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FEB. 11, 2024 PLAYTEST
Not much happened at Sunday’s playtest. But our player characters (PC) were still reeling from Rekana’s attack on the Infinity, so it was understandable.
If you don’t remember, Rekana, the CEO of Rekana Industries, decided to deal with the PCs himself after they nuked his scrapping site on the planet of Sujimma. One of the crew, an NPC nozumi named Temjin, managed to fight him off, but not before he caused a lot of damage and killed a lot of people on the Infinity.
One of the people that Rekana attacked was Sazzy, the Great Khan of the ratel Khanate and the PCs’ main pilot. He bit her on the neck, but it seemed to be a survivable wound. However, we learned on Tuesday that she didn’t have any brain activity. We ruled out the medical reasons, so our conclusion is that Rekana did… something to her.
The PCs’ position frankly looks pretty grim. Temjin told them that he could teach them how to speed up time the way he did to fight off Rekana, but he added that’s it’s very taxing on a fighter’s body. Other than that, though, we have no counter to him.
On the positive side, we greeted two new characters into the party on Sunday. The first character, 3131, was a leonile aco who fought Temjin to a standstill. He was an assassination weapon left behind by Rekana. But it also looks like he was being controlled by an implant, one that was primed to explode if he was defeated. We got it out of him, and now he’s eager to help us however he can.
The second was a risu named Rekka. The PCs are currently in valka space, and since the risu have a symbiotic relationship with the valka, they gave us access to some of their risu experts. Rekka is apparently the mystic of the bunch, and she’s just as eager to kill Rekana as the rest of the party.
That’s about all that we were able to do on Sunday. Hopefully, the playtest gods will continue to be kind to us and let us run another session this Sunday. If they do, we’ll update you next Monday.
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