I recently ran a One-Shot White Star RPG/Star Sailors adventure for my daughter's 16th birthday. She requested I come up with a prequel story that told how the Star Sailors were destroyed and the GLOOM spread unchecked across the Eroc-verse!!
With this in mind I asked that she get together with her friends who would be participating in this adventure and have them create a Star Sailor character and choose their Color of Heart. Son I had the names and colors of the Sailors that would be the central characters in this story.
In our prior Star Sailor adventures I had let it be known that the last 12 Star Sailors had fallen in a titanic battle against the GLOOM, and that the Star Light was beginning to rekindle. Her character Avangaline was a newly discovered Sailor and with her friends Malbar; another new Sailor and the rascally Star-pilot Gore Kutalik were on a mission to find the new generation of Sailors and bring peace back to the Galaxy.
The Star Sailors:
Since this would be an epic battle against the GLOOM, each character was level 10 and would have maximum access to their powers. As we played I prompted the girls to come up with "Anime Moments" & Names for the adversaries to represent prior knowledge and background details!
Styx Shadowspinner - Color of Heart: Blue
Thunderstorm Darkness - Color of Heart: Pink
Starpelt Brokenriver - Color of Heart: Violet
Midknight Darkstar - Color of Heart: White
Lotus Razorclaw - Color of Heart: Green
In the final days before the forces of the Galactic Consortium took control of a galaxy in Chaos, a group of Star Sailors was sent to rescue the last members of the Solar Alliance Council on the planet Atraxia. These leaders are the last vestiges of peaceful worlds who had aligned themselves with the Star Sailors, and had been taken hostage by by a combined force of Consortium troopers led by a Void Knight and a deadly believer of the GLOOM itself, the Dark Sailor Patricia Blackstar.
The Sailors have landed their spacecraft in the nearby ruins of the capital city. In their mundane alter-egos they have located the Council members being escorted to a nearby landing port where they will be loaded onto a Consortium shuttle and sent to an awaiting Battle Cruiser.
The Magical girls decide to get as close as possible before transforming.
Thunderstorm, Starpelt and Lotus allow themselves to be spotted and captured by the bad-guys. Assuming them to be survivors of the planetary attack. Patricia Darkstar commands they be sent to the Body-Banks back on Omega Consor.
As the girls are placed under guard with the Council members, Lotus notices something familiar about the young Void-Knight. He too seems to recognize something about the young captive!
ANIME MOMENT: The Void Knight is Jarod-19, the former boyfriend of Lotus Razorclaw!! Jarod-19 was part of an illegal cloning experiment and had been rescued by and fell in love with Lotus years ago. Jarod-19 had joined the ranks of the Star-Knights and attempted to gain the notice and affection of Lotus. Though they did have a brief relationship, Lotus found she didn't truly love Jarod-19 as much as he loved her. When she ended the relationship Jarod-19's grief and frustration led him down the dark path of the Void-Knights!
Lotus: "Something about that Void-Knight...I can't place it..."
Jarod-19: "That girl, somehow reminds me of Lotus. It couldn't be..."
As the girls move along with the Council members they await the distraction the last two Sailors will create so they can get the civilians to safety.
Styx Shadowspinner attempts to circle behind the Troopers at the rear of the prisoner group but is spotted!
Guard: "Look another civilian!"
Patricia Darkstar: "We have enough to deal with, blast her!"
The trooper raises his Lazer rifle and draws a bead on Styx. The Sailor guesses this would be just as good a distraction as any and raises her Star amulet to the sky!
Styx: "STAR SAILOR TRANSFORMATION!"
In a burst of Blue starlight, the Sailor reveals herself and begins to trade wand blasts with the trio of troopers! In the meantime Midknight Darkstar has climbed to high-ground and looks down upon the scene from above. She determines that Patricia Darkstar is the greatest threat and calls upon the power of star light.
Midknight Darkstar: "STAR SAILOR TRANSFORMATION!"
Jarod-19: "Star Sailors, here? I thought they were engaged by the Master at the Dark Nebula!"
Patricia Darkstar: "The Lords of Light couldn't take the chance of us destroying the leaders of the Alliance council. They split their numbers as the Master predicted, summon the reinforcements and destroy them!"
Just then a wand blast knocks Patricia off her feet!
Starpelt: "This is our chance ladies, while they are distracted let's get the council to the ship!"
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| Styx blasts the troopers! |
The council is ushered away from the fight by the trio of still un-revealed Sailors. However Jarod-19 notices and blocks the escaping Lotus with his void-sword, while Styx & Midknight fire starlight blasts!
Jarod-19: "Not so fast! Where there are two Star Sailors, is there likely to be a third?" the void-knight moves to strike down a slow moving councilman.
Lotus: "STAR SAILOR TRANSFORMATION!" swish! K-chang!!!!!!! The void sword is blocked by a starlight wand!!
Jarod-19: "It is you! There is no hope Lotus, the GLOOM has won, give up now and you will live. Otherwise your doom is certain!"
Lotus: " I'm sorry Jarod, but Star Sailors never lose hope! Even now our sisters are assaulting your Master at the nexus of his power.."
Jarod-19: "The Dark Nebula, we know that Lotus. You've all fallen into a trap, even now more troopers are coming to intercept you and your sisters!"
Rising from the ground Patricia Darkstar sees the prisoners making thier escape. She draws from the power of the GLOOM and cries out: "Anti-matter Transmutation!" her corrupted Sailor power of the Black Heart shoots forth and transforms an Atraxian sewer-rat into a horrible abomination from the Negative universe, blocking the heroes!
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| The nega-verse beast! |
The tentacled terror appeared before the fleeing party, reaching out to scoop up victims into its slavering maw! Leading the group Starpelt knew what she had to do.
Starpelt: "STAR SAILOR TRANSFORMATION!" this was quickly followed with, "ROYAL PASSION RAPTURE!"
A beam of violet energy strikes the beast directly in its eye leaving it in a state of drooling uselessness!
Patricia Darkstar: "You may have enraptured my creature, but you can't stop this Starpelt! MAGMA BLAST EXTERMINATION!
The ground around the council erupts in gouts of hot lava bursting from the planets core!
Thunderstorm: "STAR SAILOR TRANSFORMATION!" Leaping into action the Sailor raises her wand and shouts, "PINK FORCE ENGAGE!"
A bubble of pink protective starlight surrounds the helpless council members! While Starpelt dodges the hot lava splatters!
Starpelt: Thunderstorm, get the council members to our ship, I'm going to help our sisters! We'll catch up with you!"
Thunderstorm: " Okay, see you soon!"
Midknight continues to pin down the trooper reinforcements with starlight blasts while Styx leaps into direct action against Patricia Darkstar!
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| Sailors versus their past issues! |
ANIME MOMENT!: Patricia Darkstar and Styx Shadowspinner were childhood friends, but upon her discovery of her Starlight Powers Styx began to get so much attention from family and the people of their homeworld that Patricia began to feel left behind and jealous. This jealousy grew over the years and in an effort to become a Star Sailor herself Patricia discovered that her only option was to serve as a Star Maiden.
This wasn't good enough, Patricia wanted the power of the stars, not to be a sidekick! She sought out the GLOOM and soon became a vessel for the Demons of the Dark. This allowed her to draw upon the stolen energies of the positive universe and use them in service of the GLOOM!
Styx: "You have to stop this Patricia! The path of darkness can only end one way!"
Patricia Darkstar: "Yes, with the utter destruction of the Star Sailors!"
Styx and Patricia duke it out in a battle of Starlight wand vs. Anti-wand!!
Meanwhile Lotus and Jarod-19 face off!
Jarod-19: "There is still a way for us to be together Lotus, accept the GLOOM into your heart. Otherwise you will have to be destroyed!"
Lotus:"I told you Jarod, Sailors never lose hope! We will win you'll see. Now I can't have you stopping us so, VERDANT CREEPER ENTRAP!!"
Midknight: " So many troopers, it's like they were prepared for us to be here!"
Just as the girls are being surrounded by a full squad of troopers, Starpelt jumps into the air and sweeps her wand across the battlefield!
Starpelt: "ROYAL PASSION RAPTURE!"
All the troopers and Patricia succumb to the mesmerizing power of the Violet Star Sailor. Jarod-19 is held immobile in the vines of the Green Star Sailor unable to attack!
Midknight: "Where is Thunderstorm and the Council?"
Starpelt: "They are safely on their way to the ship. We need to get moving before more troopers arrive!"
Styx: "Let me help with that, BLUE SKY ASCENT!"
Styx activates her Sailor power and gives the power of flight to her companions. They are able to quickly navigate the few kilometers of distance to the location where they hid their spaceship. The group zooms in to the open square just in time to see Thunderstorm leading the Council across the plaza.
Suddenly, the sailors feel a sudden wave of melancholy sweep across them! Each of their Star Amulets flickers for a moment as if something interrupted the flow of Starlight Energy.
Thunderstorm: stumbling to a halt, "This way the ship is right the...oohh.. by the Starlight Entity I sense.."
All the Sailors realize something terrible has happened.... the power of the GLOOM has just expanded exponentially and their own power has decreased. Also, they realize that the inherent connection to their sisters who were taking the fight to the Dark Nebula has been broken!!!
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| The GLOOM takes form! |
Styx: "I can't sense our sisters!"
Starpelt: "The connection isn't broken, it's like they're gone!"
Lotus: "But if the connection isn't broken, why can't we sense them? Are they being blocked?"
Midknight: "Not blocked, erased in a most permanent way. I think they may be..."
A swirling vortex appears in the sky above the plaza, from it emerge seven entities followed by something the Sailors had never seen before in a physical form! The GLOOM itself!
GLOOM: "They are DEAD, Star Sailors. Their Starlight energies drained and corrupted to serve only the Dark. The seven you see before you are all that remains of your sisters, now my Gloom-Wraiths which you too shall join! Ha Ha Ha Ha!!!!
With a sudden ferocity the GLOOM fires a blast of negative energy that instantly disintegrates the members of the council and throws Thunderstorm aside. A pair of the former Sailors now Wraiths converge on the stunned Pink Sailor, as the remaining five converge on the Heroes!
Starpelt: turning to Midknight, "I have a plan, if I can mesmerize the Wraiths and line them up could.."
Midknight: " I hit them with a full power Light Force Engage?"
Starpelt: "Exactly. Could you save them?"
Midknight: "I don't know, but we have to try!"
Styx: "The rest of us will keep GLOOM engaged, we have to end this!"
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| The battle rages! |
The Star Sailors engaged the GLOOM head on as a score of troopers led by Patricia Darkstar and Jarod-19 arrived as well!
Thunderstorm Darkness & Lotus Razorclaw combined the power of Pink Force Defense & Verdant Creeper Entrap to contain the GLOOM and hold him immobile and unable to attack!
Starpelt Brokenriver used Royal Passion Rapture to entrance six of the seven Wraiths and set them up to get a full dose of Light Force Engage from Midknight Darkstar!!
Styx fired starlight blasts to scatter the incoming troopers!
Then the enemy gained the upper hand, Patricia Darkstar swooped in from above using the corrupted version of Blue Sky Ascent to give herself a set of demonic bat-wings that matched Styx in flight and a terrible aerial battle began between the former friends!
Lotus figures out that the GLOOM had gifted Patricia Darkstar with the Color of Heart Quantum power which allowed her to tap into all the powers the Star Sailors had access to in a corrupted evil version!
Jarod-19 struck down Thunderstorm with his void sword causing her to lose concentration on the Force field restraining GLOOM!
Lotus and the others watched helplessly as GLOOM broke free, scooped up Thunderstorm in his clawed hand and drained the last of her wavering life force!
Lotus then blasted Jarod-19 across the plaza, his broken body smoking in the rubble!
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| Darkstar vs. Styx and Starpelt! |
Starpelt leapt into the sky to aid Styx who was reeling under the assault of Patricia Darkstar, it took the combined abilities of them both to defeat the Gloom-powered Anti-Sailor, but Styx was severely wounded at this point!
On the ground, Midknight was doing all she could to contain the Wraiths and purify each one back to starlight. As each essence was freed the spirit of the corrupted Star sailors returned to space!
Lotus faced GLOOM as he turned his attention towards the occupied Midknight. In an attempt to shield her sister she places herself directly in his line of sight! The GLOOM blasts Lotus with a Nega-pulse then clasps the stunned Sailor in his grip and drains her essence as Styx, Midknight, and Starpelt watch!!
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| Lotus falls! |
Styx: "Starpelt go help Midknight. I'll cover you both!"
Styx flies down at GLOOM blasting him repeatedly so hard it makes him take notice! As GLOOM turns to seek her Starpelt lands by Midknight who is busily scooping up something into a small bag.
Starpelt: "Midknight, what are you doing? We need a plan to defeat GLOOM!"
Midknight: "I need you to take this." She hands the bag to Starpelt. "If I don't make it promise me you won't stay. One of us has to escape this!"
Starpelt: "Wait! What are you going to do!"
Midknight then bounds across the plaza towards GLOOM raising her wand firing starlight blasts into the creatures backside. Just then GLOOM swats Styx from the sky like a fly and she smashes into a ruined building near Starpelt.
Starpelt runs over and finds Styx, battered and bloody in her normal form with Star Amulet in her hand barely a glimmer of Star power left.
Starpelt: "Oh Styx, you look terrible."
Styx: rising shakily to her feet, "You know I've always been the scrapper. I'm okay...cough, used up all my power though.", blood drips from her mouth. "What's in the bag?"
Starpelt: "Midknight gave it to me, I don't ohhh!" opening the bag the girls see it contains the cracked Star Amulets of all the defeated Sailors including Midknights!!! "Why did she do this, without her Amulet she.."
The two sailors see GLOOM snatch up Midknight in his hand, squeezing her as she screams out!
Midknight: "LIGHT FORCE ENGAGE!" the purifying energy tearing into GLOOM!
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| Sailor sacrifice! |
Starpelt & Styx: "Midknight, NOO!!"
Styx: Places her own Amulet in the bag, then with both hands over the 11 amulets she looks at Starpelt. "As long as one of us remains there is always hope!"
Styx turns and limps over to the lifeless form of Jarod-19. The mortally wounded sailor picks up the Void Knights energy sword and raises it over her head shouting!
Styx: "STAR SAILOR TRANSFORMATION - BLUE SKY ASCENT!"
By some miracle the last remnants of power from the Star Amulets give Styx one last burst of power! She flies into the sky and points the sword at GLOOM.
Styx: "STARLIGHT PRISMATIC BLAST!"
The final combined starlight energies form a kaleidoscopic ray that strikes GLOOM with a force that shatters everything within a kilometer!
Rising from the dust Starpelt sees that Styx, now completely drained of Starlight energy and armed with the fallen Void knights sword is perched on the shoulder of GLOOM hacking away at the scarred entity!
GLOOM: "That hurt Sailor, but it's too little too late!" the vile creature then crushes the last iota of life from Midknight Darkstar, using it heal his wounds! He then swats Styx from her perch atop his head just as she is about to stab the energy sword into his skull.
From her vantage point in the rubble of the plaza, Starpelt Brokenriver knows that she alone cannot defeat the GLOOM. Securing the Star Amulets she reverts to her human form and disappears into the shadows.
EPILOGUE
Rumors of a lone Star Sailor would pop up now and again across the Qudrant, but the Galactic Consortium had now decreed the Sailors and the Star Knights as criminals to be hunted to extinction.
So ends the final battle of the Star Sailors. One hundred years would pass before the flickers of Sarlight began to light up across the Quadrant again, and a young girl would discover the power within her. A power that would lead her and her friends on a quest to locate the missing Star Amulets and the Sailors they empower.
THE END?
