Assault on Grandville!

Back to laying the groundwork for Project DESTINY today, though Black Scorpion still has not divulged the nature of the project to me. This time, apparently the Nemesis Army have got wind of something about the program and I was sent to one of their Shadow Shard Dimension bases to find out what.

It turned out that the Nemesis Army was executing a full scale attack on the heart of the Rogue Isles - Grandville! Teleporting back to my lab to exit directly in Grandville I found myself almost too late.

All of Lord Recluses' loyal lieutenants had taken the field, and I was bid to join them. While Scirocco, Black Scorpion and Captain Mako held a defensive line, Ghost Widow tortured one of their commanders. Weak minded fools - the time was for action when the wolf is at the door.

Summoning my ZR Automated Assault Platoon I marched down onto the beaches where I was faced with many of the Lord Nemesis' fake automatons. Until... well what I found on the beaches took my breath away.

A perfect design of form and function - mole machines! Of course, I had to destroy them on sight as they were being used to ship in reinforcements, but still they where worthy behemoths like something out of the Science Fantasy Comics I read as a child.

Judicious use of a Force Bubble ensured I was not bothered by the Warhulks on patrol around them, and the invasion was repulsed.

Acquiring Parts

It would appear that my erstwhile colleagues are otherwise engaged, and with me closeted doing research for Project DESTINY, I have been seldom around of late.

The only times I've been seen outside of The Fab has been to frequent the lovely new Black Market in Cap Au Diable - really, they should have had this around when I was of a lower Threat Clearance as I would have made much more use of it.

Still, with the Hypothetical Framework now available in the Rogue Isles, I have been utilising the shady characters to acquire parts for my new inventions. Nothing of note yet.

Monkey Madness!

I heard tell from my fishing partner the other day that the northern isles of Peregrine were full of Rikti Monkeys.

Well, having enjoyed their antics I went along to have a look at the little blighters, prior to a later appointment that day. Alas, my partner was right and they were scaring the fish so I summoned in some ZR Units and set to eliminating them.

And you know, it was quite good fun!

AAAAAEEEEOOOOOOOOONNN!

Aeon! Can I never be rid of this infernal thorn in my side? I break in to one of his facilities to extract research that rightfully belongs to Arachnos and he has the audacity to attack me in the course of my duty?!

I barely noticed the hack as I was busy dispatching disloyal Arachnos troops, and only realised he was there by the colour of the energy blasts bouncing off my shields.

That's right Aeon! Your energies no longer breach my ZR Aegis Shielding. I found it pathetically easy to defeat you and if only you hadn't teleported out I would have dealt with you for all time.

You hear me? I will end you!

Snaake! Snaake, it's a Snake!

Well, this is taking me back. Back to when I was first broken out of the Ziggurat and my Threat Clearance Level was a paltry single figure. Operative Grillo, one of my peers from Arachnos Research, asked me to go and have a word with an old contact of mine - Mongoose, on Mercy Isle.

Seems the old exterminator has found a nest of snakes too big for even his boots. And called in a real professional.

I have to admit that he was right though - these new snakes are a lot more powerful than as I remember them. In the day a pair of Drone ZR's could hold them at bay - now a full squad of ZR Autonomous Units are hard pressed to deal with them. Still, with the ZR Aegis Transponder and my other devices I was able to deal with them effectively.

Although I doubt I have seen the last of this resurgence.