Dog Pants wrote:You didn't mention our plan of surgically destroying key parts of the ship and spacing everyone. I still reckon that was a good plan with only minor flaws (like not having any explosives or knowledge of how to use them).
You are absolutely right, I forgot to mention that. Funnily enough it is mentioned in the book as a possible route the group might try and take. Its possible, but would have been bloody hard even if you had the right gear. It turns out that large amounts of the Flower, including the section with the life support, actually look a lot more shitty than they are as they were originally looted during the Oxygen Deck Riots, and are military spec gear. Essentially, trying to blow holes in it would be like trying to blow holes in a battleship, albeit a bit of a run down battleship. Possible, but would need the right gear and knowhow.
Having said that, spacing them wouldn't have been as effective or quick as you might think. Something you failed to spot: The monster-morph that you saw on the Kesyrah camera footage coming out and pulling the door off did so without a space suit. Those big buggers are vacuum hardened and dont need to breath for a loooong time. It would have been more effective against the guys not in the big gribbly morphs, but in the short term they all had access to vac suits (emergency space suits that seal the wearer in case of sudden pressure loss, pretty much standard to wear at all times in small habs, especially small habs of dubious maintenance). Even if you had spaced them and permanently broken thier air supply they could have uploaded from their morphs to survive, and you are assuming that no one was sleeved in a synth.
Still, overall you did well, especially for a first run. One thing I would suggest though: make notes, and dont forget you have Muses. The Muse isnt a completely full AI, but you could ask it things like "Is there anyone I was told about in relation to this case that I have not investigated yet?" for example. I mention this because you did miss one lead entirely: one of the people Yu went after on Locus you completely forgot about. Not surprising due to the length of time it takes for forum games to be played, but the Muse is a perfect in-game way of getting around that problem.
So! Rewards! You all get 6 RP (XP with a silly name). Also, your i-rep (reputation with firewall) goes up by 13 and you @-rep (reputation with the anarchist factions) goes up by 6. Your i-rep rewards is nearly as high as it would have gone (you could have got a couple more points for getting more detail on Yu, which I will go into detail about in a sec). You could have kept the Kesyrah, but if Shoggy had found out you would have taken a big hit to your @-rep.
Final thing before downtime: You all go to the clinic Ming sent you to. DCOM gets a thorough probing and is given the all clear. Unlabelled doesnt come out again. Fab, you are restored from backup and given a new morph by firewall. You suspect someone may have been fearing the worst for you guys as the morph they give you is almost identical to the one you started with, which is astonishing given the timeframe they had to get it. They fill you in on the details of your mission, but only in as much detail as you gave to Ming. You have no actual memories of this entire afair. We will deal with the psychological impact of that in downtime. DP, FJ, if you are feeling generous you can fill him in on further details. The reason the clinic give you is that both your morph and ego were "irretrievably contaminated" although they wont tell you any specifics.
Yay! Player death! You got better though.
Shortly after your return from the clinic you recieve a message from Yu. It turns out she has also been restored from backup and sleeved into a new morph (not a stealth bastard morph this time). She thanks you for your attempted rescue and for the sucessful recovery of the hardware and lets you know that if she can ever help you out similarly in the future, just let her know. She also tells you that although the morph you returned with was her morph it wasnt her Ego in it. Both the morph and the Ego were unrecoverable and disposed of, but they believe the Ego may have been one of the Khans. Presumably they forceably uploaded Yu and stole her fancy body. She wishes she knew what had happened to her original Ego, but Firewall have since confirmed that no Egos left the Flower using the darkcasting system since she went and the hab has been completely destroyed by an Erasure squad (they made it look like a reactor accident, it barely registered in the news feeds) so she is confident that her old self is now dead. She says she is kind of glad, she is sure she wouldnt have wanted memories of that place anyway.
Just downtime now! PM me any character changes/updates/activity/questions. I'll get to preparing another story
