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Airpirates

Faced with a choice of actions, follow the android Cell into the wilderness, attack and loot a nearby overloaded Airship or follow the Hags desire to take the cargo of Souls to the rendezvous, the crew (well Captain) decides to follow the trail of Cell.

As is custom, the least skilled member in the task is chosen to follow the trail and Tony does surprisingly well following the 30 foot large footprints in the desert and soon found a cave where they seemed to lead.

Due to their choice of following Cell first, they found an ancient factory, maybe part of a larger building or something that fell from space, currently active and churning out new androids. but still only a few wandering about.

Slowly, new androids where being spat out of the machines at the end of the huge metal room, and the group entered the fray. For some obscure reason, Styx hamster balled himself across the room and clung onto the MAIN PROCESSING CPU of the entire factory, turning many rounds of battle and perception checks to identify the disk as the source of control over the machines, into... "Oh, yeah the disk you are almost kissing glows every time the androids are created, you pull it out? Taking all three actions, a massive crafting skill and many, many tools... um, sure that's easy enough.... and the factory shuts down"

The rest of the party did suffer a bit, with Dangira having a few close calls and Fletcher experimenting with ineffectual ranged attacks, but since the factory was shut down before it really got going, there were very few androids to content with.

Back on the Queens Rats Revenges Revenge, Captain Styx palmed over control to Tony so he could go and fiddle with the new Control Disk and the Suit of Powered Armor he had looted in the past managing to find the two were comparable in some way and wiring them together Still without power the suit is not yet ready for it's final reveal!

Acting-Captain Tony decided to go after the struggling Airship they had seen earlier and do a little of the ol' in-and-out piracy like the days of yore.

The find her quickly enough, still struggling under her low power and weight of the booty aboard, clinging to the canyons and they give chase.

The basic plan seemed to be (a) tie some people to the newly installed harpoon on the bow, (b) get behind the other ship (c) fire the harpoon carrying the unfortunates into the side of the ship.

The plan went somewhere awry immediately as the enemy ship tried to stay away from The QRRR and away from the nasty pointy thing on her bow.

Also the prey seemed to have an armored hide, and some narrow gun ports from which a lot of pointy arrows were being constantly flung out of. Oh, and cannons, several cannons.

Sky was the first one to flee the deluge of arrows and cannon fire, leaving his post on the Harpoon to seek healing from Tony. Styx was likewise brought low by the hail of fire and was healed up by a busy Tony, while Fletcher struggled to line up the harpoon on the target.

Dangira, still strapped to the harpoon by knots the result of a failed crafting check, ordered a crew member to fire the harpoon! Away borders and damn the guns! (Note the enemy ship at this stage was still behind them) The crew member kinda just shrugged his shoulders and fired her straight into the desert below where she was dragged behind the ship for several kilometers, shot at by the enemy who were taking bets on who could hit the dangling loot pinata, and eventually fell off and ran behind the ships for a couple of hundred meters as they slowly disappeared into the distance.

Annoyed at the failure of the plan, Styx and Sky threw themselves across and tried to make entry with breaching charges into the hull (Or turned themselves into an Ant and just kinda walked in, depending on individual tastes)

Fletcher and Tony, the only ones still visible, were quickly targeted and Fletcher brought down with a hail of cannon fire and arrows... enter the Hags, annoyed at the disobedience of their charge, they attempted to destroy what they saw as the one that prevented their plans, and they crash the QRRR into the enemy ship again and again, trying to kill Styx.

On board Styx played some games of hide and seek in the crates and barrels that fill the hold, using a card trick to re-stealth in the mess, while he and Sky generally slaughtered the trapped crew, to the degree that Styx runs out of ammo! A first!

Tony arrives after a while of heavy healing, pulling some FULL time doctor duties and acting as the parties blood bank, and eventually Dangira manages to catch up after a brisk jog in the desert and they finish off the remaining crew.

Fletcher also turns up but the Hags rage has faded and he slumps to the ground with no memories of his destruction of the QRRR (now crushed and lifeless on the desert floor, never to fly again!)

(Ok I wasn't expecting this outcome so we had to wing it with some temporary art..)