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GRADIENT 7: Pilgrimage

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Asher: Buchanan 17 / 7 of 8. Scotty: Doc Marty. Nico: Bucky Andrew. Christian: Breacher (H) / Breacher (BW). Rob: Odysseus. DAY 18 Pilgrimage through the depths of the Cloudbank Synthetic Production Facility. Buchanan 17 leads Wolfsheim 6 and the two unnamed Breachers on a sadistic romp. Smashing androids, looting corpses, laughing, shouting. Anything lurking in the darkness of zero gravity stays out of their way. Marty, Bucky, and Odi follow closely behind. Marty grabs Artifact #88 from behind the mirror where he last hid it. Eden. There's no Cherubim guarding the experimental Chosen colony anymore. The Great Gatsby death cultists raze this place. Synthetic corpses shredded. Nothing from Monarch. Quiet. It is eerily easy to reach Floor 1.  No ships docked. It appears the Acheron will arrive in 19 hours. The divers scour and loot the first floor and get some rest. Buchanan 17 steals the Golden Rat. He will never know the consequences.  DAY 19 Doc Marty has a dream. He's back...

GRADIENT 6: The Party

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Asher: Tootsie Thompson / Buchanan 17. Scotty: Doc Marty. Nico: Bucky Andrew. Christian: Hyde "Breacher" Finch . Rob: Odi. The bees buzz closer. Hyde sees two green lights pulsing in the distant darkness. In the hot glow of the nearby lava bath emerges two Breachers. One with eyes painted on his headset, and the other with a pair of glasses. Eyes and Glasses quickly dispatch the bees with their vibechetes. Eyes sizes Hyde up and realizes he's killed a fellow Breacher to earn the Breacher armor. Eyes invites Hyde to the party. But Eyes says he needs to gather a few more guests before the party can begin. Glasses silently records this conversation by entering it on the side of his headset. The trio move through the factory. Doc Marty decides to join them as a guest. Tootsie is taken, too. Odi tracks the group through the vents. Bucky follows, not far behind, using her thermals to stay out of the Breacher's vision and looking after Odi. Sweltering heat in the vents. Od...