Here we go a wassailing (Metaplanar Edition)
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Hotdog Obsidian Ren Renato Roadkill |
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Summary
The team got pulled out of the Daze' holiday party to help Alyssa pay off some long term debts, and end up saving Christmas (probably) in the meantime.
Background
Alyssa P. owes the occasional favor to the Fae Courts from some dalliances in her younger years as the gates and portals opened the courts up. Including Carmallend The Yarl of Northern Wind, who in turned owes several favors to a spiritual being often simply called Mr. Kringle, colloquially.
For years the great celestial orrery has adjusted as the Holidays become increasingly corporate, leading (or possibly stemming from) an intersection of The Metaplane of Man's North Pole and Zecorporatum. This has lead to Santa's workshop reinvisioning itself as a swiss Chalet parked north of the Emerald City in Zecorporatum with a casual magical assault that will turn into a physical assault soon, Santa and the Elves need some outside the box thinkers to help them fight off the legions of Zecorporate agents trying to monetize the workshop and capture Mr. K for their own productivity related devices.
The Meet
Alyssa puts out an emergency call on the Haven network and through the Daze itself that there are two folks here to cash in a Favor and she cannot possible handle it while running the Party. If anyone wanted to take on some work, it was available with some immediacy.
The two "runners" (obviously relatively high force spirits in a normalized form) looking for Alyssa were carrying themselves well and trying not to light the place up or be too obvious, but were obviously lighting the place up and incredibly obvious, just with the reek of force. Alabaster, an Elven Street Sam Blackjack from Zeecorporatum and Evergreen, a Spirit of Elves (Man) had slid into the real world to look for a team of outside the box minds who could help a unique client with a distant matter. The pay would be viable, if not in cash , in terms of experience alone.
It did not take the team long to offer Alyssa some help and find the elves in question, having a quick chat and agreeing to head with them to check out the situation and heading out to a 2085 Eurocar Westwind in cherry red, radiating far more power than either of these initial spirits, with its "Rudy" vanity plate.
The Plan
The team hopped into the spirit car which shot off towards the nearest OU exit, using its natural connection to the home realm to drag them all through the deep astral and directly into Emerald City, Zecorporatum. The team did minimal equipping and exploring here, gaining some understanding of where they are and heading to the Emerald City Crime Mall in this location to further stock and feel out the situation.
Ultimately the team decided to take the "on the ground" approach to the chalet, as opposed to more metaplanar shenanigans and the car transformed itself, as expected, into a Red Nose Reindeer of some repute. The gang weathered a snowstorm on a 12 hour trek north and out of the city, getting minimal cold damage in the process due to preparations, and eventually made their way to the workshop to speak to Mr. K.
Understanding they only needed to provide support and some outside the box ideas on the final wave of the siege, the team took advantage of some militant elves and their newly created (and honestly quite silly) snowball launchers and candy cane ballista and set some fire zones out on the main entrance.
Renato, overcome with emotion, draws an earnest apology from Santa about the difficulty of his life coming up, and is asked if he has any particular christmas wishes. Renato apologizes to Mr. K for his outburst and thanks him simply for proving he was real, prepared to give all on this mission.
The Run
The team bolstered defenses, gathered elves for violence and set up barricades and ballista. While Renato did take a hard hit from a spirit and end up out on the floor, overall the team mounted a very successful deflection of opposing waves of Blackjacks, and gave the elves enough time to protect the principle, who would eventually in the middle of waves of opposition come tell the PC's they have limited time to get out to the Zecorporatum side before worlds disconnect.
Ultimately they pushed to the last second, so Rudolph crossed into Zecorporatum as the bubble burst, his formula transferring to Zecorporatum and creating a flying eurocar ripoff that lives permanently in that realm, even as the north pole spawned a new Rudolph.
Aftermath
Christmas was saved, Zecoproratum did not keep control of Santa's incredibly productive workshop, and a version of rudolph became perpetually a high force spirit of cars with some unique abilities.
The PC's were offered anything they liked courtesy of the Jarl, on the arrival back, but opted unanimously not to accept his fae mark.