Cast
- Steve – Quentin Porlock Jnr. Looks like Trigger from Only Fools & Horses. Water telepathy – can move things of aqueous humour, talk to the aquatic creatures
- Tim – Kurt. Fifty-ish, short, stocky. Premonition
- Rachel – Bob! Young, adult female. Short, blond, curly hair. Blue/green eyes. Pyro; earth moving; glamour
- Paul – Marcellus. Big, black guy but caucasian features. Healing
- Ingrid – Subject X (Jex). Small female, light coloured eyes. Flies; alter memory (makes you forget her); freeze things
- [Bad Guys – in shuttles. Have Jackboots, leather trenchcoats. Rutger Hauer, Scarlett Johansson. Ruthless efficiency. Shuttles, spiderbots; gunship
On the planet of Twilight. In the band of permanent dimness, a shuttle crashes.
Bob wakes up in crashed shuttle. Seat is burning. Sprinklers start as escape from restraints and exit the shuttle. Bob is joined by Shuttle has a symbol of 3 entwined snakes – Tyrell Corporation.
Kurt breaks open door to cockpit – he is very strong. Everyone has a bad feeling about the ‘craft in air in the distance. Kurt finds that pilot is dead. Raid the shuttle cockpit and retrieve various items such as pistol and computer tablet.
Passengers introduce themselves and then head off to a small town in distance. 2nd ‘craft’ seen in the distance – it has guns. All the passengers have a bad feeling about both ‘crafts’. One passenger is unconscious – taken with the group. Quentin and Kurt do the honours of carrying the body.
Bob tries body disposal – thump of energy causes mushroom fields to collapse and release a cloud of mushroom spores. Crashed shuttle settles into the soil but isn’t completely buried. Bob shrugs.
Party head off towards the town. Stop briefly in ‘shroom wood. Marcellus heals Kurt arm - cut from opening cockpit door.
In town (Prenumbra), Quentin checks his fake identities, and money. Quentin gets for everyone tickets for the train. The group stop for a drink and a chat to find out about each other and what they remember while waiting for the next train.
We understand that we are hunted by the Tyrell Corporation. We were all put on the shuttle in a hurry as we had some personal items still. Marcellus is the only one of us in overalls. He changes clothes but keeps the labels.
Travel on the train through Glimmer and onto Spike (space elevator). Get a room at the Hotel at the base of the Spike. Quentin and Bob go shopping so that Quentin can get the tablet working.
Marcellus and Kurt stay at the hotel. Marcellus tries to ‘heal’ Kurt’s memory. Miracle healings happen out in the town.
Get back to the Hotel. Unconscious girl wakes up – no memory like everyone else. Calls herself Subject X.
Examine tablet – find manifest. We are all cargo. Shuttle hit by electrical storm – EMP strike. Find out that we were due at place near to Spike.
Head out that way – GPS location just shows open area – barren, flat ground; can only find tyre tracks leading back into town.
Subject X (Jex) interviews/interrogates the old guy watching the road into town. Buys him a drink or 10.
Learns that a truck from the Ecclesiastical Court was seen driving back into town.
She flies into the air – She can fly!
Decide to find out more. Marcellus finds out that the Court has 6 trucks. Go into court out find out where the schedule for the trucks is kept.
Party decide to break into the Court to look at the schedules and find out why party were being transported to the Court.
Kurt remembers that he is part of a secret breeding program to increase strength in Pyrrhus population.
Looking at the paperwork, discover that priest Michael requisitioned truck. Cargo was assigned to a temple (Zeros) at Darkwoods; down south. Father Michael is behind this transport. Father Michael is residing in a palace in town.
Check out the palace – heavily guarded. Decide to leave it be.
Group decided to head off to the Temple – hoping that Father Michael is there.
The Temple is on the lakeside. It is a bloody fortress. Does it protect against the darkness or protect the light?
Kurt walks in, makes donation and walks out. Party have intense conflab. about who, what and why they are here. Paranoia starts to rule.
Quentin goes to telegraph office to learn about sending messages.
Kurt learns more about Michael and the fight against the darkness. Buys a few drinks.
Jex also goes into the temple to learn more. Finds out Brother Bernard is in charge.
Group re-gathers and discovers that they know even less than they thought they did.
Plan of action: send fake message to Temple to tell Brother Bernard that ‘cargo’ has been located. When Temple turns up to collect cargo – group will watch to see what they can learn.
Fake telegram is sent from telegraph pole. Quentin falls and breaks leg. Marcellus heals the leg.
Bob is sent to the local train station to meet the recipients of the telegram. The rest of the group spread out into different spotting platforms.
The Tyrell Corporation are also been spotted in the waiting room.
Bob meets with Brother Joshua. He has 2 bodyguards. He says that we have to
leave when Bob points out the Tyrell Corporation. Jump onto the train; guns are pulled.
Kurt throws ashtray at first Rutger – hits him. Johansson talks on radio. He tries for a discrete exit. Johansson throws a metallic dragonfly towards him. A line of ice appears as all liquid is frozen from Jex’s finger to dragonfly.
Bob and Brother Joshua quickly board the train and settle in a carriage. Marcellus is also on board.
Bob interrogates Brother Joshua and gets religion.
It turns out that the entire group are derived from DNA from 5 of the original six Ecclesiasts. Father Michael is the sixth Ecclesiast who instigated the gene propagation. His plan is to use the party to access to secret chambers at the base of the Dark Spike and the Light Spike.
The Tyrell Corporation realised what they had been asked to create and wants to control the party. They were planning to back out of the deal made with Father Michael.
The party decide to go along with Brother Joshua and meet Father Michael. They enter the chamber at the base of the Dark Spike.