Sci-Fi Valks: Episode 2

Sci-Fi Valks: Episode 2 is the second episode of the third main Sci-Fi Mercs campaign, Sci-Fi Valkyries. It features the returning cast of and Sasha, Akiyama, Hoth and Kalarak as well as introducing the new character of Leonrik. It details the overall group's second mission as well as the strange circumstances surrounding it's completion.

### What Are The Crew Up To?

#### Exploring The Valkyrie

This session begins with the crew's ship docked, Akiyama and Hoth venturing into the planet's market place whilst Sasha and Kalarak interact back on the ship. Looking very closely at the buttons of the control room, Sasha enquired with Kalarak about the ship. Then, with Kalarak's passively judgemental gaze following him, Sasha left to check on the pricing of the yoghurts after seeing it's deal in the previous episode. He found them to be far more expensive, disappointed he left with no yoghurt. Foiled again. Akiyama and Hoth make their way back to the ship, Sasha not too far from it as a new mercenary also approached the ship..

#### Introducing: Leonrik

Having arrived upon the Valkyrie alongside many other fresh recruits, Leonrik is greeted by a Goblin of true, proper business and by the name of Grunkle. He leads him to the Valkyrie's ship and informs him that this shall be the crew he joins, Hoth and Akiyama being the first that he meets. The two of them assume he is to be a replacement for Grink, accepting this new member with great ease. Sasha then arrives back too, meeting Leonrik as they all board the ship and he is taken to the control room to meet Kalarak - who they refer to as their ships 'Captain', though he denies this status. During this introduction, Hoth gifts a luger to Leonrik and they enquire upon his skill. He attempts to demonstrate his psychic ability after being questioned regarding it though fails to do so at first - only managing to succeed once Kalarak had discreetly stepped out of the room, not that the crew themselves had noticed.

### The Mission

#### The Call

As they are all in the control room, the ship receives a call. The call hailed from Rumbletown, a rough-looking gang leader contacting them with a rather low stakes mission for data retrieval. The Valks accept this mission and are sent the location, travelling there with haste. During their journey, Akiyama and Leonrik introduced Hoth, Sasha and Kalarak to the game of 'I Spy' and to pass the time, they play. During this time, Hoth also requested and acquired his own four-armed space suit.

#### The Conclave's Station

They land upon a satellite, their destination, and begin to search for an entrance and come quickly across a handful of vents; Akiyama, Leonrik and Sasha all able to fit through but Kalarak and Hoth finding themselves too large. They decide to split off into these groups. Kalarak and Hoth move in search of another entrance while Sasha, Leonrik and Akiyama make their journey through the vents, needing to avoid and navigate fans and, soon enough, they come across the vent's end. It's entrance glass, they were able to see into the satellite and discover a young man counting something in a box. They begin attempting to enter and Sasha kicks at the glass, a sudden click noise to be heard before Akiyama is then able to pull the vent's door open. Incidentally, the man on the inside is sucked suddenly from his place and through the vent, hitting a fan. His death sudden and graphic, Sasha, Leonrik and Akiyama continue into this room, clicking the vent tight shut behind them. About the stairs, it appears there are two more silhouettes approaching..

Meanwhile, Kalarak and Hoth had only travelled a little further, coming quickly across a window, which they decide to smash. Upon doing so, Kalarak is able to dematerialise and pass through, onto the ship. Hoth follows inside yet, another life is ended. This man had been pulled too from where he stood, his coffee mug being flung away too as he was lost to space. This allows them to approach the stairs and the whole crew reunites, Sasha, Akiyama and Leonrik discovering that these silhouettes where that of friend, not foe.

They begin to investigate this room, locating the computer which remained unlocked and discovering the data they had been sent for. Leonrik takes three plastic explosives from the box where the individual had been counted and the crew realise, they are without a hard drive. Sasha is sent back to retrieve one, which the Rumbletown gangster sent quickly their way.

Travelling back through the vent alone, Sasha discovers a copious amount of blood where the man had died and his Obelisk reacts. He attempts to please it, rubbing it into the blood and then continuing with his journey. Upon reaching their ship's entrance, he find a floating cup of coffee and takes it onto the ship with him - though, oddly, the Obelisk reacts to this too. After struggling with his directions, Sasha retrieves the hard drive and quickly returns to the rest of his crew, once more needing to resist his urges along his way.

Back in the room and with the hard drive, Kalarak retrieved the necessary data diligently and once more they were off on their way. They deliver the hard drive and receive their pay.

### Return To The Valkyrie

After receiving his pay, Hoth attempts to order a 'mini fridge' and they are on their way back to The Valkyrie to dock their ship. Along their journey back, Leonrik finds himself with... an odd feeling, one unfamiliar yet known - unsettlingly curious, he informs Kalarak briefly.

#### Stetmann's Concerns

Alongside that odd feeling, Stetmann informs Kalarak of an odd wave that seemed to encapsulate the ship as they travelled back to dock. Unable to pinpoint it's cause and purpose yet noting it's new presence nonetheless. Kalarak takes this on board alongside Leonrik's own feeling of potential warning and the ship is then docked.