D&A Session 14 - For Every Action

*The fight has come home; Sometimes you shouldn't just leave something where you found it...*

## Table Members

* ForteNoir as the MC
* Kixandra as Knight
* Elgar as Antonio Cervantes
* RedAngelAlnet as CINO Ketaminé
* SquashDemon as Doug Landry

## Session Summary

Shortly after the mission to Monaco, the Hraesvalgr is assaulted by an Aviary task force. Strix leads the charge, ostensibly to punish the boldness of OMEGA and the Chrome Road. CINO and Landry provide as much support as possible, though OMER is briefly trapped and terrorized by a Kingfisher. Strix delivers her warning, but her attack is interrupted by Tony's timely arrival. Tony's newly-enhanced La Mancha Sinsonte makes short work of Strix's AF in spite of its anti-beam defenses, but he is unable to secure her ejected cockpit. The damage to the Hraesvalgr leaves it partially submerged at the edge of the Antarctic ice sheet, with a substantial amount of repair work to be done before it can lift off again.

In the intervening time, OMEGA alerts Los Langaros that the international dialogue concerning the Tyrannenflugel is reaching a conclusion, and it is likely already sold to one of the major global powers. The team is tasked with returning to central Africa to determine who has paid for the massive flying fortress, which has remained airborne and stationary for many months since their last visit to the region. OMEGA additionally tasks them with using their best judgment in subverting the Tyrannenflugel's use, e.g. destroying it or capturing it for the Chrome Road.

The team hits the pavement in Kisangani once again, even briefly linking back up with Lichtendal Heinrich to discuss how finances have been moving with regard to the flying fortress. Tony and CINO investigate local financial institutions as KNIGHT and Landry consult with their own resources to suss out what powers are at play.

A joint task force comprised of M-CORE, Eurozone, Ugandan, and Congolese forces takes up positions around the Tyrannenflugel, which soon begins to move on a direct course to the North American east coast. The team is able to determine that the buyer is tied to the Nuevo Aztecan government through shell companies, but they are unable to move on this information before their hand is forced and their final decision is made; they will destroy the Tyrannenflugel over the Atlantic ocean. OMEGA bids them to try and steal, eject, or salvage the fortress's flight engines for the Hraesvalgr's temporary use.

Despite a defensive showing from the joint task force, Los Langaros make ingress through the fortress's cooling fins and proceed inside to find that the soldiers stationed inside of the Tyrannenflugel's decks have been massacred by a swarm of the drones that once terrorized the Congolese border. The group is able to make their way to the command deck only to find that SWALLOW had locked herself in to escape the drones, and that the fortress itself is once again under the joint custody of Abathur and the Tyrant. SWALLOW explains that the Tyrant was necessary in order to move the ship, but that Abathur had defected to the Aviary for a chance to combine himself with the Tyrant once more.

The situation on deck is violently disrupted when Abathur escapes into the prototype Chrome Road AF he had used to escape during the chaos of Strix's raid. SWALLOW mounts up in the Corsair, seemingly taken from EAGLE after his disappearance. Los Langaros is able to overcome the enemy's machines and simultaneously sink the Tyrannenflugel over the Atlantic while doing sufficient damage do its structure that recovering it would be impossible.

After her defeat, SWALLOW is taken prisoner and held aboard the Hraesvalgr, carving out another victory against the Aviary and their machinations.