Terra Nullius: Session 40 - Battle at the Treant Theater

Key Points:

Kembu tries to cut down the back door after Otter takes care of the camera, but finds it difficult, what is worse, is that Setter finds the trap and the lock on the back door to be...rough to say the least.
Managirl went to the roof by herself, ultimately decided to disable a trap, and went into the theater by herself...

As a note, the Theater was protected by a Faraday Cage, preventing outside sources from accessing their network... which Otter found to be annoying.
So, the group headed in through the front entrance...

Meanwhile, Managirl encountered an illusion of a hulking, green monster that tried hunting her down. While she was initially unaware that it was an illusion, it was mostly a distraction on Athena's part for her to accomplish something with Managirl's mind...
Upon arriving in the lobby, the group was confronted by the half-elven twins: Artemis and Apollo; the youngest of the Olympians.
With them were creatures that they had acquired through Genesis... packs of vicious guard dogs, hell hounds, hounds of ill omen, and dread hounds.

Artemis and Apollo revealed that they brought the party's ideas to the Olympians as a whole. However, when a disagreement broke out, Athena made a move against the rest of the group, and enslaved those who didn't agree with her via a suicide chip.
Not wanting to DIE, the Olympians served Athena's plan in hiring Prometheus to retrieve Pandora's Box from Genesis.
On Athena's behalf, the twins offered the group a deal: stop killing Olympians, and the Olympians will leave them alone and never seek revenge.
Roan declined, on behalf of the group... after some debate back and forth between the party and the twins.
After the offer was declined, Athena (remotely) ordered the hounds to attack...

Kembu slayed a dread hound.
Apollo wounded Kembu with an arcane missile, then launched an explosive fire spell in the middle of the ground.
Roan weakened Artemis with a sniper shot.
Otter went crazy and threw two grenades in the middle of the dogs.
Artemis shoots Otter with an arrow, then turns invisible.
Managirl wounded Apollo with a staff strike, which in reaction, he turned invisible. She also conjured an illusion of a t-rex...
The hounds of ill omen wracked the group with their concussive, wailing breath weapon. Kembu is a dick and stuns one of the hounds; preventing it from hurting the group.
The pack of hounds attacked Aria and Kembu.
Setter finished off the rest of the dread hounds with his assault rifle (many of which had died to Otter's grenades.)
The hell hounds rushed the group; breathing fire on them. Otter and Aria drop.
Aria was dying, so she did not act.
Angel spread some healing around, then blasted a hellhound with her shotgun.

Kembu kills a hell hound.
Apollo is ineffective against Managirl.
Roan got a wicked shot off against Apollo.
Otter was dying, so she did not act.
Artemis fires at Managirl's illusion, then fires on Roan.
Aria and Kembu had to deal with the attacks of the hound packs and the hounds of ill omen.
Setter healed some people, then began firing on the pack of hounds.
Apollo fended off Managirl's attack.
The remaining hell hound went after Angel.
Aria tried to take on the pack of the hounds and a hound of ill omen at the same time.
Angel heals more of the group, then blasts the hell hound attacking her with her shotgun.

Kembu finishes off an entire pack of hounds.
Apollo smacks Managirl with his lyre.
Roan stuns Artemis with a gunshot.
Otter controls Kembu and forces him to bloody a hound of ill omen.
Artemis does nothing because stunned.
Managirl misses Apollo with her attack.
The remaining pack of hounds and hounds of ill omen attack Kembu and Aria. Aria is actually brought back into dying by her attackers...
Setter empowers Roan's gun, heals Aria, and kills off a pack of hounds.
The hell hound spits hot fire. DYLAN, DYLAN, DYLAN. (Dave Chappele reference)
Aria heals herself with a potion.
Angel bloodies a hellhound with her shoutgun, then sets about more healing.

Kembu wounds the last hell hound.
Apollo throws Managirl off of the balcony with a spell, then tries to blast Roan with arcane missiles, to which the cat does a sweet back flip and evades them.
Roan then fires upon Artemis and hits her.
Otter kills the hell hound with an itch dive.
Managirl uses her KNIGHT armor to fly back up to Apollo and shroyukens him with a flaming uppercut.
Setter severely wounds one of the remaining hounds of ill omen by attacking its mind with his SEED, but not before they took down Aria with their attacks.
Aria rolls amazing on her death saving throw, regains consciousness, and beats the last of the dogs to death.
Angel runs up to Artemis and disables her with a shotgun blast.
Kembu runs up to Apollo and disables him with a sword strike.

And so, with combat ended, the group takes a moment to recover from nearly dying. They have two unconscious Olympians, and two new artifacts go with that...

The group next time delves into the secret passages under the Theater to the Olympian's lair proper...

Loot:

Current Objectives:

Complete Gwen Morrison's Deal: The group's innocence in the parade's assassination in exchange for defeating the Olympians (8/12).
Complete the Middleman's Third Job: Recover Pandora's Box for Rickenato.

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