Dramatis Personae
+Ronnie Whelan as Ronnina
+Linlin Kins as Umquat
+Anthony Fournier as Losco
Inanimate Carbon Rod as Itself
+Moreven B as The Four Gobbos (briefly)
Loot
The disassembled giant robot.
NPCs
Guzin – A kind of fleshy wagon woman in the service of Penelope the Selucid. Seems kinda taciturn.
Robot Monster – Appreciates the party following through, and actually getting rid of the robot like they said they would.
Penelope the Selucid – The party destroyed her robot, and freed all her trapped souls, but gave her a hardstare eye. She considers this to be an even trade, but will remember the party’s behavior.
The Hangman – Offered to do some divination spells to find out about the souls the party had, but was too far away to do it in time.
Haven Turn
Hazard Die: 4. Alleviation.
The Dukes of the Dome and the Technotopians have agreed to a cease fire. The Dukes were not as soft a target as the Technotopians hoped they would be, and both sides are willing to let the newly established boarders stay where they are.
Faylana – Appreciates the care Umquat shows for her. Loyalty improves to 12.
Norno – Feels neglected. Loyalty reduced to 10.
Sheniqua – Feels neglected. Loyalty reduced to 10.
Petunia – Feels neglected. Loyalty reduced to 6
Quaestoria – Feels Neglected. Loyalty reduced to 6.
Umquat – Training to Skilled with Crossbows. Month 2 of 3.
Losco – Training to Skilled with Spears. Month 2 of 3.
Ronnina – Researching Slaver networks in the dome. Information will be ready for next session.
Highlights Recap
Play began with the party standing around the robot they’d felled during the previous session. It was unmoving, but made various and sundry whirring and clicking noises as it lay still, as if there was something going on with the internal mechanisms. Losco moved towards the destroyed leg and removed an inanimate carbon rod.
Moving up to the door in the side of the head, Ronnina found that it was covered with a thick fleshy lattice, which seemed to be growing out from beneath the robot’s jaw, where the flesh mouth they’d seen earlier had been.
The party hacked away at the veins, unsealing the door, and within they found an unconscious man with a strangely shaped head, and no mouth. Ronnina recognized him as Rotwood, adjutant to Penelope the Selucid. They tied him up, and waited for him to awaken.
While being interrogated, Rotwood was unusually open. He clarified that he was not THE Rotwood, but A Rotwood. That Rotwoods were grown by Penelope, and that he’d been placed in this robot by Penelope to gather souls for her. Something which made Umquat very angry. Meanwhile, Ronnina was getting nervous about the fact that the party had apparently just pissed off Penelope the Selucid.
Meanwhile, Losco climbed down into the robot’s torso, using Inanimate Carbon Rod to wedge gears in place so he could move past them safely. Eventually, he climbed his way down into the torso of the robot, where he found 15 glass containers filled with floating balls of blue, green, yellow, and red lights. He and Umquat conferred back and forth about how best to free these poor trapped souls, and eventually settled on just smashing them.
Inanimate Carbon Rod, aided by Losco, swung itself into each of the 15 glass containers, freeing the souls trapped within. As it did so, one of the trapped souls got itself caught up in Inanimate Carbon Rod, transforming it into an intelligent item.
Meanwhile, Ronnina was calling Penelope the Selucid on the phone. She informed the senior wizard that they’d taken out the robot, not knowing who it belonged to, which the Selucid seemed alright with. She knew the robot would be toppled eventually, and so long as she got the souls it had collected (must be 8 or 9 containers by now, yeah?), she’d be happy.
Ronnina told her that the Umquat & Losco had smashed the containers, to which Penelope politely explained that she would now have to kill the party. They negotiated back and forth a bit, but Penelope was very clear: she needed a lot of souls right now, and if she let someone get away with wrecking her shit on this level, she’d have to deal with other wizards thinking she was a paper tiger, and pestering her.
Begrudgingly, Ronnina offered Penelope her Hardstare eye. The one containing 5 souls. Penelope was impressed that such an artifact was in Ronnina’s posession, and agreed. For the cost of a Hardstare eye, she would let the party off the hook for this.
When the phone was hung up, Umquat was immediately on Ronnina. They’d freed the souls in the machine because it was a grotesque form of slavery. What good was it if they then handed over over the hardstare eyes–which themselves contained enslaved souls–to the very person they’d just rescued other slaves from?
The two went back and forth for a bit, and it seemed as thought it might come to blows. Umquat attempted to tackle Ronnina, but Ronnina managed to sidestep Umquat, and cast sleep on her. Ronnina then summoned a Live Mail cart, which arrived in 7 minutes. With 3 minutes of sleep left, Ronnina loaded Umquat into the cart (Faylana & Norno got in along with her), and paid to have the two of them shipped back to Trumpquatia.
A few hours later, a fleshy wagon woman named Guzin appeared. It took the Hardstare eye from Ronnina, it killed the talkative Rotwood, and returned back to Penelope.
Ronnina and Losco returned home themselves at this point, where Ronnina made every attempt to make it up to Umquat. He senter her Chocolate (which she can’t eat), a cage full of bondage faries (which she found annoying), and a Playstation with a copy of Suikoden 2, which…she actually really enjoyed.
Also, the party pooled their resources to hire a bunch of guys to take apart the giant robot, and cart it back to Trumpquatia.
As a condition of her forgiveness, Umquat declared that the party would need to kill some wizards, but first, they needed to hunt down a lot of slavers, and the party agreed.
So ended March 2519