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Title: Out to the Black Session Log
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Description: bss's (often unedited) notes from Out to the Black sessions, for all to use.
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# Out to the Black Session Log
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## Session 04
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Victor in the brig
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off-world of Poseidon III
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talking about the communication network and relays --- delays due to space, local broadcasts vs. system
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Victor genetically engineered by Nexus Corp, kind of owned by the corp. doesn't have trackers that work in space, but he
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has a local-range tracker that is in his shoulder. might be caught up by scanners on worlds or in Nexus Corp sites. Bloy
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sets up an alarm if he sees traffic going out that (make him roll for it if it matters)
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they have data from the HarvestGen site when they were doing their "radiation checks". some incriminating evidence,
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might be a bit circumstancial, something showing the manipulation rather than the direct evidence of meddling
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large population center on Tartarus II. takes a week to get there. while they're travelling, they start denying Victor
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food and water. plan is to try to starve him and make him weaker, but they don't talk to him. trying to crack him.
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Victor knows tha the site would have been blown.
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Alex trying "to Stockholm Syndrome" Victor a bit while he's captive
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HarvestGen playing up the explosion as an accident, all lost. Alex sees if there are others out there suspecting another
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hacker group, which he finds (nat 20) --- Binary Phantom Syndicate (thanks ChatGPT) --- he will try to ingrain himself
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with the group and possibly share intel over time
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Tartarus II: terraformed moon of Tartarus, large population center. large metropolis, Cerulean Crater, is the population
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center. ocean is liquid nitrogen of some sort, not widely used for anything. Jared has been here before. trained by a
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secretive something. major output is agriculture.
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Nexus Corp will eventually recgonize the signal that Victor has, but it should be after a little bit. the party has some
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time
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they want to expose the HarvestGen/Nexus Corp stuff, two options of either hacking into a relay directly, or working
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with hackers. they are going the hacker route. Alex finds a group to work with local to Tartarus II. Jared is also aware
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of a HarvestGen site on the area.
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Alex is thinking of some sort of dead drop. the hacker group he contacts is named DataSquirt, they are interested in
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getting their name out there as executing the network hack and exposing the information. Taxion tracks the DataSquirt
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guy and know what they operate out of, just in case that's some kind of information useful later. Alex uses that
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information as an asset of sorts for them to tighten up their security
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Taxion wants to try to get some hallucinigens to mess with Victor.
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security checkpoints stop Taxion and Alex momentarily, but Jared hacks into data sources and is able "to Oracle"
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information to Taxion and Alex. ships are grounded, though, seems like they are looking for Victor, don't yet know that
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they're looking for the Nyx. Alex has a convenient excuse about some sort of nanotech, and he gets intel about where
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they could flip it and acquire it.
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Nebula Bliss is the name of the drug, Victor takes it very poorly due to the bioengineering and robot parts. he starts
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going into cardiac arrest, almost like it's a kill switch of sorts when he takes the drugs. Taxion heals Victor and
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blames Nexus Corp for the bioengineering/implant in the first place
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### Business for next time
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* Word an Arc for dealing with the Nexus Corp
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* Establish the outcome of the broadcast, which might be worth some XP
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* Filling out some backstory stuff
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* Jared
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* Victor's role
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* Double-checking everyone's sheet on the online builder
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## Session 02
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* Bloy rolls a 20 to find hidey holes and whatnot on the Nix, miscellaneous equipment and two cyphers
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* they start interrogating guys, especially Matsumura
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* Bloy has some "tradecraft"
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* pirates were basically nobodies
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* the ship needs to have its transponder hacked or something to stop showing up as the Nix
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* plan is to turn in the pirates, claim ship
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* go back to Filco, find transponder, take transponder
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* Poseidon III
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* agriculture main export
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* no civil war or anything like that
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* people on the fringe looking for new resources
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* Taxion said there was tech to acquire or profit from
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* interrogated Matsumura, he said he was hired by Nexus Corp
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* Taxion knifes him, whispers "thank you", spaces him
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* the *Nix*
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* no weapons, but hardpoints for weapons
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* pirates try to make their way out through the walls to an escape pod
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* they're trying to make their way to the helm
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* they communicate that the party was headed to Poseidon III
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* party tries to find an asteroid/etc. debris field to hide in
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* Level 5 cell created for the Nix in their downtime
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* Alex investigating the comms sent by the pirate to somewhere on Poseidon
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* Pirates have taken a liquid nitrogen refinery and made it their base
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* Poseidon III
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* as they approach, they're beaconed, they identify themselves
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* 5,000-10,000 in the colony
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* doing a week or so to get proper identification
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* Next time on Poseidon III
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* looking for corporate secret in order to get an edge over on the Nexus Corp
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* perhaps the Nexus Corp wants to weaponize something that this other corp bioengineered/whatever
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## Session 01
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Finishing up some character details, getting in space, getting a ship.
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* Taxion and Alex have a link, Taxion had a bad zero G experience
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* Alex holds a grudge against Nexus Dynamics, uncle was scared away or something
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* Bloy notices that PCs have a foe or tail
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* Someone tailing Taxion, noticed by Bloy's robot
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* Man with curly hair, on the ship
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* Interested in Taxion's stuff
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* Filing through his gear in the hold
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* Bloy's second favorite repair kit is missing
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* Asteria
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* Taxion was out in the wilderness, distress beacon, Alex picked up on it
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* Sparcely habitated
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* Flex with Taxion out of the port
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* Maybe steal some stuff from Nexus Dynamics
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* Cyphers rolled, all subtle
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* They get to the Hamaya Filco, spending from their speed pools to do so
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* Some sort of hostile action
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* Bloy 20s on hacking, gets direct access to tons of black box info on the system
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* This all happened a year ago, well beyond the lifetime of the distress beacon
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* Originated from Helios, another planet
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* Intrusion: deeper space beacon that bloy detects
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* Jeremy learns that they've stepped into a honeypot
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* Phil rolled a 1, tore suit, party took some time to bring him back
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* Nix approaching as they get back on the ship
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* Bloy rolls a 1 to try to get the Stars Alive out there fast, so they're adrift
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* Player Intrusion something in space disturbing the engines and the mag grapple that Nix is using
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* No data after the attack or nothing to record
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* Phil, in the center of the ship, hears curly haired guy
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* Pirates try to flee, but are all killed except for two who are captured
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* Curly haired guy tailing Jeremy has also been captured
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* Looks like the Nix
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