Jack Atreides: Chronicles

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• 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]

• 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]

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

• 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]

• 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]

• 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]

• 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]

• 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

• Missed session.

• 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]

• 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]

• 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]

• 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]

• 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]

• 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]

• 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]

• 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