"Death and Debts"

* Crew begin to look for a place to sleep.
* Sirena knows where the Saloon and an Inn can be found.
* As they travel the town, they come across three gang members kicking a downed floran.
* Steele hangs back as Mia treats the floran.
* Steele stands back and watches to see how Sirena and Franz deal with things.
* Franz quickdraws and shoots the floor next to them.
* One gang member decides to do the same and his shot dinks off Franz' armour.
* One of the men whipser to the gang member talking, and they decide to leave.
* The floran that Mia has been treating is doing better.
* He claims he was accosted by the group while searching local plantlife, asking for tax.
* He says there's no such laws about tax.
* Floran is based out of The Icarian Imperial University.
* Crew continue on to arrive at the saloon.
* Sirena and Steele step to the bar.
* Sirena buys drinks for people.
* Steele buys himself some food as well.
* Steele takes a light earth whiskey.
* Franz steps up and downs a strong zenkethi whiskey.
* Sirena and Franz talk with one another.
* Franz is a human from The Undercity, the ones that were forgotten.
* Sirena is from The Empath homeworld, Tyrene(?)
* Her joining of CosmoKnights is hereditary tradition, through her father.
* Her father is of the Time faction of CsomoKnights.
* Mother married a new man while her father was off doing his missions as a Time CosmoKnight.
* She found something off about her StepFather and fled.
* Her real father found her and inducted her into CosmoKnighthood.
* She is sworn to time as well.
* Must never lie, must be fearless, must take care of those who need it.
* She must move around a lot.
* In the meantime, Mia has found and dragged a broken medidroid into the saloon.
* She needs scrap to fix it.
* Steele helps her drag it up to a room.
* Steele and Mia fix the droids body.
* Mia uploads a software disk into the droid and has some time before it's uploaded.
* Party take a long rest.
* Waking up, Steele checks Mias robot and sees that it's almost complete.
* He heads downstairs to find the Bartender.
* He asks about Crookshank and where to find him.
* Bartender almost chokes on saliva and begs him to not say the name again.
* Says he's in the northern mountains, with a small population in an isolated area.
* The name of the town he's in is Sheerpoint.
* Steele pays for his silence and some breakfast.
* The droid falls down the stairs, followed by Mia chasing him down.
* The droid introduces himself as Carter (CAR.T.ER)
* Carter seems bloodthirsty
* Mia tells them he doesn't mean it before whispering she'll talk to them later.
* Steele asks what Mia uploaded to him.
* She says it was an AI she'd developed.
* Steele cuts his palm open and places it before Carter to test the droid.
* Carter seals the wound with nanites.
* Steele has everyone gather round 1 table.
* He explains the plan to the group about finding Crookshank and where to find him.
* They plan to confront him, to try and gain infomation on CARNAGE.
* Steele welcomes new member to TASKFORCE officially, while Azaria finds them transport.
* Man in charge of carriage is called Barry Tillerson, he takes this route every day.
* A few hours go by and the mountains can be seen.
* Barry stops his cart and says he has to pay his dues.
* He steps off and meets a man leading four other members of a group.
* They have Barry pay double his rate, making it 10,000 instead of 5,000.
* Gunmen of Apocalype leaders are named after 4 horseman of apocalypse.
* He claims the old leader is someone that people don't like to talk about.
* Steele thinks to himself that it must be Crookshank.
* Mia steps off to gather some fauna of the planet with CAR.T.ER
* Franz also steps off to look for something, but doesn't seem to find it.
* They get back on the cart and carry on.
* As the Speeder moves, they look to the air to see a ship be blown up as it flies away.
* Barry claims that someone must have not paid their tax.
* The weather turns colder as an hour passes and they arrive to snowy terrain.
* Barry says Sheerpoint folk are 'charming' with their own isolated culture.
* They don't like alcohol.
* At a very large peak through the clouds, there is a stone wall, reaching far around the area.
* It looks ancient, with tall buildings behind it.
* Steele explains how they may know the crew is coming and to be careful.
* People of the town dislike technology, but the guards let them through while telling Mia to keep CAR.T.ER close.
* The town is full of miners and the like, all wearing similar dark clothing.
* A man catches Steeles eye, and he follows.
* The man goes down an alley, where he seems to open a cellar.
* Steele holds the man up and asks what he's doing.
* The cellar is the mans place to hide contraband.
* Steele asks where to find an old Sheriff
* He says to be careful and that they'll find him up north, at the peak of the mountain.
* He says that the sheriff likes whiskey of all kinds and that he's a shell of the man he used to be.
* Steele assures the man that he only wants to talk to The Sheriff.
* Man says he's killed most of the creatures along the way, but tells them to keep to the left and to stay along the ledges.
* Steele tells the man he won't tell anyone about his hidden cellar and a thank you for the infomation.
* Before leaving, crew realizes that they're missing a person as Iva hasn't followed along.
* As they begin to go looking for her, she turns the corner to find them all.
* Iva claims the town may need help as it doesn't look too well off.
* The crew say they can see if they can help after dealing with Crookshank.
* They reach the stairs and begin climbing to the peak.
* The climb starts fine, but after 20 minutes, the stairs fade to a pathway and wind picks up.
* Some of the crew almost fall down, but manage to hold themselves up.
* A section of the path is being buffeted by very strong winds, cracking the wall.
* Steele asks for any ideas and whether Iva can use her shield to move along through it.
* She is able to and can transport 2 people over at a time by shielding them from the wind.
* Finally reaching the end of the path, they find a large structure.
* A large stone door, etched with a skull carving is closed.
* Steele knocks on the door to no reply before calling out Crookshanks name.
* The door opens slightly and they enter.
* Their steps echo through the dark stone hallways before lights slowly activate.
* The building used to be a church of some sort
* Their are makeshift rooms made of wood.
* Exploring one of the rooms, Steele finds a bedroom.
* In the wardrobe, there is a single hat that looks very familiar to Steele.
* Sirena says she's found something.
* It is clippings and pieces describing the movements of Xerxes the Deathslinger.
* Steele describes how Xerxes is the one with the Power that Crookshank used to have.
* Steele also takes the two pistols from Sirena.
* Franz has found a hatch beneath a rug, that leads to a room.
* Steele fetches the rest of the party while Franz and Sirena head down.
* Steele soon follows to find the large room that stinks of death.
* A single skeleton is at the far end of the room, chained upon a platform.
* The sides of the room is lit with braziers.
* Mia runs forward to the body, finally reaching it.
* She tries to cast revivify upon the body, which fails.
* The skull of the skeleton turns to watch her.
* Crookshank drops from the ladder behind them all and confronts party.
* He wonders what they're doing here.
* Steele is blunt and tells him he's after CARNAGE.
* Crookshank has a table rise from the floor and offers them to sit.
* Steele gives his guns back and sits.
* Crookshank tells them the story of Fireteam RED and how Kulaine being let free got him fired.
* He pulls out papers about Xerxes and asks the party if they know him.
* Steele says he does.
* Crookshank was once respected and feared on the planet, and Xerxes was on a mission nearby.
* Xerxes curiosity lured him to Crookshank, which is where they fought.
* Xerxes was on the ropes before his arm glowed with a dark energy and absorbed the Continuance from Crookshank.
* Xerxes took Crookshanks' place in CARNAGE.
* Spymaster of CARNAGE has eyes everywhere, and they're always being watched.
* Crookshank says he's seen Franz' armour before, but Franz tells him to shut up.
* Mia is called away from the skeleton, Crookshank says it's his masters body.
* His master had The Continuance before Crookshank and was the one that passed it to him.
* The body never moves unless disturbed.
* Sirena asks who the Spymaster is, and he's called Shirai.
* Shirai keeps a network of informants and has a power to look anywhere he desires.
* Steele asks what Crookshank thought his ability was and he responds with The Black Eye.
* Crookshank says they may have a new leader now but the Boss was feared and unknown by them all.
* His codename was Malignant. Tall, strong and exerted a strange energy.
* He went into a temporal stasis, to wait while his plan occurs.
* Steele asks where it is.
* Crookshank says he's beneath Zultan Prime, in a PreCursor facility.
* 6 months from now, a code will be broadcast across the universe, waking up CARNAGE sleeper agents.
* CARNAGE will unleash carnage across the galaxy with this signal, but The Leader has a goal that they don't know.
* To wake the boss early, they need 3 artifacts that the three current underbosses of CARNAGE have.
* The names of The Underbosses are:
* Winter: Taphitus Snow, business Conglomerate. Elderly Man with lots of money.
* Eyes: Vyrene Inilardris, dangerous assassin and charismatic talker.
* Queen Pin: Minerva Salvadore, most feared queenpin and keeps things in line until boss wakes.
* New Boss while current boss sleeps has managed to worm her way to the top from nowhere.
* Info is out of date, so may be wrong.
* Crookshank says they're being followed by Xerxes.
* Steele says he has more members of his crew upstairs and he'll bring them down.
* Crookshank plans to team up with them to fight Xerxes.
* Steele warns Azaria and Kiara about Crookshank and the plan.
* Kiara reads Crookshank with her eye but something is off.
* He goads her by inquiring about his past before Kiara leads Azaria away to talk.
* The room forms into various walls to provide cover.
* Everyone gets into position.
* Time passes and Xerxes arrives in a clowd of black smoke.
* He is overcome with joy at seeing all his targets in one place.
* He wants to know who's changed the Timeline and what's happened.
* The powers give them immunity to changes in the timeline.
* Xerxes inquires about the deck.
* He says they're all marked for death.
* They are confused about the new leader of CARNAGE and don't know what Xerxes is talking about.
* Xerxes makes fun of Crookshank.
* Xerxes asks if they're ready to begin?