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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mikeawmids1" data-source="post: 9510057" data-attributes="member: 7030604">(This is the point we switched from Outgunned > Savage Worlds.)The Kidnapping Job - Part 2Smoking brickwork and butchered chops fly skyward as the Blooded slaughterhouse explodes. Sean is trapped under the burning rubble, while the rest of the crew are thrown clear. Leaving Shayloth and Farmer Jenkins to babysit Lord Juniper, Doc Sin goes to look for Sean, unaware the enterprising thief has already escaped into the sewer channel running under the abbatoir.Famer Jenkins marches Juniper toward the docks, and the ship waiting to convey the young noble to Elderland. Shayloth takes to the rooftops. The City Watch are erecting a cordon around the burning building, while the Fire Brigade battle the blaze. Juniper cries out that he is being kidnapped, attracting a patrol of four guards. Shayloth spots a hooded sniper lining up a shot from the adjacent rooftop, and lobs a duckarang to foul their aim. Undeterred, the assassin parkours down to street level to deal with Juniper up close and personal.Sean emerges from a manhole, and Doc Sin joins the fray soon thereafter. Doc Sin uses a weaponised hallucinogen to drive the City Watch mad with fear. Farmer Jenkins unceremoniously dumps Juniper down the open manhole, but the Serpent of Westport jumps in after them. Shayloth drops down on top of her, knocking her prone. Farmer Jenkins follows the turgid flow of effluent toward the outflow pipe, then jumps into the river with Juniper in tow. The Serpent of Westport breaks free of Shayloth's grapple and gives chase, pausing at the end of the pipe to shoot at Juniper. Sean runs up and rugby tackles her into the water.Doc Sin enjoys a leisurely stroll to the docks. No splashing through sewage for him. He boards the Osborne, but the crew are glassy-eyed and unresponsive. In the captain's cabin, he finds the sorceress Evalenora taking tea with a similarly stupified captain. She admits she hired the Serpent to kill Juniper after he disrespected her, and politely enquires why Doc Sin and his crew have stuck their nose all up in her business. Doc Sin tries persuading Evalenora to let Juniper go and squeeze reparations from his wealthy father. The sorceress considers the suggestion, but ultimatly decides Juniper has to die. Accepting that her mind is made up, Doc Sin drops a concussion grenade - incapacitating the addled captain. Evalenora is unaffected, and Doc Sin realises he has been interacting with an intangible projection of her physical form.Jenkins and Shayloth arrive with Juniper's unconcious body slung between them. Evalenora orders the mind-controlled sailors to kill the lordling. Jenkins and Shayloth fend them off. Sean engages the Serpent of Westport and is stabbed with a poisoned dagger. Lethal toxins course through his bloodstream, heralding a swift death in 2d6 (10) rounds. Doc Sin confronts the assassin, leveraging their past closeness to dissuade her from her mission, as Evalenora eggs her on. Unable to reconcile this cold-blooded killer with the woman he once knew, Doc Sin knocks the Serpent overboard.A wagon laden with shipbuilding materials trundles along the harbour, parallel to the Osborne's starboard side. Jenkins grabs Juniper and leaps from the deck of the ship to the roof of the wagon. Seizing the reins, he heads for the crew's safehouse. Shayloth jumps into the river and swims away, as ducks are known to do. Doc Sin disembarks and stumbles upon Sean dying on the dock. Fortunately his arcane background (Alchemy) allows him to concoct an elixir to neutralize poison and disease, thus saving the hapless rogue.Having secured Juniper in their own HQ, the crew arrange (through their contact in the Vespers) an alternative means of smuggling the nobleman out of the city. With all the subtlety of a naughty word gong, the crew have completed the Kidnapping Job - and made a powerful enemy in the process.</blockquote>

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