WITCH ASTEROID

5: "We smile all the time." Scotty: Doc Marty. Christian: Igor Igor. James: Bobby "The Business" 0428. SelfPortrait.jpeg KR deactivates in Brekt's bunker. Seems temporary. Best not to worry about it! Marty and Igor board the Lucifer Rising to see a four-foot-tall decommissioned android built into the mechanical chamber as decoration. The android activates and seemingly goes haywire. He introduces himself as Bobby "The Business" 0428, or just Bobby to friends. He doesn't remember much.  Brekt explains the Lucifer Rising is going to jet a "coffin run:" a hundred-year trip in cryosleep towards what he's determined is the nearest colonized star system. The Lucifer Rising relies fully on thrusters: Brekt doesn't want to risk a warp drive malfunction on the ship he's spent five years scrapping together.  At Beef's request Brekt locates the parts needed for repairing the Aphrodite's warp drive in his scrapyard. It takes the c...

4: The Lucifer Rising Scotty: Doc Marty. Rob: KR&. Christian: Igor Igor. Messenger.jpeg KR, Marty, and Igor scan the moon of the Dead Planet. A harpoon from the surface locks on to the Aphrodite shortly after. The crew is unable to detach and are pulled towards the moon. At the end of its descent the harpoon cord snaps and sends the Aphrodite into the northern hemisphere. The ship skids and falls on to its side. KR is able to make it out safely while Marty and Igor climb to freedom.  KR is intercepted by an awkward humanoid named Verger carrying an android carcass-torso named Kalm. He’s disgusted. Kalm explains there is a brutalist underground colony 15 minutes away from their crash site. Kalm offers them entry into the colony in exchange for their ship (to be scrapped) and all of their possessions. In return they will have oxygen, food, water, and shelter. The crew does not accept this deal. Kalm explains they will have the Aphrodite's possessions eventually when the life supp...

1: Another Bug Hunt Asher: Doc Marty. Justin: Ghoul. Scotty: Jakun. Doc Marty and his rat, Ghoul and his dog, LCpl Wieg, and Jakun drop down on Sansa VI to investigate the abandoned colony Greta Base. After some investigation an infected marine was found in the garage. He hatched into an adult carcinid and chased the crew through the base. Wieg’s eyes are gouged out by the carc and she’s killed.  Marty and Ghoul (after nearly dying twice) escape to the medbay and discover the specimen samples. Jakun, partway infected, retains consciousness and turns the power on. The crew reconvenes at the command center.  Jakun repairs the comms while Ghoul and Marty retrieve the specimen samples through the vents. After hailing the Aphrodite and running to escape they run into the carcinid in the commissary. Ghoul and Marty duck past, but after critically failing another sanity save Jakun succumbs to the hive mind and abandons humanity. With the specimens intact Ghoul and Marty safely return...

 Tephrotic Nightmares, by Luke Gearing. Running Mork Borg + Farewell to Arms REDUX. Alec: Pop. Asher: Mother, Thumper. The bastards of silt beneath the stone choke guilty cattle in pens to pile their future feast... Carceral Mount ALREADY A WEEK IN FLIGHT. 1300 HOURS. Mustachioed Marcellus , Private First-Class, pilots an old Galgenbeck ripperplane deep across the Sea of Ash. Gray in every direction. Private Pop , a recluse markswoman, and Private Mother , a young homesick rifleman, shiver in cockpits behind Marcellus. Their water ran out days ago, surviving off cold rain pooled into their army helmets. Stomachs rumble. Josilfa Migol , arch-priestess to the basilisk-god SHE , demands her grunts locate new sources of SLAGGVARA , as well as enemy factions, within the Sea of Ash. Marcellus sees a dark shape, and dives the ripperplane deeper into the ashy clouds. A stumped mountain peak poking out of the gray sea. The privates catch a stone staircase leading to its top. Marcellus posi...

  Scotty: Drim. Calvin: Brooke/Cliff. Grandaunt Ngeng will not wed! Middle Month of Summer.  Day 6, beginning of night watch.  HEX L. Tree, and rebirth Drim, Brooke, Shiri, and Alira discuss the next course of action. Alira must head north with her two children to rejoin her village. Shiri must head north with Yamin to return the scepter to Grandaunt Ngeng. Krun will follow the duo of Drim and Brooke. The duo decides they will head north as well, after Krun shows confidence in Nana's raid of Once Soot. Shiri explains that only Children of the Forest can pass under the shade of Grandaunt Ngeng's tree, and that if Brooke wishes to travel north he will have to undergo a Cleaving at the hands of Krun. There's a 5% chance of immediate death. The "Zum" will be shred from Brooke's body, birthing a Child of the Forest with his memories. Brooke agrees. Krun takes a wicked curved blade from the wall of his shack and rips it through Brooke, vertically bisecting him. The ...

  Scotty: Drim. Calvin: Brooke. Grandaunt Ngeng will not wed! Middle Month of Summer.  Day 5, 2 hours into morning watch (8AM).  HEX G > HEX M. The surviving soldiers of Captain Quill's crew emerge from the forest and chase after Jubilo. Jubilo is separated from the group. Drim, Brooke, Shiri, and Yamin remain together. Shiri appears dominant and in her element. Yamin declares he is in love with her. He swats away mosquitos and wipes sweat from his upper lip. After comparing plans and information the next steps are clear. Shiri needs to return the bone scepter to a grandaunt northward; Grandaunt Ngeng , an armless matron that Drim recalls helping raise him when he was a younger child. She tells of the power the limbs of Granduncles and Grandaunts retain. Drim and Brooke still need to deliver Lord Zaq's letter so that Nana and her army of hunters can storm Once Soot unimpeded. After, Cold Cave village will need to be saved from the fate foretold in the fire.  Shiri...

 Mythic Bastionland, by the book. In the home-brew Mystriver, the Realm Abandoned. Boo: Roose. Asher: Kirus. Seek the Myths. Honor the Seers. Protect the Realm. Late Winter. FIRST DAY. Mystriver, the Realm Abandoned Mystriver, the Realm Abandoned. Hard, frosted ground. Grass crunching underneath your feet. Trees and flowers frozen still. A heavy mist fills the air, fog clouding your distant vision. Dark shapes through the white, the earth and sky melting into one pale canvas. Knights-Errant; Kirus the Moat Knight , a smelly old man with too much honesty and a beautiful untrained horse; Roose the Tankard Knight , a talkative young fellow on a powerful charger. 3PM. The Company seeks the Myths. Kirus digs a hole into the packed ground and it fills with warm swampy water.  4PM. After traveling on their horses there are dark silhouettes in the fog. Singing, worshipping. Closer, six peasants chant and dance in a circle. They all hold brown bottles of hard liquor. The ground ever-...

 Scotty: Drim. Calvin: Brooke. Justin: Jubilo. Grandaunt Ngeng will not wed! Middle Month of Summer.  Day 5, beginning of morning watch.  HEX G. South of the Three Fingers Jubilo stares at the stars. "How can we save the Witch Folk of Cold Cave village ?" he asks the fire.  A scroll, the letter written by Lord Zaq, burnt to ash... A grave marker for Captain Zaq... A flag with the silver eye charred to a crisp... Captain Quill chokes underwater...  Drim sleeps. He dreams of home. His family, Witch Folk, to the north. A memory of meeting an old woman with only one arm. He is later told that was his grandaunt elder.  Brooke catches up to the war galley in the night: Learned lends him wooden stilts to traverse the mud and root. Brooke envisions Lady Ummul Gul. He isn't afraid. He welcomes the reunion. In the morning he plays cards with the soldiers who stayed up to celebrate. Callan fills Brooke in on the goings-on of the group, namely the death of Good Captain...