Session 3 of the Glitter Ponies
Fire in the deathlands
Cast:
Operant – Cutter – Terrence
Ghost – Lurk – Charlie
Grandma – Cutter – Patrick (only available for 30 minutes at the start)
Drake – Spider – Antonio
Crow – Whisper – Nicko (Away this week)
Professor – Leech – Nick (Away this week)
Shot opens on the glitter ponies lair, a boat house with the glitter ponies boat, a science vessel with a mural of the professor across it.
The Operator, drake and ghost are sitting together chatting.
Ghost continues “I’m just saying I want to get in with the leviathan hunters better”. Drake argues “Thats hard to do without the professor who is the only one who can pilot the boat.” “We need to start taking turf and kicking in heads” the operator speaks up. The group of 3 spent their time arguing about what their next score would be. A map of duskwall on the table. The talk about attack the grinders, then decide there isn’t much point until they have a gang to help them hold any turf. They talk about Captain
Smash cut to Lord Strangford’s quarter master his Sunday best, awkwardly knocking the mud off his boots and knocking on the door on a cozy looking cottage.
Grandma opens the door “Come in deary, would you like a nice cup of tea? The pots just come off the boil”. Grandma is the cutter of the glitter ponies, with countless interchangeable grandchildren and warm cookies always in the oven this sweet old lady has an iron core few would dare cross. The quarter master takes off his hat and comes in. “Yes you ma’m”.
The sit down and quartermaster gets down to business “The captain was hoping you could get something back for him”. Grandma looked concerned “oh what deary?”. The quarter master continues “when the lost district fell Lord Strangford’s family lost some important charts, we need your crew to get them back”. Grandma smiles “of course deary”. The quartermaster then looks uncomfortable and awkwardly goes on to say “The thing is his family were loaning them to the Clave family at the time”. Grandma has a knowing smile, “don’t worry my crew will be able to get it back no problem, I wont be able to go, our Sean’s birthday is tonight but we’ll be able to sort you”. The quarter looks relieved “What payment would you be after?”. Grandma waves it away “your such a good boy thinking of me in my old age but I wouldn’t dream of charging such a good friend as Lord Strangford”.
Fade in to the Operator, Drake and Ghost again. “So to be clear she agreed to go into the deathlands without our leech nor whisperer available at that, take the charts from Clave house and all for free” Drake asked, Shocked.
The operator nodded “you know grandma, plus you two wanted to get in with Lord Strangford”. Ghost sucks through his teeth thinking, “Hey Drake, you know whose family had a place near Clave house? Roslyn Kellis.” Roslyn had lured many Tycheros noble families to to Duskwall during the last political conflict in the Tycheros court of knives. Many families including both Ghost and Drake’s where lured to Duskwall by Roslyn by promises of a safe place, only to betrayed by her and their goods stolen when they arrived. Both of Ghost’s parents were killed at the hands of Roslyn’s thugs.
At that Drake looks thoughtful, “we’ll need some adepts, going into the deathlands without some protection is madness”. The operator, loads his guns and shrugs “I don’t see what the fuss is about it shouldn’t be difficult we go out, get the chart come back in, easy.”
Cut to Drake sitting down with his architect buddy again, and making him pay again. “The thing is that whole area is currently being surveyed for goods of the crown, they are watch anyone who looks up any of the blueprints, I can give you the address but thats about it”.
The carriage the crew obtained of the train scavenge/rescue which ended up not happening is heading into the death lands. Inside sit our crew and four big Tycherosi men in there mid 50’s they are lead by Uncle Gregori (Based of +Adam Koebel character from the west marches). The gang of adepts are fiercely loyal, old men who love women, wine and arguing. As the Carriage pulls up to Roslyn’s estate you can hear the four loudly sing Tycherosi folk songs.
(OOC, the crew rolled a 3 on their engagement roll, so things started pretty badly for them).
As they pulled up a group of five deathland savages turned from side of the house. “Now what do we have here, a bunch of pigeons ready for the pot?” The leader of the band sneered, Drake jumped out of the carriage, talking quickly hoping beyond hope (it was desperate/limited) he could sway the band away from a fight. “My good sirs, how pleased we are to see you, we are noblemen as you see and there are good we just must retrieve from our families house”. (He then crit his sway roll, ticking off 2 slices of the ‘savagers don’t kill you’ clock). The leader laughed and pranced as he imagined nobles to do, raising his tone to be nasal and toadying “Oh, how quaint, well I was just saying to lord SnotNose here and Duke GutterTrash that you carriage looked to be that of a noble house”. The thugs sniggering, although at least a fight hadn’t started. Drake smiled and pulled a fine bottle of whiskey from his coat “My lords, how happy I am to come across such fine gentlemen as yourself, would you care to share this fine bottle of whiskey with me” (And then he crit his sway a second time). Cut to Uncle Gregori drunkly teaching the deathland savages an out Tycherosi drinking song as the scavengers finished the last of the bottle. The leader looks at Drake I like you, I’ll tell my boys the glitter ponies ain’t bad (two crits on desperate rolls to sway them, I felt that deserved a +1 rep with the deathland scavengers if nothing else).
The crew ransacked Roslyn’s family house looking for anything to blackmail her with. With a grin Ghost found some documents and they took 2 coin with of art and such, the crew left onwards to clave house only to realize that Ghost had left a small fire burning when they left, as it slowly spread in the house, the crew started to hurry as they were worried it might spread.
The crew arrived at Clave house in a bit of a hurry. The crew tore through the house looking for the study with the charts. They found it upstairs, Ghost started the slow process of cracking the safe, when he was half way done 2 ghosts appeared, they were children, a little girl and a little boy. The crew looked pitying at them, that is until they removed the skill from there faces. The operator drew both his guns, firing electroplasm killing the little boy and boy, but only winging the girl who jumped on the Operator trying to posses him. While ghost continued to try and crack the safe, Drake lead the adepts in attempting to drive off the spirits and the operator fired another shot into the ghost, watching it fade away. The operator was left standing there, pale the blood drained from his face. Uncle Gregory laughed “Deathlands are easy? No? I don’t see what the fuss is about”, laughing and echoing the operator’s word’s back at him.
Finally the safe opened the crew grabbed the charts and whatever other treasure remained.
Cut to Lord Strangford talking to his quartermaster. “So the glitter ponies was it, so lucky they were able to get the Charts out before the fire struck” the lord drawled. The quartermaster looked woodenly “Yes sir”. “I trust you ensured they were well paid” Lord Strangford went on to ask. The quarter master shook his head, “I tried, but they refused they said it was an honor to do Lord Strangford a favor and that favors should not require coin when they are between friends”. Lord Strangford sat looking at his glass of red wine “Now that is interesting”.
Epilogue:
The Drake is returning to the lair, the light from his lamp retracts back to the lamp as if afraid of the darkness, a bestial form appears in the darkness and a sinister voice growls “I have need of your services”
Then we cut to black.