As the party left Sugud’s place, they contacted the fellow who lived upstairs (Hexad the Horrible) to make arrangements to take over the downstairs space. Turns out Sugud was the upstairs guy’s landlord, and he was only too happy to have Sugud dead and the party take over, so long as they’d destroy any documents indicating the Sugud owned the upstairs place. He went into Sugud’s place to ensure there weren’t any in there.
Back at the Restaurant the party offered the 19 armor experiment folks a place to live in Trumpquatia. They all took up the offer. As it turned out, 8 of them knew rudimentary magics, and 5 hired on as apprentices with Ronina.
The party also learned that there was a reactionary insurrection going on in Dukes of the Dome territory. Anti-mutant sentiment had been riled up, and many more progressive Dukes were forced to barricade themselves inside their citadels. Dayvos estimates he will probably lose influence, but doesn’t believe he will be entirely ousted.
Once the affairs of the previous adventure were settled, the party got back to the work of planning the assassination of Mr. Burns. After a great deal of discussion, planning, and preperation, everything was in place. Two ambush sites were set up about 5 minutes walk from his stronghold in Lords of Light territory. Surveilence indicated that he left his home periodically with a group of 10 guards. When he did so today, two bombs set on either side of the street exploded. A third set on a fire hydrant sprayed enough water into the air to disipate the smoke, and give Jeb a clear line of fire with his laser rifle.
Unfortunately for the party, Mr. Burns was apparently immune to heat based damage. So while his guards were all dead, (along with 4 innocent bystanders) and he himself had taken significant damage from shrapnel, the bombs only had limited effect on him, and the laser did nothing.
Moving in from just out of sight, Washington Crusher shot a tranquilizer dart full of Vodka right into Mr. Burn’s femural artery. The old man collapsed, his bond with the demon broken, and both Jinny Beau and Karja unloaded firearms at him. A final shot from Jeb’s laser rifle lanced through the wizard (turns out his pact with the demon had been for heat protection!), and with that Mr. Burns was dead.
The Hangman capitalized on the death of Burns, and managed to replace him as Chief of the greatly diminished Internet Remnant. Now only Firing Squad and Dr. Guillotine remain beneath her. ASCII’s release was easily arranged, and Madam Crucifixion is happy to work with the party on any future mutually beneficial endeavors. (Though she will not be rejoining the Internet under the Hangman.)
ALSO: after the game was over we had a very long conversation about something half-remembered, and eventually unpacked the fact that Sheniqua is currently being held in a Technotopian prison. It was established many sessions ago, but never written down in a recap
LOOT:
-Mr. Burns’ SIM card, badly damaged.
-Two wrist mounted flame throwers. Will definitely burn the hands of anyone who uses them. Fuel source is accessed through miniature portals.
-Ring which grants temporary knowledge of local law to the wearer.
-Erotic Technotopia Novel -91,100cc (30,337cc/xp each)