Session 1: We Three Kings

Alright, to get started we first need to highlight stats. You gain XP every time you use a highlighted stat, and you can pick one for any reason. Personally, I pick based on cool stuff I'd like to see you do.

I'll pick one of your stats, and the person you have the most HX with will pick the second. You guys should update your character sheets with your HX as well, since you can get XP from it.

Vega: Hard, and Hot (Ghost picked). (Vega has +2 with Eliza, and +3 with Ghost)

Eliza: Weird, and Sharp (Vega Picked). (Eliza has +2 with Vega, and +1 with Ghost)

Ghost: Sharp, and Weird. (Ghost has +1 with Eliza, and +1 with Vega)

After that, Eliza needs to roll her 'bonefeel' and Vega needs to roll for 'wealth'.

In a tie, just pick your favorite person. We'll re-highlight stats again, so it's not like this is a super binding decision.

So let's have Eliza pick.

Eliza should mark Sharp, because we need a keen mind to keep Advent going.
I think either of those options is good, and not just because they are my other positive stats. Cool is acting under pressure, Hot manipulating people. I guess Hot is more how I'm feeling right now. But your call in the end.

Go with hot. I thinking you'll be wrapping your lieutenants around your fingers sooner than we'll have to worry about being cool under pressure dealing with hardhold issues.

Technically it's the first day of winter, but it feels like the temperatures have been freezing for at least a month. Although Advent had a surplus of goods at the moment, Vega still sent out the daily scavenging party. The job is part recon, part peacekeeping, and part 'you can take any shit that you find out there'.

Prim, as diligent as always, opted to act as the muscle for the party by piloting his mech. Eliza, Ghost, and Mercer would be the ones fanning out and scavenging. The target of the day was a trash heap near the boundary of Advent's control, as the good spots closer to advent had already been picked though plenty.

Eliza managed to dig up an impressive looking hunk of technology, but she wasn't quite sure what it did yet. It's shaped like a big, black barrel, but is filled with wires and circuitry. Luckily she had all the right tools in place, and Ghost hadn't nicked them yet. Ghost is also there watching Eliza work, but she is getting some weird vibes from the strange machine.

Mercer and Prim are in a different area of the trash heap, but still within earshot.

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At the same time back at Advent, Vega had just woken up lazily at noon. The normal cacophony coming from the manufactury are absent, and you hear some groaning in the water pipes.

Ghost stares through Eliza at the barrel, gawking a bit, but Eliza's request snaps her out of her reverie. She pouts a little. "I'm doin' stuff," she says, and bounces to her feet, hat giving the lightest of tinkles at her annoyance. I'll fina thing, show her. As she heads for the mech and the coffee maker, she starts looking about, trying to will something useful into appearing, but her attention keeps getting pulled back to the barrel.

The black barrel is pretty wedged in muck, you'd have to use to use Prim's mech and some of your rope to pull it out of there. However, he might want a split of whatever it is. On the other hand, Eliza, you aren't even too sure what this thing is. If you had it back at your workshop you could determine it's exact usefulness.

Banter rests his chin of Vega's shoulder and wraps his hands around her waist. He needs to shave, his beard feels like steel wool.

"Should be in the afternoon. They left really early in the morning to save daylight, since it gets dark so early these days."

Wish brings back some cured mutton and a can of peaches. Only the best for the leader of Advent, after all. She respond to Vega's statement about the pipes.

"The plumbers were supposed to make sure that didn't happen. You think they are trying to unionize again?"

As Vega gets dressed, Wish finishes off the can of peaches. She's always had a taste for sweets... well you've never actually seen her turn down a meal at all. How the hell does she stay thin?

"Banter just jumped back into bed with the others, so I'll join you down to the tubes."

The long walk down the stone stairs is quiet, the only audible sound is the wind outside and the increasingly scary sounding pipes. Once you leave your specially guarded admin tower, you make your way across the frozen courtyard to the underground areas. In the spring there would be a market out here, but this weather is no joke. You pass a few guards who are on duty, who hastily drop what they were doing to make themselves look useful. Wish keeps the conversation as you walk at a brisk pace.

"Look at us, when did we get so lazy? Err, if you don't mind me speaking bluntly. We need a good raid to remind everyone why we are the ones in charge. Me and Fuse have been planning on starting a fighting pit, I told him I'd talk to you about it. What do you think?"