Welcome to Legends of Aventress.

I'm Pike, and you're listening to Stardust Rhapsody.

Last time on Stardust Rhapsody, the party found their way to the Off Books research lab of Chimira Bionetics, site Omicron.

They navigated the seemingly abandoned lab discovering the horrors that went on there.

Uncovering research around food manipulation, genetic cloning, and Esper telekinetic weaponization,

they eventually find what they've been seeking in the lab working on Rubedo.

Research notes direct them to the office of Dr. Jodo, the lead scientist and head of site Omicron,

who oversaw the project directly.

They find their way to confront him,

only to uncover he'd taken his own life and left a simple note. I have become death. I'm sorry.

They uncover the Don and the Voice Roy have been driving the development of Rubedo and using Redline, and all the scientists of the facility were

sacrificed for its creation. Moving down to the basement, they find the final piece of the puzzle.

A demonic discordant from cacophony being hanged and bled dry produces the core component

to Red Line manufacturing. It's blood. It awakens to the smell of pixels harmony. A brutal,

deadly, impossible fight breaks out, ending in a perfect shot into the spine of the horror

by Rex. Racing out of the facility with the evidence on Ziggy's Grid Boy, they're met with the silent

husks that were once the scientists. Rubato, having

ripped them from the harmony, they now shuffle forward as the undead. The note from the desk of Jodo reveals

its true meaning. The party blasts past them, gets to the Rhapsody, and races back, leaving the nightmares behind, or so they think.

Leaking the information on the Don, they put him on the run. The final bounty remains to be hunted,

and thanks to Rex, they know exactly where he is. The trail runs hot. Our session begins just a few days after the events on SILF.

The Rhapsody cutting a technicolor swath through ether waves as it makes its way to the next part of its journey.

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