Alternity Run1

(My browser crashed and my lovely summary was lost. :( )

Well, we all started out as rhodium miners in the depths of Oberon. Rhodium's useful because it powers the star drive, but Oberon's a crappy planet. It's almost impossible to save up enough to get off the planet, so people who come here get stuck. Pretty lame.

Anyways, Gerd was on security detail flipping through screens, Kaelum was helping a miner fix his drilling rig (Did you turn it on? Did you put oil in?), and Kamir was lifting heavy things while trying to make friends. About then, Gerd noticed a suspiciously terrorist-ical package being left. Then boom! Explosions! The ceiling caved in, and we were trapped.

After some laborious digging, and Gerd short-circuiting the doors back open, we managed to get all the survivors to one central location. On the way, Kaelum saw a large creature of some sort skittering around. It was chuckling and dismembering people. Kamir leapt into action when he heard, but it was nowhere to be found.

About then we heard someone calling for help down a side tunnel. We headed over and found Marcus pinned under a rock. After freeing him, we noticed the creature had reappeared... trapping us in the tunnel. Kamir kicked the crap out of him, and some other guys shot him or something. It ended with Kamir ripping his heart out of his chest. And then it dissolved. Kaelum told us it was a warbeast- a big armored rat genetically engineered for being mean and jerky. We continued on, trying to get the elevators online so we could get out of there.

...And then another warbeast jumped us, this one even tougher! Kaelum remembered that they learned, and reformed themselves stronger against what had killed them. This wasn't too fun. Kamir destroyed it again, and all of us got the hell out before it reformed again.

The rescue team didn't believe us, even a little, but we got a huge worker's comp package. Enough money to get off Oberon! Marcus asked the three of us if we wanted to come crew his ship- he had inherited this thing from his late father, who he didn't know too well. We agreed to go along, because hey, it was away from Oberon.

I guess this was about the point where we moved from being "Oh hey it's that guy" to "Friends, or something". Good times.