The 1st Quest of the Tau Ceti Kataphract (Picnic From Heck)

This is my first time hosting an event cut me some slack

On ‎24‎/‎08‎/‎2019 at 01:29, Marlon Phoenix said:

This is my first time hosting an event cut me some slack

no

Nudd Bilrost, Engine technician. Landed with the rest of the crew and the Knights to help with building anything that needed building. Once they landed they followed a blood trail and then the horrific black creature started attacking from out of the darkness. They retreated into and reinforced a cave with the help of his engineer friend Dick Yung. Nudd never got a really good look at the creature until it killed Yung in the caves and began dragging his body away. When Nudd pursued he got his first good look at the creature when it looked directly at him and hissed. It was at that point Nudd decided that such a horrific creature must be a demon or evil spirit for certain. After that everything is a blur of colour and emotion, people died or were injured every few minutes, the cave was filled with the cries of the dying and the shouts of a group of people too cramped to move and fight effectively. He remembers picking up a second energy glaive at some point and screaming. He remembers seeing a Tajaran on the floor bleeding to death. He remembers the evil creature's face staring at him as it pointed his way and how it crashed into him breaking his bones even while he took wild slashes with his weapon. From then his memory is hazy he came in and out of consciousness. He remembers the creature dying and the TCFL arriving and then painkillers consumed him. He'll certainly be dreaming of shapes in the dark for a long time.

Nyx Krastev, Lab Assistant. "I didn't really expect to do any fighting, really. I am planning to make my masters into xenobiology, so the prospect of an unknown fauna was really cool. I brought weapons and such mostly to give to others if they lost anything, but... it did not really go like that. Honestly I didn't even know where we were going until we landed and I recognized the foliage. I pretty early on noticed the fauna were both hostile, and very clearly not native. They didn't seem to fear us much at all, despite our group being heavily armed and large. I found some sorta paper that said they were, like, brought here by some smugglers, but I didn't get a very good luck at one until it came and hit me in the chest." She clutches her chest at the painful memory, "Once I got back to the lab and started to attempt a dissection it occurred to me they were probably 'Cave Geists', which is really exciting! I hope to take one apart once I have some more specialized tools. I don't think I have seen much on their anatomy, so I am super looking forward to diving in there."

Mechatronic Engineer, John Normandie's, Witness of events: God, where do I even start? I suppose I'll start from the near beginning, they came aboard asking for volunteers So I decided to volunteer and join in on the hunt, my colleague clockwork also joined me. We both had the ability to built support exo-suits for the quest so I built a Gygax while Clockwork built a medical exo-suit. I also built a RIG as a backup, just in case the monster was stronger than I thought. Oh boy was it? Fast-forward, we've seen the monster a few times. Tell you what? Scared the living [REDACTED] out of me, anyways, this thing injured a bunch of people... killed a few too I think, I had to escort the medical exo-suit back to the shuttle. Once we arrived at the shuttle I stood outside as it took off to protect it. I didn't know when it was coming back so I made it for the other survivors, yes, survivors, that's how bloody big this thing was.

I walked back to the caves passing by another cave opening, I walked past it but as I get to another cave opening, the Knights come running out asking me if I saw a cave nearby as it was flushed south east, I said "Yeah! Back over here!" I ran towards it and I SCREAMED, I quickly pulled up the MFD with the weapons display and targeting control, I aimed at this thing, gotta have been like 10 foot tall. I held that trigger down. The firing of the AC-2 Autocannon was shaking the cockpit, just a constant "Thump thump thump thump" I could hear the shell casings bounce off the arm, I watched them tear through that monster like it was nothing. But it was still standing! Coming at me! The Knights started to attack it too, this thing was ON me, I was scared for my life, and I had a right to be, because just a few seconds later, the cockpit hatch was RIPPED open. It pulled me out of the Gygax ripping me from cockpit. After that? I don't remember much, just waking up in medbay with a splitting headache, splinted arm and a bandaged head.

 

Attached below is an audio file with the events quickly leading up to the Gygax's demise.

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Edited August 28, 2019 by Dark1Star

Contractor Ostrom, EPMC. Witness Testimony: "I served as a field medic during the so-called 'Picnic from Hell' due to not being issued any equipment by the head of security. Upon asking for equipment I was informed to "remember Stalingrad - not every soldier gets a rifle." This is not an acceptable response to an employee under any circumstances. The tactics utilized were unimpressive: communication was poor, most of the hunting party seemed to be poorly armed and trained civilians, and medical supplies were limited. It was a complete command and logistics failure on every level, and the head of security did not perform his duty as a commander - instead opting to flee at the first sight of an unknown bioform. Suffice to say, I now have serious doubts about NanoTrasen's hiring process for directors of security aboard the Aurora II. I am also not impressed by the amount of unarmed civilians there were sent to die against the so-called creature. My opinions are my own, and do not reflect the opinions of the Eridani Private Military Contractors. Please contact Director van Vollenhoven for further inquiries, and have a blue sky day."

Yahir Na'Zirah, Shaft Miner, Witness: "He volunteered to join hunt along with others from the Aurora. He was a late arrival, but he was excited by the prospect and joined eagerly. This was a mistake on his part as he was not prepared for what awaited them on the planet. They gave him an energy glaive, he had never seen one of those before, but he wielded it like any spear. He followed a knight breaking off from the main group to investigate a Cabin while the main hunting party secured the area, they found a survivor inside. He was terrified, but he seemed like a nice man, it is a shame he did not make it. After finding the cabin, the beast found them and showed no mercy. It was terrifying. He stabbed it and shot it a few times, but he saw his allies dropping quickly. It seemed we had no medic with us. So he picked up a medkit from his fellow coworker and began tending the wounded the best he could... he is not a medic, but he was all they had. Many did not make it. For some all he could do was hold them as they passed. It reminds him of things he left back on Adhomai."