[Gamma World] In the Shadow of Zeus [IC]

SilverBones

THE STORY

Gamma World is a place of new sights, strange creatures and odd tales.

One such tale is that of our protagonists. Grouped together by the need to use their shared belongings, the party - consisting of a Gravity Controlling Jello, a Swarm of Salamanders, a Walking Carpet who happens to be on fire, a super-human who can run at blistering speeds and a prototype Crash Test Dummy made of super-processors and a very malleable body, - have gathered their pooled expertise and resources to ride through the wastelands.

In this harsh and cruel world, these few adventures and opportunists have come to trade from town to town, fight off raiders and now are moving out into the greater plains to make their fortune. All of this would be just just fine, but the latest village they have come to is different.

This one could be trouble.

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CURRENT PARTY UTILITY BILL

$48,875.00

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PLAYERS

Daniant
Vertroue
Sakutian
Dresdenphile
GoodOmens

Reserve Players
El Skid

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THE CHARACTERS

Dani's Character

daniant wrote:

JELLICA


Bizarre Origins:
8(Gravity Controller - Primary)
9(Gelatinous - Secondary)

Ability Scores:
Str:16
Dex: 11
Con: 18
Int: 10
Wiz: 9
Cha: 18

Secondary Stats:
Hit Points: 30
Bloodied: 15
Speed: 5 (Heavy Armor)
Initiative: 1

Origin Abilities:
+2 to Dark Overcharge
+4 to Athletics
+4 Stealth
+2 Reflex
+2 Fortitude
No damage from Falling
At the start of each encounter you are invisible until you attack or at the end of the encounter.

Defenses:
AC: 18 (Heavy Armor + Sheild)
Fortitude: 17
Reflex: 13
Will: 15

Skill Bonus:
Nature

Skills:
Acrobatics: +1
Athletics: +8
Conspiracy: +1
Insight: 0
Interaction: +5
Mechanics: +1
Nature: +4
Perception: 0
Science: 1
Stealth: +8

Stuff:
Fuel, 10 Gallons
Water Purifier
Wagon x2 (Good luck moving them...)

Powers:
Gravitational Pulse
At-will, Dark, Physical, Standard action
Ranged 10 - 1 creature
Hit: d20+5 (Constitution attack + level vs. fortitude)
Damage: 1d10 + 5 (Con mod + 2 x level physical damage) and slowed to the end of of your next turn

Paralytic Goo
At-will, Acid, Bio, Standard action
Melee 1 - One creature
Hit: d20+5 (Strength attack + level vs. fortitude)
Damage: 1d8 + 6 (Str Mod + 2x level acid damage), and target slowed to end of next turn

Alpha Mutation
Strong as Stone (A; U; Dark) You gain the strength of stone – the good stuff, not that cheap fake tile.
Benefit: You are capable of amazing feats of strength and endurance. You gain a +5 power bonus to Athletics checks and a +3 power bonus to Fortitude.; Overcharge: When you start your turn, you can roll a d20.; 10+: While this card is readied , whenever you make an Athletics check, replace the roll with a 20. In addition, the power bonus to Fortitude increases to +5.; 9 or less: You are weakened (save ends).

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Vertroue's Character

Vertroue wrote:

HOKARU


Bizarre Origins:
14(Pyrokinetic - Primary)
20(Yeti - Secondary)

Ability Scores:
Str:16
Dex: 13
Con: 16
Int: 8
Wiz: 18
Cha: 13

Secondary Stats:
Hit Points: 28
Bloodied: 14
Speed: 5
Initiative: 2

Origin Abilities:
+2 to Psi Overcharge
+4 to Interaction
+4 Nature
+1 AC
Resist Fire 10
Resist Cold 10
When a creature ends it’s turn adjacent to you, it takes 5 fire damage.

Defenses:
AC: 20 (Heavy Armor)
Fortitude: 14
Reflex: 12
Will: 15

Skill Bonus:
Interaction

Skills:
Acrobatics: +2
Athletics: +4
Conspiracy: 0
Insight: +5
Interaction: +10
Mechanics: +0
Nature: +5
Perception: +5
Science: +0
Stealth: +2

Stuff:
Radio Cell Phone
Wagon x2 (wtf? I guess you guys own a caravan...?)
Climbers Kit

Powers:
Fiery Flare
At-will, Fire, Psi, Standard action
Ranged 5 - 1 creature
Hit: d20+5 (Wisdom attack + level vs. reflex)
Damage: 2d8+4 (Wisdom Mod + 2x level fire damage)

Big Claws
Encounter, Bio, Physical, Minor action
Melee 1 - 1 creature
Hit: d20+6 (Strength attack + level +2 vs. AC)
Damage: 1d10+5 (Strength Mod + 2x level physical damage) and target slowed to end of your next turn while you remain adjacent.

Alpha Mutation
Invisibility (A; R; Dark) You can finally fight naked, just like you've always wanted to.
Benefit: You are invisible. Whenever you attack while Invisible, you give away the square you're attacking from.; Overcharge: When you start your turn, you can roll a d20; 10+: While this card is readied, you don't give away the square you're in when you attack; 9 or less: Each creature in a close burst 5 except for you becomes invisible until the end of your next turn.

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Sak's Character

Sakutian wrote:

SAL E. MANDER


Bizarre Origins:
16(Rat Swarm - Primary)
14(Pyrokinetic - Secondary)

Ability Scores:
Str: 18
Dex: 14
Con: 6
Int: 13
Wiz: 16
Cha: 7

Secondary Stats:
Hit Points: 18
Bloodied: 9
Speed: 6
Initiative: 3

Origin Abilities:
+2 to Bio Overcharge
+4 to Interaction
+4 to Stealth
Gain Resist 5 To all Ranged and Melee attacks.
Gain Vulnerable 5 to all Close and Blast attacks
Resist Fire 10
Cannot be Knocked Prone
When a creature ends it’s turn adjacent to you, it takes 5 fire damage.

Defenses:
AC: 15 (Light Armor)
Fortitude: 15
Reflex: 13
Will: 14

Skill Bonus:
Conspiracy

Skills:
Acrobatics: +3
Athletics: +5
Conspiracy: +6
Insight: +4
Interaction: +3
Mechanics: +2
Nature: +4
Perception: +4
Science: +2
Stealth: +7

Stuff:
Pickup Truck (Pulling the 4 wagons perhaps?)
2 Lanterns (with 16 hours of lamp oil)
Riding Horse
Tent
Binoculars

Powers:
Fiery Flare
At-will, Fire, Psi, Standard action
Ranged 5 - 1 creature
Hit: d20+4 (Wisdom attack + level vs. reflex)
Damage: 2d8+6 (Wisdom Mod + 2x level fire damage)

Swarm!
Encounter, Bio, Physical, Standard action
Melee 1 - 1 creature
Hit: d20+5 (Dexterity attack + level vs. reflex)
Damage: 1d8+5 (Dex Mod + 2x level physical damage) and target immobilized until end of next turn.

Alpha Mutation
White Dwarf (A; R; Dark) You surround yourself with a shield of intense gravity.
Minor Action, Personal;
Effect: Until the end of your next turn, whenever a creature starts its turn within 3 squares of you, you pull it 1 square as a free action, and it can’t move away from you during that turn. In addition, you gain a +2 power bonus to all defenses.; Overcharge: When you use this power, you can roll a d20.; 10+: While this card is readied, the range increases to 5 squares, and the power bonus increases to +4.; 9 or less: You are dazed and slowed (save ends both). You can’t save against this effect during the turn you overcharge it.

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Dres's Character

Dresdenphile wrote:

BRAD


Bizarre Origins:
16(Plastic - Primary)
14(Hypercognative - Secondary)

Ability Scores:
Str: 9
Dex: 18
Con: 7
Int: 15
Wiz: 16
Cha: 10

Secondary Stats:
Hit Points: 19
Bloodied: 9
Speed: 6
Initiative: 13

Origin Abilities:
+2 to Bio Overcharge
+4 to Acrobatics
+4 to Insight
+1 Fortitude
+3 Reflex
+8 Initiative Checks
You can squeeze through a gap 1-inch wide without slowing or provoking opportunity attacks.

Defenses:
AC: 18 (Light Armor)
Fortitude: 11
Reflex: 18
Will: 14

Skill Bonus:
Conspiracy

Skills:
Acrobatics: +9
Athletics: 0
Conspiracy: +3
Insight: +8
Interaction: +3
Mechanics: +3
Nature: +4
Perception: +4
Science: +3
Stealth: +9

Stuff:
Climber's kit (x3)
-Grappling Hook -- can throw 1/2 strength number of squares
-Hammer
-Pitons (10)
-Rappelling Harness
-Rope (100 ft)
Binoculars
Heavy Flashlight
Fuel, 5 gallons

Powers:
Stretchy Arms
At-will, Bio, Physical, Weapon, Standard action
Melee 3 - One creature
Hit: d20+5 + weapon accuracy (Dexterity attack + level + weapon accuracy vs. AC)
Damage: 1[W]+5 (Dex mod + level physical damage) and pull target 2 squares

Uncanny Strike
Encounter, Bio, Physical, Weapon, Standard action
Melee / Ranged weapon - 1 creature
Hit: d20+4 + weapon accuracy (Wisdom attack + level + weapon accuracy vs. AC)
1[W]+4 (Wisdom Mod + level physical damage) and target gives combat advantage until end of next turn.

Alpha Mutation
Disintegrating Touch (A; R; Dark, Physical) You cause molecular bonds in whatever you touch to fall apart.
Standard Action, Melee Touch; Target: One creature or object;
Attack: Level + Constitution vs. Reflex;
Hit: 4d10 + twice your level physical damage, and ongoing 10 physical damage (save ends).;
Special: Objects protected by force fields are immune to disintegration.; Overcharge: When you use this power, you can roll a d20.; 10+: The target takes a -5 penalty to saving throws against this power.; 9 or less: You also take 2d10 physical damage.

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GoodOmens’ Character

GoodOmens wrote:

LIAM


Bizarre Origins:
18(Speedster - Primary)
18(Engineered Human - Secondary)

Ability Scores:
Str: 7
Dex: 18
Con: 14
Int: 16
Wiz: 12
Cha: 14

Secondary Stats:
Hit Points: 26
Bloodied: 13
Speed: 8 (Light Armor)
Initiative: 5

Origin Abilities:
+2 to Psi Overcharge
+4 to Acrobatics
+4 to Interaction
+4 to Science
+1 Fortitude
+3 Reflex
+1 Will
+2 Speed When Wearing Light or No Armor
+2 to Omega Tech Checks

Defenses:
AC: 18 (Heavy Armor + Sheild)
Fortitude: 15
Reflex: 19
Will: 15

Skill Bonus:
Nature

Skills:
Acrobatics: +9
Athletics: -1
Conspiracy: +4
Insight: +2
Interaction: +7
Mechanics: +4
Nature: +6
Perception: +2
Science: +8
Stealth: +5

Stuff:
Canoe
Duct Tape
Fuel, 5 Gallons
Keelboat

Powers:
Quick Attack
Encounter, Psi, Physical, Weapon, Standard action
Melee / Ranged weapon - 1 creature
Hit: d20+5 + weapon accuracy (Dexterity attack + level + weapon accuracy vs. AC)
Damage: 1[W]+5 (Dex mod + level physical damage) shift two squares both before and after attack

Bold Attack
At-will, Physical, Weapon, Standard action
Melee or Ranged Weapon - 1 creature
Hit: d20+5 + weapon accuracy (Level + 4 + weapon accuracy vs. AC)
Damage: 1[W]+1 (Level physical damage) and an ally within 5 squares makes a basic attack as a free action

Alpha Mutation
Psychic Illusion (A; C; Psi, Psychic) Now this is a KNIFE!
Standard Action, close burst 10;
Effect: You modify one aspect of the environment in the burst, by adding or subtracting a single illusory object. The object must fit within a square, such as a gun, a dead body, a short bridge, and so on. Any creature that interacts with the object reveals it as illusory, but it seems completely real up to that point. The illusion lasts while this card is readied. Overcharge: When you use this power, you can roll a d20; 10+: Any creature that interacts with the illusion takes 5d8+twice your level psychic damage; 9 or less: You take 5d8+twice your level psychic damage.

SilverBones

Your caravan comes to a slow halt on the borders of what appears to be a small-time, run down town. Much like the other towns you have come across, this one seems to be suffering from various states of disrepair, with one shining exception. The sign that greets you into this dust ball is lit up like a Christmas tree, proudly displaying the words;

Welcome to Dead Man’s Boon;
Home of the Cockroach Surprise Shake.

On the side of the sign, a cartoonish image of a cockroach in a milkshake glass waves at you, the animated squeal of metal as offensive to the ear as the image is to the eye. Around the sign are various piles of trash and debris, obviously blown out of the place that looks like it could have come out of the Old West, were it not for the gaudy paintings of rocket-ships and cartoon cockroaches.

The only signs of life seem to be coming from the quickly shutting slats covering the windows of the buildings as you come close, and the ringing sound of distorted music coming from what appears to be half a diner from down the road. For the most part the Diner is in the open dust, as if half of it simply... went away.

You can see some people inside, although from here it is hard to make it out.

Disembarking from your collected caravan, your party moves into the main street running up the center of Dead Man’s Boon.

Sakutian

An enormous red skinned salamander wearing a leather jacket climbed down off of the back of a skittish looking paint horse. As he dropped down the spurs on his boots rattled off of the stony ground startling his horse. He clapped the animal on it's side gently sending up a cloud of dust as he looked on at the unimpressive looking little town. "Cockroach surpise shake eh? Never could stomach those little varmints. They have a nasty habit of refusing to be digested."

Sal Mander tugged a dull metal mace out of a rope harness hanging from the horse's saddle before hefting it up onto his shoulder. Looking at the rest of his caravan he smiled. "Lets go say howdy."

GoodOmens

Bald, painfully thin, Liam Blackhand jogs into town, leaving dust devils in his wake. He's wearing a padded vest and pants, both liberally decorated with long, occasionally bloody slashes; these often correspond to nasty scars left by the whatever-the-hell-they-were-keeping in that lab. He doesn't know where it was, or how he got here, or why he decided to salvage two freaking boats which are now strapped to his back by a complex harness system. Somewhere along the line those memories disappeared. All he knows is that he hasn't eaten in too many hours for his metabolism to handle.

Half a diner still has food.

(Never mind that, I forgot we had so many wagons available.)

vertroue

Hotaru stopped next to the red lizards' wagons. sniffsniff "A bit dusty for my taste...and Hot, this is way to hot."
Hotaru is tall and well thick and furry...did she mention the fur? Well, her outfit includes bits of tire strung together over her shoulders, metal bits cobbled up over her furry chest. Over her ear sits a weird contraption it covers her ears and has an antenna sticking up from it.

"Hmm a roach shake sound mildly good right now. Legs n all, yum"

daniant

Jellica undulated in midair next to him. Her voice rippled out into the desert. "Let's eat then." She pointed her giant wooden spoon at the diner like a drum majorette.

vertroue

"March on then? Well umm wiggle on?" Looking at the jellyish thing next to them.

GoodOmens

"Keep an eye out, the people here don't seem to happy to see visitors."

Sakutian

Sal brushed some dust off of his coat as he walked. "And here I spent the time to polish up my good spurs before we rode into town."

dresdenphile

The plastic man, who designated itself as Brad Roberts, clatters down off of the wagon noisily. It takes a moment to secure the car seat strapped to the front of his beige frame, checking the garden hose securing the seat for punctures and deterioration. Brad had an issue with...dissolving things accidentally. The makeshift armor was more to obscure the dummy's caved-in chest than for protection, but it didn't hurt to take precautions.

It hoped this town would be a little bit duller than the previous, but it knew it was not so fortunate.

Brad intoned, voice metallic and ringing, which was odd since he was made of plastic, "Once, there was this guy who was really, really hungry. That guy was me. Let's go get some grub."

SilverBones

As the group walks / waddles / floats down the main street towards the diner, the sound of discordant music from the broken down jukebox becomes a touch cleaner. For those of you with a musical appreciation, you recognize the artist as Morley Bogslapper, a fish mutant who has a penchant for swamp-roots country music. His gargling warble is singing about how his spawning partner swam off with a strange trout and left him with his seven thousand kids – most of which he promptly ate out of grief.

You all travel unmolested up the main street. Reaching the threshold of the diner, you look in to see several dreary, run down looking mutants; most of them humanoid. Behind the diner bar, a tall, thin crab-faced mutant polishes glasses with his clawed hands, his two eyestalks swiveling to look at the group.

“What will it be, folks?” he sighs; as if the very question itself pulls away some of his life force.

[Can everyone give me a Perception Roll please?]

dresdenphile

Brad sat down at the nearest empty stool at the bar, careful not to touch anything, lest it dissolved in front of him. "Yes, my good...man, I'll have whatever you serve that is fried, covered in powdered, or comes on a stick. Preferably all three. And a cotton candy, if you have some. Your cotton candy machine is operational, right? I'm afraid you might have a riot on your hands," he says, gesturing to the sorry lot of downers already in the diner, "if they knew there was no cotton candy to be had." The plastic man tried his best to smile, but his frozen features only gave so much. Hopefully, the crabman was less than horrified by his expression.

Perception: 1d20+4 8

Sakutian

Sal sidled up to bar and settled himself down on a stoll in front of the crab-faced mutant. He curled his tail around the rusty bar beneath the paper thin cushion of his stool as he spun himself from side to side.

"Well pardner I don't reckon you could russle up enough clean glasses to serve my trail mates and me a round of drinks now could you?"

Perception: 12
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daniant

"What do you have, sir? I wouldn't mind something of a liquid variety. I need to keep hydrated to maintain my attractive figure." Jellica rippled invitingly.

Perception: 1d20 12

vertroue

snorts "Don't care what it is just mack it cold..DO you realize how hot it is out here?"

ooo I am totally oblivious...I rolled a one.1d20+5=6

GoodOmens

Having already tested 4 different stools, Liam seats himself at the far left edge of the bar. "I need something calorie dense. Buttermilk? Lard? Something like that. I'm not picky, and I don't like waiting."

Perception Check (1d20+2=18)

SilverBones

The crab-faced server seems to pull his soul out of the wretched pit it dwells in to show a brief flicker of disgust, confusion and horror at the combined requests. All of a sudden, the melancholy seemed to return, as if the creature before you realized what kind of sad, tragic existence it lived in before reaching over to a metal hose and squeezing the button on the top to fill up five glasses with thick, pink-colored matter. The frosty treat quivers for a moment before settling and a thin film of what appears to be oily grease settles on the surface.

“Five Cockroach Surprise Shakes it is then,” he manages to mutter before picking up a glass, spitting in it and wiping it with a cloth.

“You folks seem new to this end of the slum, so I am gonna cut you a break; Drink your drinks, mount your horses and keep moving. There ain’t anything for your types here, not unless you feel like dealing with the Zeus Electric Company.”

To the side you hear one of the patrons whisper a dramatic Dun-dun-duunnnnnn, as if the situation had been rehearsed. Even then, the choreography seemed to lack… feeling.

GoodOmens: Your character's quick attention to detail notes that everyone in the bar seems to be downtrodden and in various states of poverty. None of them have drinks or food, and in fact the degree of poverty does not seem to blend well with all the electric lighting and music. In fact, you are not sure exactly how they have electricity without the sound of a generator nearby.

GoodOmens

I'm not liking the sound of that. Not at all. Thing is, I don't think the crab-man's looking for trouble. No point wearing out our welcome too soon.

"We appreciate your hospitality. We'll move ourselves along once we've had a little break." Big sip. "Damned good cockroach."

Liam rapidly saunters over to Brad. Sotto voce: You got those binoculars handy? Let's take a quick look outside.

vertroue

"Huh? " Picking a leg out of her tooth Hotaru looks around the diner "Something wrong mates? I got notin."

GoodOmens

"Keep cool...ummm, not as hot...you know what I mean. Just want to take a look at this fine town."

I stretch out, limbering up and making sure my screwdriver is handy. Take a long swig of roach juice.

vertroue

"Do you know how hard it is to be cool in FURR??" humf

daniant

Jellica bent over her roach shake and began to absorb it.

She wiggled a little bit. "Pardon, but we're not from around here. Who's the Zeus Electric Company?"

Sakutian

Sal gulped down his drink in a single gulp and set the glass back out the bar. It rattled off of the dirty wood threatening to fall to the ground for a second before it settled. He belched and a tongue of fire escaped from his mouth.

"Durn cockraoches." His wiry hand suddenly flew through the air and wrapped itself around one of the crabman's antenna pulling him halfway over the bar. "I don't much like being told to make for the trail before I'm good and ready mister. Now why don't you tell me everything you know about this electric compnay before I ferget what I learned in sunday school."

He released the mutated bartender and stood up from his stool with a sour expression.

dresdenphile

Brad shrugs and, after a minute of rustling in his pack, hands Liam the binoculars. "Don't break them, please."

SilverBones

The Crab-man was about to open his mandibles to answer the question of the jelly-based customer when he was stopped by Sal’s assault. Strangely enough, the man did not react out of fear, more a cold, resentful expectation of what was next. He seemed more surprised that he was let go without being punched in the face.

“Don’t be getting’ me wrong, stranger,” The server said, although his voice couldn’t seem to get off the flat floor. “The Zeus Electric Company runs this town now after we all couldn’t pay our utility bills. Anyone that strays into their territory is immediately a customer of theirs. It says so in the Terms and Conditions, see?” he said, pointing over to a wall with a worn-looking roll of paper twelve feet long. At closer inspection, it seems to be a utility contract.

“I dare say you are already in debt by bein’ here five minutes. You should go before their Customer Service Reps turn up.”

Sakutian

Walking in the direction the serve had pointed Sal looked over the lengthy sheet of paper dimly. Then he teared it down off of the wall and tossed it into the air. The worn paper burst into flames in midair and fell to the ground little more than ash and quickly darkening cinders. "Never could get my head around letters. I leave reading to preachers and lawyers."

Sal turned looked around at the other diners. "I reckon someone needs to tell these Zeus fellas that they can't push old Sal E. Mander around."

SilverBones

Every member of the room who was a local resident stood up out of reflexive horror when the contract went up in flame, and sagging, the crab-server seemed to mournfully shake his head.

“Well, that’s another fee. I’m gonna have a visit from the Collection Agents for sure, now. Thanks.” the server said, pouring the last of his emotions into one sarcastically spit word.

“I’m closing early. I’d go hang myself were it not for my crab wife and kids. I guess another year in their debtors prison ain’t gonna kill me.”

Sakutian

"You ain't going to no jailhouse if'n I have any say in it pardner." Sal stormed through the entrance of the diner and looked up and down the street. Hiss tongue flicked in and out of his mouth as he glanced around.

"I wanna talk to this Zeus fella! Where you get off charging this feller and his youngins more than they can afford? And what the blazes is a utility?!"

SilverBones

[Perception rolls again, please everyone!]

Sakutian

Perception: 16
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daniant

Perception: 1d20 1

SilverBones

Jellica accidentally absorbs the glass as well and is distracted as it swims about in her gelatinous body.

[No Alpha Flux at this point ]

dresdenphile

Perception: 1d20+4 17

vertroue

1d20+1=11 ya not a 1

daniant

Jellica made a slight hiccupping noise.

"Oh, dear. Sorry about the glass. I will extrude it shortly."

She hovered near the bartender and said, "Don't worry about the utility company, sir. I'm sure we will be able to resolve all your customer service issues shortly. We will simply explain that we are from out of town and would gladly take the blame for any infractions caused on your premises today. I'm sure we will be able to work something out," she soothed.

There was a popping sound and the glass clattered onto the bar, covered in green jelly.

"And there it is," Jellica said. She sounded pleased.

vertroue

Picking up a piece of glass before the crabman could get it Hotaru licks the green off and scowls at it. Turning to Jellica, "I thought you would taste better then that..." Hotaru breaths on the glass with some blue fire to melt the glasses edges so it wouldn't be sharp and she pops it in her mouth crunching down on it. "Thats more like it! Yum!"

SilverBones

The crab-man finds enough emotional reaction to promptly vomit on the table in horror.

[Just waiting for GoodOmen's roll, then we can get to a showdown!]

vertroue

Hotaru, looks at the crabmans vomit on the bar and start poking it trying to find any real good bites.

GoodOmens

Liam follows Sal out the front door, scans the road with the binocs. Dust, more dust, and not much else. "Looks like they'll be coming to us. I'm not sure I like the idea of dealing with corporate types. They tend to be unpleasant at best." Takes one last sip. "Gah, I hate roaches."

1d20+2=9

SilverBones

With the background sound of a hungry yeti and two more patrons vomiting in disgust at its antics, Sal and Brad both notice some movement coming from down the road. There are eight figures in total. As they start to become more clear though the miasma of heat, you can see that they all appear to be wearing the same uniform.

Each person is dressed in a bright yellow jumpsuit with blue trim and a large blue Z on the front. Their heads are hidden by a large helmet in the shape of a giant light bulb. Adding an extra two and a half feet on top of the person inside the ludicrously large light bulb is on, although the head inside is a blurry shadow. Each of the seven is holding a large monkey wrench and some others are holding what appear to be industrial cattle prods.

The eighth figure – a much slimmer one – has the same jumpsuit and bulb motif, but in his hands rests a long polearm with what appear to be two electrical conductors on the end, crackling gleefully. He is also wearing a name badge with the words;

CARL
Zeus Electric Company
Customer Service Representative

“Greetings, consumers!” he calls out cheerfully. “I see your caravan is parked on Zeus Company property! That incurs a fee of two thousand dollars! How would you like to pay? Cash or…. err… cash?”

GoodOmens

"Looks like you and your crew all have the same idea." Liam starts pacing with nervous energy, a slow stroll to him but a decent jog to most. "Based on the looks of the people in there, I'm guessing that idea is...what...extortion? These people don't have anything, and we aren't inclined to give you anything. You can't get blood from a stone." Liam laughs, a high-pitched, discordant whine as his words speed up. "Well, Hotaru in there can, he's freaky strong. Sal even more so. Hell, I'm not even sure what Ms. Blob can do."

"You're going to go away now. We're going to finish our drinks in peace."