Apache

* Grug & Friends
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Sliver

Allaura

New Characters:

Eve

**Apache** was a Brigade oneshot that followed several members as they investigated issues reported in the nearby town of Anderson, SF. There, they discovered a firbolg out of time, Grug, who had "reclaimed his forest" alongside a wingless gargoyle inventor, a kobold in a suit, an army of bears, and a "giant metal dragon that spits napalm" (IRL - an entire actual helicopter). After some time interviewing a bear and speaking to some refugees in the sewers, the group confronted Grug and put his troubled soul to rest for good. Eve, a child who had been assisting the Brigade members in this task, managed to get into the giant metal dragon and flew off into the sunset with it.

## Character Developments

* First appearances for:
	+ Player Characters
		- Eve
	+ Locations
		- Anderson

## Prompt

"Well geez folks's... I means where do I starts? Well, it's me... Rusty. I haven't exactly been much for the ol' war effort, so I figured I'd run my trading route agains... Anderson was such a pretty ol' town. Passed through there and made a real killin' on some furs a coupla times. Well, there I was just the other day, and its lookin... well, ghastly. Ain't a soul in sight, weird paintins'a trees all over some wrecked buildings, and I come face to face with a coupla' bears. Damn near wet meself."

Rusty suddenly appears visibly shaken. He sighs into his glass of mead, and takes a heavy swig before steeling himself yet again.

"But that ain'ts what got me turning tail and runnin... oh no. It was whens I looked into the sky and saw it. Must'a been the size of a small house. Some sorts'a dragon made'a pure steel."

## Entry #1

On the way to the town of Anderson, the Brigade Team of Alexander Thunderpouch, Sliver, and Allaura, encountered a young girl named Eve. She expressed interest in the town of Anderson and the bears there, so Alexander immediately just invited her to join them.

On the way there, they saw a strange steel flying machine dragon thing™ flying through the sky. It went toward Anderson, so they just went over there.

When they arrived at the town, they saw it was littered with human and elf corpses, and living bears. Alexander spoke with the bears and discovered that Grug came to this town, killed everyone, and tried to turn the area into a forest. People were hiding underground, in the sewers.

As a unit, the brigade couldn't get the manhole cover open, but then a child opened it up so they rushed down into the sewer after her to find the sand elves. On the way through the sewers, they fought two swarms of rats and an owlbear, and Thunderpouch learned what an Owlbear is.

Immediately after that fight, they ran into about 40 other elves and discussed their situation with their de facto leader, Henry, and then formed a plan to collapse the bathroom of the chapel into the sewer and then beating Grug down.

Sliver and Alexander waited down below the chapel, and Sliver watched through Athena's eyes as Athena traveled with Allaura and Eve. Eve lured Grug away from the throneroom by asking for a tour, and Allaura got set up into the bathroom to play music to lure Grug back into bathroom to have the place collapsed.

Eve (and Athena) noticed that Grug was accompanied by a kobold. They also noticed that the strange steel flying machine dragon thing™ thing was there and being repaired by wing-clipped Gargoyle.

The plan went more or less as planned, and Grug ended up chasing after the sound of Allaura's music with Emilia, the kobold, riding on his shoulder. After giving Allaura a bit of a pounding, the bathroom floor collapsed.

Sliver quickly killed Emilia because she counterspelled Sliver's spell. This enraged Grug, but Thunderpouch kept getting in his way, which kept pissing off Grug as well. Eventually, however, they started to wear him down with the help of Allaura raining crossbow bolts from above.

Eve noticed that the gargoyle took off in the strange steel flying machine dragon thing™, and dimension doored into the cockpit and OMFGWTFOHKO crit him. This caused the strange steel flying machine dragon thing™ to start to crash.

As the helicopter came crashing down, Sliver said they needed to run out of the room. Thunderpouch ran out, but saw that Sliver wouldn't make it out in time, he ZOINKED him into his arms with Lightning Lure and carried him off.

However, Eve pulled the strange steel flying machine dragon thing™ up and away from crashing (with a DC of 30) and flew off with it.

Grug begged to be killed, but Thunderpouch refused to let him to be killed, preventing both Allaura from shooting him and Sliver from stabbing him. Thunderpouch clung desperately to the idea that Grug could be redeemed, refusing to see that the man was beyond redemption. However, Sliver made him realize and accept that Grug either had to be executed or imprisoned, and Thunderpouch hated both of those options. Finally, Thunderpouch told Grug to pick up his axe and duel him to the death. Of course, Thunderpouch defeated him and took his axe. Sliver buried him.

Allaura took his crown, and the party returned home, wondering where Eve went.

Thunderpouch cried a bit, and Sliver comforted him. It was really, really hard on Thunderpouch.

## Gallery

Oneshot header. Lilgreenfox & CrabmaliqueGrug & Friends. LilgreenfoxVarious doodles drawn while Apache was being played. Lilgreenfox