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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
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