Session 14: We're Not Fucking Leaving!

Player Characters:

Lucky Bowmen III - Level 3 Halfling Thief, Neutral

Jean Var Rouge - Level 3 Human Paladin, Lawful Good

Antione La Flare - Level 3 Human Cleric, Lawful Good

12/12/23 A rumor is going around Dublin about some crazy demon freeing S.N.A.T.C.H. from the jail house. They also receive a letter with 400 Gold from Bong Weasley explaining his findings and still wanting the recipe for the Soylent. The Soylent transforms the drinker into a soyjack after a week of consumption and is addictive. The party buys a few things and a guard dog then heads to the jail house. A crowd of Irish are gathered outside the jail house. There are 2 super mutant guards for crowd control. The heroes approach and say they are here to help slay the monsters trapped in the holding block.

The party is lead into the jailhouse. There are 3 guards inside that all appear quite nerves. They confirm the rumor and say that the 5 other guards, including the Captain, were turned into monsters when they tried to combat the Red Women. The guards also reveal that there are 11 prisoners still inside their cells. They are willing to commute the sentences of any inmate that is willing to aid them. The party asks if they know what kind of monsters these are, but the guards just say they have never seen anything like them before. The party make a plan which involves Lucky freeing and arming some prisoners whilst the others will charge and shoot range if they have it.

The guards unlock the bars and locked door into the holding block and Antione casts bless on the party. As the doors open a loud, "COOOOM," echoes out from behind the door to everyone's dismay. There are 2 Coomers closer to them while 3 are gathered at the other end of the holding block. Jean Charges with his men and Antione and his men fallow while Lucky successfully sneaks his way over to the cells, its easy with an 18 DEX halfling at level 3. Lucky speaks with the prisoners while the others fight and they come to an agreement. Lucky gives them each a dagger and they will help fight. They manage to kill a coomer whole the other 3 move into mele range. Antione choses to cast hold person on the 3 approaching. The others keep in mele combat. During which time, Lucky is able to pick the lock to the cell, freeing and arming the 2 prisoners. Another Coomer is slain by Jean with his magic blade "Soy Slayer".

Only 2 of the 3 approaching coomers are held and unfortunately the biggest one who appears to be the old guard Captain, is still in the fight. Every one gangs up on the beast and many attacks are made on him. He appears unstoppable. Then Lucky performs his back stab with a short sword and lands the hit killing the it. Combat is over and the guards are at ease, so much so that they allow the to prisoners to go free for the very minor assist. They chain up the 2 help coomers for the party to take to Bong Weasley. The party then asks the other prisoners what they had seen, and it appeared S.N.A.T.C.H. has been working with the creature for some time. They don't know what exactly was said but when the guards came the creature charmed them and then used some kind of magic to transform the guards. They all explain how all were instantly enamored by the Red Women especially when she stuck out her forked tongue and made "The Face". Something about this caused Lucky to think of the statues of the women's face in the bathwater room from The Cave of Soyjack. Wait a minute.... is everything connected? Antione casts detect charm and sees all of the prisoner were infact charmed by the creature. They are given 500 Gold as compensation and decide to head thorough Dublin to the Irish Candy Factory where Bong Weasley has been conducting his research. He will probably reward them greatly for the Coomers if brought to him alive. They decide they will leave first thing in the morning and leave the chained coomers in a cell. Lucky, whose charm broke during DT, sees the cell where he left Walda and a tear comes to his eye as he thinks of his love.

12/13/23 The party heads to the candy factory first thing in the morning. It takes them all day but they have no encounters. They make it ti the factory and are let in to meet with Mr. Weasley. He rewards them with 400 gold for both coomers. He discusses how the Soyjack has died due to lack of Soylent and how the substance acts as an anti milk weakening the bones of the consumer. It could easily be used as a weapon to weaken a populace before an invasion. Bong Weasley says he needs more to continue his research into a serum to stop the Soyification of the consumer and possible reverse the effects. They then tell him about the jail break and the Red Women. He says it sounds alot like a succubus and tells them some basic information about them. The party camps on the grounds of the candy factory and will return back to Dublin the next day.

12/14/23 The party heads back to Dublin. Sometime after noon, The party runs into a colony of giant irradiated ants. there are 8 warrior ants and 53 drones. The party sets for a charge and fires some ranged while 4 ants move to engage while the other 4 protect the drones retreating into the colony. They kill 1 ant. Next turn Antione throws a flaming flask, Jean switches to mele and engages with his guard dog, and Lucky leads his gang of 5 level 0 thieves around to set up a flank. Jean and his dog kill 2 ants, his dog's bite shoots irradiated fluids everywhere. The flank successfully moves silently around the ants. The 4 giant ants in back move forward to bolster their forces on the front line. A dumb move, next turn and the flank hits the ants from behind they splatter 2 more Ants then Lucky gets a backstab killing another Ant. The rest of the party in combat is embolden they kill 1 more. The final ant tries to disengage put is killed on the retreat. They find 6 gems in the disturbed ground. Then they notice the dog doesn't look so good. I pull out my copy of Gamma World and roll a random physical mutation for the dog.

I rolled a 43 which comes up as Symbiotic Attachment, which allows the mutant to link with the nervous system of another creature with a physical attack such as a bite. Once hit the creature can latch on to the target and if they are not removed after 3 mele turns, the mutant will gain complete control of both bodies. It takes 3 mele turns after being unattached for the creature to regain control of their body fully. The dogs head morphs into that of a giant tick with a dogs mouth. It then grows 4 tick like legs from its belly and all the fur falls off the dog. It will now only feed on blood.

Anyway... the party heads back to Dublin and with it in sight they get an encounter. They are very fortunate because its a caravan of Irish Candy Merchants. The party sells their treasure and buys some candy. Once back in town they have a discussion weather they are leaving Dublin or not. The party wants to return home but they cannot allow this Succubus to walk among the good people of Dublin. The decide to stay until their work is completed and the people of Dublin are put into a safer position.

Treasure and XP: All XP Split 3 ways even.

400 Gold Pieces from Bong Weasley - No XP

5 Coomers - 546 XP

500 Gold Pieces for helping Guards - No XP

400 Gold Pieces for Sold Coomers - No XP

8 Giant Irradiated Ants - 459 XP

Eye Agate - 10 Gold Pieces - 10 XP

Crystal Clear Rock - 50 Gold Pieces - 50 XP

2 Fancy Deep Blue Spinels - 1,000 Gold Pieces - 1,000 XP

Very Large Opal - 1,000 Gold Pieces - 1,000 XP

Black Sapphire - 5,000 Gold Pieces - 5,000 XP

Rankings:

Lucky Bowmen III - E - Got back stab, opened jail cell, lead a successful flank silently into position.

Jean Var Rouge - E - Lead the party bravely into combat.

Antione La Flare - E - Cast hold person, detect charm, bless, and cure light wounds.