Return To Acrid

The Choke

The fleet began its journey jumping between systems and stopping only to refuel at gas giants until Acrid was reached and routine maintenance was required at the highport, Venture City. Concerned that the revolution may have already happened, the ships scanned the planet but found it was all still as before. On the Harrier, now flying the transponder of the Phuck de Soleil, Zhil, Kaelan, Zhorp and Varl headed to the downport after making contact with Hollis, the leader of the revolution.

After making planetfall through the corrosive and insidious atmosphere, as soon as the hangar was recycled and the ship scrubbed, Varl made contact with Anunaki, the crooked security guard to arrange to have the arms shipped in the smuggling containers to the underground movement. Varl and Zhorp then contacted Gera Hollis and a young miner Reo arrived to meet them at the starport and began leading them through the bazaar and down to the Lower City, or "Slagtop" as it's known to meet the resistance at a laundry called Rumours.

Varl's appearance on Acrid did not go unnoticed. As a former mob boss of the Red Right Hand gang on Acrid, with prominent gang tattooes his reappearance after retiring and leaving the planet garnered plenty of attention from both security and streetlife. But even more notorious, the holographic Wanted ads of Kaelan and Zhil are still amongst those prominently displayed throughout the city.

Upon meeting Gera Hollis, she explained that not only did they need help planning and executing the uprising in a few days time, but a number of their resistance movement had been thrown in the Choke, a brutal PRQ prison in Downtown and they would need rescuing before they could be tortured into revealing the identity of the revolutionaries. Hollis asked Zhorp, Varl and the crew to help, with breaching charges, grenades and SMGs readily supplied...