12 KiB
Session Zero:
tourism board is interested in the latest monster attack??? Oh and I need to go back and pay for coffee at some point... whoops
Doctor's in the market street for some reason... with a gun??? People don't do that, that's weird, lets keep an eye on her. She's going for a photographer for some reason. He doesn't like her, and she ends up dropping her gun
Session One:
We found the coffee shop, and Mae is kinda... socially awkward. She tried to buy coffee beans with a fancy pen? And succeeds??? We find this Kim Sarah person, and start talking with her. Offer her a job at Grinell. (Also, lied about working at Grinell.) "Bodies that have been pinched apart? In unusual ways." There's a big snake??? Kim hasn't seen it yet, but seems like she believes it. Seems like its just floating around the rumor mill. Engineers talk about it? But they're mostly just scared, maybe... One guy missing a lower half of his body, turned up in an alley. Dude with no head by the canal. Snake drops its tail, rolls around, tail screams at you.
There's high pitched whining, partially from hydroelectric, partially not tho. The one that's the wrong direction is higher pitched. And we follow the high pitched noise.
Hat sized shaped glass cone, spinning on the ground, screaming. When it stops spinning, it stops screaming. Its firmer than glass, but not as rigid. Hide the tail in a bag, and head towards the hydroelectric plant.
Make it into the substation. Engineers are hand-wavy about the professor. Really nonchalant about someone dying on his watch. Fresh water gets diverted towards water treatment nowadays; something about sand. Happened 3 months ago. Connects up above, but also a couple blocks down.
Looking for a Tim messenger, he might have a picture of the snake. Give the tail back to Mae.
Tim saw ... something? But he doesn't know. And he has a picture of a headless corpse.
Hank shows up and goes into the substation. 1/4 of the water got diverted. I accidentally stole Hank's manual.
Main body of the snake is black and brown.
Sounds like a sewer gater growls sometimes. Sometimes it sounds more like the snake.
go to the treatment plant with Tim. Found a big pit of sewage in the treatment plant. Go down into the pit, turn around a corner, and see a bit of snake. Sound echoes a lot. And we can follow the flow back to the pit to exit. Follow the snake for about an hour or so. A few times we've seen it, but its been a while.
Found the engineer. Doesn't mind the noise of the tail... thing, for some reason. Engineer leaves.
Snake is a lot larger than you'd think; could probably swallow a person whole. Its facing away from us, hopefully still asleep.
Mae charges in, tries a flamethrower on it. It doesn't seem to be too affected by fire, but it doesn't like it. Snake has no eyes, but only sometimes. Gunshot doesn't hurt it as much as you'd hope. Snake generates another tail thingy, then snake leaves.
Session Two
Met with Koboi (Guide), got a 2 harm hand area magic staff and +1 forward. Got home really late.
I pawn off the tail for my morning coffee and yesterdays coffee, then head to Mae's office.
Go for a wander to the newspaper (Hop a trolley, Mae pays). Tim left the pictures in his office, but we still need a tail so we go to Tim's appartment.
We break into Tim's appartment and steal the tail, but his neighbor caught Mae trying to break in. I lied (really poorly) to get out of it.
Talk to a snake person about it, and he's confused too.
If its not a snake, it can't swallow you whole, and it can't handle insecticides that well.
There's a bunch of barrels of dead rats in the iron mines. But those are kinda old.
Session 3
Thursdays exist.
We go to a bar called "The Blub". We meet Jim Cooper, and go to the wall. We go through and go into the woods. Reese is very uneasy.
The wolves really like sticks
We have a dead wolf now! We lost Jim's horse, and also we're kinda dying now.
Corpse is now full of poison, and we've dragged it to the water treatment plant.
We killed the thing, but nearly died trying. Walked away with 2 cones.
New monster to fight
Session 4
How do Koboi's species reproduce?
Originally it was sexually, and people still do occasionally do so for fun or religious reasons, but the majority of the species is pseudo-cloned, with random genetic tweaks for genetic variation.
Koboi's weak to silver
Sharon comes in to Mae's office with Quentin. Sharon's nervous about the large lizard, and wants us to help fix more things in the future.
Reported to the mob, gonna report back to them at some point.
Next mission involves.... the zoo? and finances???
Donald "Don" Westley
Session 5
Packet full of goodies, including accounting spreadsheets, blurry and/or burnt black-and-white pictures (mostly useless, one picture is of the Reptile House).
Packet from Quentin, who knows who he got it from.
I've never heard of a zoo before... This is filler from the previous mystery. Its not very important.
Quentin's office and home are both empty.
I broke quentin's junk drawer and lamp. Mae tried to leave a note, but I took it with me on the way out.
Jim Cooper's at Mae's office when we get back? Mae is just fine with this I suppose.
"What if I told y'all that there are wolves in town? ... Topside, on the streets." Jim thinks he saw the front of one of them briefly outside the blub at 10-10:30am. Also it might be more than just wolves?
We head back to the blub to get first-hand info.
The thing that's consistent is that there's a "wolf-sized critter" running around the middle-class-ish area of the Blub. Primarily, the wee-morning hours, up into the late morning. Doesn't stick around long. Hurriedly moving around back alleys. Sightings are within the same couple of blocks.
Consistency doesn't exist. Someone said they had panda ears, one said they saw a fox, two said they saw a kangaroo??? One said it had a pouch, one said it had a snake head.
I drank a bunch to make friends to get the info, so I spend the night in the Blub.
Jim's a decent customer/patron.
Wombats aren't real.
Someone was watching me while I'm sleeping in the pub
Session 6
There's a wolf outside the Blub? Its sizing me up, since I'm a newcomer to its space. We walk down the street keeping space between each other.
The snout's the profile of a crocodile (but not scaly).
The whole thing is vaguely wolf-shaped. Digigrade legs, possibly striped? Rounded ears, like a panda?
It sits, like a dog would. But it looks up at you like the pictures of the really long nosed dogs.
Its face hasn't really changed much... There isn't an expression beyond just tilting its head a bit.
It cuts towards me and then goes around a corner. Maybe it has stripes?
I manage to keep pace with this wolf-like canid. Its not as fast as you'd expect, and its walking kinda stiff... Not as fluid movement as the wolves of the woods... maybe its native to the city?
I manage to grab its tail, which stops it... like grabbing its tail would. It turns around, kinda unnaturally? And bats at my face with a paw like a cat. It then growl-hisses at me. I hit it with my cricket back in the side. It returns with a bite to my arm. With its tail free, it sneaks between my legs, making me stumble. By the time I've turned around, its disappeared.
On my way back to Mae's office, I run into a strongman. We go back to his house, we hang out on the porch. I get invited inside after not revealing much. They then show me a bunch of MREs and lockpicking kits. There's 4 people around the table, and 2 people downstairs. They're Troublemakers. They didn't realise I was also a troublemaker, and tried recruiting me.
I break Mae's lock getting into the office. Mae's against the troublemakers. So we're getting no help from them. Mae's off to go get help from Jim Cooper's people, and I'm headed to talk with Koboi.
Session 7
Tried to find something to sell to get Mae's hunting supplies, dropped Mae's bookshelf on me for 2 harm. In getting out, I take another harm. This convinces Mae to go shopping rather than me, while I rest and heal for a harm.
I wake up in the middle of the night to flashing pictures of a bear up on 2 legs, a crying person, and a sand castle being destroyed. Koboi is in the lab. Koboi's mad at me about trying to use Monster Empathy on Mae. But in the end, it seems like things are alright.
We meet up with Jim Cooper, and split up into teams. My team splits up further, one of them dies. In the process, I break my nose for 2 harm falling on the pavement. I keep chasing my kangaroo. I get knocked down by a wolf after the kangaroo disappears. We escape, get cornered in alley, killed a big one. We head back to the Blub with 3 shapeshifter corpses. We then head back to the office-morgue.
We went back out, picked up the last one, get back to the office, and everyone passes out.
Session 8
Reese likes spicy tomato-based curry with chicken and onion. Each person has a bowl and utensils.
We hear a person talking; its Jameson Fetch, advertising the first weekend of the spring festival.
I report to my boss in the troublemakers.
While I watch the newcomers and tourists, I'm also being watched, by Jim Cooper (and two other unknown entities).
Dr. Sloan is Mae's new boss, on loan from Sel Avir University Zoology dept. She has one of the monster carcasses, one is being taxidermied, and one is with the CHDF. The live one is also with CHDF.
Jim was the one babysitting us while we recovered. He just kinda existed at the time.
Also Mae might be racist?
Someone's lost their pet dog. Which is weird, because people don't have those here. Also, there's a pretty horse on the loose?
Session 9
I make a lasso, and Mae found a bola, and with that we're off to find a horse person?
I can pet a horse apparently.
We go a weird back way to get around tourists.
Mae talks to some cultists.
I fell in a mud puddle.
Mae thinks a squirrel is the horse somehow? That sounds absurd, and the trail ends here, so I head back to the carriage.
We head back, Mae's pretty beat up. I hitch the horse out front, then come inside.
Koboi's mad at me, so I take Koboi with the festival. Some tourist almost reveals him, but I drop one of the tail cones, panicking the crowd and letting us leave in relative peace.
Koboi and I went to a cricket game. CrestHaven lost, and my tongue astrally projected and I don't have it anymore.
Mae has suggested to go to SPILL to get my tongue back.
Session 10
In an attempt to get my tongue back, Mae dumps salt on my face. Salt in my eyes for 1 harm, inhaled salt for 1 harm, swallowed salt for 1 harm.
SPIL eventually gets my tongue back, and I tell Mae about Koboi.
Koboi got spotted by a few people.
Session 11
From the troublemakers, it is in fact a shape-shifter.
Session 12
Back with the troublemakers.... Got kicked out because no one owns dogs...
Koboi and I have another fight because the first thing I talk about is work
Mae brought home a murder cat... but its not the horse.
Mae shot a shapeshifter, we need new bedding
Nearly died; end of Reese Bo char
End of this hunt
Session 13
landlord named Susan
Broke a radio part, Verna fixed it ang took some of my clothes since her clothes were soaked.
Got a replacement part.
Session 14
Watched May's really messed up disection; went and threw up, briefly thought about talking with May about interviewing on the radio, then went home to finish fixing my radio.
Mae's doing an AMA
IRL Time lapse
Session 15
I got a possibly-possessed pair of old radios
Verna has some problem that she wants me to help with, and she said she'd buy me dinner, so I follow. I then got dragged off by minotaurobos to talk radio stuff with another radio person.
I pushed in the front window, then dropped and broke it while going up the stairs. There's some glass shards in me now, but only 1 harm. Verna's bathroom at the station doesn't have mirrors because ghosts live there?
Seance goes REALLY wrong... Verna tries to burn the ghost, and it literally backfires
California is on the west coast.... of Australia.
Session 16
Attic is haunted by Bimfrey, according to the ouija board
We accidentally burned a ouija board.
"Due to an ordinance, this line is no longer-"
acemortui
"The rice pudding at breakfast bazaar is particularly tumorous"
Crematorium
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Balfurther Crematorium
I knocked over a bookshelf while looking for the crematorium in the basement, but now we have an entrance into the basement.
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