TOPIC: R2 2023 Slipstream Part 2

Unfortunately we already have 6 players in this game so it is full, hopefully you find a game to join.

Lion man will return to rend some more!

The Mighty Ejaculator pursues battleship Achilles into the asteroid field surrounding the prison fragment Radios. Only by capturing the enemy vessel can the heroes hope to slip through the prison's anti-air defences. Galloping Gertie chugs an entire bottle of nasty-ass space whisky and hits the gas.

As the Ejaculator closes the distance, Swanjet and AI Fred boost across to the Achilles and engage the Primal crew. After a fierce battle, the heroes capture the Achilles! The inmates rejoice! The PCs maintain course for Radios. "This isn't actually a rescue." Major Monocle explains, "Well, it is - but you're not the ones being rescued." The inmates boo!

Gertie and the Mighty Ejaculator peel off to run interference against any Anathraxian reinforcements, while the Achilles enters the restricted airspace around the prison fragment. The auto-pilot brings brings her down on a landing pad in the shadow of the prison walls.

After a bizarre conversation with the prison control tower, their ruse is in tatters, and the ship is assaulted by an honest-to-goodness Handmaiden of Anathraxia. Those broads are bad news! She takes out Swanjet and Major Monocle with her laser sword, and things are looking grim until AI Fred brains her with a serving tray. Her battle suit self-destructs to stop anyone looting the body.

The remaining Primals retreat, as an enormous ray gun turns to fire on the Achilles. Anathraxia's minions would rather destroy the ship than see it fall into rebel hands. As the weapon powers up to release a devastating burst of energy, Gertie swoops down in the Lady Liberty and crashes into the gun, destroying the turret - and herself in the process! It's not immediately clear if her death was a heroic sacrifice, or a timely reminder never to drink and fly. Any which way, the surviving heroes are granted a temporary reprieve as the ship-killing cannon is explosively decomissioned. RIP Gertie.

Rawg Ragnarok awakes from a lovely, long catnap to find his crewmates incapacitated. He injects both Swanjet and Major Monocle with syringes of berserker serum, then himself for good measure. A red mist descends, and the three heroes charge the prison gates! Flying defence droids activate to halt their advance. AI Fred hangs back to scrub Primal guts off the bulkhead.

The destruction of the Big Gun has fried the prison's electronics, and systems are failing across the complex. Cell doors spring open and dozens of prisoners join the fray, including Herr Doktor Monkeybones, a sentient gorilla with four metallic tentacles protruding from a plate on his back.

Many prisoners are gunned down in their desperate bid for freedom, but a handful (including Monkeybones and birdman princeling Boolar) make it to the Achilles, which blasts off before any more Primals turn up. Prince Boolar reveals that the antidote to Queen Anathraxia's fragment-killing death dust is stored in a secret laboratory on Boroosh. The heroes have visited Boroosh previously, and are on good terms with King Pogrosh (or so they think).

The heroes ditch the Achilles, then fly to Boroosh. King Pogrosh directs them to the apparently-not-that secret lab, then phones ahead to warn the Primals there that we are coming (bastard!). The heroes walk into an ambush, but manage to fight their way through to the laboratory. A self-destruct sequence triggers, and Doktor Monkeybones grabs the antidote before fleeing the facility.

Rawg wants to assassinate Pogrosh for his betrayal, but Major Monocle talks him down to merely framing the King as a rebel sympathiser, and leaving the wetwork to Anathraxia.

The heroes return to Simba, where they plan to diffuse the antidote into the atmosphere, thus saving the lion man home world. Unfortunately, a fleet of 10 Anathraxian battleships have blockaded the fragment, leaving the crew of the Mighty Ejaculator no choice but to fight their way through..... TBC

To reach Simba, the heroes must punch a hole through the Anathraxian blockade. Unwilling to bring the Ejaculator within range of the fleets' artillery, the heroes free-glide across the intervening space, and land on the hull of the nearest warship. The exterior door is sealed and Swanjet's player is absent, so we can't just light saber our own entrance. Major Monocle summons a dude inside the ship to open the door. A squad of Primals gather (in a convenient blast template) to repel boarders. Major Monocle emits a wave of psychic energy and their heads explode! A pair of battle robots activate! Herr Doktor Monkeybones traps them behind a force barrier. Rawg commandeers the cockpit and slaughters the entire flight crew.

One warship down, only nine to go! Rather than battle the rest of the fleet, Doktor Monkeybones has a plan! He tinkers with the radio to obfuscate the souce of their signal, then broadcasts false orders to disband the blockade. The ruse is successful, and the fleet departs. The heroes fly around Simba and disperse the counter-agent into the atmosphere. The lion men are so grateful they hand over multiple alien relics, and Rawg is inundated with marriage proposals from frisky lion ladies.

In order to synthesize more antidote, the heroes fly to Doktor Monkeybone's abandoned laboratory. Herr Doktor is reunited with his chimpanzistant Piotr, and is dismayed to discover Anathraxia has plundered his Atomic Renewable Spontaneity Engine.

The heroes are invited to Avia to attend the coronation of King Boolar. The birdmen are ready to declare war on Anathraxia, but need allies to even the odds in an assault on the Nest. The heroes are tasked with kindling the flames of open rebellion across the Slipstream.

Their first stop is Mechanus, home of the robot men. Soon after landing, the heroes are ambushed by bounty hunters! Unfortunately for the hunters, the narrow alleys funnel them into a medium blast template, and Major Monocle explodes their heads. Searching the bodies, Rawg finds a bounty notice offering a 5000s reward for each of the heroes, dead or alive. TBC

For this week only, we are joined by guest star Blaster Bates, the ship's space-dwarf quartermaster (played by Ted).

It's Prime Day on Mechanus, so the crew of the Ejaculator go shopping. Karl Swanjet gets a sweet deal on 100 plastic mannequins, and poses them eerily around the ship. The rest of the crew upgrade their weapons and armour, in anticipation of escalating conflict with relentless bounty hunters, in addition to Anathraxia's Primal army.

The robotmen of Mechanus are lukewarm on the prospect of revolution, so the heroes bid their fragment farewell. They head for Psydonia, abandoned homeworld of the Psyclops, to rendezvous with their contact Kel-melii. They shoot down the two warships guarding the fragment, then land beside a ruined observatory. Kel-melii is waiting for them, but so are some Primals.

Beneath the ruins is a secret hangar, where the Psyclops built a prototype spaceship piloted by psionics. The Primals have rigged the ship to explode! Alex plays an Adventure Card that causes their bomb to malfunction. The Primals call tech support. Ted plays an Adventure Card that causes a mob of fractious Psyclop teens to join the fray. They beat the Primals to death with their wooden placards and spunky attitude. A Handmaiden pops up to even the odds. Major Monocle teleports Rawg right up in her grill, and the lion man rends her a new spacehole. Just like before, her battlesuit self destructs to deny the heroes that phat booty.

Having saved the Nightwing from destruction, Kel-melii and the Psyclop teens (not a terrible name for a band) promise to join the rebel armada in the attack on the Nest. TBC