101-1103 – Sakaliin
The six Travellers awoke from cold sleep to a voice – one clearly intended to be reassuring – informing them that their spaceship was badly damaged across multiple systems and that they had to exit immediately. They had almost no memory: who they were, how they got there, more than a vague memory of each other… nothing.
Worse, on exiting the cold berths, they discovered that the ship was flooding with cold, fresh water from somewhere aft, and they could hear cracking, creaking sounds as the hull adapted to the increasing pressure of water.
Investigating their surroundings, they found a container for 20 vials of some sort of drug, with only eight remaining. Doctor Vanderpool investigated and managed to glean from the hand-written label that these were organic in nature, potentially psychoactive and definitely not standard protocol for cold berth use.
By now, Rosa Perre was recollecting not just her name but that she didn’t normally have an itching, burning sensation between her collar bones, just below neck level. Asking the others, she found out that she had the word “SNITCH” laser-burned into her skin. She also had a note in her pocket, which read “You don’t remember right now but you once had a better life, and you never will again. I did this to you and your friends. You deserved it.”
On leaving the cold berth chamber, the group found a body, face down in the water having been shot, execution-style, in the back of the head, with a stream of blood and water heading down into the cargo hold next to it.
Moving into the galley, the group gathered some kitchen knives and attempted to open the ship’s locker, but it was secured.
At this point, another survivor appeared, unable to even remember her name and barely capable of standing up at first. Later, they would find out that her name was Anson Koblienz.
Travis Drevil briefly checked the other cold berth chamber, finding that it contained six more pods, three empty, two containing dead people. A couple of the berths lay collapsed on the ground, damaged by the crash.
Next, the party moved to the bridge, which had suffered damage in the crash, with signs of a substantial fire and a discarded extinguisher, bloodstains on the floor, and an open emergency locker which had shed contents onto the floor. Searching what remained, the party found firearms and a little ammo, along with a passkey.
Returning to the ship’s locker, the party used the passkey to open it. At this point, they were attacked by what looked like another survivor, who was foaming at the mouth, shouting and raging and waving a wrench. Caught by surprise, the party struggled to deal with this sudden attack, but Vanderpool and Anson managed to both shoot and beat him unconscious, and he was left lying face down in the water.
The locker was, like most ships’ lockers, a mess of old parts and anything else that didn’t fit somewhere else on the ship, but it also contained the standard set of vacc suits and more weaponry, and the party donned those.
At this point, two more survivors made their way aft, drawn by the sound of the fight.
After searching the cargo hold, and finding mining equipment belonging to Sternmore Minerals and a crate ripped open by an explosion, the party started looking for exits. Finding the main airlock underwater, they made their way to the rear maintenance hatch, and were able to clamber up onto the roof of the ship, finding themselves afloat in a small lake amidst a dreary landscape
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