September 29th Summary

The lady from the church group that Joe had scared in town one time comes and asks if Joe, Xestro, Blaze and Allison, and Billy Bob will come help entertain and protect a group of orphans that she is taking on a picnic. Joe entertains them with pony rides and we find a worm from a worm wrathe that gives us a taste of what is to come. We destroy the worm, but later, after a game of tag, we find that little Hammie is missing. He is soon found in the grip of a whole worm wrathe. All four of us (Joe, Xestro, Blaze and Allison) move toward the wrathe to try and get Hammie back when Joe and Xestro glimpse three more coming from the other side of the group of kids. Those two head off to save the kids while Blaze and Allison attack the one holding Hammie. Hammie’s head gets shot off and Joe dives in front of the group of kids right before they are shot by the other wrathes. He continues to be shot repeatedly by two of the wrathes. Xestro runs toward the third wrathe, parrying ion bolts the whole way. Blaze ensnares the first wrathe with a magic net, Allison shoots its gun and they head over to help the others, but not in time to save Joe. Joe makes the ultimate sacrifice and saves 30 orphan children. Blaze gets shot and lands her hovercycle and hides behind it. Her hovercycle gets demolished by the ion bolts raining down upon it. Xestro gets all the way to the monster, only getting shot once, kills it and runs screaming toward the next one. He damages it enough that it melts into worms and they all head off in different directions. Allison swoops toward Joe on her wing board, sees that he is dead and heads out to run over the evil monster that did this to her friend. Unfortunately, Blaze had just put carpet of adhesion on the wrathe and the board stops, stuck on the monster and Allison keeps going, flipping over the board and monster landing on her back 100 yards behind it. The monster gets bent backwards, with the wing board attached to it and his gun in the air. It bends all the way back and shoots at Allison lying on the ground. Xestro runs toward it, Blaze takes off the carpet of adhesion and Xestro does a chi death blow and the monster is no more. Blaze helps Allison and Xestro ends the life of the other monster that is still under the net. We all, including the kids, gather around the body of Joe, Billy Bob taking pictures the whole time. We are unable to bury him by ourselves, so we take the kids back to the church and go get the rest of the group. When the whole group is gathered around Joe, Jarl goes up to Joe, starts saying a prayer and Joe’s eyes flutter open. We all rejoice at the miracle that we have witnessed.