More on the Tarsa Setting can be found on the Tarsa Backround Post.
Players: Lee – Logan – Kantorian master of matter manipulation.
Mike – Pythos – Former military cybernetic being with mercenary tendencies.
Shawn – Sycrom – The most intelligent dense person (like really really tough to hurt) you’ll ever meet.
Logan decides to make a quick (several hours) journey to the Pythorian to see if he can dig up any additional information, while Sy cools his heels in the local Big House. Turns out Mero 10 is not big on separating the accused from the convicted when waiting for trial!
Sy spends his time chatting up the other inmates and making notes on the warden. He finds two very interesting things. First, the warden is making money off of holding people in jail regardless of their crime. And second, Pythos was seen in this very jail AFTER he was supposedly incinerated in the Hopper House.
Logan finds nothing of value on the Pythorian that was hidden in an abandoned military complex on Drakos (Mero 9) and returns to Mero 10.
Sy was brutally tortured in some hidden facility (but of course it didn’t hurt him at all and oddly, they asked no questions). When Logan returns, Sy fills him in on what’s going on so Logan uses his matter control to enter the jail. He did a great job on being stealthy, but the guards did a better job of looking for trouble! Logan and Sy hatch a plan to free all the prisoners and then find the secret entrance. After the prisoners get free, Logan decides not to go hunting for the location and just opens a hole in the ground to try and find it.
Sure enough they find a maze of tunnels under the jail and Logan quickly leaves Sy in the dark only to stumble across a hive of spiders that quickly web him up! Sy goes as fast as he can to find him and does just in time for Logan to break free. Meanwhile the jail guards have come down to the caverns looking for the escapees. Sy heroically kills two of the spiders before getting wrapped up himself – at which point Sy has a sudden realization that the glue guns and the no-question torture really indicate that his arch enemies the Overminds may be behind this whole set of circumstances and Py was only bait! Logan who is now facing four guards, emulates a godlike posture and causes everyone around him to be shaken!
Just then, three meganauts and an Overmind enter the room where Sy is held by webs and Sy suddenly realizes his worst fears are true! Logan, thinking quickly fires his blaster full blast at Sy, shredding the webbing in time for Sy to get a shot at the Overmind causing three wounds! He quickly ducks back into the room with the well, and jumps in telling Logan to run for it! Logan gets shot for two wounds but quickly follows Sy using his matter control to make a bubble of air as they narrowly escape the trap!
They wash up some ways down the underground river into another set of caverns where Sy and Logan heal Logan’s wounds and they begin to plan how they can save their friend from Sy’s worst enemies!