Delta Base:Missions:Mission One

In which an agent has gone missing and a world is discovered

About a month after the first few Field Agents were recruited for Delta Base. The first mission was sent out. However as is common for IS teams not everything went as planned. The first mission was acctually a solo mission for Field Agent Trina Karlighal. The intent of the mission was to explore the surrounding country side in order to assess the state of affairs on this reality. Since all scans of the planet's atmosphere and surrounding biosphere came back as clean it was assumed that this planet was earth norm and either empty or in an earlier stage of development. After a few covert fly overs it was established that there were signs of low tech civilazation to the south and south east. So it was to the south east that Trina set out. After a day and a half of travel through the forest she came upon a wide open plain and followed it to a wide dirt road that had a good number of people traveling along it. A number of the people traveling along it seemed poor and week to Trina so she offered to help them carry their goods to their destination. Thier reaction at first was afirmative until a little while later the hood on her cloak slid back and reveiled her tattoos. At this point the woman who she had been helping shrieked and damanded that she return the goods that she was carrying. A few of the surrounding men took notice and began to move meancingly toward Trina. Almost as they were on her a carrage pulled up and three men brandashing an assortment of weapons jumped out. A rather menacing man with red hair quickly put himself between between Trina's attackers and her and told them to "back off, if they knew what was good for them". After brief exchange Trina's would be assailents backed off and moved along their way. The gentlemen from the coach invited them to travel north with them to Orius. Trina much thankful for the opportunity to learn more about this world(and rest a little)accepted. The red haired gentleman tried to help her to the cabin of the carrige but Trina declined saying that she was mor than capable. The men introduced themselves as Melios, Tobias, and Jobrel Merchants from the neighbring kingdom of Thule. When Trina removed her cloak the men began to stare at her tattos in a very interesteded way. When she inquired to their interest they appologized and inquired as to what guild she was from. When she showed obvious lack of understanding as to what they meant by guild Tobais removed his left glove and revealed a ornate tattoo that the amulet translated into the word "merchant. He then set about explaining that his country had a goverment based on guild assosiation and asked her where she was from. After a few hours of continually changing the subject Trina finally played the fool saying she had lost he memory and was lost and confused. The gentlemen looked at each other with a look of overwellmeing happiness that Trina could not understand at that point. When they arived at Orius the men said they had business to attend to but would be more than happy to help her find a place to stay and then help here find out who she was. She thanked them and accepted their offer. While the day wore on Trina occupied herself by learning more about the local culture (which seemed to be Roman) and eventually made her way to the local tavern Orius' Cup. There she made friends with the local tart 'check notes' and managed to gmable here way into a little money. At dinner the gentle man wh Identified himself as Jobrel came to the tavern and invited her to come to dinner with him and his friends. Trina accepted and went back with them to the inn they were staying at. When they were on their way back Trina Got hit in the back of the head by some thing and blacked out. When she awoke she was in an expensively furnished room with and her money and belongings were gone. As she stagered to her feet she noticed that it was a bedroom and that there was a dead body on the the bed. When she inspected him it looked like he had been badly burnt over most of his torso and face. Not knowing what had happened but knowing she was likely to be suspect she slid out the window and down to the ground. Her head was still killing her but she had only one thing on her mind, finding Jobrel and finding out what happened. When she finally found her way back to the inn where she was staying she saw gaurds waiting at the enterance and slip away. The only other person she knew was _________ so she went back to the bar and waited for her to get off for the night. When she finally got ahold of __________ she told her her story. _________ feeling sorry for her gave he a little money and told her to run south and run fast. About a half hour out of town a man sudenly appeared in front of her. Trina immeaiatly went for her gun but then realized she had lost all her belongings. "where are we headed", said the dark figure. All of a sudden a light shot out from his hand and hit Trina, that is all she remembers.

After not hearing from Trina for two days Sunny and Brian got nervous and sent out a team of a few agents to look for her. These agents included, Doctor Abendroth, Jubal Cobb, Jericho Irons, and Walter Frener. After a short mission brief and introduction Sunny took the Agents up to the armory to get them outfitted. Everyone was given a what they assumed local clothing would look like, with the exception of Jubal who was given a ridiculously hot set of barbarian furs(which he loved). Also weapons and such were given out and again everyone grabed something except for Jubal whowas given a daringer with no bullets(bullets were given to Jericho should Jubal acctually need them).

The party traveled by horse in the same way and direction that Trina had been sent with instructions to report in every 24 hours. Their trek passed quickly and uneventfully the group got to know each other better and the doctor shared his libations around the campfire at night. None of them being experinced campers they awoke the next morning to a loud gonging sound that Jubal was making as he tried to kill the small woodland creatures who were stealing the crums and rations left over from dinner last night. After only about 3 hours of travel the came to the edge of the woods and what looked like a small logging opperation that looked as if it had been left in the middle of a work day. Even as they got down to look around they could see in the distance a group of about 2o men headed their direction. Rather than wait aroud to find out what the meen were up to they decided to ride off to the south and cut around. When no one was looking however Jubal decided to help himself to one of the groups axes. After a few more hours of traveling they came to a road that lead north and south. After a little discution the Doctor, who thought they should go south, gave into the others who figured since their were more people moving north. As the survied the crowd they noticed that most of the locals were wearing what looked like roman style togas and robes deciding that they needed to get some local clothes and cover they hatched a plan to "aquire" a carrige and with it some local goods and clothes. A hour and a half later they spoted such a carrige slowly comming up behind them. They rode ahead a little and set their plan into action Jubal pulled out his guitar and set up in the middle of the road to play a song with wich to captivate the driver or owner of the carrige. Meanwhile, the doctor and Walter layin wait off to the side in order to keep and eye on the situation. The doctor had prepared a few hypos of knock out juice and walter summoned a fire ball. Jericho got off his horse and back tracked to make it look like he was walking along side the road. The carrige stopped about six feet infront of Jubal and the men on top seemed delighted by his song which he used to put them at ease and make them relax. When the carrage had come to a full stop jericho slid up to the side and laucnhed himslef through and open window and found himself confronting two men with weapons. as soon as he hit one of the meen tapped the wall behind him and a third man hoped out of a hidden compartment in the back and came around the side. The doctor saw this and ran out of hiding and hit this guy in the neck with his knock out juice. When the man swerved around to grab the doctor he took a few steps and then got hit with a humongous fireball in the chest. At this point Jubal who had been working his way closer to the driver and passenger on top finished his song and was awarded a little money as a reward. When the money was safely on the ground Jubal swung at the man with his guitar fritening him. All of a sudden the driver got his wits back and went for a knife. Jubal climbed up the side and hit the driver in the head and knocked him off. After Jericho and the doctor made short work of the two gentle men inside the cart they decided to tie up the old man who had thrown Jubal the money and pull the cart of the road. In the attempt the do this they fouled the reins and ended up riding the horses in order to guide the carrige.

After a Intterogating the one remaining concious prisoner who turned out to be the owner of the carrige thay let him go and set him on his way to the town to the south telling him to turn his compatriaites in as traitors to the Empire. He rode off and in great haste but seemed to have every intention of doing what was asked of him. After a quick burial of the other two gaurds and a quick lunch they sat back off down the road. A hour more of riding brought them to the city of Orius where Jubal sat about making a little money singing and playing guitar for people. He also used the opportunity to captivate people into thinking that they had met both E. Nigma and Sunny. However his discriptions lead to a very possitive veiw of E. Nigma and a very negative veiw of Sunny. When the group finally settled in they found themselves at a local tavern called Orius'Cup. Jubal set up shop and started to play while the doctor, who hadn't had a drink in about three hours bellied up to the bar and started evaluating the culture through its available beverages. He bought 3 different bottles of varying alchohalic beverages and finished off a few more. Jerricho started surveying the crowd and looking for people who seemed out of place. Not wanting to be suspicious himself he choose a vantage point on the upper balcony overlooking the door. After a few hours with little in the way of out of place, Jerricho finally noticed that the gloved gentleman at the table next to his seemed to be surveying the room in the same way as he was. After a breif converstion with the man he excused himself and went back to his table. About 15 min later another gentle man came and sat next to the mysterious stranger and about 5 min later with out a word exchanged between them the stranger left. When he did Jerricho followed him and tracked him back to his hotel. After he managed to follow him into the inn where he was staying but was stopped from going upstairs by the owner who insisted that he purchase a room. Jerricho consented stating that the room was only for one person, the innkeeper lead him upstairs to a room in a different hallway from the stranger. After he had settled in he quickly traced back down a the hallway to the set of rooms that he knew the strager was staying in. After listening at a few of the doorways and almost wakeing up an elderly woman from her restful sleep he came to a room he had passed earlier where someone was whistling. After a failed attemp to pick a lock which should have been simple he decided to bust down the door. As the door shatered inward he saw a the tail end of the stranger disappearing out the window. He like wise jumped head first through the window only to find himself quickly headed to the ground below. After he tucked and rolled and after looking up saw the end of a cloak dissappearing over the edge of the roof. He raidioed for help and soon jubal who had been talking to the local gaurd captain Antonius Maximus about the recent murder of their mayor by a odd overwaller spy with green hair and wierd guild markings. They Lost the stranger in the crowd and decided to return to the bar. Once there jubal coeirced ___________ into sunggling up next to the other stranger on the upper floor. Once this was acomplished he came up the stairs to play them a song and then attacked him with little success. After this the new stranger bolted for the staris but was caught and sudued by Jericho. They took him back to their room and after paying the inn keep a little extra for insurance they took him up to their room to interogate him. This proved to be difficult as nothing much they said seemed to have an effecton the gentleman. And after an hour or so of this they left him tied up and unconcious in thier room and headed back to the bar. When they got there Jubal's friend ___________ was siting next to a rather large gentleman dressed in the local gaurds uniform. His name was Antonius Maximus and as it turned out he had been on gaurd duty the night of the murder. All he could remember was that everything had been normal until it got very dark and then a few minutes later everything was normal again. An hour after that they found the mayor dead. He excused himself. Then ____________started to snuggle up to Jubal and sugest that they go somewhere private. Jubal consented and afterwards she reveled that trinal had come to her late that night and that ____________ had sent he south.

With this new clue the team headed south and after about 6hrs Sleepign/Driving the Doctor and Jericho saw something come down out of the sky. The team thought that was some what odd and started to investigate when all of a sudden a gunshot rang out of the night and wizzed by the carrige. Immidiately jericho started circiling arund the near by hill where he thought the shots had come from. Walter cast a fireball spell and started runing up the hill. Jubal never haveing shown any previous skill with horses some how manges to get the horses with the carrige to charge up the hill but leaves the poor doctor in the lying in the mud. Right as everything is about to come to a head. Jubal hears a clicking sound over his radio and can all of a sudden hear the man who he is running to talking to someone else over his headset. Jericho call everyone else off and the gentleman at the top of the hill Identifies himselpf as Holden and says that he and a man Named Grishnayk van Eyke were sent by E. Nigma andSunny as backup. Once the stories are confirmed the group heads south in to a small town called Cuttersmark and are after getting the lay of the land they are confronted by three things. The first is a mysterious holy man named Brother Nemo who tells them that he has been waiting for them and has been told by his God's that he is to help the party in a very important way. While talking to the party they notice a strager in the corner who starts to move towards and out the door. As Holden and Jubal move to follow him Holden runs ahead and Jubal is cut off by a rather large local with a big stick in his hands. Before Jubal can do anything he is hit in the gut and then head and loses conciousness. When Holden looks back he sees the large local standing over a body and assumes that Jubal has been hurt. Holden draws his gun and shoots but misses and this attracts the rest of the party'e attention. Every one in the bar starts moving towards the door and the big local runs down a side alley. Holden runs after him and is quickly joined by Grishnack van Eyke they move when they get to the alleyway Holden sees the big guy going in a door about halfway down the alley. He takes a shoot and lands a bullet in the mans shoulder and he drops. A few seconds later men come pouring out of the bar and two heads pop around the corner. Turns out the large gentleman was an ax cutter who Jubal had stolen an ax from near the woods. After the doctor and brother nemo attend to most of the wounds (though jubal is still quite injured) they try to figure out what happend to the figure that slid out of the bar earlier. They check at the local stable and figure out that the man left about an hour ahead of them. Not wanting to folow him in the dark they put in for the night eat and get to know there new companion better. The next morning as others rise brother nemo seeks solitude while most of the party eats and searches out local clothes. After everyone is ready they move down the road to what they are told is a much larger town named Lenius

Upon ariving in Lenius they quickly start looking for a the strangers from either the bar in Orius or the inn at Cuttersmark. Though the city is quite busy and they are newly arrived it is not lon till jericho spots a hooded character of the same build as the stranger they met in Orius that seems to bee shadowing them. As soon as they take off after him he runs into the back alleys of the city. They split in to two groups and follow him through the twists and turns of the city the first group comprised of Jericho, Grishnayk, and the the Doctor are on foot while the rest of the group stay to the road ways in the carrage. After turning a sharp corner Jerricho gets a bolt from a crossbow in his shoulder from a red haired gentleman who seems to have been waiting for them. Before anyone can react the man seems to have pulled another crossbow from out of thin air and is leveling it at Jerricho for another shot. Jerricho reacting to this new threat puls out his pistol and shoots the red headed menace in the arm but he seems to barly notice and fires off another shot. A jerricho starts to feel weak Gryshnack steps around him and take a shot at the man also. Even though Grishnayk knows it was a hit the guy keeps comming and is drawing a sword from it sheath. With out much thought Grishnack takes a shoot at the strangers head and a second later there is a body laying on the ground with no head. The hooded strager is nowhere to be found but the red head had a parchment script in his pocket telling to meet Jobrel at Lenius' Helm. After inquireing around they found out Lenius' helm was something of a local legend and that there were many buildings named after it and statues depicting it. They stoped at a local bar and inqired futher as to what the place they sought might be and learned that most out of town visiters would probably be looking for the hotel towards the center of town that bore the name of the famous helm. After traveling towards the center of town, which took a while as it was midday, they came upon a large four story stone building that seemed to be one of the most promenent structures that they had come upon so far. When they discovered that this was the Lenius' Helm inn they sent Grysnak and Brother Nemo in to scout out the place and Holden and Jericho watched the exits. Had settled in Brother Nemo at the bar and Grishnack in one of the chairs by the fire place they began chating up the people around them. Brother Nemo was well received by the bartender who it turned out was a Familian Believer and Grishnyak meet a merchant by the name Tobias who meeting with some prospective buisness partners. After a brief conversation Grishnyck got bored and started to check out the upper floors of the more "economy" part or the inn while brother nemo continued his converstion with the bartender. After a bit of time has passed Grishnack now back in the middle of the bustling inn sees a man appear and disappear right in front of him. Not knowing what to think he continues to look around and is joined by both jericho, the Doctor, and Jubal. Jericho takes more intrest in the gentleman by the fire and also notes that either his business partners are very late or he must be lying. Jericho begins chatting with him and notices that he is wearing gloves. Jerricho braches the issue of religion with the Tobias and both profess to be nonbelivers. After a while Jericho learns that the gentleman has is an "overwaller" and is a merchant that is travelling and trading to with the locals. He even shows jericho his guild mark on his left han which the amulet translates as reading "Merchant". After a little bit more converstion Tobias excusses himself and heads to his room Jericho tries to shadow him but losses him on the third floor.

A bit discouraged the group takes a break and while Holden and Jerricho whatch the hotel the doctor and the others start looking around for a bookshop or mapmaker. They manage to find a book shop in the same square as the hotel and the Doctor finds a book about the local history of the world and the country that they are in as well as procuring a map of the Empire also. After about an hour they all meet back up and jericho has come up with a plan.

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