Era Ten 21 May 2023

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We cleaned up some issues in Command. Our leaders were keeping us on a short leash after the debacle in Helium Dock. Onward to Dork Star.

Hard working folk formed the colony persists but now the place has an outflow of residents and few births reported. Things worked well with great luck until odd things start happening. The inhabitants experienced temporal shifts that led to neglect and accidents. Case files list entries like, "That was not there before," and "I walked that corridor numerous times w/o a tripping hazard."

We bombed the place to show our jurisdiction, then landed and looked around.

Martian Dreams
The orbital resistance was from the diehard that thought our attack was revenuers trying to collect rent (that’s a fair assessment). Several immunes were found dead. The lone survivor mumbled something about reality morphed into simulation; alien brains have taken over the human consciousness. The count of the dead seemed to suggest that the entire population of Immunes was slain. The Taints may suffer gravely unless all Core Matrix and Robotic Centers are secured and returned to working order. We also checked that the comms and stabilized the power.

Here's your problem: Blue Cat men! Living in dream state and dreaming of anime stories that drew the players into the events. These four, King, Kong, Kung and Fu, need to be woke. Else the whole base turns into a Mecha Godzilla.

An early clue made the preliminaries routine. Now we just need to fight off Gyro Sever and Spider Syringes as we try to guess the Stygian names in order.

Climax concludes next week.





Yours,