Key Points:
- The combat from last time continued...
- The feminine blood elemental went after Managirl; grabbing her with tendrils.
- Setter disoriented the flesh golem with his assault rifle.
- Aria wounded multiple targets with her shurikens.
- Angel fired her shotgun at the blood ooze.
- Managirl freed himself from the elemental; then put some breathing room between her and it.
- The zombies latched onto Kembu; attempting to bite him.
- Roan put down some cover fire for Managirl; shooting at the blood elemental.
- The blood ooze failed to attack Aria.
- Kembu went after the flesh golem with Del and Kiki supporting the samurai!
- NEXT ROUND!
- The blood elemental was left stunned by Roan...
- Aria bloodied the blood ooze with her sword.
- Angel's shotgun was ineffective.
- Kembu's sword was buffed by Setter, then the hengeyokai failed to pierce the mind of the ooze.
- Aria was attacked by the remaining zombie!
- Managirl managed to bring down that zombie, though!
- Roan bloodied the blood elemental; which split herself into two separate forms.
- The blood ooze wreaked havoc on the party; pulling many of them into its form and draining them of healing surges.
- Kembu hacked away at the ooze.
- Del and Kiki beat on the ooze as well!
- NEW ROUND!
- Managirl became dominated when the blood elemental surged in her orifices.
- Kembu, Aria, and Setter's combined efforts took down the ooze; it then exploded and wounded numerous party members.
- Angel continued to wound the blood elemental.
- The dominated Managirl turned her magic upon the party before expelling the domination of the blood elemental.
- Roan kept one of the blood elementals pinned down.
- Kembu's attack against the elemental failed.
- Del wounded the blood elemental, then the blood elemental crashed her form against the party.
- ANOTHER ROUND!
- Aria went after one of the blood elementals with Setter supporting her.
- Angel failed to land a strike with her shotgun.
- Managirl nearly blew up both blood elementals with Roan supporting her.
- The elementals begged for aid from the Patron, but Kembu cut one down.
- The party combined their efforts to bring down the last elemental...
- With combat over, the party took a moment to recover...
- Angel collect the anima core of the elementals for science.
- Del found a figurine amongst all the chaos; one that came to life as a giant spider...
- The group recovered, then took the elevator down into the facility of the cartel. The facility seemed to have been of Genesis Design; very high-tech and the like...
- The group sent Aria down first with the elevator. She hid on the top of it and used a bomb provided by Roan to knock out all the guards waiting at the bottom. Managirl then blew them all up.
- The group then decided on a marching order and went into the heart of the facility. The first room they investigated, which Kembu opened by slashing the lock, was an infirmary.
- Inside, several of the dwarves that escaped earlier were being treated by none other than... Dr. Klein.
Loot:
- Bloodstone Spider (Wondrous Item)
Current Objectives:
- Pursue Personal Goals.
- Roan: End it.
- Setter: Revenge.
- Kembu: Save the girl.
- Managirl: Be the hero.
- Aria: Family first.
- Del: Heal the world.
- Angel: Scientific pursuits.
- Death Otter: Defeat Athena. [COMPLETED]
Key Points:
- The group began to recover, heal, and rest in the courtyard while they interrogated the dwarven gang members that had surrendered. The group learned the following...
- The local gang members lived with their families and friends in the top portion of the building ahead. The actual cartel members lived in the bottom portion; a high tech facility. The gang members didn't know much about the lower portions since they weren't allowed down there.
- They informed the group that a set of stairs and an elevator could take them down. They warned the room before that was not 'pretty'.
- The gang members mentioned that diplomacy might be possible with their leader since he mostly wanted to keep operating untouched down here.
- The gang members didn't think that the group could defeat their leader. They warned that the cartel had access to Genesis Tech, Cultural Artifacts, and a powerful Necromancer.
- The group tried various means of diplomacy and intimidation. In the end, the group didn't learn much beyond that the situation in the slums were desperate and the dwarven gang members thought they were doing good work by serving their homeland cartels while earning money to support themselves and their families.
- The group let the two thug members go free afterwards.
- The group found the entrance door to be trapped when they tried to breach it; a shotgun tied to wires. Aria received the brunt of the shot.
- Once inside, the group made an effort to disable security cameras, but they seemed plentiful, and eventually gave up on disabling each one.
- The group found that the hallway had blood smeared leading up to the door said to contain the elevator behind it. Those trained in arcana could sense some bad mojo behind it.
- The group breached into the room and discovered that the room was covered in dead bodies, severed limbs, gore, and viscera. A message written on the walls in blood read 'Not all serpents get their wings, ja ja ja.'
- The group seemed disgusted by it, but this was a clear message to those who failed the cartel.
- The group soon found that many of the body parts were animated and that there was a flesh golem, a blood ooze, and a blood elemental present. All of them seemed to serve the cartel's necromancer: Clint Bronzeknuckle.
- The elemental offered the party a chance to flee, but they declined, resulting in combat.
- Rather than go into detail about this initial round or two, the two groups exchanged blows with the only deaths being on the enemy sides; the zombies with the heavy hitters hanging on until the next session where the combat continued...
Loot:
Current Objectives:
- Pursue Personal Goals.
- Roan: End it.
- Setter: Revenge.
- Kembu: Save the girl.
- Managirl: Be the hero.
- Aria: Family first.
- Del: Heal the world.
- Angel: Scientific pursuits.
- Death Otter: Defeat Athena. [COMPLETED]
Key Points:
- The session started off with the group approaching the main building of the Dwarven Cartel's base from a courtyard.
- Roan started off the session with a bang...
- After discovering shooters on the rooftops, Roan decided to get the jump on them before they could fire on the moving Kembu. Roan threw a grenade at a group on the rooftop.
- Kembu ran forward and leapt onto the roof near some dwarves.
- The majority of the dwarves that were not blown up fired upon Aria who was out in the open. They managed to take her down in a hail of gunfire.
- The first round broke out then...
- Angel healed Aria; getting the assassin back on her feet. Angel then remained in cover for the time being.
- Kembu sliced a dwarf in half, then wounded another one.
- Aria healed herself with a healing pill, then scrambled away to find some cover.
- Managirl threw down some explosive magic, wounding a dwarf.
- Roan threw another grenade; causing some widespread damage.
- Del used her grasping tides to wound a dwarf.
- Setter fires on one of the dwarves with his assault rifle; killing the dwarf. He then ducked behind cover near Angel.
- Various dwarves find themselves firing upon the group; some party members getting wounded (Managirl in particular), others just getting missed.
- Second round!
- A pack of dogs came running out from the compound to engage the group...
- Angel kills a dwarf with her shoutgun; blowing away one of them who had been trying to climb down a fire escape.
- Setter decided to use some shrapnel rounds to thin out the incoming dog packs.
- Kembu cleaved another dwarf in two.
- Aria went from the ground to climbing up the rooftop.
- Managirl brought the fury and the lightning; killing two more dwarves. She then followed through with some explosive magic.
- Roan sniped one of the dwarves; a quick death.
- The dogs ran into the mines planted in the ground; blowing up several members and nearly killing them.
- Del and Kiki managed to tag team some of the dogs; putting them down.
- Several dwarfs fire upon Kembu while others try to regroup.
- Third round!
- Angel fired on one of the bigger dogs to get it off Del, then healed the druid.
- Setter took a moment to reload, then tried to get one of the dogs off. The dog unfortunately didn't understand Setter's commands (or did not care for them).
- Aria got in on the action by throwing poisoned shurikens at dogs.
- Managirl used her magic to blow up some more dwarves!
- Kembu took a moment to catch his second wind...
- A large group of dwarven thugs and hitmen emerged from the main building being lead by one of their leaders: Diego Bronzeknuckle. The thugs fired upon the group alongside the hitmen while Bronzeknuckle went in and engaged Del; a mine exploding in the process and wounding multiple people.
- Roan disables one of the dwarves with a well placed shot.
- Del used her grasping tides to sweep some dwarves away.
- Fourth round!
- Angel decides to paint the leader as a target: blasting Diego with her shotgun.
- Setter attempted to jog Diego's brain of what he had done to Setter, but Diego wasn't getting it... that didn't stop Diego from suffering from a psychic spell assault from Setter.
- Kembu joined the fray on the ground, trying to help Del, but his sword strike missed.
- Aria finishes one of the dwarfs off on the rooftop with her chain and kama. She then pulled out her shortsword, leapt off the roof, and landed on top of Diego's back while driving her sword into him. The critical strike wounded Diego severely, and he now had a monkey on his back.
- Managirl blew up a whole heck of a lot of people with her magic.
- Del's grasping tides seem to fail to sweep anyone away.
- Roan helps out the group by firing on Diego; stunning him.
- The dogs look to tear and bite into anyone they can sink their teeth into. In the mean time, any remaining dwarves continue to fire upon the group.
- And the rest of the fray ended shortly thereafter... Aria scored the killing blow on Diego with a shuriken to his eye after leaping off of his back. Several of the dwarven hitmen who were wounded managed to retreat inside the building while several gang members were left outside and forced to surrender to the group. The rest of the enemies (dogs mostly) were killed by the group...
Loot:
Current Objectives:
- Pursue Personal Goals.
- Roan: End it.
- Setter: Revenge.
- Kembu: Save the girl.
- Managirl: Be the hero.
- Aria: Family first.
- Del: Heal the world.
- Angel: Scientific pursuits.
- Death Otter: Defeat Athena. [COMPLETED]
Key Points:
- The group, after discussing their next course of action and sharing some information, decided to take an extended rest so that they would be at full strength during their assault on the Dwarven Cartel.
- The group engaged in various activities during the extended rest...
- Setter kept to himself, busying himself with phone calls and his voice mails.
- Roan and Kembu had a conversation with each other.
- Afterwards, Aria and Kembu talked. Aria also played around with her dad's spy car.
- Managirl and Angel spent some time with each other in the hedge maze.
- Del spent sometime learning about the fauna at the greenhouse.
- In the morning, the group found that while Kyou and Jessica were both dazed and sore, both of them would be okay with some additional recovery. Unfortunately, neither of them had any real information on what occurred with the attempted kidnapping. The group decided that the two of them would rest at the safe house for the day while the rest of them pursued their assault on the Dwarven Cartel.
- Angel prepared the group by issuing each of them injections that would allow them to 'pool' their health together and allow her to monitor their conditions.
- Aria decided that she would be driving the group today (in Nacht's humvee). The group drove to the foreign district whereupon they located the address for the apartment complex.
- The group observed that they were being watched by the locals who likely reported back to the cartel.
- At the apartment complex that doubled as a hideout for the cartel, the group attempted to find the best way to infiltrate it.
- Ultimately, the group decided to try to sneak in by utilizing Jergo's blinking abilities to get them past the chainlink fence surrounding the compound.
- Del used her druidic abilities to speak to the tree and learn that the dwarves had hidden land
mines above ground, that the compound went deep and deep underground,
and that the group could find the prisoners by going into the main
building of the complex.
- The group ended up deciding to head for the main building once in the courtyard of the complex.
- Roan went to the roof to get higher ground, but discovered that numerous dwarves were poised and ready to ambush.
Loot:
Current Objectives:
- Pursue Personal Goals.
- Roan: End it.
- Setter: Revenge.
- Kembu: Save the girl.
- Managirl: Be the hero.
- Aria: Family first.
- Del: Heal the world.
- Angel: Scientific pursuits.
- Death Otter: Defeat Athena. [COMPLETED]
Key Points:
- Aria found herself poisoned by the food and drink she had consumed. When she tried to call her father, she found someone's voice on the other end. However, she dropped the call, and went to warn her friends of the poison.
- Aria was saved from going into shock by Angel and Del's medical aid.
- Setter went to find Jessica, Aria's maid, and located a humanoid outside climbing up the wall. Setter decided to give chase and the rest of the group joined in...
- This sparked a combat conflict between the Runners and the Kidnappers. The Kidnappers seemed to be dressed in gas masks and tactical gear.
- The Kidnappers were nearly successful in escaping with Jessica and Kyou (Aria's hengeyokai master). However, through the party's efforts, the kidnappers were thwarted and two of their SUVs were destroyed. Some of the kidnappers escaped in the remaining SUV, but the party was able to rescue Jessica and Kyou.
- The group suspected that the Cabal, Gwen Morrisson, or the Mixtli Coatal dwarven cartels might be behind the kidnapping attempt.
- The group found out that the kidnappers appeared to be changelings, however, they have been scarred and had all unique markers on them removed (hair, facial scars, fingerprints burned off, castrated, etc). Changelings are a thought to be extinct fey that can shapeshift into other people. Angel and Del were able to determine this.
- Kyou and Jessica were affected by the same poison that Aria had been hit with, however, the poison had already run its course, and would take Kyou and Jessica an extended rest to recover from.
- Setter (funded by Aria) got in touch with one of his underground contacts who provided a safe house nearby: an abandoned greenhouse.
- The group evaded the police by take Nacht's hummer from the mansion and went to the greenhouse.
- Aria tried to recruit Death Otter to help her track the call back to Nacht. Giving the phone for Setter to handle the conversation, Setter arrived at the conclusion (from a voicemail) that Nacht has been captured by the Winged Serpents and is being tortured by their leader. It seems the Winged Serpents have learned of Nacht's betrayal... or something else entirely is going on here.
- Roan seemed to be... different and him and Kembu engaged in a conversation outside.
- The group got the idea to perhaps call Dr. Klein in order to get a device that might help them detect shapeshifters.
- At the greenhouse, the group spoke about what happened, and tried to figure out their next step...
Loot:
Current Objectives:
- Pursue Personal Goals.
- Roan: Defeat Nacht.
- Setter: Revenge.
- Kembu: Save the girl.
- Managirl: Find yourself.
- Aria: Reunite your family.
- Del: Save the world.
- Angel: Start a family.
- Death Otter: Defeat Athena. [COMPLETED]
