Log for session 3 As the team regroups at the apartment, Rodworth is troubled
over the facts that they have uncovered so far with the kidnapping. Being a
veteran of Clan political infighting the facts just does not add up. The Styrigian’s ruling family is just
too ruthless to be cowed into being paying a ransom for a minor member of the
family.
Rodworth purposes that hit the university computer lab to
delve deeper into this mystery. Joseph announces
that he will state behind and keep an eye on the recovering Ke'Kremik. He will also look over the
data given to him by Quagmire on the super Dralasite project to win the Vortex
Race.
At the University,
Eusyl researches reveals that the princess Alice had disappear for a year around the time of her nieces
birth, and Rodworth announces that he suspect that the girl is really Alice’s bastard
daughter. This changes the nature of the investigation, since Alice is one of
two candidates for heir to the throne, the other heir Andrew (Excuse me if this
is incorrect, as I believe there was confusion on whether Andrew is the present
king or the son. I lost track) could have taken the child to place pressure on
his sister.
The group decided that
research all of the prince’s holdings on the planet, to find the likely
location where he would hide the child. During this research Eusyl notices that
computer room monitor had place a call on his Chromocom to persons unknown and
then snapped a pick of Eusyl, Rodworth, and Kile.
After an a brief
starring contest being Eusyl and the monitor, the team decides to leave and
check out the prince’s holding in the university dome, but before they could
leave, two sets of police officers enter the computer lab, a pair of reds and
blues police.
Both police groups
have a history of operating at cross purposes, an arrangement very likely due
to internal politics as both groups appear to support separate candidates as
heirs to the throne of Styriga. At first of Eusyl, Rodworth, and Kile hesitate
but Rodworth tell his team mates that their best bet is to casually walk toward
the pair of red officers in an attempt to bluff their way pass. If that should
fail they can attempt to fight their way through before the Blue Officers can
get to them.
Luckily for our
heroes, as they near the Red officers they motion for them to run, which causes
the Blue team to spring into action. Ordering our heroes to halt, the Blue
officers fire at Rodworth and one of the Red officers. Being hit by laser fire,
Rodworth fires back, urging the rest of team to run before reinforcement can
arrive for the Blue officers.
Our heroes manage to
get to the tram as reinforcements arrive for both the Red and Blue police and the
fire fight in the Computer lab escalates to a pitch battle between the two.
Before the tram can leave a Red police officer approaches the heroes and informed
them to call the computer in charge of the kidnap investigating.
Contacting computer
our heroes learn that the Monitor at the computer lab was working for Princess
Alice and that the Blues are still in the dark of the party identities, but
their action have stirred up a hornet’s nest which potentially can lead to
identities of the kidnapper. The Computer request that Rodworth and his
associates meet with Alice’s man servant.
Contacting Joseph to
meet up with rest of the team, they make their way to Alice’s home in the Arbor
dome. There they are met by Alice’s man servant who indicate that the team’s
action have gone further than any other group investigation, and Princess Alice
make an appearance and tells the team that a random demand has been made, and
that she would like the team to accompany her people to the ransom drop as a
set of additional eyes that can provide an outsider outlook on the situation.
The Drop off for the
Ransom is bank in one of the less savory neighborhoods in the Capitol drone. A
team of heavy armed security guard accompanies the ransom, of million credits
in god ingots arrive after the party looks over the location. As the team take
their places a an unarmed level sixth warbot rolls up to armor car and announce
that it is there to pick up the ransom.
The Warbot’ s demands
are simple, it will be allow to carry the gold ingots to the bank vault, when
completed an air car that flew above the block will land and deliver the
princess. Rodworth demands that before the Warbot can be allowed access to the
gold that they require a drop of the child blood to insure that no deception is
occurring.
The pilot of the air
car. pricks the child’s finger, causing several drops of blood to fall to the
pavement, Joseph analysis the blood confirming that it type A and that the
child is heavily sedated. The princess’s people ask to down load Joseph medical
scanner data, and confirm the child identity as Lisa Styrigi. Satisfied Rodworth
gives the go ahead for the transfer to begin after they examine the vault.
Kile notices as that
the Warbot has a power generator, which is unusually as Warbots are power via Para
batteries and sensing so kind of deception, position himself in the basement of
the vault under the bank. After insuring that there is no possible exit from
the vault, the robot is allowed to transfer the gold. As soon as the last ingot
if loaded into the vault, the robot closes the vault door and the air car attempts
to fly off with the Lisa Styrigi.
Rodworth, Eusyl and Alice’s
agents open fire on the air car, forcing it to the ground. Rodworth and Eusyl
rush to air car and pull Lisa Styrigi from the back seat as the car catches
fire. The pilot surrenders without a struggle. Joseph examines the child and concludes
that other than physically beaten and drugged there are no major injuries that
would endanger the child.
Kyle detect nothing at going on in the
basement of the bank and checks the vault monitor were he spot the robot,
moving between the piles of gold to a sink inside the vault. The robot makes a
few trips to other location in the vault, indication that retrieves other
material other than the gold.
Rodworth suspicion is
that the robot is melting the gold down and pouring it down the sink to the
sewer below. Kyles and Eusyl rush to the sewers and locate the pipe from the
sink, while it is vibrating; it is cool to the touch. Eusyl severe the pipe and
small gold sphere drops out of end of the pipe connected to the bank. The
Sphere is accompanied by additional gold sphere, and finally a black sphere of
several cm falls to Eusyl feet. Rodworth recognizes the material of the black
sphere as plutonium, since Rodworth Clan, the Shimout are mine and process
uranium to feed breeder reactors to create plutonium fuel pellets.
With that Kile and
Eusyl retreat to the surface and inform the princesses’ peoples of what is occurring
in the sewers (Why Kile or Eusyl didn’t did not palm a gold pellet or two I do
not know) and they send for a team equipped with rad suits, and Joseph and
Rodworth escort Lisa back to Alice’s estate.
Eventual after all the
gold has been processed the Warbot begins to disassembling itself, destroying
its processor and memory bank. Unfortunately the reinforcement forget to bring
Rad meter, so they are unable to track any radiation from Plutonium pellets
that may have been deliver before Eusyl cut the pipe so the kidnapper made a
clean getaway, but a large portion of the random was recovered.
Meanwhile Rodworth and
Joseph arrives at Alice’s estate, Alice’s people take charge of Lisa and Alice’s
Man servant had Rodworth a credit stick with 10,000 Styrigis. Alice approaches
Rodworth and commends him his team performance and offers them long term employment,
which Rodworth accepts. Alice informs Rodworth to return tomorrow and meet with
her man servant for details.
Meeting up at the
university dome, Rodworth shows Kile and Eusyl the credit stick, the team
process to Scooney to celebrate their good fortune, by throwing a party in
which Tronager is invited. Another day without their legs being broken by loan collectors
with the promise of gainful employment and for Rodworth a shot at the princess (Hey
a guy can dream).
Returning to their
apartment, they find that Ke'Kremik has awaken, thanking the team (paying
a lot of attention to Both Kyle and Rodworth) he ask to borrow Kyle’s Chronocom
and make a call ( Hope it was long distant) for his friends to pick him up.
It not too long that a
masked human arrives, and literally carries Ke Kremik off. Rodworth wonders if
this is either Mr Jones, or the Minotaur. And our team retires for the night….
