This session’s song – Hero of War by Rise Against
So we picked up already in Tharkold for this week’s session of Torg, which sees us in an act entitled “Galen’s War” (we didn’t have that information before, I don’t think). We’d been traveling in the world of gray for a week and everyone except for Mei had been having nasty nightmares (as I said to Jen on the way home, Ren wouldn’t have been overly concerned about her own dreams if everyone else hadn’t been having nightmares, too). After that first week in Tharkold, the technomage that’s appeared to the group twice now (Mei’s seen him more than that) appeared and implied that we’d done something wrong at the D.E.A.M.O.N. facility (this said, I’m not really sure what else we were supposed to do there)–then fed us a third prophecy, this one truncated (cut off, in fact). Ren scribbled it down in her journal:
The city’s cold blood teaches us to survive
Just keep my heart in your eyes and we’ll stay alive
The third arrives…Before the leaves have fallen
Before we lock the doors
There must be the third and last dance
This one will last forever
Metropolis watches and thoughtfully smiles
She’s taken you to your homeIt can only take place
When the struggle between
our children has ended
Now the Miracle and the Sleeper know–
It doesn’t make much sense, not yet, and we’ve all got theories on it, none of which make much sense. After handing over this bit of confusion, Galen then told us that there was something looking for us here that wasn’t Odyle/Odette/Mariah and the Wraith–someone else.
Well, we found out soon enough who it was.
There was a solider that had been the only one of his unit to survive the destruction of the stelae here last year and had happened to witness us scooping up DeSoto and leaving–never realizing he was there, and alone (David has admitted to coming up with the idea for this character back when we landed in America last winter–he’s been waiting for us to return to Tharkold for us to meet him). He lived and breathed revenge on us until four months ago, when he died, somehow managing to preserve his consciousness in a computer system.
Greeeeat. He launched an attack on our vehicles and forced us to abandon them. Mable figured out which direction he was in. We then fought our way past some automated defenses and found our way into his bunker, where we found his corpse, four months dead. While Christian, Fred, and Ren buried this poor, unfortunate First Sergeant, Mei jacked into his computer and started looking for him. She reported he was somewhere inside the Tharkoldu end of the ‘net. Xander took over about then, and he was punching keys when we called it a night.
Ahhh, Tharkold. How I hate thee already.
