Live Oak (Session 19, 4/2/2017)

Live Oak (4/2/2017)

• we're checkin' out Hermit Larry's hut outside live oak
• Rat Butter is currently in Live Oak -- seized control of the town
• Piss asks for a power test -- Want turns tree inside out, but he lose control and the tree starts Akira-ing. We drive frantically to safety.
• Then Want tries to conjure a weird creature from the maelstrom. Creates a weird rhombus creature that shoots a laser beam at Piss. Cupid shoots it, and it explodes viscera everywhere. Cupid tastes the viscera -- it looks like raspberry jam but does not taste like it.
• Larry recognizes Cupid as "Archie" (his old name). Larry trades Cupid an assault rifle for some barter. Larry talks about the trouble in Live Oak and Rat Butter, who takes some sort of counsel (the sword, we think) that has made him aggressive and vicious
• Live Oak is like a wookiee city in the trees -- we're trying to figure out how to infiltrate. and Rat Butter's dudes are guarding the city
• Want animates some vines to reverse-zip-line ourselves up to the platforms
• Jennifer says he's paranoid, especially after losing a gang. Doesn't really trust even his most trusted lieutenants. Also has a sweet tooth.
• We take the animated vines up toward Live Oak but encounter guards. All of us drop down but Cupid, who continues fighting and successfully kills them all.
• We retrieve the bodies (I forget how) so they don't raise any alarms and then loot them.
• One of the dead guys is Stringy, a former 10K Maniac who stayed loyal to Rat Butter. He is wearing his trademark lizard-skin mantel around his shoulders. We hatch a plan: to exploit Rat Butter's paranoia by making it seem like his second-in-command, Downtown, turned against him and killed Stringy. We'd dump the body somewrrhere it would be found and then stash the mantel in Downtown's quarters so it looked like she did it.
• We wait for the rest of the 10K maniacs to show up.
• Eventually they do.
• In the town of Witches' Jelly, Margolius heard that my old man is dead and my sister is running New Flamperton
• In the dead of night, the moss men merge with the overgrowth to climb up to Live Oak then lower a rope ladder.
  • (To accomplish this, I had to threaten Dick Flower. I then buttered him up and gave him a corpse as a reward.)
• We gather information (I forget how). When is downtown likely to be out? Rat Butter meets with his generals after breakfast and after dinner. Best way to get to Downtown's place? Through the overgrowth over the market.
• Split up -- Carlos and Duke go to stash the body above the marketplace (on the way to Downtown's place), Piss and Cupid go to stash the late Stringy's mantel in Downtown's
• While Duke is stashing the body above the market, preparing to open a vein, and Carlos is keeping watch, someone wanders through the market. Carlos successfully distracts and scares the guy off
• Back to Piss and Cupid, they notice that Downtown is on her way back from the post-dinner meeting, leaving Piss enough time to get in but not enough to get out. Piss signals to Cupid to get out of there, then he ducks into Downtown's quarters. He stashes the mantel, his signet ring, and a branding iron (Stringy sexually enjoyed burning his nipples) under the bed, then hides under the bed all night.