Episode 2: Space Werewolves

**Space Werewolves** is the second episode of Campaign 1. A tight escape! The crew fends off the space werewolves and manages to wrench their ship free of their hooks. Later they stop to help the stalled out traveling merchant and noodle bar proprietor, Walgar Tulal, in exchange for some ship parts and gear (even more than he knew). Going their separate ways the crew of Old Bessie run into a pirate crew recording shots of their latest haul. Captain Fierga and the Golden Blaze pay our crew handsomely to help out before they sail off to intercept the Virtuos Hypertrain.

## **Synopsis**

> Welcome aboard to Health Hits Experience! Thank you for joining us.
>
> Britty Lea

The episode opens with a broadcast advertising the luxurious Virtuous Hypertrain. Other bulletins of note in the broadcast include upcoming stories on space werewolves and the tendency of pirate crew to use outdated technology.

The battle with the Moon Scraper continues. P.E.A.R.L is injured by a werewolf, but fortunately cannot contract lycanthropy. Heironymous continues his devastating attacks of vicious mockery. Cyrus resorts to throwing werewolves bodily from the ship. Flux cuts the chains tethering the Moon Scraper to Old Bessie and the crew breaks free at last.

After the battle, the crew regroups to do some light ship repair and some light person repair. PEARL rejects Flux's offer to repair the damage she sustained in the fight. Heironymous, however, gladly accepts PEARL's offer of sustenance and antibiotic goo. Flux retreats to the engine room to continue improving Old Bessie and Cyrus concentrates on piloting.

As the crew continues toward their rendezvous with the Virtuous Hypertrain, they intercept a distress call. This distress call is coming from one Walgar Tulal, traveling salesman and noodle chef extraordinaire. While Heironymous keeps Walgar talking about noodles and sundries, Flux reluctantly agrees to fix Walgar's stalled ship. Along the way, he and his steel defender also help themselves to Walgar's Wares (with five finger discount, of course).

Once Flux gets the old merchant ship running, the crew pool their resources and purchase some much-needed ship upgrades from Walgar, in addition to the noodles and the bits Flux managed to swipe. As the crew is departing, Walgar presses on Cyrus another item: a Weightless Intellect Support Pilot with the serial number 0tt0.

The crew continues on their way and immediately run into another ship. This vessel is a party barge rented by the pirate crew the Golden Blaze. The Golden Blaze just pulled off a major heist stealing millions of trite from a Zalarian baby, but need help to film the perfect broadcast hack. For a fee, PEARL agrees to lend her four hands to their amateur filmmaking efforts.

As PEARL and Heironymous field the completely hammered Golden Blaze, Cyrus receives more details on the train job from Oomal via fax. Oomal suggests that the crew secure the lynchpin hyperdrive regulator located in car 501. Oomal directs the crew to retrieve a three-seater jet cycle from the train in addition to the hyperdrive regulator and whatever else the crew wish to run off with.

With noodles acquired, filming complete, and details secured, the crew continue toward their destination: the Star Vivarium and Episode 3!

## **Quotations**

* **Ian**: "Heironymous is somebody that I don't want to die immediately. Cause, I mean, without him, I mean, who are we gonna have talk to people?"

* **Heironymous**: "Not our problem."
* **Flux**: "I was about to say that, actually, yeah."

* **Heironymous**: "You're a pragmatist, my friend."
* **Flux**: "I take what I can find. I'm a scavenger."

* **PEARL**: "I don't mean to sound rude."
* **Flux**: "You're about to sound rude, aren't you."

* **Robin**: "Our poor sweet baby boy doesn't know how to deal with his emotions."
* **Ian**: "NOPE!"

* **Britty**: "Just the thought of an emotionless android and then someone with repressed emotions, and then whatever these two have going on."

## **Trivia**

* It is insinuated that the players' habit of rolling poorly is due to a cursed amulet stolen in a previous heist. This is unproven but would explain some things.
* Flux's solution to the werewolf grappling chains parallels his solution to the prison chains in Episode 29.
* This episode marks the first mention of PEARL's habit of slathering neosporin on injured crewmates.
* The technology of the setting is compared to "space eighties".
* The crew receives a call from Crater Insurance during the battle. Cyrus hangs up immediately, which is a good move.