Session 10: Laser Moon

 The 37th day of Summer in the Dying Lands...

1AM. Gorthron's on watch, as the rest of the party sleeps. 

3AM. The blood moon charges, emitting a giant laser beam down to the surface of the world in the far distance. The sky sits empty of light. No more moon, no stars. Red electricity rattles through the ground, and it gets warmer. 

4AM. Mistress, a cowboy dominatrix on the run, arrives bearing a torch in the pitch black of night. She joins the Motherfuckers on their journey, riding her horse. 

5AM. Feyrien watch.

6AM. A skeleton with pinpoints of red light in its eye sockets shambles out of the field wielding a bronze sword from antiquity, shuddering towards Feyrien. She Turns Undead and wakes the rest of the party. Jane and Seth Blue's corpses rise from their freshly dug graves and start limping towards Blasterace. Gorthron kicks the wagon into high-gear and races South.

The Undead

12AM. Skeletons and freshly dead buried corpses keep rising from the road. A party of undead creep after a scared group of travelers. Gorthron and Zaq, piloting the wagon, leave them behind.

6PM. Giant bats appear in hordes, swooping down and carrying animated corpses, as well as the dead bodies of those killed by the undead, into the sky. They seem uninterested in the (alive) Motherfuckers. 

10PM. The Motherfuckers guide their horses into the base of an abandoned tower and rest up. Mistress watch.

The Tower

11PM. Skeletons start scratching the base of the tower.

The 38th day of Summer...

12AM. Zaq watch.

2AM. Fredrik watch.

4AM. Feyrien watch.

6AM. The Undead, in mass droves, inexplicably head West, completely uninterested in the living. The party continues South.

12PM. A family in a wagon passes the Motherfuckers, in hurried distress.

2PM. A caravan of wagons from Brandonsford pass the party, some riders explaining most of the town is now deserted.

10PM. The party settles down and rests, creating a campfire. Stile watch.

11PM. An elf in a dark cloak, who calls himself "Nobody," scans the surroundings and takes notes on a stone tablet. When addressed by Stile, the elf takes out a parchment script and starts reading from that.

The 39th day of Summer...

12AM. Malachi watch.

2AM. Mistress watch.

4AM. Gorthron watch. Two more wagons from Brandonsford pass the Motherfuckers camp.

6AM. The party continues South to...

1PM. BRANDONSFORD! The remaining townsfolk try to heal the wounded, repair the damaged, and get their town together.

Brandonsford 0AFD (After First Destruction)

Meanwhile, the Motherfuckers loot the largely abandoned town and get all sorts of goodies. Most notably, Gorthron found two elven short swords, Mistress found a cockatrice egg, Malachi found a bag of holding (overprotective of the items it holds, to the point of "knowing better" than its carrier), Feyrien found a magical pearl, and Stile found an emerald and a tier 2 health potion. Stile cracks the emerald open and crunches it, trying to eat it, and swigs the entire health potion down. 

5PM. The Motherfuckers ask the townspeople about rumors they've heard about the nearby Fever Swamp.

7PM. The party finds the tavern and talks to Captain Roger, a veteran monster hunter who has yet to catch the albino crocodile, Hunger, that bit off his leg years ago (and he has since replaced with the taxidermy stump of a crocodile's tail). They order drinks and enlist his help as they plan to venture into the swamp tomorrow.

Captain Roger

AC 15, HP 15, ATK 1 spear +2 (1d6) & 1 machete +2 (1d6), or 1 net, MV near, S +2, I +1, AL N, LV 2

Rage. 1/day, immune to morale checks, +1d4 damage (3 rounds).

10PM. Gorthron seeks out drugs, but finds that all Roger has is angelsap and tracy, so he smokes pipe tobacco with the captain instead...

The 40th day of Summer...

6AM. Feyrien spent the night completing penance to the bone bowyer, and crafted a sleek short bow out of the reaver's arm. As soon as the job is done, the bow disappears from her grasp, and the bone bowyer's eyes shine in her mind...