Previously:
In which the party learns the valuable lesson to look before they leap.
Our party is:
Bart "Codekiller" Regis
Manhoman "Dr. House" Kamaroff (portrayed by friend of the blog deus ex parabola)
Auggy "Shillelagh" Ashe
Rob "The Belt / The Punisher" Wagner
We start off at the Hibernation Station motel after a restful night. The party exchanges texts with Marlin, who in return for them taking out rival gang leader Stan Koontz offers them the service of either a couple useless fuckheads who got too high on the gang's supply (who she is indifferent to the life or death of), or her in-house arsonist. They take the arsonist, and further promise to never come near Marlin or her family again in return for her leaking the identity of her mother and co-drug kingpin Debbie's contact at Rodnovprom - a technician by the name of Yosef.
They drive out to link up with the arsonist, but notice they are being tailed by a muddy pickup. Manhoman opens up the back of their van to try and intimidate the pickup driver, assuming that they're a teen gang member, but the passenger of the pickup rolls down their window and shows off their own gun. It is at this point that the party regrets letting their drugged-up hostage Moroz go, on the basis that at this moment they could have thrown him under the pickup's tires. It's not all cold pragmatism though - Manhoman reveals that he slipped a scrip for more xanax into Moroz's pocket before he was released, as otherwise letting him go through benzo withdrawals would have violated Manhoman's Hippocratic oath. Rob attempts to lose the pursuers, but ends up driving into a snowdrift on a tight turn.
Before they can push the van out, the pickup pulls ahead of them and a weather-beaten Slavic man gets out and offers to help them out of the snowdrift. My accent is rudely mocked as sounding more Italian than Slavic. Using the friendly facade the man (who introduces himself as Jerry and the pickup driver as Tom) pries into the party's identities and actions. He reveals himself to be acquainted with Nelya, the Rodnovprom PR lady they rescued and then kidnapped from the chateau where the unnatural massacre occurred.
After some shenanigans involving Manhoman hitting on Jerry and showing off his heirloom pistol, and Bart insisting that he has blueprints to the Steam Deck in the back of the van, Tom and Jerry drive off - but not before the party notices a bit of hay in the back of the pickup. The party gets the van out and follows Tom & Jerry unnoticed to the Rodnovprom mine.
Unable to follow into the mine facility due to a fence and security kiosk, the party goes to rendezvous with the Marlin-gang arsonist at Pinemarten's old baseball diamond, where the mining company teams used to play. The arsonist, Justin, is annoyed at having to wait so long, but shows off the goods - various incendiaries and bangy things and so on and suchlike. Not wanting to compromise their secret identities, the party introduces themselves as variations of their code-names, including "Coderescuer" and "Dr. Home". They cook up a plan to sneak into the Rodnovprom mine and cause a big boom distraction so they can sneak inside and kill whatever head-eating spookum they believe lurks within.
The plan goes off with significant hitches. Everyone but Auggy and Justin get caught trying to sneak up to the fence through a wooded area. Rob books it, while Manhoman holds his gun to his own head and Bart tries to convince the security guards who come over to get them to fuck off to come a little ways that a-way to talk. Auggy boosts Justin over the fence, using his kevlar vest to cover the barbed wire atop it.
Neither Bart nor Manhoman are willing to budge, and it seems inevitable that this attempted trespassing incident will come to violence - which it does, when Rob shoots one of the security guards, Manhoman shoots the other, but the one Manhoman shot shoots Bart, knocking him unconscious. The party dispatches both security guards - Manhoman carving one's eyes out - and the guy in the checkpoint kiosk sounds the alarm.
Six more guards come racing out of the central mine facility building. It is remarked how odd it is that a pharmaceutical company operating out of a small Ontario town has such a significant security force.
Manhoman stabilizes Bart, Justin and Auggy set off the explosive diversion in a dumpster while Auggy sprays the security goons with his submachine gun, and Rob rams the van through the checkpoint gate and into the mining facility complex.
Rob manages to not run over anyone, and crashes into the side of the main building, totaling the van. At this point, with 15 minutes left in the session, I call it early so as to have some time to think up some ways that this isn't an immediate total party kill - which only takes a few minutes, because this actually works perfectly and I'm a genius. Tune in next week or maybe the week or month after for how our intrepid heroes get their bacon out of this fire, or don't.
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