From: Rick Jones <albert@crick.ssctr.bcm.tmc.edu>
Subject: The Explosive Death of Selina 
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Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 17:36:21 GMT

	Well, I'll try to keep this short.  The party, a group of 
Home Guard Storm Knights: Dr Iodine Stane [Nile Old Prof], McCoy [Nile
Gunslinger], Vladimir Kirov [Sov Psi], Selina [Magna Veritas->Cyberpapacy->
Aysle Witch], Hoi Lee [Marketplace Corporate Weasel], and "Sledge"
Hammer [Tharkhold LAPD] were being sent to Germany to do a secret mission
for the German govt.  They were all given tickets on the Orient Express.

	There were a bunch of interesting NPC's on the train that 
they interacted with to various extents.  
	[There was an amusing Blake Edwards-esque bit where Selina 
played a Romance, and then Hammer Master Planed it back and played it
as well.  They fell with the MOTAS of a couple from the Cyberpapacy.
Too bad that the femme was a vampire.  Selina noticed the puncture
wounds on his neck and freaked.  An amusing micro-combat resulted,
ending with the Sov Psi throwing her bodily off the train.  The 
rest of the afternoon and early evening was spent shapening stakes and
such. It's a shame our Dilanette had just quit, as we could have
had some great "buffy the vampire slayer" bits.]
	THEN, the PC's on watch noticed a shadow under their door.  
While they debated what to do, an invisible oderless gas seeped under
the door.  McCoy kicked open the door, and saw some ninja in the 
corridor, led by Mariko (from City of Demons).  They wanted the 
You-Know-What from CoD.  Unfortunately, the last member of the 
party (Vashta, the Gaean Gypsy), had missed the train, and she 
was bearing the YKW.  [Actually, the player was on vacation, and I
thought it added irony to the situation.]
	Since multiple hostages had been taken, the PC's surrendered.
They said they didn't have it, but, natch, the Ninja didn't believe 
then.  They agreed for one party member to accompany a group of Ninja
as thy searched the train from top to bottom for the YKW.  Since
the search turned up nothing, Mariko pulled a sinister looking 
hypodermic filled with truth serum.  McCoy, being from the Nile,
had had enough of this, and started a fight.  With a HUGE
maneuver, he wrenched the Hypo out of her hands, and stuck her with it.
He then got wounded, fighting his way through the various ninja 
that were guarding.  Some of the rest of the Storm Knights used the ensuing
chaos dive out the windows of the dining car.  (Hoy, Hammer, and Selina)
	There, they discovered the flying battlesuit warriors who were
providing air cover and transport for the ninja.  A fight resulted throughout
the train.  
	Selina pulled a natural Glory result casting a Low Spirits on
on of the FBW's, who flew away muttering about a pain in his diodes.  
The other was doing a good job of almost killing PC's, so Selina 
traded McCoy for the Martyr card he had just gotten for an Approved 
Action, pulled her critical moment, and leaped up (using her Jumping
boots) grabbing one of the FBW's.  She cast on the fly a spell that would
reverse the polarity of the neutron flow on the two remaining battlesuits.
This caused a massive explosion. distracting all the ninja in the dining
car.  Dr Stane lept out from table she was hiding under, grabbed Hoy's 
Mac-10 SMG, and snuffed half of the distracted ninjas inside.  The 
explosion also woke up Vladimir (who was drugged to the gills, as the 
baddies knew about his powers).  Someone (I forget who, killed the 
rest of the ninja).
	Meanwhile, McCoy and Hammer finished their dramatic fight with
the lead ninja, who knew what the score was, so dropped a Ninja 
Smoke Grenade (TM) and became Invisible, and left before anyone could
find him.

	They found Selina's body, cripsy crittered next to one of the 
dead RBW's.  Her body will be shipped back to Aysle, and her name placed
on the Rolls of Honor for her sacrifice to save her comrades.
	Not bad for someone with 4 points of corruption. 
The supreme sacrifice probably burned all that away, and she's probably 
with all the goody-two-shoes gods of Honor, and hating it.
-- 
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