Lizard and Lunk

The continuing GURPS adventures of eight men who really should find better uses for their time.

Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Demons. Why does it always have to be Demons?

With the murder of Craig's ex-girlfriend/FBI agent hanging over our heads, we went to work. We knew from her summoned spirit (ah, the many uses of necromancy...) that she has been killed by the girlfriend of the Chicago Chief of Police. With this in mind, we decided to pre-emptively contact the FBI officer in charge of investigating us and tell him that we knew that his agent had been killed - and that we suspected who (though we didn't tell him HOW we knew that...) We also told him to check the surveillance tapes from the apartment complex to verify our story.

Our FBI contact seemed inclined to believe us. He DID go check the surveillance tapes, and set up a meeting with Craig at a mall to show Craig the tape. It showed a woman walking into the FBI agent's apartment and ... expanding ... as she entered. He asked Craig if we knew what this was, or what we were dealing with. We said no, but we offered him a deal: let us deal with it, stay out of our way, and provide us a few basic logistical supports. If we solved the case and took out (excuse me, "arrested") those responsible, he would destroy all files he had on us and make sure that our case was buried forever - that the FBI would leave us alone. Surprisingly, he took the deal.

We got the location of the Chief of Police's house, and some information about it (he apparently had two cops on the grounds most of the time). We asked the FBI to do two things: shut off his alarm system, and call the Chief himself into their office for a "meeting" (we didn't know if he was in on the plot, and didn't want to risk him being caught in the crossfire. With that taken care of, we then did what we do best - assault houses from several directions at once.

Jeff's necromancer disguised himself to look like the Chief, to get in the front door. On the way in, he passed one of the aforementioned cops - who he realized immediately wasn't human. So he trapped that one in an Utter Dome on the front lawn, to be dealt with later. One down.

Once in the house, Jeff encountered the girlfriend in the front hall and tried to put her to sleep (that "arrest" thing - hey, we had to try). That didn't work, and alerted her to the assault. Jeff blinked out while Craig came in through an upstairs window, Kevin, Bill, & Brian came in through at back door, and Bruce & Mike came up through the floorboards. Schmitty's big rock friend positioned itself below the Utter Dome, just in case the one in there tried to dig itself out.

As soon as battle was joined, the two remaining occupants of the house (the girlfriend and one other "cop") revealed themselves to be demons. By luck more than tactical intention we ended up with a neat division: Craig, Mike & Bruce took on the Succubus girlfriend while Kevin, Brian & Bill tackled the other one.

After a few rounds, the Succubus took a few claw hits from Bruce, some sword hits from Craig, and a whole lot of Cryokinesis from Mike. This led her to retreat through the air ducts in vapor form - unfortunately, she got away.

Back in the kitchen, Kevin blasted away while Bill used TK to hold the other one still - a sort of pinata party. Brian finally got off some awesome rolls with his dehydration power, and a couple of rounds later that demon was reduced to a husk of its former self.

Killing the remaining demon (the other "cop" in disguise) trapped under the Utter Dome was easily accomplished, at which point we called our FBI contact in. Turns out the Chicago PD Chief had been under the Succubus' power, and hadn't known what was going on at all. The FBI officer, now convinced that we knew what we were doing, was good to his word: he buried our files (what he had of them, which wasn't much) so deep they will hopefully never be found, and promised to call off further investigations into us. The Chicago Police are none the wiser, other than knowing that something weird is going on. Craig & Brian got their secret identities back, and Brian even got a new Bug Van courtesy of the Chicago PD's insurance company (since it was destroyed in their impound lot, and we didn't do it). We now know to be careful with law enforcement, but it looks like - for now - we don't all have to take 20-point Hunted disads.

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