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« on: February 24, 2012, 11:37:10 AM »
Session Recap by Dave (Cookie)
Start of session rolls all went fairly well. Bella Vista still had “idle” as fewer people could get into the marketplace with the tracks damaged. Scott's new character “Scurry”, a Freak, decided with Hx that Cookie was sickened by the sight of him. He has been eating the Loco's garbage and Cookie has been shoo-ing him away at the point of her knife. Scurry is from the Deeps and looks like an animate boulder.
We started with Merciful sending a couple of Security flunkies to investigate Cookie's complaints about some sort of vermin near the Loco. Cookie asks them to get word to former Security man Donner to come and see her. They weren't much help looking for vermin, so Cookie tried to set a trap for the creature and went looking for a place to hide to surprise it. And fell down a hidden shaft into darkness.
Coombs came to Weaver and asked for her permission to put the Angels turning into Wendi's out of their misery. Some reads later and Weaver was pretty creeped out by Coombs. He was looking to torture them to death to test their pain threshold. Since these were friends, Weaver tried something else. She gets some of her followers (many returned from trips to the outside) and uses their shared prayers (augury) to calm the Wendi's for a moment. And Coombs just needs a moment to slit all the Wendi's throats with a hi-tech scalpel glove. This guy just keeps getting scarier. They have a funeral and dispose of the bodies.
Dusk spent big on a 3-Barter move to put the word out he was looking for little, lost Parveau. Blew the roll and has some massive strings attached to him. He heads to the Loco to ask for Cookie's help.
Merciful decides it's time to go see Rudy, her former Head of Security. He's still in a cell after shooting Pumpkin, and looks the worse for wear. He tries to bargain his way out of dying by telling Merciful he's not the only Bella Vistan working for Westside. He'll name names for his freedom. Plumber, maybe bucking for the Head of Security job, advises Merciful not to listen to Rudy.
At the Loco, Scurry comes out of hiding (where he watched Cookie fall) to eat the garbage. And is confronted by Chop-Chop, Cookie's teen sidekick, toting a shotgun! Scurry sprays the kid in the face with grit, doing s-harm and Chop-Chop unloads with the shotgun sending Scurry off to find a more hospitable restaurant. Dusk is close to the Loco and checks it out, hearing Chop-Chop’s tales of rock monsters. They hear Cookie calling out from below and improvise a rescue with a length of chain to pull her up.
Merciful goes back into Rudy's cell and finds Pumpkin has crushed Rudy's skull with his hammer. Nice to see Pumpkin back on the job! Then Margie appears with the news of gunfire by the Loco and Merciful goes to investigate.
After Scurry fled the hurt-stick, he went down. Through windy tunnels, he finds his way to a place with food and starts gorging himself. Weaver walks in on him and instead of turning him away, shows him the true meaning of the Angels of Paradise and offers to share the food with him. They get to talking and Weaver hears that Scurry is from Down Below and she's his new best friend.
Cookie hosts a meeting at the Loco with herself, Mercy (with Pumpkin) and Dusk. They discuss going to Haven and taking sections of their tracks to replace the destroyed ones at Bella Vista. During the meeting, Merciful overlooks Plumber and gives more authority to Margie. Plumber doesn't look happy. Cookie is brusque with Merciful having just been dragged out of a hole, so Pumpkin keeps giving her the hairy eyeball. As the meeting is breaking up, Cookie asks to speak to Pumpkin alone and tells him to come by if he gets time off and they can get to know each other a little better <coughcough>. Pumpkin is completely confused by this and gets out of the Loco as fast as his legs can carry him. Merciful tells Pumpkin that he can do whatever he wants with his off time, but to be careful of Cookie because she often has ulterior motives... (What? hahaha)
Dusk goes to see Weaver. He meets Scurry, who is soon overwhelmed by the number of people around and bails. Dusk and Weaver have a heart to heart conversation, using the advanced version of Read a Person and Weaver finds out that Cookie is Dusk's ex and that Dusk will only truly love her if she gives up her religion! She asks Dusk to Leave (that is a capitol L).
Merciful gets back to her office and there is some dude sitting in her chair. Again. He says his name is Stens and he's a friend of Cat-Tail. He is refreshingly blunt and says he is in Bella Vista to kill Weaver and he wants Merciful's help doing it. Merciful explains that she doesn't want to lose people because there are so few left, but Stens describes Weaver as a disease that needs to be cut out of Bella Vista. Merciful ends up telling Stens she isn't going to stop him, but she isn't going to help him either and she orders him out of her office. (And it turns out the Cowboys have Parveau. They took him to get him away from his brain-washed parents...)
Cookie meets with Donner who has gone a bit to pieces being unemployed. Cookie hires him to be the temporary bouncer for the Loco as Boyd isn't available. Donner agrees if he can have clear lines of delineation of who's on what side. Cookie agrees. Then, they watch as Scurry comes to take revenge on Cookie by throwing all her garbage down a deep hole, actually disposing of it for her... Welcome aboard Donner. Good thing people's first day is always slow.
Back in Paradise, Weaver gathers her cult together and laments the loss of Dusk. As she explains to them that everything in her life is Cookie's fault, they start to Frenzy! Finally Weaver shouts “Bring Cookie to me for judgement!” And the whole cult gets up and storms out.
Dusk goes to see Merciful and the two of them sit there seething with anger but not at each other. Merciful wants Dusk to be clear about his intentions and to pick a side.
The mob approaches the Loco and Donner fires into them with a shotgun, but to no avail. The mob surges over him and into the Loco and carries Cookie back out to be delivered.
Merciful is interrupted yet again and is told about the mob of Parasites storming through town. She tells Security to get everyone together. Dusk decides to accompany Merciful and help as he thinks some of this might be his fault...
Scurry goes back to see Weaver to tell her about his triumphant victory over Cookie. Coombs comes in and looks at Scurry like a hungry man looks at fried chicken. Then, Stens just walks in points at Coombs and asks Weaver “Is that your bodyguard?” “Yes” she says. BLAM! Down goes Coombs. Scurry rushes to protect his new friend and sprays rocks and grit into Stens' face as he and Weaver make a run for it into the ducts. Scurry takes some more bullets.
Merciful is getting her troops together when the gang from Stack 17 asks to be allowed to join in the fight. All they want in return are the inevitable bodies... Merciful agrees.
The mob arrives back in Paradise with Cookie in tow. Their leader is gone, her bodyguard is dead on the floor and a guy with a smoking gun is standing right there. They swallow Stens, and Cookie uses the confusion to knife someone in the eye and bail. Cookie runs into Merciful bringing in the cavalry and tells Merciful flat out that if Merciful doesn't kill all the Parasites, the Loco will leave and never come back.
Merciful leads in the troops and beats the bejesus out of the Parasites. Dusk is searching through the bodies to see if Weaver is there and Specials shoots him in the face with Cookie's shotgun. Security and the Stack 17 Reapers are going to execute the wounded but Merciful lives up to her name and makes them show mercy to their fallen foes, saving several.
In the ducts, Scurry and Weaver have gotten separated. Each tries to open their brain to find some help. Scurry finds out there is a man nearby who will heal any who ask. His name is Reese. Weaver, in extremis, goes past the hum (advanced Open Your Brain) and gets a response. “This is Protocol. What is your situation?” “They're killing us, I need help to bring them to harmony.” “This is Protocol. Help is on the way.” Yikes.
Cookie staggers back to the Loco. There she finds the bodies of Donner and Chop-Chop, torn apart by the Parasites. After finding a new knife, she opens her brain and tries to listen for Weaver. She hears, metaphorically, Weaver approaching, so she sits there, sharpening her knife waiting for Weaver to come to her.
Merciful stops the Reapers from taking bodies until Bella Vistans have the chance to claim them if they are family members. Surrounded by bodies and wailing family members, Merciful is pelted with cries of “Why couldn't you stop this?”
Hope you enjoyed reading this, because we enjoyed the hell out of playing it!
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