Seaslip
Edith appologises for being crap...
Session 14:
OK, no Edith's Diary this week, I wasn't happy how I role-played that session enough to write a diary in character so another player report. Sorry, when I was doing Bob it was easy, I simply did what I felt like, with Edith it's a little more complex. Meh, enough apologies on with the report.... Index ; What the F*ck
; Body
Count ; Who's playing Who ; What's been happening
Things started out all right, Bruce was away so he did an awful lot of guarding stuff, Vitenka rolled back slightly so that we basically started the session at the camp fire after the first visit to town. Pixie was with group, the general consensus being that Pixie was being tolerated rather than accepted by the group. Plans were made, or rather plans were discussed in the usual way we discuss things which is to suggest random ideas and let others shoot them down until Vitenka breaks down and reminds us what we had decided last time, at which point we undergo the entire discussion process again and come up with a completely different solution to the situation which is usually worse than the one we had before. This happened, it's funny to see Vitenka whine. We decided that Bitch and Pixie would return into town and get the satellite dish and find out what information they could while the others went off in search of the elusive shitload of humans who scare the works. To cut a long story short we found nothing. Bitch and Pixie on the other hand arrived on auction day in the market and found lots, for a start they found the satellite dish and bought it for a pistol and a sleeping bag. Moreover they found that there was a mysterious trade in people (well works) a small rat was bought and killed but then Rose the Tiger came up and sold herself for the contents of a building. Unfortunately Bitch and Pixie were unable to find out what actually happened to Rose which was a shame as it was probably a crucial plot point. Fortunately Pixie's attempt to sell Bitch, then a building that didn't belong to him was pretty funny so that worked.
Anywho Bitch and Pixie brought the satellite dish back to camp and we rigged it up to the radio. It was at this point that we debated about whether after going to so much trouble to get the satellite dish and rig it up to the radio we should actually turn it on. We're like that a lot. It was at this point that Pixie started to dance about and threaten to press random buttons until something broke. I was rather disappointed with the way I solved the situation, the correct way would have been to have Edith timidly stand up to Pixie wait for him to push her about a bit until she got really angry/desperate and then resort to the solution I thought up of "OK, I'm going to beat the shit out of him" It worked, it took me a while to clock on that Edith actually had a skill most of the others lacked, Hand to Hand Combat (albeit Edith uses Melee weapons but the upshot is the same) but I was eager to test the theory, too eager, immediately resorting to violence was a particularly Bob solution and I've been trying to avoid those.
But I digress (we often do that) the radio worked, the group contacted Kuri who told them to assume Alpha's mission and investigate SE1. A mysterious voice then interrupted and blew up the radio after giving the impression that it was the voice of the tower which had gone sentient. Only my character shouldn't have been able to figure that out (it required knowledge of the first session which she didn't have) but she did anyhow, once again an example of how I wasn't up to scratch that session, I do intend to punish myself for this quite severely throughout the report. Bitch also got some more information on the large group of humans at the market too. We decided to set off after them and surprisingly enough we found them.
There's something disturbing about 500 people who all speak simultaneously and claim to recognise you. There's something even more disturbing about them claiming to have once been a dragon. The really disturbing thing was when Pixie randomly knifed a rather friendly work so he could speak privately with Bitch, he's either slowly going totally insane (well more so) in which case he might find himself as a Koala-skin rug or really stupid, in which case he will probably also find himself winding up as a Koala-skin rug, it's a difficult choice really.
It was around this point that Spock decided to meditate and began to float, he slowly found himself in a state of enlightenment. Works attacked the group of humans (a "hoard" of six, somehow I think Vitenka deliberately tried to panic us with that word, it worked) we fought (like we had a choice) except for Bitch who decided to have a moral dilemma and Spock who decided to meditate for the secret of life and death and got his head ripped off.
It was at that point that the kill count for the campaign more than tripled, more specifically the innocent bystander count went up by a factor greater then 14 when Vitenka killed all 500 of the refugees (who count as innocent bystanders) by resurrecting Spock as a dragon that resembles something done by Geiger (It has been mentioned to me that this could conceivably include a painting based on a photograph of a model plaster cast of the artist's wife's genitalia but I figure Vitenka was more talking along the lines of the creature from Alien). Basically Spock is a big nasty black scaly, slimy creature of doom, despair and pure evil that looks like it was spawned by several of the more unpleasant demons of the lower pits of hell, he's quite nice about it though and let Bitch have his sleeping bag now he didn't need it anymore.
And thus the session ended, we talked assassins and then went our separate ways, Edith's diary will return, more disturbed and twisted than ever, just let some really bad happen first......