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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RisTigger" data-source="post: 6522234" data-attributes="member: 6777327">Episode 6: This Ends in FireThis session started with Elieth renaming himself to...why did he choose this name?...Maxwell Curless. We all suggested our own names though and somehow my Byzantine name got shot down. Ayen wonders what they're going to do to her and Eleith agrees to just drop her off somewhere habitable. In a bizarre thing that I forgot they could do, they dropped off that ship full of Verner's crew...yeah our mage is weird.Their first goal is to head to the Warp Gate and get the hell out of the system. So much crap has happened to them in the Muscae system they just want to leave. NOW! Before entering the customs station, they stash everything illegal in their pocket dimension...they almost threw Wilfred and Mozart in there too but decided against it.Before they can enter the gate they need to travel to the custom station and get everything squared away. They're told to exit the ship and are suddenly confronted with the muzzle of a couple rifles. Two battlepsychics tell them to get on the ground with their hands behind their heads. One of the checks the ship for any other crew members.Once that's done, the soldiers point their rifles at the group and shoots. A few of the group gets hit but they had their weapons ready and launched a counter attack, blowing the two soldiers away. The battle is really short...Once the soldiers are dead, Wilfred loots them for good stuff and finds the battlepsyches are dressed like pirates under their armor. The group suddenly hears clapping over the intercom. A mysterious voice says, "I never thought I'd see that ship again." It's FIRE.FIRE is actually pretty crazy and taunts the group with threats that everything will burn in his holy fire. He is a god after all and those two pirates were acolytes of his church. The group are unimpressed. They just say that FIRE is nobody special and they're ready to put a bullet in his brain. FIRE on the other hand is searching for a button. His last words to the group are, "You'd better run."A huge explosion rocks the small station and the group realizes he blew up the warp gate. Elieth, for whatever reason, is so pissed he almost forgets to run back into the ship as debris rips through the station. They're having trouble getting out but some debris makes a hole in the station and they luckily fly through the hole.The group has had enough! They're planning to get out of this hellish system and now! They spend some time planning out where they're going and finally decide on the Cigney system. Elieth wants to go to the Sol system but whenever he's brought it up, other people just say how horrible it is there.With a route plotted out they fly out of range of the system for new horizons. However, Mozart picks something up on the sensors. It's a ship following them. The Fire Ant, the ship owned by FIRE. He hails them on the coms and says he will not be letting them leave. If they reveal what's been going on in the system his whole plan will be undone. So he's just going to kill them.His ship is bigger and better than theirs...so Elieth asks to be paid off. FIRE is intrigued and asks for a parley.The two ships dock with each other which is a large corridor connecting the two ships together. Elieth and Wilfred decide to do all the talking. They open the door. FIRE and Spalding are right there in their faces. FIRE is amused at finally meeting Elieth. Elieth starts talking and asks how much FIRE is willing to pay for his silence. FIRE isn't willing to pay and pulls a gun on Elieth, commanding him to get in the ship. Elieth doesn't move, too pissed off by this guy to care about the threat. FIRE sighs and shoots Eleith in the foot, knocking him prone and slowing him.Sa'La casts a defense spell on the group and Vera, the groups cannon, blows a hole in FIRE's head, knocking him back into the corridor. Wilfred pulls a gun and blows through Spalding's armor.The combat was pretty short...until someone starts healing Spalding. She gets up but Wilfred just shoots her dead again. Elieth has been slowly crawling back to the ship. Wilfred then tries to take FIRE's guns since Sa'La sensed magic in them. He ends up burning his hands and awakening the dragon...literally.FIRE roars back to life and transforms into a dragon with two flaming hands that float in the air. FIRE gets his turn and breaths fire on Wilfred. He's fine but then the flaming hands clap together and a flaming zweihander forms. FIRE slashes through Wilfred, dropping him to the ground, dying. Elieth has made it to the ship but sees his friend on the ground. He's conflicted. He wants to run but...he doesn't want his friend to die...Elieth runs into the corridor and shoots at FIRE with a pistol. It doesn't do much damage but it does piss FIRE off. Elieth is staring into the eyes of a dragon, until one of those eyes is blown apart by Vera. She shoots the dragon two more times and he disappears into a pillar of flames.The group RUNS! They detach from the ship and fly off. Wilfred is healed after barely surviving his END check.Before the session ended, Elieth flops into his captains chair and enjoys a nice long rest. Vera on the other hand, feels an intense pain behind her eyes. She passes out, but wakes up in a vision. She's floating in space and sees the Crimson Star in front of the Space Butterfly.Space Butterfly"..."A mystical being that hatched from the ice giant near Diana III, the venetian home world. Since then, this cosmic creature, dubbed the Space Butterfly, has traveled the universe trying to sow peace through its powerful psychic and mystical might. Multiple religions have popped up surrounding the Space Butterfly.Suddenly, the Crimson Star explodes and Vera has the feeling that the Space Butterfly is looking at her (even though it's a formless being of energy). Inside her head, she hears the word "FIRE" repeated over and over again...CREDITS!End of Season 1[video=youtube;yymS1Pb7JfM]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yymS1Pb7JfM[/video]That's the end of what I'm dubbing the first season. It was a tough battle even though I made it easier for the group. The kid gloves are officially off and I'm not going easy on the group anymore. Next season is going to be interesting.Our characters are also going to be very different next season. I'm not going to spoil it though! So yeah, I really enjoyed the session and I think I added some story hooks into for the group. We will see what happens next season...For some mechanical stuff, we tried out the new Defense system. Honestly, I didn't really like it. It felt like my guys had MUCH too little Defense especially with the penalties thanks to SOAK. I much prefer the flat penalties we had, Light -2, Med -4, Heavy -6. That's just me though. It seems like Shields are more important now so I might have to look at that. My players agreed that DEF is now really low. It's really not that hard to get dice up to 5d6 which can hit pretty much everyone most of the time with these rules. Also, is Damage limited by your level like attack dice?</blockquote>

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