2. Dietz-Holz
(21/11+5/12-2011) Ghosts of the Rock, Dietz-Holz and The Jovian Agent
Ghosts of the Rock
Our group decides to go back to The Saint Patrick (their ship) and wait the two days until they can collect the package from Doctor Meier. Getting back they find their vessel grounded, the fuel is defect, but they suspect foul play. They receive a incoming transmission from somewhre on the moon telling them to take care, they are getting themselves into troble.
Discarding the transmission they leave the Saint Patrick hoping to find a bar. They soon stumble into a huge 3 storied bar filled with drunken miners, prostitutes and NNL personnel. Ian gambles while the others hang back (Pierce swears he sees a hooded figure watching them) They drink and chat up some girls and hears some rumors. One of the rumors is about a mass killing in sub level 3, 5 miners shot and stabbed to death close to Star Med-1. They quickly realize that it is the miners that attacked them but luckily NNL authorities have no suspected of the foul deed. The other rumor is about Ghosts in one of the mine shafts!!! One shaft have been abandoned as miners disappeared, some suspect the dead miners of the moon to crave the life of the living. There is even a reward to whomever finds the truth.
Curious Dean and greedy Pierce sees quick profit and an hour later they are driving towards the mine shaft.
NNL guards warn them as the enter the freight elevator, but un-daunted they enter the mine.
Down at the bottom they see mining equipment and barrels of fuel. Investigating they find tracks in the dirt and follow them. Suddenly 2 creatures drop down from the ceiling. Humanoids, but with scaly stone like flesh and the ability to alter the the skin to camouflage themselves. The creatures have long fangs dripping with yellow venom!!!! Pierce is bitten and falls paralyzed to the ground. The creatures avoids shots and stabs from both Ian and Dean and tries to paralyze both of them but luckily they succeed where Pierce failed and remain standing. One of the creatures is killed by Dean as he runs it through with his short punching sabre. The others head explode, hit by the flechette pistol worn by Ian. Investigating the creatures they see tattoos underneath the fibrous stone flesh, could be some kind of altered human ( they are suspecting Doctor Meier of being part of Dietz-Holz, an outlaw corporation)
Carrying the paralyzed Pierce they continue down the corridor. They come to a section with a freight elevator in. Lab equipment fills the walls and a hospital bed is there as well. Someone is kidnapping miners, transforming them into strange servitor creatures which kidnap more miners!!! Suddenly the elevator begins moving., someone is coming down from a higher level.
Hiding, they see a doctor, face half covered with a surgical face mask. He wears a headset and seems to be waiting. They move closer and knock him out. Then bring the doctor along and enter the elevator. All of a sudden they hear a voice in the unconsious mans headset. It is a stern voice, they recognize it: Doctor Urth Meier, their employer!!!! Captain McFadden tries to bluff but something tells them that he failed, then they turn on the elevator...
Discarding the transmission they leave the Saint Patrick hoping to find a bar. They soon stumble into a huge 3 storied bar filled with drunken miners, prostitutes and NNL personnel. Ian gambles while the others hang back (Pierce swears he sees a hooded figure watching them) They drink and chat up some girls and hears some rumors. One of the rumors is about a mass killing in sub level 3, 5 miners shot and stabbed to death close to Star Med-1. They quickly realize that it is the miners that attacked them but luckily NNL authorities have no suspected of the foul deed. The other rumor is about Ghosts in one of the mine shafts!!! One shaft have been abandoned as miners disappeared, some suspect the dead miners of the moon to crave the life of the living. There is even a reward to whomever finds the truth.
Curious Dean and greedy Pierce sees quick profit and an hour later they are driving towards the mine shaft.
NNL guards warn them as the enter the freight elevator, but un-daunted they enter the mine.
Down at the bottom they see mining equipment and barrels of fuel. Investigating they find tracks in the dirt and follow them. Suddenly 2 creatures drop down from the ceiling. Humanoids, but with scaly stone like flesh and the ability to alter the the skin to camouflage themselves. The creatures have long fangs dripping with yellow venom!!!! Pierce is bitten and falls paralyzed to the ground. The creatures avoids shots and stabs from both Ian and Dean and tries to paralyze both of them but luckily they succeed where Pierce failed and remain standing. One of the creatures is killed by Dean as he runs it through with his short punching sabre. The others head explode, hit by the flechette pistol worn by Ian. Investigating the creatures they see tattoos underneath the fibrous stone flesh, could be some kind of altered human ( they are suspecting Doctor Meier of being part of Dietz-Holz, an outlaw corporation)
Carrying the paralyzed Pierce they continue down the corridor. They come to a section with a freight elevator in. Lab equipment fills the walls and a hospital bed is there as well. Someone is kidnapping miners, transforming them into strange servitor creatures which kidnap more miners!!! Suddenly the elevator begins moving., someone is coming down from a higher level.
Hiding, they see a doctor, face half covered with a surgical face mask. He wears a headset and seems to be waiting. They move closer and knock him out. Then bring the doctor along and enter the elevator. All of a sudden they hear a voice in the unconsious mans headset. It is a stern voice, they recognize it: Doctor Urth Meier, their employer!!!! Captain McFadden tries to bluff but something tells them that he failed, then they turn on the elevator...
Dietz-Holz
As the elevator opens they see a gruesome sight. Liquid-filled containers are filled with unconsious miners (probaly). Their bodies are in a state of transformation, most displaying less than human traits. Computers monitor the subjects and tubes insert strange materiel into the huge containers.... THEY ARE EXPERIMENTING ON MINERS, THEY ARE DIETZ-HOLZ, THE BOGEYMEN OF THE STARS....
In front of the the elevator stands Doctor Urth Meier. His arms have unsheated cybernetic blades but he looks really surprised at seeing them!!!! The Doctor tries to reason with them, even offers them 25000 each and the removal of all memory about the incident!!!! He honestly does not seem to want to fight the characters.
This was an ethical situation i threw them into. Wanted to see their response in regard to their hindrances. This is how they reacted:
Dean wants the money, even telling the captain that it is a lot of money.
Ian does not like the doctor, or what they are doing but awaits his brothers decision.
Captain Pierce McFadden draws his Flechette pistol and aims at Doctor Urth Meier, this is just too much for the Captain!!!!!!
Battle commenses!!!! The Doctor is shot through the head by Dean, killing him instantly. The other doctors examining the freaks in the containers, flee the scene terrified!!! Throught the elevator comes 2 armed guards who quickly assail our heroes with auto fire, hitting none!!! A girl emerges as well. She wears a hospital gown and the top of her head is a tangled mess of wires and electrical circuits. As she speaks the voice echoes through the pc´s in the room "Do not hurt father" " Why have you hurt father?" The a third eye opens in her forehead and Ians mind is assulted mentally. Mis actions are no longer his own and he fires at Dean hitting him with a raise!!! Wounded!!!
Then a cat and mouse game begins!!! Ian fires at his friends while the others try to kill the psion girl!!! Dean feels an icy grip in his mind hindering his actions but in the end the girl is put down. Her last mental action is to order the facility to self destruct!!! They race for the elevator, getting down the the magma bombs explode!!!! Chased by the flowing magma they flee the scene and gets away clean. Ohh by the way they find a suitcase labeled. StarMed 1, Coydon, Nyx Prime. This must be the job the doctor had for them!!!
Back in The Saint Patrick they are contacted by Dougal. He tells them an officer is waiting outside the Starship. They allow him to enter when the hear a body slumping to the ground, Dougal has been knocked out. A voice echoes in the headset. He introduces himslef as an agent of the Jovian Agency( humancentric supremacist which hate altering of the human in any form, even tatoos and body art). He warns them about doing business with StarMed and tells them the obstacles they have met have been his design (the fighter, the man following them, the grounding of their ship). When they tell him of StarMeds destruction by their hands he even offers them a place in the Jovian Agency!!! They politely turns his offer down. In a gracious act he tell them they are free to leave but they are not to steer from the path, the Agency is everywhere.
Coming back to the Saint Patrick they leave the mining outpost, swearing never to return..
They comtemplate the next move. They decide to still deliver the suitcase to StarMed1 on Nyx Prime, but not liking Dietz-Holz human experiments, they destroy the samples within and switches them with coloured water. They hope to get in collect the money and get the hell out before anything is up.
A great couple of sessions 2 xp were awarded on both occasions..
Xp´s granted : 4
Xp Total: 9
In front of the the elevator stands Doctor Urth Meier. His arms have unsheated cybernetic blades but he looks really surprised at seeing them!!!! The Doctor tries to reason with them, even offers them 25000 each and the removal of all memory about the incident!!!! He honestly does not seem to want to fight the characters.
This was an ethical situation i threw them into. Wanted to see their response in regard to their hindrances. This is how they reacted:
Dean wants the money, even telling the captain that it is a lot of money.
Ian does not like the doctor, or what they are doing but awaits his brothers decision.
Captain Pierce McFadden draws his Flechette pistol and aims at Doctor Urth Meier, this is just too much for the Captain!!!!!!
Battle commenses!!!! The Doctor is shot through the head by Dean, killing him instantly. The other doctors examining the freaks in the containers, flee the scene terrified!!! Throught the elevator comes 2 armed guards who quickly assail our heroes with auto fire, hitting none!!! A girl emerges as well. She wears a hospital gown and the top of her head is a tangled mess of wires and electrical circuits. As she speaks the voice echoes through the pc´s in the room "Do not hurt father" " Why have you hurt father?" The a third eye opens in her forehead and Ians mind is assulted mentally. Mis actions are no longer his own and he fires at Dean hitting him with a raise!!! Wounded!!!
Then a cat and mouse game begins!!! Ian fires at his friends while the others try to kill the psion girl!!! Dean feels an icy grip in his mind hindering his actions but in the end the girl is put down. Her last mental action is to order the facility to self destruct!!! They race for the elevator, getting down the the magma bombs explode!!!! Chased by the flowing magma they flee the scene and gets away clean. Ohh by the way they find a suitcase labeled. StarMed 1, Coydon, Nyx Prime. This must be the job the doctor had for them!!!
Back in The Saint Patrick they are contacted by Dougal. He tells them an officer is waiting outside the Starship. They allow him to enter when the hear a body slumping to the ground, Dougal has been knocked out. A voice echoes in the headset. He introduces himslef as an agent of the Jovian Agency( humancentric supremacist which hate altering of the human in any form, even tatoos and body art). He warns them about doing business with StarMed and tells them the obstacles they have met have been his design (the fighter, the man following them, the grounding of their ship). When they tell him of StarMeds destruction by their hands he even offers them a place in the Jovian Agency!!! They politely turns his offer down. In a gracious act he tell them they are free to leave but they are not to steer from the path, the Agency is everywhere.
Coming back to the Saint Patrick they leave the mining outpost, swearing never to return..
They comtemplate the next move. They decide to still deliver the suitcase to StarMed1 on Nyx Prime, but not liking Dietz-Holz human experiments, they destroy the samples within and switches them with coloured water. They hope to get in collect the money and get the hell out before anything is up.
A great couple of sessions 2 xp were awarded on both occasions..
Xp´s granted : 4
Xp Total: 9
(2/1-2012) Noctum and Dietz-Holz
Noctum
Our heroes decend through the light atmosphere of Nyx. The planet seems inhospitable with huge oceans of lava, cracked earth and huge mountain ranges. In a protective valley they see a city, wide and dark, Noctum capital of Nyx Prime.
After being hailed they set The Saint Patrick down at the Star Port, pays the Docking fee and enters Noctums central city. Star Med 1 is located in Coydon, a suburb and soon enough hail a cap. The driver, gang affiliated with gang tatoos, warn them of Coydon. It is the territory of The Dark Vipers gang but our heroes insist. The driver covers up his tatoos and takes them through a mostly deserted city. He explains that when the war stopped most moved away closer to the Core worlds, leaving Nyx a backwater planet with little business, that when the gangs began controlling whole suburbs.
They come to Coydon, asks a female ganger for direction and meet one of the gang leaders, Ox. The Dark Vipers mean business, one even carries a Bazzoka but they sweet talk their way through.
They come to StarMed 1, a nice clean white structure amidst burned out buildings and wrecked vehicles. It rests beside a rundown orphanage, heavily guarded with barb wire and armed guards. StarMed offers free treatment to pregnant and knowing Dietz-Holz that is bad!!!!!
After being hailed they set The Saint Patrick down at the Star Port, pays the Docking fee and enters Noctums central city. Star Med 1 is located in Coydon, a suburb and soon enough hail a cap. The driver, gang affiliated with gang tatoos, warn them of Coydon. It is the territory of The Dark Vipers gang but our heroes insist. The driver covers up his tatoos and takes them through a mostly deserted city. He explains that when the war stopped most moved away closer to the Core worlds, leaving Nyx a backwater planet with little business, that when the gangs began controlling whole suburbs.
They come to Coydon, asks a female ganger for direction and meet one of the gang leaders, Ox. The Dark Vipers mean business, one even carries a Bazzoka but they sweet talk their way through.
They come to StarMed 1, a nice clean white structure amidst burned out buildings and wrecked vehicles. It rests beside a rundown orphanage, heavily guarded with barb wire and armed guards. StarMed offers free treatment to pregnant and knowing Dietz-Holz that is bad!!!!!
Dietz-Holz
They enter and wants to talk to the leaidng doctor. A man comes through some doors and greets them. They tell him they are couriers and have a package to
them and wants the payment. The man looks suprised, he has no intentions to pay the 10.000 credits, beside it is usually Doctor Theodora Went that handles
couriers. Thet ask to se her and a small atractive woman greets them and takes them outside. She ask if the samples are intact, they nod. She has been trying
to contact Doctor Urth Meier but has heard the facility was destroyed. They tell her Doctor Meier entrusted them with the samples and they made a clean get
away.
Smiling she tells them she is glad trusted agents of DH has survived. She insists they they are shown the orphanage. The pregnant woman in this area produce a startling number of mutated children, must be some kind of suburbian curse she laughs. The woman leave them at the orphanage believing their children are cared for. They are but not in the normal sense. Ian wants to get away, desperately, but Dean wants to know more (do not quite know what Dean is getting at, was he curious to see it or does he desire to destroy it from within, he writes the small Dean-Holz clues down whenever i toss them at the group) She smiles and tell them they are to take a visitor with them. He is the son of the well known Ambassador Hansi Obermeier, Otto Obermeier. He has been treated by StarMed and with a little luck they could get a good ransom for him.
A pudgy man emerges through the doors. He wears nice clothing and has a t-shirt with CIVILIAN written on it. He looks harmless and is quite fat. Theodora invites the man to see the newly renovated Orphenage. Otto Obermeier gladly takes her up on her offer and enters the orphenage.
Ian has left them, walking back to the cab. The driver is slowly getting back to the vehicle, he staggers and throws a dirty needle to the ground. His eyes are all over the place, junkie ganger!!!! Ian wants to get away and wants the keys!!!! He pulls out his flechette pistol and threatens the man. The now juiced up gang driver starts screaming " You dare threaten a man of the Crimson Sons" " We are the biggest gang in Noctum, we fear no one" Then his head explodes!!!! Ian did not pull the trigger, a couple of female gangers did!!! Remember he warned them of coydon and covered up his tatoos?? His gang and the Dark Vipers are mortal enemies and he is on their turf. Whats worse for Ian, they think him a Crimson Son ganger
too!!!!
Ian jumps into the car and races away!!!! He hears the woman shouting "Crimson Son, Crimson Son" and other gangers starts firing on his vehicle.
Meanwhile in the Orphanage!!!! Dean and Otto walks with Doctor Went to an elevator. They go down into sublevel 3. Emerging in a dusty hall of broken furniture and weapon racks, Weapon racks???? A huge black man, scared and merc tattoed awaits them. " so this is the fat man?? " he coldly ask. "Shall we carve him up and send pieces to his father for ransom?". Otto (the fat man) faints and falls to the ground.
Ian races through Coydon in the cap, avoiding shots from gangers when the bazooka fires and hits the car!!!! The car is thrown to the side almost crippled!!! Ian thinks he is a goner when the bazooka fires again!!!! This time it misses and he flees the gang controlled suburb.
Otto is carried by mutant children, more beast than men through training halls to an office. An freak of nature emerges. An elderly woman, more machine than man rolls out. The bottom of her body is fused to a mechanical vehicle, the size of a golfcart. She instills fear in the mutants eyes and she welcomes a trusted servant of Doctor Meier (Dean) . They talk of what to do with the unconsious fat man when explosions rock the building. The coms inform them that gangers of the Dark Vipers are attacking the building (They saw Dean enter and he is a Crimson Son, not really but they think so)
The machine woman doctor tells Dean to go with her, they have an elevator at the back of the chamber, there they can escape. The merc and the mutants will fight the Gangers here, about time the mutants fighting skills were put to a test. The doctor pulls out one of the vials and insert it in her vehicle for instant examination. She stops and looks surprised, surprised and angry. Suddenly the elevator opens and gangers emerge firing randomly!!!! Dean jump behind the woman and pushes his pistol to her temple, and fires!!!! Executing the freak of nature!!!
A fire fight begins!!!!!! Dean tries to kill the merc leader but he is canny and tough and avoids his shots!!! Otto, faking the faint, crawls under a table and his eyes turn black!!! Psychic!!! And he manipulates time itself making his ally Dean act first in every round ( we found out later that the power was veteran, honest mistake)
They two manage to throw themselves into the elevator while the gangers and the mutants fight!!!
Action packed suprising evening. They continue to make choices I did not expect!!! Love it!!!
Xp´s granted : 2
Xp Total: 11
them and wants the payment. The man looks suprised, he has no intentions to pay the 10.000 credits, beside it is usually Doctor Theodora Went that handles
couriers. Thet ask to se her and a small atractive woman greets them and takes them outside. She ask if the samples are intact, they nod. She has been trying
to contact Doctor Urth Meier but has heard the facility was destroyed. They tell her Doctor Meier entrusted them with the samples and they made a clean get
away.
Smiling she tells them she is glad trusted agents of DH has survived. She insists they they are shown the orphanage. The pregnant woman in this area produce a startling number of mutated children, must be some kind of suburbian curse she laughs. The woman leave them at the orphanage believing their children are cared for. They are but not in the normal sense. Ian wants to get away, desperately, but Dean wants to know more (do not quite know what Dean is getting at, was he curious to see it or does he desire to destroy it from within, he writes the small Dean-Holz clues down whenever i toss them at the group) She smiles and tell them they are to take a visitor with them. He is the son of the well known Ambassador Hansi Obermeier, Otto Obermeier. He has been treated by StarMed and with a little luck they could get a good ransom for him.
A pudgy man emerges through the doors. He wears nice clothing and has a t-shirt with CIVILIAN written on it. He looks harmless and is quite fat. Theodora invites the man to see the newly renovated Orphenage. Otto Obermeier gladly takes her up on her offer and enters the orphenage.
Ian has left them, walking back to the cab. The driver is slowly getting back to the vehicle, he staggers and throws a dirty needle to the ground. His eyes are all over the place, junkie ganger!!!! Ian wants to get away and wants the keys!!!! He pulls out his flechette pistol and threatens the man. The now juiced up gang driver starts screaming " You dare threaten a man of the Crimson Sons" " We are the biggest gang in Noctum, we fear no one" Then his head explodes!!!! Ian did not pull the trigger, a couple of female gangers did!!! Remember he warned them of coydon and covered up his tatoos?? His gang and the Dark Vipers are mortal enemies and he is on their turf. Whats worse for Ian, they think him a Crimson Son ganger
too!!!!
Ian jumps into the car and races away!!!! He hears the woman shouting "Crimson Son, Crimson Son" and other gangers starts firing on his vehicle.
Meanwhile in the Orphanage!!!! Dean and Otto walks with Doctor Went to an elevator. They go down into sublevel 3. Emerging in a dusty hall of broken furniture and weapon racks, Weapon racks???? A huge black man, scared and merc tattoed awaits them. " so this is the fat man?? " he coldly ask. "Shall we carve him up and send pieces to his father for ransom?". Otto (the fat man) faints and falls to the ground.
Ian races through Coydon in the cap, avoiding shots from gangers when the bazooka fires and hits the car!!!! The car is thrown to the side almost crippled!!! Ian thinks he is a goner when the bazooka fires again!!!! This time it misses and he flees the gang controlled suburb.
Otto is carried by mutant children, more beast than men through training halls to an office. An freak of nature emerges. An elderly woman, more machine than man rolls out. The bottom of her body is fused to a mechanical vehicle, the size of a golfcart. She instills fear in the mutants eyes and she welcomes a trusted servant of Doctor Meier (Dean) . They talk of what to do with the unconsious fat man when explosions rock the building. The coms inform them that gangers of the Dark Vipers are attacking the building (They saw Dean enter and he is a Crimson Son, not really but they think so)
The machine woman doctor tells Dean to go with her, they have an elevator at the back of the chamber, there they can escape. The merc and the mutants will fight the Gangers here, about time the mutants fighting skills were put to a test. The doctor pulls out one of the vials and insert it in her vehicle for instant examination. She stops and looks surprised, surprised and angry. Suddenly the elevator opens and gangers emerge firing randomly!!!! Dean jump behind the woman and pushes his pistol to her temple, and fires!!!! Executing the freak of nature!!!
A fire fight begins!!!!!! Dean tries to kill the merc leader but he is canny and tough and avoids his shots!!! Otto, faking the faint, crawls under a table and his eyes turn black!!! Psychic!!! And he manipulates time itself making his ally Dean act first in every round ( we found out later that the power was veteran, honest mistake)
They two manage to throw themselves into the elevator while the gangers and the mutants fight!!!
Action packed suprising evening. They continue to make choices I did not expect!!! Love it!!!
Xp´s granted : 2
Xp Total: 11
(16/1-2012) Wrapping up
Wrapping up
Our fair group, including the newcomer Otto Obermeier, meets up at the Starship The Saint Patrick. The have the money from the job and are happy to leave this cesspool of a backwater planet. Otto, being upperclass, negotiates the fee for his traveling with ship with the Captain, Pierce McFadden.
After that they get ready to leave.. But are interrupted by the NNL officer which greeted them to the planet. He asks if they are up for a job. They are independent contractors he aks them and the agree. It turns out that star pirates have ambushed a merchant freighter from the city Noctum. There is no pay but they are free to do whatver they want to get the job done, and seize everything the pirates have. They discuss it for a while and agree to the job. The pirates whereabouts are unknown but clues lead to Noctum where the pirates are suspected to have contacts.
That ended chapter 2.
After that they get ready to leave.. But are interrupted by the NNL officer which greeted them to the planet. He asks if they are up for a job. They are independent contractors he aks them and the agree. It turns out that star pirates have ambushed a merchant freighter from the city Noctum. There is no pay but they are free to do whatver they want to get the job done, and seize everything the pirates have. They discuss it for a while and agree to the job. The pirates whereabouts are unknown but clues lead to Noctum where the pirates are suspected to have contacts.
That ended chapter 2.