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25/01/2016 18:42

draxil.livejournal.com

Somehow left out of Greg's notes:

After the mission (see the main update) Felix found that his agri-pod ritual space had been sealed off. He summoned the others, and they bust their way in. The area had been "vandalised" with runes carved into trees and blood smeared about the place. Up on some sorcerous analysis it became apparent that this was an anchor point for some kind of ritual.

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25/01/2016 16:43

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[Encrrypted Data FIles: Kobold]
[Personal Log]
Ok take two, back to our original mission after the interuption from the escapists, they must of helped Nightshade. Ateast this mission will give me time to work out how to deal with her. Cant take this to Quicksilver, im gonna have to brake protocol to sort his mess out.

Iv been working on some comm tech for the mission. Its pretty basic, plenty of room for improvments but its servicable for now.

The satation looks like a hodgpodge of modular construction. We managed to grab a quick long range scan of pluto on the way here too. Gotta get ready to board the station, lets see what they got.
[End of Log]

[Video Logs/Missions/PDUrecordings/lokistation]
A flash of grainy static, then a dark airlock comes into focus. The recorder swings around looking for traps befor it settles on a monsterous hand reaching out for a switch. The dull red glow of the emergency lights comes on. There is a very old body on the floor. The arm becomes human again, it reaches to open the airlock.
"All clear"

A squad of marines storms out the airlock and moves on to their objectives. A pilot follows one squad out of view, while a couple of marines begin trying to access the station computers. Last through the airlock is a docotr that moves straight to the body. The camera turns towards a dark corridor in the opposite direction from where the other marines went, and moves into the darkness.

Darkness and static.... Then a light shines from the recorder revealing an imense blast door much newer than the rest of the station. On the door is the Double C sigil of chrysalis corporation. A claw lashes out at the logo scratching the paint. Then a moment of static and a perfectly bright white clean room. The interference and static on the recording seems slighty stronger here.

"Interesting, This is a restricted area" an artificial sounding voice echoes out, as two large turrets begin sighting on the recorder.

Another flash of static, then the void of space and the curved outer hull of the station module. The picture is poor with static exposed to cosmic rays. The recorder moves forward along the hull, pulled onwards by alien talons. After a minute or so there is another flash of static, then the back of the two turrets from befor and the inside of a familiar blast door. The camera turns away from the door and turrets and heads up another corridor. The static picks up slighty as the camera moves up the corridor.

"You have been warned, this is a maximum security area. Deploying additional defenses" the artifical voice states as two beachball size chrome spheres float into view. Another flash of static and the recorder is back outside scurrying towards the older modules.

Eventually the recorder returns to Felix. After a breif conversation felix agrees to hand over his PDU with a pre preparped hack program to deativate the station defenses.in the chyrsalis module, butthis must bedone from inside the module.

A few minutes later there is another flash of stactic as the recorder reenters the chyrsalis module. The hack program begins a laer blast whizz past. Two monstours arms grab one of the drones wrestling against its thrusters trying to turn the blast away.

"Program Complete" rings from Felix's PDU as the drone deactivates. The blast doors open and Felix entersand joins the recorder. Togther they walk deeper into the module as the interference builds effectivly ending the recording.

Meanwhile Dana has found the docking bay, fidning several shuttles. One with OIS markings takes her particular interest, and she begins preparing them for return to the fleet. See Dana's mission report.

Several marine squads report thier searches have recovered most of the mineral resources. Several personal and work logs are recovered during variious searches too.

Inside the Chrysalis module Felix and Kobold investigate a lab ,finding a pile of corpses with human and alien features invarious states of decay. In chryo chambers there are 3 survivors, one sciemtist and two test subjects. Doctor Zory argues for recovering the chryo pods for further study. See Dr Zory's Loki station medical analysis.

Furthur into the module in an experimental weapon testing room Felix discovers an instability in the very fabric of reality thought to be cause by the weapon tests conducted in that room. The weapon was recovered.

Befor leaving on the new shuttles, Kobold booby traps the station to stop any of its resources falling into enemy hands. On the flight back the crew investigate the recovered logs.

- Dr Karlov's log on an encrypted pad
   - 2nd Dec 2074
     Miserable new year celebration over and done with. I had that awful smelly bitch Dodds from ops fawning over me all night. Some people really can't take a hint.
   - 13 Feb 2075
     I think I'm going mad.
   - 20th Feb 2075
     I woke up to find myself at the comms termninal. I don't remember coming here.
     I'm starting to remember.. No. I'm starting to forget?
     That year I spent on Titan station. That's just bullshit. It didn't happen. I've never been there. I never played chess with Bill Thompson, I never met Lilly Franks. She doesn't even EXIST!!!
     I set off for Titan. That's real. But my shuttle was intercepted. I remember the ship swallowing us whole. It looked like a giant insect.
   - 21st Feb 2075
     I remember it all now.
   - 10th May 2075
     Experiment #1. Hybridisation. Modifying the DNA of humans to make more effective slaves. True the masters failed in this area with the Nezzadi. But I will suceeed! Think of the glory!
   - 18th May 2075
     Strain #2 is a failure. The ops team died.
   - 19th May 2075
     Strain #18 is a success. I will terminate the others and take my work to the masters. I'll use the cryo tubes to freeze us until they arrive.
- Arla Dods - Ops manager (govt employee
   - 24th Dec 2074
     Just 6 months left on my Term! Can't wait to get back to earth. There's not much for us government employees to do anyway as the contractors do most of the reasearch.
   - 2th Jan 2075
     Recovering from all the new year celebrations! Those scientists have all the best drugs, and Dr Brad Karlov spent all night chatting me up. Great party. Now we just need to get things running again!
   - 3rd Jan 2075
     More replacements for testing range #4? I swear those scientists have no conception of the word "budget".
   - 8th Jan 2075
      Fucking Brad. What an asshole. Note to self: don't date any more scientists. Don't sign up for any more jobs on tiny reasearch stations.
   - 6th March 2075
     Shipments are running late again. God damnit I want to get off this station.
   - 9th of May 2075
     A bit freaked, all the comms are down and we still haven't had our supplies.
- Jonas Harrison - OIS oversight official observer
   - 1 Jan 2075
     I have arrived on station. Bit of a thankless task as Crysalys basically have free reign here, part of the point of this place being off world! Still the pay is good.
   - 8th Jan 2075
     Dr Karlov's weapons research is very impressive. The arcanotech principles involved blow my mind, although I guess that's the point? Still I have to worry if that thing is really stable. We've had to right off testing range #4 entirely as the structural integrety of that compartment kept failing, even though we've effectively replaced every component.
   - 10th May 2075
     The alien fleet has totally cut us off from earth and our ghosted links with the colonies. Captin Reinhart has ordered rationing of key supplies, although Dr Karlov has rigged some kind of fungus to suppliment our food intake. It doesn't actually taste too bad!
   - 1 June 2075
     Damn Karlov. It's in the food, I've stopped eating it but he's already got me. So weak.. He's sealed himself in the sphere. Can't get through...

Upon return to the ship it is agreed to wake and interrogate the scientist. The scientist is almost completely insane and Felix wastes no time in piecing together his convertion as a migou blank, but Kobold repeatedly interupts the interrogation chasing after chyrsalis and dohanoid links. See interogation Karlov.

Mission success is somewhat overshadowed by the unfortunate data recovered from pluto on the returning intensive scans. The data is irrefutable, second hive ship confirmed in pluto orbit.

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24/09/2015 16:38

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The shuttle train shakes as it speeds the length of the Oriental Star's spine. The jolt seems to wake the marine, he has been dreaming. He mutters to himself, not quite sub-vocalising but not quite audible to the other passengers. He is talking to his PCPU. Possibly he has a dream log?

He leaves the train.

He climbs the stairway and walks to an office door. The door label reads "Cptn Karen Chang".

--

Elsewhere a young man, almost a boy, prowls through the market place. He is hungry but there is no food here only angry complaints and stall owners making excuses about delays and lost shipments.

The young man doesn't seem troubled.

He turns to go when a large man approaches him. The large man tells him to come to a meeting with others of their kind, and with no further ceremony he looses himself in the crowd and is gone.

The young man nods to himself, and seeming to remember his hunger. He heads to a quiet room, possibly this is where he sleeps? And then suddenly the young man is gone, replaced by a strange creature which I can hardly describe. The creature approaches the hull of the ship and seems to phase into it. Now the room is empty.

--

The marine talks with Karen Chang. She is congratulating him on catching a murderer. Now she is offering him fresh cases. Some unregulated shuttle flights, rumours of arms dealing on a ship called the Atlantic. She also describes her misgivings about a group called "the escapist movement.".

The marine makes as if to leave, and Captain Chang gives him one last piece of information. Some change in fleet disposition is coming soon, and she is assembling a team to operate flexibly beyond the fleet. She hands him a shortlist of personnel to consider.

--

The young man reappears in his quarters. He now has food from somewhere? We wonder where he got that from.

He leaves and travels down to an un-populated cargo hold. Waiting for him there is the large tattooed man from the market, also a woman we have not seen before and a scrawny young man who fiddles with candles and incense in a way which makes us believe he is a sorcerer. The scrawny young man completes his ritual and steps aside. The other three talk.

The large man discusses a cult they have been pursuing. The authorities have taken the man they hoped would lead them back to the rest of their group. They also discuss one of their number who is apparently missing.

The young man agrees to check the missing girl's quarters, her name is "Night blade". These people have strange names it seems.

--

The marine pursues the case of the unregistered flights. He visits pilots who flew the shuttles, the first one is not at home and so he visits the second one. He regularly mumbles to himself, or perhaps his PCPU whenever nobody is listening.

The second shuttle pilot (he's called midshipman Rodgers) is home when the marine comes to visit. The pilot shares a beer with the marine, and complains that he's been bothered about this issue before. He claims to have had no memory of exactly what happened that day, he puts this down to how dull shuttle duty is. The marine appears to believe him.

Next the marine watches some CCTV footage, but seems to find this unsatisfactory as well.

--

The young man approaches the missing girl's quarters. He pauses to check his surroundings. Then he transforms into the strange creature once again! He phases into the door of the girls quarters and disappears. This time we follow him through!

Inside the young man / bizarre creature searches the room. He finds a terminal, which he fiddles with for a while. On the terminal is a file, which is a message addressed to him (Kobold). She has anticipated that they would send the young man to look for her, she says the others won't understand her reasoning, but asks him not to pursue her further.

--

The marine has decided to visit the prisoner implicated in the murder (Kendrick Lafrough). He seems quite quite mad. Also like other people the marine has visited today he seems to have holes in his memory.

--

The young man gets a job dealing with a damaged agri-pod. The pod is covered in a grey mould like substance and a giant slug like creature appears to be living in it. The young man transforms into his hideous monster form and cleanses these things out of existence by producing some kind of toxic mist.

--

Later, the marine visits the young man in his quarters, deep in a cargo hold of the ship. It seems the young man is on Captain Chang's list of potential recruits, and that he worked along side the accused murderer Kendrick Lafrough. The young man shrugs off the marine's questions and they go their separate ways.

--

Responding to a message from a member of his social club (Brad), the marine visits the engineering section. First he stops to play a card game, which he wins. Then he retreats to a side room with his friend. The engineers have been fiddling with illegal radio equipment and have retrieved a large file. Within this file they have found a film of some kind, which the engineer finds exciting. The marine sternly tells the engineer that he will have to turn the file over to the authorities.

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