Episode description
In the first session of our new MechNoir game, the freelancer problem-solving crew known as The Chime begins an investigation into the disappearance of their friend, the genius roboticist Cene Sixheart, and the destruction of the recently completed BluSky Dome. Mako Trig (Keith Carberry) and Cassander (Art Tebbel) deal with increasingly absurd robots. Meanwhile, the robotic AuDy (Jack de Quidt) tests the limits of their spaceship, and Aria Joie (Ali Acampora) launches!
Plot
Opening
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AUSTIN: The camera opens on five rigs hanging in a semi-circle formation above what looks like a class-5 planet, an orb of blue skies, streaming clouds, and the glow of life. But the scale, it’s all wrong. The rigs are too large in the frame of the camera, and you can tell that their boost packs are straining to keep them aloft in the gravity of Counterweight. The would-be globe, blue and alive, isn’t a globe at all. It’s only half a sphere, sticking up above ruined earth and illuminating the cratered ground for miles around its soft glow. The rigs are, mostly, heavily modified Minerva Rooks, the backbone of the Oricon forces during the Golden War. One of the rigs on the far side of the semicircle has a sort of flat obelisk for a head, with a camera attached to the side. It pivots inwards toward the center of the group, and it brings the unit’s comms alive with a crackle.
AUSTIN (as Bishop): [filtered] Tea, uh, I-I mean Queen Captain-?
AUSTIN: His voice is hesitant, but before he can actually issue any sort of complaint he is cut off.
AUSTIN (as Tea): [filtered] Bishop, you wanted to step up and start running ops, well here we are. Save your commentary for debrief.
AUSTIN: Bishop turns his rig back towards the orb.
AUSTIN (as Bishop): [filtered] Yes ma’am. Understood.
AUSTIN: The group takes a moment to check their gear; and then shoots across the sky in wide arcs, slamming into the BluSky Dome with tactical precision. And then, explosions. And then, sirens. And the camera zooms in just a little bit closer to the dome, and the blue skies and the clouds, the glow of life, it flickers and fades, replaced by the pulsing red of emergency claxons.”
Cast
- Austin Walker
- Ali Acampora (Aria Joie)
- Keith J. Carberry (Mako Trig)
- Jack de Quidt (AuDy)
- Art Tebbel (Cassander Timaeus Berenice)
Other Characters
- Tea Kenridge (intro)
- Bishop (intro)
- Orth Godlove
- Jamil Quartz-Noble
- J-m 27
- Don Cougar Mellencamp-themed AI clerk
- Shell Lotz