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terryclothHad a session of Lazar's game last night. Twidget didn't show up, so I annoyed Murdock in his absence. };)
Perrel's radiation-sickness cure was a soulburner, as he had no choice but to use necromancy to make it, not wanting to go expose himself to more radiation to get proper materials and tools. This meant that, unfortunately, it only worked on people with souls -- and since Ka'sa's body's soul had been sucked out earlier (not inconveniencing him at all at the time) it didn't work on him.
So he went out and got the body's pirate soul (still bottled after being recovered from the soul-sucker he'd captured to give to Balthazaar to study, as part of the process of making the big bomb) and put it back into the body... and it took back over, drawing daggers and huddling in the corner. And not, you know, believing that they'd actually left the island. And swearing vengeance on them for killing his brother (your who?), although he wasn't about to actually attack the whole room full of people. Instead, he went out into the deadly radiation, where no one was willing to follow him.
More necromancy built a radiation detector (they hoped), but by the time it was finished the glowing outside had died down, and sure enough the detector didn't detect anything. So either it was broken, or it was safe to go outside. Since Wayne had built the detector, he was sent out to get the ship's gold stores for Chochang to turn into anti-radiation paint, since heavy metal was supposed to block radiation.
The trees around the crash site were weird -- they'd formed a clearing around the ship, but there was no sign of the damage they'd inflicted coming down -- and they suspected that the trees might start moving at any moment. Still, nothing they could do about that, so they gathered up their things -- including the wire-grinder and some metal, and materials for Chochang and Perrel -- and headed after Balthazaar, following the compass. The decoy shikigami were left 'guarding' the ship, in case the pirate-who-wasn't-Ka'sa came back.
After quite a long trip, they saw a city in the distance -- a large one. And an army, approaching the city from a slightly different direction, although they'd reach the city first. They used some of their lead time to build an 'inconspicuousness' device to make people not freak out over how... freaky they looked, covered in gold glitter, with strange clothing and equipment and (in Wayne's case) cyberware.
When they got to the city, they were distracted from their quest by the skeleton from the gallows, which was moving purposefully through the city... with blood on its hands. It was fast! They managed to catch up with it by flying, when it stopped to interrogate people, but when they confronted it about its intentions it threw a piece of wood it tore off from a nearby railing, which exploded! Wayne counterattacked with an explosive femur, but then it was in a crowd, and they had to chase again.
Perrel informed the party that the magical aura of the skeleton pointed to Balthazaar as having built it. This was worrying, considering its obvious disregard for life. Or at least, collarbones.
They eventually confronted it in city hall, where it was harassing the mayor. Perel and Jardin drove it off, rescuing the mayor before it could force him to tell it where his son was, then wheedled his son's location out of him 'so that we can go protect him!' They looked like normal cityfolk (thanks to the enchantment), and Wayne could be somewhat convincing when he bothered.
Of course, they needed to find someone to interpret the mayor's directions for them, since he'd used street names and crap that they wouldn't be able to read even if there were signs.
W: *snag random passerby*
RP: "Hey!"
W: "Where can we find this address, good sir? And hurry, the city is being invaded."
RP: "The city is being inv -- aaah! The city is being invaded!"
The random passerby directed them helpfully to his own house, where he started getting his family together to flee. He pointed them in the direction of the school, afterwards, which was close, at least.
But the school was in chaos, thanks to the skeleton. The kids mentioned that Jeff hadn't come in that day, but didn't know where he lived... so, on a hunch, they followed the compass again. It led them to a bazaar being rapidly shut down, and to a particular closed stall.
"Hi," they asked, peering through the tied-down flap, "Is anyone in there?"
"No!"
"We just want to buy a little source of all knowledge, do you have any in stock?"
"I *wish* we had something like that here..."
"Do you mind if we come in and check?"
"I told you, there's no one here!"
They managed to eventually wheedle their way inside, where the mayor's kid was hiding. It was quite obvious that the kid himself was what the compass was tracking. They explained the situation to him (kind of), and offered to take him away from the city and hide him, so that the army wouldn't get him. After considering his options -- he seemed to be able to tell the future, as well as doing other magic -- the kid agreed. They quickly (in 20 minutes) built a device to block finders like the compass from tracking him, then toggled the inconspicuousness device so that it would include him in its field as well, and fled the city, which was being quite thoroughly invaded.
Back at the ship... it was in really bad shape. The trees had closed in and started eating it, and were having some success, despite the hull's enchantment. The ring was broken -- not just broken, partially disassembled, with all the important bits missing, as if SOMEONE had miniaturized it and left this useless husk behind.
Still, the ship was far away from the city, and they probably had a few days to work on fixing it before the army found them, assuming the finder-jammer worked.
Unfortunately, after Perrel came up with some tree-repellant, the damage probed to be even worse than they'd thought -- the hull was still disintegrating, even with the trees gone. The magic was unravelling, and no one had any confidence that the hull had been built to be sound while obeying the normal rules of physics.
So, at Rudy's (the cook's) suggestion, they started working on a smaller cart that could hold all their important stuff. Wayne started weaving the main 'hull' -- a giant basket made out of dead floatvines, that was five times bigger (and heavier) on the inside than the outside. The first version had some major flaws, that made it unusable -- its size wasn't stable, and there was no airflow. The second version *he* thought would work fine, but people wanted unreasonable things -- multiple exits, furniture...
There were levicus trees visible in the not-currently-glowing lands, though, and Perrel harvested some branches, which the food machines could make into gravity-nullifying plates of particle board. They needed to completely (well, mostly) enclose anything they were going to make weightless, so the second basket was designated as the cargo compartment to hold all their metal and string and alchemical supplies, and plated with levicus to make it easy to tow. Wayne went to work on a proper crew basket, while Jardin continued working on some sort of propulsion system.
Around that time, Ka'sa wandered back, having gotten sick of wandering in the woods starving to death (there was no sign of other life but the moving trees, after all). Everyone looked at him suspiciously, to see if it was really Ka'sa, or still the pirate whose body he'd stolen.
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Perrel's radiation-sickness cure was a soulburner, as he had no choice but to use necromancy to make it, not wanting to go expose himself to more radiation to get proper materials and tools. This meant that, unfortunately, it only worked on people with souls -- and since Ka'sa's body's soul had been sucked out earlier (not inconveniencing him at all at the time) it didn't work on him.
So he went out and got the body's pirate soul (still bottled after being recovered from the soul-sucker he'd captured to give to Balthazaar to study, as part of the process of making the big bomb) and put it back into the body... and it took back over, drawing daggers and huddling in the corner. And not, you know, believing that they'd actually left the island. And swearing vengeance on them for killing his brother (your who?), although he wasn't about to actually attack the whole room full of people. Instead, he went out into the deadly radiation, where no one was willing to follow him.
More necromancy built a radiation detector (they hoped), but by the time it was finished the glowing outside had died down, and sure enough the detector didn't detect anything. So either it was broken, or it was safe to go outside. Since Wayne had built the detector, he was sent out to get the ship's gold stores for Chochang to turn into anti-radiation paint, since heavy metal was supposed to block radiation.
The trees around the crash site were weird -- they'd formed a clearing around the ship, but there was no sign of the damage they'd inflicted coming down -- and they suspected that the trees might start moving at any moment. Still, nothing they could do about that, so they gathered up their things -- including the wire-grinder and some metal, and materials for Chochang and Perrel -- and headed after Balthazaar, following the compass. The decoy shikigami were left 'guarding' the ship, in case the pirate-who-wasn't-Ka'sa came back.
After quite a long trip, they saw a city in the distance -- a large one. And an army, approaching the city from a slightly different direction, although they'd reach the city first. They used some of their lead time to build an 'inconspicuousness' device to make people not freak out over how... freaky they looked, covered in gold glitter, with strange clothing and equipment and (in Wayne's case) cyberware.
When they got to the city, they were distracted from their quest by the skeleton from the gallows, which was moving purposefully through the city... with blood on its hands. It was fast! They managed to catch up with it by flying, when it stopped to interrogate people, but when they confronted it about its intentions it threw a piece of wood it tore off from a nearby railing, which exploded! Wayne counterattacked with an explosive femur, but then it was in a crowd, and they had to chase again.
Perrel informed the party that the magical aura of the skeleton pointed to Balthazaar as having built it. This was worrying, considering its obvious disregard for life. Or at least, collarbones.
They eventually confronted it in city hall, where it was harassing the mayor. Perel and Jardin drove it off, rescuing the mayor before it could force him to tell it where his son was, then wheedled his son's location out of him 'so that we can go protect him!' They looked like normal cityfolk (thanks to the enchantment), and Wayne could be somewhat convincing when he bothered.
Of course, they needed to find someone to interpret the mayor's directions for them, since he'd used street names and crap that they wouldn't be able to read even if there were signs.
W: *snag random passerby*
RP: "Hey!"
W: "Where can we find this address, good sir? And hurry, the city is being invaded."
RP: "The city is being inv -- aaah! The city is being invaded!"
The random passerby directed them helpfully to his own house, where he started getting his family together to flee. He pointed them in the direction of the school, afterwards, which was close, at least.
But the school was in chaos, thanks to the skeleton. The kids mentioned that Jeff hadn't come in that day, but didn't know where he lived... so, on a hunch, they followed the compass again. It led them to a bazaar being rapidly shut down, and to a particular closed stall.
"Hi," they asked, peering through the tied-down flap, "Is anyone in there?"
"No!"
"We just want to buy a little source of all knowledge, do you have any in stock?"
"I *wish* we had something like that here..."
"Do you mind if we come in and check?"
"I told you, there's no one here!"
They managed to eventually wheedle their way inside, where the mayor's kid was hiding. It was quite obvious that the kid himself was what the compass was tracking. They explained the situation to him (kind of), and offered to take him away from the city and hide him, so that the army wouldn't get him. After considering his options -- he seemed to be able to tell the future, as well as doing other magic -- the kid agreed. They quickly (in 20 minutes) built a device to block finders like the compass from tracking him, then toggled the inconspicuousness device so that it would include him in its field as well, and fled the city, which was being quite thoroughly invaded.
Back at the ship... it was in really bad shape. The trees had closed in and started eating it, and were having some success, despite the hull's enchantment. The ring was broken -- not just broken, partially disassembled, with all the important bits missing, as if SOMEONE had miniaturized it and left this useless husk behind.
Still, the ship was far away from the city, and they probably had a few days to work on fixing it before the army found them, assuming the finder-jammer worked.
Unfortunately, after Perrel came up with some tree-repellant, the damage probed to be even worse than they'd thought -- the hull was still disintegrating, even with the trees gone. The magic was unravelling, and no one had any confidence that the hull had been built to be sound while obeying the normal rules of physics.
So, at Rudy's (the cook's) suggestion, they started working on a smaller cart that could hold all their important stuff. Wayne started weaving the main 'hull' -- a giant basket made out of dead floatvines, that was five times bigger (and heavier) on the inside than the outside. The first version had some major flaws, that made it unusable -- its size wasn't stable, and there was no airflow. The second version *he* thought would work fine, but people wanted unreasonable things -- multiple exits, furniture...
There were levicus trees visible in the not-currently-glowing lands, though, and Perrel harvested some branches, which the food machines could make into gravity-nullifying plates of particle board. They needed to completely (well, mostly) enclose anything they were going to make weightless, so the second basket was designated as the cargo compartment to hold all their metal and string and alchemical supplies, and plated with levicus to make it easy to tow. Wayne went to work on a proper crew basket, while Jardin continued working on some sort of propulsion system.
Around that time, Ka'sa wandered back, having gotten sick of wandering in the woods starving to death (there was no sign of other life but the moving trees, after all). Everyone looked at him suspiciously, to see if it was really Ka'sa, or still the pirate whose body he'd stolen.
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