Time Skip Episode Eight: Venice is Sinking

Metagame Info

  • GM: Todd
  • Date Played: 2019 November 10

When

  • Start: 2426 CE (Post-Apocalyptic Earth)
  • End: 1899 CE

Where

Important Historical Figures

  • Lt. Commander Rama

Other significant historical items and incidents

Synopsis

The party boomerangs back to the Quantum anchor ship only to be met with the unpleasant surprise that "Gator" the body typically inhabited by Grisha in this time period is instead occupied by an accord agent. They quickly go on a rampage and report our position to their allies in orbit and set the Veratech Fighter ablaze.

The fighter is a loss, but Patrick manages to pin down the agent and Albert punches him into unconsciousness using his host's hydraulic cyberarm.

Soon the computer detects incoming missiles from orbit. Decker is able to launch a flight of dormant probes from the quantum anchor ship to serve as flack fending off the first volley but the attackers from orbit launch a second volley of missiles and the party scrambles for an exit.

Trying to bluff their way out they make video contact with Lt. Commander Rama who was an evacuation officer during the original apocalypse. He was stationed on the Earth's moon at the time and appears to have aged an appropriate amount since then. He has a slightly feline form which lines up with what is known of the genetic manipulation practiced by the Lunar Alliance. Attempting to impersonate a accord agent to call off the missile strikes fails.

Lacking the fighter to escape the party choses to use the quantum anchor to jump away. Quickly selecting target from the computer's memory the party jumps into random bodies from 1899 Venice very near the time that Patrick was first pulled out of time. Hoping to recover Grisha in some way the party jumps with the unconscious Gator hosting an accord agent with us.

* Patrick becomes Aria Bianchi, a Teacher
* Cosmo becomes Renaldo Savona, a railway fireman
* Grisha is still Rebecca Carlington
* Damianus becomes Vicento Rossini, a fresco painter
* Decker becomes Luca Taraggio, a mathematician
* Albert becomes Alfonzo di Antonio, a sculptor

Because most of the party is lower class they quickly decide to make some heavy wagers using Patrick's memories of this time and become wealthy. They acquire clothes and rooms at the Plaza Hotel.

In the hope that Grisha, who failed to jump with us, is still trapped in her body the party makes the best effort possible to contact Rebecca Carlington despite the family's extreme resistance.

While finding one another the party also notices that Giacomo Paolo, a Biship had a mental break and was committed to an asylum temporarily before being checked out by a pair of import / export agents from the south. They quickly deduce that this must be the accord agent that traveled back with us when we jumped and the import / export agents must be the accord members assigned to this time.

The party is able to locate the offices of Maria and Bruno Dianoilo, the accord agents.

Most of the party members cover the "real" Patrick (i.e. the one native to this time) hoping to capture the accord agents who are scheduled to take both his body any day now. Cosmo sneaks into the church with "real" Patrick and his fiancée Lady Gwendolyn as they are arranging their nuptials. She overhears that the Biship Paolo, the accord agent, wants them to get a special blessing at St. Appolonius prior to their wedding at Sacred Heart. We all agree this would go poorly for them.

Our Patrick as Aria Bianchi becomes close friends with the Lady Gwendolyn and begins consulting on wedding planning.

Albert warns Father Beneti, the basically decent priest scheduled to conduct Patrick and Gwendolyn's wedding at Sacred Heart, that the Bishop offering this "special blessing" may be up to no good. He cites the recent mental breakdown and mafia connections in the import / export business as evidence. The good Father clearly takes this to heart and attempts to look into it because "our" Patrick and Gwendolyn discover him murdered the next day.

The opposition use their Mafia contacts to try to corner Decker while alone, but he spots his tail on the street and quickly ducks into a hotel. Albert arrives and raises an angry mob against the "foreign agents" lurking outside the hotel.

Maria the accord agent arrives at a dinner attended by Gwendolyn, Patrick, and Patrick and first attempts to convince and then insists that the happy couple to go get their "special blessing" immediately. Already shaken by the murder and under the advice of her "friend" Aria Gwendolyn refuses. The accord agents leave looking very unhappy.

Albert is not satisfied to wait and find out what they will do in retaliation, so he takes the initiative. He acquires a remote radio detonator from Decker and buys some explosives. Then he sneaks into the church after giving Cosmo the order to trigger the detonator if he is not back in 20 minutes. Within he finds another "human computer" like the one in Cornwall and in the sanctuary he can see the accord agents rallying mafia muscle to assault the party. He places the explosives, unplugs one of the "computer people", and makes a run for it. Cosmo triggers the explosive as Albert comes running out with the "computer person". Most of the mafia agents are killed and the accord agents are injured in the explosion.

A friefight in the streets ensues as Albert and Cosmo attempt to escape with the "computer". Albert takes a bullet to the gut for his trouble.

The party, particularly "our" Patrick, convince the couple that with church bombing and other bad things happening in Venice it really would be better to conduct the wedding in Rome. They agree to depart with us on the first train of the morning.


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