Alpine Academy Session 5-6
Session 5
Cross’ villain, a religious fanatic named Crusader, captured Cross (because the player was late) in a church on Sunday. He also captured Lotus, who is Serena’s older sister. Fiona uses her fear-based powers to crowd control most of the room, but a battle still breaks out. Cross is freed and helps everyone escape. It turns out Crusader is working with a mysterious Dark Angel named Apostate who has similar powers to Cross. However, while Cross uses healing magic…Apostate causes psychological harm which dampens powers (ie: the hopeless condition). His powers have no effect on Fiona however because she is already dark in nature as the Doomed. Specter, the ghost-mutant is the main one to confront the Angel. Having lost his powers, he is forced to punch at the new villain. His hands are bloody in the aftermath and the Angel escapes after a sword clash with Cross. Crusader is detained by the group and the media arrives, finding the group for the first time. Specter gets frustrated, assaulting the media and leaving. The group doesn’t really make a strong showing, but they did save civilians from being hurt in the collateral damage (even though the religious zealots all hate and fear them.)
Scene 1
Cyerna is in class asleep (because her player was busy moving). The rest of the class does some combat drills to establish what their combat styles are like. Ignition uses dirty fighting and small objects like nails. Fiona mostly avoids combat by dancing around it. Specter fights basically by using boxing, weaving, and punching and hitting soft spots.
Scene 2
Madame Butterfly (one of the teachers in the school) comes into the room and asks them to check on Cyerna.
Butterfly makes several announcements to the students about current events. All electronics are going to be monitored due to a security breach which may include a virus.
Lotus, Cyrena’s sister, an independent hero with plant powers, has been hired as a full-time teacher to keep her close and teach about local plants/wildlife.
Specter and Fiona get called into the office because they appeared on TV in the last session. Specter punched a cameraman, so Butterfly urges him to keep a low profile. At least he was wearing a mask, Fiona’s face had to be blurred in the broadcast to protect her identity
Scene 3
It turns out Cyerna isn’t waking up so Cross (an Angel PC) uses healing power to wake her up. They realize some magic influence is affecting her and bring in Ninfu to investigate. Ninfu gets a 2 on the dice, so she ends up getting possessed by an unknown entity and going insane.
She lashes out against the students and Cross fails to capture her. She makes it outside of the school, but Ignition is able to restrain her. Butterfly uses her power to produce sleep gas and Ninfu is detained. The teachers are worried the magical influence is contagious so she sends the students away.
Scene 4
After dealing with Ninfu, ignition goes to her black market dealer for help with this magic problem. She gets some cold-iron knuckles to use.
The rest of the group splits up to find information on the magical entity. Cross finds a cult who tells him a prophecy from Revelations (because they think he’s speaking from god). They mention a figure like an antichrist who speaks for the devil, which Cross interprets as meaning that this entity might need a host or messenger.
Scene 5
Specter visits the underworld and speaks to an insane ghost girl about what happened. She killed herself after being possessed by the same entity. She says there is only One who is chosen that is the correct match. Specter then escapes the underworld after getting chewed out by his boss for being late for his pizza delivery job.
Fiona is the last to do research. She finds several articles talking about missing and kidnapped children. She immediately thinks of Changeling because she’s the type to do White Wolf LARPs. Fiona knows this is the work of a powerful faerie. Even the force in her head, a being of pure fear, is afraid of what is to come.