Played on April 8, 2020
Jeb created a portal down to Old Hell, and the party set about stripping some of the alien technology from the ship. They took the sensor package, the communication transmission software, several of the smaller power supplies (the primary power supply, an artificial singularity, would have been dangerous to move). They also grabbed a number of small gadgets:
1. A device with s substantial media library of alien literature and music.
2. A set of tools appropriate for working on mechanical objects.
3. A set of portable sensing tools.
4. A set of cleaning tools.
5. A microtemperature pump.
6. An alien-sized space suit with thrusters.
7. The blog of one of the dead crew members.
8. A cutting torch.
9. A case of nanobots used for a specific medical ailment one of the dead aliens had.
10. A hovering scout unit, controlled by remote.
11. A cryptocurrency wallet containing vast sums of the alien’s money. Found under a mattress. The surviving aliens are shocked that such a thing was on the ship, and have no idea why anyone would be working as scout vessel crew when they had that sorta cash. Something smells fishy about it.
The party hoped that by studying the alien’s technology they could perhaps improve their own. Once they’d loaded everything down into Old Hell, they set the ship to crash on mars (hopefully destroying any evidence of tampering on their part.) They evacuated the Space Station, set up a medical quarantine for their Alien, and handed much of the tech over to their engineers.
At this junction, looking for something simple to do, the party checked the “Monster Hunters For Hire” phone line they’d set up, and learned about a musicain in Redstone Lord territory who encountered a strange ghost-lookin’ thing everything she practiced at home. The party showed up to help, and discovered they could communicate with the ghost via radio waves. It wasn’t a ghost, just a fella that a wizard tried to send to another dimension. The wizard didn’t manage to send him fully out of the material plane, so he’s been stuck here mostly out of phase with the rest of reality. He came to this house because it was where he had lived, and something about the music the woman played pulled him close enough to the proper phase that he was alllllmost able to get home.
The party solved his problem by taking him to see Al. He happily exchanged a year of his life to be sent back to the correct reality. Since he didn’t have anywhere to live, the party offered him a place, and a job if he wanted it. He did, indeed, want to get to work DOING things after so long in a miserable limbo.