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Savage Worlds Ruleset for Fantasy Grounds II
(c) 2009 Pinnacle Entertainment Group.
Short Round makes some tea
Short Round: Knowledge (Brewing) [1d4 = 3]
Short Round: and some coffee
Short Round: Knowledge (Brewing) [1d6 = 8]
Short Round: Language: Engrish [Trait roll was a natural 1] [1d6 = 5]
Short Round: Anyone want drink?
Xiu Li: Sure
Zach Dallas: Fold
Zach Dallas: So, odd dream last night
Zach Dallas: I think it had to do with Uriel and several gattling guns
GM: There is a slight bump, then Captain Fong comes down into the hold where the group is staying.
Zach Dallas: I need to sleep on land again
Captain Fong: We just pulled into Perdition, so this is your stop.
Zach Dallas: Thanks for the lift
Quorteth (Uriel Iscariot): Just a second here...
Captain Fong: No problem, we'll be back here in a couple weeks.
Xiu Li gets off the boat.
Captain Fong waves at everyone as you disembark. Then he directs the Sturgeon back out to sea.
Uriel Iscariot Jumps off the boat.
Zach Dallas follows after
TADM: If I force you off the boat, is that boat-roading?
Quorteth (Uriel Iscariot): lol
Kazemi (Zach Dallas): you can't make me swim
Uriel Iscariot Takes a moment to say prayers for the sturgeon's safe voyages
Zach Dallas: Notice {-1 One Eye} [1d6-1 = 4]
Stinky Pete waits for God to smite him as he leaves with lackey in tow
[w] Zach Dallas: looking for wanted posters and the like
Uriel Iscariot: Notice [1d6 = 9]
Stinky Pete: Notice {+2 Alertness(S)} [1d6+2 = 7]
Short Round: Notice {+2 Alertness} [Critical failure!] [1d4+2 = 3]
[w] -> Zach Dallas: You do not spot any wanted posters down on the docks.
[w] Zach Dallas: well, as we travel to our target saloon as well
GM: Short Round astutely discovers he is just the right height that he can stare at Xiu Li's breasts and not get in trouble.
GM: Stinky Pete notices that a few people give the group some odd stares as you get off the boat, and a couple of them look to be "slinking" (or is it "sneaking?") away.
Zach Dallas: Hm. Perhaps we ought to make ourselves stand out less.
GM: Uriel notices that this HEATHEN town is owned by Wasatch and that everyone who is a Wasatch employee is watching you very carefully with their hands not far from their holsters.
Kazemi (Zach Dallas): HEATHEN
The place is a bustling hive of - shockingly enough - what seems to be honest folks working hard to make an honest living.
The group is supposed to meet Lacey O'Malley at the "Fallen Angel Saloon" - in a couple hours.
Uriel Iscariot: I reckon we are all in need of a stiff drink after so much seafarin'
Uriel Iscariot: If man was meant to be on water that long, I reckon the LORD'd have given us all gills.
Zach Dallas: Didn't you once spend several hours inside a well?
Stinky Pete: Didn't Jesus always hang out with fisherman, though?
Uriel Iscariot is dumbfouned
Stinky Pete: I reckon he knows his way around a boat better than you do
Zach Dallas: Back in Dodge City?
Zach Dallas: Remember?
Uriel Iscariot: Aye, but they gave that up and became fishers of MEN
Kazemi (Zach Dallas): it was right around that time when I failed my first spellcasting roll
Uriel Iscariot: And...that well....er....
Uriel Iscariot: I'm not sure about that.
Kazemi (Zach Dallas): Also, you're a turtle
Quorteth (Uriel Iscariot): (lol)
Uriel Iscariot: I am sure the longer we dawdle, the longer we don't have shade and refreshments.
Xiu Li waits for someone to move in an "off the docks" direction.
Uriel Iscariot heads of to the ominously named tavern
Uriel Iscariot: Come.
The Fallen Angel Saloon is a a really nice place, not a high class fancy joint, but you get the feeling that it is a respectable enough place. The barman is a large happy looking man who is laughing heartily at the jokes of a few men sitting at the bar.
There is no sign of Lacey O'Malley. It is currently 1045 and you are supposed to meet him in 75 minutes.
Kazemi (Zach Dallas): Oi, we should get aliases
Kazemi (Zach Dallas): at the very least
It is March 25, 1880.
Uriel Iscariot tucks his collar in.
Uriel Iscariot Takes a seat in the back somewhere.
Short Round makes small talk with Xiu Li
Mike Hall begins playing, "Man in the Mirror" from the Grand Piano in the corner.
Xiu Li offers to teach Short Round the fine art of origami bird making, one-handed.
Zach Dallas leans in to learn on this amusing trick
Uriel Iscariot lights a cigar and otherwise lays low
Nick (Short Round): Where's her other hand, I wonder
Xiu Li makes a crane with each hand, at the same time.
Nick (Short Round): Ah
Tillman C. Moss walks over to the table.
Tillman C. Moss: Mornin' gents, I'm Tillman C. Moss, owner and barman of the Fallen Angel. Anything I can get you? Ya'all have the look of newcomers in town.
TADM: Hi Fen.
Feneril (Ezekial Ikwiano): I'm on the phone right now btw
[w] Zach Dallas: what do I roll to figure out how to make those cranes? Smarts?
[w] -> Zach Dallas: You need a success on smarts and two raises on agility.
Zach Dallas: Smarts [1d12 = 20]
Uriel Iscariot: Thanks for checking in on us. Could I just get a bloody mary.
Zach Dallas: Agility [1d10 = 7]
GM: Zeke walks into the room and sits down next to the group. Now everyone is in the Fallen Angel saloon in Perdition.
Feneril (Ezekial Ikwiano): who is short round?
TADM: Pete's Henchman from his Legendary edge.
Feneril (Ezekial Ikwiano): Grats!
Zach Dallas: Do you have any recommendations?
Kazemi (Zach Dallas): for drinks
Short Round: Knowledge (Brewing) [1d4 = 2]
Short Round: Language: Engrish [1d6 = 5]
Tillman C. Moss: Well, the Sidewinder beer is pretty good, most people like it, a few complain about it being bitter.
Short Round: Everything good here!
Zach Dallas: Eh, I'll try some of that
Tillman C. Moss returns with drinks for everyone.
Zach Dallas: The name's Jack Lozenge. A pleasure to meet you
Zach Dallas tips his hat
Stinky Pete: Because you go down easy, I take it?
Ezekial Ikwiano (whispers): When did Zach change his name?
Uriel Iscariot (whispers): alias bro. Think of one.
Zach Dallas (whispers): Everyone here is Wasatch. We're wanted by them. Best not to raise suspisions
Tillman C. Moss: Nice to meet you Jack.
Ezekial Ikwiano: Nice to meet you Tillman, name's Lance Buttermilk
Kazemi (Zach Dallas): how does my crane turn out?
Tillman C. Moss: I see, well, good to meet you also.
Tillman C. Moss heads back to the bar to handle the customers up there.
Mike Hall begins playing, "We're not gonna take it!"
TADM: It looks sort of like a badly folded piece of paper.
Zach Dallas: Hm. This is harder than it looks
Short Round: Me try!
Uriel Iscariot: S' what you get fer havin that hand.
Zach Dallas: Agility [1d6 = 5]
Zach Dallas tries again
Ezekial Ikwiano: Are you drunk Uriel?
Nick (Short Round): Ummm... hmm
Ezekial Ikwiano: er, whatever your name is
Short Round: Agility [1d8 = 13]
Mike Hall begins playing, "We are the Champions"
GM: Short Round successfully makes a nice pair of cranes.
Short Round: Smarts [1d6 = 4]
Ezekial Ikwiano: Agility [1d12 = 3]
Feneril (Ezekial Ikwiano): :-( no cranes for Zeke
Kazemi (Zach Dallas): he eats the paper
Feneril (Ezekial Ikwiano): His Agility is only useful for beating the shit out of people
Feneril (Ezekial Ikwiano): lol
Kazemi (Zach Dallas): paper cut!
Nick (Short Round): Maybe he'd have better luck making a scorpion :P
TADM: Yeah, fine motor control Agility is not Zeke's forte.
Kazemi (Zach Dallas): those are hard
Feneril (Ezekial Ikwiano): Or an origami whore
Kazemi (Zach Dallas): the tails tend to break off by the stinger
Uriel Iscariot: What? My name is Raphael. I think you are the one who is a little drunk.
Kazemi (Zach Dallas): oh, I thought you were calling Xiu Li something for a moment...
Ezekial Ikwiano: So Raphael, what do you do for a living
Uriel Iscariot: Just a messenger. humble messenger of news.
Uriel Iscariot puffs on cigar.
Xiu Li gets up and goes to the powder room.
Tillman C. Moss brings over any necessary refills.
Ezekial Ikwiano: What do you think of the Bible, "Rafael"?
Mike Hall begins playing, "We Didn't Start the Fire"
Kazemi (Zach Dallas): as a heads up, I forgot to mention this before, but Zach appears to have two eyes at the moment. It happened some time on the walk over, but he appears to have two, functional eyes
Uriel Iscariot: There is nothing to think about it. Its not a thinkin book, its a BELIEVIN book!
Xiu Li comes back from the powder room.
Lacey O'Malley walks in, wearing his trademark wrinkled white suit and carrying an Epitaph camera.
Lacey O'Malley: Oh! Hello there, here a bit early, but that's okay.
Zach Dallas: Good to see you again!
Lacey O'Malley sits down at the table and smiles at the group.
Lacey O'Malley pauses...
Lacey O'Malley looks at Zach Dallas.
Uriel Iscariot: Notice [1d6 = 8]
Lacey O'Malley: Are we in good company here?
Zach Dallas quickly explains aliases
Feneril (Ezekial Ikwiano): I was hoping Raphael was an Atheist and we could torment the shit out of Uriel for a while
Zach Dallas: and Yes
Lacey O'Malley: I see.
Stinky Pete: Shorty, why don't you wait outside?
Kazemi (Zach Dallas): except possibly Short Round, but if he's a villain I'm going to have to kill Pete and Nick's next character
Short Round: Okay Indy!!
Kazemi (Zach Dallas): He's the rail baron for Vermillion Bayou!
Short Round runs outside to keep watch
TADM: Don't forget the abject possibility that Grey == Xiu Li.
Lacey O'Malley: Well then, down to business.
Uriel Iscariot: So....
Feneril (Ezekial Ikwiano): If xiu li IS grey, Zeke is going to cum in his pants. She would be the perfect woman for him
Lacey O'Malley: I’m sure you remember our little mission during the Battle of Lost Angels, and our failure to locate a certain friend of mine. Samuel Hellman wrote the book on Reverend Grimme. Literally. He filed a lengthy report to the Agency a few years back that was less than flattering for Grimme and his cult. How’d I see it? Well, I have my ways. Anyway, Hellman suspected Grimme and his minions were sacrificing folks for some nefarious reason, but before he could prove anything he disappeared.
Zach Dallas: That's unfortunate...
Uriel Iscariot: This is what happens when you let a church start with no authority!
Zach Dallas: Agility [1d10 = 6]
Zach Dallas attempts to fold another crane
Lacey O'Malley: I have a friend who’s a stonemason. He recently went out to Grimme’s prison in the bay—the Rock—and was unfortunate enough to see where they keep their prisoners. He knew Sam, and swears he saw him being hustled down a hallway just before he got to work. I can’t imagine he and Grimme are having tea. I have no right to ask what I’m about to, so I won’t sugar-coat it. I need you to break into the Rock and get Hellman out of there.
Uriel Iscariot: Why do they let false churches start....(rants on to no effect....)
Uriel Iscariot: And expose that fraudulent heresy!?! Im down for it!
Nick (Short Round): Will Sean Connery break us in?
Lacey O'Malley: Before you say no, I have a plan that might help. I’ve persuaded a certain Maze Rat who owes me a favor to make a raid on the Rock. While he’s doing that, you guys slip in through a drain my stonemason friend was hired to seal up. He left it less than sturdy, let’s say, for just such an emergency.
Zach Dallas: What's his name?
Kazemi (Zach Dallas): for the maze rat, but the stonemason too
Uriel Iscariot is looking angry and fired up.
Zach Dallas: Notice {-1 One Eye} [1d6-1 = 8]
[w] Zach Dallas: anyone listening in or paying too much attention?
TADM: No, you get Xiu Li, not Sean Connery - it's sort of like having a combined version Michelle Yeoh and Jamie Chung in your group.
Uriel Iscariot: I'm down Lacey.
Lacey O'Malley: Not sure why it matters, but the mason is a guy named Templeton and the Maze Rat is a captain by the name of Hong.
Zach Dallas: Well, this sounds much more hopeful
Zach Dallas: Common Knowledge [1d12 = 8]
Ezekial Ikwiano: Don't worry dude with a ladies' name, Lance Buttermilk is on the case
Ezekial Ikwiano: "Jack," who am I supposed to kill?
Lacey O'Malley: Well, if all goes well, killing anyone will not be necessary.
Lacey O'Malley slides a piece of paper across the table.
Ezekial Ikwiano: Then I ain't really your man
Lacey O'Malley: Templeton drew this map for you to help out.
Zach Dallas: When have things ever gone right?
Zach Dallas looks at Zeke
Ezekial Ikwiano: Templeton's shit at drawing
Ezekial Ikwiano: What are those squigles at the top and right supposed to be?
Uriel Iscariot: Watch your mouth!
Lacey O'Malley shrugs.
Zach Dallas: I think those are words?
Ezekial Ikwiano: Oh yeah, I knew that
Uriel Iscariot: Notice [Trait roll was a natural 1] [1d6 = 7]
Zach Dallas: But maybe they're sea serpents?
Ezekial Ikwiano: I was just makin' sure you knew that
Uriel Iscariot: It says sewage pipe there.
Zach Dallas: Well, either way
Lacey O'Malley: Knowing the layout is a big help, whether you realize it or not.
Zach Dallas: Oh, yeah
Zach Dallas: It's greatly appreciated
Zach Dallas: Thank Templeton for us
Lacey O'Malley: So the plan is, tonight around midnight the Maze Rat is going to attack the south side of the island. The sewage pipe is on the northwest face. You guys sneak in through the sewage pipe, climb the access ladder to the power room, head out into the hallway, find Hellman, and sneak him back out the same way.
Zach Dallas: Also, you've heard about how Kang and Tam united, right? Formed their own country?
Lacey O'Malley nods at Zach.
Lacey O'Malley: Yes, and I am not quite sure what to make of it.
Zach Dallas: I suspect that it was less of a merger and more of a conquest
Zach Dallas: Tam hired us to destroy Kang's ironclad, the most powerful ship in the Maze
Lacey O'Malley: Probably....and I knew about that.
Zach Dallas: I don't think he would have done this if he were allied, and only a few days before their merger
Zach Dallas: Also, he seemed terrified when we told him that Kang and Kwan were coming
Uriel Iscariot: Yeah, he was a real yellow when he found out.
Lacey O'Malley: Well, I'll do some snooping around then.
Uriel Iscariot: Thanks
Uriel Iscariot: Lets get moving!
Uriel Iscariot: Heresy is about!
Lacey O'Malley: Best of luck gentlemen...oh...and for the record, you are all wanted - "Dead Preferred" by Wasatch. I recommend you not go to the Ore Processing Facility.
Zach Dallas: Which way is that?
Zach Dallas gets directions to avoid
Lacey O'Malley: The big building in the center of town, hard to miss.
Zach Dallas: Is there anyone else in this town to watch out for specifically?
Lacey O'Malley: Most people are hardworking and honest here, it is a bit refreshing really.
Zach Dallas: nods
Uriel Iscariot: Notice [1d6 = 5]
Zach Dallas nods
Zach Dallas: Agility [1d10 = 8]
Quorteth (Uriel Iscariot): (main denomination of the town)
Zach Dallas tries another paper crane
TADM: Southern Baptist, Reformed, Evangelical.
TADM: All at the same time.
It is now 1230 on March 25, 1880.
Uriel Iscariot: We'll Ill tell you what Lacey, take a look around - thesa' all hark workin Christian folk. That's why they all be good citizens and happy.
TADM: When you guys figure out what the doom clock is for, that will be very amusing.
Uriel Iscariot: Not like that soddom of Shan Fan...
Lacey O'Malley: Even Sodom had its purpose though - to teach the world that too much sin does call down the wrath of God.
Kazemi (Zach Dallas): I'm rather nervous that you'd say that
Lacey O'Malley stands up, tips his hat, and leaves.
Uriel Iscariot: I suppose...
Mike Hall begins playing, "Beat It"
Uriel Iscariot: Let's pay our cheques and get to it. Theres HERESY to PURGE!
Short Round lookin for incoming trouble
Short Round: Notice {+2 Alertness} [Trait roll was a natural 1] [1d6+2 = 25]
Mike Hall notices Xiu Li and changes to, "You Make Loving Fun"
Short Round senses no trouble at all. Really.
Quorteth (Uriel Iscariot): WELL
Mike Hall looks at Zach Dallas and begins playing, "Words we couldn't say."
Mike Hall looks at Zeke and plays, "Live like you were dying."
Ezekial Ikwiano lives like he's dying.
Ezekial Ikwiano lights a cigar.
Mike Hall looks at Uriel and plays, "Original Sin"
Kazemi (Zach Dallas): Where are we supposed to meet said Maze Rat?
GM: Down at the docks.
Xiu Li: What a strange piano man.
Xiu Li heads outside to check on Short Round.
Uriel Iscariot cashes out at the bar and heads to the docks.
Quorteth (Uriel Iscariot): How much gold did we all get?
Kazemi (Zach Dallas): Well, I don't have much to do...
Quorteth (Uriel Iscariot): To the docks!
Kazemi (Zach Dallas): I suppose I'll just work on legerdemain
Stinky Pete: Shall we get going before we've worn out our welcome?
Ezekial Ikwiano: Were we ever welcome?
GM: You arrive at the docks, it does not take long to find the gregarious and loud Captain Hong.
Captain Hong: Oh...hello...
Captain Hong looks at Xiu Li.
Captain Hong: You have brought me quite the present. I am honored.
Xiu Li: They aren't for sale.
Captain Hong: A pity...the black one looks exceedingly violent.
Ezekial Ikwiano: Are they free?
Ezekial Ikwiano: Are we they?
Xiu Li looks at Zeke.
Ezekial Ikwiano: Are you a slaver?
Zach Dallas laughs
Xiu Li: Yes, that one is exceedingly violent.
Uriel Iscariot: THOU SHALL NOT SUFFER A HERETIC TO LIVE!!!!!
Kazemi (Zach Dallas): ?!
Captain Hong: Slaver? No. I abhor slavery. But I am always on the lookout for talented individuals.
Quorteth (Uriel Iscariot): (whos violent now!?)
Captain Hong looks back at Xiu Li.
Zach Dallas (whisper): Do you know him, Xiu Li?
Xiu Li (whisper): It is a long and unhappy story.
Captain Hong: You are Lacey's friend? His taste has...changed.
Xiu Li: Actually, they are the ones you want to speak with, not me.
Captain Hong: Ah...I would have expected you to pick up in Dr. Carr's shoes after his death.
Uriel Iscariot Uriel marches up right infront of Hong.
Xiu Li shrugs.
Captain Hong looks at Uriel.
Captain Hong: Yes?
Zach Dallas: Do pardon him
Uriel Iscariot: I humbly ask that we may requisiton thy vessel to VANQUISH the UNBELIEVERS
Captain Hong laughs.
Captain Hong: No no no.
Captain Hong: My vessels - all six of them - are going to attack the Rock tonight. We shall distract them for 30 minutes, or until one is sunk, whichever comes first.
Uriel Iscariot: ....thats good enough.
Captain Hong: You are on your own to get to the island, free your friend, and get back.
Captain Hong: My debt to Lacey is large...but not extravagant.
Captain Hong looks at Xiu Li.
Captain Hong: You shall join me for dinner this evening.
Xiu Li sighs.
Captain Hong: And wear the red dress...I like that one more.
Xiu Li sighs.
Xiu Li walks off.
Captain Hong laughs.
Zach Dallas: Tell me, do you expect one of your ships to sink?
Captain Hong looks back at Zach Dallas.
Uriel Iscariot: How atrocious an abuse of position! Why, the church would never, and you shouldn't either, as a CAPTAIN!
Uriel Iscariot: Persuasion [1d6 = 3]
Captain Hong: No, we outrange their guns...but strange things happen.
Captain Hong laughs at Uriel.
Zach Dallas: OK
Quorteth (Uriel Iscariot): Lulz
Zach Dallas: Take care, I hear the good Father is a strange man
Captain Hong: I have heard that also.
Captain Hong: Unless you mean this ravening lunatic...
Captain Hong gestures at Uriel.
Uriel Iscariot: What? Im the sane-religious man from a mainstream denomination, thats stamped and approved by JESUS.
Uriel Iscariot: Grimm.....HES A LUNATIC!
Captain Hong: Hay-soos?
Uriel Iscariot (rants and raves incoherently)
Captain Hong: Is this the point where I mention that is Hay-soos is so powerful, how come more people are Buddhists?
Uriel Iscariot: Um....
Uriel Iscariot: Errr....
Captain Hong: Do not tell me of your failed, self-centered religions filled with hatred and disrespect toward man.
Captain Hong waves dismissively at Uriel.
Uriel Iscariot: Faith {+2 Conviction, +1 GOD IS WITH HIM} [1d6+3 = 13]
Kazemi (Zach Dallas): Hm. Our boat is gone. We are "on our own" to get to the island, free the guy, and get back. We gotta get a boat for this
Uriel Iscariot: None....None are so blind as those who will not see.
Uriel Iscariot: You....will be shown at some point.
Ezekial Ikwiano: Or those with no eyes
Quorteth (Uriel Iscariot): (lol)
Ezekial Ikwiano: *cough*Zach*cough*
Captain Hong: Perhaps, I see your point, you have Faith.
Captain Hong bows.
Zach Dallas ignores Zeke. Zach's not his name at the moment
Captain Hong: My apologies for thinking you a mindless drone.
Uriel Iscariot: What? Me having faith isn't the point. the Point is you should have it too.
Kazemi (Zach Dallas): WOO! To find a good boat
Captain Hong: I have Faith. But this is neither the time nor the place for a demonstration that is sure to attract the attention of so many Wasatch employees.
Captain Hong: Good day.
Captain Hong leaves.
Uriel Iscariot: People are just unreasonable. And to think I bring them GOOD NEWS!
Zach Dallas: Streetwise [Trait roll was a natural 1] [1d6 = 21]
GM: Zach locates an awesome boat, available for quick sale, that is in good shape and completely seaworthy.
TADM: No, really.
Kazemi (Zach Dallas): dammit
Uriel Iscariot: Notice [1d6 = 5]
Kazemi (Zach Dallas): oh, wait
Kazemi (Zach Dallas): sorry, I read "Not really."
Feneril (Ezekial Ikwiano): I read that as "completely unseaworthy" and thought "how high does he have to roll?"
Nick (Stinky Pete): How much?
Kazemi (Zach Dallas): lol
TADM: You guys are just so pessimistic...I have trained you well.
GM: The boat can be purchased for a mere $100, in gold, Ghost Rock, or CSA script.
Quorteth (Uriel Iscariot): Now what we want is a submarine. Shame we don't have an inventor...
Short Round: Streetwise [1d6 = 5]
Nick (Short Round): No subz here
Zach Dallas: Persuasion [1d6 = 8]
Kazemi (Zach Dallas): see if I can lower the price at all
GM: The previous owner will throw in both oars and some shark repellant.
Quorteth (Uriel Iscariot): good job.
Short Round: Notice {+2 Alertness(S)} [1d10+2 = 6]
Nick (Stinky Pete): that was Pete
Stinky Pete gives Zach money for boat
Kazemi (Zach Dallas): Shark Repellent Bat Spray, huh?
Kazemi (Zach Dallas): I'll take it!
Kazemi (Zach Dallas): is it magical?
TADM: Nope.
Zach Dallas purchases the boat
Okay, any requests or do you want me to FF to 2330 on March 25, 1880?
Zach Dallas: Would you like to give a nickname to the boat?
Zach Dallas: __________
TADM: The Leaky Cauldron.
Feneril (Ezekial Ikwiano): I just had a thought, is the shark repellant "Bat-Anti-Shark Spray?
Kazemi (Zach Dallas): hey, that's a bar in Harry Potter
Feneril (Ezekial Ikwiano): Because if it isn't, it fucking should be
Kazemi (Zach Dallas): "Shark Repellent Bat Spray". I looked up the video
Kazemi (Zach Dallas): had to make sure I had it right
Kazemi (Zach Dallas): good times, good times
Quorteth (Uriel Iscariot): No requests.
Quorteth (Uriel Iscariot): (too easy to get into trouble)
Uriel Iscariot: We should call it, the INQUISITION
Zach Dallas: Actually, that's a pretty good name
Ezekial Ikwiano: Nobody expects the inquisition
Zach Dallas: The Inquisition it is, then
Ezekial Ikwiano: they'll never see us coming
GM: Okay, it is now 2330 on March 25, 1880.
Quorteth (Uriel Iscariot): Now..if the boat was made in Spain....
Xiu Li shows up at the dock wearing a tight-fitting and very revealing red dress. She looks a lot like a really angry cheap Chinese whore.
Xiu Li sighs.
Xiu Li: How was your night?
Ezekial Ikwiano: Not as good as yours apparantly
Zach Dallas: Day, you mean?
Zach Dallas: Hasn't been quite that long. Still have quite the night ahead of us
Uriel Iscariot: I think only of retribution upon the cult will will soon bring to justice.
Kazemi (Zach Dallas): double typo!
Quorteth (Uriel Iscariot): 2x points!
Xiu Li: Well Zeke, I was at least expecting to hear the phrase, "Mine just got a lot better" from you. So thanks for exceeding my expectations for once.
Ezekial Ikwiano: Sorry, all the blood drained from my head
Ezekial Ikwiano: couldn't think over the raging hard-on you gave me
Zach Dallas bows
Ezekial Ikwiano lights a cigar.
Uriel Iscariot: Faith {+2 Conviction, +1 GOD IS WITH HIM} [1d12+3 = 12]
Uriel Iscariot: Ezekial Ikwiano!
Zach Dallas: So, shall we continue?
Uriel Iscariot: What the hell is on your mind!
Short Round can't talk. Too busy staring
Xiu Li: Yes, lets.
Ezekial Ikwiano: Spirit [1d6 = 4]
Uriel Iscariot: That's right! Only the pure of heart and mind can overcome the vileness of Grimm's Cult!
Uriel Iscariot: Now stop staring at people who chose to dress poorly.
Ezekial Ikwiano: I'm sorry, I forgot on account of Xiu Li's ass
Ezekial Ikwiano: I'll try harder next time
Uriel Iscariot: Glad to hear it.
Xiu Li: I think it will take about ten minutes for two people to row the rest of us out to the island. If it takes ten minutes to get back, that leaves us ten minutes to find this guy and get him back to the boat.
Zach Dallas: It shouldn't be too hard
Zach Dallas: Uriel, could you somehow power the boat with FAITH?
Xiu Li: As it is thirty minutes until the attack starts, that gives me a chance to change.
Xiu Li walks into an unlit area so she can change back into a more appropriate outfit.
Nick (Stinky Pete): "Uriel rowed the boat ashore, hallelujah"
Short Round: Persuasion [1d4 = 7]
Xiu Li comes back at 2355.
Ezekial Ikwiano gets a rowin'
Ezekial Ikwiano: Strength [Critical failure!] [1d12 = 1]
Uriel Iscariot: ZOUCH
Feneril (Ezekial Ikwiano): AWWWWW YEAHHHHH
Nick (Short Round): that should have been notice, I know i hit the right key
Xiu Li unties the boat from the dock.
Quorteth (Uriel Iscariot): Blood still in other places?
Xiu Li: This might help.
Uriel Iscariot: Strength [1d6 = 2]
Zach Dallas: Shall we get moving, then?
Quorteth (Uriel Iscariot): SOMEONE ROLL a 3!
Xiu Li: Strength [1d8 = 7]
Stinky Pete: Strength [1d8 = 7]
Short Round: Strength [Critical failure!] [1d4 = 1]
Zach Dallas: Strength [1d6 = 5]
Zach Dallas: Rule #1 No lights
GM: As soon as everyone is ready:
Zach Dallas looks at Uriel
Xiu Li and Pete sit down and row the boat for ten minutes to get it to the island.
Xiu Li: Vigor [1d8 = 12]
GM: Vigor check from Pete.
Uriel Iscariot (whispers): OK.
Stinky Pete: Vigor [1d8 = 6]
The water around "The Rock" is infested with sharks and other...less identifiable creatures. For the last two minutes of rowing, the water smells like blood. It is 0009 when you arrive. Captain Hong started his attack 9 minutes ago, and salvoes of Chinese rockets and cannons shake the night as they pound the defenses on the southern side of the island. The attack seems to be doing a great job of distracting the prison's defenders.
GM: Notice checks
Uriel Iscariot: Notice [1d6 = 11]
Ezekial Ikwiano: Notice [1d4 = 3]
Uriel Iscariot: Kn Occult {+2 Honey Vial} [1d6+2 = 7]
Zach Dallas: Notice {-1 One Eye} [Trait roll was a natural 1] [1d6-1 = 1]
Zach Dallas is using a benny
Zach Dallas: Notice {-1 One Eye} [Trait roll was a natural 1] [1d6-1 = 4]
[w] Zach Dallas: with Detect Arcana, of course
Quorteth (Uriel Iscariot): for the bloody water smell
Stinky Pete: Notice {+2 Alertness(S)} [1d10+2 = 9]
Short Round: Notice {+2 Alertness} [1d4+2 = 5]
Short Round is using a benny
Short Round: Notice {+2 Alertness} [1d4+2 = 7]
Quorteth (Uriel Iscariot): flexes
Uriel spots the sewer outlet, it is about five feet above the water line. A truly noxious smell emanates from it and a sluice of blood, viscera, bits, and other really nasty things drips from it. Uriel is quite convinced that if Hell has a smell, he just found it.
[w] -> Zach Dallas: Zach notices that it looks like their are magical salt-water piranhas in the water.
[w] Zach Dallas: any particular abilities about them?
Uriel Iscariot: Let my faith be my shield...
Zach Dallas: Common Knowledge [1d12 = 10]
[w] -> Zach Dallas: Not that Zach notices
Quorteth (Uriel Iscariot): Envrio-Protection on Folks.
Zach Dallas: Please have it shield us from the magic piranhas
Nick (Short Round): brb. going to find a beverage
Zach Dallas: Don't fall in the water
Ezekial Ikwiano: And the shit
Ezekial Ikwiano: Make sure you shield us from that too
Quorteth (Uriel Iscariot): So, thats 6 casts I need to pass. Ugh.
Nick (Short Round): and underwater ninja tigers, i hope
Uriel Iscariot: Faith {+2 Conviction, +1 GOD IS WITH HIM} [1d12+3 = 14]
Uriel Iscariot: Faith {+2 Conviction, +1 GOD IS WITH HIM} [1d12+3 = 9]
TADM: Oh trust me, there is an Underwater Ninja Tiger.
Uriel Iscariot: Faith {+2 Conviction, +1 GOD IS WITH HIM} (Novice Power -2) [1d12+1 = 4]
Kazemi (Zach Dallas): HA! Singular
Uriel Iscariot: Faith {+2 Conviction, +1 GOD IS WITH HIM} (Novice Power -2) [1d12+1 = 11]
Feneril (Ezekial Ikwiano): Yeah, and it is being ridden by an undead laser-fighter with machine-gun nipples
Uriel Iscariot: Faith {+2 Conviction, +1 GOD IS WITH HIM} (Novice Power -2) [1d12+1 = 11]
Uriel Iscariot: Faith {+2 Conviction, +1 GOD IS WITH HIM} (Novice Power -2) [1d12+1 = 11]
Quorteth (Uriel Iscariot): Oh Lawd. I BELIEVE!
Feneril (Ezekial Ikwiano): I
Feneril (Ezekial Ikwiano): do
Feneril (Ezekial Ikwiano): not
Feneril (Ezekial Ikwiano): belive
Feneril (Ezekial Ikwiano): what
Feneril (Ezekial Ikwiano): just
Feneril (Ezekial Ikwiano): happened
Kazemi (Zach Dallas): o.O
TADM: Nah, a Genestealer Patriarch and OH MY GOD! DID URIEL JUST MAKE SIX (YES 6!) FAITH ROLLS!
Feneril (Ezekial Ikwiano): that is more successful spell casts than you have ever had
TADM: HOLY.....
TADM: WOW!
TADM: I need to lay down...or go buy lottery tickets...or something.
Uriel Iscariot: Children of the LORD, fear not, for no disease or sickness shall affecteth thee!
Ezekial Ikwiano: Amen brother Uriel
Xiu Li (OOC): It's okay, he won't pass another Faith check again this campaign.
Feneril (Ezekial Ikwiano): You said it Xiu Li
Kazemi (Zach Dallas): but...what if all of those failures earlier stacked up? And now he won't fail a single roll for the next, oh, three months or so?
Uriel Iscariot Climbs up into the putrid pipe
Feneril (Ezekial Ikwiano): Statistics do not work that way human
Ezekial Ikwiano follows Uriel.
Quorteth (Uriel Iscariot): Once were about 15ft into the pipe from hell, Some light is probably safe
Zach Dallas: Spellcasting [1d12 = 15]
Kazemi (Zach Dallas): hell yes
Uriel Iscariot: Faith {+2 Conviction, +1 GOD IS WITH HIM} (Novice Power -2) [1d12+1 = 5]
GM: There is a small ledge on the side of the drain, the pipe itself is only about five feet in diameter, making a bit uncomfortable to walk in.
Quorteth (Uriel Iscariot): PRESS.YOUR.LUCK
Zach Dallas heads on in
Xiu Li heads in after everyone.
Kazemi (Zach Dallas): is there something to tie the boat to?
Feneril (Ezekial Ikwiano): Short round
Stinky Pete: Stay here, shorty. and be careful
Kazemi (Zach Dallas): GOOD IDEA!
Feneril (Ezekial Ikwiano): Just drive him into the ground like a stake
GM: Some rocks, Short Round.
Stinky Pete goes inside as shorty ties the boat to the rocks
Short Round: Agility [1d8 = 3]
Short Round is using a benny
Short Round: Agility [1d8 = 15]
Uriel Iscariot: Well.
Quorteth (Uriel Iscariot): Well.
Kazemi (Zach Dallas): well
Zach Dallas: Notice {-1 One Eye} [Trait roll was a natural 1] [1d6-1 = 4]
Stinky Pete: Notice {+2 Alertness(S)} [1d10+2 = 15]
Uriel Iscariot: Notice [1d6 = 5]
The group gets about fifteen feet into the tunnel when you come to a large, well-secured stone grate. This must be the spot that Lacey's stonemason friend was talking about. Pete takes a quick look and finds the cord wedged into the wall. It looks like a simple pull will open the latch on the other side.
Uriel Iscariot: Wait!
Uriel Iscariot Puts his ear to the wall to listen for guards that may be about
Uriel Iscariot: Notice [Trait roll was a natural 1] [1d6 = 5]
[w] Zach Dallas: is there a normal amount of Manitou around here?
[w] -> Zach Dallas: Define "normal"
[w] Zach Dallas: I assume that they are here. Are they flocking around The Rock more than around ordinary towns or such?
GM: Uriel hears what sounds like terrified screams and the cranking of heavy machines (probably various mechanical torture devices) rending flesh apart.
[w] Zach Dallas: does it seem like a massive focal point for the little buggers?
Ezekial Ikwiano: Sounds like home to me
[w] -> Zach Dallas: This is probably one of the largest concentrations of Manitou you have seen in your life, except for the battle of Blank's Springs.
Zach Dallas: This place is festering with Jokers, though
Zach Dallas: This man is not a priest at all
Feneril (Ezekial Ikwiano): Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right, here I am, stuck in the middle with you...
Feneril (Ezekial Ikwiano): Now I just need to cut someone's ear off
Uriel Iscariot: Well...I suppose wed best get up there and save our man?
Through the grate you see a large tentacle flip out of the water, splash around, and then sink beneath the giant cesspool in the large circular room just beyond it.
TADM: It's the Watcher in the Chum Pool!
Feneril (Ezekial Ikwiano): It's got Luke!
Quorteth (Uriel Iscariot): yuuup lol
GM: So is Pete lifting the cord and opening the grate?
Stinky Pete: Probably should get going. Don't have all night
Stinky Pete lifts
Feneril (Ezekial Ikwiano): and separates
GM: Indeed, at this point you have, at most 8 minutes before you need to be rowing back to shore.
Uriel Iscariot: Lets go!
GM: The grate slides open, it makes no noise.
GM: There is a narrow, slippery ledge here, you can walk at half-pace to get around the pool - anything else requires an Agility check.
Uriel Iscariot: Agility [Trait roll was a natural 1] [1d6 = 4]
Ezekial Ikwiano: Agility [1d12 = 8]
Uriel Iscariot: go go go! No time!
Feneril (Ezekial Ikwiano): I'm moving at full pace.
Xiu Li: Agility [1d6 = 4]
Feneril (Ezekial Ikwiano): assuming that passes for that purpose
Zach Dallas: Agility [1d6 = 7]
Stinky Pete: Agility [1d6 = 5]
GM: Xiu Li, Zeke, and Uriel quickly cross the walkway. The tentacled monster bobs to the surface for a minute, a couple tentacles flop around, and then it submerges again.
GM: Zach and Pete follow them without incident.
Kazemi (Zach Dallas): yay!
Uriel Iscariot: Well
Feneril (Ezekial Ikwiano): And then zach's Appendix explodes
Quorteth (Uriel Iscariot): I expected to get suckered in there.
Kazemi (Zach Dallas): can the grate be closed again so they can't tell it was opened, or did we break it?
TADM: It can be closed again, I assume you want to leave it open for now.
Kazemi (Zach Dallas): Zach's Apendix went the way of his left eye
Feneril (Ezekial Ikwiano): shot out by a sleeping drunk?
Kazemi (Zach Dallas): basically
There is a narrow rung ladder that goes up 10'. The cacophony of noise coming down the opening is deafening and horrifying.
Ezekial Ikwiano: I'll go first
GM: Spirit checks for everyone, Uriel is at a -4.
Ezekial Ikwiano: Spirit [1d8 = 12]
[w] Zach Dallas: I was able to Hunch this guy in his room, correct? Way back when?
Stinky Pete: Spirit [1d12 = 6]
Zach Dallas: Spirit [Trait roll was a natural 1] [1d6 = 5]
Uriel Iscariot: Spirit [1d12 - 4 = 7]
Ezekial Ikwiano: If you hear shooting come as quick as you can
[w] -> Zach Dallas: Sure....
Kazemi (Zach Dallas): WOOOO!
Ezekial Ikwiano: If you hear moaning, give me a coule minutes
GM: Spirit [1d6 = 10]
Ezekial Ikwiano goes up the ladder.
Quorteth (Uriel Iscariot): lol
Zeke climbs up the ladder and finds an room filled with Hellstrome Industries mechanical gear. It seems that all the noise is coming from a huge Ghost Rock boiler that is probably feeding electricity to the entire prison.
Ezekial Ikwiano: Notice [Trait roll was a natural 1] [1d6 = 4]
GM: What is Zeke looking for?
Zach Dallas: Let me go next, I remember what he looks like
Uriel Iscariot: So it looks like we have found the thermal exhaust...i mean achellies vent. We should probably torch this room during our escape!
Zach Dallas: or at least looked like
Ezekial Ikwiano goes to the door and checks the nearby section of corridor.
Zach Dallas climbs up after Zeke
Quorteth (Uriel Iscariot): BRB
Zeke spots a red robed man pointing a shotgun into one of the southernmost cells. His back is to Zeke. There appears to be no one else in the corridor.
Stinky Pete: Wait, Uriel's actually all FOR a plan involving murder of countless innocents? Wow...
TADM: Yeah, how many civilian contractors did Luke kill? I mean, your average Stormtrooper doesn't know anything about plumbing.
Xiu Li climbs up into the power room.
Nick (Stinky Pete): There is a book (no idea which one) where Luke actually quotes the # of people killed on the Star
Kazemi (Zach Dallas): He's probably keenly aware of what happened
Ezekial Ikwiano sneaks up on the man in the red robe and points Bo at the man's head.
Ezekial Ikwiano: Unskilled {-2 Unskilled} [1d6-2 = 3]
Feneril (Ezekial Ikwiano): (stealth)
Xiu Li: Notice [1d8 = 4]
The red robed man swings around and opens fire.
TADM: (on his initiative)
Ezekial Ikwiano opens fire.
Round 1
The deck has been shuffled.
Dealing cards...
Ezekial Ikwiano was dealt the King of Hearts and the Nine of Diamonds.
Ezekial Ikwiano uses the King of Hearts.
Ezekial Ikwiano
Xiu Li was dealt the Queen of Hearts.
Ezekial Ikwiano fires on the Avenging Anel with both barrels.
Ezekial Ikwiano: Shooting: (2) Bo (Imp. Trademark Weapon +2, Marksman +2, Shotguns +2, Called Shot (Head) -4) [1d12+2 = 7]
Ezekial Ikwiano: Shooting: (2) Luke (Imp. Trademark Weapon +2, Marksman +2, Shotguns +2, Called Shot (Head) -4) [1d12+2 = 10]
GM: Both hit
Ezekial Ikwiano: (2) Bo damage [3d6+4 = 13]
Ezekial Ikwiano: (2) Luke damage [3d6+4 = 11]
Avenging Angel is using a benny
Avenging Angel: Vigor [1d8 = 10]
Avenging Angel is using a benny
Avenging Angel: Vigor [1d6 = 10]
Avenging Angel dodges both shots with super-natural speed.
TADM: (Or uses all his bennies; however you want to look at it)
Xiu Li runs the other direction, to close the door to the cell block and prevent more guards from arriving or hearing the sound of gun fire.
Zach Dallas
Zach Dallas: Notice {-1 One Eye} [1d4-1 = 22]
Kazemi (Zach Dallas): holy....
Feneril (Ezekial Ikwiano): lol
Feneril (Ezekial Ikwiano): singularity of notice
Kazemi (Zach Dallas): see if I can find the guy we're after
Feneril (Ezekial Ikwiano): I'm gonna go way out ona limb here, and say that a sucess with 5 raises could find the fountain of youth
Zach Dallas: Spellcasting [1d12 = 2]
Zach Dallas is using a benny
Zach Dallas: Spellcasting [Trait roll was a natural 1] [1d6 = 7]
Kazemi (Zach Dallas): sorry, Zeke. I tried
Quorteth (Uriel Iscariot): u need a nom benny maybe?
Feneril (Ezekial Ikwiano): were you trying to haste me?
Kazemi (Zach Dallas): if you'd like. It's for your defense
Quorteth (Uriel Iscariot): NOMMIN ZACH
Zach Dallas: Spellcasting [1d12 = 10]
Kazemi (Zach Dallas): -4 for him to hit you, Zeke
Feneril (Ezekial Ikwiano): Sweet
Feneril (Ezekial Ikwiano): So I effectively have 13 parry then
Kazemi (Zach Dallas): provided nothing goes horribly wrong. In which case you deserve it, but I appologize nonetheless
Kazemi (Zach Dallas): -4 to hit you vs ranged as well
Kazemi (Zach Dallas): things just...tend to miss you :D
Zach's super awesome Notice check spots a guy sitting in the cell across from the Generator room. Even after all the abuse the guy has been through and the half-second glance, Zach recognizes him as Charley Bill Buckner, the guy in charge of digging the Wasatch rail-line through the mountains and a foreman for Hellstromme. He must have been captured during the Battle of Lost Angels.
Avenging Angel casts Haste on self.
Avenging Angel: Spellcasting [1d6 = 10]
Feneril (Ezekial Ikwiano): Also the guy who let a ground ball go through his legs in game 6 of the 1986 world series.
Zach Dallas: Oh, hey Charlie! Good to see you! Well, not in this situation, but I think we can make do
Kazemi (Zach Dallas): how many people can our boat hold?
Feneril (Ezekial Ikwiano): We can always leave Short Round behind
Avenging Angel second action is to shoot Zeke.
Avenging Angel: Shooting [1d8 = 7]
Avenging Angel misses.
GM: You can probably fit ten people on the large rowboat...more people would need to row in that situation.
Charley Bill Buckner: Hey! Zach Dallas! Boy are you a sight for sore....eye?
Stinky Pete
Zach Dallas: It's quite the story, I really must tell you over a cup of tea
Stinky Pete goes to check the top two cells for our intended target
Stinky Pete: Notice {+2 Alertness(S)} [1d6+2 = 12]
Ezekial Ikwiano: Maybe this isn't the time Z/Jach/k
GM: As soon as Pete reaches that cell, a man runs up to the door.
Eddie Griff: Hey man! You have to let me out of here!
Zach Dallas: Common Knowledge [1d12 = 11]
Zach Dallas glances over
Eddie Griff: I'm Eddie Griff, I was thrown in here by Grimme! Get me away from these psycopathic cannibals!
Kazemi (Zach Dallas): do I recognize him?
Uriel Iscariot
Uriel Iscariot Haste Self
TADM: No.
Uriel Iscariot: Faith {+2 Conviction, +1 GOD IS WITH HIM} (Second Tier Power -4) [1d12-1 = 8]
Quorteth (Uriel Iscariot): and walk as far in as first action
Feneril (Ezekial Ikwiano): Of course you recognize him, he played the man-pimp in Duece Bigalo
Quorteth (Uriel Iscariot): Anyway to get a clean shot off on the Angel?
Quorteth (Uriel Iscariot): Or is the hallway too narrow with those two in it?
GM: Yes
Uriel Iscariot: Score
Uriel Iscariot: PURIFY WITH FIRE!!!!!!!
TADM: The "clean shot" question is answered yes
Feneril (Ezekial Ikwiano): If he misinterpreted you, then I really don't trust him
Uriel Iscariot: Shooting (Shotgun +2) [1d6+2 = 7]
GM: That hits
Feneril (Ezekial Ikwiano): Zach
Uriel Iscariot: 2x Barrel Shotg damage [3d6 = 16]
Uriel Iscariot: PURGE THE HERETICS!
Avenging Angel flies backwards into the wall and drops over dead.
Ezekial Ikwiano: Uriel, I thought you was a pacifist?
Ezekial Ikwiano reloads.
Stinky Pete: He is. To anyone not holding weapons
GM: You have 7 minutes left to get back to the boat.
Uriel Iscariot: I am. This man was less than human, therefore I have not comitted murder.
Zach Dallas: Ouch
Ezekial Ikwiano: I gotta remember that line next time I'm facing a judge
Uriel Iscariot: I learned it from the Good Book (TM)
Xiu Li closes and locks the door leading upstairs.
Ezekial Ikwiano checks the cell where the Avenging Angel was pointing his gun earlier.
Ezekial Ikwiano: Notice [1d6 = 9]
Zach Dallas: So, does anyone know where Samuel Hellman is?
Nick (Stinky Pete): He's probably in the kitchen making mayonaise, given our luck
GM: Zeke sees a shackled and beaten man huddled in the back of the room.
Charley Bill Buckner: I think he's in the cell over where the black man is.
Uriel Iscariot: Zach, release these men from their shackles, With HASTE!
Eddie Griff: He is! Let us out also!
Ezekial Ikwiano: You alive back there?
Uriel Iscariot: Leave none behind!
Uriel Iscariot: Faith {+2 Conviction, +1 GOD IS WITH HIM} (Second Tier Power -4) [1d6-1 = 9]
Feneril (Ezekial Ikwiano): No child left behind?
Ezekial Ikwiano: Or No child's behind left?
Uriel Iscariot (Hastin the Zach Dallas)
Quorteth (Uriel Iscariot): (ok christopher hitchens fan...)
Feneril (Ezekial Ikwiano): which is more appropriate for the priest....
GM: The man in the room Zeke is looking into flops around slightly and tries to look up.
Zach Dallas: Stand back a bit
GM: The door unlocks.
Zach Dallas: Excellent! No explosions
Ezekial Ikwiano picks the man up and throws him over his shoulders.
Ezekial Ikwiano: Strength [1d12 = 9]
TADM: REALLY?
TADM: I just want to make sure that everyone knows.
Zach Dallas: Notice {-1 One Eye} [1d6-1 = 3]
TADM: Mike whispered me something, and if all Hell breaks loose, I just want to make sure it is properly prefaced.
Nick (Stinky Pete): nom
TADM: And Mike causes the GM much rejoicing.
Feneril (Ezekial Ikwiano): and the party much pain
GM: The lock opens.
Zach Dallas: Spellcasting [1d6 = 9]
Zach Dallas: Capture Manitou damage [2d12 = 11]
[w] -> Zach Dallas: Yes, all the Manitou in the area just fled to tell, "The Great Father" that Zach Dallas is here. And these manitou are controlled by a will much more powerful than yours...so you cannot bind them.
Zach Dallas: Hm
Zach Dallas: That's unfortunate
[w] -> Uriel Iscariot: Make a Faith roll please.
Zach Dallas: Well, I've got 80% of my power left
Uriel Iscariot: Faith {+2 Conviction, +1 GOD IS WITH HIM} [1d12+3 = 12]
Zach Dallas: By the way, I'm changing my name from now on
Ezekial Ikwiano: You can't have Lance Buttermilk
Ezekial Ikwiano: That's my name now
Stinky Pete: Spirit [1d12 = 2]
Stinky Pete is using a benny
Stinky Pete: Spirit [1d12 = 6]
Stinky Pete: Vigor [1d6 = 11]
Zach Dallas: Oh, shit
Xiu Li: Something....wicked....this way comes....
Zach Dallas: We need to leave NOW
Kazemi (Zach Dallas): hardcasting
Uriel Iscariot: What about the other prisoners?
Feneril (Ezekial Ikwiano): There's....some....thing....on the wing as well.
Zach Dallas: Spellcasting [1d12 = 15]
Zach Dallas: Spellcasting [1d12 = 3]
Ezekial Ikwiano: I got one
Stinky Pete hears "Indy, cover your heart. Cover your heart!"
Ezekial Ikwiano: He ain't sayin' much though
Kazemi (Zach Dallas): also, for eddie
Ezekial Ikwiano heads back towards the power room.
GM: Zeke finds a guy who Zach recognizes as Samuel Hellman.
Zach Dallas: Anyone else want out? One way trip?
Zach Dallas: Or two way, if you prefer
Zach Dallas: We can probably spare the change for that
Xiu Li comes out of the cell near her holding a man who is missing both eyes and both hands.
Ezekial Ikwiano: Hey look, it's Zach two months from now
Eddie Griff runs past everyone, down the drain, and out through the sewer pipe.
[w] -> Stinky Pete: Make a notice check for Short Round
Zach Dallas: by the way, is the big evil coming from above or below?
Short Round: Notice {+2 Alertness} [1d4+2 = 5]
[w] -> Stinky Pete: and Don't Fail!
Short Round is using a benny
Short Round: Notice {+2 Alertness} [1d4+2 = 4]
Short Round is using a benny
Short Round: Notice {+2 Alertness} [1d6+2 = 12]
Ezekial Ikwiano: What big evil?
Ezekial Ikwiano: And if big evil is coming, why are we not leaving?
Zach Dallas: that was OOC, sorry
Kazemi (Zach Dallas): dammit
GM: Zach estimates it is coming down the stairs. Uriel can feel palpable waves of hatred and the fires of Hell getting very close at hand. It seems that Zach Dallas has invited Satan to dinner.
Short Round makes for the exit
Stinky Pete makes for the exit
Nick (Stinky Pete): Guess I should've expected one of those sooner or later
Zach Dallas follows promptly after them
Uriel Iscariot jams his dagger into the furnace and makes a run for it.
Ezekial Ikwiano lickety spits after the others.
[w] -> Stinky Pete: Short Round manages to dodge to one side and hide as a man rushes past him, turns into a giant wolf, and dives into the water, grabs a shark, and begins eating it.
Ezekial Ikwiano: Zach, throw some dynamite under that boiler 'fore we leave.
GM: Agility checks if you are moving faster than half-pace in the circular room.
Zach Dallas: Don't have any
Uriel Iscariot: Its okay
Zach Dallas: Agility [1d10 = 9]
Uriel Iscariot: I jammed it.
Ezekial Ikwiano: Agility [1d12 = 6]
Uriel Iscariot: Agility [1d6 = 4]
GM: Agility [1d10 = 7]
Stinky Pete: Agility [1d6 = 7]
Kazemi (Zach Dallas): how large of an explosion would that boiler room make?
GM: Pretty large, it would definitely create a nice fireworks display for the people of Lost Angels.
GM: Everyone gets back into the boat. Charley Bill and the eye-less/hand-less guy are stuck in the front of the boat. There is no sign of Eddie Griff. Who is rowing?
Stinky Pete: Strength [1d8 = 7]
Uriel Iscariot: THE LORD IS MY STRENGTH!
Ezekial Ikwiano puts his quarry down and starts to row.
Uriel Iscariot (boost attribute)
Zach Dallas: Where's Eddie?
Short Round: Strength [1d4 = 2]
Ezekial Ikwiano: Strength [1d12 = 3]
Uriel Iscariot: Faith {+2 Conviction, +1 GOD IS WITH HIM} (Novice Power -2) [1d12+1 = 11]
Charley Bill Buckner: Wow guys, not sure why you are here and I am really grateful you rescued me. I will make sure the people at Wasatch know you did this.
Uriel Iscariot: Strength [1d6 = 4]
Charley Bill Buckner looks very appreciative.
Xiu Li: AB: Boost Strength [1d6 = 5]
Xiu Li: Strength [1d10 = 10]
Stinky Pete starts rowing
Xiu Li grabs an oar and begins rowing.
Zach Dallas: Not a problem. Actually, Cynthia Grey somehow managed to get a bounty put on us from just about everywhere
Zach Dallas: I don't know what trickery she pulled
Charley Bill Buckner: Who?
Stinky Pete: Better off not knowing. Trust us
Zach Dallas: I think she's one of the heads of Black River, actually
Zach Dallas: We got on her bad side in Dodge City
Charley Bill Buckner: Really? Okay, I'll take that into consideration.
Stinky Pete looks for signs of the other boats
Ezekial Ikwiano: I'm still trying to get on her topside
Stinky Pete: Notice {+2 Alertness(S)} [1d10+2 = 5]
Zach Dallas: So, what happened with Eddie?
Short Round: Notice {+2 Alertness} [1d6+2 = 6]
Ezekial Ikwiano: Notice [Trait roll was a natural 1] [1d6 = 2]
Short Round: Language: Engrish [1d6 = 17]
Zach Dallas: Notice {-1 One Eye} [1d4-1 = 1]
Quorteth (Uriel Iscariot): DAMN you'd better make it super-proper.
Short Round: I say, that must have been the fellow who changed into a wolf and went shark hunting
Zach Dallas looks shocked
Zach Dallas: Common Knowledge [1d6 = 8]
Kazemi (Zach Dallas): does that make any sense at all?
Short Round: So, are we leaving, or waiting for someone else?
Feneril (Ezekial Ikwiano): Yeah, he's Bran Stark
Zach Dallas: I think we're set to leave
Ezekial Ikwiano: and fast
Ezekial Ikwiano: before we blow up
Stinky Pete rows faster
Uriel Iscariot: Faster! That' fortress is going to Blow!
Feneril (Ezekial Ikwiano): By the way, I JUST watched Toy Story 2 for the first time yesterday, I laughed when I saw Stinky Pete the prospector
Zach Dallas: Strength [1d6 = 10]
Nick (Stinky Pete): That's where the name's from
Feneril (Ezekial Ikwiano): yeah, I figured
Kazemi (Zach Dallas): any signs of pieces of Eddie?
Zach Dallas: Notice {-1 One Eye} [1d4-1 = 1]
Kazemi (Zach Dallas): no, no signs
Feneril (Ezekial Ikwiano): pieces of Eddie sounds like a really bad prog rock band
The group makes it back to the docks of Perdition without further incident. At exactly 1230, Captain Hong's vessels break off the attack. The boiler never explodes, so no fireworks. (Anyone want to go back and look at why?) And last, but not least, you see neither HIDE nor HAIR of Eddie. (But don't worry, he'll be back later in the campaign.)
Kazemi (Zach Dallas): and he'll probably be an ally!
Kazemi (Zach Dallas): hooray!
Kazemi (Zach Dallas): Also, was he perhaps a Russian?
Feneril (Ezekial Ikwiano): Or black?
TADM: Neither.
Kazemi (Zach Dallas): damn
Xiu Li picks up eye-less and hand-less and carries him off the docks and away from the group.
Quorteth (Uriel Iscariot): Damn....
Charley Bill Buckner heads straight for "Ore-Processing Station #37"
Charley Bill Buckner gets everyone's "Wanted" status from Wasatch revoked.
Uriel Iscariot: YES!
Uriel Iscariot: Finally! the day has come! I can goto Ore-Processing station #37 in broad daylight!
GM: So - what would the party like to do now?
Kazemi (Zach Dallas): Bring Hellman to Lacey?
Quorteth (Uriel Iscariot): Im cashing in this gold. Finally.
Feneril (Ezekial Ikwiano): Maybe one of you magical types could heal him.
Feneril (Ezekial Ikwiano): Since we found him unable to move or speak
Uriel Iscariot: I'm not sure if I can heal that.
Uriel Iscariot: Maybe we should send him off to lourdes so he can spontanteously regrow all his lost parts.
Nick (Stinky Pete): Take the Zach Dallas Guide to Mutilation Through Others. You'll be sure to get an eyeful, and a big hand from everyone you meet
Ezekial Ikwiano: He isn't missing any parts
Ezekial Ikwiano: He's just all beat up
Uriel Iscariot: Notice [1d6 = 7]
Feneril (Ezekial Ikwiano): the guy with no hands or eyes was a different guy
GM: Yes, Sam Hellman is not missing any parts, just beat up, malnourished, and low on blood.
Quorteth (Uriel Iscariot): Thats easy.
Uriel Iscariot Succor.
Uriel Iscariot: Faith {+2 Conviction, +1 GOD IS WITH HIM} (Second Tier Power -4) [1d12-1 = 9]
Sam Hellman recovers somewhat with Uriel's assistance.
Sam Hellman: Thanks...for rescuing me...
Sam Hellman: Get me to...Lacey.
Ezekial Ikwiano carries Hellman to O'Malley.
Lacey O'Malley: You found him and brought him back! Amazing!
Sam Hellman: I'm a little worse for wear.
Ezekial Ikwiano: not my fault
Sam Hellman: I need some rest, food...
Sam Hellman looks at Zeke.
Kazemi (Zach Dallas): Shoot, what was Eddie's full name?
Sam Hellman: Not at all...thanks for helping me.
Feneril (Ezekial Ikwiano): Eddie Griff
Sam Hellman: What I need to say, you all need to hear. Then I'm going to take a long nap in a nice bed, eat a bunch of food, and go on a vacation.
Sam Hellman shudders and collects himself.
Uriel Iscariot: Ok....
Sam Hellman: Bastards got me right after I mailed off the second copy of my report to Allan Pinkerton. They intercepted the first draft. Probably ate the kid I hired to carry it as well. That’s right, I said “ate.” Grimme and his inner circle are cannibals, in case you hadn’t figured it out. The meat they serve at those Sunday feasts is what we like to call “long pork.” I wouldn’t recommend partaking, no matter how hungry you get. It gets to you after a while…
Sam Hellman: Anyway. You’ll probably think I’m loco, and I don’t blame you, but you may have heard of this thing called the “Reckoning.” It was one of the pet theories of the Pinkertons a few years back—that something had happened to the world. Magic came back somehow. Black magic. And all the horrible things it gives life to. I think Grimme is in league with it somehow.
Sam Hellman: A year ago the cult locked up an Indian shaman in the cell next to mine. Said his name was Sees Far Ahead. We’d talk when we were able and he’d tell me tall tales about this Reckoning and how it all started. I don’t remember most of it, to tell the truth. I’ve been playing a few cards short of a full deck for the better part of two years now, best I can tell. But he said Grimme was a “servitor” of this Reckoning, and that he couldn’t be stopped or killed by ordinary means. I can personally tell you that a sharpened bone fragment drove clean through his heart barely made him wince, so I believe it.
Sam Hellman: But he’s got to be stopped. If he ain’t, people are gonna suffer for years. Maybe forever if he’s truly immortal. And it gets worse, too. Sees Far Ahead told me the Reckoning wasn’t the apocalypse—it was the beginning of it. Grimme and others like him are after something big. Something that could create a literal Hell on Earth.
Sam Hellman: Sees Far Ahead knew how to kill Grimme, but I’m afraid we didn’t get that far before they took him away. I don’t know what happened to him, but I know another shaman who will. She goes by the name Born in a Bowl. Evidently these two were the founders of the Necessity Alliance, a collection of Indian survivors who have gathered up above Lion’s Roar in the Maze. She’ll know what happened to Sees Far Ahead. Hell, she may even know how to kill Grimme herself. Find that out and we’ll report it to the Agency so they can handle it from there.
Uriel Iscariot: I...U...
Sam Hellman passes out.
Lacey O'Malley mouth hangs slack.
Uriel Iscariot: More story than you could handle, Lacey?
Lacey O'Malley: That's a...lot to have thrown at you all at once.
Zach Dallas: So, Grimme is one of them
Zach Dallas: I'm relatively certain that Darius Hellstromme is one of them as well
Zach Dallas: Possibly Cynthia Grey and Kang as well
Zach Dallas: Not sure what Grey is, frankly
Lacey O'Malley: Well, you need to find this shaman, "Born in a Bowl" and I need to let the Explorer's Society know what Sam just said.
Zach Dallas: But we also watched Grey and DeMerini kill one before. In Blank Springs.
Zach Dallas: Yup. Lion's Roar, right?
Uriel Iscariot: Well
Uriel Iscariot: We THINK they killed it
Lacey O'Malley: Somewhere around Lion's Roar.
Uriel Iscariot: Anything truly evil isn't dead just by killing a shell.
Lacey O'Malley leaves very quickly to arrange passage for Sam out of town.
Uriel Iscariot: I hate to say it, but we only alive today from help from several Shaman.
Zach Dallas: Also, a ton of luck
Uriel Iscariot: Well. Shall we prepare to find Born in a Bowl?
Ezekial Ikwiano: Weemetai could prolly help
Ezekial Ikwiano: If we can find her
TADM: This strikes me as a good spot to stop for the night. Thanks for playing all.
Ezekial Ikwiano: sorry I wasn't in vent
Quorteth (Uriel Iscariot): Thanks for the good times bro!
Campaign saved.