Thursday, July 3, 2014

#66 From Huntsville to Nashville




Oil Refinery IV by mdomaradzki on deviantART

The group is camped out at Sparticus's oil refinery base, one of the few buildings left standing in Huntsville.


First a few maps of the rivers nearby.  Huntsville ruins are to the right of the red lawrence county marker.



There is a river on the south part of the huntsville ruins flowing east to west into the Mississippi.

The original Huntsville Goldenage Weaponsmith settlers lived in this area:
http://www.wallmu.com/your-wallpapers/redstone-arsenal-map-57356.html
The Army of Thunder Huntsville base is located by the "Auto Skills Center"  on the above map.  Most of the other buildings in the map are rubble.



Gross rd, Rideout rd, Patton Rd, and Martin rd mark the original walls built by the settlers to keep out monsters.  The walls are built from scrap and destroyed vehicles and rubble.  Since the Coalition and Harvestor invasions there are a few holes in the wall..

Player updates:
Herman has been brewing, he gets one last set of rolls to see what he makes.

Caldor gets a bounty hunter update stating Lady Naya is wanted as a fuguative Slave by the Splugorth along with the following bounties at x2 the rate of losses reported to the Federation.   Lady Naya has a 20milion credit bounty for the murder of Petey.  She is being blamed by the Federation of Magic authority for all of the crimes and orchestrating the slave escape.  The bounty demands her return to Nostrous alive for the full bounty or her head for half of the bounty.
bounty shown here, there are also x2 reported loss bounties for the eyes of eyelor, the hawkr duhks and the ogres the players smuggled out of nostrous.
http://3rdageofdragonwright.blogspot.com/2014/06/65-law-order-nostrous.html

Caldors biowizard implant demands more blood..  He feeds it the Eye of Eyelor

Lady Naya:  Cyberknight council sends her a magic pidgeon along with instructions for Herman to patch video relay in to the cyberknight council once the city of Cincinnati is under surveillance.  Orders are to mark potential targets for an air-strike but not engage.
rules to mark a target:
1) program a target into the targeting computer
Computer Hacking +10 (@ Lv 3) claimed by herman is actually computer programming, this is a req for computer hacking so if you want hacking first you need programming.
2) confirm computer has target coordinates
3) transmit coordinates to cyberknight command
4) await the advance order, continue to reconnoiter further targets around the perimeter do not engage, its important not to get your squad caught in an air strike.

Drago:  Denali sends him a magic pidgeon summons.
"I know you had something to do with the last slave breakout.  Your lordship is in peril unless you come to the federation offices and hire my services as a lawyer to clear your name.  I am sure we can come to some..arrangement.  The splugorth you offended won't be so gentle so I suggest you settle.  If you wish to tender my services as your lawyer in this dispute I can have both the female cyberknight freed and negotiate down the cost of your damages settlement.  Some moneies will have to change hands if you wish your place in the federation to stay secure.  I hope you will see resaon.  Your human and kreeghor minions are accused of theft of splugorth property, murder of splugorth minion by magic, and destruction of splugorth property.   I suggest you make your decision quickly as the splugorth has other ideas in mind for his recompense. - Denali"





Ogres:
Use these stats +50sdc, they claim to have studied under "Mulan" at the academy in Atlantis. They construct a crude leanto next to the huntsville base but refuse to join the army of thunder. They tend to follow the dragons lead more than humans.
http://3rdageofdragonwright.blogspot.com/2009/09/mulan-tatoo-warrior.html


locations:
the tree:
drago sees some indians while teleporting to the tree he gets a psychic message from the tree "go back your friends are in danger"

Herman gets caldor to help the folsons at merls request building a rough shelter for them.  Merl, Betti Lou and Hughbot remain behind at the base.

After sorting out things at base the group decides to scout Cincinati, on their way they travel the prerifts highway finally coming to...

Nashville:

The group rolls up and see 2 demon locusts, a huge monolith with dimensional portal residue at the top, 6 cultists and a bunch of people being sacrificed.

 ready to be sacrificed, guarded by normal harvestors
Sparticus stays back in his enforcer and uses a few explosive mini missles and mostly uses his laser turret.
There is a huge battle, drago gets 8 day luck cursed by one Demon Locust and battles it in hand to hand.
Lady Naya keeps the second locust busy while Herman scores deadly hits with his mobil hunter rail cannons.
Naya gets befuddled by hidden harvestors who were trying to sacrifice people to bring forth more demons to witness the endof the world!  She fights on... helping to kill one demon locust, the other dimensionally teleports out when it sees its friend die to rail cannon fire..  The Harvestors flee under the cover of invis + cloak of darkness to hide thermal... 

The party helps 5 unwounded and 4 wounded girls.  Naya saves the 4 girls who where hanging from meat hooks at the sacrifice sites lives with paramedic.  They are from the CS state of Missouri and are lead by Jeanie Mcfarlan a proud looking young girl with auburn hair.

The group sets up camp as night falls over the Nashville ruins...

XP:
Drago the 8th level Great Horned Dragon Hatchling 113080

+1k showin up +100 teleports to dunscon giving denali another 1mil to represent him in his case aginst the sploogorth, they claim dragos minions caused him 222million in damages, denali claims she can reduce this by at least half especially if the eyes of eyelor are returned
 +100 daring+100 skills +100 astronomy+100 rp about sunaj assassins possibly tracking group for theft of eyes of eyelor
 +200 help defeat 2 demon locusts +50 fend off 6 harvestors
114830

Sparticus the soul drained 9th Level Psi Slayer
80775 +1k showin up +100 rp about eating eye of eyelor and not wanting to give it back +100 rp offering to sell enforcer to merl for all of his secrets, 12mil
+200 help defeat 2 demon locusts +50 fend off 6 harvestors
+100 take enforcer north to cincinatti
+50 dedication to using dual laser turret only in enforcer against demon locusts
 82375

Caldor the 9th Level Kreeghor Bounty hunter
with biowizard juicer implant [partially soul drained]
71576 +1k showin up+250 skills +100 hammock +100 hut building frustration +100 hawkr duhk rp +50 sniper
+50 used plasma rifle on immune to fire demon locust (realistic rp)
+200 help defeat 2 demon locusts +50 fend off 6 harvestors +100 get bounty alert for theft of splugorth properly
73526

Herman the 5th Level Juicer Scout  [partially soul drained]
32181 +2k showin up +350 skills +100 bribes caldor with booze to build huts with wilderness survival, caldor cant build more than leantoos though +100 robot irmskit help +100 bury bodies +100 feeds lady naya+100 trades merl hut building in exchange for contacting guntersville and sking for oil refiners to come up north to operate the refinery
+400 help defeat 2 demon locusts +100 fend off 6 harvestors
+200 rp about merls quests to build folsons injured a hut near oil refinery
35731 levels to 6


Lady Naya the 4th level Cybernight Quickflex Alien
15486 +2500 showin up +150 skills +100 daring vs demon locus +400 help defeat 2 demon locusts +100 daring continued to battle after armor was blown off with call lightning +100 fend off 6 harvestors +400 paramedic sacrifice victims +100 get mission data to do cincinati recon for airstrike +100 rp +500 tornado warning
19936 levels to 5

Jean Marc the 3rd Level Millennium Tree Druid
http://3rdageofdragonwright.blogspot.com/2011/02/janitor-jean-marc.html
6025 needs 7401
+2k showin up to play, jean mark was crucified to altar built by Demon Locusts
8025 Jean Marc is now 4th level

Hughbot remains at Huntsville base and gets programming and upgrades from Merl using the gold Blue gave him earlier (2mil)...

Sunday, June 29, 2014

Demon Locust Follower of Bes


Scorpio demon WIP by Exelzior-Maximus on deviantART

Bes has impressed many Demon Locusts.  Locusts have been seen swarming to witness the supposed end of Rifts Earth at the hands of NXLA.

Stats:
IQ 26 MA 18 ME 26 PS 45 PP 26 PE 24Speed 40/250 flying ~160mph
800MDC/800HP 1600SDC PV 7 12ft long 700lbs HF 16
57 ISP all psi sensitive 5th lvl
600 PPE 8th level wizard with all 1st lvl spells , call lightning firebolt fire ball negate magic dispell magic barriers fly as eagle animate turn dead exorcism remove curse curse phobia luck curse spoil sickness earthquake id barrier create scroll

7 attacks/3 magic +75 damage
+10strike/parry/dodge +4 init
w/ fly as eagle  25ppe 160minutes
+10 strike / +11 parry / +12 dodge / +81 dive damage +4 init
w/ fly as eagle + thunderclap 30ft radius
+11 strike/+12 parry/+13 dodge/+81 dive damage +9 init
w/ fly as eagle + thunderclap + intuitive combat 10isp 16melees
+12 strike/+13 parry/+17 dodge/+6 roll +81 dive damage +12 init


 +4 roll
+5 all saves

Attacks:
Punch 5d6MDC/15d6+90 SDc
Power Punch d6x10MDC/30d6+180 SDC
Stingers 6d6MDC/18d6+90 SDC + save 14 poison vs paralysis 2d6melee and 3d6hp damage for 1d4 rounds

Powers: Imp to Fire, leap 80ft dimensional teleport 54%

Magic Senses:
NV 200ft See  Aura 100ft Sense Magic 120ft See Invis 200ft

Magic Attacks: (from highset range to lowest)


Call Lightning 300ft 8d6MD/24d6 SDC  15ppe
Earthquake 260ft 2d6x100MD/6d6x100SDC  50 ppe 480ft fissur w/ 320ft radius
Fire Bolt 135ft 4d6MD/12d6SDC 7ppe
Fireball 90ft 8d4MD  8ft radius/24d4SDC  10ppe 18+dodge only
Blinding Flash 60ft 10ft radius

Thunderclap 30ft radius
Curse Phobia 20ft range 40ppe
Luck Curse 10ft range 40ppe
Sickness 10ft range 50ppe
Cloud of Smoke


Defenses:
Id Barrier 900ft range 600PPE hf 14 apparition 6th lvl 24minutes

Psionics (all sensitive)

    Sensitive
  • Astral Projection - PFRPG 168, HU2 305, NB 70, BtS 83, R 119, BtS2E 116
  • Clairvoyance - PFRPG 168, HU2 306, NB 71, BtS 85, R 121, BtS2E 117
  • Commune With Animals - PFRPG 169
  • Commune With Spirits - PFRPG 169, RWB12:P 39, BtS2E 119
  • Death Trance - NB 72, BtS 85
  • Dispel Spirits - PFRPG 169, BtS2E 119
  • Empathy - PFRPG 170, HU2 306, NB 73, BtS 87, R 121, BtS2E 119
  • Ethereal Mirage (Minor) - NBBtS 117
  • Intuitive Combat - PU 90, RWB12:P 39
  • Machine Ghost - PU 90, RWB12:P 39
  • Mask ISP & Psionics - PU 91, RWB12:P 40, BtS2E 120
  • Mask PPE - RWB12:P 40, BtS2E 120
  • Mind Block - PFRPG 170, HU2 306, NB 75, BtS 88, R 122, BtS2E 121
  • Object Read (Psychometry) - PFRPG 170, HU2 306, NB 75, BtS 88, R 122, BtS2E 122
  • Precognition - PU 92, BtS2E 123
  • Presence Sense - PFRPG 171, HU2 307, NB 75, BtS 88, R 122, BtS2E 123
  • Psychic Literacy - BtS2E 125
  • Read Dimensional Portal - PU 93, RWB12:P 40, BtS2E 125
  • Remote Viewing - RWB12:P 41, BtS2E 125
  • See Aura - PFRPG 171, HU2 307, NB 75, BtS 89, R 122, BtS2E 126
  • See The Invisible - PFRPG 171, HU2 307, NB 76, BtS 89, R 122, BtS2E 126
  • Sense Dimensional Anomaly - PFRPG 171, NBBtS 117, RWB12:P 41, BtS2E 126
  • Sense Evil - PFRPG 171, HU2 307, NB 76, BtS 90, R 122, BtS2E 126
  • Sense Magic - PFRPG 171, HU2 308, NB 76, BtS 90, R 123, BtS2E 126
  • Sixth Sense - PFRPG 171, HU2 308, NB 76, BtS 90, R 123, BtS2E 127
  • Speed Reading - PFRPG 172, HU2 308, NB 76, BtS 90, R 123, BtS2E 127
  • Summon Inner Strength - NB 77, BtS 91
  • Telepathy - PFRPG 172, HU2 308, NB 77, BtS 91, R 123, BtS2E 127
  • Total Recall - PFRPG 172, HU2 308, NB 77, BtS 91, R 123, BtS2E 128

Skills of Note: Demon Monster Faerie lore, computer operation  literate in dragonese euro demongogian technocan and english. streetwise, expert swimmer and climber, can jump 80ft+fly as eagle

Equipment:
Locusts checked in at the Cincinnati checkpoint get registered by Bes to have front row seats to the carnage of Nxla's coming.  Benefits include:

Duegar Pipboy
Oufitting custom Duegar Made giant sized pipboy computer & duegar connection software for txt/video/audio chatting in dragonese, mapping, betting and calulating slave shipments. 1/10 while flying mil wifi range from duegar networks.

Map file leading to "Nxla's coming".  Also included is a picture of nxla.

Entry in Demonic Betting pool (more on this later)













Merl the Guntersville Smuggler


American redneck cyborg by anderton on deviantART

Merl is from the deep south.  He used to be a smuggler before the undead invasion caused him to rescue and fall in love with bettilou.  Since he was been working to build them a better life against all odds in an unforgiving wasteland.


Merl has vet stats from
http://3rdageofdragonwright.blogspot.com/2013/06/guntersville-clan-smuggler.html except he has horsemanship instead of pilot jet.


Merl has a data drop he will trade for 100k gold and help building a shelter for him and betty lou until the folsons are heald up and can move southwards.

Data Sales:

100k
He offers to trade a "North American Ley Line map" digital download from his computer. (great map by the way from http://equip-r.blogspot.com)
The map:
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/244201/Rifts/Rifts%20Atles%20v1_6.pdf

100k
offers information about tin duhks
-> duhks taken by slavers as a head alive through magic
-> jackie boy the kid knows where head was taken hes holed up at these coordinates nearby huntsville  (adventure?)

1mil
offers information about dunscon
-> Rumors include:  Dunscon is dead.  Dunscon is about to destroy The Three.  Cs Missori has fallen due to Dunscons black magic. Duncon has a secret base (coordinates to secret base)

1mil recent coalition encryption codes

10mil 6is public key and blackmarket net email



Item Sales:
sells all robot programs from p56 sb1

sells forged coalition documents

sells cybernetics including datajack remote datalink radio, noise filter, amp hearing, mo eye, tracer bug

sells se sonic pulsar unit for electronic flea and tick repelent p60sb1

sells 10mm ramjet rounds

Services - d4x10000cr per use

interpret Golden Age Weaponsmiths Law +10 iq 18 8th level law skill

computer hacking

setup encrypted radio links, radio scrambler

camouflage

salvage

contact guntersville

gambling

Jobs - pay d4x10000 cr/person/rescue

Smuggling.  (mainly people out of the north, to the south).

Rescue Tin Duhk's head.

Build Folsons a Shelter

Salvage nearby area area for items to build shelter with or sell.

Smuggle Folsons to Gunterville once they can be moved

Betti Lou the Saloon Girl


Steampunk girl. by ReflexStudio on deviantART

Betti Lou is a 2nd level Saloon girl.  Her adventuring days started when her saloon and fadetown "Whisperland" was overrun by undead.
Merl saved her and they have been together on the run ever since.

IQ 16 ME 10 MA 18 PS 8 PE 10 PP 16 PB 21 SPD 14
20hp 40sdc
+2 init
+2 roll
+2 vs hf
+1 strike /+2 w/ sword / +3 aimed/+1 burst with pistol
+5 parry +6 parry with sword/+5 dodge

Skills:
Speak English, Dragonese,Demongogian
Cooking +15 Singing +15  Dancing +20 seduction +23
horsemanship general +10
lore magic and dbee +15
streetwise +14
wp energy pistol
wp sword

hth basic upgraded to hth expert due to training with Merl.



2 rogue skills
Prowl +10
concealment +10
6 other skills
trick riding
card sharp  +10
radio basic +5
radio scrambler +5
literacy english +15
hth expert

3 Secondary Skills
first aid
computer operation
athletics

Gear:

Horse named Lucy, saddle, saddlebags
Riding dress w/
concealed tx-5 pump pistol + 2 clips
folding concealed silver sword
2 bottles of whiskey, riding boots, mirror, bottle of bourbon, camping gear, handcuffs, language translator, pocket audiorecorder/radio/scrambler/computer, 12 computer disks, cig lighter and cigs, pen flashlight, wooden cross.
Wagon, cooking and camping equipment, 1 weeks rations.  NV goggles.