Boseman High School Shenanigans: Episode 1

Coiling up in a way none of the teens have yet seen, the third renegade space slug suddenly springs at Lily, flying through the air, straight for the girl's face -- for her mouth!

But before the nearly foot-long alien can reach the girl, Zach steps in an swats it out of the air! The creature squeaks and squeals when it hits the floor, but that sound abruptly ceases when Tidwell angrily brings his foot down on top of the invertebrate, completely pulping the thing, spraying its glowing inwards out in a putrid fan of goo and grisly bits that must be organs.

The door slams but holds not once, but twice.

"Let us in, goddammit! Let us in!" the Sheriff shouts from outside, while the wall of imprisoned slugs continues to erupt in a fury as the slimy parasites slam themselves against their plastic cell doors, trilling and shrieking. The crates begin rocking back and forth as the tiny monsters start moving in time, and the three teens suddenly know they are going to need help, here far underground, to survive!

THE FINAL BATTLE!FIRST! Rouse Your Allies
Someone make a Healing Check, at -1 for the sorry condition of your patients, who include Emily, Rose, Aaron, Marco, Kelly Unger, and the kid she's tied to. Two of you can Support if you want -- also a Healing check, which provides +1 to the task leader / roller if you succeed. (+2 from a Raise, -2 from a Crit Failure.)

On a Critical Failure, none of the four can be roused. On a regular Failure, choose one to rouse. Success means you can rouse two, and each Raise means you can rouse one more.

Note: to get Windy back in the game, she can also spend a Benny to rouse. (See my previous post, each of you have +2 Bennies now.)

THEN! Saturday Night Slug Fight
As you finish rousing folks, the wall of slugs comes tumbling down and the fight is on! One of you lead the others in a Fighting-based Quick Encounter that will determine the fate of the space slugs! You would get a gang-up bonus here, you'd think, but you'll be badly outnumbered by the slugs. (They are rolling as well, this will be opposed -- and *they* will enjoy the gang-up bonus.) I'll allow support roles from PCs here, same effect as above.

On a Critical Failure, many slugs escape and someone gets slugged without anyone knowing about it! On a regular Failure, you win the battle but several slugs escape. Success means you win but a single slug goes missing, and a Raise means a complete success. All slugs die!

FINALLY! Battle Royale
The door comes crashing in after the slug fight, spilling into the room the huge brawl that's going on between the slugged adults and all the teens and townsfolk fighting them with bats, tools, shovels and hockey gloves. There's carnage!

It's another Fighting roll, made by one PC with others potentially supporting. You enjoy +3 from Ganging Up and badly outnumbering the slugs, and from your advanced weapons.

On a Critical Failure, we'll randomly determine 2d6 characters who don't survive the fight -- PCs and NPCs are in the crosshairs. The good guys win in the end, but it's a bloody mess, basically. On a regular Failure, you win but 1d6 friendly NPCs don't make it. On a Success, you win but 1d6 slugged adults won't be getting up... on a Raise, you win, everyone lives, and there's a big goddamned party!

With the door shaking as Akins tries to break it down, and the whole wall of captive slugs shrieking and wailing as they try to bust out of their plastic cells, the teens set about rousing everyone they can for what is sure to be a desperate final battle. Anyone on the floor is vulnerable to slug infiltration if the things get free!

Emily, Macro and Rose end up back on their feet, and while the girls have both have had enough experience with the slugs by now to keep their wits about them in the basement room full of alien horrors, it quickly becomes clear that Marco is not quite so prepared.

"What the fuck is this?!" the boy with the weedy mustache and beard shouts, recoiling from the wall of writhing, boiling alien flesh. "What the fuck is going on here?! What are those things?!"

As if in answer, the slugs finally get the timing and momentum right and cause their rocking prison wall to tumble forward -- where it smashes onto the floor, cracking open and spilling and freeing dozens of the things into the room! The parasites peep and hoot shrilly as they come for the group, inching along but also springing through the air, determined that this will not be their last stand, that this will not be the end of their species!

Rose has armed herself with a pipe and gnashes her teeth. She's fully aware of what happened to her, and she's seeing red as she answers Marco. "Get with the program, Macro! Smash these little fuckers!"

Squeaking and stretching, slithering and sliding, springing and splaping, the space slugs sally forth and strike!