Reached the Delphi system today. We now only have one more jump to make before we arrive at Pyre.

Yesterday was rather eventful, but not for the usual reasons. We reached Blue Chicago yesterday and found it abandoned – kind of. The station is in an excellent state of repair. From the outside, one would not guess that it is, for all intents and purposes, a ghost station. We stepped out of the airlock and there was not a soul in sight. As I was checking out the food stores of a restaurant, Darik thought he saw movement down a corridor. We went to investigate, but there was nothing.

I decided we should go to the other ship that was docked at this station – there was only one ship docked, although this station could dock hundreds. I was hoping that we might be able to find some assistance on that ship. En route, we came across something I have only heard stories about – an Askari (a killing golem). It was just standing there in the middle of a common area of the space station. It was in a crouch – as if it was getting ready to wrestle or grapple an opponent. Its fingers were long blades each. Darik investigated it, but it appeared to be out of power, as it didn’t move at all – even when Darik climbed up on its back to see if he could find a power source. While we were moving along, we thought we saw something move down at the bottom of a flight of stairs, so we all hurried down. The only one that saw anything was Lady Olivia (although I didn’t believe her until a short while later). She described seeing something in an air-vent. She described a short little creature – hairy with large eyes and years, only having four fingers and wearing a green jumpsuit. The picture a little green men. It turns out that all kinds of fairy tales are coming to life – Deep Ones and now little green men.

As I mentioned, I didn’t believe Lady Olivia until I actually saw them myself. They were gutting a ship. Actually, they had gutted a ship. We finally made our way to the other ship – or the husk of it was it turned out. The ship was not locked. And the ship had several of the little green men (or Blix as I have taken to calling them) that Lady Olivia described. The only word that I understand from them is ‘blix’. I wish I understood what that word means, but unfortunately, I don’t. They were dismantling the ship – there was very little of it left – mostly just support structure and hull. It will be interesting to see what becomes of that ship when I return there to repay the little green men for their assistance.

By this time, the Baron and Brother Gunderson were getting bored and wanted a drink – and having believed we were all getting snookered, they came to join us. It was at this time that I received one of the biggest shocks of the day – they didn’t see the Askari, it was gone. Immediate panic coursed through me, and I immediately ran back to Lachesis – if anything had happened to her, I would never forgive myself.

When I got back to my airlock, I was horrified to find that the hatch was wide open. Fearing the worst, I ran to the bridge and was relieved to find it empty. I then made my way to the engine room, where I found the Blix repairing the ship. I was still very nervous that they were actually going to dismantle Lachesis that I stayed there with my blaster trained on them, watching them closely, but once I was able to confirm that they were actually repairing the ship, my fears were alleviated.

It turns out, that the Blix are somewhat frightened by the golem we saw on the docking station. I discovered that while I was trying to find out if that thing was on the ship. When I made the same stance as that thing, the Blix were very frightened. I wanted to go and hunt that thing down to repay these little men for their service and assistance, however, the Baron (in whose employ I am currently engaged) wished to get back under sail toward Pyre, so that is what we are doing. I will be back to that station, though to rid it of that menace that frighten the delightful little Blix.

Once the ship was completely repaired, all the Blix that were working on it, except for six, left the ship. The six that remained are accompanying us on our journey, and I must say, that I am very grateful for the good fortune of finding them. They are more adept at repairing this ship than Talbot was. It pains to me to dishonor such a good man in this manner, but I must speak the truth. Would I trade these little creatures to have Talbot back? I’m not sure – but what I wouldn’t give to have Talbot AND these Blix.

We have now made it to the Delphi system and are en route to a docking station to refuel, and I need to see if I can find something to help with translating the blix language – I really need to be able to communicate with them.

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