An eclipse phase podcast

[Aerozord]

My group recorded our last session, here is part one

Abit of backstory so you have an idea of what they have been up to. Keep in mind I'm only giving very basic summary of the major points in the game from the players perspective.

A powerful mafia boss has them travel to Earth to retreive something for him. Only one made it back with his cortical stack, however he keeps that to himself. In return the boss offers them a single favor. Upon leaving they are attacked by a mass of living metal that appears to be hunting them down.

The group is asked by some argonauts to investigate an anomaly within the sun, discovering it is a device primed to fire a coronal mass at Mars resulting in the true death of millions. Following some clues they travel through a pandora gate where they discover the mastermind Heinrick, a member of the lost generation like our player character Elonia. In fact they share a sorted history. Heinrick sets himself up quickly as a clever psychic and dedicated psychopath that loves spreading death. He offers to tell them how to stop the device in exchange for alpha forks of all them. The group agrees and stops the device.

Of course their first thought is hunting down the man with the copies of their egos. This brings them to a scum barge and eventually a device. The players discover they had been playing a simulation to predict their next move. Also including several simulations of ways he could have killed them. Just so they remember they only survived because he let them. They also learn of his skills as a psychosurgeon. Instead of removing the memories of their deaths he simply isolated them. Thus merging with the forks would risk memory cascade.

They call in their favor and obtain a ship of their own to travel in

On the way to their next mission they come across a mysterious diamond. When someone offers to buy it they accept. I mentioned it in detail here. Short version, they were driven mad attempting to stop the summoning of an old god. They succeeded. Wanting some time to rest they go to the moon (Luna).

There they find an alien artifact that appeared to be their equivalent of an internet forum with gate addresses to multiple planets. Heinrick contacts them, wishing to exchange information. During the meeting they do trade minor bits of information, a few gate addresses, and Heinrick reveals that while digging through Shwartz (one of the PCs) ego he found some blocked memories. About this time their Muses inform them that the place holding their back-ups was attacked. Soon after the T-1000 joins Heinrick in a fight against the group and they flee. Shwartz sharing that it was after him, but his past is a blank so he doesn't know why.

They decide to begin exploring the gate addresses. Learning a civilization built some device to work with their gates. They are trying to figure out what it could be.

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If anyone found it interesting please let me know so I know if I should post part 2