Cool, now we're a little more like lj, where everyone wants me to be rather than here. And we still have cool stuff that they don't. Hah! I like the new profile pics next to comments option. Way to go Xanga crew!
Black Friday was a slow day at work, not surprising as none of our locations are situated to get traffic from the stores which advertise the good Black Friday specials. The next day was just as slow. Those two days are notoriously slow each year because everyone is at the sales and we really can't afford to offer a comparable sale. Sales have picked up since, with our usual holiday seasonal increase in gift certificates, GPS and accessories, software, globes, and framed maps.
After work on Black Friday Monte ran his Star Trek Feng Shui campaign. We went to the abandonned Klingon mine searching for the phenomenologist and his family. We insisted on exploring in our environmental suits, insisted on not breaking into smaller groups, and otherwise fought the gold shirts with us who wanted to make the usual horror movie mistakes. We fought some rabid targs, saw evidence of a parasitic aliens who gestated in the guts of their humanoid victims before exploding out of their chest, and evidence of larger aliens which caused severe claw-like damage. Severe acid marks were splashed in some areas which ate through material previously unknown for being able to be taken out by acid.
We checked level by level until we found the youngest of the family, who was in such a severe mode of fear that she attacked any of us that tried to talk to her, much less approach her. Luckily, my security officer was able to sneak up on her and disable her phaser. We took her back to our shuttle for Kitty's medical officer to check out, but along the way ran into the mine's automated systems (which obviously were designed to keep the slave labourers from escaping). I fell asleep somewhere around then, but I guess we lost a few people during the situation.
I set Lord Vader to give me another wake up call before work and received it on time! Way cool. After work Steve ran his Forgotten Realms game, for which I am so far behind in recapping. This was the start of the new storyarc, so I'll just restart from there. So, yes,
Saturday was a better day. Thanks for the wellwishes.
We started in the gladiator pits of Zhentil Keep fighting some form of sentient undead. After that battle, we (as players) returned to the point where we last left our characters, who had been planning to get arrested on trumped up charges and sold to a Zhent ally who would put us in the galdiatorial pits. We left all behind in Daggar Falls and disguised ourselves as mercenary caravan guards and succeeded in getting arrested and sold into gladitorial slavery.
Our Zhent ally has no idea why we are there. He informed us that he'll give us the most leeway he can without losing credibility, and that the more we won in the arena the more leeway he could give us without others questioning. He also told us that he'll schedule us for as many or as few fights as we want. He warned us that he can put us against some opponents whose owners he need not fear, but against opponents who are more powerful he'll have less control over the situation. Also, should we come to the attention of anyone too powerful they could likely force a buyout. Just the kind of worries we need.
Before going on the mission Capernicus had to atone with Lurue for the deal he had made with Valor which led to the death of Kor and the successful recovery of the Eye of the Dragon. She once again began to grant his spell requests after the atonement process, but then he had to give up all of his animal companions in order to prevent their capture by the Zhents when he went undercover. So he's still underpowered for his level. In fact, while others of the group are cheered in his group, Cap is booed and even has shoes thrown at him!
Meanwhile, Malekith is starting a relationship with the resident bully gladiator that even the Quartermaster warned her about getting entangled with. She spells him up before combat, and he gives her special food tokens for the mess hall. The other gladitorial teams aren't happy with her, nor us because of it. Apparently, he's a free minotaur who acts as his own agent. In addition to being the only free person who fights in the gladitorial pits, he's the people's champion. If anyone threatens that possition he usually demands a match against them and wipes them out. He's powerful enough that he could probably whip us all with his hands tied behind his back, so I hope that whatever Malekith's plan is that it doesn't backfire on us.
We had another battle against even greater number of the same undead legions, which apparently get turned into skeletons after they fall in the arena. They get culled from Zhent battlefields to serve again in unlife. Gee, what fun for them. They and a few different teams of various monstrous humanoids share our cell block, so we're slowly getting to know them. How ironic that this happened right after watching
Angel #16: The Ring. Somehow I doubt Steve had watched the same before coming up with the new scenario, but who knows.
All we have to worry about is finding our Daggerdale deep cover agent with whom we have lost contact, determine whether he has been compromised, and either extract him and us or kill him and extract us--all this while having no equipment, almost no freedom, and in the center of the capitol of the enemy empire. No problem! <rolls eyes>
"In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.'' ~Arnay Janos
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