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This campaign met once a month at G.A.S.P.
It is no longer being played.
MAIN CHARACTERS
| PLAYER | CHARACTER - CREED | PLAYER | CHARACTER - CREED |
| ADRIAN | EDWARD/HEIE/LAURA - Multiple | DEVIN | DANTE - Avenger |
| MARTY | BILL - Judge | SHAWN | MIKE - Computer Guy |
| TIM | KEITH - MARTYR | TODD | WALTER - VISIONARY |
| Chris | Cody - ? | Jerome | ? - ? |
DEAD HUNTERS
Richard Rodriguez - R.I.P.
Mr. I Forget His Name - R.I.P
Frank - R.I.P.
Saturday May 14th 2005When we last left our gathering of Hunters, they were attempting to kill a beast that they thought looked like a werewolf. Two of their number passed on into death. To avoid dealing with the cops the survivors of the attack ran through the winding streets of Venice Italy to their small mom & pop hotel. They again saw fliers for the scuba tour of the underground canals. They also learned that part of the tour had been closed off due to an artifact dig site. The Hunters all received messages that "It is being dug up." Frank, Walter, Mike, and Keith were all covered in drying werewolf blood and were discussing the attack when two new members entered the hotel.
The two new members, Bill and Bob, took the same plane and wound up going to the same hotel as the other Hunters. Bill got the last room opening, and Bob was refused due to no vacancies. Bill and Bob noticed the blood on the Hunters and mentioned it.
The Hunters thought they recognized Bob as a professional Martial Artist, but they weren't sure. Bob asked questions about the blood, and for some reason tasted some of it.
Keith asked why they had come here, and where they were from. Bill and Bob, like the rest of the Hunters, were from Pittsburgh. "Hey man yinz ever been to Pants 'n 'at? They got some great cat-on-a-stick down on Carson Street." They also mentioned a very familiar phrase that the Messengers have given the other Hunters, "Venice is the place to be." Keith decided to start laying it on thick, telling them all about, "Seeing weird crap man."
Mama, the owner of the hotel, asked the Hunters if they were all right. They said yes they were fine, but she brought Band-Aids and ace bandages anyway. Frank was trying to conceal a very large two-foot silver cross, and doing a very poor job of it. The blood covered Hunters went up stairs, but told the two newbies to wait down in the lobby for them. After some showers, and some blaring Megadeth coming out of Keith's room, they met again in the Lobby to discuss their similar knowledge of the strange and dark world that truly exists out there.
Walter used some of his connections to find out that "Bob" was actually named Heie. Keith decided this was an opportunity to tell the other Hunters that they need to go on this scuba trip. "We gotta go on this tour man, Megadeth, and random billboards told me so." Walter mentioned sarcastically, "Yeah man, swimming in human sewage sounds like a fantastic thing to do. Sign me up."
At this moment, when the newbies thought Keith was a few french fries short of a happy meal, a dark figure dressed all in black holding a sharp blade, passed quickly in front of the window.
Walter, having "Pubdar" remembered seeing a bar across the way and wanted to check it out. Bill and Keith said that it was a terrible idea, and finally convinced them that getting some wine from the basement was a much safer thing to do, than wandering around in a foreign city at night when werewolves and God knows what else was wandering around out there.
Heie, having jet lag, decided to go up to his new room and get some shuteye. Bill, Mike, and Frank stayed in the lobby and discussed some things, while Keith and Walter went down to get a fix for Walter's alcohol jones. A wicked eerie howl that made the group's neck hairs stand up on end, seemed to fill the night air all around the hotel. Those in the lobby then heard scratching noises on glass somewhere in the hotel. Kicking into denial overdrive, they blamed this on Keith, saying he would do something like that.
At this point Keith and Walter came up holding many bottles of newer vintage wine. They passed it out, as Keith told them, "I don't know what in the Hell you guys are talking about. I was getting wine man. How on earth was I supposed to go around scratching windows when I have my arms full of crappy wine for yinz guys."
They made their way up to check on Heie when they heard the sounds of glass shattering and the shards landing on the floor inside one of the rooms. Mike took notice of the writing on the walls inside of one of the rooms, and copied it down. It was in Latin, and just glancing at it, it seemed that it was some sort of protection against the Walkers of the Night.
They heard running on the roof of the hotel. "Oh great, it is Santa Clause, and he's pissed." They then heard a large crash above them, and felt the plaster hit them on the heads in small clumps. Readying them selves for anything, the ceiling came crashing down as a large furry arm, with a blade in hand swung back and forth violently.
Walter started rummaging around for something flammable as he got visions of silver and fire. Heie started grabbing some martial arts weapons. Mike pulled out his knife. Keith, feeling sorry for him self and being self destructive, leaped onto the bed and jumped at the Werewolf's torso. He grabbed on for dear life, using one of his edges, and pulled it into the room with supernatural strength.
The werewolf fell onto him crushing him. Keith held onto the Werewolf for a very long time as it gnawed on his face. "Hit him please, HIT HIM! Chris I love you... I deserve this..." Mike used his Cleave edge to slice into the beasts shoulder blade. Heie tried to ineffectively rip one of the beast’s eyes out. Frank kept hitting the furry creature with the large silver cross. Bill not knowing what to grab, because he couldn't bring any weapons from the States, grabbed a broken 2x4 and smashed it over the beast's back. It didn't look like it did anything but piss it off more.
The beast grew larger, darker, and its hair turned to pitch black. It broke free of Keith's grasp and attacked Frank, slicing him from stomach to chest. Heie and Keith dove at the beast's silver knives in each hand. Heie managed to knock the blade away, while Keith grabbed the blade by mistake and sliced his fingers badly.
The Hunter's again slammed and sliced into the beast and it finally roared in a death rattle and fell to the floor. It shrunk into the body of a large dead wolf with many wounds. Bill laid his hands on Frank and did what he could, to help aid the healing process. Mike picked up a dagger, and Heie did the same. Mike did some research on the blade and handle and thought the handle was from an extinct Native American tribe, called the Windigo. Bill then did what he could to for the weeping and wounded Keith lying on the floor. Keith started to laugh in a sick and desperate way, and all the while saying, "Ouch." His jaw was badly damaged from the repeated gnawing of the beast’s massive maw.
They went down to check on Mamma. She seemed to know all about the beast. "They leave yet? Good, you be safe here tonight, no pack, just one. Go to sleep, you safe here, no more attacks tonight, you sleep now."
Walter muttered under his breath as he climbed the stairs, "Safe place indeed... yeah right." Bill chucked Frank on the floor in Mike's room and told him to keep an eye on him. Mike learned more about the protective words on the room walls by doing a little research online. The Hunters went to sleep, and hopefully they didn't have too many nightmares...
Saturday June 11th 2005Frank was taken away in an ambulance, and never heard from again. They heard later that Frank died in the hospital.
In the morning the party found breakfast prepared for them, but Mama was missing and could not be found. They decided she must have went to the market. The hunters decided to prepare some things and get some things from the city. They wanted to search for hunter symbols to see if there were any other hunters in the area. Keith went into Mama's room and found an old bed, magical symbols on the floor, and the trench coat of the little twitchy kid. They searched for Mama but she wasn't anywhere to be found. Mike decided to give Keith a slush fund of $10,000 just in case things went sour.
Mike and Walter decided to try to find some illegal guns in the city. After much small talk and wads of cash in the right places, they felt they had a good lead. So Mike and Walter walked down into a dark alley. They came to a heavily reinforced door. After speaking a vulgar password they were allowed into the place. Upon entering they were blinded by a bright flashlight to the eyes. "You give me all of your money, maybe we give you guns, maybe we don't."
Bill, Heie, and Keith decided to try and find the scuba place, and found the place. It was an old converted church. After 3 hours of scuba training they were certified in scuba. They learned more details about the tour. It used to be a larger tour, and a better one the instructor told them. The Church came and shut them down for archeology research.
Mike and Walter, after handing over way too much money to the Mafia thugs, got 2 handguns with no ammo. "You want I should give you gun and ammo, so you can shoot me without paying? What you think I am, stupid?" At this time a stranger was brought into the room, he said his name was Dante. The thugs asked why there was a guy standing in the alley. Mike and Walter couldn't convince them that they didn't know who Dante was. Mike decided to get lippy, and asked for more guns for the money they had handed over. After some threats were exchanged, Mike was unceremoniously shot in the leg with a shotgun. Lucky for him it had rock salt in it, but boy did it sting. Mike muttered something about revenge as Walter and Dante drug him out into the safety of the dark alley. Walter managed to procure some first aid for Mike at a small store. After a long walk back they reached Mama's hotel.
The hunters realized something had changed since they left. The place looked more dilapidated and old. The paint looked faint, and chipped, the wallpaper was peeling off the walls, and the magical symbols were all but faded from the rooms and Mama's room. They went upstairs and realized that they hadn't gotten rid of the werewolf carcass that was now just a large wolf in the center of the room. Keith put on some Megadeth and started to hack up the wolf like he had done with his father back on the old property. "We used to butcher deer right on the dining room table. If you throw some plastic down, bring out the saws and knives, you have a whole evening of butchering family fun. My dad was too cheap to pay to have a butcher do it. He told us that is why he had kids, to do work." Keith took the garbage bags out behind the hotel and threw them in the rusty garbage cans.
Walter figured out that Mama had been dead for quite some time. Some locals told them that the hotel had been shut down for quite some time. Mama's son tried to run it for awhile, but it went under. Walter found a nice flower and laid it on Mama's bed. It was his way of saying thank you for the help she had given them. The hunters decided to be squatters and use the hotel as headquarters. He also found that the Italian Mob was the only place to get guns. They seemed to have a gun monopoly in the city.
This is when the realized that Heie isn't all there. All of a sudden he got real quiet and shy, and looked petrified. He said his name was Laura. After some questions they found out that Laura was very book smart. Mike was busy trying to put hits out on the Italian Mob, when Laura asked to use Mike's computer to investigate the symbols. Walter decided to buy alcohol in the daylight this time, instead of when the big evil things are out on the prowl. Keith decided to use the rest of his "Blood Money" to buy Laura a computer of her own.
"It's time to go swimming in olive oil, lets go." They decided to get the rest of the group certified in swimming in sewage. Keith after hearing about Mike getting shot, and what he planned to do to the mob, decided to go swimming out in the pool while the group of them all lost their brains. Bill decided that Keith had a good idea and decided to get some practice in as well, while the group went into some epileptic fit of chaos. Keith doing the breast-stroke kept saying in a sing song voice, "These guys... are going... to get... us killed."
Heie/Laura decided that having two personalities wasn't enough to keep track of, he had a third lurking in the recesses of his shattered mind. Edward the psycho made a dramatic appearance. Edward grabbed Walter and held him hostage after he reached for a gun that wasn't there. "Yep these... guys are... going to... get us... all killed... la la ... la la." After convincing the newbie Edward that they weren't trying to kill him, they all started swimming and were certified after 4 hours or so.
Dante and Edward/Heie/Laura tried to find the Mafia again but couldn't find them anywhere. They lost all of their money that they used to find a lead.
Mike learned that the Vatican was behind the church closings and the archeology digs that were going on there. Guards were posted on the churches, and they had real itchy trigger fingers. The dig started 3 months ago, and they didn't really give any reasons for why they did it. Supposedly the pope during the time of the crusades used one of the churches for a headquarters for many campaigns. The hunters wandered if there might be some powerful artifacts from that time period. With the second sight turned on the churches seemed to glow. the guard also glowed, but they glowed in a different way that was hard to put into words. Walter told them that there was something wrong with the guard’s blood. He kept saying that their blood was dead, whatever that meant. Bill agreed with him.
Back at the hotel Dante ordered some guns in parts so they would get through customs. He spent the night asking the group what kind of weapons they were interested in having. At a high cost he had them shipped in from outside of Italy. They learned that the guards are humans and will die like humans. Keith sneaked up and saw an old hunter symbol on the wall of the church, but it looked scratched off. Over the hunter mark another mark was there. Hidden from the view of the guard, Keith tried to sneak back but was seen and shot at. The bullets went wide and Keith was missed.
They went back to Mama's hotel and slept till morning. The gun parts arrived and Dante spent some time putting them together. They went to the Scuba place and took the tour. The water was murky with all of the digging at the churches, and it wasn't a very good tour. They learned that artifacts were brought back from the crusade, and that an earthquake sunk the churches below ground level.
They bribed the scuba guy to extend the tour into the dangerous areas. After signing a waiver they proceeded on the extended tour. After the 2-hour tour they returned to the hotel, after buying a guitar case to carry the guns to the scuba place, and water proof bags for the guns so they wouldn't get wet.
Back at the hotel, Dante had finished the guns, so the group went back to the scuba place, when it was closed, and went on a scuba trip without the permission of the owner. They had to let themselves in of course. They found a small hole with light shining through. Edward/Heie/Laura jumped up and shot at the lone guard, but his shot went wild. The guard sprayed the wall with bullets from some automatic rifle. The bullets hit the compressor that was continually pumping water out of the basement of the church. The group fled back into the scuba place. In hindsight they realized that the scuba business and the guy might be in danger, but they couldn't think about it then, they fled to the hotel. With a feeling of failure and an almost hopeless challenge in front of them, the party went to sleep wondering what the next day would bring.
Saturday Dec 11th 2005Keith was kidnapped by 2 furry handed creatures. He woke to find himself in the basement of some building with a single lonely light bulb swinging in front of him. His memory of that event is sketchy, but he remembers lots of pain, and falling into the welcome arms of unconsciousness, only to be restored by some means to suffer more punishment. He remembers bits and pieces of what happened. He recalls the 8-9 foot beast with black fur and red eyes. He also recalled seeing the Windigo daggers that the Hunters have found in the past. He was unconscious when he was rescued.
The rest of the Hunters were at the Coliseum. A post card was found by Bill that said, "Choose duty or compassion." Edward/Heie/Laura was in Venice recovering from mental and physical wounds. They scaled the walls of the Coliseum but were seen. They found a secret way in the subway and followed it. They fought what they thought was a Werewolf but it escaped albeit a little burnt. An Italian Policeman was killed by the beast, and the Hunters (except Keith) are wanted in Rome. They fled in fear to the hotel.
After doing some research, they think that the Vatican, or a special order of the Vatican, is in charge of the excavation of the churches in Venice. Edward/Heie/Laura let them know that he saw a white truck backed up to the churches, being loaded by more creepy looking people.
Michael hacked into the police files and changed their descriptions on their warrants so they would be looking for other people in Rome. They took a train back to Venice,Italy. They booked a hotel in Venice on the way, and picked up their guns they left there. They learned that the white truck went towards the ports, but they weren't sure where its destination was. They got a night's sleep and some breakfast.
They strolled past the churches, and noticed that there were no guards like before. They went back to see the old Scuba Teacher, and found his body nailed to the wall, with 2 large spikes in his shoulders, and one in his left leg. His neck was wrapped with a scuba hose. He was killed within 24 hours of them finding the body. They then put on scuba gloves, and rubbed the places they touched to try to smear any finger prints. Dante unwrapped the hose, and they saw that his neck was savagely torn, and also that a grenade had fallen out of said wound, and was trying to kill them. They panicked and ran for their lives into the crowded street. The healthy members, carried/dragged the wounded ones away and cleaned themselves up at the hotel. They called in a bomb threat for the 3 churches in hopes that the police would find something strange in the churches.
Bill returned to his hotel room to find a monkey with 2 cymbals who talked to him. The monkey said, "Out of its crypt, it walks the night." The hunters thought this was strange, but Keith kept asking what Dave Mustaine told him through the monkey. This is when the other Hunters shook their head at Keith. They monkey also told them that it would be more difficult now to stop it.
They learned that the explosion was labeled as a terrorist-type situation. Walter learned that the white truck was heading towards the airport. They learned of 3 possible flights that might house such a large crypt and narrowed it down to the one traveling to California. The Hunters decided to bury their European weapons in the Old Lady's Hotel in the wine cellar.
They got a flight to NY, and then onto LA. They posted some questions on Hunter.net and they all said it was strange that Werewolves and possible Vampires working together was not a good thing, or even likely. They learned of a few safe houses in California and the hot spots. Venice, California was one of the hot spots. "Oh... That Venice..." They learned that the Vampire organizations were loose and unorganized there.
They learned that the Crypt and other smaller vessels were all shipped to a private citizen. The realized that this passed customs a little too fast, and something was up. They learned the package #, who picked it up, and that it was a large crate and 6 smaller ones. It was labled, "various household goods."
Keith got some new, non-sewage and blood-stained clothes, and actually looked respectable for once. He walked in like he owned the place, and claimed to be the rightful owner of the property that was delivered to the private citizen. He talked to the semi-beautiful lady and asked about her kids, and for her name, and a date at a later time. She agreed, and didn't call over her manager (which was a relief to Keith). He got her phone number and one of the crates that was lost in shipment. They fled the scene, but Keith felt horrible for possibly getting another bystander in the way of evil men and creatures. He hopes that she is ok and not fired.
Dante watched the shipping business and watched a very fancy SUV pull up. He watched the Italian man go into the place with his personal grunt, and they were in there for awhile. He got the liscense plate number, but couldn't hear anything inside but screaming. He tried to follow him but his skills weren't up to the car chase. Dante left and came back to the hotel.
Back at the hotel they cracked open the crate, and saw an Egpytian vase filled with wax and packed very professionally. Keith told them that he had seen a lot of crappy pack jobs working for UPS and this was quality workmanship. Mike did 8 hours of research on the symbols. Keith decided that since they wouldn't let him pick up his Mercury Grand Marquis Station Wagon, he would buy another vehicle. They argued about what to get, but Keith had his way. He picked up a 1990 wooden-paneled siding Ford Taurus Station Wagon with a nice surf board rack on the top. The salesman said this one had a good starter, and smiled when Keith handed him $2,000 for the vehicle. Keith rode back to the Hotel blaring Ashes In Your Mouth by Megadeth.
Mike learned that the vase was a burial vase that had a lung of a lesser Egyptian King. (Enter Egyptian King name here).
Saturday Jan 9th 2006They did some research on the Egyptian King whose heart they had, and found that a pyramid was never raised for him. Cody followed something that seemed strange to him to the customs house, and followed the Hunters back to their safe house. After some awkward moments, everyone came clean and told what they knew. They searched Hunter.net and it seems Hunters believe in Mummies. It seems when they rise up, the more people they eat, the more human-like they become.
They visited a museum and were almost escorted out. With some name dropping, and some threats the Reporter put some pressure on the old lady behind the desk when they were trying to see someone in charge. Keith tried to hit on the Old Bag but it didn't work very well. Later the museum had a press release that seemed like it was initiated by the Reporter's threats of releasing the possibility that something was amiss at the Museum. They told how some books and some artifacts were stolen.
Back at the safe house, Dante started to hear the Heart beating inside the vase. He started walking with it, and ended up somewhere he didn't want to be at. He also started to pick at the wax seal on the vase. He called Keith who told him to go back to the safe house. After some more walking, Dante was further away from the safe house and closer to the registered address of the person who was supposed to pick up the vase at the customs house. This was bad.
Both of the Hunter's cars were pulled over by cops for speeding. Keith decided to be stupid, and peeled out and left the cops in the dust. After he fled the cop, Keith and the Reporter ditched the new station wagon and stole a car at a gas station with the keys still in the ignition.
The Hunters arrived at the "evil house" and Dante was sitting on the porch picking at the wax in the vase. Bill threw him in the car and headed for the Safe house. Keith realized that he left his Megadeth tapes in his old station Wagon and started to cry softly, followed by some "dun dunt das, dunt dunt dunt, dun dunt das..."
It turned out that only Dante could hear the heart beating. Bill took the vase off of Dante, and a wrestling match ensued. Whenever Dante grabbed the vase, it stopped beating, and when he released it, it beat again. Cody chucked the vase out of the window while the car was still moving and it smashed on the road, scattering dust all over the passing cars. They stopped at Cody's house. They did more research and learned that by breaking the vase the heart joins with its host.
The party did a little K-mart shopping and headed over to the Hydroelectric plant where the goods were first delivered to. The plan was for Keith to sit in the stolen car, while the rest sneaked into the place. When the Hunters needed a diversion Keith would drive through the guard-shack that housed an evil looking person. When the party got on the roof, Keith put the car into drive without the headlights on. One second before he smashed into the shack, the beast started to change but took the full brunt of the "grill to the face" damage. The vehicle slowed to a stop and was completely totaled. Keith got out of the smashed car, loaded his shotgun, and fired twice into the mound of furry meat on the ground. It got up, put it's hands together, and vanished. At this time, 2 Werewolves came running out of the front doors and Keith got nervous. Thanking God for all of that track practice in high school Keith ran like Hell away from them screaming, "I'm coming home to you Baby!" He was referring to his dead wife. Keith managed to out run the Werewolves, and ran onto a populated beach (wearing a trench coat and holding a shotgun). Keith stowed the weapon and looked for another public place.
The Hunters inside the place were filmed by video cameras but took the tapes with them. They found an empty coffin and many of the other artifacts including a black book. Bill saw a note from the Messengers saying that the Beasts are at war, grab everything and flee.
Keith managed to steal a sports car from a fancy restaurant with valet parking. He tore off back to the Hydroelectric plant planning on smashing it into some fuzzy bad guys. When he arrived he saw the Hunters coming out of the building, and the cops coming. He shrugged, E-braked the car in front of the cops (almost smashing right into them) and took off. The cops followed him.
A Werewolf shimmered into existence in front of Cody's car, and after a brief battle the Wolf was killed and cut into pieces. The Hunters fled the scene but didn't know what happened to Keith, until he text messaged them. "I'm screwed." said the message.
Keith's stolen car was remotely turned off in a dead end alley. He fled on foot only to be shot in the leg as he fell over a fence. With no hope remaining he leaned against the fence and texted the message over to his friends. In despair and utterly exhausted Keith gave up the fight.
The rest of the Hunters found the address for the Curator. He told them, "The longer you keep that book the worse things will get for you." He mumbled and the book got really hot and opened. Smoke poured out of the thing and filled the room. They beat up the Curator. Some 3 foot tall dark thing without skin having yellow eyes, came out of the book and fled on foot into the woods. They learned that only magic could harm it, or send it back to where it came. They learned it was a Demon. "Oh Great! Now we have Werewolves, Mummies, and Demons to try to kill!"
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