When we last left,..those guys, Mark the Telepath, Lenny the Vampire, and Anne the Cryokinetic wer in a bunker underground accepting a job offer to investigate really weird supernatural stuff from a blonde dude who Mark found out was a were-lizard, two incubi, and a dead gun. Think more X-files, less Supernatural. We'd said yes, and started the episode with Mark and Lenny getting to know Anne a bit more by them snarking about her with telepathy, forgetting about telepathy and mouthing things to each other in her plain view, then remembering and switching back to telepathy. The incubus doctor then proceeded to hit on all of us, but especially the boys, Anne to mention that they were a couple, then the boys to break that notion by saying they were just bros. The incubus doctor left it completely clear that he'd sleep with either of them, and we let it slide.
This is the combined home, fratpad, and means of transportation for two of our intrepid heroes.
The boys retired to the Winnebago for the night, and Brandie (playing Anne) missed perfect moments for Frozen references when Apocalypse Creed asked her if she wanted a blanket. She said she doesn't get cold. A real cryokinetic would have said that "the cold doesn't bother me anyways." I reminded her of this. The next morning, Anne got thirsty watching our host in a pair of form revealing sweatpants, microwaved her coffee after it got cold, and got a job for us delivering a package to a recluse in West Virginia. Whether the person just didn't like people or was a were-spider was left unclear in the instructions. This is an important distinction in Colt Reagan.
Also of note, there was a first reference to what Lenny and Mark refer to only as "the Florida Incident." We have no clue what happened in Florida, but it's fun to refer to then tell Anne "it's too long a story right now," every time something really random happens. At this stage, the mention was about giant tarantulas.
Less traumatizing than the Florida Incident, evidently...
Mark put on pants, Lenny hopped into the driver's seat of the Winnebago, and we set off to West Virginia. Lenny played Top 40 radio to make Anne think he was normal and cover up the goth dweeb-ness that is integral to his soul and died a little more inside. Then we got hideously lost in the back woods of West Virginia. Then we started running low on gas. Y'know, classic horror stuff. Eric was coming through in spades.
As we reached a point where we couldn't even turn back and make it to the last gas station any more, we found a "town." By "town," Eric meant a few buildings around the road that began and ended within a few blocks of each other. Luckily, there was a building that had a gas pump out front, and we pulled in. Since it was daylight, Mark hopped out to discover that even though it was only 6PM, the gas station was closed. There was a light on in the attached house, and Mark started knocking annoyedly on the door. Anne hopped out and mentioned that worst case scenario we could just sleep in the Winnebago and wait for them to open. An old woman in a bathrobe yelled from across the street that the whole town closes at 5PM and that the station owner sleeps in "one of them sensory deprivation tanks 'cause he got a nasty temper on him and it calms him down." Y'know, because that's not creepy as fuck. Also, Mark noticed that there were leeches all over the walls of the building and accepted that he was going to die here.
The old lady also said that there was a diner down the road that was open "real late until abouts nine o'clock." Anne and Mark left Lenny to his videogames and walked down the road to the diner. Anne mentioned that she was worried about leaving the Winnebago to which Mark replied, "why? There's a fucking vampire in it." Lenny complained about lack of cellular signal to himself.
More or less what we were in front of.
The bar had three patrons and a creepy proprietor who hit on Anne. Mark ordered a "cheez brgr with fixns" off the menu and Anne ordered some "frys" and a shot of whiskey. We sat in a booth, and Mark decided to try to use his telepathy and psychokinesis on the place to figure out why it all felt so wrong. Again, I thanked my fore-planning that I had a high focus check. The room was full of non-sentient or maybe sentient psychometric static and might have had seven walls where there should have been four, and he turned his spidey senses off before he overloaded. We decided to get the food to go and high tailed it back to the Winnebago.
Meanwhile, Lenny had found a leech on his foot. When throwing it outside, he felt something watching him, and decided to ignore it and do laundry and listen to VNV Nation to drown out his sudden fear of being alone. We came back to the Winnebago to Lenny panicking slightly, and decided to just drive as far as we could, hope we could get cell service, call AAA, hope they sent enough cars to satiate the evil town and let one get through to us in a couple weeks.
However, because the Colt Regan RPG is built to encourage fun, Robert had taken the "lemon" flaw when he had purchased the Winnebago, and it decided to not start. Panick started setting in, and even though it was dusk, Lenny decided to go outside and pop the hood to fix the engine so that we didn't have to die by spending a night in the creeptastic town. Anne shut herself in the Winnebago, Lenny discovered that the engine was covered in leeches, and Mark held a rainbow beach umbrella (the cool black one met its end in The Florida Incident) so that Lenny didn't get sunburn and chainsmoked.
I did make the comment that leeches suck a few times during this session...
About the time Lenny had figured out the engine, he felt that he was being watched again, bundled us all into the Winnebago again, and we took off. Mark heated up a plastic travel mug of AB+ for Lenny to calm him down (the mug had a picture of a puppy and a kitten and said "best buds"). As the gas gauge started reading completely empty, we saw the lights of a town up ahead, and coasted up to an all too familiar gas station. After a brief argument over whether we had turned enough to go in a big circle (we hadn't), we coasted about a mile out of town and hunkered down to wait for daylight.
Out solitude didn't last long. Something slammed into the side of the Winnebago and started trying to flip it, knocking Mark over, and causing Lenny to go full on game face and shooting out of the bus in a blink, fangs and teeth out and full of vampiric rage. This impressive fury was undermined, however, as his voice cracked when he screamed "Stop hurting my Winnebago!" Outside was a creepy, super strong redneck doing his damndest to flip our vehicle. The man took a swing at Lenny, and Lenny, tired of this shit, eviscerated him with one claw swipe.
Now, Vampires in Colt Regan, especially with many of the traits that Lenny has, are murder machines. However, all the claws and vampiric strength that Lenny could muster don't do much against a meat sack full of leeches. Luckily, Anne used her cryokinesis to freeze it in a block of ice, buying us a few minutes.
Cryokinetics: keeping a cool head since forever.
We tried texting our employer, but signal was not awesome, and he was really far away, and at the rate we were going, we weren't going to survive the night. In our rearview, we saw the lights of a truck approaching, and settled in for another fight. Two more rednecks (one being the bartender from earlier) got out, one had an axe, and they started pounding on the door of the Winnebago. This is when Mark yet again proved that he is the kind of white person who dies in horror movies and decided to use his telepathy on the man.
After being mentally blasted with non-euclydian geometry and managing to pull away with a splitting headache and his sanity still intact, one of the men smashed through the window. Lenny full on vamp raged and ripped the man's throat out with his teeth. He ate a mouthful of leeches and got blood back, which was gross, and then Anne went full on Bobby Drake and shredded both of our assailants with razor sharp icy wind. Cryokinetics are useful and stuff.
Lenny, still pissed that his Winnebago was damaged, decided that he was going to take the fight to the town. There was a touching broment where he handed the keys to the truck the leech people had driven up in to Mark and told him to get as far away as possible and Mark flailed to try to find a way to take his best bro with him. "The second the sun comes up, I'll be ash," Lenny said. "UV rays go right through a blanket." Mark decided to go with his friend. Anne was already in for the ride. Like movie badasses, they loaded up the pickup with gas cans and drove into town just in time to see a yellow robed figure standing in the middle of the street in front of the gas station.
Minus tentacles. Plus leeches.
We tried to run it over, but it disappeared then reappeared behind us. Mark grabbed lighter fluid and a grill lighter, we pulled up to the pump, and all hopped out. Mark was on gas duty, Anne froze the parking lot and broke into the gas station to find the "on" switch for the pump, and Lenny, still vamped out, stood between us and the yellow robed...thing shuffling at us. Anne found that the inside of the gas station was full of leeches and turned the place into a snow globe. Mark started pumping when she found the on switch, and Lenny realized that the thing in yellow was literally a pile of leeches underneath a yellow robe. We all accepted death.
As Mark filled the first gas can, the thing held a giant leech out to Lenny. Luckily, Robert rolled well and shook off the compulsion to accept the gift. He started spraying lighter fluid on the thing then lit it on fire, uttering the suitable awful one liner, "I may not be Mark, but that's a sick burn." We all groaned. Brandie felt bad for the leeches, marking the first time ever that someone has felt bad for lighting an avatar of Hastur on fire.
Driving back to the Winnebago, we saw a person standing next to our ride. It was a Native American looking portal demon named Mr. Crow who our boss had called in a favor to get us out of dodge. He opened up a portal to his garage in Wyoming. We spent the night, his wife fed us, and Mr. Crow fixed the Winnebago up. The next day, we wished Mr. Crow farewell and drove back to West Virginia using normal roads to finish our task.
We dropped off the package for a reclusive were-mosquito on the run from Los Chupacabras, a Mexican gang of were-mosquitos, and returned back to home base for our next mission ending that night's session.
I am pretty useful. :)
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