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Eclipse Phase – “Stray Thoughts 6: A Helping from the Hoard”

May 252016

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The Stray Thoughts team has escaped from the Jovian Republic, but their exit is not going as smoothly as they’d hoped. After stepping through a Pandora gate and onto a distant exoplanet, they discover that the blue box that was supposed to allow them to return to the solar system is missing. Their only hope of getting home is to explore the surface of this new world until they find it. The team soon encounters a village full of stunted purple beings who claim to be the descendants of humans brought here during The Fall, a people whose absent sky gods promised them long ago that one day, they would be summoned home to “The Broken Herth.” Overjoyed at the fulfillment of the ancient prophecy, the villagers celebrate the former Sentinels’ arrival with a magnificent feast. However, during the festivities it becomes clear that the diminutive purple people live under the oppressive rule of a fearsome dragon, likely a TITAN bioengineering experiment in legendary creatures, and that the beast is currently in possession of the blue box they seek. If they ever want to return home, they’ll have to journey to the dragon’s mountaintop lair on the planet’s searing daylit side and slay the creature without getting barbecued. Can they pull it off?

Eclipse Phase – “Stray Thoughts 5: A Jaunt to the Junta”

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May 182016

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This week, the Stray Thoughts team goes on its toughest mission yet, a trip to Jovian space, to retrieve something from one of Gavin’s former colleagues. Much as things have remained eerily unchanged over the past century, the military oligarchy that once governed the Jovian Republic has been overtaken by a new, more open-minded regime. The greatest hero in the war of liberation, a woman known as “La Puta,” has enjoyed a long career as a prominent public figure and elected representative, and now lives in seclusion under heavy guard. This woman, Gavin tells the group, is in possession of a miniature server whose contents he cannot disclose, a device that they must retrieve if they want his help getting into Elis’ party. Can the ex-Sentinels infiltrate Liberty City, gain access to a prominent Jovian citizen known for her reclusiveness and abrasive demeanor, and convince her to give up the server?

Eclipse Phase – “Stray Thoughts 4: De Sade”

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May 112016

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Exhausted from rescuing the Martian dignitaries from Barsoomian agitators, the Stray Thoughts team takes a break from fighting terrorists for a Girls’ Day Out in Elysium. They’ll need to look and feel their best when when they meet the reclusive Marquis, Mars’ crime kingpin. They’ve been invited to a gala event at his estate, a party where anyone who’s anyone is wearing the latest meta-material fashions. When they make contact, The Marquis gives them a simple mission to test their trustworthiness. If they can arrange a meeting with his long-estranged partner-in-crime, a legitimate businessman named Abebe, he’ll send them on an errand that will get them invited to Elis’ party. To learn the reasons behind Proxy Mute’s betrayal, they’ll have to complete this simple courier op, but can they pull it off without resorting to horrifying amounts of violence? Continue reading »

Eclipse Phase – “Stray Thoughts 3: The Korben Stratagem”

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Apr 272016

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108 years after The Fall, our team of reactivated Firewall Sentinels is sent to deal with a group of Barsoomian terrorists who have taken a number of important hostages. Barricaded inside the asteroid serving as counterweight for the new Martian space elevator, the group has threatened to send their new stronghold crashing to the planet’s surface unless their demands are met. The team will have to use Proxy Steel’s stealth ship to sneak aboard the asteroid, disable its rocket engines and comms simultaneously, and confront the Barsoomians before they can murder the primary instances of several Tharsis League leaders. Join us for an action-packed session of our new Eclipse Phase campaign, Stray Thoughts!

Eclipse Phase – “Stray Thoughts 2: Picking Up The Pieces”

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Apr 202016

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After spending a century in cold storage, our team of Sentinels is re-sleeved and re-awakened in a world where the remnant TITAN war machines have been eradicated and Firewall has ceased to exist. Proxy Steel, a Promethean AI, informs them that they are the last remnants of The Org, and that they are being reactivated to deal with a new threat. Steel has received a transmission that he suspects was sent by rogue Seed AIs demanding the ego of Charles Maldonado, former head of the Prometheus Syndicate. Now, Steel needs the Sentinels’ help to track down the members of another Firewall cell who fought Maldonado in 10 AF, as they are the only ones who might have a copy of the ego that might save transhuman space from a full-scale invasion. The ultimate object of their search is Elis Menenez, formerly Proxy Mute, who in 77 AF disclosed vast stores of information to governments throughout the solar system and effectively destroyed Firewall from the inside. Can they learn the fates of their counterparts from The Promethean Chronicles and save transhumanity from certain doom?

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