The Switch to the Other Crew

May 21, 2010 Synopsis

Ginsberg, Oki, and Landros, along with Palfin and some other red-shirts leave Palladium on Theoninn. A quick check of Raven indicates the direction of the nearest runic item, which you immediately head toward. Long story short, you meet up and dock with the Infinity and then continue to the Telemachus station.

Khouri is now added to the to party and you all investigate ways to get to the surface of the moon since that is where Raven indicates the item is. Gaining access to the moon is a little tricky because of the political climate, but help comes in the form of Node and Svarturinn who offer to join you, act as guides, and get you onto the surface colony hassle free.

You arrive at the mining colony to find that Grunner Corp is packing the place full of a lot of mercs in light of some recent tensions between the freeman workers and the corp. Node knows of a seer/mystic which he brings you all to see in hopes that you may find a lead as to where the runic item may be. Node and Landros also do some hacking and discover that some freeman found an interesting object while working in the tunnels.

You investigate this lead to find that some freeman had indeed extracted some boxlike object and hae hidden it somewhere in the colony. You also learn that the Grunner mercs are about to put the colony in lockdown so that they can search for this item. The freeman, whom you offer to help, are sending three teams out to try to escape; each team believes it has the item in an unmarked box.

Landros creates a diversion while the rest of you try to get a team of freeman to the shuttle pad to get off the moon. With some help from the Infinity you manage to make it back to your shuttle, but discover your team's box had nothing of value in it. You wait awhile to see if anyone else shows up, but no one does. So, you leave, heading back to the Infinity. There you learn that the object is no longer on the moon...Raven is tracking it as being on the lighthugger The Elegance of Π, which is starting to pull away from Telemachus.

Tough week...you were set up in a trap and had very little chance of figuring it out from the inside. On the bright side, if you analyze what the goal of such a trap might have been, namely to hold you up in Grunner's lockdown, then you did quite well in getting out of there as quickly as you did. And the get-away car is just pulling into traffic, so you're still very much in the hunt.