Rens's Arc: Part 1

**WARNING**

Rens's Character Arc, starting with Edgar's birthday.

### **Session 37 - Written by Rens**

To start off the session, Moth and Cleo went on their first date. The two decided to go to the local Goons Saloon in Matosha (still on Traloid), which is basically the year 3200 Sci-Fi equivalent of a Texas Roadhouse (epic American moments). However, it seems as if neither of them have ever actually been to a restaurant before in their entire lives. Moth literally only got shrimp, and Cleo managed to get sauce all over their face repeatedly (sparking a comment about how Moth has seen Cleo bloodied and injured before, while Cleo was apologizing about some sauce). During the date Cleo asked Moth about his life before they met, which prompted him to talk about several things - his dad being a singer, his mum trying to kill him on two occasions, and him being in a hostage situation while working as a paramedic (which is how he got the laser burn scar on the back of his neck) being the most notable. Cleo herself shared a few old military stories, including one where she/Alcuin nearly crashed a ship she was piloting when she was still in training.

Meanwhile, Rens went with Devon, the other Thunder Blasters and Marvin to hand Marvin in for interrogation at the Galactic Protection Agency headquarters. They met with Susan, the Agent Manager, who gave Rens a short tour of the HQ and talked to them about possibly joining the GPA in her office - giving them the basic rules and describing the party's potential trial missions. Since apprehending Marvin could count as the first trial, the party was already 1/3 through their trial missions. The second trial was an escort mission to get a soldier currently in the GPA headquarters back to Confasto (currently a warzone); The third trial was to rescue a GPA team currently stuck on Confasto. Considering trials two and three were on the same planet, they could probably be completed subsequently.

During this conversation, Susan and Rens heard/saw Marvin escaping capture from the Thunder Blasters in the hallway, so Rens shot him in the foot and pinned him to the ground, apprehending him themselves. The Thunder Blasters promptly got scolded by Susan, and Marvin was properly escorted by the group to the interrogation area.

After talking to Susan, Rens followed Devon to the interrogation area to watch Gwen and Harrison interrogate Marvin. Moth and Cleo turned up at around the same time (still in their date outfits), so Rens gave them a basic overview of what they talked about with Susan. Cleo proceeded to take over Marvin's interrogation and found out that the guy he was working for had a long last name (so was presumed to be Dr. Maskarulotrapdamorx). Susan later walked in to ask the rest of the party if they wanted to join the GPA - which they accepted - and gave a more in-depth explanation of their trial missions. Upon Rens asking if Devon was allowed to accompany the party on these missions, Susan asked him if he'd like to serve as the party's mentor during them, which he happily agreed to.

The party - plus Devon and Susan - then went to meet the soldier they were escorting, who immediately got into a pissing match with Cleo over who's military was better, and then proceeded to call Moth 'green boy', which got him a well deserved punch in the mouth from Cleo. Susan managed to (relatively) dispel the argument, so the soldier - apparently named Elos - walked away to find the party's ship. In the following conversation Susan warned the party of the 'Nova Soldiers', who apparently burn their targets up and assimilate them into their numbers - basically becoming charred zombies. One of the things she told the party to do was keep all of their lights in the ship off in order to avoid detection by them. After some more conversation, Cleo nearly said Moth looked good in front of everyone else, which got teasingly questioned by Rens (since they hadn't been told that the two were involved in any way). Cleo retaliated by saying she could say something similar about Rens and Devon, which made things very awkward very quickly. The session ended with the party (plus Devon) heading back to their ship.