Following the close calls with the Delani Sisters and Levrek Nes, Verrack has completed the repairs to the ancient astromech found on the quarantined zombie planet. Upon activation, a recording was triggered. A man identifying himself as Majester Lensh Magnus of Crysium. With his world falling before invaders, he placed his world’s greatest treasures into a hidden, impenetrable vault and sent his most trusted aides to the reaches of the galaxy to hide artifacts that would lead a future child of Crysium to the treasure so that Crysium would not be forgotten and might live on. The Casket led to the vault with the droid, TL-71R, and the guard droids at the vault were meant to verify that the one trying to access it was a descendant of Crysium. Finally, there were three keys, each leading to the next, and all three required to access the vault.

His programming activated, TL-71R provided information on the first key. It was entrusted to one of the Elder Houses: House Serenno, of the planet of the same name. The current head of the house, Count Mura, was working to maintain status in the Elder Houses following the major blow to the house’s reputation when Count Dooku led the Confederacy of Independent Systems during the Clone Wars. The crew presented themselves as fellow nobles at a banquet the Count was hosting. Eri’anya took the role of a Crysian heir who was entitled to the key held in the vault, and Mura believed her, ultimately allowing her to obtain the first key.

With the first key in place, TL provided Kuat as the location of the second key. The group made their way to the location…to find the vault was blown open and empty. A new recording from Lensher was triggered, stating that if a key had been removed from its location without TL, a tracker would be activated. TL was able to determine that it was still on Kuat, and the group determined that it was in the home of the “Red Queen,” an eccentric socialite. As they tried to determine how to get the key from her, they learned that she was a fan of a celebrity “reality” holo-series about a wealthy family in the Tapani sector, being a particular fan of a member of the family who eschewed the spotlight. They opted for a non-violent route, and Eri posed as that family member, wanting to meet her biggest fan. They infiltrated her house and successfully stole the key, which was on display in her library.

The final key’s location took them to Jedha, and the Temple of the Whills. With the Temple under Imperial control, they elected to pose as an Imperial inspection team. While looking for the key in the Temple, all Imperial forces were called to evacuate. They found the key and left the planet just as a metallic sphere the size of a small moon entered space over Jedha City.

With all three keys, the coordinates for Crysium were unlocked. Upon arrival they found a dead world, and quickly located the site of the vault. They were not prepared for what they found. Inside were thousands of hibernation capsules. In them were Lensher’s son and daughter, their spouses, and their children. The rest contained Crysium’s greatest geneticists, scholars, and artists. The vault also contained genetic samples of millions of Crysian citizens, plus samples of their greatest works of art, as well as tools to help rebuild Crysium. The team revived the royal family, who thanked them for their assistance. Eri was disappointed at the lack of monetary reward, but did secure a promise of a palace being built for her during Crysium’s reconstruction.

GM NOTES

My wife plays Eri’anya. Like her character, she was upset that the “treasure” wasn’t untold riches, but the revival of a lost civilization. I still don’t think she’s forgiven me for it.

For the recordings, I put a lot of extra production into it. I had a non-player friend record the audio, and ran it through a lot of different filters, leading to multiple levels of clarity or degradation and did the same with the image that I selected for Lensher’s hologram. Which recording and image the players got were dependent upon the quality of the repairs that Verrack made to TL-71R. Those repairs themselves had a worksheet for the difficulty of repairing the different systems, as bad rolls on certain systems could impact the playback they got.