Session 5

5:20 PM

Late night on the ship, Jedidiah/Lorelai get angry at Janick/Rowan about their choices, have a big fight, and then Jed almost leaves the ship (Lorelai goes to talk to him) after Janick tells Jed that he won’t get his share if he disagrees with him.

January 2, 3200

The next morning, Janick and Jed talk while Lorelai makes pancakes with a butcher’s knife (that obviously didn’t come from the ship). Rowan and Lorelai have a weird conversation about telepathy.

The party splits up the money, 3300 credits 6 ways (550 apiece), and 3200 to the ship upgrade fund. Janick wants a new name for the ship (doesn’t like the Edelweiss). Rowan tells Zooey via email that they have a telepathic link. Jed gets 2 Lazarus patches and donates 550 credits to a small reclamation zone managed by a husband and wife, citing Earth day and making Pharusa green again.

6:05 PM

The party takes off, heading north. You can drill from any location, but based on which system you came from, you always exit at the same location (which allows for choke points). Janick scans for CCRN ships.

ACS “No Capes” just came into the system as a CCRN ship. Janick then enters drill space (trimming the course, but not having to role due to his foci).

Drill space is like “if the northern lights were on meth and steroids.” External cameras still work in drill space, but looking at the cameras for too long gives you migraines. Two landing spots for 03.04 (3 spots for 03.05). Normally the route is guarded by Aegis, but it’s possible the route isn’t guarded due to galactic instability.

Every window has an LCD screen that you can project images on. Jed puts on pictures of Barria, and Janick puts the view outside on every other window (for windows in rooms, there’s a little “do you want to accept” prompt). Mirrors are also acceptable.

Only one person needs to be on deck at any time: the ship will let you know if something has gone wrong and an adjustment is needed, but someone obviously needs to be attentive.

The navigation/comms room is located in the room behind the cockpit, with heavy duty nav computers. The ship receives an encrypted message just before the ship enters drill space. The encryption is weak and Rowan cracks it: it’s from Zooey, wishing the party well and talking about a contact up north that has work for the party that would be mutually beneficial. There is an attached dossier.

Dominic Floris. Traffic Controller. Osa Station (Osasa, TL2 planet due to radioactive surface, but with an orbiting TL4 city called Osa station). Contact information and general information. Zooey says that “Dom” owes them a favor and that we are to remind Dom of a favor, and that we will get payment once Dominic has contacted Zooey. General information includes hangouts, living locations, etc.

Janick’s pilot training was at Katla, and Corvus sends training pilots to Katla. In mock flight combat, all of the pilots were friendly and had good competition going. Corvus had good pilots. The party agrees to at least investigate further, and Janick decides to put in place policies to allow for democracy. Everyone allows Rowan to open telepathic links. Janick and Aquila probably have a conversation, and Bijou and Rowan have a psychic conversation (Bijou wants Rowan to teach her).

Bijou has formal psychic training for biopsyonics and telekinesis, but not from a school. All psychics need to take MES pills once a month, or else they will go crazy. There is a thriving backwater MES pill market for people that don’t want to reveal themselves as psychics, and many psychics get training from family (since MES is inherited). Rowan wants to train up a posse of psychics to possibly join Asclepius.

There is a lot of anti-telepath propaganda out there. In many civilized places, telepathy is considered a violation of privacy and is finable, and in CCRN bases, there is “keeping it to yourself is giving it to them” propaganda that makes telepathy seem very evil.

Lorelai is going to 03.02 (Aethra system) to find her sister on Marissa, where she heard her sister was. Janick wants to see what became of his old classmates and to find leads on where he can work. Rowan just wants to get away from Pusti, but hopes to learn about lost psychic techniques or training by finding old psychic training sites and lost systems. Aquila needs money to get things. Jedidiah is looking for adventure and unreached people groups. Bijou is just following Janick everywhere.