wererat – Mission Log: Hugh's Starfinder Campaign

(I Just) Died in Your Arms

Posted on 5 Pharast, 326 AG by wererat

Well, we are headed to meet with Uncle Cosmo. In spite of having a lot of mixed feelings about this, Widget is getting contacted fairly often, and he’s not always a good multi-tasker. I finally talked to Cosmo myself. Or listened until his feeble monolog ended and the line went dead. He insists he’s being held hostage. He says his children have locked him in. I assume he doesn’t mean my cousins, as we left most of them back in Khefak Depot. So, there’s an ominous mystery.

Widget tells me Uncle Cosmo paid Widget’s way through drone school. Widget did not go to drone school. Drones don’t really need school….

We could not find a landing pad and have to hike the last two miles. Mostly through creepy ruins of an abandoned village.

Anyway, I just killed a Angazhani, or at least it was a white ape with four arms. The rest of the group whittled it down (including the Celi!), while I mostly stood there having flashback for a few seconds. If these things are this close to Cosmo’s home, that might be the real reason he’s cooped up. These apes are not solitary creatures. I hope we didn’t kill one of his “children.”

He at least stopped calling Widget for a few minutes.

Oddly, I miss Venn.

Who Made Who

Posted on 13 Calistril, 326 AG by wererat

The Celi have decided they want to visit Daza, The Halls of Reason, and The Bounty. All places I try not to visit. But stranger still, they really want to check in with Uncle Cosmo. We are preparing to head there right away. I am still pretty confused. I sent a note off to Venn about it, just in case it delays or impedes the rest of our trip. At least if we ever are involved in introducing a new species to the Pact Worlds again, we’ll have already visited Uncle Cosmo. And we’ll know which places not to take them.

Workin’ for a Livin’

Posted on 1 Calistril, 326 AG by wererat

We dropped off the Celi for a meeting (ambassadors only) with AbadarCorp. I finally went out to lunch with Venn. We hardly ever have “alone time” and as much as we like each other, barely have a spare moment even to chat in a hallway. Still, lovely to see him, though I admitted that it’s getting frustrating to keep meeting up like this. Offered to let him come with us, though of course he can’t. So, goodbye for a bit.

Then I got back to the ship in time to watch a doppelganger “electrovore” being smuggled in. The scanner by the door of course turned it into a puddle of goo. Looks like I have a few more minutes to visit with Venn after all.

The ride with the Celi ambassadors was uneventful, but event a boring in-sytem flight is new to them. And Mels saved the day(s) by offering to read every book in our library to the ambassadors. I think he even did voices for them. Or maybe he’s just hoarse. Wr probably should have told him to take food and sleep breaks.

And at last, after nearly three days, we are on Akiton. Specifically, Khefak Depot. And my cousin Rennie is there to greet us!

We catch up on the latest news. He tells us Cornpuff and Jasmine had been through a few days ago, still trailing Arcturus. And Weirder still, Widget apparently does have an Uncle Cosmo, rich and eccentric, who has willed all his possessions to Widget. I’ll let him talk the Celi into stopping at Stately Cosmo Manor. I built Widget by myself, and am so confused.

Your friend was messing up my tanks. . . .

Posted on 18 Abadius, 326 AG by wererat

So, we have a new crewmember. Sort of. Mels, the purple skittermander I keep seeing, insists we hired him. We found him cleaning inside the Celi’s ocean water enclosure. No one else seems to have an issue with him. He’s currently sleeping in a hammock in engineering.

Oh, we are headed for Akiton tomorrow, after the Celi meet with AbadarCorp. Venn suggests we check for clues in the Theatorium while we wait. I need to have a talk with Venn….

Then we dipped to the theater set to ill

Posted on 4 Abadius, 326 AG by wererat

Hamisfore Theatorium is a scary place. At least, if you’re in the ambassadors’ box.

Jebodah Hamisfore seems like a good host. The gnome led us on a tour of his family’s theater, and took us to a lovely private box where we could see a play by a group from Abollon. The play was called AI Macbeth (I think it was pre-gap!). We only got partway through when I noticed something moving through the rigging straight above our private box. We decided to shuffle the Celi back to our ship, explaining that the people that liked to exchange fire might be looking for us. We got Station security alerted, but didn’t stick around.

We did have a scary talk with the Celi earlier today. In addition to telekinesis, and healing, they can move objects with a mind thrust. I honestly don’t know if we were heard, as we were out eating. I mean, their half of the conversation was telekinetic, but that isn’t guaranteed “secure.” I catch random conversations that way, and I don’t always try to! And that purple skittermander seems to be living on or near our ship.

Widget tells me that when Jebodah Hamisfore’s family built their theatre, it was going to be called Ford’s Theater, but it didn’t have the right ring to it.