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[ZEITGEIST] The Yellow Dogs play Zeitgeist (Adventure Logs)
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<blockquote data-quote="Karma Kollapse" data-source="post: 7234464" data-attributes="member: 6693505"><p>GM's Note:</p><p>Again, Vash's player told us he was going to have to drop from the group at the start of this adventure, as he could no longer commit to playing due to his career (he had only managed to show up for about half the sessions so far). Two new players joined us playing pre-gen characters (Gut the Eladrin cleric who has become a minor recurring NPC, and Martina the Orc barbarian) and will be playing new characters tomorrow. </p><p></p><p>---</p><p>Adventure #3 - Digging for Lies</p><p>"Arms Fair in Love and War"</p><p></p><p>The much anticipated Arms Fair was upon them. Regan had spent some time trying to convince Inspector Delft that it was in the interests of the RHC to lend him the 7k Gold required to purchase a particular bit of hardware but Delft was unmoved. He resorted instead to borrowing the money off his companions. He wasn't the only one after something. Maisie had her eye on an interesting weapon called a 'Badger Gun', not because it resembled in any way a Badger or was expressly used to hunt them. It was called a Badger Gun because the deranged Gnomes that had invented it thought it was a good idea, on a successful hit with the weapon, to magically spawn a badger at the point of contact and inconvenience the target a little more than a serious bullet wound could achieve.</p><p></p><p>The Arms Fair was in full swing when the party turned up, officially on-duty to identify and deal with any attempts to disrupt the fair and clamp down on any wrongdoers in general.</p><p></p><p>Regan made his way to the stall owned by a Giant who had invented the 'Nock Gun' he was after. His eyes lit up and hands trembled slightly as the Giant handed over the enormous, 7 barrelled weapon for a test fire session. Regan took a few individual shots, then unleashed the full 7 barrels in a massive blast. Concussion effects would probably have rendered anyone a couple of feet in front of the weapon unconscious, as it was the recoil sent Regan sprawling backwards. 'Just what I am looking for', he said and entered into a prolonged haggling session with the giant over final price.</p><p></p><p>All was proceeding well until signs of a disturbance appeared in one section of the arena. The party came together and raced towards the scene, as good constables do. They were brought to a halt by stampeding civilians and the sight of some semi-corporeal creature resembling a great disembodied mouth that hung in the air. Nearby, a Mage was firing Magic Missiles at it from a shiny looking Wand. The harmful effects of the Magic Missiles on their targets were counteracted somewhat by the fact that every time he fired one a large, semi-corporeal insectoid creature materialised in the air and set about anyone unable to flee the area fast enough.</p><p></p><p>Regan stepped forward, edged Gideon to one side and licked his lips. Taking careful aim he unloaded all seven barrels of his newly acquired Nock Gun at the target. The bullets flew with unswerving accuracy straight into, and through, the open maw of the giant Cloud Mouth Creature. Regan was thrown backwards in a heap. The creature was impervious to normal damage, so Gideon duly engaged it with whatever Holy spells he could fashion. Tobal joined in, enhancing Knucks beak with Magic Fang and sending the avian assassin to deal out retribution.</p><p></p><p>Maisie fumbled with the firing mechanism of her prized new Badger Gun, aimed and fired at one of the flying Insectoids. Due to the magic nature of the weapon the results were more satisfactory than Regans futile attempts. The bullet fired smacked home, the Insectoid squawked and found itself being savaged by a particularly vicious Badger that popped into existence.</p><p></p><p>At length the Giant Maw and its airborne attendants were dispatched back to whichever Plane they had been drawn from. The party approached the wand wielding Mage to work out what his part in the fiasco had been. It turned out the Wand he had used seemed to be both very powerful and very unstable, capable of causing enormous mischief. He had bought it earlier in the day, at great cost, from a woman whose whereabouts were now unknown.</p><p></p><p>Some collateral damage, in the form of an onlooker shot dead accidentally by the famous Docker/Entertainer Rock Rakus was attended to. In the midst of all this intelligence was received on two Fey Pepper smugglers who were trying to strike a deal. Regan went off to shake them down, but while he was preparing to arrest them a shadowy acquaintance of Vash made himself known. He advised, if Regan would lay off the two smugglers, that he could point them in the direction of the female seller of the Arcane Wand of Trouble Making. Ignoring for the moment the compromised state Vash seemed to be getting into with the Rizur underworld, the party went Wand chasing (though Regan did manage to extract a 'sample' of Fey Pepper from the smugglers for 'investigative' purposes)</p><p></p><p>The party were advised that if they wanted to meet the woman wand seller then they should go to a particular Jewellery Stand at the Fair and announce, 'I am looking for a present for my wife Ethel'.</p><p></p><p>Deciding that a large, burly Paladin clad in plate mail, wielding a huge sword and looking very pious should be the best person to ask such a question, the party delegated Gideon to carry out the mission. Probably a good idea in retrospect, because it was pretty obvious that such a person would not under normal circumstances be looking for a present for his wife Ethel. He would genuinely be involved in something more nefarious.</p><p></p><p>Gideon returned from the Jewellery Shop with instructions to meet up with person or persons unknown at one of the under-construction rail terminals in Flint.</p><p></p><p>While the party waited for the arranged time of the meeting to arrive, Maisie contacted a professor of Arcane Studies she knew at Flint University. She established that the Wand was indeed an artefact of ancient origin, though not much else.</p><p></p><p>The party gathered and proceeded to the planned rendezvous. Vash was not with them, having been called into a Special Meeting of the RHC Audit Office who were trying to establish the whereabouts of a number of items acquired by the party in their travels.</p><p></p><p>They were accompanied in Vashs' absence by the cleric Guyt , the same man assigned to them by Gale during the 'Warehouse Witch Oil Incident'. He had been assured at great length by Inspector Delft that the parties use of him as cannon fodder in that incident were purely accidental and that they were a tight, close group that looked after each other and he was now one of them so had nothing to fear. The party nodded their heads a little too vigorously in agreement when the tale was recounted.</p><p></p><p>The party were also joined by a relaxed but fearsome looking female Orc called Martina. The contrast between her and the recently departed Murdoch (though he was only of 1/2 orcish blood) was sharp. There were some similarities, however.</p><p></p><p>They were both in the RHC.</p><p></p><p>They both carried weapons. (Murdoch had used a small, concealed craft-knife to assault his foes, Martina wielded an enormous Two-Handed sword that looked capable of felling trees but they were still technically weapons.)</p><p></p><p>They also both had two arms, two legs and a head. </p><p></p><p>There the similarities ended.</p><p></p><p>The party arrived at the rail sub-station sometime ahead of the planned meeting time and cased the joint. Regan melted away into the shadows, Tobal and Knuck hid behind a large rubbish bin with Gideon. Martina, Maisie and Guyt stood on the half-finished platform of the station and waited.</p><p></p><p>At the allotted time, their contact appeared. She was accompanied by a robed figure who carried, with little effort it seemed, a large chest. Maisie approached the woman and asked directly if she was in possession of any more artefacts of great value she was looking to sell. Once this had been established, with equal directness Maisie announced she was arresting the woman, unslung her Badger Gun and pointed it threateningly.</p><p></p><p>It has to be said that the exchange may have taken a little longer if the more diplomatic Gideon had been left to pursue the negotiations, but the party had had enough trouble trying to 'do the right thing' recently that no-one really cared. </p><p></p><p>The Hooded figure dropped the chest, the woman backed off cursing and all hell broke loose.</p><p></p><p>The party had ignored a number of shiny metallic domes scattered around the platform. At some unspoken command from the woman they suddenly raised themselves on stubby metallic legs and opened to reveal multi-barrelled projectile weapons. These were immediately trained on the party and fired. Martina received a full volley at close range. Under normal circumstances this may have been fatal, but the Orcs leathery hide and a physiology that seemed to lack pain receptors meant otherwise. Sparked into a rage that was fiercer and scarier than anything Murdoch may have imagined in his wildest nightmares, Martina marched towards her tormentors swinging her enormous sword. The sound of clashing metal and disintegrating robot sentry guns was eclipsed only by Martinas blood curdling battle cries.</p><p></p><p>Impressed by the Orcs exertions and glad to see an Orc behaving how he expected an Orc to behave, Regan slipped out of cover and ran towards the female Artefact Dealer. He fired two shots at the Robed Figure as he passed, whereupon the figures hood slipped to reveal a Golem similar to the ones they had fought before. The bullets bounced off harmlessly. Regan rolled his eyes and reloaded, on the run, heading towards the arms dealer, who looked a little more fleshy and susceptible to pistol shot.</p><p></p><p>At the same moment he gave a sharp whistle and Knicker, hiding in his coat pocket, popped into view and sprinted ahead. The rodent flung itself at the Arms Dealer, bringing forth a shriek and focusing the parties attention on her at the same time. This was fortunate in Knucks case, as he failed to spot his favourite bite-sized delicacy and headed with great speed towards the woman.</p><p></p><p>Maisie had in the meantime brought her Badger Gun to bear and managed to land a hit on the Arms Dealer. With great satisfaction she saw a cuddly badger appear and try to attach itself to its targets face and tear it off. After that the battle was over rather quickly. The woman surrendered and her Golem dropped its shoulders and stood motionless.</p><p></p><p>Martina stepped over to the great chest the Golem had dropped and levered it open with her sword. Inside were a number of Artefacts similar to the Wand the Mage had so destructively used at the Arms Fair.</p><p></p><p>Regan, with complete disregard for accepted RHC arrest protocol (knowledge of which was fading into oblivion for everyone in the party save Gideon), stepped forward and planted the business end of his seven-barrelled Nock Gun in the midriff of the Arms Dealer. </p><p></p><p>'Where did you get those and who are you working for', he said without emotion.</p><p></p><p>The Arms Dealer spilt the beans without the need for further subtle interrogation. She also indicated the involvement of Mayor Reed MacBannon (deceased) and the crime Lord Lorcan Kell (still very much alive) in her less than legal dealings. Somewhat disturbed by this newly acquired information, the party headed again with Maisie to visit her illustrious friends at Flint University.</p><p></p><p>It appeared that the Wand and other Artefacts had been unearthed at a Ziggurat outside Flint city limits. The party of archeologists that had found them had been killed at the site and the artefacts had gone missing, only to reappear now on the streets of Flint.</p><p></p><p>The information was passed to Inspector Delft, who authorised further investigation.</p><p></p><p>To be continued……</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Karma Kollapse, post: 7234464, member: 6693505"] GM's Note: Again, Vash's player told us he was going to have to drop from the group at the start of this adventure, as he could no longer commit to playing due to his career (he had only managed to show up for about half the sessions so far). Two new players joined us playing pre-gen characters (Gut the Eladrin cleric who has become a minor recurring NPC, and Martina the Orc barbarian) and will be playing new characters tomorrow. --- Adventure #3 - Digging for Lies "Arms Fair in Love and War" The much anticipated Arms Fair was upon them. Regan had spent some time trying to convince Inspector Delft that it was in the interests of the RHC to lend him the 7k Gold required to purchase a particular bit of hardware but Delft was unmoved. He resorted instead to borrowing the money off his companions. He wasn't the only one after something. Maisie had her eye on an interesting weapon called a 'Badger Gun', not because it resembled in any way a Badger or was expressly used to hunt them. It was called a Badger Gun because the deranged Gnomes that had invented it thought it was a good idea, on a successful hit with the weapon, to magically spawn a badger at the point of contact and inconvenience the target a little more than a serious bullet wound could achieve. The Arms Fair was in full swing when the party turned up, officially on-duty to identify and deal with any attempts to disrupt the fair and clamp down on any wrongdoers in general. Regan made his way to the stall owned by a Giant who had invented the 'Nock Gun' he was after. His eyes lit up and hands trembled slightly as the Giant handed over the enormous, 7 barrelled weapon for a test fire session. Regan took a few individual shots, then unleashed the full 7 barrels in a massive blast. Concussion effects would probably have rendered anyone a couple of feet in front of the weapon unconscious, as it was the recoil sent Regan sprawling backwards. 'Just what I am looking for', he said and entered into a prolonged haggling session with the giant over final price. All was proceeding well until signs of a disturbance appeared in one section of the arena. The party came together and raced towards the scene, as good constables do. They were brought to a halt by stampeding civilians and the sight of some semi-corporeal creature resembling a great disembodied mouth that hung in the air. Nearby, a Mage was firing Magic Missiles at it from a shiny looking Wand. The harmful effects of the Magic Missiles on their targets were counteracted somewhat by the fact that every time he fired one a large, semi-corporeal insectoid creature materialised in the air and set about anyone unable to flee the area fast enough. Regan stepped forward, edged Gideon to one side and licked his lips. Taking careful aim he unloaded all seven barrels of his newly acquired Nock Gun at the target. The bullets flew with unswerving accuracy straight into, and through, the open maw of the giant Cloud Mouth Creature. Regan was thrown backwards in a heap. The creature was impervious to normal damage, so Gideon duly engaged it with whatever Holy spells he could fashion. Tobal joined in, enhancing Knucks beak with Magic Fang and sending the avian assassin to deal out retribution. Maisie fumbled with the firing mechanism of her prized new Badger Gun, aimed and fired at one of the flying Insectoids. Due to the magic nature of the weapon the results were more satisfactory than Regans futile attempts. The bullet fired smacked home, the Insectoid squawked and found itself being savaged by a particularly vicious Badger that popped into existence. At length the Giant Maw and its airborne attendants were dispatched back to whichever Plane they had been drawn from. The party approached the wand wielding Mage to work out what his part in the fiasco had been. It turned out the Wand he had used seemed to be both very powerful and very unstable, capable of causing enormous mischief. He had bought it earlier in the day, at great cost, from a woman whose whereabouts were now unknown. Some collateral damage, in the form of an onlooker shot dead accidentally by the famous Docker/Entertainer Rock Rakus was attended to. In the midst of all this intelligence was received on two Fey Pepper smugglers who were trying to strike a deal. Regan went off to shake them down, but while he was preparing to arrest them a shadowy acquaintance of Vash made himself known. He advised, if Regan would lay off the two smugglers, that he could point them in the direction of the female seller of the Arcane Wand of Trouble Making. Ignoring for the moment the compromised state Vash seemed to be getting into with the Rizur underworld, the party went Wand chasing (though Regan did manage to extract a 'sample' of Fey Pepper from the smugglers for 'investigative' purposes) The party were advised that if they wanted to meet the woman wand seller then they should go to a particular Jewellery Stand at the Fair and announce, 'I am looking for a present for my wife Ethel'. Deciding that a large, burly Paladin clad in plate mail, wielding a huge sword and looking very pious should be the best person to ask such a question, the party delegated Gideon to carry out the mission. Probably a good idea in retrospect, because it was pretty obvious that such a person would not under normal circumstances be looking for a present for his wife Ethel. He would genuinely be involved in something more nefarious. Gideon returned from the Jewellery Shop with instructions to meet up with person or persons unknown at one of the under-construction rail terminals in Flint. While the party waited for the arranged time of the meeting to arrive, Maisie contacted a professor of Arcane Studies she knew at Flint University. She established that the Wand was indeed an artefact of ancient origin, though not much else. The party gathered and proceeded to the planned rendezvous. Vash was not with them, having been called into a Special Meeting of the RHC Audit Office who were trying to establish the whereabouts of a number of items acquired by the party in their travels. They were accompanied in Vashs' absence by the cleric Guyt , the same man assigned to them by Gale during the 'Warehouse Witch Oil Incident'. He had been assured at great length by Inspector Delft that the parties use of him as cannon fodder in that incident were purely accidental and that they were a tight, close group that looked after each other and he was now one of them so had nothing to fear. The party nodded their heads a little too vigorously in agreement when the tale was recounted. The party were also joined by a relaxed but fearsome looking female Orc called Martina. The contrast between her and the recently departed Murdoch (though he was only of 1/2 orcish blood) was sharp. There were some similarities, however. They were both in the RHC. They both carried weapons. (Murdoch had used a small, concealed craft-knife to assault his foes, Martina wielded an enormous Two-Handed sword that looked capable of felling trees but they were still technically weapons.) They also both had two arms, two legs and a head. There the similarities ended. The party arrived at the rail sub-station sometime ahead of the planned meeting time and cased the joint. Regan melted away into the shadows, Tobal and Knuck hid behind a large rubbish bin with Gideon. Martina, Maisie and Guyt stood on the half-finished platform of the station and waited. At the allotted time, their contact appeared. She was accompanied by a robed figure who carried, with little effort it seemed, a large chest. Maisie approached the woman and asked directly if she was in possession of any more artefacts of great value she was looking to sell. Once this had been established, with equal directness Maisie announced she was arresting the woman, unslung her Badger Gun and pointed it threateningly. It has to be said that the exchange may have taken a little longer if the more diplomatic Gideon had been left to pursue the negotiations, but the party had had enough trouble trying to 'do the right thing' recently that no-one really cared. The Hooded figure dropped the chest, the woman backed off cursing and all hell broke loose. The party had ignored a number of shiny metallic domes scattered around the platform. At some unspoken command from the woman they suddenly raised themselves on stubby metallic legs and opened to reveal multi-barrelled projectile weapons. These were immediately trained on the party and fired. Martina received a full volley at close range. Under normal circumstances this may have been fatal, but the Orcs leathery hide and a physiology that seemed to lack pain receptors meant otherwise. Sparked into a rage that was fiercer and scarier than anything Murdoch may have imagined in his wildest nightmares, Martina marched towards her tormentors swinging her enormous sword. The sound of clashing metal and disintegrating robot sentry guns was eclipsed only by Martinas blood curdling battle cries. Impressed by the Orcs exertions and glad to see an Orc behaving how he expected an Orc to behave, Regan slipped out of cover and ran towards the female Artefact Dealer. He fired two shots at the Robed Figure as he passed, whereupon the figures hood slipped to reveal a Golem similar to the ones they had fought before. The bullets bounced off harmlessly. Regan rolled his eyes and reloaded, on the run, heading towards the arms dealer, who looked a little more fleshy and susceptible to pistol shot. At the same moment he gave a sharp whistle and Knicker, hiding in his coat pocket, popped into view and sprinted ahead. The rodent flung itself at the Arms Dealer, bringing forth a shriek and focusing the parties attention on her at the same time. This was fortunate in Knucks case, as he failed to spot his favourite bite-sized delicacy and headed with great speed towards the woman. Maisie had in the meantime brought her Badger Gun to bear and managed to land a hit on the Arms Dealer. With great satisfaction she saw a cuddly badger appear and try to attach itself to its targets face and tear it off. After that the battle was over rather quickly. The woman surrendered and her Golem dropped its shoulders and stood motionless. Martina stepped over to the great chest the Golem had dropped and levered it open with her sword. Inside were a number of Artefacts similar to the Wand the Mage had so destructively used at the Arms Fair. Regan, with complete disregard for accepted RHC arrest protocol (knowledge of which was fading into oblivion for everyone in the party save Gideon), stepped forward and planted the business end of his seven-barrelled Nock Gun in the midriff of the Arms Dealer. 'Where did you get those and who are you working for', he said without emotion. The Arms Dealer spilt the beans without the need for further subtle interrogation. She also indicated the involvement of Mayor Reed MacBannon (deceased) and the crime Lord Lorcan Kell (still very much alive) in her less than legal dealings. Somewhat disturbed by this newly acquired information, the party headed again with Maisie to visit her illustrious friends at Flint University. It appeared that the Wand and other Artefacts had been unearthed at a Ziggurat outside Flint city limits. The party of archeologists that had found them had been killed at the site and the artefacts had gone missing, only to reappear now on the streets of Flint. The information was passed to Inspector Delft, who authorised further investigation. To be continued…… [/QUOTE]
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