====== Jack Atreides: Chronicles ======
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==== Oct 17 2010 ====

  * Roughly 2008. Thursday.
  * Everyone wakes up in a high-tech jail, a few days after being nabbed on the streets of Atlanta.
  * Explosion!  Alarms go off.  Doors unlock.  Our anti-magic collars with bombs start a 2-hour countdown.
  * Large, bloody, feline footprints lead from our doors to the common area.
  * We follow the footprints to the common area, then find themselves in a guard nexus with a single shotgun-armed sentry in a bulletproof area.
  * Jack throws his toothbruth as a distraction then slips down to the exit.
  * The other PCs get noticed by the guard but run off.
  * PCs sneak down a hallway following the bloody tracks.
  * Two armed guards with flashlights are looking up at the ceiling. Jack and Nick slip up and take their swords. (-1 WP: Valor)
  * Lucy has taken her clothes off for some reason.
  * Jack attempts to disarm; unsuccessful (-1 WP: Valor).
  * A lot of failed disarm/knockdown attempts, then Nick gutted one guy. The other ran off, then got tackled by Jack and quickly ganked by Nick.
  * Jack loots belt buckle, access card, shoelaces, and a watch.  He gets Lucy's clothes.
  * We sneak outside. Tracks go to another building; another guard kiosk to bypass. George's fast-talk attempt failed, shots fired.
  * Jack starts trying to MacGyver the door open with his shoelaces and belt buckle.  It was unexpectedly hard, even with everyone helping.  Eventually it works at the last moment. (-1 WP: Intellect, +1 WP)
  * Glowy floating person (angel) appears with two attending spearmen (templars).
  * Jack finds the electronic key to unlock the collars, as well as his magical dexterity ring.  Everyone gets one magical item they had lost.
  * Angel and templars bust in.  Everyone attacks; Jack jumps out from hiding and clips the nullification collar on the angel (-1 WP: Intellect)
  * Between the two axe hits and bow shot, the angel nearly drops.  The catboys finish him off.
  * Enemies overcome; rest of the gear restored.
  * Rest of the prisoners rescued.  We grabbed a church bus and left.
  * Next day.  Met Jorge at Starbuck's.  He helped bust us out.
  * Jorge suggests there's an issue in Afghanistan, something with Greek relics.
  * Jorge's worldwide phone number is 800-85.
  * Buddha statues were dynamited, apparently.
  * George will arrange transportation via company jet.
  * WRAP-UP:  Landed in Afghanistan.
  * XP: 2 showing + 2 wiki = 4. [Current 4]
  * Advancement: Investigation 1 (2 XP), Survival 1 (2 XP) [Current 0]

==== Oct 24 2010 ====

  * Landed in Afghanistan: Sep 15, 2008
  * Presumed we have sat-phones and sat-net devices.  Also, we generally know the mundane and mystical capabilities of the rest of the team.
  * Lucy works some social mojo to scare us up some transportation: one armored Humvee and a few smaller escort vehicles with five hired mercenaries.
  * Road trip!  Cross-desert for a few days.  George monitors the wireless traffic, including military drone feeds.
  * Ambush!  Ya rly.  RPGs, SMGs, OMG.
  * We handily deal with the brigands. Two of our bodyguards take hits but not lethally.
  * Arrive at the blown-up golden Buddha site.
  * Met a suit name Farrokh Hassanpour (Scion of Ard) unexpectedly in the bar.  He seemed to be awaiting for us, in a theoretically friendly way.
  * Farrokh asks us to look out for an anchor-shaped ring of Apollo.  We agree, saying he'll owe us a favor.
  * Check out a blown-up Buddha, talk to a Japanese archeologist.  Taliban blew up the statue with TNT.
  * Went to reclining Buddha area, Jack ninja-scouted the base camp some armed towelheads set up there.  They seem to be digging under the statue.
  * "[On a hill,] a sheep that had no wool saw horses"
  * Apparently drinking the offered fountain water and repeating that phrase gets people welcomed into the camp.
  * George, Lucy, Nick, and Farrokh gain entry to the camp and are led down into the tunnel system.
  * Three 15-foot, dusty-colored loincloth-wearing giants doing wallwork sniff the Scions and cry out in alarm.
  * WRAP-UP:  Combat!
  * XP: 2 showing + 2 wiki = 4. [Current 4]

==== Nov 20 2010 ====

  * Big giant (heh) fight, I wasn't there, wahh.

==== Dec 11 2010 ====

  * Drone following us.
  * George pwned the drone, scouted with it, crashed it.
  * Ambush averted through Jack shenanigans.  *BOOOM*
  * Returned to the states, updated our handler and handed over artifacts.
  * New job:  South America.  Headed down there.
  * Hiked through the jungle.  Aiee, shadow jaguar warriors!
  * Yeah, we ran them off.
  * XP: 2 showing + 2 wiki = 4. [Current 8]
  * Advancement: Athletics 4 (3 XP), Brawl 4 (3 XP). [Current 2]

==== Jan 8 2011 ====

  * At temple.
  * Clearing w/ step pyramid, 80' cliff on the other side of pyramid.
  * 40 Panthermen miling about, 10-15 peons, 7 tents, 4 giants.
  * Distracting fires (2), sneak around to cliff: George & NPC off camera.
  * Booby traps!  Averted.
  * Guard post:  Jack craftily steals makeshift alarm gong.
  * Lucy is told to deal with the guards, she opts for the Slut approach.
  * Jack crept up to a visible guard, choked him out and propped him up on his spear.  No one the wiser.
  * Group slipped up atop the scaffolding, told the workers to skedaddle peacefully.
  * "Banded Eye God" (aka "God #6") statue -- Lucy took and transmitted picture.
  * Crowd shambled towards tents:  Big Hat summoner type spotted atop the pyramid.
  * Dropped Big Hat with a quickness.  Took his dagger, cellphone, and stone figurine of the Banded Eye God.  Noted the summoner looked like a modern man rather than a native, noting his dental fillings.
  * Took document on altar (picture to guide mural paint-by-numbers).
  * Nick torched the tents.
  * Clean getaway.  No giants engaged (aw).
  * George reported lasers and radio chatter in the jungle.
  * Party being tracked by (para?)military unit, including a helicopter.  Initially evaded.
  * Set up ambush for helicopter.
  * Jack snagged two nightvision goggle sets and allocated them to the PCs who needed them.
  * Jack took 1L from a crucifix burning his hand during the initial fight.  He took a moment to heal it up before resuming combat.
  * Double-grenade suicide run averted.
  * XP: 2 showing + 2 wiki = 4. [Current 6]
  * Advancement: Melee 4 (3 XP), Control Helicopter 1 (2 XP). [Current 1]

==== Feb 5 2011 ====

  * Interrogated surviving soldier, he revealed that they work for Archbishop Emilio Carlos Berlie Belaunzarán.
  * Their mission is containment, to confine the changed people who were mentally affected by the odd magical effects.
  * Attempted to parley with troops, not really profitable.
  * Stealthed up to the copter camp.
  * George remote-guided Jack through the laser grid to the control tent.
  * Jack opened up LOS to George for the control system.  Ahren was there tied up, so Jack freed her with the intention of causing further disruption.
  * Nick charged in.  Everybody died or ran off.
  * Flew off in the helicopter.
  * Made it back to Atlanta.
  * Jorge reports that the poem has a lead in London: Lars Elstad (Nordic elf).
  * Party goes to a British museum, meets Lars.
  * "Diamond Sutra," oldest book in the world, is out for reconstruction.  Lars wants to see it.  In exchange, he will tell the party about the poem.
  * Go to the restoration business headquarters, Jack walks in and does a very A-Team goofy intel gathering charade which results in an electronic back door and anecdotal information.
  * Narrowed down the probable location and a backup location.
  * Ahren did the break-in efforts.
  * Looks like it was the wrong place.
  * Went to the second place, it was not there either.
  * Lucy went back and interrogated Nigel.  Looks like we have to go talk to Chester Knively.
  * XP: 2 showing + 2 wiki = 4. [Current 5]
  * Advancement: Athletics 5 (4 XP). [Current 1]

==== Feb 19 2011 ====

  * Sitting in a tea shop in London
  * Gail walks in.  Ice queen.  Says she has information about Chester.
  * Jack's drinking Red Bull.
  * Gail escorts the party to the dwelling of Chester's ex-wife.
  * Sounds like Chester is into a Hellfire Club.
  * Ahren apparently will be throwing a fashion party to lure Chester out.  Or not.
  * Drive in to visit a baron as an in to the HFC gathering in a week.
  * Ahren is hellbent (heh) on this whole costume thing.
  * Everyone but Jack gets dressed up in costume.  Jack is going in sneaky-like.
  * Jack KOs a waiter and puts on his outfit, then starts serving guests.
  * Huge magical animated hedge full of guests, and apparently harmless goblins as a spookhouse cast.
  * Jack slips into the secure bunker, gets George to help with the electronic security.
  * Penny the cold guardian supernatural chick who doesn't breathe mind-spanks Jack.
  * The rest of the group play around for a while and eventually meet up with Chester to feel him out.
  * The ladies start getting Chester to talk about the subject document.  They make some progress.
  * Yeah so a ridiculous amount of convoluted nonsense occurs.  Lars gets to check out the document.
  * Mission complete.
  * Lars reports the deal is there is a linguistic virus working to create an archeological find.
  * First time it happened was at a temple of Clio (muse of history) by Hyacinth.
  * XP: 2 showing + 2 wiki = 4. [Current 5]
  * Advancement: Brawl 5 (4 XP). [Current 1]

==== Mar 5 2011 ====

  * Arrive where the temple of Clio is supposed to be. Fishing village instead.
  * Jack harassed an old fisherman into telling the legend of where Clio speaks to people.
  * Headed to that cliff in question.
  * At the cliff, found a shack with underground access.
  * Met up with three guys infected with the linguistic virus.
  * Boring conversation anyway.
  * Stealthed up to an underground temple with villagers singing to Clio.
  * Talked to the congregation, high priest said Clio was uncool with us being there.  Fight!
  * Temple cleared and collapsed.
  * XP: 2 showing + 2 wiki = 4. [Current 5]
  * Advancement: Melee 5 (4 XP). [Current 1]
  * Loot: Relic 3

==== Mar 19 2011 ====

  * Missed session.

==== Apr 2 2011 ====

  * Muses have been missing (uncommunicative) for about 100 years.
  * Meet-up at Super Target in north Roswell.
  * Turns out there's a Nazi connection, yay!
  * Joseph Goebbels was an adopted Scion of Calliope.
  * Sunken German subs; one of which has a relic birthright from Calliope to Goebbels.
  * Relic was an epic poem which details a thousand-year Reich, which apparently has the ability to convince people to play their role in that Reich.
  * Norway or Malaysia.
  * Halvard Varberg: Scion of Heimdall is a contact in Norway.
  * Head to Malaysia, rent a nice fishing boat.
  * Found the sub, Nazi zombies die under the axe.
  * First sub is a bust, go to meet Halvard.
  * Halvard just saved the world the other day.
  * Halvard's contact Arne Ramm will set up the party with transportation and "probe droids."
  * Plan is hatched to remote-probe.
  * XP: 2 showing + 2 wiki = 4. [Current 5]
  * Advancement: Epic Wits 2, Knack "Don't Read the Manual" (4 XP). [Current 1]

==== Apr 16 2011 ====

  * Captain Jan Orsedt has the group over for dinner.
  * Business talk successful with Lucy in the lead.
  * Jack sneaks in to look at the robotic control room.
  * Next day, robot techs are harassed by Jack while Lucy plays nice.
  * Shift change, Jack takes over minisub.
  * Found the sub.  Nick gets sent into the water to retrieve the item.
  * Giant octopus attack!
  * Actually a giant octopus and a sidekick less-giant octopus. And a second less-giant one.
  * The giant one cannot be stopped, the boat is definitely going down.
  * Nick is soloing one of the smaller ones and it is kicking his ass hard.
  * Nick kills one of the smaller ones but a few times it nearly drops him.
  * Everyone coordinates on Lucy's word and enough damage is done to the giant one to drive it off.
  * The boat sinks, everyone gets on lifeboats. Five to ten hands lost.
  * XP: 2 showing + 2 wiki = 4. [Current 5]


==== May 6 2011 ====

  * Floating in the ocean on liferafts.
  * Crew scared of the demigods. Jack is flippant in a language they don't understand.
  * Helicopters show up, spotting us for the rescue ship to come get us.
  * Military police show up with some questions.
  * We don't care for being questioned.
  * Gail uses the CIA to extract us from questioning.
  * Uh oh, we have to go to Burma.
  * So, we're in Burma, we see the guy (Than) we need to talk to. He'll meet us in a noodle shop.
  * Burmese cops show up. Yeah, really not so much of a threat.
  * Super-awkward conversation with the new guy.
  * Training montage with Than.
  * Nick manages to get into underground Triad fights.
  * Directed to a cave to the east which goes to a terra incognita.
  * Looks like that is a portal to a previously-unoccupied Overworld that was recently re-occupied.
  * Ford through the jungle, making our own road. We arrive at the cave.
  * XP: 2 showing + 2 wiki = 4. [Current 9]

==== May 21 2011 ====

  * Gail sends her ghost into the cave to scout.
  * Than can't breathe in the cave air so we send him outside.
  * Jack gets quietly annoyed at Gail analyzing everything and tries to walk through the squishy wall. Not squishy enough.
  * Nope, killing a wild boar and drawing the hunt on the wall doesn't unlock the gateway.
  * Trying to camp out in case it was a time of day thing.
  * Investigating a mining camp nearby.
  * OMG THE KEY ALREADY.
  * Disabled the mining camp, the god inside Than feels better now.
  * Nadine Wong owns the mining camps, she's a scion.
  * Sabotage plans are hatched.
  * "Barely Legal Jumping IX" with Tommy Chu
  * XP: 2 showing + 2 wiki = 4. [Current 13]

==== Jun 11 2011 ====

  * So, we own 10% of the mining company and therefore a chair on the board, and are making noises about finding out who the silent investor/buyer is.
  * Screw it, we go to Olympus.
  * Hey, we get in, too.
  * Hera is very nice and patient.
  * We know the deal now -- the muses are unused and pissed
  * Race. Win. extract Tommy.
  * XP: 2 showing + 2 wiki = 4. [Current 17]

==== Jun 25 2011 ====

  * Chinese army pursuing us. Woot.
  * Jack beelines to the beach with Tommy and Chui.
  * Rest of the group heads to another secure rendezvous spot.
  * Nadine has a daughter in a special care facility because she was forbidden to have children.
  * The bridge is out!  Likely due to the missile fired at it.
  * General Lee got nothin' on Jack.  And I don't mean the Chinese military chasing us.
  * Okay, so that eliminated the ground threat.  Only helicopters remain.
  * Once in the village, Tommy and Chui jump out to safety and are supposed to meet up and the safe spot.
  * Jack does a "Thelma and Louise with N2O" off the cliff into the ocean, and swims towards the rest of the group, eluding pursuit.
  * Back in Hong Kong.
  * Shower, steak, sleep, bagels.
  * Pick up Than, bring him to meet the Hindu pantheon.
  * Holy crocodiles!
  * Door opened.
  * Ganesh took audience, was good with our plan.
  * Divine tubin'
  * Paddy returns from his visit, looking hearty and hale.
  * Yay, we finally get through the wall.
  * In the jungle, the mighty jungle, we have a day walk to the new castle.
  * Blue tigers, 12' long, are stalking us.
  * Tigers evaded. Maenads evaded.
  * Arrived at the temple.
  * XP: 2 showing + 2 wiki = 4. [Current 21]

==== Jul 9 2011 ====

    * In the temple.
    * Greeted by a toga dude.
    * Calliope takes an audience.
    * Her position is that they were not needed.
    * The plan is a reboot with collateral damage.
    * Urania has been missing since 1630, presumably over the Galileo thing.
    * Deal is made: the reboot will be halted if Urania can be returned.
    * Also Jack gets a date with all nine sisters in Manhattan.
    * Visit Olympus to update Hera.
    * Time to find a Uranian artifact, so we go visit Galileo's tomb.
    * Antonio de Marc Antonio!
    * We now have an artifact telescope.
    * Jorge hooks us up with a river trip.
    * Well. We just slipped into the Vatican.
    * XP: 2 showing + 2 wiki = 4. [Current 25]
    * Advancement: Legend 4 (24 XP). [Current 1]

==== Jul 23 2011 ====

    * Arrive at a steel airlock door with a guard
    * Lucy socially engineers an entrance
    * Successfully slip down to the storage
    * Pope Urban the XIII sent Vatican warlock assassins to capture Urania during the trial of Gallileo using the Spear of Destiny
    * Jack pockets that edict
    * Urania was placed on L10 in the Year of Their Lord 1639
    * In 1929, Urania was transferred to Mussolini's custody
    * Urania's storage container is probably a large iron maiden
    * So the deal is the first ICBM may have been muse-inspired
    * We're headed to Germany now
    * Sneak into a rocket base turned museum
    * Fort Bliss!
    * Jack let himself get captured
    * Everyone else planning an assault
    * Nick > Nuclear-proof blast door