Torg update – Session of 5 November 2009

First off, happy 18th birthday to my little sister as of 9:51pm last night.  I was at Trish and Chris’s house, in their basement, playing Torg at the time.  I really don’t think she minded, since I know she was playing an OYO concert.

Now on to the Torg update.

I’m not going to subject anyone who happens to care to read this to a YouTube video of this week’s song, which was “Turn the World Around” by Harry Belafonte.  I told David it was the weirdest song we’ve had so far (Weirder than Gorillaz? He asked.  I said yes.).

At the beginning of this week, the Well of Forever looked back into us…and I don’t think most of us liked what we saw.  What Ren ended up seeing was a reality bridge in Orrorsh and herself using the Starfire Wheel to make it fall apart…only to leave herself open to the demonic frog deity she banished in Ys almost a year ago.

Banishments only last, apparently, a year and a day.

When we all snapped out of it, Mable and Grace fell over unconsious (Liz opted to stay home since her mother got H1N1 and Jen had to stay late at the library), which meant Mei and Christian had to carry them out of the suddenly very unstable cavern….a cavern suddenly very unstable because of artillery that was mowing the lawn for advancing infantry and cavalry.

After barely managing to not get ourselves blown up, killed, or otherwise maimed, we climbed out of the hole to find a Polish patrol standing outside of the hole we climbed out of.  After convincing him that Ren was an American soldier, the others were able to climb out of the hole.  All of us were brought back to a forward post where they ran our IDs again…and that’s where we found out that the guy we thought was named Alex was actually named Anton Fratelli (and declared that if Ren made one Goonies reference….not that she would ever do something like that in the first place because Goonies really wasn’t her thing) and is a CIA operative.  Which Ren suspected after she saw the sniper rifle but never made mention of–why look a gift-horse in the mouth, after all?

Of course, on the ride to behind the lines, Ren and Anton argue.  A lot.  He’s been given the full plot dump, warts and all, and has decided to take Ren to task for it even though most of the circumstances were largely beyond the group’s control (was she really supposed to tell Amarant that he couldn’t become a wall?  Really?  And, for the record, the Order is NOT a snuggie cult).   When we finally make it to the more substantial operations center behind the lines, the party is reunited with Dr. Hatchi Mara-Two (Too?), who is as scattered-brained and special as ever.

Mable’s got some wacky stuff going on with the nanotech virus in her blood.  There’s nothing we can do about it, and Galen did something weird with it.  Greeeat.

From there, lay out the situation–and begin to plan, for once.  Using Anton’s networks, we put out calls to every ally we can think of to come help us storm the papal holdings in Avignon, to stop Odyle before she can break the world.  God only knows if we’ll be able to stop her.  We’ve put out a call to the Knights Templar, to the Mystery Men, to the First Fleet, everyone we can think of.  But we have to find the Knives of Artemis, Mara’s said.  If we can find them, we may have an easy way into the papal palace, a way around the guards.  We hope.  But finding them will be easier said than done…and do we have the time to find them before everything comes to an end?

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