More-at Antics!

Remember that time I said I'd be playing a Morat in an Infinity Savage Worlds game?  Well, we did our character creation and intro, and things are shaping up to be...interesting.

Every member of our future crew ended up leaving Paradiso for some reason, from dereliction-of-duty to reporting-back-to-superiors to heading-back-for-new briefings.  My Morat (Kogaha Pakarat, surname meaning not Morat, as in not a warrior) was a researcher who used the excuse of escalating aggression on Paradiso to book a relaxing vacation (read: not be in a hostile war-zone) amongst other scholars.

What actually happened, though, is that his pod to the mothership got diverted off-course...straight into a human orbital.  This happened to every member of the future-party, and we soon came to realize that the local instance of ALEPH-cough-Friend-Computer (calling herself Cassandra) had been corrupted by something.  Everyone was taken aboard and interrogated about their time on Paradiso, citing "events of future importance."  How does a Morat get aboard a human circular, you ask?  Apparently the Myrmidon visors were malfunctioning as well, making me register as a regular person.

Of course, when I got back to my pod, it turned out that they'd scoured it from the face of the universe, but that's not a big deal when you have Knowledge (Humankind) d4 and actually understand enough about humans to just steal another pod...

Once out in space, pods started dropping randomly, like flies to some unknown attacker.  One of the hackers determined that monofilament weaponry was being used, and that the attack was not random - but I expect that may/may not be shared later.  In any case, our pods (plus the pods of some others) survived and crashed down on Paradiso, all within a very small radius.

Cue emergence from escape pod, and cue RPG player blindness.  Almost absurdly, only one other character noticed that there was a Morat among their number (though, to be fair, one other character is apparently high 25/8, so she thought the Morat was a hallucation).  There was a brief altercation, but the baying of Antipodes (released into the wild by an Ariadnan ship crash) pushed everyone to run away.  We ended up colliding with an "invisible ship" that - on impact - revealed itself to be a PanO freighter of some kind.  Seemed like good cover to most of the puny ignorant humans, so we went in.

Of course, it turned out not to be a PanO freighter, and while the humans busied themselves with talking to the onboard AI, Kogaha Parakat - Morat deserter extraordinaire - pondered the dangers of being stuck aboard a malfunctioning Shasvastii ship.  A ship that may have been connected with the ALEPH aspect malfunction...

Bonus: I've started painting a mini for Kogaha.  I'll try to post pictures whenever I update!