RCR-ORCBORG-Sp02: Demon Egg & Dead Dwarves

CHARACTER SHEET

Name: Franzzz
Description: Origin - sole survivor of anti-freeze drinking cult, keen to find a new spiritual pursuit. Physical Features - Huge fucking teeth. Big arse. GOD: noise of metal hitting metal, who invented fighting and left it at that.
Powers: (5) / Miracles: 1
HP: 03/03 Armour: -d4 DMG, but -1 ATK

STUFF

• Acolyte Brass Knuckle d3 DMG
• Firebomb d6 DMG (spread)
• Can of Spray Paint
• Cutter (hand chainsaw) d6 DMG
• 13 Tek

BODY

STORY

• On ship Derelict. Orcs just spore. Generations of them. Building idols for their gods. Fight, kill, scheme, and howl for a place in heaven. Ships crashed into it are now part of it. Seven warring hulls. There are elves and humans on board. So big it has its own gravity well and sucks in random ships. Every 24 hours lights will turn on. 12 hours they turn off. Every 24 hours a prophecy of doom.
• Warboss / Hull boss. Hull King. Dwarven mining ship crashed into Derelict four days ago and hasn’t stopped moving. The drill is still moving and cutting through the ship.
• At least a crew of 100 dwarves + robots. We don’t understand dwarves.
• Wurka and Joe the Dog. Mub. Blegh and Allen the Dog. Franzzz.
• When Orks believe in something, it’s true.
• I’m bouncing around on the stupid ship because I rolled bad on agility. Blegh burns 3 tek to power up armor. Rolls 1, miracle to reroll. 9. Blegh is underneath the ship and bouncing. Mub rolls 5 and is flopping around. Wurka shoots blaster to make hole. Blegh retcons having Allen the Dog in a baby bjorn.
• I’m trying to perceive stuff and roll 5. Blegh tries to peel back hull with armor, and nothing happens. Mub tries to grab on and stabilizes. We’re all bounce into Mub. Mub sees a maintenance hatch - augury channel. Open maintenance channel. “Tear into the hole at the back of the ship”.
• Crawl into dark room. Blegh lowtorch illuminates. Spare parts for vending machines. Raw materials for 3D printing. We find tek. Money we believe in.
• Up. Pop into ship’s smoking room. Dark. One dwarve smoking a cigarette. Long beard, covered in soot. Blegh sends Allen dog. Dog bites jugular. Mub carves into dwarf, cuts off his smoking hand. I murder the dwarf.
• Up again. Lights on. Empty room. Shield generator. Step two is break stuff. Beefy shield, could be in sun. Brass knuckles on interface and panels and monitors. Spend an hour destorying shields. Ship shakes violently. Hull on hull action.
• Left. Water dripping. Dead dwarf. Hot and steamy room. Sauna. Wood panelled. Two robots or automatons poking at him. I head over to pick up corpse. Tells me to take it into an engine room. Engine powered by ore and detritus. Giant pentagon with melted candles. Trashing the engine room for an hour. Sputter out. Circle lights up, ships light up, but now there’s a red glow. Growling and groaning. I start trying to destroy the pentagram and candles. Four is death in Chinese. Mub rolls a four. Four and a half a demon comes out. Turtle blog with gills and shark teeth. Turtle claws. Wurka misses shot. Joe misses. Mub nat 20 double damage. Florescent yellow blood all over Mub. Allen goes after one and misses. Blegh ripper claw. Misses. I miss with my cutter. Sparks everywhere. Allen tears off a turtle demon eye stalk. Mub is powerfully fat. Slices. Cuts up Wurka. Mub natural 20 again. Mub is doing everything. Allen murders snaps neck like good boy. Rolls a 2. Tickle his gooch. Demon corpses don’t drop metal tek?
• Orks don’t pull out. Keep going. Empty room. Powered. Looks like arena fighting pit. Several dead demons here. A couple of dead dwarves.
• Right. Hall of Ancestors. Holograms. AI Ingrams of space dwarf ancestors. Four miners are being talked to via special helmet. Dwarven woman is much taller. She’s speaking to the ancestors. Then she’s speaking in ORC to us! Bottom… weird rock, causing problems. Blegh doesn’t trust her. Business card. Mub roll 20 for presence. Now we have 20 tek, card, AND two honor guard. Make her look at Blegh’s map. “Blasphemy and lies from bearded wench!” Honor guards.
• Two rooms to the right of our first room we came in from. Three space dwarf minors. Laboratory. Demon corpse. Three scientist dwarves have to come with us. Actually they refuse. Mub punches on in the nose and they’re all like Oy!
• I throw the firebomb into the room. Splashes and obsidian rock sucks in my grenade. It absorbs. Asteroid side of ship. Inside that room. Growing red. Hear moans from it. Corpses all over the rock. Mub shoots rivet gun at a crack in the rock. Rivet hits. More red light comes out.
• Back to the lady. Five feet six. Two handed great axe. Admits to finding an egg. Chaotic energy. Crew got corrupted. Blegh releases Allan, but we defuse the situation. Get five dwarves to help push the rock. One of them quits.
• PLAN: remove gravity with anti-grav and push rock out into space. BACK at the ROCK: cracks are wider. Mub turns on anti-grav power. I am using my miracle to help Mub. five. Wurka miracles to re-rolls. Everyone push. Four dwarves help. Black smooth. Hot. Rock floats away. Ship grinds to a halt.
• Orks kill Dwarves. Allen released. Blegh missed. Franzzz stabs. Betrayal! Wurka and Joe, shoot and bit. Two hits. Ripper claw on honor guard. Twice scratch and nothing. Wurka blows face of honor guard gone. Mub misses. Cutting lazer on Allan. Blegh avoids hit. Honor guard on Mub with laser cutter. 20 for defense. Immediate reaction. Allen chomps, nothing. Blegh ripper claw on dwarf. Explains for no reason, eye lands in his mouth. Franzzz slices into guy attacking Blegh. Blood floats. Wurka fucks with pistol so it explodes. Pistol whip kaboom. Destroys breathing apparatus. Depressurized alive. Joe goes after the one Allan is chewing on. Mub kills scientist.
• What next? Kill matron dwarf too? Another room next to AI Hall of Ancestry. It’s a space opera theatre. Tons of speakers. Wurka tears them off. Robots fixing theatre. Right into another room. Crew quarters. Loads of cushions. One dwarf was sleeping. Flash card, tells him to go back to sleep. Actually, make him take us to the bridge.
• Bridge. Matron is telling honor guards to reroute stuff. Blegh using two dwarf heads as puppets. Matron pulls out greataxe. Franzzz goes for the queen. Wurka randomly hits buttons and engine starts. Mub antigravs the matron. Now she’s floating. Honor guard brings Blegh to zero. Franzzz steals ripperclaw. Wurka vigorously rubs Blegh back to life… but fails. Joe bites honor guard’s leg. Mub kills honor guard. Allen drinks Blegh’s blood but doesn’t heal him. Last honor guard scared and bargains. Staples Blegh, and reverses the ship.
• Finish up the matron. Franzzz misses. Joe misses. Wurka attempts to pull axe away. Does. d12 damage. Mub misses. Allan bites butt. Armor stop. Franzz, Joe, Wurka hit. Mub doesn’t. Laser torch. Allan no damage. Matron drops to the ground, no more antigrav. Spits up blood. Crawls to throne. Allan grabs her face. Take the mahogany throne. Another dwarf takes over as captain, reinstates benefits.
• Boss hull king destroys mahogany chair as it’s too small. We are heroes.

An index of all “Rain City Reckoning” RPG sessions can be found here