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Port Wayne: The Backups

Some notes from Sunday's Port Wayne game:

  • Thelx got kidnapped by Draven, a local gangster
  • Draven wanted the backups from the space station in exchange for Thelx.
  • Eula made a fake backup drive with "realistic" data
  • Kip rigged the place with explosives in the tool shed and did recon.
  • Once inside for the meeting, Draven showed the crew a video of the station exploding and another station moving into its position.
  • Draven had the right computer for the drive and the test failed.
  • Draven left while his henchman engaged the team.
  • In the ruckus, involving guns and grenades, the team was able to locate Thelx.
  • Everyone escaped relatively unscathed.
  • Spinner confirmed that only WHY knew about the mission, so it is hard to know how Draven found out about it.
A bit of a new story started...
  • The party got cryptic texts setting up a meet.
  • The meet was at the dubs camp.
  • There, the party found a large obsolete computer in a truck, running part of the R-AI-L-OR AI.
  • The AI had been rebuilt and let loose on the ground floor network by Ministrad.
  • R-AI-L-OR was looking for hire the party (for the million dollars he already gave them) to find him a body.
  • The body needs to be extracted from a no-go-zone in the Southwest Territories that has been invaded by daemons.
  • The body needs to be an intact Purrodaemon.
  • R-AI-L-OR plans to use the body for his own using research from the station.  Apparently the research was in putting AIs in undead bodies.
Because of the difficulty of the mission, the players have been given full reign to build new characters just to support the mission.

Rules changes were discussed for imbuing spells into ammunition.  Kip's recipes were going to be provided for review and consideration.  Also, it was suggested that grenades have some sort of debilitating effect, like stunning those caught in the blast, or something similar.  I'll work through those this week.
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