Campaign Turn 7: The Quest Begins

 Campaign turn 7 saw the Revengers moving on to the Hive World of Vulcain, still in pursuit of leads to whereabouts of the Supreme One, the criminal and scientific mastermind behind the vile crop of super-soldiers plaguing the galaxy. 

Along the way they received a distress call from the cargo freighter Leonidas. They expertly rescued the foundering vessel and received a nice reward for their good deed [3 rolls on the Gear Loot table]. 

Once they made planetfall, they got wind that the Cult of the Wyrm had followed them! They would need to use caution. 

After paying upkeep and ship debt on the Invictus, they set about their tasks. 

Roger Stevens found a patron mission. 

Morgna found a set of loaded dice, promptly tried to use them, then got up and beaten up, and was unable to participate in the upcoming mission. 

Crane explored and got into a bad fight, finding himself in Sick Bay for two turns! The crew was now down two fighters! 

Sawtooth scored some repair parts. 

Lykos explored and earned a lead on a possible reward. 

Rourke successfully lead the Cult of the Wyrm away. 

After entertaining a possible patron mission for the Cybele Foundation, the crew instead stumbled upon evidence of a key operative of the Supreme One working in Hive Central’s bustling Downtown. As a non-combatant, all they had to do was reach him and he would give up the info they needed [Move Through].

Nobody expected a Converted Acquisition survey team to show up in the heart of downtown and start “gathering” samples. While everyone with good sense ran away, the Revengers  ran to the danger. 

One teaming block of Hive Central [My new Micro Art Studio terrain]. 

The Revengers had only 4 of 6 crew for this caper. 

The Converted Acquisition came loaded for bear. 

The crew started at one corner subway entrance and had to make their way to the opposite one. 

Meanwhile the aggressive cyborgs guarded the objective location. 

It started well. They got the initiative, and benefited from a surprise encounter. 

Hugging cover and moving toward the exfil point. 

Lykos secures the extra objective along the way. 

The Converted take up firing positions. 

Cpt. Stevens draws first blood! One down, six to go! 

Deadly rattle gun fire peppers the Captain, but does not hit him (yet). 

Sawtooth drops the Insta-Wall! His go-to move. 

Stevens fails to take out the leader in a Police Squad style shootout. 

Sawtooth gets nailed by the second rattle gunner. The worm is turning now. 

Rourke and Lykos bring up the rear, but Rourke finds she has just one shot in her pistol! 

Stevens is stunned! [And I again forget his armor save. Sigh] 

Hit and seemingly taken out, he spends his Luck point. 

Rourke makes her one shot count. 

Meanwhile Cpt. Stevens’ luck has run out! Two of four Revengers are down, and 5 cyborgs remain.

Sasha draws her blade and gets personal! 

And the fighters take each other out!

Sole survivor Lykos takes out the enemy leader. 

Too little, too late. He gets blasted! 

The Revengers failed to get their man and defeat the converted, but all was not lost! 

I rolled a result of 7 on the Quest progress check. The next quest battle is the finale. But will anyone live to find out? 

Stevens was KO’ed with no ill effects. Sawtooth only had his scrap pistol destroyed. Lykos earned a miraculous escape and a Luck point! And Sasha Rourke suffered minor injuries—she’ll spend next turn in sick bay with Crane. 

In other good news, the Converted are not invading. 

We may need to go recruiting next turn, and I need to get Lykos some new weapons. A new model will be in order for him to celebrate his survival and acquisition of Luck! I have an Infantry Laser in my stash, so that will replace his shotgun. 

Only Stevens had enough XP to buy an upgrade, so I took his Toughness to a whopping 6! 

We’ll see what out next adventure on Vulcain brings. 

thanks for reading!