Session 277 - Earthbound
New Backstory:
- Red has a child back on Earth that she left in the care of others - naturally it’s the dino-kids she formed with Dargo! Next character can be your child, starts with half your exp.
- Scarlet Eclipse crashed an Iounian party when he arrived on the moon. Once per session, somehow gain access to a large social event.
Foes:
- Pearly Blob-People (100 exp)
- Quite a few Red Elves (1000 exp)
Total: 1000 exp
Moon Clearance Bonus:
- Escaped the Moon! (100 000 exp)
Total: 100 000 exp
Events:
--- Invasion!
- A knock on the door of Shrub-Nigeria’s shack… it’s Andromeda! She’s returned! Covered head to toe in a spacesuit to keep the sun’s light off her vampire body, she’s spent the last five months fixing up the Seraphim so everyone can get home.
- A babble of confusing explanations of what’s been happening on the moon adventure are cut off by Andromeda. Something more pressing is happening - the Red Elves are invading the Moon!
- Outside the windows, a shimmering wave of sparkling explosions presages the rising of a Red Moon on the horizon! Soap bubbles and whimsical shapes hit the Moon’s cratered surface and detonate in bursts of confetti. Scarlet Eclipse is aghast - this isn’t at all what he expected!
- Shrub-Nigeria pulls a curved yellow lever and one of the walls of his shack swings open to reveal weaponry! He tosses a banana with a trigger to Jeremy Wizard and starts handing out banana-guns like SMBs and shotbanana’s to his Highounian mates and the rest of the party. He tells the party to grab his bananacar and get back to Earth while there’s still time, he needs to defend his shack!
- They jump into the bananacar along with Vermillion Vest whose driving skills will come in very handy and Vishnarak the Vibe-Killer who everyone likes for some reason. Vest kicks the car into gear, Beepbox attaches himself to the rear via banana-skis, and everyone else grabs onto the sides. They’re off!
--- Blobs!
- A cat-shaped missile trailing rainbows crashes through Shrub’s Nan’s Granny-Highrise and Vermillion Vest has to race through the slow-falling debris. Nyan Eleven!
- Behind, Shrub’s shack is encased in a smonkscreen of sweet-smelling astroturf smoke. Banana rounds fire from the smoke, bunches of bananas split into multiple banana-warheads, bouncing off most bubbles yet popping several and revealing them to be the landing craft of the Red Elves! The downed Elves fall slowly, returning fire with strange magicks.
- Globs of pearly jelly spatter from the sky in front of the bananacar, forming themselves into shimmering blob-people and attempting to stop the escape! Vermillion Vest skids through a few of them, but others grab onto the rear of the bananacar and fight!
- Red gambits to kick them all off the car and they go tumbling, Beepbox finishes them off by running them down with banana-skis!
--- Elven Bubble-Craft Assault!
- Overhead, a bubble from the shack battle careens past. It rights itself and a portion of the bubble peels back, revealing a Red Elf who zaps Red with a stunning spell! Beepbox engages his jump pack and busts into the bubble with shotbanana drawn.
“You should’ve kept your eyes… peeled!” he shouts as he pumps the banana and… accidentally discharges the ammo backwards. The big peeled banana within slowly drifts downwards outside, exploding in a huge banana-scented explosion that the bananacar jumps through in slo-mo!
- Red, atop the bananacar, swings out the car’s main weapon - a gatling gun made from a big bunch of bananas! “Sorry to burst your bubble” shout Red and Beepbox in unison as they simultaneously blast the bubble walls from within and without!
- The bubble bursts and Beepbox leaps backwards towards the car, firing banana pistols akimbo at the surviving Red Elves.
- Distantly, Iounian monks and hordes of clangers have joined the battle. The Soup Dragon takes up the rear, blasting a column of superheated minestrone at the Red Elf invaders.
- Another bubblecraft has landed ahead, but Beepbox came prepared with a banana bread bazooka. “You’re going to learn to loaf me” he says as he fires, turning away from the explosion that takes out every Red Elf in the impact zone and their bubble-craft too!
--- Shrub Nigeria Finale
- Vermillion Vest ramps the bananacar through the explosion, in midair giving everyone a good view of what’s going down around the Shrub Shack.
- Shrub-Nigeria has gone full eldritch horror, grown into a huge kaiju-scale banana-man whose yellow skin has split into massive yellow tentacles that grasp and destroy all in reach. He wields a massive blunt as a club, its astroturf fumes wreathing the area.
- The bananacar lands and skids to a halt before the entrance to the Seraphim, a full squad of angels standing ready in defence. They run inside and discover that Andromeda did it - the loading screen is on 99.9%! Snels uploads into the mainframe and completes the transfer, taking control of the Seraphim!
- Red tells him about Eris and Dwimmermount and the rest of the recent lore, and Snels agrees to take the party back to Earth. Moon lockdown complete!
- The Seraphim launches and the gang see their last glimpse of the Moon and the massive battle taking place.
- Shrub-Nigeria grabs the Red Moon and begins smashing into it, cracks already appearing on its surface. With a mighty swing he launches the Red Moon upwards, and beams of pure white energy blast into it from the direction of the Earth. Direct hits from the orbiting Gods themselves!
- The Red Moon bleeds bubbles and whimsical shapes, hitting the lunar surface before recovering and retreating into the vast blackness of space. Defeated… for now!
--- Return to New Moondin
- The Snels-Seraphim breaches the atmosphere and drifts serenely down through the clouds, petal-wings opening into a heat shield. As they fall, they can see the world they knew below, albeit somewhat changed in the last few months.
- The enormous Dharga flesh tree grows through a great breach in the diamond dino-dome, blooms of colour and life spreading across the land both outside and within the breach.
- Colonies of white stone seem to mark where Stoneshell Crabs have started to make crustacean habitations, some with survivalist tents set up nearby.
- Closer now, through the Storm-Shell into New Moondin itself. The Seraphim lands in the traditional place astride the remnants of the Creeper Fields, already being somewhat recultivated. In the town below they can see goblin beggars, spider-priests crawling across their electrified web-wires, and a trepidatious crowd that is already gathering to see what the deal with this Seraphim is this time.
- We’ve returned to Earth! Welcome back!
Total: 5000 exp
Exp Totals:
- Kitty / Andromeda, Level 8 Andromedan Vampire: 160140 (Level MAX)
Yosh! Leverrup! +1d6 Healing Pool/HP! +Minimum Faith 8! +Backstory!
- Tim / Red, Level 8 Duellist Fighter: 146012 (Level MAX)
- Izzy / Ratman, Level 8 Ratman: 125512 (Level MAX)
- Charles / Jeremy Wizard, Level 7 Magic-User: 93761 (Level up at 144000)
- Ollie / Beepbox Strawberry Stars de Moor, Level 7 Cleric of the New Eden: 76378 (Level up at 112000)
- George / Scarlet Eclipse, Level 6 Muscle Wizard: 52429 (Level up at 72000)
