http://www.twilightpeaks.net/blogs/index.php/2DH/?disp=comments en-US http://backend.userland.com/rss 60 Fri, 11 May 2012 17:47:39 +0000 tancred c3589@http://www.twilightpeaks.net/blogs/ Let's jut wrap this adventure up. --- You make it to the Imperial Arms. It's a race against time - cuz you know he's up to no good - to locate the madman Durante Gagne and his entourage of upper-class women. The Imperial Arms is a big place with lots of guests and staff. But you do make it, interrupting some form of foul sorcerous ritual Durante Gagne is enacting. He's ritually murdering seven girls to power whatever it is that he's doing. Gagne is killed. The sacrifices are already dead or dying. Esthe seems unharmed - but given the fact that she's been the focus of this ritual you can't afford to take any chances. You set them all on fire - just to be sure. Mission accomplished. You even manage to get hold of enough Idyll from Gagne's stash to keep Gilgaed going for a while. And Jeb has a new girlfriend :-) Unfortunately you don't have much time for celebration. As soon as you get back to the astropath and give him a shot he starts babbling abut an emergency transmission from Messinius - Xerza is in some kind of trouble on the pleasure planet Quaddis... (if ever we get back to playing by post that's your next assignment) http://www.twilightpeaks.net/blogs/index.php/2DH/2011/06/23/interlude-the-good-the-bad#c3589 Wed, 14 Mar 2012 21:59:40 +0000 tancred c3525@http://www.twilightpeaks.net/blogs/ Finding an abandoned vehicle isn't hard at all... You slip out of the manor unseen. Also not very hard. The guard sentries are violently objecting to the local firefighters getting in to do their job. You go down, bringing the girl with you. Below you find several enforcer vehicles parked, their occupants no doubt enroute to the manor. With some degree of reverence Jeb touches the doorlock scanner of one of the vehicles with the Inquisitorial signet given to him by the Mistress. The red light goes black for a moment, then turns green as the door unlocks... "And none shall stand before Him, for his cause is just and all..." The rest of Parsifal's words are drowned out as all eight liters of prometheum engine roar to life. Surely the local Magistratum can spare this one vehicle. For the Emperor? A few minutes you're roaring down a local transit artery, shooting past other traffic with the disdain for the law that only a true lawman can muster. The girl has started to giggle and clings to the back of Jeb's seat, oblivious to the danger she's in. If you don't all die you're so going to score tonight! Destination: The Imperial Arms. http://www.twilightpeaks.net/blogs/index.php/2DH/2011/06/23/interlude-the-good-the-bad#c3525 Wed, 14 Mar 2012 09:40:13 +0000 agent jebediah c3522@http://www.twilightpeaks.net/blogs/ "Prometheum? In the most heavily populated hive on Calixis? I'll bet you I can't throw a rock around here without hitting something that runs of it." Jeb glances back towards the conflageration they had no doubt started. "Very soon people will panic, and it will be an easy thing. Find me an abandoned vehicle, a piece of flexible hose, a bottle and a rag, and I can throw together something quickly. Or we could just hit the nearest bar and raid their liquor-cabinet. Either way, I want to be able to fling fire like a Hellhound if things get rough." http://www.twilightpeaks.net/blogs/index.php/2DH/2011/06/23/interlude-the-good-the-bad#c3522 Tue, 13 Mar 2012 17:23:55 +0000 delvy c3521@http://www.twilightpeaks.net/blogs/ "And where might we may find those Brother?" http://www.twilightpeaks.net/blogs/index.php/2DH/2011/06/23/interlude-the-good-the-bad#c3521 Fri, 24 Feb 2012 22:07:00 +0000 agent jebediah c3505@http://www.twilightpeaks.net/blogs/ "I'd seriously kill for a flamethrower" Jeb remarks as he pushes the girl along ahead of her. "If we're going to be facing of against more of whatever you gutted open back there, bullets will mean diddly-squat. We better stock up on incendiaries of whatever kind we can procure. Prometheum bombs, or cocktails might do in a pinch, but I am not going to waltz into a swarm of those things with this little peashooter and my trousersnake as my only weapons of import..." http://www.twilightpeaks.net/blogs/index.php/2DH/2011/06/23/interlude-the-good-the-bad#c3505 Fri, 24 Feb 2012 21:11:53 +0000 tancred c3503@http://www.twilightpeaks.net/blogs/ You make your way back to the entrance, leaving the crazed and drugged party-goers behind. On the way you make sure to set things on fire. Parsifal's ecclesiarchal rod turns out to be great for jamming the main doors shut from the outside. You can't be sure it will hold them all inside, but it's worth a try. And it should also erase all traces of the insect-swarm that came out of Liam. At any rate - time to go. http://www.twilightpeaks.net/blogs/index.php/2DH/2011/06/23/interlude-the-good-the-bad#c3503 Sun, 19 Feb 2012 20:38:58 +0000 tancred c3499@http://www.twilightpeaks.net/blogs/ Parsifal, on the other hand, is busy doing His work - when the burning man finally starts screaming - there is definitely something inside him trying to get out - he utters another prayer, douses his blade with more booze, watches it catch fire, then plunges it into whatever writhes underneath Liam's skin. Something, a swarm of sorts, not unlike large roaches, burst forth. Only they aren't really insects, at least they are like no insect you've ever seen. Or perhaps, if Chaos ever spawned insects, they would be like this. Fortunately the bug immediately catch fire. They scatter, burning, flailing, screeching, but die within seconds. A quote, from some holy scripture no doubt, is uttered: "And His gaze shall fall upon the vermin of the earth, and they shall be burned, like witches upon the bonfire." It's time to move. Jeb brings the girl, pushing her along as a living shield. maybe she'll have other uses later, but for now she's there to catch anything with Jeb's name on it. Pars moves along, muttering prayers (no inappropriate give his costume). On a few occasions you bump into crazed partygoers - you brush them aside with sword and pistol; as far as you're concerned they are all heretics and if they burn the galaxy will be a better place for it. http://www.twilightpeaks.net/blogs/index.php/2DH/2011/06/23/interlude-the-good-the-bad#c3499 Sun, 19 Feb 2012 20:20:45 +0000 agent jebediah c3498@http://www.twilightpeaks.net/blogs/ Jebediah looks almost disappointed that the ensuing conflagration will not be of his own doing. To soothe his roguish nature, and realizing just how low on cash they are, he instead decides to pocket a few items on his way out - throwing a few random priceless and flammable items into the fire just for good measure. The girl. Well, scantily clad and strung up on whatever she was on, she's likely to be a liability - on the other hand she might provide them with a ticket into this other party, using her as eye candy and distraction in order to get inside. http://www.twilightpeaks.net/blogs/index.php/2DH/2011/06/23/interlude-the-good-the-bad#c3498