LOOT
- 30gp from the Machine Kid for stripped bike parts
> Kestrel spent their share on a "surprising paint job" for their bike from the Machine Kid Binocco
- 1 Stack of Vintage Pin-up Magazines (worth 800cp)
- 1 lead-lined pouch of chipped Occulith, toxic crystal gemstones (worth 1,000cp)
- 3 Metal Cylinders, depressible button on top, Blue Clock symbol painted on it (1/4 slot)
- 1 Metal Cylinder, same button, Green Hazard symbol (1/4 slot)
- 1 flask half-full of backwashed rotgut (1/4 slot)
- 1 sticky note, "REMEMBER TO PICK UP SLOP FOR THE HOG-GATORS!"
DEVELOPMENTS
- Six out of Nine people have been slain to sate the Sword-God's bloodlust, after which it claims it will release Breezy Pete
4th of Lastmonth, Year 1V39
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| Gaming |
We opened with players locked in a stalemate with the hoverbiker outlaw gang. The gang demanded the return of the stolen hoverbike and funeral expenses paid for their comrade, whom the Company had slain previously.
Under the guise of accepting the deal, Kestrel hid their rat companion under the hoverbike's hood and passed the bike over to the Ooze Mutant, the outlaw gang's spokesmutant. The rat leapt out and dealt the Ooze Mutant a fatal surprising blow, and the battle was on.
Seizing initiative, Gemini attacked one of the gun-toting bandits with a throw of Breezy Pete's Emerald Spear, slaying them instantly. The slain outlaw's partner immediately failed his morale roll, turned tail and fled. Hipsap took a lucky reaction as one of the gunners on the opposite hill whiffed his shot terribly, and she made short work of them with her moldy maleficence.
The bug bandit's lieutenant - a hulking 8' tall insectoid mutant - leapt from his bike with inhuman speed and flexed his massive mutoid biceps, blasting the sleeves off of his black leather jacket and revealing a glowing tattoo of a rose. He engaged Kestrel and Gemini in a long bloody melee. Kestrel created an opening by blinding the mutant bugman with sand from the ground, and Gemini scored a powerful hit with their lucerne, but the bugman kept on coming, its carapace hissing and roiling as neon green ooze dripped from its wounds.
The bugman fended off the mighty blows and a second pair of insectoid arms burst from his body, which seized Gemini and dealt a powerful blow. Gemini was nearly rendered Deader than Dead, but judicious use of the Grit feat reduced the wound to a destroyed arm. Gemini still was knocked unconscious and would die quickly if not treated.
Seizing the Door Sword from Gemini's person, Hipsap shouted the name of her destination - the village of Hog - and drove it into the bugman. Light began to pour out of his body, and still he did not back down, but Kestrel score a killing blow with a point-blank flintlock pistol headshot. The bugman melted into a pool of neon green goop, and beneath his molten flesh appeared a rusted cellar door.
Hoisting the door open and hurling the lethally wounded Gemini through it, the party found themselves crashing into a scrap heap inside the Machine Kid's garage back in the village. He was busy gaming on his vintage setup and was annoyed at the interruption, but quickly helped Gemini into a MutaTube and stabilized them before they died.
The party returned to loot the battlefield and found many things, including a sticky note that read, REMEMBER TO PICK UP SLOP FOR THE HOG-GATORS!
The party kept three of the hoverbikes for themselves and cut a deal with the Machine Kid, who paid them 3,000cp for the rest to strip for parts. They chatted for a while and Machine Kid pointed out they would need to repaint them quickly if they didn't want to be taken for brigands around the village, and offered to repaint them for 1,000cp each, using something he called "the Algorithm." Kestrel took him up on the offer and asked for "something surprising"; Machine Kid pocketed the money and told them to return tomorrow morning to pick it up.
Hipsap instead slunk around and found some indigo dye steeping in the Village Sanctum's gardens, which she stole, intending to repaint her bike herself. (The results of her efforts remain to be seen.)
The party then holed up and licked their wounds for the remaining 4 Watches of the day, ending the session.
Thus ended the 5th of Lastmonth - there are 7 Days Remaining to sate the Sword God's curse.
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