Ultimate Hyper Death Ninja Marten
Dec. 14th, 2002 01:50 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
terryclothTonight was Lazar's Friday game, wherein the party finish the annihilation of the Boeing-Sendai facility, freed a dragon, and killed lots of people. And didn't even have to use nuclear bombs to do it. Well, okay, ONE nuke.
The game started with the party coming down the elevator to see a roomfull of powerful mages surrounding a chained dragon. Marten, having been under the impression that this was a surprise attack, and furthermore having taken a 'friend or foe' potion that let him detect the presence of enemies, immediately opened fire, to the amazement of the rest of the party.
Unfortunately, he opened fire with untested shells, and managed to (a) not injure or even threaten to injure any enemies and (b) blind himself for the duration of the combat. He was also encased in a magical shell, and Charon (the 'demon kid' that had been hunting and occasionally helping the party) tried to crush him with telekinesis, only to be stymied by his anti-psi helmet.
Meanwhile, the rest of the party opened fire, figuring that the jig was up. Now, the entire party was *supposed* to be invisible, camoflauged, and silenced, but somehow none of the enemies had any trouble seeing them. It turned out Charon was telepathically sending targetting data to his allies.
Over the next couple rounds, the two NPCs with the party, Abir and Gyu-chan, were 'unsummoned' by the planeswalker, who was also present. Zelder tried freeing the dragon by breaking its chains, and while it injured Charon, he was then able to repair the chains as fast as they could be broken, and eventually Zelder was removed from the battle as the elevator he'd never bothered to leave shut its doors and returned to the roof to pick up NKN and some replacement drones for Nazir, who was running out.
Call squared off with a freakishly strong martial artist with monowire claws, and was holding his own until they were both trapped in bubbles. She cut her way loose, and he was freed when a mage tried to poison him by summoning gas inside his bubble, which drew the attention of several free-roaming anti-aggressive-magic drones. Apparently, the people in the basement weren't familiar with the facility's security system, since it was working against them as much as against the party.
Meanwhil, Martin punched his way out of the magical barrier (using his anti-spirit glove to disrupt the spell's aura), but was still blinded, leaving only the 'friend or foe' targeting data. Seeing two 'friendly' targets (who'd turned traitor and joined the party in attacking Charon) go down, aimed himself at Charon, and shouted "Zeipherant Punch!" And activated his magical underwear, which forced him to run at 120mph for a minimum distance of 150 feet. This slammed him, and Charon, and an invisible mage who'd been lurking in the background, into the wall, very very hard. Charon and the mage were killed... Marten was unhurt, thanks to his armor and his enhanced size and toughness.
He was knocked silly for a bit, though, and when he came to noticed that there were no friendly targets left (since at that point Call was trapped in his bubble). So he went to hide in a corner, behind some giant cubes of fudge. Er, that is, behind some mysterious machinery.
Call, after being freed from the bubble, decided that his sword wasn't working, and tossed a grenade at the razor-claw girl standing five feet in front of him. Both of them were caught in the cloud of hallucinogenic gas it released, as were all the anti-magic drones. And when the elevator opened to let Zelder and NKN back into the room, and the quick-thinking Zelder blew the gas away from him so as not to be affected, the cloud caught another enemy mage, and the dragon.
The mist randomly made its targets either (a) see everything as something they wanted most, or (b) see everything as the most horrible, hated monster. This made the drones attack and destroy each other, and the dragon attempt to eat Marten, who'd wandered near it in the process of stealthily slaying the nearest 'foes' to his hiding place. Fortunately, the dragon was chained.
Call's razor-claw opponent decided that Call needed to be hugged and kissed RIGHT NOW... and Call saw her as a horrible monster trying to EAT HIS FACE! He hacked away at her, and even though she ignored his 'love taps', her freakish toughness (even freakier than Marten's) and strength let her pin him to the ground and... er... well, eat his face. Nicely. So Zelder ripped her head off.
At this point, the last active enemy surrendered - many of the magically active enemies had fled when it was obvious that things were kind of dangerous, including the planeswalker after Nazir, using newfound magical abilities, stole his deck, leaving him powerless. Well, except for the power to teleport away, apparently. One of these fleeing mages made the mistake of trying to catch the elevator to the roof from the second floor, instead of just teleporting there directly, and Nazir detonated the nuke they'd left on the second floor, killing him and anyone else on the second floor who hadn't already been killed.
Marten, seeing one 'foe' left on his 'radar' but strangely hearing Call's horrified, angry screams coming from it, decided to sleep-ray it so as not to kill his friend by mistake. When his vision returned, he sleep-rayed all the surrendered or hallucinating enemies. The downed freindlies were healed. The dragon was negotiated with, then set free. The loot was gathered.
And then everyone, friend and foe and prisoner-cicle from the soul-burner alike, was dumped through the only remaining portal nearby, in Bogota, and the party returned to Skypass to return the two unused nukes, and the captured data and equipment, and get paid.
While recovering from the performance-enhancing cocktail he'd hyped himself up on, Marten accidentally locked himself in his own suitcase. Luckily, he was in tiny-mode from the mappy vest, so he didn't run out of air before Nazir thought to check his van's video record and notice what had happened.
The employers seemed reasonably pleased at the results, although they were a bit surprised and dismayed by the indiscriminate nature of the destruction. Hello? Mr. Smith? You gave us the nukes, d00d. They were also annoyed that the party hadn't killed the dragon, since their primary mission was to 'destroy the artifact in the basement', which could only have referred to the dragon. Like, whatever.
Anyway, Vorshath had another job for the party, but for the moment it was time to rest, divide up the loot, and go swimming in credit-chips.
Gyu-chan and Abir were never seen again. Apparently, they were token creatures.
last week next week
Also, it looks like I won't be running the next campaign after all (I'd gotten the impression I would be last week). Instead, one of the new players will be. Seeing as (of course) he's only played Shadake these last few sessions... well, I hope he's damn good to pull that off.
The game started with the party coming down the elevator to see a roomfull of powerful mages surrounding a chained dragon. Marten, having been under the impression that this was a surprise attack, and furthermore having taken a 'friend or foe' potion that let him detect the presence of enemies, immediately opened fire, to the amazement of the rest of the party.
Unfortunately, he opened fire with untested shells, and managed to (a) not injure or even threaten to injure any enemies and (b) blind himself for the duration of the combat. He was also encased in a magical shell, and Charon (the 'demon kid' that had been hunting and occasionally helping the party) tried to crush him with telekinesis, only to be stymied by his anti-psi helmet.
Meanwhile, the rest of the party opened fire, figuring that the jig was up. Now, the entire party was *supposed* to be invisible, camoflauged, and silenced, but somehow none of the enemies had any trouble seeing them. It turned out Charon was telepathically sending targetting data to his allies.
Over the next couple rounds, the two NPCs with the party, Abir and Gyu-chan, were 'unsummoned' by the planeswalker, who was also present. Zelder tried freeing the dragon by breaking its chains, and while it injured Charon, he was then able to repair the chains as fast as they could be broken, and eventually Zelder was removed from the battle as the elevator he'd never bothered to leave shut its doors and returned to the roof to pick up NKN and some replacement drones for Nazir, who was running out.
Call squared off with a freakishly strong martial artist with monowire claws, and was holding his own until they were both trapped in bubbles. She cut her way loose, and he was freed when a mage tried to poison him by summoning gas inside his bubble, which drew the attention of several free-roaming anti-aggressive-magic drones. Apparently, the people in the basement weren't familiar with the facility's security system, since it was working against them as much as against the party.
Meanwhil, Martin punched his way out of the magical barrier (using his anti-spirit glove to disrupt the spell's aura), but was still blinded, leaving only the 'friend or foe' targeting data. Seeing two 'friendly' targets (who'd turned traitor and joined the party in attacking Charon) go down, aimed himself at Charon, and shouted "Zeipherant Punch!" And activated his magical underwear, which forced him to run at 120mph for a minimum distance of 150 feet. This slammed him, and Charon, and an invisible mage who'd been lurking in the background, into the wall, very very hard. Charon and the mage were killed... Marten was unhurt, thanks to his armor and his enhanced size and toughness.
He was knocked silly for a bit, though, and when he came to noticed that there were no friendly targets left (since at that point Call was trapped in his bubble). So he went to hide in a corner, behind some giant cubes of fudge. Er, that is, behind some mysterious machinery.
Call, after being freed from the bubble, decided that his sword wasn't working, and tossed a grenade at the razor-claw girl standing five feet in front of him. Both of them were caught in the cloud of hallucinogenic gas it released, as were all the anti-magic drones. And when the elevator opened to let Zelder and NKN back into the room, and the quick-thinking Zelder blew the gas away from him so as not to be affected, the cloud caught another enemy mage, and the dragon.
The mist randomly made its targets either (a) see everything as something they wanted most, or (b) see everything as the most horrible, hated monster. This made the drones attack and destroy each other, and the dragon attempt to eat Marten, who'd wandered near it in the process of stealthily slaying the nearest 'foes' to his hiding place. Fortunately, the dragon was chained.
Call's razor-claw opponent decided that Call needed to be hugged and kissed RIGHT NOW... and Call saw her as a horrible monster trying to EAT HIS FACE! He hacked away at her, and even though she ignored his 'love taps', her freakish toughness (even freakier than Marten's) and strength let her pin him to the ground and... er... well, eat his face. Nicely. So Zelder ripped her head off.
At this point, the last active enemy surrendered - many of the magically active enemies had fled when it was obvious that things were kind of dangerous, including the planeswalker after Nazir, using newfound magical abilities, stole his deck, leaving him powerless. Well, except for the power to teleport away, apparently. One of these fleeing mages made the mistake of trying to catch the elevator to the roof from the second floor, instead of just teleporting there directly, and Nazir detonated the nuke they'd left on the second floor, killing him and anyone else on the second floor who hadn't already been killed.
Marten, seeing one 'foe' left on his 'radar' but strangely hearing Call's horrified, angry screams coming from it, decided to sleep-ray it so as not to kill his friend by mistake. When his vision returned, he sleep-rayed all the surrendered or hallucinating enemies. The downed freindlies were healed. The dragon was negotiated with, then set free. The loot was gathered.
And then everyone, friend and foe and prisoner-cicle from the soul-burner alike, was dumped through the only remaining portal nearby, in Bogota, and the party returned to Skypass to return the two unused nukes, and the captured data and equipment, and get paid.
While recovering from the performance-enhancing cocktail he'd hyped himself up on, Marten accidentally locked himself in his own suitcase. Luckily, he was in tiny-mode from the mappy vest, so he didn't run out of air before Nazir thought to check his van's video record and notice what had happened.
The employers seemed reasonably pleased at the results, although they were a bit surprised and dismayed by the indiscriminate nature of the destruction. Hello? Mr. Smith? You gave us the nukes, d00d. They were also annoyed that the party hadn't killed the dragon, since their primary mission was to 'destroy the artifact in the basement', which could only have referred to the dragon. Like, whatever.
Anyway, Vorshath had another job for the party, but for the moment it was time to rest, divide up the loot, and go swimming in credit-chips.
Gyu-chan and Abir were never seen again. Apparently, they were token creatures.
last week next week
Also, it looks like I won't be running the next campaign after all (I'd gotten the impression I would be last week). Instead, one of the new players will be. Seeing as (of course) he's only played Shadake these last few sessions... well, I hope he's damn good to pull that off.
