<WARNING THREE MAJOR PLOT POINT SPOILERS FOR NECESSARY EVIL! >
Before Game Setup:
I placed down a couple V'sori Mbunas for the shuttles and the starship fighter from DramaScape's The Partisan Passenger Version on DramaScape's Star Map print on demand for the V'sori Manta. Star Map and Star Map 02 are really good for large-scale space battles or just good background for small-scale battles happening in space.
Thursday January 18, 2005
Space en route to Earth
Wheeljack did a 180 degree turn and The Blood King shot at the V'sori Manta, resulting in some chassis damage. The V'sori Manta fired a missile at their shuttle but it veered away as Wheeljack successful deployed some chaff.
Their allies lost control of their shuttle and drifted towards them but Wheeljack managed to get their shuttle out of the way just in time.
Wheeljack maneuvered their shuttle around the obstacle of the other shuttle and The Blood King's second laser volley blew up the V'sori Manta. The Omegans left the other shuttle adrift in space as it floated towards the V'sori Man O' War...
The group saw Dr. Destruction on an exclusive Channel 8 TV news interview with Sam Ramey as they approached Earth and listened to his speech. He had sent the Atlantean legion through the teleportation tubes to cause havoc by attacking the V'sori inside their own battle fleet's ships. But suddenly there was a massive thundering sound, then a cloud of dust, as the camera turned ninety degrees and then smashed into the ground and shattered. The broadcast signal cut out.
[Chessie played Here I Come to Save the Day to make the shuttle move very fast to Downtown, Star City.]
Thursday January 18, 2005
Downtown, Star City
The Omegans landed the shuttle in Downtown, Star City. They watched as Dr. Destruction was grabbed by Champion and then body slammed into the middle of the street making a massive crater. Only Champion left the crater and flew into the sky. No longer a blur, they could see that Champion was gone. Only a V'sori drone of thinning hair, wires and tubing along the neck and spine, and green mottled skin remained, but with his powers somehow intact. Not even planetary bombardment had been able to destroy Champion's body, so the V'sori had rebuilt him from his remains. All around them the V'sori and Fins were fighting the remnants of the Omegan Resistance: Needlenose with dregs and the Junkyard Dog's other cyber dogs, Phantom Gangers, Undergrounders, The American Anvil and The Hammer of Justice, 4-Star and Lucky, and others fighting unseen like Micro and B-HOLD-R.
Due to her Claustrophobia Hindrance, Bubbles ran screaming out of the shuttle and used her rocket boots to get as far from the shuttle as possible in a panic. Unfortunately this put her very near Champion. The Blood King left the shuttle and grew to maximum walker size as Wheeljack teleported inside. Ruin got out of the shuttle and laughed in glee at Dr. Destruction's defeat. Dr. Aden got out of the shuttle and stumbled backwards as he craned his neck up at Champion. The Junkyard Dog moved towards Champion as she animated a police car and tried to ramp it up at Champion. The car ended up in the crater and nearly hit Dr. Destruction. Her cyberdogs, Ash and Cinder followed her. Champion turned his eyes towards Bubbles and spoke, "I will kill all other heroes and villains and become the only survivor on Earth with super powers!"
[Bobbie played Villainous Verbosity.]
Champion shot his laser eyes at Bubbles and she managed to deflect it with her sai before it melted to slag forcing her to drop it from the heat. He then did a torpedo attack that hit her into a skyscraper before he flew back up into the sky.
[Chessie played Lucky Break + a Bennie to stop the damage from the laser eyes. She played Second Wind + Bennie on the second attack, but ended up Shaken from the Knockback]
The Junkyard Dog noticed that the wiring on Champion might be a weakness. She yelled it at Bubbles but it was actually heard by Ruin and relayed to her via telepathy. She moved the police car out of the crater and continued moving towards Champion with Ash and Cinder behind her.
[Bobbie played Unexpected Insight. So I told her that the wires might be a weak point which makes sense for her character (or Kevin's Ruin) since she knows a lot about machines. If Randall had played this card, I would have told him about the Gamma Ray weakness (since he is a comic buff and his former character Mongo was a gamma ray created character). If Chessie or David had played it I would have mentioned a possible psychic weakness.]
Bubbles used telekinesis on her remaining sai and used it to slash out the wiring on the left side of Champion but missed the right side of his neck.
[I played Ace for Champion to soak two Wounds leaving him with two Wounds. I turned five of my GM Bennies into five cards for this fight. I'll probably do the same for the finale because it was fun. Meanwhile, Chessie played Read the Enemy + a Bennie for +5 attack and damage, David played Inspiration. She made called shots at the neck for a -12 to hit with Champion's Super Sonic Speed, but ended up being -5 with the boosts. ]
The Blood King fired on Champion from behind but he dodged it as if he heard it coming rather than saw it. Wheeljack noticed after the cloud of dust had disappeared, Dr. Destruction lay in the middle of the crater. But his mask had been destroyed and he saw the face of King Meros, the Aquarian. He decided to grab him and put him inside the shuttle. Ruin observed it was King Meros and stole the Crown of Atlantis from him after activating his stealth suit's invisibility.
The Junkyard Dog and her cyber dogs continued to move towards Champion. She activated a yellow car and had it throw the police car at Champion. It missed and took out a chunk of the nearby skyscraper instead.
Champion gave Bubbles a savage uppercut that hit her into the skyscraper's third floor. He then used his laser eyes to destroy the roof of the building she was in, burying her in rubble.
[Chessie used her last Bennie and Brace for Attack to survive this with three wounds and unconscious. She drew 6 on the Defeat Table so didn't suffer an injury. I then played Never Knew I Had it in Me for Champion + a Bennie.]
Champion used his focus to try and break The Blood King with a powerful punch. He didn't harm the walker, but the force of his knockback caused the cockpit of the shuttle to start to compress with an unconscious Aquarian inside.
Dr. Aden moved towards Champion. He hoped he could do something about the right wiring on his neck but couldn't move fast enough to get beside him in his lab coat.
Ash and Cinder unloaded their Fusion Rifles on Champion. One of them struck Champion in the back and he stumbled forward into The Blood King and then fell backward. The Junkyard Dog ran towards the fallen Champion as the world seemed to stop. Blood spurting out of Champion's back became a trickle. Dust motes that had sprung upwards from where Champion had fallen danced in the air. Then there was a bright flash of light followed by darkness...
[Bobbie played Bullseye with a Bennie to double the ranged attack damage.]
Thursday January 18, 2005
Alien Moon
When they opened their eyes, the Omegans found themselves inside a massive crater concealed by the spine of some ginormous alien creature. Dr. Destruction was there in full armor and mask restored. Shadow King also had arrived from the shadow pool. Ruin took off his visor and breathed the air of the moon and realized the Crown was gone, restored to the head of King Meros. It was as if someone had rewound time to an earlier state just before the battle with Champion had occurred.
The Omegans saw the massive form of The Outsider who looked at them on the left and somewhere else on the right before disappearing as mysteriously as he appeared. A gigantic alien skull hid a V'sori King Crab as a flying Champion looked around the moon for something to kill.
Shadow King teleported on top of The Blood King. The Junkyard Dog used her animate object power on the spine of the alien creature to create a bridge out of the crater. She used the spine to get out of the crater followed by Ash and Cinder. Dr. Destruction followed and said, "Neptune Guard to me!" before being surrounded by five Atlanteans with high tech gear. Bubbles used her rocket boots to travel to a different crater. Ruin followed slowly confused by the events that had transpired, trying to process them.
The Blood King got out of the crater and then threw the Shadow King at Champion. Shadow King unleashed six attacks by quickly teleporting in and out of the shadow pool. Champion was wounded and Shadow King teleported back on the shoulder of The Blood King.
[David played Seize the Day to go on Joker at the same time as The Blood King/Wheeljack. He followed it up with the Teamwork card + a Bennie and using Wild Attack to negate Champion's -8 to hit completely.]
Champion
tried to smash Dr. Destruction a second time but missed. Then Ruin slashed him
to pieces with his katana and Vibro Saw.
[Kevin
played That One Issue Where plus a Bennie to gain +10 Fighting to overcome the
-8 to hit Champion.]
Dr. Destruction and his Neptune Guard tried to repair Champion. Was there
something human left inside of Earth's champion?
The
Junkyard Dog saw what was happening and in a fury used the alien spine to
puncture Champion's neck to deliver a finishing move. But she forgot to move
her cyber dog off the spine bridge first and it went hurling into space.
At this moment, the V'sori King Crab revealed itself and unloaded on The Blood
King with all its weapons. But The Blood King dodged or absorbed all the
punishment from its heavy lasers.
The Junkyard Dog brought out two can openers and tried to cut open the V'sori King Crab. Unsurprisingly, the thick armor of the King Crab wasn't affected.
[Bobbie played Hidden Stash and a
Bennie for this.]
Bubbles ran at the skull and used her V'sori Saw to slash
open an eye socket, perhaps erroneously thinking the skull needed to be
destroyed for them to win due to the cryptic actions of The Outsider.
The Blood King
grabbed the V'sori King Crab and flipped it. This crushed the Junkyard Dog and
she lost her right leg.
[Randall played Mechanical
Malfunction to make the V'sori King Crab's engines malfunction, making it
easier to flip it.]
Ruin activated his trigger earthquake ability and created a Moonquake. This killed the V'sori and K'tharens inside the King Crab, the Neptune Guard, the Junkyard Dog's cyber dog, and knocked out Bubbles and the Junkyard Dog. The Blood King and Wheeljack survived while the Shadow King used his teleport to get away with Dr. Destruction into the shadow pool and Ruin activated a warp shunt to escape.
As the alien moon shook apart, a blinding flash of light appeared for a second time and then darkness...
[Kevin rolled a d6, then added extra effort as a d6, and played Focus, Focus with a Bennie to roll another d6. When that failed he activated his Golden Bennie to reroll all of them and the final d6 got him a 6. So he activated a Moonquake. The Moonquake shook the alien moon apart, doing 52 damage to everything.]
Thursday January 18, 2005
Junkyard, Southpoint, Star City
As they opened their eyes, they saw The Outsider in human size. He asked them, "Fight or Defend." The Omegans chose to fight.
Shadow King gave King Meros, the Aquarian, to the Dark Goddess of Atlantis and she extended her tendrils to make him part of the circle.
[The Dark Goddess has done this to all of the group except the Junkyard Dog, slowly changing the group to Atlanteans as Shadow King has kidnapped them and brought them to the pool. She was truly awakened when Baron de Villain sacrificed an Atlantean on her altar to become a True Atlantean instead of a hybrid. It was also part of the origin story of Shadowpool now Shadow King, as her right hand in trying to restore Atlantis, but to her dark vision for the future of an Atlantean Empire. The shadowpool was where Shadow King returned to hydrate and was a place that can be teleported to and from at will. With David being an unpredictable player it is a great way to get him into the action without too much explanation as well. Setsuna's death happened when she refused conversion and instead took on a competing fire god's essence in an attempt at revenge.]
The Shadow King returned from the shadow pool with the Aquarian who dropped Dr. Destruction's gear saying, "Dr. Destruction is dead now. It is up to you to save Earth." Wheeljack grabbed Dr. Destruction's broken power armor and his computer. His helmet was gone, destroyed completely by Champion and his rifle lost when he dropped it as he fell unconscious. Ruin still wore The Crown of Atlantis showing that time had been moved back to a state near where they left. The Junkyard Dog suddenly grew a new right leg. The Outsider used his power to heal everyone to full strength and sent the Omegans but not Aquarian to fight the V'sori Overmind directly.
The Crown of Atlantis fell from Ruin's head and King Meros picked up his crown once again. The Outsider puzzled said, "It would seem this relic has a mind of its own. Your Atlantean Gods may have a hand in this. Perhaps the one called Ruin's own relic wished a competing relic for his attention gone. Or it is the cosmic balance. They took your devices and the balance gave you back the crown. So be it. The fate of your Earth and the V'sori Empire is in their hands now and your fate as always is to pick up the pieces that remain in their wake."
[Bobbie used her advance on New Power Points to gain Extra Limb (leg), a trick Kevin used previously to no sell a Major Leg Injury.]
XP: 6 (3 x 2 plot points completed). Minimum XP = Heroic (70)
Loot: Dr. Destruction's Armor (+3 Armor, All, Heavy Armor), Dr. Destruction's Computer (Broadcast)
Pictures:
Maps
Scene 1 uses DramaScape's Star Map Print on Demand map. Scene 2 uses DramaScape's Modern Ruins 5 for the fight with Champion. Modern Ruins 5 is particularly good for Plot Point Nine because of the crater in the middle of the map, the presence of many vehicles and buildings to throw and smash, and enough space for the shuttle to land. Scene 3 uses DramaScape's Lunar Battlemap Print on Demand map. This map is really good for Plot Point Ten as a moonscape full of craters. I lucked out and found a cool skull cleaning to put on the map too.
Miniatures
Figures and vehicles include those from HeroClix by WizKids and Necessary Evil Figure Flats by Pinnacle Entertainment Group. Automobiles are from the FREE Distressed Modern Vehicles on the PEG website (Website-->Store-->Savage Worlds-->Look in GM section on the right to download and grab the FREE Modern Vehicles ones too!). Fighter used from DramaScape's The Partisan Passenger Version for the V'sori Manta.
Links
DramaScape's The Partisan Passenger Version with included fighter.
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/166342/The-Partisan-Passenger-Version?affiliate_id=12615
DramaScape's Star Map Print on Demand version used.
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/105090/Star-Map?affiliate_id=12615
DramaScape's Modern Ruins 5
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/149689/Modern-Ruins-5?affiliate_id=12615
DramaScape's Lunar Battlemap Print on Demand version used.
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/113308/Lunar-Battlemap?affiliate_id=12615
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