September 05, 2026

Hook

[Intro COTSS] Solar Raiders S2

Plot Synopsis

The party entered the main chamber of the crypt where the artifact was located. They faced heavy resistance from the crypts guardians, a group of five myrmeke, and the three arachnis. The party seized initiative and proceeded to dispatch one of the guardians instantly. Princess of the Night seeing this decided to help the best she could and blinded one of the arachnis. The guardians retaliate with one of the blinded arachnis spraying acid over the party twice, forcing some party members unconscious, and the ants move in to try and dispatch the remaining members of the party. Francis valiantly tried to keep his team up, but the myrmeke seized an opportunity and gravely wounded Francis, making him fall unconscious. Only Gimble, and Rupert remained standing. Rupert having seized the artifact realized what had occurred to his team through a rock against the wall with such force that it managed to daze all of the guardians. Gimble healed Eris, and Eris summoned their spirit guard. The spirit guard proceeded to distract some of the guardians. Eventually Francis was healed and unloaded two powerful shots, killing two of the myrmeke. He then once again empowered his teammates. Gimble, seeing his teammates alive and well, felt nothing but immense rage towards the guardians, and proceeded to kill two myrmeke, atomizing one of them, erasing any trace of it ever existing. Francis kept his teammates alive and well, Bombardilo Corcodilo attempted to remove the spiders, but missed with their grenade and the spider threw back into the party. Rupert, seeing this, threw his dagger at one of the spiders and critically injured it causing it to die instantly. With only one arachnis remaining the party quickly dispatched it.

The party regrouped and stabilized themselves, healing some energies. Unfortunately in the chaos of the battle Johanna, one of the children, was killed and turned to ash. Rupert scooped up the ashes of her so that her family may at least bury her in some way. When they returned to the main chamber they met Jericho where he asked where his sister was. Party first tried to rage bait him into thinking his sister never came with them. Then Rupert walked up and placed his hand on Jericho’s shoulder, dropped the bag of ashes into his hands and said that’s your sister. Jericho, emotionally distraught, broke down and threw the “dud” that Johanna had dropped, then proceeded to run out of the chamber. The party did not realize that the grenade did have a shorter fuse than when it was initially dropped. The grenade goes off, and all of the party but Francis go down. The blast also destabilized a nearby pillar causing a large 30’ diameter boulder to begin rolling down the tunnel. Seeing this Francis proceeded to activate his exoskeleton, and stopped the boulder on his own. He then picked up the party, carried them out of the cave, loaded them in the dune buggy, and healed them. The party then returned to the outpost where they were initially hired. They met Albert’s colleague Indiana Jones, and he took the key from them and placed it in the museum to be displayed for all to see. As the party was dispersing a man in a hood walked up to Francis and took his head, and ran away proclaiming that he had reclaimed his lost property, with Francis’s main body racing after the hooded man. The party was then paid and left to find new jobs.

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