C3:E6: The Gorg Incident

A meme about the incident

After consulting the Deathomir Elders and working out an alliance plan, Kinlin Vesto went to pick his nose in the village while the rest of the party determined what to do while waiting for nightfall to safely travel to the ship. Eta and Kenobi opted to avoid the potential dangers of traveling in such a hostile environment and puttered around the village, learning about the culture and helping out.

On a mission to obtain the elusive crystals mined on the planet, the remaining party members grouped up with some flower-hunters to get fruits to barter in the city. Under the protective awning held up by the awning-carriers, the group trekked out into the blistering heat. After a while walking, the group happened upon a strange tree-like being. Though it visibly possessed no eyes, the trent had an acute sense of hearing. Auros Vinn was the first of the group brave enough to attempt to obtain an elusive fruit. After slathering himself in a protective salve, he rushed out to engage the monster.

The trent noticed Auros rather quickly, snatching him by the legs, opening its eye, and secreting a translucent liquid that immobilized his feet. In retaliation, Hugo, Drake, and Ouro'na shot at the trent, which dropped Auros. Taking advantage of the distraction, Auros took a heroic shot and slayed the creature. The guide and the awning-carriers quickly began to dice the trent's body and eat it, extolling the flesh's healing qualities. The fruits were collected, and most of the party gathered extra meat. Having harvested one trent, the party turned their eyes to the horizon, where two more trents lurked. Unfortunately, the guide spotted a different creature.

A strange wormlike creature prowled the horizon, extending vertically and snatching fruits off of a nearby trent. The old guide explained the creature's predatory abilities, though not soon enough. The rockworm bent around and accelerated towards the party. As it raced towards the party huddled under the sun-awning, it suddenly dove underground and began to tunnel. The guide explained that while it wouldn't hear the party while underground, it could feel intense vibrations such as footfalls. In light of that information, the group decided to hunker down and wait the creature out.

In the downtime, Auros decided it was time to get rid of the hardened slime on his feet. Since Eta was back at the village, he turned to Auriga and her mono-molecular dagger for help. The blade had extraordinary cutting ability, though it cut less slime than it did flesh. Auriga first nicked Auros' foot with the dagger, drawing a bit of blood and forcing him to stifle a yell. Auriga tried again, this time slicing a small chunk of the slime free. On the third try, she dropped the dagger, which subsequently drove straight through Auros' foot. This time Auros could not contain a scream of pain, which reverberated loudly throughout the rocky plain. All of a sudden, the party felt the ground rumbling.

The rockworm burst through the glassy soil, snatching up one of the awning-carriers and generally causing pandemonium. It thrashed around, ripping the man to pieces and showering the party with meaty chunks and blood, and retreated underground once more. Having pinpointed the party's location, the rockworm would be able to pick them off one by one. The party hurriedly devised a plan to rid the planet of the horrid creature. Since the creature had surfaced and was circling the awning, opportunities presented themselves to the party. A grenade, wrapped in a meaty chunk, was to be thrown and gobbled by the rockworm, and then remotely detonated at the correct time.

The plan went off without a hitch. The rockworm delighted at the free food lying on the ground, and gobbled it up after a little sniffing. It dove underground once more, and Auros detonated the explosive. The ground rumbled and roared, and then was still. Having defeated the monstrous worm, the group set off to harvest from the remaining trent. After collecting 10 fruits in total, they returned to the village to trade. Presenting the heart of the slain trent to the elders, Auros received a congealed lump of potion. He consumed it and felt strength coursing through his veins. Meanwhile, the other members had health potions made for them in exchange for the meat. Finally, the Elders gave the party a crystal on a necklace for the fruits.

Night finally fell, and the party departed on their ship to find the army and bring them to Deathomir. They arrived without incident and split into two groups, one piloting each ship. While making the return trip in hyperspace, the crew aboard the *Frost Dart Jotham* encountered a disturbance. Eta and Auriga decided to investigate, and found a corpulent Gorg wreaking havoc on the tableware in the kitchen. Upon being spotted, the gorg teleported into the cockpit and right into Auros' lap, and fell asleep. Auros, being surprised by the sudden appearance of a gorg, quickly made a perhaps ill-advised decision to push the amphibious creature onto the floor and put a blaster bolt through it.

The entire party, save Auros and Kenobi, was completely appalled by what had just transpired. Words of outrage echoed through the communications channel during the entire flight back to Deathomir, and Auros received a verbal beating from Hugo and Auriga. He worked to justify his decision and narrowly avoided being placed in the brig, but still earned the distrust of many party members. After landing on Deathomir, however, the mood quickly changed.

Upon arrival in the village, it was noted by all that the villagers were very downtrodden and sad. It was evident that things were very different in the village, and even more so upon seeing the gates to the monastery lacking their vivid green tendrils. Entering the monastery, the party saw immediately that the glowing artifact held between stone hands was on the floor and dark. Kenobi announced that the party had arrived with the army, and the Elders quickly regained their energy. After some questioning, it was revealed that the invading pirated had penetrated into the core of the Dathomirian's defenses and shot the artifact, destroying it and the source of the Elders' force powers. The head Elder explained that the artifact contained a book of ancient knowledge in an unintelligible language. Additionally, it contained a more curious entity: a gorg, the source of all the force on Deathomir, that had absorbed the powers of two extremely powerful beings and possessed the ability to teleport at will.

Eta stepped forward, clutching the remains of said gorg.

The Elders, realizing that the gorg was simply in a dormant state, set the party a mission of traveling to Dorfenheim with the crystal necklace to repair the gorg's wounds and return the force to Deathomir.