Birds and the Bees on the High Seas
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ShadowHaven Le Chateau Gateau | Redonda, the devil island | ||||||||
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Sizzles Belfry Ellis Chameleon |
Fauna Flora | ||||||||
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| None! :D | 2x death spiral butterflies, the dignity of 1 sangre del diablo | ||||||||
Summary
Redonda is a spoopy island covered in plants that want to kill you and bugs that want to have babies in you. It's horrible. And there's an old man here who really wanted to take a picture of a flaming bird.
Background
Mr and Mrs Mirabel are a delightful elderly couple who are quite prolific in the 'wealthy adventuring nature nerd' societies. When Mr Mirabel goes missing for nearly a month on an island in the Caribbean league, his wife gets concerned and calls Le Chateau Gateau to help.
The Meet
The party, arriving from a variety of states of confusion from their home, arrive at Le Chateau Gateau and partake of the fairground. They also meet Butlerusk, the Johnson for this run.
He explains the Mirabel's situation, where he is, and offers the team a fee of six thousand nuyen if they can bring the man back alive. Four thousand if dead.
They talk him up to 8k, 4 before, 4 after.
The Plan
Spending time learning about the island, why a man would disappear there, and what to expect, the party learns about Sangre Del Diablo and Breath of the Devil. Quickly learning why Redonda's resurgence from rock to floating jungle has made it known as a devil's island - no not like the Isla Del Diablo, this one is worse.
They also learn about Mr Mirabel, his engagements in political and educational matters, and his love of nature.
Oh, and like half of the island is floating because of porous ash and grasses that clumped it all together.
All that's was left to do was go on the island and try and find the guy with the help of a couple spirits
The Run
Encountering minor resistance from the floating mass of the island, the party continued inland to a smoking hole in the grasses. Sizzles determined it to be burn off from a volcanic current and decided to ignore it.
Further inland they were beset by hungry Death Spiral Butterflies that almost went unnoticed. It wasn't until Sizzle's keen cameras caught the bugs as one bit Belfry that they managed to smack the bugs into the afterlife and then, remembering what they did back in the Amazonia Conflict, decided 'ah, surgery is the best option. Where he promptly removed a combined total of 10 eggs from both Belfry and Chameleon - the latter of which were wearing shorts.
Approaching the crest of the island's peaks, they were beset by one of the things that they had been warned about. A Sangre Del Diablo. And it immediately had caught Chameleon and Ellis in their trek, compelling them to rest under its branches (and be fired upon.) Both spend edge and weren't blown up by acidic danger pods, but still their determination carried them forward.
After attempting to blow up the trees (to little effect), Mr Mirabel came out of the brush and told them to cut the racket before the trees - or worse - get angry with them. And that he was trying to get a picture of the Phoenician Macaw.
The party indulged him, and using the power of Belfry's baller plant spirit, managed to sneak past all the remaining plants, a giant fuck-off crocodile, get the picture of the bird undetected, and go home to celebrate.
Gosh dang spirits, I tell ya.
Oh and along the way, a tree murdered the hell out of one of Belfry's watcher spirits.
Aftermath
Having got the picture, the party got Mr Mirabel home, and the picture was a show stopper, netting everyone a bonus 2k nuyen.
Rewards
13rvp
6k nuyen (3rvp) 4k bonus
5 karma (5rvp)
4cdp (2rvp)
2cdp standard
Butlerusk at loyalty 2 (3rvp)
Optional
Mr Mirabel (connection 3, loyalty 1) (3rvp)
Shoot first Dont Ask for Ellis (2rvp)
Game Quotes
Player After Action Reports (AARs)
Belfry: Nature is beautiful. It has been here before us and will be here long after we are gone. All life is sacred.
HOWEVER. That does not stop me from absolutely hating this place. I swear I'm never going to look at butterflies the same way again. Or trees. Any trees. Maybe I should take Rhyfelwr there and see how he feels about nature afterward. At least Mr. Mirabel is alright. Physically. I guess we'll see if his chase for knowledge gets him into worse trouble.
Didn't even really get to go swimming....
Chameleon: Every time I leave the city things go sour. Killer fragging butterflies! Trees with explosive seed pods what the drek is that about? That Mirabel guy is wack-a-doodle. If he gets off grid again I want extra money for decent insect repellent, that deet didn't do squat. Pay was decent and the caribbean was fun, Mr. Diallo did me a solid this time. I just wish I could see Ellis' face when she finds that pen in her pocket heh heh.
Sizzles: Decker's log: they thought it but they never said out loud - I was in over my head.
Magic fucks with my sense of direction, man. I'm a creature of plastic and concrete, not thriving parazoological paradises. Still, for all the dangers, it was nice to see the ol' Green Hell again. Brought back some good memories.
Belfry is super exotic. It was hard not to stare. I'm sure I pulled it off, though - I'm very cool like that. I wonder if she does karaoke.
Nice to roll with Ellis again, though I swear she and Chameleon are two peas in a pod, they are. Tell him not to do something and what does he immediately do but that exact fucking thing, and she was racing him to do it first. In this case, "it" is trying to get their asses killed by jumping into a knife rain. They got away with it, though.
I <3 my Medicart.