Session 35
With in the week following the defeat of Fiachra, Connel continues working and on the second day, and they have cleared everyone's account for the moment with false identities, complete with papers.
Rhapsody's is Raina Nalaal. Daniel is David Matthews. Sheri is Sarah Willaims.
Puk had a dream Sheri was whisked away by a creature with five arms. They head over to the entrance to the Spirit Realm. They don't find anything. They head towards the nearest gas station and don't find much of anything. Daniel says he can try magically and they head back to beach.
They head out and Connel puts out a report on the bike. A couple hours later, they find out where it was found, abandoned and had been in a wreck. Interviewing the folks at the gas station, they get the camera tapes and see a Roto Rooter van speed by.
At the precinct, they get to the traffic control cameras and find the time frame when Sheri disappeared. They get the license number and see a black taloned finger on the hand that's on the window. Connel puts out an APB on the van. There was a huge flare of magic and they head towards it.
Puk sees a rope and they head down the alley. The rope dangles over the lip of the building. Connell goes out to check out the doors then calls dispatch to see what business operates from the address. Rhapsody smells the goblins. The two businesses are Med Tech Pharmaceutacals and an Imporium the private residence of Harold Windslow.
Puk goes up the rope, it gets cut, he turns to an owl and circles. A few seconds later, there is some commotion from the roof. Rhapsody leaps up and only gets into the second floor. Connel, while looking around, gets a call from dispatch of a break in at the location. Connel has them hold off the nearest unit till he says otherwise.
Daniel levitates Rhaps and Connel upwards.
As Daniel gets Rhaps's sword, and a cop car pulls up. Connel gets their attention and Daniel vanishes. Rhaps hears something on the floor below and heads to look.
Daniel gets to the 2nd floor and sees one of the cops looking in the Escalade. He calls Connel and tells him. Connelt tells him to hang up, which he does. Then Connel wonders what he will do about it.
Rhapsody heads right and then up a stairwell, following the scent with Puk. Connel follows behind and uses his gift to follow behind.
Rhaps sees nothing but feels two sharp stabs in her back as something buries weapons into her and she falls forward. Pukwudji yells, 'Watch out!' and they see insect legs, tho huge and sharp like blades, withdraw. Connel catches up.
Daneil calls and they figure out their're on different stairwells. Daniel hears something come from the stairs above and head down towards him. He tries to go through the door and they pass him by on the stairwell.
Rhapsody waits to heal up some and then she is racked with pain in her stomach then heads up to follow and catch u pwith Connel and Puk. The door to Harold Windslow's place has been battered down. Daniel catches up and gives Rhaps her sword. They find a floor safe in the apartment that has been ripped open. Daniel finds a book.
Rhapsody says to Daniel that they may have gotten the itme for Lascitide. They head down the stairs and hear gunshots. When they get to the bottom, they see the bodies of the two officers. Rhaps finds the scents and they go after the one that leads to the alleyway. Connel pulls the Escalade away as the others head to track the critter. They find nothing and the scent is fading fast.
Connel goes to talk to the cops, giving very bare basics of what happened. Rhaps calls Ramirez. They get the video from the cars and head to Rameriz and Muller to look at the tape. The critter that attacked Rhaps was the thing that Puk saw in his vision taking Sheri.
______________________________________________
Session 36
Dan and Avendi get back to the cottage. There is a message from Sheri, saying she is drained and is too tired to see where she is, but things she's at the McDOnald's of Sutter Street & 32nd Ave. Rhaps calls Connell
Connell gets there first and sees Sheri there in a booth, wrapped in a quilt. He looks around and goes over, telling Sheri looks like shit.
Connel hand over his backup gun and as he touches Sheri, he gets a vision of the warehouse, a cloaked person with a staff, and a glowing column of fire being made.
The other two show up and Sheri
Sheri doesn't have anything she was wearing before, including the pendant of protection after she was taken to a warehouse. Sheri saw the pyramid, Chereshe's key.
Thinking perhaps that Cheresche was gonna use Sheri as the vessel for Lascitide.
Sheri remembered that the fire elemental melted her sword.
They hear a fire truck go by and they get into the vehicles to follow.
Rhaps gets a call from Martin. She passes it to Daniel. He talks to Martin saying they have something they'd want and would like to meet. And he tells Martin that, no, they did not cause the damage.
Rhaps, Sheri and Daniel suit up in the the fire fighting gear and they head in. The crew that came in head out, minus one. The captain of the crew tries to get them to get out, but Rhaps tosses him out.
They head further in and get to a room like where Sheri was held. Tangled up in chains from the ceiling is the firefighter. RHaps moves towards him and a column of smoke and ash comes down to coaleasce into an elemental. He says he does not want Rhaps or Daniel, but wants Sheri to finish the compact as was promised.
It warns Daniel to not utter a syllable or he will die in fire.
It starts for Sheri, warning her that if she doesn't give herself to it, it will kill Daniel and Rhapsody. Puk tells Sheri there is a door with little flame. Sheri tries a mind scream, which doesn't quite work, so it lashes out. Daniel tries to dismiss, telling it to begone. A cold wind draws around it. It hisses and implodes.
Rhapsody takes off the kit and goes in tiger form, tugs the fireman down, catches him, sets him down and gets dressed, then picks up the firefighter and head after them.
The other firefighters get the trio out of there and the paramedics see to them. The firecheif has Rhaps, Daniel and Sheri sit to the side. Daniel does his hideaway and they head to the SUV to meet up with Martin.
Rhapsody asks Puk who the best healer of the spirit folks. Puk says that would be Old Turtle Woman. Rhaps tells the group that after she reverted from the feral form, she had sharp stomach pains that passed eventually.
They call Martin to set up a meet and head to the docks. Daniel passes over the book and tells Martin what happened. What was stolen was an Atrucian Seal regarding flames of the living and the dead. Rhapsody notes the pyramid was there as well.
Another of the Sentinels was killed an attacked, something was stolen. A Sumerian idol with earth affinities.
They head to the spirit realm cave to rest at the Elk lodge, then head to the lake. Midafternoon of the second day they get to the lake. They pick blackberries and munch. After a while, a girl comes, and Puk says it's Old Turtle Woman's granddaughter. She is offered blackberries and is asked if her grandmother is taking visitors. She goes to check and returns in a boat, with which she takes the group to an island.
Sitting inside her lodge is a very old woman and she has everyone sit around her fire. Rhaps tells her what happened and said she come to Old Turtle Woman as she is the greatest healer Puk knows.
Old Woman Turtle has everyone leave and Rhapsody
Rhaps awakes is on the canoe, with OWT who is throwing pebbles. She tells Rhaps that a new spirit is bound to her. And when she transforms, the spirit clings tightly in fear so causes the pain. When it feels that RHaps will hold it, the pain will stop. It is an old soul and she doesn't know when it will reach maturity.
Rhapsody accepts this and only tells the others that OTW says she is okay.
Sheri remembers that the robe guy said something about completing the Seal of Scamandril. Daniel remembers something in Fiachra's book. They go to the lodge and one of the Brothers enters and gives Daniel the book.
Scamandril is an Atlantean artificer, the premier artificer of the last age. Connel gets the camera for them to take pictures of the book for Underground.
Daniel stays behind as does Sheri. RHaps takes Connel to meet with Charlie.
______________________________________________
Session 37
Daniel researches the book as Sheri trains her mindtalk ability. Connell is dropped off with Charlie for training and Rhaps head to the cottage for some downtime.
Ashley calls and Rhapsody tells her of their adventures with the fire elemental. She's spoken with Meriden who is trying to get the group an audience with the De Danan (Atalal lords) to help with information to try and get Cheresche's location. Rhaps requests that another medallion be made as Sheri's lost hers. This first day goes by uneventfully.
While relaxing in the forest, napping, Sheri dreams that she is back in the cottage, working at the computer. The doorbell rings, she goes to answer it, she notices that she's Rhapsody in one of the mirrors in hallway. You open the door as there is a full fledged grim reaper screams a death scream as it lashes with a scythe.
Sheri runs to get Daniel.
Rhapsody is at her computer and gets an IM. She clicks on it and it says, "Knock knock." Rhapsody grabs weapons and her speakers as a Sesame streets.
One of these kids are of on their own
One of these kids is not protected
Doorbell rings. "That's a little gift for you"
Rhapsody goes around the house, armed, calling Ramerez. She waits and the driver leaves. She gets the tag from the door.
Sheri calls and tells of the dream she had. Rhapsody tells of the incident and the doorbell rings again. A jag is parked in front. A blonde guy in a nice suit with a suitcase.
He introduces himself as Brian Wallace and says he represents Lord Cheresche. Depending on the aswer to his question, Cheresce would give some leeway. He goes into the house by pushing the door off its hinges to opne it. The question he wants answered is the location of the Voice. Rhapsody tries to break for the car, but he appears and shuts the door. The call ended as if Rhaps went into a tunnel or out of service range.
Sheri goes to flag down a car, a van with an ugly guy pulls over. They don't get the ride.
Rhapsody gets a beer from the fridge, offers one to Wallace, but he declines. The offer is that there will be the cessation of hostilities for 6 months or until the agreement is broken by Rhaps or her friends, in return for the location and access to the Voice. Rhaps declines to make an agreement and notes that either their all in or no one is in, in such deals. Wallace asks if she is sure as a friend of theirs will be dead. Rhapsody says she is sure as she'd rather be dead than to give Cheresche anything and she goes furry.
Sheri flags down a car driven by a pair of black guys and they get a ride. Daniel does hideaway on the license plate.
Again, Rhapsody declines in giving the name. Wallace attacks, Rhapsody blocks then slices open his stomach. However, he ends up healed and Rhapsody is wounded.
Rhaps tries to grab hold to toss Wallace into the living room. She misses, and he drives an elbow into her face, and his knee comes up and hits, rockng her back
Sheri tells the guys to drive like they're invisible as Daniel uses hideaway on the car as the cops get behind and start chasing.
Rhaps summons her tigers. Wallace grab ahold and shoves Rhapsody into the ceiling and she moves to protect her stomach, then drops to the table. Two tigers attack and Wallace dodges.
Rhaps feints a kick to Wallaces groin, but doesn't fall for it, and she goes out the window. Three kitties attack but he dodges them Rhaps goes into full tiger and books it. Wallace goes through the window, followed by the kitties.
Rhaps heads for the trees, then to the pastures. She hops over the fence and Wallace leaps over, trying to catch her and she evades. As he falls, Rhapsody is in the copse and activates her camoflague. Wallace's eyes glow as he looks around, then is mobbed by tigers.
The tigers move to keep Wallace pinned and Rhapsody tries to sneak towards one of the houses. Wallace snaps the necks of the remaining tigers.
"This is a delaying tactic at best. The offer still stands. We can still go back to the house and sign papers and you will live. Or perhaps I will go back to the house and wait. Do you see the futility of your actions."
He gets out the cellphone and calls. After the call is over he says that the offer was increased to a year.
Rhaps tries to scoot away, but she is seen and he leaps out at her. She tries to flip him over, but he keeps hold and tries to drive a knee into her. She manage to block that.
Meanwhile, one of the brothers almost looses control of the car.
They keep rolling and Wallace pummels Rhaps into unconsciousness. He then drags Rhaps through the woods to the car. He gets out a bag and gives a call, asking what is to be done with Rhaps. He squirts something out of syringe and Rhapsody is injected. Rhapsody is stuffed in the back seat
At this time Sheri and Daniel arrive. Daniel calls Rhaps' phone and they hear it inside the house. The black guys ask if there is anything they can help with. The driver says he'll take care of things and goes up to Wallace. Sheri and Damien see the front door bashed in.
Sheri exclaims about the door being bashed in. Wallace says that Rhapsody was rather inhospitable and she is in the back of the car. Daniel says that they should leave. Sheri is trying to convince the two good Samaritans to get in the car and they leave.
Wallace tells them the deal. After some discussion and hemming and hawing, Daniel answers with a soulfire. It hits him, knocking him back against the Jag, arcs and swirls around, then redirects towards Daniel, nuking his shield. Sheri tries a holy fire, knocks him down to his knees and they see this form of a giant undead monstrosity flicking in and out of existence. It's screaming and he stands. In an inhuman voice says, "Don't do that again!"
Back in lawyer form, he jumps and runs after Sheri. Sheri does another fire and Wallace dives out of the way. Wallace comes up onto his feet and tries to grab Sheri by the throat and dares Sheri to do it again. Daniel draws his knife.
"The blade you've drawn suggests you don't wish to sign the contract, is this true?" Wallace turns Sheri around and has an arm lock around her neck as he holds her a shield.
Daniel says, "Yeah."
"Very well," and he punches Sheri on the side of the head. She survives and manages to stay conscious.
Daniel charges and misses completely.
Wallace drops Sheri and the air suddenly gets very thick, like a storm brewing. A thin line of light appears above the gravel of the driveway and starts to spread. And in a blink, a portal opens up, and through it steps Meirden with robes and his sword glittering and he charges and swings his sword at Wallace.
Wallace grabs the upraised hand and they struggle back and forth. Daniel goes to heal Sheri.
Meridan gets a swipe in along the torso. It hisses and blackness, Meridan also staggers, but the golem flashes in again, but Wallace is still injured.
Sheri hits Wallace with the holy flames again. He uses the opportunity to shove his sword through the now mostly flesh golemn form. He is then knocked away and Wallace golemn turns and hisses at the group, before running away at inhuman speed.
"Never been bit by my own sword." Meridan says.
Daniel opens the door and Rhapsody tumbles out.
Meridan says that Sheri needs to stay with him and that Daniel and Rhaps will need to go to the voice. Daniel gets Rhaps' normal stuff, Daniel gives Sheri his knife after packing the sleeping tigress into the Escalade.
Meridan opens the portal and takes Sheri through. Daniel drives off.
______________________________________________
Session 38
Rhapsody wakes up and she and Daniel catch each other up on the events and head to a wal-mart to get leathermans. And they head off to get a new vehicle and get a brand new suburban. Daniel gives Ashley a call. Rhapsody doesn't draw, so they went back to walmart and got clay for Daniel to try to sculpt with.
Sheri wakes up in a bed in a small room in a cottage. Looking out the window there is a beach with horses running along the shoreline. Sheri walks around to see if there is anyone else about. She finds a basket in the kitchen with bread, cheese and some other munchies. As she eats, she hears footsteps and sees Meriden walking up, attired in his tweed suit.
"Oh good, you're awake. I keep this place for times of convalescence."
Meriden thinks that the glimpses of Wallace was its true form and a powerful minion of Cheresche, Sheri calls it the 'Reflectadon'. They were among the upper echelons of guardians for the Balial.
Meriden gives Sheri a new amulet. He has been trying to get the shades of the Altalal, called the Tuatha de Danaan. Sheri follows Meriden to the beach, scaring the horses.
"I'm not sure exactly where you'll land, but it will be some where in Northport."
She goes through the portal and is in a hallway, and finds she's in the Northport General Hospital.
Rhapsody goes to UPS to try and pick up the package that was to be delivered. Rhaps leaves amessage for connel to call them back. There is a small item wrapped and there is a note that says 'Blow this to run away from Mr. Wonderful'. In the paper is a silver Atlantean whistle that has runes.
Connel gets back in from a day's hike with Charlie and gets Rhapsody's message.
Pic of sculpture is sent to Robert Kennedy and Ashley. Daniel uses his soulfire and Rhaps' club to try and channel through the club to 'purify' the soulfire through.
They get to Charlies and stay there the night. Following day, at breakfast, Connel sees a raging fire and a robed figure holds the pyramid to the fire. One of the arms is translucent and made of patterns of swirling…
Connel blinks awake in his breakfast and tells of the vision.
Sheri calls Daniel.
Connel's phone ring. Rameriz says that there was an incident on Coving Island, something widespread. Connel puts on the radio and finds a news station.
The report is of a nuclear sub has run aground and Essex is under quarantine due to the radiation.
They pick up Sheri and go to the docks and are met by Agent Richards. Rameriz meets them and takes them below to explain the situation
They head into the island. Daniel sees a body. They check it out and just see it to be a dead man. They try the guy's car and it doesn't start. They also find a high heel, then a bit in the grass another one. Rhaps changes, tries to track and looses the track.
10 mins up the road and they ifnd another car. They open the door and a woman with a gaping hole falls out. There is yellow goo in the car which smells like ammonia to Rhapsody.
Muller says there's something thinking near by. A shape runs by in the shadows. They continue on. After a few moments, Daniel senses an essence spike in the south.
Connel uses his mindtime and sees a figure walking down the road, shuffling, there are others, all once human in various states of decomposition, towards the town square. Several of them have the holes in their chest, but not all.
Thye have Rhaps go to the square, after Daniel does a hideaway on her. She sees the circle and makes note of the runes. She sees a figure move in a second story window. She gets back to the group, they head for the Zodiac and as they get to the car in the ditch they see the woman is gone. They get to the parking lot and Connel notices that he's been scratching.
They get to the pier and hear something splash. The Zodiac is half deflated when they get there. They try the radio, then fire off a flare.
Sheri shines a flashlightthrough the office doore, the beam crosses something like the spider beast thingie, comes into being. The shadowy shape lunges at Sheri and she manages to dodge out of the way.
Rhapsody swings and misses the shape. Sheri tries to find a clean shot as does Connel. Muller says it's thinking something. Daniel sees it go out the door.
Muller says that it's calling for help. Sheri fires a double-tap, the first shot misses, and the second shot does as well. Rhapsody sees it and rips a hole in the ceiling. Connel goes outside after it. He sees six figures shambling towards the doors. He fires a shot at the head, it takes one step forward and falls as the head explodes. Daniel hears a thump and sees a shape at the window of the office. He tosses a soul fire at said shape and it drops.
Sheri goes to shoot two of the zombies in succession and they keep walking. RHaps waits till they get closer. Connel aims another head shot and misses. Muller shoots and hits a shoulder. Rhaps lops off a zombie head. Connel dodges one zombie to be grabbed by the other. Rhapsody disarms one of the ones attacking and the other grabs on to her. Daniel pops a shield on Connel.
Rhapsody rips into the guts of the zombie and doesn't quite kill it. Daniel puts a shield on Rhapsody then hears a window break. Sheri takes a shot on one zombie on Connel. Connel tries to break the grapple and gets out. Daniel hears a thumping sound and there is a sharp pain, which he survives and he remains conscious. There is a grey hook embedded in him. Zombie bites Rhapsody's shield. The other zombie tries to grab Rhaps and misses. Connel's zombie tries to grapple him and succeeds. Muller takes three shots at the thingie attacking Daniel. The hook slides out of Daniel as the creature leaps back.
Sheri goes to drag Daniel out. Rhapsody gets out of the brawl. Muller backs towards the front doors, taking a couple of shots at nothing. Connel tries to beak out but still doesn't make it. The two zombies latch on to Rhapsody. Connel keeps his zombie from munching on him. Daniel tries to do lesser healing and just can't concentrate through the pain.
Rhaps tries for a head shot and misses. Sheri tugs Daniel away. Muller goes up and puts the gun to Connel's zombie's head and fires, killing it, deafening the cop. Daniel tries to heal himself again and fails. Rhaps gets chomped by the first zombie at the jugular and something gets in through its teeth as does the other zombie. Connel goes up and uses Muller's maneuver, killing a zombie.
Sheri fires at a critter and the first shot misses, then the second hits, knocking it backwards. The hooks leaves gouge marks on the carpet as it slides back. Muller doubletaps at the creature as well and misses. Rhaps beheads the last zombie and Daniel tries to heal himself, but is still not successful. Connel notices the critter and fires three shots, hitting with the first, missing the second and third shot. It disappears back into the gloom.
They get to the parking lot and Connel stabilizes Daniel as they see figures in the diminishing light coming up the road.
______________________________________________
Session 39
Shapes continue to approach out of the treeline out of the town along the road. There
appear to around 30. Rhapsody picks up Daniel and they head down the shoreline trail.
Connel’s hairline is itchy as he sweats, and Daniel is also feeling itchy.
The trail is fairly easy, but there are some rocky areas to climb up. After about 4
minutes, Daniel tries to do some healing again and succeeds. The area around where
Daniel was impaled knits together but leaves a splotchy looking bruise.
They hear a helicopter off in the distance. Sheri goes to aim up the flare gun. The
engine on the helicopter stutters and off towards the trees towards town is a blinking
light, and then it descends rather rapidly. There is the distant sound of crashing metal
and there is a slight glow.
Muller stops and concentrates to see if she can sense anyone. And yes, she can, but it’s
no one she recognizes.
They continue south and come to a place where the trail goes into the woods or go
towards the rocky areas where it’s harder going and slow. The itch has started on
Rhapsody as it becomes to the point of distraction for Connel, and it’s getting that way
for Daniel.
After another fifteen minutes they are going over rocks. Rhapsody stops and smells
kobalid, up the trail. Connel shines a light and only sees about thirty feet behind.
Daniel heals himself, but the stain doesn’t go away. They continue on.
They climb up an area of scree and rock, Daniel senses another large essence
expenditure from town, which continues for at least a minute. They continue on and
look for a defensible position. Connel sees nothing but feels something hit him from
behind and pierces his back it’s a prick, but does get through the armor and physical
shield. He gets knocked to the ground, gashing his hand on a rock.
Rhapsody and Sheri look over and first think that Connel just fell, but see a distortion
and one of the cloaked spider thingies.
Rhapsody waits for Sheri who does a double-tap. It jumps off Connel’s back and seems
to rise straight into the air. The first shot misses and the second shot hits, knocking
it sideways and it veers off. Rhapsody leaps up with her sword and misses her strike.
Muller shines her flashlight around and it’s right at her face when it is shown in the
light. One of it’s lower legs takes Muller right through the neck, her shots go wild and
she falls with a thud, gurgle screaming. It turns and faces Sheri. Daniel doesn’t see
the critter, and goes to assist Muller but is unable to heal. Connel shines his light right
on it and shoots at it and hits but does little damage, the second shot also hits more
squarely, spinning it and hits the rocks, but it stands back up.
Rhapsody goes to try and chop the bug and hits, chopping down the middle, almost
cleaved in half.
From somewhere down the coast area, Connel sees a red dot move across the rocks
onto Sheri.
“Sheri, drop!”
Sheri drops and rolls. High powered rifle fires and misses. Daniel tries to heal Muller
and she calms her thrashing, but does pass out. Connel shines his light towards the
snipers.
Rhapsody is about to chop off the things leg. She tries to get folks to cover, and they
hear a growling from where the shot was. They recognize the sound of the kobala
giant things. Daniel puts up a physical shield. Connel uses his view ability to try and
See where the sniper and kobalid is. One of the man sized ones is in black leather and
has a high powered rifle aimed. Other kobalids are around. A figure comes up behind
the kobalid, almost looking like a Hollywood mummy, wrapped in gauze with just an
opening where eyes would be, but there is only darkness. It reaches to the kobalid and
rips it head off.
Connel relates what he saw and they hear screaming kobalids. Rhapsody sees a
coalesced darkness coming across the rocks. Rhapsody gives Sheri the club as she
readies her sword. The darkness jumps on a rock and the darkness dissipates.
“You must follow me if you wish to live,” it says in a hollow and gravelly voice.
Sheri asks who it works for. Rhapsody says there is no time and they follow. Connel
sees zombies making their way through the meadow. Daniel is getting winded. They
pause, Rhapsody hands Sheri Muller and Rhapsody picks up Daniel.
Ten minutes into the woods, he turns and stops and asks if Daniel can mask them for 10 minutes. They wade into a creek as Daniel gets ready to cast. Then they go once the hideaway is cast. Sometimes he stops and looks around as if trying to figure out which
way to go. After another 6 minutes, they come to a dirt road and head down it where
there are mailboxes with driveways. He heads down one and Daniel is able to drop the
spell.
The mummy says that there may be zombies and any sound will alert them. There is
an open garage, sprawling porch, no car and no lights. Rhapsody goes to the garage
and the door into the house is open. Rhapsody activates camouflage and searches the
house. It’s clear.
Mummy man says he doesn’t have much time. The ritual was of Chereshe, but was
not he who created it. It is a sorcerer who has gained immense power from the key.
The circle is where it was cast in the center. There are four compass points where the
zombies bring him energy to give him more powerful. He suggests killing the guardians
at the cardinal points and destroy the points, then face the sorcerer. There is no way
to protect themselves from the goings on. He came himself and had helped before with
the phone calls. The flying things are called Fengral demons. Nothing begins to unravel
and fade. He says that the sorcerer is north of the town square.
Daniel does a healing on Muller and the others search the house for supplies. They get
food. Rhapsody finds a 9mm handgun on a shelf in the closet with a box of ammo.
Sheri sees a zombie out the window and signals the others. They head out the back
door. They pad out the door as quietly as possible. They go out through the shrubs
and head back towards town. They get to the main cross street, avoiding a few other
zombies that are milling about.
They see there are half a dozen zombies just either standing around, one shuffling down
the street away from the party and they keep around the houses out of sight, sneaking
around.
Daniel is about to do a hideaway, Muller has him stop and senses someone not too far.
It’s one of the helicopter pilots who is hiding. Muller doesn’t know who it is, so the
group agrees his best bet is probably to nuke the points. Daniel casts his spell and they
head down the street.
They see a group of 7 kobalid, the medium sized ones moving around in flack vests, just
wearing them and not much else. Connel has his spear and hands the shotgun to Daniel.
Daniel gets a sense of where to go and leads the way towards the Griswald inn. There
are a lot more zombies around and the group looks around for cover as the spell ticks
down. They go into the Victorian house. Rhapsody camouflages herself and stealths in,
she can only tell that there have been zombies, but can’t tell if there are any.
They look out the back and there are two zombies but nothing else. With a small
planning discussion, Muller then opens the door and curtain, Rhapsody steps out and
chops the head in two of one zombie. Sheri steps up with the club and bashes the head
in of the other one, falling to its knees and it groans. Connel comes in next to use the
spear and just barely misses. Daniel soulfires and turns the zombie to ash.
Somewhere through the trees towards the Griswald inn there is some other hissing
growl. They sneak out into the yard. Half way through the yard, Daniel steps on the
squeaky toy. On the other side of the yard, something starts hitting the fence, then it’s
joined by another, then another. Fingers tug at knotholes and they peek on the side to
the Griswald and see hedges and old trees and really nothing else. They get to the gate
and open it the squeak of the hinges not loud enough over the groaning.
Next yard has trees and a trampoline and four zombies. Rhapsody sees four zombies.
A zombie comes into the alley, followed by others. The group goes into the yard and
closes the gate.
Rhapsody goes to engage one zombie and cuts it in half. Sheri whiffs at her zombie as
she gets caught in the grass. Then Connel tries and whiffs as he gets caught in a garden
hose. Daniel tries to attack the same one with his knife and also whiffs. Muller
tries to knock the zombie down and pops it in the knee and it falls back partially. The
zombie tries to grab Sheri and she backs away.
Rhapsody sticks the sword it the zombie’s head but it’s still moving. Sheri goes for a
fresh one and hits, the head snapping and it collapses. Connel tries to hit and whiffs.
Daniel tries to stab and also whiffs but takes off a finger. Muller tries to kick in the
head and only gives a glancing blow. It tries to grab Daniel and manages to latch on to
his knife arm and gets a good grip on Daniel. One turns and lunges for Sheri, who dives
out of the way in style. The zombie half pulls itself off the sword.
Rhapsody goes to help Daniel and split it the back side of the skull and falls down. Sheri
attacks and misses. Connel goes for the zombie torso and only pins it briefly. Daniel
goes to help Connel and whiffs. Muller jumps on its back and tries for a stab to the
head, sticking the knife in, it’s still alive and writhing. The zombie on Sheri misses.
Rhapsody goes and punts the half zombie over the fence. Sheri goes and nicks it in
the shoulder. Connel sticks it in the chest. Daniel goes to check out the house, he picks
in the back door with his light and sees nothing. Muller looks around and runs over
towards a shed in the yard and grabs a shovel. Zombie turns and goes after Daniel.
Rhapsody goes up and kills the zombie, then the fence falls down. They go through
to the other side of the house. In the living room there is balcony and Connel sees a
zombie kid launches itself at him. Connel dodges. Rhapsody kills the child.
They go up and see the portico outside. Other zombies hear the ones in the house.
Rhapsody tells Daniel to levitate who he can, she’s going onto the roof. She leaps up as
Daniel readies a spell.
Rhapsody sees a kobalid with a rifle. She hucks a shingle to try and distracted and
beans a zombie on the head. Muller turns and trains her gun, firing at the window with
three shots. The kobalid drops back into the window. Sheri double taps to the window
enough to keep out of the window.
-----
______________________________________________
Session 40
Sheri goes to help Connel suppress the zombies coming up the stairs. Rhapsody gets a cable to act as whip. Daniel starts up his whirlwind and Rhaps turns into her female form as the others join up on the portico and get lifted up in the wind. Daniel directs the maelstrom towards the Griswald. Daniel sees the kobalid peek up to shoot again, and tries to get the whirlwind to an area of the roof that his … passengers can be set down. Daniel does get hit but his shield takes the damage. Connel and Sheri land hard on the porch, sense of balance gone and Sheri almost falls, but Rhaps grabs hold of her and yanks her back. Connel slams into a window, is knocked out for a second. He wakes and is rolling off the portico and into a rose bush. He turns around and pukes. Rhapsody gets the cable she took to Connel and yanks him back up. Daniel helps Muller and Sheri tries to get inside. She gets the window open and sees the bedroom is pink and froofy. Rhaps looks around for threats. Daniuel helps Muller inside who says that there is something really angry and then goes into the room. Sheri goes to listen at the door but hears nothing. Rhapsody tears down the trellis that zombies are climbing and heads insoide to listen ad the door. Daniel, Connel and Muller get their weapons ready and Muller concentrates that it something beyond that door. Rhaps peeks out and she is shot in the head, which makes her jerk and she falls down, growling in anger. Sheri prays for strength. Daniel casts hideaway on Rhapsody. Connel projects his sight down the hall to find the shooter. She sees two human-sized kobalids. Rhaps goes down the hall. The kobalid takes a shot, but misses as it’s a blind shot. Rhaps gets the gun up and swats her target into the other kobalid with a wet crunching sound. The one thrown, falls down and doesn’t get up. The other raises its gun and fires, but misses, taking out part of the wall. Sheri hauls down the hall with the club. Daniel follows as does Connel and Muller. Rhapsody tries to pounce the kobalid and it manages to dodge out of the way near the stairwell. Sheri and the others keep going down the hall. The kobalid dives down the stairs. Rhapsody follows and lands on the kobalid, killing it. Muller and Connel get the rifles, Connel tries to See through the door near the staris that they see before the group heads to the kitchen. Muller backs him up as he goes to listen at the door. He hears thumbping coming right at the door before it splinters open. Connel goes flying backwards, ass over teakettle. The ogre sized kobalid charges and trips over Connel. Rhapsody turns around and leaps forward, letting instinct take over to try and get the back of the neck, but the kobalid rolls out of the way. Muller spins and takes a double-taps, missing both times. Sheri pulls a Rhapsody to club the kobalid like a baby seal and connects, slamming it at the back of the head to where it’s stars and birds have stars and birds. The kobalid was in a study eating bodies. The group goes to the kitchen. Rhpaosy gets the door down towards the basement and they head down, Connel pausing to go back and grab a huge butcher knife. Rhaps leads, taking her sword to be at the ready. Rhaps gets to the bottom of the stairs, and there is a stonework narrow hall. At the end is a door on the left and right side. She senses something move from the left to the right. Rhaps has Sheri shine the light to the right. They go around and Rhaps sees at the opposite wall is a door that shuts as they approach. Rhaps opens the door and gets stabbed once by one of the spider critters, sensing enough to get out of the way of the second hit. Muller takes cover, shines a light and catches sight of a piece of it, enough to take shot. Rhaps tries to hit and barely misses. Sheri tries to hit and misses. Connel searches for it and doesn’t see anything. Daniel goes to secure the door. No one sees anything, but Daniel gets pounced as he is shoving the rifle in the door handle as a bar. His shield and armor take a good portion of the damage, but he’s also skewered. Rhaps is fast enough to go after the critter. It dodges, but it’s off Daniel The door shakes as Muller braces, and there are many voices in a cacophony beyond. Sheri spies it in the corner and hits with the second shot. It shrieks as the first shot richochets around the room and hits a bottle. Connel spots it and fires and makes it shriek as it falls into the wine rack. Rhapsody runs up and splits through the carapace and kills it. Muller rolls away from the door as the guardian comes in. Made up of bodies, it looks like a zombie millipede and lunges for Muller. It grabs her and yanks her into the darkness and there is a struggle and gunshots and screams. Rhaps goes after and misses on her attack. Sheri comes in and doubletaps, hitting with both shots. Connel comes up to join the shooting range, but it’s moved behind the crates. Daniel heals himself. Rhaps goes up to the crates and attacks. She misses as the zombipede as it splits into two segments. One left behind snatches rhaps and peels her arm like a banana. Sheri goes after it and calls down the holy fire. Conel goes and catches up to Rhaps and Sheri. Daniel goes up to Muller and does a little bit of healing. Muller passes out and Daniel looks at her. “Well, that’s what I was hoping to avoid…”
Rhaps stys where she is to heal some. Sheri guards Rhaps and Connel. Rhaps notices a crate being flung and yells move as she tries to push the two out of the way. They all get hit and are under the crate. Daneil runs up, sees everyone and hurls a soulfire at it. It goes after Daniel. Rhaps lifts the crate up and holds it, telling Connel and Sheri to go. Sheri scrambles out and goes to club the thing and whooshes as her leg gives out a bit. Connel slowly gets himself out. The zombiepede hits Daniel, but only backhanded him into a crate. Rhapsody gets out from the crate, grabs her sword and takes a swing, missing. Sheri raises the club and calls down holy fire and it collapses into ash. There is a hundredfold scream and the other heads to the group. It splits into four 12 body segments. Rhapsody summons kitties and gets four to come. Sheri leaps up onto the crates and the thing rises up and digs up under her armpits, scraping on bone and she survives but falls unconscious between Rhaps and Connel. Connel shoots at it with a doubletap and hits with the first one and misses with the second. Daniel tosses a soulfire and misses. Another segment comes over and hits Rhapsody. The kitties come into being. The one guarding Daniel runs up and slams into the segment, knocking it down and wrestling with it. Two go after the one that had hit Sheri and miss, as does Rhapsody and does Connel. The last kitty tackles Rhapsody’s attacker and knocsk behind crates. Daniel launches a soulfire at it and it doesn’t dodge, getting toasted, the energy cumulating and the creature explodes as do the other segments. At the back of the room is a blackened circle and a crack in floor where essence has pooled.
______________________________________________
Session 41
Daniel waits to get his essence built back up as Rhapsody refortifies the door. Muller and Sheri are unconscious still. In the crates are jams and jellies and canned fruits. Connel comes over to Daniel and he can see that there is tainted energy flowing into the crack in the ground even without the guardian.
Connel found an old coal shoot on one of the walls and didn’t see or hear any zombies. Rhapsody goes to human form to crawl up to scout out the shoot. (whoo, the episode nude flash)
It is agreed that Daniel should see to healing first to see who they can get up and
around. He casts on Sheri first and is successful, and is also successful with Muller, though both are unconscious. Rhapsody shimmies up the coal shoot and gets to the door and tries it but finds it locked, probably padlocked from the outside. Hearing nothing outside, she slides back down and sees Connel reviving Muller and Sheri.
Muller is still out as Sheri is caught up by the others as to what happened. Rhapsody
goes to keep a watch on the fortifications. Muller wakes up in a little ball of pain and they also catch her up. Sheri sits with Daniel in the circle to work on healing endurance damage.
Sheri says, “Don’t think about the fact we have to do this three more times.”
And they banter about the occult and points of power. Daniel does some more healing.
As he tries to heal Connel, there is a magical backlash, which hurts Connel, causing the cop to lash out. Daniel tosses in the soulfire and there is an explosion of white light that shakes the house and pushes some of the crates back. Sheri gets hit on the head with a jar of canned peaches.
One of the support beams has cracked and a zombie falls down. Rhapsody squishes it
with a crate. She is handed a 12 gauge and heads up the shoot after squishing another
zombie. She shoots the door and weakens it enough to have killed the lock. She gets
out and keep swatch after telling the others to come up. Daniel follows and takes the
shotgun while Rhapsody helps folks out of the shoot.
Rhapsody uses her camouflage ability to scout down the alley some and sees zombies to
the south that are shuffling around. Daniel tosses on his hideaway spell and they head north down the alley. Four blocks up Daniel senses another one of the pulses coming from the north east.
As they get near to where the area where Muller sensed the survivor of the crash, they can see the glow of flames a bit in the distance. They consider the option of checking the crash site and decide to go on with their mission. Daniel puts up another hideaway on the group. The cemetery to the north is decided would make the most sense as the northern point. At the cemetery there are zombies around. They get into the graveyard and as Daniel is about to put another hideaway, there is a pulse from the building atop of the hill.
Sheri does another healing on herself as Daniel does another hideaway. They go slower
and in the parking lot, Rhapsody notices that there is a spider demon just above the
door with 30 zombies. They go around seeing if there is a storm cellar or another coal shoot. As they discuss how to get in, a child’s high voice is heard singing a church song. Rhapsody moves up and looks through the distorted stained glass window and sees that there are a couple of pews inside with a candle burning, in front of that is a girl in a Sunday’s best dress, playing with dolls, singing.
Rhapsody looks around and suddenly looks up and sees the little girl, kicking her feet, as she seems to be looking down at the group. The spider goes up to her and grabs its leg and lowers on the other side. They scout around and find a place in the chain link fence that’s pulled up enough to get out into the woods. In the woods is a house which Rhapsody scouts out and finds clear. They set up a ladder to get Connel and Muller to the roof.
Back at the chapel, they get into position to attack. Rhapsody attacks and lands a blow, knocking off the roof. Daniel lets off his soulfire and hits, finishing it off. Rhapsody grabs a zombie and throws it into another. Two zombies attack and she scoots out of the way. Muller takes a couple of shots into the crowd. Connel waits as the zombies turn in their direction. Rhapsody heads back towards the group and they lead the zombies in a chase. Muller and Connel keep the zombies’ attentions as the others head back to the chapel. Rhapsody opens the door and the little girl looks up with her dolls. On the back wall is a black hole with taint seeping into it.
“You should leave,” the girl says.
“Someone sunk our boat,” Daniel replies.
The girl stands up, “Last chance.” The girl turns to ash and heads for Daniel, trying to get into his mouth and nose.
Daniel’s shields help and it puffs around him. Rhapsody tries to claw at the dust, but nothing happens. Daniel goes for a shot at the crack. There is a green burst as the building shake. There is a ghostly, “NOOOOO!”
From the floor when the ghost is settling down, there are six forms coalescing of
ash and dust, looking squat and demonic. Benches and the floor start to smoke and
smolder.
The girls’ face forms and goes after Rhapsody. She doesn’t dodge out of the way and
feels the dust and ash start to choke. She tries to Heimlich herself with a bench and
fails catastrophically, knocking out what air she had left and breathing in a bit more of the dust. Sheri takes out the club. Two ash demons leap out at her and she tries to dodge. She barely manages to dodge out of the way for the first blow and the second is also avoided. One lunges at Daniel and it’s evaded, a second attack is also. Two attack Rhapsody and she avoids them. Daniel tosses another soul fire at it. The building shrieks as do the demons.
Rhapsody’ belly burns some, and tries to hit her stomach again. But fails and flails.
Sheri calls down holy fire and hits Rhapsody, but the ash flies out of her. Sheri dodges one ash demon but not the other. One behind Daniel tries to piggy back him for
a grapple and misses as the one in front takes two swings and misses both times.
Rhapsody dodges three blows and gets hit with the second of the second ash demons.
Daniel launches another soulfire to the hole again, causing more debris to rain down.
Ashley flies up in the air and goes after Sheri. Rhapsody uses the pew to bat at an
ash demon and knocks it into the wall. Sheri attacks an ash demon with spiffy club
and disintegrates it against the wall. The ash demons go after Daniel, the first one
misses, the second hits and washes on the shield some, the third lands squarely, fourth is dodged and the last one does hit but the armors take the damage. Daniel fires his shotgun.
Ashley chokes Sheri. Rhapsody kills one ash demon and misses a second. Sheri goes
after an ash demon and hits, dusting it. Daniel dodges one hit from a demon, the
second hits and gets through the last of the armor, the third also punches through and causes Daniel to fall limp and unconscious. Ashley continues to choke Sheri. Rhapsody knocks off two more ash demons. Sheri tries to club the last demon and it dodges out of the way. The demon turns and attacks Rhapsody who dodges. Sheri remains
conscious. Rhapsody summons tigers. Sheri does a mind scream as she drops the club
and feels her scream inside her and Sheri vomits ashes to the ground.
Ashley half forms is on the ground and crawls under one of the benches. Rhapsody
launches off a pew and smacks the hole with the spiffy club, the hole explodes and the tiger goes flying backwards. The girl rises into the air and disintegrates into ash and dust. Sheri still vomits out ashen and blood. Rhapsody picks up Sheri and Daniel and has her tigers do hit and runs as she moves forward to get to the house. One tiger is downed. Rhapsody gets over the fence and goes for the house. She tries to leap up and misses. A zombie lunges after and the tiger intercepts. Rhapsody leaps up and gets help up. Sheri’s holy strength fades out but she survives, but goes unconscious.
No comments:
Post a Comment