Electric Boogaloo

an adventure starring Crud and Demyan. Companion episode: We Carry Stuff And Get Paid 
==Setting==
Havas Sands
==Short Episode Description==
Electric Boogaloo is an actual play podcast of Savage Union. Join Crud and Demyan as they mount their mechs and search for artifacts and treasure. Our adventures arrive in Havas Sands after a recent earthquake uncovers a ravine. Can these two with Zahra get to the artifacts before other teams do? Listen to find out!
==Non Player Characters==
*Zahra Qiu
*Vanya 'Nimble' Tarasenko
*Duchess Mary of Placentia
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==Plot Summary==
It turns out that Havas Sands is more than a huge pile of rock and sand. A recent earthquake has uncovered a hidden ravine near mine X0347, full of all kinds of mystery and valuable artifacts. Prospectors flock there, driven by their greed and adventurous spirits. That's the reason Crud and Demyan are taking a train there. Zahra Qiu has hired them to assist her in her quest for loot in these unhospitable lands.
The moment they arrive at the meeting place, Demyan almost regrets ever taking up this job. The heat is too much for him, not even a hefty 4000$ paycheck seems worth it anymore. But it is too late to back out. But when they meet up with Zahra, Demyan forgets about the heat whatsoever - the vehicle Zahra operates is nothing short of an engineering miracle to him. Bastion, while looking like a simple RV on the outside, is way bigger - and full of technological curiosities - from inside. And on the top of that, Firebreathing Kittens get to drive their own mechs! Crud's mech is a fierce fighting machine, wielding a rocket launcher, while Demyan operates an engineering and repair support mech. Inside his mech Demyan finds an old pilot suit with a name tag 'NIMBLE' on it, which sparks his interest, but he decides not to ask any questions yet.
Together with their employer, Firebreathing Kittens make their way down into the ravine. Crud, being the one who can see in the darkness without any spotlight, takes the lead. Soon they encounter a dead bug-looking creature. Zahra decides to collect as much biomaterial as they can since it can be sold for a hefty price. Loaded to the brim, three mechs decide to unload their cargo at the rover. After doing so, the three of them venture forth down a large tunnel. At the end of it they notice some weird sparkles, that grow closer and closer. It turns out, the tunnel was a lair of some sort of a huge electric eel! Mechs' weapons can't even make a dent in its armor, and the electric breath is deadly. Badly beaten, Zahra and the Firebreathing Kittens pull an emergency escape to the rover.
After finishing with the repairs, the team heads back down again. This time they get caught in an earthquake while still crawling down the wall. Crud gets hit with a rolling stone and falls down in the ravine, but lands on some spider net. Demyan was more lucky, managing to use his chainsaw arm to anchor himself to the wall. Shortly after that Crud encounters some ferromagnetic fluid which appears to have some semblance of consciousness. He decides to keep it as a pet. Another puddle crawls into Zahra's mech. 
The earthquake has opened another pass, which led into some kind of throne room. Two thrones stood on the one end, the other was used as a treasury of sorts. Demyan and Zahra quickly fill their mechs to the brim and even a little bit more with gold and all kinds of artifacts. Crud has his eyes fixed on the throne. He finds a scepter near it and decides to keep it, despite Zahra warning him of a curse being placed on this scepter. 
The group returns to the crawler once again, this time with significantly better loot. Demyan decides that it was a good time they upgraded their mechs, specifically - their firepower. That's why he constructs two AI controlled turrets, armed with 120 mm cannons. They appear to have quite quirky personalities. Demyan's turret is apathetic and gloomy, while Crud has a bloodthirsty one that hates all those meatbags. To test their new weapons and to have revenge, the group returns to the eel tunnel. This time, the beast is slain, but Demyan's mech gets destroyed in process. With the other two mechs badly damaged, the group returns back to the surface. 
Before they could do anything, Bastion is ambushed by a robot operated by Duchess Mary of Placentia and Ivan Tarasenko, a friend of Demyan. They manage to disable the rover and prepare to finish the rest, when Demyan has an argument with Vanya. He manages to convince his friend to turn his weapons on that robot since he owed Demyan a favor for stealing the gem from a fair. A quick fight ensues, and the robot is destroyed. Ivan is caught in a blast, but still alive. Demyan carries him to the medbay and Bastion crawls away into the sunset.
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