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SMAX World Tour

Page history last edited by Capellan 5 years, 11 months ago

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Gould's bookshop

He gives a list of names around the world who might be able to help with the TripliKate thing

Adrian Cromwell in London

Last news of Black is he was looking for the Green Man - Pagan elemental

Dr Tarot in SF

Xo and Danny are at the museum

She encourages him to take a research assistant's job

Shock tells Bear about her new costume ideas

Megastar looks for weird island

Bear says Shock has weird DNA, even for a mutant

Later, he says the same about Xo and I

I go see Molly Midnite and suggest she get out of any business that hurts people before I cease to be busy

Daphne has a job with Mars

Still lodges with Shock's mother

Shadowy figure watches the museum at night

It's GRAB

Blue Jay is reputed to be a murderer but is really upset by the accusation

We take them down

They were hired by Lupo

He was the guy trying to kidnap Kris 70 issues ago

 

 

99

Megastar flying back from looking for the island

We plan our trip

Molly wants to find the Mysterious Island

Shock is being particularly Shockish

I go see Blue Jay

She did a couple of break and enters.  Tangled with security guards

She says the guards panicked, hit gas mains and the like - she didn't kill them

Legally, she's still a murderer unless this happened in jurisdictions without felony murder rules

But I'll check into whether there is security footage - might at least give some moral defence

Molly and Bear look for the island

Moo-Vel girl has weird brainwaves

Lupo's computer records look legit

Shock sneaks in to look for paper trail

There isn't one

Molly Midnite may have info

"Don't break into his house"

All his written records are misdirection

Possible buyers: Bulldog Smith is most likely

We fly to the UK

"Grond will crush!"

 

 

100

We try to deal with Grond

Being us, we use pictures of bunny rabbits

And soothing cranial massage

Unleash the puppy dog eyes!

We talk him down in the end

AEGIS send him back to Antarctica for us

Molly stays to fix the ship

The rest of us go to the British Museum to meet Eldritch

Eldritch's master is Magus Adrian Cromwell, who I need to see

Also, Eldritch lives in the notTARDIS

Someone is trying to break into the museum

It is The New Le Coq's Legion

 

 

101

We fight the idiots

We secure the idiots

We need Cromwell to fix the museum

Shock's sensitivity training is showing again

She and Molly go out

Xo and I wait for AEGIS

Bulldog Smith was behind this raid

They were after the Eye of Set

We go to the Tower of London

Oh look, Spectral Bobby

 

 

102

Can't game.  Satan jizz.

Shock and Molly invent a worse Mousetrap

Shock explains things.  It goes about as well as you'd expect.

Magus Cromwell is doing Magus stuff

We organise samples of hair from the three Kates for analysis

Molly and Kris meet Danny

I help Xo come up with a (true) cover story

She goes to make things less awkward

Yeah ...

Something is missing from the museum

A Celtic knife - not known to be a major artefact

Cromwell fixes the tower

Cromwell: Eldritch speaking in tongues when she touches me is "to be expected" and will always happen

Says my powers stem from angelic possession

"Moo-Vel's a Holy Cow"

 

 

103

Blue Jay has never operated in the UK

Shock wants to go to Madame Tussaud's.  No-one else does so she goes shopping.

Xo's with Eldritch

Molly and I - and the Phantom Bobby  - look into the missing knife

"Whatever took it got past the wards"

we warn Cross that there may be another attempt to steal the Dragon's Eye back home

The good news is Xo's not possessed

Eldritch suggests they need to refer Xo to someone more specialised in the field

She also suggests some control exercises

One of the other artefacts is in the lair of Dr Egypt, under the Great Pyramid

Phantom Bobby would like us to speak to Bulldog Smith

Smith is an exile from Faerie.

Small pub called The Willows

It's full of magic types

"Wolfy" is Mr Smith's gatekeeper

So wants Shock to be useful. Life is full of disappointments

Mr Smith will see us after closing

Molly identifies designs on the knife as like those of the alien race known as the Gir

The Gir are spiritual demon-fighters. Small and blue

No such designs on the Dragon Eye

We go see Smith to find out if it is a trap

Smith says "The Dark Cardinal" is behind all this

 

 

104

Danny's relationship with his mom isn't great

Kate's hair samples have arrived

Molly is researching the markings on the knife

Cromwell has good news and bad

Kate 3 is different to 1 and 2

1 and 2 are identical

None have demonic taint he can detect

Eldritch has been warning the other mages about the Cardinal

There may be a connection between Faerie and the Gir

Cardinal has a magic book - unprecedented summoning powers

Eldritch thinks we can work out the whole speaking in tongues thing

Suggests talking to Archangel about it

I ask AEGIS to find him and set up a meeting

Xo would like to re-consecrate Notre Dame after we deal with Cardinal

We approach Notre Dame through the Catacombs

Shock senses animal brain activity up ahead

They turn out to be about 40 Type 1 Demons

 

 

105

Megastar takes out 40 Type 1 Demons

Oh hey, tougher demons

But not that much tougher

Still, the Doom Pool is ugly

We sneak further in

It's all very spooky

Shock: "This is easy"

Which is when we hear ritual chanting

It's Cardinal Blood. Because he got a new name (or the writer is a hack)

He summons more Type 1s

And then puts the whammy on us

Or tries to, anyway

I remonstrate with him

He sets Xo on fire

And has annoying spoiler powers

But we make him doubt himself

Apparently Asmodeus does not approve

And drags him down to Hell

 

 

106

We arrive in Cairo.  With Danny

Megastar is still working on the ship

We're here to see Dr Cairo

Danny offers Xo a ride in his limo

Oh, and the rest of us too

There are student demonstrations disrupting traffic

We chill at the hotel

Danny calls Xo: he is intimidated by his hotel

There are also students protesting there

Bear wants us to meet with Yusef Gabor

Wealthy philanthropist looking to use weather control for good

There are lots of young people with snake tattoos in protests

Symbol of the Sons of Set: Egyptian nationalists

I meet with Yusef - he expresses interest in working with Bear

He's having the kind of party that attracts supervillains

That night we go looking for Dr Cairo

There's a hole in his pyramid

And a dead person inside

Oh hey bad guys

We beat them up

 

107

Shock checks the bad guy for IS

His name is Yusef Hawaz

I call Eldritch

She suggests following up on Dr Cairo with antiquities dealers

Detective Nethe might know Dr Cairo

We call the cops

They take us to the station to make statements

They want to test Shock's swords

Shock makes this as difficult as possible

While we are there, a hostage incident takes place

The hostage takers want "The Boy"

We search for a pyramid and find a photo of a young man

Shock runs a search on the photo

Find locations the boy is often at

Xo and I try to mystic our way to him

It actually appears to work

We go there and find him

Mohammed Zahan

Bad guys have his wife

She is mystically warded

Xo goes to recon and her eyebrows go up

 

108

We're pandering to Furries

Crocovillian narrates nothing!

His curse of hunger doesn't go so well for him

Hippolady eats Shock - and not in the way Shock likes

We blind Hippolady to take her out of the fight

Xo frees Zahan's wife

We vacate the area

Xo treats Shock's injuries

Zahan has kept the Tooth of Set safe

But the bad guys have the Helm of Dr Cairo

Apparently this is far more dangerous

But we have guys on Viper flycycles to worry about first

And bombs with hostages attached to them

Zo and Megastar bash baddies while Shock and I deal with the bombs

That works surprisingly well

 

109

Viper dudes are being interrogated

The Helm being stolen is another "unprecedented mystical power" thing

Taken by an immortal named Pottifar

But he is probably not the originator of the scheme

Molly emails Moo-vel Girl.  Moooo?

Viper guys mentions Yusef Gabor

Big storm

Oh hey Viper

We beat em up

The experiment appears successful

If a bit scary in how it operates

Gabor's all cranky

Danny's all clueless

We head back to Cairo PD

We meet The Scarab

He should be named The States The Obvious

 

110

Apparently I was somehow persuaded to let Shock scout Gabor's place

Along with Captain Obvious

Shock gets full schematics of the machine

They get out with only being shot at a little

We go find some terrorists to interrogate

"Daughter of the Cobra"

Temple west of the city

We sneak in through the air ducts

Badly

Shock and Scarab get separated from us

Megastar flashes some guards

We make lots of noise

LOTS OF NOISE

We find the Daughter of the Cobra

Meanwhile, Shock detects a large energy signature

And meets Hassan Chop

 

111

Shock tries to escape

Pottifar tries to stab her

It goes poorly for both

The daughter's goons get taken out fast

She meanwhile wants glorious battle

We don't really do glorious around here

It is not a good day to be the Daughter of the Cobra

And not much better to be the guy with the silly name

We take the helmet back to Zahar

"Dr Cairo Lives!"

 

112

We are in Dr Cairo's Not-Bat-Cave

We ask him about Xander Black

Black was asking him to search for misguided souls

They weren't able to locate any souls in the Underworld

Therefore anyone with no soul either lost it, had it stolen, or never had one

One of the three Kates has no soul

Wisdom of the Ancients pointed them to Katana and Amar Kabir

Kabir is an Indian mystic; expert in finding the truth

Artefact thefts: something ancient trying to break free

He suggests Xo talk to Tarot in SF

Xo calls Danny. He wants to see the Sphinx

Gabor's suddenly "the weather machine was a bad idea"

Danny wants Bear to encounrage Gabor otherwise

Xo goes out with Danny while I distract Kris

Molly follows a cat

Because of course she does

Now she is creepily surrounded by creepy cats of creepiness

Danny is going to Pakistan next.  Of course

Molly and I look at churches.  Many dogs follow us

Cows are waiting for us in Kashmir

Mooooooo

 

 

113

Molly talks to cows

Kris googles Amar Kabir

That doesn't get us very far so I use mystic dowsing

Mystic energy "that way"

I hear what sounds like someone beating up a tank

It's where the mystic energy is

Of course it is

Shock investigates

It's a 12 foot tall four armed elephant man

Not the David Lynch kind

He's fighting the Pakistani Army

We decide to be elsewhere until we can work out who he is and what he is doing

The GM's not gonna let that happen

Shock tricks the army into thinking they won.

We are all impressed (and surprised) by this plan

Elephant Man is a Lieutenant in the Indian Army

We go with him to his base

Where we get a more or less civil welcome

We agree to stay peacefully overnight

But it is becoming apparent we won't be allowed to continue our search

Elephant guy has met Xander Black

Elephant guy also deliberately gives us a chance to escape

Xo makes the most of the chance

We return to looking for Amar Kabir

 

 

114

Megastar is surrounded by cows

The cows don't seem to want to let her leave.

But she can fly

She calls us and arranges to meet up.

Ship's sensors don't work in the area where we are heading

And there is a weird tasting mist.  Possibly Sierra.

Megastar makes a big glow

Which reveals lots of spiders watching her

After a while they stop following us

There is nothing living here - plant or animal

There's a portal ahead that might lead to a different dimension

I go through first to check if it is safe

It's a weird, strange metaphysical plane.  He said redundantly.

It is Amir Kabir

Xo's tentacles don't want her to go into the portal

Something tries to read my mind.  Which is quite impolite.

Shock comes through despite not hearing from me

Naturally, this starts a fight

(It's not actually her fault)

It's actually a rakshasa, who has likely killed the real Kabir

Fighty fight fight

We win.  There are floating stairs now.

 

 

115

There is no electricity here

Megastar's lights look more vivid than usual

We try going up the stairs

They seem to stretch into infinity and then vanish behind us

We go "Further up and farther in"

Eventually we meet a lion-tailed monkey in a pinstripe suit and a cravat

His name is Sanjay

Kabir is "presently deceased"

However, his soul has been trapped on the far side of "The Breach" by a monster

So we should probably do something about that

"Women don't owe you dates just because you stop the apocalypse"

We find a tentacle-y, mouthy thing

Clearly our writer has just discovered Lovecraft

Iai! Iai! C'thulhu fhtagn!

Worst Elder God since the end of Hellboy

 

 

116

We need to wait 24 hours for Kabir to recover

Xo gets a phone message from Danny: "911 please call"

He has been kidnapped.  Thereby justifying his narrative existence.

Shock tracks the signal from Danny's phone

Bear gives us a lead on someone who can provide a fake ransom: William

We plan to drop off the fake ransom then follow whoever picks it up

A super-speedster comes for the bag

This does not go so well for him

There are more bad guys

Xo touches one of them with her noodly appendage

That guy has a major seizure

All four of them are messed up with some kind of drug

Xo looks after them until AEGIS can arrive

Shock and I track the phone to an abandoned medical facility

There's an evil spider monkey controlling these guys

If the writer was not a hack, this would be Monkey On Your Back

And now he has a human on his back

 

 

117

We've dropped all that Kabir stuff, it seems.  Japan time!

Oh.  Dream sequence / Hallucinogenic villain / Somesuch.

Megastar is with Moo-vel Girl

No-one else is around and her phone doesn't work.

Xo is in a Parisian shoe shop

I investigate the source of a flood of refugees

It's Shadow Warriors.  I grab one

Megastar tries to leave the lab and meets Robyn

Robyn from a world where Kris is not a walking romantic disaster

Megastar is suspicious of Robyn's desire for the wifi password

Xo works out she is in a dream, right before Danny turns up

Danny remembers being rescued, and doesn't know how he got to Paris

Apparently I'm up against the Thunderer

I try to head up the mountain: Ninjas attack to use up a page

Xo is still weirded out

Either we are all strung out on the monkey's mojo (jojo) or this is something to do with Sanjay

Xo's tentacles are being a little overly friendly

Further up the mountain is a statue of Sanjay

Moo-vel Girl's mind machine lets Megastar text Xo and vice versa

Xo tries to connect everyone with the magics.  Including Danny

Xo's room service is a monkey

We collectively touch our monkeys

I tune in to Sanjay

We've been caught up in the psychic backwash from Kabir's reincarnation

Shock is cocooned for her own protection

She is drawing some of her energy from a primitive entity named Raiden

She has drawn us into it to help her

I go back to where I started.  There are a lot of ninja

 

 

118

Awesome was busy elsewhere.

Valkyrie turned up.

Made-up Moo-Vel Girl died.

 

 

119

Awesome be fighting ninjas.  But then the ninjas stop moving.

All but one disappear.

Shock ends up in the mind of that last ninja.

Sanjay calls.  Everything is bad.  Bad things.  Bad.

We try to track Megastar through her phone.

This works.  In as much as we find a dead cow and Megastar's phone.

Shock ignores the exposition.

We go to Pacific Vision Labs.

Something is very wrong in Bear's Lab.

Robyn is trying to break into the computers

We stop her and Shock kicks Megastar out of her mind

I magically track the Spear of Odin

We end up in Shock's bedroom when she was 13

Raiden is here

Fight time.  Our secret weapon is water.

And furniture.

We win the fight and return to the real world.

 

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