Blood of the Earth - Interim

The guy on the boat welcomed them all aboard and paid them the amount that he had been agreed. He looked at them oddly a moment but took the device they had obtained without asking questions. He almost seemed reluctant to do so. The submarine pulled into a hidden harbor just outside of New Orleans . The owner of the boat, Captain Harbor , said to them just as they got out, “Here is some contact info for the Atlantean Foundation. If you guys come across any information on the dagger, let us know. I’ve also been told that you do phenomenal work, and that our Mr. Johnson may have future work for you.”

In the Shadow of Gods: Session 6

Gehn and Mirv tested their bonds repeatedly. Everyone continually kept a look out for an opportunity to escape. Meanwhile Hanst and Marla were following behind, but not so close behind that the party in front could hear. The sounds of drums continually thumped in the background. Eventually Gehn, Mirv and The Professor were introduced to Texaqualtl, head of the Neo Atz Incan empire. The group saw him sacrificing people from cages. There were four tall ritual wooden structures and their corresponding ley lines; the Hexagon in Washington D.C., Stone Henge in Britain, The Eiffel Tower in Paris and the Great Pyramids in Egypt.

Meanwhile, Hanst and Marla managed to find a group of Nazi’s hidden behind a blind with a machine gun in case the natives betrayed them. They over powered the guards and sat in wait for an opportunity to free the others. At the same time, Hanst began using his chemistry set to make tiny little inflatable balloons that would rain down acid on the crowd as a distraction.

Gehn, Mirv and The Professor were all put into wicker wooden cages. The Professor immediately began working to get out with his multitool. Meanwhile, Texaquatle turned on the Nazi Colonel, commanding the crowd of AtzIncans to turn on them to help add to the sacrifice. All hell broke loose and the Col tried to shoot Texaquatle. Texaquatl laughed stating that he was stealing the mana, or “destiny” from the other nations of the earth for the benefit of his own. The bullets missed him harmlessly.

Taking advantage, The Professor continued to work his way out. Mirv grabbed one of the guard’s arm and then broke it inside of the cage. Gehn tried to get the door loose. The guards noticed this and began to use long thin spears inside of the cage. They went for Mirv first because of what he had done to the other guards. Mirv took a lot of hits but kept on going. Eventually, after distracting the guards, he helped The Professor get out of the hole he’d made. The Professor made a bee line for the groups equipment to get Gehn his rifle. Gehn was all set to start shooting people, but he lost one of the quarters that told him whether someone would live or die. He couldn’t shoot without the quarter!

Mirv finally broke off the door and began to attack the remaining two guards, while The Professor snuck out the back towards the Hexagon. Joe burned the Hexagon while The Professor stole one of the ritual plates that diverted mana from the statues to Texaquatl. Hanst showed up just in the nick of time and gave Mirv a healing shot of potent chemical elixir. Mirv got up and grabbed both of them by the neck, dragging them along towards the top of the Pyramid. Marla opened up on the crowd with the machine gun, slaughtering hundreds and kept the group safe. Hanst began using a censor filled with sleep gas to keep the bad guys at bay. Mirv dropped the two guards when they were unconscious.

Gehn eventually used a new coin for the emperor, but rather than trust skill like the Col. did, he trusted luck, and put the coin between him and Texaquat and fired. His first shot shattered the ceremonial head dress and he began to reload. Hanst gave Mirv his sub machine gun and told him to mow down all the priests on the pyramid. Slowly but surely they made their way up, while thousands of people chased after The Professor for having initially disrupted the ceremony. The Professor ran in the field of fire with Marla, who managed to get most of the crowd off his back. The Professor also shot a few of them.

Finally, Gehn shot a third time (his second shot having only caused a flesh wound) shooting T. right between the eyes at exactly the moment Mirv charged him and when The Professor managed to destroy the fourth model. Mirv beheaded the man just to make sure he wouldn’t rise from the dead. Doc was able to find rich treasure in the back of the pyramid and the group returned to become rich men!

The end.

In the Shadow Of Gods: Session 5

(Summary written by Jeff as GM)

At our last meeting, the Nazi's were chasing the intrepid team through the jungles of south America. You had been approaching the capital city of the dangerous ruler of the jungle-covered plateaus of northwestern south America. His diabolical plan seems to be related to some ancient mysticism regarding ley lines and geometrically perfect structures, but all you know for certain is that the rebels who you befriended are terrified of the power that he will obtain if he succeeds. Those rebels were leading you toward the capital, braving numerous natural and unnatural dangers, but you were waylaid by nazi's who managed to capture everyone except the doctor and his "assistant". As we left off, the Nazi Colonel said that he hoped that you would make a nice gift for "their new friends."

Blood of the Earth - Session 1 Synopsis

Dramatis Persona

Rain - An elven cat shaman.
Mustang - A doc from Denver. (Human)
Steel - An elven street samurai. Brother of Silver.
Silver - An elven physical adept. Brother of Steel.

Our heroes were in terrible shape. They all found themselves locked up in the local drunk tank in Aruba due to trumped up charges. They were all pretty screwed, with no gear and no hope, when during the court the beautiful and intelligent Mary Sue burst them out for a special job that she had in mind. She took them to her magnificent mansion where she fed them some of the best food that they had ever had in their lives.

She told them that they had two days to get on board a AAA corporate run ship and to obtain an item for her. The party had little choice because of how much they owed the beautiful and intelligent woman. She had even provided them a boat. After examining the boat, and warding it, our heroes were at a loss of what to do. If only they had asked Mary Sue! She knew everything and was so wise.

The heroes got attacked by a bunch of technomancers mad at the brothers for a crime they did not commit. They kept sending cars at them and at one point tried to destroy the car that they were in. The heroes detected this and royally screwed up the technomancer's day. Then they hung out in a bar trying to get him to see reason.

Eventually, they told Mary Sue about a dagger that they had received strange omens and portents about. In the middle of a night, a goblin that had been leaving them odd notes and cryptically annoying clues told them that their lives were in danger. Rather than flee, our heroes went deeper into the mansion to find ancient tunnels underneath. There, they found a powerful ritual with hundreds of insect spirits. Wisely, they choose to take the other path and found the dagger.

After the four of them managed to overcome the powerful fire spirit, their luck changed and Mary Sue was instantly killed. They took almost anything that wasn't nailed down in the mansion (that they could quickly carry) and got themselves some quick cash. On the way out, a man from the Atlantean foundation called them, and asked them if they would do the same job that Mary Sue asked them to do, but with enough tools to get the job done.

They ran out of gas and were picked up by the Red Line cruise ship security. They were allowed to be on the boat while it was being refueled. A short while later, they were able to infiltrate a powerful vault and retrieve the mysterious package that both the Atlantean Foundation and Mary Sue had been asking for. Our heroes left as soon as possible, only to be intercepted by an Atlantean Foundation along the way.

Shadowrun - Bill - Heading East

Bill didn't want to leave Denver. He had a lot of good memories there and for three generations, his family had maintained their small ranch at the foot of the rockies, but he remembered the stories about how their family had been driven from New York. And there was supposed to be an artifact of power there, something that called to him from across the plains.

He'd always been lucky. He'd been a lot luckier than most actually and in his career as a shadowrunner had survived things that should have killed anyone else. But he had always felt that his luck had a purpose. Now he knew what it was. The only trouble was, where to start?

He put his affairs in order, arranging for his face ID's to be transferred and then hitched a ride on the next passing truck. A lot of his professional gear was simply too hot to travel with, so he would have to have it shipped by his friends a little bit at a time. Still, he felt a little exposed without all of it.

In the Shadow of Gods, Session 4

The group came upon a white spear placed in the ground. The group was warned by Not Jake (who did, it appeared, speak English after all) that the territory coming up ahead was very dangerous. He explained that the spear was a warning and that if the group proceeded further that they would be ambushed and attacked.

The professor suggested that Hanst analyze the poison on the spear, which Hanst did. It turned out to be a potent neurotoxin that caused long term damage to the host. Hanst whipped up an antidote of sorts and kept some himself and gave a bit more to Gehn for safe keeping.

The group decided to rest, and Mirv used his chainsaw to set up a minor fort to provide cover and to protect the group from a massed charge. Hanst was not very appreciative and mumbled something about crazy people with chainsaws. Nothing happened over the course of the night.

The group continued forward, until at one point a spear thrown by an Atl-Atl, a kind of stick throwing stick that dramatically increased their power and range, nearly hit one of the party members. Gehn took cover and began to try to pick them off one by one, but it was dark and no one could see where they were coming from. At this point, Hanst got an idea, and gave Mirv a magnesium flare to shoot up in that direction with a slingshot.

Of course, Mirv shot the first one before Hanst had lit it. Then Hanst patiently explained that he had to wait until Hanst lit it, which they did. Mirv got lucky and hit one of their attackers directly with the magnesium flare, causing him to fall to the ground in a ball of flame.

Gehn got some successful shots off now that he had an idea where they were coming from. Mirv immediately ran for the cliff face and began to climb. Marla thought that this was a good idea, but used stealth to do it while all of this was going on. The professor shot once with his pistol and then gave up in disgust since the attackers were too far away.

The professor heard Jake and Not Jake trade insults with the attackers, and then went with Jake and Not Jake who just bypassed the attack and went out of range of the ambush point. Meanwhile, Mirv continued to climb up the cliff, causing the attackers to focus all of their spears on him. He had half a dozen spears coming out of him before he got to the top, but by then Marla had done so as well and dispatched one of the attackers. Turned out there were only three or four, as the last was shot in the head by Gehn. Mirv collapsed from the poison upon reaching the top but was made better by Hanst's elixir antidote.

The group left the unconcious attackers behind them.

As they traveled on, Jake explained that there were dinosaurs ahead. Hanst scoffed at this idea but Mirv lent the group his binocs so they could see one eating part of a herd of Llamas. Keeping a careful eye out, the group skirted the edge of the gash like canyon until they were ready to cross. Then a large bipedal predator about the size of a T-rex started attacking them. Mirv set a spear he'd been preparing, when at the last moment Gehr spotted a second lizard that had been flanking the party quietly in hopes of getting a pack attack.

The group immediately focused on attacking the smaller lizard which proved suprisingly resiliant. The professor shot at it with his pistol. Marla used her sword. Hanst used some cloroform which it shook off with annoyance. Mirv punched it, which just pissed it off. Gehn shot at it once, missed and then shot at it in the eye which exploded in a perfect shot.

The second continued to approach, but Mirv poured the remaining gasoline from his chainsaw in a line in the ground, setting it on fire. The larger one decided to go somewhere else. As the group crossed, they saw a gigantic statue (100 feet tall) carved into the cliff face in the style of the Mayas.

In the Shadow of Gods - Session 3

The group made arrangements to have their passports waiting for them when they arrived in Chile. After taking several short flights, they arrived in Santiago, at this time a small city of 100,000 people. It had nearly grown quite large, but mineral deposits that were expected to be mined were never found as all prospectors got eaten by various things in the jungle. Many suspect it was a renegade super trying to keep the city from growing.

When the plane arrived, the group met an agent that had been commissioned by the professor to act as a local guide and travel facilitor. After talking with the locals, ("Jake" and "Not Jake"), it was determined that driving was the best way to get there, and that it would take a week's time. The group began to set out in three jeeps provided by the agent.

Along the way, the group ran into a random army patrol that demanded to see the groups papers. Fortunately, the papers were in order. Someone hinted at a bribe, and negotiations commenced. Things almost went well until someone in the patrol offered to buy Marla. This led to a separate discussion about a barrel of Rum. Another of the patrol wanted Gehn's custom rifle which he was unwilling to give up.

Upon hearing that Gehn was an excellent shot, money was wagered. Gehn made all three shots. The patrol was not happy about this, and when one of them started to draw a rifle, all hell broke lose. The group pointed their rifles at the patrol and the patrol pointed their rifles at the group. Mirv slammed the guy who started point his gun at the group with a punch, but failed to get him in a headlock. The sargeant with the patrol managed to get everyone calmed down and the group went on its way.

A few hours later, a titanic and strangely intelligent snake dropped out of the trees and proceeded to try and devour Hanst. The snake's thick hide and dextrous movements proved remarkably resistant to the groups firepower, but its moral slowly faded. The snake managed to get Hanst to fall into unconciousness and started to drag him into the trees. The groups attack attempts became more urgent, but only barely slowed the snake down.

The final straw for the snake was when Mirv whipped out his chainsaw, remarkably starting it with the first pull, and let loose into the snake. Finally the snake had had enough and vanished deep into the jungle. Hanst was a bit bruised but otherwise fine.

The group traveled on.