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<blockquote data-quote="Tashtego" data-source="post: 6461505" data-attributes="member: 5373"><p><strong>3: Outbreak</strong></p><p></p><p>After the Block Wars, the PCs could relax a little and work on their scams and plans in the confines of Tartarus. Freddie was invited to have dinner with the Governor, and showed up with the rest of the PC group. The Governor's room was covered in naval paraphernalia, and soon he was chatting to Freddie about exciting space adventures. </p><p></p><p>The governor was served by an old model service robot called 'Huckleberry', who, unbeknownst to everyone, was working for the Assistant Governor. The Assistant Governor had schemes and wheels in motions... The Assistant Governor interrupted the dinner to show the Governor some reports. Huckleberry was asked to escort the PCs back to their cell block.</p><p></p><p>Meanwhile, work detail started. It turned out the surprising news was that a meteorite had crashed on the surface of Tartarus the PCs were going to investigate. Huckleberry, Freddie, Jake, Tyke and Calico went off, escorted by guards.</p><p></p><p>While the asteroid investigation was going on, Ugbug, Rachel and Mayweather were slaving away in the heavy labour section of the mines. As Ugbug and Rachel worked away at the uranium ore, two other prisoners got into a fight with picks, over a stash of painkillers. They fought, and one of the prisoners' suits was punctured. Mayweather immediately applied medial attention and found that the wounded prisoner was a cyborg. She stabilised him while Ugbug and Rachel biffed the other prisoner into unconsciousness. Both prisoners were transferred to Sick Bay.</p><p></p><p>Meanwhile, the asteroid hunter went to the surface of Tartarus and found that the 'meteorite debris' looked like spacecraft debris breaking up. Freddie took some samples and Huckleberry hid spacecraft's blackbox in an internal component.</p><p></p><p>All of the prisoners rested after their various exertions; the next day it was clear that someone was wrong – prisoners were coughing and showing severe flu symptoms. A hypervirus had broken out into the prison. </p><p></p><p>The guards had retreated into their bunker and left Mayweather, as the prison's most currently qualified medical officer, in charge of the situation. Mayweather immediately mobilised the prison's robot population to feed and care for the organic prisoners while she worked on a cure. After determining that the outbreak was the use of a military grade hypervirus, the PCs investigated the broken-up spaceship components they had salvaged, and then traced the origin of the hypervirus to the mines. Before they investigated the mines, they found that cyborg prisoner with the damaged lungs was gone! It looked like he had gone to the mines; also the point at which the first few cases of the virus had been detected. The PCs travelled down to the mines, and found that a group of deep miners had been due to return. Now, they found corpses littering the first floor of the mines. They travelled down, and questioned a hiding prisoner, who told them that the deep mining expedition was to actually recover alien artefacts beneath the mine. They went down the last level and found the geologic samples and alien artefact samples from the previous expedition.</p><p></p><p>Then, they were attacked by the virus-infected prisoner. He was quite delirious and aggressive. When Freddie attempted telepathic contact with him, they found that he wanted revenge on Doctor Subotai, a brilliant biological genius, but without any thought for ethics. He had used the prisoner like a drug mule to carry hypervirus capsules into the prison – which had been sealed into the prisoner's bionic lungs. Doctor Subotai was also a prisoner, but had disguised himself upon entry. There was no telling who or where he might be in Tartarus.</p><p></p><p>The PCs defeated the prisoner after a harsh battle. Huckleberry, the service robot, displayed strangely efficient assassination skills, not really in line with its designation. After the battle, Mayweather handed control of the prisoner back to the guards, the outbreak now dealt with.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tashtego, post: 6461505, member: 5373"] [b]3: Outbreak[/b] After the Block Wars, the PCs could relax a little and work on their scams and plans in the confines of Tartarus. Freddie was invited to have dinner with the Governor, and showed up with the rest of the PC group. The Governor's room was covered in naval paraphernalia, and soon he was chatting to Freddie about exciting space adventures. The governor was served by an old model service robot called 'Huckleberry', who, unbeknownst to everyone, was working for the Assistant Governor. The Assistant Governor had schemes and wheels in motions... The Assistant Governor interrupted the dinner to show the Governor some reports. Huckleberry was asked to escort the PCs back to their cell block. Meanwhile, work detail started. It turned out the surprising news was that a meteorite had crashed on the surface of Tartarus the PCs were going to investigate. Huckleberry, Freddie, Jake, Tyke and Calico went off, escorted by guards. While the asteroid investigation was going on, Ugbug, Rachel and Mayweather were slaving away in the heavy labour section of the mines. As Ugbug and Rachel worked away at the uranium ore, two other prisoners got into a fight with picks, over a stash of painkillers. They fought, and one of the prisoners' suits was punctured. Mayweather immediately applied medial attention and found that the wounded prisoner was a cyborg. She stabilised him while Ugbug and Rachel biffed the other prisoner into unconsciousness. Both prisoners were transferred to Sick Bay. Meanwhile, the asteroid hunter went to the surface of Tartarus and found that the 'meteorite debris' looked like spacecraft debris breaking up. Freddie took some samples and Huckleberry hid spacecraft's blackbox in an internal component. All of the prisoners rested after their various exertions; the next day it was clear that someone was wrong – prisoners were coughing and showing severe flu symptoms. A hypervirus had broken out into the prison. The guards had retreated into their bunker and left Mayweather, as the prison's most currently qualified medical officer, in charge of the situation. Mayweather immediately mobilised the prison's robot population to feed and care for the organic prisoners while she worked on a cure. After determining that the outbreak was the use of a military grade hypervirus, the PCs investigated the broken-up spaceship components they had salvaged, and then traced the origin of the hypervirus to the mines. Before they investigated the mines, they found that cyborg prisoner with the damaged lungs was gone! It looked like he had gone to the mines; also the point at which the first few cases of the virus had been detected. The PCs travelled down to the mines, and found that a group of deep miners had been due to return. Now, they found corpses littering the first floor of the mines. They travelled down, and questioned a hiding prisoner, who told them that the deep mining expedition was to actually recover alien artefacts beneath the mine. They went down the last level and found the geologic samples and alien artefact samples from the previous expedition. Then, they were attacked by the virus-infected prisoner. He was quite delirious and aggressive. When Freddie attempted telepathic contact with him, they found that he wanted revenge on Doctor Subotai, a brilliant biological genius, but without any thought for ethics. He had used the prisoner like a drug mule to carry hypervirus capsules into the prison – which had been sealed into the prisoner's bionic lungs. Doctor Subotai was also a prisoner, but had disguised himself upon entry. There was no telling who or where he might be in Tartarus. The PCs defeated the prisoner after a harsh battle. Huckleberry, the service robot, displayed strangely efficient assassination skills, not really in line with its designation. After the battle, Mayweather handed control of the prisoner back to the guards, the outbreak now dealt with. [/QUOTE]
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