October 05, 2025

Hook

Red Hawk Operations | Weeks 1-13

Plot Synopsis

[Week 1-2] - The Heart of Saturn.
- Party was gathered by an organization called the Red Hawk Brotherhood with the intent of doing a few jobs which party agreed to do in secret.
- Party invaded a manor on the Forgotten Archipelago owned by Mafia Boss Geno Lucche with the goal of obtaining an artifact in the basement called the Heart of Saturn
- Party successfully retrieved the Heart of Saturn and returned it to the Red Hawks after investigating it with Steak Sauce and finding it had bizarre, healing properties.

[Weeks 3-4] - Filthy Mercs.
- Party is sent by the Red Hawks on a new mission: Infiltrate an outpost on an island called Cowskull Bay to rescue captive Red Hawk scouts held by a group called the Fist of Neptune, a mercenary organization with no actual association to the god or church.
- Party raided the compound and secured all but one of the captives, killing the other Fist of Neptune members present and destroying the Magitech Engine which powered the outpost.
- Party returned to the Red Hawks successfully.

[Weeks 5-6] - Uncontrolled Life.
- Party is sent by the Red Hawks to investigate a cult on one of the islands. Upon doing so, they find the denizens of the island are a mix of mad cultists being controlled by the few sane which remain.
- Underneath the cult compound is a strange creature, the Alpha Homunculus, a creature which seems to be feeding off the energy of a copy of the Heart of Saturn, using its hyperregenerative abilities to overgrow its natural form into a disturbed state.
- Party slays the creature and rescues Red Hawk Scouts remaining on the island.

[Weeks 7-8] - Supply Run.
- Party is sent by the Red Hawks to ambush a supply shipment being run across an island by the Fist of Neptune via railway.
- The party encounters several highly advanced technological menaces. In particular, the train's protector: Madbull Mk II and its main gun: Peregrine Automatic Mk IV.
- The train is eventually cleared after a slow push forward through hostile forces and the train's main engine is rigged to explode. With less than a minute to spare, the train crashes into the Fist of Neptune supply depot, obliterating it.

[Week 9] - Fourman.
- Party is sent by the Red Hawks to investigate a strange island in the middle of the Forgotten Archipelago: Fourside Island.
- Upon climbing one of the island's four, steep cliffs, they encounter a single entity resting beneath a tree: Fourman.
- Fourman, a man shaped like the number four, battles party, and is destroyed, turning into the number four after his defeat.
- Tamarind's summon, Haru Urara, picks up the number four.

[Weeks 10-11] - The Laboratory.
- Party is sent by the Red Hawks to raid another cult compound.
- Party infiltrates into the basement by pretending to be cult members where they find, release, and slay another monstrosity, the Beta Homunculus.
- The party raids a meeting room where the entire operation is found to be being manned by a powerful demon named Jerry who seems intent on regrowing his body after it was destroyed using the heart of Saturn. The homunculi which have been created prior were just failed experiments, but soon Jerry will revive a new body far more powerful than before.

[Week 12] - Death from Above.
- Party is tasked by the Red Hawks to destroy Jerry's new body before it grows out of control, revealing that the Red Hawk submersible vessel is also capable of flight.
- The party flies high over a lone island on the Forgotten Archipelago where scouts have found Jerry's new form, the Gamma Homunculus, growing in secret.
- Party decides not to approach directly, and instead opts to create an effective airstrike by utilizing metacreativity at 15,000 feet in the air to drop a tungsten rod on the still-growing body of Jerry.
- This strategy proves useful. The Gamma Homunculus, its growing facility, and most of the island, are seemingly obliterated in the blast.
- Several cloned Hearts of Saturn are destroyed in the explosion, and the intense infernal energies emanating off them swirl together to create a portal to the Beneath.
- Jerry taunts from behind the portal, seemingly having partially escaped the blast to reform in the Beneath.

[Week 13] - Death from Below.
- Party doesn't hesitate to immediately jump into the portal.
- Party raids the Beneath and Orucan offers Jerry a steak which Jerry reluctantly enjoys. Though it's laced with demonslayer ore, this doesn't seem to effect him.
- The party, utilizing demonslayer weapons provided by the Red Hawks, battle Jerry.
- Jerry, near defeat, is offered an alternative by Hierophant, wherein he takes over the body of a hamster. Jerry, seeing this as an opportunity to save his immortal soul, possesses the hamster.
- Jerry is presumed dead by the Red Hawks, and now takes the form of a hamster which Hierophant keeps around.

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