Chapter 1.1 - The Alamo Remembers

Eli, invisibly, steps over the dying were beast a puts a silver bullet in its head.

He then moves back to the desk, searching it and looking for any writing or other clues.

The sudden, final gunshot seems all the louder. It rings like a death knell from a church tower, clear and brought in the still air. Lit only by the flickering electricity surrounding the demonic gateway, Eli searches the desk, and finds a journal that is almost entirely empty except for a couple entries.

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August 5, 2015

The inopposite gate lead us to a recursion based on the wild west. We're trapped in some sort of historical reenactment of the battle for the Alamo. The gate opened right in the cellar of the Alamo itself. Luckily, the soldiers were mostly off tearing Mexico a new one. More lucky that the Texans werent being outclassed by the Mexican hoard right when we came through. We killed most of the soldiers, but one was awakened and gave a bit of a stink. Could of jumped him in, but once we got the blood going there was no stopping us, haha. The rest seemed trapped in some kind of hallucination. That dream almost grabbed some of us, too, but a little wolf bite and they were back in their heads.

August 9, 2015

I'm not sure what were doing here. Big John thinks we can make ourselves kings here. There's just enough Strange here to let the Curse work, at least for a little while. But if this gate closes we're not coming here as ourselves, that's for sure. So what's the plan? I say we grab what we can and get out, maybe tear up that dirty little town nearby in a night of teeth and claws and screams. Still, Big John makes the rules, and I guess we just gotta go with it. At least we're not being harassed by bloodsuckers like back in The Gloaming.

Eli points out the journal to his comrades.

"He looks around and grumbles, "People always laughed at me when I said there was a basement in the Alamo. Least I got two witnesses this time".

Then he slowly takes off his hat, coat and shirt, examining his numerous wounds. He sits down gingerly for a rest.

(Ooc: 2 recovery rolls needed. I think u used one earlier, so this time I will need an hour).

Anyone else want to use a longer recovery roll should roll it. Otherwise, what do you do with the hour Eli is spending flat on his back?

Diego finds:
- from the 'man', another grenade (damage 4 in a 15' radius), his two pistol-sized machine-guns (damage 4), with four canisters of ammunition (30 rounds in each), his leather duster (armor 2), and an assortment of personal items that make little sense to you, but 2 of which catch your eye
- a shard of crystal (cypher: Radiation spike, level 9)
- a small, strange scope mounted to one of the guns (cypher: Sniper module, level 5)
- from the desk, you find four more cyphers
- a glass bottle with an eyedropper of silver liquid (cypher: Melt all, level 9)
- a tube of glue (cypher: Glue, level 6)
- a clip-on style earring (cypher: Vanisher, level 8)
- a sticky patch with a removable cover (cypher: Mind meld, level 2)
- from the satchel on the chair, you find a bunch of clothing that looks like it would fit this man, all of strange materials and amazingly high grades of quality, and several books about a wizard living in Chicago

You can each take 2 xp at this point, one for discovering the portal, and the other for discovering the journal and learning of the wolfpeople's world, The Gloaming.

I suppose the question of the day is are you going to: 1) attempt to go through the portal yourselves; 2) attempt to destroy the portal; 3) ignore the portal and leave; or 4) do something else.

As an aside, your characters should have figured out that there are several ways to translate, so this portal isn't unique in that regards. But the journal does suggest that the portal offers some advantage to these wolf-demon hombres.

Lastly, if you want to spend some xp, stuff generally costs 4 xp to get you something permanent. I can elaborate if you don't have the core rule book.

I examine the items as well. He nods over to the portal and asks, "so what do you think about that thing?"

Ooc I'm going to increase my speed edge

After Diego's trailing sentiment, you stare at each other and the "portal" for what feels like a week. It flickers at you with a mad, erratic pace and you feel that if you stare at it long enough it may begin to make sense. Alas.

Deep within its murky depths, your unflinching gaze makes out a flash as if a lantern suddenly was shone on the other side. The surface of the portal turns into waves and then a small box slides through and lands on the floor. The portal grows still.

From the smell, the box seems like it may contain hot food.

"Mmm that smells good. Been a long time since I've had warm food". He cautiously waits for Diego's assessment