Titan 161: Out of the Frying Pan and Into the Fire
General Summary
The Prison Warden's Office
Our story starts with the Deathwish crew in the prison warden's office waiting for the equipment and gear that Wahil had asked the guards to be sent up. However, Iroh and Jabbar spot that the prison warden had pressed an emergency alarm switch hidden under his sleeve. Knowing this, Iroh and Jabbar surmise that the equipment and gear that they had hoped for would probably be a crack team of prison guards sent to eliminate them. Iroh and Jabbar figure they needed to find a way to escape as fighting a contingent of armed guards would amount to suicide. Iroh and Jabbar spot a ventilation/maintenance shaft just behind the prison warden's desk and decide to go in it.
Iroh and Jabbar decide to wait in the shaft just beyond the grating to confirm if whoever was coming up was a guard contingent. Sure enough, it was a large squad of guards armed with Vulcan Carbines and body armor. Iroh and Jabbar decide to melt away into the darkness of the ventilation shaft and get ahead while they still can.
The Lost Lab Rat Lair
The crew decide to crawl in the shaft for a good hour until they find themselves at a fork in the shafts; one shaft going up and a shaft going down. Iroh suggests to go up as the guards might think that the escapees will logically go down the tower. They agree and decide to follow the shaft going up.
The Deathwish crew end up in a large room-sized conduit in the shafts that was meant to process air and water. However, as they go in, it seemed abandoned and unused as the room is flooded with water and the air was moldy. As their eyes adjust to the darkness, they realize they've just wandered in a large room filled with people from the Lab Rat faction. However, these Lab Rat's didn't seem to be the same Lab Rats that were in the GPU. They notice that some of the Lab Rats were malnourished and or close to death from starvation. They realize at their feet are hundreds of human bones and remains. The Lab Rats in the conduit, upon further observation, seemed to be a group that tried to escape a long while ago but were trapped in the archive tower and left forgotten in the shafts. They seemed to have survived for countless cycles feeding on themselves and drinking the stale water in the conduit. Some creature bursts forth from the large pool of water in the centre of the conduit floor to greet the crew. The creature actually is an extremely deformed human who, after many cycles in complete darkness and surviving through cannibalism, has turned into a physical monster of a being. It asks Iroh and Jabbar what are they doing in their lair. They reply that they're trying to find a way out and if they would be willing to let the go on their way. The creature man laughs along with the rest of the Lab Rats saying that they will not be able to escape alive. They're hungry and they haven't seen any fresh meat until today, and they look like a good supper for the group. Fearing that they will be mincemeat soon, Iroh and Jabbar decide to fight their way out. Jabbar manages to stun a Lab Rat prisoner. Iroh fights valiantly, but a Lab Rat breaks his neck in a way that he goes unconscious and becomes paralyzed from the neck down permanently. Jabbar decides to surrender and tries to make a deal with the creature man. Jabbar tells the creature to let him go, and in exchange, they can have Iroh.
The creature ponders this awhile and smiles. He agrees to the proposition, but they'd like to have some fun. The creature orders the Mystics to take Jabbar, and push him down a dark pit. He tells Jabbar that if he survives his pet, he will let him go.
In the dark pit, Jabbar sees two small but glowing eyes. It is one of the most dangerous creatures in the Horizon; a Darkbound. The darkbound are regular people that are somehow claimed by the Darkness. Perhaps they have been turned bad by djinn or efrites, been exposed to corrupting dark forces or formed horrible pacts with cadaver clocks or dark cybernetics. The darkbound being will usually look like a thin and twisted human, with only a few torn patches of hair left, and with burning eyes and long claws instead of fingers. They move incredibly fast, closing in on their victims in the blink of an eye to sink their claws into them. Just the touch of a darkbound can paralyze someone completely. Knowing this, Jabbar decides to stand very still. The Darkbound moves around him. The Darkbound in this environment is blind. It cannot see unless something moves, and will move towards that direction. Jabbar calmly waits until the Darkbound is mere inches from his face. Just as the Darkbound is within a foot away from him, Jabbar engages his shock stick and sticks it in one of the eyes of the Darkbound. The Darkbound screams in pain. Jabbar increases the power on his shock stick and continues to shoot electricity through the Darkbound's eye until the shock stick fizzles out. The Darkbound slumps to the floor, and in its place, is the burned skeletal remains of the human it once was.
Jabbar gives out a sigh of relief, and an unknown Lab Rat calls out from above the pit, "what is your name?"
"Jabbar"
All around the pit, and growing louder, the Mystics chant his name, "Jabbar, Jabbar, Jabbar" until his name echoes throughout the conduit. A chain is let down into the pit and Jabbar is let up. The creature in seething rage tells Jabbar to go, and to take his friend with him. The Lab Rats escort them out of their lair and drop them into another ventilation shaft.
The Sewers
Jabbar has Iroh on his back as he navigates the shafts and end up in the sewer systems of the Archive Tower. Hearing voices in the tunnels somewhere, Jabbar senses that the prison guard security teams are in the sewers looking for them. Without weapons, Jabbar cautiously sneaks through the sewers. After a few dead ends, he sees a guard unit at a distance in one of the tunnels and decides to double back from where he came from and try another tunnel and avoid a fight. He continues onward and eventually sees a ladder going up. He takes a big breath and heaves Iroh on his shoulders and drags him up the ladder; ready to meet what awaits him beyond it.
The Server Room
The Deathwish crew follow the ladder from the sewers up until they reach what looks like a server room. At this point, Iroh is conscious and is able to speak, but not yet able to move. Lights and loud machinery fill the room doing calculations and routing and rerouting communications and data in the prison and out of it. As they examine the room, they find a passcode locked terminal in the center of the room. Sensing an opportunity, Iroh and Jabbar try to access the terminal with the little hacking knowledge they have. They manage to hack the terminal and find out that the terminal contains the hard copy files of the entire prison population's criminal records including theirs. By deleting their records, they can wipe that data across all databases in the Third Horizon clearing their names and making it so that they are able to walk freely in civilized worlds again. They try to delete their files and manage to successfully clear the names of the Deathwish crew. With a large sigh of relief at their futures ahead of them they bring themselves to task of escaping the prison.
After a few moments of thinking, Iroh and Jabbar realize that because they have access to the terminal, they also have access to the security systems of the entire prison. They manage to hack the security systems and give themselves master control over every door and security system of the prison. They also find a map of the prison and download it onto the datapad they got from Toris's dead body in the prison warden's office. They decide to open all the prisoner's cells to incite a prison riot to distract the guards while they open all the gates and doors towards the hangar bay of the prison. They successfully do this and try to make their way to the hangar.
The Hangar Bay
The Deathwish crew eventually make it to the hangar bay where they see their ship on the hangar bay floor. Iroh almost gives out a yelp in excitement -- their home is here and it is within reach. However, the hangar bay is crawling with guards and two guards in hoverbikes are patrolling the perimeter of the hangar to prevent escapees from the riot from taking the ships in the hangar. Realizing taking on the guards without weapons would get them killed they decide to sneak into the hangar control station just above their ship. The way to the hangar control station is through an overhead catwalk cutting through the centre of the hangar. Jabbar sees the daunting task ahead; failure to keep hidden would amount to them being ripped to shreds from the guards' vulcan carbines. Miraculously, with Iroh on his back, they manage to make it unseen to the control room. In the control room, they analyze the controls there. They see controls for the alarm system, the hangar bay forcefields, and the hangar bay doors. Currently, the hangar bay doors are open with the force field engaged meaning that ships can come to and fro the hangar without everyone in the hangar exposed to the vacuum of space. Seeing this they decide to disengage the forcefields by hacking the terminal. They successfully do this, and when the force field disengages, the guards on the hangar floor gets sucked out to their doom.
Wait... Are We Forgetting Something?
Feeling victorious, Jabbar and Iroh walk to their ship and into the cockpit. They perform the final flight checks and are ready to engage thrusters when suddenly Jabbar remembers the scar on top of his head that he got from an operation aboard the prison ship to Titan 161. What did they put inside me? he wonders. Jabbar tells Iroh that he'd like to check out what is in his head before they leave. Iroh agrees and they walk down into the medbay of the ship to scan Jabbar's head. Turns out, inside Jabbar's head, was a small bomb set to explode if he ever gets around 100 meters from the prison. Jabbar decides to perform surgery on himself with Iroh giving instructions. After a few failed attempts at finding the bomb in his head, they extract it.
The crew decides the best course of action now is to hide the bomb on the runabout ship in the hangar so that, if the guards try to give chase, it explodes and gives them time to escape without having to fight them off in ship-to-ship combat. They successfully do this and finally engage thrusters and leave the prison in a hurry.
Sure enough, after a few minutes, the guards catch wind of their escape and go after them in the runabout. Unfortunately for them, by the time the runabout reaches 100 meters from the prison, its thrusters explode and the ship is engulfed in a ball of flame. The Deathwish crew give a loud holler onboard their ship. They've escaped Titan-161 and make their way home to Coriolis Station.
Our story starts with the Deathwish crew in the prison warden's office waiting for the equipment and gear that Wahil had asked the guards to be sent up. However, Iroh and Jabbar spot that the prison warden had pressed an emergency alarm switch hidden under his sleeve. Knowing this, Iroh and Jabbar surmise that the equipment and gear that they had hoped for would probably be a crack team of prison guards sent to eliminate them. Iroh and Jabbar figure they needed to find a way to escape as fighting a contingent of armed guards would amount to suicide. Iroh and Jabbar spot a ventilation/maintenance shaft just behind the prison warden's desk and decide to go in it.
Iroh and Jabbar decide to wait in the shaft just beyond the grating to confirm if whoever was coming up was a guard contingent. Sure enough, it was a large squad of guards armed with Vulcan Carbines and body armor. Iroh and Jabbar decide to melt away into the darkness of the ventilation shaft and get ahead while they still can.
The Lost Lab Rat Lair
The crew decide to crawl in the shaft for a good hour until they find themselves at a fork in the shafts; one shaft going up and a shaft going down. Iroh suggests to go up as the guards might think that the escapees will logically go down the tower. They agree and decide to follow the shaft going up.
The Deathwish crew end up in a large room-sized conduit in the shafts that was meant to process air and water. However, as they go in, it seemed abandoned and unused as the room is flooded with water and the air was moldy. As their eyes adjust to the darkness, they realize they've just wandered in a large room filled with people from the Lab Rat faction. However, these Lab Rat's didn't seem to be the same Lab Rats that were in the GPU. They notice that some of the Lab Rats were malnourished and or close to death from starvation. They realize at their feet are hundreds of human bones and remains. The Lab Rats in the conduit, upon further observation, seemed to be a group that tried to escape a long while ago but were trapped in the archive tower and left forgotten in the shafts. They seemed to have survived for countless cycles feeding on themselves and drinking the stale water in the conduit. Some creature bursts forth from the large pool of water in the centre of the conduit floor to greet the crew. The creature actually is an extremely deformed human who, after many cycles in complete darkness and surviving through cannibalism, has turned into a physical monster of a being. It asks Iroh and Jabbar what are they doing in their lair. They reply that they're trying to find a way out and if they would be willing to let the go on their way. The creature man laughs along with the rest of the Lab Rats saying that they will not be able to escape alive. They're hungry and they haven't seen any fresh meat until today, and they look like a good supper for the group. Fearing that they will be mincemeat soon, Iroh and Jabbar decide to fight their way out. Jabbar manages to stun a Lab Rat prisoner. Iroh fights valiantly, but a Lab Rat breaks his neck in a way that he goes unconscious and becomes paralyzed from the neck down permanently. Jabbar decides to surrender and tries to make a deal with the creature man. Jabbar tells the creature to let him go, and in exchange, they can have Iroh.
The creature ponders this awhile and smiles. He agrees to the proposition, but they'd like to have some fun. The creature orders the Mystics to take Jabbar, and push him down a dark pit. He tells Jabbar that if he survives his pet, he will let him go.
In the dark pit, Jabbar sees two small but glowing eyes. It is one of the most dangerous creatures in the Horizon; a Darkbound. The darkbound are regular people that are somehow claimed by the Darkness. Perhaps they have been turned bad by djinn or efrites, been exposed to corrupting dark forces or formed horrible pacts with cadaver clocks or dark cybernetics. The darkbound being will usually look like a thin and twisted human, with only a few torn patches of hair left, and with burning eyes and long claws instead of fingers. They move incredibly fast, closing in on their victims in the blink of an eye to sink their claws into them. Just the touch of a darkbound can paralyze someone completely. Knowing this, Jabbar decides to stand very still. The Darkbound moves around him. The Darkbound in this environment is blind. It cannot see unless something moves, and will move towards that direction. Jabbar calmly waits until the Darkbound is mere inches from his face. Just as the Darkbound is within a foot away from him, Jabbar engages his shock stick and sticks it in one of the eyes of the Darkbound. The Darkbound screams in pain. Jabbar increases the power on his shock stick and continues to shoot electricity through the Darkbound's eye until the shock stick fizzles out. The Darkbound slumps to the floor, and in its place, is the burned skeletal remains of the human it once was.
Jabbar gives out a sigh of relief, and an unknown Lab Rat calls out from above the pit, "what is your name?"
"Jabbar"
All around the pit, and growing louder, the Mystics chant his name, "Jabbar, Jabbar, Jabbar" until his name echoes throughout the conduit. A chain is let down into the pit and Jabbar is let up. The creature in seething rage tells Jabbar to go, and to take his friend with him. The Lab Rats escort them out of their lair and drop them into another ventilation shaft.
The Sewers
Jabbar has Iroh on his back as he navigates the shafts and end up in the sewer systems of the Archive Tower. Hearing voices in the tunnels somewhere, Jabbar senses that the prison guard security teams are in the sewers looking for them. Without weapons, Jabbar cautiously sneaks through the sewers. After a few dead ends, he sees a guard unit at a distance in one of the tunnels and decides to double back from where he came from and try another tunnel and avoid a fight. He continues onward and eventually sees a ladder going up. He takes a big breath and heaves Iroh on his shoulders and drags him up the ladder; ready to meet what awaits him beyond it.
The Server Room
The Deathwish crew follow the ladder from the sewers up until they reach what looks like a server room. At this point, Iroh is conscious and is able to speak, but not yet able to move. Lights and loud machinery fill the room doing calculations and routing and rerouting communications and data in the prison and out of it. As they examine the room, they find a passcode locked terminal in the center of the room. Sensing an opportunity, Iroh and Jabbar try to access the terminal with the little hacking knowledge they have. They manage to hack the terminal and find out that the terminal contains the hard copy files of the entire prison population's criminal records including theirs. By deleting their records, they can wipe that data across all databases in the Third Horizon clearing their names and making it so that they are able to walk freely in civilized worlds again. They try to delete their files and manage to successfully clear the names of the Deathwish crew. With a large sigh of relief at their futures ahead of them they bring themselves to task of escaping the prison.
After a few moments of thinking, Iroh and Jabbar realize that because they have access to the terminal, they also have access to the security systems of the entire prison. They manage to hack the security systems and give themselves master control over every door and security system of the prison. They also find a map of the prison and download it onto the datapad they got from Toris's dead body in the prison warden's office. They decide to open all the prisoner's cells to incite a prison riot to distract the guards while they open all the gates and doors towards the hangar bay of the prison. They successfully do this and try to make their way to the hangar.
The Hangar Bay
The Deathwish crew eventually make it to the hangar bay where they see their ship on the hangar bay floor. Iroh almost gives out a yelp in excitement -- their home is here and it is within reach. However, the hangar bay is crawling with guards and two guards in hoverbikes are patrolling the perimeter of the hangar to prevent escapees from the riot from taking the ships in the hangar. Realizing taking on the guards without weapons would get them killed they decide to sneak into the hangar control station just above their ship. The way to the hangar control station is through an overhead catwalk cutting through the centre of the hangar. Jabbar sees the daunting task ahead; failure to keep hidden would amount to them being ripped to shreds from the guards' vulcan carbines. Miraculously, with Iroh on his back, they manage to make it unseen to the control room. In the control room, they analyze the controls there. They see controls for the alarm system, the hangar bay forcefields, and the hangar bay doors. Currently, the hangar bay doors are open with the force field engaged meaning that ships can come to and fro the hangar without everyone in the hangar exposed to the vacuum of space. Seeing this they decide to disengage the forcefields by hacking the terminal. They successfully do this, and when the force field disengages, the guards on the hangar floor gets sucked out to their doom.
Wait... Are We Forgetting Something?
Feeling victorious, Jabbar and Iroh walk to their ship and into the cockpit. They perform the final flight checks and are ready to engage thrusters when suddenly Jabbar remembers the scar on top of his head that he got from an operation aboard the prison ship to Titan 161. What did they put inside me? he wonders. Jabbar tells Iroh that he'd like to check out what is in his head before they leave. Iroh agrees and they walk down into the medbay of the ship to scan Jabbar's head. Turns out, inside Jabbar's head, was a small bomb set to explode if he ever gets around 100 meters from the prison. Jabbar decides to perform surgery on himself with Iroh giving instructions. After a few failed attempts at finding the bomb in his head, they extract it.
The crew decides the best course of action now is to hide the bomb on the runabout ship in the hangar so that, if the guards try to give chase, it explodes and gives them time to escape without having to fight them off in ship-to-ship combat. They successfully do this and finally engage thrusters and leave the prison in a hurry.
Sure enough, after a few minutes, the guards catch wind of their escape and go after them in the runabout. Unfortunately for them, by the time the runabout reaches 100 meters from the prison, its thrusters explode and the ship is engulfed in a ball of flame. The Deathwish crew give a loud holler onboard their ship. They've escaped Titan-161 and make their way home to Coriolis Station.
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