The Gangsters Campaign/Session 12

* Plan:
	+ Griphook is staking out the place
	+ Jerry will give a speech
	+ Medical van comes, stakeout leaves, tank comes… three tanks come?? We are not subtle.
	+ Come in with guns blazing. That’s about as much plan as we had
* Two cops assigned to Half-Orc Bob’s place: a local guy, and Slim Frank (Judge Reddick’s #2). Why is Slim Frank there? And so few other cops? It seems like he knows what’s coming.
* Surrounding area: relatively safe because it’s H-O B’s turf. A few cafes, fruit stands, etc. No other taverns
	+ Griphook sets up at a cafe. Gather information? “No, fuck people.”
* Jerry sets up outside, expounding by microphone upon his beliefs that the only true government is no government at all, while Griphook sends more people his way. “Self-government is the KEYYYYYY to our very being!!!”
	+ Jerry is giving the most successful speech of his life, or perhaps of any of Seth’s characters’ lives
	+ Griphook sees a tall, lanky man with a gray coat. He brings out several barbacks with 2x4s and lead pipes. He is very intimidating.
	+ Slim Frank is ready to somewhat violently break up the crowd (to make way for H-O B’s “party”); Cilla can’t talk him out of it so just arrests Jerry (taking a commission on this task, which when she has to return it to Slim Frank later she will definitely be noting as a business expense)
	+ They walk past Randolph’s shop, who successfully takes the hint and goes into reporter-mode to distract a few lingering fans for long enough that they can slip away and get Jerry out of cuffs
* Some folks have soggy clothes, like pontooners…
* A couple barbacks are carrying large cases; one sets up shop on a balcony
	+ More start loading into cars, a little column of which “pushes away”
		- …. Which they just use to block off access to the tavern, except one unguarded side door. Griphook sees this and just keeps the knowledge to himself, potentially prolonging the showdown by several hours
* The appointed hour (when Lenny was supposed to join in, only Lenny is home with Dad) comes and goes and nothing happens
* Tank approach: we don’t manage to ram anything, but Smiles sure does shoot some things with the machine guns as they ride past these cars
	+ How many guys were standing around before the shooting started? “More than 5, fewer than 30.” Helpful
* Griphook finds a bloated, severely mangled body in one of the boxes; another is just ammunition. Sends one very scared barback home; carries ammo up to the other, who is a bit more suspicious, so he shoots. Takes position on the second floor of a townhouse with that newly available machine gun
	+ A few H-O B guys go to investigate; Cilla & Griphook trade shots with them
* Joe offers Vec some sedatives (no thanks, he has those) and amphetamines to get the thugs ready for battle (sure, Vec will take whatever else Joe’s got)
* Things happen, people shoot at each other, Slim Frank shoots Griphook, Griphook takes out a dude coming up the townhouse stairs, Slim Frank tells Cilla she’d better kill him or she’s a dead woman (PLUS her career will be ruined). …
* Logan as not-Joe lights some cars on fire…
* Joe attempts three times to tear gas the tavern, but never quite gets a canister inside
* Joe ends up on the wrong end of a rocket-propelled grenade launcher… “it’s half damage, so it’s ok, you probably won’t be killed, just maimed”
* The body in the box in the townhouse turns out to be the now insane Mnimi, who has turned to follow the Usurper
* Prektanos shows up with reinforcements
* On every corner, a veiled figure crawls up on pseudopods (y’all this means temporary legs, I googled it)
	+ “A symphony of occult horror” coming from the house: multiple people run out bleeding from their eyes
		- Then …. nothing else comes out
	+ All aetheric energy in the vicinity flickers off
	+ Slim Frank shoots someone in the face who was trying to hang onto his cloak and just keeps walking (is he the final boss???? Probably not, but guys???)