IF YOU ARE PLAYING IN EITHER MY MONDAY OR TUESDAY GROUP THIS POST CONTAINS SPOILERS PLEASE GO AWAY THANK YOU
Cast:
Strange Angel (powersuit made of nightmares and shadows)
John Tempest (badass supersoldier with a big sword and a gravelly voice)
Megalodon (has Animal Man or Vixen style powers but kinda decided to just be Killer Croc instead)
Replacement Cast:
Beaver Babe (real fuckin good at swimming basically, has a big tail like Squirrel Girl)
Leo Highwind (basically like superman without the laser eyes but with a big fuckin spear)
Sooooooo it’s been awhile since I posted anything about the Longshot City campaign I’ve been running. It's still going strong, I’ve just been stupid busy.
This campaign has three weekly groups. There was a three week gap where everyone had holiday stuff happening, but other than that it’s mostly been real time, as in one week passes in the game when one week passes in meatspace.
This week, my Wednesday group (the Bloody Monkeys—don’t blame me, I’m not naming my players’ teams for them) decided to go back to PenalCorp Island and acquire some experimental cultures in Hanna Risto’s safe.
I should explain Hanna Risto. There are several mad science plots (as in schemes not as in storyarcs, the story is whatever the players do) unfolding at the same time. The PCs worked out awhile ago that these experiments were all being conducted by clones of Dr. Sarah Tonin, whose names are all anagrams of hers. Hanna Risto was, as the warden of PenalCorp, using prisoners as test subjects in researching a bioweapon called the Mayfly Virus.
Last time the Bloody Monkeys met, they raided PenalCorp Island and kidnapped Hanna Risto. They interrogated her this session, and learned that she was working on a cure for the Mayfly Virus, called the Dragonfly Bacterium. So they decided to go back and retrieve the cultures she’d been working on from the refrigerated safe in her office. Crucially, they also decided to take Risto with them, carried by Strange Angel in a sort of womb formed by Angel’s shapeshifting armor.
When they got to the island, the death robot Artillery MK 5 (every time it dies it rebuilds itself and comes back stronger) was waiting for them on the roof of the prison itself. Megalodon managed to get into the prison and eventually the warden’s office. Artillery managed to kill both Strange Angel and John Tempest.
When Strange Angel died, her armor dissipated, releasing Hanna Risto. Risto immediately put on the necklace that had previously given Strange Angel her powers, and became a sort of nightmare Iron Man, who then attacked and K.O.’d Megalodon (whose result on the K.O. table was “resolve a familial conflict” so that should be weird).
Beaver Babe and Leo Highwind just sort of randomly showed up because that’s how replacement characters work sometimes, managed to kill Artillery MK 5, and retrieved a comatose Megalodon while the newly empowered Hanna Risto escaped into the clouds.
So next week I need to run some sort of familial conflict coma dream, and also Hanna Risto has Strange Angel’s powers now.
