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Ok, I'm blogging about sessions 3, 4, and now we're up to 5. Here is thy session report, hoss!
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In session 3, we had Dirk Diggler, ex-military survivalist, Ka'az Shoro the blue-velvet elf swashbuckler, and a couple of other PCs who never made it to the end of the session. Not sure if they were thrown off by my GMing style - this Sofa King has his own shit going on - or just lost interest, but yeah... they washed-out early on. Well, early enough. Finn was ok, a human adventurer and sexual deviant. But Jinx was just a rainbow elf, and... I don't know what her deal was.
So, the big wall that stretched forever was scaled because they found rope. They went over the wall and discovered the Federation Hotel and Casino. Several security guards with stun guns drove up to the PCs in a golf cart. The adventures made a valiant effort, but before long they were stunned. I don't think the player who had Jinx liked the way I handled it. Probably jarring because it seemed, I can only assume, like the PCs had a chance of either escaping or defeating them, but in the end, they were all stunned.
So, the remaining 3 woke up in a holding cell inside the Hotel and Casino. They throw Jinx' body into the laser bars of the cell and it short circuits. They escape and wander into a hallway and then the casino floor. Lots of sexual depravity followed by the death of those same security guards who captured them at the start, and then finally a portal opens.
It's ST-K1 here to rescue the party! He tells everyone that they were transported 39 years into the future, but luckily, ST was able to track them down and open a portal out of there. Actually, it turns out that The Saint still needs to figure out how to get them all back to their original starting point in time.
Since ST isn't there, I roll for him. I roll a 1 out of 20. Oh shit! That's where we ended session 3.
Session 4, we had The Saint, Ka'az Shoro, and Dirk Diggler rounding out the adventuring party...
You get zapped into a steaming jungle. There are green
plants all around you, enveloping you, claustrophobic, like. And it feels so
wet... the humidity, you're drenched. Like you're breathing in liquid air.
They headed in a certain direction and eventually saw a volcano, steaming almost ready to blow. The Saint detected a strong magical presence, perhaps an artifact, so they headed towards it.
At the base of the volcano were stone steps carved into the mountain, like in Ace Ventura 2: When Nature Calls, and they began climbing while examining that pink stone they looted. It was an energy crystal of decent size and clarity.
ST had a fevered recollection in his synapses about orange tang and astronauts just as pterodactyl-demons swoop down and attack the party. The PCs soon drove them off. A bit later up the mountain, they find a circular metal hatch with keypad next to it, just off to the side as the stairs open into a little rest area. The keypad has a big red button that says "don't push me."
After trying the more obvious codes like 58008, the Saint decides to push the red button. An automated voice tells them the door will self-destruct in [I roll a die; get a 1] one second. Everyone dives for cover!
There's a woman screaming at the top of the volcano, and the PCs decide to head up there rather than check out the blown-open hatch. Marching up the volcano as quickly as they can, the adventurers eventually reach the rim. A blonde woman is chained to a big stone balanced on the rim and several tall, green-scaled black-eyed insectoid-lizard folk stand around ready to sacrifice her. A shorter member of their species with golden scales stands between the others and the party - he takes out a pouch from his tunic containing a purple powder.
Eventually, the purple powder goes all over and everyone but ST-K1 is tripping balls. He's a droid, after all. Then Ka'az' player did something I did not expect... he stimulated a Grindhouse Exploitation Cha'alt X-Card, desiring to turn the blonde into a protagonist for some rape/revenge movie where she cuts their reptilian-insect peckers off.
She goes on what you'd call a roaring rampage of revenge! The blonde runs over to the sleestak who are also tripping balls and cuts their lizardhood like one of those 1970s cannibal films where they decapitate the turtle. She gets three of them. It's gross and bloody, and then she cooks them over the hot, rising lava. By the time she's finished eating them (speaking of cannibal movies), the PCs are more or less lucid.
"Revenge is a dish best roasted over hot lava," ST said.
Mid, the midnight-elf NPC, decides to do something crazy. He holds a rock in front of his face as a sort of disguise, then unzips his pants and stands next to the blonde, hoping that she'll want to suck on it instead of gnashing it with her hungry teeth. I roll and sure enough, if works!
"I am Alexia from Kartha'aj. I'm a princess, but my
settlement was destroyed by the sleestak. They took me to their fire god in
hopes of currying favor with the dark gods of Carcosa."
Long story short, Alexia goes her way (after Ka'az tells her about the glazed donut custom of his people) and the PCs head back down the mountain on the opposite side to find a sorcerer who lives in an ancient temple - he might know where to find a pylon.
As the adventurers reach the temple, they see a massive toad-god statue carved into the side of a hill. The statue's eyes glow a yellow-orange. That's where we ended the 4th session.
I'll post sessions 5 and 6 after the 6th one happens this Wednesday night. We still have an opening if someone wants to play. Just give it a try, no pressure... first one's free. ;)
VS
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