Tag: Jax
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How the other half lives | A Tale from the Borderlands
Always read the paperwork New-U Investigation log, Day Two, evening entry. These days are getting loooooong. Just returned back from the Jakobs headquarters to meet up with the crew at the Siren and share notes. Zoe was again at the top of her game getting into those JMA computers and…
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The Gangs of Port Laroche | A Tale from the Borderlands
Finally some clues. New-U Investigation log, Day Two. The search began in the personnel files we got from Dubois. Mostly Hyperion files in here, which means not much I can find on the Jakobs folks themselves. It does seem like we have found our weak point: Gavin Orland. Apparently this…
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Release the Kraken! | A Tale from the Borderlands
That’s a smart fish There are so many files here to dig through, but at least they seem detailed enough. It’s hard to think that right now Penny and I would be digging through a bunch of reports with the crew after what went down last night. I had just…
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Guess who’s coming for dinner | A Tale from the Borderlands
Slightly overprepared This place is a little cramped, but it’s nice to be resting someplace that isn’t on a ship for once. While I’m not used to the smell of the Kraken yards yet, it sure beats the industrial scent of refined air being pumped through your quarters for the…
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The siren goes WoOo WoOo WoOo | A Tale from the Borderlands
Totally inconspicuous The sound of waves splashing against a hard wall can be heard in the background. I can see it from here, just out of range for target practice, but close enough to keep an eye on things through the scope. The local Jakob’s outpost. Heavily guarded, likely full…
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A deadly headache | A Tale from the Borderlands
This one might take more than some whiskey As Penny lies in the medbay, once again out cold, I am reminded of something that my old man used to say: “There are two types of people: the ones in pain, and the dead.” I can only hope Penny keeps being…
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Betrayal and honour | A Tale from the Borderlands
Watching from the sidelines As I start this log, I’m not even sure what to say. The last few hours have been crazier than two starved skags fighting over rakk scraps. The slug… is gone! It’s hard to even wrap my head around it, it happened so fast. But I’m…
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Her name was Shelly | A Tale from the Borderlands
Saying goodbye to the crew It was always going to happen someday. It’s only been a few weeks since we ticked off Hyperion by stealing their ship in the Wonderlands, but I feel somewhat attached to this giant space bucket now. The ship crew switched allegiances easily enough, credits made…
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The Great Gibson | A Tale from the Borderlands
Memories may be beautiful and yet… (Penny’s voice loudly in the background) “What are you doing? Are you doing that ECHO log thing again? You gotta put that thing down. I’m right here, you know” (Jax’s voice can be heard, a little muffled as if turned away from the ECHO…
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Escape from Promethea | A Tale from the Borderlands
Time to get off this rock! (The soft hum of a ship engine can be heard, with some muffled snoring. It seems much quieter than other logs that Jax has recorded. Jax’s voice starts in a gruff whisper…) It’s been a few hours since we lifted off and you finally…
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More like Mega-DEAD, am I right? | A Tale from the Borderlands
Time for a little getaway driving… [Sounds of tires screeching around a corner, a car alarm is constantly heard] Well, Penny, I’m leaving this hoping you’ll be able to listen to it once you come to. A real close call, there, and we aren’t out of the woods yet. I…
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Symphony of destruction | A Tale from the Borderlands
Killer death robots sure are bigger these days. It seems the list of people I need to hunt down is getting longer. This message is intended for one “Handsome Jack”. I hear you can haunt systems. I’d like you to haunt this particular ECHO log system for a moment so…
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Showdown at sundown | A Tale from the Borderlands
Well this is awkward. I’m not sure who’s getting these, but it’d be REAL great if you had been allowing them to go through to Penny all this time. Now, unfortunately, I’m going to have to track you down. I already have OTHER people I need to track down. But…
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A Mystery Wrapped in a Riddle | A Tale from the Borderlands
Something doesn’t add up. I hope you get the chance to listen to this one real soon, Penny. I really do. I was wrong about that checkpoint, by the way. It was not friendly. Some sort of slimy thing jumped out of a Hyperion guard’s face and scared the slag…
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Welcome to Promethea | A Tale from the Borderlands
So much bureaucracy. I love it. Right after that last ECHO I went down to the crates and I could not, for the life of me, get any of them open. Must have been some sort of complex security system at play. Definitely not an issue with basic manual labour…
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A bullet doesn’t feel the heart it breaks | A Tale from the Borderlands
You always did love a big show. I saw the ECHO feeds today. A right mess going on. Looks like your fellow residents have not been wasting much time. You know I have to come for you, right? You know I have to hope? That pocketwatch you gave me hasn’t…
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Good news, bad news | A Tale from the Borderlands
And then there was you. Not sure what the point of recording this one is. Not after what Lydia just sent me. You haven’t sent a message back in two years, and it doesn’t look like that’s about to start now. Still, somehow putting these words out there means something.…
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Terror of the Skies | A Tale from the Borderlands
Good ol’ reliable rock. The metal boys seemed to be coming out of every corner as they bashed their way over that pile of bodies. Pushing us back against the wall, not giving us any room to move. Fin was trapped on the other side, good luck to him, but…
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You have something on your face | A Tale from the Borderlands
It’s time to get that key. Things were just starting to go well, too. First, Min vanished. Then, the next thing I know, Fin is hitting the deck and blowing holes in the ceiling. It got real there for a moment. I heard balloon boy shouting from somewhere above us…
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And the award goes to… | A Tale from the Borderlands
I’m sure this is not going to completely backfire on us. I wasn’t wrong about the greeting party at the next stop. Turns out we arrived on some sort of bridge with an absolute enormity of a ship captain in charge. We thought quick and used those armor disguises as best…
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An elevator not to be trusted | A Tale from the Borderlands
Just another day of invading an airship… Sorry about that last log, we landed hot on an airship and things were… shaky. I never thought a ship like that would have such defenses. I had advised folks to come on the ship from behind, avoid the common defenses. We were…
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Riding the clouds! | A Tale from the Borderlands
Just another day of meeting Queens and riding dragons, right? That was not what I was expecting! Just got out of meeting a queen that’s a horse, or unicorn, or some sort of crystal being, or … something? Queen Butt Stallion was regal enough, not every day you meet royalty.…
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Time for some new threads | A Tale from the Borderlands
Jax’s ECHO Log entry #4: Apparently those Claptraps are good for something. Well, that went surprisingly smoothly. First time anything went as expected, really. I must be getting paranoid because I can’t shake the feeling that means something awful is about to happen. Right before heading back to Brymstone, we tested…
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Lava shark? | A Tale from the Borderlands
Jax’s ECHO Log entry #3: I should not have taunted the knife-wielders. Okay. Time to breathe. Turns out that maybe I should have been a wee bit more careful with that door! They nearly got me that time, it was a damn close call. A bunch of robe-wearing, knife-wielding, vindictive cultists decided…
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Fire in the hole! | A Tale from the Borderlands
Jax’s ECHO Log entry #2: They brought a knife to a gunfight. We used one of those awful teleportation gadgets today and found ourselves at some sort of mining facility. I almost didn’t make this log because we were so busy, but the others are arguing over whether to open a…
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Brymstone is pretty terrible | A Tale from the Borderlands
Jax’s ECHO Log entry #1: Not dead yet. Well, Penny, today was a pretty humiliating day. Luckily, I met some halfway-skilled Vault Hunters that kept my suit from getting too crumpled. The transport dropped us in some tiny village that smells like dead bodies, body odour, and butts. Somehow it…
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Leaving Lynchwood | A Tale from the Borderlands
It’s been a lot of years since I last sat down and played some Table Top roleplaying (TTRPG for those who like their acronyms). This past year, a happenstance allowed me to make some new friends online and join a virtual table playing Bunkers & Badasses, a new TTRPG system…
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