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>Get yourself, Namara, Audrey, Paula, and Jones out to one of the excavation sites.
You decide to get your group out of the Palace for at least a bit and out to one of the excavation sites.
This doesn’t end up being too difficult, you catch Evil Rhea before she has a chance to start her day in her audience chamber and ask her if you can see one of the excavation sites, to which she agrees without argument.
You are informed that a “land train” is heading to the nearest excavation site in two hours.
Evil Rhea arranges “some extra protection” (likely telepathically) before heading to her duties.
You rally the others in your party and meet your escort at the designated location.
The land train is a Cargo-8 Ridgehauler towing three additional containers.
The crew is an odd mix of rough looking locals, converted Thorakara, and House Kijeck goons, but the “extra protection” consists of Evil Rhea and Evil Namara’s inner circle of associates from Groxbridge, who by this point you learn are called either Light Selunites or Dark Selunites, depending on how they are dressed and what role they are playing on a given day.
Light Selunites dress in white silks and gold jewelry, and fill diplomatic/bureaucratic roles, while Dark Selunites wear studded black leathers and fishnets and fill enforcement roles. Those who were once furries wear stylized masks. Many members switch back and forth between “light” and “dark” frequently.
Apparently this practice is something Evil Rhea and Evil Namara came up with themselves, but it seems to draw inspiration from several of the cults and organizations allied with the Daughters.
There are four Dark Selunites in your escort, all of whom you have crossed paths with in the past.
Bear Man/Ursid Mask, Rabbit Mask/Sandra X, Yiffity-Foxity/Fox Mask, and Red Hair/New Girl/Nicky.
Also the Sexy Librarian is there, in Dark Selunite-ish garb for once despite the fact she is there mostly to provide information. She even dyed her hair black to match her “clothes”.
Despite this clearly being the VIP container, it is a cramped trip with ten people.
You end up talking to Nicky more often than not. You first met her in Groxbridge as a get-away driver for a failed raid, and encountered her several more times that day. As you remembered, she is bubbly and extroverted and prone to saying things she perhaps shouldn’t.
Through her you find out a range of potentially useful facts, like, yes she is technically a furry (she has a fox mask but almost never wears it), yes some members of the Selunites have been physically enhanced by Evil Rhea’s biomancy, and yes, she is Kayla’s daughter (natural birth back in Groxbridge when Kayla was in her teens, she hasn’t seen her mother in a while, but supposedly she is coming to the planet soon, a fact which you are less than thrilled with).
