In which the Bloody Monkeys continue to fuck around and some of them find out.
Gonna be lots of flashbacks today. This campaign’s been going since August and I only just started writing play reports for it.
Cast:
Leo Highwind—a FantoMax-powered paragon with a signature spear.
Vardené Pavardené—a biohacked dracula with a science background.
Daisy Leper—a super-strong zombie cheerleader who vomits death and chaos.
Beaver Babe—born with a mutation that makes her more at home in the water than on dry land.
The gang started the session aboard Leo’s hidden sanctum, an armored zeppelin above the clouds, debating their next move.
Vardené had spent the past week synthesizing a few doses of FantoMax for Leo. This is the superserum Dr. Sarah Tonin has been refining. It was a particularly violent encounter with her super-powered primates that originally inspired the Bloody Monkeys’ team name. Judging from Leo, who escaped Tonin’s new lab (the old one was torched by the Legion of the Inhabited many Mondays ago) she’s made a lot of progress since then.
The vampire also had time to analyze the two blood samples that had been delivered to him by the Legion of the Inhabited and the Murder Patrol. The Legion’s sample, labelled plague, was infected with Dr. Hanna Risto’s Mayfly Virus. The Murder Patrol’s sample came from their own Zero Fighter, an irradiated Japanese supersoldier with enhanced healing abilities. When the Patrol heard there was a frat house infected with the Mayfly Virus (because the Legion brought it there), Zero Fighter decided to infiltrate the house and lick everyone he could find. Vardené’s analysis revealed that Zero’s plan to contract the disease so that his immune system would defeat it succeeded, but he hasn’t been able to isolate and synthesize a cure from it yet.
Given that the Bloody Monkeys now had a new lead on a cure for the Mayfly Virus, and that Hanna Risto was now protected by magic shadow armor (see last play report), they chose to leave bad enough alone at PenalCorp Island for now. I can’t say I blame them.
Instead, they decided to follow a different lead. The relevant entry on hero.net (a secure forum set up and maintained by Singularity and Tara Byte) reads:
Leviathan Island—Dr. Rona Shanti
This is the project the murder patrol first encountered. They were kidnapping homeless people and releasing them on an island full of monsters while billionaires gambled on their survival.
Goal: Genetically engineer monstrous species and elevate individual specimen to kaiju status. Primary Laboratory: Leviathan Island (-23°, 8°)
So, partly because PenalCorp Island had become too dangerous, they chose to fly across the Atlantic Ocean to investigate an island full of monsters.
Normally this would have taken weeks, but Leo Highwind is very strong and can fly very fast so he got out and pushed.
They were in visual range of Leviathan Island by sunset the next day, when the airship was attacked by six large humanoid bat creatures, which fled after the heroes killed two of them. After a quick aerial survey of the island from above the clouds, they decided to launch an all-out assault on the what appeared to be some kind of control tower.
Vardené transformed into his alternate form, a foot-long centipede with paralytic venom, and crawled into one of Leo’s coat pockets. Then Leo slung his spear across his back and picked up Beaver Babe and Daisy Leper, one in each arm, and flew down to the roof. He smashed through the roof into a control room packed with terminals and terrified operators dressed in identical lab coats. Beaver Babe grabbed the technician who failed to run away quickly enough and asked her where to find Rona Shanti. The tech said Shanti’s office was on the first floor, and B.B. let her go.
Leo decided to skip the stairs and start smashing through floors until reaching ground level. Beaver and Daisy started out following him, but stopped at the armory, where they got into a fight with three heavily armed and armored guards. On the ground floor, Leo was confronted by a group of five more of the goons, so he flung Vardené at one. Vardené tried to shift back to his humanoid form in midair, hoping to drain one of the thugs of blood, but took several bullets instead and scampered off having reverted to millipede form.
Beaver took one of the guards out with a fire axe she’d found on the airship, and Daisy killed another with her projectile vomit. The better organized squad on the ground floor managed to give Leo significantly more trouble. He managed to skewer one of them and badly injure another before passing out.
Having donned a set of body armor, Beaver Babe jumped down the hole, got shot, got shot again, tried to run away, and got shot in the back. When she went down her body broke apart; she’d been a robot planted for unknown reasons. Meanwhile the real Beaver Babe woke up hungover on the airship under a pile of empty beer cans, wondering where the fuck everyone was.
Daisy Leper found a grenade bandolier, pulled the pin on one of the grenades, and dropped it from the armory on the fourth floor all the way down to the first floor, where it predictably killed all the guards but through a very lucky dice roll did not also kill Leo. Daisy then used what she had available in the armory vault to set up a machine gun nest and hunker down until next session.
