#59 The Touch of Nxla

GHOST COUNTRY by *moonxels on deviantART

The group chases after the tank until they get near the building.   A battle with the Duergar troops ensues.   Bluey gets shot down by a missle from the tank.  Herman also takes a missile hit but manages to pick up bluey in mid air before he falls.  Hermans force field (?) is destroyed.  Caldors force field took some laser blasts but remained intact.

One howitzer is taken out by Caldor, two remain in action.  Drago charges the rift and takes heavy damage from the tank on the other side, his magic armor drops dangerously low.
Bes cackles from the top of the tank "I sent the plague of NXLA to this planet to destroy the last royal kreeghor in the tet line.  My employer will be very pleased to hear I have taken as zombies the last male and his entourage."  With that bes opens a second pinhole rift to africa and sends out 10 tendrils at the characters... Herman and Caldor fail their saves after many close calls, drago tries in vain to destroy the tendrils with fire.  As Herman and Caldor are slowly soulsucked into the rift by NXLA's tendrils...


Drago and Bluey team up pool PPE and cast CLOSE RIFT.   This cuts off the soul supply just before caldor and herman are completely drained.  (house rule: the nxla tendril soul suck and xombification effect takes a full melee round to take place and can be stopped through player action).



Cleaning up the group finishes dispatching the remaining duergar, some of which were zombified.

Drained of magic energy and soul, the battered party hunkers down near the ruins the Duergar were using as a base...

The group goes inside and finds a few harvestors and 4 men chained up along with a child and a woman in cages with weird implants.  During the battle Drago hits an agony rune and is hurt by it.

After the harvesters were destroyed or fled, The 4 men are set free and run off.  Bluey's Z worm uses psi surgery to investigate the impants on the girl and the child, finally setting them free as well and removing the mysterious implants.  Both are too weak to stand after the ordeal.

Sparticus and Bluey took mustard gas damage from a trap outside the base.  Both bioregenerated to protect their lungs from permanent damage.

XP:

Drago http://3rdageofdragonwright.blogspot.com/2011/02/drago.html
104130 needs 120001 
previousxp: +500xp +100skills +25 battle zombie pig farmer jimmy who killed john and ran off with the platnum bar +100 teaching steel mummy ritual to hughbot +100 burys 10mil in gold at undisclosed nearby location marked by stars
+100 learns paralysis lesser and sonic stun from scrolls +25 skimmers +50 tank
-80k from credits mummy supplies, +7 steel mummy pigs
part2 xp
+500 showin up +225 skills +100 flame tendrils +200 efforts to destroy tendrils of nxla +400 plan to close rift saves caldor and herman from zombification +100 survive bes's unleashing of the tendrils of nxla +100 daring facing tank
106755 needs 120001

Sparticus http://3rdageofdragonwright.blogspot.com/2009/02/sparticus.html
 71625 needs 75201
 +500 xp +100 fly on drago +100 battle +100 leaves 10mil in gold at the oil refinery base  section 5 +100 farmer rp finding dead pig farmer in base +200 swine rp, 790 swine remain alive, purchase prize was 500/swine, investment is currently at -105000cr from initial purchase price. Pig farming is hard!
part2 xp
+500 showing up +100 toss car +100 staying out of sight +100 survive bes's unleashing of the tendrild of nxla  +100 flame tendrils attempt +50 tank
73675 needs 75201


 Caldor http://3rdageofdragonwright.blogspot.com/2009/08/caldor-gar-shack.html
61726 needs 69881
+500xp +425 skills +100 bury treasure 2.5mil 4 places near base hidden with camoflage +100 battle +100 rp +500 dont cook +100 daring land charge through minefield +100 hughbot rp
part2 xp
+500 showin up +100 skills +100 rp loot howitzer and 11 shells +100 surviving zombification +50 tank +100 daring charge of howitzer emplacements
64601 needs 69881

 Bluey http://3rdageofdragonwright.blogspot.com/2011/02/bluey.html
24875 needs 25920
part2xp
+1000 showing up +125 skills +800 helping drago close rifts and saving caldor and herman from zombification +200 surviving bes +100 tank +100 rp +200 saving girl and child from implants
27400 bluey has leveled

 Herman http://3rdageofdragonwright.blogspot.com/2013/02/herman-phaeton-juicer.html
17556
+1000 showing up +275 skills +100 surviving zombification +100 tank +200 surviving bes +100 rp +100 daring rescue grab of bluey mid air +100 gas
18631

#58 Huntsville Alabama solar eclipse

Eclipse by ~A4size-ska on deviantART

There is a solar eclipse which effects magic in Huntsville... Drago and Bluey are empowered.  Drago uses the power to show others the ritual of create steel mummy.  Drago creates mummy pigs from the victims of missle blasted pig remains.

The group gets the pings of enemy radar scans... and then incoming missles.

About 350 pigs remain after missle blasts from an unknown assailent attacked the party.

Hughbot figures out the ritual by watching drago and also manages to create a steel mummy pig from the ambient ppe magic energies.

Caldor's symbiot continues to crave drago after tasting dragon blood.  Caldor can almost detect drago with his eyes closed...

After creating the pigs  the pigs are left to guard the huntsvill oil refinery base of the army of thunder.

the group rushes to camp Beta... towards the direction the missles came from.

Drago cast invincible armor on everyone and miraculously deflect as well, the eclipses power bending the laws of magic.. (or gems forgetting them ;)

On the way bluey is hit by a medium range missle, his jetbike slagged only his invincible armor protects him from death.

Caldor runs across the ground and hits a few landmines, charging up..

Skimmers and flying quickly apear, shooting weak energy rays and a few mini missles during strafing runs...

Finally reaching the camp they see a huge ruin, there is a tower with 3 heavy guns and duegar manning them.  There is also a Naruni Juggernaught hovertank with a duegar sitting in the turret top protected by the forcefield.

The head duegar casts call lightning at caldor, it bounces off caldors force field.

Others get hit by howitzer blasts and much of the magical protections cast upon the group are disapated from the blasts by the start of melee round #2...

The Tank has drive quickly through a rift which appears behind the buildings.  The building defenders take aim and you hear the faint sound of evil laughter from the other side of the rift...

XP:

Drago http://3rdageofdragonwright.blogspot.com/2011/02/drago.html
104130 needs 120001
+500xp +100skills +25 battle zombie pig farmer jimmy who killed john and ran off with the platnum bar +100 teaching steel mummy ritual to hughbot +100 burys 10mil in gold at undisclosed nearby location marked by stars
+100 learns paralysis lesser and sonic stun from scrolls +25 skimmers +50 tank
-80k from credits mummy supplies, +7 steel mummy pigs

Sparticus http://3rdageofdragonwright.blogspot.com/2009/02/sparticus.html
 71625 needs 75201
 +500 xp +100 fly on drago +100 battle +100 leaves 10mil in gold at the oil refinery base  section 5 +100 farmer rp finding dead pig farmer in base +200 swine rp, 790 swine remain alive, purchase prize was 500/swine, investment is currently at -105000cr from initial purchase price. Pig farming is hard!

Caldor http://3rdageofdragonwright.blogspot.com/2009/08/caldor-gar-shack.html
61726 needs 69881
+500xp +425 skills +100 bury treasure 2.5mil 4 places near base hidden with camoflage +100 battle +100 rp +500 dont cook +100 daring land charge through minefield +100 hughbot rp


Bluey http://3rdageofdragonwright.blogspot.com/2011/02/bluey.html
22175 needs 25920

+1000 +200 skills +100 bury 8 mill in treasure bady with caldors poor help
+1000 alturism plot bonus for giving hughbot 2 million in gold for saving blueys life earlier, bot now is showing signs of self awareness +200 fight +100 daring crash of sky cycle (parts of it may be salvagable but it can not fly) +100 refuses mummy magic teachings

24875 needs 25920


Herman http://3rdageofdragonwright.blogspot.com/2013/02/herman-phaeton-juicer.html
15331 needs 17521

+1000 +275 skills +200 fight +100 explosive gas bomb +100 making pig pen next to hunts vill base +100 rp +450 bonus level

17556 Herman has leveld.

#57 Alabama Camp Alpha

One day before the solar eclipse...

Gun Girl (2) by *Sedorrr on deviantART

Qsuzy sends a radio message "rumored 2 concentration camps full of slaves to be harvested have been set up. around GAW HQ...  the original inhabitants have been driven out and fight a secret war against their CS and now demonic oppressors...Huntsville clans all but whiped out, Guntersville has sworn blood vengeance but their tech is too poor to do much but slow them down...if we could contact some guntersville boys we might have a chance at some backup... "  after successful comp op+radio basic she sends coordinates to the camps...

After some negotiating with QSUZY they decide to go to alpha first.  She promises a CS supply crate drop if they can go after beta.

Sparticus gives Jimmy & John his 2 rescued men at the base 1 platnum bar worth 100k.
The big jet is left in the airport outside of town.  The small jet is infront of the base.

Bluey, Drago & Caldor head west towards camp alpha..  Everyone else stays in the Hunstville base.

Caldor's parasite biowizard implant gets hungry, drago feeds it some dragons blood.

On the way west the group sees a heard of 112 Chimeras, they avoid them.

Sneaking to the base there is a small firefight before the Duergar guards are dispacted.  The base has 4 small tents and 4 medium tents as well as 1 building.  After the guards are dispatched the people kept in the camp all run off.  It looked like mostly huntsville and guntersville folk.

Digging around the players also find a huge cache of gold, 40mil 2500lbs worth which they pack onto their vehicles (?) and start heading back east...

XP from 10.17.2013

http://3rdageofdragonwright.blogspot.com/2011/02/drago.html 102980xp, flying

500 showing up 300 skills 200 tolkeen rp +100 rp +50 conquering camp alpha

+1 energy whip and 2 grenades taken from harvester guard

104130 needs 120001

http://3rdageofdragonwright.blogspot.com/2009/02/sparticus.html 70500 needs 75201

500 showing up 175 skills +1oo negotiating +200 idea vs camp alpha +100 rp +50 conquering camp alpha

71625 needs 75201

http://3rdageofdragonwright.blogspot.com/2009/08/caldor-gar-shack.html 60626 needs 69881

500 showing up 400 skills +100 rp +50 conquering camp alpha +50 sniping 

61726 needs 69881

http://3rdageofdragonwright.blogspot.com/2011/02/bluey.html riding skycycle

20450 needs 25920

1000 showing up +325 skills +100 rp +100 conquering camp alpha +100 trading drago ppe +100 rp with qsuzy about families wherabouts 

22175 needs 25920

#56 Alabama Living

Qsuzy sends bluey an encrypted radio message "I can't guarantee your families saftey back in lone star if you refuse to rescue those in concentration camp BETA run by the harvestors. We looked you up after spotting your crew. There arn't many heelers serving the CS.

Your own cousins are held in a concentration reprogramming camp outside loanstar after it was discovered you went missing under mysterious circumstances. If you rescue those in camp beta I will give you the coordinates to these pups (blueys cousins) http://i.imgur.com/Pg5MKZU.jpg

During battle with harvestor minions sparticus finds slaves in cages and rescues 7.  There was a threat to the jet but he managed to fly away before a magical harvestor directed storm damaged it.

 Players argue about what to do next.  They finally get coordinates to two camps, one for CS one for locals. (BETA/ALPHA)

XP

http://3rdageofdragonwright.blogspot.com/2009/02/sparticus.html 69550

+500xp +200skills  +100 fighting +50 command 2 followers gunther and polk to man roof guns NGL58s +100 hostage rp

70500 needs 75201

http://3rdageofdragonwright.blogspot.com/2009/08/caldor-gar-shack.html 59776xp needs 69881

+500xp +50 skills +100 fighting +200 rp

60626 needs 69881

http://3rdageofdragonwright.blogspot.com/2011/02/bluey.html 18650

+1000xp +200 baby+375 skills +200 fighting

20450 needs 25920

 

http://3rdageofdragonwright.blogspot.com/2013/02/herman-phaeton-juicer.html 13656xp

+1000xp+200 fighting +375 skills +100 bike daring

15331 needs 17521

 bought american history books for -48k, 100rds of moonshine ammo, bike is at -10% speed due to zombie fender damage