A clash with Lucia leaves many fighting for their lives, but thankfully some classic spell abuse and a good dose of bullshit lets the gang escape with their lives and loot intact!
Also a mystery mirror that I need to make up a place for it to lead to, but that Red Moon is a good bet.
Session 269 - Lucia the Boss
New Characters:
- Scarlet Eclipse’s father had a dangerous job - space farming on a death planet in the outer rim of colonised space. All he wanted to do was to help people. +1 to selfless acts.
- Scarlet Eclipse’s father had a dangerous job - space farming on a death planet in the outer rim of colonised space. All he wanted to do was to help people. +1 to selfless acts.
Loot:
- 5000 space bucks
- Chocolate recipe book (1000 exp)
Total: 6000 exp
Foes:
- A bunch of beanos (200 exp)
Total: 200 exp
- A bunch of beanos (200 exp)
Total: 200 exp
Events:
--- Chocolate Chaos
- Lucia stands before the chocolate river, an army of bean-man oompa-loompa guys at her back. She wields a rapier and her syrupy armour has returned! Before her, Beepbox and Jeremy Wizard have just burst through the door, and up near the ceiling besides the pipe that used to spew forth a chocolate waterfall, Red, Vermillion Vest and Ratman the Ratman look down in upon the scene.
- Beepbox boosts up to a pipe near the ceiling, getting into a sniping position, and fires down at the enemy.
- Vermillion Vest fires a microwave gun at Lucia, melting off the syrup armour, while Red runs in to hug Lucia to calm her down and Jeremy lobs oil onto one of the thin bridges crossing the chocolate river. Vermillion lights it up with his microwave gun, burning some beanos! They retreat out of the fire, screaming.
- Jeremy takes blowgun fire from the beanos, getting hit with one and injected with their stun poison. Lucia breaks Red’s hold and kicks her into the river, then follows up with a critical strike on Jeremy Wizard!
- Red bursts from the scalding chocolate and attacks Lucia, taking her attention away from the fallen Jeremy.
- Meanwhile, up on the pipe, Ratman and Vermillion run inside to try to get the turbine moving again. They find themselves in a room of hostile bean-men and retreat again.
- Red kicks Lucia into the river, screaming “see how you like it!” and it becomes clear that the beanos can sing an oompa-loompa song to buff Lucia, regrowing her syrup armour and preventing damage from the boiling chocolate.
- This leaves Red open to spammed with darts, and she takes an alarming number of crits from the little guys. Her jump-armour is destroyed and she passes out. It’s looking dire for Red.
- Another rousing round of Oompa-Loompa buffs, this time from the unharrassed beanos on the right, empowers Lucia with an insane jump! She bursts from the river and goes straight for Beepbox, who is still clinging to a pipe!
- Jeremy shakes off his stun and wild-casts Draw Aggro on his bee! All the enemies, including Lucia, suddenly fixate on this evil bee and chase after it. Thankfully Vermillion Vest arrives on a boat at just the right time for everyone to escape!
- Beepbox heals Red and they bundle her chocolate-covered body onto the boat. Vermillion Vest stays behind to throw off their pursuers... and give a ludonarrative reason for Scarlet Eclipse to conveniently show up.
- Lucia stands before the chocolate river, an army of bean-man oompa-loompa guys at her back. She wields a rapier and her syrupy armour has returned! Before her, Beepbox and Jeremy Wizard have just burst through the door, and up near the ceiling besides the pipe that used to spew forth a chocolate waterfall, Red, Vermillion Vest and Ratman the Ratman look down in upon the scene.
- Beepbox boosts up to a pipe near the ceiling, getting into a sniping position, and fires down at the enemy.
- Vermillion Vest fires a microwave gun at Lucia, melting off the syrup armour, while Red runs in to hug Lucia to calm her down and Jeremy lobs oil onto one of the thin bridges crossing the chocolate river. Vermillion lights it up with his microwave gun, burning some beanos! They retreat out of the fire, screaming.
- Jeremy takes blowgun fire from the beanos, getting hit with one and injected with their stun poison. Lucia breaks Red’s hold and kicks her into the river, then follows up with a critical strike on Jeremy Wizard!
- Red bursts from the scalding chocolate and attacks Lucia, taking her attention away from the fallen Jeremy.
- Meanwhile, up on the pipe, Ratman and Vermillion run inside to try to get the turbine moving again. They find themselves in a room of hostile bean-men and retreat again.
- Red kicks Lucia into the river, screaming “see how you like it!” and it becomes clear that the beanos can sing an oompa-loompa song to buff Lucia, regrowing her syrup armour and preventing damage from the boiling chocolate.
- This leaves Red open to spammed with darts, and she takes an alarming number of crits from the little guys. Her jump-armour is destroyed and she passes out. It’s looking dire for Red.
- Another rousing round of Oompa-Loompa buffs, this time from the unharrassed beanos on the right, empowers Lucia with an insane jump! She bursts from the river and goes straight for Beepbox, who is still clinging to a pipe!
- Jeremy shakes off his stun and wild-casts Draw Aggro on his bee! All the enemies, including Lucia, suddenly fixate on this evil bee and chase after it. Thankfully Vermillion Vest arrives on a boat at just the right time for everyone to escape!
- Beepbox heals Red and they bundle her chocolate-covered body onto the boat. Vermillion Vest stays behind to throw off their pursuers... and give a ludonarrative reason for Scarlet Eclipse to conveniently show up.
--- Escape via the Gift Shop
- Scarlet kicks the boat into high gear and they sail down the chocolate tunnel and into the bowels of the building, coming up through the boiler room so they can do a cheeky theft on the way out.
- Red tries a tune on the piano lock and it opens, despite releasing a gas! Thankfully she saves. Inside, Beepbox tinkers the lockbox open, finding some space-bucks and a ruined recipe book.
- Lucia arrives and confronts the thieves! While Beepbox nicks the mirror and Jeremy crams the loot into his bag, Red grabs a potion from Jeremy and smashes it on the ground, turning it ethereal! The others escape as she slathers a salve of immateriality onto herself, letting her walk through Lucia and away.
--- Run Home
- They escape the factory, Red strolling out with no problems as a distraction as the others sprint out from the other side.
- Soon they’ve returned to Shrub-Nigeria’s house with all their stuff in tow, and Jeremy and Scarlet Eclipse spend a couple of weeks researching Mending to cast on the ruined book.
- Two weeks later the gang has bought a bunch of new stuff, and after casting Mending on the recipe book Shrub Nigeria is stoked! The recipe for chocolate so he can make his own edibles! Wonderful! - Notably, Red buys a new suit of heavy armour. It turns out all Shrub Nigeria's items are banana-themed, so Red's bananararmour is here!
- Beepbox speaks to the stolen mirror and discovers it’s a portal to some other place, currently unknown. How very mysterious.
- Scarlet kicks the boat into high gear and they sail down the chocolate tunnel and into the bowels of the building, coming up through the boiler room so they can do a cheeky theft on the way out.
- Red tries a tune on the piano lock and it opens, despite releasing a gas! Thankfully she saves. Inside, Beepbox tinkers the lockbox open, finding some space-bucks and a ruined recipe book.
- Lucia arrives and confronts the thieves! While Beepbox nicks the mirror and Jeremy crams the loot into his bag, Red grabs a potion from Jeremy and smashes it on the ground, turning it ethereal! The others escape as she slathers a salve of immateriality onto herself, letting her walk through Lucia and away.
--- Run Home
- They escape the factory, Red strolling out with no problems as a distraction as the others sprint out from the other side.
- Soon they’ve returned to Shrub-Nigeria’s house with all their stuff in tow, and Jeremy and Scarlet Eclipse spend a couple of weeks researching Mending to cast on the ruined book.
- Two weeks later the gang has bought a bunch of new stuff, and after casting Mending on the recipe book Shrub Nigeria is stoked! The recipe for chocolate so he can make his own edibles! Wonderful! - Notably, Red buys a new suit of heavy armour. It turns out all Shrub Nigeria's items are banana-themed, so Red's bananararmour is here!
- Beepbox speaks to the stolen mirror and discovers it’s a portal to some other place, currently unknown. How very mysterious.
Total: 4000 exp
Exp Totals:
- Tim / Red, Level 7 Duellist Fighter: 107183 (Level up at 128000)
- Izzy / Ratman, Level 7 Ratman: 89054 (Level up at 96000)
- Charles / Jeremy Wizard, Level 6 Magic-User: 57432 (Level up at 72000)
- Ollie / Beepbox Strawberry Stars de Moor, Level 6 Cleric of the New Eden: 40049 (Level up at 56000)
- George / Scarlet Eclipse, Level 4 Muscle Wizard: 13500 (Level up at 18000)
- George / Vermillion Vest, Level 1 Specialist: 1150 (Level up at 1500)
*Missing, presumed dead*
- George / Vermillion Vest, Level 1 Specialist: 1150 (Level up at 1500)
*Missing, presumed dead*
