Sun 17th Aug 2025 05:12

Speedrunning MLG

by Lucid Thursday

We are going to do some speedrunning
Axiom to Tunguska to Arcturus, gonna bring some mail with us, 15 tonnes to be exact
 
Apparently we have inspired Castor to take some action. He has also taken a liking to the Harrier DuBois
 
Castor is described as "A bit older", as in is older than Benat. Resembles a ruddier harder lived Collin Baker.
 
We get paid 75,000 credits fpr the mail in arcturus., then pick up another 25 tonnes of mail for Lemarc
 
We also get a job to deliver people to an diplomatic conference. It would take us a month, require 10 trips, and make us a bucket of money, Net 90,00. Paying High passage rates for middle passage. Lucid turns down the job, as she would be stewarding for a month straight.
 
Arrive in Lemarc, get paid 125,000, So we spend a week studying and refining fuel. As well as picking up another 5 tons of mail.
 
Lets pick up some work in Lemarc. Lucid heads to a bar with Castor, showing him how she used to drink with aiden
 
Someone comes in looking specifically for Lucid, as a member of the Harrier Dubois. A corporate looking type of guy.
 
"My company has a special lab on bolivar, and all contact has been lost, i'd like you to contact the lab and see what' going on."
 
They would like to receive the message back from someone not associated with us.
 
The lab has landing pad, problem: there might be automated defenses, and without anyone there to turn them off, we might get shot.
 
Lucid sends the lab a hail, asking for their status. They do not respond. I can tell their sensors received the signal, but no actual response.
 
The Lab is in the territory of the Sky-watch Sentinels: former members of the planetary militarized custom service that have established a dictatorship in the area.
 
Could we drop garbage and watch what it does? Only if we have powered garbage.
 
Company is neutral in civil war, placed the base in Skywatch to avoid eyes.
 
We make contact with a member of Skywatch, based on uniforms. We get to speak with a Major Sanchez. They have no clue whats up at the lab other than that they have no WMDs.
 
The corporation is called Applied Robotics "They make Robits"
 
We plan to stealth our way down to the pad, sensor on the way down, and send a party in to investigate. Peter will stay on the lab ready to punch the gas. Astrid will stay on ship?
 
"It is in our interest to keep this on the down low"
 
We go to investigate, and send the news back with some random. The guy gives Lucid a cypher and an encrypted data disc to send the news back with. Report will pay 125 K to each player character, with hazard pay to be provided depending on the details of the hazard.
 
There is no power to the automated defenses, so Lucid will not need to be focusing on the stealth while landed.
 
Lucid needs to focus on watching sensors to make sure we're not getting snuck up on, and piloting the drone. Peter starts to scrub through the radio stations to try and learn about what's happening in the war. he is paranoid that they are going to get attacked as part of the war. Lucid slaps his hand off the knob saying "Can't fucking focus"
 
Our team goes in, Zombie Castor, Normal Benat, and Kira (The robot). They find the pad to be compleyely silent. No lights are on inside. The facility seems to be locked down. No power so no communications.
 
How to get past the fence. Shooting it would take some serious finesse. Benat climbs the fence, leaving some footholds for Castor to use. They leave footholds behind on the correct side of the fence. They elect not to get distracted by lock picking the gate.
 
They enter the front door, "It's a bit of a mess, stuff all over the place. There's a distinct absence of people in the area."
 
Benat looks around and sees signs of laser scoring and flecks of blood. Hears some noises down in the basement.
 
Drone is on point, Benat next, Castor in the back.
 
Roll Stealth
 
Inside the lab there are numerous robots, appear to be putting cybernetics into corpses.
 
And theres a big ole gun strapped to a big ole robot. They have killed all the roboticists and have started installing cybernetics into it.
 
Benat recognizes the big gun bot as a basilisk bot, it can be an effective infantry platoon on its own.
 
We decided to turn tail and haul ass. They manage to spot us on the way out and send some pot shots at us.
 
Castor takes 10 points of damage on the retreat.
 
We instruct Astrid to drop as many pablanos as necessary. She drops 4.
 
The basilisk is still in okay shape, but somewhat inoperable. We decide to retrieve it. It takes up .3 tons of storage.
 
Lucid slaps a bike lock on it, trying to put it in safety mode. It is ineffective.
 
We send word back to the corporate with courier. Lab was haunted.
 
Customs agents accost us, but let us by with a brief explanation. Peter is incredibly salty about being asked why we dropped 4 pablanos on the planet.
We also ask if they had any mail we could deliver, but they have too much mail then.
 
We move onto Coblensis.