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16. Armour #SST25

16. Armour The forge station was able to create many wonders, to some it could create hugely powerful weapons, others could make life sustaining and giving technologies, another used it to build a prototype kit capable of making any land viable for agriculture. But one member of the Council of Arcanum had designs for a powerful suit of armour. A powered suit, allowing everything about the wearer to be enhanced. Thus one prototype suit was slaved over day and night, making the servos, the internal lining, the armour plating and the reactive systems all work flawlessly together. In theory anyone could step inside this suit, and as long as it had power it’d perform as if it were a second skin. A dancer who’d never even slipped into the lightest leather armour could put this suit on and perform their same award winning dances with the same grace. The suit had one shortcoming, and that was how quickly it drained power. Each proprietary power cell would allow for an hour of use, but advanced features such as flight, heavy lifting and enhanced speed would drain the cell even faster. Sadly this suit never saw the light of day, and the unimaginatively named “advanced power armour mark 1” has sat in storage untouched for nearly a thousand years at this point.

sep 16, 2025, 10:46 pm • 4 1

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17. Mercenary and 18. Ambush #SST25

17. Mercenary The adventurers tasked with finding and destroying the Forge space station were initially hired as a group of mercenaries. The soldier Jarrus had been gravely injured and trapped within a lifeboat when the group came to his aid. Needing allies for his investigation to find this forge before a strange group of cultists got their hands on the tools to access it, he offered the three young people work. Amazingly they all started working well as a team, together finding the first below ground bunker containing one of the access keys they required, before returning to the soldier’s home base, now able to report in. His mercenaries ended up being rather loyal, so their employment was extended, now being managed by the special forces branch the soldier was a member of. The group have been loyal to the cause this long, but it remains to be seen what will happen once they destroy the forge station, if they even destroy it rather than seizing it for their own gain.

18. Ambush! The adventurers were traipsing through a boggy swampland, mud caking their boots as they all moved along in pursuit of the teleporter that’d beam them inside the forge station. They spotted a trio of what looked like human bodies, lying face down in a bog, unmoving. It was only when the young mage Faith stepped in and attempted to try and administer some healing did the creatures attack. Looking like bloated human corpses with extra appendages and limbs, these creatures lunged at the group. The party took the battle to these creatures, shooting, blasting, and cutting them down, and while one of their allies had been knocked down, a small amount of healing energy restored her, and the party were victorious, managing to fend off this ambush in the swamp, becoming one step closer to making it within the forge station.

sep 18, 2025, 11:02 pm • 2 1 • view

19. Missiles and 20. Ruins #SST25 These were hard to think of anything good to write about that matched up with the Forge station.

19. Missiles Missiles, a hidden defence system set up around all possible approaches to the forge. These high explosive devices were set up in such a way that they could be fired by anyone who connected themselves to the man/machine interface within the control room. Though at this point, no one ever fired any missiles, and after almost a millennium, it’s entirely possible that these missiles may never be fired, being left to degrade within the firing chambers dotted throughout the forge’s exterior hull.

20. Ruins Hidden deep within a cave atop a rocky outcropping within the northern salt bluffs was an ancient bunker where one of the council’s top scientists went into hiding. He’d kept it safe and had even built a dimensional portal within, allowing his terraforming device to be hidden elsewhere, far outside of the hands of those who would misuse his device. He knew that one day people would eventually come looking for his passkey to the forge, but knew that that day may come long after he had passed away. He decided to take drastic action, constructing a device capable of holding his consciousness. He perfected everything about it, then when the time came, sat in his chair and began the transfer, his body expiring in the process.

sep 20, 2025, 11:10 pm • 3 1 • view

21. Junk #SST25

21. Junk The noblewoman’s father was an inventor of some repute, along with being the lord who sent her party to the forge station to blow it up. The party had fought valiantly and slain the surviving council member along with his experiment, a new body built to house the consciousness and power of a demigod. She looked over the machinery used to create this experiment, pieces of glass and metal that once formed a pod, now reduced to a pile of junk and rubble on the ground. She knew she wanted to bring some advanced technology back for her father, and so picked through the pile, picking out pieces that looked to be of interest. Pieces of copper pipe attached to complicated looking valve sets with a series of dials and gauges that seemed incomprehensible to her, but perhaps her father could make use of these. She finished gathering and stowing interesting items carefully in her pack before moving back over to the rest of her party.

sep 21, 2025, 7:36 pm • 3 1 • view

22. Fire! #SST25 Trying a more poetic type thing for this one, not sure how it works, but my players named their party the Fire Brigade so this feels somewhat appropriate.

22. Fire! Fire, the most used element wielded by the adventuring party known as the Fire Brigade. Fire, the action used to describe an attack using the firearms that most of the members wield. This party, formed around the rescue of a lone investigator, and endorsed by a powerful nobleman before being joined by his firstborn daughter, now looks set to destroy a great evil sitting in orbit, The Forge Space Station. Fire, the command likely to be issued, setting off a chain reaction to destroy the station, as the Brigade make a daring escape, returning to the planet as heroes.

sep 22, 2025, 10:37 pm • 1 1 • view

23. Blue #SST25

23. Blue The great blue ocean was visible on all sides, and leant against the side of this small rowboat was a heavily injured man. Jarrus looked out, his clothes were shredded and torn, barely anything was left of his shirt while nothing remained of his trousers below the knees. He continued staring out, disassociating after just about managing to escape from this island base in the middle of the sea. He’d been investigating a cult who’d shown up recently, following them aboard a ship which led to that base. It was here that Jarrus heard about the Forge space station, and knew that he needed to get out of there and stop whatever this plan was. Jarrus had been found shortly after that, strapped to an operating table in a “conversion chamber”, he wasn’t sure what exactly it was meant to do, but fortunately he’d managed to break out before the process had been completed. Though he hadn’t come out unscathed. The conversion chamber had hacked off his lower legs, replacing them with uncomfortable prosthetics, then doing the same with his right arm, brutally drilling a socket into his torso to attach the arm to. He felt the chamber attach something to his back before going to remove his other arm. He continued floating in the rowboat, hoping it’d take him to civilisation and someone who could help him, along with allies to potentially bring down this Forge thing.

sep 23, 2025, 11:28 pm • 1 0 • view