List of ALOFT episodes

== ALOFT Season 1 ==
Num	Title 	Air Date 	Summary 	Link
1 	Keystone 	Jun 11, 2018 	2058. The USA after the Apocalypse. The airship Calamity Jane, sent from nearby Hill City, SD, explores Keystone, whose human inhabitants were killed or sent into exile years ago. The crew confront animals affected with the mysterious Glow, get to meet the city's Cat queen, are allowed to take equipment and return unscathed, along with a feline ambassador.
AloftRPG live-tweeted a recap. 	YouTube
2 	Hill City 	Jun 18, 2018 	Back home, the crew of the Calamity Jane get a heroes' welcome. They reunite with family, mentors, and town elders and help start trade with their former enemies, Keystone's new rulers.
Still, they can't rest on their laurels and must soon head to Rapid City, a town that never recovered from the Fall and is only visited by scavengers. There is a lot the Calamity Jane can do for Hill City while there, and it's up to its crew to decide how they will help. 	YouTube
3 	Rapid City 	Jun 25, 2018 	The Calamity Jane makes its way to Rapid City. The crew set their sight on the Black Hills Geologic Institute, explore an auditorium taken over by Glow-affected plants, meet a sympathetic 10’-long iguana that offers, in exchange for food, to lead them to robotic nocturnal ruckus-kickers with stuff they want. On their way there, they find a tree tapped for rubber latex, which they would love to use. The tree's owners are the aforementioned ruckus-kickers: 6 robots, 4 of which M-16 toting, who initially don't want to share any of their secrets but eventually agree to take them to their leader after disarming them.	YouTube
4 	Rapid City, continued 	Jul 2, 2018 	The robots' leader sends the crew on a mission to fight barbarians: this is how they'll gain their trust.
The crew meet a suspicious human preparing crates to be loaded from a roof into an airship. Could this non-barbaric-looking man complaining about the robots be their evil nemesis? The crew send Peregrine inside the building. It finds signs of occupation, but no traces of cannibalism or anything alarming. 
The situation gets clearer when the traders' airship arrives, damaged, and a shark-themed pirate ship hot on its trail.
The crew take the human and his previously hidden wife with them on the Calamity Jane, and take the traders's side in their airborne battle. They start dealing damage with their machine gun while avoiding getting hit themselves. Theo shoots an arrow at, and misses the pirate gunner.
When the pirate ship is below the Calamity Jane, Lando drops onto it from the cargo bay, George accidentally follows her, and Fennec jumps, transforming into a cheetah midair. George uses his sleep gun to send pirates tumbling down.	YouTube
5 	The Bluebell 	July 9, 2018 	Lando and Fennec as a cheetah have boarded the pirate (or skyrate) shark ship. The heavily damaged ship Porsha had been waiting for escapes while the Calamity Jane is speared by a spike on the shark ship. The half-dozen or so mix of newbies and grizzled ruffians succumb to Lando's axe and Fennec's claws and bite. One of the two pilots jumps to his death, failing to take Lando down with him as intended. The young Cameron surrenders, then helps Geddy save three of his comrades. Geddy goes as far as wasting morphine on a dying skyrateThus gaining bonus Inspiration from the GM..
With Peregrine's help, Lando lands the pirate ship in the vast Industrial Complex they had seen earlier. Theo lands the Calamity Jane nearby. They are joined by Captain Sawyer, from the Bluebell.
Sawyer is much obliged for that assist. His ship which will need repairs, and parts from the pirate ship, to resume its travel.
The elated crew of the Calamity Jane celebrate their first victory in the sky. Lando and Fennec immediately start transferring the machine gun and ammo that shot at them to the Calamity Jane before it's even clear whether the pirate ship will have to be scrapped for parts. While Geddy, after assessing the pirates, is ready to offer most of them a backpack deal, Theo is not comfortable having any outsiders anywhere near their place.
Lady Joan arrives on the scene with her escort, and declares in her robotic voice: You've proved yourselves, I think we can do some business.	YouTube
6 	The backpack deal 	July 16, 2018	The crew get confirmation Porschas and Lady Joan don't get along. The skyrates' ship, still known as the Mako but in the process of losing what makes it look like a shark, will fly again for Lady Joan, even after the Calamity Jane and the Bluebell get what they need from it.
There is a toast, for which Lady Joan provides the bourbon and Geddy brings batteries for the androids to tipple back. Lady Joan talks more about Sir Robert, a fearsome warrior and noble leader-teacher and gives the crew a letter of introduction they can show to fellow knights.
In addition to making new friends and getting information from Captain Sawyer, the crew get loot from the Mako: bad canned food, liquor, a harpoon gun, a pair of rocket launchers with ammo, a stripped fin as trophy and personal stuff. They learn from maps that the skyrates are from Duluth, Minnesota and got a letter of mark from robber baron Lord Steven, baron Duluth. 
Lady Joan makes friends with Tybalt.
Before the crew leaves, Lando and Theo go to the old ammo plant in the Industrial Park. Jenkins, one of Lady Joan's androids, uses of his usual "requisition for the war effort" runs to get supplies from the National Guard androids that did not put their heads back together after the war and still guard the ammo plant.
Back at the Geologic Institute, Fennec selects plants that she will bring back to Hill City and helps the miners (and now gardners) robots dig them out. The iguana they already met comes to Fennec: it offers to go with them, and advises to take more plants that will be useful to Fennecs' plants' ecosystem.
Repairs on the ships extend into the night.
Geddy tends his skyrate patients. He sleeps on two occasions, and sees scenes of Tybalt's life from Tybalt's perspectives both timesBoth dreams were stories George read from the envelopes he had earned. Each envelope also came with a onetime boon..
Geddy interviews two skyrates. One, who introduces himself as Fuck You, is clearly hostile and seeking revenge, despite Geddy's relative friendliness. George has no more success with a second one. The next day, after the three ships are ready to leaven, both are left beyond a crater in the vicinity, through which they would have to fight their way in order to return to Rapid City. Geddy makes sure that they get a fair deal with their backpacks.
The Calamity Jane, with the Bluebell following set sails toward Hill City. In Rapid City, it gained loot, Cameron and a still unconscious skyrate, a friendly iguana, and a lot of useful plants. Lady Joan and the Mako stay behind.	YouTube
7 	Back in Hill City 	Jul 23, 2018 	The Calamity Jane is back home. There is a lock to unpack, plants and iguanas, and all that took place in Rapid City. The crew meet their respective mentors, and the characters so inclined have a drink or more. When not imbibing alcohol, Rose and Theo have "tea"As to the nature of this tea, suffice it to say that Rose switches her mug for Theo's after he talks about big spiders and anti-venomous venom venom. instead. Lando writes a report for the sheriff, and impresses on former skyrates, new crewmates Cameron and Aurelio the importance of behaving and making themselves useful. Lando's axe had already made a big impression on them earlier.
Theo invites Captain Sawyer of the Bluebell to the rangers' haunt: his knowledge of the country comes in addition to the Mako's charts.
A council is called. The needs of the city are listed. Our heroes are given missions by their mentors: Theo still has to go to the 6 Grandfathers Monument to do what Rose requested from him, he promises it is high on their todo.
Grandma Gaia asks Fennec to retrieve her papers for her in or near Saint Louis, Missouri. If anything survived at Crops by Calgary the bunker-like offices there, her papers were important enough to be among it. And maybe the seed vault. 
Sheriff Cindy Johnson asks Lando to look for her son Ansel, who hasn't seen him since he went to premed school in Seattle before the War. She gives Lando the 25-year-old picture she has held onto. 
Deputy Mayor Flannagan would like Geddy to bring back a priest, a catholic one if possible. Geddy, who can't refuses anything to his mentor, will get him somebody good, somebody decent even though he himself thinks that Historically, that comes with a priceOthers around during the scene are even less reticent and, due to the lack of clergy in the area, have misconceptions about priests.. He surmises that Flannagan would have one to attend to his father when the time comes and that Flannagan thinks it may come soon. Geddy knows from the time he fled Olympia as a child with what left of his family that there are, or were, Jesuits at Seattle University. 
After the councilAnd with it, the Prologue of the campaign. ends, the crew are left alone to ponder their options. Captain Sawyer joins them, suggests that they find themselves a hub for trade. In this regard, he has knowledge to share about Seattle, Washington; Provo, Utah; Colorado; the water-recycling casino arcologies of Vegas; Mexico threatening California and Arizona in the Southwest; and Saint Louis, Missouri: it's boring.
They decide to the the 6 Grandfathers Monument first and then go hugEach in their own way... the spiders at the construction site in Rapid City. In the meantime, Hill City will gather goods suitable for trade with Seattle, such as timber, furs and woodcraft.
During the week-or-so that it takes to repair the Calamity Jane, two elk arrive from Keystone, pulling a cart with sacks and boxes of spare parts, coal and books about trains. Clyde starts making a scene, before being shamed into running away by Geddy, who also addresses the crowd to convince them of the wisdom of making peace with the current inhabitants of Keystone.
Fennec uses Talk to animals to make sure the needs of the weary elk are addressed. She also acts as an interpreter between the elk, who convey their leader's request for more books, and Geddy, who will part with his (not too) beloved 1984 Chilton guide for a Pontiac Firebird but wants his Marcus Aurelius back.	YouTube
8 	Spiders and old friends	Jul 30, 2018 	A week after their last adventure, the crew of the Calamity Jane return to the now familiar Rapid City, where they still have a promising construction site infested with spiders to explore. The airship formerly known as Mako, now the Joan's JetAs determined by a poll on twitter., is being worked on.
Lando leads an away team that goes scouting a little but forward. After two hours without news, Geddy gets ready for a medical emergency. TybaltPlayed by Stacy LeFevre. senses some trouble with the away team: negative emotions, anger ... followed by quiet.
Fennec, noticing Tybalt's erratic behavior, follows him to the bridge. Theo notices a column of smoke coming from the building depot. It consists of four warehouses, surrounded by a trench. The crew prepare to land and rescue Lando's team. Theo will bring a new version of Peregrine for this mission: a taller than human robot with giant double blades at the end of its arms and a scary bird face painted as a clown'sTheeo was inspired by It, that he watched on one of Geddy's movie nights. that uses Peregrine's control unit.
Looking down, the crew see rocks moving in the trench, as on a conveyor belt. Smashed steel containers are used as a bridge. There was no noise and no smoke last time they came. They cross the bridge, see faded signage: Administrative office, a building with an open door; and storage area, with a door that's not open. Tybalt's keen smell reveals that Lando is the one who opened the now open door. That building also has big, closed warehouse doors. Theo goes stealthy and peeks through the open door. There are rows of massive shelves, a corner office, flickering lights and a massive collapsible drawbridge mechanism. The broken padlock on the door of the corner was seemingly introduced to Lando's axe.
Fennec is the first to hear the claws and the hissing of a huge spider. Tybalt's dark vision allows him to see a spider in the corner, and the faintly glowing, pulsing pattern on its abdomen. There is another living spider in the room, and one that was cut in half. There is also a human-sized cocooned-up body in that thirty-foot-wide room.
Tybalt approaches the cocoon, a spider goes towards him.
Tybalt hisses. Geddy aims his sleep gun inside the room, blasts, and the moving spider falls asleep mid-charge. Tybalt successfully enthralls the second spider and goes onto the catwalk in the roomWhich caused a few puns: "Paw-kour" and Purr-Kour (the latter, from @Iffrithiel, in chat). The GM generously rewarded chat with Inspiration.. 
Theo sends Peregrine shouting Come get me, come get me, I'm delicious in the middle of the warehouse, with orders to shoot anything not friendly. It is definitely not stealthy.
Fennec casts Barkskin and turns into a cheetah, to be stealthy. She moves towards the door and sees everything Tybalt saw before. As she slinks through, the enthralled spider goes past her. Fennec bites for 19 damage with her attack of opportunity and the spider pushes past, out the door. Theo shoots an arrow in between the spider's many eyes and it collapses, dead.
Geddy enters the dark room, points his flashlight at the sleeping spider then pans the light to the web, the smashed crates and the tunnel in the corner Tybalt has already seen.
Meanwhile, Peregrine has reached the center of the warehouse without attracting anybody's attention.
Fennec and Theo both strike the sleeping spider and kill it. As a result of her bite, there is green, glowing goo in Fennec's mouth.
Geddy frees the spiders' victim, who turns out to be Aurelio. He has a faint pulse, is very pale and clammy from poisoning, but stable. Geddy uses a healer's kit from his surgeon's bag to give him back 5 HP.
Aurelio, who can't tell what happened to the scary lady, saw at least three spiders. He can't just stay there at the mercy of more spiders: under Theo's watch, he trundles out on shaky legs toward the ship, which is a quarter mile away.
Tybalt sticks its cat snout where it doesn't belong, into the tunnel because I'm a troublemaker. The 15-foot tunnel goes down diagonally and opens up into a chamber underneath the warehouse. After failing to establish a mental connection with Lando, Tybalt starts cleaning himself and just waits for the humans to come.
As Theo and Geddy discuss taking venom from the spider that died asleep, Fennec smiles, which prompts Geddy to warn her the goo coming out of her mouth could be harmful.
Led by Fennec, the group joins Tybalt. Fennec is the first to poke her head into the next chamber, which is as big as the four warehouses put together. They are on the ceiling of the two-story tall underground chamber. It is warm. Something hot is glowing in the direction of the smoke they saw earlier. Fennec can smell smoke, and dust, and ground rock. She can hear machinery. There are cranes, and hatches going above. There are big bins containing rock material. It is a foundry.
Near the glowing light, Fennec can see a bunch of shadows moving: humanoids. The lights are shifting: it's one or two figures just pacing around. Fennec jumps down, and stealthilyWith a natural 20, for a total of 25. lands on top of a bin of rocks less than ten feet below. Tybalt follows suit. He is less sneaky but is also too small to make much noise: with that, the cat brigade has dropped down. Peregrine is next, rolls even less well on stealth despite inspiration: it does make a competent, stealthy landing, then the rocks shift underneath it and it falls to its side, metal clanging against rocks and echoing through the chamber. Someone shouts: Oh shit, they're coming. Fennec can barely pick up the voice: this one of the backpack deal guysStill, Geddy won't apologize for not being a sociopath, for not murdering everybody.. After the others move out of the way, Geddy joins them on top of the 20 ft x 20 ft, 10 ft tall heavy-duty steel container, followed by Theo. The bin is just one among hundreds laid out in grids, separated by train tracks every few rows.	YouTube
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==Notes==
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