Adventure Twenty-Seven


 * P0P1 attends an award ceremony and fancy dinner for winning the race. He allows Seb to speak in place of his owner (through one of his drones).
 * Laurel pulls Beswink aside and is clearly mad at him for bestowing the award on an owner who wasn’t present. She is uncomfortable both on the basis of propriety and personal dislike of the Science Heroes. Beswink justifies himself based on his respect for Seb’s technical skill and doesn’t fully grasp how upset Laurel, who is used to his obedience, is.
 * On day 3, when Vania goes out to gather more flint and perform her usual search for Phlox. She doesn’t see Phlox but does find a neat pile of mangled, bloodied headsets.
 * Earl teaches the citizens about greenhouses to improve their farming.
 * Ruth works with the structural engineers to repair the cable car. The effort uses up all her power, but Or’ree flies over and makes sure she lands safely and gets her back to her quarters.
 * Alder coordinates book lending between the Shiloah and Scorpse residents and attempts to encourage the schoolteachers to include more long-term, historical education in the current vocational training they give children.
 * Earl runs in to Doc Strahd, who shares that he has developed a nanotech injection that allows Seshayans to generate their own body heat and move freely outdoors. They have been conducting surveillance and providing reports to Strahd.
 * P0P1 asks Seb for an assignment, attempting to operate as if Seb is his handler. He works with Dr. Kuhlani to survey underwater for planned underwater construction.
 * Cora talks to Alder and explains the Hydra Company’s antipathy toward them. She believe the Science Heroes has to be a deliberate pretense and that our guileless, noble persona is a marketing ploy. She also thinks Alder is impersonating and attempting to steal the influence of the former Alder, who is rumored to have been murdered by Earl when he betrayed Freehaven and fled. She is eventually willing to believe that we are genuine but thinks we’re wasting the business opportunity that our influence affords us.
 * P0P1 coordinates a deathclaw costume with Tiamat for the costume party, using actual pieces from the deathclaw we defeated. Earl dresses as an exaggerated version of Earl the barbarian raider, Vania as the Velveteen Rabbit, Alder as Joan of Arc, and Ruth as her glowing self.