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thessalianMy right arm still hurts like buggery. Also, the only reason the stupid meds seem to work is that they keep me so doped half the time that all I want to do is sleep and am less conscious of the pain when I'm conscious at all. Therefore, this is going to be taken as slowly as I know how, with plenty of rest breaks. Of course, you won't notice because I'm typing it all out in WordPad beforehand, but I thought you'd be interested.
Anyway. I owe write-ups. So here goes.
So after the disastrous hotel affair, the crew realised that, if there were going to be pictures of Doogie taken and shown to the Falcon's daughter, they would have to be video rather than still because still shots don't convey torture so well and anyway, they'd turned up with no one in the room and there was little enough time to take pictures. So they decided, once Doogie came down from his drug-induced psychosis (and he came down hard, and was very, very sick), to go back to the hotel and try to find the camera, using the helpful maid they'd encountered to gain entry into the boiler room. Seemed a workable enough plan, seeing as Peck came back from whatever errand he was on -- he's the talker and would probably do better at negotiations with her than the others.
So off they went. Peck and Click shared a room and called for maid service, seeing as Click had taken down the maid's name and could ask for her specifically. Doogie, Dibbler and Mack waited in the other room and raided the minibar and complimentary fruit basket and champagne (this is a very ritzy resort hotel, the kind that you don't have to steal the bathrobes from because they're also complimentary and given how much you pay for a room, it's only fair). Both of the rooms received visitors after Click had made the call; unfortunately, the maid turned up at Doogie, Dibbler and Mack's door, saying one of her colleagues had mentioned that lot came in and she wondered what they were doing there. Peck and Click, however, opened the door very cautiously and Peck got skewered through the shoulder (the only spot that could be reached through the small crack he'd opened the door) with a rapier. Then they called the other room, and only got as far as "We're trapped in our room with a sword-wielding psychotic outside" before, after having failed a perception check, they were rendered unconscious by the knock-out gas being filtered into the room.
Mack went off on his own to rescue his companions, seeing as Dibbler and Doogie aren't exactly combat-oriented, but forgot that it's damn near impossible to force or pick a key-card lock. Thankfully, he remembered that the maid would have an all-access key-card, being a maid and needing access to the rooms, so he went back to fetch her. He also let her into the darkened room first, but had the sense to push her backwards when he realised that someone else was in the room. Then he took a very fast, very deep slash across the chest with a rapier and blacked out, mostly due to shock-trauma.
Peck woke up before Click did, and saw the following:
1) He was duct taped to a chair.
2) Click, still unconscious, was also duct taped to a chair.
3) Mack was bound to the bed with duct tape, and someone had duct taped his chest in, given the amount of blood on his clothes, an attempt to keep him from dying too soon.
4) The maid, kneeling on the floor, tied up with duct tape and gagged.
5) Dominique LaFleur -- for those of you who don't know, Dom is a shapely French girl who usually wears tight black shirts, tight black leather trousers, knee-high boots, long dark curly hair in a plait down her back and a bullwhip, and carries a rapier with which she is something of an expert. She also guards the Mook Magnet, for the most part; she's the only woman he's met so far he can't beat up without paying dearly for it.
Dom had words with Peck, slapped him around if I recall, duct taped his mouth shut and aroused him to the point where he came in his pants just by threatening him. (Don't ask -- I think this is a Jon thing. Then again, apparently Peck gets off on the whole dominatrix thing, and Dom isn't only short for Dominique.) In any case, after that, she took out the maid's throat with a casual swipe of the sword and walked out. Click came to with her mouth also duct taped shut and, when she took in the situation, she wasn't sure whether to be more disgusted at what had happened to Mack, what had happened to the maid or Peck's recent ... erm, well.
In any case, Doogie and Dibbler got worried after awhile, so Dibbler gave Doogie a gun and they headed off down the corridor to the room occupied by the others. They found a lot of blood, no bodies and, thankfully, a dry-cleaning receipt for R Veccio in [room number]. They consider this for a moment -- their gun bunny and their knife guy are gone God only knows where, and neither of them are all that much with a gun. Also, there was someone very good with a sword running around out there. So they decided to do the only thing they could do in the circumstances, being fledgelings and with no time to get any better -- they called for back-up. They collected Wookie, the Fuckwad, a couple of faceless Affiliation mooks ... and Asuka, who put the pieces together about Dom being there and grinned. They have a real hate-on for each other, the swordladies of the warring Families. In any case, they stormed the room, the Merritt mooks got taken down to the boiler room and "dealt with", Mack was moved back to the room where he'd been attacked for an ambulance to pick him up after Doogie did some very good field surgery, they arranged a sanitation duty on the room where the others had been held captive, and all was pretty much right with the world, all things considered.
[Edt: Except for the fact that they found the camera, but not its storage medium. The Merritts have the pictures. Whoops.]
However, there is still the small matter of the Santa Barbara gang, which is their actual job -- that'll teach them that some plot lines should not be followed by fledgelings. (Most GMs wouldn't let players take on Mook Magnet and Dom that early if they decided to go in that direction. I am not most GMs.) So off Doogie goes to high school in the next session, still bearing the bruises of various beatings, to try to make contact with some of the gang members. He also has plans to deal with the jocks who keep beating him up, and one other job to take care of. The others will do their own thing, but one of them is going to involve taking on a new hireling to take Mack's place, seeing as he's going to be hospitalised for months...
I'll do the Mage one next, in a separate entry. First I must rest the damn arm. Hate being in this much pain. Hate it hate it hate it.
Anyway. I owe write-ups. So here goes.
So after the disastrous hotel affair, the crew realised that, if there were going to be pictures of Doogie taken and shown to the Falcon's daughter, they would have to be video rather than still because still shots don't convey torture so well and anyway, they'd turned up with no one in the room and there was little enough time to take pictures. So they decided, once Doogie came down from his drug-induced psychosis (and he came down hard, and was very, very sick), to go back to the hotel and try to find the camera, using the helpful maid they'd encountered to gain entry into the boiler room. Seemed a workable enough plan, seeing as Peck came back from whatever errand he was on -- he's the talker and would probably do better at negotiations with her than the others.
So off they went. Peck and Click shared a room and called for maid service, seeing as Click had taken down the maid's name and could ask for her specifically. Doogie, Dibbler and Mack waited in the other room and raided the minibar and complimentary fruit basket and champagne (this is a very ritzy resort hotel, the kind that you don't have to steal the bathrobes from because they're also complimentary and given how much you pay for a room, it's only fair). Both of the rooms received visitors after Click had made the call; unfortunately, the maid turned up at Doogie, Dibbler and Mack's door, saying one of her colleagues had mentioned that lot came in and she wondered what they were doing there. Peck and Click, however, opened the door very cautiously and Peck got skewered through the shoulder (the only spot that could be reached through the small crack he'd opened the door) with a rapier. Then they called the other room, and only got as far as "We're trapped in our room with a sword-wielding psychotic outside" before, after having failed a perception check, they were rendered unconscious by the knock-out gas being filtered into the room.
Mack went off on his own to rescue his companions, seeing as Dibbler and Doogie aren't exactly combat-oriented, but forgot that it's damn near impossible to force or pick a key-card lock. Thankfully, he remembered that the maid would have an all-access key-card, being a maid and needing access to the rooms, so he went back to fetch her. He also let her into the darkened room first, but had the sense to push her backwards when he realised that someone else was in the room. Then he took a very fast, very deep slash across the chest with a rapier and blacked out, mostly due to shock-trauma.
Peck woke up before Click did, and saw the following:
1) He was duct taped to a chair.
2) Click, still unconscious, was also duct taped to a chair.
3) Mack was bound to the bed with duct tape, and someone had duct taped his chest in, given the amount of blood on his clothes, an attempt to keep him from dying too soon.
4) The maid, kneeling on the floor, tied up with duct tape and gagged.
5) Dominique LaFleur -- for those of you who don't know, Dom is a shapely French girl who usually wears tight black shirts, tight black leather trousers, knee-high boots, long dark curly hair in a plait down her back and a bullwhip, and carries a rapier with which she is something of an expert. She also guards the Mook Magnet, for the most part; she's the only woman he's met so far he can't beat up without paying dearly for it.
Dom had words with Peck, slapped him around if I recall, duct taped his mouth shut and aroused him to the point where he came in his pants just by threatening him. (Don't ask -- I think this is a Jon thing. Then again, apparently Peck gets off on the whole dominatrix thing, and Dom isn't only short for Dominique.) In any case, after that, she took out the maid's throat with a casual swipe of the sword and walked out. Click came to with her mouth also duct taped shut and, when she took in the situation, she wasn't sure whether to be more disgusted at what had happened to Mack, what had happened to the maid or Peck's recent ... erm, well.
In any case, Doogie and Dibbler got worried after awhile, so Dibbler gave Doogie a gun and they headed off down the corridor to the room occupied by the others. They found a lot of blood, no bodies and, thankfully, a dry-cleaning receipt for R Veccio in [room number]. They consider this for a moment -- their gun bunny and their knife guy are gone God only knows where, and neither of them are all that much with a gun. Also, there was someone very good with a sword running around out there. So they decided to do the only thing they could do in the circumstances, being fledgelings and with no time to get any better -- they called for back-up. They collected Wookie, the Fuckwad, a couple of faceless Affiliation mooks ... and Asuka, who put the pieces together about Dom being there and grinned. They have a real hate-on for each other, the swordladies of the warring Families. In any case, they stormed the room, the Merritt mooks got taken down to the boiler room and "dealt with", Mack was moved back to the room where he'd been attacked for an ambulance to pick him up after Doogie did some very good field surgery, they arranged a sanitation duty on the room where the others had been held captive, and all was pretty much right with the world, all things considered.
[Edt: Except for the fact that they found the camera, but not its storage medium. The Merritts have the pictures. Whoops.]
However, there is still the small matter of the Santa Barbara gang, which is their actual job -- that'll teach them that some plot lines should not be followed by fledgelings. (Most GMs wouldn't let players take on Mook Magnet and Dom that early if they decided to go in that direction. I am not most GMs.) So off Doogie goes to high school in the next session, still bearing the bruises of various beatings, to try to make contact with some of the gang members. He also has plans to deal with the jocks who keep beating him up, and one other job to take care of. The others will do their own thing, but one of them is going to involve taking on a new hireling to take Mack's place, seeing as he's going to be hospitalised for months...
I'll do the Mage one next, in a separate entry. First I must rest the damn arm. Hate being in this much pain. Hate it hate it hate it.