Episode 2: Good Calls

Played: 29th March 2020

Our heroes find themselves making a speedy getaway from Ozaris City after they are recognised from the news broadcast still blaring. Everyone manages to sneak their way out, with Eva casting Pass Without Trace to allow everyone to move quietly. Nestoc takes this a step further and uses Invisibility, allowing him to move freely. Eva wild shapes into a cat, and slinks along the rooftops to avoid combat.

They are cornered by Elliott Caerdonel, who doesn't understand why Bellamy would do what she is being accused of. Bellamy persuades Elliott to let her and the others go, and the party escapes to the port.

Bellamy finds Brumir hiding under a table in his ship, and she quickly orders him to leave. Eva tries to find some compassion for Brumir, but in the haste of escape she instead tells him to have a good life and jumps on board. The shuttle takes off, leaving Talonis behind.

On the way to the Planetary Transport Portal, the party are greeted by P.H.O.E.B.E., an artificial intelligence that suggests locations that may provide safe refuge, including two outlaw towns, Deadwhistle and Moonshine Cove, and Eva's home planet of Chauntalea. The party elects to fly to Moonshine Cove. On the way, they destroy their phones, but not before Eva saves some crucial numbers. As Bellamy's phone is about to be destroyed, BBGM sees it flash with her mother's caller ID, but BBGM notices this too late and the phone is smashed. Nestoc sends a text to Jude telling her not to believe their sister, and then sends his phone out the airlock along with the other broken devices.

BBGM decides he should also attempt to disable the ship's tracking software, but the party stops him as it is too dangerous to attempt this again while they're currently in orbit. The party land in Moonshine Cove, where Bellamy purchases some clothes for BBGM and some poisonous armour for herself.

The party enter the bar near the dock, and while everyone else lays low, Eva uses the tin-can phone behind the bar, first calling her grandma June, who seems to have no knowledge of the incident on Talonis. Though she gets a little fuzzy on the phone, she seems happy to hear from Eva and asks her to visit soon. A tearful Eva hangs up the phone and then insists on Nestoc punching her really hard in the face. Nestoc refuses to fully attack her, despite the enthusiasm of the other bar patrons, but BBGM volunteers. Not wanting to waste anymore time, Eva smashes an empty bottle over her head, and channels into the adrenalin as she makes a call to Envo Doth, her lab partner at M-Corp.

Though he doesn't initially pick up, when he does answer Envo apologises for what happened to Eva, and that he had intended to go instead but was told not to by Arvan, their boss. Envo then warns Eva that this is her "jumping off point" and that she should not get involved.

Bellamy later sends all of Brumir's family photos back home via void pigeon, a safe and secure way to send messages as they are magical creatures and contain no identifiable technology. Nestoc also finds out that there is a pirate named Jack of Skulls somewhere in Moonshine Cove that may be able to help them.

Meanwhile, BBGM talks to a tinkerer who keeps BBGM's cover despite instantly identifying him as a Warforged. BBGM asks for help regarding upgrades to his system, and the tinkerer says that there was a shipment of parts that went missing in a nearby cave, that may contain some useful parts for upgrading a model like him. The group agree to wait until morning to head to the cave, but BBGM spends the night trying to disable the tracking software on the shuttle, which after drains his resources significantly but he ultimately succeeds. Exhausted, BBGM heads off to the cave with the others.

Inside the cave, the party encounter a vast number of undead who have been buried in this cave along with many treasure chests. Amidst the chaos, Nestoc uses Invisibility again, this time on BBGM, who races around the cave trying to find the parts they need. Inside the chests, amongst potions and other useful items, the party finds a medallion of a skull, along with a chip with a label reading 'BBGM, v2.0'. Nestoc feels the surge of Wild Magic building within him, uncertain as to when it will emerge.

Heading back to Moonshine Cove, BBGM shows concern about using the chip he found, having only just begun to feel like a person. Eva jokes that it may prevent him from destroying any more tech, and in an impulse he plugs the chip in. BBGM shuts down temporarily, but in the cold steel of the shuttle, his eyes soon open, now bright blue, and they display a map of the Gygax System, which then navigates the location of another, unidentified planet lightyears away.