The Gangsters Campaign/Session 21

The Anti Cult:
*Icheb, Iko, Isaac – interested in liberation of more pontooners
*Possible places to find them:
*#Pontooners and Trenchies in truce brokered by Hieranthotat group in warehouse district
*#Frontal assault on boardwalk (probably not a good idea)
*#At the Dam (water hides aerial detection)
*#Underwater ghoul caches/corpse wells – Back to the one with Guy
*#*barge comes by, divers, periphone guy (pontooner), text cult guy (frail, of course), and two bored guards – Quay and Matt
*#*Icheb decides to try and torpedo the barge while yelling “Salvation is at Hand” or somesuch nonsense – graze, hits corpse well
*#*Occult handler – fails at his life-zombies start coming for the ‘tooners
*#*Isaac beats the head of a dead guy
*#*Quay and Matt open fire on the SS Innocence
*#*Kristin throws a brick at the Innocence (ra ra pontooners!). It bounces back off the top of the barge. 
*#*Icheb attempts to fire at corpse as good will gesture – shoots us instead 
*#*Matt (Timey Death) dies and lobs a grenade at the end – shrapnel at Innocence hits isaac (screw your liberation – which probably is muffled by the grenade)
*#*Icheb tries his pitch again
*#*Quay jams the gun and is scared
*#*Barge is able to start moving away from corpse well
*#*Slimy Bill is a stand-up leader; he’s just a little slippery, which is an excellent quality in a smuggler
*#*Kristen (Blimey Jill) tries to negotiate then “helps” with engine...shutting down the barge for the moment
*#*Occultist killed by Icheb
*#*Quay grenades the innocence very well – Isaac gets hit badly, breaks foot, icheb gets hit with a wet paper towel
*#*Blimey Jill goes to talk to boss Slimy – permission to shoot zombies requested and provided – shoots the shit out of the dock
*#*Grimey Phil (Quay) asks for guidance – ship us away from crazytown boat please – doesn’t go so well
*#*Icheb machine guns the zombies again – one a little, bursts another
*#*Isaac plays head games – chucks head to barge,more proselytizing attempts
*#*Slimy Bill inspires? “Surviving another day makes you a better Pontooner.”
*#*Icheb tries to light up the zombies again – zombies go flop ignominiously and Jill hears a “thank you” from the depths
*#*Conversations are happening over floating boats and zombie corpses – parley party – Bill agrees but needs 1:doctor, 2:not all crew go under procedure at once, 3: recompense for Timey, 4:$$$$$$, 5:sub goes to the Handkerchief crew upon death of Icheb –deal!
*#**Set a rendevous time in a couple days; Slimy & squad will bring a few friends of similar mind
Back to the main squad who just killed Randolph
*Steal the typewriter & lots of notes
*Plant a camera outside the front of Randolph’s place
*Deciding between a crackhouse and Lenny’s dad’s place, they pick the latter!
**Shots were fired from the front stoop, not shooting to kill (instead, he probably fired into the air)
**Vec asks Lenny to let them in, and Lenny says sure, just come around the back. Vec, Cilla, Joe climb up a rope ladder to Lenny’s window; Griphook begins climbing, then spots a neighborhood watch guy / Frenchie who has watched them go in. 
***Griphook swings down from the window, grabs a plank from a flowerpot (???) and vaults over the backyard minefield and the barbed-wire fence beyond it. He lands on his feet, then jumps up to the balcony from which they were being spied upon, and from which the spies are now retreating
***Griphook follows, with intent to murder
***Silently shoots at two guys, but misses one, doesn’t grievously injure the other.
***Those two guys are not so silent. One shoots a Tommy gun; the other charges him. “You can reverse-grapple him.” “I’d rather shoot him in the face.”
***It turns out there are a bunch of them; Griphook successfully shoots that one guy in the face, but two downstairs are fleeing to a car, as is a fourth down the hall. (‘You do wreak hell on the wallpaper though.”)
***The car has a sunroof. Griphook successfully lobs a mine in, which then detonates. The car explodes, with two guys inside. 
***The fourth guy is running away and radios that the two orcs have come for them. Griphook runs him down. “What do you want to do?” “I want to shoot him in the head!”
***Griphook recovers the radio and says some scary stuff. The guy on the other end isn’t impressed. They curse at each other for a while.
*Lenny’s dad (Rich Craw) has some wounds and seems surprisingly ok about letting us stay here for a couple hours (apparently because Lenny likes us).
**Lenny’s dad has also set up a pirate TV antenna and they have been watching the Great Occult British Bakeoff. Their cookies have gotten much better.
**Vec, Joe, Cilla & maybe Lenny attack Randolph’s notes
***Lenny sits down at the typewriter 
***Cilla finds (1) that Randolph was deputized (to get him out of trouble); (2) randolph had detailed notes on everyone he’d met with, including slim frank’s associates, (3) an org chart with who worked for Randolph/Reddick + commentary, (4) some money, (5) his scheduled meeting with Reddick, (6) Reddick’s scheduled speech, (7) a meeting b/t Judge Reddick and a representative of the East Fens Electrical Co. (subsidiary of General Etheric)
***Vec finds that Randolph was trying to link the cult of Hieranthotat to the old pre-Fialta Semal natives, who worshipped various swamp spirits. “The way you will know the king is by the moneys with which he pays the faithful.” + discussion of his burial place – taken off in a chariot (ship) into the swamp, saving Semal from a hostile foreign power.
****Randolph thought he was related to them, based on his lineage studies
****Randolph also appeared to think the cult would institute Semal’s independence, and that they weren’t so bad, plus that Hieranthotat was probably the “king” the Semalites referred to
**“Speaking of, I think this is a good time for a cliffhanger!”
**Cilla asks Lenny to talk through Randolph’s notes with them, and then he’ll ask his dad for permission to help save the city
*Icheb will go pay a call on Criss
*Back with Griphook: city officials (?) get out of the same car as a cultist of Hieranthotat !!
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