The wedding of Lathar and Thunnelda was a great celebration. Now it is time for another grand adventure for the De Facto Explorers... after a lot of rest and prep
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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. Looking for trouble in all the right places. The two-time champion of the Fair-Town Queen's Joust. Recently married Thunnelda Haycock.
Sneaky Pete: A mutated weasel scout. Pete's telepathy and night vision take a backseat when he whips out his electrical powers. Apparently addicted to his newly uncovered yellow powder found at "The Pool House"
Sonny Helianthus: a nearly 10' tall sentient sunflower artifact examiner with four arms, and trusted Restorationist ties. Knowledgeable, but not a good one with device repairs or upgrades.
Slitheran Wurmtail (aka Squiggles): a mutated earthworm scout, in impromptu power armor, looking for trouble in all the wrong places, and finding it often. He has been subject to genetic testing and developed super-human strength, a more human body, and a thick coat of shaggy white hair. Recently gave birth to a pile of baby worms.
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As all the guests left Riverbend for Parts Unkown, the De Facto Explorers forced themselves into a well-deserved rest. Between the experiments, the glow, and a non-stop spring and summer, many were holding on by a string, and a plant-mutant like Sonny, a thinning frond.
For over a month, the Explorers healed up, studied, worked on projects, and in the case of Lathar, get to know their loved ones better.
*Squiggles - The only one who didn't need to heal further was Squiggles, who currently had quickly recovered from the wedding-day delivery of all his worm children.
Despite Sonny's claim that 14.3 second generation spawn could be raised per first generation spawn, Squiggles spent time building a series of small tunnels to protect the youngsters
*Pete - There had been no further incursions at Sneaky Pete's house, and no one had set off any traps in his own system of tunnels, although a flood that occurred while everyone was in down did damage his work. Once he was healthy, he was insistent everyone travel with him back to KIA Academy to recharge their power cells. No one wanted another trip down there, so the weasel convinced Sonny to test out the black, angular pistol that had discovered months ago.
*Sonny - The sunflower examiner did little but sit outside Farmer Yulius's homestead, until Pete convinced him to move into the Restorationist complex to test out the pistol. Unlike previous disasters, Sonny quickly figured out the settings on this weapon of the Ancients, aimed the pistol at a glass jar on a fence post. He missed the jar, but completely vaporized the two lengths of fence beneath it.
Justinian forbid the weapon from the town. One 4/5 shots left with a unique power cell they had not encountered.
*Luna: The glow is less than anticipated. The glow and bad water caused most of the illnesses, however. There were some of humans, not many mutant animals or plants, small merchant carvans to protect against bandits.
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| Luna of the Restorationists |
Pete again insisted on another trip back to their secret research facility "The Pool House" bringing some containers and doing a mass conversion of materials into this "curry" substance he was developing a worsening addiction to. A few cut up logs were tossed into the tank, and full blocks of the yellow substance were pulled out.
Sonny made a few more random experiments to fill in some significant gaps in his research of the pool. A large nail, a much larger branch, and a single dried up leaf went into the pool. They transformed into some indistinguishable type of meat. Pete was enthralled, mixing the curry with the meat and preparing to dry it out on the return trip.
Lathar brought No-Name up to the closest creek to water him, upstream from the buried golden bird, and found two human skeletons, picked apart in the few weeks since they had left. Pete was enthralled, mixing the curry with the meat and drying it out on the return trip.
The group returned to a disgruntled Squiggles. Another storm must have struck Riverbend, flooding some of the smaller tunnels for the younglings. Nineteen of the second generation children drowned in the waters.
Pete was insistent that they travel to Luna's discoveries with No-Name AND the wagon, to haul back all the artifacts back to Riverbend. Luna gave the weasel the side-eye, yet everyone else appeared to be fine with lumbering a wagon through a trail that had barely been blazed....
GM Notes: The twenty young worms that lost their lives this session
🪱 The Twenty Departed Wigglers of the Second Clutch
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Pebblechomp
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Sir Gloog
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Wiggleford the Meek
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Squelchy Tumnus
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Jellyboot
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Muck-Dancer
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Plip
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Brimley
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Fizzleloop
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Worram
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Greldine
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Tootstring
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Xarnax (destined for prophecy, lost to a falling acorn)
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Snibble
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Orbular Pete
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Dirtzapper
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Hummox
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Lintwig
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Captain Tunnelpants
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Elphina of the Loam
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