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5/3/1776 Friday
700 AM
Bear and Paladin are at the Philadelphia Magazine print shop
with hundreds of copies of pro-communist, anti-capitalist, socialist propaganda
pamphlets that were written using Thomas Paine’s name and resources but were
authored by the Demorean. Kismet, Lady Paper, Constable, and (NPC) Iktomi are
at the inn.
The now awakened Thomas Paine is confused and demands to
know where he is and who ‘you people’ are. Kismet begins to tell him the truth
and uses her mental powers on him. He freaks! He calls them witches and tries
to flee. Lady Paper entangles him her pages, but all the paper she has is her
costume, leaving him bound and her naked.
He is bound, but not silenced, nor blindfolded.
Paine continues to scream for help! Constable, from his
room, hears the commotion and moves to see what is going on. The hall is
beginning to fill with the innkeeper and other guests who are being attracted
by the commotion.
In the doorway Constable sees Kismet and (the undressed)
Lady Paper and shouts, “I know not who you villains are but unhand that man!”
Kismet is preparing to teleport Paine and herself out of the
room while Lady Paper tries to reason with the frantic Paine. Constable comes
in and prevents Kismet from teleporting away with Paine causing her to teleport
with Lady Paper instead. They arrive bloody from the blind teleport at the
print shop.
Lady Paper uses the paper there to recreate her costume and
get dressed.
Paladin and Bear head to the inn to see what is going on.
Constable has (slightly) reassured Paine by saying that he
is with the revolution and is here to help protect him.
Constable Clay, four red coats, the innkeeper, and a priest
arrive. Bear and Paladin are also in earshot to hear what is going on.
The innkeeper tells Clay that (Paine) was screaming he was
attacked by witches. Clay knows ‘Adam’ and his party from their report of being
robbed by revolutionaries as they approached town. He also says that Paine is
not unknown to him. He orders ‘Adam’ and Paine to be taken to his office for
questioning, he wants the rest of Adams Mennonite friends found and questioned,
and he wants Paine’s print shop searched, ‘leave no board un-turned’.
That is when Paladin and Bear attack. Bear kills the first
Redcoat with a single punch that knocked him through a wall, a dozen feet back,
and into Thomas Paine. Knocking him out but not doing serious damage. The rest
of the Redcoats, including Constable Clay, are seriously injured. Clay has 2
body, his remaining three men are at 3, 1, and 1, respectively.
Paladin shows his Defenders of the Cross token to the priest
who seems to recognize what it is. The priest shakes his head and silently
returns to his church.
Before any more Redcoats arrive they pile the dead and
wounded, along with the innkeeper, in the room where the witches (Kismet and
Lady Paper) were staying. They then go back to the print shop where they have
Lady Paper correct the pro-communist, pro-socialist, rubbish. Knowing that the
Redcoats are coming they withdraw to Ben Franklin’s lab in the basement of
Franklin Stoves.
Here they come up with an ambitious plan to have Kismet use
her Mind Control to force the redcoats to remember that they were attacked by
revolutionaries who had a trained bear with them.
They track down the wounded soldiers and ‘fix’ their ability
to recall the truth.
They now need to find Constable Clay. While searching for
him they are met by two Demoreans who offer them a chance to work for the
Demorean cause. They claim they have no designed on this world’s timeline, but
are making small changes here that will echo in the timeline they are
interested in. Paladin wants to know why they do what they do. Simple, we are
perfect and we are going to give the gift of perfections to other races,
whether they want it or not. They want the PCs to join them because they can
bring cargo with them, small amounts truly but more than the demoreans can with
their psionic projection power. When Paladin says no, the demoreans attack.
Kismet and Paladin dispatch them quickly but not before they sound the alarm.
By the time the guards arrive there is nothing for them to
find so they go back about their business.
Later, Kismet and Paladin return and force Constable Clay to
remember what he is told to remember.
They then return to Franklin Stoves and regroup.
5/4/1776 Saturday
700 AM
They have Paine’s assistants help pass out Pamphlets that
support his previous works, such as Common Sense, as history proclaims.
And still the quest for the time machine manual continues!
End Session