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ACNW 2006: Gargoyles and Grails in the Dreaming City

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In the years since the Sidhe inhabitants of Murias opened the gates of the great city to mortals, the city has grown in ways that they could never have imagined. Modern technology and ancient magics coexist in the Dreaming City and it has become a haven for all sorts of mythical creatures. Frozen in stone for decades by a powerful spell, the latest additions to the city have been seen soaring over the skies of Murias. They are winged gargoyles from a time when superstition and the sword ruled and if they don't adapt to the new world quickly, they will never be able to keep the oath they made centuries ago: to protect the grail. They will need allies who understand the city....

 

Summary here.

 

Tsuki's After-Action Report:

The events of the last ..was it only 12 hours ..it certainly seemed a lot longer was to say the less very intense, and confusing all at once. Though I am not looking forward to whatever punishment I am going to get after being indirectly involved with the death of a prominent member of the Unseelie Court.


What started out as a standard bottom of the list crap assignment, sewer patrol with two other equally unlucky members of the MPD – didn’t end up as a ‘standard patrol’. We ran into gargoyles (by the names: Delilah, Samson, Dactyl, Solomon and a few others) along with a well known certain Net Troll, Big Crunch, an equally famous PI who is famous for always being in tones of black, white and gray – very odd use of magic; and a human mage named Sadarko.

 

From what I was able to pick up in the various conversations, these gargoyles had been the guardians of one of the four great Fey treasures – the Grail (or Cauldron for those history buffs). And 1000 years ago they were placed in some kind of ..enchanted sleep only to be awakened if the Grail was in danger. Well they awakened just not where they thought they should be, all but one of them had been ..bought in an estate sale by the mage Sadarko. And the last one – Solomon awakened for sale in Baytor’s MagicalEmporium and promptly escaped. First they were looking for each other then upon finding Solomon in the sewers (along with me), we set about finding the Grail. I at this point went along only due to the potential of having to deal with the public – hopefully the Grail was not in a private person’s hand and just lost somewhere publicly.

 

I had sent my partners back to report and continued on – yet another report I am going to have to write – replacing police radios.. ughh. Don’t ask, it was embaressing.

 

Now the fun stuff. Solomon using magic, yes it does appear that Gargoyles can in fact wield magic, cast a spell to find the Grail. And after traipsing (not uneventfully I might add – something about a possessed .. berserk gargoyle -- which I didn’t understand. At least the other gargoyles subdued him) though the sewer for a bit, we ended up by Wolf, Ram and Hart – why am I not surprised?

 

There we encountered exiting the elevator inside Wolf, Ram and Hart; Balthazar (rather infamous Unseelie Court member – now collector of ..magical artifacts). He apparently had purchased the Grail, I am still not certain from whom. The Gargoyles were rather tight lipped about information. At this point, I was in agreement with the Gargoyles, that he should not have it but of course had to deal with it legally. Even as I tried to get some answers from Baltazar, the building was under attack by what looked like a magical clone army of Templars. Yes Templars. I don’t know if they were the result of one of the Gargoyles calling Simon (apparently an old Templar friend of theirs or what ..), needless to say. Things got very confusing for a few minutes. I had suggested that Balthazar get back in the elevator for his safety and a few of the Gargoyles went in with him, while I and some of the other Gargoyles dealt with the Templars clone things.

 

The next thing I know, Baltazar is dead and the Grail in the possession of the Gargoyles. I never did get a straight answer on what happened in the elevator from the Gargoyles, I can only hope that building security tapes got something .. Yeh right, and Wolf, Ram and Hart is going to tell the police, I won’t hold my breath. Needless to say we all ended up somewhere on the 7th floor I believe along with a new arrival, someone that claimed he was Lancelot du Lac. Apparently he had been curse to not die until he a) found the Grail and b) it was safe .. not sure about that, something else to verify.

 

Lancelot told us that he had been sent by Merlin to find and safely retrieve the Grail – not letting it fall into the ‘wrong’ hands. At this point, I think I need a score card. I tagged along again to visit, this Merlin and maybe get some answers. As it is my report is going to read .. well pretty sad .. I am so not looking forward to another visit to my Captain’s office – there is not that many duties worse then sewer duty.

 

Merlin though looking like one might think Merlin looked was in fact not Merlin, I still don’t quite know what happened one moment we were all talking the next all hell broke lose. And people call me trigger happy ok so I like my explosives -- but they work real well against the nasty stuff I usually end up fighting but these gargoyles are something else. A few moments later ..and I mean moments, I picked myself up off the floor, not really certain how I got there, brushed off the worse of the gore from the exploding spells, slashing claws and I am not certain what else was used .. now ..very dead demon (I think) that was trying to be Merlin. And NO I didn’t toss explosives on Merlin in the middle of a room full of civilians!! I am not responsible for that mess. Lancelot was down and dying .. yes he had fulfilled both of his quest items – though a bitch of a way to die, since I am fairly certain someone among us shot him (more then once) I really don’t know who – or for that matter why, maybe possession –there had been a few instantance of that tonight. The room looked like one of the better splatter flicks complete with associated used weapons and the trashed furniture.

 

The Grail went with the Gargoyles, since technically I had no right to seize it. And I returned to the station to write the report from hell. I am so not looking forward to what my next assignment is going to be.

 

GM Post-Con Review: http://www.skyseastone.net/nuadha/hand/006272.html  

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