URDR - Multiverse Defense

[eveglass]

In the aftermath of the destruction of URDR headquarters, Our Multiversal Heroes (tm) met one god and one being who, while not a god, is certainly quite powerful. Oh, the things we do for an organization that doesn't care about us at all...


[Eric the GM prepares for the game.]
Julie: "It makes me apprehensive that you're pulling out map tiles."
Eric the GM: "That might be the only reason I'm doing it."
Julie: "Is that the only reason you're doing it?"
Eric the GM: "...Well, no."

[The game begins.]
Eric the GM: "For once, we're not starting with a mission briefing. It's up to you."
Anton Dregari: "Welcome to my world. Please don't screw it up."

[We take a side-trip to Asgard, where many of the URDR officers were being routed. Sadly, Asgard was also attacked by Nidhogg soldiers and few URDR agents remain alive. One of these few is General Gregory Szilagi.]
Fox: "General, do you know how to contact the Four?"
Gregory Szilagi: "You don't actually believe they exist."
Fox: "There are a lot of things I didn't previously believe that I'm now taking under serious consideration."

[we follow a lead we once got from Lena and go to Pahinui's Planet to see if we can contact Morris. We find a search engine called The Teacher's Garden.]
Stuart: "Is there anything blindingly obvious we're missing?"
Eric the GM: "Well, not blindingly obvious."

[On the 'contact us' page of the search engine, we find a set of multiversal coordinates. We must decide whether to follow them.]
Anton Dregari: "At best, it's safe. At worst, there's a bunch of enemy troops, and then I get to slaughter them."

[We decide to follow the coordinates. Yalia succeeds in her planeshift roll.]
Julie: "We wind up at the place we wanted, wherever the heck that is."
Eric the GM: "You appear in a tastelessly decorated waiting room."

[It turns out we are at the Vault of Stories, a demiplane overseen by Gun'Mora, god of wisdom, knowledge, secrets, lizardfolk, and survival. This next line will only be funny to people who also played in "The Doom that Came to Shelezar."]
Gun'Mora: "Welcome. Can I offer you some refreshing tonic?"

[We try to get some information from Gun'Mora.]
Anton Dregari: "Are you also the god of sharing information?"
Gun'Mora: "Sometimes!"

[More of the same.]
Anton Dregari: "As god of information, you know way more than we do."
Gun'Mora: "Yes. I knew way more than you did before I was god of information."

[Gun'Mora informs us that one of the Four -- who are in fact the Three -- is currently under attack, even as we speak, and offers to open a portal for us to go there.]
Gun'Mora: "Have a safe trip."
Yalia: "Thank you. That seems unlikely."

[Gun'Mora has told us to look for a house on chicken legs. So when we arrive at what looks like the ruins of a 21st century city...]
Fox: "How hard could it be to find a house on chicken legs?"
Anton Dregari: "Potentially quite difficult. We don't know the scale."

[Using divination magic, we discover the house on chicken legs is about 4 km away. When we arrive, we notice a bunch of Nidhogg soldiers in a search pattern. Sadly, they also notice us.]
Julie: "I've got a wand of silent image... ooh, and a wand of fireballs! I know what I'm doing!"

[Yalia fireballs some of the soldiers. They, in turn, shoot their guns at her.]
Eric the GM: "A veritable hailstorm of bullets passes over your head."
Julie: "Huh. Remind me not to get caught in that."

[Yalia's fireball took out most of the front-line troops, but not a heavily-armored soldier who was with them. Thankfully, we have other resources.]
Stuart: "Lord Dregari is gonna charge Mr. Heavy Armor and, oh, rip off his arms."

[Lord Dregari succeeds in heavily wounding -- but not killing -- the soldier in heavy armor.]
Eric the GM: "Vek'n jumps onto the guy with a shout of 'for Plaugg!' and crushes him on landing. Which, admittedly, he wouldn't have done if the guy wasn't on his last legs, but it looks terribly impressive."

[Fox, meanwhile, has entered the battle in the form of a pit fiend and has succeeded in chewing up quite a lot of soldiers, who promptly fire at her.]
Eric the GM: (to Sabina) "You are a distraction."
Julie: "And how shiny you are."

[The fight is going well. Naturally, this can't last.]
Eric the GM: *plays sound of shadow shrieking*
Julie: "I hate you."

[We manage to deal enough damage to the shadow creature that it disappears, and we return to fighting the armored soldiers. Anton Dregari, meanwhile, takes a moment behind a building to regain some of his lost energy points.]
Eric the GM: "What's your AC?"
Stuart: "27. Can someone see me?"
Eric the GM: "Yes."
Julie: "I told you the shadow wasn't gone."

[We kill the shadow creature, we think, which leaves us with more of the armored soldiers. Who promptly explode in a fiery explosion.]
Eric the GM: "A giant mecha appears at the edge of the battlefield."
Stuart: "It's on our side, right?"
Eric the GM: "Good question!"

[We look over the mecha and try to figure out what to do about it.]
Stuart: "If someone's being charitable, could that be described as a house with chicken legs?"

[It turns out the mecha does in fact appear to be piloted by one of The Three, Bubeh Yachneh, who invites us inside.]
Fox: "We came to save you."
Bubeh Yachneh: *glares at Fox*
Anton Degari: "Actually, we came to assist you. We would not be so presumptuous as to say you need saving."

[Bubeh Yachneh informs us that we are in a universe that has been sealed from the multiverse. Thankfully, there's a nearby portal.]
Bubeh Yachneh: "Not far. Five or ten minutes as the house walks."

[Bubeh Yachneh is not a font of information.]
Eric the GM: "She does something that might be a shrug or might be a dance move."

[We take a moment to look around the interior compartment of the mecha.]
Eric the GM: "If you imagine a cramped, one-room log cabin that's been turned into metal and allowed to rust, it would look sorta like this."

[Before we left Gun'Mora, Yalia offered to look for information for him, and he informed her of a box that Bubeh Yachneh keeps, in which there is information she has never told anyone.]
Eric the GM: "You do see a box that fits what Gun'Mora described."
Julie: "I make no move toward it."


And that's it for this time. Next time, onwards to find more of The Three. I can see no way in which this plan could possibly be flawed.