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DEAD PLANET 1-3: Prologue

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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...

MISERABLE PLACES 1: Carceral Mount

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 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...