Session 166 - Fallen Angels

Shit's getting biblical out there! The seventh seal has been broken and now angels fall from the sky to destroy demons and sinners.

It's a real pity that every single person in the party is tainted by Chaos. Such is life when you are living in the glory of sin.

Session 166 - Fallen Angels

Campaign Date:

Thursday, 19 January, 1601

Moon Phase: Waxing Crescent

Zodiac: Capricorn

New Characters:
- Mori, a bright-eyed Elven cutpurse who followed the party for reasons known only to him.
- Cynthia, a newly formed demonic Inheritor who made her way to Muntberg following scattered fragments of memory.

New Backstory:

- Sir Robyn's mother lay dying of terminal hypochondria, so he travelled to the city to find a dark and arcane cure. Instead he got caught up in the thrills of the legal system. His mother's fate is unknown. (+1 Arcana)

Enemies Defeated:

- 14 dwarf cancers (70 exp)

Total: 70 exp

Treasure and Equipment:

- 

Total: 0 exp

Exploration:

- 4 dungeon rooms explored (80 exp)
- 1  wandering monsters rolled (50 exp)
- 1 secret door found (50 exp)
- Alternate entrance to Dwimmermount found (100 exp)

Total: 280 exp

Events:

- Depressed and saddened by the recent deaths of Andromeda and Nix, the party begin organising a double funeral for the two heroes. Like a double wedding but more depressing, remarks POWERLAD. (50 exp)
- Chainmail is purchased for Randy and a custom spiked tower shield is constructed. It's not much of a weapon, but it'll certainly help Randy "Pain Train" Cobblestone earn his new nickname! (50 exp)
- Still dripping with mud and viscera, an unknown demonic entity slumps its way into Muntberg. Andromeda's corpse calls to it. (50 exp)
- Fascinated by the party, a skulking cutpurse with long elven ears watches the funeral arrangements with ferocious intent. (50 exp)
- The funerals begin. Overhead, as the day draws on, the floating silver orbs begin to open. Crowds in Muntberg gape as six flat curving surfaces like petals, or wings, peel and unfurl from their lower hemispheres. Using a spyglass, POWERLAD sees an enormous central eye glaring downwards. (50 exp)
- POWERLAD and Sir Robyn are forced to leave the funeral to get a closer look, POWERLAD leaping into the air with Sir Robyn and his raccoons on his back with that sweet zoom effect they did a lot in BSG. (50 exp)

- As they approach, the wings unfurl completely, and those below can see that they're completely covered in eyes. POWERLAD is close enough to see that the eyes are row upon row of those strange spherical angels. (50 exp)
- A chorus of angelic voices greets them as they get closer, supplemented by deeper singing voices harmonising with the choir. Sir Robyn, ultra-linguist, has somehow heard this before - it's Angelic Binary. The singing is how they exchange information with each other. (50 exp)
- Luckily for the pair of them, POWERLAD has quite the fine singing voice. Sir Robyn translates into musical notation for POWERLAD to sing HELLO WORLD to them. (50 exp)
- The music changes locally, and a single flying sphere unit approaches cautiously. A series of queries and statements are untangled, it seems the angels are here to stop the tentacle and maintain structural integrity of the world. (50 exp)
- A deep bass voice sings "Drop in Tee Minus 10... 9... 8" and POWERLAD flies to a safe distance... but at that very moment his Fly spell runs out of juice. The men and raccoons plummet towards the earth at terminal velocity. (50 exp)
- They see a group of maybe twenty angels drop off their deployment rails in sequence and plummet behind them, but the angels deploy wings to direct their fall and the spheres peel off towards the base of Dwimmermount. (50 exp)

- Down in Muntberg the funeral has finished up, Randy and Galaxy Johnson holding sole vigil. They see the angels start to fall from unfurled spheres across the land. They also see figures falling and run to the gates in time to see POWERLAD land in a burst of energy, closely followed by a traumatised Sir Robin and his raccoons. (50 exp)
- In the graveyard, a mud-and-flesh figure digs up Andromeda's grave. Slowly and surely its mouth distends like a snake, and it gulps Andromeda's whole corpse into its broad gullet. (50 exp)

- Demons and sinners are peering over the walls towards the angel landing sight. The demons are panicking. The party of Sir Robyn, POWERLAD, Randy and Galaxy Johnson head out to check them out. The demons yell at them to be careful. (50 exp)
- They head out of the gate and along the path, approaching the robotic angels. Shadowing them through the woods is a figure with the shape of Andromeda. When they leave the horse behind, the figure coaxes it into the woods with Andromeda's voice. (50 exp)
- The group approach the angel landing site. There are sixteen spherical angels in a circle, four where their lower hemisphere has opened out into four legs, and one central angel whose entire spherical shape has deconstructed into numerous whirling pieces. (50 exp)
- One of the spherical angels rolls up and runs some queries. Sir Robyn replies to the best of his ability, but when its central eye opens up and bathes the party in glowing golden light everyone but Randy becomes outlined in a black aura. (50 exp)
- The party realise that most of them are tainted by Chaos and see the angels begin to roll towards them! Time to book it! Randy holds the line, allowing the others to get away safely because they are REAL FAST especially the cowardly Galaxy Johnson. (50 exp)
- They skid back in through the gates, desperate demons closing it swiftly behind them. Their relief at seeing the pursuing angels turn back around is tempered when another cluster of angels is spotted dropping to the south of the city. (50 exp)
- Figuring that Dwimmermount's got to be safer than Muntberg under current circumstances, the group head up to the pit down to the moon door. Angels are rolling up the main path, so they take a back way they saw from the air last time. (50 exp)
- As they go up, Andromeda appears! It is Cynthia wearing Andromeda's form. POWERLAD is freaked the fuck out, questioning her as to whether she's a paradox clone from the gravity dragon. "Andromeda" professes to have few memories, she is only 3 days old. (50 exp)
- POWERLAD stays well away. Soon they reach the pit to the moon pool and Galaxy Johnson shadow-steps down the hole to check the place out. He accidentally pulls Mori out of hiding, the strange little Elf man having followed them to steal treasure or some such. He agrees to join the party. (50 exp)
- Galaxy Johnson explores down the hole, perceiving strange skeletal figures with his moon-wrought aura of threads. The figures scan the walls and ceilings with red laser beams. The scans pass over Galaxy Johnson with no effect or response from the beings. (50 exp)
- The rest of the party join Galaxy Johnson in the cavern by climbing down a rope he left behind then jumping into the silvery water of the moon pool. The casters make sure to drink a bunch of it to buff themselves as they go. (50 exp)
- With lights on, it's obvious that these creatures are some sort of machine created from hissing brass machinery and shimmering black bone. They scan the blackened cavern with beams projected from a device over one eye and presumably feed the info to someone somewhere. (50 exp)

(I was picturing more a Terminator skeleton but sure)

- Gav explains that these are caretakers and they usually ignore you if they're left to their own devices. He also admits that the azoth "mining" that's been taking place has truly just been harvesting azoth from a spring a little way to the south. They've been lying to the demons and hoping to find a way to the azoth reservoirs deeper below. (50 exp)
- He points the way south to where the azoth spring is, and the party head on through a room full of the remains of creatures drained by spiders. (50 exp)
- Galaxy Johnson, crawling on the ceiling like a creepy crawly, hears little dwarf cancer voices from ahead. They enter a smaller cavern with barricades and lots of the little guys guarding the way through with spears. (50 exp)

- Randy can't fucking stand it any more!! They are abominations to be PURGED!!! He charges forward, ramming POWERLAD out of the way, and ramming straight into the lead one! The little guy dies, spiked on his shield, as he charges through. (50 exp)
- He reaches the corridor out and turns, but before he can get the massive shield back up he's stabbed in the back with a spear! It's a real big hit, but Randy can take it. (50 exp)
- POWERLAD hits the wall, pushes off, and used the momentum to slide into on of the clay dwarfs with a Web Punch. Aiming not to hurt, the hit still makes web splurt out of the dwarf's every orifice and cover the whole back wall with sticky strands. Even Randy is caught in it. (50 exp)
- The little dwarf guys are questioned. Apparently they've defected in the hopes that the spiders will protect them from the invading Angels. Sir Robyn tries to get them to pass Randy a ration, but one of them sticks it up its bum first. Very polite. (50 exp)
- The party deliberate, but the little dwarf guys start yelling for their spider allies to help them! Randy hears the scuttling sounds first and starts really freaking out as his abandonment complex kicks in. "HELP! HELP! OH GOD I CAN HEAR THEM!!" (50 exp)
- Sir Robyn tries to delay the spiders by yelling out in their language while Galaxy Johnson rescues Randy by pulling him through a shadow and out of there. The whole party fexit pursued by spiders. (50 exp)
- They keep running! The unmistakable choral voices of angels can be heard, so they avoid that direction and keep going! There are two ways to go, one of which is a dead end full of fungus. The light sets off some very very loud shrieking fungus, and the spiders can be heard scuttling to catch up again. (50 exp)
- Fuck fuck fuck! The party skid down a slope, run across the room, and up some stone stairs on the other side. The dead end of a rock wall morphs into a metal door as they approach! As soon as they're out, POWERLAD punches the door with Hold Portal and the door snicks shut. (50 exp)
- Taking their bearings, they're on the mountainside. Probably the opposite side to the red doors and Muntberg. Banging sounds against the door stop as Gav and Randy get far enough from the door to have it morph back into solid stone. The door's location is marked with a chalk X. (50 exp)

- There's still a dead clay dwarf on the front of Randy's shield, and Cynthia wastes no time peeling it off and devouring it. She steals its night vision... and gets the briefest taste of its memories. (50 exp)
- Randy turns on Gav and starts throttling him! POWERLAD tries to break them up, but is forced to Sleep Slap the guy into unconsciousness. Knowing he'll be blinded by the sun if he ever sleeps above ground, they bury his body and lay a cairn over his sleeping head. (50 exp)
- Galaxy Johnson climbs around the side of the mountain, Professor Scamps on his shoulder, to check out the condition of Muntberg and the front entrance. The spinning split-sphere angel is here, singing in a deep bass voice. Prof. Scamps can tell it's pinging the angels inside for status updates. (50 exp)
- With Galaxy's help, the rest of the party sneak up and around to a hiding place where they can see the angel spinning. Mori decides to climb down and around, coming up the pathway towards the red door. (50 exp)
- The angel detects his approach and scans him with that golden light. He is outlined in black, and the angel's wings reformat and point in his direction! Two coruscating beams lance out towards him, freezing anything they hit in a bubble of frozen time! (50 exp)
- He avoids the first two hits, but is too slow to avoid the second volley. He leaps to the side, feels a strange tearing feeling, and looks back to see his arm floating on its own in a quickly evaporating bubble of stopped time! (50 exp)
- He lands with a painful thump and rolls, blood oozing from the grievous wound, into cover behind a tree (50 exp)

- POWERLAD springs into action, summoning lightning into his fist for a trademark Magic Missile Punch!!! He falls, trailing energy, straight for the Angel! (50 exp)
- His fist contacts the spinning shell of the angel... and the spell fizzles out. POWERLAD lands hard on the ground under the swirling fragments of metal. The angel is still concentrating on where it last saw Mori, but it starts to turn to scan for the closer threat. (50 exp)
- Up on the mountainside behind the covering boulder, Galaxy Johnson tries to hit it with a Dispel Magic to no avail. Sir Robyn casts Invisibility, attracting the attention of the machine, and it swivels its guns towards the mountainside. (50 exp)
- POWERLAD takes the opportunity to roll underneath it and out into cover. making his way towards the languishing Mori. The angel begins to track back towards him.(50 exp)
- Sir Robyn tries a last attempt to distract the robot and trails gunpowder from his powder horn behind him as he climbs back around the mountain, soon detonating it as a distraction. POWERLAD gets away safely. (50 exp)
- On the hillside below the angel, Mori clutches at the stump of his arm. He collapses, unconscious, moments before POWERLAD manages to get to his side. Just in time! (50 exp)
- POWERLAD drags him down the mountainside and away from the angel, which is recalling its host from within Dwimmermount to protect it. Now safely out of sight, POWERLAD takes a deep breath and tries to patch Mori up. To his relief, he manages to staunch the bleeding. (50 exp)
-  He looks down at Muntberg and sees it being destroyed. Demons collapse into mud at one hit from an angelic weapon, and men in white robes are killing every sinner they can find. It's madness. (50 exp)
- On the other side of the mountain, Sir Robyn and Galaxy Johnson are removing the cairn from a spluttering and cursing Randy. He promises not to try murdering Gav any more. At least Gav's not making any more dwarf cancers. (50 exp)
- And so, split up on opposite sides of a mountain peak, with angels falling from above and spiders crawling poisonously own below, our heroes rest up and try to work out how to salvage this mess. May God have mercy on their souls. (50 exp)

Total: 2800 exp

Misc:

- Aggressive Negotiations bonus (50 exp)
- Balls to the Wall bonus (50 exp)
- Best of Intentions bonus (50 exp)
- Brutal Kill bonus (50 exp)
- Classic Charles bonus (50 exp)

- Diplomancy bonus (50 exp)

- Dramatic Chase bonus (50 exp)

- Henchman Abuse bonus (50 exp)

- Heresy bonus (50 exp)

- I Immediately Regret This Decision bonus (50 exp)

- Leave a Man Behind bonus (50 exp)

- Long Deliberation bonus (50 exp)

- Master of Disguise bonus (50 exp)

- Mountaineer bonus (50 exp)

- Pundemonium bonus (50 exp)

- Split the Party bonus (50 exp)

- What Could Possibly Go Wrong bonus (50 exp)

Total: 850 exp

Party Roles and Individual Exp:

- Remembrancer (Charles / Galaxy Johnson - 100 exp)

- Caller (Timothy / Sir Robyn - 100 exp)

- Mapper (Fraser - 100 exp)

- Guard (Kitty / POWERLAD - 100 exp)

- Art Attack bonus (Charles - 100 exp)
- Artapalooza bonus (Charles - 100 exp)
- Chippo Man bonus (Timothy - 200 exp)
- JÜGBRINGYR bonus (Charles, Timothy, Ollie - 500 exp ea.)
- Delicious Admin bonus (All - 100 exp ea.)
--- Funerals for Andromeda and Nix
-- POWERLAD: 3000 exp
-- Cynthia: 2500 exp
-- Galaxy Johnson: 800 exp
-- Mori: 2930 exp
- Amputation bonus (Fraser / Mori - 100 exp)
- Near Death Experience bonus (Fraser / Mori - 100 exp)

Active Businesses:

- Bone Alone. Liquidated

- Honey Healing. Safe. 1095sp. (Bertha)
- Knickers Gloves Bodices. Risky. 1030sp. (Ratimir)
- Blood Honey 4 U. Safe. 505sp. (Sir Robyn)

Rumours:

- -

Death Toll and Injuries:

- Mori's arm was sheared off by a stasis field fired by an angel, but he survives.

Exp Totals:

- Kitty / POWERLAD!, Level 7 Muscle Wizard: 72699 (Level up at 144000)
*DING!* +1d4 HP! +1 level 4 spell/day! +1 level 2 spell/day! +free spell! +backstory!-- Devotee of Ninhursag, Bond 3 (-15% exp)

- Charles / Galaxy Johnson, Level 5 Elf (Alpdrucke): 28680 (Level up at 48000)

-- Devotee of Ereshkigal, Bond 2 (-10% exp)--- Gav, Level 0 Inclusion

- Timothy / Sir Robyn, Level 3 Magic-User: 7122 (Level up at 9000)
--- Randy, Level 3 Hench-Dwarf: 4809 (Level up at 8800)
- Ollie / Cynthia, Level 3 Inheritor: 7360 (Level up at 9000)*DING!* +1d6 HP! +1 Mutation Capacity! +2 Meat! +backstory!
*DING!* +1d6 HP! +1 Mutation Capacity! +2 Meat! +backstory!
- Fraser / Mori, Level 3 Elf (Worriganger): 6790 (Level up at 12000)
*DING!* +1d6 HP! +1 level 1 spell/day! +free spell! +backstory!
*DING!* +1d6 HP! +1 level 2 spell/day! +free spell! +backstory!

Absent or Retired:

- James / Ratimir, Level 5 Ratman: 20944 (Level up at 24000)
- Tom / Clarence Eclair, Level 3 Specialist: 3040 (Level up at 6000)

- Tom / Aces Fontaine, Level 1 Specialist: 869 (Level up at 1500)
- Kitty / Bertha, Level 4 Necromancer: 9931 (Level up at 18000)- Imran / Friar, Level 1 Magic User: 1040 (Level up at 2250)
- Andy / Carrie Meleste, Level 5 Cleric: 25557 (Level up at 28000)

- Yuri / Bjorn Gunnerson, Level 2 Barbarian: 2278 (Level up at 4000)

- Sunni / Larry's Legends, Level 1 Extras: 758 (Level up at 1500)

- Fraser / Tippin, Level 1 Ratman: 1458 (Level up at 1500)

- Charles / Zena, Level 6 Fighter: 41566 (Level up at 64000)

- Tom / Meteor Power Shower, Level 2 Barbarian: 3061 (Level up at 4000)

- Nix's Retainer

--- Huz, Level 0 Hireling

- Tom / Spicy Mac, Level 2 Halfling: 3457 (Level up at 4000)

- Eleanor / Mugg, Level 2 Fighter: 2357 (Level up at 4000)

- Kyle / Gimlass the Brave, Level 2 Dwarf: 2257 (Level up at 4400)

- Amar / Amar's Cleric, Level 1 Cleric: 1413 (Level up at 1750)

- Henry / Henry's Next Character: +2084 exp

- Ollie / Tremendo Picante, Level 2 Ratman: 2654 (Level up at 3000)

- James / Raaf van Held, Level 4 Fighter: 14838 (Level up at 16000)

- Eglė / Bob, Level 1 Dwarf: 434 (Level up at 2200)

- Will / Cecil Fulbright, Level 5 Cleric (Termaxian): 15063 (Level up at 28000)

- James / William Fox-Shitt, Level 3 Cleric (Zeanist): 4571 (Level up at 7000)