In the White Castle Zone, not long after we got through a weird "black grass" anomaly, we ran into a field of strange floating bubbles. There was a dying robot with gross organic bits growing out of it that had a bunch of these bubbles stuck to it.
Cupid, Want and the children began to carefully cross the field. With a "nudge" from Want, Cupid fell toward some of the bubbles and they attached to his face, paralyzing the exposed skin. Lithium fired a gun at one of the bubbles - rather than popping, it ricocheted away, giving Carlos the idea to just "punch" the bubbles away and cover any exposed skin as he and the rest of the group moved across the field.
The dying robot dragged itself toward the group, begging for us to take it with us, but Want just executed it. We then found ourselves surrounded by a group of people and robots from Gut Town (a legendary hidden city) who wanted to take us prisoner.
Want threw a flash-bang, and in the ensuing gun-rattled chaos two of the children (Vicky-Den and Aardvark) went missing. Trowel-Face, one of the new Maniacs, got pushed back into the bubble field where he was paralyzed. Eventually we murdered the Gut Town group, and Lithium got a sweet barbed-wire-covered bat from one of their corpses.
We next came across a plain of bitter cold the likes of which none of our group had ever encountered, but it was no match for Cupid's heat blaster.
Carlos led the party in following the dead group's tracks back to Gut Town, where they came across a city wall formed from the ribcage of some long-dead giant creature. Peeping in on the town, we saw a towering robot (with more weird organic stuff coming out of it) as well as a woman in a headress - the Glyph Witch - leading the two missing children to some miserable fate. Looking at the townspeople, Piss gained the intuition that there was some kind of affliction in Gut Town caused by fucking, and he shouted out a temporary No Fucking Rule for his gang.
As the group debated about how to save the children, Lithium decided to go all Leeroy Jenkins and went bursting through one of the old giant ribs. Want quickly shouted to the townspeople to follow his lead and break their old disease-causing ways, making some very convincing arguments. The Glyph Witch shouted for them to seize us, but the townspeople turned on her and began to attack her.
The Glyph Witch pulled out the "Devil's Dick" horn and blew it, summoning a Dark Angel from another dimension who immediately started decimating the townspeople. The giant robot began a similar rampage. Want grabbed the children away from the Glyph Witch as Duke and Maple began to attack the robot by stabbing it in the organic parts; they eventually took it down, but not before it badly hurt Duke.
Cupid knocked the Devil's Dick away from the Glyph Witch, gaining possession of it, but unfortunately this did not stop the Angel. Carlos tried shouting at the Angel to lure it away from the townspeople and toward the robot - this worked, but the Angel knocked Carlos out with a psionic scream. Lithium pulled him away before he got trampled by the otherworldly thing. As the townspeople killed the Glyph Witch and then went into a crazed orgy at Want's suggestion, our group attacked the Angel and Cupid took it down with one final shotgun blast, causing it to blink out of our world.
As Cupid set about healing various people's wounds, Carlos investigated the dead robot and found a dipolar battery - the very thing we had come to the Zone for in order to fix the oil pump in the Piss Pot.
Want talked briefly to the children who had gone missing - they went into a sort of trance and spoke ominously about Angels and destruction. Then the various townspeople, snapping out of their orgy, began to kneel before Want, bringing him gifts such as a "Newton's Cube" and a mysterious painting of an alien landscape that was described as having some kind of power.
We asked the townspeople about the White Castle Zone - they spoke of the White Castle building itself (we could see its spires off in the distance) as the place people go to die and experience the afterlife. The lack of Overgrowth in this area was supposedly a result of this being the Holy Land. Lithium had the feeling that the White Castle might be the reason she came back to this time and place, and one of the townspeople assumed this meant she was ready to die.
One of the townspeople asked Maple whether she could bring their sword back - a glowing blue sword that apparently spoke to them about any dangers that lay ahead. Our party had heard that Ratbutter had gotten hold of some kind of glowing, talking sword, and taking Live Oak back from him was already on our general agenda...
TO BE CONTINUED
