Silas Alerson

After finally waking up, Ildris is asleep and....we kinda need him to get out of here as far as I know. I thought I could use my holo disk with that new cypher function to learn something new, but aside from learning that this is a Mk13 which is....interesting in itself. 13 iterations of this Drift wind, was this the only one made? Was it improved upon or did they just make 12 versions they decided not to produce?   Screens have started flickering to.....a boat wreckage...but, it's weird. It has the BRN's logo on it too! Now we've got mirror games going on, some weird......THING that's here but not really here, and learning more about Lux's background now from when she got started in her Pop Idle career. The past coming back to bite her in the ass maybe? So now ontop of a Crazy super advanced cyborg hunting us, we might also be dealing with some....kid whose also a changeling, and using some weird kinda....projection magic to get to Lux? No, holy shit....Lux just admitted that she's only been Lux for 7 years! This KitKat is in her early 20's, and if she's only been "Lux Silvers" for 7 years.....who was she before? Holy shit, this just got better than any TV show I've watched before!   Now we've got news that Echo dug up about Prison breaks....outstanding....   Opeartion Ghost Protocal from the late 9840's.....well damn. Out of Jax's motorcycle. And.....holy shit, Jaxian's secrets are all up here. His peoples are there too in these files. Holy shit. This is a great day for information gathering, but this is kinda a   really big wrench into his life, not to mention that his family has been dead for.....at least a century. Now this is enough to shake up anyone's beliefs, especially a Paladin. One hell of a demotion though, from Captain to Sergeant! I'm sure that burns a little bit too. I, no WE need answers now moving forward. First we need to figure out what this boat wreckage is, then we need to figure out why there are these prison breaks happening. Enough of worrying about peoples secrets, we're all allowed to have them, it's time to get back to saving the world! Or at least....trying to figure out what the hells we need to do next. As it stands the Drift Wind is the only real weapon we have that can hurt the Gazelle. We'll need to dig further into what else the BRN has developed, and see what else Z3ro can give us to fight against him. Stopping the Derimetreu may be our primary goal, but that won't mean anything if we can't stop The Gazelle.   Jub over here getting drunk and flirting with Jax, heh heh. this will be good. Didn't expect her to be the one to give Jax a motivational Speech! One that seemed to work no less, hell yeah! I like drunk Jax. Damn these kids can drink these days... She's right though, Sanctuary Inc. needs to make some Priorities and get to problem solving! Although she seems to want to reach out to Sanctuary herself which....well anyway...   Priority 1: What can hurt the Gazelle? And where we do get that, whatever "that" is. Priority 2: Investigate this weird boat wreck.... Priority 3: Who THE HELLS is Z3r0?

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A second ring has appeared on my holo disk.....more of that language, but its also layered with our language overtop of it....a cypher! Its displayed...."Driftwind"....the name of this....whatever this dragon thing is. As we pile inside we find more seats, no....stations! Used the holo disk new cypher function. 2 seats that handle the front facing weapons, and the adjacent seats handle the wing mounted weapons. The 2 rear seats are the defensive stations that handle the shields. The "Keepers" are piloting the craft. Even Echo can't identify what this thing is made of. As far as I recall the Keepers weren't exactly.....warmongers.   Working with Echo to document what each system does. We have the shields, sides, front, and rear weapon and defensive systems. This thing is.....advanced....waaaaay too advanced. Echo and I found something that gives feed back while maneuvering the shields....something being indicated in the NNW direction.....and something is heading our way. Well I THOUGHT that meant to head that way, but now i feel like something is heading towards us from THAT way....Ildris got us FAR away from that space, holy shit this place is quick!     Taking some time to learn my controls, preparing to face whatever the hell this is chasing us. Z3ro? Gazzell? Some new unknown entity?! Nope....just the Gazelle again.....great. I hate this guy...Slapped him around and blasted him some....we tossed him in the ocean (Sorry Denna....) and booking it out of here. We'll want more practice before we try and face off with him again in this thing, now is not the time for this. Off we go to make landfall and hide this damn cube. We're still not prepared to face The Gazzell yet.   The was pretty cool......    

We've arrived, and wouldn't you bloody well know it....there's already people here. They're taking pot shots at us now too, and I can't have that. So as the ol Children's story say...."OFF WITH THEIR HEADS!"   That was a rough fight....one got away damn it. Going back and searching the bodies of the others, they had Black Axel Tech.....and what seems like BRN firepower. 3 Holo discs that were blacked out. 3!! Where did they get these from......WHO did they get them from?! They even managed to translate some of Z3ro's messages. They're trying to decrypt our stuff. All this tech from everywhere. Had to be Black Market augments.....and for them to have 3 discs they must have gotten the drop on other agents....and they're going for MY prize. We'll take the moment to regroup, and the pursue the last one that got away from us. They will pay, they will die, but first.....the bunker.....   Ildris has found....something from the second iteration, and even says its his! What on earth is Z3ro hiding here? It's also covered in those odd runes that Z3ro had used before as well. Which means it's probably linked to the Keepers....right? Wait....what THE HELL is THAT?! Rising from the bunker is......um.....a...Mechanical Dragon VTOL craft?! Wait....If Ildris says this is his, then this all but confirms my earlier suspicions that Z3ro is somehow connected to these Keepers. The runes, the foresight into events happening, and now even this.   Z3ro.....what else are you hiding from me? It's time I find out....

Beginning our Journey to the Ash Site, Jax seems to want to Pilot the Cindercleft. Ran into a problem of needing to go through another bombed city. Weather is going to be bad, we'll need to go through it but burn through our mana tanks to get through so figuring out where we can syphon more mana to keep us going through this whole thing.   What the hells is going on with this armor! Either Jax is trying to kill us, or his Superiors are VERY not happy with him. either way, it's gone now and we've got a naked and afraid Soldier. Hearing the shouting from the bathroom, it's clear his people are not happy with him, and he's not happy with them. We'll have to find him some new kit to wear. Pretty sure I've got something he can use.   The group doesn't seem to agree on what to do. They're split when the obvious answer is to just let Jax meet up. We're completely split. The Civilians just don't understand, they're scared.....understandably. Xhoya, especially. Poor kid, she has her own worries over getting people off Jax's back. She seems to want to just disappear. She doesn't seem to understand, Lux doesn't seem to understand. I can understand their fear, but they just don't get it. took a heck of an amount of convincing but the group is definably split but it'll do for now. they'll come in understand what it means to make the tough decisions regardless of the risk involved.   Hopfully Kii can help calm Xhoya's worries that even if it seems like we're making...."great" decisions, that we're doing whats best for the sake of our team, and the world.   Finally at this check point.....seems the entire BRN team here has been executed. From a pretty decent bit before we got here. This screams ambush to me, which confirms to me that the message coming the open seas just not making sense for the BRN to be out there. Much like the Black Axel our chain of command is probably as broken as theirs. I've had Z3r0 give me enough to believe i can still trust him.....will the BRN give Jax enough to keep him in their trust?   This checkpoint is fucked, good thing we didn't go to the actual point they wanted us to go too, would have walked into an obvious ambush. For now we'll have to move forward to our original plans to head to my designated Ash Site. I'm hoping Jax hasn't given too much of our current plans away, that would make things....difficult. I'll have to trust him enough to not betray us. He knows whats at stake here. They'll all have to learn whats at stake here....   After a while leaving my new disk starts to give me an indicator to our spot at the Ash site. B-Yu has been given the updated Coordinates. I've updated Gidgit and Echo of the updated course, and we're on our way. As we approach Emergency Services are in Opeartion outside the city doing what they can to take care of the civilians that haven't yet fleed ground zero.   The Team may Fracture, but mending those wounds will make us stronger.   And....Z3ro wants me to head straight to.....ground zero....we'll see what awaits us there. Hopfully some proper Hazmat suits!   Bring the cube, it'll keep you safe.....interesting. What has Zero got waiting for me here to pick up? We'll have to bring this.....rotating set of cubes into wherever   There's something flat beneth us, there's another team of people here that....seem to also be here looking for what I can only guess is what I'm looking for. Now....they seem to know exactly what they're looking for....lets go have a chat....

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There's a lot of stuff here, ores of various types and purposes. Can find some use for this Umbrosine, but otherwise we've spent far too much time sitting around scouring these ores and ingots. We'll have to make room for it all inside the cindercleft, but some of what they're grabbing is useful for sure. Will make finding a perch to sleep on a lot easier to find for later. Obtained: 30 lbs of Phantom Iron (A hand full of raw material) 2x pucks of Umbrosine (30lbs/ea)   Lux just admitted that she has Lycanthrope in her bloodline, an old bloodline no less.   Oh...oh gods. Iona bless me with the knowledge on who and what this person is....FunkMoo? I......want nothing to do with this guy. He's a bit much....to be plain. Keeps talking about how amazing his "Pa" and "Ma" are/was. Music from.....no where, and what appeared to be "Thunderclap" to clear out the parking lot. Yet he has no blast can. There is more to this guy than meets the eye, we'll have to ask about his origin.....who are his parents he speaks so highly of?

Well aside from Kii seeming like she hasn't taken care of herself for.....months.....over just one night Everyone seems....Inspired . Good, It's been a rough couple weeks for those not...."Hardening the spirit against doom and despair". We found Jub again in the Security office. As well as signs of some....naked Afro dancing person out and about seemingly at night checking out the doors and windows of the school. For as young as she is she seems pretty ok considering everything that's happened, but i guess those are the perks of being young! She hasn't yet truly witnessed the horrors people are capable of. I'll unfortunately have to break that window into the world for her, she has potential and the Cartel is...scattered. It'd be a waste to not recruit someone with such RAW potential.   Exploring the rest of the school we've found all kinds of stuff laying around still. Particularly this...sound amplifying orb that I believe can be used to create something a little more.....practical, as this doesn't have some kinda....."off" switch". I have an idea I'll need to run by Echo and Gidjit, might be able to make a very useful tool out of this. Some brass plates that Xhoya said are templates for various spells which she'll likely find useful. Leave it to a school to be abandoned and still have fonts of knowledge left over for anyone passing through.   Time to go treasure hunting, so far it seems like we've all found some pretty interesting things to take along with us to aid us in our Mission.   Well.....we found something pretty interesting. the Keepers don't seem happy about it at all. This wooden box used to be a Keeper? She keeps calling it an abomination. Something about it being a dead Keeper that......is....alive? Wild stuff.....clearly very personal to Kii, if this is what became of the Keepers before her then there must have been a reason for it. Nothing good I'm sure, but it is yet another puzzle piece.

Didn't think we'd actually fall under attack at the college, but here we are. Always expect the unexpected I guess. We'll have to get the Idol's hand fixed. Ildris has managed to figure out what's going on with these Blast Cans, and the poison behind it. Not the greatest of news but it's something more towards solving a mystery that will hopefully lead towards some answers of using magic unhindered and naturally. We do have a hostage now however, we'll have to interrogate him.   However before that I ran ahead to the Med Ward to see if we had anything to repair the idol's fingers. Met Jul, who almost shot me in the back. Panicking kids....I swear. Put them to use, gathering more supplies for us. For sure more surgical gear than we had before. Should set us up pretty nicely moving forward in our travels. Kii has to work on calming down Lux while we help mend her hand, she's practically feral! You'd think that by this point I'd be used to working with.....non professionals but it seems like it'll take a bit more time to really get used to it. I'll make a support team out of them yet though.   Playing surgeon here with Kii, but this will be useful information to learn moving forward. While I have basic trauma training this advanced stuff will come in handy for sure. Can probably give a copy of it to Echo for his own records and give him some additional skills. Would have proven useful if he had been around for the surgery but we made it work. Lux doesn't seem the happiest but hey at least her hand is together.   Gathered some Medical supplies with Jul, and stocked up on what we could fit. I doubt the others, minus Jax know that this will not be the last time we'll need use of this knowledge and skillset.

The BRN is being activated, not surprised. The Cartel is likely doing the same thing. It'll be hard but I'll have to reach out to HQ to see if we can secure Travel Visas and form some form of Joint Investigation Unit with the BRN to get to the heart of this.   I do wonder why those cities were picked as targets. Strategic targets? Industry specific targets? Any signs of (ICBMs?) being launched? Pre Planted bombs would be likely considering who we're dealing with. - Note: Communications with BAC in general are totally down.....my original message pops back into my head....   "• Disregard any orders or messages from HQ. • HQ is no longer operational. • The compromise includes falsified identity signals – do not follow any voice, face, or badge claiming core authority. • Immediately initiate Scatter Protocol. Return to designated fallback points (“Ash Sites”). • A secure extraction and relay will be delivered soon via Driftwind Drop (encrypted beacon to follow). • To confirm a safe relay, listen for Signal 66.Λ under the phrase “Nightshade.” Trust only code-verified field transmissions. Z3r0 is alive. Z3r0 is watching. Burn this message. Do not respond. Do not return to the Tree."   I'm heading to the nearest Ash Site now....I need Answers now. Z3ro knew this was going to happen, there's no way him calling these places "Ash Sites" and these cities being reduced to literal Ash AND being a fall back point is coincidence.   Deremitriu has made their announcement....they've started their moves and made their intentions known.   Gave some direction to the team, Website and social media has been started. I'll do what I can to help encrypt their stuff. We'll have our hands full for a while but we need to get our propaganda started and head towards the Ash Site. The sooner the better.     Xhoya got ahold of Z3rO....holy shit! New direction given directly from the man himself. The Military cannot be trusted. The Safe House is.....different. This is a sweet way to upgrade a place. Code to "Erase from perception". A powerful tool with the help of Idris. Things suddenly got interesting, and gives us a very powerful way to fight back.   We prepare the Cindercleft while we await my package....and then we move.   Create a board, list all of our possibilities as we travel and get hints and answers. Narrow things down.

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Gave Echo access to the basic armory. Let him do some work on his pistol, and access to take one of those fancy Lever Action rifles. Told him that as long as he gives me a list of what he's taking and using I can make sure to put in a Re Stock request when I need too.   Early morning and Xhoya starts screaming! Brilliant child thinks she's figured something out with the cube and we can start working on possibly work on replicating a cube with a similar signature. Got Echo to start working together with the kid, between them and getting gidgit working on this project I think we're in good hands to kick start this project. Will have to wait and see what they came up with.

This place is a bigger mess than I thought. Destroyed Droids everywhere! We managed to get to Gidgit, she's ok. Took out a couple of wild looking machinations, and even....a cannon on legs...Man I love this revolver! Complements to the R&D team for this magnificent piece of equipment. Jaxion managed to find and save a couple of his people, sent them out the way we came knowing it was safe. Apparently there were more survivors somewhere else in the base, we eventually found them in some hidden data center of some sort. With Gidgit telling me about some..."Ghost" person popping in and out we split up. Jaxion, Echo, and Gidgit went down to check on the survivors. The rest of us stayed up top to make sure the escape route stayed safe.   Spent half the day on rescue efforts, getting the injured taken care of and back into town, the ambulatory casualties rode in the Cindercleft, and the few of the bodies of those who didn't make it. were left outside of town for the time being. the BRN Reps will handle the rest. I need to head back to the safe house and report whats happened so far.

"Ash Sites" have begin to populate, once we figure out how to get out of here we can RZ with our new guests and begin to move. Manual override?   "Sergeant" Jaxion, Lux the pop star, and......Echo have arrived. The Doctor isn't here....The silver haired Elf is with them. I was told to expect all of them...but they're short the Doctor. What happened to him?   "Gambit" is part of a group of the "Vox Ultima" candidates....needs our help bringing in a fugitive. The Gazelle.....The Vox contracted BAC to bring him in. Gambit knows something more.   Lux Silver, the freaking pop ideal has THE cube. Oh boy....   The Gazzell has one of the cubes built into him now. 1 of 3. Explains how he managed to do what he did.   The Deremitru ( a cult), have been by group consent considered to be behind all of this. Probably also behind trying to pit the BAC and the BRN against one another......why not the Coalition? Why are they not a piece of this puzzle? Does it matter? (*)   Guess we'll just enjoy some time at the local festival while we can, let everyone relax before Jaxion and I railroad the group to where we need to go.....(*)

Settling into the safe house, set down the "Don't touch" rules and went to bed. It's been a long week and it's safe enough here. Need to wait for the others to arrive. BaC already declares war?! Blackbox must have been tampered with. Oh, speak of the devil......"G" has dropped off the black box.....time to go through the data and see what's going on and how the newspaper said the blackbox recording says the BRN tampered with it. Blackbox data doesn't match, Need to figure out whats going on with this.   Elf youth dropped off the package, obviously paid to deliver it by Gazzelle agent, possibly The Gazzelle himself. how does he know where this safe house is? Need to report this to HQ, see what's going on. Information sent off to ZeR0. Xoya and the "Princess" are talking about Spirits? Moons?   No ones answering, this hasn't happened before. What's going on?   Evidence that The Gazzelle for sure had full control of the ship from the moment he got free. How did he manage this? What more does he know and have control of? That's a lot of control for one being to have and be able to process.   The princess reveals some information to me, as a "full disclosure" kinda deal.   War Strike on Paegor territory, Alcyon in the state of Cambreyal.   Buildings destroyed, mass destruction. Princess says thats the same direction the pod fell towards. How did he destroy those buildings with a touch? Need to get to the local HQ once our new guests arrive and figure out whats going on.

The Train Cart thing is damaged severely. Legs need repair. Feline construct boarded us, let the games begin....   What the hell is that?! giant armored individual joins the fray?! that gun looks nice.....   Rexor? Restricted War zone?! Ah yes....the BRN, negotiate or find a new route to my destination. Says I'm wanted by the BRN and being blamed for the Starfall Incident....interesting. Somethings up over here...continue to Elisbeth, avoid using vehicles to help avoid detection. Do NOT want to run into any BRN patrols along the way.   Pink just dyed my hair, am now "disguised" fur pattern to look like a Calico. Poisoned for 3 days.   Forgot how creepy the outskirts of Elisbeth is....quick ice cream stop before hitting the safe house.   Safe house Agent alters wanted poster, confirms some   Safe house activated, Hamberguinie obtained! Agreement made with Gidgit to work together, Xhoya is in, Kiilian is in.....what a weirdo....   waiting to RZ with additional people. An Elf, and a cyborg are two of them. An older Elf, grey hair.  

The ship went down in a blaze of Glory......BlackAxel leadership will not take kindly to this.....or my failure. got to land, headed to nearest Civ.

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The story begins......Base rules established. Leveling, Established. Table Etiquette established.   Combat, expect adaptability. Stay fluid, do research when possible.   Be involved.   Blast Cans: Blast cans and magic are a resource. Must be purchased, or found off of defeated enemies.   BRN individuals are NOT allowed in Kiquio unescorted by authorities.   The Gods: 19 "Aspects" Elder, Epoch, and Eternal Aspects.   Magic costs significantly less than it does for Paegor individuals.   Kiqeuo out numbers Paegor in military numbers, but has lower level of technology. Paegor has better trained Military, with lower numbers but better technology. Black Axel Cartel sits firmly between the two but with superior Air Power and maintains the balance of power in the world to maintain the peace.   Will start with a Motorcycle.   Inspirations are session only.   Stealth needs to make sense. Use environment, crowds, ect...ect... Utilize Blast cans for Stealth magic?