#90 Buckets of Blood Moon

Evil bluey kills a concert goer kid outside torren's force bubbles trying to fix the cable to the sound system keeping the splugorth mind control music from working.
Torrens bubble keeps out bluey who slams against it.  A near by robot gets animated and starts firing damaging the bubble more than bluey's vibroswords.

Drago casts Giant on Caldor who restrains evil bluey and disarms him.

Bluey manages to escape and get one sword back.

Caldor focuses on the magic bone from osiris drago gave him, and has a vision.
In the vision osiris says he will live again through caldor, and to collect his bones.  Osiris has never seen a kreeghor before much to caldors disgruntlement.  Caldor starts focusing on the bone and learns he can start down the path of the rifts priest of Osiris.

Torren mentally possesses bluey which means he shares the body with the demon, they fight over control, torren making it drop weapons.  finally the demon armor bluey was wearing which is now animated by desslyth forces torren out of blueys mind/body and the demon regains control.

Drago destroys one robot vehicle.

DJ Ekim also a red devil looses an arm to bluey but gets it regrown by caldor with orisis prayer and offering of gold to the long dead god.

Torren is shot down by the robot vehicle's rail cannon.  He is in a coma and may be dead?!

Eventually DJ Ekim is also shot down, but not before he programs a remote control drone he has with a fusion block, which takes out the head of one of the robot vehicles (nat 20), destroying it.
The red devils become known as the heros of the buckets of blood moon rift party, where both laid down their lives to keep the beats going that drove off the splugorth mind control magic.


Out of the original 8 robot vehicles,
Enforcer Destoryed by evil bot #7

Evilbot #1 inactive
Evilbot #2 NG Mobile hunter Guns ignores DJ Ekim after he rolls a 1 with his second drone and falls.  Currently hunting for targets.

Evilbot #3 Light NG Bot with 400MDC 4ATA no bonuses d6x10MD rail gun destroyed by Drago by stage
Evilbot #4 Inactive

Evilbot #5 Light NG Bot with 460 MDC 4ATA d6x10MD railgun Was Attacking Drago with  while drago fled area due to world bizar

Evilbot #6NG Mobile Hunter  shoots down Torren before being destroyed by DJ Ekim fusion drone 

Evilbot #7 destroyed by enforcer

Drago takes some cannon fire and has to put his invincible armor spell back up.

Finally a Psi-Goblin platoon comes up and its leader Plasma tries to broker a peace in the name of the Federation of Magic, to which Drago and Desslyth are both members.

End of session statuses
KIA
Valiant Cletus and Darkstorm Enforcer Pilots from #89 killed by Tow Jam's Worm
Partygoer near dj booth was killed by bluey

Coma
DJ EKim lost arm to bluey in Coma from fusion block mishap fighting Tow Jam's Worm
Torren shot into coma by pellets fired by from Tow Jam's Worm

Possessed
Bluey
Tow Jam

Rioting and Fleeing
1000s of party goers are falling to the World Bizarr Magic, some are fighting each other.

XP

Drago 9th Level Dragon Hatchling 134755 
+675 #87 +825 #88 +500 #89 +300 showin up rp +100 take out robot +100 negotiate with Plasma +100 desslyth rp +100 rp being feared to stay 100ft from rift by World Bizarre cast by desslyth
137455 needs 170k

Caldor Level 1 Priest of Osiris ex Kreeghorian Bounty Hunter, bearer of 3 body parts of Osiris, 1 of which is melded to his chest where a chest almagant used to live. 0
+900 #88 +600 #89 +500rp +100 disarm bluey +100 use hold move on bluey
2200 2nd level rifts priest (was @ 94801 as bounty hunter)  Now uses mystic XP table

Evil-Desslyth-Possessed-Bluey 57050
+1225 #87 +900 #88 (passed out for #89) +800rp +100 uses twin blades +100 kill partygoer +10800 demon possession power up +100 disarm dk elom
70975  Level 9 Ley Line Walker

Evil-Desslyth-Possessed-Tow Jam 29690
+2375 #87 +2000 defeat Torren and DJ Ekim with NG Mobile Huntergun infected with Jow Jam's worm. +10900 demon powerup
44965 Tow Jam levels to 8th

Plasma  8th Level Psi Goblin
 +1000rp
https://3rdageofdragonwright.blogspot.com/2011/08/plasma-psigoblin.html
Plasma is played by torrens player.
Plasma has leveled up since he was last seen, he is now using the vet stats from:
https://3rdageofdragonwright.blogspot.com/2011/09/psi-goblin-template.html
Plasma holds a rank of Corporal in the Federation of Magic Army and is authorized to command 2 platoons and wield the infamous Dunscon's Cannon.  3 normal psi-goblins drag the working cannon and another 4 green psi-goblins stand guard while Plasma negotiaties.
43000

Torren Mind Melter Bioborg Lvl 4 9000
+2325 #88 +2000 #89 +1000rp +100 fight over blueys body with desslyth with mentally possess others +1000 bravely protect others with bubbles +1000 enter coma from howitzer shell fragments punching through his light ceramic body armor
15425 Level 4 Mind Melter

DJ EKim 2nd Level City Rat 2000
+10000 #89 played by 2 different people, one left, then torren was shot down so his player played dj ekim, until dj ekim was hit with a fusion block blast after rolling a 1 to strike with a drone +2000rp +1000 dj skills save many others from death and mesmerism. +1000 enter coma with fusion block damage to upper body
16000 Level 6 City Rat



Lady Naya has gone missing again +2000xp

Character Class Change rules

Caldor Converts to Rifts Priest of Osiris from having so many body parts of Osiris for so long.
Caldor decided to convert after having a vision of Osiris.  Previous bounty hunter Skills are frozen at (level9?)

So far Caldor has unlocked 2 Priest powers,
Prayer of Communion, 21%+7/lvl
Prayer of Intervention, cast any spell at priest level +5 (so 6th level), 21% +7/lvl .
This allowed Caldor to convert gold as an offering to Osiris and cast regenerate limb on dj Ekim.
New Leg Bone of Osiris acts as a holy symbol.

Body parts caldor has yet to fully unlock the power of, he carries them but does not know the power words to use their magic attacks, still gets the bonuses.

Chest has Heart embedded in it which is why Caldor was able to first commune with Osiris.
Heart of Osiris +10hf +2 all saves, 6x/day sense evil, sense magic, turn dead 2d4x10, remove curse, ressuraction 30%, healing touch 4d6 +800MDC main body

Since then Drago has given Caldor two more body parts of Osiris:
Left Femur 8ft long
4d6MD, returns to thrower, fires 6d6MD fireball 30ft radius 1once/30 seconds, impervious to fire
Right Femur 8 ft long
4d6MD x2 to vampires, zombies, animated dead, fires 6d6MD lightning bolt 1/30seconds, Impervious to Electricity

From Giant caldor gets +1ata ps+50%, x2MDC +1ata +1s/p +1000lbs -20% speed -3 dodge
Any armor or clothing is shredded! 
Lasts 6 more melee rounds.

#89 Merctown Super Blue Blood Moon Lunar Eclipse Part 3

Torren possessed with the voice of Desslyth taunts Drago with death.  A slaver emerges from the rift and engages with the Enforcer. 7 other robots are standing there unable to move from unknown reasons A kittani virus run by the posssed tow jam has disabled the bots leaving the main defenses of the area offline.  Random mercs and party goers are mind controlled by the possessed Space Time Kid hypnotic suggestion music until Torren kills him and puts rez in a coma at caldor's command.
Caldor had read the control and enslave entity scroll he got from Drago earlier, enslaving the mind shard entity of Desslyth possessing torren to his will, thus controlling torren.

Mercs are starting to come to since Ekim took over playing music through whats left of the shattered stage sound system.  The DJ city rat jury rigs up a cable and his music starts to revive people driving out the mind fog spread by desslyths music.

Caldor was climbing the stage to snipe when it was damaged by Torren trying to get him.

Caldor jumps off the stage and uses a scroll from drago to control torren enough to get him exorcised.

Session ends with Desslth offering to spare Merctown if the town turns over Drago, a giant ice wall blocks the rift, one slaver lady escaped in to merctown, two climbed the icewall back into the rift.

Caldor realizes from an indicator on his naruni equipment that Splugorth are jaming any earth tech that doesn't have alien mods or isnt specificaly hardening vs it like cs is.

The worm has leftBluey.  Bluey is split into good mind whos in the worm -50% ppe, evil mind who is in the body of the demon biowizard suit he bought at the city of Bronze.

Towjam is nowhere to be seen.

Nexus PPE Bonuses at Battle vs Desslyth
x3 range, duration and damage
+2 vs magic and horror factor +1 spell strength
+20 PPE each round +30 PPE / lvl every 6 hrs
recover 20 PPE per half hour

Increased Energy during Lunar Eclipses
x2 per-round bonus for 90 min
+400 PPE / lvl for 90 min
100% / 77% of small / full Rift

Psionics bonuses : Range/Duration/Damage X2

So for example Drago @ Lvl 9:
bonus 3600 PPE from entire eclipse only lasts  1 hour and 43 minutes 
+ 40ppe/round from nexus

Tapping into this energy requires some lore: magic and other rolls...

Currently a "Small Rift" is open to one of Desslyth's lairs in the thundercloud galaxy.  The rift may be too small for him to physically fit in this dimension, but it seems some other force is keeping him physically out of Rifts earth dimension .

 (OOC he needs 5k followers on rifts earth to break the warding there so he can physically enter).

Possessed by Splugorth Mind Shard: Evil Bluey, Tow Jam

Deceased under lighting equipment rubble:
Space Time Kid

Comatose under collapsed stage and no longer possessed:
Rez the Tolkinite Technowizard

Zee the worm/ containing Good Bluey's mind cowers on Drago's ankle.

XP TBD
Drago
Caldor
Torren While possessed +100 idea to pull stage lighting down ontop of the possessed DJ +500 kill Space Time Kid +500 Put Rez in Coma
Lady Naya


In CS Enforcer:
Level 3 Headhunter bot pilot named Cleatus
Level 3 Operator Bot Pilot named Dark Storm

Current DJ:
Level 3 Latin Merc Town City Rat named Ekim

#88 Desslyth the Younger Invades Merctown

reddevil comes up and intros self https://3rdageofdragonwright.blogspot.com/2018/07/torren-abderhalden.html




attack by vet booster boys can red devil new player use streetwise to find path to avoid them?  (they dont and have a huge battle throwing many of caldor's missiles at the tank)


rifts open during eclipse party in merctown, will dancers produce enough ppe to close them?
space time kid npc asked to guard by red devils to prove honesty (pcs dont know its stk until they take the job)
"get us through this clipse and we will tell you what we know"
magic titan tells drago to meet him @ the eclipse party in merctown and be ready to teleport to tolkeen

splugorth will try to stop the party

sparticus guards tolkeen but to get him to ascend to grey seers he has to stop command and area will fall in exchange for him learning the ways of the grey seer to fight a greater evil

"when the black fang shows the end is nigh"
- moon eclipses in to black fang of syphon, then splugorth attack

- will conquer section of merctown demanding stolen eye of eyelors return in exchange for pcs

- herman had (2?) eyes, - turned to murder wraith seen at head of column of invaders

drago holds off hover tank while caldor bluey and the new red devil toss medium missiles at it.
eventually blowing the top turret off the group things they are safe until...

a HUGE rift opens, and out of it you see the face of DESSLYTH THE YOUNGER!
"DrAgo I WILL HAVE MY REVENGE for your crimes!" the creature screetches in demongogian before sending out his mind splinters to possess people.

Torren is possessed but Drago controls him with control and enslave entity scroll he gives caldor to read.  caldor can magically read it due to his osiris body parts and uses it to control torren.

Tow Jam is also possessed but noone notices...


XP
Drago+500 survive tank battle +175 skills +100 missile +50 rp
Caldor +500 survive tank battle +150 skills +100 move from truck +50 rp +100 read scroll
Bluey +750 survive tank battle+100 skills +100 rp
TowJam +1000 survive tank battle +100 skills +200 rp
Torren +2000 survive tank battle+125 skills +100 tell tow run +100 get help



NPCs of note:
Rez friend of party possessed
Space Time Kid friend of party and DJ, possessed, crowd is now being mind controlled by the new music he put on and are acting befuddled and not attacking as first splugorth slavers start to emerge from rift.

Rifts Displacement Fanfic

This looks cool!

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Merctown Boosterboys

Heist WIP by TD-Vice on DeviantArt

Merctown Booster Boys

Lead by Davey Boy, they run the best car theft ring in Merctown.   They boosted a truck with 125mil in goods from the player group. Based on p87 of Merctown source book. Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures include sending in 2 green spotters to find and guard the mark, followed by one regular and one vet to boost the vehicle, with the elite nearby in case they need extraction. The group has encountered Greens on bikes and Quckflex Normals during the truck jacking where they lost one of their Trucks and Towjam. Later they countered Normals on a towtruck towing a red devil vehicle. Lastly the group faced the main battle tank with a Elite, Vet, and normal booster boy inside. Green Human City Rats (ages 12-18) Regular Quick-Flex Alien Professional Thieves Veteran D'norr Devilmen Techno Wizard Elite Kremin Cyborg IQ 16 12 13 14 MA 9 16 20 22 ME 12 16 20 22 PS 10 14 24 35 PP 17 20 23 25 PE 8 16 20 24 PB 14 6 10 12 Spd 14 55 30 120 HP/SDC ARMOR 15/20/30SDC leathers armor Wastelander Motorcycle 25/40/90SDC Huntsman light body armor +90 sdc light naruni forcefield generator +/- 1-50% depending on computer hacking roll 50/100/450 TWCyborgshell +medium naruni forcefield 180sdc +/- 100% depending on computer hacking roll NG Hover Tow-Platform 150hp/300sdc /1250 sdc alien borg armor Naruni Heavy Hovertank PPE/ISP 20 4 150 3 # Actions Melee  4 6 Strike  +3/+1 Bikegun +4/+2 Weapons systems roll Vibroknife +1 +6 hth +7 knife +8 grenades +6/+4 epistol +6/+4 heavy +7/+5 Bike Weapons Systems 40% TWNG Particle Beam Rifle 1d4x10MD/10shots Tow Truck Magnet Hook NG 6shot Hanheld AP mini missle launcher 2 carpet of adhesion grenades 2 plasma grenades 5d6md/15d6 sdc 1 Naruni 115 mm Heavy Particle Beam Cannon 5d6MDx10 rng 9.3miles commander 2 Coaxial  Rail Gun: 2d4x10 Coupla railgun 3d4x10 x8 medium missiles x48 minimissiles (also in tank) 1 vet gunner 1 normal gunner 1 TMAN commander 2 heavy fusion blocks Parry +3/+4 knife +5/+7 knife Dodge +3 +6 auto Initiative +3 amp hearing +3 Vs. Magic/ Poison/psi 0 Combat Actions Bike HMG 7d6SDC/burst# ramjets, 100rnd clip Vibroknife 10mm SMG Bike HMG 7d6 MD Ramjet, 100rd box clip Vibroknife 1d6md/3d6SDC 2 frag grenades 2d6md/6d6sdc 2xNG Ion Pistoles 3d6MD 10shots/6 eclips 1st 3th 8th 12th

Green Cyber: Amp Hearing, Headjack, Ear Implant and Radio, Prerifts Cyberdeck +2% computer hacking

Green skills: hth basic athletics computer operation programming hacking radio basic basic electronics basic mechanics jury rig surveillance systems literacy technocan streetwise combat driving WP Knife WP Heavy WP SMG Weapons Systems pilot motorcycle pilot auto

Normal Cyber : Breathing Tubes, Bionic Lung and Air filter, Radio Scrambler, Amp Hearing, MO Eye +1 str, NG Cyberdeck NG-7 +5 computer hacking
Normal Combat Skills of note: Weapons Systems 40% Prowl 45% HTH Assassin WP Paired WP Targeting WP E pistol WP Heavy Energy WP Heavy Combat Driving WP Quick Draw
Computer Hacking 45%  Pilot Motorcycle, Auto, Truck, WP Knife +1s/+2p

Vet Cyber: Alien Slicer Droid X-1 Headimplant (computur hacking AI+10% to rolls 2ata), Naruni Cyberdeck N-100 +7 % computer hacking
Elite Kremin Full Cyborg, Built in Kremin K-1 Cyberdeck +9% computer hacking Alien AI

Green Roll
Normal Roll +4

Torren Abderhalden

Torren is the Merctown Red Devil member assigned to make sure the party gets to the ritual on time.

In the previous session Scarlet made a deal with the group, in exchange for protecting Merctown during the eclipse the Red Devils will teleport the group back to Tolkeen.  Torren is assigned to make sure that happens.

Occupation Mind Melter
Alignment Unprincipled

Hit Points 10 SDC 30

Exp Level 4 9000 XP

IQ 22+2 Age 3

ME 19+2 Sex Male

MA 12 Height 6' 3"

PS 10 Origin Illegal biolab, Swiss German border

PP 15 Env

PE 10 Sentiments Hates psi hunters

PB 14 Sentiments Dislikes full cyborgs

SPD Language Swiss German, English

Insanity Schizophrenia Phobia Obsession

Phobias Confinement Basements Obsessions

Skills:

Language Swiss German, English

Math Basic 20%

Athletics

Streetwise +15

Land Navigation

TBD Pilot skill1

TBD Pilot skill2

WP SMG +4 aimed +2 burst

6 chosen occ skills +1 at lvl 4

1 Biology 

2 Detect: Concealment +5

3 computer operations+10

4 Detect Ambush +5

5 6 (Takes two skills) Hand to Hand: Martial Arts

7 Computer Hacking gained at lvl 4 +2%

Paramedic  Mind melters can only take up to Firstaide

Acrobatics per mind melter specifically says "physical any except acrobatics"

6 2nd Skills

1 WP Energy pistols +4 aimed +2 bursts

2 Mathematics: Advanced 

3 Computer Programming

4 Running

5 Wilderness Survival

6 First Aid

7 Art learned @ lvl 3

+2 TBD learned @ lvl 3

Major Psionics ISP 3d6x10 +ME +30xp from being lvl 4

Implant: Unknown Psi Focuser (Brain)

Lvl 1 Master of Psionics starting powers

Alter Aura 

Mind Block 

See Aura 

Sixth Sense

Resist Fatigue

Bio-Regenerate

Psychic Purification

Physical1

Physical2

Physical3

Telepathy

Presence Sense

Sensitive3

Telekinesis (super) 400ft range 8min 10isp/100lb 1ptMD/100lb +3strike +4 parry

Telekinetic Force Field 100 MDC 240ft range 4min duration -6 dodge 30ISP

Mind Bolt 40 ISP 2d4MD +4strike 50ISP 2d4MD +8 strike

LVL2 1

LVL2 2

LVL2 3

LVL2 Bio-Regenerate (super)

Lvl3 1

lvl3 2

lvl3 3

lvl3 super

lvl4 super

lvl4 super

Weapons

TX-25 Ion Blaster 4d6+4MD 200ft 12shots/eclip 24 long eclip

HK MP5 2d6SDC 300ft 10shots/clip

German combat knife

Equipment

Sleeping bag

Backpack

Utility belt

Canteen

Sunglasses

Food rations

Ion blaster charges

MP5 magazines

9mm HP ammo

Light ceramic armor 70SDC/35MDC

Hand To Hand Martial Arts 

5 attacks/melee

+3 strike

+4 parry 

+4 dodge

+4 initiative

+3 roll/pull punch

+2 disarm +4 vs posession +2 vs mind control +3 vs magic illusions +3 vs horror factor

1d6 Attacks: Punch,Elbow, Kick, Knee, Disarm, Dodge, Entangle, Block/tackle, Body Flip/Throw, power punch, power kick (x2 dmg) 

Karate Kick 2d6

#87 Merctown Super Blue Blood Moon Lunar Eclipse Part 1

Tow Jam tried to hack into the virus on Dragos comlink, but the alien tech blew up his computer in response to a failed 93% roll of computer hacking.  Towjam goes looking for a new deck...

Group sees red devils watching them and scanning the comlink area that Towjam was working on.
They drive off when the group walks up.
Later they are seen being towed by some other gangers, their car shot to hell and them possibly dead inside.
Group chases down the towtruck, driven by two booster boy quick flex aliens.
The car is returned to its owners and the tow truck drives off...  Sadly one owner red devil is dead, the other in a coma.
An old lady nearby is injured in the attack and saved by Drago and Bluey.

Once stabilized the Red Devil asks to be brought to to Redemption haul.
Once there he meets Scarlett a Red Devil Leader, she has the injured red Devil taken inside to heal and talks to the group.

"Thank you for saving our friend.  I will tell you what I know.  We have been watching you for awhile to see if you were good or evil, and we have determined you are good enough *she gives a stern look at caldor*".
We saw footage of your initial visit to Merctown and the shootout

"The Booster Boys leader has been taken by mephistos horsemen, they have been forced to work for them for some time now"  Scarlett says.

There is a ritual being performed downtown at a big party.  The ritual is supposed to make the rift storm that happens at the blood moon be calm and close any rifts that open.  Scarlett says if the group helps complete the ritual the red devils will allow the pcs safe travel out of merctown to tolkeen via the magic area rift the red devils have access to.


Vehicles Order to drive to the ritual party grounds in Episode 88
Bluey leads in Runabout atv, his hover bike is stashed with his big rig back at the Golden Age docks warehouse.
Towjam follows in Caldor's bubble car
Caldor leads in cargonaught truck

#87 XP
Drago 150xp skills +25 defeat 2 normal level blue devils in tow truck +500
Caldor 125xp skills +25 2 normal bbs +750
Bluey 175 xp skills +50 2 normal bbs +1000
TowJam 275 skills +100 2 normal bbs +2000