SJE/Session35
Exalted Session 35
Contact.
-5th Day of Calibration
(A more abbreviated description of events tonight- we were missing Floating Summer Orchid & Burning Brands players which was a problem as this session involved lots of diplomacy and technomagic. Still you play the hand you are dealt as Ravitsu Cail and Alana led the play)
The Exalts greet the dozens of Autochthonians, who are dressed in some sort of black rubbery suit or armour with a cowled helmet from which 3 lenses are emplaced. No actual skin can be seen and the Exalts aren’t even sure if they are human in those protective suits. They get some communication going with the leader whose broken Old Realm says “We come in pieces” and then demands “Taking your leader”. Ah, got to love botched NPC linguistic rolls!
After being scanned and poked again (the Captain has a “picture of your soul taken” by one of these invades with a hand-held box with glowy crystals and then submits a blood sample when he hears (‘cos Old Realm doesn’t have a word for DNA) its to “test breeding inter-compatibility.” The Kirk-like Captain eagerly agrees!
That’s when the Alchemicals stride out of the great mouth of the Patropolis of Ot. A 20 foot tall golden automaton introduces himself (in Old Realm) as GCU Unhesitatingly Loyal Weapon and his colleagues, the quicksilver Mk 5 Light Offensive Unit (LOU) Excessively Righteous Blossom and a Pulley class Technical Services Unit (TSU) Avid Lissome Engineer sparkly metal girl. The entity behind them is the GSV Patropolis of Ot who is seeking re-designation as GSV Is It Just Me, Or Is It ‘Ot In Here?. They are guarded by small clusters of floating metal slivers (Knife Missiles! A variable cost Artifact I designed)
The Alchemicals introduce themselves as a scientific/exploratory team from a higher order reality (Elsewhere) where due to recent difficulties, their post-scarcity economy has collapsed and they are seeking resource acquisition.
“Resource Acquisition?” queries Rav “Do you mean trading?” he says
“Whatever is most efficient” responds GCU Unhesitatingly Loyal Weapon “But we are primarily interested in higher order energy imbued matter”
“Ah….” replies Alana “The 5 Magical Materials!”
The PC’s get the impression that it was they who first mentioned trading, and not the Alchemicals. Still, the Autocthonians are not doing anything particularly hostile.
The negotiations continue as both sides seek to learn more about each other. The Autocthonians seek to grab the sun out of the sky, and the Captain has to explain, Father Ted-style the difference between ‘small’ and ‘far-away’. On the other hand, the Autochonians do surprise the Exalts with their universal translator device, a soulsteel Beamklaive and ask if the Solars are here on behalf of the Solar Deliberative.
Bringing up the Soulsteel Predator ,they discover that isolated tendencies of the Autochonian Cultural Fringe have made attempts to reach Creation before. Apparently one of the Psychopath class ROUs (supposedly demilitarised) No Sense Of Irony might fit the description of the Predator. LOU) Excessively Righteous Blossom
“Was that his name or his personality?” asks Jaq
“Both” replies GCU Unhesitatingly Loyal Weapon with a significant look at LOU Excessively Righteous Blossom.
Eventually the Autochonians ask for some help in establishing a forward base for 10-20,000 men. None of the Exalts want them anywhere near civilisation, just in case they get annexation ideas, so after lots of debating, Rav leads them to the foothills of the South West mountains next to the Fount of Mourning and Silent Crescent.
Arriving on floating skimmers the size of large tables, the Autocthonians efficiently begin sighting the place with lenses and rods and soon start spreading this black shiny waterproof material all over the grass and earth. Quickly a great rubbery black dome is raised up. Jaq asks to go inside but is warned that due to quarantine issues, he will have to be decontaminated by being flash heated several hundred degrees. Will that be a problem for him?
“On second thoughts…” replies Jaq. At this point, the Exalts have still to see a single Autochtonian outside of a suit….
The base-building continues and in the spirit of future trade and relations it is named by Rav the ‘Valley of Cordial Relations’. Leaving Brand behind to act as liason, the others decide to go report back to GemSJE/Cult of the IlluminatedSJE/Lytek as appropriate .
Still they are all still worried about the Autochonians off-hand mention of seeking permanent habitats for a million citizens (which would be the equivalent to 10% of the total population of the South!) and talks of 10-20,000 Alchemicals…
If they hope to nip this problem in the bud, Rav figures it should be soon, if only they could sneak into the head of the GSV Patropolis of Ot and cut the link between their realities…
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