So after a somewhat insane day at the university, I got to play Torg on Thursday night, yay!
We picked up on the deck of Red Hood’s ship and chatted with Galen a bit more. We were told last week (and I forgot to mention it) that Mable had been infected with killer nanites that were trying to decide whether or not they should kill her–they were designed to kill her Race (or something) counterpart. As a result of this revelation, she spent a lot of time drinking with Chris.
Mei and Ren can’t make heads or tails of the prophecy that Mei’s trying to sort out. There’s a few theories floating around in Ren’s brain and she likes none of her theories. At all.
Galen reported that the new hardware on Fred was keeping him alive. This got Ren even more worried (she’s very concerned that somehow Odette/Odyle has a kill switch on him, or has otherwise programmed him to do something very, very nasty to the group) and caused Galen to observe that she struck him as someone who worries a lot. She admitted to it, but asked who else was going to do the worrying. Galen wanted to know if she was familiar with ulcers and Ren told him she didn’t have one. “Yet.” Galen says. And he’s probably right.
After that, Galen wandered over to Grace and talked to her about Rosebud, her alien symboite we found originally in the Temple of the Starfire Wheel. He told her in order to get Rosebud back, she had to be patient, humble, and something else. Either way, the three together had the rest of us snickering and saying “Oh man. She’s never getting that thing back!”
We decide, ultimately, to go back to one of our many beginnings–the Temple of the Starfire Wheel–to hopefully find something that’s like a clue to where this Well of Forever is. The Red Hood thinks this is an utterly fantastic idea and decides to continue to chauffer us around–at least for a little while longer. Ren isn’t about to be looking any gift horses in the mouth at this point and takes what she can get.
We find the Temple of the Starfire Wheel in a little more disrepair than it was before–that is, someone had removed large sections of pictographs from the walls. We found a passageway that we hadn’t found the first time and Mable blew it open with a shaped charge (much to Ren’s dismay). At the far end of the place we find a niche that has the D.E.M.O.N. emblem resting in it–clearly, that wasn’t what was originally there. We all decide that it’s a trap, and Grant finally tells the group what he and Ren had discussed in the past–that Odette had probably been working toward this all along. Ren admits to trying to kill Odette/Odyle while they were in France and says that if she thought she could have shot straight, she’d have tried to take her out when they first saw her in the streets during the papal speech. Further, Grant theorizes that the people that made it to the Temple of the Starfire Wheel were deliberately brought there (there was no way that Ren should have survived a Tharkoldu raid, and she admits it). It was all arranged–and he’s probably just paranoid enough to be right.
The group decides, over Ren’s quiet objections, that we should go to the D.E.M.O.N. installation in Austria where she had worked, regardless of whether or not it’s a trap. And so we set off again, flying north.
Of course, our troubles neither began nor ended there. En route, someone spots something on an intercept course. Rocket Rangers, but of an evil variety. Mable is livid. These are the men that killed her fiancee, she tells us. (Ren was like “What’s going on? You know about these guys?” Mable: “They killed my fiancee!” Ren: “Oh. Okay.”) So now we’re set to fight them, even though they have the advantage of more mobility in flight than we have.
This having been said, we have a grenade launcher and a plasma cannon. God help us all.
