Sunday 21 June 2020

Lurid Pines III: Revenge on the Cannibal Hamsters

They decide to take revenge on the cannibal hamsters. Naida hires half a dozen henchmen: Amberto Azul, a flamboyant Greenlander, Katusha, a fellow Yellowlander with spikey armor, Aina, the Great Folk city guard, and Ten, Twed and Ven, all of them Great Folk bone farmers, seduced by the prospect of getting rich. 

 

The Lurid Pines

While the Great Folk farmers carry the Gatling gun up the mountain, Azul scouts out the cave and stumbles upon bloated Zombies standing eerily still between the ferns. Azul draws them out into the open where they are cut down by a hail of bullets and explode in a shower of blue goo. The bone farmers start carrying the crates of Biomantic gear out of the cave when suddenly three hamsters rise swiftly from the ferns and attack. Ven gets killed by friendly fire and Azure severely wounded before the heroes decide to retreat. In their murderous frenzy the hamsters pursue them almost catching up to Hamish who in the last moment dives and exposes the cannibals to another barrage of gunfire. The last surviving hamster manages to flee back into the cave but fails to hide behind the ferns who part and expose him to the swift justice of more bullets. Clearly Naida had made some friends among the motile ferns.

 

Just add Diesel

They take out the heat ray nodule in the maintenance tunnel by throwing bone grenades and send Azul to explore. He finds an old diesel engine down a shaft and another way out of the cave. Ajax reconnoiters the other tunnel and makes contact with cybernetic prairie dogs who would rather be left alone. Following Ajax the heroes find the Autofacs production floor where Naida strikes a deal with the prairie dogs: They will tolerate their presence if in return the diesel engine is refuelled. 

 

Schematics of a cybernetically enhanced dog 

In the control room Azure - desperate to revive Saffron - connects the crystal snail via Cataract to the motherboard. Who will emerge from the undeath of stored data: Saffron, Johnny-7 ... or something else? They switch on the machine. 

 

 Actual Play: https://youtu.be/M1Tkmop7pYA

 


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