Railroad of Doom
Nov. 19th, 2005 03:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
terryclothOr as Murdock put it, futility.
Despite Snowwy's abrupt absence, we did sort of have a session of the Shadake game. A new player was there, 'Fidget' who's apparently in the area now. He showed a bunch of pictures from a job up in Alaska, but the implication was that he'd be here for a while at least, since we went to all the trouble of making him a character and all. That took a while.
Then, Lazar and Fidget stepped out to discuss things privately, and when I got back from the bathroom Murdock told me that we were supposed to decide how to deal with 'Perrel being shot in the back and falling unconscious'.
"Er... shot by who, the weasel? And wasn't he already unconscious from the electric doorknob?"
But no, instead there were even more ludicrously skilled pirates suddenly responding to the alarm, that were too fast for Jardin to hit, and basically took Wayne out of the fight with a single shot. Of a poisoned crossbow. To the eye. He screamed and ran away, trying to flee first the way he'd come in (which was closed now) and then through the cargo doors (which were blocked off by a forcefield).
After beating a hasty retreat, Jardin with Perrel in tow soon joined him, and they barricaded themselves in the room while Balthazaar went down under a pile of weasels and skeletons, after releasing 'his most dangerous vial', which was full of poison gas. Apparently, the pirates were either too fast to be affected by the very dangerous poison, or there were even more left on the ship than the initial attackers, because they soon started pounding on the other doors, and since Wayne had gone unconscious from the poison and there was only one big table to block doors with anyway, eventually got into the bay. Jardin threw a grenade he'd found on Balthazaar's unconscious body, which (while smaller than the others) turned out to be a full-radius, full-strength sun grenade, knocking himself and the one pirate standing in the doorway out.
Which meant, of course, that everyone woke up in jail. That is, Balthazaar, Jardin, Perrel, Wayne, Roshan (who told about a second wave of pirates attacking, that were only briefly slowed down by Wayne's rope trap before it ripped itself apart and the ship's canopy with it) and a mysterious Hidralgo (batwinged mouse) by the name of Ka'sa, who seemed to be a local. They had nothing valuable (although they'd been left their cruddy armor) and there was no exit from the room except a hole in the floor, through which they could see the rocky counterpart to the floating island, far below.
Ka'sa told them that they'd all (including him) basically been exiled -- if they jumped through the hole they'd float down to the island below, from which there could be no return, as surely as there was no escape from the island itself. There were signs of civilization on the island below, but there would obviously be no ships to rob, and there was no obvious sign of water or food... "And there's giant carnivorous fish, and nasty weather, and..."
So, they decided to escape. Using blood and fur and feathers as components, Balthazaar led them all -- including Ka'sa, who also had some skill with magitech -- in a cooperative session to 'blow a hole in the wall'. Unfortunately, neither Wayne (who'd come up with the basic design) nor Balthazaar (who'd decided how long to have them work on improving it before setting it off) were entirely sane, so they stopped when they started to get really thirsty, as opposed to 'when it was big enough to probably blow a hole in the wall'.
They blew a hole in the *island*. While it was a shaped charge that didn't directly cause them any harm (although it looked like others in the path of the blast were not so lucky), it knocked loose the room they were in, dumping everyone down into the air currents that would take them into exile. Well, except for the fliers.
Ka'sa looked at Wayne and Roshan, and remarked, "Well, that was useful."
last week | next session
On the way home, I was contemplaying the growing piles of comics on my coffee table, and thinking about how awful it would be if the apartment manager decided to schedule an inspection. When I got home, I found a notice on the door, telling me they were going to do an inspection Monday.
But it's okay, when I picked up comics today I also bought some comic-book boxes, which should at least let me get the extraneous piles under control. And it isn't really an inspection of cleanliness anyway, they're inspecting the plumbing to make sure it wasn't damaged by recent repairs. Plus, the current managers aren't complete nazi jerks like the last set.
Still means I have to clean though. Foo.
Despite Snowwy's abrupt absence, we did sort of have a session of the Shadake game. A new player was there, 'Fidget' who's apparently in the area now. He showed a bunch of pictures from a job up in Alaska, but the implication was that he'd be here for a while at least, since we went to all the trouble of making him a character and all. That took a while.
Then, Lazar and Fidget stepped out to discuss things privately, and when I got back from the bathroom Murdock told me that we were supposed to decide how to deal with 'Perrel being shot in the back and falling unconscious'.
"Er... shot by who, the weasel? And wasn't he already unconscious from the electric doorknob?"
But no, instead there were even more ludicrously skilled pirates suddenly responding to the alarm, that were too fast for Jardin to hit, and basically took Wayne out of the fight with a single shot. Of a poisoned crossbow. To the eye. He screamed and ran away, trying to flee first the way he'd come in (which was closed now) and then through the cargo doors (which were blocked off by a forcefield).
After beating a hasty retreat, Jardin with Perrel in tow soon joined him, and they barricaded themselves in the room while Balthazaar went down under a pile of weasels and skeletons, after releasing 'his most dangerous vial', which was full of poison gas. Apparently, the pirates were either too fast to be affected by the very dangerous poison, or there were even more left on the ship than the initial attackers, because they soon started pounding on the other doors, and since Wayne had gone unconscious from the poison and there was only one big table to block doors with anyway, eventually got into the bay. Jardin threw a grenade he'd found on Balthazaar's unconscious body, which (while smaller than the others) turned out to be a full-radius, full-strength sun grenade, knocking himself and the one pirate standing in the doorway out.
Which meant, of course, that everyone woke up in jail. That is, Balthazaar, Jardin, Perrel, Wayne, Roshan (who told about a second wave of pirates attacking, that were only briefly slowed down by Wayne's rope trap before it ripped itself apart and the ship's canopy with it) and a mysterious Hidralgo (batwinged mouse) by the name of Ka'sa, who seemed to be a local. They had nothing valuable (although they'd been left their cruddy armor) and there was no exit from the room except a hole in the floor, through which they could see the rocky counterpart to the floating island, far below.
Ka'sa told them that they'd all (including him) basically been exiled -- if they jumped through the hole they'd float down to the island below, from which there could be no return, as surely as there was no escape from the island itself. There were signs of civilization on the island below, but there would obviously be no ships to rob, and there was no obvious sign of water or food... "And there's giant carnivorous fish, and nasty weather, and..."
So, they decided to escape. Using blood and fur and feathers as components, Balthazaar led them all -- including Ka'sa, who also had some skill with magitech -- in a cooperative session to 'blow a hole in the wall'. Unfortunately, neither Wayne (who'd come up with the basic design) nor Balthazaar (who'd decided how long to have them work on improving it before setting it off) were entirely sane, so they stopped when they started to get really thirsty, as opposed to 'when it was big enough to probably blow a hole in the wall'.
They blew a hole in the *island*. While it was a shaped charge that didn't directly cause them any harm (although it looked like others in the path of the blast were not so lucky), it knocked loose the room they were in, dumping everyone down into the air currents that would take them into exile. Well, except for the fliers.
Ka'sa looked at Wayne and Roshan, and remarked, "Well, that was useful."
last week | next session
On the way home, I was contemplaying the growing piles of comics on my coffee table, and thinking about how awful it would be if the apartment manager decided to schedule an inspection. When I got home, I found a notice on the door, telling me they were going to do an inspection Monday.
But it's okay, when I picked up comics today I also bought some comic-book boxes, which should at least let me get the extraneous piles under control. And it isn't really an inspection of cleanliness anyway, they're inspecting the plumbing to make sure it wasn't damaged by recent repairs. Plus, the current managers aren't complete nazi jerks like the last set.
Still means I have to clean though. Foo.
