New Session!
The players got off to a good start by successfully
recapping most of the previous adventure, scoring a bonus benny each for doing
so.
With newly reprogrammed Talos on board, the team was sent
headlong into Plot Point Adventure 7, in which Dr. Destruction sent them a pre-recorded
message telling them to attack a lab on the Docks, where a V’Sori scientist
would be waiting with his hands over his heads. The team was to kill everyone
else in the lab and make it look as though the scientist, Dr. Aden, had been
killed. Socks asked if they could kill the scientist afterward, but Kale
threatened to do horrible things to Socks’ mind.
As the team set out to converge on the Docks, Mindstorm
asked Kale to disrupt the power to the facility. Kale dug deep within and
summoned the depths of his Atlantean Sorcery to short out the V’Sori power
fueling the lab. Talos followed suit by magnetically ripping the doors from the
lab. None of the team could see inside, Mindstorm told Kale to generate light.
This caused me (as Kale) to comment on being asked to kill the power and then
generate light, when Mindstorm replied with “I want to kill communications to
the place.”
*facepalm*
Socks rushed the lab to find a lone V’Sori standing behind a
table with a blaster, and Socks hurled machinery in his general direction but
missed. Talos leaped in and crushed another figure that moved, but it turned
out to just be a janitor.
Talos was still gleeful about his kill.
Mindstorm and Kale entered together and Kale was shot by the
V’Sori, hurt but narrowly avoiding SEVERE injury. Mindstorm summoned lightning
through the skylight of the lab and took the scientist out.
Mindstorm told Kale to heal himself while ordering Socks to
dispatch two other V’Sori scientists who had been cowering in the fight.
Meanwhile, Mindstorm found Dr. Aden and told him they were there to retrieve
him. He ordered the team to depart, but Talos stopped and began to magnetically
reach out to the metal frame of the building, ripping it loose and dumping it
into the ocean before escaping through the skylight.
The team met with Dr. Destruction’s operatives, a pair of
heroes that they had saved many missions ago named Hiro and Lycan, a wandering
martial artist and a werewolf.
NOTES: The plan for the adventure is that a silent alarm is
set off, dropping Drones, Fins and War Spheres on the place, but Mindstorm’s
orders were designed to prevent that, and went off without a hitch, so I rolled
with it and let the team have their flawless victory. Socks took Improved Sweep
and we took a short break before mounting a new adventure.
The team was met in their headquarters by Dr. Destruction
and a very angry half-Atlantean woman named Deja Nal. Destruction explained
that he needed the team to return to Atlantis and locate a Geomantic Chamber
that the Atlanteans once used for a powerful energy source. He explained that
Deja Nal’s father was the Keeper of the Well before his death (and the Ruin of
Atlantis), and that he was training Deja Nal to be his replacement. He went on
to explain that she is a powerful sorceress herself, and will be able to use
the power of the Well to destroy an orbiting V’Sori Man’O’War and then destroy the
Well itself. He noted that the teleport tubes around the area have been
destroyed, so he would provide them with a submarine.
As Deja Nal led the team to the submarine, she explained
that the only reason she is doing this is because a Man’O’War routinely holds
3,000 or so V’Sori…and she’s going to snuff them all out in the blink of an
eye.
As the team located the sub, they instinctively dove for
cover as gunfire erupted around them!
Talos lunged into combat, and a cold chill went up the spines of the
team as a chainsaw roared to life…just like it did the day Bully died. Talos
laughed off the chainsaw and deflected gunfire, but Mindstorm was shot and Kale
was clipped. Despite realizing they were facing Bully’s killers, Mindstorm made
the call for everyone to run to the sub. Kale attempted to teleport in but
misjudged and was deflected back to his starting point. Deja Nal summoned a
swirling barrier to block the way and the team fell back, with Socks grabbing
Kale and running to the sub. Talos was fighting the attack squad to a stalemate
as Deja Nal teleported into the sub and Socks yanked Mindstorm and pulled him
in. Talos turned to depart, but was cut down by the chainsaw. Jacko, the
psychopath with the chainsaw, gleefully moved in for the kill, but Talos
managed to his amazing Leaping to hurtle himself for the sub as Kale brought it
down into the sea.
Talos began the arduous task of repairing himself, while
Deja Nal used her magic to heal Mindstorm. Deja Nal and Kale deftly avoided
Atlantean patrols, and the team entered the ruins of Atlantis. Finding the
passageway blocked to the tunnels below, Mindstorm used his Telekinesis from
the sub to clear the way, and the team used the airlock to descend into the
tunnels.
Finding the tunnel to be covered in a glowing fungus, Socks
felt the need to get a taste. As the team entered the Geomantic Chamber and saw
the Well at the center, they saw a V’Sori explorer and his Fin bodyguards on
the other side! The explorer, D’Bloc, said he and his men would be the only
ones leaving the Chamber alive, but Deja Nal ran for the well! Talos lunged at
the Fins and got swarmed, but laughed away as they tried to take him down.
Mindstorm and Kale flanked the Well and Kale tagged one of the Fins
ineffectually…before being attacked by Fins himself. Socks moved in to make the
save and the energy from the Well began to grow.
Mindstorm was blasted and wounded again, while Socks
proclaimed himself an ally of Sugrot and would kill all those who didn’t swear
loyalty to Sugrot…getting no takers, he began the slaughter. With two Fins down, Kale unleashed a power he
rarely uses, in part because he saw what happened when Angel’s Bane unleashed
it all those months ago…and he moved next to Talos and unleashed his Fear
power! He sent the Fins scurrying from the chamber in fright, giving Talos a
free shot on one of them, taking him down! Being left with five Fins and all of
them in retreat, D’Bloc triggered a Teleport Shunt to disappear, infuriating
the team.
Deja Nal channeled the power of the well and sent it hurling
through the depths of the ocean and into space, destroying the Man’O’War! Then
the chamber began to collapse! Mindstorm retrieved the unconscious Deja Nal
from the Well as Talos grabbed Kale and Leaped to safety. As the tunnels began
to collapse around them, Kale and Talos became trapped, but Kale asked
Leviathan for power and took himself and the robot deep into the tunnel and
near the sub. Mindstorm, still holding Deja Nal, dodged the collapsing tunnels
but debris came down in front of Socks…who burrowed through it.
The team got into the sub and Kale summoned all of his might
into boosting his natural Piloting skill (he’s Gifted, so he doesn’t actually
HAVE it) and deftly piloted the sub through the collapsing ruins as the team
watched a massive crater opening under the building…and an explosion consuming
a mile’s worth of Atlantis.
I so want to play...
ReplyDeleteThis is shaping up to be the greatest campaign I have ever ran. I may have to give up RPGs after this...=/
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