Tuesday 29 March 2022

Session 313 - A Hammer to Crack a Nut

Date: 13 August, 21 p.p.

Moon: Waning Gibbous - Dragon Face
Zenith: Dispater


New Characters:
Dorian "Ditto" DeMone, an Inheritor and devourer of at least one Political Aide and at least one enormous mantis person.







Events:

--- The Case of the Very Drunk Lady
- Before the session starts an absolutely rinsed woman turns up and stares at us while gently swaying. We are saved by a bartender.




--- The Case of the Consumed Corpse
- At the start of the session a big purple Ditto drops from the ceiling and glorps over Amanta's corpse, devouring her body completely then transforming into Amanta but with a Ditto face. This fazes nobody somehow, even Tez who's just shown up at a weird time and witnessed the only person he knows here get eaten.





--- Nutcracker Time
- They leave the previous area where they recently murdered a whole lot of cannibals and move through the halls of the Dharga which shift and morph around them. Soon they arrive at a door - it's another special zone!
- Argument is coming from within, and Dorian slides under the door in goop form. Inside it's the Nutcracker for some reason! Redcoat toy soldier dudes vs Ratmen! They've been locked in spirited on-and-off balletic combat for a while, and now it seems they just yell at each other.


- The soldiers leave when the party enters, and the Ratmen attack! One of the ratmans immediately fucking implodes from an incredible 1-in-8000 chance triple crit fail.
- Swan and Dorian start using the turned-over table in the middle of the room to absolutely crush the fuck out of loads of rats. It's a horrifying scene.


- But what's this?? A life-or-death struggle between Archikneades and a Ratman results in his baguette being slowly pushed into his chest like a knife! The baker dies, and the Extras are no more! Didogenes will have to go on as a lone character forevermore... but at least he's got those blast fists and a surprisingly humanoid appearance now. Yes, Tom is now accidentally playing a doge furry.



- The rest of the rats are finished off by conventional methods - ie. stabbing, whacking and/or crushing with the aforementioned table.


--- Horny Time
- One of the toy soldiers who scarpered earlier pokes his head around the door and thanks the party for killing off their long-hated rat foes.
- They check out the barracks and find that it's also a small library... filled solely with POWERLAD erotica from the glory days. Galaxy Johnson's royalties must be impressive, wherever he is now in the universe.



- The soldier tells the party about the horrible wizard who cursed them to eternal struggle against the ratmen. The party agrees to deal with the problem!


--- Just a Big Guy
- The next room is a big round room with a giant nutcracker in the middle of it! He's clearly there to guard the spiral stair that runs around the room and leads up to a door in the Sistine Chapel-esque domed ceiling.




- Instead of fighting him, party members swallow the necklaces that glorp you inside them and have Swan lob them up there. Easy!
- One downside - the domed ceiling has a whole load of angels and if a Lawful character looks at them they risk being sucked into the painting and becoming a new angel forever! Thankfully the POWERLAD novels have made them too horny to be truly pure of heart, so they save!
- The enter the next room and discover an empty CEO-style desk with a CEO-style name bar saying Drosselmeyer.
- There are also a few more POWERLAD novels! Tez finds a key in a painting and uses it to enter the next room... a room with a Nut Bush. Classic. Also a sleeping woman in a glass case, Sleeping Beauty style.



--- Nut Joke City Limits
 A swift metagaming session of looking up the plot of the Nutcracker while I'm in the loo ensues. It seems they'll need to feed her a nut. Much is made of various nut-based jokes.
- The nuts are too strong for you, traveller. Even Swan's mighty biceps cannot crack the nut! The Nutcracker is needed!




- They necklace shenanigan down and beg the Nutcracker to crack they nut, which he does! It's his reason for existence after all! A little white baby mouse flops out, asleep.


- They necklace shenanigan back up and put the mouse on the woman's glass case... and it zoops inside and wakes her up! She is indeed the wizard who can turn people into soldiers and crack mice from nuts!




Total: 7000 exp


Loot:
- Quite a number of POWERLAD novels! (600 exp)
Total: 600 exp


Enemies Defeated:
- A bunch of Ratmen (100 exp)
Total: 100 exp


OOC:
- Tom the Chronicler
- George the Expedition Leader
- Kitty the Vanguard


Exp Totals:
- George / Swan the Swift, Level 6 Barbarian: 55593 (Level up at 64000)
- Ailsa / Tez, Level 3 Barbarian: 7121 (Level up at 8000)
- Tom / Didogenes, Level 3 Fighter: 6025 (Level up at 8000)
- Kitty / Damien "Ditto" DeMone, Level 1 Inheritor: 2025 (Level up at 2250)







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