Blood of Heroes Second Session Report

The recording of my vocals failed to capture me (though it recorded the players just fine) today so I will do a written session report to keep up with the game.

I have some of the audio because the two players, who have never played together before, used today’s second session to expand on their roleplaying and crafting this new superhero relationship in our Neo-Gotham, Capitol City! I will latch it onto this blog post after I get NCH to recognized my fucking software licenses, again, and I can finish the edit. 

After a discussion with Bug on defining how his insect mimicry “displays” we continued the battle which we stopped last session in the middle of. Mettle has knocked Creepazoid unconscious, and Bug continues to tangle with Bak-Trak as this zebra-mutant comes to aid his fallen comrade as a third mutant monster makes its way out of the river-side sewer drain. Mettle grabs 2 tons of metal debris and drops it sight unseen where she thinks the outlet is. Shortly thereafter a heavy thunk is heard as the debris is promptly launched into the air followed by the splashdown in the river. The creature calling itself Leather-Neck shambled up the bank onto the street where Mettle stands over the fallen Creepazoid. Disturbingly, Mettle sees the unconscious Creepazoid start liquifying into a jelly-like substance and soak into the cracked pavement.

Leather-neck is a heavily modified ape, its muscular body grafted in the most make-shift way with electronic components, cybernetic attachments and bristling antennae.

“Leave Bak-Trak alone!” Leather-Neck bellows and discharges an electrified net from its wrist gauntlet, wrapping up Bug. The hero topples over spasming and foaming from the paralyzing jolt. Mettle is staring at two angry enhanced monsters and is reminded of the zoo-animal theft reported in the news last week. An ape and a zebra were reportedly stolen from the Capitol City Zoo. A very odd theft to say the least, but here in front of her are an intelligent ape and zebra with strange and elaborate firepower.

“I can’t take both of them on myself,” Mettle thinks to herself. She gathers up more metal debris from the run-down dockside factory buildings and smashes it all into the zebra wielding those disturbing plasma eye beams. The impact sends Bak-Trak and the debris sailing 150 feet, downriver this time. The hit does what Mettle had hoped and the cyborg ape jumps into the air and out into the river to rescue his friend from the fast-moving Stewert River.

With the object of the fight still in her possession, Mettle scoops up the unconscious Bug and leaves the scene, the mutant’s “turf”, with the GoPro in pocket and Little Billy told to run home. Mettle gently levitates through the evening sky setting down in front of the local Elmview Urgent Care and brings beaten but breathing Bug into the waiting room. After she gets admissions sorted she walks back out onto the sidewalk.

“Time to see what is on the GoPro.” She says and hits play. The scene is of a squad of officers, FBEE agents by the logo on their flak vests, moving down the night street, weapons drawn. They post up along a chain link fence looking over a section of harbor. SUVs, pick up trucks and a panel truck are parked together in an open lot overlooking the river. The lot has the usual shipping equipment, container cars, cranes, fork lifts. The pick up trucks and SUVs are providing the illumination on the scene. Looks like gangsters doing gangster shit.

Then the situation lights up. The doors are pulled back on the panel truck and a 50 caliber machine gun opens up on the SUVs and the gang-bangers around them. There are orders to move in and the video takes to the air as the view shifts to a swirling night sky coming to land on top of the panel truck, crushing the cargo bay and the heavy automatic weapon. A disorientating flip and then a view of the panel truck being kicked into the SUVs and fire and people go everywhere. The GoPro then moves aggressively on a costume tough guy and once a pair of strong green arms strikes out and attaches to the masked man the view is back up in the night sky. The masked man trades blows with his assailant on the way down and splash into the Stewert River. Before the GoPro is swept away into the black current it is plain the green-armed assailant is drowning the masked man. Disturbed by the murder just witnessed, Mettel pockets the GoPro and walks back into the clinic to find out if Bug is patched up and good to go. The PA recommends Bug takes the rest of the week off from any heavy lifting and it would take some time to fully recover from the concussion(?) he had received from electrical shock and trauma. And take some of the Tylenol 3 she sends him out with.

Outside Mettel replays the footage again for Bug’s benefit. Like Mettel, he is disturbed by what seems to be the FBEE super known as Superfrog drowning another EE.

“Its on the news,” says Bug. “Not this per se but just over from where we were the Feds got into a gunfight with a criminal gang west of Adams Street Sewage and the Adams Street Bridge. Right down on the riverside docks there.”

Mettel wants to go see the crime scene. He wants to see if the digital video matches up with where the gunfight was.

“I don’t care if that guy was a criminal, you just can’t go drowning folk cause they have superpowers.” Bug agrees it is worth checking out. The question of what to do with the video may be answered there. North of Stokes Ave. in what used to be called Old Capitol City, the police and emergency services are crawling all over the place. There are multiple vehicles burnt out and smoldering from recently being foamed by the fire department. There are shell casings all over the pavement and the awful smell of burnt meat. Two rows of body bags, maybe eight in number, can be seen being loaded into ambulance. Everyone and anyone who isn’t cop is kept back by the yards of yellow tape.

Unable to get too close, Mettel gets into a conversation with Shamrock Bane, late night reporter for Channel 7 after overhearing an FBI and FBEE officer have an intense argument over lack of intel and the inability to plan an operation in Capitol City without the wrong people finding out about it the same day! Miss Bane gives the low down to the attractive party girl. A white-nationalist militia calling themselves the Civil Guard looked to try and deal dirty with the local Nubians. Drug deal, gun deal, not sure which, but either way the Civil Guard came to kill, not do deals. Looks like the FBEE got wind of this meeting and swooped into the middle of the gun fight. No one is talking, but she believes the numerous blazes were set by someone with a flamethrower on site. Maybe the arsonist which has been terrorizing the city? The FBEE is saying they made some significant arrests as well as some top gang leaders being killed in the exchange. Scene is just too damn chaotic. Hard telling who is working for the city’s good and who is working for their one self-interest.

Mettel knows the Nubians. She does work for them, moving drugs she imagines. She never looks at what she is transporting, currier code and all. This has all the potential of spirling out of control and the city’s underground business trade grinding to a halt due to an all out criminal race war. She asks Bug to come back to her place and think about what they want to do about the gang violence and the video they still have a hold of.