Proving the Caves in Tom Sawyer were Actually Cursed

*Session 2: 7/16/2021*

The guy Dia shot twice is dead.  The guy missing his arm is still alive.  So is the one trashcan attacked.  He and the youngest one ran away.

Hal loses one stock helping the armless man stabilize.  Doc Hal narcostabs him because she does not want to be attacked by him.  He will be out for 6 hours.

Four passage ways. One with a rope leading out of it (trashcans rope).

Last time we rolled perception to find the water source?  It worked.  We go left.

Eventually we hear distant footfalls.  Quiet and echoing. Mylow hands Trashcan the extra machete. The footsteps speed up and disappear.

Rolls sharp for navigation. Hal gets 8. Make our way to where we think the pipe is.   Mylow plans to be quiet and slow in our progress.  Trashcan is impatient.  Turn a corner and find pipes in the wall.  There are five pipes.  Trashcan feels up the pipes.  None of them seem to have rushing water.  One of them is colder than the others.  So it has water in it, just not running.

Can’t follow the pipes one way because they disappear into the wall so we follow them the other way.

Soundlessly, someone all in black sprints up to us from ahead.  Mylow raises her machete at them.  They have a frantic look on their face.  The stranger [Grip] is a ‘hot’ female wearing all black with gloves. She has a sword and is waving her hands to insinuate that we should stop moving.

Trashcan asks, “What did you do to the water?”

In response she makes a throat slicing motion.

“You killed the water?”

She reaches out to shush trashcan with her hands.

Diabella manages to guess she is telling us to be quiet.

The stranger reaches out to Mylow’s non-machete wielding hand and drags her the way she came from.

She leads our group away from the pipes.  Trashcan notices the valve.  The stranger runs past it and around the corner into 3 more people in black who shush Trashcan.  (Two of them are hot one of them is cute?  This randomizer is hilarious)

There is apparently some hand-language happening between the four that our party is bewildered by.    Both males pull out weapons.  One of them draws a gun [Fleece] (pink wavy hair), the other pulls out a garrote [Potluck].   The fourth member [Biscuit] (a woman with absurdly long hair) circles to flank us.

More hushed attempts at conversing from our party are shushed.

Mylow motions with her machete (in exasperation) and the man shoots at it on reflex.  Without a sound? the machete is shot out of Mylows hand.

Mylow chooses to go aggro on the shooter.  It’s time for a good old fashioned fist fight. (since mylow no longer has the machete), Grip pulls mylow back so the punch falls short.

Doc Hal perception check: These people have no ties to the island whatsoever.  They all wear the same black shoes and gloves though.

Gun man tries to lead us away, with much protest.  Grip stops mylow from attempting to grab her machete.  After a little bit of walking, we feel the tug of the end of the rope. Mylow gets up in Grip’s personal space to ask if we will be led back here.  Grip shrugs.  Mylow says this is as far as we go if we aren’t going to be brought back here. Grip wants Trashcan and Dia to drop their weapons.  Dia compromises by dropping her bullets.  Trashcan just wants the machete because she thinks it is cool “how about I give this to you and you give it back to me later”, Grip is confused but accepts the machete. (In short, Trashcan elected to give Grip the machete).  Mylow looks impressed.

We follow the quartet. It is at least 100 yards from the front of the cave. At some point the caves become straight hallways with bold lines of yellow paint around the hallways. Past this they begin to argue amongst themselves about whether to kill us.

Mylow looks at Grip and goes “we’re leaving”, Grip is still holding Mylow’s hand and says “you’re not allowed to go back…. Outside”.  Trashcan expresses that we want to fix the water.  We are told that we definitely aren’t allowed back out there.  Fleece turns the gun on us and says “they need to die”.

Doc Hal rolls a manipulate for more respect (bringing up that she is a doctor).  7 partial success.

Potluck scoffs at the idea that Hal is a medic.

Mylow says “If you want proof, why don’t you find the guy without an arm who is still alive”,

Dia offers to have Doc Hal demonstrate by tending to her wounds.

Doc Hal does so in an exasperated fashion.  Talking exaggeratedly about each step which is the antithesis of Doc Hal’s normal practices.

They now believe that Doc Hal is a medic.

Grip explains that they have “been the direction to perform that action and it cannot be interrupted. You’re not guests anymore, so you have to be dead or….”  Then she offers that we could stay there.  Biscuit seems onboard with us staying, the dudes not so much.