Hunters
| Title | Hunters |
|---|---|
| Number | 6 Quests Total & 1 Mini-Quest (With battles in Quests 5.5 and 6) |
| Date | * Q1: 26 October 2010 * Q2: 2 November 2010 * Q3: 23 November 2010 * Q4: 11 January 2011 * Q5: 18 January 2011 * Q5.5: 31 January 2011 * Q6: 9 February 2011 |
| Players | Aaron (GM) (All), Nick (All), Kevin2 (Q1 - Q5, Q6), Alicia (All), Steven (Q1 - Q4, Q5.5 - Q6), Seth (Q1 - Q3, Q5 - Q5.5) |
| Characters | Rena (All), Gin (Q1 - Q5, Q6), Paige (All), Michael (Q1 - Q4, Cameo Q5.5, Q6), Frank Jones (Q1 - Q3, Q5 - Q5.5), NPC Seth (Q1), NPC Aaron (Q1, Q3), Victor (Q1 - Q2), Yeti Golem (Q1), Dekker (Q4), Scarecrow Vanir (Q5, Q5.5, Q6), Sheriff (Q6) |
| Setting | * Q1: Deepwood Hills, Ostfold, Disparatus * Q1 - Q3: Ymirheim, Ostfold, Disparatus * Q3 - Q4: Train to Pine Apple, Ostfold, Disparatus * Q5, Q5.5, Q6: Town With No Name, Ostfold, Disparatus |
Timeline Summary
Quest 1 - Robo Bigfoot Rapes Rena
On 26 October 2322, Rena, Gin, Paige, Michael, and Frank Jones are hiking in Ostfold's Deepwood Hills, near Jotunheim. They meet up while investigating an unusual plane crash in the area, in which only one person survived. While there, NPC Seth and Aaron hire them to investigate some odd disappearances in Ymirheim. They part ways with the two and take a train there. (Gin bought a white chocolate bar on the train. This will clearly be vitally important in the future.)
In Ymirheim, they learn that the latest people to disappear were campers on a nearby mountain, and that the disappearances were in that general area. They also learn of a castle in the region that is believed to be haunted. They get supplies and set up camp on the mountain. Gin takes first watch, and scares something off with a nickel can.
In the early hours of the next morning, Frank Jones takes second watch. He shoots a wolf. While most of the group is distracted by this, Robo Bigfoot tries to carry off the still-sleeping Rena. After a bit of a battle with it, the creature drops Rena and retreats. After the sun rises, the group heads off for the castle, where they are invited in.
The owner of the castle, a man named Victor, invites them to dinner and asks them to retrieve a gem key to an Alfheim vault, and a sword that can destroy that vault's guards, saying they were stolen from him. The group loses consciousness from the meal.
Quest 2 - Frank Jones is Not a Walrus
As they awaken, Victor informs them that he has given them serums that bestow powers on them. As they progress, they learn that Rena can become a bat, Paige can turn invisible, Michael has super strength, Frank can turn into sand (and a sand walrus), and Gin can breathe underwater. Victor then tells them that he has a reservation and package for them at the local hotel.
Quest 3 - From Packages to Train Robberies
The group heads to the hotel and checks in to Room 215, where they find NPC Aaron. They talk for a bit before he leaves. Inside the package Victor left are knives, handguns, and antidotes for each of them, warning that they may end up more mutations. The note with the package instructs them to head for the town of Pine Apple, a day away by train. Aboard the train, the Great Train Robbery begins.
Quest 4 - Stoppable
The group thwarts the Great Train Robbery in about two hours. Frank Jones sits out the whole thing as a pile of sand. Paige begins to exibit side effects of the superpowers, becoming more pale when even not using them. At one point, they discover that something had reached some of the guards before them, slaughtering them and somehow causing some kind of hypnotic state on the passengers of the cars closer to the train's front. A seemingly normal-looking man with a sword (which is likely the one the group was to retrieve) awaits them at the front of the train. Introducing himself as Dekker, he turns out to be a demon and leaps through the walls. They stop the train about a mile from a town. After calling for help, they head for the nearby town.
Quest 5 - No Country For Old Paige
Arriving in town, they go to a restaurant for a bite to eat before exploring and hear about dying crops. As night falls, they come across a seemingly abandoned orchard. Breaking into and exploring the house there, they find three dead and decaying bodies in the basement of what seems to be a family. Outside, the crops seem to be fine, perhaps too well, with even apples oddly growing in the winter weather. Further into the area, however, plants do seem to be dying, mainly around a scarecrow. Going back, they see the car at the house has slashed tires and a dent in the front like it hit something. Three suitcases are found in the trunk. Nearing midnight, they hear a thud in the field, and return to see the scarecrow missing. What seems to be a man in the scarecrow's outfit attacks the group.
Quest 5.5 - Scarecrow Vanir
In the early hours of the morning, the scarecrow splits up the group, with Michael and Gin seperated from the others. Paige, Rena, and Frank beat it up.
Quest 6 - Ghost Town
Gin and Michael fight off the town's sheriff, who warns them that the thing in the scarecrow kept everyone in the town young for many years. He and the rest of the townspeople whither up and die of old age without it. After a buzzing sound gets to them, they steal a car. The car crashes.
Notes
- At the end of the Free RP Leading on a Wendigo in 2013, Aaron explained his plans for how Hunters would have wrapped up.
- He said that everyone's powers were based off of a different classic movie monster, with Gin being the Creature from the Black Lagoon, Rena being a Vampire, Paige being the Invisible Man, Michael being Frankenstein's Monster, and Frank Jones being the Mummy. Aaron also recalled having plans for someone being the Wolf Man, but could not remember who. Each of their powers were to have progressed over time and mutated them closer to these forms, while also increasing their powers. (Such as increasing Gin's resistance to heat and cold.)
- Sometime after the car crash, the group was to run into Dekker again, who would have explained things. After that, the plot would have progressed to a world-traveling adventure in pursuit of either Dekker or Victor.
- After this explanation, Nick decided to make it canon that Rena never cured herself, and went full Vampire sometime after the car crash.
- Isabel nearly joined as Marianne at the start of Quest 1, but lost internet connection after only one line.
- Only known appearances of Victor, Dekker, Scarecrow Vanir, and the Sheriff.
