The Hummingbird of Death
or Why Unmarked Stasis Crates Should not be Messed With.
Bryce : i think that the Hummingbird of Death will live for quite a while in the lore of our gaming group...habnabitmkiii : Hehe. Sounds ominous.
Bryce : Indeed, What word could better describe the fearsome creature? The size of a parrot, with mighty red wings and a beak 20 cm long. A vicious, pointy beak with venom-bearing channels.
habnabitmkiii : A character or a monster?
Bryce : Monster. _Heliodoxa Diabolicus._ The Devil-Hummingbird of ancient lore. Josh freed it from the stasis crate in which it was safely contained.
habnabitmkiii : Hehehe.
Bryce : Unfortunatly, he evaded it, but another PC standing nearby wasn't as fortunate. Beak went clean through his neck, poor guy.
habnabitmkiii : Yow.
Bryce : He fell over, and while the hummingbird of death was stuck, Josh ran over and shot the bird. And the other PC.
habnabitmkiii : Hahaha.
Bryce : Two birds... one stone. :)
habnabitmkiii : Was that player rerolling stats later?
Bryce : Not yet - he wasn't there, someone else was playing his character for him.
habnabitmkiii : Ah.
Bryce : He had an awesome character, too. He might have actually survived with prompt medical care, if he hadn't had his head shot off.
habnabitmkiii : What kind of gun was it?
Bryce : Blaster.
habnabitmkiii : Ah.
Bryce : (At point-blank range)
habnabitmkiii : Haha!
Bryce : Yep... of course, Josh looted the body right away, including making off with the distictive gold-plated armor of his victim. Anyway, this gets better. Earlier, Josh had been exposed to something hallucenagenic - he thinks. See, he actually found something that (for plot reasons) was very significant, but Olivia (an NPC) found him doing it, and tried to convince him that the whole thing had been a hallucenation.
(This was before the hummingbird.) So, he goes to look for the crate where the unusual stuff that Olivia says is hallucenagenic drugs but he thinks might in fact be tiny shapeshifters that have invaded his nervous system, when he found the box with the hummingbird instead. Meanwhile, Olivia goes off to the other PCs (except for the one who got killed by the hummingbird later) and tells them that Captain Idiot was accidentally exposed to some unpleasant drugs and that he might have some issues now.
Of course, after his defeating the hummingbird, he goes to the group (who just finished talking to Olivia), who ask where the other PC is. "A hummingbird killed him!"
habnabitmkiii : Hahaha.
Bryce : I think they think Olivia was telling the truth about his drug problem now :D (and of course the bird is pretty much vaporized now, so there is nothing but a few ambiguous feathers.)
habnabitmkiii : And they think that he killed the PC?
Bryce : They aren't sure yet. I think they think that. They didn't like that PC though. It was an... interesting session. I also let them acquire some talking rats, who are way too fond of all forms of ethanol and who have sticky paws in shops. I got the idea from Rats, Bats & Vats. (A sci-fi novel featuring talking rats, albeit of a somewhat different nature.)
The ones they found are more like drunken pikachu.
habnabitmkiii : Haha.
Bryce : I also managed to have an NPC sell them drugs . Lots of drugs. These drugs boost their physical stats. Of course there are side-effects but they don't know about them... yet. "Wow, +4 to my DX from drinking the free sample? I buy 10 cases."
They also didn't pick up on the fact that the place they were doing their shopping was some kind of seperatist colony. But that's okay since I didn't really expect them to and didn't have notes prepared for a side-quest.
Bryce : Well, goodnight, I have to get going. Take care.
habnabitmkiii : Alright. 'night.
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