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   * Serendipity debriefs to Spectre Vyix 9a - Honoured Guest was in fact Overstayed Guest, and has been successfully pruned. They were the one that actually caused the destruction of Vyix 9a, and have been growing ever more mentally unstable since. I'll pass over a full copy of the journals, and also mention that //Fractured Dawn// ending up in the vending machine was the suggestion of //Immersabilis II//, and was intended to summon help, not actually a plot to destroy Kylal.   * Serendipity debriefs to Spectre Vyix 9a - Honoured Guest was in fact Overstayed Guest, and has been successfully pruned. They were the one that actually caused the destruction of Vyix 9a, and have been growing ever more mentally unstable since. I'll pass over a full copy of the journals, and also mention that //Fractured Dawn// ending up in the vending machine was the suggestion of //Immersabilis II//, and was intended to summon help, not actually a plot to destroy Kylal.
   * Serendipity reports the existence of the Vending Machine facility to her contacts in Aspexx.  They are //thrilled// to discover an opportunity beneath the nose of Ace, and negotiations begin in earnest to give Aspexx control of the facility.   * Serendipity reports the existence of the Vending Machine facility to her contacts in Aspexx.  They are //thrilled// to discover an opportunity beneath the nose of Ace, and negotiations begin in earnest to give Aspexx control of the facility.
 +  * Serendipity constructs a second prototype of the connection she made with her drone in the field.
 +  * Fathom fills in Red Nine on any last bits she missed, then cements the tinkering he did with Bot '32 in the facility so that he can request a Vending Machine request from across the system.
 +  * Fathom works to analyse the collection of gems with an attempt to answer the question: what is the relationship between these gems and the ship hearts they appear to represent?
 +    * He finds that the fragments in the gems seem to be made from the same inexplicable material Ship Hearts, but the ages of the gems //far// predates the Ships they purport to be from.  //Immersabilis II// for instance can't possibly be from the esteemed successor to the ill-fated //Immersabilis// from a couple of decades ago -- not only is this not the same colour as that well publicised Ship Heart, but the mounting of its jewelry is thousands of years old...  Further investigation shows that every single fragment here is incredibly old and that the lot easily date back from before the end of the Last Interstellar War.  How they were cut, and how that could be achieved on whole Ship Hearts, eludes his understanding for now.  //Dawn// is particularly defensive of them and begins to display what can only be described as //parental// behaviour about its collected fragments.
 +  * Fathom also takes Fractured Dawn and Guest's journals back to the Vault, adds Heightened Serendipity to the access list for the Vault so that they can have access to the journals (and since they could probably just break in anyway if they wanted to, which would be embarrassing to all parties), and provides Fractured Dawn with an idiot-proof way for it to tell Fathom where it's going the next time it decides to go on an adventure (mechanically, this is tuning his Communicator to it...)
  
 ===== Consequences ===== ===== Consequences =====
  
-  * Breakdown of consequences for characters - rewards, effects, contacts. +  * The Vending Machine facility continues to pump out Vending Machines and launch them around the system. 
-  * Also mention any wider consequences for the world+  * Aspexx are now showing interest in the underground caverns beneath Ace's Place, giving them a reason to pay attention to the conflict with //Her Glorious Command//.
  
-==== All Characters ==== 
  
-  * Consequences 
  
-==== Character 1 ====+==== Deepest Fathom ====
  
-  * Consequences+  * May choose to have his communicator tuned to //Fractured Dawn//, at which point it will inform him of any ideas or hijinks it may get up to.  If he tunes out from it and forgets to reconnect during Downtime then he may not be informed. 
 +  * Mk II Overridden Vending Machine Bot: Bot '32 may be prevailed upon from across the system to launch a Vending Machine from across the system.  It will not arrive in the same Encounter, but rather a future one picked at random by the GM.  Vending Machines will either be a Loot or a Challenge Machine (again, picked at random): 
 +    * **Loot Machines** contain 3 items that may or may not be of use (e.g. weapons, ammo, supplies, keys, pastries) and only one may be purchased in exchange for 1 Clout -- the others will be immediately destroyed. 
 +    * **Challenge Machines** contain 3 items of increasing usefulness and delivers three challenges to the upcoming Encounter of increasing difficulty (e.g. "do the encounter while singing", "don't get hit", "without using guns").  If the challenges are completed, the prizes are dispensed. 
 +    * Vending Machines can be hacked with a successful Tinkering to override their programming, but a Failure will result in the machine destroying all of its prizes. 
 +  * **Ancient Relic**: a small shard of glowing translucent gem set into a metal ring.  This relic may be used to call PULL or PUSH once per Encounter.  Further uses of the call that Encounter may be achieved by sacrificing 2 hit points to the ring (like a Commando spending hits).  Keep track of how many hits are sacrificed to the ring and keep Katie updated.
  
 ==== Heightened Serendipity ==== ==== Heightened Serendipity ====
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   * One pending Elegy boon for accomplishing contract.   * One pending Elegy boon for accomplishing contract.
   * +2 Clout with Aspexx for alerting them to the Vending Machine facility.   * +2 Clout with Aspexx for alerting them to the Vending Machine facility.
 +  * Mk II Psychic Drone Connection: twice per Mission, out of combat, you may meld your mind with your Drone in order to control it precisely.  Your senses are as restricted as the drone's, and you are unable to control or sense your body while you are projecting into the Drone.  You may do this more times per Mission by taking a Severe Injury for each time you want to use it as it fries your mental pathways.
 +  * **Ancient Relic**: a small shard of glowing translucent gem set into a pendant.  This relic allows you, once per Mission, to choose whether or not a Decoy Hologram of yourself is //actually// you after all at the point you reveal it.  You may do this multiple times a Mission at the expense of a Severe Injury as doing this causes a rift in the space-time continuum.  Please inform Katie in downtime whenever you push this ability past the once per mission. 
  
-//Be sure to add tags for the characters// +{{tag>mission deepest_fathom heightened_serendipity}}
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-{{tag>mission character_1 character_2}}+
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