Session started at 2:21 pm on 4/1/06
Attending players: Mike, James, Eva, John, Nate
Presiding GM: Curtis
Major NPC's: the Caretaker, Eddie (sort of), Merlin Huntington, Matt's Mom
(For a while we discuss the subject of handcuffs and how our characters feel about them.)
(Vadril feels the Caretaker focus a small fraction of its attention on him while it is mostly focused on the ship. Unfortunately, the Caretaker seems to want to know about what's going on and what Eddie is. Vadril tries to convey how the current situation has given him inspiration into the AI problem he has been trying to solve. The Caretaker seems to agree with him and suddenly Vadril can see a whole other pathway through Eddie back to the Caretaker. The Caretaker explains to Vadril that his body has been destroyed by the Void, but if he choses he can return to the Caretaker and he will be restored.)
"Oh... Do I need fingers?"
~ Vadril(Eddie is apparently very very upset, because the Caretaker has discovered him. The Caretaker says that they will need to use Eddie to drive the great machine, and that Eddie will need to be modified. Neither Vadril nor Eddie are very happy with this idea. Eddie engages his star-drive and flees. The connection to the Caretaker becomes more tenuous but remains open.)
"It's like your connection goes from T3 to dial up."
~ Curtis, about Vadril's contact with the Caretaker(Vadril is trying to find some way they can be prepared for the completion of the great machine and not utterly destroy someone who has trusted him. Overall it is not looking good for Eddie.)
("I can't save state Eddie?"
~ Mike)The doctor has sent me an email saying that the Caretaker has decided that "modifying" Eddie's mind to use him in the great machine is the only way to meet the deadline for the ritual. Nasty. Eddie is apparently terrified. At the very least we should try to calm him down a bit.
Since nothing else is immediately pressing on me, I try to convince Eddie to calm down and that we will do our best to make what is happening the minimal amount of terrible. I am not sure if I am helping at all, but hopefully I will get through to him eventually.
(Meanwhile, Max and Merlin discuss the crown and Bryant. Max has stopped Bryant's growth for now, so the danger is not immediate. After a while, they come to the conclusion that Harry's only real hope is if they could find the Ambrosia.)
One of the pixies healed Ti-Lung fortunately, so he has woken up. We all seem to be okay for now. Matt wants to know what happened to Cassenti. It seems likely to me that she died, but Ti-Lung is convinced that she is not dead. He is not sure how she was saved.
Matt's mom is going to go find an android to jump out of in a safer place and we seem to have decided to head to another nearby city that is not in chaos.
(Meanwhile, in a warehouse on the other side of Luna... Merlin uses the crown and examines the remains of Bryant's mind. He estimates that it would take months or years to fix the damage that the occultem lapidem did. For the moment, Bryant is not a danger, since the crown can keep him quiescent. The situation still needs dealing with though. Matt and Vadril spend a little bit of time trying to discover who owns this warehouse. They follow it up through a chain of companies, but do not find anything definitive. It seems likely that it might indirectly belong to Bryant.)
Because the cities on Luna are in immense pressurized domes, we will have to take a bullet train to reach another city. The when we arrive the station is closed because of the damage from the riot. So getting to another city will be difficult at best. We can not seem to come to a consensus on where it would be safe to hide.
Since we can not figure anything better than going to Matt's apartment, we head there. It will be good to get some rest. While I watch, Matt rigs up a complex mechanism that will drop a frying pan full of metal nails on to whoever opens the front door. Heh.
I bed down and catch some sleep behind Matt's couch.
(The session continued on from here but Rae was NPCed by Curtis.)