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<blockquote data-quote="gideonpepys" data-source="post: 6169239" data-attributes="member: 79141"><p><strong>Session 84b - Mini finale</strong></p><p></p><p>For our last session before the summer break I was intending to simply play out the last week of the extended skill challenge and see how the party had done. But the early departure of Rumdoom's player gave me the opportunity to do something more dramatic. </p><p></p><p>This was also the party's first session at level 10. They earned a minor bonus for narratively including each of the new feats, powers, theme benefits and training boons they had developed over the last ten weeks, and a benny (now a plot twist card) if they managed to name-check all of them.</p><p></p><p>I knew we would need some extra time for the surprise fight that would close the session, as it has been ten weeks - <em>ten</em>! - since the whole party was involved in a dust-up, so having quickly cycled through their final days of downtime activity (detailed in my previous post) we got to the following nice and early:</p><p></p><p> On the day of the rally in Dawn Square, Erdo Moon, one of the Panoply adherents known to Malthusius arrived at RHC HQ in a panicked state. He said that both he and Klaus Kanincher had gone to the Karl Krauss’ compound to see if they could reclaim any additional notes, works or writings by the infamous ‘Grumbler’. They had seen lights on in the main workshop and, using wire cutters, had approached to get a closer look. But the mechanical dog outside had alerted the occupants to their presence and, while Erdo had fled, Klaus had fallen and had not emerged from the compound. The unit thought to put this matter off until after the rally, but Malthusius thought better of it, given his skyseer vision of the night before, and insisted they investigate first.</p><p></p><p> It was well that they did. Uru picked the gate lock (Krauss’ keys no longer worked) and they approached the workshop doors. They were locked from inside. Metallic sounds could be heard from within. Fearing for Uru’s safety if he went alone, Korrigan concentrated and manifested the plane of Mavisha, slipping under the door in water form, while Uru teleported through. They were in an empty antechamber where Krauss wrote, studied and slept. While Korrigan unbolted the door to let the others in, Uru stole round the corner to get a better look at what was going on.</p><p></p><p> Huge crates blocked his view so, being very careful to remain out of sight of the arcane arbalester that he could see, he stole even further forward and clambered stealthy up the crates. Sounds of tools on metal ceased – the entrance of the others seemed to have disturbed the occupants. Uru peeped over the top of the last crate and had to squint through a huge gelatinous bubble that filled the main chamber. Inside several figures were suspended, all dressed in the garb of the ordinary citizens of Flint, bearing tools of various sorts. They seemed to have been working on the large, unidentified device Karl Krauss had kept hidden under a tarpaulin. When ‘closed’ it had reminded Uru of a sphincter – a circle of coiled wires. Now, the sphincter had been stretched out and attached with pipes to aelectric rods, presently without charge. He was about to turn back to tell the others what he had seen, when his gaze fell on a figure at the centre of the bubble: Rumdoom! And like the others, he wore a strange, distracted gaze.</p><p></p><p> At once Uru stole back to the entrance and, armed with this alarming information, the unit went to confront Rumdoom. Instantly, they came under swinging attack from two arbalesters, and the strangely affected citizens of Flint – one of whom turned out to be Klaus Kanincher – surged forward to assail them too. Rumdoom charged into the fray, and the globule of slime roiled with him. It soon became obvious that he could not be reasoned with, and no sooner had this fact became clear than a wave of psychic energy blasted out from him and shook the unit horribly.</p><p></p><p> Malthusius recognised his condition (and that of the miscellaneous citizens) as identical to that suffered by Krauss when he had been dominated by the Deep One they had encountered in the sahuagin lair, and when Leon aimed mind-controlling powers at his dwarven comrade, he confirmed that the mind he was failing to assail was much stronger than Rumdoom’s.</p><p></p><p> Knowing what a fell opponent he could be, while Malthusius dealt with the Flinters (trying his best not harm them), the rest of the unit aimed everything they had at Rumdoom. Korrigan spontaneously cried out, calling upon the memory of Triegenes, and drew Rumdoom’s attacks upon himself. Meanwhile, the mind that now controlled the dwarf lashed out again and again and sought to dominate the others. The fight was hard and saw every unit member winded and felled and what turn or other, only to be brought back into the fight by Korrigan or Leon. At one point, Korrigan himself was dropped, but a surge of adrenalin bought him back to his fight in time to issue a very firm order to Rumdoom: “This ends now!” With that, he took the dwarf out of the fight.</p><p></p><p> The gelatinous bubble burst and the unit gasped for breath. Malthusius stood sadly over the body of Klaus Kanincher, who he had accidentally slain. It was the first time he had killed anyone and poor Klaus had done nothing to deserve his death*. He was spurred into action when Leon began inspecting Rumdoom’s unconscious form, and together they discovered a very thick hair on the nape of his neck that turned out to be the tail for a tadpole-like implant. It was removed with care and disposed of.</p><p></p><p> Korrigan and Matunaaga left to organise the Dawn Square rally, while the others remained to secure the compound and figure out what the dominated crew had been up to. With the mechanical contraption almost complete, it was easier to figure out what its function was: The metal ‘sphincter’ could be expanded and contracted, creating a larger or smaller aperture for a portal. A long time ago, Rumdoom had had a vision in the Ziggurat of Apet, of himself, diving or falling off Cauldron Hill as waves crashed over Flint. They realised that, with a connected portal on the floor of the ocean, it would be possible to cause thousands of tonnes of seawater to crash through a portal of appropriately large size, drowning a city the size of Flint in minutes. Perhaps the Deep Ones were not confident of the unit’s ability to deal with the Black Star Fleet, and were taking matters into their own hands?</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> *We have a rule that, even when players are fighting to subdue, if they crit on a blow that takes an opponent under 0hp, they have accidentally killed them. This was the first time it had happened to Malthusius, though it comes up surprisingly often – most notably when they were trying to take Lady Margaret Saxby alive for questioning. It was unfortunate that his first accidental kill was someone he both knew and sympathised with, and he played out the situation rather well.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="gideonpepys, post: 6169239, member: 79141"] [b]Session 84b - Mini finale[/b] For our last session before the summer break I was intending to simply play out the last week of the extended skill challenge and see how the party had done. But the early departure of Rumdoom's player gave me the opportunity to do something more dramatic. This was also the party's first session at level 10. They earned a minor bonus for narratively including each of the new feats, powers, theme benefits and training boons they had developed over the last ten weeks, and a benny (now a plot twist card) if they managed to name-check all of them. I knew we would need some extra time for the surprise fight that would close the session, as it has been ten weeks - [I]ten[/I]! - since the whole party was involved in a dust-up, so having quickly cycled through their final days of downtime activity (detailed in my previous post) we got to the following nice and early: On the day of the rally in Dawn Square, Erdo Moon, one of the Panoply adherents known to Malthusius arrived at RHC HQ in a panicked state. He said that both he and Klaus Kanincher had gone to the Karl Krauss’ compound to see if they could reclaim any additional notes, works or writings by the infamous ‘Grumbler’. They had seen lights on in the main workshop and, using wire cutters, had approached to get a closer look. But the mechanical dog outside had alerted the occupants to their presence and, while Erdo had fled, Klaus had fallen and had not emerged from the compound. The unit thought to put this matter off until after the rally, but Malthusius thought better of it, given his skyseer vision of the night before, and insisted they investigate first. It was well that they did. Uru picked the gate lock (Krauss’ keys no longer worked) and they approached the workshop doors. They were locked from inside. Metallic sounds could be heard from within. Fearing for Uru’s safety if he went alone, Korrigan concentrated and manifested the plane of Mavisha, slipping under the door in water form, while Uru teleported through. They were in an empty antechamber where Krauss wrote, studied and slept. While Korrigan unbolted the door to let the others in, Uru stole round the corner to get a better look at what was going on. Huge crates blocked his view so, being very careful to remain out of sight of the arcane arbalester that he could see, he stole even further forward and clambered stealthy up the crates. Sounds of tools on metal ceased – the entrance of the others seemed to have disturbed the occupants. Uru peeped over the top of the last crate and had to squint through a huge gelatinous bubble that filled the main chamber. Inside several figures were suspended, all dressed in the garb of the ordinary citizens of Flint, bearing tools of various sorts. They seemed to have been working on the large, unidentified device Karl Krauss had kept hidden under a tarpaulin. When ‘closed’ it had reminded Uru of a sphincter – a circle of coiled wires. Now, the sphincter had been stretched out and attached with pipes to aelectric rods, presently without charge. He was about to turn back to tell the others what he had seen, when his gaze fell on a figure at the centre of the bubble: Rumdoom! And like the others, he wore a strange, distracted gaze. At once Uru stole back to the entrance and, armed with this alarming information, the unit went to confront Rumdoom. Instantly, they came under swinging attack from two arbalesters, and the strangely affected citizens of Flint – one of whom turned out to be Klaus Kanincher – surged forward to assail them too. Rumdoom charged into the fray, and the globule of slime roiled with him. It soon became obvious that he could not be reasoned with, and no sooner had this fact became clear than a wave of psychic energy blasted out from him and shook the unit horribly. Malthusius recognised his condition (and that of the miscellaneous citizens) as identical to that suffered by Krauss when he had been dominated by the Deep One they had encountered in the sahuagin lair, and when Leon aimed mind-controlling powers at his dwarven comrade, he confirmed that the mind he was failing to assail was much stronger than Rumdoom’s. Knowing what a fell opponent he could be, while Malthusius dealt with the Flinters (trying his best not harm them), the rest of the unit aimed everything they had at Rumdoom. Korrigan spontaneously cried out, calling upon the memory of Triegenes, and drew Rumdoom’s attacks upon himself. Meanwhile, the mind that now controlled the dwarf lashed out again and again and sought to dominate the others. The fight was hard and saw every unit member winded and felled and what turn or other, only to be brought back into the fight by Korrigan or Leon. At one point, Korrigan himself was dropped, but a surge of adrenalin bought him back to his fight in time to issue a very firm order to Rumdoom: “This ends now!” With that, he took the dwarf out of the fight. The gelatinous bubble burst and the unit gasped for breath. Malthusius stood sadly over the body of Klaus Kanincher, who he had accidentally slain. It was the first time he had killed anyone and poor Klaus had done nothing to deserve his death*. He was spurred into action when Leon began inspecting Rumdoom’s unconscious form, and together they discovered a very thick hair on the nape of his neck that turned out to be the tail for a tadpole-like implant. It was removed with care and disposed of. Korrigan and Matunaaga left to organise the Dawn Square rally, while the others remained to secure the compound and figure out what the dominated crew had been up to. With the mechanical contraption almost complete, it was easier to figure out what its function was: The metal ‘sphincter’ could be expanded and contracted, creating a larger or smaller aperture for a portal. A long time ago, Rumdoom had had a vision in the Ziggurat of Apet, of himself, diving or falling off Cauldron Hill as waves crashed over Flint. They realised that, with a connected portal on the floor of the ocean, it would be possible to cause thousands of tonnes of seawater to crash through a portal of appropriately large size, drowning a city the size of Flint in minutes. Perhaps the Deep Ones were not confident of the unit’s ability to deal with the Black Star Fleet, and were taking matters into their own hands? *We have a rule that, even when players are fighting to subdue, if they crit on a blow that takes an opponent under 0hp, they have accidentally killed them. This was the first time it had happened to Malthusius, though it comes up surprisingly often – most notably when they were trying to take Lady Margaret Saxby alive for questioning. It was unfortunate that his first accidental kill was someone he both knew and sympathised with, and he played out the situation rather well. [/QUOTE]
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