Wednesday, July 8, 2020

Detroit Suck City: Episode 6


After the crew recovered from the Tor grenade they decide to head down the tracks towards the red light. After sometime the crew head an engine sound followed by the smell of burning fuel on the wind and the crew decides to stop their tank. After some discussion Jiminy, Parrot, and Auron leave the tank armed with AK-47s and stalk their way across the switch yard using cover to to their advantage to investigate the source of noise/burning fuel.

In did not take Jiminy, Auron, and Parrot to long to come across a massive armored train engine that had a gun turret in the front.


The tank engine slows down to switch tracks and Jiminy decides to leap into action. In a few long jumps and some fluttering of swings Jiminy leaps over the tank engine and attempts throw a grenade inside of the tank engine taking it out in one quick move but Jiminy's aim was misjudges and with a metallic clang the grenades bounces harmlessly off of the railing and vanishes somewhere into the switching yard. No sooner does Jiminy land and turn around to face his enemies that are now very aware of his presence does a person in black armor with a strange looking weapon fire a bright light at Jiminy that misses, but melts half a rail car to the right of Jiminy.

About this time Auron and Parrot catch up to the chaos and Auron decides to target the turret gunner with his AK-47 and ends up riddling the gunner with bullets and Parrot follows up the hail of bullets with a vicious mind blast that appears to leave the gunner stunned.


The rest of the crew in the Velotank hears all the commotion and decides to start moving the tank a long the direction of the noise hoping to bring it in line with the tank engine to offer cover with its big 50 caliber. 

About at the same time the back of the engine tank opens up and numerous star children pour out of the back and this causes a few seconds of distraction where Jiminy takes some shrapnel burn from the man in the black armor's weapon and the star child in the turret spins and fires some lasers at Auron that make solid contact with Auron muttering something about burning his fur. Auron is quick to respond by emptying his magazine at the star child in the turret which incidentally causes the star child's head to explode in a cloud of gore and his body flops over the gun.

As this is going on, Parrot takes a final aim at the man in black armor  (before the charging black star children make contact) and opens fire but the man in black armor seems to vanish in the hail of gunfire. The black star children collide with Jiminy, Auron, and Parrot in vicious as the Velotank gets in range and unleashes the full fury of its 50 caliber mounted gun downing the star people on top of the rail tank.


As the crew dispatched the star children they are engaged with, the rail tank fires up its engine and starts to move in an apparent retreat. Huey notices this and tells to Wilhelm to take the 50 cal and then Huey vanishes and appears holding on the edge of the rail tank. As Huey quickly takes in his surrundings he notices that the man in the black armor is driving the tank and there are two other star children in there but one of them has a white star burst on their face instead of the black star. Huey also notices the strange gun (that fired the massive energy bursts that melted metal) and teleports it to his hand but what Huey did not realize is that the gun was connected to a backpack and the connection was broken in the teleportation. The child with the star burst on his face noticed this and turned to where Huey was and shot flames from his hand which burnt Huey's clothes.

Then Auron, Jiminy, and Parrot were able to catch up to the rail tank before it built up to much speed to clime aboard. During the crews boarding maneuver the man in black armor finally turned around and reached for his energy weapon but he released it was broken and decided to swing his stun whip around defensively. This act was in vain as the crew made brutal work of the remaining star children and Parrot found an opening in the chaos, tackling the man in black armor as he wrapped his around the man in black armors throat. The man in black met his end with Parrots hand around his throat and the words "this is for the bridge...".


As their enemies lay vanquished at the crews feet, Jiminy heads over to the controls and figures out how to work them. After sometime and a few rail switches the crew hooks up the Velotank to their new rail tank, assesses and hands out their newly acquired gear, and decides to head in the direction that the star people where trying to escape in. They soon find the track leading away from the rail yard and came across what looked like a purposeful attempt to make the tracks look broken with way barred with camo nets and other materials. The crew moved these to the side and continued along their way making sure to replace the camouflaged dead end. After sometime the crew came across a cement building that looked well kept. 

The entire crew dismounted except Wilhelm who thought it would be wise to stay and man the laser cannon on the rail tank. The crew explored the surrounding area before attempting to gain access to the building. Jiminy was able to figure out how to work the keyboard and the door opened to a long dark hallway. The crew cautiously explored before the came across light shining through a metal rod iron gate with a broken keypad on the crews side and one that was glowing on the other side. There was no apparent movement or sign of enemies so Jiminy reached through the bars to try to access the keypad but touched one of the bars and got a shock. Auron being big figured the shock would not bother him as much and had Jiminy talk him through using they keypad. After a handful of shocks that had Auron looking like a giant fur ball they were able to get the gate open even though Auron almost the arm in the gate snapping open. The crew then cautiously started to explore the building...


Just another day in Detroit Suck City...

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PLAYER THOUGHTS: So, this is the first time I have ever included player thoughts in any of my play reports but I really wanted to share. My character was against engaging this rail tank and was in favor of seeing if it would pass the crew by but a sneak attack plan won out and after the grenade plan failed and I saw the type of weapons we were up against I thought it was going to be a TPK (the crew was outgunned and outnumbered most of the combat). I think we got lucky with the bad guys making some bad rolls and the players getting some really good rules (including the character Huey's use of his powers as he is still learning how to use them). The combat with the rail tank and the star children was very chaotic but fun. It ended in the character Parrot making it personal with the leader the crew encountered on the bridge. There was some really good role playing in that scene and other scenarios in this episode.

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