GM: Paul
Players: Brad-Ian, Cary-Cody, Jon-Simon, John-Alexander, Brandon-Prof. Politavo, Bob-Joseph/JD , Matt-Dusty, Paul-Meaghan(NPC)
Game Date: May 1 – 3, 2018 / May 28 – 29, 2018

We decide that we have all we need and start heading back from town, with the cart in tow and two motorcycles. We load our things onto the boat and Sean takes us back. The boat trip is about 45 minutes. When we return it is evening and we pretty much crash.

Simon goes off with Meaghan. Her mood is completely changed from before the trip, and she is really excited to have been part of the action. She drags him off to her bedroom.

The lead professor from the observatory asks Alex some questions about his physiology and his home planet. The Prof joins in on the conversation. Information is shared and the professors from the observatory share info about the Near Miss Meteor:

Length 3200m
Diameter 900m
Speed 195,000 km/h
It was roughly cigar shaped
It had a slow rotation along its axis

Ian cleans up one of the shotguns we found and gives it to Sean.

The next morning, Meaghan and Simon look exhausted. Everyone has breakfast and then Cody and the Prof begin working on the telescope. Cody brings jacks in and lifts the telescope up and the Prof replaces the wheel. The project takes all day but they make good progress. One of the female students is on the telescope near Cody and she loses her balance. He barely catches her and she is very grateful.

Ian continues to work on the guns.

Later that evening, the Prof gets the telescope prepped and turned the right direction to see the satellite. The students help him. Focusing in, he sees that it is a cylinder with a cluster on one end that looks like a dandelion in bloom. It looks like a satellite of some sore. The professors share information that they observed the night of the launch and, with the observations from Lapham Peak, calculate that it originated from between Union Grove and the freeway.  When zooming in, it’s seen that there is writing on the side of it. Alex translates that it is “Travel Relay 23”. He explains that this is a relay satellite.

The next day we decide to head out and go toward Union Grove. We leave the motorcycles because they don’t have any fuel. Meaghan comes with us. On the trip, we see a dog, what looks like a wolf hound, following us in the woods. We stop the cart and the dog stops too. Its fur is matted and it smells terrible. Dusty is able to bring it in with some jerky and it seems tame enough. He decides to bring it with us.

We set camp but after it gets dark we see a light in the distance. There is a house nearby. We set up watch but do not disturb them. In the morning we see a farmer outside the house. We break camp and leave toward Union Grove. The town is much like the others that we’ve seen. The Christmas decorations are still up and there are rotted out homes. We stay to the outskirts and move to the east side.

We get to the area that was marked on the map. We split the group into two — Cody, the Prof, Simon, Meaghan and Ian (along with the horses) go off following Cody. Alex, Dusty, the dogs and Joseph go the other direction. After a while of looking, Alex’s group runs into an invisible field that makes them nauseous. They call the other half of the group on the walkie and they meet back up. Joseph and Dusty are recovering and Alex comes out of the woods. He says that he has found the base station for the satellite. There is a sonic defense of some kind that turns on when it senses a non-Talolan.

Cody and Alex walk toward the relay with difficulty because of the sonic defense. They take a look and come back. Alex decides to go by himself and the defenses allow him to get in. There is a power station, defense turrets, and force fields around it and the crater from where the station launched. However, he can’t take down the defenses or use the station to teleport anywhere.

Alex relates all of this to the group, and we decide that we need Scotty’s help in order to help us with this. It takes a few days for us to get back home and then return with Scotty. He looks at it for about an hour and then he asks us to follow him. He will be entering our DNA into the system so we can enter the base and others that may exist.

Scotty says the facility is fully operational. There is a plasma generator and the guns are plasma cannons. The generator is extremely valuable and we must protect it. We decide to relocate the supplies and as many people as we can from Beloit to here. And since the satellite has the ability to relay a teleport signal, we could conceivably build or fix other stations like this around the area and teleport ourselves to them.

A while later, we have relocated things to the base and settled here a bit. On May 28th there is suddenly there is a notification on the computer that another relay has come online. Alex lets us know that we can now use the teleporter to go somewhere else but we won’t know where. There may be other aliens there.

May 29th, 2018 – After preparing their gear Alex, Scotty, Joseph, Ian, Simon, Meaghan, and Cody all go through the portal. Everyone but Alex is woozy. We see humans here, well armed and with cables everywhere. We ask them where we are and they say we are near Orlando.