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Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Rifts: Stavros Explains

The group was gathered around Stavros, after Dirk and Roger calmed down the horse teams with the wagons, and he began to explain the situation. Stavros told about how he had come to destroy the Imp and how this Imp was a battle Imp or soldier Imp as they are more commonly called and that it was controlled by the Necromancers. He explained that the Necromancers controlled the Imp and other beings. Stavros also explained about how the Necromancers worked for a man named Narg. He also told the group about a secret group that he was apart of called 'The Brotherhood.' Stavros then explained the situation and where to find Narg and his minions. He told them it would take two weeks to travel there and that the road was perilous. Stavros also told him of his friend, who knew of the location of Narg's compound and that he would lead them there. The friend's name is Northwind Ironfist. (Travis's new character)

The party then went into Scottsbluff and proceeded to sell the wares that they had received from the crates in the backs of the wagons. The items were all new and pre-Rifts. The list is as follows:
a total of 13 large wooden crates
Wagon 1 - 6 crates
Crate 1 - one gun cleaning kit
Crate 2 - 8 large cushions (very nice)
Crate 3 - 8 boxes of 30, 50 Gal. garbage bags (half black, half clear)
Crate 4 - 3 rolls of toilet paper
Crate 5 - one roll Duct tape
Crate 6 - 4 magnifying lenses
Wagon 2 - 1 crate
Crate 1 - 5 Cast-iron pans
Wagon 3 - 6 crates
Crate 1 - 8 car alternators
Crate 2 - one phonebook
Crate 3 - one 20' hemp rope
Crate 4 - 2 sets of silverware (real silver)(21 pieces each)
Crate 5 - 3 watches (Timex)
Crate 6 - 8 Fishing poles with reels and tackle box kits

They sold what they didn't want and made some purchases in town. It is now 2pm and they are getting ready to go back to New Hope.

Thus concluding our session.

Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Loot and Armor

***This post will cover the last two rifts sessions.***
Besides the seven individually contained missiles, the group also found 3 sets of combat fatigues and 2 dead boy armor (old style), three 20 gallon drums of drinking water, 1 hover platform, 5 backpacks, 1 satchel, 12 blankets, 9 weeks worth of food rations for 6 humans, one language translator, 4 more 20 gallon drums of drinking water, 7 hand grenades (frag), 5 C-20 laser pistols and one portable tool kit.
Enter the Doctor. Dr. Vance Phd (pronounced Fud, at least by the rest of the party).
The group decided to keep all the loot except for the 7 missiles and 4 of the C-20 laser pistols. Those were going to get sold in Scottsbluff. The group took the hover platform, which had been packed with the loot and they landed in Scottsbluff. They paid to park their hover platform and found shelter at a local inn.
(This part is foggy)
After the party awoke, a couple things happened in an order I do not remember.
1. The party found the armor repairer and discovered that they didn't have enough money to pay for the repairs.
2. The party accepted a job from Stavros after selling the loot to him.
3. Ralph took up rounding up stray lawbreakers and threatened to kill them if he found them on the streets again.
4. The party had to wait three days until the job and during the three days, the party did random things like Ralph in 3.
5. Dr. Vance did a whole lot of weird things. Like calling Roger the 'dirt mage'.
The day of the job had come and the party went to see Stavros, he explained that they could come back at 3 in the afternoon. Until that time, Ralph picked up something from the blacksmith, the custom vibro-sword that he had paid for. Dr. Vance tried getting something out of the blacksmith, but that didn't turn out so well.
The job took them north, they followed Stavros and his two Larmac bodyguards in their hovertruck. They passed a place that was unnaturally green and came to the desert. They awaited the arrival of three horse-drawn wagons. They saw Stavros talking with one of the people who had arrived. After about 5 minutes worth of talking, they saw Stavros attack the guy he had been talking with. The party noticed that this being was in fact a full conversion borg. While everyone got their first shots off, they noticed that the person on the middle wagon ran back the way they had come from, and that something evil errupted from that same middle wagon. They also noticed that there was another borg on the last wagon and running forward. Dirk and Roger recognized that the creature that had flown out of the middle wagon was a battle imp and was supernaturally evil. The group took out all three, the imp, and the two borgs. Somewhere in the heat of battle, Ralph decided that this wasn't honorable and took off. Combat was at an end.
Stavros said he would explain everything.
This concludes the story so far.