Re: Steve's Session Notes
Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2025 9:09 am
September 16th 2025
Leaving the base of the cargo lifts at Fort Bump in the morning and heading towards Tin City, the group encounters a trader who swaps with One Shot a Electrocutioner for the Houndscatcher. This summons lightning and doesn't need a full moon to recharge. The trader tells them about Onyx who they meet a bit further on. He's a guide for hire, his price being a stick of chalk and a human corpse per week. One Shot finds this a bit ghoulish but a deal is struck as he seems to have knowledge of many places, and even inside Bravo City. On their way to Tin City, an ambush by some Scraplings is spotted. They are hidden in the ashes off the side of the track under their shells but retreat as soon as it's clear that the heavily armed travellers have seen them.
A night is spent in Tin City. Onyx and Sven enjoy the hospitality of Silver, head of the city (really more of a village). General Lin and One Shot spend the night at Smiffy's, the other pub where the General discovers the pleasures of a rather potent ale (Headkick?). Urged by One Shot to have one more pint so he won't remember the taste in the morning, does so and it works, but he has a nasty hangover. Between them they find out that most people seem to know about the secret tunnel, that there is unrest in Bravo City between the wardens as Deputy Slate plans to kill the currents chief warden's daughter, Fightless Mentzi, and claim her inheritance. Also, The Twig Witches do their endless dance, cowering near strange statues in great numbers. One Shot gets in with the cook and learns how to butcher soot shrimp for the barbie in exchange for helping in the kitchen and repairing the chef's apron.
The next day, it's snowing black flakes and they pass an upturned church covered in crosses. According to Onyx, it's where Rhinestone lives and he thinks that crosses will repel the bloodsucking soot shrimp. Next is The Memorial of Immaculate Revenge. A graveyard of ash statues looking up towards the clouded sky. Two Twig Twitches are scolding a hapless Scrapling who has stolen 18 ash noses. He is torn apart by moving statues. The group are hiding behind the low wall around the graveyard and find a traveller there, a young mage called Stellmer who has been drawn to this place by dreams of an Angel under the crashed city. They are from Gamma City and have somehow made it this far. They agree to voyage together. Onyx suggests they go rest up in the fuselage of a crashed sky barge.
The next day (I may have got the timing wrong here but it doesn't matter) Lord Sven spots someone in hiding in the graveyard. It's the Cloud Empress. She has a nasty wound. They take her to the safe haven and One Shot does a great job of fixing her up. However during the discussion, One Shot and General Lin between them mention that she's the Cloud Empress and that she can grant wishes. Which would have been fine except that Onyx and Stellmer were there. Onyx is fine but Stellmer is in shock about this. They leave the two strangers and discuss things more privately. Cloud, to whom One Shot gives the name Mia, is worried about what will happen now as Skull is stalking her, having stabbed her while trying to persuade her to grant him a wish. And one of the rumours they heard in Fort Bump is that Skull was wandering the crater. But Mia believes she is probably safest staying with the group. However at this point Onyx comes in to say that Stellmer has disappeared. Lord Sven finds her footprints. She must have turned invisible and ran off. She had given a list of spells she knows but hadn't mentioned this one, just Levitation and Stomach Portal. They follow the footprints to the tunnel but daren't go in as they don't know if it's safe until the afternoon. They hide in the graveyard until it's time to go, however, shortly after a group of scraplings emerge from the tunnel and put a little blue flag up. A couple of them decide to loot the graveyard for noses but One Shot takes a strong dislike to this and with General Lin and some big guns, urges them to move on.
The session finishes with One Shot and Lord Sven discussing the terms of the former's contract with the latter but the matter is still not resolved.
September 23rd 2025
The group goes through the tunnel into Bravo City which looks like it has been shattered by several earthquakes. They encounter two men struggling to carry a recalcitrant wardrobe. It turns out to be a piece of sentient furniture named Goose that the two antiquarians are returning to the Palace for when the emperor returns. They discuss the situation of the city Wardens who run their city and the Fightless, who are their underclass. They are taking the group to the Palace when some Fightless are spotted but they soon retreat. However they are shortly followed by three wardens wearing power suits and armed with Electrocutioners and a Heat Cutter. One Shot and Mia (Cloud's cover name) take cover while Lord Sven shows them his warrant which they poo poo. He and General Lin surrender their weapons and are marched off to the west.
As it gets dark they come to an arena. General Lin notices that the Heat Cutter doesn't have any power so Lord Sven uses the cover of darkness to use a Crest of Sudden Sorrow on one of the armed guards, while One Shot, who has been stalking them fires his heat cutter on the other, destroying his groin, he falls unconscious to the ground. General Lin dodges a blow from the Warden using the heat cutter as a club and cuts open the sack containing weapons. Lord Sven grabs the electrocutioner on the ground and fries the sorrowful Warden, not enough to drop him but the runs off into the night. The Warden with the unloaded guns flees too but Lord Sven uses the other electrocutioner and explodes him before he can get very far.
In the meantime, a woman, Bugtra, has approached One Shot and Mia and asks if they might help her deal with the Permastorm. They agree and she leads them into the arena, past three tame imagos to her quarters. She explains that she has a plan that requires at least four powerful magicians and a quantity of chalk. She has a list of likely candidates so the group set off to find the first one, Praten the Poisoner who tends to the Twig Witches of the Coven of the Restful Dead. The plan is that the mages together will activate some machinery which will give access to a memory of Bravo City as it was before its fall which the group will explore and find the instructions of how to turn off the Permastorm before they were destroyed. This memory is that of the Angel, a sentient starship in a cavern under Bravo City. This is the Angel that calls to magicians to free it from its prison. Bugtra also feels the call and would like also to free the Angel, but only after the Permastorm has been stopped.
Leaving the base of the cargo lifts at Fort Bump in the morning and heading towards Tin City, the group encounters a trader who swaps with One Shot a Electrocutioner for the Houndscatcher. This summons lightning and doesn't need a full moon to recharge. The trader tells them about Onyx who they meet a bit further on. He's a guide for hire, his price being a stick of chalk and a human corpse per week. One Shot finds this a bit ghoulish but a deal is struck as he seems to have knowledge of many places, and even inside Bravo City. On their way to Tin City, an ambush by some Scraplings is spotted. They are hidden in the ashes off the side of the track under their shells but retreat as soon as it's clear that the heavily armed travellers have seen them.
A night is spent in Tin City. Onyx and Sven enjoy the hospitality of Silver, head of the city (really more of a village). General Lin and One Shot spend the night at Smiffy's, the other pub where the General discovers the pleasures of a rather potent ale (Headkick?). Urged by One Shot to have one more pint so he won't remember the taste in the morning, does so and it works, but he has a nasty hangover. Between them they find out that most people seem to know about the secret tunnel, that there is unrest in Bravo City between the wardens as Deputy Slate plans to kill the currents chief warden's daughter, Fightless Mentzi, and claim her inheritance. Also, The Twig Witches do their endless dance, cowering near strange statues in great numbers. One Shot gets in with the cook and learns how to butcher soot shrimp for the barbie in exchange for helping in the kitchen and repairing the chef's apron.
The next day, it's snowing black flakes and they pass an upturned church covered in crosses. According to Onyx, it's where Rhinestone lives and he thinks that crosses will repel the bloodsucking soot shrimp. Next is The Memorial of Immaculate Revenge. A graveyard of ash statues looking up towards the clouded sky. Two Twig Twitches are scolding a hapless Scrapling who has stolen 18 ash noses. He is torn apart by moving statues. The group are hiding behind the low wall around the graveyard and find a traveller there, a young mage called Stellmer who has been drawn to this place by dreams of an Angel under the crashed city. They are from Gamma City and have somehow made it this far. They agree to voyage together. Onyx suggests they go rest up in the fuselage of a crashed sky barge.
The next day (I may have got the timing wrong here but it doesn't matter) Lord Sven spots someone in hiding in the graveyard. It's the Cloud Empress. She has a nasty wound. They take her to the safe haven and One Shot does a great job of fixing her up. However during the discussion, One Shot and General Lin between them mention that she's the Cloud Empress and that she can grant wishes. Which would have been fine except that Onyx and Stellmer were there. Onyx is fine but Stellmer is in shock about this. They leave the two strangers and discuss things more privately. Cloud, to whom One Shot gives the name Mia, is worried about what will happen now as Skull is stalking her, having stabbed her while trying to persuade her to grant him a wish. And one of the rumours they heard in Fort Bump is that Skull was wandering the crater. But Mia believes she is probably safest staying with the group. However at this point Onyx comes in to say that Stellmer has disappeared. Lord Sven finds her footprints. She must have turned invisible and ran off. She had given a list of spells she knows but hadn't mentioned this one, just Levitation and Stomach Portal. They follow the footprints to the tunnel but daren't go in as they don't know if it's safe until the afternoon. They hide in the graveyard until it's time to go, however, shortly after a group of scraplings emerge from the tunnel and put a little blue flag up. A couple of them decide to loot the graveyard for noses but One Shot takes a strong dislike to this and with General Lin and some big guns, urges them to move on.
The session finishes with One Shot and Lord Sven discussing the terms of the former's contract with the latter but the matter is still not resolved.
September 23rd 2025
The group goes through the tunnel into Bravo City which looks like it has been shattered by several earthquakes. They encounter two men struggling to carry a recalcitrant wardrobe. It turns out to be a piece of sentient furniture named Goose that the two antiquarians are returning to the Palace for when the emperor returns. They discuss the situation of the city Wardens who run their city and the Fightless, who are their underclass. They are taking the group to the Palace when some Fightless are spotted but they soon retreat. However they are shortly followed by three wardens wearing power suits and armed with Electrocutioners and a Heat Cutter. One Shot and Mia (Cloud's cover name) take cover while Lord Sven shows them his warrant which they poo poo. He and General Lin surrender their weapons and are marched off to the west.
As it gets dark they come to an arena. General Lin notices that the Heat Cutter doesn't have any power so Lord Sven uses the cover of darkness to use a Crest of Sudden Sorrow on one of the armed guards, while One Shot, who has been stalking them fires his heat cutter on the other, destroying his groin, he falls unconscious to the ground. General Lin dodges a blow from the Warden using the heat cutter as a club and cuts open the sack containing weapons. Lord Sven grabs the electrocutioner on the ground and fries the sorrowful Warden, not enough to drop him but the runs off into the night. The Warden with the unloaded guns flees too but Lord Sven uses the other electrocutioner and explodes him before he can get very far.
In the meantime, a woman, Bugtra, has approached One Shot and Mia and asks if they might help her deal with the Permastorm. They agree and she leads them into the arena, past three tame imagos to her quarters. She explains that she has a plan that requires at least four powerful magicians and a quantity of chalk. She has a list of likely candidates so the group set off to find the first one, Praten the Poisoner who tends to the Twig Witches of the Coven of the Restful Dead. The plan is that the mages together will activate some machinery which will give access to a memory of Bravo City as it was before its fall which the group will explore and find the instructions of how to turn off the Permastorm before they were destroyed. This memory is that of the Angel, a sentient starship in a cavern under Bravo City. This is the Angel that calls to magicians to free it from its prison. Bugtra also feels the call and would like also to free the Angel, but only after the Permastorm has been stopped.