From your last Session!

Female Black Box
Pilot :- Jelleti Sigma
From merc group Orphan Star.

Orphan Star, on the surface it sounds like a rather upbeat and community conscious outfit, but the reality of it is far different, most of you who have seen merc or mecha action know of Orphan Star, they don’t hire in outsiders, are very secular, have a 'No Questions Asked' policy and have been known for taking some very morally dubious missions.

The orphan star symbol is a white 8 pointed star on a black background, the top most prong extending upwards and then branching out into three points ( the alchemical symbol for silver, ie coinage)

The pilot, before her untimely demise at the hands of Ragistan, had been part of a group of about 5 OS mercs hired to assist in an island assault, by a mysterious group of people with powerful mecha. (one of them Using powerful water Psionics)
to hide the evidence, a seismic bomb had been planted on the volcano to set it off, the detonator on this had failed, and she had been sent back to fire a weapon at it to detonate it. This is when the players had become involved.

The original plan had been for those five mecha to assault the island with assistance from one of the mysterious hirers mecha, after wiping out the single defending Fire tribe mecha, they were to annihilate the village, then wait in hiding for an incoming Water Tribe squadron, then attack and destroy them while they are still out over the Sea

(Chatter, picked out by your equipment, on the black box looks like they picked up the rumour it was possibly infighting in the Water tribes, and the incoming tribe had been set up to put them at odds with the fire tribe.)

any evidence of others involvement was to be covered up by the volcano. This was the first job this particular group had been hired for, but chatter between them points to other units of the orphan star being hired for other jobs by these people.

The Survivors
Karmon Kagi and his family.
Wife :- Rala Kagi
Daughter :-Tamisa Kagi

Karmon ran a fishing vessel out of the village, he and his crew provided a lot of the fresh food for the residents. As a result of him being far out at sea quite often he had invested in a long range communicator for his wife. This is from which the emergency message came.

The emergency transmission was picked up and homed in on by a thin, long limbed, fast moving mecha that just seemed somehow wrong, this landed and a giggling skinny man leapt out, quickly subduing the wife by threatening to kill their youngest (3 weeks) , both were tied up, (the eldest daughter, 7 years had already hidden.
The Giggling man the proceeded to tell them that because of them trying to be clever, instead of a quick death, they would be tied up, standing, facing the volcano out the window, so they could watch the slowly creeping molten rock as it moved towards them, they can watch as it burns their home and everything they had built together, then suffer a horrible death as it burns them feet first.
The giggling man then says he will take their three week old daughter, she will be brought up as a slave and end her days pleasuring mercenaries in a brothel. (The wife breaks down at this) he then mounts his mecha, laughing, and flies off.

The four Water Tribe mecha recovered from the shallow sea around the island have all been gunned down by heavy weaponry mid flight, none carry recognizable markings and the cockpits of each have been blasted into scrap, basically all that can be identified is the fact they are water tribe mecha.

Of course, this is just the basic information! there is a lot more, in chunks for each of you, tailored to your characters.

So, if you post a hello or comment with your characters name, before Tomorrow evening ,I will send your little bundle of info into your message box.
should give you something to talk about between yourselves, since you wont know what each other has got info wise...

First to be certain, it sounds as if the nutjob (aka Mania to some) did successfully take the baby, correct?

Secondly, it sounds as if we successfully salvaged/dragged away/whathaveyou some of the water tribe scrap. If so, joy!

Third, for Brandt, foremost importance is making sure the Kagi family story is not damning to us. Assuming I get at least as much as you posted from them, that seems verifiable. I'm basically wanting to be sure if I put them on the radio to an approaching Fire army and say "If you won't listen to us, you should listen to one of your own," we won't regret it entirely

Fourth, fwiw the family will be out of action for the chat session, naturally. There's enough room for them on Brandt's shuttle, or alternately I'm sure enough on Mai's, whichever way, they have somewhere to rest, and some light fare/meal from my 'garden.'

Regarding potential recruiting gametime, Z has officially bowed out (timing is just too rough.) I seem to recall one that was considering last week, do we need to pick up any more? Should any interest be left pending, or encouraged?

Hello Bish!

And for the comment: Perhaps transmit the black box info to the incoming fire tribe squadron as well to let them learn that it was a set up to get them to do just what they are and they are being played

Morning Bish! Can I wake you up now? You appear to be sleeping. You should wake up so that I can bug you with inane information that deals with stuff that doesn't mean anything in the long run. Was that good enough for a greeting? If not, you're too god damned picky.

Comment: It's probably best to start keeping an eye on the various mercenary groups movements. They'll end up biting us in the ass more than once and who knows, we might be able to use them to our own advantage once or twice. After all, it's very hard to completely erase an information trail. Also, I think it'd be VERY helpful to look for ruins such as pancake island back there.

Yet another reason for Felix to eliminate the inhabitants of this world when they are done there!

Steven says "NO"!

Wraith would be keen to know whats his piece of the puzzle.

Later than I planned, but room's up, if anyone comes around.