[ We find Our Heros all together in Patrick's basement! Tia is busily ventilating the heads of n00bz while pretending to do useful work, but the rest of you need to decide on a strategery. ] [ It's about mid-afternoon. The security camera feeds tell you that the sun is getting close to going down behind the buildings. ] [ Session Start! ] We need more information. Especially about this prison, and how to get out. Well, what's in the databases? * Kenji blinks. The what? Nono, we don't have that information. However, this Vecna cult just might... They are secret keepers, are they not? The... No, if they knew how to escape, their trapped demigod would have left. * Seylin points at the bank of computers. "Those. Don't ask how I knew the word." Mmm, good point. Unless they don't realize they have the information. I have no idea how to operate one of those machines. That is why Tia is here. And Patrick, to a lesser extent. ...was here. * Kenji shakes his head. * WillS frowns. "I'm afraid I don't have much to offer from my learnings." * Patrick grins and goes to working with the computer to get through the database info. [ Tia cheers as she gets a M-M-M-M-M-MONSTER KILL. ] Go Tia go! They banned me from the server because I was serving them all the end of my sniper rifle. Well, we're in the Demiplane of Dread, which scholars posture to be sitting in the Deep Ethereal. You lost me. I'm drawing a blank on escaping this place from what we've got on the boxes. I am going to go practice with these new weapons. Well, what about the missions the group was working on before we got here? Against the Red Skull? * Kenji takes a pair of guns from the copious gun racks, and heads for Pat's firing range. * Patrick calls to Kenji. "Hey Kenji, where're your guns?" I don't have any, as far as I know. * WillS frowns deep in thought. "Wait a sec guys, back to the Vecna point that Patrick made." Hmm? Sure. It still may be a good idea to see if he has any idea on how to get out of this prison. There's is a possibility that we can do things that he cannot. ...like what? Well, for one, we're awesome. Or that he can't do stuff any normal mortals can. In Vecna's case, since he's a god of necromacy, good stuff. He can't do good period. Doesn't mean he can't know about it, though. And I'm sure he'd be more than happy to get us gone. Yes. Which means we'd have to get it out of him, if he knows. ... * Kenji is fairly certain that Will has gone completely insane, and it shows. I'm sorry, Will. Did you just suggest questioning a necromancer god? 'Questioning' is such a nice way of putting it. Well, I'd leave that part to Kenji. He seemed to always be able to get the answers he wants from people. * WillS shudders. "Including Loremissy." ... * WillS nods nods. "I have complete faith in Kenji. He always gets the upper hand in bullying and parleying with the enemies." * Kenji calmly puts the barrel of one of the pistols to Will's head. "Who are you, and what have you done with Will?" [ Will nearly shits himself on the spot. That's definitely him. ] What what? I am Will! * Patrick grins. You just suggested making deals with a dark god, and then expressed faith in me. Who are you? Making deals with a dark god? I didn't say that? He will want something in return for the information. Just that we need to get the information out of him, using swords if necessary. Relax guys, I figure we just bully the info out of'em, it's no big deal. You want us to attack a dark god. A very powerful one. ... And? Well, he is evil. Red Skull is evil too. Why get rid of one and not the other? Or play them against each other? They don't seem to like each other much right now. Vecna is staying *out* of Red Skull's way. That tells you something. Also, I'm not saying we take on Vecna. I'm more saying we take on her priesthood or whatnot. When exactly did you grow a spine? Ever since I blasted him with coke. [ Probably sometime after a redheaded brat took out the old one. ] What exactly is a coke? * Patrick throws a can of Coke to Kenji. * Kenji shrugs and throws it back. * Kenji lowers the gun. "Do it again, it's an improvement." Start researching this Vecna person. We need more information before trying to kill a god. * Kenji heads off into the shooting range to practice, and contemplate his own guns. I wanna go home. And if we need to bully an evil god to do it, so be it... * Patrick laughs and sits the coke on the dashboard. "Lesse what we got on you, Vecna." * WillS nods. "At least he sounds less powerful than Red Skull, since he's avoiding him and everything." That's the point. * Patrick types away for a search. Well, let's see... We've got another suspected stronghold in the city. And he's also got a Necropolis full of the stuff, in command of his own city. [ Kenji gets ready and starts testing the new weapons. Suddenly, there's an earsplitting BANG from his direction! ] * Seylin jumps. * Patrick loses balance in the chair he was leaning back in as it tumbles forward onto the front three rollers. "I hope you didn't just blow yourself up!" * Kenji comes back out of the shooting range and says VERY LOUDLY, "THESE WEAPONS ARE REALLY QUITE LOUD." Heck, he's got his own nation. Oh, and he's undead. That's gotta suck. Seems like every evil being here is undead. Even Red Skull has a skull for a head. * Seylin suddenly remembers something, runs over to one of the cabinets, procures a pair of things that look like ear coverings, and offers them to Kenji. "I THINK YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO USE THESE SO YOU DON'T GO DEAF." Nah, apparently they're the exceptions, or unusual in that respect. Otherwise it wouldn't be a big deal. OH. THAT WOULD MAKE SOME AMOUNT OF SENSE. THANK YOU. * Patrick glances at Kenji. * Kenji takes the ear mufflers, puts them over his ears, and heads back into the firing range. I hope he closes the door this time. * Kenji didn't close the door. * Seylin closes the door. * Kenji starts firing again, trying to get the hang of this absurdly overpowered weapon. [ Kenji's wrists hurt already! That must be a sign of progress. ] * Patrick rolls his eyes, walks over to the target room, and hits a switch which sets up the buffets to absorb the sound, then walks out to talk to Will about a few things again. "Oh, I probably should start modding these weapons too." He sets on doing that. "So what do you think, Will?" So do we walk into the main temple inside the city of his and ask for Vecna? * Kenji is now known as SleepDebugger Well, he names his price for any information you want, but... Um... no. I think that would get us killed very quickly, or at least noticed in ways we don't want to be noticed. I have a feeling that the price we'd pay would either be too high or we wouldn't want the information. Well, I'm not gonna do anything evil for him. I don't think Kenji would agree to that either. Arbora City is rumored to have a couple housings too. * Patrick starts messing with the sights on the weapons. "They're not 'temples', though, more like information broker offices." We'd have to look pretty hard unfortunately. They likely moved after our little raid. * WillS nods. "Although I have a feeling finding them wouldn't be the hard part. It's the dealing with them afterwards which might be a problem." Hmmm. I wasn't thinking so much as dealing with them as beating it out of them. But then we get our own complications on how reliable the information is. And of course there's the complications with that. [ Sounds complicated. ] [ Next whiz-bang issue; things get more complicated! ] [ Session End. ]