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Welcome to this week’s free post for Covenant!
So, the player characters (PC) finally saw some action this weekend, and it was more than they were had hoped for.
As a recap, the PCs were headed for the planet of Gaia to find a way to counter this arc’s main villain: Rekana, the owner of Rekana Industries in the Archimedean Confederation. He can stop time during a fight, which makes him almost invincible, so the PCs’ number one priority was to find some way to shut that ability down.
Their ship the Infinity was nearing Gaia when they started getting reports of Rekana ships attacking the valka Matriarchy, where they’d just come from. Attacking the Matriarchy is a suicide mission, even for a company-state as big as Rekana Industries. The PCs finally deduced that the attack was some kind of diversion, but for what?
They found out when the Infinity finally entered Gaia space and found itself surrounded by Rekana warships. Rekana had been tracking them through malware installed in the cybernetics of two of the NPC acoes, Tweak and Sarah. Tweak tore off his cybernetic arm and Sarah managed to flush the malware out of her systems, but it was too late by then.
Tweak, Sarah, and Rekka the risu vanished one-by-one from the room, which is how the PCs knew Rekana was on the Infinity. It looked like it was going to be a party wipe until Carver the valka managed to land a hit on him.
The tide turned for a bit, with the PCs landing solid blows on Rekana. It looked like he was up against the ropes until he hacked into the ship’s gravplates and turned up the gravity. It didn’t seem to affect Rekana, but it did affect the PCs, as they fell to the deck one by one.
Again, it looked like the session was going to end with a total party kill, with the PCs unable to do anything against Rekana. Somehow, though, Tweak managed to get up and stagger over a terminal. Everyone either saw it was the airlock controls or grabbed on to something when they saw everyone else do it, which is how Rekana wound up being the only person blown out into space.
The session ended with the Rekana fleet in retreat and the whereabouts of Rekana himself unknown. We’re not so foolish as to think hard vacuum and a re-entry fall could kill Rekana, so he’ll probably be back. With any luck, though, the PCs will be better equipped to handle him when he shows himself again.
Anyway, that’s it for now. We’ll let you know how this Sunday’s playtest goes next Monday. Talk to you then!
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