Dramatis Personae
+Courtney Campbell as Tin Man
+Elias Stretch as Sasha Rey
+John Bell as Dr. Trevor Science
+Patrick Stuart as RayRayRayRayRayRayRay
+Chris H as Gown
The Bosco
HP: 0/8
Fuel: 30/30
Free Cargo Space: 12/12
Loot
A sack of children’s fast food toys
A leather pilot’s jacket
Some keychains from the lost & found
22 fuel
A Shamrock Shake machine
4 cleaning robots
A full list of fuel 1transactions which took place at the Aurilis 3 refueling station
680 Darics
136 Darics / experience points each
NPCs
Dayvin – Spokesperson for the hobos living in the Space Krakken’s hive.
Rosco – Pilot of Melissa the Philaquamort’s Pleasure Ship
Locations
Aurilis 3 – Players did not deliver their potatoes, and scrapped a space station.
Space Krakken Hive – Players killed the resident creature, and met some friendly space hobos.
Highlights Recap
The session began with the party coming out of hyperspace in the vicinity of Aurilis 3, where they had intended to deliver some potatoes. Very quickly, they notice that the fuel station orbiting above the planet is venting plasma, and move to investigate.
They dock with the fuel station, and poke around inside of it a bit. The place is completely empty of any human life. Fully automated with robots selling fast food, and computer consoles that require 2.99 Darics for an hour of commnet time. Curious to find out what happened, RayRayRayRayRay hacks one of the station’s consoles, and pulls up the security camera footage. It shows a sort of insectile space squid, which wrapped its tentacles around the stations, sucked out a bunch of fuel, and flew off with two full tanks wrapped in its tendrils.
Ray used his access to identify what the tanks transponder frequencies were, and also to give the Bosco’s crew credit for as much food as they wanted from the station’s many fast-food services. The party all indulged in snacking on some tasty snacks. A minor security flag was raised by the hacking, but that probably won’t come of anything. Right?
The party looted a ton of miscellaneous junk from the station, including a full transaction list of everyone who has purchased fuel from the station. Tin Man used french fries to lure The Bosco’s Space Roach population onto the space station. The Space roaches thanked the Bosco’s crew, and apologized for judging them so harshly after their earlier encounter. Clearly, the crew of the Bosco had every intention of friendship towards Space Roach kind.
The party then re-boarded the Bosco, took out the station’s stabilization thrusters with their dual blaster cannon, and judged the station onto a trajectory that would send it crashing down into a remote mountain range on the planet below.
Without making their intended delivery, the party set off in the direction of the fuel tank transponders.
On the way they bumped into a ship with big organic eyes, and bubbles spraying out the back instead of any more standard propellant. They contacted the ship, and discovered that it was the Pleasure Vessel of Melissa the Philaquamort. They talked to the pilot, a woman named Rosco, and mostly made themselves look foolish and annoying while talking to her. They ended the transmission and got out of the ship’s way.
Before leaving, though, they managed to catch one of the bubbles in their cargo hold.
When they reached the source of the transponder signal, they discovered a sort of nest, formed from a concrete-like excrement, the size of a large asteroid or small moon. It had three entrances, each large enough for a whole ship to fit through.
The party tried the entrance near the object’s south pole first, where they were surprised to discover a magshield, an atmosphere, and…people. The party disembarked, talked with a man named Dayvin, and discovered that this was a settlement of space hobos. As no doubt interesting as those folks are, the party decided they’d rather find the Space Krakken, and left.
At this point the party bandied about a few different ideas about how to approach this situation. There were some really clever ideas on the table, and eventually the party settled on preparing two items. First, they took the bubble they’d captured from Melissa the Philaquamort. Dr. Trevor Science infused it with acid, and the party put it in a cargo hold where it could be “fired” by dropping the emergency force field that held the Bosco’s atmosphere in.
Second, they took all of their potatoes, did some engineering to them, and made a giant potato battery, sufficient to provide 4 power over the course of 6 hours. Then they took out a bunch of hull deck plates, and created a kind of “gravity bomb,” which they carried in the ship’s arm.
The party then reentered the nest through one of the other entrances. They passed through rooms filled with loose excrement, and one with a pair of dead ships in it. They gathered enough fuel to top off their own tank, and discovered dozens more tanks to boot. They also found a chamber with eggs, and one with hatched baby Space Krakkens, but passed these by without capturing or killing them.
At one point, they discovered a pregnant Space Krakken. Through a clever application of magic and skill, they forced the thing to miscarry, which made it just vulnerable enough for them to kill easily with the acid bubble.
Finally, they discovered the nest where the Krakken who attacked the refueling station was sleeping off its gluttony. They placed their gravity bomb in the corridor leading to this chamber, and used their mechanical arm to pick up a fuel canister from an earlier room. They sent this floating towards the Krakken, then blasted it. The blast injured the Krakken terribly, as did the follow up shots from the party’s gunner. Dr. Trevor Science cast ultraviolet light into the creature’s eyes, blinding it, and Rayrayrayray then flew the ship back down the corridor, where the Krakken gave chase, and was caught by the Gravity bomb. Left completely immobile, the creature was easily slain by the party.
The session ended in media res