Gravity Star (Campaign)

*If you are looking for the titular organization, see Gravity Star.*

**Gravity Star** was the eighth campaign held by the members of Flafa. It was the fourth campaign DM'ed by FennekinGalaxy. It featured Chris-tian Mothman as Moe Yai and his mech, M.O.A.I., Kaiju as 086 and her mech, G.R.I.M. Mk. 04, Grey as Haze Russ and his mech, Relic-01, RottenDoll as Gary Geckerson, and C.D as Dewey Labling and his mech, PEPSI’S MACHINATION MAN©. It started on April 11, 2023, and ended on May 23, 2023.

Gravity Star is best known as being the first campaign set in a sci-fi setting, as well as being the first campaign where everyone uses multiple character sheets; in this case one for the pilot, the other for their mech.

## Storyline

### Session 1: It Came From the Stars (4/11/2023)

Starting Characters: 086 and G.R.I.M. Mk. 04, Moe Yai and M.O.A.I., Haze Russ and Relic-01, Dewey Labling and PEPSI’S MACHINATION MAN©, Gary Geckerson

The party opens in Gravity Star’s Earth base in Houston, Texas, where on one of their off-days, General Stone came to them with a mission. The mayor of the neighboring town of Beaumont, Roderick Stewart, is giving a speech, and rumors are passing around that someone will be there and attempt to assassinate him. The goal of their mission is to prevent Stewart’s assassination while incognito.

The party soon traveled to Beaumont, wherein they witnessed the opening of Stewart’s speech. Positioned on a nearby building, 086 preps her gun in case anything goes awry. Almost on cue, as soon as the mayor starts his speech, one of the Skullhearts aims their gun at him. Gary quickly races to the offending member and attempts to disable his gun, failing, but distracting him enough to make him miss. The shot quickly disperses the crowd, and the mayor quickly starts hunkering down on his balcony. Haze Russ shoots a smoke grenade at the mayor to give him ample time to escape. Moe Yai uses this time to make an illusion of the mayor running out of the building to distract one of the Skullhearts. Gary soon goes to bite one of the ankles of one of the Skullhearts, causing him to get thrown off of his leg. One of the Skullhearts is successfully fooled by the illusion of the mayor, shooting at him and dispelling it. 086 gets noticed in her sniping position, but none of the Skullhearts are able to reach her. She takes potshots at them, killing one. Haze soon hides in the trees, sniping from afar to get critically intense shots. Moe picks up Gary with a holographic hand, pulling him out of danger. Gary mends his injuries. Moe then uses his signature boomerang to bonk one of the Skullhearts, killing him, shortly before Gary kills another one by biting him.

After the mayor thanks the party for their help, a giant drill rig robot crashes down from the sky, preparing to drill. Several forces start coming out of it, prompting the party to armor up. Gary licks his eyelids in preparation.

086 switched G.R.I.M.’s ammo type to incendiary before Haze activated one of Relic-01’s remote alarm drones to get the remaining civilians out. He used a tether to pull one of the hammer-toting robots into one of the flamethrower robots, damaging both before 086 used one of G.R.I.M.’s EMP missiles to disable them temporarily. M.O.A.I. used Might of the Moai to rally his team, before PEPSI’S MACHINATION MAN© punched one of the hammer wielders, planting Gary inside to dismantle it from the inside. The crusher missed  PEPSI’S MACHINATION MAN© and fell on the ground, but Gary was somehow alright. He took this opportunity to start dismantling the arm from the inside, making the hammer-wielder’s arm limp. PEPSI’S MACHINATION MAN© started to beat up the hammer-wielder, allowing Gary to jump out. Relic-01 used its 50mm cannon to blow the brains out of one of the flamethrower mechs, before Moto came back on the comms in disbelief of what she had found in her records. G.R.I.M. blew the heart out of one of the hammer-wielders, and Moto returned with her findings, finding out that the Martryian army had returned, with bare minimum Crushers, Scorchers and a Harvester in tow. Gary mended the wounds to PEPSI’S MACHINATION MAN© before the Pepsi salesman obliterated the final crusher with a huge blast of Pepsi. With the Harvester’s hatch finally clear, the party soon entered.

As they went in, Moto warned them of the instability of the Harvester’s reactor, advising them to use caution. The party soon split up inside, with PEPSI’S MACHINATION MAN© and Gary going to the reactor room, G.R.I.M. and M.O.A.I. going to the cockpit room, and Relic-01 staying behind to destroy the drill. He bashed the engine’s covering enough to make a dented handgrip, but failed to pull off the panel until he melted it and made it softer. He soon overheated the engine, shocking it enough to short out its circuitry to accelerate the shutdown process, hiding in a corner shortly after in case a repair crew came forth.

Meanwhile, in the reactor room, PEPSI’S MACHINATION MAN© strapped Gary to a Pepsi bottle, shaking it before sending him flying to the reactor for him to dismantle it. After the party reconvened in the cockpit, they made a stealth assault on the henchmen in the cockpit before PEPSI’S MACHINATION MAN© threw Gary at the Scorcher piloting the Harvester’s eye, whilst M.O.A.I. took off its faceplate, revealing the pilot inside. Relic-01 held the pilot by his shirt before they persuaded him to join them. Gary failed to disable the Harvester through the control panel, but Relic-01 was able to short-circuit the control panel, rendering the Harvester inoperable. Gary repaired Tommy’s faceplate after he joined.

The party then laid a stealth assault on the reactor team, with M.O.A.I. cutting someone in half lengthways. Relic pulled the remaining reactor team members into each other before shorting the mechs’ circuits and stopping the pilots’ hearts with electricity. M.O.A.I. used his magnetic abilities to crush the reactor and pull the pipes apart before G.R.I.M. pulled a sheet out of the floor for M.O.A.I. to lift the party out with.

After the party exited the Harvester, General Stone summoned the party back to base to strategize. Moto told the party that they were dealing with the army of the fallen planet of Martyros, a planet killed by its corrupt political underbelly and some other causes that remained obfuscated and could not be decrypted. The latest of the royal bloodline was a man named Octus, with any other information on him seemingly obfuscated beyond recognition. Shortly after, Stone received a message on the screen, a prerecorded message from Octus the Conqueror himself, telling them that he has dozens more Harvesters around the galaxy and that Gravity Star should stay out of his business.

After this, Stone wants to reinstate Gravity Star’s one-step-ahead lead, and asks his lieutenant, Gordon Zola, to hijack Martyros’ comms using a communicator he snatched from the premises. Shortly after, he finds out that Martyros’ armies are looking for a double-agent by the name of Percival Mason. Stone gives them their mission to save Mason from Octus’ clutches, before Moto offers a more personal request before they leave.

Moto asks the party if they can help her ask out Zola, to which Haze Russ helps set Zola up while Gary got Moto dressed up nice. Haze then asked for Stone’s help in securing a nice dinner for them, with Moe Yai setting the mood with a nice violin illusion. Gary sat atop COSMO to spy on them. Zola, seeing who his date was, apparently always knew that she liked him, and the two hit it off almost immediately, with him picking her up and taking her out of the main room to do whatever it is those lovebirds planned to do.

### Session 2: Jailbreak (4/18/23)

Starting Characters: 086 and G.R.I.M. Mk. 04, Moe Yai and M.O.A.I., Dewey Labling and PEPSI’S MACHINATION MAN©, Gary Geckerson, Tommy

086 immediately told General Stone about a fabricated “jellybean incident” involving Dewey’s rectum. Shortly after, the team went to Garrison’s cafeteria, wherein 086 partook in chicken nuggets, and Moe partook in dino nuggets, to Gary’s dismay. Gary asked the cook for fried cockroaches, which the cook obliged with, much to the disgust of the team members. Gary finds a lady gecko named Gertrude and offers her some of the roaches, and successfully woos her, getting the mythical possession that is having bitches. 086 found a tap of MUG Root Beer and fused it with hot sauce, creating SPICY MUG. Moe reluctantly accepted a taste after initially refusing, and Gary accepted without hesitation.

After wooing Gertrude, Gary tried to ask Tommy if he liked geckos the same way he did, getting him flustered and asking him why Gary would ask him something like that. As a test, Moe made a hologram of a seductive female gecko, after which Tommy was so anti-horny that he kicked a hologram, something intangible, across the room.

The team went to complete Moto’s request of scavenging some gear from the Harvester’s crash site, with 086 picking up some of the gear, Moe becoming armed and dangerous, and Dewey picking up the rest. Returning back to base, Gary attempted to flirt with COSMO, to which he did not understand. 086 gave COSMO a headpat before Moe gave him a big sniff, finding that he smelled like Gary.

The team, finally ready to head to Metran, entered Stardust One by doing the pseudo-slow-mo Monsters, Inc. walk, before the ship briefly engaged Ludicrous Speed, stopping at Metran in mere seconds. The planet was surrounded by Martyrian soldiers of varying classifications, including two that the team had not seen before, the Launcher and the Zapper.

The team decided to protect COSMO, leaving him in the ship. During the fight, Tommy is targeted by the soldiers due to being a deserter, to which he attempted to throw some of his grenades at them, missing completely and sending the grenades into the endless abyss. After enough fighting, Gary mends Tommy’s mech’s damages. M.O.A.I. pulls in a Scorcher, immediately cutting it in half, before Tommy throws another grenade into the abyss. One of the Launchers missed a shot at Moe, accidentally shooting one of its own, killing him. G.R.I.M. soon turned the Zapper into cheese, making it a non-issue. PEPSI’S MACHINATION MAN© made a critical strike with his bottle on one of the Launchers before Tommy landed a grenade throw properly, doing so well enough that the Launcher melted into dust. One of the Launchers bitch-slapped PEPSI’S MACHINATION MAN© before G.R.I.M. hit a warhammer hit to the final one’s mechanical balls, with it self-destructing from emotional damage.

Finally making it to the town of Sparkplug, the team de-meched, and investigated the Oil Slick bar, being greeted with the universal greeting. After forgetting the mission entirely, the team asked the tender about Sir Dicks-a-lot, Rivers Cuomo and Clib Jubley, before asking Moto to remind them who they are looking for: Percival Mason. After Moe misheard the name as Carnaval Jason, the team eventually got his name right, and the bar fell silent, thinking they were with Octus. The team reaffirmed who they were, easing the tension of the bar, before the bar visitors reaffirmed they had no idea who he was, only knowing him from the broadcasts. A trash can fell just outside the door, indicating to the team that someone had just left. The team soon gave chase, after which the man dropped his trenchcoat in an attempt to slow them down. On the trenchcoat was a badge with the name “Percy” written on it. As he ran, the man’s skin color and hair color changed from caucasian and brown to gray and black.

The party caught up to the man, and scared, the man got all shifty, thinking the team were Octus’ men. After calming him down, the man told them his real identity, Albus Scorone, and told them he snagged a drive from Octus’ men, which he could give to them for a price, dangling it in front of them tauntingly. Just then, a blue mech with thermal sights and a shoulder cannon jumped down from the sky, picking up Albus and tearing off his cybernetic arm. The drive Albus was carrying breaks, and Moto asks about the drive before being called useless by 086. Moe and Gary pick up Albus’ arm, with Gary mostly repairing its functionality before the party mechs up and flies up to the jailer ship.

Somehow instantly, the team found Albus’ cell block first, allowing COSMO to hack into the security panel. This opened Albus’ cell, but also two others, a pink cyclops and an old purple tiefling with long hair. The cyclops immediately went to attack G.R.I.M., before being enveloped in blades of wind, cutting him down and killing him immediately. The man to do this was the tiefling, telling the team that now they were even. He left to address his own business before being confronted by the Searcher. He dodged the Searcher’s first laser blast, using his wind spell again to break his shoulder cannon before being grabbed by the Searcher and obliterated by his eye laser.

The Searcher orders everyone to get back to their cells, but the team opts for the opposite outcome: free all of the prisoners and have them all fight the Searcher. Among these prisoners were Skids, Mac, Paul, Heisenberg, Looki, Greedo, and a Care Bear. The army is assembled with a Naruto run. Before the fight, PEPSI’S MACHINATION MAN© offered the new friends with a single Pepsi can to share.

M.O.A.I. planned to have each of the prisoners hijack a mech, his first choice being Looki. Due to an error on his part, he accidentally cut Looki in two with his chainsaw sword when trying to open the Scorcher’s hatch, killing him instantly. Mac took some time to throw the Pepsi can at the Zapper, killing him instantly. The Searcher grabbed the Care Bear and threw him into Heisenberg, killing neither but aggravating both. The Crushers attacked with potentially lethal efficiency, with PEPSI’S MACHINATION MAN© in particular taking heavy damage. Heisenberg, done making meth, combines the meth with the Care Bear’s signature Stare, creating an intoxicating effect for all of the enemy pilots. M.O.A.I. used his magnets to push the Searcher as far as possible, allowing PEPSI’S MACHINATION© MAN to be healed by Gary. Skids used his alt-mode to take out two of the enemy Launchers, before Tommy began sewing up Looki’s body to prepare for resurrection. Heisenberg, sick of the Care Bear’s attitude, shot him, but the Care Bear absorbed the bullet, becoming an Anger Bear. Gary successfully resurrected Looki before Looki broke through the Searcher’s already-cracked glass, and with the help of Albus and Mac, beat the pilot to a pulp. Looki began taking the Searcher’s mech, but Greedo shot the Searcher, not realizing the battle was over, breaking the mech. This prompted him to be stepped on by PEPSI’S MACHINATION MAN©.

All of the team’s new friends, sans Albus and Looki, were dropped off at Garrison Space Center to become new agents. Albus tells the party that the data drive on his arm is still corrupted, but he knows who can fix it: Plated Pete, a armor salesman on Omnibius. The party obliges, going to the planet and immediately going to the food court, asking about Space Pizza Hut. On their way, they stopped to look at a few alien fruits, witnessing the Globulo and Tronkus fruits, getting disgusted at their shapes and textures. The team took a long rest before eating Space Pizza Hut, with Gary eating a singular piece of pepperoni. The team lastly finds a Garbudo fruit that talks to them, which 086 convinces the seller of that he is a fugitive, and offers to take him off of his hands, to which he gladly obliges. 086 used this to adopt the fruit, naming him Larry the Cucumber.

The team then went to Plated Pete’s Parts and Pieces, and upon finding his stolen cybernetic arm, asks where they got it. They told him who they got it from, Albus, and he told them that since it was stolen, he would only repair it for an absurdly high price of 750 gold pieces. They negotiate with him to fix it for free, as long as they don’t give it back to Albus. The team only noticed now that Albus stayed on the ship; this must have been why. After collecting the arm, they gave the data to Moto, finding an obfuscated list of Octus’ plans, the next steps being to recollect his Council, the next on the list being the Titan, with the rest of them obfuscated, and the step after being to use the Council to take back what they deserve, the remaining steps being obfuscated. Albus thanks them for fixing his arm, and only asks that he be dropped off on Earth to run away from his past. They agree, but only by leaving him with Larry against 086’s wishes.

Zola comes back on the communications, telling him that Martyros is rebuilding a council, the only planet he could make out being Granaera. With their next mission in mind, the team prepares for their next outing.

### Session 3: Of Myths and Monsters (4/25/23)

Starting Characters: 086 and G.R.I.M. Mk. 04, Moe Yai and M.O.A.I., Dewey Labling and PEPSI’S MACHINATION MAN©, Gary Geckerson, Tommy, Looki

Re-briefed on their mission, the team goes into the cafeteria to get some food, notably a walking taco, some Jell-O, Froot Loops and Mountan Dew. Gary goes back on his search for poontang, going back up to Gertrude, winking and Gangnam Styling to win her over. Her clothes immediately went off due to Gary’s rizz, and they proceeded to have sex for three hours. After this, 086 pestered Zola about giving her $20 before Gary pickpocketed his whole wallet without him noticing, collecting the 80G, worth around $400 USD, within and splitting it between him and 086. After these antics, the team was finally ready to travel to Granaera. Once they arrived at Granaera, the team noticed there was almost no Martyrian craft in the airspace, but they did find a space galleon. The captain and crew of the ship confused the team for Martyrian soldiers, and asked them to stand down, after which 086 calmed them down and reaffirmed the team’s affiliations with Gravity Star. After this, the space pirates introduced themselves as the Wayfinders, and told them they’re on a mission to find their nemesis, the Martyrian Siren. They give the team their contacts and tell them that they will alert them with more information as to the Siren’s whereabouts when they find it. 086 asks for a copy of Call of Duty 40,000 for the PS42, to which she is able to collect one for 10G. She thanks them, and the team lands on Granaera.

As they walk around, the team seems to notice that the Granaeran kobolds are having a festival of some sort, with lanterns hung high and decorations all over, with many gathering in the church hall. Going inside, they hear from one of the locals, who happens to be a simp, that their goddess is supposedly returning today, and they are celebrating with a massive feast. On the table, there is roast beast, bread, vegetables, fruits, bugs, and many other dishes in a massive spread. Moe immediately goes for the roast beast, and shares a leg of it with 086, while Gary immediately goes for the bug tray. At the table, the team noticed a strange cloaked man, standing out from the crowd like a sore thumb, but did not interact with him at all. The festivalgoers all yelled out “For the Titan!” before they continued feasting. The team then noticed that on the wall was a mural of religious nature depicting the Titan, before 086 rubbed her greasy, roast beast-covered hands all over it. Just then, loud thumping could be heard, and the cloaked man left quickly with his watch still beeping.

Soon enough, the Titan appeared, the kobolds gleefully celebrating its return. It picked a few up and sniffed them, as feral creatures are apt to do, and as this happened it was jabbed in the back by an electric javelin, tasing it and forcing it to drop the kobolds. The source of the spear soon revealed itself, being the Martyrian Paralyzer. Gary was visibly distraught by the thought of no mechanical poontang, and rallied the team to save Granaera’s goddess. 086 controlled G.R.I.M. remotely, sneak attacking the Paralyzer and keeping the attacks coming on it, attacking him while the rest of the team cleared out the Paralyzer’s minions, including the never-before-seen Grappler units. After enough time, the team cleared a majority of the minions, and thanks to G.R.I.M. distracting the Paralyzer for long enough and redirecting its aggression to it, the Titan was no longer tased, and was able to grab the Paralyzer, bite its head off, and throws him like a ragdoll. After this, the Titan returned to being docile, and the Kobolds thanked the team for their service.

They did notice, however, that one of her lanterns was broken. The kobold priest asked the team if they wished to help redecorate the Titan, and gave the team a map, allowing them to go and hunt down sparkflies if they wished to refill the lantern, but to be wary of their natural predator, the dustrat. Before this though, the team was shown a swath of stickers and paints they could use. Dewey put a Pepsi sticker on the Titan, and Gary, 086 and Dewey doodled on her in permanent marker, marking dibs and drawing Pepe the Frog and Dickbutt respectively; with Moe writing his SoundCloud link on the Titan. After this, the Titan shapeshifted some of her metal, removing the permanent marker markings and leaving the paints and the Pepsi sticker. Gary tagged the Titan with his name once again.

The team then went to the Sparkflies’ favorite habitat, a large tree, finding them huddled around it. Moe made a light to attach to a coin in an attempt to attract them, but only attracted a moth, which Gary promptly ate, to the dismay of Moe and Dewey. Dewey used the net he was given by the priest to catch two sparkflies, one for the lantern and one to be his new friend. Gary bit the butt of one of the sparkflies, making it slowly bleed its glowing fluids that Gary proceeded to slurp up for an extended period of time. 086 popped a sparkfly with her knife, rubbing the juices on Moe to his disgust. After smelling the spilt juices of sparkflies, a Dustrat came out of its cave, to which Moe lured it away with a holographic swarm of sparkflies. The team went back to the church and repaired the Titan’s lantern, donating a sparkfly to fill it. Gary failed once again at Gangnam Styling and attempted to flirt with the Titan, confusing it. He tried again, and got picked up by her. He licked his eyes, and the Titan did the same to her eyes. Gary once again attempted to Gangnam Style, failing at winning her over again, until Moe disguised himself as Gary and did it himself, successfully seducing the Titan for him. Gary got picked up by the Titan once again, while Moe set up a spaghetti dinner for the two. After their dinner, Gary attempted to fix some of the Titan’s scrambled circuitry to little effect, with the Titan making a happy purring noise for a brief moment because something worked right.

Just after this, the team received an encrypted message from the Gravity Star facility of Shadowcast, located on the planet Penumbros. Moto soon deciphered it, finding it to be a distress call. The team quickly gave chase.

Strangely, there was nothing occupying Penumbros’ airspace, so the landing was simple and easy, but Moto did warn that comms would be down until they reached Shadowcast thanks to the fog. They landed in a swamp town, finding an old tiefling lady baking something. She tells the team that she was baking a pastry from Globulo fruits, and needed some sugar from her backyard to finish making them. The team happily helped, having Gary gnaw at the sugar canes until there was enough for her to use, and she baked them some pastries. They really enjoyed the taste of them. In the center of the town, there was a statue of someone that looked like an older version of 086 with different hair, and next to it was a sleazy guy. He directed them to Shadowcast’s whereabouts, through the forest thicket.

Going through the thicket, the fog became thicker and thicker, before they found a clearing with a sleeping demon. Someone accidentally stepped on a branch, waking him up. Gary attempted to lull the demon to sleep before shaking his booty, seducing the demon. They had sex, with Gary somehow being able to be the bottom in this encounter with a 12-foot-tall creature. The demon was soon attacked  by a floating cross rotor, which attached strings to it and controlled its mind, turning its eye purple. It walked away shortly after this, and the team kept moving until they made it to Shadowcast.

At the doors to Shadowcast, a woman that seemed like a less old older version of 086 with different hair was seen holding a giant railgun. She asked them to state their purpose, and upon seeing their uniforms and her sister, 086, facepalmed due to her stupidity. Inside Shadowcast were a number of clones that looked like younger versions of 086 with different hair and their FATHER droids, all seemingly having smiley faces drawn on them by someone. After COSMO rebooted his comms inside the Shadowcast building to allow Moto in on the conversation, 014 began briefing the team on what had happened. She explained that one of Octus’ bots had been ravaging the base by using some of the local demons to attack them, and that half of the base and their current commander was gone. She had sent three scouting squads out to figure out what was happening, but hadn’t heard back from any of them. She asked the team to go to their last known locations and investigate, before giving them special goggles that will allow them to communicate through the fog.

Squad A was found to the northeast, being ravaged by demons inside a stone edifice. They soon came out, and Moe used an illusion of a seductive female demon to lead the demons away, breaking their control. The team noticed several rotors like the one before flying away after removing themselves from the demons before going southeast to find Squad B, who had been KIA by something unknown. There wasn’t a lot of their bodies left. Finally, going east, the team found Squad C, still in their G.R.I.M. Mk. 01, with the mech’s eye glowing purple. It was under the same control as the demons before, and attacked the team. After a short battle with the already-battered mech, Moe threw his sword into it, turning on the chainsaw, and pulled it out, destroying the mech and preparing it for detonation. Gary soon jumped out of the mech after being in there to try and wake up the pilots, but the pilots were still inside, remaining unmoving as the mech detonated, killing them. This time, when the rotors left, COSMO stuck a tracking device on the underside of one of them.

Returning to Shadowcast, 014 uses COSMO to show the coordinates on-screen, and she sends the team to be cleaned up by the FATHER droids before setting out, with her in tow. Gary flirts with 014 before she declines his advances due to the urgency of the mission.

The team soon finds the Puppetmaster corraling a swarm of demons, before Dewey loudly yelled out "YOU'S A BITCH!" at the Puppetmaster, alerting him to their location. He sends his minions out before Gary attempts to sneak into the mech and break the controls. This fails, and Gary gets thrown out of the mech before briefly being mind-controlled. Tommy captures Gary in a spare grenade shell, shaking it to try and get Gary back to his senses. Soon enough, Gary breaks free of the control, but not before casting Bless on the Puppetmaster and one of his demons. Tommy attempts to throw a grenade, but misses, and Gary summons a Glock-19 to shoot at the Puppetmaster with. Moe stabs a demon with his chainsaw sword before Dewey dissolved it into Ash using the power of Pepsi. This provokes an angered response from the Puppetmaster, who takes control of PEPSI'S MACHINATION MAN©. Moe soon breaks the canopy of the Puppetmaster and Tommy successfully threw an incendiary grenade inside of the Puppetmaster's mech, frying the controls, freeing the demons and PEPSI'S MACHINATION MAN©. The demons soon beat the pilot of the Puppetmaster to death, before becoming partly docile, not liking the team but not attacking them either.

Dewey collects some of the remaining rotors and sends them to Moto to have her analyze them. While the team is there, General Stone hears word about Octus' activity on Varuna, before Moto chimes in that the mechs will need an upgrade to withstand the pressure. The team then heads to Gravity Star's very own Hephaestus Hall on the planet Vulcan to get an upgrade to their mechs' armor and weapons.

END OF SESSION

### Session 4: Snuffed (5/9/2023)

Starting Characters: 086 and G.R.I.M. Mk. 04, Moe Yai and M.O.A.I., Dewey Labling and PEPSI’S MACHINATION MAN©, Gary Geckerson, Tommy, Looki

The team takes a quick visit to the cafeteria once again to get food, before Gary solicits kisses from Gertrude. Moe and Dewey get some of the spaghetti on offer, Dewey in particular coating his in Pepsi instead of spaghetti sauce, and 086 getting hot wings. 086, entering another kleptomaniac phase, goes to the vending machine and forcing it open, taking all of the money out of it.

The team soon goes to Varuna, while Zola notes that he has found the source of the disrupted comms further out, located somewhere on Tynkeria. He decides to go there alone, incognito, to try and disrupt the jammers, with Stone and Moto both expressing their concerns before Zola went anyway, figuring that it would be better to take the shot and miss than not take it at all. Moto soon breaks down, remarking that they’ll eat him alive. Stone takes over COSMO’s comms, redirecting the team to the Coliseum in the town of Ictalurus. Immediately upon arriving, 086 steals two hot dogs in another kleptomaniac episode, while 086 uses said hot dogs to claim a free popcorn from a bundle deal and Moe steals a bag of Funyuns.

The team goes up to the contest holder and he greets them with the universal greeting once again, before the team signed up for the contest and 086 had a narcolepsy episode, snoring really loud as to disturb the coliseum goers.

During the first round, the team fights the Fishman Band, a group of small sahuagin that attempt to bite the team, before most of them were lured off by Moe creating a hologram (with smell-o-vision) of space bacon (“Spacon” if you will) to lure them away with. 086 got into position to shoot at the sahuagin, killing multiple of them. The second round introduced them to the Queen's Guard, a troop of triton knights. Moe used a hologram to project a dancing shrimp to enthrall them, with Gary bringing attention to it by pointing and yelling “It’s as shrimple as that!”, distracting two. 086 got into position once again, sniping at them while Dewey and Moe held out against the ground troops.

After the second round, the team received a disturbing message from an electronic female voice, telling them that she had stomped out their “cheese-eating rat” and that he had stepped too far this time. Moto broke out into tears before COSMO shut down due to her emotional state, but Stone consoled her, saying that everyone will fight in his honor. Moto says that her baby will need to know how legendary his papa was, to Stone’s shock as he had not known they had conceived.

During the semifinals, the team sees that Octus himself had come to participate to challenge Marin, the reigning champion, and convince her to join him as his general. The team could not make much out, but they did hear him say “I AM BETTER!”. Before the team went to their semifinal, 086 had another narcolepsy episode, snoring loud enough to cause her team’s ears to bleed.

Their semifinal round was up against the King Crab, who 086 threatened to turn into crab legs, with Dewey manifesting butter out of… somewhere. 086 got into position and sniped one of its leg joints, preventing it from moving faster before Gary seduced the crab somehow, ending the fight in a victory. The team then went to face Marin, and tried to convince her to join them instead of Octus, citing that he is a cringe, bluepilled unbased milk baby, and she asked them to explain what made them more based and redpilled. They did, but it didn’t end the fight. The fight was ended shortly thereafter however, due to Gary successfully seducing Marin as well.

The team won the tournament, earning a glizzy and a large sum of money. The next day though, the team got an SOS signal from Moto on the Earth base, claiming that Octus’ troops were there, and that the team needed to get there quickly. After a distant boom was heard, the call went to static and COSMO shut down. Octus soon came on the team’s comms, telling them to stay out of his business, as Martyros will rise again. Before he could hang up, 086 called him a cringe milk baby, and Octus responded that he isn’t a milk baby, before hanging up in anger. 086, being unusually astute, noticed that the SOS signal was still active, meaning that the source of it hadn’t been destroyed. The team soon knew what they had to do: go back to Earth, and search for survivors.

### Session 5: Rise from the Ashes… (5/16/23)

Starting Characters: 086 and G.R.I.M. Mk. 04, Moe Yai and M.O.A.I., Dewey Labling and PEPSI’S MACHINATION MAN©, Gary Geckerson, Tommy, Looki

The team sets out to return to Earth to check for survivors, with Moe taking a nap on Stardust One as they go. They arrive to see Earth’s airspace occupied, with Gary licking his eyes in anticipation. The team notices that there is a new unit, the Melter, that appears to be a green, corrosive variant of the Scorcher. During the fight, Gary licked his eyes a second time, before Moe tripped on nothing, in the vacuum of space, and also hit some kind of surface. After the airspace was cleared, Gary repaired the team’s mechs.

On Earth, the team saw the remnants of Garrison Space Center, and noticed that among the fragmented pieces, there was a small shack-like structure made of parts of the wreckage. 086 and Moe hollered at the structure, thinking there were homeless people inside, but instead found Moto and a few other survivors, alongside Albus, now wearing the GS uniform, and Larry the Cucumber. 086 reunited with Larry, picking him up. Shortly after, Moto told the team about the situation, including the death of General Stone, before they heard a light knock on the door. Moe started enhancing his hearing and listening to try and see who it was, while 086 knocked on the door from the inside, knocking again once the knocking returned, then knocking louder. Moe used echolocation to find that it was 014 at the door, after which she and 086 had their proper reunion. 086 failed to steal the Snickers bar in 014’s pocket, but after asking politely to have it, 014 gave it to her anyway, before the two shared a sisterly hug. Moto thanks 014 for answering the call.

086 goes on her own for a moment to talk to the survivors, finding a man that looked akin to a mix of Napoleon Dynamite and Ed Sheeran, talking to him before he started flirting with 086, a 14-year-old girl. After this, everyone hears a big boom from outside, Moe echolocating to find out that it is a giant robot mounted with many missiles and a giant pair of sunglasses. 086 persuades the Napoleon Dynamite look-alike to check it out, before screaming in terror, running back inside and slamming the door hard enough to break part of the wall. When asked about the robot outside, the man spoke so quickly that his cover was blown to be Flec, and he disappeared after returning to his Dorbee form.

Going outside, 086 remotely operates G.R.I.M. while Gary attempts to seduce the pilot of the robot, confirmed to be the Martyrian Annihilator, failing to do so, all the while G.R.I.M. snuck up on him, still failing the sneak attack. M.O.A.I. used his magnets to climb the mech while G.R.I.M. and PEPSI’S MACHINATION MAN© used their combined firepower, alongside M.O.A.I. sawing with his sword, to take the Annihilator’s WMDs offline. The pair also break the mech’s glasses before M.O.A.I. sticks his sword in and dices up the pilot. This breaks the cabin’s controls, but they can be repaired. Gary lifts half of the Annihilator by himself, with G.R.I.M. carrying the other half, before the Annihilator started ticking. Frantic, 014, Albus and Moto came on the scene and, alongside the team, evacuated everyone before it exploded, cracking the Earth. Reuniting with their cohorts and finally restoring comms to proper working order, Gravity Star’s message board finally came back online, allowing the team to see requests for work done by locals of the various planets they’ve been to before.

The team left for a pit stop at Varuna to recollect COSMO, who they had accidentally left behind, before going back to Metran to help the Sparkplug Police Department hunt down the Skullhearts. Moe, 086 and Looki took the job. Moe and Looki used their senses of smell to track the Skullhearts to Assembly Line Creations, where the scent went cold. 086 found a man that looked like one of the members they’d seen before, but this was a red herring, unbeknownst to her. 086 slams the man’s face into his meal, ruining it and breaking the man’s nose, causing it to bleed, then stealing and eating his burger before finding out that the man was unaffiliated, and he was just trying to enjoy his birthday at his favorite diner. 086 compensated the man for his meal, before going to the cook for answers. He tells her that they were kicked out at the front section for being wanted fugitives, and she and Moe found out that they had went to the Oil Slick Bar, trying to hustle the drunks for money. Moe sent Looki to attack one of the Skullhearts, biting him in the ankle, before 086 shot one of them in the balls, another in the ankle, and punching a third in the balls before Moe put the last girl to sleep. Sending all five in left Moe and 086 heartily rewarded, and Moe petted Looki in celebration.

After they returned, Moto told the team that she has a contact on the planet Sequoia that she wishes to convene with before tracking down Octus for the final showdown, though she allows them to pursue the remaining messages if they would like.

### Session 6: The End of An Empire (5/23/2023)

Starting Characters: 086 and G.R.I.M. Mk. 04, Moe Yai and M.O.A.I., Dewey Labling and PEPSI’S MACHINATION MAN©, Gary Geckerson, Tommy, Looki

The team starts out by traveling to Tynkeria to answer Baron Alessa of the Wayfinders’ call to take down the Siren, the one who killed Zola. As the team landed on Tynkeria and entered the comms tower the Siren was in, the Wayfinders fanned out their people to handle the oncoming Warforged. Once in the building, the Siren used a sonic scream to disable the team’s mechs, leaving them to fight in their normal pilot forms.

Moto gave Gary a small remote reverse-engineered from the Puppetmaster’s rotor technology, which he soon used to hijack a Crawler, who he later named Despacito. During the battle, 014 and Tommy both landed insanely strong blows and Dewey did a backflip to dodge one of the Siren’s bolts. After a short while, a sapping device was placed on the Siren’s back, by a masked man. The man soon revealed himself to be Gordon Zola in disguise, before stabbing the Siren in the back, severing its connection. He rejoined the team as they went on their way back to Penumbros to help Shadowcast rebuild their facility.

Back at Shadowcast, 086 noted that 002 had returned, and hugged her, calling out “Sister!”. 086 noticed that 002 had a bottle of Connecticut water in her pocket, and asked for it, but upon being granted it, Dewey got mad that he would have to share with 086. Fortunately, 002 had 2 bottles, and she gave one to Dewey to share. 086 shares her Connecticut water with Gary before playing on her vintage Game Boy. 002 asked the team to collect wood to build frames for the facility’s new structure. Dewey intimidated a tree into falling, and Moe started to use his mech to cut down the trees. During this process, he found a monkey covered in swamp algae, which he then adopted and named Glippo. After the trees were collected, the Sisters began building frames, and the team promptly left to find Moto’s contact on Sequoia.

On Sequoia, Moto landed Stardust One just outside of the Sister Andrea Church of Gaia, home to the Redwood Sisters. When the team entered the church, the youngest of the Sisters, Elina, came to greet them. Almost immediately, before Moto could say anything, Moe made Elina look at his monkey and his dog, both of which Elina thought were beautiful. Gary started seductively shaking his posterior, to which Elina declined his advances due to her religious abstinence. Dewey offered her a Pepsi can which she immediately chugged to completion in mere seconds. 086, looking up, eyed the expensive-looking chandelier and flew up to it with her jetpack, tugging on it and breaking it, dropping it to the floor and shattering it. Elina was visibly upset, but was ultimately glad 086 was not injured, as the chandelier could be replaced.

After Moe and 086 pestered Elina repeatedly about her religion, she annoyedly shoved two of their religious texts into their hands, and upon Dewey asking politely to read the holy texts, she gently handed him a copy. Moto redirects the team and asks Elina for assistance, to which she agrees. However, Sister Andrea, the titular eldest nun of the Church, came in and vehemently forbade Elina from traveling with the machine-toting heretics. Just after this, Sister Lenna, the remaining sister, returned through the door in a panic. She said that something had landed in the forest, and that their other sister, Sister Dierdre, had returned. The team left to go figure out the situation, Elina in tow, and Gary flipped off Sister Andrea as they left.

Going deeper into the forest, the team noticed bee-like drones all over the trees, and that they were collecting large white seeds about the size of mangoes. Elina started to panic, as they were her prayer seeds, seeds that were incredibly beneficial in the right hands and incredibly powerful in the wrong hands. The source of the drones was soon revealed to be the Swarmer, piloted by Sister Dierdre, who soon fought the team.

M.O.A.I. hit Dierdre with one of the many trees, and the team quickly started taking out her drones. After they were able to turn her away from Octus’ side, they returned to the Church, wherein Andrea was desperately pleading for Elina to get away from the heretics, to which 014 angrily responded that they saved the forest with Elina. After this, Andrea was knocked out by Dewey clocking her in the face, and Sister Lenna stayed with Sister Dierdre at the church to help her atone for her sins. Before leaving with Elina, 086 and Dewey drew with markers on Sister Andrea’s unconscious face, drawing a mustache and a monocle respectively, and Gary gave her a wet willy.

014 received word from her scout squads that Octus had set up shop on the husk of the planet Boreo, one identical to Martyros topographically, just mirrored top-to-bottom. Before they went to Boreo, the team went back to Hephaestus Hall one more time to get their weapons upgraded ahead of the final battle.

Landing on Martyros II, the planet that used to be Boreo, the team noticed many spy balloons and blimps over the surface of the planet, trying to detect insurgents. Albus started to do some digging, trying to decrypt the encrypted files on Martyros and why it was abandoned and shelved for so long. The team soon made their way to Octus’ spire, being proverbially halted by a squadron of Enforcers. G.R.I.M. and Tommy stealth-attacked two of the Enforcers, with Gary using his remote to hijack a third. The team swarmed the fourth, and after the hijacked Enforcer’s pilot watched his friends all die with no chance of escape, he banged on his cockpit window so hard that he broke through and fell to his death. Now that the mech was truly a husk, Moe soon put Looki and Glippo in charge of piloting the hijacked Enforcer.

Inside the tower, the team finally came face-to-face with Octus himself. Upon being questioned as to why he did what he did, Octus explained that his planet had died long ago due to the negligence of its allies, and he, the last ruler and last remaining true soldier of Martyros, banded with the remaining civilian population (and some foreign accomplices) to retake Martyros’ place in the pecking order, and restore his fallen nation to its former glory. After this, Octus knew what was coming, and proposed an honorable duel. He donned his power armor alongside the pulse gauntlets and scepter he utilized during the tournament on Varuna, and gave his all fighting against the team, including grabbing 086, a child, out of the air and slamming her to the ground and attempting to hit Moto, a pregnant woman. Elina gave all of them each a prayer seed to use later, but did not give a good explanation as to their function. After Octus approached defeat, he sat on his throne and engaged the Centurion protocol.

The team was sucked out of Octus’ spire and watched as the planet started to shift, transforming into the massive Martyrian Centurion. The team fought with everything they had against it, not making a visible dent. Albus made a breakthrough with the files, finding out that Martyros was abandoned due to their creation of the Exalted, synthetic beings that had become such a powerful force that Martyros lost control of them, and they became a threat to the universe at large, and the whole of intergalactic civilization forbade anyone from going to save the Martyrians after the militaries of various planets banded to seal the Exalted out of this reality. Octus soon charged his mech’s trident with foreign energy, and used it to cut a rift in reality to the Exalted’s new home. The Exalted soon exited in droves, swarming the Centurion and tearing it to pieces. Octus ejected the mech, and now the sole survivor of Martyros’ legacy, he surrendered to Gravity Star, landing on their ship. Octus gave a formal surrender, and allowed them to decide his fate. Gravity Star chose to execute him, with Dewey shoving a prayer seed down his gullet, causing him to convulse violently before an ivory tree shot up out of his back, turning him to meat chunks within mere moments. Gary recollected the chunks and stitched them back together for the purposes of resurrecting him, bringing him into a state of internal suffering way worse than the illness he had before his execution, before 086 mercy-killed him. 086 claimed his crown and Dewey claimed his scepter as Moe Default-Danced on his grave.

The team soon entered the rift, landing on a planet that seemed to be alive and organic, made out of the same materials as the Exalted themselves. The intruders were soon swarmed by the Exalted, notably Pixies, Cleavers and Collectors. Gary seduced one of the Cleavers as the team handled the rest, before they found the nerve center of the planet, the Exalted Oculus. The team threw their prayer seeds into the Oculus, and these, combined with a blast of Pepsi from PEPSI’S MACHINATION MAN©, created an unholy concoction within its inner chemistry, causing the fire that made up the Oculus to form into a tree with the Oculus’ frame among the branches, killing it in a purple shockwave due to the combination of the Exalted’s two weaknesses, nature/healing, and Pepsi. The planet soon started to destabilize, and Flec made his grand return to save the team from the impending implosion, shrinking them down to subatomic size and transporting them to the Dorbees realm for a brief moment, re-growing them back into their normal sizes once they were back in their universe. The ensuing shockwave that closed the rift that came from the Oculus’ defeat launched Stardust One back to Omnibius, that they decided to make their new home. Flec kissed 086 after she begged him to do so, and she promptly blushed.

The team, now homeless due to Earth’s destruction, decided to rebuild on Omnibius, wherein 086 realized she did not like Larry the Cucumber anymore, and put him back on his shelf, dooming him to his old life once again. She then went to hug Flec, who promptly kissed her on the forehead.

Jumping forward a few months, Moto and Zola had their son, Jeremy, who was given a baseball cap by his father, and Dewey adopted a stray child that he passed on his title of Pepsiman to. Dewey and Moe decided to start living large in Space Pizza Hut while 086 and Flec returned to Shadowcast to help out and pursue their relationship. Gary fixed the Titan up, returning her to her proper form and returning to Granaera, where he established his harem.

## Notable Memes

* Gary Geckerson
* Pepsi
* Moai
* Gordon Zola
* Octus apparently being Homelander
* The "jellybean incident"
* Dino nuggies
* MUG Root Beer
* Tommy's terrible aim
* Sir Dicks-a-lot, Rivers Cuomo and Clib Jubley
* Muno, Mac, Paul, and Greedo
* Looki
* Space Pizza Hut
* Larry the Cucumber
* Poontang
* The Titan
* Pepe the Frog
* Dickbutt
* 086 being a magpie
* 086's snoring
* "It's as shrimple as that!"
* "I AM BETTER!"
* Octus being unbased, bluepilled, and a cringe milk baby
* Shrek Twinkies/Green Coom
* Flec
* Glippo
* Bees
* Fortnite dances
* Dorbees

## Trivia

* Gravity Star was the first Flafa D&D campaign to take place entirely in the future, rather than the present or the past.
* Gravity Star was the first Flafa D&D campaign to start while another is active, being the backup for Floors of Serventent if it could not be ran for whatever reason. Ever since Floors' cancellation, Gravity Star ran by itself.
* Gravity Star ended on the one-year anniversary of the end of Travescot, May 23rd.
	+ Gravity Star also shared the same session count with Travescot (and by proxy, Houses), each having 6 sessions, being tied for second-longest and all being beaten by New Nestor and Professor Proxy's Wild Ride.