Stacy Church and the infamous Black Widow Company have returned!
After recovering from the terrible conflict with Berith and his twice-damned Opacus Venatori, the Black Widows were once again paired with Chandresekhar Kurita's mercenary coalition. This time, the Widows would be working along side Jeremiah Youngblood's Cresent Hawks and Phelan Kell's Wolves, with both the Wolves and McFadden's Sky Raiders providing aerospace support.
Here are some of the highlights!
Stacy Church and her Widows are charged with finding an entrance into the Ruins of Gabriel. Kristofur Blaine (piloting the MAD-4S) has taken it upon himself to serve as her personal bodyguard. (Rumors now swirl that there's something else between the two mechwarriors). The asteroid is like no place Stacy has ever been. Gravity is at .25 G's, vacuum threatens to breach any location and it's a moonless night. The temperature is close to 165 degrees Kelvin. Welcome to hell.
Berith makes an appearance. He calls out to Stacy, challenging her. Stacy, as ever, is eager to meet the challenge. Both 'Mechs start trading fire at extreme range, but the modifiers for range, nighttime and gravity make even these two elite warriors likely to miss. The Blakist
Thunderbolt starts trading with Blaine's
Marauder II, but the gravity modifiers make any such shots impossible.
As both sides carefully advance in the low gravity, all shots are missing wide of the mark until Kristofur Blaine scores an improbable head shot with his Heavy Gauss Rifle! Two 12s rolled back to back. The
T-Bolt goes down without scoring any damage.
Outmanned, Berith makes a slow retreat along a crater's rim. He trades shots at extreme range, but can't seem to connect.
Stacy Church and Kristofur Blaine pick apart the enemy turret grid.
A Level I of
Purifiers pop out of the crater and launch an attack on Kristofur Blaine. Blaine's hulking
Marauder II torso twists towards the new threat. A Heavy Gauss Slug smashes one
Purifier deep into the ground, creating a new, deeper crater of it's own. Stacy tags several
Purifierswith her LBX-10 cluster shots. One of her medium lasers vaporizes an already damaged trooper. None of the
Purifier support PPC attacks are able to force an armor breach on the Dragoon 'mechs.
Berith and the remaining
Purifiers retreat into an open bay door. Stacy Church is reluctant to follow so quickly.
Berith and the troopers exit the scene on an elevator, descending somewhere into the depths of the asteroid.
Stacy Church and the rest of her widows secure the area, awaiting Marcel Webb and his team of Star Seeds to penetrate the facility.
