Session 392 - The Muppets Christmas Special

Date: 25 December 1624

Moon Phase: Merry and Bright

Moon Face: Clean as the Driven Snow

Zenith Deity: Saint Nicholas

Returning Characters:

- Nines, played by Michael Caine

- Bulgur, played by a muppet with thick woolen hair and bright blonde skin.

- Brie played by an inverse Miss Piggy with green skin and pink hair.

- Manrat played by Rizzo the Rat

- Zeppelino played by Oscar the Grouch

Events:

--- Gifflewim's Christmas Surprise!

- Despite being in the middle of the Red Elf bubble-city, a more fearsome magic emerges before the party! It's Gifflewim, appearing out of a milky portal!
- There's a problem in New Moondin. The economy is built on the Greed Demon Julgoor, and he needs a ready supply of Greed to keep it going. The lynchpin of this greed is one Mr Scrooge, but they've got intel that he'll be visited by three spirits in the night and undermine the whole system!
- Go to New Moondin and stop the spirits, he begs you!

- It's a Christmas Special so of course everyone's in!

--- You there boy, what day is it?

- They emerge from the portal into New Moondin!... But not as the players knew it. Most of the town are muppets now, and there's a snowy and Victorian vibe. Muppet spider-kids amble past and the townsfolk seem to be fairly ok with their muppety situation.
- Good lord, the party are muppets now! They can teleport by ducking behind objects! All of them that is except for Nines who is played by Michael Caine! He shall be known as Michael Nines in this recap because there are two Michael Caines.

- They witness a different and more Scrooge-like Michael Caine (who I shall denote Scrooge) asking a passing muppet what day it is from the window above Julgoor's. 

- They also witness Bob Cratchit played by Kermit the Frog, lamenting his horrible boss and clearly filled with fatherly love over his lovely yet crippled child Tiny Tim.

--- Christmas Past

- They witness the best song of Marley and Maaaarrley oOooOooOoo, then are taken (unbeknownst to Scrooge) with the Ghost of Christmas Past to Scrooge's past. They witness his early life in the Ferfect Fried Chicken shop, under the spidery foreleg of Colonel Chicken.
- Michael Nines learns the lesson of not inflicting the trauma of your upbringing on your employees, perhaps?

--- Christmas Present
- They're back in the present now! A fair clip!
- Brie disappears behind a wall and teleports to Bob Cratchit's house. She's got a plan (it involves Necromancy).
- Scrooge is taken to see Bob Cratchit's happy but poor family and.. what's this??? Tiny Tim's bones have been healed by Repair Skeleton! But it worked too well!

- Tiny Tim is now KAIJU TIM! He roars!

- The Cratchit's house is on fire! Oh no!

- It becomes increasingly unclear whether the Michael Caines are separate entities!

---Christmas Yet to Come

- They arrive in the future and must battle the final spirit! It rolls dice in advance and replaces them at will, very meta.
- Luckily they manage to charm it, and it stops fighting. The future has been defeated...?

- But lo, it's Kaiju Tim! They shoot him in the head.

- They take Tiny Tim's Last Breath.
- A zombie eats the giant brain and becomes HYPER-INTELLIGENT and SUPER-RAVENOUS!!!
- I'm unsure what the implications are I'll have to ask tonight.
- The corpse of Tiny Tim is Raised to become the collosal zombie Titan Tim. Has 1HP but will fall on his attacker(s) for 18d8 damage, save vs blast for half.

--- Christmas Presents

- The day is saved! As far as we can tell, Scrooge didn't learn his lesson in all the chaos, so Julgoor is happy.
- Gifflewim admits that the town is muppets due to him triggering a Muppet Bomb a while back. He had good intentions - New Moondin was overrun by fascists and the best way to resist arbitrary executions was to turn everyone into unkillable muppets.
- Unclear if this is a permanent thing or just for Christmas.
- Thankfully, presents! Everyone gets to roll for random rewards (and additionally get 1992 obols each from Gifflewim for saving capitalism).

- Next time, back to the Wastes!

Total:  7000 exp

Foes Defeated:

- Tiny Tim (0 exp)

- Titan Tim (500 exp)
- The Spirit of Future Yet to Come (200 exp)

Total: 700 exp

Stuff Claimed:

- Brie:

-- 1992 obols (1992 exp)

-- Deed for a house in Bunkertown's Northfell district  - 1700 obol Safe Investment

-- Vial of Unholy Water

- Bulgur:
-- 1992 obols (1992 exp)
-- Book #108: The Twinned Cities (100 exp)
-- Potion #127: Ultra-Healing

-- Potion #111: Climbing

-- Hobby Horse that works as an actual steed!

-- Manrat:

- 1992 obols (1992 exp)
- Electro-Bomb

- Coward's Aegis: Shield molded into a fearful face; -2 to hit; when hit you teleport 10' backwards; Shield Break to teleport to first threshold crossed this session.

-- Nines:
- 1992 obols (1992 exp)
- Grey elf ear pierced by a golden earring (1152 exp)
- Potion #156, labelled in French

-- Zeppelino:
- 1992 obols (1992 exp)

- Floating toy doll that is the long-lost toy of an underworld monarch
- Hand Box: Box containing shrivelled human hand; put a fresh hand in the box to heal 1d6.

Total: 11212 exp

Exp Totals:

- Carter / Nines, Level 5 Inheritor: 24768 (Level up at 36000)

- Kitty / Bulgur, Son of Borgar, Level 5 Barbarian: 22168 (Level up at 32000)

- George / Manrat Snels, Level 5 Ratman: 14401 (Level up at 28000)

Level Up! +1d6 HP! +1 to Saves! A whopping 25 Rats!  +Backstory!

- Charles / Zeppelino, Level 4 Goblin: 14734 (Level up at 16000)

- Ollie / Brie van der Hells, Level 4 Necromancer: 13901 (Level up at 18000)