"The mind is a doorway...
...one that you can walk through if you wish."
Summaries from Nathan's interactive storytelling sessions (otherwise known as DnD)
"The mind is a doorway...
...one that you can walk through if you wish."
- Alpa, Ink, the Mad King, Fayne, Ajax, Yee, and Tristan are lying on a lovely hill outside the “Diplomacy” Pavillion in Pact territory
- they are swimming in the nearby pond, sunbathing, and relaxing as Pact warships fly overhead, assembling for the battle ahead - as they are having a lovely time a figure is slowly and “subtly” approaching them - it is agent Krakowski - he tells them some information about Hans Grimclaw, who is hiding out in the Tavern - they get some money from the Supreme Leader and head off to the Tavern - also the Supreme Leader (at Yee’s request) provides the group with a personal trainer, a Pact soldier named Chastity - the Tavern is a massive structure tumbling through space, a collection of many bizzare bars combined into one huge building - its location is known only to the most weathered and grizzled explorers - luckily Krawkowski provided them with the coordinates - they arrive and dock the Tiderian - the whole team starts exploring - they play a life or death game with one of the occupants, ending with The Mad King shooting him - Chastity peels away from the group to talk with a bartender - they keep going through various bars, looking through the tavern - Alpa is attacked by Concord assassins, trying to get back at her for a previous job - they group slaughters them - they also learn that Knax (a synthetic appendage designer) and Critical Jim (a legendary mercenary/bounty hunter) are in the Tavern - they see Critical Jim who is getting very drunk in the corner - while they talk with him the Mad King plays a knife game in the corner - they chat up Jim while Yee falls unconscious from Basilisk Tears - suddenly Hans Grimclaw arrives - Fayne shoots at him but he is an illusion - Hans tells them that he has hired loads of Neon addled thugs to fight them - his forces are closing in on them - as the illusion disappears, Neons charge in - they fire a volley of laser bolts but one destroys Critical Jim’s glass - he starts killing them and the group escapes (the Mad King is gone) - after their escape through a couple of bars they go to a slam poetry bar - Yee awakes and goes to throw up - he finds that one of the toilets is a wishing well - Ajax uses the glittering coin they found and receives a magical item - then they perform poetry on pain of death - then they keep exploring for Knax - they find a bar filled with empty chairs and a few figures - two of them are Concord twin mercenaries who have worked with Alpa a while back - Chastity arrives and goes on a double date with Alpa - they flirt with the twins and fleece them for all the cash they are carrying - Tristan plays a game of Cha'at with an old mute Sudari swordsman - Yee and Fayne play a game for their life with a strange man - the man poisons them and will only give the antidote if they win - they do and it turns out it was the Mad King! - Gwedgins IV arrives, turns out he was stuffed into the bottom of a bar stool! - they talk to Knax, who is the bartender - Tristan gets some new forearms, and Fayne gets an arm that turns into a machine gun (also both his arms are made of adamant alloy now) - Gwedgins IV also buys a nuclear fission reactor that he straps to his back, to power his grav gauntlets - suddenly Knax bolts as the room starts to shake - all the empty chairs are mimics - Gwedgins IV tries to use his gloves with the reactor - normally they are powered by six AA batteries - so with the nuclear power running through them they explode - the Mad King unlocks his left glove, creating something that shields Alpa and Fayne - Ink dives in front of Yee and Tristan - Ajax takes the partial force of the blast - Gwedgins IV takes the full force of the blast… right on his binder of Dwellemon cards - he is devastated - the group continues on, finding more and more dead bodies - it seems that Hans and some Neons are ahead of them, killing everyone in the Tavern - Yee straps 40 laser guns together and runs a string across all of their triggers - then they engage with Hans - the infamous pirate turns on a strange device on his belt, creating an ultra strong shield (that blocks Yee’s attack) - Gwedgins IV tries to activate a nuclear meltdown with his reactor, but Ink tackles him - the Neons are quickly killed but Han’s shield is very strong - Fayne uses his vampiric powers to must through the shield and punch Hans in the face with his adamant alloy fist - Hans is hurt but deactivates his shield, picks up Fayne, throws him into the air, and activates his shield - it cuts Fayne in half, removing his legs - Hans lasers out the ceiling and rockets out with a jet booster in his claw arm - his ship starts firing lasers at the Tavern, slowly incinerating it - the team start running to N0U - they call for her but Grimclaw is on the Tiderian, trying to take it over - when they arrive N0U is spraying him with hand sanitizer and shutting frozen waffles at him - Ink strikes Han’s shield with the full force of his sword and a small explosion goes off - Ink is thrown back - in his frustration with the incompetence of the AI Hans shoots N0U’s AI core, where her personality emanates from - she goes silent - he blinks out and Yee goes to work on N0U - it is through his skill on shop repair that she is brought back - she seems to have a hatred of Grimclaw, and a new fear of people trying to reprogram her circuits - the group warp into the distance as the Tavern burns in the background Comments are closed.
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