Post by Admin on May 28, 2019 5:19:18 GMT
The dispatch detailing the discovery of the new Masters’ cache arrived on the latest courier, and your orders followed shortly thereafter. Recall your crew, prep your ship and depart with all due haste for the excavation site - a place the dispatch called “Broken Mound.”
As a member of the command crew of the salvage frigate EGS Faithful, you are used to receiving sudden orders that send the ship hawking down to dark and dangerous places deep within the Twilight Frontier. When a new Masters’ cache is discovered, there is always the chance that drift may carry it out of lodestone range or that rival scavengers might beat the recovery crew to the site. It’s not unknown for even Children of the Dark to scour clean a cache between the time it’s first surveyed and a salvage team arrives.
This is why the Faithful and her crew of sailors, excavators, arcanotechnicians and soldiers serve long shifts on standby, ready to depart at a moment’s notice. This is why you find yourself and your fellow Knights rushing about, shouting orders and supervising last-minute preparations. This is why you now pore over navigation charts making final decisions about optimal courses and speed of safe descent - weighing risks versus rewards.
This is also why you find yourself glaring with equal parts curiosity and suspicion as the heavy dram rolls down the quay and halts at your ship’s stern keel gate. When ground crew pull off the heavy tarp and a re-fitted Masters’ sentry cog climbs off the truck bed, you can’t help wondering, “Why is headquarters sending an ancient, reverse-engineered war machine on this mission?”
And, as the cog stalks like an oversized, arc-powered bird up your ship’s stern loading ramp and you recognize the even sterner woman keeping pace alongside, you can’t help wondering, “What the hell is she doing here...?”
As a member of the command crew of the salvage frigate EGS Faithful, you are used to receiving sudden orders that send the ship hawking down to dark and dangerous places deep within the Twilight Frontier. When a new Masters’ cache is discovered, there is always the chance that drift may carry it out of lodestone range or that rival scavengers might beat the recovery crew to the site. It’s not unknown for even Children of the Dark to scour clean a cache between the time it’s first surveyed and a salvage team arrives.
This is why the Faithful and her crew of sailors, excavators, arcanotechnicians and soldiers serve long shifts on standby, ready to depart at a moment’s notice. This is why you find yourself and your fellow Knights rushing about, shouting orders and supervising last-minute preparations. This is why you now pore over navigation charts making final decisions about optimal courses and speed of safe descent - weighing risks versus rewards.
This is also why you find yourself glaring with equal parts curiosity and suspicion as the heavy dram rolls down the quay and halts at your ship’s stern keel gate. When ground crew pull off the heavy tarp and a re-fitted Masters’ sentry cog climbs off the truck bed, you can’t help wondering, “Why is headquarters sending an ancient, reverse-engineered war machine on this mission?”
And, as the cog stalks like an oversized, arc-powered bird up your ship’s stern loading ramp and you recognize the even sterner woman keeping pace alongside, you can’t help wondering, “What the hell is she doing here...?”
