Seraphina had to head back to the village to stay with Carm who had found himself too uncomfortable with the desert runners. Alex meanwhile had found his way back to the village and was told that the group made their way to the RAM fortress.
Once Alex met back up with the group, they continued their infiltration, avoiding guards for a while, but there ended up being too many of them. As the adventurers continued, they executed each ill-fated soldier that found their way into the path of the adventurers.
After a bunch of soldiers came looking for the men who had died, eventually the base became alerted to the fact that a group of infiltrators was making trouble within the walls. As the alarm blared, the adventurers made their way to the second floor, where Tuscan had mentioned there was a high probability the control center was.
The adventurers used one of the extra large freight elevators to ascend to the second floor and as they arrived, there were two guards who died fairly easily. The room had a number of doors leading off of it, but only one was large enough to have equipment carried through it, and so that was the one the adventurers decided to go through.
After a moment of looking around, the adventurers entered the next room with a door large enough for equipment, and proceeded to kill the group of technicians and soldiers who seemed to be protecting a large equipment array.
A few minutes of examination showed the equipment array was a larger scale laser assembly that modeled the small scale assembly of the doomsday weapon found in the asteroid base. There was a lengthy discussion about the potential to just destroy the base by overloading the laser, but Tuscan was resistant to this idea, knowing there were a number of prisoners in the facility that should be rescued first.
As the group continued to argue, Tuscan and Alex headed off to try and find the control room. Eventually, the adventurers decided wholesale destruction of the base was not the best idea, and so while Max and Zaphod tried to figure out how to dismantle and destroy the weapon, Tuscan and Alex found their way to the control center.
In the control center, Alex and Tuscan killed the technicians and the soldier captain that were there before Tuscan opened the doors to the base and released the prisoners from the prison. The chaos that ensued was over in a few short minutes, with the desert runners overrunning the base and killing anything that resembled RAM personnel.
Alex witnessed a number of desert runners killing women and children, and when he commented that this was not a good look and made the desert runners no better than RAM, Tuscan mentioned that RAM had glassed two desert runner villages; he was past wanting to be better than them and was more interested in eliminating them.
Max and Zaphod determined there were a number of irreplaceable parts of the laser array and Buzz rallied a few desert runners to help remove them and get them stacked in a corner for transport.
Max spent some time investigating the control center and discovered there were a number of communications with some coordinates to a general area of the Venusian lowlands. Apparently this facility was a test facility and final equipment and lenses were waiting to be delivered and tested here. The Venusian facility was behind schedule to do some issues with the locals, and so technicians from this base were headed to Venus to assist the project.
Eventually the group determined that RAM reinforcement would not be there until two days later, and so decided to loot a little bit and get ready to move the Doomsday Weapon parts back to the Maelstrom Rider.
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