c02s02e08 - Ship Seige over Bodak Mid Afternoon, Day 53. As the Slaughter Claw slowly glides into position over the city of Bodak, a lone belly turret opens fire, targeting the spiraling minarets of the ancient city's palace temple before the turret itself is ejected from the Battle Cruiser, free-falling into the city's open market below. Merchants and shoppers scatter as the iron turret impacts the packed earth while opportunists begin a riot, jockeying for rites to claim the twisted chunk of technology. the harsh squawk of a klaxon can be heard in the quiet distance far overhead as the ship hangs still. Inside the Slaughter Claw the alarm screams on every floor. Frank the Paladin of Fury power-stomps down the main chamber stairs separating the different floors of the cargo hold.. activated scythe fighters catch air, rising up to fire on the team while they themselves careen down the levels at reckless speed to keep from being pinned down.. until they hit the bottom deck. Tug's charmed companion hasn't been on the bridge before, but he insists it's at the bottom, near the front of the ship.... Too much concentrated fire! The team clears their way through the bottom - rung barracks into a cafeteria with 2 tiers of balcony above... THX, Dhraksis, Rogar, Frank walk out in the open under a deluge of necrotic gunfire that shreds the cafeteria benches, pock-marking the floor, sending blackened soot up from the atrophied flooring.. the team regroups towards the rear where they temporarily hole up in a kitchen / gun turret station. while Dhraksis takes an odd ladder downward further than the elevator
and stairs offer... having split from the party, the FuryRanger finds
himself in a tight-quatered tube of iron that runs along and under the
ship... he finds gun pods-- belly cannons-- hanging unused above Bodak.
Climbing in, Dhraksis opens fire until he hears the release mechanism
disengaging the gun pod from the ship-- quick reflexes allow him to
scurry back into the tubing before a trap-seal irises shut under him, sending the turret bouncing off building roofs and walls into the market below. Karrnath
troops find their way into the under-tubing, and clumsily advance while Dhraksis moves to
another belly turret to cause further damage-- considers releasing the
turret himself for a fast, rough ride to Bodak below where he can
connect with Larkin, the local merchant and start stirring up
anti-Karrnath sentiment. Dust Devils, Guardian Spirits, Tug's Black Tentacles, fireballs and raw melee power keep the swarming karrnath troops at bay while the team shoot a hole with an auto-balista necro-enhancement sleeve into the ceiling to climb away from being cornered Session ends with 1 level of exhaustion administered to THX and Tug; 2 levels of exhaustion on Rogar... and the team scurrying up a hole in the kitchen ceiling to get back some maneuvering room. <end of session> Time spent in game: about 3 minutes. Currently Mid afternoon on Day 53 in the belly of Slaughter Claw, some 2000 feet above Bodak. 1/3 to level 9