WITCH ASTEROID

  6: Down in Kokomo Scotty: Doc Marty. Rob: KR& / Private Capella. Christian: Igor Igor .   Whoops.jpeg Bobby deactivates and enters a similar temporary "sleeping" mode. Don't overthink it! KR activates again and is filled in on the situation. Further testing of CoPilot while Beef heads to rest on his cot in the command module. CoPilot seems to be in regular condition but notifies the crew of an invisible frequency; non-visible light that is permeating the Aphrodite. CoPilot suggests attaching reactor power to the Warp Drive. KR accepts a project to route power from the reactor to the Warp Drive, and/or place a fresh Warp Core in the Warp Drive. It's company policy! CoPilot displays a frightening simulation: CoPilot.log4 This fills KR with a sort of zealous frenzied mania. Marty shuts down all power to the Aphrodite as Igor tackles KR. Anti-gravity drops, lights shut down, and oxygen stops flowing. KR exclaims that he'll have to kill them for obstructing him....

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 retur...

 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...