-After meticulous planning, the team launched a furious assault against the Ringborn's Bane. Braving sandcaster fire and booby-trapped airlocks, the crew breached the hull and began the grueling process of taking the ship!
-The Rockdrinkers fought tooth and nail, their already fearsome combat skills amplified by heavy usage of local combat drugs. Grievous injuries were given and taken, but soon the tide turned for the heroes. Most terrible of all were the Rockdrinker Berzerkers, warriors completely inured to pain and wielding the fearsome "Visor Breaker", a war pick of crude but deadly effect.
-Thanks to Alex's psionic warnings, the crew avoided several ambushes from hidden compartments. Still, injuries were mounting by the time the hero's robot backup arrived. "Honest" Jane lost an arm, and Liz the Marine was hideously scarred by the devastating work of the aforementioned Visor Breaker.
-Not long after the arrival of the ponderous Centurion battle robot, Roentgen Boy himself, the ruthless warlord of the Ringborn's Bane joined the fray with his personal guard.
-When the tide turning against him, Roentgen Boy ruthless took his personal command crew into the bridge along with the captive and unconscious Jane and Liz, sealed it off, and enacted a vicious plan.
-Roentgen Boy deliberately vented the radiation from the ship's engine core, flooding the decks with deadly hard radiation.
-Most of the Barry's crew succumbed to the terrible effects of the Rads, but Captain Ilyana heroically darted to the Engine Core. With a final desperate Psionic boost from Alex, she shut down the core, and ended the deadly waves of radiation*.
-Meanwhile, With the help of Vos and Fabian, Liz and Jane made their escape. The final battle was joined against Roentgen Boy himself. He fought to the bitter end, but was at last laid low by a surprise attack from Captain Ilyana.
-With the Clan of Roentgen Boy dead or in hiding, the Ringborn's Bane was at last in the possession of the crew of the Baron Von Munchausen, along with its precious cargo! And all it had cost were the lives of all four of their Noxian allies, Jane's arm, and hideous rad scars for half the crew!
-Oh, and they rescued Okalani the Oracle, who was Roentgen Boy's captive and technically the causus belli for the whole thing!
*I realized after the fact that you can't use Inspiration on other Travellers, but it worked in the moment. We'll say it was a once-in-a-lifetime extension of Alex's powers, and leave it at that. Also, Alex used two doses of his common Psionics. He was trying to run psionic surveillance the whole time, which was extremely taxing but key to the team's success.
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