Our heroes, the De Facto Explorers, are spending the winter scouting around KIA Academy. They continue to encounter and at this time, befriend the blue-skinned Kirothians, and have offered to rescue some kidnapped villagers from a "wizard" and his "demons"
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Sneaky Pete: A mutated weasel scout. Pete's telepathy and night vision take a backseat when he whips out his electrical powers.
Sonny Helianthus: a sentient sunflower artifact examiner with trusted Restorationist ties. Knowledgeable, but not a good one with device repairs or upgrades. Very interested in a "Children's Alchemical Laser" he recently acquired.
Slitheran Wurmtail (aka Squiggles): a mutated earthworm scout, in impromptu power armor, looking for trouble, and finding it often. Previously "gave birth" to a litter of sentient earthworm babies, but recently has been subject to genetic testing and developed super-human strength, a more human body, and a thick coat of shaggy white hair.
Lathar Bracken: A pure-strain human from River Bend. He's got the muscle, the face, and a mount for most encounters. Lathar's trusty beast of burden, No Name, travels wherever he does. No Name has recently been fitted for a artillery device of the Ancients that chucks spears further than any human. Looking for trouble in all the right places. Former jousting champion of Fair-Town and has been awarded... a peacock he has named Chambray. He's recently been struck by a weapon by a strange race of people and transformed into... something else... multiple times.
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The gigantic demonic-looking beast ascended from the pit in the center of the cavern, flaming sword in hand.... Sonny, trapped in his invisible box, could see it rising up. His compatriots back in the side passage could barely see a odd glow through the blue Kirothians staked around the top of the pit. Until they heard the roar, they just knew SOMETHING was coming.
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| "Big Ugly" |
Pete noted the terrifying roar, and focused three individuals atop a cliff, pulling out his blaster. He wounded one of the individuals was disheartened that the person grew.... The others followed firing at those odd humanoid shaped creatures, only to injure them and forcing them to grow...Their weapons, which had vaporized a lesser demons only a short time ago, was far less effective against these individuals.
The Demon entity finally emerged from the pit, knocked some of the captured Kirothians down into the pit, and used the newly empty space to land.
Hollis, the Kirothian youth wielding the Children's Alchemical Laser, lowered the device and the fired his only shot at the Demon. The shot went far left and slammed into the cliff face. Suddenly the underground cliff face became alive with lush, green vegetation.
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| Hollis the Kirothian |
Sonny had played around with the invisible force around him. The sunflower carefully pressed against it with his dagger, sending visible ripples across the surface but not penetrating or breaking. Watching his friends engage the demon and his cronies, with pending doom, Sonny panicked, digging deep and letting rip his Death Blossom.
Sonny was shocked by the power of all his seeds exploding, especially since it seemed like far more seeds than normal. He felt like the closest the plant could feel nausea, The force of the blast seemed to eradicate the box, and most of the surrounding area in a massive explosion.
Many of the trapped Kirothians were killed and some of the odd humanoids. Chubby little Hollis took a lethal hit, killing him and damaging the alchemical laster.
When the seed cloud dissipated Lathar stared down the 30-foot demon... and ran back down the tunnel.
Squiggles was confused, watching the barbarian turn tail, "Where is he going???"
The demon unleashed a fiery torrent upon the party, setting Pete on fire.
Squiggles tried to lay down covering fire and put out the flaming weasel. Neither was initially successful. Lathar recovered his senses, but turned to see Squiggles running backwards, and the weasal on fire, trying to put himself by rolling on the ground. Sonny was nowhere to be seen. He layed down a barrage of blaster fire, most of the distant shots hitting the demon, but not doing any apparent damage to it.
"It's over man, it's over!"
The last thing the guys saw before turning tale was the demon devouring the crispy body of Hollis, and extending his sword down the passageway to no avail. Finally putting Pete out, they climbed out of the side shaft and wandered back through the snow towards the Kirothian's village.
Sonny's fate was unknown.
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