Sci-Fi Valks: Episode 12

Sci-Fi Valks: Episode 12 is the tweth episode of the third main Sci-Fi Mercs Campaign, Sci-Fi Valkyries. It Features the returning cast of Doc, Akiyama, Hoth, Grink, Kalarak and Leonrik. It follows up after the completion of the groups last mission in episode 11 as tensions between the crew grow.

### Doc's investment

The session opens with Doc deciding to buy as much soil and pots possible with a thousand credits from Amazon.

### Visiting Stetmann

While Doc is buying his plant pot's, Hoth decides to visit Stetmann in his lab. As Hoth enters his lab he requests if Stetmann could forge a new weapon for him, a whip. Stetmann agrees under the condition that Hoth can grab some of the terazine from the crates they took from their last job. After a while, Hoth returns with the terazine and Stetmenn tells Hoth his whip will be ready later. Hoth thanks Stetmann for his help but before he leaves, Stetmann leans in and sniffed Hoth. Confused Hoth asked Stetmann what's wrong causing Stetmann to ask if Hoth is still having problems with his pheromones that make him appear female to other Bogons. Hoth sadly reveals that he is still suffering from it but Stetmann replies that maybe someday he will have a solution for him to fix it. After Hoth leaves Stetmann's lab he soon after runs into Kalarak. Kalarak begins to question Hoth if Stetmann had discovered anything new about the mini gun Hoth nicknamed Abbather. Hoth replies that besides from the headache it gave Leonrik when they first found it, the mini gun has been useless so far to him. Kalarak thanks Hoth for his time before entering Stetmanns lab himself. As Kalarak enters the lab, he soon begins to question Stetmann on how he got rid of the demon on the ship with Stetmann replying that he simply "got rid of it". Kalarak then asks about their last employer, Jessica Jasmin and how he knew about Stetmann with Stetmann revealing that he used to be his boyfriend. As Kalarak questions Stetmann further he eventually leaves feeling all his questions have been answered truthfully. As Kalarak leaves, Grink is nearby to replace his presences. Stetmann brings up how the Goblins they sent to the orphanage was also human hybrids and Grink may also be part human himself. After some testing it is revealed that Grink dose have a little bit of human DNA making Grink feel exicited as claims that "maybe the others will like me more" due to him being part human. Now in a good mood Grink invites Stetmann to play scrabble with him sometime even though he admits soon after he isn't very good at the game.

### Still got to pay

After waiting in line to receive their package from Amazon, eventually Doc gets his pots and soil. He then ask's Hoth to help him carry his pot's to his room. As the two are placing pots around the room, Hoth notes how he appreciate Docs willingness to heal his Hostess but it will not change his financial situation with them as he still required by law and his culture to donate to his hostess regardless of their physical condition. Doc understands but suggests that if he dose heal the hostess at least they might be less mistreating of Hoth.

### Training

After helping Doc with his pots, Hoth goes to visit Akiyama who was playing with his cat. After opening his room door to greet him, Hoth asked if they can carry on with his training. Akiyama responds by throwing a punch but Hoth is able to easily grab it. Akiyama then attempts to break free from his grasp with another attack but only leaves him more unable to fight. Seeing his situation, Akiyama cusses at Hoth in response causing Hoth to get upset and runaway to his room.

### Spreading Seeds

Meanwhile, Doc is filling his newly brought pots with soil and begins planting the seeds within them. While planting the pots, Docs shard begins to communicate with him and reveals to Doc in order to spread more life he requires more seeds from a different source that he had given to Doc earlier. The shard the states that "life requires a sacrifice" with Doc replying "so be it." The shard then proceeds to make Docs newly granted penis vanish and instead be turned into seeds that are planted creating the fabled, Dicktree. Suddenly Docs room begins to bloom with life as plants and moss grow all around him creating an almost natural environment within his room.

### Surprise attack

After being insulted by Akiyama Hoth begins to crawl under his bed in tears. Unknown to him though, Akiyama has snuck into Hoth's room and begins to get ready to strike again while his guard is down. In one quick move, Akiyama removes Hoth's bed out of the way and gets ready to attack him but Hoth is able to grab him in mid air. Though this is not enough to stops akiyama's assault as he uses his free legs to kick Hoth's head, snapping it by accident and killing Hoth in the process. Akiyama, stunned at his actions begins to call over Doc on coms. Doc arrives with Leonrik shortly behind him and is luckily able to invigorate Hoth, Brining him back from the dead. As Akiyama apologies to Hoth, Leonrik soon after enters yelling "What on earth is all the fuss about!?".

### Grinks meditation

After Hoth's death experience, Grink goes to see Leonrik near Kalarak's room. The three go into Kalarak's room. Grink admits that he would be intreated in learning how to mediate. Both Kalarak and Leonrik suggest he focuses on something that is important to Grink but while Grink mediates on himself he deiced that the process is to boring for him. Leonrik then suggests just going into the vents like he usually dose but as he enters the events in Kalarak's room, a loud explosion can be heard from within the vents. Leonrik calls out to Grink but after no response begins to get worried and call for Doc. As Doc arrives he uses his robotic limbs to expand the vents and grab Grink but as he pull him out of the vents it is revealed that Grink is dead with his usual green skin now dark and burnt. Luckily Doc is able to bring Grink back to life too. Kalarak then reveals he had kept traps within his room vents to keep things out and it was those same traps that killed Grink, which he had warned Grink to stay away from in the past. After Grink gets brought back to life he then notices how there seems to be some movements in the vents and without a second thought, Grink goes back into the vents causing another small explosion to go off. As Doc grabs and revives Grink a second time the group then advise Grink that he avoids the vents for a while. Akiyama then arrives after hearing the sounds and proceeds to insult Grink for his stupidity causing Grink to reveal to them all that Stetmenn had discovered that Grink is in fact a human-goblin hybrid. Akiyama puts down the idea telling Grink that he is "nothing like me" while Leonrik exclaims "its Wonderful to be like me!". After some back and fourth amongst themselves, Doc notes that the vents had been obstructed and had made the area a bit unbreathable, and after Doc hauls Leonrik out of the room on the verge of unconsciousness, they look for the source of the blockage, before realising Grink had filled the vent with deck chairs and other rubbish to remind him to stay out of that area of the vent. Kalarak explains that he nearly killed Leonrik and Doc, and they remove the obstruction. Doc and Leonrik are ultimately unharmed.

### Doc's new world

After saving Grink, Doc begins to head back to his room but suddenly notices a pigeon onboard the ship. As Doc, Leonrik, Akiyama, Grink and Kalarak examine it the pigeon then "unfolds" itself and flys away. As the pigeon flys off Grink suggests that Akiyama keeps it but before Akiyama can entertain that idea Stetmenn radios over the comms that a wolf had just attacked him within his lab. Doc quickly moves to his room and finds that his room has appeared to fully transform into this ecosystem that produces almost all manner of life similar to that of earth. Leonrik an Kalarak follow and are stunned to see Docs room transform into its own mini environment. Doc then returns to Kalarak where he contuses his work. Meanwhile, during all of this Doc has been using Kalaraks Warped blast ability to act as a shredder for the documents he was converting. But due to the many mishaps that have occurred on the ship such as reviving Hoth and Grink along with Doc taking to long to convert his documents, Kalaraks warped blast becomes to unstable to hold any longer and eventually explodes once Doc finishes inputing his notes. The explosion alerts both Hoth and Akiyama and the two run over to where they heard the blast only to find the robotic and skeletal remains of both Leonrik and Doc along with a Kalaraked shaped hole through the wall. Hoth and Akiyama go through the hole in the wall and find Kalaraks unconsious body glitching in a room neither of them have seen before that is located next to Kalaraks own room. Akiyama drags Kalaraks body carefully to Stetmenns lab while Hoth takes the remains of both Doc and Leonrik. As Akiyama enters the lab, Stetmenn instructs him to put Kalarak in a machine of some kind to stabilise him. During this, Akiyama get's the sudden urge to touch what looks like a machine being held together by a screwdriver. Akiyama fights the urge to pull the screwdriver and shortly after Hoth enters the lab with the remains of Doc and Leonrik. Hoth Suddenly gets the same urge to pull the screwdriver once in the lab but unlike Akiyama is unable to fight it and ends up pulling the screwdriver from the machine leading to blinding explosion that kills both Hoth and Akiyama. Doc and Leonrik eventually wake up naked in what looks like a peaceful grassland with clear Skys and a village in the distance. The shard Doc talks to takes the form of a wise old tree and begins to give Doc an ultimatum. He explains to both Doc and Leonrik that he will be able to bring back "most of all of them. Or all but one." but doing so will massively strain the shards own power. Doc then tells the shard that he sacrifices himself so the others can be brought back to life fully but this only causes the Shard to respond that "I've done nothing but sacrifice". Hoth and Akiyama also fall into this peaceful grassland naked and unconscious but before they can awaken the shard decides to bring the crew back to life causing them all to reawaken in Stetmenns lab. Stetmenn then explains to the crew that they have been slowly reanimating for about a week now and have received an urgent message from Erno Robix. Stetmenn has stalled Erno until the crew eventually finish reanimating while him and Grink played scrabble in the meantime. Akiyama and Hoth dap each other up as they agree never again to talk about the screwdriver incident that blew them up and join the others as they go to leave the lab to put some clothes on. As Akiyama is leaving though, Stetmenn stops him and brings up the machine from earlier with the screwdriver in it. Stetmenn then explains that the machine was called a demons core and realsing it may have produced enough radiation to give Akiyama cancer. Stetmenn then runs some tests on Akiyama and confirms that he dos have cancer (and that this may have been a side effect of what the shard meant by bringing back "most of all of them").

### Kill Kalarak

At some point, either in the grassland paradise or when talking to his shard while still alive after being brought back, Docs shard explains that he must kill Kalarak. He explains to Doc that Kalarak is cancer to this world and prophesied to bring death to it either intentionally or unintentionally. The only way to stop him is to kill him which leaves Doc conflicted at first but eventually he comes around to the idea in his pursuit to preserve life. Shortly after being brought back to life Doc runs into Grink and explains his intentions on killing Kalarak. At first, Grink brings up how he would rather not want to kill one of his crew mates but then notes how he dose dislike Kalarak the most out of all of the crew due to his rude remarks about Grink in the past. After some talking Grink is soon on board with the idea on killing Kalarak and the two plan on inviting Leonrik to their plot. Before going to Leonrik though, Grink suggests they kill him if Leonrik dose not agree with their plan, reviving him later so he forgets ever brining up killing Kalarak. Leonrik is invited by Doc for a private picnic in his environment/room with Grink and soon they discuss their plan on killing Kalarak with him. Like Grink at first, Leonrik points out how he would rather not want to kill Kalarak and suggests just potentially kicking him off the crew but Doc recalls what his shard had told him, telling Leonrik how "no matter where he goes, death will follow". Doc then explains how Kalaraks existence also prohibits the shards (Harvest) abilities causing Leonrik to reply with, "So you will take a life". "To save many more" Doc argues.

Leonrik admits that he feels indebted to the shard for saving his life and will be more useful to him with Kalarak gone but still shows signs of doubt in the plan to kill him. Grink then Suggests that Leonrik seduces Stetmenn to bring him on their side so he docent intervene on their plans to kill Kalarak. Leonrik eventually agrees that Kalarak must die but wants no part in his assassination attempt causing the sky around Doc to go dark a bit but only for a moment. Eventually Leonrik leaves now in on the plan to kill Kalarak but not wanting any part in his murder.

### Side room

Meanwhile, Hoth and Akiyama are watching the kung fu pander films in the living room while Kalarak finally adjusts properly after being asleep for a week after the explosion. Kalarak goes to his room and examines the damage to it (mostly the Kalarak sized hole in the wall leading to a side room). Kalarak then goes to Stetmenns lab where he finds Grink and request some military grade flex tape saying he will pay Grink back for it later. Grink is curious at first and asks why in which Kalarak explains it is for the broken door. Grink tells Kalarak that he can't do that but instead Grink could fix it himself and suddenly runs over to Kalaraks room with Kalarak chasing after him. As Grink arrives he quickly begins to examine the side room on the other side of the Kalarak shaped hole. In the side room Grink discovers shelves holding red and black crystals, bits and bobs, a large art work of a black and red swirling thing and some blurry photos of that but thurther away and with floating rocks around it. Grink asks Kalarak what the room is and Kalarak tells him how it is a remnant from space travel he did before joining the Valks. Grink then asks what the thing is and Kalarak explains it is a spacial anomaly. Grink asks to take the crystal but Kalarak offers a photo for Grink to take instead which he takes off the wall and gives to Grink. After getting the photo, Grink patches up the Kalarak shaped hole and fixes his door using junk and deckchairs.

### Are you satisfied ?

Doc seeks out Leonrik again this time claiming he has something of interest for Leonrik. Leonrik then responds with "You will be indebted to me until I satisfied with art you can provide". Doc then replies with "I will repay you many times over", which is enough to make Leonrik agree to help Doc.

### Wingman Grink

After fixing Kalaraks door, Grink goes to visit Stetmenn in which he tries to convince him about pursuing Leonrik in a potential relationship. Despite Grink efforts though Stetmenn ignores Grink's advice, eventually kicking him out his lab. Shortly after, Kalarak visits Stetmenn but soon after arriving to his lab, Kalaraks vision goes blurry and he soon passes out. As Kalarak awakens he finds himself strapped to a chair and Stetmenn standing in front of him. Kalarak ask what's going on and the two talks about how weird each other have been acting. Eventually after some back and fourth Kalarak is let go and leaves.

### Erno's request

The session ends with Erno requesting the crew do another mission for him by exploring a planet for him. The crew agree and set course towards their mission.