Session 5: Out of the Wreck, into the Ruin Report
General Summary
After finalizing their plans, the adventuring party mounts up into their Rover on loan. Setting a modest pace and with fair weather they make good time and barely use any fuel. That is, until the unmistakable sign of heaving sand and flashes of electricity to starboard is perceived. It is determined that the Rover will outpace the sandworm though it troubles them the rest of the herd was nowhere to be seen.
Stopping a few hunded meters short, they park the Rover at the root of a dune with the intent of getting a long rest and going into the ruin at dawn. Seh-k'r exits the Rover to attempt a little recon and is pounced on by a sand shark. He narrowly makes it back into the Rover before being savaged and the creature misleaps and lands on the nose of the Rover hard. It staggers away out of sight.
Eventually they settle into their rest and awaken in the early hours. With many hours remaining before first light, they dawdle until tired of waiting they split the party and two of them leave. Gingerly entering the ruin, they begin to inventory the things they want to salvage before being pounced by predators. Wounded and screaming the remaining party members come into the ruins to their rescue.
After a good deal of discovery they kick in the door of a hideout being used by a small number of Juxtalen. A firefight ensues meanwhile an Amerite Rover crew pulls their Rover from hiding and tries to depart. Now fighting on two fronts, the adventurers fail to stop the Amerites from leaving much to the consternation of Gamma.
The party holds their fire while demanding the surrender of the last Juxtelar. Fustrated, she throws down her jammed rifle. She is offered a join or die ultimatum and she responds with a slur filled tirade against Amerites and kvetches about her tribe exiling her and her companions. She reveals that she is a recent sexual assault victum and with the recent winnowing of her Juxtalen companions her agoraphobia and sorrow and lonliness soars. She is stopped several times from walking, nearly naked, into the deep wastes to die. None of their attempts at persuation work. Annoyed Seh-k'r turns his back while Nemora rushes forward to touch the woman. A gust of wind clouds the scene and when it clears the woman is nowhere to be seen. Nemora still stands, bent with an expression of horror as the woman's words "the bull has bred the cows" ring in her ears over and over.
Finally it becomes apparent Gamma is missing. His footsteps were not hard to find and led them to an old electronics workshop. A trapdoor in the floor lay open, stairs into darkness below. The footsteps leading straight to it.
Seh-k'r of the Deep Dark
Level 3
Tabaxi
Chaotic Neutral Rogue
(Remtelar Anthropologist)
(Remtelar Anthropologist)
/ 24 HP
Report Date
12 Sep 2019
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