Escape from Skuld (Session 1)

Welcome to the Dopplerspace! One way or another, you all have ended up in prison on Skuld, the Magnus Institute's own prison moon meant to put away any offenders to the Institute or the Dopplerspace.

After being arrested for various reasons, the party has been booked and put in their cells for about a couple of days as they wait for a judge to decide where to transfer them.

### Synopsis

We find everyone waiting in their prisons cells to be let out for their daily meal. The robotic guards lead everyone to the cafeteria room. They notice that down the hallway from their rooms seems to be a trash chute, so they note that down and continue on past other guards and sit down in the cafeteria where others have already gathered to eat their slop.

Wrench, Torque, and Socket, a group arrested together also known as The Toolbox, sit together as the others filter in. Eryn and Andraste find themselves at the other end of the table while Coil takes a more central seat. Also at the table:

**Rosalie Stoneheart** - a dragonborn arrested for illegally transporting items from Egon to Marta

**Jimjar** - a Gnome from Egon in jail for scamming a known Magnus Institute member and leader of the Aetherium Zone on Egon, Davie Rosecourt

**Steve** - a human man from Norn in jail for tax evasion

After a while of getting acquainted with each other and learning what everyone was in prison for, murder being a very popular method for getting arrested, a final prisoner is dragged in that is new to everyone. The robotic guards address them as Prisoner M4R74 and throw them into the room to eat. The drow woman puts herself at the end of the table and eats by herself. The players poke and prod only to find out that she doesn't remember anything, including how she got to the prison or anything before it. The only thing she remembers clearly is a name, Marek.

In an attempt to break out of the cafeteria room, Andraste pours her slop in the guard and Torque decides to charge the guard. With a powerful punch she knocks out its arm, which is a key to access the doors in the prison. Wrench, Eryn, and Coil go for the other guard in the room and knock its head off. In the middle of the chaos, a rumble shakes the prison and after a loud noise the power to the entire prison is knocked out. The prisoners all manage to get to the storage room where they get all of their gear. Rosalie entrusts a box that she was transporting with the party and says to deliver it to Marta and that more instructions would become clear as they arrived on the planet. She did not have much information about the box. Only that she was hired by some mysterious figure to bring it to the planet.

The band of prisoners go out to the yard where all ships were confiscated to find that large crystalline spheres have fallen from the sky and broken in the center of the yard. Out from the broken spheres crawls 2 Giant Space Hamsters and 3 Space Hamster Swarms. After a long fought battle and a lot of chewing on Wrench's legs, the band of prisoners defeat all but one of the hamsters. Socket takes this hamster as a pet and names him Timothy.

Wrench, Socket, Torque, Coil, Andraste, and Eryn bring the mysterious drow woman with them on a hammerhead ship that they find in the yard. Socket makes his way to the Spelljammer's Helm and flies the ship off the prison moon just as the reserve power turns on and an army of guards make their way to the yard. We end with everyone on the ship in space above Skuld trying to decide what the next best move is after having broken out of an Institute prison.