Upgrade your account to a Community Supporter account and remove most of the site ads.

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="shilsen" data-source="post: 3805522" data-attributes="member: 198">A couple of weeks ago we had the latest session of the CITY campaign (see sig) I'm in, run by Mallus, featuring the following PCs:Burne (played by Rolzup) - An alchemist (read pyromaniac) who is convinced that he is the greatest thing since empowered fireballs, with a flair for creating sentient creatures, including his robot-cat-familiar, the long-suffering Abraxas, and a construct bodyguard called the MODOSS unit, which is run by the brain of a lemur. A ‘pneumatic lemur’ that once belonged to an enemy alchemist, but defected.Atlatl Jones (played by Atlatl Jones, nee Michael Tree) – A tiny dragon magister from the nation of Phue, which has achieved great magical advances by stealing any form of enlightenment which wasn't nailed down. The latest addition to the group, he now travels with them, accompanied by his butler Jeeves, his Monkey-killing gun, and his incredible amorality and fascination for shiny objects.Rackhir (played by Rackhir) - A ronin archer from the Empire of Heaven, the closest thing the group has to a normal human being, who persists in the vain - and contradictory - hope that he could remain with these three and be a hero, aiding the helpless and terrorized (usually being terrorized by his companions). Able to spot a fly half a mile away and then shoot it through the eye, he is constantly restraining himself from doing so to either Meiji or Atlatl. He has developed an eye twitch from sheer tension.Meiji Kitsume (played by me) - A shugenja from the Empire, Meiji is a duplicitous, womanizing, cowardly braggart, who also functions as the group's healer and divine spellcaster. He spends his time trying to screw anything female and attractive, keeping the PCs alive, tormenting Rackhir, learning the very rare Gate (teleportation) magic, and making sure he never, ever takes a hit point of damage in battle (not necessarily in that order).In the last session, the PCs entered the Land of the Dead through a portal, which is part of a complicated plan to steal something called the Kaiju Egg – an Imperial artifact that contains the soul of an angel that manifests as Godzilla — back from the demon that stole it from Atlatl as he was stealing it from official Imperial oni. Still with me?Once inside the afterlife, they encountered the shades of a number of people whom they'd killed, most of them recently while quelling a riot (by blowing up the rioters). The shades were unable to significantly inconvenience the PCs because the latter were protected from the effects of the land of the dead by an elixir obtained from a legendary undead politician known as the Semi-Lich. When they gave up attacking us, we chatted with them and since some of them were really bored with being stuck in the land of the dead, a couple of the PCs 'killed' them by tossing them up into the primordial chaos that fills the sky above. Atlatl then narrowly escaped being sucked into the primordial chaos and paid it back by bottling some of it. Once the group continued into the land of the dead and encountered a pool of blood with a draconic skeleton floating above it, complete with the wreckage of a craft that had struck it and a robotic woman. Atlatl investigated it, was attacked by giant red blood corpuscles, hit the skeleton with the bottle of chaos causing both to explode, was saved by the manifestation of a giant goldfish with a katana (okay, so it was a koi), and now he has the mark of Cain on his brow. The koi was almost certainly a servant of the Creator god, and the dragon skeleton was most likely His handiwork; probably some kind of warning against hubris and forgetting one’s place. Which Atlatl blew up. Rackhir's twitch got worse.The group reached the city of the dead and waited in line to get in while chatting with a rakshasa in a protective suit(who was guarding some vampires in palanquins) and failed to mug him despite Meiji's suggestion they do so. Entering the city, they found a decent bar, called The Limbo Café, where the effects of the land didn't apply. Atlatl messed with the artifact the protected the place, something the rakshasa called “The Greater Disk of Dischord”, which hit him with a Polymorph Any Other and turned him into a human. Since he - and everyone else, esp. Rackhir - needed a drink to recover, they entered the bar and met a couple of mythical figures from another reality, namely Gilgamesh and Orpheus, as well as a demigod from their homeworld with a pair of magical prosthetic hands named Bigby. I think that's the place where I woke up.</blockquote>

Verification