Dramatis Personae
+Linlin Kins as Umquat *
+Ronnie Whelan as Ronnina
+Moreven B as The Four Gobbos
Loot
A deal to use Firing Squad’s soul extraction device, so long as they set aside 2 out of every 5 souls for him.
NPCs
Firing Squad – Party met with him in their super hero personas, and made a deal.
Muscle Men – Some righteous weightlifter dudes. Umquat’s people. Live in Outsider territory, trying to buff up so they can be “like outsiders.”
Buddy Boy – A big, tubby, orange glowing bald dude who is just, like, super chill, ya know?
Superhero Personas
Ronnina has donned the mantle of “The Scarlet Ghost,” wearing an old tuxedo, an oversized top hat with an eye slit cut into it, a red cape, a voice modulator, and all sorts of cheesy old magic tricks.
All four of the Gobbos have squeezed into a single red spandex onesie from someone’s Incredibles cosplay. They have a cape, function like a single adult human, and call themselves “Neuron Angel.”
Umquat assembled a costume composed of a Spacelama skin, a gas mask, a bright pink ballet onesie with a tutu, and combat boots. In this guise, she is known as “Magic Harmony Lovely.” She also uses a voice modulator.
If the players wish to maintain their anonymity, they cannot publicly use any equipment, spells, tactics, or other resources which would be associated with their (rather famous) alter egos. No guns, no fire portal, no spider ball, no smartphones, etc.
Highlights Recap
As a way of making amends to Umquat for last session, Ronnina spent the intervening Haven turn performing an exhaustive investigation into the slave trade within the Dome. Once she had everything arranged, she met with Umquat to explain the breakdown.
There are at least a few hundred independent slavers, who operate all over the dome. These guys are small fries, doing the dirty work of finding abandoned children, or anyone else who doesn’t seem like they’ll be missed.
These low level slavers typically sell to one of the 11 district bosses, whose territorial map is complex, and covers all of the dome except Outsider territory (the Outsiders find slavery distasteful) and Comet Caller territory (the wizards don’t like middle men. They’ll collect children for experiments themselves, thank you very much.) The bosses shuffle slaves around between themselves, so nobody is ever sold in a place where they might have angry friends or local knowledge.
The “guildmaster” of the whole operation is a man named Henry Leichester. He’s a boardmember of the Redstone Lords, and much of his fortune comes from controlling all the slave trade within the dome.
Once she was finished explaining all this, Ronnina stood up and said that, since the party was going to set out to crusade for truth and justice, they may as well look the part. She opened a closet to reveal a set of superhero costumes for the party to wear.
Thus equipped, Umquat announced HER plan. A fitting punishment for perpetrating slavery would be to become a slave yourself. She proposed extracting their souls, and putting them to use in Ronnina’s spells.
So the first step was to meet up with Firing Squad, and get access to his Soul Extractor using their new personas. They changed clothes a few miles outside Trumpquatia, and the trip was remarkably uneventful. They arrived without a single encounter, knocked on Firing Squad’s door, and were greeted by an old man.
The two groups bantered back and forth for a bit, but if the old man knew anything about Firing Squad, he kept it to himself. Umquat sneaked off to peek into the shack’s windows, which–oddly–showed the old man’s simple shack. Except he wasn’t at the door (where she knew he was), but was instead sitting on a couch with a dog near him. When she tried to climb in the windows, she discovered they were just dioramas, scaled so they looked like a full room when viewed from the outside.
She returned to the door just as Ronnina mentioned Firing Squad by name. This seemed to function as some kind of code word, because the old man “shut down,” like a biological robot of some kind, and a minute later, Firing Squad walked up to the door. He did not recognize the party, and assumed they must have found him due to all the recent leaks of secret Internet information.
The party offered him a deal: if he let them use his soul extractor, they’d set aside every 3rd soul for him. He countered, insisting they give him the first 2 out of ever 5, and the party agreed. He gave them a Motorolla Razer phone, and hold them he’d contact them to tell them where it was once he’d arranged a safehouse for it. The party agreed, and the two groups parted company.
Next, the party figured they’d hit some nearby slavers. They were in Outsider territory, so no big targets. However, there was an old warehouse in what used-to-be Rulers Beneath the Black territory (before it was conquered). Ronnina knew it still had not been emptied, so there would be slaves there to free, and slavers there to catch.
On the way, the party met some muscle dudes and Buddy Boy, but nothing too interesting.
The session ended In Media Res.