The Pirates Campaign/Session 7

New Characters:

* Daniel is Captain Moreau. He is in charge and has the hat to show it. Rule 1: I am in charge. Rule 2: The monkey-like creatures are mephits. DO NOT GIVE THEM OPIATES.
* Matt is Mr. Smithy Reens, who looks like a small human/ape hybrid. He’s the quartermaster (handles supplies)

On the pirate ship:

* Thefaren suggests giving the mephits amphetamines and goes to take them alone. Mephits ask Thefaren for amphetamines. Thefaren gives mephits large quantities of drugs in exchange for information (Nat 1). Mephits become extremely excited and start shrieking for more mephits to come get in on the drugs.
* Madame Mephit is lead mephit, wears the first officer’s hat. Madame Mephit tells Thefaren that all amphetamine distribution will go through her.
* Pirsig tells captain about destinations that lie beyond the ‘schism’. Smithy Reens recognizes destinations as belonging to lost empires.
* Captain Moreau knows that a lot of ancient artifacts have yet to be discovered in space beyond the schism.
* Ship currently holds about a month’s worth of supplies. Trip estimated to take around 3 months. With full supplies, ship can last around 2 months.
* There is a supply outpost (planet) 25 days away. Supply caches in the ether, one 3 weeks away and one 6 weeks away.
* Thefaren asks for access to the engine room, Captain Moreau suspects that Thefaren has less than honorable intentions with the engines. Denies request.
* Melon Tusk wants to make Smithy Reens beautiful. Upset with the state of the infirmary. Demands mephit clean up the infirmary. Smithy Reens gets old hands to do the job.
* Tusk concludes that Reens has a terminal case of the uglies, and he also has failed to settle on a genre. “You can’t justify fixing his eye if he’s going to have to look at his face”.
* Let the canon show that Ogodno has never bathed
* Melon Tusk repairs Reen’s ear and implants a glass eye. Also gives Reen’s an acid shave, applying acid to the pores on his face. Tusk also gives Reen’s many botox injections. He ends up looking like a handsome gentleman whose head has been attached to the body of a gibbon. His vision loss isn’t reparable, nor is his hearing – until a new cadaver eardrum is swapped in
* Smithy goes to prepare the crew. None of them recognize him. This seems fine to Smithy.
* Thefaren slingshots the pirate ship around the *Antelope*, allowing the ship to accelerate faster. Make a 72 hour journey in 36 hours.
* Pirsig continues to detect wake of the Nipponese fleet. Realize that the fleet was broken into three parts about 10 hours ago. The fleet seems to have been broken by something incredibly large and stable: a collection of many souls.
* Ogodno undergoes plastic surgery from Melon Tusk. Captain Moreau discovers this and becomes upset. Insists that Ogodno must remain intimidating. Tusk works to make Ogodno more proud and intimidating.
* Captain Moreau spots crewmembers trying to take advantage of Ogodno’s incapacitated status. Moreau fires at them. Leaves Ogodno to go to deal with mutiny. Becomes suspicious of Reens. Bats with wires crawl onto Moreau’s chair. Moreau shoots mutineers again.
* Thefaren hears machine gun fire, spurs her to go faster.
* Moreau confronts Reens about surgery and cleaning the infirmary. Tusk wakes Ogodno, now looks like a shaved bear. Surgery is a success. May increase Ogodno’s intimidate bonus with additional surgeries. Madame Mephit fixated on adrenaline shot administered to Ogodno to wake him up.
* Ogodno activates chainsaw and drags it along the walls creating sparks. Crew beings to panic and start to arm themselves. Full mutiny of the crew in progress.
* Pirsig asks Agnar to strike box with null rune to tune out the noise of the mutiny. Rune turns box into a null bomb. Agnar does very poorly (nat 1), causing a feedback loop wherein the aetheric energy powering the box increases as the null space expands. Pirsig’s head is probably about to explode, or maybe implode. If he takes the box off, there’s a 1/3 chance it’ll trigger a null bomb in the cockpit. Pirsig musters his willpower, runs to the door of the cockpit, and takes the box off. It does not explode.
* Captain Moreau suspects Smithy Reens of betrayal. Believes Smithy Reens was responsible for the spiders. Moreau sets Ogodno on Smithy Reens. Reens throws grenades at Moreau which land in his chair. Reens escapes into ducts of the ship.
* Ogodno suggests that Moreau execute crew members until Reens surrenders himself. Reens inspires the crew to fight back. Some start to crawl into ducts. One takes a mephit hostage.
* Mutineers try to recruit Thefaren, Pirsig, and Agnar. Thefaren and Pirsig stay on the bridge, Agnar joins the fight with the crew.
* Ogodno goes to the bridge to find Prisig, encounters crew members leaving the bridge. Cleaves his way through the crew members.
* Thefaren and Pirsig do not see Ogodno’s massacre, Agnar takes stress damage.
* Pirsig attempts to amplify the horror of Ogodno throughout the ship. Whole crew makes a will save. Pirsig does not do well, and believes he must see the ‘white pyramid’ immediately. Inverts the energy of his null box to create a bright etheric beacon. The beacon if inverted, could shine light on what lies outside of reality. Pirsig’s box explodes. Everyone rolls a ton of etheric damage.
* Crew experiences horror of Ogodno. 10 crew members go permanently insane, 40 are temporarily insane, 10 are fine, 10 are traumatized. Crew will storm the bridge and try to take control.
* Thefaren tries to steer ship into etheric eddy, causing ship to rip apart. Engines are first to go, overloaded by stress. Entirety of bridge filled with etheric fire as it strikes an etheric wave. All in the bridge are scorched to death. Captain Moreau is in his ‘space safe’ chair, rolls away, rolling past Melon Tusk. Melon Tusk tries to get in escape pod, Moreau rolls on by before having second thoughts. Moreau opens pod, Reens tries to grab his captain’s hat, but is mauled by Madame Mephit. Tusk and 69 crawl into chair-pod. 69 attacks and kills Captain Moreau. Tusk and 69 jump into crab and throw out Moreau. Tusk and 69 close the shield, walk in chair to safety. Reens shoots attacking mephits with Aetherfish’s shotgun. Madame Mephit tries to bite Reens in face but flies past hitting ducts. Reens grabs several of remaining sane crew and boards a skiff. Ogodno dies at peace, no longer seeing the horror of his existence. Pirsig hallucinates white pyramid, but knows that it is empty, dies in anguish. Reens makes it off ship, but dies of starvation adrift in the ether. Melon Tusk arranges for a peaceful death for himself and 69, seeing no survivable outcome.

CAMPAIGN ENDS HERE

CAMPAIGN WILL CONTINUE AS ‘QUEST FOR THE WHITE PYRAMID’