| By way of Rifts Earth
No mention of the Astra they'd met nor the business of the Red Pyramid
is mentioned...... That's in another adventure thread.
As the group travels inside the transport, Rugen apologizes for having
sounded a bit short back at the meeting place.
"It's just that we had been expecting you much earlier when Rule 1 said
that Roland was finally coming," Rugen explains, "What with the area where
you entered being known for harboring human spermists left over from the
shakeup in the Coalition States, the longer we stayed in the area the more
likely trouble would come of it. However, we sure as Hell weren't going
to travel through this area with those filthy murderers about."
(Author's Note: for those interested in what all this stuff is about
should read from episode 7830 to 7840).
More would probably be said and things discovered (things like why Morgana
wasn't there also to greet the adventurers and such). Some of the magic
using ones of the group know there is a lot more magic in the air (though
they had no real way to measure it....not without the proper magical apparatuses)
and wanted to ask about that. That and ask about why this Earth was nicknamed
"Rifts Earth." Queen Astra knew part of the reason why to that one since
Betty and Ragan had talked to her about several role-playing games like
AD&D and Rifts (the idea that somebody would actually make a sword
and sorcery game that reflected the environment she'd grown up in was still
still bizarre to the Amazonian queen), but her thoughts were on other things.....
She was surprised at how many Champions Rugen said were on this world (a
bit more than 100,000....offspring of Morgana Wordeni through medical/technological
methods to save her race from extinction). Rugen might have told them about
the Astra who'd they'd come across and where attempting to save if something
hadn't come up...
See, word has come of an assassination attempt by a suicide bomber (with
Coallition sympathies) who'd taken out the majority of the leadership of
the high command that lead the forces that Rugen and the others elves were
a part of. Rugen and Morgana were rushing to stabilize the situation and
keep things from going amok. Talk was that there was a big push for both
to become the new leaders.....
So the adventurers are rushed off to their next departure point without
much fanfare. The adventurers don't complain, understanding the dangerous
situation about these parts.
So they step into a new world with few people on it, their last world
before their goal, the Dark Tower!
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 What they
meet here soon...what happens and why Roland would put down as Ka (also
known as Fate).
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