Journals

Volume 1 (June 2015 - September 2015)

08/06/15 - The great escape from the Snowstorm without a Fire Demon

Jack, Amber, Peter, Zander, Steve and Llynos are at the roadhouse in a snowstorm. They prepare for winter outdoor conditions and load up 4x4. They attempt to drive from secret base but are snowed in without Sam Jack melts snow outside and tries to find the door to the secret base Peter pushes the garage door and Llynos blows the snow away as quick as it falls Peter uses super strength while standing on car to open the door as Amber uses an angled ramp forcefield to drive them out of the base They turn right Outside of the storm they discover Gotham and turn around to drive to Bludhaven to find Sam The snowstorm was completely isolated and only affected the roadhouse Once together, the group split to cover both Melville and Mealtide parks Jack and Llynos (*and Steve?) go to Melville to check out the bandstand Sam, Zander, Amber and Peter go to Mealtide to destroy the altar They make their way through a few ranks of guards and eventually reach the altar (persuading guards that they are part of the ritual) Amber puts up forcefield and they walk up to altar Sam sees an alternate dimension where the altar is a tentacled monster, the pillars are tentacles and the guards are fish people. Zander bursts into blue flame and Sam sees that he is wearing a twisted helmet, two tablets in an ancient language strapped to his chest and back and girded loins. Peter rips up the stone altar (Sam sees him rip out the monster's tongue) and begins smashing it into pillars. Sam sets them on fire as Zander hits them with his scythe. A portal opens and a dead but still living Nina (a 9-foot blue Panther) appears She attempts to explode minds and teleport vital organs out of bodies Sam is shot and loses consciousness. Llynos flies over to Mealtide to help with Nina Amber holds up a single forcefield behind them all as the guards open fire. Meanwhile at Melville, Jack speed runs into the park but is stopped by a barrier as he sees his Mother, leaving him unable to use his abilities and stuck halfway through a fence surrounding the park in severe pain. Trevor goes to fly Steve to help Jack Llynos arrives at Mealtide to kill Nina.

15/06/15 - Where everyone goes to the other park

Destroyed altar at Mealtide park Nina teleports Llynos into the ground but thanks to a failed forcefield, she survives Nina attempts to attack Zander but is thrown out of the park by an explosion which also evaporates the snowstorm and all guards dressed in white Sam regains consciousness Trevor officially turns on group and attempts to kill Jack and Clive. Holly resurrects Jack and he rips himself out of the fence he was stuck in and escapes into the speed force to heal himself and "suit up". He begins a ritual with Jack's entrails at Melville park. A huge black portal appears above the park. Sam, Zander and Peter leave to confront Trevor, Amber stays with Llynos stuck in the ground A mysterious black and white stranger (Jack) frees Llynos and goes to "do the thing" with Trevor. Llynos flies Amber to Melville park, she is drawn to the black vortex but resists A limousine and snipers are spotted at the park Zander somersaults across park and is struck by lightning and shot Clive and Steve (as punk and catsuit strangers) appear with a solution to stopping the ritual with Zander's tablet Peter webs Zander to drag him out of the park Steve and Peter are shot Sam burns trees in attempt to stop snipers Clive possesses Trevor and holds him there Trevor throws Jack and himself into other dimension before returning Jack moves Zander to "safety" and vibrates Trevor into the ground and dislocates his spine Nina returns from 'secret errands' and teleports behind Jack.

22/06/15 - Thai's Leaving Game!

Nina claws at Jack unsuccessfully, teleports away Llynos and Amber run around park to entrance Sam and Steve burn/chop down trees Sam burns the bandstand, at last! The group all gather at entrance to Melville Lady Clive tells Zander that Death has explained how to use the tablet, she tells him to physically remove the invisible tablet from around his shoulders The tablet is removed, revealing Zander in sandals, girded loins and twisty hat. Lady Clive and Peter decide to break the tablet into pieces (why would you do this?) They throw it against a wall (*I think?), nothing happens The group all touch the tablet, wanting to share the power. The tablet splits into 8 equal pieces as if by magic, everyone know has a stone cube Some of the group enter the park and are shot at by snipers Llynos summons a wind through the trees and Sam continues to burn things Jack goes to the bandstand to battle Trevor and "Do the Thing" The black portal in the sky opens and fish people step down from the sky in hordes Lady Clive possesses a fish person, her body goes still and drops the cube The fish person turns on its fellow group and causes chaos Zander charms dozens of fish people to worship him, they are now his. Sam burns more fish people Nina returns, teleporting briefly in several places Sniper Clive aims at Nina and succeeds in a headshot, leaving Nina with half a face but enough strength to teleport away. Everyone is in the park and the black sky portal begins to close. A dark shadowy figure emerges from Jack and pulls itself into the portal Jack runs from the bandstand, leaving Trevor Amber puts a forcefield around the burning bandstand Llynos suck the air out of it, putting the bandstand fires out Steve reveals that Nina left bombs all around the park, they detonate in 5 seconds! Everyone runs! BOOM! Sam, Llynos and Amber are injured in the blast, everyone else is ok, except for Steve who collided with a building very hard Nina watches from a building and walks away Trevor hits the forcefield around the bandstand but is shielded from the blast, he crawls away with 4HP. Everyone regroups and perform first aid, enough to get back to the road house. At the road house, it's Christmas Day (*or was it Eve?) and the group sit around the fire with various beverages and a buffet laid out on the table (which Jack eats most of). The group are wearing knitted jumpers from Llynos and a Christmas tree stands in the corner covered in 90's tat. Peace at last...

29/06/15 - The diverted Christmas adventure

The players give out Christmas gifts! Llynos gives handmade knitwear, of course! Sam gives very fancy Gucci clothes Sam Werewolf drops off hand carved wooden statues before disappearing, each of a different member, with Llynos and Amber being particularly intricate Amber gives second hand books, Oliver Twist for Peter, Dante's Inferno for Sam, Sherlock Holmes for Steve, To Kill a Mockingbird for Clive, Jane Eyre for Zander, Peter Pan for Llynos, Frankenstein and Little Women for Sam Werewolf, and A Christmas Carol for Jack. Zander gives Amber chocolates and an expensive necklace, Amber shares the chocolates round Peter gives 90's tat? (*I don't know what specifically) Christmas Day was a little short lived as already new troubles plague Bludhaven A curfew is introduced to Bludhaven and all those without ID are imprisoned in New Haven, surrounded by a guarded 40-foot wall A new drug is sweeping the market And "Peter's Bombers" take the blame for the Melville park bombing New plans are revealed to rebuild the parks with a new bandstand Clive, Amber and Zander go to check out New Haven, they meet a guard names Moses Jones, and spread rumours of the Mayor's illegitimacy, they show ID and enter New Haven Peter and Sam go to Melville park, it is destroyed but they find the lead developer. Sam pleads that they do not make a bandstand; make a nice pond instead! The guy reveals that he has been ordered by the boss to create some kind of ritual circle, preferably in the form of the traditional bandstand. Sam and Peter give up trying to persuade him as anything built will be some sort of occult device anyway. Llynos puts posters around Bludhaven, looking for her son In New Haven, the group encounter a mysterious mob that they scare off with threats of Peter's Bombers, a gate asking for gold tribute, a bustling market full of disabled people and mixed races called Centre Town, and another gate for the river where they ask to see Big Bertha after Llynos and Sam joins them after declaring Llynos insane at the gates. Sam saw a crazy man leap out of a window upon seeing her, she steps over his limp body before entering Centre Town. At the river, Llynos, Clive, Amber, Sam and Zander arrange a meeting with Bertha, a scantily clad warrior Frank Frazetta-esque woman. Bertha offers them accommodation and talks about potential revolution against Bludhaven with a union between the other tribes, one of which being The Madam in Centre Town. The tribes are river/water, stone, metal, cloth, wall, and the wild people. Zander charms Bertha and she demands he join her in her chamber while the other retire to bed. Llynos gives him "protection" and the group go their separate ways to bed.

06/07/15 - The one where everyone cosplayed Mad Max characters

Clive searches for the source of the water people's waterfall from their fort, he discovers they have a single water source from Bludhaven. They once tried turning it off only to be without water for 4 days before it returned. Peter goes to New Haven and declares himself without ID, they let him in. He sees a naked man tripping out get shot by running too close to the wall. Then a truck drives in full of people in grey cloth. The wall guards shoot them, but they shoot back with harpoons and drag the soldiers from the 40-foot wall before escaping. Zander rejoins the group after his sleepover and they head to Centre Town to kit themselves out. Amber works at an armoury exchanging work for studded shoulder pads while Llynos and Clive set up a makeshift first aid centre, conning poor people of their valuables while making them feel slightly better. They earn enough for leather and scrap metal gear, Llynos finally gets her Tina Turner outfit! Peter web swings his way to Centre Town as Steve enters New Haven. They meet at the gates (by way of Peter missing his web swing and face planting and Steve laughing at him) and Zander, Sam and Llynos eventually open the gates to let them in. Clive and Amber question guards to take them to the "Madam" to no success. Clive offers Amber as "tribute", which doesn't go well. Amber tries to punch the guard but misses. The group rejoin in the centre and Sam offers her gold bling necklace as tribute to see the Madam. It works and they enter a clean underground sewer that is furnished, but on the condition that they hand over technology/weapons (headsets, guns, fire extinguisher etc.) only Clive and Zander bluff to keep their gear. Through a door, is a comfortably furnished room with 2 paintings on the wall. One of Nina as a policewoman And another of a purple panther. And a living human Nina steps forward...

20/07/15 - The one where things with Nina escalated quickly

The group speak to Nina but without a coherent plan, she dismisses them. Clive, Llynos and Amber tell her about their ‘revolution’ plan with Bertha. Nina/The Madame clearly has “history” with Bertha and loses interest. Amber blurts out that they are united under the Bludhaven Bomber (Peter). Nina instantly transforms into a purple were-cat... oops. She goes straight for Peter, pinning him to the ground, attacking with claws and teeth. Amber puts a forcefield across the were-cat to protect Peter while Llynos flies up onto Nina’s back, Clive tries to calm her down at gunpoint and Steve shoots at her. Nina is not happy as Amber tries to drag Peter out from under her, her claws cutting him as she does so. Zander opens the door to the outer room, revealing the situation to the guards outside. They call for backup as Zander flips over to them and attacks using his draining power. Clive enters a guard’s consciousness and attempts to close the door as another guard puts his foot in the door. Clive proceeds to jump through consciousness’s to wreak havoc and confusion among the guards. Zander crit fails on his life draining and something strange happens to the guard he is knelt on... Amber manages to drag Peter out from under Nina while Llynos strangles her. Nina pulls through the forcefield, shredding the skin on her arms and gouging a huge wound across Peter’s stomach. Nina and Peter faint while Clive and Steve go back to the outer room to retrieve Llynos’ sewing kit. Amber puts a forcefield around Nina to trap her and Amber and Llynos work together to heal/stitch up Peter, it’s not enough but adequate for now. They also heal some of Nina’s wounds. Clive finds a secret passage by the bookcase and they decide to leave with Nina.

27/07/15 – There’s a vampire in the tunnels!

Before entering the secret passage, the group want their stuff back, but in the outer room, something weird is happening to the guard Zander touched and even more guards are filling the room. Amber drops the forcefield around Nina (leaving Llynos to watch her) and goes to put one up in the outer room, she asks Sam and Zander to help her push the forcefield across the room with the intention of pushing the guards back so they could get their stuff (Zander doesn’t push quickly enough and faceplants). To the guard’s surprise, an invisible wall pushes them back, but another commotion is happening behind them as the supposedly dead guard gets up and is transformed as a huge, scrawny vampire creature with long claws and a snout. A hideous massacre ensues as Amber strengthens her forcefield and the others rush to the secret passage, abandoning their headsets and fire extinguisher. Nina still in were-cat form crawls into the passage before them, they follow. Sam picks up Clive’s limp body along the way. Amber is last to turn away from her forcefield as she sees the vampire creature rip into the guards and blood splatters everywhere. She runs to the tunnel, which is very dark. Sam leads the way, (her horns scraping along the roof of the tunnel) using her fire to light the passage (which may have accidentally lit Clive’s head alight first, but she got it the second time). Llynos uses her power to blow anything out of the tunnel after Steve saw something. Amber goes back to shut the passage opening, but not before something passes her first. The group shuffle along in part darkness, Nina limping/crawling ahead of them. Something swipes at Amber and misses, she freaks out. She holds out a forcefield as a shield as the something lunges again, revealing claws and a snout. The vampire is right behind them! Amber screams for the others to hurry, as she is repeatedly attacked. They eventually find some stairs, it's very dark so Llynos stumbles into them and breaks a finger. She makes a huge deal of it while Amber loses it (her forcefield gone after it was smacked into by the vampire-thing). They head up the stairs to find themselves on a tiny slippery ledge on a cliff overlooking the sea. Nina is nowhere to be found. Llynos flies out. Sam flies off the ledge with Clive and drops down, as Steve steps out and immediately flattens himself against the cliff, refusing to listen or budge to the rest of the group. Llynos and Peter both try to coax Steve along the ledge, no one else can get out of the tunnel onto the ledge. Amber hears something behind her and freaks out again. Eventually Sam and Llynos fly Clive’s body and Steve to safety above the cliff, she then takes Peter but drops him because he's wet with blood. He manages to web himself to safety, Zander cartwheels along the ledge to the top of the cliff and Amber (last to leave the tunnel) is picked up by Llynos and taken up. Sam returns to the tunnel to look for the vampire, she conjures a flamethrower to pour flame into the tunnel. Nothing. The group collapse at the top of the cliff, the sun setting in the sea in front of them.

17/08/15 – The one with the Crazy Hobo ambush and getting Peter to the Vet

Atop the cliff, the group try to decide where to go next, Peter needs immediate medical attention, but would be recognized in Bludhaven if they left New Haven. They walk in the direction of River Dale, when Peter (carried by Sam) wakes long enough to realize they are in danger. The group get out of the main road and find cover in an alley, as they hear wild, crazy laughter and banging metal. Amber commands them to stop and leave them alone but the laughing continues. Sam flies up with Peter as about 40 wild, emaciated bodies covered in track marks throw themselves out of windows, into walls, each other and the ground below. Many die instantly, but the rest fight. A particularly dangerous one (wearing a wellington on his head) punches Llynos with surprising force. Amber and Llynos brawl, Zander somersaults away and Steve hits some (*I think?) Zander waits for them on a wall up ahead as Llynos and Amber leave the tunnel Fighting is still breaking out in the alley and the hobos are basically killing themselves until no one is left standing. The group find themselves in an orchard, where they pick slightly old, withered apples. Zander squeezes apple juice into his gnome (this is bizarre in or out of context). Sam decides to fly ahead with Peter (who is not looking good) and Clive’s body and flies straight to Centre Town. When she lands, it’s eerily empty. Guards literally quit and flee before her and she notices strange shuffling figures in the shadows. She leaves straight away and goes back to the group: “It’s zombies.” is the conclusion. So Sam flies back to River Dale instead. Everyone else follows on foot. Sam arrives at the top of their tower and shifts down, heading down the stairs with Peter. The rest arrive at the gates of River Dale and are let in without fuss. Inside they request a doctor immediately for Peter (Sam raises some eyebrows) and are taken to their closest thing: a Vet. Upstairs, the Vet takes a look at Peter and requests payment for her services. Peter offers his glasses and Zander hands over his gun (lethal, not a stun gun). Peter finally receives halfway decent medical attention! But he will still require 12 hours to recover in-game. The Vet also gives Sam a jumpsuit to cover up. The rest of the group goes to see Bertha, who wants to know how the meeting with the Madame went. They admit it didn’t go well, however there are more pressing matters at hand: vampire zombies apparently (along with a huge vampire monster on the loose below Centre Town). Bertha is somewhat skeptical (assuming the monster for the were-cat Nina) but the group try to convince her. They turn to Zander for vampire expertise. Bertha looks to him, as he ends up admitting he is a vampire. She isn’t happy. She gives them 12 hours to recuperate, but after that, they will never be welcome in River Dale again...

24/08/15 – The one where Zander apologises and the group were actually Heroes

Amber, Llynos, Sam and Zander stand under a small tarpaulin stretched between four poles outside as they contemplate their situation. Amber and Llynos insist that Zander goes to apologise to Bertha, it’s the only way to redeem the relationship. Zander is reluctant. Amber hears a strange howl in the distance and Llynos flies off to investigate, agreeing to be back within an hour. Sam waits under the tarpaulin while Amber and Zander go to the tower to see Bertha. At the tower, Zander convinces the guards that Bertha wants to see him and they are let through. They walk up to the throne room and wait at the stairs as Bertha is having a meeting. Llynos flies out near Centre Town and spots something down below. She flies in a bit closer to see monsters below her: a vampire, a were-cat and a werewolf fighting (this is not the start of a joke!) She wants a closer look and summons a wind to lift the werewolf, she overestimates and sends the werewolf howling and snarling into her face. Meanwhile, Sam waits patiently for Llynos to return. One of a group of guards who had been watching her in her tight-fitting jumpsuit approaches and begins flirting. Sam calls him distracting; he doesn’t know how to respond. He asks why to which she explains she is counting (the 60 minutes before she could go find Llynos!). The guy’s come-ons are flat-out and brutally refused. Back in the throne room, Amber and Zander listen as Bertha’s soldiers tell her about strange goings-on in Centre Town and the monsters that are ravaging the people. Eventually they leave and Zander approaches Bertha. She doesn’t look up from her book whatsoever. Zander proceeds to make one of the worst apology speeches ever. Amber facepalms out-of-sight by the stairs. She motions for him to come back but stops after Bertha reacts to him walking away. Amber silently mouths for him to shut up with his stupid excuses, go back and apologise properly! Zander tries again, a bit better this time but falls short of an true apology. Amber decides it’s time to intervene and steps out from the stairs. Meanwhile, Llynos is in the air with an angry werewolf attached to her, digging his claws in painfully. She eventually manages to get lower and get the werewolf off of her (I can’t remember how) and flies straight back to River Dale to tell Sam. Amber steps out behind Zander and commands him to give the speech of his life, saying word-for-word what to tell Bertha: to grovel, explain he’s not worthy, that she’s the best thing that has happened to him in his miserable life, that he couldn’t live without her, that he respects her, that he loves her etc. etc... Five minutes into the speech, she holds up her book to hide her smile and eventually stops him and forgives him. Just as: Sam and Llynos burst in with news of zombie vampires, a vampire monster, were-cat and werewolf are headed this way, and Steve and a punk-dude with a green Mohawk, leather jacket, baseball bat and big ass boots called Isaac run in to announces the zombie vampires are at the gates! Everyone runs outside to see a horde of shambling vampire zombies storming the gates. They have already broken through the West gate and the River Dale army is holding them back. Amber runs to the gate and put up a forcefield at the entry point, Sam carries Isaac up to the wall for a vantage point. Sam struggles to burn the horde, but Isaac seems to have no trouble sending out sheets of electricity to decimate the attackers. Zander gets out his scythe to cut down the horde, Steve shoots through rows of them at a time, Llynos sends them flying into the air and Amber enters the fray to punch whatever comes close. The horde are many in number but singularly weak and it takes a mere 15 minutes for the group to wipe them out. The Steve shoots the last one as the remaining guards begin to applaud the group. Sam sets about burning corpses as Llynos and Amber see to the wounded. Suddenly through the hole in the gate, Steve spots the vampire creature approaching them, dragging a black furry creature behind it. Steve attaches metal to himself and magnetises himself towards the gap in the gate (*I think that’s how his power works?) only to smash into Amber’s forcefield (it’s a rite of passage by this point). Amber lets the field down and Steve continues towards the vampire. Amber agrees to go back to explain the events to Bertha as everyone else leaves River Dale to confront the vampire outside. Steve shoots the vampire but they are both sent flying away from each other as Zander, Isaac, Sam and Llynos arrive on scene.

31/08/15 – The Revolution Committee

Amber spots Bertha, she is wielding two double-handed battle axes (one in each hand) like a boss and cutting down vampire zombies like grass. Amber puts up a forcefield at the East gate and brawls through the horde. Meanwhile, Zander, Sam, Llynos and Isaac reach Steve and the Vampire Steve shoots at it from the ground, hitting perfectly, but the creature still stands. Sam flies in the air, Zander unfolds his scythe and Isaac electrocutes the vampire. Sam plummets to the ground, landing on top of the vampire, causing it to faint. Two figures emerge from a nearby building, a nondescript adult male and a short woman with curly strawberry-blonde hair, long ‘hippie’ clothing and a gnarly wooden staff containing a crystal. They introduce themselves as Jim and Easter. Sam proceeds to chomp on the vampire’s neck before burning the body. Upon the vampire’s death, the remaining vampire zombies drop motionless in front of Bertha’s army. Amber investigates a body; no response. She instructs the soldiers to burn all the bodies and let’s Bertha know the status of the West Gate. Bertha sends 2 soldiers with Amber as they go to join the others. Sam wonders where the black were-cat went and everyone searches. Jim and Zander notice a strange creature crawling along the walls, but Steve sees the cat crawling silently and slowly away in the shadows. They follow it into a building and Sam creates a fire to light the room. The were-cat legs it upstairs and Sam puts the fire out. Isaac lights his baseball bat like a light bulb instead. The group head upstairs while Sam keeps watch in the doorway. Addition by Sarah: Jim looted the vampire guard after the others killed it and found a set of keys Easter accidentally offended Sam right after meeting her by calling her a costume, then one of the damned. She apologised so they're cool now. Easter used her hippy skills to make were-cat Nina less aggressive. Easter then healed and calmed Nina and turned back into a human, accidentally almost killing her in the process (she has less HP as a human). Llynos and Easter worked together to heal Nina enough that she didn't die. Both Sam and Jim went to Centre Town to investigate and to reclaim the group's gear. Sam poked one of the dead bodies and all the guts spewed out. Sam thought it was pretty standard, Jim threw up. Sam remembered where the trapdoor to the Madame's home was and they went down. There were dead bodies everywhere. Sam thought that was actually pretty gross, Jim threw up again. With the looted keys they got all the stuff back and found a survivor! Yay! Amber and the 2 soldiers leave River Dale and approach Sam just as the others carry Nina’s naked body out of the building. The skin on Nina’s arms is torn, strangle marks wraps around her neck and huge gashes cover one side of her torso. Easter, Llynos, Amber, and Zander heals her wounds as best they can, keeping her unconscious. The group create a make-shift stretcher out of wood and Amber and Zander’s shoe laces. They decide against taking her back to River Dale (knowing her history with Bertha) and they return her to Centre Town instead. Sam flies Nina’s body to the Madame’s room, where she finds the group’s gear (headsets, fire extinguisher, stun guns etc) as well as an unconscious guard. She leaves Nina safe with someone to help her recover. Centre Town is empty and full of motionless vampire bodies. Easter suggests making a funeral pyre and the group set about piling bodies while Zander keeps watch. They set the bodies alight and in the fire, Amber sees a terrifying face while the others feel strange as the flames climb high and last a bit longer than they should as they die out slowly. Only Steve sees Death herself personally take the innocent souls with her to the afterlife. As the flames reduce to ash, dawn breaks over Centre Town. Amber and Zander gather some supplies from the abandoned stalls. Suddenly they look up to see Bertha and her army approach from River Dale, at the same time as a set of free runners covered in patched cloth and a huge metal truck arrive from different directions. They all look pissed off. Bertha steps forward as a man covered in patchwork clothes and another man on the armoured truck step forward. The metal leader asks who’s in charge of Centre Town. The group explain that the Madame still lives and therefore owns it, and Llynos inadvertently ends up asking the three armies to unite their forces and escape New Haven together. Everyone falls silent and listens to Llynos. They agree to hold a peaceful parley in half an hour to discuss a plan. The group set up a round table and chairs as they develop a plan. As they speak, Steve notices 2 member of cloth leave in the direction of the wall and goes in pursuit, but cannot find them. The people of cloth do not respond to questions. The three leaders return to parley. Llynos introduces the group and their powers, as their skills are integral to their escape. They explain their two-pronged attack: Sam is to fly immediately to the Mayor Benjamin Josiah's mansion with Jim to capture him, before anyone can suspect an attack. Steve and Isaac are to take out guards upon the wall from long range, as Amber, Llynos and Steve combine their powers to reinforce the armoured truck and ram it into the wall to bring it down. Easter and Zander are to follow up through the wall to help with the ensuing revolution to create a distraction for the Bludhaven police force and protect the escaped members of New Haven. Isaac will then take out the metal robot units as everyone works to overthrow the militarised police, Law Tech and the corrupt Mayor. The leader’s listen intently and when Llynos is finished, everyone applauds the plan, except for the people of cloth who are reluctant to cheer. With everyone in agreement, they are ready to commence with The Revolution.

7/09/15 - The Revolution Begins

The group spend a significant amount of time fine-tuning their plan of attack. The people of Metal have rigged the armoured truck with explosives and gasoline and it's practically ready to blow. Sam leaves just as dawn breaks, she takes Jim and they fly to Josiah's Mansion. The rest of the group draw out their plan of attack, because New Haven is difficult to navigate in straight lines and the truck being so volatile, they decide to attack one of the main gates using the already straight roads, but they have to move quickly before the alarm is raised. Steve and Isaac go out to the their posts near the wall to discover guards waiting for them along the top, they already knew! They begin sniping out guards one by one. Amber and Zander get in the truck and Zander drives slowly to the gate. Amber holds up a forcefield above the front and top of the truck, protecting it from attack. Easter stays back with the people of Cloth and Llynos with one of the other tribes. The various tribes filter out into surrounding houses, ready for the wall to be breached. Sam and Jim reach the mansion after flying around the New Haven wall. They decide to land on the roof, away from the many guards that have sprung into action below. Sam shifts down and waits naked on the roof while Jim heads inside. He uses his cover of darkness to sneak past cameras and guards until he reaches a room thought to be the mayor's. But he's not there, instead it's a woman. She doesn't spot Jim but leaves with the guards outside. (*Did Jim search the room at this point?) Back at the wall, The truck slowly builds up speed as Steve and Isaac pick off more guards. They are a few hundred yards off from the wall, but still not fast enough! Llynos joins them and uses her wind powers to help speed up the vehicle. Guards begin shooting the truck, but Amber's forcefield is holding up. Eventually they reach about 60-70mph and Zander grabs a brick and shoves it on the acceleration. He leaps out of the truck, does a few cartwheels and somersaults and walks casually into one of the buildings by the road. Suddenly he becomes aware of a vast amount of blood somewhere to the South of them. Easter with the people of Cloth, has been betrayed. Everywhere they are turning on others and the leader holds Easter at knife-point, she was an inch away from having her throat slit. She manages to break free and uses her staff to hit him in the crotch. Meanwhile at the mansion, Sam notices a commotion on the ground. Jim returns to the roof with no sign of the mayor. They look down at the gardens below them to see a single figure running away covered by a jacket and surrounded by dozen of security guards! They seize the opportunity and Sam shifts back into demon form and carries Jim down to the figure below. Jim uses powers of darkness around themselves, but Sam can't see though it so they struggle to land but somehow Jim grabs hold of the mayor. They fly off as guards aim rocket launchers at them and fire, but fortunately they are not hit. They fly away successfully with the figure they deem to be the mayor. Back in the truck, Amber's forcefield has taken about all it can take. Steve holds his turn and waits for Amber to escape, she leaps out from the now speeding truck and rolls. Not as gracefully as Zander but without hurting herself. Steve uses his magnetic ability to 'shoot' the truck directly at the wall. But the forcefield has taken a lot of damage and the truck can't take much more before it explodes! The remaining guards fire and take out it's last hit point just as the truck launches and reaches the wall....

.....BOOOM!!!

The truck just manages to take out the wall and the guards, but it also destroys the houses in the vicinity, including where Steve and Isaac are standing! They fall into the rubble. Llynos and Amber head South to help Easter and Zander looks for Steve and Isaac. They emerge from the rubble in one piece but a little worse for wear. Amber and Llynos reach Easter and help her fend off the people of Cloth, who cut their losses and run away. They all regroup by the wall, which is now a pile of rubble, to see the New Haven tribes pouring out of the gap and into Bludhaven as Steve notices two helicopters off in the distance, carrying a Lawtech crate...

14/09/15 - The Revolution Happens

Sam and Jim successfully kidnapped the actual mayor! On the way back to Center Town, Jim noticed some People of Metal and had Sam drop him off, he wanted to convince them to join the revolution. Sam returned back to Center Town with the mayor. He took one look at Sam and basically passed out. Thankfully Easter was there and she patched him up a little. While Sam and Easter were trying to decide what to do with the mayor, two People of the Cloth attacked them! The Cloth people were wildly unsuccessful and were both unconscious in 1 round; one took a staff to the gonads and the other got fire punched. With that problem dealt with, Sam left the mayor with Easter and flew away to rejoin the others by the hole in the wall. Sam let Easter borrow her comms because they assumed she wouldn't need them. Back at the People of Metal, Jim convinced them to take him to their leader to discuss a deal. The leader is basically an 8ft tall man made entirely of muscle, with a 2-handed battle axe and absolutely covered in makeshift armour. After a lot of discussing, they agreed that the team would give 1/4 tonne of (Sam's) treasure and in return the metal people would join the fight. The People of Metal immediately streamed out to join the fighting just outside the wall. Meanwhile, Llynos had noticed the 2 helicopters coming over the horizon carrying a 'Lawtech' box. Using her wind powers, she forced the helicopters to collide with each other, totally destroying them. They also landed on top of the newly re-build bandstand, destroying it again. It turned out there was a 12ft tall robocop-type robot in the crate, and it was still functional. It shot Llynos out of the sky making her unconscious before marching off to join the fight just outside of the wall. Steve this whole time had been sniping wall guards, and found himself surrounded by some sort of elite guard force. He ducked into a building for cover but was taking heavy fire. Sam arrived in the same area and noticed the guards were carrying heavy weapons and heading right for the civilians outside the wall. In an attempt to distract them she did a lot of flamethrowers, and it was enough for Steve to duck out the backdoor of the building he was using for cover and escape. The guards tried to shoot Sam but only injured her. The leader of The People of Metal and Giant Robocop had a fight at this point. It was very cool, the Metal guy was winning and it turns out robocop can't shoot straight. At this point Jim had arrived at the by the wall hole and saw Sam fighting the guards. He ducked behind cover and used his powers to create a shroud of darkness around the gunmen. Unfortunately it wasn't very effective, and the gunmen shot Sam again and she fell unconscious to the ground. Easter had been spending her time trying to put the mayor somewhere he couldn't escape from. She wasn't strong enough to carry him, and instead rationalised that she should just drop him down a 10ft hole and just heal him afterwards. So she did. She handcuffed the mayor to The Madame's bed, noting that Nina had completely vanished from the room. With her work done she decided to rejoin the rest of the group. Jim saw that Sam was in trouble and made an attempt to rescue her. He darkened the dark shroud around the guards, but one of the guards got lucky and managed to shoot him anyway. He was also knocked unconscious and the darkness shroud dissipated. Then Easter showed up! She snuck around the guards and hid behind Sam's giant unconscious body while healing her. The guards noticed that Sam was getting up again and opened fire, but they were both mostly fine. The Metal man and Robocop are still having a 1x1 fight at this point, until Steve and Llynos show up! Steve does his Steve thing and shoots half the robots face off, but the robot is still standing. Llynos decides that she should just lift robocop up really high and then drop him, so she uses her wind powers and raises him up. She then drops him about 4 stories, and at the same time Steve shot his leg off. Metal man uses the momentum of robocop falling to slam him into the ground with his axe. Robocop is definitely dead and sitting in a crater. MEANWHILE, Sam and Easter are trying to decide how not to die as the guards prepare to shoot them again. Easter suggests using her powers to imbue Sam with energy, effectively increasing what damage she could do. Sam agrees, they're dead if they don't try something radical. Sam begins to glow red, it is not a pleasant feeling and burns badly. Sam sets herself on fire, flies high into the air, then slams down into the guard's formation. They are extremely dead and Sam is covered in gore. Pretty standard as far as this day is going. The group regroup and Easter heals everybody up while they discuss their next move. They decide they need to take the (still unconscious) mayor to the roadhouse for interrogation and handcuff him to a chair in the secret basement. Llynos demands that they give him a cushion for the chair and a cup of tea. Now they just need to figure out what to do about the rioting!

21/09/15 - The Downfall of Josiah Benjamin

The group have the (still unconcious) mayor handcuffed to a chair in the roadhouse basement while they decide what to do now. The eventual decision is that they need to stop the riot. Step 1: deactivate the killer robots that are gunning down the rioters. Jim and Eostre head to the main police station in Bludhaven to try and turn off the robots, and while they're there they encounter a woman named Sandra Draephus who is the ex head of the police. Sandra bosses around the police to do their damn jobs and is generally really cool. The current head of the police appears and tells Sandra to leave, but Eostre threw a snowglobe at his head and he got knocked out. Sandra regains control of the situation, and tells them that they need to create a scene and a scandal so big that Josiah and LawTech couldn't possibly keep going.

Jim and Eostre relay the information to the others, and they leap into action. Llynos,Steve and Sam all head off to the town hall with (still unconscious and handcuffed to a chair) Josiah in tow. When they get there they notice two LawTech robots gunning down civilians and we're HEROES now so we're not going to stand for that!!! Llynos and Sam try to get the robots attention by doing a dance and yelling 'LOOK AT ME I'M A DEMON AND I KIDNAPPED THE MAYOR' but the robots don't notice. Sam tells Llynos to do something illegal to get their attention, so she goes and flies in front of them. The robots tell Llynos it is illegal tofly without a permit and they open fire on her. In an impressive manoeuvre, Llynos flies between the two robots so they start shooting each other. They both get stuck in a loop of “HALT! You are damaging LawTech property!” and shooting each other.

With the most imminent threat neutralized, the group make their way to the balcony on the town hall. Llynos screams really loudly for people to stop fighting,almost deafening the group in the process. With order mostly restored the group make a pretty lame speech about how Josiah is BAD and LawTech is BAD and that they should feel BAD. (Lots of Bludhaven news crews recorded it and edited it later so they sounded better, though.) Thegroup tells the tribes and groups of Bludhaven to select a representative, and to meet back at the town hall the next morning so that they can start putting together a council. Sandra arrives to arrest Josiah, and Sam happily gives him to her. They have the following conversation:

Sandra: do you have the keys for these handcuffs?

Sam:…..........................no.

Sandra: ok then.-throws him in the truck-

The group spend the night in the town hall. The creepy guy from the water plant is here because Peter told him to get a new job, so he has a new job! They watch themselves on the TV. Also it turns out that all the LawTech robots have been recalled, and lots of the police who got fired for being not-corrupt were given their jobs back.

The next morning,representatives from all the groups and tribes in Bludhaven arrive at the town hall. The group tell them that they don't want any hand in running the city, they just staged the coup to get rid of Josiah because he was ridiculously evil. The group hangs around for a while to make sure things are civil, but the people of Bludhaven arrange the new council on their own. The group disappear into the night,presumably to get a beer or something because it's the end of the plot arc. Oh, also Sam takes Peter to hospital and puts Clive in her house to use as a hat stand. The end.

Volume 2 (October 2015 - January 2016)

12/10/15 - Timey Wimey

Two weeks have passed. The group are back at the road house, enjoying drinks and a moment's respite. Bludhaven has settled into some sort of "normality" citizens have their homes and family back, rebuilding has begun and a diplomatic leader has been instated.

Peter arrives, he's been at hospital for a long time, but is a lot better now. Llynos gives him a bath gift set and hands Amber another present to give to him. Amber apologises for the whole Nina tearing him apart thing, but Peter doesn't remember what happened. Amber leaves it that way.

There's a knock at the door.

Peter opens it and shuts it again immediately before heading upstairs.

There's another knock.

Llynos opens it and outside is a man in a suit with some papers and a clipboard. A Limousine is parked in the drive. He asks for Peter to sign something. He comes back down reluctantly. The man asks Peter to sign for a letter he received not long ago, acknowledging that he read it. Peter signs it and the man leaves. The group ask Peter what the letter was.

He takes out a letter on ancient vellum and reads. It's in his own handwriting and asks that he seeks out a bank account held in Star City that will help him obtain a time travel machine from Neo Nazi's. Something about deposits in the Middle Ages and that whatever happens: DO NOT LET THEM PUT THAT THING ON SAM'S HEAD! The group are thoroughly confused.

Peter and Llynos leave together for Star City, she flies him there since it's quicker. They arrive at a modest looking building, but inside it is richly furnished, red plush carpet, marble and deep, dark wood counters and walls. Peter goes to the woman at the desk and asks for an account under his name. She asks for a finger print and a small blood test to confirm his identity. He clears it and she prints off a paper slip with his account details. It takes some time to calculate.

The woman hands Peter the slip, he turns and opens it before making a strange sound and closing it again. She asks if he'd like to see his vault and whether Llynos may be trusted. Peter nods and they are taken down a corridor, with armed security at intervals. The door is a wood finish but upon opening is 2-foot thick and made of metal. They come to a large circular door. Peter is prompted for a password. He inputs his birth date and the vault opens…

Inside is a 3 by 5 foot pile of about 400 solid gold bars.

Peter and Llynos look at the bars, underneath each one is a stamp of an eagle carrying a circle encasing a swastika mark and beneath that, a number. Behind the gold bars in the moderately sized room, some paintings are hanging up. Peter looks at them and recognises most of the paintings as masterpieces lost or stolen during WWII. Llynos takes a gold bar and puts it carefully in her handbag, the weight is barely noticeable to her.

They walk back to the counter with the woman. Llynos leaves early and flies back with the gold to the road house. Peter asks the woman how far his bank account records go back to. She says they go back further than their own electronic database and has to call their other branch in France. They tell her it will take some time to examine the scrolls. Peter excuses himself to the bathroom. He screams in the bathroom for a long time.

Back at the road house, Llynos shows the others the Nazi gold, confirming that what was written in Peter's letter is at least partly true. Steve stores the gold safely in the secret base and while the others discuss time travel, Amber heads to the computer upstairs to research Nazi gold. She discovers there's approximately 400 missing bars, each with an identifying number stamped into it. She confirms the number on the bar Llynos brought is one of these pieces. She then looks up time travel conspiracies and among the hundreds of thousands of articles, finds an interesting detail about fixed points. Basically that there are certain large events that happen that can never by changed or undone, such as WWII (but whether it's the start or end of WWII is uncertain) and no matter how it happens, the event will always unfold, just maybe in a different way. The other detail being that even a small change (whether positive or negative) can have a disastrous ripple/butterfly effect that is irreversible.

Llynos flies Eostre to Star City to see how Peter is getting on. Peter emerges from the bathroom eventually and goes to see how long his account has been with this bank. The woman explains that the scrolls date the account all the way back to 400AD around the fall of the Roman Empire when the account was held by one of their former organisations. The records then show various investments made by Peter's ancestors (also called Peter funnily enough) including: the Tudors, the works of Shakespeare, the rights to Hollywood, the novelist Stephen King, the Star Wars franchise, a computer company called Acorn, and a small business called Amazon, to name a few. Peter then opens a Platinum account starting at $4,000,000 and takes out $20,000 dollars on a debit card. Llynos, Eostre and Peter meet outside the bank, and go to a dealership to buy a car, a phone and some new clothes.

Back at the road house, the group are looking at the computer (*or TV?) when they sense a presence behind them. They turn to see a tall man in rich blue and red clothing and pantaloons. He claims to own the building and the surrounding land, next to the Native Indians to the North. He explains he holds the deed to the land. The man insists that it's sometime in the 1800's, despite the group knowing that it's of course 1998. Peter throws a salt shaker at him to test whether he's an illusion or not. They question him for some time and he reveals something will happen in a year's time when a voice calls to him from upstairs.

A short woman in a similar outfit is downstairs. The man stands to attention and bows before her, he refers to her as 'the matron'. The group sense that these people are not what they appear to be. She asks what year it is and is shocked to hear it's 1998. The woman scolds the man for appearing before his time and meddling. It turns out that the two are actually fairies. She tells the group not to mind them and they'll be on their way. The woman can see right through Sam's human disguise and asks her why 'he' hasn't called her home yet.

Sam asks what's happening in a year and the woman smiles through gritted teeth and glares at the man kneeling on the ground who is suppressing laughter. She tells them that in a years time there will be a war between the angels and the demons, and the group will be able to decide who wins. She tells them not to get in their way and there won't be any problems. Two double axes appear in her hands for a split second before disappearing again. Amber recognises them. And no sooner had they appeared, the two strangers vanish...

19/10/15 - The Last Unicorn!

Steve, Eostre and Zander (being the only Caucasian members of the group) decide to investigate the Neo Nazi’s and head to a known bar using Steve's dubious connections. (*Unfortunately I wasn’t present for most of this and also distracted due to being high on RedGen, if E or A could write up the missing details that would be amazing! :) )

Amber, Peter, Sam and Llynos (being ethnic minorities) stay at the roadhouse, twiddling their thumbs. They decide to investigate another trail: either abnormally large rats; the green goo in the sewers, or the powerful RedGen drug that is sweeping the market. They have had quite enough of rats and goo for several lifetimes, so they choose to look into the RedGen. Amber goes to the computer and discovers the drug has caused two high profile deaths (that have been conveniently avoided/covered up by mainstream media) including Amanda Scullion, 23, daughter of James Scullion and [Insert name], 21, daughter of the Police Chief.

The two girls were in similar upper class social circles, and it's thought to be the current drug for the rich and is more addictive and effective than any drug before on the market. They decide to head out and try and secure a drug dealer to check out this RedGen. Llynos had heard of a place where you can get some; The Blue Moon, funnily enough. Before they leave, the girls head to Sam's to borrow some fancy clothes and Peter goes to buy a tailored suit.

All dressed up and ready to party, they go to the Blue Moon and order drinks (wine for Peter, a Grasshopper for Llynos, a bottle of vodka for Sam and a Dark and Stormy for Amber), they use Amber's staff discount card and Sam refers to the bartender as 'Mr. Bar Man'.

At the Neo Nazi bar, the white people are looking for a buyer for some highly collectible items. Unfortunately they don’t find anyone willing to buy their Nazi gold, apparently they only want useful items. Later, they discover a recruitment team to join the Neo Nazi’s and they each go down to offices to file paperwork.

Back at the Blue Moon and after some time of drinking together and talking about big parties and meeting and marrying David Bowie, a woman sitting alone starts paying attention. While Peter is in the bathroom, she approaches them and asks if they'd like a good time. Amber, Sam and Llynos (who is now tipsy despite her still full glass) agree enthusiastically. She brings out a few glass bottles of RedGen as Peter returns. She turns to him and explains how to use it: you hold the bottle to the main vein on your neck, squeeze it to release the seal, and it enters the bloodstream and makes you feel amazing.

Peter says he'll save his for later as he's looking after the girls. After some coaxing, Llynos and Amber use it. Sam asks if you can just take half and the woman nods, and says you just squeeze it a little. She does but there is no half and it all enters Sam's bloodstream. The woman takes the last bottle and hands Peter a card, the first lot is free of charge (her treat) if they want more, just call.

The girls start to feel pretty damn good. They want to go home and get in their pyjamas, but they suddenly don't care where they are, they're going to get changed now. As they start feebly pulling at their clothes, Peter realises he's got 3 uncontrollable, high as kites, delirious, unstoppable women with super powers on his hands! It turns out they can't walk however as they try to make a move to follow the woman. Peter picks all 3 women up and takes them outside, he returns only to give the bartender $80 in notes and slides out the bar.

He calls a private driver and they all pile in to go back to the roadhouse. Sam and Llynos get a little upset, as poor Sam is a demon and God doesn't love her! Llynos insists that God will forgive her, when a bright, unmistakeable beam of light shines out of the roof on the car and upon Sam!! Amber gasps--a miracle!! Then Llynos gets sad again, she can't find her son, but besides he was born out of wedlock so she'll never get into heaven like Sam can! It starts raining in the car. Sam says it's ok, her son was born out of wedlock too. Llynos feels a little better and it stops raining.

At Neo Nazi recruitment, everyone wears very practical, grey jumpsuits. The men are tall, well-built, blonde, blue-eyes and quite handsome. The women are attractive, with exaggerated curves, blonde hair, blue eyes. Eostre is separated from the boys and goes into an interview alone. She is questioned on a highly personal and invasive level including frequency of periods, willingness to have children, how many and how soon. Her interview seems to go well and she is sent to another room filled with seats and a projector. Zander is questioned together with Steve and they are asked about their ancestry. Zander comes from an Irish/Italian line, isn’t too bothered about children but is pretty interested in office work. He is ushered into the same room as Eostre. Steve however potentially comes from Israel and is a gay communist. He is invited to leave, immediately. The door slams behind him. (*I don’t know what happens after this or how they get back to the roadhouse, sorry!)

Back at the roadhouse, the girls sit in the living room while Peter figures out what to do with them. Sam gets angry that Peter won't obey her and sets fire to the wall. Peter puts it out with a fire extinguisher. The girls want to go find the missing sons and Llynos gets sad again, it starts raining inside. Amber puts a hand on Llynos' shoulder, the fact that her son is missing makes Amber really angry. Suddenly her eyes glow red and beams of light shoot out and burn into the wall opposite. The girls freak out.

After another episode, the girls realise they are pretty unstoppable. They can do whatever they want, in fact, you might say they are Goddesses! (Sam, Llynos and Amber gain 2D in all physical ability, mental abilities lose 1D) They insist that Peter bows before them and worships them as Goddesses.

The girls decide that, as Goddesses, they could summon whatever they wanted. How about a Unicorn? Sure! They sit in a circle and wave their arms and chant and use random super powers together. In the middle of the circle, against all probability, a Unicorn actually appears. A huge white shire horse with a golden horn. The girls stare, unbelieving. They fawn over him, stroking his soft nose and mane. It's decided he shall sleep in Sam's room.

Peter is having none of it and immediately calls builders to arrange a stable be made in 72 hours. The rest of the group arrive back at the roadhouse to see Amber, Llynos and Sam embracing the Unicorn. Then the girls get really hungry. They demand the others order a take away, but it won't get there immediately so they summon a sandwich. It doesn't work.They collapse to the floor: so hungry!

Amber starts nibbling her hand, yum! Steve see she's chewing and drawing blood so he ties her up to a chair. Llynos feeds her some take out and Amber nearly bites her fingers off! The girls are coming down from their high now and all they can think about is their next hit. Llynos and Sam are on the floor, trying to get away. Llynos comes around from the drug enough to warn the others, she tells them to lock the three of them up. Steve and Peter trick Sam into going into the secret basement, apparently there’s loads of RedGen down there! She goes down the stairs and they lock the door behind her. Amber, who is hopping away on the chair she’s tried to, is taken to a room upstairs and locked in. Llynos is locked in her room also.

Peter, Eostre, Steve and Zander regroup downstairs. Steve emerges with a huge box full of RedGen bottles and puts it on the table. He has lots of samples ready for testing from a recent business deal. However the lab kit is downstairs. In the basement. With the fire demon. Who is currently having the worst comedown in her life...

26/10/15 – Damn You, Wolf News!

The game started with Eostre using her healing powers to purge the RedGen from the girl's systems. It takes a huge amount of energy and Eostre can only heal one of them a day. First she heals Amber (she's eating herself), then Sam (angry basement demon) and lastly Llynos (the least likely to hurt herself or others). They still feel a little cruddy, but all in all they're feeling much better (apart from the fact they're slightly more crazy now)! Unfortunately that really nice secret base the group had got set on fire and completely trashed after they locked Sam in the basement. Moral of the story: don't do drugs, kids.

On the TV in the diner, Wolf News is reporting that a very large shambling creature is making its way through the swamp towards Bludhaven. Peter, Steve, Xander and Sam decide to go and check it out. They track down the mutant to a clearing in the swamp, it's a 15 foot tall humanoid creature with huge deformed muscles and strangely, two heads. Also in the clearing is a very surprised-looking cyborg man who's essentially half robot.

Sam recognises the mutant as something she's dealt with before, they're not dangerous unless you provoke them but this one is bigger than the last one. Peter suggests that she goes and tries to talk to it because that worked last time, and Steve says he'll go with her for backup. Sam approaches the mutant in a non-threatening way and asks it where it's going, it points towards Bludhaven and says 'home'. Sam suggests that she takes him there, and the two start slowly heading towards the city. Peter talks to the cyborg man, his name is Victor and he was in the swamp because all his Russian friends died suddenly from poisoning (I wonder how that happened???). Peter invites Victor to join the group, hooray for new friends!

Back at the roadhouse, Eostre is still watching the news. Wolf News dragged up some crazy pastor who is saying that the demon and the giant are yet another sign of the End Times, the giant is clearly a Nephilim and the demon obviously want to fornicate with everybody's wives and daughters. Eostre tells the others that the news isn't putting a good spin on it. Amber starts researching how to put a tracker inside a bar of gold, and finds that it's technically very easy; the only problem would be making the gold look like it hadn't been tampered with afterwards. (what else did they do?)

Sam and the mutant made their way into Bludhaven. There are police sirens in the distance and this makes the mutant very upset, he grabs a car and starts bashing it on the ground yelling “NOISE! NOOOISE!”. Nothing Sam says to him will make him stop, and she asks Eostre to try and get the police to turn them off. Eostre calls the police HQ and asks the desk sergeant to put her through to Sandra Draephus, saying “just tell her about the snowglobe thing, she'll remember me”. She's eventually put through, and she asks Sandra to turn off the sirens because they're distressing the mutant. The sirens get turned off and Sam and the mutant continue on their walk through Bludhaven. He refuses to put down the car and just drags it behind him.

Sam and her new mutant best friend eventually end up outside an apartment building. The mutant points to one of the apartments and says 'home'. Steve figures out which apartment he's pointing to and rings the bell, he tells the person in the apartment that they've found somebody who says they live there. The person asks if this is some kind of joke and says that “my sister doesn't need this”. Steve tells them to just look out the window. Steve, with his super sight, sees a woman's face look out of the window who then faints. A few moments later the same woman comes running outside the building. The mutant points to the woman and says 'home'. Aww. The woman hugs the mutant. Sam explains that they found him in the swamp and asks for his name. The woman tells her that the man's name is John Edwards, and that he went missing shortly after he got a job handing out leaflets for the New Dawn. Eostre sees that the news is suddenly not reporting the mutant story anymore.

The police finally arrive, lots and lots of police with guns trained on the mutant. Sam steps between the mutant and the police, explaining that he's not dangerous. One policeman steps forwards, an african-american man with greying hair. He asks what they're supposed to do about the mutant now. The group explain that this was a man that had been missing, and how he re-appeared looking like this. They come up with a plan to keep the mutant in the zoo away from the public, which the police agree to. The zoo keepers arrive to tranquillize John, and with Sam and Peter's help, they take him away in an elephant transport truck. Wolf News starts reporting on what a good job the police did resolving the mutant situation, erasing the group's involvement entirely. Peter and Sam are pretty peeved about that, but Steve says it's probably for the best.

The group try to come up with a plan to find out if the New Dawn has any involvement with the mutants. Eostre decides she needs to go on a date with that hot guy, Steve, to interrogate him. She heads to the New Dawn HQ and arranges a date with Steve in the building's cafe at 7:30.

02/11/2015 – Screw the Plot, We Got Cats!

After the secret base got burned down, the group decided that they needed to assess the damage and replace everything that got wrecked. Peter, Amber, Steve and Jim went into the basement and drew up a list of all the things that needed to be replaced along with a few new things that would be incredibly useful. It’ll put a dent in Peter’s new riches but he feels it's worth the cost. The rest of the group start tidying up the roadhouse, and Llynos discovers how absolutely disgusting the toilet is. She marches over to the others and tells them off for leaving the bathroom in such a state. Viktor recognises this as an order and dons a frilly apron to scrub the loo. Sam and Eostre pull up the carpet because it’s still got a massive bloodstain on it.

Llynos, Eostre and Amber decide that what the roadhouse REALLY needs is a cat. Sam is vehemently opposed to getting a cat, reminding Llynos what happened to Mr Tiddles (rest in pieces) but the other girls are absolutely determined to adopt one. All the girls (and Zander) go to the adoption centre to choose a cat. The centre only has five cats to choose from, and two of the cats grab the group’s attention. The first cat is a smoky grey colour with brilliant blue eyes, and the second cat is black with half its fur missing.

Zander senses that the grey cat is very aware of the group, all the other cats are freaking out because there’s a demon and a vampire in the room, but the grey cat is perfectly calm. Sam tries to convince the others not to get the grey cat, suspecting supernatural shenanigans, but she’s completely outnumbered and the group ends up adopting both cats because Eostre and Llynos felt sorry for the black one. They are named Smokey and The Bandit. The lady from the adoption centre explains that they need to do a home inspection before they can adopt the cats. Sam very reluctantly agrees to hold the inspection at her apartment.

After the group finished getting cats they met up back in the roadhouse. They decide that they really need to deal with the Nazis before they can begin any renovations, and they still need to plant the tracker inside the gold. Steve and Sam discuss working together to try and disguise the tampered part of the gold: Sam will melt a small part of the bar, Steve will part the liquid gold and then put it back together after the bug is planted. Amber suggests that they practice the technique, bringing them a melted lump of metal from the basement to test on. Sam puts way too much effort into her fire and set the whole lump alight. The metal is on fire, the table is on fire, the floor is on fire, everything is on fire. Amber yells at Sam to do something about it, so Sam dumps water on it. Boiling steam immediately fills the room, Amber’s throat and lungs start burning then she passes out. Llynos and Eostre hear the commotion and rush to help. Llynos attempts to use her air powers to blow out the steam but instead it starts to rain inside the room, confusing her a great deal. When the steam clears Eostre heals Amber, and there’s now a very nice piece of metal modern art in the middle of the room. Sam and Steve decide to move outside while they practice the technique.

The rest of the group decide they should explore the upstairs of the roadhouse, since they’ve never really been up there before. There’s a variety of different rooms that seem to have been pre-prepared for the group. A room filled with crystals for Eostre (“wow, that’s exactly how I would set out my crystals!”), a very comfortable room with a Welsh theme for Llynos (“there’s a picture of my son in the draw??”), a room with strangely clashing colours for Amber (“I don’t even like it but it feels the most normal”), a room for Zander with several pieces from his uncle’s collection, a room for Jim (comfortable, but with a bag ready for a quick escape) a simply comfortable room for Peter, a room with a soviet theme and a nice chair by a plug for Viktor and a room furnished completely with metal and leather for Sam (only discovered because they opened her closet and it was full of whips). Zander notices that the leather in Sam’s room is actually demon skin; he decides not to tell her about it.

The group also find a room that used to belong to Glory. The window had been busted open and there were signs there had been somebody in the room recently. They found out somebody had been using a cup on the floor to listen in to the conversations downstairs, they also found a bag of powdered blood which could be used for rituals or eaten by vampire-types. Amber notices that the room seems to be devoid of colour, and the supernaturally aware members of the group get a bad feeling about the room. Sam states that the whole thing absolutely stinks of vampires. Peter webs the window shut and they lock the room again.

The session ended with Amber, Sam and Steve successfully planting the bug inside the gold, with the meeting with the buyers scheduled for the next day. The group decide that somebody should probably guard the gold overnight now that they know somebody has been eavesdropping. Peter, Sam and Eostre volunteer to keep watch.

09/11/2015 – Turns out the Nazis are Bad Guys

Sam decided the best course of action was to do a dragon impression and sleep on top of the gold overnight. This was evidently very successful because nobody attempted to steal it. Eostre was up at dawn to ‘greet the morning’, and before anybody else had a say she very helpfully restocked the roadhouse pantry with healthy vegan options. Everybody was very upset about this, especially Sam who’s a carnivore. The group also don’t appreciate Eostre’s healthy herbal teas, with Amber being grumpy that there’s no coffee and Viktor being absolutely appalled at the thought of soy vodka. Llynos offers to go shopping for ‘real’ food so everyone could eat, slightly offending Eostre. After breakfast Llynos and Eostre head off to pick up the cats, Jim and Steve head out to attend the meeting with the Nazis and everybody but Sam and Zander had something better they could be doing. Realising that he’s still asleep, Sam decides to wake up Zander by bursting into his room banging pans together.

Jim and Steve arrive at the meeting with the Nazi liaison. They find out it's their choice where the exchange will take place, so they decide it should be at 5pm at the giant crater in the swamp (it's late January so it'll be dark, and the swamp isn't too far from the roadhouse). After the meeting they decide to get some real breakfast before heading back to base.

Llynos and Eostre arrive back at the roadhouse with the cats, plus an unreasonable amount of cat toys and food. Smokey looks very relaxed and falls asleep on the bar, but Bandit is unwilling to leave his carrier; Eostre attempts to tip him out and gets told off by Llynos. The rest of the group start coming up with a plan for when the gold exchange takes place. Zander and Amber will be waiting in a car with the tracking device, Sam and Llynos will be stationed in the air in case things don't go to plan and the others will be hiding in cover around the clearing. Amber suggests they should have a signal in case things go sour, and Llynos suggests a rumble of thunder using her new found weather powers. Steve and Jim decide they need to go check out the clearing, and Llynos goes outside to practice.

Steve and Jim arrive in the swamp clearing, only to find that there's very little cover at all. The only trees in the area are bare and there isn't even a bush to hide behind. Jim tries to use his darkness powers to darken the area as an experiment for later, but something goes seriously wrong. The area goes pitch black and the darkness begins smothering the pair; Steve starts panicking because he can't see and Jim finds he can't turn off his power, it isn't supposed to work like this at all! They stumble around trying to find a way out of the swirling darkness as they start to suffocate.

Back at the roadhouse the group are blissfully unaware of the trouble. Eostre is doing some gardening, Amber is setting up the cats in an unused bedroom and Llynos is practicing her thunder outside. Sam decides she wants to scout out the swamp clearing from the sky to get an idea of where she needs to be, and on the flight over she notices the extremely obvious swirling cloud of darkness in the swamp that seems to be moving in one direction. The rest of the group end up outside and notice the darkness too, and they rush into the swamp to help while Amber looks very confused. Llynos uses her powers to try and blow away the darkness with little success, then Viktor strolls up and absorbs the whole cloud into his arm solving the problem immediately.

Eostre heals Jim, and Steve notices a helicopter heading towards them in the distance. With his super vision he sees that the helicopter is khaki green, the pilot is a man with blonde hair and blue eyes and the passenger is a man that looks very similar to Hitler. The team get the heck out of dodge and regroup at the roadhouse. With this new knowledge that the Nazis have a helicopter, the group have to quickly come up with a new plan. Sam and Llynos will follow the helicopter by air, then tell the rest of the group via mobile phone when the copter touches down to tell them where it is.

One hour before the exchange is due to take place, Peter carries the palette of gold to the clearing with Jim and Steve. They notice that there are suddenly MORE trees in the clearing than there were before, which is highly suspicious. Steve sees that the trees aren't even real trees, just very sophisticated fakes. Peter concludes that they must be people in tree costumes, and decides to uproot one of the real trees and break it in two to intimidate them. The trees don't react. Peter leaves the clearing, Steve and Jim decide to stay and guard the gold until the Nazis arrive. Steve notices people army crawling in the swamp towards the fake trees, and concludes they must be professionals because even he wouldn't have noticed them if he wasn't aware something was up. They decide not to do anything about them because they don't want to alert the Nazis and potentially scare them away.

The hour of reckoning finally arrives! Everybody is in position when the Nazis arrive by hovercraft and helicopter. The Hitler-looking man is there, along with the buff helicopter pilot, the liaison that Jim and Steve spoke to initially and a scientist guy. They test and verify the gold and they don't discover the bug, woo! The buff pilot gives them two backpacks full of notes and takes the gold into the helicopter. Jim and Steve decide to count the notes, and Steve notices that the majority of the money is actually fake. They decide not to make a stink about it because they don't want to ruin the plan. Jim asks who they should talk to if they come across more of the gold, and the Hitler guy gives him a business card. Just as the hovercraft and the helicopter leave the area, Steve sees the glint of a gun barrel; the guys in the fake trees open fire! Wow, curse their sudden yet inevitable betrayal! Steve manages to dodge the shot but Jim is hit, and just as the battle starts the session ended.

16/11/2015 – Viktor has a Near Death Experience

The session started with combat. Jim is on the ground unconscious after being shot, and Steve retaliates by shooting at the gunman hidden in the fake tree. To everyone's shock and horror, he misses. Llynos makes a rumble of thunder to alert the others that there's trouble before she and Sam take off after the helicopter; at the same time Amber drives off to chase the signal. Eostre and Viktor hear the thunder and recognise it as Llynos' signal, they rush off towards the swamp dragging the oblivious Peter with them.Things are not going very well for Steve, he misses again and gets shot multiple times by the three Nazi gunmen. Eostre, Viktor and Peter show up to help, but they're on the other side of the clearing far away from him. Peter uproots a tree to use as a shield and the three start slowly advancing forwards.

Things continue not going incredibly well vs the Nazis, all three of Steve's backup get shot with Viktor being hit the worst. The tree absorbs some of the bullets but it's looking pretty worse for wear. Eostre does her best to heal everybody, then she has an idea to imbue the tree with her powers, making a better shield for them. The tree glows sparkly green and sprouts leaves, it's now much more resilient! They advance with their new super tree shield (Eostre calls her 'Trinny').Meanwhile in the air, Llynos and Sam are successfully tailing the helicopter. They start to lag behind as the chopper speeds up, and at some point it disappears into the smog above Bludhaven. Both Sam and Llynos notice metal glinting underneath them, and after following it blind for a few moments they see it land on top of a warehouse not far from LawTech. It's actually warehouse number 3, the same one the group failed to investigate several months ago, when they went into the wrong one (warehouse number 1) and then got distracted by averting Total Atomic Annihilation.

As agreed Sam phones Peter, but he doesn't pick up because he's a bit distracted at the moment. She leaves a message that's made up of the wind and wing-beating noises, good job, Sam. They decide to head back now that they've found the location.After driving for a long while and eventually losing the signal completely, Amber tracks the tracker to somewhere inside the LawTech compound. As she drives around to triangulate the area, Amber sees that there are strange 7ft tall silver bullet-shaped objects scattered around the LawTech buildings. She tells the gate guard that she's here to visit a member of her family who works in the bio labs, after checking her ID he waves her through without any trouble. Amber follows the tracker to the third warehouse and parks outside, waiting for the others.

Eostre imbues the tree again, making it even more robust as they start to close in on the Nazis. Steve recovers consciousness and finally hits his target, killing the tree-Nazi instantly. Then the Nazis somehow manage to shoot Viktor again, despite the fact he was behind Eostre who was behind Peter who was behind the tree (curving bullets????). Viktor is in a very bad way and passes out, Eostre tries to heal him but because he's half-robot it's not as effective as usual. Steve hits a second Nazi, who's now also dead. Peter smashes Trinny into the remaining fake Nazi tree, knocking the last gunman unconscious. Right on cue Sam and Llynos return to the clearing. Sam takes the still unconscious Jim back to the roadhouse and Llynos helps to patch people up. They explain where the helicopter landed, absolutely nobody is surprised by this.

They decide they need to come up with a new plan for getting inside the Nazi stronghold because of how tough the gunmen were, which means Amber is going to need to come back. Llynos flies off to fetch Amber. When Viktor comes around he remarks that he 'saw Jesus'. Peter carefully removes the one surviving Nazi from his ruined tree. They decide they need to dump them all by the side of the road and make an anonymous call to 911. Eostre checks over the one survivor and decides to heal him because he might be dead by the time the ambulance arrives. Not long after he attempts to escape, but Peter catches him with his web. The Nazi tells them some nonsense about the unstoppable new race, and he's told pretty categorically to shut up. Sam intimidates him, he tells her “You cannot stop the return of the Fuhrer!” and then attempts to kill himself with a cyanide capsule. Eostre is having absolutely none of that and purges the poison from his system.

When he wakes up he starts sobbing and wailing in German like a big baby. Sam and Eostre then have an argument about what they should do with his dead friends. Eostre feels that they deserve a proper burial because they're still people with families, Sam thinks they should just burn the bodies because they don't deserve a proper burial and they're probably roasting in heck anyway. The argument goes on and on, but Eostre eventually gets her own way after Peter urges Sam to drop the subject. Eostre knocks out the crying Nazi with anti-healing and the group retreat into the roadhouse.

Llynos arrives back at the compound. After a brief encounter with a very nice guard, she approaches Amber's car and explains she needs to come back to the roadhouse. Amber is not pleased with this idea, she wants to deal with the Nazis sooner rather than later. Llynos says she's just the messenger and doesn't want to fly back and forth relaying messages. Amber reluctantly agrees and the two drive back to the roadhouse. On the way they pass several ambulances and police cars, and behind the roadhouse are two CSI vans. They drive into the base through the secret entrance and tell the others about the CSI vans.

Then there's a knock on the door. Then a much more forceful knock when they don't answer. The group start panicking and hiding, leaving Peter to answer the door. Turns out it's only Sandra Draephus and a very green young policeman. The rest of the group start appearing again, and as soon as he sees Sam the policeman draws his pistol and points it at her. Sandra tells him very sternly to 'put that thing away'.

30/11/2015 - *Insert Time Travel Sound Effect Noise*

The newbie policeman stands pointing a gun at Sam in 10-foot demon form. Sandra Draephus calmly takes her partner outside to wait and closes the door to deal with the group. Sandra doesn’t think it was a great idea for them to call the police with 2 dead bodies at the road house—a building they don’t hold the deed to or need law enforcement snooping around. She explains that she can deal with the cops and bodies, however, the group must contact her first should they decide to cause anymore trouble again. They agree and they take her phone number again. After giving them a stern warning, Sandra leaves with the rest of the police and the group reconvene to plan their next move.

Eostre and Amber agree that it should be a two-pronged attack on warehouse 3 and another part of LawTech, perhaps a laboratory, in order to distract the LawTech droids from the warehouse containing the Nazi gold and (supposedly) the time machine. Eventually they decide to focus their attack on the main warehouse but to split into two teams: Sam and Llynos are to take Jim to the warehouse directly, dropping in over the enclosure into the LawTech compound using Jim’s cover of darkness, while Amber drives Peter, Eostre, Steve and Viktor to the gates. The group all prepare to leave while Jim feeds the cats.

Sam and Llynos arrive at the compound quite quickly, being able to fly directly. Jim lays down a cover of darkness and sneaks with Llynos up to the warehouse. Meanwhile Amber and the guys in the car are hit by traffic in Bludhaven. Amber turns on the radio to hear that there’s a huge New Dawn parade happening through the streets today, and they’re heading straight to the LawTech compound! Amber drives through the side streets to avoid the congestion when some of them notice posters on the streets and walls to support the revolution. There’s an odd realisation of ‘hang on, aren’t the revolution the good guys?’ when suddenly the Police are ahead putting up barriers to route the parade down this road! Eostre quickly calls up Sandra Draephus and asks her to reroute the parade away from them and take the long way round to LawTech. After a moment the Police remove the barriers and the parade passes by, leaving Amber to drive uninterrupted to LawTech.

At the guard post, a security guard asks Amber where they’re going. She explain they’re going to surprise her relative at the bio-chew lab with a Birthday party. They show their IDs and he waves them through. They drive up to the inner military security gates and Amber parks around the corner. They get out and look for a way to get through the gates.

Steve and Peter shoot and web the nearby security cameras respectively while Viktor takes out the lock system on the gate. It’s easy work at this point and the group are in. Llynos has created a thick mist in the compound so they wearily approach the warehouse. They see a figure up ahead but as they get closer they recognise Llynos. They all go up to the warehouse that Jim has already opened and go inside… In the warehouse the group find themselves on a metal catwalk that zig zags down to the floor, where around 40 Nazi soldiers are lined up wielding futuristic weapons. To the side, several scientists are operating large computers and feeding gold bars into a machine that powers a large circular gateway in which a vortex is being pulled out into a long tunnel—what could only be identified as the time machine! Above which, a countdown ticks down from 9 minutes.

Amber puts a forcefield up at the opening where the scientists are putting in the gold. The scientists scratch their heads and look confused as they can’t push the gold into the slot. They shrug and go to the machine and press the big red button, starting up the time machine. Sam goes down to the gold and heats it up to melt it. A scientist goes to pick one up and shrieks as their hand catches fire! The scientists become very interested in the spontaneously combusting gold.

Meanwhile marching can be heard outside and the New Dawn parade has arrived outside. Sam, Llynos and Jim have closed the warehouse doors and are busy locking it so no one can get in. Amber puts a forcefield and can feel something pulling her backwards. The force pushes her to her knees and she has to stop, just as Viktor is sneaking past the soldiers to the time machine. As he does, a magnetic force from the time machine vortex suddenly pulls him straight into the tunnel. Peter quickly webs Viktor before he goes to far. Amber, Steve, Eostre and the others hold on to Peter as they attempt to pull Viktor back. The soldiers below notice the commotion and begin shooting. Viktor draws energy from the time machine in an attempt to escape but instead erases a week from 1978 from the memories on the group members holding on to the webbing. Fortunately nothing too vital is erased, we hope. The group also remember a dark cyborg figure standing in the corner of their childhood memories, spooky.

Peter decides that dragging Viktor towards them and avoiding the 40 soldiers is too risky and dangerous and suggests jumping into the vortex. The group all agree except Amber, who protests but reluctantly goes along as the whole team count down from 3 and jump..!

Everyone falls into the time machine and they all feel a strange pulling and dragging sensation. As they fall a memory emerges from each of their consciousnesses, and everyone witnesses their most treasured or tortured moments (spoiler alert, they’re all pretty tragic). Llynos remembers giving birth to twins, one monstrous and dead within moments and the other happy and healthy, she names him Secret. Steve remembers being beaten to a pulp by a gang in an alleyway. Peter remembers a similar experience at school, being beaten on by bullies. Amber remembers a teenage girl holding a bleeding wound on her face while a boy stands over her with a knife, Amber beats on the air in front of her crying and screaming. Sam remembers the birth of her son, a cute little black demon baby. Scorch marks and deep scratches are gouged into the wall and bed around her. Viktor remembers looking up at scientists experimenting on him, implanting wires and technology (not unlike Wolverine’s origin story). The group never speak of this again.

And then they’re out, and they all fall out of the sky onto the ground. The group are piled together on a straight dirt road, around them countryside and hills, it’s a warm sunny day. Ahead of them is a sprawling city surrounded by seven hills. None other than Ancient Rome…

07/12/2015 - When in Roma...

The group find themselves on a long straight road leading to a sprawling city surrounded by seven hills. Peter informs the group that this is ancient Rome. With nowhere else to go, they approach the city. Inside is a bustling market full of people wearing various togas and simple dresses and skirts. Roman soldiers are everywhere, not particularly threatening but their presence is known. They notice some of the guards wear red armbands. Uh-oh. Eostre tries talking to a soldier, but he just speaks loudly back in Latin. Peter is the only one who understands and tells the group that the soldier said he didn't understand and they should just carry on moving. They give up and head further into the market. In front of them is a familiar figure. As they get nearer, they see a blonde, very well-endowed woman--the spitting image of Nina.

Eostre asks her what year it is and Nina replies that it is the fifth reign of Gaius Octavius (is this right?). The group can understand her perfectly, and Nina can understand them, much to her own confusion. Peter translates the year as 61BC. Eostre asks Nina if she was born here or remembers where she came from. Oddly, Nina can't seem to recall anything from her childhood. They ask for a place to stay and Nina directs them to an Inn across the street. The Blue Moon Inn.

They enter and Eostre uses a crystal from her pouch to order a carafe of wine from the bar. It's weak and watery, but the group drink and discuss their predicament. A man at the bar, hearing their foreign tongue of some kind of Bretton, shuffles closer and pretends not to listen. The group notice and Eostre goes up to him to say hello. He doesn't respond. Sam goes to calm Eostre down, but she accidentally mentions that Sam is a demon and the highly superstitious bar goes silent. The group make to leave, but the man at the bar comes over to chat. He doesn't speak in Latin, but an ancient Bretton that the group can actually piece together.

Eostre asks him why some of the soldiers wear red armbands and he says they are a part of a new order that are showing their support for change. He says if they are interested in finding out more, they can meet him at the South-East gate at the Third watch, and leaves. Peter explains the third watch isn't until 12-3am, so they leave the bar to kill some time.

They go with Nina to get new clothes, as right now they aren't really fitting in. It takes a while to get something big enough to cover Viktor and Sam takes a lot of convincing to wear the patched rags, but eventually they are clothed appropriately for the period. Further in, the smell gets pretty bad, and there are way more threatening Roman soldiers here. They quickly finish up buying clothes and head back up to the middle district, where suddenly in a side alley, a portal appears in front of them, and out falls a woman with black, straight-cut hair, olive skin, a business skirt suit and high heels. She falls into a pile of unmentionable muck, before carefully taking off her shoes and demanding to know what just happened.

The group are just as surprised as she is, when suddenly a voice is heard behind them. They turn to see the dressed up fairy who visited them at the roadhouse not long ago (I can't remember his name!). He speaks to them cryptically about magical dimension travel, painting Death's house pink and the mess they find themselves in. Apparently he cannot help them get back to their time, as dimension and time travel is different. They have to get home the same way they got here, through a time machine. As suddenly as he appeared, he is gone and they are left with a very confused mud-covered woman, who introduces herself as Gina, a private investigator from New York, 1997, a year before the group’s present day.

So the group proceed to the higher tiers of Rome, where it's less smelly and dirty. The women start noticing that there are far more men and less women around. The men are wearing heavier clothes, they appear older and of a higher ranking in society. Eventually they come across a courtyard full of older men in long togas over their shoulders. They looks strangely at the group. One of the men comes over and addresses Peter, why have you brought these women here? Peter responds by saying they are working women (in Latin). Only Peter and Gina understand the conversation and Gina exclaims at being called a prostitute! The man turns to Gina and backhands her. She tries to kick him in the crotch but is restrained by Sam and Eostre. Amber asks why the men are pointing and waving purses, Peter tells her and Amber shouts at him. Peter politely declines the men's purses and guides the group hurriedly away.

By this time, it's nearly night time, so the group make their way to the Blue Moon to wait for the Third Watch. On the way they notice a lot of young boys around, and groups of Roman soldiers wearing their red armbands around their wrists. At the South-East gate, they come across the Bretton again, who they join on his constitution. They walk with him as he explains what the new order wish to achieve. He wants the group's help with something. They want to create a resistance to overthrow Marcus Philipus and instate Marcus Lucius (I forget names??) to create equality in Rome. If Philipus should be assassinated, that would be very helpful. He just so happens to lead them outside Marcus' home and bids them goodnight.

The group deliberate and among them, realise that this is the start of the civil war in Rome. Amber insists that they must not change the course of history and that the Civil War must happen, which sadly means that Marcus must not be assassinated and the resistance must not win this one. They notice a group of soldiers in strange armour approach. Suddenly they fire actual guns at the soldiers at Marcus' gates! A few soldiers get hit and collapse. The group intervene, Amber puts up a forcefield at the gates and Jim covers the soldiers in darkness. They stop firing. Jim puts the darkness down and Amber, Eostre and Steve (or Sam?) rush the futuristic soldiers while Peter webs a gun from one of their hands.

It's over before it's begun as the last thing the gun-wielding soldiers were expecting was a group of civilians to rush and brawl them. Amber says that they need to remove evidence of the guns, her and Eostre removes bullets from the bodies and Amber, Eostre, Peter and Steve take an empty gun each. Marcus appears at the gates and invites them inside, not batting an eye at Sam in demon form. The group remember that this is the powerful politician famous for his controversial parties. He offers them all exclusive entry, giving them all a chance to decline if they don't feel like they have a taste for his unusual get togethers--they are not for the faint of heart. Amber immediately declines with a sensitive stomach, followed closely by Gina and Eostre. Then Peter changes his mind and joins them. Sam, Steve, Viktor, and Jim enter and a young boy called Jupiter greets them to ask to hand over their togas.

The partial group strip and enter an extravagant palace full of naked men and women. A lot of men appear to be strapped to crucifixes and most of the women are wielding flogs, paddles and whips. It’s unusual here that gender roles are reversed.

Marcus reappears in front of them and removes his toga. They stand in awe of his body, Viktor and Jim crit. fail their presence and see him as the most perfect and pure adonihs of a man and want to be with him forever. The rest can see why he is so revered. Welcome, he says.

14/12/2015 - The Totally Innocent Drunk Butt-Naked Party

Jim and Viktor are quite taken with Marcus and they follow him into the mansion and join the group or adoring fans that hang on his every word. Viktor reaches out to touch him, only to find his abs smooth and cold to the touch. Weird.

Sam rather quickly joins and women with flogs and paddles, quite in her element. In the middle of the palace is a large fountain of very strong red wine. Steve gets in and swims/drinks happily, closely followed by Jim. While those of the group who are inside are having fun, Amber, Gina, Peter, Llynos and Eostre wait outside.

And wait.

…And… wait…

…Until they get rather bored and Llynos and Eostre decide to investigate. They try the front door but don’t really fancy getting undressed so they try the servant’s quarters round the back. They find the kitchens full of attractive blonde and blue-eyed men and women in revealing togas. They ask how to get to the party, but the servants don’t have access to the upper levels. Eostre explains that they are part of ‘the act’ and they are instructed to go to the stage where the oil supplies are ready for them.

Eostre and Llynos after a brief explore of the servant’s corridors (a bit smellier then the rest of the mansion but still quite clean) back out and try the front entrance again. They bump into Jupiter again who asks for their togas. Llynos tries to convince him that they need their clothes (they don’t leave much to the imagination anyway) but he is not swayed. Peter overhears and goes up to the door, effortlessly removing it from it’s hinges amongst Jupiter’s futile protests. Peter walks right up to the fountain and drags a very inebriated Steve and Jim out of the strong liquid and takes them outside to the barn where Amber and Gina are chatting to themselves.

Peter dumps them off and goes back to look for the others. Jim crawls into the barn under cover of darkness and passes out. Gina grabs Steve and goes for a ‘walk’. She runs around with him very quickly, leaving a trail of Steve’s vomit, before putting him to bed in the hay with Jim. Amber stands turned away, avoiding eye contact with the butt-naked men.

Viktor has vanished with Marcus somewhere and Peter can’t find him. Eostre, Sam and Llynos explore the mansion a bit more down corridors where the party guests retired to private rooms. Eventually they do find Marcus’ room where Viktor is lying in bed, but they don’t find much else. They come outside to the barn (Peter quietly places the door back upright and apologises to Jupiter) and they all settle down for the remainder of the night while some take watch.

In the morning, they wake Jim and Steve up from mind bending hangovers and decide to all go to the Emperor’s castle where the senator’s vote is taking place later that day. They travel to the castle in the upper circle where fewer and fewer women can be seen and the number of guards increase. Llynos hides in a street to take off into the sky and fly herself in. The rest come across a bridge with a row of Roman soldiers where Peter challenges them to an arm wrestle to let them pass as they don’t have the coinage to enter the castle grounds. The largest brute of the bunch (Brutus?) squares up Peter’s slim frame and accepts the challenge. Peter easily beats him and Brutus demands a best of three. Peter beats him again and Brutus wants another round but Peter insists he’s won fair and square. So the soldiers let them pass. During all of the commotion, Amber, Eostre and Gina slip past unnoticed.

Inside the grounds, small groups of senators protected by soldiers roam around, discuss matters of state and frown upon the women who have entered their domain. As they enter the inner castle the looks become more and more questioning. They reach the steps just as a small group approach them. But before anything happens, Gina decides to run up to the podium and make a speech. She powers up and crit. fails, landing herself 90 points of damage as she trips instantly and falls flat on her face (squish). The group spring into action, Amber puts up a forcefield to take some of the fall, Peter shoots a web to catch up and Sam shifts up into demon form and jumps to catch her in her wings.

The whole courtyard stands shocked at the 9-foot winged demon in their midst…

21/12/2015 - The Assassination (requiescat in pace)

With Gina unconscious in Sam’s leathery wings, all of the soldiers and senator’s attention is on the 9-foot demon. The soldiers surround the group. Amber puts a forcefield around Sam and Gina with an open roof for their escape. Sam takes off vertically and very slowly ascends. Spears are thrown and shatter against the wall behind them.

Peter jumps up and sticks to the wall, climbing up to the window. Steve blends in with the crowd as Amber orders the nearest guard to get the senators to safety. The soldier obeys and everyone else in the courtyard start filing out through the large door.

Meanwhile, Llynos is still flying overhead. She approaches a tower at the top of the castle. She peers inside and see the emperor speaking to a man with a small moustache and Nazi soldiers! She summons a strong wind to the door of the room in order to keep it shut then sucks the air out of 2 Nazis at the window (who were looking down at the commotion below) suffocating them instantly. Then she reaches the window and grabs 2 more Nazis who had come to the window and hurl them to the ground below (badass).

In the courtyard, 2 Nazis drop out of the sky and meet their demise on the solid ground. A crowd gather around them. Amber, Jim and Steve look through the crowd to see what’s happened. Sam is now fully airborne with Gina and she flies her far away to the outskirts of the city to recover. Peter pulls himself up into the room of the castle and webs a rope down below for the rest to join him. The others ignore the rope as the 2 dead Nazis are far more distracting. Peter searches the room he finds himself in. There are lots of fascinating historic documents that he would have loved to read, but sadly now’s not the time! Peter leaves the room and heads downstairs. He finds himself in a large hall with barred doors leading to the courtyard. He goes upstairs instead.

Llynos has now entered the room with the Emperor Marcus. The man with the moustache seems to have disappeared, but Marcus cowers in the corner from the glowing and levitating middle-aged housewife. She calls out in a booming voice for Marcus to stop the Nazi Druids by order of Jupiter. Everyone in the vicinity hears including Peter who has just made it up the stairs. Emperor Marcus is cowering by the door (which won’t open) crying and gibbering incoherently. Llynos decides not to kill him.

Peter reaches the door and pushes against it just as Llynos stops forcing it shut with her wind powers. The door hurtles open and Marcus runs out immediately. Peter follows as Llynos takes a shortcut out the window. Marcus bursts out into the courtyard and calls his guards, they immediately go to his side and protect his from all sides with their shields in the classic tortoise-shell fashion. They race for the gates as the last people in the courtyard are filing out. Amber and Steve dash after them, dodging through the gates just as they close.

They see the tortoise formation run through the streets, darting left and right at a moment’s notice, Amber runs after them and stops them in their tracks with a forcefield. BANG! They hit it at full speed, knocking the first soldiers senseless and toppling the rest of them over each other. Eostre and Peter try to catch up after breaking down the gates, Llynos approaches overhead. Meanwhile Gina has recovered and Sam decides to fly them both back to the rest of the group.

Amber dives into the soldier’s chaos and grabs and hurls one of the guards to one side. Steve behind her, summons the metal from their armour to form a shield around himself (making Amber look pretty awesome in the process). Amber puts a circular wall around herself, the remaining guards and the Emperor. Llynos reaches them and uses her wind power to send one of them flying up into the air. Eostre is still running to the fight as Peter reaches them, he runs straight into Amber’s forcefield.

Amber finally reaches the Emperor, kneeling beneath the guards. She is suddenly overcome by intense anger. What happens next is anyone’s guess. Some saw Amber pull double axes out of nowhere and smoothly behead the 4 surrounding soldiers and the Emperor, while others say the soldiers murdered themselves by sheer accident, or even simply exploded into showers of blood. But whatever the details, all of the Roman soldiers and the Emperor Marcus, are dead. Amber faints and Eostre rushes to her aid as the whole group feel an odd pulling sensation as they slip through time…

28/12/2015 - All of the EXP / The Christmas & Halloween Special Part I

Most of this session was devoted to EXP and upgrades, but we did begin our next Halloween/Christmas adventure.

The group awake in a church. Everyone is present and intact, except Zander appears to have joined them again but Amber is convinced it can’t possibly be the actual Zander. A pool of light before them falls onto the dead body of Father Francis on the steps to the altar. Before the group can respond, a Nun appears and cries, ‘The Father is dead!’.

Jim approaches the body and finds a bloody wound in his chest and a cross upon a thong around his neck as well as a key. He takes the key. Peter explores the church and finds 2 doors, one leading to blackness outside. He goes through and the scenario resets: ‘The Father is dead!’. This time the group discover an empty cabinet next to the altar which looks like it has been forced open. Inside are 12 empty slots, there are 12 missing ‘apostles’, also known as the Seven Dwarfs: Happy, Grumpy, Doc, Sleepy, Bashful, Sneezy and Dopey. Although the other 5 can never be agreed upon.

The group continue to search and reset, search and reset, until they eventually find the key around the Father’s neck fits the third door in the church which leads to the cellar. Sam, Jim, Amber, Llynos, Eostre and Steve go inside to looks around but it’s too dark. Jim sees skeletons lining the cellar in the darkness and Amber notices something move further in. Llynos summons light into the cellar but it’s way too much, blinding Steve and Jim. Eostre uses the crystal in her staff to create a dimmer light and they look into the darkness. There, hundreds of animated skeletons slowly approach…