Eighport

More stabilized after their fighting, the crew gathers themselves and search their surroundings. They realize the portal has closed and they are on a extremely tall cliff face. They look out into the distance and see the many hoards of demons similar to and if not larger than the ones they already fought. There they see a mechanical contraption interfacing with something organic. By it's side they see someone bleeding out... they realize it was the cultist woman they had chased from Diaspora to Akiton looking for answers.

Falk stabilizes her enough to regain consciousness and begins to speak of how her cult, the cult of Nyarlathotepwe made a deal for power. This power was being able to gain direct access to the powers of Hell itself by making a deal with Asmodeuswith the cult being Nyarlathotep's voice. She was quite literally spilling her guts to the crew since she felt betrayed by her god, this was not their normal Hell, but a Hell of another realm and there was no Asmodeus to be found here. She also began to explain how her cult set up the portals and paid for their early expansions into areas, low and behold this is what the "Sprite" was used for. It was used for both funding and powering hellish machines for the cultists.

Her last words were to ask the crew to make a pact, to ensure if they were to run into any others to do what they must to destroy them as she feared they could not control this version of Hell and it's forces. In exchange she relieved she can open the hellgate from this side. Vitaly reaches out to the group with his telepathy to essentially get them all on board for for saying "yes" no matter what to get out of hell as soon as possible as he and others were in dire need of aid. She rifts open the portal with magic and as she does so a figure appears out of the showers and reaches deep into her as the life is snuffed out of her, it appears to be a man in a space suit where all you can see is dark tentacles inside it's helmet.

Some quick looting of a harness from one of the creatures the crew leaps through that portal with haste. The lattice of the temple's hellgate door quickly shuts behind them and looks to become inert as the old runes used to open it have completely faded. They take a moment to catch their breathe in case something else awaits them before they reach their ship, but most, especially Vitaly are in rough shape. They traverse the fake sandstorm they walked through earlier and make their way through their own dune tracks to the ship.

Onboard Skitty welcomes them to their surprise, he's able to form simple sentence and words from the short time they have been gone. He's also somewhat tidied up, shown proficiency with the empty gun Vitaly had given him, and somehow more frighteningly fashioned clothing out of Atvar's branded undergarments. They praise the young Skittermander and begin the debate on what the do next after surviving the maws of Hell. They land on upgrading their ship and taking a pit stop at the nearest town over heading back to Absalom station.

Nearest town is called Eighport and they intercept an advertisement for Jaber's spaceport and machine shop, this is where the crew sets out to for their upgrades, rest, and what became more important, weapon shopping. Asking Jaber and the local junk vendor they are directed to a visiting Shirren that was said to be at the local cantina that is known to be a weapons dealer. Skitty more quote unquote useful now (as Atvar put it after some bonding with the creatue that is mistaking the crew as it's parents, him being called Leader Daddy) went with the crew to the cantina with a loaded hand cannon given to him.

Once inside the crew splits up, "Doc" and Bob sit near the entrance while the other three split up with Skitty following Vitaly. After a drink order Atvar runs into a older Dwarf woman later found out to be called "Datmouf" as she is instantly start struck by this retired gladiator as she begins to flirt... Atvar not so much, instead he believes she is a antique overhead projector enthusiast. Before this he ran into a nastier tempered Vesk who made it clear that he was a bounty hunter who was attempting to work with another in the area.

Falk walks up to the bartender also and asks where he can find a Shirren in the bar, the bartender tried to help but simply gestured to walk around and look for him as he can't see all his patrons from this view. Falk does exactly that and does a pass around the bar, he does do a loop and walks by one Shirren but is stopped by a strange looking patron. He tried to resist it's charm but was drawn to it like an old friend and it quickly introduces itself as "Yeebus" and overs Falk a drink. Falk doesn't hesitate to take a drink from his new "friend" and is then slightly sedated, just enough for the creature to move it's tentacles down Falk's pants...

Prior to this happening Vitaly and Skitty ask who is an interesting individual in the cantina that they should talk too. Unfortunate for them they are pointed to a Bantrid "actor" by the bartender whom didn't catch onto their true intentions. Vitaly frustrated disengages with the actor and quickly seeks out the Shirren. They almost instantly bound as the Shirren introducing himself as Kious Kelly to be a arms dealer from Absalom but often heads off station to seek out interesting wears to boost his stock in his shop. Vitaly on Triaxus in his indentured servitude found that "scrapping" or rather finding rare or unique items was one of the few pleasures he was allowed to have.

Kious smitten a bit as well by the pair offered a discount for his and his companions if he were to do a simple favour for him and pushes his drink across the table to Vitaly and Skitty. He gestures towards the female half-ling closest to the stage and says throw this in her face. Not well at diplomacy this instantly breaks out in a brawl, the two begin swinging at each other with Skitty in the corner concerned for his largest father. After a blow Skitty becomes enraged and gives Vitaly the boost he needs to still stand barely unscathed. Vitaly shouts out to Kious as during his brawl he sees Falk being molested in a corner and asks him to help.

Meanwhile Atvar continues to talk about projectors, poor Datmouf still mistaking this for flirting requests to go back to the ship to see it in action. Bob sits in the corner and continues to ignore his friends but "Doc" quickly steps in with Kious to help Falk against his attacker. The two make quick work of him with Kious stabbing it in it's brain killing it, the actor from before flees the bar while the bounty hunter moves in closer to scan the faces of the other two brawlers.

The android stage performer attempts multiple times to break the fight up with fearing words but to no avail. Seeing his father struggling and still seperated from the rest of the split group Skitty enacts his rage further by using his new hand cannon. The second blow from the gun proved to be enough and the head of the half-ling woman blew clean off her shoulders. The bounty hunter didn't get any hits for the three he was looking at and knew that once a body is produced it's better to just leave, some of the other patrons follow including the crew. Falk however orders a whole bottle in exchange of helping to clean up one of the body's

Later that day when the heat went down from the cantina fights they meet Kious as the designated place given to Vitaly during their chats. The majority of the crew buy ammo while Vitaly, Atvar focus on gear upgrades. In exchange for his courage and the discussion earlier with Vitaly about arming Skitty, showing him the way, Kious gives proper armour fitted for a skittermander and a spear just for fun. Bob suspiciously hangs back and doesn't purchase a thing or engage with his crew besides handing off his hunting rifle.

Not long after the exchange the crew is hit with some sort of grenades that knock out everyone besides Bob and "Doc" both seem resistant or immune to their effects. Soon bolas fly out and hit Bob and "Doc", electrified to ensure incapacitation.