WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO what a ride!
Sit up from the puddle, check to make sure all my limbs and organs are in place and more or less intact, and then shout at the godling.
Hey! You here to kill us or are you my new summon? Or maybe some third thing? Either way, you wanna be friends? I got this coupon for a free large pizza at Mike's house of Unbearably Large Sausage. We could have a slice and then maybe light it on fire and sacrifice the waitress.
If the new guy attacks me, summon both my summons and pulp his ungrateful face. If he offers eldrich power, make like the lead in a bad porno and ask if there's anything I can do to pay for it.
The... man? smiles indulgently as you chatter on, then replies in a surprisingly normal voice. I mean, you can hear just at the periphery of your mind someone screaming the words a fraction of a second before he says them, but the main voice is really quite lovely.
"Of course, we will not forget she who brought us into her world, gave us her flesh to learn from and mingled our bloods. We can grant power beyond belief, beyond the demons and petty gods of witches."
You make a coy offer of help.
"Why yes. That one," and he points to Micky crouched behind a tree, an orb of brilliant light shining beside the terrified boxer,
"He destroyed many who were loyal to us, threatening our immanence. End him, if our cause is yours."You feel a
massive surge of ritual power run through you.
Try to stay out of sight.
You squirm behind a tree, nearly invisible in the shadows. Then a blinding ball of light flickers into existence right beside you. The hairs stand up on the back of your spine as you feel a god staring at you.
Whelp, we either succeeded or failed, and either way its about time we headed back... So I'd better Start Crawling Away!
Laboriously, you move away from what was probably the thing you were meant to keep out of the world. Almost definitely a good life choice. Or rather, not-dying choice.
Vince looks pretty surprised when he opens up the van.
"So you won - ohforgodssake what is
that in the sky? How did they summon it so fast? It shouldn't have been possible for them, they're bleeding Hipsters, not witches or sorcerors or anything! Get in the van, get in the van, we're going, we're going, is anyone still alive out there?"
Did that beast just escape? It's one thing for me to lose my Runic sight, another to spend a majority of the mission fighting a monster, but having the monster flee with all its magical materials and Puissant clot, leaving me with absolutely nothing to show for it. Follow after the beast. Once I'm sure it's dead (when I get a Puissant clot, probably), harvest it's blood into what was once the molasses container. Pull out a fang or two, also. If it's not dead, and it will die very wood from bleeding, etc., wait. If it's not dead, then it deserves another serving of murderous molasses.
You find the beast repeatedly slamming its head against the church wall, either thinking it's an enemy or just trying to end its own pitiful existence. Despite sustaining multiple heavy injuries and losing both eyes, the creature is still alive. You begin to suspect that hot sugar is a poor way of murdering people, unless they die of shock.
You go for a repeated volley of projectiles delivered nearly point blank, aiming at its throat, mouth and nose.
4,5,6,6,3,5
You manage to hit it directly between the jaws twice, and once on the nose, and a couple of times aroud the throat and mouth, before all your puissance is gone. It takes about thirty seconds to die, probably drowning on burning syrup or its own blood or something, and you get a puissance clot. Sweet! And then another, as you look towards the centre of the park and accidentally catch a glimpse of a god swirling in the skies above a man.
Welp, sounds like my allies won the battle by getting bombed. Time to start the looting; break into some house, stab the occupants to death before they wake up and start screaming, then steal whatever looks valuable or useful.
You begin random burgulary.
Prac:5
Ag:1+1
Banal/Melee:5+2
You silently jimmy a window open, trip over and smash an ornamental vase on your way in, and briefly stab the person who comes downstairs to investigate. Seems like he was the only occupant.
Prac (find): 4
You manage to find three hundred pounds in cash, a gold ring, about six combat-workable knives, and a hockey stick if you want one.
Then the sirens start going off. The police again.
It's pretty clear that the thing you were sent to stop coming into the world has arrived. A mass of swirling lights in the sky above the burning man in the park, something in your animal hindbrains tells you it's unmistakeably a god.
Lucian Faust
DEAD
Puissant fettle - 1
Ritual potency - 1
Runic Sight - 1
Agility - 2
Melee - 1
Inventory: £35
[Ugly Brass Lamp Body Staff][Rubix Cube Pendant]
Runes: Detachment: written all over you by this point, a disenchanting childhood has got you used to misfortunes. Increased function while severely wounded.
Righteousness: a rune that signed subtly with the fingers helps convince people that you're working for the forces of good. Does not work on evil or amoral entities.
Puissant clots: 0
Puissance:4/6
Name: Sand
Puissant fettle - 0
Ritual potency - 3
Runic sight - 0
Banal combat - 0
Aim - 0
Melee - 0
Agility - 3
Practicality - 0
Inventory: £20, pepsi can full of road guts
[Glass Skull Chalice]
{Broken/Transcended Chalice}
Puissant clots: 2
Puissance:5/5
Goe T. Thelle
Now slightly bestial in appearance
Puissant fettle - 1
Ritual potency - 1
Runic sight - 1 -1 due to beasthood
Banal combat - 0 +1 due to beasthood
Aim - 1 -1 due to beasthood
Melee - 0 +1 due to beasthood
Agility - 1 +1 due to beasthood
Practicality - 1 -1 due to beasthood
Inventory: £30, empty jar, clockface minus one hand.
[Dog Collar Pendant] (unuseable for 1 hour) [Molasses Clockhand Wand]
Runes:
Isolation: you never had many friends or allies, so are used to poor odds. +1 to rolls when outnumbered and alone.
Stoicism: a rune that calms those dealing with shock, tragedy or injury.
Puissant clots: 1
Puissance: 2/6
Jimmy "Car bombs" Castanza
Puissant fettle - 0
Ritual potency - 0
Runic sight - 3
Banal combat - 0
Aim - 0
Melee - 0
Agility - 0 -2 (Multiple fractures to leg bones)
Practicality - 3
Inventory: £35, very rusty saw, length of pipe stuck to block of concrete,
[Lightbulb Antenna Wand]
Runes:
Detonation: volatile stuff explodes or catches fire more when you're around it. You can't help it, it must be genetic. Written rune used to detonate volatile substances.
Dead Man Running: you escaped the wrath of a mafia boss. Higher chance of surviving things that should really be deadly.
Mafioso: a mafia hitman, you preferred not to let your targets know they were hunted until after they were spread over an area of three hundred metres. Bonus to carefully planned unexpected attacks.
Alchemical (definitely idiot) savant: you saw an alchemist's shop when wandering around London, and deluded yourself that you understood something of how it worked. Because of the nature of magic, this belief is now partially true. Use this rune to make substances a bit more useful or volatile when used in alchemy.
Trader: a rune that when signed signifies to people that you'd be a good guy to buy from and sell things to.
Reticence: a rune whispered to you by birds perched on phone lines, you can get information without giving away much about yourself.
Bethel: a rune that enhances and aids summoning performed where it is written.
Puissant clots: 3
Puissance:4/5
Ben Breeze
Stats:
Puissant fettle - 0
Ritual potency - 0
Runic sight - 0
Banal combat - 3
Aim - 1
Melee - 1
Agility - 1
Practicality - 0
Inventory: £325, knife, taser, handcuffs, police baton, stab vest, torch, incapacitant spray, and a first aid kit. Also a bag of athames, a gold ring.
[Possession Gem]
Puissant clots: 3
Puissance:5/5
Micky Roberts
Horribly burnt, chest and arm bones shattered.
Puissant fettle -
Ritual potency -
Runic sight - 1
Banal combat - 2
Aim -
Melee - 2 -3 from injury
Agility - 1
Practicality -
Inventory: £40
[Boxing Glove Pendant][Sports Drink and Centaur Urine Chalice]
Runes:
Evasive blocker: you sometimes won fights without your opponent scoring a single point, moving your fists in a complex pattern not entirely conforming to Euclidean gemoetry. Makes it harder for opponents to hit you in melee.
Substantial: a rune that lends weight and mass to the thing it is written on.
Puissant clots: 3
Puissance:3/5
Sir Lootington
DEAD
Puissant Fettle- 1
Ritual Potency- 1
Runic Sight- 1
Melee- 1
Agility- 1
Practicality- 1
Inventory: £50
[Ivory Cane Staff] ("The Staff of Power")
Runes:
What-ho Jeeves: a walking trope, you recieve a bonus to doing anything stereotypically british.
Crater: when written, this rune causes a small, briefly delayed explosion.
Puissant clots: 1
Puissance:6/6