Then learning there is another Humble out there with the drive and intellect to become a leader shook him. Why had he never considered learning more, why had he been satisfied with being only a brute?
No longer, Humble would improve himself, he had more drive than most men and knew if he worked at it he could learn things. He had the smarts in him, he just needed to do the work. During their time with the soldiers Humble took every opportunity not only to train with them and help them learn from his skills, but to also be trained by them and learn their skills.
So many of the elements of tactics and strategy were familiar to him. Things he had heard or seen a thousand times but no thought of before. Getting himself a holo pad he began reading. At first it was all he could do to read half an hour at a time before he needed physical work to clear his head. But being tireless and not needing sleep had its advantages, giving him much more time to study than others would have expected while still being able to help the others should they call on him.
Developing a good friendship with one of the soldiers a fellow giant, named Nrahl Vard, Humble found that the warriors mind was sharp and he enjoyed teaching someone who was willing to work hard. The two enjoyed working with each other so much that Nrahl even promised to eat Humbles heart and liver should he die. Saying "It would take many nights, but I would not dishonor you by letting you go to waste." The warrior was nearly as tall as Humble and had a strength nearly equal to a suit of power armor.
Humble enjoyed training with someone who could occasionally hurt him. While he needed to heal, Humble knew that only through pain and work could he grow. On the other hand, when prepared for battle the giant did well and Humble did not need to worry about harming him to badly for the giants own psionic talents to regenerate from. The two were a matched pair and soon became battle buddies.
No longer, Humble would improve himself, he had more drive than most men and knew if he worked at it he could learn things. He had the smarts in him, he just needed to do the work. During their time with the soldiers Humble took every opportunity not only to train with them and help them learn from his skills, but to also be trained by them and learn their skills.
So many of the elements of tactics and strategy were familiar to him. Things he had heard or seen a thousand times but no thought of before. Getting himself a holo pad he began reading. At first it was all he could do to read half an hour at a time before he needed physical work to clear his head. But being tireless and not needing sleep had its advantages, giving him much more time to study than others would have expected while still being able to help the others should they call on him.
Developing a good friendship with one of the soldiers a fellow giant, named Nrahl Vard, Humble found that the warriors mind was sharp and he enjoyed teaching someone who was willing to work hard. The two enjoyed working with each other so much that Nrahl even promised to eat Humbles heart and liver should he die. Saying "It would take many nights, but I would not dishonor you by letting you go to waste." The warrior was nearly as tall as Humble and had a strength nearly equal to a suit of power armor.
Humble enjoyed training with someone who could occasionally hurt him. While he needed to heal, Humble knew that only through pain and work could he grow. On the other hand, when prepared for battle the giant did well and Humble did not need to worry about harming him to badly for the giants own psionic talents to regenerate from. The two were a matched pair and soon became battle buddies.