37 If at First You Don't Succeed

Dec 26-29, 861

Foreword
a TPK. At long last.

Session Report
    Back to the wreck of the Avalon. A spaceship that crashed in the Jungle 60 mi west of Falkirk long ago. Ordinarily a 2 day trip, the party spent an extra day picking their way along a circuitous route that would allow them to bring a wagon with them. By means of this wagon they hoped to bring back to Falkirk the Illudium q-36 Space Modulator (a Laser-Cannon).

    After making camp one night, a band of Cavemen approached their fire. Negotiations broke down, and the party fled, leaving behind their wagon, but not before the Hirelings Montrose and Peter were killed.

    The adventurers picked their way through the wreckage. Opened a door behind which lay Gas Spores. These they gently poked, then ran away from. They then found the skeletal remains of a member of the crew, wearing a spacesuit and wielding a ray-gun. They pummelled the skeleton, and took his stuff. In another room surrounded by depraved scrawlings they found a small idol of green-black stone, depicting a monstrous scaly humanoid form with the head of an octopus and the wings of a bat. Tibbs and Elyshore recognized this idol, as it matched closely the one they had seen the cultists worshipping [In Session 34] and posited some connection between the cultists and the wreckage. The party next found a fragmentary AI at a computer terminal, but were unable to format their questions appropriately, and so found it unhelpful.

    Emerging from the computer terminal room into the the main hallway, they heard a voice: "Engine malfunction, venting exhaust." The room filled with poison gas, and nearly everyone died. Whereupon the surviving hirelings fled back to Falkirk, leaving only Tibbs and Elyshore. The pair elected to store what little loot they'd found on their horses, and then return to check out a few more rooms. Blocking their exit was another skeletal astronaut. It's ray-gun malfunctioned however, vapourising it before it could cause any harm. Sad.

    Back in the wreckage, a door opened to reveal a set of deminc masks in a crew member's quarters. As Tibbs crossed the threshold, the voice spoke again: "Doorway Blockage Detected. Clearing." The doors slammed shut on Tibbs, grievously wounding him. Elyshore activated the door panel again: "Doorway Blockage Detected. Clearing." *crunch* Half of Tibbs' body slumped away from the door. Undeterred, Elyshore sought to send his crow familiar through the door to collect the masks. "Doorway Blockage Detected. Clearing."

    With that the crow familiar died, and in doing so killed its master Elyshore.

    Roll Credits.

Dramatis Personae
Pavel, Dumas, Pascal, Paul, Footmen and Bowmen smart enough to run away.

Elyshore Elf Veteran-Prestidigitator-Rogue, Level 1, Dec 29 861, Familiar Bifurcated by Spaceship Door
Apollodoris, Keeper of Barsoom, Level 3, Dec 29 861, Asphyxiated by Spaceship Exhaust
Cassandra, Gallant of Barsoom, Level 1, Dec 29 861, Asphyxiated by Spaceship Exhaust
Tibbs, Dwarf/Thief/Fighter, Level 1, Dec 29 861, Bifurcated by Spaceship Door

Montrose, Human Light Footman, Level 0, Dec 28 861, Bludgeoned by Cavemen
Peter, Human Light Footman, Level 0, Dec 28 861, Bludgeoned by Cavemen

Philip, Human Light Footman, Level 0, Dec 29 861, Asphyxiated by Spaceship Exhaust
Penelope, Human Light Footman, Level 0, Dec 29 861, Asphyxiated by Spaceship Exhaust
Penzance, Human Light Footman, Level 0, Dec 29 861, Asphyxiated by Spaceship Exhaust
Pinafore, Human Light Footman, Level 0, Dec 29 861, Asphyxiated by Spaceship Exhaust
Gibraltar, Human Light Footman, Level 0, Dec 29 861, Asphyxiated by Spaceship Exhaust
Lauras, Human Light Footman, Level 0, Dec 29 861, Asphyxiated by Spaceship Exhaust

Paris, Human Short-Bowman, Level 0, Dec 29 861, Asphyxiated by Spaceship Exhaust
Phaidra, Human Short-Bowman, Level 0, Dec 29 861, Asphyxiated by Spaceship Exhaust
Phineas, Human Short-Bowman, Level 0, Dec 29 861, Asphyxiated by Spaceship Exhaust
Percival, Human Short-Bowman, Level 0, Dec 29 861, Asphyxiated by Spaceship Exhaust
Pablo, Human Short-Bowman, Level 0, Dec 29 861, Asphyxiated by Spaceship Exhaust
Patrick, Human Short-Bowman, Level 0, Dec 29 861, Asphyxiated by Spaceship Exhaust