ATTENTION ALL BAN MEMBERS:
As I type this, I sit wounded on a chair on the Burke. Com and I found Ace's ship in an asteroid field. We successfully cleared it of hostiles and managed to power up a warp gate leading to the zone where Ace's biosignature was detected.
Unfortunately, not all went as planned. The gate was powered up, and Ace came out as we'd hoped. As we brought him on board, it became apparent that something was terribly wrong. He was... disfigured in some way. It was as if a deep shadow was covering his entire body. We realized that this was not our glorious leader, but some warped form of his psyche.
It proceeded to speak in some alien tongue of which neither of us could translate. The dark thing attacked us, and after a fight we managed to shove it back out of the airlock and out towards the gate.
Suddenly, it launched back towards the ship and somehow managed to board. It horribly mauled me, and Com chased him off the ship and onto the Burke. I dragged myself out and managed to fly over as well.
I entered the bridge and witnessed the aftermath of a large fight. Blood was everywhere. On the ground was Ace's dark figure, and standing above him was Com holding a rifle to his head. The creature was hissing and mindlessly muttering in the strange language we heard earlier.
Com finished him off. I saw no blood come out of the creature. As it fell to the ground it disintegrated into some kind of sparkling, dark ash. It somehow drifted through the walls of the ship and was sucked into the warp gate, which collapsed on itself in a chaotic explosion directly after the last of the dust had disappeard.
MISSION: FAILED
I regret to inform you that we won't be seeing Ace any time soon. We theorize that in trying to track his biosignature and pulling it out of the gate, we didn't pull out the actual Ace, but some kind of demonic doppelganger in his form. I looked at the logs later and saw that through the entire situation, Ace's signature was still somewhere in that gate. I feel that through that gate was a very dark place.
Ace is still alive.
I'm sorry, friends, but we'll have to wait some time to see Ace again. Com and I don't know how long it will take, but I swear to you that he'll be back, even if we can't pull him out. Best of wishes.
On a side note, this whole thing was incredibly well coordinated and was one of the most immersing and entertaining improv' RP's I've participated in :D
