S062_Paladin_Dies_on_Halloween October 31, 2018 Wednesday RECAP 6PM Gratz and 16 of his vampire minions (8 are former police officers) show up at the Bunker. After a breif parley (and the threat of burning down the warehouse with 6 barrels of kerosene) Crypt emerges from one of the vans and starts the battle to capture Paladin. During the early portion of the fight Crypt refers to Paladin as Cetus Dei and says that Rhazazarak will be pleased with his light going out. The Brooklyn Brigade gets unexpected help from two new heroes who arrive on the scene: Counterblast and Revenant. Crypt tried twice to grab Paladin unsuccessfully. Then he began throwing very powerful energy blasts around, one of fire, the next was ice. The session ended with Revenant throwing an explosive at M-Crook #001 and the barrel of kerosene he was carrying. Resume: resolve the explosion October 31,2018 Wednesday Continued: Revenant’s explosive pellet cause the barrels of kerosene to detonate. Several of the vampires caught in the blast are vanquished. The forces attacking the Bunker are Crypt, Gratz, and 16 lesser vampires (6 male cops, 2 female cops, 4 male criminals, and 4 female criminals). The defensive force is The Brooklyn Brigade (Paladin, Kismet, and Genji) is under heavy assault. Other heroes in the area trickle in to aid in the defense of the Bunker. They are Revenant, Counterblast, and the Blue Monkey. Initially Crypt is only interested in Paladin, either his surrender or beating Paladin unconscious. Crypt is incredibly powerful and resistant to damage. As the battle unfolds Crypt fires bolts of energy (primarily) at Paladin. These bolts include: fire, electricity, lasers, and possibly more. Counterblast gets close enough to these blasts of power and is able to duplicate them and adjust his body to be practically invulnerable to them! The vampires set the Bunker on fire as Crypt (the self proclaimed vampire god) tries to capture Paladin. Kismet Ego attacks Crypt causing him a lot of pain - he stops going after Paladin in order to kill Kismet, preferably with his bare hands. Revenant makes use of his explosive pellets to detonate the kerosine barrels the vampires brought with them and one of the patrol cars the vampire cops brought with them (and two civilian vans). Three lesser vampires got away, one male cop, one female criminal, and one male criminal. The unconscious vampires including Crypt and Gratz are waiting for the Brooklyn Brigade to decide what to do with them. S063_Paladin_Dies_on_Halloween October 31, 2018 Wednesday Continued: 8PM The Brooklyn Brigade's HQ is on fire. Kismet heals herself and Paladin. She then prepares to do an object reading but before she can Blue Monkey introduces himself. After calling Lt. House Paladin learns that desecration of a corpse is the charge that could be filed against him for destroying the vampires. Being okay with that he starts throwing the vampires into the flames of the burning Bunker. Blue Monkey who has a strong aversion to killing is upset by the burning of ‘living’ people. The group tries to explain that vampires are un-dead, not really living things, but the alien simian does not understand. Blue Monkey grabs Crypt and Gratz and teleports them to his space ship on the moon. While they are safely there he comes back to get more. The human heroes keep him from taking more the vampires to his sanctuary and are able to explain the animated-corpses, vampires, are not alive and it is okay to cremate them. By the time Blue Monkey gets back to his ship Crypt and Gratz are gone. Revenant (?) (GM Note – I think it was Revenant) was perplexed by the variety of powers Crypt displayed including teleportation and invisibility. Paladin tells them that Crypt is a self-styled vampire god but is more like a super Frankenstein’s monster. [GM Note, I remind the group (well, Paladin) that Takeda (a PC from ages ago) was being pursued by Crypt. She explained that a clutch of vampires robbed the graves (and other sources of body parts) of many super heroes and villains to assemble Crypt. Then used the blackest of vile magic to infused a life force to the composite corpse. Crypt is a super Frankenstein’s monster with the soul of Dracula.] The group learns that Darius Vonner and Crypt have made a pact with the demon Rhazazarak. If the vampires free him into Earth’s dimension Rhazazarak will remove technology from the world eliminating mankind’s advantage over the vampires. Rhazazarak would then take the entirety of the universe leaving Earth to the vampires (as long as they realized they were vassals in the service of the world’s true master, Rhazazarak himself). Kismet’s psychometry leads the group to an old Victorian house is in the Bulls Head neighborhood. She flies her broom there while Paladin drives a van. The heroes who can’t fly or have movement powers ride with Paladin. The group begins their investigation of the house. A fight breaks out between the Brigade and Darius Vonner and his minions. Revenent catches the house on fire. When the fight is over Dulce Tresch, Ambrose Belin, Destiny Giuliani, and Lavelle Jakubowski are throw in the fire and destroyed. The group finds a spell book in the basement that contains a spell that will summon Rhazazarak to Earth, a spell that requires a small amount of blood from a Cestus Dei (a fist of God, a member of the Defenders of the Cross). The group tears out the pages and destroys them but they keep the book cover for Kismet. Object Reading the book cover Kismet learns the connection between Darius and Lilli (that Lilli created Darius but he had since become a diablerist and has grown powerful enough to join Raven). Kismet wants to recruit Lilli and the Camerilla for the hunt of Darius Vonner. Kismet is late for the Zeta Tau Alpha Halloween party and Sherry is there waiting for her. Not to mention her uncle is rocking the party with his electric guitar!