C6xS11 "RIP Vine"

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"RIP Vine" (6x011) is the eleventh session of the sixth campaign of Auraliyaen. Two-sentence brief.

## Synopsis

### Announcements

* Auraliyaen Executive announced a new update, mainly focused on Aura Fundamental Techniques and Zeoneous Upgrades.

### Part I

With Rolym absent due to grievances with the bounty, the rest of the party spend the morning of the 13th gathering supplies. Having spent K9,000 on traps and narcotics, they also prepare to spend K2,000/day on rental 4WD's and horse floats in an effort to transport the cargo without arousing suspicion. With a convoy heavily equipped with traps and hope, they make their way to the Momcho Garden Jungle.

Having reached the public area of the Jungle by 6pm, Juinn makes his way into the jungle to install camera traps, whilst the others take a long rest in order to have better chances at hunting in the night. However, when the party wake to find Juinn still hasn't returned to the RV, they quickly realise that the plan has gone awry. After learning he left his phone in the RV, Vex and Sadé spam his camera roll before heading into the jungle wearing Ghille suits with Lavi, who soon finds Juinn throat-deep in a sinkhole with an owl sitting atop his head... Vex, with the help of Sadé, pulls Juinn out of the sinkhole thanks to a sturdy vine, and Juinn's Zeoneos-strength jaw.

With the party reunited, they continue the mission into the "danger zone" of the Jungle, 4 hours away from the public area, and begin by searching for a Dusk Stalker Panther.

### Part II

The party search for 4 hours before they finally find an area covered in claw marks and scorched trees. However the excitement is quickly interrupted by a Deadly Vine Bundle damaging and hoisting the rental Jeep into the air. As everyone clambers out of the vehicle to escape its noodly appendages, the bundle grabs Juinn, and uses him as a shield. Eventually, Vex lands an attack that forces it to drop him; giving Lavi a chance to heal him, as he seemed to take more hits than the terrible plant. As Lavi administers the last of her aid, Juinn is snatched once more; frenzying the party.

After several attacks, and no Juinn in sight, Lavi uses her last resort of the D.jhii seed. Leading to a giant plant-battle with D.jhii as the victor. For good measure, Sadé runs over the D.jhii several times with the ute. Once the dust settles, the party quickly learn that their efforts were in vain, as Juinn was dead before the bundle had even begun to wither. Lavi removes his memory chip in the hopes of at least reviving him.

Almost as if Juinn had used his remaining life-force to help the party, a Morning Sun Crane appeared before the party, not long after they had set off once again. Not wanting to waste the chance, the remaining members quickly spring into action, sneaking up on the crane and laying two wire traps behind it. They then hurl sleep grenades at the crane, and taunt it over the traps, only for it to totally ignore them and make its way toward Lavi, who was using her red hair to jokingly flirt with it. In its distraction, Sadé lays a shock trap underneath it as Vex continues to sleep-bomb it to smithereens. The trap works, stunning the crane long enough for the party to decide that the grenades weren't working well enough, and begin attacking it. After just a few attacks, the crane topples over, unconscious, with only one injury taking away from its K80,000 total.

Not wanting to look a gift horse in the mouth, they then load the Morning Sun Crane onto the ute, and drive 9 hours back to the public area, and load it into the horse float. Taking it to their contact as soon as they possibly could. They find themselves driving up the driveway of a large estate as the session ends...

## Featured Characters

### Party

* Juinn Qake
* Lavi Yelu
* Sadé Zayassi
* Rolym Lamus
* Vex Rydiah

### Non-Player Characters

* Lazzi
* NPC

## Quotes

* **Gimmeny Cricket**: *"Can I roll to see what the fox says?"*
* **Vex**: *"How do we get him out? He's head."*
* **Sadé**: *"\*Kicks open car door\* That's a rental!"*

## Trivia

* Whilst in the Deadly Vine encounter, when Juinn was released by the plant Auraliyaen Executive rolled a d4 openly to decide who the plant targeted for its attack.
* Parky rolled two natural 1s whilst originally exploring the jungle solo - which resulted in him falling into the sinkhole.
* The party levelled up to 5th Level at the end of this session.