Hanging gardens - session reports

After completing the clan-meeting and killing Byteboy in a most gruesome way our heroes felt somewhat at a loss for what to do next. Some luxurious relaxation was requested and the Erikssons got news of the hottest thing in Spa(s) this season - The Hanging Gardens. A luxury multiplex with it's own atmospheric bubble located some miles outside the Indian sector - their main selling point; custom ordered virtual dreams. A number of good reasons to book a three day stay was briefly considered and off they went.


What interested the party the most was the dream technology and a very thorough investigation of its properties was conducted. Conspiring with Munin-1 via the tactical network the family planned to record a series of carefully planned dreams for use in later research towards immortality. Albert dreamt of rites of passage, Einhjard of heroic death, Idunn made the long hard journey to the south pole and Tor Erik was born (again).

The dreams proved impressive, but the data where lacking some crucial elements of the experience - so the siblings reevaluated their plan to steal the technology. They filed for a meeting with the human leader of the complex, a plump man known only as Guru. Not a very patient scientist Tor Erik made a flat out proposal for a joint venture with the garden, and they agreed to meet again for further discussions.

Aside from the dreaming the party also focused on dining at the exquisite Red-India Garden restaurant and made a number of new acquaintances. Among them the restaurant chef and a briton gentleman called Lord Grey. The chef was most impressed by Idunn's homegrown strawberries and daiquiris was served en masse. The Lord was much more aloof, but a good sport.

Here follows the players own recollections of the next sitting; wednesday 25th of January at ISOTOP art studio:


Tor Erik dream about his parents death again. He still struggles with understanding his psi power. As he decides to gather intelligence from outside the Hanging Gardens he is trapped in the family ship Wolfhöken for the remainder of the session and learns the hard way that infosec is an underrated skill. Towards the end he gets to hone his interrogating skills on a captured russian agent. A foot is amputated in the process; the agent spills it all.

Einhjard was enjoying relaxed views in dreamland. Women and spa help Einhjards massive body and mind to top notch again. Dreamt about many falls, free-falls. There where also a heavy, wrong and unnecessary running session. Again Einhjard had good contact with the ship. Flying it with steady hands. Good pilot.

Albert almost died, survived and got shockingly disgusted by the doctors way of interrogating our new asset. It bothers him that the russian lady got into the hands of that fat fuck of a lord. I laid my life in the hands of the group in an heroic manner that may give me back the moxie i spent. The way he and sister Idunn spearheaded the operation was hugely enjoyable. Note to self: buy surveillance equipment.

Idunn was eager, as always, to make new acquaintances. And Lord Gray was just as reserved as you would want a proper Lord to be. When the alarm went off, she approached the security staff to offer her help and expertise. Her flowing whirlwind of a sword-dance did not, however, go down well with the guards, and she was asked to, kindly, remove herself from the building. So she quietly followed the crowd out of the room and made for the action. She surprised and subdued a stun gun guard, and soon after found herself in a larger room full of dead bodies (among them Guru). Here the russian agent moved on her with a blade, but she was on him before he could react, and put both of her swords to good use on the man's torso, then disarmed him. By now Einhjard had returned from his runaround, and carried the russian out to the ship Wulfhöken.

We leave the family as they decide where to go with their prisoner. Stay tuned.